The Dark and Foolish King: The Fierce and Crazy Concubine Has Infinite Strength

Pu Xuan was satisfied and sighed, "I'm glad you guys figured it out. I don't want to see Tang City fall."

"I and the people all know your good intentions." Jun Zhonglin comforted him and asked Jun Ziyao to help him into the mansion to take a rest, then walked to Lu Xiuyuan and others.

"I want to ask you to do me a favor."

"Mayor, please feel free to speak." Lu Xiuyuan responded politely.

Jun Zhonglin sighed heavily, looked at the people who were dispersing and said, "Look, although they agreed not to borrow troops, they all look worried. You should be able to guess what they are worried about, right?"

Lu Xiuyuan glanced at the people, thought for a moment, and said, "They can't understand that the previous 'miracle' was man-made. They are worried that the fire that cannot be extinguished will start again, and ferocious beasts will enter the city again to cause damage."

Jun Zhonglin nodded and said, "Since you are so sure that someone is deliberately causing trouble, then I would like to trouble you to investigate and find evidence of human intervention so that the people can rest assured. Then, I will give you a good gift in return."

Lu Xiuyuan and Xia Younan looked at each other and thought that Ye Beimo would not give up even if his ambition was thwarted.

Whether he is still vindictive or has a revengeful mentality, he will definitely use the same trick again. As long as they take precautions in advance, they will be able to expose his tricks!

Thinking of this, Lu Xiuyuan agreed to his request, and did not forget to remind Jun Zhonglin to keep their investigation a secret to avoid alerting the enemy.

Jun Zhonglin agreed and left in a hurry.

The fact was just as they expected. Ye Beimo soon received a firm message from Jun Zhonglin: Tang City would not participate in external struggles, all troops would never be loaned out, and Ye Beimo was asked to leave Tang City as soon as possible.

Ye Beimo was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot. He smashed his house to pieces and yelled at the top of his lungs, demanding that Tang Cheng pay a terrible price!

Lu Xiuyuan and Xia Younan also quickly launched an investigation. The first place they went to was the mountain god temple outside the city, the first place where the "mountain god" appeared.

After entering the temple, Lu Xiuyuan saw that it was indeed as the people said. The legendary words were clearly written on the chest of the huge mountain god statue.

"Did these words really appear out of thin air?" Xia Younan asked the old man guarding the temple.

The old man guarding the temple nodded his head rapidly, and said in amazement, "I am sure that there were no words on the Buddha statue before I opened the door that day. The moment I opened the door and the believers rushed in, a few lines of words appeared out of thin air in full view of everyone."

Xia Younan did not answer. He and Lu Xiuyuan split into two groups and patrolled the temple, hoping to find some useful clues.

However, the two searched the temple carefully but found no clues.

"Strange, what's the problem? It can't be that the mountain god really appeared." Xia Younan stood in front of the mountain god statue depressed, looking up at the tall and majestic stone statue.

The moment she raised her head, the pearl flowers on her head suddenly fell off, dropped to the ground with a crisp sound, then bounced and rolled under the table covered with yellow cloth.

"Ouch~" Xia Younan let out a light cry, quickly squatted down, and reached under the table to feel for her pearl flower.

Her hand quickly touched an object, which was cool and round, obviously not what she was looking for.

But out of curiosity, she grabbed the thing and took it out.

She opened her palm and saw a small round porcelain bottle in her hand. The bottle was in the style of blue and white porcelain, the size of the palm, and the mouth of the bottle was covered with a lid wrapped in red cloth.

"What is this?" Lu Xiuyuan walked up to her and asked after seeing it.

Xia Younan shook his head and asked the old man guarding the temple with the bottle in his hand, "Is this bottle from the temple? Why is it under the table?"

The old man who guards the temple looked at the bottle carefully and denied it, saying, "This is not something from the temple. I have never seen this thing before, and I don't know why it appeared under the table."

Lu Xiuyuan took the porcelain bottle, pulled out the stopper, looked inside, and saw a transparent liquid.

He and Xia Younan looked at each other, then he reached out his hand, dipped it in the liquid, and put it to his nose to sniff it.

"It's colorless and tasteless, and I don't know what it is."

“Maybe it was dropped by a pilgrim when he was burning incense.” guessed the old man guarding the temple.

"Take it back and study it." Lu Xiuyuan said, and he and Xia Younan said goodbye to the old man and walked out of the temple gate.

After leaving the temple, the setting sun instantly enveloped the two of them. Xia Younan looked down inadvertently and found that Lu Xiuyuan's index finger had turned red, as if it was bleeding.

"What's wrong with your hand?" Xia Younan pulled Lu Xiuyuan's hand over and looked at his fingers nervously. When he found no wound, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Lu Xiuyuan looked at his finger which seemed to be stained with red ink in astonishment. Then an idea flashed in his mind and he said to Xia Younan with wide eyes, "This finger is what I used to dip into the liquid in the bottle just now."

"Ah?" Xia Younan exclaimed, unable to believe it, "How could this happen? There was no color when you dipped it just now, but how come the color appeared as soon as you went out? And this color is the same as the words on the mountain god statue!"

Lu Xiuyuan had already determined that this bottle of liquid was related to the matter of the mountain god, so he hurriedly pulled Xia Younan back to the temple, took out the porcelain bottle and dipped his other finger in the liquid in the bottle.

Just like the first time, there was no change in my fingers except that they were wet.

Afterwards, the two men stared at the finger and slowly walked out of the temple gate.

The moment he stepped out of the temple gate, the setting sun shone on his fingers, and the parts of his fingers illuminated by the light began to turn pink gradually, then the color deepened, until finally turning bright red.

“It’s Hikari!!”

The two exclaimed in unison.

They realized that this liquid should be a special invisible ink. It was transparent and traceless in dark places, but its color would slowly show up once exposed to light.

This can also explain why words suddenly appeared on the mountain god statues as the people said.

The door of the mountain god temple faces east. Someone must have used this liquid to write words on the statue the night before, and then waited for believers to arrive and open the temple door.

The moment the temple door opens, the first rays of sunlight shine on the statue, making the invisible ink visible to everyone.

As for what the temple keeper said about not seeing anyone staying in the temple privately, Lu Xiuyuan and Xia Younan looked at the table covered with yellow cloth in front of the statue at the same time, and understood everything in their hearts.

The matter of "words appearing on the temple" has been solved, and the next ones are "sky fire" and "beasts entering the city".

It was the middle of the night, the moon was dark and the wind was strong, all the people and animals had fallen asleep, the whole Tang City fell into silence, even the nightingales were sleeping soundly in their nests.

At this time, a group of masked men in black ran out from somewhere, and then quickly dispersed. Each of them held a heavy sack in his hand, and they walked lightly into the night.

One of them walked through the streets for a while and stopped in front of a wooden house. He looked around and saw that there was no one around. He then used his lightness skills to fly to the roof, opened the sack in his hand and started working.

He took a handful of gray powder from the sack and sprinkled it carefully and evenly on the roof. He was extremely cautious in every move, fearing that anyone would hear the slightest movement.