Madam General, please run slower.

Three days later, the troops returned to the capital, but the speed of tens of thousands of soldiers could not match the speed of one person.

Yu Xun didn't know that while he was scheming with others in the camp, Li, who had rushed back to the general's mansion first, had already escaped.

The west courtyard of the General's Mansion.

Wei Qi, who was guarding the yard, was very surprised at Li's sudden appearance in the yard. Just as he was about to inform Wei Yi, someone grabbed his neck and pushed him to the ground.

"What happened in the yard, huh?" The girl's tone was soft and the ending of the sound was lingering, but there was no warmth in her words.

Wei Qi gritted his teeth and vowed not to tell anyone.

"I know you. You are the seventh one, right?" Li patted Wei Qi's face. She had gestured with this person before, so she naturally recognized him. "It doesn't matter if you don't tell me, but I'll have to trouble you to accompany me to find the answer~"

Li was walking around the yard, holding someone's neck. Wei Qi had no power to resist under the spiritual pressure. After walking around the west yard, Li soon found that something was wrong. The yard was too quiet, without any signs of fighting or arguing.

Li narrowed his eyes slightly, staring at the person in his hand, his whole body exuding a dangerous aura, "Where is my maid?"

"I... don't know..." Wei Qi uttered the two words with difficulty. The tingling pain in his bones made him sweat coldly, but his limbs were shackled by an unknown force, making it impossible for him to commit suicide.

"Everyone knows that you secret guards are very tight-lipped, so I asked you some questions." Li chuckled. The frenzy in his heart caused by his emotional fluctuations made Li feel annoyed.

Li bit his fingertip, but the blood did not flow down as usual. Instead, it stayed in the air and drew winding lines according to Li's gestures.

Wei Qi looked at the scene in front of her in astonishment as if she had seen a ghost. She was not from the same world as them!

Tanghulu in the sea of ​​consciousness looked at the blood talisman in the air and pursed his lips tightly. Drawing talismans with blood is extremely harmful to the master's body. Even in the previous life, Li rarely used this method when doing missions. Is Chunmei so important to the master? This is not good.

Seeing that Li had no time to take care of it, Tanghulu turned around and went to sleep secretly.

A complicated searching talisman was formed as Li's hand fell.

Looking at the blood symbol generated in front of her, Li breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, she was worried before and left with Dao Chunmei's scent before leaving.

"Let's go, let me see what you are doing." Li concealed the sinister look in his eyes, surrounded by spiritual power, and ran towards the location indicated by the blood talisman with Wei Qi.

Compared to the chaos in the southern town, the capital was peaceful. The vendors kept shouting, and the pedestrians stopped to play. The chaos outside seemed to have nothing to do with them, but they didn't know that the flames of war would soon burn into them.

Li came to the door of an underground gambling house in a roundabout way. On the way, he was annoyed that controlling Wei Qi wasted his spiritual energy, so he bought a rope and tied him up in a fancy way.

"Gambling house? Could the entrance to your Dark Guard Camp be right here?"

Wei Qi was so flustered that he didn't answer, but the man in front of him didn't expect him to answer at all. He took out a talisman with strange patterns and stuck it on him. Then... Wei Qi saw a scene that was enough to shock him for several lifetimes.

Wei Qi was dragged by Li and walked through the gambling house door openly, passing through the many gamblers in the hall, but no one looked at them. After realizing that he was not seen by anyone, Wei Qi's mind went blank, and the emotion called "fear" swept through his body. The look in his eyes when he looked at Li could no longer be described as simple fear.

When Li walked into the cellar accurately and stopped at the door of the secret passage, Wei Qi was so shocked that his face was expressionless.

"Tsk tsk, the mechanism you arranged is quite clever." Li studied the mechanism at the door with admiration. It was truly amazing that a single move affected the entire structure.

But isn't this kind of mundane mechanical trick easier to break than the ancient array? Who cares if it affects several bodies? Just destroy them all.

Li was not in the mood to study how to crack the mechanism step by step. He turned his spiritual power around and at the same time, explosions were heard all around him. Even the stone wall in front of him was blown to pieces.

"These mechanisms are too old. I'll dismantle them all for you. You're welcome." Li clapped his hands casually and pulled people into the secret passage.

Wei Qi: ...

This secret passage leads to many directions and has more than one exit. If it weren't for the searching talisman, Li would not be able to get out for a while.

"There must be some secret passages leading to the palace, right?" Li Qing chuckled. She was just wondering how Yu Xun was able to break into the palace so easily that night after being drugged. It turns out that the secret passages are right here. It's really incredible.

Wei Qi, who looked half dead, didn't even want to look at him. I don't know where this little princess learned this rope-tying method, which made him have no chance to save himself.

Li followed the direction of the searching talisman and found an underground prison. Jiang Wan was probably imprisoned here at the time. Thinking of Jiang Wan's frightened expression when he mentioned the dungeon, Li couldn't help feeling irritated and his pace quickened.

The strong smell of blood stimulated Li's senses. This dark and damp feeling reminded her of the days when she stayed in the Shadow of Death.

The blood symbol stopped at the door of a cell and then disappeared. Li took a few deep breaths before he dared to look inside.

In the dim dungeon, a ray of cold light shone in from the narrow window, illuminating the woman curled up in a corner. Her clothes had long been soaked with cold sweat, tightly sticking to her skin, making her look particularly fragile. Her long hair was disheveled, and a few strands of hair were stained with blood oozing from her forehead. Her face was full of helplessness and pain.

Her hands and feet were locked tightly with rough iron chains, her wrists were bruised and her skin was rubbed to a bloody mess, as if she had exhausted all the strength to struggle. Her body twitched from time to time, but she still clenched her teeth and tried not to make any sound, but the sweat on her forehead and the tears in her eyes silently exposed her pain.

Li only took a glance and then looked away, turning to look at Wei Qi who was tied up beside him.

The corners of Li's mouth were slightly raised, but there was no trace of a smile on his face. There was a dark mist flowing in his eyes, and his whole body exuded a sense of weirdness.

"I'll give you a chance to report it."

Li waved his hand casually, and the rope on Wei Qi broke. Seeing Li's half-smile, Wei Qi felt his scalp tingling. Seeing that the other party really asked him to report the news, he did not dare to delay and turned around and ran out.

The soles of her shoes rubbed gently against the slippery ground, making a subtle "squeak" sound, which was particularly clear in this confined space. Chunmei felt that she was really having an illusion because of the pain, and she actually heard the name she had missed for a long time here.

"Sister Mei."

It was not until that person stood in front of her and called her again in a low voice that Chunmei looked up in disbelief. When she saw Li, the tears that she had been holding back could no longer be held back and fell.

Li squatted down, stretched out his hand to brush the hair that was stuck to the side of her face behind her, and asked softly: "Why don't you resist?"

Seeing Chunmei's puzzled expression, Li pulled up her left hand and gently stroked her palm, "Don't you know martial arts? Why don't you resist?"

"Princess, you..." When did you know?

Hearing Li's words, Chunmei's eyes widened in shock. She had never used force in front of the princess, so how did the princess know?

It's over. Now that the little princess knows that I have concealed my strength, she won't abandon me...