Quick Transmigration: The Foolish Beauty Saves the World

Chapter 149 The Useless Prince's Power Seizure (27)

Jingli's health was not seriously affected to begin with, and given his young age, he recovered quickly. He was listless in the morning, but regained his energy by the afternoon.

But even though he was recovering, he still had to take the medicine prescribed by the imperial physician.

The medicine prescribed by Imperial Physician Fang was mainly nourishing and not considered too bitter in this era, but Jingli still frowned when he saw the dark liquid.

After 6058 analyzed the bowl of medicine and confirmed that there was no problem, Jingli picked up the medicine as if facing a formidable enemy.

"Your Highness." Jingjing's voice rang in his ears, and two candies appeared in Jingli's hand. "Take them after you drink your medicine, and they won't be bitter."

Her smile remained gentle, yet it gave Jingli a different feeling.

Their relationship, or rather, Jingjing's attitude towards Jingli, has changed somewhat compared to three years ago.

Jingli was still unclear about the reason for this change, but Jingjing would never harm herself.

In response, 6058 quietly sighed.

Langyue's meaning was quite clear: it was a foregone conclusion that Jingjing, the senior palace maid, would become Jingli's concubine in the future. It was just that Jingli had never experienced ancient times before and did not know much about these things.

Lang Yue was quite unconventional for his time. Instead of simply throwing a woman into Jing Li's bed, he carefully selected Jing Jing and nurtured their relationship from a young age.

Jingjing recently came of age, and she should have already heard about her future from her mistress. When she faces Jingli again, she inevitably shows some girlish shyness.

But Jingli didn't understand; she only felt that Jingjing was slightly different from before.

6058 had prepared the illusion card in advance, so that if they really got to the point where they had to lie in bed with Jingjing, they could use the illusion to blur the way through.

I wonder what Yu An would have thought if he had known back then.

Is it because of jealousy that he's trying to increase his favorability? Or because he's unwilling to accept that his "darkening" value is increasing? Or is it because he acted indifferently and uncaringly, just like he did three years ago?

Of course, all of that is for the future. Right now, Jingli and 6058 need to be concerned about leaving the palace the next day.

The anomalies in this world haven't decreased much. 6058's abilities are limited; he can't go out with Jingli, nor can he grasp the world's movements. He can only rely on the observer system to stay by his side.

In other words, Jingli had to rely on herself for most of this trip out of the palace.

6058 didn't have much of a desire to control Jingli, but the thought of his son facing danger on his own while he was helpless made him somewhat worried.

Before leaving, Jingli thought through all the possible dangers she might encounter. She not only prepared useful cards in the observer system, but also exchanged some life-saving items with the counterfeit system's points.

With the addition of the guards sent by Langyue, Zeng Yuan and Yuan Lanying who went with Jingli, and Yu An who might join them, 6058 finally felt a little more at ease.

In addition to the five princes, including Jingli, the princes' mothers and several ministers will also be traveling together. It is said that the emperor plans to take this opportunity to hold a spring hunt so that everyone going on the trip can have a good time.

As soon as dawn broke, Jingli was awakened by Jingjing and, still half asleep, boarded Langyue's carriage.

The carriage ride was naturally not as comfortable as the transportation in the previous two worlds. The horses' hooves clattered and the carriage swayed, but fortunately, the carriage in Langyue was spacious enough that Jingli did not find it too unbearable.

As they approached the palace gates, Jingli suddenly felt a sense of familiarity.

His drowsiness vanished instantly, and Jingli's eyes brightened slightly. He gently lifted the carriage curtain, and with just one glance, he was momentarily stunned by the scene before him—for the first time in this world, he saw shadows, a vast expanse of accumulated shadows.

These dark shadows seemed to spread out from the sky, condensing into thick black clouds. The bottom of the clouds seemed to be unable to bear the weight, and black columns of mist hung down. If viewed from a distance, the city would probably look like it was shrouded in a steel brush.

Jingli couldn't help feeling nauseous and gagged a couple of times.

Jingjing, who was standing nearby, immediately handed her some warm water: "Your Highness, if you feel unwell, please sit up straight. The journey is still long."

Jingli took the water, took a sip, shook her head, and continued to look out the car window.

In addition to the dark shadows slanting down from the sky, there were also constantly surging dark shadows on the ground.

Unlike the shadowy figures that formed insects in the previous world, the shadowy figures in this world ripple across the ground in the form of a liquid, with a viscous texture that barely reaches the knees of passersby.

Perhaps because they haven't taken human form, ordinary people can't see these shadowy figures.

But the sky over this world is always shrouded in a layer of mist.

"Is it already that serious...?"

Jingli murmured softly, her heart heavy with suppressed emotions.

The contrast between the brightness inside the imperial city and the darkness outside was enough to make one's heart tremble just by looking at the shadows, not to mention the living conditions of the people inside the city.

Aside from the official roads, the roads that the people in the city usually walked on were the most ordinary mud roads, which were hardly repaired. There seemed to be no difference between the inside and outside of the city, except for the houses.

Shops selling daily necessities along the street were deserted, while clinics and funeral parlors were bustling with customers. A strange smell permeated the street, like a combination of the bitterness of Chinese medicine and some kind of foul odor.

The people were all hunched over, hurrying along, with not a trace of a smile on their faces. Even the children were dirty beggars.

From Jingli's perspective, these people waded through the black water, their eyes murky, and each of them exuded an aura of death.

Strangely, when the carriage bearing the royal insignia passed by, the people seemed to see hope and rushed forward, kneeling neatly on both sides of the road.

Their expressions showed fear, but even more so, respect.

An almost fanatical reverence.

This situation is not quite what Jingli knew. If everything that made their lives miserable originated from the imperial city, these people would only feel fear, not respect.

He noted down this point of doubt and reported it to 6058 in the system.

The world, which is almost out of control, is indeed not as simple as it seems in the imperial city.

Jingli glanced inside the carriage. Langyue was taking a nap with his eyes closed, and even the few close palace servants like Jingjing weren't paying attention to him.

With a thought, Jingli took out a talisman she had prepared beforehand, which contained her own energy, from the system. She lifted the carriage curtain, and the talisman floated in the air, close to the carriage, moving with the carriage—or more accurately, with Jingli inside the carriage.

The shadowy figure outside the carriage seemed to sense something, and its movements became more pronounced. The one closest to the carriage even extended a tentacle-like object and approached the talisman.

The moment it approached, the talisman shone brightly with golden light. Centered on the point where the talisman met the tentacle, the surrounding shadows formed a vortex that surged toward the talisman.

Soon, the talisman disappeared without a trace.

The scene was somber.

All of this happened in less than a second. You should know that such a talisman could almost eliminate a shadowy figure of about forty square meters in the previous world, or provide about six hours of defense against the shadowy figure.

In this world, in a second, it swallowed up less than one square meter of shadow, and the space swallowed up was quickly filled by the flowing liquid shadow.

Through this data, Jingli gained a deeper understanding of the extent of pollution in the world.