vrcanaries Chapter 308 Taking advantage of Huangfu's absence
Chapter 308 Taking advantage of Huangfu's absence
Half an hour later—
Borderlands
Huangfu Qian and Xia Mo, dressed as men, suddenly appear.
Jiang Chi, dressed in general's armor with fresh blood still wet on it, had just come down from the battlefield. He went to the camp to greet the people and led them into the camp, reporting things as they went.
"This time, the enemy was clearly well-prepared. There was a traitor in our army who sold out our situation to the enemy country. It's probably certain that..."
As Jiang Feng spoke, he clenched his teeth, feeling deeply remorseful for the compatriots who had sacrificed their lives.
Xia Mo didn't even raise her head. When she extended a wisp of her divine sense, she also shared that wisp of divine sense's vision with Huangfu Qian, so that Huangfu Qian could look at the sky above the military camp with her.
Above the military camp, fake flies, equipped with the "sky eye" prop found only in intrusive live-streaming systems, are hovering and flying.
Jiang Chi said angrily, "Don't let me find out who betrayed us! Crunch, crunch..." followed by the sound of angry teeth grinding.
Xia Mo used his divine sense to cover the entire military camp, taking in everyone's expressions before withdrawing his divine sense.
Currently, she has not discovered anyone who has betrayed her.
She then condensed a wisp of divine sense and shared its vision with Huangfu Qian. She then extended that wisp of divine sense into the enemy camp, taking in the entire situation within before withdrawing her divine sense.
Inside the enemy camp—
"Hahaha, just as the strategist predicted, the enemy has summoned King Jiang to the border battlefield!" The enemy commander laughed triumphantly.
The enemy strategist smiled and quickly relayed the news that Huangfu Qian had been lured to the border to the capital.
With the help of both inside and outside forces, the enemy strategist's mission was to lure Huangfu Qian to the border.
In Shangjing City——
The Marquis's Residence —
After receiving the message, Ma Yiyi was stunned. Just yesterday, she had used the "Heavenly Eye" tool to see Huangfu Qian in the capital city. How could he... be at the border now?!
No, that's not right!
Ma Yiyi paced anxiously back and forth in the room. She felt that something was strange about this, but she couldn't figure it out.
Ma Yiyi deliberately called Wei Zhishu over.
“I want to go to the Prince Zhen’s Mansion to see the Princess Zhen. Take me there,” Ma Yiyi ordered.
Wei Zhishu, thinking of the Prince of Zhen who was overseeing the country, suppressed his temper, nodded, and had someone arrange a carriage to send Ma Yiyi to the Prince of Zhen's residence.
When Ma Yiyi relayed the message to the Princess Consort of Zhen, she also expressed her concerns, but did not mention how she had seen Huangfu Qian yesterday.
Princess Zhen secretly relayed the message to the palace, explaining everything Ma Yiyi had said. As for how to judge it, that was up to Prince Zhen himself.
The King of the Town also possesses a live-streaming system, but he has never allowed it to be revealed, even though the system is confident that no one in this world will see it.
The Town King never relies on the live streaming system to do his work. The reason the live streaming system didn't resist is because the Town King was seriously completing the task of plundering dragon energy. However, recently, the Town King's task of plundering dragon energy has hit a bottleneck, and he can no longer plunder a trace of dragon energy from Huangfu Qian!
The live streaming system was anxious and revealed that it was a level four system, capable of commanding the level one, two, and three systems below it to do things for it. It also conveyed to the Prince of Zhen that Ma Yiyi possessed a level two system and Jia Daoren possessed a level three system.
The reason why the Prince of Zhen didn't want to use the live streaming system was to win over Ma Yiyi, making her his pawn and hiding himself even deeper.
As for Jia Daoren, who has already been exposed to Huangfu Qian's watchful eye, although Jia Daoren possesses a higher-level live-streaming system, he does not intend to use it for the time being.
An exposed piece has limited value.
The news brought by the Princess Consort of Zhen caused the Prince of Zhen, who was in charge of overseeing the country, to fall into deep thought.
The Prince of Zhen knew how Ma Yiyi saw Huangfu Qian. He believed what Ma Yiyi said. What he was curious about was how Huangfu Qian had arrived at the border in less than a day.
Could there really be extraordinary people in this world?
The Prince of Zhen wanted to test the waters, but didn't want to expose himself directly. So, he deliberately leaked the information to the Ninth Prince, the Prince of Yan.
Upon hearing that Huangfu Qian was not in the capital, the Prince of Yan immediately ordered his own troops to take action.
The Prince of Yan's goal is simple: capture the Xia family members in the Jiang Prince's mansion, especially the current Jiang Princess Xia Mo. As long as Xia Mo is captured, he can threaten Huangfu Qian!
Huangfu Qian has military power. If Huangfu Qian is willing, it would be easy to help him take the throne!
The Prince of Yan ordered his personal guards to surround the Prince of Jiang's residence, while he himself went into the palace to hold off the Prince of Zhen, who was in charge of the country.
The Prince of Zhen wanted to help the Prince of Yan, so he deliberately assigned Jiang Feng a lot of tasks that required the Imperial Guards and transferred Jiang Feng to the outskirts of the capital. Even if Jiang Feng found out, he wouldn't be able to get back in time to save people!
After making the arrangements, the Prince of Zhen, who was in charge of the country, had no interest in handling government affairs. Instead, he stood on the corridor outside the imperial study, looking up at the sky. Beside him was the Prince of Yan, who was speaking to him.
Outside the Jiang Prince's Mansion—
The moment the Prince of Yan's private soldiers surrounded the Prince of Jiang's residence, the gates of the residence were tightly shut, refusing them entry.
Officials and others on the same street as the Prince Jiang's mansion had all their gates tightly shut. There wasn't even a sound of dogs barking or birds chirping. There wasn't a single pedestrian on the street either. The air was so tense that it felt like it was about to explode at any moment.
"Bang bang bang..."
The Prince of Yan's private soldiers stepped forward and knocked on the door.
"Open the door!"
Inside the Jiang Prince's mansion, there was no movement, and the gatekeeper did not come to answer the door.
The soldiers of the Prince of Yan's mansion immediately realized that it was impossible for the Prince of Jiang's mansion to open its gates, and they were already prepared for this.
The King of Yan actually brought siege equipment with him.
"Bang on the door!"
"boom--"
"boom--"
……
The siege weapons were pounding heavily on the gate, but apart from a slight tremor, the gate of the Jiang Prince's Mansion did not appear to collapse.
They used siege equipment to ram the gates of the Jiang Prince's mansion for a full quarter of an hour! But the gates remained firmly shut!
"Damn it, how come the gate of the Jiang Prince's mansion is even more sturdy than the city gate?!"
The leading soldier of the Prince of Yan's mansion cursed angrily.
"Set up a ladder!"
If the gates of the Jiang Prince's mansion can't be broken down, then surely we can climb in using a ladder, right?
If you can't break it open from the outside, just open it from the inside!
Then, something even stranger happened.
Their ladder was propped up against the wall of the Jiang Prince's mansion, but just as they were about to climb it, the ladder slipped and fell over!
With someone holding the ladder, they were finally able to climb it, but... before they could even stick their head over the wall, the ladder mysteriously broke in two! It had snapped in the middle!
The soldiers of the Prince of Yan were somewhat flustered when they saw this.
Seeing this, the general panicked and continued to send people to try, but the result was always the same.
Now, the soldiers of the King of Yan were thrown into disarray, and their morale collapsed.
In Prince Jiang’s Mansion——
In the glass greenhouse in the back garden—
Xia's mother put down her hoe, wiped her sweat, looked at the sky, and glanced at Xia's father, who was also busy planting vegetables.
Little did the Prince of Yan's private soldiers know that even though they had surrounded the Prince of Jiang's residence, it remained peaceful and serene inside!