"Unreasonable—utterly unreasonable!"
"Didn't they know that every grievance had its debtor? They sought revenge without even identifying the right person—what a pack of worthless fools!"
"This was Prince Dai's doing. Why did they come after me?"
"And how did they dare? How did they dare? I am Prince Qi! I am Prince Qi!" At this point, Prince Qi let out a heart-rending roar.
"Your Highness, please quell your anger!"
Everyone around him knelt in unison, then fell silent. It was not only Prince Qi who could not understand it; none of them could make sense of it either.
This was the Capital City. Great Zheng had only recently been founded and was rising like the morning sun, but even if the nation were declining, so long as it had not fallen, what family's ghosts or gods would dare attack and violate a prince of the blood?
Could the gathered strength of tens of millions, even hundreds of millions, of commoners across the realm be false?
Moreover, this affair had plainly been Prince Dai's doing. Ghosts and gods were not mindless beings; they possessed wisdom and divine powers. Things that could be hidden from ordinary people were entirely transparent in their eyes. Why, then, had such a ridiculous thing occurred?
During the time Prince Qi had been unconscious, Prince Qi's Residence had descended into utter chaos. Rumors from every back channel had spread everywhere, with every sort of claim being made.
Of Prince Qi's accompanying guards at the time, nearly half had been possessed by the rampaging ghosts and gods. Of the rest, many had been wounded or killed by them, leaving only a handful unscathed.
Prince Qi himself had suffered grave injuries. The incident had grown far too large, leaving people almost unable to imagine how it could possibly be