Chapter 180 - Black Smoke
Chapter 180 – Black Smoke
LuoXiang stopped in front of the mansion after looking for BaiYing and couldn't find him anywhere, he was starting to get worried, but according to Princess WuLan the location of the place was very safe, almost no one had managed to break through the entrance, even they had forgotten how they got there in the first place.
"Bei, did Master Shin also go with YingYing?" he asked, BeiYau nodded his head.
"That's right Your Majesty, I saw Princess aYa and young master with Master ShinYa going towards the waterfall, it is not far behind the mansion, shall we go there, Your Majesty?"
Luo Xiang nodded.
"Yeah, we better take the kid home, somehow even though they say this place is safe, but I still have a bad feeling, come on."
The Crown Prince was just about to take a step when they heard a rather loud voice from inside the mansion belonging to the Village Elder.
"Please help this servant, my Princess, please help me, those people are merciless, my son may be in grave danger right now."
A man's voice, who was standing at a distance from LuoXiang at that moment, appeared to be a man in shining clothes like a high-ranking official, who was seen kneeling in front of Princess WuLan, his face looked dispirited, tired and anxious, his voice trembling and holding back the urge to cry.
Princess WuLan waved her hand for her men to help the middle-aged man to stand up from his knees.
"Officer Feng what are you doing? You're a governor, you shouldn't kneel like this in front of this old lady, come on up first, tell me clearly what happened?"
LuoXiang who was standing with his arms folded behind his waist only glanced briefly, it was only the domestic affairs of WahYe citizens who were still seeking Princess WuLan's help, it was none of his business, he'd better look for BaiYing instead.
"The man in black? What are they doing?"
But WuLan's question stopped LuoXiang's steps, for some reason every time he heard the attacker in black clothes indirectly thought it was all related to their problem now.
Old Man Pai, the advisor of Princess WahYe who was the village elder approached the man with fancy-dressed.
"Master Feng, what made that group target your house? This time if it's related to bandits or anything, you know the princess has no right to interfere, after all, there are so many guards in the governor's mansion, isn't master Feng confident enough to face them?"
Master Feng, the man of fertile build with a clean face and very beautiful clothes looked at Princess WuLan for a moment, his hands clenched shakily.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, must have known what those people meant to kidnap my son, as a direct descendant of Minister KeLu, without wind or rain those people came and killed many house guards just to kidnap my son, servant, already know, one day this will definitely happen, h-how did Prince WuYi find out about my family lineage, my parents have changed names a long time ago, how can he still find us, oh Han'er"
WuLan opened her eyes wide, the old woman just realizes what the man meant, she looked at her adviser Mr. Pai, just as about to say something LuoXiang walked in from the door.
"Excuse me for interrupting you, Princess WuLan, what do you mean by a direct descendant of Minister KeLu? Who do you mean?"
Seeing the Crown Prince enter the room all lowered their bodies to salute, including Governor FengXi who was directly a subordinate of YueYang Palace.
"Greetings Your Highness the Crown Prince"
LuoXiang waved his hand, asking everyone to get up, and continued his questioning by looking at WuLan.
"Princess WuLan"
The old woman swallowed hard, she glanced at her advisor.
"Your Majesty, FengXi is the grandson of State Minister WahYe KeLu, and his little son FengHan was kidnapped last night by the black clothed man who suddenly attacked the Governor's residence, most likely those people are people from the Black Water Clan" explained Pai.
LuoXiang frowned, deep in thought.
"That fellow has gathered all the descendants of the pillars of the nation, does that mean he has found the location of the Lost Palace? Does this mean that those people will also come to bring Lord ShinYa together so that they can turn on the mechanism of the lost palace?"
Not yet finished saying all that, LuoXiang's eyes widened,
"Oh no, YingYing is with ShinYa now, come on Bei we have to pick him up right away"
Without thinking twice LuoXiang rushed out of the room with BeiYau.
WuLan stood up from her seat, she held the hand of the young girl beside him, MeMa.
"MeMa, gather your men, open your eyes wide, Pai, please evacuate all the women and children to the safe room, we can't take the risk that those people will come and suddenly attack, my feeling is getting worse"
Pai and MeMa lowered their heads.
"Yes Princess!"
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Shaassshhhh.
The sound of water flowing from the cliffs of the waterfall.
At the waterfall which is located not far from LoHua village, some residents usually spend their time chatting with family, close friends, and even lovers to enjoy the beauty of the waterfall which happens to be in the LoHua valley, a valley that out of the reach from humans which makes the place is untamed and beautiful, tall plants of various shapes around the cliff where the waterfall is not so high but has clear and refreshing water.
Laughter sounded faint, among the people it seemed BaiYing, with aYa, ChenMing, and ShinYa who spent their time there, the days in LoHua village were a bit boring without doing anything, and finally able to enjoy their vacation, well, let's just say this vacation, thought BaiYing who took off his shoes and soaked his feet in the clear water, sitting on the rocks with aYa beside him, while ShinYa and ChenMing played in the water with the other children on the creek.
"Wow, the air is so fresh, aYa looks, there is a little rainbow there" BaiYing exclaimed seeing the rainbow formed from a waterfall that fell on the water below, very beautiful.
"Yeah, that's pretty Ying"
And BaiYing couldn't help but laugh at the sound of fighting between ShinYa and ChenMing in the water since ChenMing still didn't trust the man who he thought was a fake shaman.
"Go there a little bit, I'm already here first!" ChenMing exclaimed,
ShinYa didn't seem willing to budge, the young man who didn't mind getting all his clothes wet when he plunged into the water didn't want to miss the chance to play with the adorable kids.
"This place is huge, can't you divide it up a bit, young prince, it's still quite spacious there."
While everyone was enjoying the relaxed atmosphere, the sky suddenly darkened a bit, is it going to rain? BaiYing thought as he looked up, but, it wasn't rain, nothing but black smoke that seemed to be pouring down on them, BaiYing's eyes widened, he had a bad feeling.
"Oh no! Master Shin, ChenMing get the kids out of the water!" cried Bai Ying.
ShinYa opened his eyes wide, his eyes glare up finding something odd in his vision.
"Prince quickly take cover!" ShinYa shouted pulling ChenMing's hand towards him, several adults quickly grabbed their children up to the surface, water, while aYa and BaiYing had moved away from the rock and quickly took cover near the tree, black smoke drifting lower and lower almost as high as their heads.
AYa prepared the sword that was always on her waist, she also had a bad feeling.
People ran quickly seeing the strangeness of the clouds that seemed to be alive, ShinYa looked at BaiYing, this was not good, his inner eyes saw something bad, the black cloud had black eyes and a big mouth wide open as if it was ready to swallow anyone into it.
"Your Honour! Quick take cover!" he held ChenMing's hand and pushed him up from the water, and ChenMing stretched out his hand to help the man up.
"Master Shin!"
ShinYa was about to go up but the cloud quickly descended to cover their visibility.
"hahahahaha!"
There was loud laughter as the smoke covered the surroundings, the air seemed to be sucked in, AYa couldn't hold back and gripped the tree tightly, the sword in her hand fell to the ground.
"Cough, Ying, run fast" She still had time to see BaiYing's worried face when she was forced to give up and her body fell limply unconscious.
"No aYa!" BaiYing's eyes widened, he held back aYa's head which fell to the ground along with her limp body, from his place he also witnessed ShinYa and ChenMing who fell on the ground, it was poisonous smoke! BaiYing tried to cover his nose, though he didn't feel anything.
"Master Shin! Chen Ming!" he try to call them, but how could there be poisonous smoke in there, and that laughter, he recognized that laughter, it was YeMu?
"Hahahaha that's easy, it's too easy"
Sure enough, YeMu appeared from behind the slowly thinning smoke, after confirming that everyone who was hit by the smoke had fallen, the girl with a pair of slender legs walked closer to the location where BaiYing and AYa took shelter, a lot of people dressed in black who also appeared behind her.
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