It was Sophie Sun.
After coming out, she hung the lantern on the side, locked the big iron gate, and then walked out with the lantern.
Outside, Shadow barked twice. Sophie Sun scolded him, "Shut up, you idiot!"
Shadow whimpered a couple of times, feeling wronged, and went quiet.
Then came the sound of her opening the door and leaving, the sound of riding away on horseback. She was gone...
Grace stepped out from the darkness, glanced at the big iron gate, and swiftly left as well.
The lock on the Pill Storage Room was tough to open.
There weren’t any windows around, so it was really hard to get in.
Might as well wait until the pills are sent to the military camp. Then she could investigate and see what tricks Sophie Sun was up to.
......
Early the next morning, when she went to the Spirit Alliance again, she saw Vice President Liu getting ready to leave with a cargo wagon.
"Vice President Liu, where are you headed?" Grace asked.
"To the military camp," Vice President Liu replied. "I'm delivering the pills we collected yesterday."
"Oh..." Grace watched the wagon roll away. Then she pretended to stroll inside, took a look around, and left when there was nothing going on.
Then she headed to the military camp.
It just so happened that Evan Xiao was there today, so she went straight to him and told him about Sophie Sun tampering with her seal last night. She said she wanted to check if anything was wrong with the pills.
The pills were for the soldiers, so Evan Xiao took it seriously and secretly brought her to check.
They arrived at the pill storage warehouse. Grace quickly found the newly delivered pills and took out her own bottle.
On the surface, there didn’t seem to be anything unusual.
But when she opened it and took out a pill, she suddenly gasped.
Inside... there was actually arsenic!
That’s the kind of poison that kills instantly!
Sophie Sun actually used this method to frame her!
She had refined three hundred pills—that’s three hundred lives!
If three hundred soldiers died from Grace's pills, there’d be a public outcry.
She’d be executed!
No one could save her!
And the Zhu Family would suddenly end up with three hundred new enemies...
"Damn it!" Grace slammed her palm on the table. "Sophie Sun has tried to kill me again and again, and now she’s getting even nastier—using such a vicious trick!"
Evan Xiao glanced at her and said, "If I were you, I’d do this..."
......
Two days later.
A squad of soldiers surrounded the Spirit Alliance.
The Spirit Cavalry Captain kicked the main gate open.
The Spiritual Alchemists rushed out, none of them knowing what was going on.
"What are you all doing?" Sophie Sun came out, standing in the center with all the poise of a leader, calm and collected.
"Who are you?" the Spirit Cavalry Captain asked her.
"I’m the President of the Spirit Alliance, Sophie Sun."
"So you’re Sophie Sun?" the Spirit Cavalry Captain asked.
Her name was basically famous, right?
She was the President of the Spirit Alliance!
Sophie Sun smirked arrogantly and said, "Yes, I am. So what? You barged in here so rudely—what’s the big deal?"
The Spirit Cavalry Captain said meaningfully, "There is a big deal! A huge deal!"
"A huge deal?" Sophie Sun’s lips curled up. "What kind of huge deal?"
"Did your Spirit Alliance just deliver a batch of Qi Condensation Pills?"
"Yes! We just sent you five thousand Qi Condensation Pills."
"Three hundred Spirit Cavalry were poisoned to death by your pills!" the Spirit Cavalry Captain said, word by word. "Three hundred people—all dead!"