The arrow came suddenly, and the guards guarding the ox cart were attracted by a group of people coming out of the market. When they noticed, the arrow had already shot into the window of the car.

This thing came straight to Lucis, but he never let down his vigilance, when he heard the strange sound of breaking through the air, he immediately pulled Ella and fell to the side, narrowly avoiding the arrow.

Ella, who has eyes and ears, also heard the sound of the arrow piercing the air, but her reaction was not as fast as Lucis. At this time, she realized that they were being targeted and attacked, and fell on the floor of the bullock cart in shock, her breathing suddenly became disordered..

And this is not the only arrow. After the arrow that came in from the car window, more arrows were shot towards the bullock cart, but most of them hit the carriage, making a ding ding dong dong sound.slammed and fell to the ground.

This is true for the carriages guarded by everyone, not to mention the guards guarding the bullock carts outside. They are also the target of the attack. Fortunately, the first arrow is aimed at Lucis, and the subsequent arrows are slightly behind, so that the guardsenough time to react.

But everything happened so suddenly. Although no one was injured, there were already many traces of being attacked on the carriage, and more arrows were still being shot towards this side.

"There are assassins! Hurry up and escort them!"

Ella, who was protected by Lucis, couldn't see the scene outside clearly, and could only hear the sound of swords being unsheathed outside, followed by the sound of swords colliding against the attack of bows and arrows, and the sound of screaming and running away from the passing crowd.The scene was chaotic.

The ox cart was shaking constantly, and the ox mooing anxiously, worried that the frightened ox would pull the ox cart and run around causing more chaos, Ella hurriedly shouted: "Cut off the reins quickly, don't let go of the ox cart!"It scared the cows." Then he told the two cows to find a place to hide later.

There was a response from the guards outside the carriage, and soon someone cut off the reins, and the carriage tilted forward and stopped shaking.

Lucis locked the car windows on both sides, took out a bow from the corner, and took it away, and told Ella, who was still lying on her stomach to avoid danger, "Stay inside and close the car door, I won't tell you not to go!"come out."

This bullock cart looks simple and low-key, but in fact, the safety measures are excellent. The wooden carriage is a double-layer design, and iron plates are added in the gaps. Ordinary arrows can’t shoot through it at all.The carriages are all locked, and unless they are violently dismantled, the people inside will be safe.

Aila knew that going out at this time would not be of help, but would only add to the chaos, so she promised that she would not get out of the car: "Be careful too."

Lucis jumped out of the car with a bow, and Ella immediately went up and locked the door, and then went back to the window to observe the situation outside.

Most of the windows of the bullock carts are also mixed with iron plates, but in order to ensure the lighting, the upper part adopts the design of lattice windows.You can see the situation outside.

For safety, there is a baffle on the side of the pane, which can completely cover the pane when needed.

Lucis had already pulled the baffle over to cover the lattice window before going out, Ella only opened a little gap, pierced a small piece of lattice window at the edge, and hid behind the baffle to carefully observe the situation outside.

This wave of attacks seemed to be only those random arrows. Except for the guards, there were only a few pedestrians who were too frightened to run and shivered by the side of the road. Aila noticed that some people in the crowd were affected by the arrows.But luckily she hadn't seen anyone killed in the attack yet.

After Lucis got out of the car, several assassins disguised as frightened pedestrians suddenly rushed towards Lucis from behind the cover, but he and the guards dealt with him in two or three hits, without causing any damage at all.

Ella switched sides, and from the window on the other side, she saw Lucis raising his bow and aiming at the roof of a house in the market through the cover of the car.Arrows were fired from here, and the appearance of Lucis clearly gave them a target. The arrows flew towards him, but they were blocked by the guards of the carriage and guards, and Lucis also quickly used the thumb on thePulling her finger and hooking the bowstring, she pointed towards those people, and Ella leaned to the other side to look, just in time to see the scene where an arrow hit one of them.

The chaos didn't last long. Lucis had already prepared for the assassination. The chaos just now was just because the other party's surprise attack was too sudden, but the commotion was so loud that it quickly attracted soldiers patrolling nearby. The assassins sawThe situation was wrong, and they immediately chose to retreat, but before they left, they found that all the back roads had been cut off.

Now that he knew he would be assassinated, it was impossible for Lucis to just go out with some guards, and there were more people hiding in the dark. The order they received was not to protect the king, but to find him as soon as the accident happened.Where the enemy is, capture these people alive.

The soldiers on patrol came and were shocked to see the scene in front of them. Many arrows fell from the side of the carriage parked in the middle of the road. The guards guarded the carriage with their weapons. A few people who did not know their lives were lying beside them in a pool of blood.Among them, the tall man who was guarded in the center had frost on his front, watching everything coldly.

And farther away, where the sight was blocked by the houses, there was a faint sound of fighting, and it seemed that a fierce battle was going on.

Ordinary people might not recognize that face, but how could the patrolling soldiers who also belonged to the Royal Army fail to recognize that it was their king.

Before they could salute, Lu Xisi pointed at the people hiding around and ordered: "Go and check all these people to see if there are any accomplices."

The reason why this group of people who came out of the market in groups appeared here is obviously not a coincidence.

Hearing what he said, the soldiers who had just arrived immediately paid attention to those passers-by, beware of assassins mingling in there to launch a sudden attack.

There were quite a few people who ran away when they found something was wrong, but there were also those who couldn’t run after being frightened. They were rudely taken from their hiding places by the soldiers, obediently searched for possible weapons hidden on their bodies, still begging for mercy in a panic.

"It's none of my business, really none of my business."

"Wow, mom, I'm scared!"

"We are just passing by, kind master, it really has nothing to do with us!"

These people were talking, and suddenly they saw a person with a pale face and his legs limp and fell to the ground. When the others saw it, they became even more frightened, thinking that this person was knocked out by the soldiers because of his resistance.The one was still shouting for injustice, and now he didn't even dare to speak out loudly.

The soldier in charge of the search squatted down to check, and soon discovered the problem and said: "The condition of his wound is not right, it seems to be poisoned."

As soon as these words came out, other people who were also affected by the arrow immediately looked at the wound on their body. At this time, the circle around the wound was already swollen, and it was still a little black, but they didn't feel much pain, only felt that the wound was full of pain.Very numb, immediately aware that they, too, had been poisoned.

After discovering this, the pedestrians who originally thought that their sudden dizziness, palpitations, and weak legs were just instinctive reactions caused by the fright they had just been frightened suddenly fell into a state of mourning, sat down on the ground with pale faces, and couldn't get up.

Lucis picked up an arrow that fell beside him. There was nothing unusual about the gleaming arrow, but when he took a closer look, he could smell a faint fishy smell.

He immediately judged: "It's snake venom."

The fact that the arrows were poisonous was not unexpected.

These people have long planned to assassinate him. In order to increase the success rate, it is very natural to smear poison on the arrow, and there is a high probability that the smear is highly poisonous venom such as cobra poison.Even if the arrow pierced into his body, even if it wasn't at a vital point, it would kill him soon after.

Although knowing that it might be useless, Lucis still sent someone to find the doctor.

At this time, his face was very ugly. Among the guards he brought out, there were people who were also scratched by arrows, which meant that they could not escape the threat of snake venom, and the guards who could follow him at this time were all him.His confidant, any accident will make him regretful and hateful.

"Lucis."

There was a knocking sound in the carriage, accompanied by Ira's call.

Lucis turned his head and walked to the car window. When he saw a hole in the car window, he knew that Ella was looking at the situation outside: "What's wrong?"

"This is the antidote, take it to them."

A small glass bottle was pushed out from the punctured pane. The transparent body of the bottle seemed to be carved from the clearest crystal. The mouth of the bottle was tightly plugged with a cork. Inside the bottle was a beautiful orangeThe liquid is sloshing.

Ella's voice became more gentle through the car window, and she told him in detail how to use the medicine: "You ask someone to find a jar of water, pour half of this medicine into the water, and then let the injured personPeople drink a bowl, and finally wipe the wound with the remaining potion."

She roughly estimated the number of people in her hands, there were about a dozen of them, most of them were not too seriously poisoned, and they could be detoxified with diluted antidotes.

Lucis stared intently at the bottle in his hand, and asked in a low voice, "Are you sure?"

Although he didn't say it clearly, Ella understood that he was asking her if she was sure she wanted to use this potion to save those people.

In fact, Ayla put some diluted potion on the bullock cart just in case, and those things had passed Lucis's eyes, but that amount of potion could not save so many wounded present, andThe wounded couldn't afford to wait, so she had to get a new potion, but it was nothing, only Lucis knew that she didn't have this bottle of potion on her body, and others would only think that she had put it in the car early in the morning.

"Well, hurry up and use it for them."

Hearing what she said, Lucis didn't ask where the potion came from, but asked, "Is it the size of the pot you used to hold the soup last time?"

"Um."

Lucis glanced at the car window here, saw Ella's shining purple eyes through the broken window pane, and turned to ask for water.

This is the entrance of the market, and the shops next to it are equipped with daily water. The guard who didn't miss Lucis' words quickly brought back jugs and bowls of suitable size.

Lucis pulled out the cork and poured the liquid into the water, and re-corked the remaining half into his arms.

The orange-yellow liquid spread automatically after falling into the water, and he handed the water to the guard: "Stir it up, each injured person drinks a bowl, and the rest is used to scrub the wound."

The guard immediately carried the jar carefully to distribute the potion, and the injured guard drank it immediately after being distributed. The beautiful bottle of potion was given to Her Majesty in public by Her Royal Highness. Although couldn't hear what they said, Her Royal HighnessEven malaria can be cured, and they have no doubt that this medicine can cure their poison.

Although the injured pedestrians didn't know that the princess sitting in the car was the rumored princess, but after seeing the performance of the guards, they couldn't wait to drink the potion. After everyone finished drinking, theyEach person was given a damp sackcloth soaked in the medicine to scrub the wound.

And under such careful use, there was still a lot of unused potion left in the jug, which was carefully put away by the soldiers.

Compared to drinking the potion without feeling anything, the pain caused by wiping the wound with a wet sackcloth made them gasp all the time, but after the pain, there was an obvious cooling sensation, and the numbness and dull pain on the wound was slowly subsiding.

The doctor who was waiting to open a shop in the market was called by the soldiers, and he was a little strange when he checked the wounded. Didn't they say that the poisoning was serious? But these people looked like those with deep woundsBesides, the others are fine.

He truthfully told Lucis about the situation.

"Where's their poison?"

The doctor who didn't know the previous situation said: "It doesn't seem to be a serious poison. I'll go back and get some herbs and boil water for them to drink and they will be fine soon."

In fact, he also felt strange in his heart. The situation in front of him seemed to be such a big battle, but it turned out that among the injured people were only a little bit of poison that didn't hurt or itch. It was really puzzling.

But the doctor didn't ask these questions, but continued: "Most people's wounds are fine, just a simple bandage is enough, and the remaining few with serious injuries need to be sent to my shop for treatment."

But these people were related to the attack just now, and it was impossible for Lucis to let them go without doing a good job of investigating and confirming that they were innocent.

He asked the doctor to bandage the wounds of those people first, and asked the guards to ask their confessions.

At the same time, the guard who was going to arrest people before finally appeared.

"Your Majesty, a few of the archers died, and the rest were captured alive according to your request."

"Take it back for interrogation first."

Lucis gave the order, and asked people to find the two cows that ran aside and fix the frame again. After confirming that there were no other problems, he knocked on the car door and asked Ella to open it.

As soon as the car door opened, Lucis got into the car, and Ella leaned over to check carefully, making sure that he was not injured before being relieved.

Lucis took out the remaining half bottle of potion and handed it to her, but Ella confiscated it.

"You keep it, and I can rest assured that you take it with you."

Lu Xisi took a look at the bottle: "Can the potion in it cure any poison?"

"Basically, it can be solved. This potion is more effective if it is not diluted. If it is highly poisonous, just take a sip. The remaining amount should be used twice. Use it sparingly. I don't have much in stock., without suitable materials, the medicine can’t be formulated at all.”

However, the effect is less effective, and she can still make antidotes that can only target specific poisons.

Lucis heard she said that there was still stock, so he took the medicine bottle back into his pocket: "This bottle doesn't look very strong, can I use other bottles?" If he could, he would go back and exchange it for gold or silver.medicine bottle.

"Yes, yes, but the antidote won't expire if you put it in this bottle. Other bottles don't work so well. Don't worry, this bottle is stronger than you think. It won't break unless you hit it with something on purpose."

Lucis had to give up.

Then Ella said with lingering fear: "Let's go back quickly, it's too unsafe outside."

"Everyone has been caught, and there will be no other danger for the time being."

Luxis came out with Ella these days, and he had more or less thought about fishing. Now that the fish was hooked, the soldiers he hid naturally didn't have to hide anymore, and they could follow the ox cart to escort them back to the palace.

After such a thing happened, it was naturally impossible for her to participate in the next two weddings, so she had to ask someone to send a gift. In order to express her apology, she specially added an extra gift, and asked the maid to bring a sentence,He said that when he was free after a while, he invited the mothers of the bride and groom to the palace to drink tea and chat.

Those two nobles are not ignorant people, they also know that this kind of thing happened, it is impossible for Her Royal Highness to leave the palace in a short time, not to mention that Her Royal Highness even sent invitations to their family members, which has already putThat regret was filled.

When they returned to the palace, they brought many people back. Except for the assassins, all other pedestrians present were also brought back. Now they are all locked in the dungeon for interrogation, but the treatment of people on both sides is completely different. The assassins are tortured.The torture made them open their mouths to reveal the people behind the scenes. The treatment for pedestrians is much better. Although they were locked up, they were not punished. They were only asked why they were there at the time, and they were released after confirming that there was no problem., and those who were innocently injured were also compensated for a sum of medical expenses.

And there were no assassin's accomplices in this group of people, they were all native Sathyas, some of them passed by the entrance of the market at that time, and some were working in the market.The people who passed by the carriage were the latter. After investigation, they were a group of laborers working in the market.

And they happened to appear at that time because they were hired by someone, but the content of the employment was not to let them block the carriage there, but to let them go to the market to buy things, and then follow the employer's instructionsSend things to the designated place outside the market, and they don't know where to send them. These people just go with their employers.

The people who hired them were the assassins who suddenly rose from the crowd and attacked Lucis. Although these assassins were all killed, everyone else in the market could prove that what these laborers said was true, so after it was determined that they were indeed innocent, these people were all released.

As for the assassins, the only thing that can be found so far is that they are a group of bandits who have been haunting remote areas and looting small villages and towns in recent years. None of these bandits are native to Sathia, and they have never been active near the capital in the past.He sneaked into the royal capital recently.

These people's mouths are very tight, and they only say that they are ordinary bandits under torture.people, they would not say anything.

But they actually have quite a lot of flaws. That kind of fighting style is not what ordinary bandits can show, it's more like soldiers serving in the army, and if they are really bandits, they don't have the guts to take on this kind of task.An ambush was set up in the noble residence area of Sathya's royal capital to assassinate an unknown team.

The soldiers had already investigated the house they used to ambush. It was the house of a merchant in the market, but the house had been sold to them by the merchant a few days ago, and the merchant's familyI don't know where to go, don't know if he ran away or was killed.

However, although they have not spoken, Lucis is not in a hurry. Sathya has tortured a lot. These people will confess sooner or later as long as they don’t die, and he has been secretly sending people to spy on those missions for several days.Strangers appeared near the post where the missions were located, and people often came and went in and out of the post. Ordinary entry and exit was nothing, but sneaking in and out at night would be very problematic.

I don't know which country was the first to do it.

Lucis did not hide these things from Ella. Although she wanted her to live a more carefree life, letting Ella know what kind of danger she was facing could ensure that she would be more careful when traveling in the future.

And when she heard that the assassins refused to speak, Ella hesitated for a moment, and asked Lucis: "Have you heard of the small black room?"

"Um?"

"I heard that in some prisons, there will be a punishment called confinement, which is to prepare a small room that is absolutely quiet and without a little light, lock the prisoner in it, and only prepare a little food for him, and do not have anything to do with him.For any communication, after a few days, he will be willing to say anything."

This kind of punishment will not harm the prisoner's body, but it will greatly stimulate the prisoner's spirit. It is a very serious punishment. Although Ella has never seen it before, she often sees it in some film and television works and novelsThe description, basically no one can survive.

After listening to her explanation, Lucis doubted that this method of punishment would really make those people speak, but there was no other way for the time being, so he agreed to try the method Ella said.

He personally went to the prison and saw the assassins who were being tortured.

The number of people involved in the assassination this time was not many, except for a few assassins who pretended to be employers among the labor force, there were only seven or eight people who shot arrows on the roof not far away.

When the soldiers rounded up half of the assassins, they were executed on the spot, leaving only three alive.

Facing Lucis, the three assassins still refused to speak, as if they would rather die than surrender.

Lu Xisi originally wanted to torture them himself, but he saw that every piece of meat on their bodies did not give in, so he put out the plan to do it.

In the end, he asked people to lock the three prisoners into a small black room according to Ella's method. In order to prevent them from committing suicide inside, the hands and feet of the three were tied up. As for food, he only asked people to feed them.Drink some water, and then put a cloth on their mouths to prevent them from biting their tongues and killing themselves.

Before closing the door, he said, "This is your last chance."

The only response to him was a silent resistance in the darkness.