Those Classmates who Suddenly Disappeared
Chapter 749: Unusual Action

Chapter 749: Chapter 749: Unusual Action

Lin Xi was now deeply troubled, propping up her head with one hand, drumming the table with the other, and crossing her legs. Yes, she was depressed. As the empress, that meant a pile of things awaiting her attention and decision.

"Oh God, I finally have reincarnated, but still had to do the things in my past life. How does that make sense?" Lin Xi looked at the pile of memorandums on the table, feeling internally miserable. She really wanted to go back.

The maids around were puzzled by Lin Xi resting her leg on the other knee. The Empress didn’t normally behave like this.

Just then, Lin Xi noticed the strange looks from the maids. She immediately knew she had made a mistake, quickly sat upright and again felt aggrieved. Now, she couldn’t let her guard down no matter what she did.

At that moment, someone ran in hurriedly, almost in a panic, "Your Majesty, we discovered that a small village was wiped out overnight..."

"What?" Lin Xi was taken aback, trying to recall if anything similar had happened when she was the empress in her previous life.

After pondering, she soon remembered the incident. Qian Ye personally investigated it. Technically, as Lin Xi replaced Qian Ye, it should be her going. But something felt wrong – if she went, Qian Ye wouldn’t have, wouldn’t that create discrepancies with her past memories?

What a mess! Lin Xi had a bad feeling. Would this slowly start to change the past and subsequently affect the future?

Deciding to face whatever comes, Lin Xi decided to go. Led by her subordinates, she soon arrived at the devastated village, and discovered dead bodies everywhere. Everyone looked extremely terrified.

"What on earth happened here?" Lin Xi examined everything as she walked. Everything was just like she remembered, she didn’t solve the case then, so she had no intention of resolving it now, so as to avoid altering her past.

A subordinate reported, all the villagers had fang marks on their necks, and their blood had all been sucked dry.

"Strange, before, they were hitting one a night, now they struck the whole village in one night, what is going on?" Lin Xi was worried although she knew it was not an ogre, as ogres were creatures summoned by Qian Ye from the abyss using magic, and Qian Ye hadn’t done it at this time?

The sun was a bit hot, and everyone was sweating. As an empress, Lin Xi had maids holding umbrellas to shield her from the sun, but she was still sweating, and the sun was really burning. Lin Xi couldn’t help but say: "I really regret it. I should have brought some sunscreen."

The maids by her side were stunned at first, not understanding what Lin Xi was referring to.

Knowing she had misspoke, Lin Xi quickly changed the subject and gave out orders, getting her subordinates busy, hoping they would not notice her strange behavior.

Just then, one of the subordinates shouted: "There’s still someone alive here!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Xi was taken aback, trying hard to remember if there were any survivors after the village was destroyed in her previous life. She did not remember any survivors, why were there now? Had she misremembered?

There was a cellar in a house. A boy about fifteen years old had been hiding there, and had been rescued in a state of shock.

Lin Xi walked over, crouched down, and said, "Don’t be afraid, boy. You’re safe now. I’m the empress, and I’m here to protect you."

The people around her were surprised. At least in their minds, the empress was a lofty figure, how could she humbly address a commoner in such a manner?

Lin Xi then cast a Meditation Curse to soothe the boy’s fear, this dispelled everyone’s doubts, proving the empress indeed possessed magical powers.

After the boy calmed down, he recounted the horrors of the night. Apparently, a caravan passing through, under the pretense of needing water, was invited into the village. Instead, they revealed menacing teeth and bloodshot eyes filled with murderous gleam, and slaughtered the villagers.

The boy had been at home at the time. Upon hearing the horrifying screams outside and seeing the dreadful scene through the crack in the door, he hurriedly hid in the cellar, thereby escaping the massacre.

Once she understood what had transpired, Lin Xi immediately ordered all personnel to be vigilant of caravans entering or exiting the village during this period, and to apprehend anyone with sharp teeth or a smell of blood.

The bodies of the villagers were buried, and this village ceased to exist. As for the surviving boy, Lin Xi arranged to have him properly taken care of.

Just as Lin Xi was preparing to return to the palace, another subordinate reported that they had just received news that a similar incident had occurred in Central Plains recently, where the victims had also been attacked by what appeared to be wild animal’s teeth and too, had their blood sucked dry.

Lin Xi arranged the timeline of events and found that it apparently started in the Central Plains before spreading to the Frontier Qian Ye Ancient Country. If she was not misjudging the situation, the troublemaker should still be in the Frontier, perhaps even moving to other small countries in search of its next prey.

"Please, don’t let me encounter it, just don’t. I just want to take a peaceful bath, regain my strength, and go home. This should be Qian Ye’s task to handle," Lin Xi prayed inwardly, begging the heavens.

The few maids closeby looked at Lin Xi and quietly commented to each other. One said: "Don’t you feel that the Empress has been a bit strange recently?"

Another responded, "Yes, she feels younger somehow, and behaves differently."

"It’s not just behavior, even her demeanor is different."

"You don’t think..."

"Don’t say it carelessly, the Empress just used magic, you saw it yourself."

"Yes, you’re right. But apart from magic, there are too many things that feel wrong."

"You don’t actually believe that there is someone in this world who looks exactly like the Empress and is also capable of using magic, do you?"

"I hope not, but the problem is, I’m not the only one who feels this way. Some of the guards and ministers also feel that there’s something off about the Empress recently."

At this point, Lin Xi noticed the two maids whispering in the distance. She could vaguely hear some whisperings of disapproval, making her feel anxious. In order to dispel this anxiety, she gritted her teeth and shouted at the two maids, "What are you two still standing around for? I’m going back to the palace."

"Yes, yes, yes!" The two maids dared not say more, and hurried off in fear to attend to their tasks. Lin Xi’s stern demeanor was exactly like that of the Empress.