Life Hunter

"I will tell you the rules of the game. You must cooperate with me. Everyone has to say something..."

Li Qingxian explained the rules of the game in detail, and everyone suddenly understood after listening.

After a brief practice, everyone headed to Yuqing Palace.

After entering the door, I saw many people standing in the square in front of the Yuqing Palace Hall, including guards, maids and eunuchs, more than forty people in total.

Li Qingxian scanned the crowd and finally found two candidates.

One is the plain-looking guardian, who is wearing eunuch clothes and standing with the eunuch.

Another candidate was slightly chubby and had a round face, but a stiff expression and a straight face.

Li Qingxian had seen this candidate, but had no impression. He only knew that this person had teams in the outer city and the inner city, but before entering the palace, he was alone. Like the guardian, everyone in his team died.

It was previously suspected that this person was a protector, but in the end it was deduced that he had nothing to do with the Tianming Sect and was not one of the Eighteen Sons.

Shen Xiaoyi secretly sent a message: "This person used a disguise weapon, and even his eyes changed. I don't know who he is, but I can't feel any malice. I just tested it with a life weapon, and he didn't react at all. It shouldn't be Stop us."

Li Qingxian nodded.

Mao Shigao sat on a chair outside the main entrance of Yuqing Palace, with two young eunuchs waiting on him behind him.

Next to Mao Shigao, there stood a strange-shaped stone lion, as tall as a person, with a wide, dark mouth.

Holding the purple clay pot in his hand, he slowly glanced at everyone and said in a sharp voice: "According to the order of the prince, we at Yuqing Palace are going to play a game called Find the Four Directions. Everyone disperse."

Not knowing why, everyone retreated and lined up on three sides of the square.

Mao Shigao glanced at everyone and said slowly: "The candidates are entering."

Li Qingxian and others hesitated for a moment, then slowly walked to the middle of the venue, and the round-faced candidate followed suit.

The others remained motionless.

Mao Shigao smiled coldly and said: "The order has been given. If anyone does not obey it, then don't blame our family for inviting the crown prince's token to suppress Xiao Xiao. You haven't come out yet!"

Mao Shigao shouted softly, and the expressionless protector frowned, slowly walked out, and walked to Li Qingxian and others, with a dull expression on his face.

At first glance, both the round-faced candidates and the guardians looked the same, with straight faces and stiff faces.

Mao Shigao glanced at the guardian and sneered: "Little Ye Zi, you also want to play games?"

"I will obey the Crown Prince's order," the guardian said.

Everyone glanced at the guardian, and then looked at Li Qingxian.

Both of them have the surname Ye.

Shen Xiaoyi glanced at Li Qingxian doubtfully and said through a message: "It's strange, how could it be a Tao protector with a different surname? Logically speaking, it should be a Tao protector with the same surname. I thought the Tao protector's surname was Hao. Be careful, something is wrong."

Li Qingxian said nothing and glanced at the guardian again.

The guardian remained in a daze and looked at no one.

The round-faced candidate couldn't help but secretly glanced at the guardian surnamed Ye.

Mao Shigao said: "All the guards are arranged around. If anyone breaks the rules, we will follow our orders and cut him into pieces!"

The guards immediately drew their swords and weapons and guarded the courtyard.

"The rest of the monkey boys and palace ladies, please go out."

The eunuchs and maids were confused and left one after another.

In the end, there were only eight young eunuchs and maids left in front of Mao Shigao, four eunuchs in blue and four maids in green.

When everyone looked around, they saw words written on the chests and backs of the four people, which read east, west, south and north respectively, and the words were the same for every two people.

Mao Shigao said: "Each of these four children has a handkerchief in his hand. There are eight handkerchiefs, four are blank, and the other four are written with east, west, north and south respectively. Next, you have to take turns to choose one person, participate in the game, and choose one of the handkerchiefs. The child who has the same name as the name on his body. If he chooses correctly three times, he will be rewarded by His Highness the Crown Prince and given a first-class bodyguard. A first-class bodyguard, that is a higher status than our family."

Mao Shigao paused for a moment, glanced at everyone, and continued: "If you make a mistake, go to the lion, put your hand in, and decide whether to commit suicide or ask questions. If you give up halfway, you can choose another one, but you cannot change it again."

The round-faced candidate blinked slightly and breathed heavily.

The guardian's brows rose and then disappeared.

Li Qingxian observed secretly, and when he saw the changes in their expressions, he knew that they still believed most of them.

"Okay, the game begins!" Mao Shigao clapped his hands gently.

I saw four eunuchs, four palace maids and children gathered together, holding eight handkerchiefs in sixteen hands, slowly spinning in circles, singing: "East Palace East, East Palace West..."

After singing, the eight children gathered together to block the crowd, and then each held a rolled-up handkerchief and ran around. Finally, they lined up in all directions in the square in front of the temple, with their backs to the crowd and handkerchiefs tightly in their hands.

Mao Shigao closed his eyes, grabbed a walnut and threw it into the sky.

With a snap, the walnut fell to the ground.

Everyone was motionless, their whole bodies stiff.

Mao Shigao opened his eyes, pointed at a person in Li Qingxian's team and said: "You are closest to the walnut, you go."

The man looked at Li Qingxian with a sad face and a look of help.

Li Qingxian shook his head helplessly.

Many people sighed softly and did not dare to speak.

The man had no choice but to walk slowly, and after walking for a while, he pointed at a little eunuch with the word "南" written on his back and said, "That's him."

The little eunuch turned around with a smile and said with a smile: "You made the wrong choice." As he said that, he opened the handkerchief with the word "North" written on it.

The man looked at Li Qingxian again with a sad look on his face.

"Go ahead and put your hand into the lion's mouth." Mao Shigao said.

The man sighed, walked up to the stone lion dejectedly, put his arm in his mouth, and his heartbeat suddenly accelerated.

"Destroy the body or question the mind?"

"Ask your heart," the man said.

At this time, the lion made a strange sound.

"Your mother's dowry girl Jin Ling, but you defiled her and then killed her?"

The man's face changed drastically, his head lowered, his back turned to everyone, and he remained motionless.

The others looked at each other with shock.

The round-faced candidate thought for a while and suddenly realized that it was normal for a big family to have an affair with a maid, but if it was a maid as a dowry, she would basically be his father's wife, and his son would steal his woman. This was a treasonous act. If word got out, the consequences would be disastrous. .

"But you defiled Jin Ling and killed her, yes or no?" The voice was hollow and dull, as if coming from a cave.

After a while, the man sighed and said, "Yes."

"Go back." Mao Shigao said.

The man turned around slowly, his face green and white, and walked back with his head lowered, not daring to look at the crowd.

"continue."

Mao Shigao once again threw walnuts to choose someone, and this time he chose someone from Li Qingxian's team. He also found the wrong person and chose to ask questions.

"Have you ever committed adultery with your sister-in-law, or even discussed harming your brother?" The lion's mouth made a hollow sound again.

The man swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and after a long time, he said helplessly: "Yes."

"Beasts!" Someone in Li Qingxian's team cursed in a low voice.

Li Qingxian glanced at everyone and found that they were either angry, surprised, cold-faced, or shaking their heads slightly, and all of them had superb acting skills.

Mao Shigao threw walnuts one after another, and the fourth walnut was thrown in front of the round-faced candidate.