Chapter 25: Dragon-Drawing Powder
"I... I only know it's a medicine catalyst..." Cold sweat poured down Wang Kong's forehead, his voice faltering. "Chief Steward Zhao said... said this batch of Dragon-Drawing Powder is different from the previous ones. He paid a massive price to get it... He values it immensely. He even made me handle fetching it, forbidding anyone else from touching it..."
"A medicine catalyst," Chen Lingxi interrupted him. "To refine what medicine?"
"I really don't know!" Wang Kong's voice pitched a fraction higher. "Chief Steward Zhao never tells me these things. I'm only in charge of watching you take the medicine and recording who lives and who dies... He doesn't tell me anything else..."
Chen Lingxi looked into his eyes.
Wang Kong's gaze was panicked and terrified, but it did not look like he was lying.
A dying man in this situation truly had no need to lie.
"What about Liu Changle?" Chen Lingxi asked. "Where did he go?"
Wang Kong froze for a moment, then shook his head. "I don't know... He suddenly disappeared... Chief Steward Zhao sent people to the front servant quarters to look for him early that morning, but he was already gone... Chief Steward Zhao flew into a massive rage over it and beat all the servants in the North Courtyard, but he still couldn't beat his whereabouts out of them..."
"Suddenly disappeared?"