Chapter 158

158 Fingerprints

“Let’s get on with this,” Liu Hui Ying asked Yu Lingyun to place the sword that he has brought with him on the study table, now she was going to make an imprint of the fingerprints that were left on the blades and the handle of the sword since this world did not have the fine dusting powder and the fine dusting brushes that were used by the experts. Unlike her who had both regular and magnetic powder to detect the fingerprints sticking on the surface of the sword.

Seeing that she was starting with the investigation, Yu Lingyun turned to look at Zhai Heng and tugged on his sleeve as he said, ” Do something, she is starting her work. His majesty asked us to not start until he returns, he will be really unhappy if he was to come and find that we are already on the third step.”

” If you were so worried, then why did you hand the sword to her?” Zhai Heng hissed at the man who was acting up behind him and then glared at him with his eyes. ” You were scared of her, so you gave her the sword and now you are asking me to do something? You coward.”

“I ...I am the general of the imperial army, how dare you call me a coward?” Yu Lingyun retorted with an upset expression on his face.

” If that is the case then you tell her that she needs to stop,” Zhai Heng pulled Yu Lingyun to the front but the man started to pull his arm away from Zhai Heng’s hold and then lowered his voice as he said, ” Fine, I am not scared of the enemy armies but this woman scares the living daylight out of me, all right? You happy now?”

Zhai Heng was no longer as happy as he was supposed to be because now that Yu Lingyun has pulled back, it was his responsibility to take the matter of telling Liu Hui Ying to stop his hands.

But there was no other choice, so even though Zhai Heng did not want to say anything to Liu Hui Ying, he had no choice but to take a deep breath and say, ” Your majesty, the Emperor told us to wait–”

However, the rest of his words were interrupted when Liu Hui Ying raised her head and then looked at him with those eyes that were flickering with solemn seriousness. ” And?” She asked with one of her brows hiked up.

” Should we not wait for his majesty?” Zhai Heng was feeling scared as well, especially when he knew that this woman had three ghosts as servants and they always stayed next to her. He was worried that if he was to push her too much he might end up lying on the table to be studied as a corpse as well but as the vice commander of the special force he could not pull his feet back.

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” What is the Emperor doing?” She asked as she stretched her hand out for Jia Li to place the special magnetic dusting powder on her hand.

” He is having breakfast with concubine Ji,” replied Zhai Heng in a slightly confused voice. The Queen knew where the Emperor was right? So why was she asking such a question?

” That’s right, he is having breakfast with his beloved but I am still hungry. I haven’t eaten anything and yet I am working hard here,” she sprinkled the powder on the sword before taking the fine dusting brushes from Jia Li and then raised her gaze ever so slightly such that she was looking at the two of them. ” Why should I wait for that man who is busy romancing his concubine? And that too on an empty stomach?”

” Oh so you are jealous, your majesty—” Yu Lingyun hardly said those words when something zoomed past him, giving him a scare. He did not even sense something being hurled at him, it was only when it flew past his cheek and hit the wall behind him. When he felt something zoom past him, Yu Lingyun turned to look at the wall behind him and then squeaked when he saw that the brush that was sitting on the study table was now sticking to the wall behind him.

“Ark,” Yu Lingyun shuffled closer to Zhai Heng such that he was hiding completely behind him and then looked at the Queen while peeking out of Zhai Heng’s back. ” Your Maj..majesty?”

” If you want to die then you can just say it,” Liu Hui Ying commented while she was waiting for the adhesive activity of the powder to start working. She waited for a few minutes before she picked up the brush and then started cleaning up the powder that was sticking to the sword.

As soon as she cleaned up the adhesive powder that was sticking to the handle of the sword and the blade, once the magnetic powder was cleaned the fingerprints that were sticking to it started showing as well.

“At least not many people touched this sword,” she sighed in relief as she looked at the sword that was sitting in front of her, she then turned to Jia Li and said, “Take the imprints of these fingerprints.”

“Right away,” Jia Li to the special black powder that she has invented and then carefully sprinkled it on the magnetic dust powder, as soon as she poured the special black powder, it melted and morphed into the shape of the fingerprints after that she just needed to press the paper that was sitting ideally on the side on the fingerprints.

“It is done.” Jia Li stated as she pulled the paper and on the white paper were three different fingerprints on the sword. ” Here you go.”

Liu Hui Ying took the paper from Jia Li and then smiled with a sly note in her voice. ” So let’s go and get to the bottom of this matter, shall we?” Now that she had the fingerprints on her hand, she was sure that she was another step closer to the killer.

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