"Quickly tell me, where is that lowly slave of the Long family now?" Yuwen Shan's face showed an eager look. She stared at Su Wan'er greedily, as if the next second she could find Long Xiaojiu, seize the token, and after Su Wan'er died, she would become the undisputed Holy Maiden of Southern Border!
"She... She was sent by the emperor and me to a small town in the northwest." Su Wan'er seemed really under the influence of the Gu poison as she answered truthfully.
"Wan'er, Su Wan'er!" Si Junlin only hated that he couldn't break free from the hogtie. If this woman regained consciousness and knew that she had personally revealed Long Xiaojiu's hiding place, he didn't know how self - reproachful she would be!
"Shut up!" Yuwen Shan impatiently led another Gu worm to Si Junlin to make him quiet.
"Which small town? Be specific."
"There... There's a map, the route..." Su Wan'er continued to murmur.
"Route?" Yuwen Shan didn't suspect anything. With a wave of her hand, two Gu slaves came up to untie Su Wan'er.
"Bring charcoal and let her draw it!" Yuwen Shan scanned the surroundings. It seemed she could only draw on the ground.
"No need." Su Wan'er suddenly opened her eyes!
"Hmm?" Yuwen Shan was slightly stunned and hadn't reacted to what Su Wan'er meant. But the next moment, she was already pressed to the ground by Su Wan'er with a bone - dislocation technique.
Most Southern Border women practiced Gu on themselves, so they were already extremely weak. Usually, their only self - defense method was Gu art. So Su Wan'er subdued her easily.
However, to her surprise, as soon as she subdued Yuwen Shan, the two Gu slaves fled like scared rabbits. It was obvious that the Yuwen family only relied on tough means to suppress these slaves, far from the reverence that Ghost Lady and the others had for Long Xiaojiu.
"Is this how the Yuwen family conducts themselves?" Su Wan'er sneered. Finally, she could feel proud.
"Ya --- Ha ---" Yuwen Shan actually used all her strength to try to break free.
Su Wan'er was just about to take revenge for the blows she had just received, but she thought that hitting a captured person didn't match her usual kind and amiable image as the mother of the nation. Well, it was just as well. Hehe, in close - combat, few people could beat her.
In a few moves, Su Wan'er gained the upper hand, pressed Yuwen Shan to the ground, and tied her up with the same technique.
This hogtie was probably learned from the Jin soldiers. She often saw it on the battlefield. As long as the tying technique was right, it was almost impossible for the tied person to untie it within an hour.
"Cough," Su Wan'er coughed deliberately. "I... I am the Queen of the Great Jin. Just now, I was careless and fell for your dirty trick. Now, even if you use all your skills, you probably won't be able to escape."
"Kill me or torture me, do as you please." Yuwen Shan still looked venomous, as if she didn't care about her own life or death.
"Why? In the Great Jin, we always act according to the law when killing or torturing. I suppose it's the same in your Southern Border. It's a pity that you, a fake Holy Maiden, have ruined the reputation!" Su Wan'er truly loathed such a woman. How could such a person be worthy of replacing Xiaojiu?
"How did you escape the Gu King?" Yuwen Shan had never made a mistake in using Gu in the past dozen years. She couldn't understand how this Queen of the Jin could escape one of the nine Gu Kings that the entire Yuwen family had spent a century cultivating.
"Why don't you ask how I knew you were a fake?" Su Wan'er was determined to mock this venomous woman today and vent her anger.
"..." Yuwen Shan kept silent. The expression on her face changed several times, as if she was extremely angry and defeated.
"Look at this." Su Wan'er took out the jade pendant from her waist. It was the one that Xiaojiu had quietly stuffed into her hand when she left, as a return for the dragon robe Su Wan'er had given her.
"You! How do you have the token of our Southern Border?" Yuwen Shan went crazy. It was something she had dreamed of getting.
"Did that lowly slave give it to you? She actually betrayed our Southern Border?!" Yuwen Shan's hatred for Long Xiaojiu, which she wanted to get rid of at all costs, became more and more obvious on her face.
"Slap!" Su Wan'er slapped her.
"Even now, you still dare to call her a lowly slave? Among the Southern Border women I've met, no one is more suitable for these two words than you!" Su Wan'er's beautiful eyes were wide open with anger. Her anger was on the verge of erupting, making Yuwen Shan subconsciously afraid to speak easily.
"I'll tell you. The reason I have this token is because... Xiaojiu has something that you'll never be able to match."
Yuwen Shan looked at her suspiciously.
"Like you, she was raised on Gu from a young age and is just as ruthless. But she knows what love is." The look of admiration that couldn't be hidden in Xiaojiu's eyes when she faced her emperor uncle flashed through Su Wan'er's mind when Xiaojiu left.
"She has never betrayed Southern Border. Instead, she has always been thinking about Southern Border! She begged the Jin not to go to war with Southern Border again and again. On the contrary, you," Su Wan'er also forcefully lifted her chin. "Your Yuwen family, for your own self - interest, usurped power and provoked wars! It's you who have let her down!"
"Hehe, ridiculous! Love? She has long been a human Gu altar of the Long family. Moreover... I grew up with her. Do you think you, a Jin person, can understand her? You've probably been played around by her!" Yuwen Shan suddenly got excited again. Her words seemed to show that she knew Long Xiaojiu very well.
But Su Wan'er was obviously extremely disgusted with her. Before she could finish speaking, the secret agents finally found them.
"Your Majesty, Your Highness, we're late to rescue you!" The leader knelt down to plead for punishment.
Here they go again. Su Wan'er was most annoyed by these cumbersome rules. Even the secret agents couldn't avoid them.
"Not late, not late. This is an... assassin from Southern Border! Take her away and keep a strict watch on her." So what if she was from the Yuwen family? In Su Wan'er's eyes, such a person who had lost her humanity should only be regarded as the lowest - level killer.
"Yes!" Just as the secret agent answered, unexpectedly, Yuwen Shan broke free from the ropes in full view and jumped out of the window to escape.
"Wait. She can use Gu. Don't chase." If it were ordinary Gu worms, they could still use the bracelet left by Xiaojiu, but Yuwen Shan was someone who could use the Gu King. The Gu art of Southern Border was extremely vicious. No one knew what would happen to ordinary people if they went after her.
"We're incompetent!" The leader knelt down again.
"Alright, alright, withdraw," Si Junlin had already been untied by two secret agents, but he seemed to be in a strange state.
"Tsk, I forgot about him." He was really under the influence of the Gu King and was probably still dazed at the moment.
But then she thought that the jade pendant in her hand was a sacred object of Southern Border. Xiaojiu trusted her. How could she show it to others casually?
"You all follow behind. The emperor is timid. He was probably scared just now. I'll take care of him alone."