
The princess pavilion was the magnificent building that housed Princess Zhou Jing Yi's residence, standing between a flower garden and a vast fish pond. In the middle of the fish pond there is a gazebo, a place that Princess Zhou Jing Yi used to sit alone to relax looking at her pet fish.
Seen in every corner of the princess pavilion surrounded by the wall, the soldiers complete with weapons perform guard duty. Among the many soldiers standing guard, two soldiers who were none other than Hulao and Honglong were standing guard at a point not too far from the pavilion building.
"I've said many times, Stop! You're making my head spin on a rancid squirrel." Hulao stared resentfully at Honglong who stood back and forth, sometimes jumping up and down, sometimes scratching something on the ground with a twig in his hand, all of which he did to drive out boredom.
Another guard who stood guard with the two of them actually also felt astonished by the name they said to call each other and Honglong's behavior that could never be silent. But knowing they are both new guards, the guard can understand if the two of them are not used to this job, so he also let Honglong do anything to drive away boredom as long as it does not interfere with security.
Honglong gave a rude snort before walking over to Hulao, "We should have what the guard is?" Whisper Honglong by bringing his lips closer to Hulao's earlobe.
"Wait until the time is right." Hulao replied in a whispering voice as well.
Suspicious of Hulao and Honglong's whispering behavior, the guard walked over. "What are you hiding from me?"
Hearing the guard's words, Hulao and Honglong turned their heads. There was a strange smile on both of their lips.
Suddenly the guard had a bad feeling. And sure enough, when he wanted to re-open his voice, his mouth suddenly became stiff even his body could not be moved.
Without saying anything, Hulao suddenly slapped Honglong on the head. He knew very well that Honglong had made the guard unable to move.
Honglong quickly moved his hand to retaliate, but his hand was suddenly restrained by something that made his hand stop in midair. While Hulao himself had vanished from where he stood.
Although Hulao seemed to disappear, Honglong was still able to see the movement of Hulao flashing towards one of the trees standing beside the pavilion building. Then quickly he flashed following.
Arriving there, Honglong could see Hulao standing in front of three men dressed as soldiers. The three soldiers are now seen sculpting.
The three warriors were none other than the envoys from the guard chief Bi Changfeng to watch over Hulao and Honglong.
Actually Honglong himself had realized if they were being watched, that's why he felt uncomfortable and could not stay still while being guarded.
"This is not the time for stupid fights. Since you've been acting recklessly, then now you're the one who has to make the move to investigate. I'll stay here to clear up all the trouble you've caused." Hulao said in a cynical tone without turning his gaze towards Honglong who was standing behind him.
"Wait what else is an ugly squirrel? Hurry up and do your job! You still remember the people you had to investigate, don't you?" Hulao turned around, looking at the silent Honglong looking at him. "But remember, do everything carefully, don't act recklessly again or you'll know for yourself the consequences."
"Why don't you do it yourself?" Tukas Honglong with a puffed-up face.
"That's because of your own fault, ugly squirrel, if only you would be a little patient, then we'd do it together."
Honglong snorted in annoyance before turning his body into his original form, a squirrel at the height of his eyes.
"Your small form is indeed fit to carry out this task." Hulao said with a sneering tone.
Although annoyed but Honglong did not want to reply to Hulao's words, he then flashed jumping out of the pavilion towards the royal soldiers' residence complex.
After Honglong's death, Hulao immediately deployed his illusion technique to manipulate the memories of the three warriors before him. After that he then returned to his place of guard and made a human mock body that became Honglong's disguise. All this to avoid suspicion.
Under a tree, three soldiers were gathered and it seemed that they were talking about something serious. Previously the three of them were soldiers who guarded at different points, but now they secretly had a meeting after first making excuses in order to leave the guardroom for this meeting.
"Look, the current situation is completely outside of our plan. Royal officials are said to have been suspicious of any intruders inside the palace. Tomorrow they will conduct an examination of all the soldiers, servants including the royal officials, commanders and generals." One of the tall-looking people said in a slow tone.
"Then what should we do now?" Ask one of the others.
"As long as there hasn't been an order from general Luo Jing, there's nothing we can do now, but we'd better be more careful." Reply to the great high soldier, then re-open the voice. "We do not have much time now, you should immediately return so that no one is suspicious. Tell this to the rest of us."
"But sir if tomorrow our men are caught, are we allowed to fight?"
"No, don't be rash! Even though we have many members, as long as you have not received orders from your respective superiors, then you better stay quiet." Tukas the big tall man.
"Alright, we'll come back to tell the others this."
The large high-bodied warrior quickly jumped onto the tree. If he finds the person who is stealing their talk, then he will not hesitate to eliminate the person.
But when he got up in the tree, he found no one there. After a closer examination, he found a small squirrel staring at him while biting on a bean in both hands.
The squirrel was none other than Honglong's embodiment, but out of nowhere the squirrel demon got the nuts in his hands.
Feeling that it was the squirrel that caused the leaves of the tree to fall, the large-bodied soldier heaved a sigh of relief. But just as he was about to jump down, the squirrel suddenly threw a bean in his hand right into the middle of the soldier's forehead. Which just made the big high-bodied soldiers fall to the ground.
The two soldiers who were at the bottom were made to gasp at the sight of someone's body falling down from the top of the tree, which was none other than their comrade who had just climbed up.
As the two men watched the companion's body still motionless, in the middle of his forehead was a hole that released a blood-red liquid.
As the two people were dissolved in shock, suddenly from above roared a barrage of wind waves towards the direction they were standing. Instantly the two men fell with the condition of the body split.
Honglong landed, then laughed giggling with his signature squirrel-like voice. Right after the laughter subsided, the two hands of the little squirrel suddenly released a lick of fire which was then stomped towards the three bodies of the soldiers alternately.
Fireballs from Honglong's hands shot through the three bodies of the soldier, the lick of fire quickly crept through the bodies of the three of them until in a short time the third body had been crushed into ashes.
The incident caught the attention of the soldiers who happened to be passing not far from there.
When he saw the flames in the darkness of the night near one of the trees, some soldiers immediately ran towards the place, where they were, but they were astonished because when they reached the scene a few more meters, the fire that he saw had vanished and left no trace but ashes scattered.
One of the soldiers ducked down and scooped the ashes with his right hand, he then brought the ashes closer to his nose. A moment the soldier seemed to sniff the ashes before opening his voice, "It's not wrong, this is the smell of ash from the human body."
"Are you sure?" Another soldier also ducked down, he took the scattered ashes and brought the ashes in his hand closer to his nose.
"I'm not sure, but if true this is the ashes of a human body. Who is capable and capable of doing all this."
A murder with a fire element that can burn its target is nothing new among soldiers and warriors, but killing by burning to ashes in a short time was really a new case this time they found.
So even if they feel confident that the ash came from the human body, but the strange new they found makes them a little distrustful of their own assumptions. Especially if you remember this case occurred in the palace area.
"Take the ashes and tell this to Commander Dong Zhuo." Said a soldier holding a gun in the form of a mace. "The three of you split up! Comb every corner around this location. If anything suspicious, you don't act alone, you better inform the other soldiers."
The three soldiers immediately left the location, moving in different directions. While one soldier carrying a package of cloth containing ash moved towards the residence of commander Dong Zhuo. The soldier holding his own mace was still there, inspecting every inch of the scene.
Not long after the incident, from other places that are still in the royal area there was an uproar. It was none other than Honglong's act of killing every soldier that he had ascertained was an intruder from the black swordsmen.
In just a matter of hours, most of the area that was within the royal walls became in an uproar. Now almost all soldiers are deployed to find the perpetrators of the murder, even 10 commanders also intervened to investigate this problem.
The news of the murder that had claimed the lives of dozens of soldiers was heard in Hulao's ears. Inevitably that made Hulao put on a bad expression.
Although the guard soldiers who served in the princess pavilion area were not allowed to interfere in the search, Hulao quietly exited the pavilion area to look for Honglong.
It was not difficult for Hulao to search for Honglong's whereabouts, now with the other soldiers Hulao who had changed his appearance walked closer to a group of soldiers who were searching the building supplies weapons and tools of war.
The face of one of the soldiers looked bad when he saw a soldier who he believed was Hulao walking up to him.
"Good, you really are a troublemaker. Now you have to come with me." After saying so, Hulao quickly blocked the hand of Honglong who was currently disguised as the soldier he had killed.
Actually Honglong intended to run away because he believed Hulao would definitely be furious, it could even give punishment to him. But he could not dwell when suddenly he was pulled by Hulao and carried into the thick trees.
Although there were almost 30 soldiers there, but all the soldiers could not see the movement of the Hulao at all. All they could feel was the sudden rush of wind blowing fiercely at their location.
Along with the wind, all the soldiers looked around with full alertness. But it did not last long, because they did not find anything suspicious, they then resumed the search.