Traveling through ancient times to escape famine, the prince led me to rebel

Chapter 391: Extinguish

The arrow soaked in poison was only an inch away from Lan Zheng's eyeball.

Lan Zheng's Adam's apple rolled slightly, but it did not escape Luo Xiaoran's eyes.

"You are a killer, but you cherish your life so much. Interesting!"

Luo Xiaoran's voice sounded like that of a villain in any major film or TV show. The sentence ended with the word "interesting", and she was just short of making a "hehehe" laugh.

Lan Zheng smiled.

"Assassins are also human beings. They only have one life. They must cherish it."

"Just know how to cherish me. As long as you tell me who's behind this, I'll let you go. I won't break my promise!"

Lan Zheng laughed again.

"I believe in Miss Luo's promise, but what's the point of you letting me go?

I betrayed my master, but I still can't save my life!"

Seeing the other party pretending to be calm, and the strong desire to survive hidden under the calmness, Luo Xiaoran's eyes became more interested.

She lowered the crossbow in her hand and used the arrow head to lift Lan Zheng's chin.

“What you said makes sense, so I just lied to you, and I won’t let you go.

On the contrary, I will protect you well and use you as a witness to let me sue Princess Qingyi!"

To be honest, Luo Xiaoran is not the Princess of Yan yet.

Putting aside the powerful authority that Chen Ji lent her, what would it matter if the princess killed an ordinary citizen?

Luo Xiaoran was not so naive as to believe that "the emperor is guilty of the same crime as the common people."

But the Heavenly Prison was located within the imperial city, and Chen Lingyi’s burning of the Heavenly Prison was a provocation to the imperial power!

Today, Chen Lingyi dared to burn the Heavenly Prison in order to kill her. If she wants to kill other people in the palace tomorrow, will she dare to burn the palace?

Luo Xiaoran wanted to make Emperor Tianqi lose his patience with Chen Lingyi little by little, and increase his suspicion of Chen Lingyi little by little.

Lan Zheng finally showed a larger facial expression. Unlike Zhu Yan who served Chen Lingyi every day, Lan Zheng's identity was very secretive and few people knew that he was Princess Qingyi's man.

But now, Luo Xiaoran pointed out his master at once, which surprised Lan Zheng very much.

"Are you confused as to how I know that you are a disciple of Princess Qingyi? Because this should be a very secret matter."

Lan Zheng stared at Luo Xiaoran, and something in his heart seemed to collapse bit by bit.

"Burning down the prison to kill me is a capital crime!

She is the instigator and you are the implementer, so logically neither of you can escape.

But she is the eldest princess, the emperor's biological sister, and you are just a killer, a scapegoat, how can you compare with her?"

Luo Xiaoran continued to use tactics of sowing discord, trying hard to fool Lan Zheng and causing him to have all kinds of wild thoughts.

Lan Zheng remained silent until the fire in the Heavenly Prison was put out and the guards came to report the situation.

“Sir, the fire in the prison has been put out.

After investigation, it was found that someone poured kerosene on the prison gate and the passage inside, and then set the prison on fire.”

"What happened to everyone in the Sky Prison?" asked Huo Qingyun, who had been watching Luo Xiaoran fooling Lan Zheng the whole time.

“When the fire started, the eunuchs in the prison, the imperial guards stationed there, and the prisoners in the cells were all in a coma.

Those who were closer to the fire were all choked to death by the smoke, while those who were farther away were luckier and managed to survive.”

After hearing this, Wei An seemed to understand something.

She had previously asked the princess if she wanted to help open the doors of suspects in other cells, but the princess did not comment at the time.

Now that they thought about it, when they came out of the cell and searched for kerosene all the way, they didn't see any eunuchs on duty in the prison, and the guards led by Huo Shui were nowhere to be seen either.

The strangest thing is that the sky prison is very quiet tonight.

Normally at night, the suspects in the cell would make all kinds of noises.

Some of those who have fallen asleep will snore.

Most of those who were not asleep would cry out in pain because of the wounds on their bodies.

But tonight, all these noises disappeared...

It turned out that at that time, these people had already fallen into a coma.

Wei An looked up at Luo Xiaoran, his admiration for her was simply beyond words.

The princess should have seen a lot of clues at that time, right? She was so foolish to ask, it was just a joke!