Everlasting Immortal Firmament Book 07 Chapter 022: Recruiting the Mosquito Daoist

Borderless Heavenly Capital:

The Embroidered Uniform Guard investigated the officials.

A small group of officials felt incredibly terrified and wanted to flee. They even tried to instigate other officials to protest. However, achieving that would depend on when they did it.

If Gu Hai had not returned, they might have succeeded. Now that the emperor had returned, who would fall for it?

Most of the Han Nation officials were merchants who had followed Gu Hai since his time on Nine-Five Island. He had long nurtured an absolute adoration for him in these people. Later on, he recruited more officials; however, these officials had also gone through a lot with him. Any official with any brains would not cause trouble at this juncture.

Some tried to flee or cause trouble earlier, but the Embroidered Uniform Guard quickly caught them.

After rounds of investigation, the Embroidered Uniform Guard locked up a group of officials.

Gu Hai had reprimanded Meng Tai for failing in his duties. Although Gu Hai had not stripped him of his envoy commander position, Meng Tai was still scared witless. Despite severe injuries and his ruined dantian, he endured the pain and continued to oversee the Embroidered Uniform Guard’s investigation.

By dawn, most of the officials had already returned to their residences. Only a few of them remained locked up.

“Alpha Unit, send some men to investigate the families of these suspicious officials. Arrest everyone in their families. Don’t let anyone flee. If even one escapes, just turn in your head!” Meng Tai snarled.

“Yes!” an Embroidered Uniform Guard answered.

Then, that Embroidered Uniform Guard brought many other Embroidered Uniform Guards to search the suspicious officials’ homes.

Meng Tai endured the pain, not even bandaging his wounds. Blood stained his clothes as he carried stacks of documents to seek an audience with Gu Hai. He understood he could not escape blame for this chaos in Borderless Heavenly Capital. All he could do was to make himself appear more miserable, hoping the empe

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