"It should be reliable." Qin Baiyu frowned and said, "Eunuch Xiang has been serving His Highness for more than 20 years since he was a child. Your Highness also trusts him very much, so I just asked him to bring in the midnight snacks.
And I have personally tested those snacks before and they are not poisonous."
"But this time we went on an expedition to the Sui Empire, His Highness did not bring Eunuch Xiang with him." Lu Zhan reminded Qin Baiyu, "In this year, it is difficult to say what big changes will occur."
Qin Baiyu was shocked and suddenly said: "Yes, if the fourth prince and the prince want to bribe him, one year is enough. Come on, sir, let's go to His Highness's palace to check."
The two of them quickly ran towards the eighth prince's dormitory. As soon as they arrived in front of the dormitory, they saw Tie lying in front of the dormitory door, his face covered with white powder, and a basket of exquisite snacks fell on the ground.
They didn't bother to check whether Tie Heng was alive or dead on the ground. Lu Zhan kicked open the door in front of him and the two of them rushed in.
The eighth prince's bedroom had two large rooms, an inner one and an inner one, separated by a fine bronze curtain. As soon as they entered the bedroom door, they saw the body of a eunuch lying outside, with blood flowing all over the floor.
What shocked them the most was that the eunuch's Tianling Cap was actually lifted, and his head was completely empty, with no brain matter at all.
At this time, they saw a layer of green light shining in the interior of the dormitory. The two of them rushed to the bronze curtain inside and looked in. They saw a baby the size of a newborn floating next to the Eighth Prince's bed.
The octopus-like monster, the two eyes of the strange monster were shining brightly with cold light, shining closely on the eighth prince. What made them take a breath of air-conditioning was——
The Eighth Prince was kneeling between the beds with his upper body raised, his eyes slightly open in a daze, a strange smile on his face that was illuminated green by fluorescent lights, and a handful of bright guns in his hands.
The dagger actually made a motion of piercing his chest!
"Your Highness, no!" Qin Baiyu shouted loudly.
Instead of paying attention to him, the Eighth Prince tightened his grip on the dagger and raised it up, pointing it at his heart, intending to stab it down...
It was too late, then it was too late. Lu Zhan tried his best to throw the "Jingyun Sweeper Electric Gun" in his hand, and saw a flash of silver light passing by, hitting the octopus-like monster floating beside the bed.
body. Nail it firmly to the wall behind the bed.
The monster twisted its eight tentacles, let out a few "squeaking" screams, and then became silent.
At the moment when the octopus-like monster was nailed to the wall, the faint green light covering the eighth prince disappeared instantly.
The eighth prince trembled, and his dull eyes flashed with brilliance again. He looked at his upper body and the dagger in his hand in surprise, and said to himself in surprise: "
This, what is going on?"
Lu Zhan and Qin Baiyu ran to the eighth prince's bed. Qin Baiyu bent down to check whether there were any other wounds on the eighth prince's body. Lu Zhan pulled out the "Jingyun Scanning Electric Gun" nailed to the wall and pulled out the
The octopus-like monster turned over and examined it carefully.
This octopus-like monster has died. It has two eyes as big as copper bells. It has no eyelids, so that even after death, its two eyes are still wide open. The monster's body has only two big eyes.
Outside, no other organs were seen, and the skin all over the body was pink. The skin was covered with blood vessel-like lines. There were many suckers on the eight tentacles, and each of them had a small mouth shaped like a baby's mouth. It looked like
Extraordinarily weird and scary.
After Qin Baiyu inspected the Eighth Prince and confirmed that there were no other wounds on his body, he put clothes on him. The Eighth Prince murmured: "What's going on? I lay on the bed just now because I was too tired and fell asleep very quickly.
I fell asleep. I didn’t expect that when I opened my eyes, I would see this scene. Could it be that I was sleepwalking just now?"
"No, Your Highness, you are not sleepwalking, but you are possessed!" Qin Baiyu walked to Lu Zhan, looked down at the octopus-like monster on the ground, and said softly: "This thing seems to be a brain-eating demon.
'."
"'Brain-Eating Demon'?" Although Lu Zhan and the Eighth Prince didn't know what it was, just hearing the name filled them with evil energy.
"Yes, it's the 'Brain-Eating Demon'." Qin Baiyu explained: "This is just a small evil beast-level strange beast. It is not particularly powerful in itself, but it has extremely high intelligence, and they have
A strange innate magical power is that the green light emitted by its eyes has the power to paralyze people's minds and completely accept the control of its will."
"Oh," Lu Zhan suddenly said, "No wonder the green light reflected on the Eighth Prince's face just now, so he didn't know what he was doing at all."
Qin Baiyu continued to explain: "This strange beast is as small as an insect egg in its cub stage, and it is difficult to identify it clearly with the naked eye. Once it is accidentally drilled into the human body, it will enter the brain along the blood vessels,
Then it will become parasitic in the brain, slowly grow and grow by sucking people's brain marrow, and make its own
The body integrates into the host's brain, and finally takes over, completely replacing the parasite's brain, and controlling the person's behavior. It only takes more than half a year from the larvae stage to adulthood, so I estimate that this monster is born in half a year.
It was put into Eunuch Xiang's mind a long time ago without his knowledge."
The Eighth Prince felt a chill running down his body. He couldn't help but hugged his shoulders and took two steps back.
Lu Zhan looked back at the eunuch's body lying outside and said, "Could it be that Eunuch Xiang's daily activities are all controlled by a strange beast? And we can't see any abnormalities from the outside."
"If it were in broad daylight, there might be a chance that we could identify it, for example, through expressions, eyes, small movements, etc. But in this dark night, it's not necessarily the case."
Qin Baiyu sighed: "When Eunuch Xiang came into the palace with a food basket, I didn't see anything unusual about him. Now that I think about it, his eyes were indeed a little dull and his movements were a little stiff, but I didn't see anything unusual about him at that time.
I thought that he would be controlled by this extremely rare beast, so I let him in. Alas, fortunately Sir Lu came to remind me, otherwise this time it would have been a huge mistake for the ages."
Lu Zhan nodded and asked again: "Xiao Guoshi, you just said that this kind of monster has the original caster. Who can control such an evil thing?"
"Definitely not an ordinary person." Qin Baiyu said solemnly: "I heard that the barbarians are good at raising Gu insects, and the Yi people are good at controlling strange beasts. If my guess is correct, who controls this little monster?
, should be a witch doctor of the Yi tribe."
Lu Zhan and the Eighth Prince looked at each other, and the expressions on their faces became solemn. The two major races, the Barbarian and the Yi, have always been the two most troublesome and controversial existences on the Eastern Continent.
Now it seems that their opponents in Chujing City have received help from foreign forces. But they don't know to what extent they can help the prince and the fourth prince.
Lu Zhan recalled the little man he saw in the underground corridor just now. His face and neck were covered with whirlwind-shaped tattoos, and he looked like a foreigner.
At this time, a sound of sneezing came from outside the room. Only then did Lu Zhan and Qin Baiyu remember that Tie Heng was still lying outside, not knowing whether he was alive or dead. They ran out of the palace and saw Tie Heng crawling crookedly on the ground.
He stood up, wiped the white powder on his face, and muttered: "Damn it, eunuch, you dare to plot against me, I will cut you into pieces."
He saw Lu and Qin running out of the room, followed slowly by the Eighth Prince. He smiled awkwardly, shook his head and said to the Eighth Prince: "Your Highness, you... you are fine, your most beloved
My dear Eunuch Xiang, he actually drugged me just now. May I ask what the boy’s intentions are? You must hand him over to Lao Tie and let my men torture him.”
The Eighth Prince glanced into the room and sighed. He said somewhat unbearably: "Don't embarrass Xiao Xiangzi, he is already dead."
This night of terror put the entire Eighth Prince's residence on high alert. Fortunately, no unexpected incidents occurred in the second half of the night. The Eighth Prince himself also spent most of the night in a state of nervousness, and did not fall asleep until the early hours of the morning.
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Early in the morning, just after midnight, he heard an urgent report from the concierge, saying that Eunuch Fan, the eunuch in charge of the palace, was visiting. Qin Baiyu hurriedly welcomed Eunuch Fan into the main hall of the mansion to sit down.
When Eunuch Fan walked into the mansion, he first looked around, as if expecting to see something strange happen in the mansion, and then asked Qin Baiyu in a sharp voice: "What? Your Highness, the Eighth Prince, hasn't gotten up yet?"
Qin Baiyu smiled and said: "Yes, His Highness just returned home last night. The journey was dusty and he fell asleep very late. He still hasn't gotten up yet."
"Really?" Eunuch Fan held up the tea cup on the table with his orchid fingers, and while blowing the steam from the tea, he asked with a strange smile: "The Eighth Prince has been away for more than a year to expand the territory of Chu.
You have worked so hard and accomplished so much, are you still used to living in the palace now?"
"What are you talking about, father-in-law?" Qin Baiyu said calmly: "If you can't get used to living at home, where else can you get used to living there?"
Eunuch Fan cleared his throat and asked, "Is the house still peaceful?"
Qin Baiyu nodded and said sarcastically: "It's true that it's not peaceful. There were some weird movements in the house last night. It's probably because I haven't looked after it for a long time. There are a lot more wild cats in the house."
I just keep saying that spring is coming, so I’ll have all those cats castrated tomorrow to avoid making a lot of noise.”
Eunuch Fan glanced sideways at Qin Baiyu and said, "I also asked General Qin to join the army and invite the eighth prince. The old slave brought the emperor's oral instructions to Prince Ying."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the hearty laughter of the Eighth Prince coming from outside the door: "Haha, why do you, Eunuch Fan, come to my palace so early in the morning? You are such a rare visitor."
Eunuch Fan was slightly startled. He turned his head and looked at the door. Sure enough, the living Eighth Prince strode in. He looked rosy and majestic, and there was nothing wrong with him at all.
The Eighth Prince looked at Eunuch Fan and said, "What? Is there something wrong with my face? Eunuch Fan looks at me as if I have seen a ghost, hehehe."
"Hey, no..." Eunuch Fan quickly looked away and said with an embarrassed smile: "Your Highness, everything is fine, that's fine, that's fine..."
"Qin Shenjun sent someone to report that my father-in-law has something important to do with me." The eighth prince asked, "I wonder what the matter is?"
"Oh, that's it." Eunuch Fan regained his composure, cleared his throat and said, "The Emperor woke up this morning and learned that the Eighth Prince, who had worked so hard last night, had returned to the capital. He was very happy in his heart. He then passed on an oral message.
The Eighth Prince and the generals of the expeditionary force who have made great achievements in battle will be summoned to the Taiji Palace at noon today, so why don’t we specially order the Zajia family to inform His Highness the Eighth Prince.”
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