Qin Mufeng entered the palace feeling anxious all the way. Twenty-seven death knells were sounded, and the position of queen in the palace had been vacant for many days.

Is this death knell tolling for the elderly Queen Mother, or for the sick Holy One?

But no matter who it is, they are all relatives who are related to him by blood.

Qin Mufeng's heart began to panic for no reason, and the unfounded hatred and unwillingness deep in his heart became no longer important at this moment.

The steps under his feet became larger and larger until the sound of the death knell was heard again in his ears.

His heart suddenly rose to his throat, and his flexible and powerful legs were suddenly nailed to the ground, unable to move forward any further.

Officials who were just as hesitant as him gathered in a group at the entrance of the palace.

Their expressions were solemn, and the emotions in their eyes were complicated and difficult to distinguish.

Everyone was silently counting the bells that struck their hearts.

Five, six, seven, eight...twenty-three, twenty-four...

When the twenty-fourth bell rang, everyone turned pale and immediately knelt down on the spot.

Twenty-three bells are a dividing line. The sound of the bells has not stopped, which means that the only one left in the palace is...

There was a bang in Qin Mufeng's mind, and he didn't even know how he finally rushed into the hall where Chu Qin was.

When his mind returned to normal, his face was already cold.

When he saw the prince walking out of Chu Qin's dormitory intact, his heart skipped a beat.

The sadness on Prince Chu Lingtian's face didn't seem to be fake, and Qin Mufeng suddenly felt a strange and creepy emotion in his heart for some reason.

"Your Highness..."

Chu Lingtian raised his hand and patted his shoulder hard twice, and then said with deep sadness: "Mu Feng, my father is gone, please accompany me to see him off."

Qin Mufeng's body tensed subconsciously. He didn't know if Chu Lingtian's ambiguous words were literal, or if he meant something after knowing his life experience.

There was a fierce quarrel behind them, and the sound of swords clashing was particularly harsh.

Qin Mufeng's heart trembled when he saw the fierceness flashing through Chu Lingtian's eyes.

The flash of emotion was so fast that he couldn't catch it.

Chu Lingtian didn't give him the emotion to think about it carefully.

"Third brother! What are you making a fuss about? Do you want your father to die without peace?"

Chu Lingtian's scolding aggravated the unfounded solemn suspicion in Qin Mufeng's heart.

Chu Lingyue pushed away the guards who were blocking him like crazy, rushed to Chu Lingtian with eyes wide open, and grabbed the collar of his chest.

"Chu Lingtian, stop pretending to me, don't you know how my father got there?"

"As a prince, you are already inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people. If you are so impatient, aren't you afraid of being struck by lightning?"

Qin Mufeng's expression changed, and his already pale face became even paler.

What does Chu Lingyue mean by this?

Before he could think about it carefully, Chu Lingtian pushed the person in front of him out.

"Chu Lingyue, if you want to go crazy, go back to your prince's mansion and tell the truth."

"Seventh brother, send him back."

As soon as the undeniable voice came out, it attracted everyone's attention.

Under the gaze of everyone, Chu Linghao walked towards Chu Lingyue step by step.

He bent down and helped Chu Lingyue up from the ground.

"Third brother, stop making trouble. My grandmother passed away and my father passed away suddenly. We all feel bad. I will send you back to rest first."

Qin Mufeng's pupils shrank.

It wasn't an illusion, it wasn't overthinking, there was a strange aura everywhere. He was extremely sure that there was something wrong with it! And it was very serious.

It's just that he couldn't figure out what the problem was for a while.

Chu Lingyue looked at Chu Linghao beside him with disbelief: "Seventh brother! Do you know what you are doing?"

Chu Linghao smiled softly: "The third brother asked this question, the seventh brother naturally knows."

"The prince brother still has many things to do. If we can't help him, don't cause trouble for him."

Qin Mufeng saw Chu Lingyue showing a struggling expression, but his body did not make any refusal or involuntary action, and allowed the other party to lead him away from the place.

Qin Mufeng knew without thinking that the third prince must have been coerced by the seventh prince.

His mind was racing and he couldn't figure out how things could suddenly turn into this situation.

He had only been depressed in the Hou Mansion for two days, and the situation had undergone an earth-shaking change.

The strange thing is that neither Bai Chen nor Mu Bai said anything to them.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel worried.

"Congratulations to Your Highness for successfully removing the poison."

Chu Lingtian's sad expression rarely disappeared for a moment: "This is all thanks to the seventh brother, who found the mother Gu from the third prince."

Qin Mufeng was shocked. According to the previous investigation, the mother Gu could not be with the third prince. He narrowed his eyes and lowered his head to hide the rolling emotions in his eyes.

He couldn't tell whether the seventh prince was lying or the person in front of him was lying.

The only thing he could do was to find out what happened in the past two days without alerting others.

"Your Highness, please bless him..."

Chu Lingtian's face returned to the sadness of losing a loved one.

"I didn't expect that my father would pass away so quickly. The imperial doctor said it was a sudden illness."

Qin Mufeng looked at Chu Qin with a defeated look on his face, and couldn't calm down for a long time.

Lijing City hurriedly ushered in a national mourning, and the whole city was white. As expected, the prince ascended the throne and sat on the throne.

The third prince had to accept this unchangeable fact and began to feel depressed.

Fu Renjiu seemed to have disappeared from the world, and no more news was leaked.

The entire Lijing City was enveloped in a prosperous atmosphere.

Qin Mufeng's heart became increasingly uncertain.

His life experience was also buried with the death of Chu Qin. It was rare that Jiang Ping was surprisingly quiet and did not have any dark thoughts because of this.

Yun Xi looked at Qin Mufeng, who was frowning all day long, and spoke less and less. Every day except going to court, he would lock himself in the study to write and draw.

Qin Yi and An Long's people were so busy coming in and out that they hit the back of their heads with their feet.

In addition to worry, she felt distressed.

On this day, Lijing City, which had been stable for more than a month, suddenly became chaotic.

The sudden plague is spreading throughout Lijing City with lightning speed.

The death rate increased rapidly, so Yun Xi secretly took to the streets without telling Qin Mufeng.

The epidemic struck suddenly, and those who "died" were somewhat different from the real dead.

They look like real dead people during the day, but at night they will strangely resume short breathing and heartbeats.

Yun Xi originally thought this was just a rumor spread by the world and did not take it seriously.

After all, such a fantasy, something that is anti-human and anti-scientific is simply too fantasy.

But when she saw the "dead people" emerging from the coffins with her own eyes, she had no choice but to believe it.

The mass graves in the dead of night are filled with the living dead with green eyes.

On the mass grave where demons danced wildly, their movements were stiff and mechanical, just like those doomsday corpses in previous movies.

The only difference is that they don't bite each other or attack people.

Seeing this scene, the clothes on Yun Xi's back were soaked with cold sweat.

Her back was numb, her body was stiff, and even her breathing became cautious.

Yun Xi bent down to pick up the stones on the ground, and threw them at the corpses. After repeatedly making sure that the other party would not fight back, she pretended to be brave and walked in.

The skin of the corpses was shriveled and yellow, and the arteries and blood vessels were obviously bulging and dilated.

Yun Xi tried to cut the opponent's blood vessels with a black iron dagger and took some blood samples to study.

What she didn't expect was that the dead bodies, without exception, all had powerful healing abilities, and she had no way of getting blood samples.

"Xi'er."

Qin Mufeng's voice came from behind, and Yun Xi's heartbeat subconsciously tightened as she felt guilty.

"Ah, ah Mu, why are you here? Hahaha..."

Qin Mufeng turned a blind eye to the smile on her face, and his whole face turned darker due to seriousness.
To be continued...