Ye Lingfeng felt sorry for her and said nothing more. The two of them got dressed, tidied themselves up, and then left the room.
It was already daylight outside. Shi Mei and Shi Lan, the two maids, were standing there. Hai Ling asked anxiously, "Where are they now?"
"It's in the main hall of the West Mansion."
"Walk."
Hai Ling gave an urgent order and headed towards the main hall of the West Mansion. Ye Lingfeng, fearing something might happen to her, quickly followed behind. Seeing her furious expression, he felt a pang of heartache, but knew that it was useless to try to persuade her now; all he could do was protect her.
The group of people moved quickly toward the main hall in front of the West Mansion. On the way, they ran into Shizhu, who was coming from the opposite direction. Upon seeing Ye Lingfeng and Hailing, Shizhu calmly reported, "Master, the person has been captured."
"How's it going?"
"Everything went very smoothly."
Shi Zhu nodded, and even she herself found it unbelievable how it had gone so smoothly. Furthermore, Jiang Batian was so cunning, yet they had captured him so easily, which made them feel uneasy, as if it were unreal.
However, they did manage to bring the person back, and they also confirmed that no one was following them, so this whole thing is really strange.
Ye Lingfeng and Hai Ling nodded after hearing Shi Zhu's report, and then led a group of subordinates to the main hall of the West Mansion.
Inside the main hall, Feng Zixiao was furious, cursing Jiang Batian.
"Jiang Batian, you traitorous villain, you actually murdered the emperor and seized power. Now even Heaven can't stand it anymore, and you've fallen into my hands. I will definitely cut you into a thousand pieces, so that you will never be reincarnated."
As Feng Zixiao was cursing angrily, Ye Lingfeng and Hai Ling walked in. They saw his handsome face filled with a dark and murderous aura, his eyes blazing with fire as he shot towards Jiang Batian in the center of the hall. At this moment, Jiang Batian's eyes were wide open in anger, his gaze fierce as he glared at Feng Zixiao, but he couldn't utter a word. It was obvious that Feng Zixiao and the others had silenced him by pressing his pressure points.
As Hai Ling and the others walked in, Feng Zixiao, who had been angrily cursing, finally stopped and stared at Ye Lingfeng and Hai Ling with a gloomy expression.
Soon, several more people walked in from outside the door, including Feng Qian, Shen Ruoxuan, Ji Shaocheng, and others. The main hall was suddenly filled with people, all looking down at Jiang Batian, who had been captured.
To be honest, everyone felt a little uneasy about how smoothly things had gone. They knew who Jiang Batian was, so it was really hard to believe that he had been captured so easily.
At the head of the table sat Ye Lingfeng and Hai Ling. Hai Ling didn't look at anyone; her bloodshot eyes were fixed on Jiang Batian below. At first, she was furious, but slowly her gaze turned cold. Finally, she spoke in a deep voice: "Someone, release his speech acupoints."
In the hall, Shi Zhu came over as instructed, reached out and released Jiang Batian's pressure points. As soon as his mouth was free, he began to curse angrily.
"You bastards, how dare you arrest me! I won't let you get away with this!"
Upon hearing this, several people mocked him, saying, "You've already been arrested, why don't you let him go?"
Hai Ling was different from the others. She slowly walked down from the high place and stopped in front of Jiang Batian. She spoke in a cold and ruthless tone: "Tell me, who are you?"
Her words shocked everyone, especially the three siblings of the Feng family: Feng Zixiao, Feng Zihe, and Feng Qian. Their expressions changed simultaneously, and they stood up anxiously.
"What, he's not Jiang Batian?"
Hai Ling nodded, and Shi Han said, "That's right. He doesn't have Jiang Batian's sharp and domineering aura, nor his arrogant and domineering murderous aura. Although he tries hard to disguise it, he doesn't look like him. So this person is fake."
Upon hearing this, everyone in the hall turned pale; they hadn't expected that the person they had brought back was a fake.
Shi Zhu rushed in, still in disbelief, and pounced on the person in the hall. He then reached out and peeled off the person's face, revealing a thin, transparent human skin mask. The mask was different from Jiang Batian's and much younger, though the build was very similar. In addition, the person was disguised, and since they had captured him at night, no one had noticed. Moreover, the person's expression was so lifelike that it was difficult to tell them apart.
Realizing he had given himself away, the man stopped pretending and kowtowed in fear, pleading, "Please, heroes, spare me! Please, heroes, spare me!"
He knew that Jiang Batian was the object of everyone's resentment and everyone wanted to get rid of him, so he didn't recognize Feng Zixiao and the others and just thought they were ordinary assassins.
In the main hall, everyone realized they had arrested the wrong person, and their faces turned grim with anger. Feng Zixiao stepped forward and kicked the pleading man, sending him flying three meters away before he fell to the ground with a thud. He continued to beg for mercy, thinking how fierce these people were and how afraid he was of dying.
"Please spare me! You must leave now! I've been arrested, and they're about to start a city-wide search. If the authorities catch you, none of you will escape."
As soon as the man spoke, Ye Lingfeng and the others frowned. That's right, if this man was captured, Jiang Batian, who was hiding in the shadows, would definitely send troops to search the entire capital. That would really be troublesome for them. However, when the Western Prefecture was built, they had made some preparations, so there was no need to worry. But if Jiang Batian was alerted, it would be even more difficult to capture him again.
"Tell me, why did you impersonate Jiang Batian and even sit in Jiang Batian's sedan chair when he went to court?"
Hai Ling coldly questioned him, and the man dared not hide anything.
“Actually, even we don’t know where Jiang Batian is hiding. There are ten people like me who are impersonating him. Although I was caught, there are nine other people in other places who are impersonating him. He found ten of us who are similar in build to him, trained us, and then had us impersonate him in various occasions. Today was the day I was impersonating him to attend the morning court, which is why you caught me.”
"What?"
Ji Shaocheng, Shen Ruoxuan, and the others exclaimed that Jiang Batian was too insidious to do such a thing, using ten fake Jiang Batians to confuse others. This made it even more difficult for everyone to assassinate him. Who knew which one was the real Jiang Batian? This man was indeed cunning and ruthless.
"What do we do now? I'm afraid the soldiers will soon be searching the capital?"
Ji Shaocheng reminded everyone, then pointed to the person on the ground who was impersonating Jiang Batian: "What should we do with this person?"
The three siblings of the Feng family did not expect their plan to fail, and Jiang Batian even used so many people to impersonate him. Killing him again would be even more difficult. Hatred rose in their hearts. Feng Zixiao raised his hand and used his powerful internal force to strike the person impersonating Jiang Batian on the head, killing him instantly. Then he coldly ordered his subordinates.
“Drag him out and bury him.”
"Yes," someone came in and dragged the fake Jiang Batian out and buried him.
In the hall, Ye Lingfeng calmly assigned tasks: "Shizhu, Shiju, you two lead men out to gather information and see if any troops are searching the capital."
"yes."
Shizhu and Shiju accepted the order and went out.
"Let's all go into the basement of Xifu now, and come out after we've searched Xifu."
"good."
It seems this is the only way. Let's evade the imperial troops' search first, and then discuss how to get rid of Jiang Batian and the others after they've searched the capital.
Because of the failure, everyone was in a very heavy mood and had no appetite for breakfast. The group then went into the west family's underground secret chamber.
The underground chamber of the west family's residence was actually a small dwelling, so the group of people didn't feel stuffy when they went down. On the contrary, they had room to move around and rest as they pleased until the soldiers had finished their search.