Chapter 284 Broken
The imperial physician had just finished reporting when a message came from the eunuch outside the door that Minglu had returned.
At that time, Ming Lu was responsible for sending the bodies back. Because of the discovery in the back room, Ming Lu took people to check the bodies there.
After stepping over the threshold and entering the imperial study, Ming Lu stood slightly behind the imperial physician and reported, "Your Majesty, the bodies in the back room have been examined. The thirty-six women were all fifteen years old. The cause of death was bleeding to death. As for the cause of the bleeding..."
Tie Hanming Lu paused for a moment because the content he was about to report was too cruel and bloody.
"These women are all pregnant."
Su Qingqing's hand holding the cup suddenly tightened and she looked towards Minglu.
I don’t know why she’s pregnant now, but I feel particularly uncomfortable when I hear the word “pregnant”.
"According to the coroner's examination, these women all suffered miscarriages after the fetus was formed, and the miscarriages were hemorrhages."
Miscarriage, hemorrhage, and death due to blood loss.
As for why there was a hemorrhage, with all thirty-six people in one place, it must have been man-made and not an accident.
Combined with the existence of Huan Yi Xiang...
In other words, these thirty-six girls were trapped on beds in the back room of the cold palace and forced to become pregnant under the influence of Huan Yi Xiang.
After becoming pregnant, they wait for the fetus to form in the abdomen, and then, under some external force, the fetus slips out, and they die from hemorrhage.
What kind of blood sacrifice is this, so cruel and outrageous?
Su Qingqing squeezed the cup with force, and with a snap, the cup of honey water in her hand was broken into pieces.
When Minglu finished his report, the coroner who performed the autopsy on the little prince also finished his work and stood up to report, "The deceased inhaled a large amount of drug powder before his death, which caused him to fall into a coma. Judging from the fear on his face, he must have woken up after entering the well, but because he couldn't leave, he was desperate and terrified. But one thing is strange, the deceased was not hungry before his death."
Have you ever been hungry before you died?
Was there someone secretly delivering meals to the women and children in the well every day, or was it that this living sacrifice required him to stay alive in the well for a certain period of time?
If it was the former, who on earth could have secretly delivered food in such a situation ?
Could it be the Queen Mother?
If it's the latter...
Rong Que just felt his heart and lungs go cold.
The coroner continued to report, "So, the cause of death has not been found."
His words made Rong Que stunned, "Didn't find out the cause of death?"
The coroner shook his head. "There are no fatal wounds on the body, no obvious signs of hunger or thirst, and no poisoning."
None of them, then why did he die?
"Where is the female corpse?" After looking at Su Qingqing, Rong Que asked again.
The coroner said, "There is an obvious impact mark on the back of the female corpse's head. The impact was not light, but not fatal. The female corpse was also not suffering from hunger or thirst. I mentioned in the cold palace that her cause of death was suffocation, but I didn't check it carefully at the time. I just checked it carefully and found that the woman was more than three months pregnant."
Su Qingqing suddenly glared.
Pregnant?
More than three months?
At that time, her father was dead. If this woman was her mother, how did she get pregnant?
wrong.
Didn’t the envoy from Da Qi say that her father is in Da Qi now?
If what the envoy from Da Qi said was true, and this woman was indeed her mother, then under what circumstances did her parents meet and conceive?
If this woman is her mother, then why is her mother running around when she is three months pregnant instead of staying in Zhaoguo?
Is it really like what the Queen Mother said, that he was looking for her?
In order to find her, you don't care about the life or death of the fetus in your belly?
this……
It's so fucking weird!
All the reports regarding the death in the cold palace had been submitted, and a strict order was issued not to let any of this matter be disclosed. Rong Que let the imperial physician and the coroner leave.
He Chao received the order and went to the cold palace to check the scene. As soon as the coroner and his men left, He Chao entered the imperial study.
After a brief greeting, he got straight to the point and replied, "Your Majesty, the sacrificial ritual in the back room of the cold palace is indeed a kind of ritual of the Baro people, but this sacrificial method was sealed up by the Baro people a long time ago, and few people in the tribe know about it.
This is an evil magic passed down from the ancestors of the Baro people, called the Yinghong Formation.
The purpose of this formation is to summon spirits."
The Queen Mother said that this blood sacrifice was used to stabilize the emperor's dragon character, but He Chao said it was to summon the soul.
"The formation requires the virgin blood of thirty-six unmarried women to soak the candles. After the candles are soaked, they are lit in front of the women's heads. The women then have sex with others under the candles and become pregnant.
When the fetus is three months old, they believe that the fetus is most energetic at that time, so they use drugs to induce labor.
The fetus was made into powder, mixed with the wedding candles, and lit again at the woman's bedside until she bled to death.
This process is very strict. The time difference between the 36 people's death must not exceed a cup of tea, otherwise the sacrifice will be considered a failure.
In addition, the entire sacrifice requires the presence of dragon energy.
The so-called dragon energy is the royal bloodline."
Of royal blood, Rong Que's younger brother.
He Chao said these terrifying words, and the entire imperial study was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop, and everyone seemed to have stopped breathing.
“As for the well in front, the totem on the well is a soul-locking totem. Combined with the Yinghong formation in the back room, the function of this well is to trap the soul inside without letting it reveal any trace, and make it disappear in the six realms of heaven and earth.
According to the law of increase and decrease, when the dragon energy disappears in one place, the dragon energy in another place can be summoned.
According to the secret agreement, this formation will take a total of 49 days, during which time the people in the formation must stay awake until the end of the 49th day. "
After He Chao finished speaking, he lowered his eyes and didn't dare to look at Rong Que.
The body on the ground was Rong Que's younger brother. The four-year-old child had been trapped in a dark and closed well for 49 days.
And the person who trapped him was most likely his closest person.
He Chao couldn't imagine this kind of stimulation for Rong Que. Knowing that Rong Que and Su Qingqing left the cold palace to go to the Queen Mother, He Chao was silent and asked, "What did the Queen Mother say?"
There was a ball of blood on Rong Que's chest. When he opened his mouth, blood rushed into it. He clenched his fist and swallowed the blood back.
"She said that the female corpse was Qingqing's mother."
He Chao was shocked for a moment and turned to look at Su Qingqing.
sky!
this……
What kind of evil fate is this!
"Are you sure?" The voice came out of his mouth with a tremor. He Chao couldn't imagine how much restraint Rong Que and Su Qingqing, the two parties involved, had to use at this moment to sit here, each looking more calm than the other.
Although he looked calm, a broken cup was shattered into pieces on the ground under Su Qingqing's feet.
