Whose little lady is so crazy?

Chapter 637 Mystery

Perhaps because it was designed to be a powerful weapon, it was bound to make noises from time to time. So, even though the three people inside were falling to the ground one after another, the soldiers guarding outside didn't take it seriously.

"Hmm, not bad. He's become a master after all, he knows what's good for him." Hong Xiaoduo walked slowly to Xuanjizi, chuckled softly, and reached out to pick up a small object from his desk. She had seen this thing in the Jianghu Treasure Record; it was a projectile-type hidden weapon.

"Who...who are you?" Xuanjizi tried hard to control his tone, not wanting to show any fear. He slowly placed the teacup he was holding onto the table.

Hong Xiaoduo fiddled with the hidden weapon in her hand, pointing the firing end at the other party, and whispered, "Keep both hands where I can see you, and don't be clever and make any rash moves."

Hearing her words, Xuanjizi had no choice but to put his hands on the table, which he had been about to put down to use as cover to reach for the hidden weapon at his waist.

Damn it, how did she see through my intentions? She doesn't look that old, how can she be so cunning and experienced?

"Who am I? Didn't you just say you wanted to capture me and then personally torture me to find out the formula for the fireball? Now, I'm right in front of you."

"It seems you really want to see me. Heaven is granting your wish. Otherwise, how come I appeared right after you finished talking about it?" Hong Xiaoduo said casually, glancing at the two boxes placed next to a bed in the corner.

"You're actually a woman?" Xuanjizi was utterly shocked upon hearing this.

The variable that caused the Yunwu Kingdom's army to suffer a crushing defeat was actually such a young girl? He had imagined that a person with such abilities would be at least over fifty years old, if not white-haired and youthful-looking!

"Yes, you didn't expect that, did you? Your name is Xuanjizi, right? How are you feeling right now? Disbelief, resentment, or unwillingness to accept it? You have such skills, so why can't you use them on tools that benefit the country and its people?"
For example, helping farmers figure out how to harvest rice in a convenient and labor-saving way, how to store grain to prevent it from getting moldy, and how to divert stream water to higher ground for dry fields.

Why choose to create such a vicious and destructive weapon when there are so many good deeds to do? It would be understandable if you built it to defend Yunwu from foreign invasion and protect the people.

But you created this thing to help them invade other countries; you're aiding and abetting evil. You're intelligent, but your heart is wicked, utterly despicable." Hong Xiaoduo couldn't hold back any longer; she had to give him a good dressing down before she could truly vent her anger.

"Every man for himself, or the world will destroy him. Young lady, you are still young and inexperienced, so don't say too much. With your abilities, if the two of us join forces, we will surely achieve great things."

"I'll give you half of all my savings right now, and we'll split all our future earnings fifty-fifty, how about that?" Xuanjizi had a vague feeling that today might be more ominous than auspicious, but he still wanted to turn the tide and save himself.

Humans have weaknesses, and everyone has desires and wants.

If I can figure out what this young woman needs and wants, I will have a chance to survive.

"Oh, trying to seduce and bribe her?" Hong Xiaoduo wanted to laugh.

"Xuanjizi, don't rack your brains and waste your time. Let me tell you this: even though I am a woman, my current assets, while not enough to make me richer than a country, are still several thousand taels of gold and several thousand taels of silver. So, money is not very tempting to me."

There are valiant generals and handsome princes whom the emperor highly values, who want to marry me. So, beauty is useless to me.

As for power, I have no interest in the female official position promised to me by the Emperor of Fengliang.

"Wealth, power, and sex—I have it all. What else do you think could tempt me to agree to collude with you?" Hong Xiaoduo finished speaking patiently, glancing at the three on the ground. They had stopped twitching and must have died.

"I don't believe you have ulterior motives, so why did you stand up for Fengliang Kingdom?" At this moment, Xuanjizi did not doubt that what she had just said was a lie.

"Well, it's alright to tell you the truth. There are two reasons why I'm standing up for Fengliang Kingdom. First, my family members are in the Fengliang army. If the soldiers of Yunwu Kingdom fight against him, it's the same as fighting against me."

Secondly, it's even simpler: what I hate most is the act of invading other countries.

"Alright, I've said enough to let you die knowing why. Now go to the underworld and reunite with your disciples." After Hong Xiaoduo finished speaking, she pressed her thumb on the protrusion on the hidden weapon in her hand. With a soft "whoosh," a flash of cold light appeared.

The next moment, Xuanjizi looked down incredulously at his chest. Slowly, black spots seeped from the silver-white silk robe covering that area, spreading outwards. It was his blood. He knew it was black because the poisoned needle in the hidden weapon had been soaked in snake venom—the venom of a cobra and a bamboo viper.

He only used this hidden weapon three times, all to test its toxicity on beggars. The effect was exactly like this: as the blood flowed through his body, the poison would spread throughout his body, his nails and lips would turn black, and finally he would bleed from all seven orifices and die.

The very thing he used to defend himself and save his life is now being used by others to take his life.

"You young woman, with such vicious methods, do you think you're a good person?" Xuanjizi, feeling weak all over and in excruciating pain in his internal organs, glared fiercely at Hong Xiaoduo and questioned her.

"Whether I'm a good person or not is not for you, a villain, to decide. To be fair, this hidden weapon is indeed useful, so it's mine. You're welcome." Hong Xiaoduo said with a grin, ignoring Xuanjizi who was suffering from the poison, and rummaged around on the table before finding the outer casing that held the hidden weapon.

With a satisfied look in Xuanjizi's unfocused gaze, he put the hidden weapon into his brocade pouch.

Then, he found timed bombs in his spatial storage and placed them one by one inside the weapons of mass destruction. After doing this, he didn't rush to leave. He first checked the two boxes he had just looked at. Inside were three thousand taels of silver notes, and the rest were all kinds of hidden weapons, sleeping incense, various poisons, and blueprints for making weapons of mass destruction.

Hong Xiaoduo burned the blueprints over a candle. As for the other items, although they weren't for righteous people, she put them into her spatial storage in case they came in handy in the future, and carefully placed them in an unused safe.

Before leaving, she thought for a moment, then carried Xuanjizi to the bed, pulled the brocade pouch from his waist, positioned him on his side facing outwards, and pulled the quilt over him.

His three disciples were also carried to the corner bunks and positioned to sleep with their backs to the outside.

He stood at the entrance of the main tent and looked around. If you didn't look closely, you wouldn't notice anything unusual. He raised an eyebrow in satisfaction and then quietly left through the back door he had opened with his dagger.

They didn't rest after that. They went to the tents of the soldiers and officers who had been scouted earlier and committed heinous crimes, and planted time bombs in each of them.

She didn't set up the few tents in the northwest corner; they housed cooks and people who had been forced into hard labor.

He then went to the place where the enemy stored their provisions and supplies, and used his mind to store them into his spatial storage, leaving nothing behind.

There's no time to pick out which ones are useful and which aren't right now; I'll sort them out slowly when I'm bored later.

After doing all this, Hong Xiaoduo left the military camp, found a slightly higher spot, took out her binoculars to check, and saw that the military camp was not in chaos, which meant that they had not yet discovered the situation at Xuanjizi's place. She then took out a charging massage chair from her space, made a cup of bubble tea, and brought it out.

Sigh, I traveled a long way before dawn and worked hard for most of the night. I'm really tired.

I sat down in the massage chair, selected the massage mode, held a fragrant, hot bubble tea in one hand, and pressed the time bomb detonator with the other.

On the edge of the military camp, four figures were hidden in the shade of the trees.

"Young Master, there hasn't been a sound at all. You must be mistaken. Lady Hong didn't come here at all, did she?" Yuanxi said in a low voice.

"With Lady Hong's abilities, it should be impossible for the enemy to capture her, right?" Zi Ming analyzed in a low voice.

"You all wait here, I'll go in and take a look." No matter what his subordinates said, Murong Jing insisted on going in and taking a look himself before he could feel at ease.

"Bring your men along, spread out and investigate, it'll be faster," another quickly suggested.

Murong Jing nodded, and the four of them, master and servants, immediately used their lightness skills to sneak into the military camp.

At that moment, Hong Xiaoduo took a sip of her milk tea, looked at the military camp, and gently pressed the detonator...