Seeing Mu Qingxue teetering on the verge of collapse and bleeding from the corners of her lips, Shen Lang was immediately startled and rushed over to help Mu Qingxue:
"Master Mu, you...those three guys actually hurt you?"
"It's not them...it's on the way here..."
Mu Qingxue said weakly, and suddenly her legs softened, her body tilted, and she leaned against Shen Lang.
Shen Lang thought he could hold her up easily.
But he didn't expect that when he raised his hands, what he supported was far heavier than he imagined. Under miscalculation, he almost lost his balance and was pushed to the ground by her.
Shen Lang quickly lowered his waist and braced his horse, using all his strength to support Mu Qingxue with his shoulders and hands, and then held Mu Qingxue firmly.
"Master Mu, you don't look fat at all, how can you be so heavy?"
Mu Qingxue glared at him angrily:
"I'm not fat to begin with! I'm very slim! It's just that I carry more than 300 kilograms on my body... It's not too heavy actually. Counting the weight, the total is only more than 400 kilograms..."
"So what is your cloak made of? How can you carry more than three hundred kilograms?"
"The inside of the cloak is filled with gold... and he also wears a gold breastplate..."
What the hell!
Carrying more than three hundred kilograms of gold with you, Mrs. Mu, you are truly a "gold owner lady"... No, I should say "gold goddess"!
Shen Lang blinked his eyes and said with great admiration:
"Muda, to be honest, you are far beyond my understanding. The most gold I have ever seen in my life is twenty gold bars since I came to King Shark Island...
"But didn't you say before that although gold can carry true energy, it is not suitable for weapons and armor? Why did you..."
Mu Qingxue raised her hand to stop Shen Lang from talking:
"Don't talk yet, listen to me first... I was accidentally injured on the way here..."
She didn't tell Shen Lang that in order to meet him as soon as possible, she took a straight line to King Shark Island regardless of her ignorance of the waterway. As a result, she repeatedly broke into various dangerous places on the way and encountered wind, rain, thunderstorms, sea monsters and ferocious beasts along the way.
Extremely difficult.
He only took short breaths and said briefly in a weak tone:
"The one who hurt me was a Western demon whose strength was close to the third-level master... Although I killed it, its power... lingered in my meridians, making it impossible for me to recover from my injuries...
"Before, I used secret techniques to forcefully suppress the injury, but just now I took action to control the enemy and vigorously stimulated the energy... The injury was almost unsuppressable. So next... I need to spend at least one night to drive away the power of the demon, you...
You and those pirates..."
Having said this, she coughed twice, quickly took out a green pill and swallowed it, and her breath finally calmed down slightly.
Seeing this, Shen Lang said softly:
"Mr. Mu, just rest in peace and recuperate, leave the other matters to us.
"Sister Yu...is that girl pirate, her name is Chen Yuniang, she is the owner of the Flying Fish.
"She had already seen through my identity as an undercover spy, but she did not expose me. Instead, she decided to help me destroy Sha Wanli and Duke Ying's plan to integrate pirates long before the Heroes Conference.
"So although they are pirates, they are also good partners that I can entrust with life and death. They are worthy of trust. We will guard the prisoners well."
Mu Qingxue nodded and said:
"What did you call me when I showed up before?"
"What?"
Shen Lang looked confused:
"What do you mean, Mr. Mu? My subordinates are stupid and can't understand."
You guy, you clearly called me "Miss Financial Supporter", but now you are pretending to be confused and innocent?
Mu Qingxue had long since seen her indifferent and cold look when she faced Zhu Yunfei and the others before, and rolled her eyes at him angrily:
"I'm too lazy to tell you more. Go and guard the prisoners...wait a minute! What happened to the Nanhai Sword Sect? Why did they get involved with the Shawanli gang?"
She only arrived a little while before Zhu Yunfei and was unaware of everything that happened at the heroes meeting in the morning.
"The thing is like this..."
Shen Lang explained Jin Yiming's support for Sha Wanli, forced him to become the leader of the alliance, and tried to control the pirates with "Dragon Blood Yijin Pills". Mu Qingxue suddenly nodded and turned around again.
Frowning to himself:
"So, Sha Wanli is not directly controlled by Duke Ying? Instead, he is controlled by the Nanhai Sword Sect? This makes things a bit troublesome..."
If this is true, then even if Sha Wanli is captured, it may be difficult to accuse Duke Ying.
Because on the surface, Sha Wanli was controlled by the Nanhai Sword Sect using the "Dragon Blood Yijin Pill" and had nothing to do with Duke Ying.
Even if Sha Wanli knew that his boss behind the scenes was the Duke of Ying, and came forward to testify, the Duke of Ying could deny it——
Do you also believe what the pirate says? He is clearly slandering and framing our own prince!
My father-in-law would like to ask:
Sha Wanli's home base is far away in the Qianxing Islands. I am a land-based prince who neither controls the military nor governs the government. How can I control him thousands of miles away and make him obedient?
Dragon Blood Yijin Pills?
But that’s not our government’s medicine!
Shen Lang also figured this out and said:
"We have captured Jin Yiming and Zhu Yunfei. From them, we may be able to interrogate the collusion between the Nanhai Sword Faction and the Duke of Ying, and prove the crime of Ying Guogong colluding with the Nanhai Sword Faction and supporting pirates.
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After Mu Qingxue swallowed the pill, her breath calmed down slightly. Although her voice was still a little weak, her speech was no longer choppy:
"That's not the calculation. Even if we know that Sha Wanli is controlled by the Nanhai Sword Faction, and we torture out the connection between the Nanhai Sword Faction and Ying Guogong, we still cannot convict Ying Guogong of supporting pirates.
"The Duke of Ying Guo can argue that he only has friendship with the Nanhai Sword Sect, but he does not know that the Nanhai Sword Faction secretly supports pirates. Collaborating with pirates is a secret activity of the Nanhai Sword Faction and has nothing to do with him, Duke Ying...
"With the identity of the Duke of Ying, his connections in the court, and His Majesty's attitude... Based on this indirect evidence alone, as long as the Duke of Ying refuses to admit it, there is nothing we can do to him.
"After all, he is a hereditary duke. If there is no solid evidence, let alone searching the Yingguo duke's mansion for evidence. Even asking him for normal questioning depends on his mood."
Shen Lang muttered:
"What if Jin Nanfei, the leader of the Nanhai Sword Sect, is captured, tortured for a confession, and asked to testify against Duke Ying?"
Mu Qingxue sighed softly:
"Relying only on one-sided words of witnesses cannot bring down such a century-old nobleman as the Duke of Ying.
"I originally hoped to find irrefutable evidence of collusion between the Shawanli gang and Ying Guogong, but now it seems that I don't have much hope.
"However, it is imperative to capture Jin Nanfei. After the incident on King Shark Island is over, we will go straight to the South China Sea Sword Sect. Perhaps we can find physical evidence from the South China Sea Sect that the Duke of Ying colluded with the South China Sea Sword Sect to support pirates..."
At this point, she suddenly felt short of breath again, covered her lips and coughed a few times, and a few drops of red blood were splashed on her white palms.
Shen Lang apologized:
"I was so absorbed in what I said that I actually forgot about your injury. This is Sha Wanli's residence, and there should be a secret room where he usually practices in seclusion. Please wait a moment, sir. I will help you find the secret room first, and then send you to heal your injuries."
Mu Qingxue took out her handkerchief, wiped off the blood on her palms, and said calmly:
"good."
After that, Shen Lang turned on the "mental scan" and searched upstairs and downstairs. He quickly found a secret room with walls made of solid stone, a door made of iron, and a futon and incense burner inside.
He also scanned a hidden grid on the wall of this secret room. He directly used the "Xuanbing Sword" to violently break the mechanism. He opened the hidden grid and found a scroll from it. When he unfolded it, he saw that it was the "Tide" practiced by Sha Wanli. "Palm" secret borrowing.