"Lord Situ, what's going on in the city?" Tian Muyu looked at Situ Changqing who was climbing the stairs.

Situ Changqing followed Tian Muyu's gaze and saw the smoke everywhere in the city. "What, what's going on?"

"Could it be that Prince Duan and his people did this?"

As the two were wondering, they saw a commotion in the smoke area closest to the city gate, and some soldiers seemed to be fighting with others.

"Let's go and take a look!" Tian Muyu soared into the air and flew towards the city.

Situ Changqing’s martial arts skills were naturally not weak either. He originally did not walk to the top of the city wall, but followed Tian Muyu and jumped down, running towards where those people were gathering.

When the two arrived, they found that a group of soldiers were surrounding several men in black.

The man in black was holding a baby in his arms.

"Tian Ningxiang!" Tian Muyu shouted and rushed towards the man in black holding the child.

With the joining of Situ Changqing and Tian Muyu, the men in black were instantly at a disadvantage and were controlled one after another.

The man in black holding the child saw Tian Muyu chasing him closely, and suddenly took out a dagger and pointed it at the child, "Don't come over here, or I'll stab him to death!"

Tian Muyu paused.

"Open the city gate and let us out!" the man in black said again.

Tian Muyu looked at the child in the black-clothed man's arms and said, "Hand over the child and I will let you go!"

"Humph," the man in black snorted coldly, "Do you think I will be fooled by you? I can't survive without the child. Only with him can I have a chance to survive!"

"Open the city gate quickly, or I will make him die with me!"

Tian Muyu raised his foot and walked towards the man.

The man shouted in panic, "Don't come this way anymore. If you do, I'll really stab him to death!" He clenched the hand holding the dagger tightly and placed the tip of the knife against the small quilt outside the swaddling clothes.

Tian Muyu had no choice but to stop.

He frowned, thinking about how to get his son back from this man.

At this time, the remaining men in black had been controlled by Situ Changqing and the soldiers.

Situ Changqing said, "Your Highness, these people all escaped from the tunnel. These soldiers said that the princess was creating smoke in the tunnel, and the smoke everywhere in the city was created by the princess and her men."

Tian Muyu suddenly realized that the princess was trying to force out all of Prince Duan's men from the tunnel.

Moreover, the princess said this, perhaps she has concluded that Prince Duan is in the tunnel.

So he looked at Situ Changqing and said, "Keep an eye on this man, I'm going to find the princess!" As he said that, he jumped up and ran towards the other person.

The man in black holding the child finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Tian Muyu leave.

However, just after he exhaled, he suddenly found that Tian Muyu turned around and flew towards them. Although he reacted quickly and wanted to control the situation again, he was too late and the child in his hands was snatched away by Tian Muyu.

Tian Muyu then flew to the side and landed.

At the same time, Situ Changqing also attacked the man in black.

Seeing the man in black bleed, Tian Muyu opened the swaddling clothes and found his youngest son Tian Ningxiang inside.

"You dare to steal my son? You must be tired of living!" The long sword in Tian Muyu's hand flew out and pierced directly into the chest of the man in black.

The long sword pierced through the front and emerged from the back.

"Master Situ, keep a close eye on him. My Sixth Uncle might run out of the tunnel soon!"

"Since the princess wants to drive them all out, then we should just wait here like these soldiers do."

He saw that the soldiers quickly blocked all the intersections after dealing with a few men in black, so he obediently joined their camp with Situ Changqing and others.

Anyway, his son was already in his hands, so he could just send someone to tell the princess.

After the guard who was ordered to report to Jixiang left, there was a commotion again where the smoke had just appeared.

Tian Muyu ran over with his son in his arms. He wanted to see if it was his sixth uncle.

As it turned out, there were just a few strange men in black.

Tian Muyu lost interest instantly and was about to leave when he heard Situ Changqing shout, "Prime Minister Lan?~"

Tian Muyu was stunned, then turned around and saw Lan Xing'an coughing and walking out of the smoke, so he quickly walked over.

"Lord Lan?!"

When Lan Xing'an saw Tian Muyu, he was stunned for a moment, and then he was about to salute.

He was stopped by Tian Muyu, "Master Lan, how did you come out of the tunnel?!"

“Old minister, old minister…” Lan Xing’an stammered, not knowing how to answer, but soon, as if he had made up his mind, he said, “I also found the entrance to the tunnel in my mansion. I was curious and wanted to go in to take a look. I didn’t expect that there was a lot of smoke inside and I couldn’t find the way back, so I had to follow the tunnel and walked out.”

Lan Xing'an looked innocent and helpless, "Your Highness, there seem to be a lot of tunnels under this city. Your Highness should send people down to search for them."

Tian Muyu watched Lan Xingan's performance coldly.

Lan Xing'an saw that the streets were full of soldiers and wondered, "Why are there suddenly so many soldiers on the street? Could it be the emperor? Oh, no, is it Prince Duan who has entered the city?"

"Isn't Prime Minister Lan the one who knows best whether my Sixth Uncle has entered the city?"

"No, no, I haven't heard from Prince Duan since he left the imperial city." He turned and was about to leave. "I'm going back to the palace now. Your Majesty, don't let me leave the palace at will. I just didn't expect there would be a tunnel in your house..."

As soon as Lan Xing'an turned around, someone pulled him back by the collar.

Upon closer look, the man turned out to be the King of Annan.

"King of Annan?" Lan Xing'an was surprised.

"Anyone who comes out of the tunnel today, no matter who they are, must be arrested. But it was the order of Princess Ning, tomorrow's Queen. Why, didn't Prime Minister Lan come out of the tunnel?"

"I," Lan Xing'an was about to deny.

Tian Muyu said, "I saw him come out of the tunnel with my own eyes." Then he looked at King Annan and asked, "Did the princess find Prince Duan?"

King Annan shook his head. "I don't know. I just received an order to have the Acropolis Army guard all the intersections in the city. If anyone is found escaping from the smoke, they should be arrested."

Tian Muyu smiled. As expected, when it comes to intelligence, his princess Jixiang is still the smartest.

He knew that there were traitors coming out of the tunnel in the mansion and snatching his son away, so he just wanted to catch them and take his son back. But Jixiang was different. She could think of a way to force the traitor out of the tunnel from the entrance.

Moreover, her method seems to be very effective.

"Have we found any rebels escaping from tunnels in other places?" Tian Muyu asked.

"Of course there are, but Prince Duan has not been found yet." King Annan replied.

"No hurry, let's continue to wait. Princess, this method is really good. Not only can it force people out, but it can also find those tunnel entrances that we don't know about."

"Prince Duan has been like a rat these years. He has dug so many tunnels underground. He has put in a lot of effort."

King Annan was a little ashamed. "As a royal prince, I was also negligent. I thought that when the emperor was here, the country would be peaceful and the people would be safe. How could I have thought that there were so many evil people hiding underground?!"

"When I catch Lao Liu, I will definitely ask him why he did this. What benefit will it bring to him by disrupting the Great Saint Dynasty?"

As the two were talking, a soldier came running over and said, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, we found someone who looks like Prince Duan over there!"

Upon hearing this, Tian Muyu and King Annan ran in the direction the soldiers pointed.


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