Forensic Imperial Concubine

"What's wrong?" asked Howard.

"Oh my God!" Diana turned her head away immediately and began to retch.

From the reaction of the people around him, Howard finally realized that something was terribly wrong on his back, but he couldn't see anything. He could only see the horror in the eyes of others as they stared at his back with their dilated pupils. "What on earth is wrong, Harper?" he asked anxiously.

"Fire starter!" Harper instructed the secret guards, ignoring Howard's question, as if she did not feel it was important to answer him at the moment. Harper stretched out her hand. Without wasting a moment, one of the secret guards handed her a fire starter. Harper blew the fire starter to light a fire from it. Then she put it straight to Howard's back. His back was covered with blood-sucking insects. The scene was so gory and bloodcurdling that it made everyone go speechless. It seemed as if the insects had been on his body for a long time because they had sucked so much blood that they had bloated. Their skin had become thin as if it would break out any moment to let out the excess blood.

"Your Highness, what kind of insects are these?" asked a secret guard in a trembling voice.

"These are leeches. I should have been more cautious. I had forgotten that such hot and wet places like swamps are infested with such bloodsucking insects. All of you, check each other's bodies for such leeches. If you find them, don't try to pull them out with your hands. Instead, you should burn them with fire. When they feel hurt, they will fall from your body. Otherwise, their poisonous tentacles will be left in your body. And if that happens, even I won't be able to save you."

The secret guards were left aghast to witness the dense covering of leeches on Howard's back. They had goose bumps all over their bodies and their faces turned pale the moment Harper asked them to check each other. Immediately, they gathered in small groups, took off their upper clothes quickly, and checked on each other. Leeches were found on the bodies of quite a few of them. Fortunately, there were not so many as they were found on Howard's back.

When Howard saw the leeches falling to the ground from his back, he was freaked out too. Had it not been for Harper who had made him take off his clothes to check if there was anything wrong with him, Howard wouldn't have even realized until all his blood was sucked away.

She said, "Take off your pants and check your whole bodies to see if there is any leech left elsewhere. Take off all your clothes and shake them for a few times, to make sure

"Yes, Your Highness,"

pants in front of Harper. After a moment of hesitation, he said, "I will check myself with the

realized the gender difference between Howard and her. She had almost forgotten that she was

such as leeches dared not get close to her. However, a large part of her skin

off your coat and give it to her!" Harper waved her hand pointing towards Diana. She gestured Howard to make haste. Among all the men present there, only Howard wore a coat. The secret guards wore tight clothes,

back was left dripping with blood. When he heard Harper's

as the coat landed

get attacked by the poisonous insects of the swamp," Harper explained to Diana in a stern voice. Harper then took a bottle of medicine and threw it to the

in a meaningful manner while handing over the medicine to him. "Can you apply it by

that none of them was available to help him apply the medicine. Having no other option left, he turned back and allowed Harper to apply the medicine on his back. Harper applied the medicine in a very rough and violent way. Howard squirmed

disappointment, they found that the food had gone bad after getting wet in the rain and could no longer be eaten. They turned to Harper and said, "Your Highness, please wait for a moment. We will find something to

wander around in this place. Otherwise, it's easy for you to get lost in such a dense swamp. Just look around in the nearby places. If you can't find anything to eat nearby,

mouths twitched. They resisted the urge to exchange looks with each other in front of Harper. They doubted that the pills could satiate their hunger. Harper looked at them in their eyes in a way as if she could read