Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

The emperor immediately ordered the secret guards to investigate the people who had contact with Madam Liu, who were they, whether any of them had died, and how they died.

The emperor thought the same as Linlang. He felt that Madam Liu was of vengeful character and would not want to kill only the queen. So he wanted to see how many people around Madam Liu had died and how they died. Through the circumstances of these deaths, the emperor could infer how Madam Liu killed people and how long it would take to accumulate points for killing one person.

In addition, if the secret guards could not figure out how to deal with Madam Liu for the time being, he might have to ask the secret guards to take him to Madam Liu's vicinity, or hold a banquet in the palace, summon Madam Liu into the palace, and continue to eavesdrop on her thoughts in order to collect more intelligence.

Although he found it strange that the emperor wanted to investigate a third-rank imperial lady, the commander of the secret guards was loyal to the emperor and would do whatever the emperor told him to do, so he immediately followed the emperor's orders and hurried to deal with the matter.

Unlike Linlang who had no target in the initial investigation and was looking for a needle in a haystack all over the capital, they now had a target in mind, so the investigation was naturally quick.

Within a few days, the secret guards handed over the people who had come into contact with Madam Liu and died to the emperor.

The emperor was shocked by the contents.

At first, the secret guards thought that the emperor asked them to investigate how many people who had contact with Madam Liu died. They thought it was a joke, or that they had misunderstood. After all, the emperor seemed to mean that the people who had contact with Madam Liu died were killed by Madam Liu. How could this be possible? After all, a woman in the harem could not kill others? Even if she killed, it should be the people in the Liu Mansion. It should not be possible to kill other people who had contact with her but were not in the Liu Mansion.

Unexpectedly, a random search revealed that many people who had contact with Madam Liu had died of inexplicable illness, some in her house and some not.

They only investigated the data from recent years at first, but because so many people died, the commander of the secret guards felt that there must be more than just deaths in recent years, there might have been deaths in previous years as well, so they started to investigate further up, and what they found was a shocking number, dozens or even hundreds of people had died!

Since Mrs. Liu was a child, many people who came into contact with her died of inexplicable illness - including her brothers and sisters, some elders, and some villagers.

The reason why we think it was Mrs. Liu who did it is because the causes of death are similar. They both were sick for a few days and then suddenly died. The causes of death are highly similar.

In this era, it is certain that someone will die of illness, but there are so many people who died of illness, and their death conditions were similar. They all died after being sick for four or five days. With such a high similarity, it is hard to believe that someone did not do it on purpose.

After the secret guards inquired, they found out that some of these people were known to others and had some grudges with Madam Liu, while some of them were not known to others at all and had some grudges with Madam Liu. They didn't know how they offended Madam Liu and then died inexplicably.

After getting married, she came into contact with Madam Liu, and then more people died. There were maids and servants in the mansion whom she disliked, concubines and illegitimate sons and daughters in the backyard of Master Liu, and people who she thought would hinder her husband on Master Liu's road to the imperial examination. She killed them all.

Later, Master Liu passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi. After Madam Liu killed many competitors and made way for Master Liu, Master Liu finally passed the imperial examination. Therefore, Master Liu's Jinshi was actually a fake. If Madam Liu had not helped him get rid of many outstanding people, he might not have passed the examination. When he became an official and was promoted, all the strong competitors of her husband were also eliminated by her, which made Master Liu rise to prominence. How could he not rise to prominence? If there was a vacancy at the top and someone was to be selected from below, and Master Liu's strong competitor was killed by Madam Liu, he would definitely be promoted. After all, there were only so many people who passed the imperial examination, and if one person died, there would be one less competitor.

Madam Liu killed dozens or even hundreds of people in this killing spree. The commander of the secret guards was shocked when he saw this. He wondered what means Madam Liu had used to do this that no one had discovered. This made him think of the word "monster". If someone can kill people without being noticed, then what else could he be but a monster? This was the same idea that the emperor had.

What’s more important is that these are only what the secret guards found out. God knows if there are more people who were killed by Madam Liu but they didn’t find out.

The emperor looked at these records and his face darkened.

It can be seen that Madam Liu's method of killing people without being seen was indeed too powerful. So many people died due to the same symptoms, but no one suspected Madam Liu. The main reason was that the dead people had been sick for several days before they died. To people of that era, this was quite normal. After all, people often died of illness.

This also allowed the emperor to see the power of Madam Liu's system.

He was able to kill so many people without anyone realizing that something was wrong. No wonder he was so confident that he wanted to kill the queen. With his ability, it was indeed not difficult to kill the queen.

It is no wonder that Madam Liu killed so many people. She was armed with a sharp knife and had a murderous intent.

With such a powerful tool in hand, anyone would just kill someone they don't like. After all, with such a powerful tool, there is no need to reason with anyone. If you don't like someone, you can just physically eliminate him.

Regardless of whether it is legal or not, the host who owns such a system is happy. After all, he really achieves the goal of "those who obey me will prosper, and those who defy me will perish." No, those who obey me may not prosper, but those who defy me will definitely perish.

However, given Madam Liu's narrow-mindedness, it is obvious that there are many people she wants to kill, but she does not have enough points and fails to kill them. This was discovered by the secret guards during their investigation. Madam Liu would talk to herself when no one was around - the emperor had reason to believe that she was not talking to herself, but talking to the system, but the secret guards did not realize that there was such a thing as the system - indicating that there were other people she hated and wanted to kill, but she did not have enough points and failed to kill them, and she was depressed.

So, some people, even if they have powerful tools, still cannot live happily, because they can become resentful of someone because of a small matter, or even nothing at all, just because of their own imagination, and eventually become unhappy because they cannot kill the other person for the time being.

Looking at this report, the emperor was thinking about how to deal with Madam Liu most safely. After all, the other party has a powerful thing like the system, which can kill people without being seen. Moreover, when harming people, they need to be sick for four or five days before dying. If they really fight with people, Madam Liu will definitely be able to exchange props from the system to kill people immediately. Even if she doesn't have points to exchange, Madam Liu still has a teleportation tool. If she runs away directly, I don't know if she can be dealt with by then. (End of this chapter)