Plotting with You: The Forensic Scientist in Ancient Times!-Chapter 498 - 497: Break

At this moment, Fu Lu couldn’t be bothered to pretend any longer. Standing there hunched over, he already appeared taller than the others, and even when slouching, he seemed more robust. Now, he simply straightened his waist and shoulders, instantly towering taller.

The guards watched him stand tall, becoming so massive and imposing, and they exchanged glances, secretly astonished that they hadn’t noticed it earlier.

Then they watched Fu Lu walk straight over to a tree planted in the corner. The tree was as thick as a bay bowl’s mouth and lush with branches and leaves.

Fu Lu walked up to it, bent down, and hugged the trunk from behind.

"Does your brother want to uproot this tree?!" One of the guards, although seeing how tall and stout Fu Lu was, couldn’t help but feel that his current action was somewhat reckless, and his tone involuntarily carried some mockery.

Fu Wen just silently glanced at him and said nothing, leaving the guard a bit awkward and pouting.

Fu Lu hugged the trunk and began to shake it vigorously. The branches and leaves swayed under his force, making a rustling noise, and the leaves soon scattered all over the ground.

After shaking it a few times, Fu Lu suddenly stopped, and then they saw his arm muscles bulge, his entire body exert with force, his face turning red as he shouted, "Break!"

The tree trunk, as thick as a bay bowl’s mouth, was actually broken by him with a loud roar.

Fu Lu placed the tree trunk on the ground, casually breaking off the branches and leaves of the crown and tossing them aside. Then, carrying the thick, long round wood with one hand, he walked over to Fu Wen and said, "Brother, lend a hand."

"Coming!" Fu Wen nodded, followed Fu Lu, and together they lifted the log.

The two brothers carried the log on their shoulders, charged forward a few steps, and crashed the round wood into the Star Gate.

The door, which initially seemed quite solid, barely managed to hold up, but after a few hits, it began to loosen, eventually crashing open, with cracks even appearing on the pitch-black door panel.

Fu Lu didn’t even gasp for breath, tossing the wood aside like a brick, giving a disdainful look at the guard who had called him to open the door, then turned to stand back behind Zhu Yu.

Zhu Yu was holding back laughter so hard it almost strained her already inconspicuous abs.

She really didn’t know where King Fan found these rugged bandit-like guards, with their fierce appearances and tyrannical demeanor, obviously lacking any intelligence.

Who said the door had to be opened by hand?!

This time, they were never going to spare the High Priest’s face, whether the doors in front of them were poisoned or not; the most important thing was the "result" of "opening" them, not the method.

Of course, out of disdain for those guards, Zhu Yu deliberately ignored the fact that from a strength perspective, those guards, whether alone or together, might not even be able to break such a thick tree branch.

Now, with the two poisoned doors opened wide, the group felt a bit at a loss, their gaze occasionally darting towards the two sets of clothes in the pool, as if encouraging the presence of other mechanisms inside the door.

Zhu Yu and Lu Qing shared the same concern, so Lu Qing made a small hand signal at his side, and Fu Wen and Fu Lu remained motionless, standing still.

"Aren’t you supposed to be the doctor’s junior brothers or something?" One of the guards, turning his gaze, suggested to Lu Qing and the others, "Then you go first, that way, you can testify if there’s any mishap. Otherwise, the King might think we’re colluding with the High Priest, and it’ll be hard for us to explain once we return."

"After you, gentlemen," Lu Qing didn’t even move, responding slowly and steadily, "Since King Fan sent you along, it naturally means he trusts you, proving that you are the prince’s trusted vassals.

As for us, as mere traveling doctors who saved King Fan’s life, we only managed to earn a little respect.

If we go in first and something happens, that’s even harder to explain.

Then, what if it turns out that it was your High Priest who intended to poison King Fan, or was it us outsiders trying to set him up?

When things become unclear, are you willing to risk your lives to testify for us?"

With Lu Qing’s words, the guards hesitated.

It was well known that their senior brother had saved the King’s life, but the King’s temper was unpredictable. Maybe he would value the Divine Doctor’s skills, or he might, for unknown reasons, behead them and take their lives.

This was entirely unpredictable.

Precisely because it was unpredictable, they didn’t know what to do.

In the end, the older one made a decision. If the High Priest was suspected of poisoning the King, their senior divine doctor brother would naturally still be used by King Fan in the short term. At this point, they couldn’t afford to be too antagonistic.

So, the guards murmured a few words, their attitude shifted to friendly as they told them with smiles, "Very reasonable, very reasonable, then you can follow us in!"

Everyone cautiously passed through the opened doors and entered the courtyard.

The courtyard was empty, with nothing but a windowless doorless structure standing awkwardly in the middle.

"What... what is this?!" A guard couldn’t help but mutter after surveying the "house" in front of him.

Judging by the expressions of his companions, they also didn’t know the answer.

Whether it’s a grand mansion or a humble abode, whether it’s a high-rise pavilion or a thatched house, any building must have doors and windows.

This thing here, with no doors or windows, looked more like a great tomb than a house...

But who in their right mind would build a tomb in their backyard and shape it like a house?

Zhu Yu stood aside, looking at the strange object, with a vague guess in her heart, but given the man-eating fish outside and the deadly doors, she dared not make a rash move even though the courtyard seemed empty.

After the guards circled the house cautiously, they found that indeed, there were no traces of doors or windows.

Zhu Yu, seeing them circle several times without incident, concluded that there were no mechanisms in the courtyard and cautiously edged closer, with Fu Lu quickly following her steps to the wall, watching his mistress cautiously poke at the wall.