Stunning Phoenix Emperor

Chapter 69

After turning a few more turns, the road gradually became flatter, and the mountain walls on both sides also opened up a lot. Slowly, the shadows of thatched huts and villages could be seen in front of our eyes.
"Your Highness, there seems to be something wrong!" the dark guard suddenly said.
Su Hanxiao reined in the horse's rein and looked intently, but saw that the smoke that was rising did not seem to be like cooking smoke, it was faintly black.
"Go over and have a look, just be careful!" Lan Chenyan said anxiously.
Su Hanxiao nodded, and the group of people slowly approached the small village, but they felt that the surroundings were dead silent, as if there were no living things.
"Boom!" The three hidden guards obviously cooperated tacitly. Someone kicked open a door on the side, another went straight to the place where the black smoke rose, and the last guarded them.
"Your Highness, there is no one." The person who inspected the room came out quickly.
From the open door, one can see that there is absolutely no hiding place in this simple hut that can hide from the eyes of the hidden guards, and there is no need for the people in the village to hide from them.
Lan Chenyan pulled the rein of the horse and kicked the small stones under her feet irritably.
"It's okay." Su Hanxiao held his hand, but remembered the corpse he saw in the ruined temple a few days ago, and felt a faint connection with the abnormality here.
"Your Highness!" The voice of the dark guard came from a distance.
Glancing at each other, several people rushed over immediately.
"This is..." Su Hanxiao stared at the scene in front of him, speechless for a long time.
"Woo..." Lan Chenyan's face was pale, and finally couldn't help turning around, bent over and vomited.
I saw an open space behind the village. It seemed that the spark had just been extinguished, and the smoke had not cleared away. You could smell a pungent smell when you approached. From the residues that had not been burned, it could be seen that...it was a corpse. And not just one or two!
Could it be that the people guarding the village were massacred, and then the corpses were destroyed by fire?
"Your Highness, what should we do?" the dark guard asked.
"Clean it up." Su Hanxiao said after a moment of silence, "By the way, look for any clues."
"Yes."
"Shen Yan, are you okay?" Su Hanxiao picked up the water bag and handed it to Lan Chenyan, patting him on the back to help him calm down.
"I'm fine." Panting heavily, Lan Chenyan raised her head and poured down half a bag of water before calming down.
"Although I can't be sure, it's probably not the fault of the village guards, but I don't know if there are any survivors." Su Han said with a smile.
"If you let me know who the murderer is..." Lan Chenyan gritted his teeth.
"When we get to Mingyue Pass, we should be able to find out something." Su Han said with a smile.
"You said... you belonged to a group?" Lan Chenyan seemed to have realized something.
"Intercepting the messenger and massacring the villagers, such a brutal method is done very neatly, it is not an ordinary person." Su Han said with a smile.
"Whoever he is, I'll kill him at the ends of the earth!" Lan Chenyan's face was solemn, and then he turned and walked towards the fire.
"Shen Yan." Su Han called out with a smile.
"I'll help." Lan Chenyan left a sentence, and dug the soil together with the hidden guards, buried all the corpses that could not be seen completely together, then found a piece of wood, carved words with a sword, erected as a tombstone.
The blood-colored sunset gradually disappeared behind the mountain, and under the last ray of light, the deserted lonely tomb was bleak and lonely.
"Come on." Su Hanxiao didn't step forward to pat Lan Chenyan on the shoulder until he finished everything.
"En." Lan Chenyan nodded quietly.
The two hidden guards checked the entire village carefully again, and after confirming that there were no survivors and no enemies hiding, they cleaned a room for them to rest.
After this scene, no one could eat barbecue anymore, so he hurriedly used some wild fruits picked from the mountains, found the rice vat in the house, borrowed the stove to cook a large pot of rice porridge, and took a rest after dinner .
Even though they had a house to protect them from the wind and cold, when they thought that the enemy might still be lurking nearby, they dared not relax. Su Hanxiao took Lan Chenyan and his clothes to sleep, and the secret guards were divided into two shifts to watch the night.
The night of Shuo Ye was pitch black, and I couldn't see my fingers.Su Hanxiao has the ability of night vision, so naturally she can see that the person in her arms keeps her eyes open.It's just...she didn't say anything, just gently stroked his long hair, comforting him silently.
Since he wanted to go to the battlefield, sooner or later he had to get used to familiar people dying in front of his eyes.A qualified general must have a heart made of steel, and tears and sorrow will not bring any chance of victory.
Don't want to prove your worth?So... let me see how much enlightenment you have.
War and bloodshed are not as simple as talking about them. The general's bounden duty is to kill people!
After leaving Phoenix Mountain, they were already approaching the northern border of Dayong, and the atmosphere seemed to become tense all of a sudden.
After entering the city, Su Hanxiao casually found a tavern for dinner, and inquired about the situation at Mingyue Pass, but the news he got was the same as the battle report sent... there was no danger.
But she also knows that this is impossible. Even if there is any emergency situation, it is not something ordinary people can know. Unless Mingyue Pass falls, no one wants the people behind them to panic because of panic. Then there will be real internal and external troubles up.
After a good night's rest in the inn, after washing off the tiredness in the deep mountains and feeling refreshed, Su Hanxiao proudly took the badge of the imperial envoy, went to Guanyi to change a few fast horses, and continued northward.
The Feiyu Legion's army had been left far behind by them, and continued to advance for a few days. The closer they got to Mingyue Pass, the stricter the inspections and guards became.
After another checkpoint, Lan Chenyan finally couldn't help complaining: "What's going on? This doesn't seem like the level of alert that a small-scale war should have!"

(End of this chapter)