"Oh! Don't blame me, Great Elder. The so-called caring leads to chaos. I'm really confused."
Wang Zhan immediately understood that it was indeed his fault.
When the city gate was opened before, the county prince's palace had sent him to come to investigate. If he opened it again, it would only mean that he had failed, and the consequences could be imagined.
"Hmph! This city gate can no longer be opened. You'd better tell your men to keep your mouth shut and not even mention the return of the caravan."
The great elder looked solemn and warned solemnly.
"this......"
"It's really stupid. It's known to everyone that Prince Nanjun wants to replace the current emperor. Do you think the royal family doesn't know about it?"
With the background of the royal family, who can influence them to establish the king? How could the affairs of the Nanjun King be so simple back then.
The King of Nanjun has no background at all. How can these mortal armies compete with the royal family’s background? And the King of Nanjun wants to let it out like this. Do you think Nanjun’s strength is what you see on the surface?"
"Then what else can it do? Wasn't it just three families and two families that forced the royal family to depose him as the crown prince? In our criminal domain, what other force can compete with them?"
"You don't have the slightest doubt about what happened back then, and you decided that changing the crown prince was forced by three families. Why couldn't they collude? The royal family was furious and abolished him."
"No! No wonder Tang Langhui showed up just now. I didn't expect that Prince Nanjun would collude with the Tang clan."
Sheng'er was still a young girl after all, and there were some things she didn't know clearly. As soon as the elder reminded her, she immediately realized the seriousness of the problem.
"Oops! The Tang Sect has been controlled by the Insect King for a long time, and the Tang Sect is very likely to control the Nanjun King. Then Nanjun has no safety at all. We might have fallen into the wolf's den."
Ye Feng's expression changed drastically. He somewhat understood why so many days had passed and the Ye family had no reason to kill the Tang clan. Maybe it was all in vain.
"Boom!"
As soon as Ye Feng finished speaking, there was a sudden loud explosion, and the ground felt a clear vibration.
"No! This is the capital city's defense formation!"
Wang Zhan, who was most familiar with Nandu, stood up with a roar and said doubtfully:
"Why activate the city defense formation before the insect famine has arrived? Besides, even if the insect hordes besiege the city, as long as the outer city has not collapsed, why bother opening the capital defense formation? Isn't this a waste?"
"Let's go up to the top of the city!"
The great elder didn't know what happened, so he stood up and walked out of the tent.
Nandu is an endless plain, and there are not many high-rise buildings here, so the 100-meter-high city wall is actually the tallest building in Nandu. From the Nandu city wall, you can overlook the entire Nandu city.
Of course, this is only theoretically possible. In reality, due to limited vision, it is impossible to truly see the entire Nandu.
But it's different now, because a beam of light in the central area reaches straight into the sky, and it can be clearly seen even from the South Gate City, two hundred miles away.
"Sure enough, the capital city has activated a protective formation. What the hell is going on?"
Wang Zhan said in confusion.
"It is impossible to activate the city defense formation unless life and death is at stake. Obviously something big has happened in the capital."
The great elder also said solemnly.
"The city defense formation is said to have been deployed by Emperor Ye Tian a hundred thousand years ago. Once activated, it can withstand any attack from the Emperor of Heaven and below, but the resource consumption is also extremely staggering.
It is said that if you want to reach the first level of protection, you need to use the fairy source to drive it. Now let alone the fairy source, even the top grade source crystals have long since disappeared, the top grade source crystals have not been seen for many years, and most of the mid-grade source crystals have been paid tribute to the fairy sect.
What can really be used in large quantities is only low-grade source crystals, so the protection has long been unable to reach level one. In fact, due to its age, the real protection level is only equivalent to level eight, which can barely resist the attack of the golden elixir monk."
Sheng'er knew that Ye Feng didn't understand, so she explained softly in his ear.
"wrong!"
Although Sheng'er's voice was soft, Wang Zhan still heard it, shook his head and said:
"The strength of this formation is definitely not level eight. We have tested it with mid-grade source crystals, and the strength is far inferior. Could it be that King Nanjun really got the Shangping source crystal?"
"Yes! Three thousand high-grade source crystals, I personally brought them back."
Ye Feng nodded and said.
"What? Are you telling the truth?"
Wang Zhan's face was full of doubts, and his voice even raised an octave, almost like shouting.
"It's not a secret. Is there any need to hide it?"
Ye Feng said in confusion, but he immediately thought of the scene when he was being chased, and suddenly said with enlightenment:
"I understand, that's what it is! Uncle Wang, tell me, did the King of Nanjun declare that the entire caravan was annihilated and that the supplies transported fell into the hands of bandits."
"That's right. The reason why the bandits let the princess go is because they don't want to have a life-or-death feud with the princess. And this time the caravan originally acted carefully, but because the Hongyan Merchant Alliance secretly conveyed the news and participated in the siege, it was
Failure."
Wang Zhan nodded and said.
"Is this the news reported by Prince Nan, or have you already confirmed it with the princess?"
Ye Feng really didn't believe that Feng Ling would hide the truth. He would rather believe that it was false news released by Prince Nan, so he asked this question.
"I personally checked with the princess. The princess only said that everything had been reported to the princess and she would not see anyone again. It is strange to say that the princess only showed up once after she came back, and she has not seen anyone since.
People have seen it.”
"Understood!"
Ye Feng nodded, the matter couldn't be more clear. Feng Ling must have known about the prince's plan, but she didn't stop it. This was no different from being an accomplice. Obviously, he trusted the wrong person.
Of course, he was originally a spoiler and disrupted the king's plan. Although he successfully sent the source crystal back, he did not get any credit. Instead, he caused huge hidden dangers, so he needed to be killed to silence him.
Ye Feng glanced at the people who were looking at him, asked the great elder to screen out the irrelevant people, organized his words a little, and then said:
“Back then, the Cursed City discovered a high-grade source crystal mine, and after confirmation by the princess, more than 3,000 crystals were polished out.
This batch of high-grade source crystals cannot be transported directly back to Nanjun, otherwise it will have to be turned over. Nanjun will not be able to keep it. On the contrary, it will attract too much attention. This is a result that the Nanjun King does not want.
So they made a plan to let these high-grade source crystals fall into the hands of the bandits. He only needed to send a powerful force to scare the bandits, join the bandits organization, and intercept the caravan together.
They made a detailed plan to transport high-grade source crystals and ordinary source crystals separately, and then they sent people to intercept the high-grade source crystals, and the bandits intercepted and killed the caravan, so that the bandits would not know about the high-grade source crystals.
They secretly brought the high-grade source crystal back to Nandu Mansion. Everyone thought that bandits intercepted the caravan, and the high-grade source crystal must be in the hands of the bandits, so the bandits became the best scapegoats.
Unexpectedly, after a lot of confusion, I, a spoiler, appeared, completely disrupting their plan, and successfully escorted the princess back to the high-grade source crystal.
Therefore, the insider must die, otherwise the plan will be leaked and all plans will be in vain."