I am cannon fodder, but I can hug thighs

Chunzao drank some wine at the academy and fell asleep dizzy when she came back.

The maidservant was strangled and had her mouth covered as soon as she came out of the house. She looked at everything in the yard with horror. Wu Bi was lying on the ground covered in blood, her life or death unknown. Others were also lying in the yard in all directions.

Chunzao felt that the night was particularly hot in the middle of the night. It seemed that many people were shouting something in her ears. She opened her eyes in a daze and saw only a sea of ​​red.

"Ah!" Chunzao could finally hear the sound outside.

"The water is gone! The water is gone!"

"Miss Chunzao is still in there!"

Chunzao was so scared that she quickly got up and ran outside, but as soon as she walked out, a beam fell down: "Ah!"

She quickly stepped back, but seemed to have bumped into someone. Before she could even raise her head, her neck hurt, and her body tilted and she fainted.

The fire in the general's mansion caused a huge commotion. After all, the streets nearby were lined with the residences of dignitaries. Both the ordinary people and the officials' families woke up and started to make a fuss as they watched the flames rising into the sky.

"Is that the general's mansion over there?"

"How could there be a fire in the General's Mansion? I'm afraid someone wanted to show off their power to this female general, but it ended up causing such a big commotion."

"Who dares to mess with this female general now? I'm afraid that person will be in big trouble when she comes back."

"Why does she need to come back? Song Shiqiu has already passed away!"

After working hard for most of the night, the fire was finally put out. Lin Jin and Song Shiqiu were still awake when they received the news. They rode all the way over on horseback. Looking at the general's mansion which was half burned, Song Shiqiu's face was solemn.

"Where's Chunzao? Why can't I see Chunzao?" Lin Jin looked around but couldn't find Chunzao. She consoled herself in her heart that she might be resting somewhere else. After all, this girl was not very courageous. "How is she now?"

The maids and retainers of the general's mansion knelt down and said, "Madam, Miss Chunzao didn't make it out. She was burned to charcoal!"

Lin Jin felt a chill down his spine, and could barely stand. "W-what? Where? Where is he? I don't believe it, take me to see!"

Song Shiqiu supported her: "Ajin, calm down."

"Chun Zao can't be dead, she..." Lin Jin suddenly remembered that Chun Zao's favorability had not been lit up, and was speechless for a moment, "No, she definitely won't die, this girl is smart and cherishes her life, she will definitely be able to escape."

Lin Jin pushed Song Shiqiu away and followed the maid to Chunzao's yard. There were several corpses outside the yard that had been burned into ruins. Lin Jin's eyes swept over all the corpses. The faces of the others could still be seen, but there was only one corpse that had been burned to charcoal and nothing could be seen.

"Is this spring algae?" Lin Jin felt the hairs on his body stand up, and the white air he exhaled blinded his eyes.

"Yes, the number of people has been confirmed." The maid knelt aside, trembling all over.

Lin Jin squatted down to examine the corpse. The figure was exactly the same as Chunzao's. She looked up and around. The fire obviously started in this yard, so the fire was the most serious. But Chunzao had never offended anyone and was not conspicuous. Who would want to kill her?

"System, can it detect if it's Chunzao?" Lin Jin's intuition told her that the body must not be Chunzao's. Chunzao was not capable enough to be regarded as a thorn in the side. If it was purely to provoke Xi Lilong, she would definitely not choose to do this when Xi Lilong was not around.

[The system library does not have Chun Zao's DNA data, so it cannot match.] The system also wanted to help Lin Jin identify the body, but without the data, there was no way.

Lin Jin stood up and knew which one was the master bedroom after just a quick look. She walked in, but Song Shiqiu grabbed her arm.

"Sir, I want to go in and take a look." Lin Jin now needs evidence to prove that Chunzao is still alive.

"Wait a minute, the house is burned like this, what should we do if a stone or wood falls down suddenly?" Song Shiqiu knew how she felt, but the house was still dangerous, and he couldn't let her go in like this.

The people brought by Song Shiqiu quickly cleaned up the general's mansion. It was such a big general's mansion, but with more than a hundred people, it was not discovered until after the fire had lasted for such a long time. It was all considered dereliction of duty and they would definitely not escape punishment, not to mention that their master might die.

Lin Jin didn't care about these things. She waited until everyone else had cleaned up everything before going in. If the body was not Chunzao, there must have been other people in the room at that time, and there must have been traces left.

Although she is not a professional, she now has a system that allows her to see all the details clearly at a glance, and there are also suspicious points marked by the system.

Lin Jin stood in a corner, looking at the tiny trace of blood marked by the system. Although it was no longer clear, the system's detection would definitely not be wrong: "System, why is there blood here?"

No one would come here specially.

She thought of the fatal knife wounds on some of the maids' bodies, and these residues were probably from those maids.

Lin Jin continued to look at other places. The more she looked, the more certain she was that there must be someone else in the room at that time. She looked at Song Shiqiu: "Chun Zao is still alive."

If the other party wanted Chunzao to die, there was no need to burn down the general's mansion. The real purpose of these people was to take Chunzao away, make them all think that Chunzao was dead, and stop looking for Chunzao's whereabouts.

What is there about Chunzao that is worthy of the other party's attack? She has no power or influence, and no relatives in this world. Probably the only thing that matters to her is the system in Chunzao's body.

It is not time to open the city gates yet, and the people who kidnapped Chunzao must still be in the city.

"I understand what you mean." Song Shiqiu nodded slightly.

The news of the fire in the general's mansion was known to everyone in the city. Song Shiqiu simply ordered people to search house by house for suspicious people and ask them if they heard any noise in the middle of the night. Those who wanted to leave the city also had to go through layers of inspection.

Chunzao opened her eyes hazily, and all she saw was darkness. She felt like she was on a boat, swaying from side to side, but the place she was in seemed very small, and she could only curl up. She wanted to speak but found that she could not make any sound.

The space was so small and dark that Chunzao couldn't even move. She felt like she could hardly breathe, and her inability to make a sound made her feel desperate.

She woke up groggily and fell into sleep again several times. She kept wondering if she was having a nightmare and was being possessed by a ghost.

Chunzao opened her eyes again and saw that it was no longer pitch black. However, she suffered from hypoglycemia due to not eating or drinking for a long time and felt weak all over. She opened her mouth to speak but no sound came out.

Is she still not awake?

Chunzao's eyes were filled with despair. She didn't know how long this terrible dream would last.

A face suddenly appeared in front of her, which scared her so much that her heart skipped a beat. The other person spoke a language she couldn't understand, which made her confused.

"Are you hungry?" Ashina Hun looked at Chunzao with concern. Seeing that Chunzao didn't understand, he frowned and thought for a while before asking again in broken Chinese.

Chunzao was helped up. She looked around in panic, pointed at her neck to Ashina Hun, then uttered "ah" twice, asking what was wrong with her throat.

Ashina Hun scratched his head and said nonchalantly, "You have become mute due to the poison. The high priest said he was afraid you would make any noise."

Chunzao was shocked as if by a bolt from the blue. She didn't understand why she was poisoned and mute when she woke up. She stood up and wanted to question Ashina Hun, but she fell back dizzy as soon as she stood up. She had no strength at all.

Ashina Hun didn't notice Chunzao's anger and thought she wanted to eat, so he brought her a bowl of porridge: "Are you hungry?"

Chunzao groaned twice and pointed at her neck. Ashina Hun said in a low voice, "It won't affect my meal."

Chunzao: “…”

is a fool.