Time Travel: Pampered by the Aloof Prince-Chapter 378: Do you think we are ghosts or humans?

Upon hearing this, Shen Xiheng fell silent for a long time before sighing, "We don’t know yet; we can only try to find them first." frёewebηovel.cѳm

Early the next day, the two knocked out a pair of patrolling guards, changed into their uniforms, and quietly blended into the patrol team to enter the Tulan Imperial Palace.

Shen Xiheng had inquired beforehand and knew that Tulan dispatched a team of guards to patrol the city every day. After finishing their rounds, they would return to the palace to report their duties, and then they would switch places with the guards who had been on duty in the palace the night before, continuing their guard duties at the gates of each hall.

Once the two of them infiltrated the Imperial Palace, they took off the clothes they had been wearing and changed into the attire of palace maids and guards.

The Tulan Imperial Palace was not large, but its layout was intricate and complex. If one was not extremely familiar with the place, it was easy to take a wrong turn.

After agreeing on a time and a place, they started to act separately, searching the palace for the whereabouts of Qi Yu and Li Mingjue.

The guards in the Tulan Imperial Palace wore silver masks, and the palace maids covered the lower half of their faces with a layer of black gauze.

Therefore, the two of them had not been discovered.

However, after a thorough search of the palace, they still came up empty-handed.

"It seems they are not in the palace," Shen Xiheng said gravely.

Before disguising themselves and infiltrating Tulan, Mo Qingshan had mentioned that if Qi Yu and Li Mingjue were not in the palace, there was a good chance they had been schemed against by someone using a very devious method.

Fearing that staying any longer might expose them, the two did not linger and followed the guards responsible for the afternoon patrol out of the palace.

As the Holy Sacrifice Day approached, and with the once-in-a-decade appearance of the Saintess, Tulan was under martial law, with different guards patrolling the city every day to ensure absolute security.

To the ordinary people, this measure was somewhat disconcerting.

But for Shi Zhou and Shen Xiheng, it was a good opportunity to blend into the Tulan Imperial Palace at any time.

Just as the two were at a loss, Qi Yu and Li Mingjue, who were in the Ghost City, had successfully captured several ghosts.

Protected by the invisibility of their space, the two of them were quite fearless.

After identifying their targets, they would knock them unconscious with a club and drag them into the space, where they bound them securely with ropes.

They stopped after they had caught three ghosts.

To ensure they could extract some information, the duo decided to interrogate them directly in the space.

Qi Yu pricked the forehead of each ghost with a silver needle, causing them to wake up immediately howling in pain.

She raised an eyebrow, thinking that even ghosts still feared pain.

To create an air of mystery, the two did not reveal themselves immediately but stayed hidden to observe these ghosts’ reactions.

After the pain roused the three ghosts, they struggled futilely, realizing they were bound with ropes and cursing, "Who has tied us up?"

The ropes were tied very tightly, and despite their efforts to struggle, they were unsuccessful.

"Wait... wait a minute, have you noticed there’s something off about this place?" Suddenly, one of the ghosts shrieked.

His words stoked the curiosity of the other two ghosts, who only then noticed they were in a very strange place.

The ghost on the far left, with two sharp fangs, spoke haltingly, "Why... are there... no doors here?"

No sooner had he spoken than the ghost beside him chimed in, "Not only are there no doors, but there are also no windows. Could it be that we’re no longer in the city?"

"And what are these things? They look bizarre and unheard-of," the ghost on the far right, with black malevolent aura emanating from his forehead, chattered tremulously.

The three of them looked in the direction he indicated and, upon seeing the modern medical equipment and drugs, their faces bore expressions that could no longer be described as mere terror.

Qi Yu thought to herself that if she didn’t reveal herself soon, these few ghosts might actually be scared to death.

With that thought in mind, she coughed softly. Though the sound was not loud, it was particularly jarring in the confined space.

The sudden cough immediately evoked even more trembling inquiries from the ghosts: "Who... whose voice is that?"

Qi Yu and Li Mingjue exchanged a glance, then stepped out from the shadows to face the three ghosts.

"Are... are you humans or ghosts?"

This question was rather interesting. Qi Yu raised an eyebrow and deliberately counter-asked, "What do you think, are we ghosts or humans?"

The three ghosts were stunned, exchanging glances filled with confusion.

"I guess they must be ghosts, right? Otherwise, why would they be so bold?" the ghost sitting on the far left was the first to voice his speculation.

His words were affirmed by the other two ghosts, "I guess so too. All those people who entered Ghost City, aren’t they all timid as mice, scared witless at the sight of us?"

Listening to them earnestly discuss, Qi Yu couldn’t help but snort with laughter.

Hearing this laugh, the three ghosts all turned to look at her again.

Qi Yu didn’t want to keep them in suspense any longer, and pointing to Li Mingjue and then to herself, she told the three ghosts, "Unfortunately, you guessed wrong. We are both real, genuine humans."

Only then did the three ghosts notice the strong aura emanating from them.

Seeing that they were all dumbfounded, Qi Yu snapped her fingers and waited for them to come back to their senses before she slowly said, "Want to know why you are here?"

One of the ghosts hesitantly spoke up, "Wasn’t it you who captured us?"

Qi Yu stretched out a finger and waved it in front of him, "Not at all, it wasn’t me who caught you."

"Then who tied us up?" All three ghosts looked at her with puzzled faces.

Seeing that they didn’t even harbor a single doubt, Qi Yu inwardly sighed to herself, realizing that ghosts indeed were easier to deceive than humans.

She cleared her throat and, pretending to be profound, stared at the three ghosts, "Don’t you know what you have done?"

Those three ghosts actually took the question seriously and after some reflection, they all claimed, "We didn’t do anything."

Inside, Qi Yu was already laughing her head off but maintained a serious demeanor and said, "Impossible. You must have done something to wrong the City Lord. Otherwise, why would the City Lord have me bind you and bring you here?"

"The City Lord?!" At the mention of these two words, they all turned pale with fear.

Qi Yu suppressed her laughter for a moment, then continued her deception, "That’s right, the City Lord said you committed a taboo, so he tasked me with dealing with you."

Her words had terrified the three ghosts so thoroughly that for a moment, they failed to notice the glaring inconsistency in her statement.

If she had already admitted to being a human, how could the City Lord possibly hand them over to a person?

Qi Yu speculated inwardly that adding up the intelligence of these three ghosts might still fall short of the passing mark.

They were not only easy to trick but also easy to probe for information.

Indeed, after a moment of silence, all three ghosts looked at her and asserted confidently, "That’s impossible. We have never committed any taboo of the City Lord."

Qi Yu raised her eyebrow, "Then why would the City Lord wrong you?"

The three ghosts retorted indignantly, "The City Lord would never wrong us. She must have been deceived by someone else!"

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