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Chapter 4822: Nowhere to Hide

The fellow shrieked in surprise, "What in the world is that?"

It looks too grotesque, doesn't it?

"Isn't that the person Miss was just fighting?"

"That fake?!" Wu Ruomei's face contorted in horror, and she quickly retreated a few more steps. "My goodness."

This transformation was too exaggerated.

Duan Yue's expression, however, was extremely grim.

What exactly were these Duo Luo Kingdom people up to, attempting to transform such an unsavory woman into Qiao Qiao's likeness?

Were they foolish, or was he?

Such a change, let alone fooling Mo Lian, wouldn't fool anyone, would it?

Who could consistently perfectly mimic that stoic face of 101...

With this thought, Duan Yue signaled to Ye, the leader of the shadow guards, who immediately understood and stepped forward.

Leading a group of shadow guards, they used long halberds to pin Lili'er to the ground, who was still squirming and attempting to attack.

Lili'er continued to let out a series of shrieks.

Her hands and feet were pinned by the halberds, preventing her from moving or attacking, and her eyes glowed red.

"She's not a corpse puppet; look closely at her hands and feet," Duan Yue instructed everyone, directing their gaze to Lili'er's extremities.

Everyone examined her closely and finally noticed some clues.

Lili'er's hands and feet were connected by translucent, thin, cicada-wing-like silk threads.

Her sudden movements were precisely because of the manipulation of the master behind these threads.

"It's a secret art puppet," Duan Yue said with a cold, handsome face, his voice icy. "Not a corpse puppet."

As soon as his voice fell, he raised his hand and flung a hidden weapon towards the beam. Immediately, a hunchbacked old man leaped down from the roof beam with a cackling laugh.

"Kid, your eyesight is good. But this old man can't play with you anymore." A glimmer flashed in the hunchbacked old man's eyes, and he swiftly threw a pellet.

A "bang" echoed. A cloud of smoke from the pellet had just begun to spread when it suddenly dispersed.

The hunchbacked old man, who was just about to use the smoke screen to grab Lili'er and escape, stared in bewilderment.

He saw that Duan Yue already held a dark-boned fan.

With a casual flick of his hand, he swept away the entire cloud of smoke that had yet to dissipate.

The man's eyes were cold as he looked at him. "Trying to escape? Do you think you can escape from my grasp?"

The hunchbacked old man gritted his teeth, pulling out a smoke bomb from each of his ten fingers and throwing them all to the ground.

This time, the smoke bombs didn't explode at all. Forget a cloud of smoke, not even a speck of smoke dust was visible.

If the hunchbacked old man could curse now, he would undoubtedly unleash a string of profanity. Unfortunately, his body was heavily suppressed by an overwhelming force, preventing him from uttering a single syllable.

It wasn't until the pressure slightly receded that he felt a tiny bit of normal breathing before a sharp pain shot through his neck.

He looked down and saw that his very life was in the hands of this young emperor.

The man's dark peach blossom eyes were staring at him coldly, a mocking smile playing on his lips. "Now, are you still not going to tell me the truth?"

"I... I am a puppet master from the Duo Luo Kingdom," the hunchbacked old man stammered in panic. "Don't, don't kill me. I, I'll tell you, I can tell you anything. Killing me is useless. In fact, there are many puppet masters like me in the Duo Luo Kingdom."

"I, I also know that each of them has a Lili'er in their hands."