Chapter 412 - Searching the City (1/2)

Chapter 412: Searching the City

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At night, several poisoning and assassination incidents occurred in the capital of An Kingdo ain As a result, the army Gu Shenwei had teades of New Moon Hall had intended to assassinate the Managing Master Maid Lotus in the Gulping Wind Gorge, but they had failed and fled When they realized there was no way out, they went crazy and planned to fight against their enemy in the densely populated capital

Fortunately, they had some sense and did not use unstopple poison in the capital, but left it at the courier stationtheir journey Otherwise, the city would be full of corpse, even they would not be spared

The first incident happened to be a guard Souard come inside to report As he opened his an to work He see, suddenly, and his entire face was flushed His hands clutched at his throat, al himself Air could not enter his body, but a milky liquid spurted almost twelve feet, out of hisNew Moon Hall, reacted very quickly As soon as the guard vomitted the liquid, he drew out his saber and rushed to cut off the guard’s head He stepped aside and explained to the stunned guards: “He was poisoned by witches, so whatever he vomitted is also poisonous”

As expected, the milky liquid was corrosive Where it fell, small potholes appeared on the stone floor in the tax office

Everyone’s faces changed They believed Gu Shenwei, but had much doubts in their minds, “Poisoned by witches?”

Gu Shenwei couldn’t let the guards bla incident on the Great Snowle between theroup of witches ish to stir up trouble They want to start a war to benefit fro them”

Everyone was even more surprised Gu Shenwei paused for a moment After they had accepted this sensational news, he went on, “We can’t sit still and wait for death Instead, we should take the initiative to launch an attack and catch all those witches”

Maid Lotus appeared at the door and raised one finger to Gu Shenwei, indicating that she had already killed the poisoner and that there were still seven renegades left

The second ets were not the young and , but the terrible witches

Disciples of New Moon Hall were good at ca them difficult to identify from their appearance alone Gu Shenwei rele wo unusual, they shouldn’t make a move, but send soe of the tax office, while Maid Lotus would secretly guard the periades of New Moon Hall changed their strategy

A guard rushed in to report that six people in a family had been killed three blocks away However, soldiers ere searching the city strictly obeyed General Gu’s order and did not enter for a detailed search

It was obvious that those six people had died of poisoning, because their faces were purple and their eyeballs had popped out of their heads, but the corpses themselves were not harmful Maid Lotus pointed to the half melted candle on the table, “It was pear flower scented candle… If someone had lit it incautiously, he would have been poisoned to death immediately”

The candle looked very common However, if not for General Gu’s strict orders, the soldiers could have easily lit it without second thought

That night, Gu Shenwei had no choice but to believe Maid Lotus, taking a large nu resistance toa siades repeated the poisoning fourmany innocent people Three careless soldiers died in their boots just by trying to an to spread The nued More and more people violated the curfew and rushed to the streets Soate, all wanting to leave the city that was shrouded with the shadow of death

Many soldiers left their weapons and joined the panicking crowd

The temporary troop, which included thousands of people, contained only few credible people Wu Zongheng, the leader of guards, was one of them Gu Shenwei ordered him to lead a hundred armed men and hold the city wall No one was allowed to cliates in the city, the keys were all kept by General Gu himself

Next, Gu Shenwei had to spend a little tied those who stuck to their posts, punished those people ere absent without per this, he led everyone to think that the situation was not terrible as they iined

Of all thethe corpses of several “witches”

Maid Lotus knew the methods of her fellow disciples very well Everytime they set a trap, they would reveal clues, so she would track and kill them one by one

The arrest of the “witches” showed that Gu Shenwei had the ability to prevent rew excited First, the soldiers gradually caled from one of panic to one where they would wait and see

After ht, 15 witches were killed Seven of theades of New Moon Hall, and most of them died under the sword of Maid Lotus, but only one had been hacked to death by soldiers for resisting ordinary inspection

Eight people were killed by le, without spouses

People searched for the witches enthusiastically, but the situation began to grow out of control

Gu Shenwei i He claimed that the witches had all been killed and the search on the whole city turned into a norade in hiding

Guan Shang had not made a move As a disciple of New Moon Hall, she adored occult sciences, but she had practiced Kung Fu of Golden Roc Fort fro poison, so she had a hand in any of the poisonings

The capital of An Kingdo tens of thousands of people Gu Shenwei had inspected al to the conclusion that there was only one place Guan Shang had left to hide

Maid Lotus had the same idea

The soldiers’ trust and awe in General Gu kept increasing Although it was far from self-sacrifice, General Gu’s orders would always be strictly enforced However, this time, they hesitated