xymnovel Chapter 1207 - 947: Closing the Net 8 - Do You Still Have a Story to Tell?_2
Chapter 1207 - 947: Closing the Net 8 - Do You Still Have a Story to Tell?_2
You’re just one of his many chess pieces.Do you know how the 20,000 soldiers led by that war god from Nanjiang lost in Yunhang?
Lu Zezhong swallowed hard, his entire mind blank,
he mumbled in a low voice to Ji Youzhi.
"Why?"
Ji Youzhi told him, "Because the promise Xunyang made to him was that if he could invade the Central Plains and capture our Great Han’s Kyoto, the Central Plains’ Emperor would be his!"
Lu Zezhong couldn’t help but widen his eyes, smacking his lips, unable to react for a long time.
Ji Youzhi sneered, "You still don’t get it! Someone’s been selling you snake oil!"
Lu Zezhong took a deep breath and asked Ji Youzhi, "Was the elder of the Li Clan really captured?"
Ji Youzhi nodded, "That’s right, just captured."
"How could you capture him? He’s so strong, you couldn’t possibly catch him!"
"Naturally, I couldn’t catch him, but fortunately, I have a good big brother, and a good niece, and friends like the National Master, and Princess Ata.
Think about it, with so many experts in our Great Han gathered here, could we let him escape again?"
Lu Zezhong’s forehead was sweating.
"With the person in your hands, you’re bound to find the answer!"
Lu Zezhong dared not speak about the elder of the Li Clan.
He even cowered at the gaze of Ji Youzhi.
"I haven’t interrogated him yet, so I want to get some answers from you first!"
"Don’t ask me, I don’t know anything, I know nothing, don’t ask me, don’t ever ask me!"
Lu Zezhong suddenly seemed possessed by something, shrinking back entirely into a corner.
"Lu Zezhong, Lu Zezhong, all the emotions I’ve poured out today are wasted, right? Isn’t the story not enough for you yet?
Do you want me to continue telling you more?"
Princess Lianchun also interjected, "In my opinion, he looks like he’s been scared by something, could it be that his family is being threatened by that elder of the Li Clan?
That’s why whenever we ask about the elder of the Li Clan, he’s frightened into silence!"
Ji Youzhi thought what Princess Lianchun said made sense.
"There’s merit to that, but for someone like him, who dares to risk beheading for such treasonous acts, how could he still care about the life and death of his family?"
The more Ji Youzhi thought, the more something felt off.
He thought for a moment and said, "A person like him, it’s impossible for him to care about others’ lives, so what he fears isn’t something happening to his wife and children, but rather whether he would die immediately!"
As soon as Ji Youzhi finished saying this, Lu Zezhong couldn’t help but widen his eyes and look at Ji Youzhi.
There was nothing but terror in his eyes.
"Your Majesty, I request you to summon Princess Ata into the palace, or send someone to bring in Xiaosuisui!"
As soon as Ji Youzhi said this, Ji Youze immediately refuted it.
"Suisui has been working with us for so long, surely by now she has returned to the mansion to sleep.
It’s better to summon Princess Ata!"
The Emperor agreed it made sense and quickly had Eunuch Ling handle it.
"You... you’re summoning Princess Ata, what... what do you intend to do?"
Lu Zezhong asked with a trembling voice as he looked at Ji Youzhi.
Ji Youzhi chuckled lightly and ignored him.
He found a random corner, closed his eyes, crossed his arms, and went to sleep.
By the time Princess Ata was summoned into the palace, dawn had already broken. As she passed through the palace gates, she saw quite a few officials standing waiting for the Emperor to hold the morning court.
Upon entering the Imperial Study, Eunuch Ling asked the Emperor, "Your Majesty, it’s time for morning court."
The Emperor waved his hand, "Today I’m not feeling well, so there will be no court. Civil and military officials should handle matters themselves first, if they can’t be resolved, submit a memorial, and I’ll handle them accordingly!"
Eunuch Ling took the decree and left.
Princess Ata greeted the Emperor, then Princess Lianchun, and after exchanging pleasantries with the Ji brothers, she stood aside and asked, "I wonder why Your Majesty summoned me here?"
The Emperor looked at Ji Youzhi, who had become a giant panda.
Ji Youzhi stepped forward, pointing to Lu Zezhong, who was curled up in the corner.
"Princess Ata, please check if he has any Gu insects on him?"
Hearing this, Princess Ata directed her gaze at Lu Zezhong, furrowing her brows, she took a small whistle from her neck and blew it gently.
As the whistle sounded, Lu Zezhong screamed, "Ah," clutching his body, trembling in the corner.
"Stop blowing, I beg you, stop blowing, spare me!"
The Emperor suddenly stood up from his chair.
Princess Lianchun also walked over and looked down at him.
Ji Youze nodded in sudden realization.
"I see, your life is held in someone else’s hands!"
Princess Ata spoke: "This kind of Gu insect is quite simple. When the whistle is blown, the insect moves through his blood, and at the command of the one blowing the whistle, the Gu insect can move to the person’s brain to consume brain matter."
The Emperor and others turned pale, and Lu Zezhong buried his head into his knees, crying uncontrollably.
"Coward!" Princess Lianchun scolded in anger.
"Don’t kill me, I beg you, please don’t blow anymore, don’t kill me!"
The Emperor gave Ji Youzhi a look.
Ji Youzhi escorted Princess Ata out.
He had Eunuch Ling send her back to the Post Station.
Ji Youzhi returned to continue the interrogation.
"I’m really speechless, you’re not afraid of the Emperor beheading you, nor of exterminating your entire clan.
Yet a mere insect in your body frightens you!"
"A brain-eating insect, constantly moving in your body, can you not be afraid of that?"