Time Travel: Pampered by the Aloof Prince-Chapter 372: The Person Behind the Scenes Just Wants Our Lives

Chapter 372: Chapter 372: The Person Behind the Scenes Just Wants Our Lives

"Kill her," Qi Yu closed her eyes and said to Li Mingjue.

While speaking, she took out a silver needle from her sleeve and stealthily handed it to Li Mingjue.

Li Mingjue didn’t ask any questions. After receiving the silver needle, he pinched it between his fingers, exercised his wrist strength, raised his hand, and directly flung the silver needle towards the neck of the person in the forefront.

In just a moment, the woman walking at the front fell down, her neck spurting a substantial amount of fresh blood, her eyes widened in terror, which made quite a chilling scene.

The black veil on her face was lifted by the wind and then fell, covering her entire face securely.

After she collapsed, the other women on either side, also wearing black veils, fell down one by one, completely void of any breath.

Watching this bizarre scene, Qi Yu said in a low voice, "It seems I guessed right."

The bellflower was not just a symbol, but a mark of the Poisonous Insect Poison.

Those afflicted with the Poisonous Insect Poison would grow a purple bellflower on their foreheads, becoming a puppet.

And the method to break this Poisonous Insect Poison was simple—find the only person among them who did not have the bellflower mark on their forehead, kill her, and those who were poisoned would also die.

This Poisonous Insect Poison was not very lethal, but it was extremely vicious.

The antidote for a person afflicted with the Poisonous Insect was the person closest to her; she was both the cure and the death knell.

Therefore, Lingya’s life was tied to Adi; killing Adi would also end her life.

Qi Yu scanned the circle of women with peaceful faces, then glanced at the palace gate just a stone’s throw away, and said solemnly, "We’ve been deceived, this place is not the Imperial City of Tulan at all."

Li Mingjue had realized this the moment Qi Yu wrote the words "Poisonous Insect Poison" in the palm of his hand.

He slightly nodded, his eyes frosty: "Right from the moment we boarded the carriage, we had already fallen into someone else’s trap."

The two exchanged a glance, and each knew who had set the trap.

Qi Yu tried to recall the book Jiutu had given her about the Tulan Secret Technique, and quickly asserted, "We are also poisoned, and everything we’re seeing now is an illusion. To escape this illusion, we need to find its lifeline."

Having said that, she grabbed Li Mingjue’s hand and ran in the opposite direction of the palace gate.

"That door over there is not the Imperial Palace at all, and if I’m not mistaken, it might be a bottomless abyss, which is why they are leading us there," Qi Yu explained hurriedly.

Thinking back, there were too many inconsistencies in the entire situation.

Tulan would not possibly send dozens of gaudily dressed women to lead them into the city, nor would it issue such an absurd order for all the city’s residents to shut their doors and stay inside.

More likely, there was no one here at all.

Even those dozens of women were just puppets afflicted with the Poisonous Insect, not truly living beings.

"Shiqi and the others didn’t come in, did they?" Qi Yu asked, gasping for breath as she pulled Li Mingjue out of the palace walls.

Li Mingjue looked around and shook his head, "No."

If Shiqi were here, he would have signaled Li Mingjue the moment he sensed something wrong with those people.

Qi Yu wasn’t surprised by this outcome, "It seems that the person behind the scenes only wants our lives."

She took a few deep breaths, her tense nerves somewhat relaxed.

But the next second, something even more eerie happened.

The once deathly quiet city suddenly came alive.

The street was filled with shouting and hawking, Qi Yu looked ahead and saw that the previously empty street was now bustling with pedestrians, all wearing enthusiastic smiles on their faces.

"What’s this situation now?" she pondered, then, a bad feeling rose from the bottom of her heart, "The illusion has changed again."

Li Mingjue also observed these suddenly appearing "people" and said calmly, "We can only take it one step at a time now."

Qi Yu watched the scene in front of her with a heart pounding like thunder, encountering such a strange phenomenon for the first time, she couldn’t stay calm.

However, thinking about it, she was a person who had inexplicably appeared in this world from thousands of years later, which might be weirder than the existence of these people, so she wasn’t afraid anymore.

She nodded her head and then remembered something, warning Li Mingjue, "Except for the road that led us into the city earlier, let’s not go anywhere else for now."

There could be danger everywhere in the illusion, and without complete certainty, it was best not to venture into unfamiliar places.

The two walked to the street they had entered the city through, where shops on both sides had already opened for business, and many street vendors were selling various delicious foods and intricate trinkets.

"Does the illusion differ much from the real Tulan?" Qi Yu asked curiously, observing those lifelike "people."

Li Mingjue shook his head.

Although he hadn’t been to Tulan, he had seen some custom paintings of Tulan, and this place didn’t resemble the real Tulan at all.

Qi Yu didn’t dwell on this issue any further.

The two walked to the end of the long street then doubled back, finally entering the largest restaurant on this street.

Before entering, Qi Yu looked up at the name of the restaurant, the signboard read "Ningzhu Pavilion" in big characters.

"Doesn’t sound much like the name of a restaurant," Qi Yu murmured to herself skeptically.

As soon as they entered, a passionate waiter came to greet them, "Dear guests, please come inside. Are you stopping for a meal or staying overnight?"

Looking at the waiter’s enthusiastic yet insincere smile, Qi Yu felt a wave of nausea and replied softly, "Staying overnight."

The waiter responded and led them upstairs, settling them into a room at the end of the corridor.

Upon entering the room, Qi Yu looked around and didn’t notice anything unusual, the furnishings here didn’t differ from a real restaurant’s at all.

She found a seat by the table, hesitated to touch the tea in the pot, and said to Li Mingjue, "Did you notice that the waiter who led us upstairs earlier didn’t ask us where we wanted to stay nor did he ask us for Silver."

Li Mingjue had also noticed this, nodding, "It is indeed strange. But, since this is an illusion, the actions of these ’people’ are manipulated, perhaps his task was just to lead us to this room."

Qi Yu pondered while stroking her chin, finding his explanation quite reasonable.

Soon, there was a knock on the door, her expression hardened, and she looked in the direction of the door, asking coldly, "Who is it?"

The voice outside was familiar, still that same waiter, saying emotionlessly to them, "I’ve brought food for you esteemed guests."

Li Mingjue opened the door, taking the food box from his hands.

Once he took it, the waiter turned and left.

Qi Yu opened the food box to see beautifully prepared dishes, appealing in color and aroma, just looking at them could make one’s mouth water.

But her heart remained still, who knew what ingredients had been added to these dishes.

She took out a silver needle and tested each dish for poison, but the silver needle showed no reaction.

Qi Yu couldn’t help but frown, had she been mistaken?

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