Li Sande went to look at the man under the tree again, and compared to the three eunuchs, this man's death was much more tragic. He was killed by a sharpened tree branch thrust through his chest, and the murderer didn't even bother to take the weapon, leaving it arrogantly at the scene.
Li Sande sensed the gravity of the situation. As the chief eunuch of the Central Harmony Hall, a murder had occurred right under his watch. No matter how you looked at it, it was his negligence.
He couldn't understand— with the palace's strict guard, who had the audacity, eating the heart of a bear and the courage of a leopard, to cause trouble in the Imperial Palace?
"Didn't you notice any suspicious people?" he asked the guards accompanying him.
The guards shook their heads.
Gu Jiao wasn't surprised either. While it's true that the Imperial Palace's defenses were formidable, to someone like Nangong Li, a master martial artist, evading detection wasn't too difficult.
