Chapter 5 The Runaway Princess
Princess Dai'er was attacked and missing!
Qingkong immediately asked, "What happened? This is the Imperial City. How could someone easily ambush and attack Princess Dai'er?"
Before Jared could answer, a group of sheriffs rushed up along with the museum's servants.
Seeing the current scene, Knight Jared realized that something had happened to the museum as well and asked, "Ms. Clear Sky, was this place attacked as well?"
"Yes...someone used mystical magic to attack here, and the royal knight Baron Alvin is dead." Qingkong signaled Jared not to talk about Princess Dale here: "You go and treat the wound first, and leave this to Fitch. I'll go get ready, and we'll go and see the attack site together."
Jared knew that Princess Dale's disappearance must not be made public, so he saluted to Qingkong and then staggered upstairs with the surviving royal knights and attendants.
Qingkong briefly told the sheriff about the attack on the museum, and left the rest to Fitch. Anyway, Fitch saw everything he could see, and he didn't see anything he couldn't see.
Let the Imperial Capital's Public Security Bureau have a headache with this case.
But...is the Temple of the Abyss related to the attack on Princess Daier?
Although the two attacks occurred close in time, there is no evidence that they were carried out by the same group of people.
Forget it, let’s find Dai’er first.
All the lights in the museum were turned on, and the upstairs and downstairs were in a mess. Qingkong came to the room where Princess Daier was received alone. The ice sculpture was still there, and the scene of carving with Daier was still vivid in his mind.
Qingkong walked up to the statue and pointed a finger at the center of its eyebrows.
A faint blue halo spread within the ice, and some magic particles remaining on the ice were stimulated by the resonance and emitted light.
very good!
There is still some magic power of Princess Dale left on the ice, enough to release the secret word once.
Qingkong waved her hand and closed the door, creating a wall of ice that completely sealed the door. Then she took out a few mysterious items from her space backpack and placed them around the ice statue, then took out a butterfly specimen and carefully placed it in the hand of the ice statue.
The butterfly, which had become a mysterious prop, flapped its wings and flew away when the secret ritual began.
The butterfly fluttered around the icicles, sprinkling pollen-like starlight from its wings. In response, the remaining magic power of Princess Dale floated up from the icicles and merged with the pollen and starlight.
Qingkong recited the secret words at this time.
"Dispersed butterflies in the wind."
The flying butterfly specimen instantly turned into ashes and disappeared into the air, while the specks of starlight gathered into a stream and gathered towards Bing Diao's palm, finally turning into a magical butterfly emitting a faint blue glow.
Qingkong took out a wooden cylinder and carefully knocked the magic butterfly into it, then touched the ice and walked out of the room.
At this time, Knight Jared and his men had completed the simple bandaging, took off the damaged knight armor, and changed into the royal knight uniform.
"Ms. Qingkong... the carriage is ready."
Qingkong walked past the saluting Knight Jared and said, "Come with me to the car and tell me in detail what happened to you on the way."
"Yes, Miss Clear Sky."
Jared led the knights and followed Qingkong out of the museum. As soon as they got on the carriage, Jennifer followed suit.
"Professor Qingkong...no suspicious people were found near the museum."
Jennifer rushed to the fourth isolation room when Fitch activated the museum alarm, but the space collapse trap had already been activated. She couldn't get in, so she could only look for the person who performed the secret technique around the museum.
Qingkong said, "Our case is a small matter, let the sheriffs handle it. Knight Jared, what happened on the way you were escorting Miss Dale?"
"We had just reached the intersection of Zijinhua Avenue..."
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When Princess Dale was thinking about how to escape from the palace, the attack began. The carriage she was riding in was attacked by a round of magic fire, and the two horses pulling the carriage and the coachman died on the spot. However, the carriage was enchanted with multiple protection measures, and the escorting guards reacted very quickly, so Princess Dale, who was protected in the carriage, was relatively safe.
However, the guards suffered heavy casualties in the attack while trying to protect the carriage. Faced with the siege of a large number of assassins, they could only fight with all their might.
Princess Dai'er, who was sitting in the carriage, calmed down quickly after the initial panic. She even comforted the maid beside her: "Don't be afraid, this place is very close to the palace. There are not only sheriffs, but also palace guards, and they will come to support us soon.
We’ll be fine.”
The maid's emotions gradually calmed down. Princess Dai'er looked at the battle outside, and a bold idea came to her mind.
What plans do I need to make to leave the palace?
Isn’t now the best opportunity!
She concentrated, and the map of Saint Lun City emerged from her mind. This is the Imperial City District... After the emperor found out that he was missing, he would first block the Imperial City District as quickly as possible, and then block the Upper City District.
And people leaving Saint-Lon by land and air are strictly checked.
It is impossible to run all the way out of Saint Lun City.
But you can sneak into the lower city first.
The people of the imperial capital regarded the lower city as a garbage dump and sewer. Sister Agatha said that there were some spies and informants in the lower city, and there was no imperial administrative force to use.
If you can hide in the lower city, you can avoid the first round of searches, and then slowly wait for the opportunity to leave Saint Lun City, and finally leave the empire.
I thought about the sculptures Agatha had made for me, the ice sculptures I had made with Qingkong, the fact that I would marry someone I had never met, and the small animals I had released.
There was also the little bird that he had rescued but flew away into the sky without looking back.
The Augustine family has never lacked courage, which allowed Princess Dale to draw out her magic wand and cast a spell to knock her maid unconscious.
Dale opened the escape door under the carriage and jumped from it to the bottom of the carriage. At this time, the guards were attacked by the assassin and could not protect themselves, and they had no idea that Dale was hiding under the carriage.
At this time, support was coming from all around. The assassins who failed in the assassination could only retreat while covering each other.
Dale knew that the chance to escape was about to disappear, so she pulled out a cloak from the compartment under the seat. She took advantage of the chaos to wrap herself in the cloak and rolled out from under the car. When she turned over, she was dressed as an assassin.
He was dressed in black, with his head covered so that only his eyes were visible.
Dale fled with the assassins, and the guards did not dare to chase them and continued to protect the carriage. When the support from all sides surrounded the attack site, the guards discovered that Princess Dale was missing.
Dale fled with the assassins through the alleys and rooftops. The assassins didn't realize that their target was following them. But Dale knew that if she kept following them, the assassins would definitely notice something was wrong, and the camouflage cloak had an expiration date.
She dragged herself back step by step, and when she passed the roof of a building, she dodged and hid in a shadow. The camouflage cloak covered her whole body, turning her into a pile of debris.
The assassin noticed that someone had fallen behind and sent someone back to check, but found nothing and could only quickly catch up with the team in front.
The rooftop returned to silence.
After a flash of light in the corner, Dale stood up wearing a cloak. She came to the edge of the building and looked into the distance. The direction where the attack took place was brightly lit, and magic fireworks of different colors kept flying.
She took a deep breath and looked up into the sky. The starry sky was brighter than what she saw in the palace. There was also an airship with its navigation lights flashing, slowly flying overhead.
"Just by going this far, the world has opened up so much. What kind of scenery will I see if I can go even further?"
At this time, the residents in the building turned on their lights one after another because of the noise outside. The search team would soon arrive. This place was far from safe for Dale, and she had to enter the lower city before the upper city was blocked.
Dale jumped down from the roof, and the magic propped up her cloak and turned it into a paraglider. Under the control of floating magic, she flew towards a nearby river. There was a water channel in that river, which would flow through the Imperial Pharmacy Factory, the Imperial Alchemy Research Institute, the Imperial Extraordinary Species Breeding Center...
These important scientific research institutions in the empire generate a large amount of experimental waste every day, and this waste is loaded into simple garbage boats and then flown into the lower city through the aqueduct.
Since there is a chance that there are very dangerous things in the garbage, the sheriffs responsible for inspecting the water channels are perfunctory.
Dale's plan to enter the downtown area was to board one of the garbage boats, find a place to hide, and wait for the current to carry her into the downtown area.
The upper city and the lower city are separated by a high wall, and all the passages connecting the two cities are strictly guarded by the sheriff. No matter how chaotic the lower city is, it must not be allowed to spread to the upper city. However, no matter how strictly it is guarded, it cannot stop the already corrupt lower city from attacking the other side of the wall.
On the high-risk garbage drainage channel, a garbage boat was stopped by the sheriff on duty when passing the city wall checkpoint, and a barrier was placed across the river.
The searchlights on the wall illuminated the hull, and on the deck were rows of sealed garbage cubicles.
The captain of the garbage boat immediately handed a pack of cigarettes to the sheriff's captain on the shore.
"Captain Taili, what happened? Didn't we just let him pass before?"
Captain Taili took the cigarette and put it in his pocket, waved his hand to let his men go aboard to search, and pointed to the sky in the direction of the Imperial City: "Didn't you see that the warning magic signal of the Imperial City has not stopped since it was released just now?
Something big must have happened in the palace.
If I let down my guard and let someone go, the lives of us would not be enough for His Majesty to kill."
Seeing the sheriff on board starting to search, the captain took out a stack of money and quietly put it into Captain Taili's pocket.
"I have to run through this canal several times a day. Are you still worried about me? It's not that I don't want you to check because I feel guilty. The main thing is... the main thing is that there are goods in it that Mr. Malken specifically asked for."
"Mr. Malken?" Captain Taili hesitated when he heard the name: "What is it?"
The captain looked around and felt a little embarrassed.
Captain Taili waved for the captain to follow and took him to a secluded place.
"It's not that I don't give face to Mr. Malken, but the situation tonight is too special. According to my experience, the news of the complete blockade will be delivered soon. By then, even if I let you go, you won't be able to get through.
You must tell me what it is."
The captain could only say: "They are a batch of discarded products from the extraordinary species breeding center. Although they are discarded products, some of their tissues can be used for extraordinary transformation of the human body.
Mr. Melken has been eyeing this batch of supernatural creatures for a month, and the fresher they are, the higher their value. If the city is closed, this batch of goods will not be delivered in time and will all rot.
Mr. Malcolm paid a lot for this shipment, and if he doesn’t receive it… you know the consequences.”
The captain's words made Captain Taili keep looking at the garbage ship, and the sheriff on board was waiting for his orders.
"No, I want to take a look. If there's no one there, I'll let you and the boat pass."
The captain said helplessly, "Okay, please hurry up. There are high-quality goods in there, they look very close to humans, and they are not completely dead, so you have to be careful."
It looks similar to humans, which means it is a military-grade extraordinary human being.
It's not completely dead, which means someone in the Extraordinary Species Breeding Center might have left it to Melken.
This is really a deadly batch of stuff.
"I'll be careful, open the position...quickly!"
At this time, Dai'er was hiding in a garbage cabin. Unlike the dirty, messy and smelly cabin she imagined, this cabin was much cleaner. On the multi-layered shelves fixed on the ground, there were corpses covered with bloody white cloths.
Dai'er lifted a piece of cloth, revealing a hideous head with ten-centimeter-long fangs sticking out from the corners of its mouth.
Wild Boar Man: A superhuman bred from the superhuman creature Mountain Howling Wild Boar King. The Imperial Superhuman Species Research Center hopes that he can achieve the combat power that can defeat the barbarians, and can be mass-produced.
But the success rate is not high.
Dai'er covered the dead boar man and then uncovered the second corpse.
Flower Fairy: A supernatural creature living in the Conaris Forest, good at using recovery spells. If there are enough flower fairies on the battlefield, the survival rate of soldiers can be greatly improved.
However, the number of native flower fairies is extremely small, and the Empire Supernatural Creatures Breeding Center's research on mass production of flower fairies has always been difficult.
Dai'er looked at a few more corpses and felt extremely lost and depressed.
These were all caused by the Empire, experiments approved by his father himself.
"Child, what are you sad about?"
A female voice suddenly sounded, and Dale was so scared that she took out her magic wand and pointed it at the deepest part. There was a cabinet alone there, and the sound came from inside the cabinet.
"Who are you? Are you still alive?"
"In a sense... I have never lived, but my current state doesn't seem to be dead." Although the voice was weak, the tone was very open-minded.
"I can save you. I'm good at magic..."
Dai'er moved closer to the cabinet step by step. She could feel that the things inside were very close to her.
"Child, I can feel that you have a pure heart. It is a miracle that it was born in the Augustine family. Come...child, fate has made you and me meet here. Let me wait for your arrival."
Dai'er had already walked to the cabinet, and a white holy light was flowing out from it.
"Who are you?"
"Open this door and you will know, right?"