Chapter 1274 It's Just Your Malicious Intent
Today, Baijing Village had long become a ruin, completely deserted.
The flood had submerged the entire village, collapsing houses and even damaging trees.
As for the crops in the fields, there were very few survivors, let alone those that could bear fruit.
The most terrifying sight was the widespread corpses, with no one having had the chance to clear them.
The royal entourage had just arrived and was currently stationed in Xinhua Village, not yet entering Baijing Village.
Therefore, this place almost entirely retained the initial devastation after the flood.
Despite having prepared herself mentally for what she might see, Chu Qianli still felt a deep sense of distress at the scenes surrounding her.
It was not just emotional distress, but also a physical discomfort.
It was too tragic!
Such devastation was rarely seen even in war-torn countries in the twenty-first century.
It turned out that in ancient times, a flood could indeed be so destructive.
Delayed rescue efforts, inconvenient transportation, and insufficient manpower and resources... Living in such an era, human life was truly insignificant.
The horses galloped along, occasionally encountering corpses. It seemed even the horses had a sense of awareness, instinctively avoiding them.
Finally, they found the collapsed section of the city moat embankment.
Two days prior, the river had been at flood stage, coupled with heavy rain, causing a severe collapse here.
At least two li of the embankment had collapsed and been completely washed away by the floodwaters.
Chu Qianli rode her horse around the area.
Strangely, the city moat embankment two li away had not collapsed as severely.
It was as if the quality of these two li of embankment was vastly different from other sections.
She returned to the central part of the two-li collapsed embankment.
Now that the flood had receded and the weather had cleared, the water level had dropped considerably, exposing most of the embankment.
The embankment was quite high. Chu Qianli, after putting on her night-vision goggles, was about to leap down.
Suddenly, a chill brushed against her back.
Her heart skipped a beat, realizing she had been followed without her knowledge.
With a turn, a silver needle, which had somehow landed on her fingertip, shot out towards a spot behind her.
There was no sound!
Her heart pounded with alarm, and she immediately leaped up, moving away from her original position.
However, the other party did not attack as she had expected.
Chu Qianli crossed her feet in mid-air and landed steadily on the partially intact embankment, gazing into the darkness where even her night-vision goggles could not see clearly.
"Since you are not an enemy, why not show yourself?"
With such high martial arts skill and a steady presence, if he hadn't intended to be discovered, she might never have known someone was behind her.
Someone so formidable... In fact, Chu Qianli already had an idea who it might be.
From the shadows, a tall, slender figure emerged.
Like her, he was dressed in black, but their attire appeared vastly different.
Feng Yexuan stared at her clothing, his gaze darkening, a inexplicable sense of irritation surfacing.
"Your Highness the Princess truly never changes!"
His gaze held a deep sense of disgust, his dislike for her undisguised.
Chu Qianli didn't understand what was wrong now. She looked down at herself, finding nothing amiss.
It was just that they were wearing different clothes.
She was not wearing a night-suit; she was wearing a diving suit, as she had planned to dive to the bottom of the embankment tonight.
If not a diving suit, then what else should she wear?
"It is Prince Xuan's own malicious intent that makes him see problems in everything. Pray tell, what do you see? Do you see me naked?"