"Yes, Your Majesty." After bowing respectfully, the black - clothed man quickly left the rooftop.
Su Wan'er looked at Si Junlin in confusion. "Didn't you say nightingales?" Why was it changed to nightingale flutes?
"I thought about it. Catching nightingales in the middle of the night is too much trouble. All my secret agents have nightingale flutes. Why not use them instead of real nightingales?" Si Junlin explained.
Su Wan'er thought for a moment. It made sense, so she said nothing more.
"Ghost Lady, what's going on?" Chang Ke looked at the people lying on the ground and asked Ghost Lady in confusion.
Ghost Lady frowned and hesitated. "These gu worms are most afraid of nightingales. If the sound of a nightingale rings out, it will only make them feel scared and lose their ability to move."
"So, they've lost their ability to move now?" Chang Ke pointed at the people on the ground and asked Ghost Lady.
Ghost Lady nodded helplessly.
"I didn't expect your gu worms to be so useless. Just hearing the call of a nightingale and they lose their power. If we were on the battlefield, wouldn't our whole army be wiped out?" Chang Ke was really angry with Ghost Lady.
Ghost Lady defended her gu worms. "Nightingales only come out at night. Have you ever seen a nightingale come out during the day? As long as there are no nightingales, my gu worms are invincible."
"What should we do now?" Chang Ke didn't listen to her at all. He just wanted to know how to clean up the mess in front of him.
At this time, the people lying on the ground who hadn't been completely controlled began to wake up slowly.
Ghost Lady saw this too. She turned to Chang Ke and said, "Help me guard. I'll control them again." Now that the gu worms had grown to the middle stage, it was still easy to control these people again.
Seeing that Ghost Lady was so confident, Chang Ke nodded and agreed.
However, just as Ghost Lady sat down cross - legged and before she could activate the mother gu, the sound of horses' hooves came from afar.
"What's going on?" Chang Ke looked in the direction of the sound and saw a group of people in the uniforms of the Royal Guards galloping towards them.
"Ghost Lady!" Chang Ke turned to look at Ghost Lady.
Ghost Lady understood that it was impossible for them to control the people on the ground again. They had to think of another way.
Ghost Lady stood up again and whistled.
The dancer from that day walked out from behind her and walked gracefully towards the Royal Guards step by step.
"Who are you?" The captain of the Royal Guards saw that the woman was about to collide with his horse, so he quickly pulled the reins to stop the horse.
The dancer covered her lips and giggled. Then she actually started dancing in front of the Royal Guards.
"What's going on?" Si Junlin looked at the people around him in confusion.
Su Wan'er also shook her head. She didn't know what the dancer was up to, but when something seemed abnormal, there must be something wrong. Although she didn't know, she still turned to Si Junlin and said, "Your Majesty, although I don't know what the dancer is doing, but Xiao Jiu said that the dancer herself is a gu worm. For the safety of the Royal Guards, we should act first."
Si Junlin had no objection. This operation tonight was personally planned by Su Wan'er. Naturally, as the emperor, he had to follow her arrangements.
Just as the dancer's dance became more and more intense, a strange lotus flower suddenly bloomed in the sky.
This stunned everyone on the scene.
Just as they were in a daze, countless black shadows stood up from the rooftops. After a series of whistling sounds, the dancer was pinned to the ground.
Under the attack, the dancer naturally fought back.
Three or four wisps of black smoke rose from her body and attacked the secret agents who had captured her.
At this time, Long Xiaojiu's bracelet came into play. The three or four wisps of black smoke were actually condensed gu worms. When they got close to the secret agents who had captured the dancer, they suddenly seemed to encounter something that scared them and quickly shrank back.
Seeing that her bracelet was effective, several secret guards didn't care about anything else. They took out sacks and covered the dancer from head to toe.
This was the method thought up by the leader of the secret agents. To prevent the gu worms from dispersing, he asked each secret agent to carry two or three coarse cloth sacks during the operation. As soon as they captured a gu worm, they would immediately stuff it in, which would be more convenient to deal with later.
Just like this, after subduing the dancer, the secret agents surrounded the entrance of the post - house.
Ghost Lady and the others wanted to retreat inside, but they found that there were black - clothed men standing behind them.
"Who are you? What do you want? We are the envoys from the Southern Border. I want to see your emperor." Chang Ke was still relatively calm. At least at this moment, he remembered to use the identity of the Southern Border envoy to intimidate the secret agents.
Unfortunately, the secret agents had received the emperor's order. Now they were acting on the order. They didn't care whether you were an envoy from the Southern Border or not.
"Arrest them." With a wave of the leader of the secret agents' hand, the secret agents swarmed forward.
Ghost Lady quickly summoned her gu worms to protect herself, but to her horror, no matter what gu worms she threw out, they were all stuffed into the sacks by these black - clothed men.
"This..." Ghost Lady had never encountered such a situation before. For a moment, she was flustered.
Although Chang Ke was highly skilled in martial arts, he couldn't withstand the large number of secret agents. If Ghost Lady's gu worms could still be used, perhaps he could gain the upper hand, but now... He could only barely wave his sword to resist the attacks of the secret agents.
Seeing that the situation was critical, the members of the Illusion Guards among the secret agents gradually got closer and exchanged positions with the secret agents who were originally attacking Chang Ke.
This made it even more difficult for Chang Ke.
Helplessly, he suddenly made a feint with his sword, then turned around, hugged Ghost Lady, and jumped away with a light tap of his toes.
"Chase." The leader of the secret agents took the lead and chased in the direction where Chang Ke had left.
"I'll go too." The leader of the secret agents had good light - body skills, but Chang Ke was no slouch either. No matter how hard the leader of the secret agents chased, he could only follow from a distance.
Su Wan'er was worried that the leader of the secret agents would be in danger. She turned around, took out the crystal fruit, and stuffed it into Si Junlin's and her own mouths without hesitation.
All this happened so fast that neither Si Junlin nor Qingcao had time to react. They could only watch Su Wan'er leave, and hear the words floating in the air: "Qingcao, stay here to protect the emperor. Don't follow."
These words made Qingcao, who originally wanted to follow, stop in her tracks.
She trusted her mistress because she couldn't beat her...
Si Junlin also wanted to follow after he came to his senses, but before he could take a step, he was stopped by Qingcao. "Your Majesty, I know that you now have the internal energy that the young lady helped you cultivate, but your internal energy is still shallow. Going there will only cause trouble for the empress."