In the evening, the setting sun is slowly moving towards the horizon.

On a small road away from the main road to the countryside, a man and two women walked on the road with a cart of goods. The three of them are Iyeas, Shayu, who had just joined the command of Makura Ye, and Black Hitomi, who was directly under the Imperial Assassination Squad.

The reason why the three of them are together is because not long ago, Sayu and Iyeas decided to join together, and then Asakura Ye asked Black Hitomi, who had no mission to lead the two of them to investigate the disappearance of the nearby merchants.

Then they were asked to take the truck, pretending to be a rookie trader from the city, passing through this place, hoping to lure out the culprit who made the merchant disappear.

Sayo turned to look at Iyeas who was sitting in the driver's seat in the van, and then at the black eyes who walked in front with a knife hanging from his waist. remembered that he had made up his mind to join the command of Asakura Ye before, and wanted to see what kind of person he was up close.

However, Asakura Ye's startled expression at that time caught her a little off guard, and she felt extremely funny, which made her and the bee-eater Cao Qi laugh on the spot when they saw it, and even before leaving, they were still forcibly enduring, making Iyeas and Black Hitomi think that there was something wrong with their brains.

Hei Hitomi, who walked at the front of the three-person team, took out a bag, which contained a biscuit made by Ma Cangye himself, took out a biscuit, chewed happily, and enjoyed the taste of the biscuit, and suddenly heard Sha You behind him without warning, and giggled inexplicably.

Confused, she turned to look at Sayo, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing. ”

The smile on his face was like a happy flower, and what Sha You said was hard to convince. But Hitomi didn't bother to continue asking, not only because she didn't have the idea of getting to the bottom of it, but also because they saw a village at the end of the road.

The information that Asakura gave them was that he had recently received that many merchants had disappeared in the vicinity, and that even their bodies had not been found. This is the news that Asakura Ye Ming gave them, and in private he also told the black pupil not to make a move until the moment of crisis, because this mission is mainly to test the two of Iyeas and Sayu, and she only needs to make a move at the last moment.

"It's the village. Iyeas and Sayo, who had set out from the countryside, sighed as if they had returned to their hometown after many years of absence.

Sha walked forward briskly, and asked side by side with Black Hitomi, who was temporarily their captain, "Do you want to go there to inquire about the news?"

The black pupil nodded in agreement with her proposal, and said, "As long as it's about the mission, you can do whatever you want, and you don't have to ask me about anything every time." ”

"But Black Hitomi is the captain. ”

Hitomi corrected, "It's just the temporary captain." When you pass the test, the minister will arrange for you to go to other departments. ”

"I hope I can work with Hitomi in the future. Sayo said with a smile, and asked Iaias to drive the wagon to the village.

The three of them quickly walked to the door of the village, and as soon as they walked in, someone looked at them with puzzled eyes, and noticed the eyes of the villagers, Shayou said to them, "We are merchants from a nearby city, mainly to go to the imperial capital to sell some goods, passing through this village on the way, and now the sun is about to set, we hope to be able to spend the night in the village, if we can set up a stall here, it would be better." ”

Iyeas, who was sitting in the driver's seat, jumped out of the car, took out some goods placed on the car, some things to coax children, and shouted loudly, "Come and see, come and see, come and see, walk by, don't miss it, if you miss it..."

Although he had no experience as a merchant, the village used to have some merchants selling goods coming to the village every once in a while.

Learn from them to keep shouting and boasting about their goods, but after he has just finished bragging. I thought that someone would come forward, but I was embarrassed to find that there were just a group of old men who came to the gate of the village, and they were not interested in the goods he used to coax the children at all, and instead focused on the two girls, Black Hitomi and Sayou.

Never before was gazed at with such enthusiasm, both Hitomi and Sayu felt uncomfortable.

As a killer, the black pupil quickly adapted to the environment, but Sha You next to him was completely uncomfortable, and the whole person squirmed, wanting to leave from here.

Just as Sha You wanted to ask what Black Hitomi was going to do next, a man who looked to be in his forties, looked like Sven, and wore a pair of glasses, walked up to them.

After the villagers next to them saw the man, they left in whispers, and the three of them could only know from their words that the middle-aged man in front of them was the village chief of this village.

The village chief walked up to them and looked at them for a while, "Aren't the three of them very old?"

Sayo nodded, pointed at Iyeas and replied,

"I have known him since I was a child, and I heard that the imperial capital is full of gold, and many people will go to the imperial capital to develop, so I decided to sell my property and plan to go to the imperial capital to develop and see if I can get ahead. ”

Then he pointed to the black pupil,

"Her name is Black Hitomi, we met on the road, because the destination is the same, so we went together, and there was a care on the way. ”

Hitomi gripped the hilt of her sword and nodded in response.

"Then these goods are ......"

"These......"

Iyeas opened one of the bags and found some toys for the children.

"It's a commodity that we intend to sell on the road, except for toys for children. ”

Then he opened another bag, which contained some brightly colored clothes or skirts, "and clothes for women, pots and other everyday items for the house, we also have them." ”

"That's right. The village chief was not interested in the products introduced by Iyeas, but just casually agreed.

"May I ask how long it is from the imperial capital?" ”

Not to ask if she could stay here, but to ask her destination.

Iyeas heard her question, and looked at her puzzledly, they were starting from the imperial capital, how far it was from the imperial capital, and how long it would take, they knew very well.

Black Hitomi heard Sha You's question, and a relieved smile rose at the corner of her mouth. As a killer, she can lock on to the same kind of people or people who are also murderous, even if she doesn't deliberately investigate or understand, she only needs to rely on her breath to lock on to the other party.

As soon as she saw the villagers, she immediately felt the breath of the murderer, not one or two, but all, and all the villagers here were afraid that their hands were already covered with blood.

"Away from the imperial capital, ......" The village chief, who didn't know that he had been exposed, thought for a while, and then replied affirmatively, "It's about four or five days away." ”

After hearing this, Iyeas understood that there was something wrong with the village, even if he was not very bright, so he secretly held his weapon in his hand, ready to deal with the emergency.

"Four or five days?" said Shayo, repeating the village chief's words in a low voice.

"Yes, it's going to be four or five days, and it's not too late now, do you want to rest here for the night?"

The village chief nodded, then proposed, then gave friendly advice,

"If you travel at night, you may run into dangerous species or robbers. ”

"You don't have to act, we're from the imperial capital. Ignoring his friendly smile and advice, Sayu drew his weapon and pointed at the village chief.

The villagers who had just dispersed poured out from all around, and unlike just now, none of them all had a sharp weapon in their hands, playfully surrounding the three black pupils.

"Is it an officer or soldier?" the village chief, who was pointed at by Sha You with a weapon, did not panic and waved his hand to his subordinates, "The woman stays, and the man is killed." ”

When the subordinates heard the words of the village, all of them clenched their weapons and rushed towards the three of them with a 'whoop'.

Three minutes later

Sayu, who had expected to be in a bitter battle, looked at the robber who had been knocked to the ground by her and Iyas, clutching his wounds and moaning in pain. Sha You, who was surprised that the two of them came to the imperial capital and won the first victory, still won easily, said with a look of disbelief, "These people are so weak!"

"They're just a bunch of robbers, and it's okay to rob unguarded caravanserais. Black Hitomi stepped forward, pulled out his weapon, and pointed at the village chief, who had been beaten to a bruised nose and swollen face, "Where are all the belongings you robbed?"

The village chief looked at the sharp blade in front of him, which had already cast the cold light reflected by the setting sun, and hurriedly confessed, "It's all sold?"

Hitomi pushed the blade forward until it reached his neck, "Sold it to whom?"

"The Revolutionary Army... Sold to the Revolutionary Army. ”

"Revolutionary Army?"

"That's... What about the other women?"

“....”

Black Hitomi looked at him as if he didn't want to answer Sayu's question, and continued to move the blade forward a little, and the skin of his throat was cut by the sharp blade, and a trace of imperceptible blood flowed out of that mouth, "Said. ”

If Hei Tong continued to push forward, I was afraid that getting the blade would pierce his own throat, and it would be slowly pierced, he cried bitterly and said loudly, "It's all sold, it's all sold to the old men in the imperial capital." ”

If it was the task of the black pupil, then everyone in front of him would have turned into a corpse to be eaten by the crows, but the order given by Asakura Ye was not to make a move until the crisis was in danger.

Black Hitomi looked at Sha You, who had a gloomy face after hearing what the village chief said, and withdrew his knife, "What are you going to do with them?"

Thinking that he was selling people as commodities, which made Sayu extremely angry, she walked up to the village chief and kicked him unconscious, and Iyeas, who had never seen Sayu so angry, was taken aback by his behavior.

Sha You stared angrily at the other robbers around him, and said angrily, "Let the officers and soldiers take them away and accept the punishment of the law." ”

Iyeas, who didn't want to stay with the angry Shayou, immediately responded, "Okay, I'll go back to the imperial capital to find the officers and soldiers immediately." Then they rode back to the imperial capital on the horses they had used to pull their carts.

"Can you tie them up with me?"

Fearing that the robbers who fell to the ground would flee while they waited for the officers and soldiers, Sayu took out the rope from the bottom of the wagon and asked for the help of Hitomi Kuro. Black Hitomi took the rope, and the two of them worked together to help them tie up the robbers.

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Looking at the picture of tying up the robbers, the bee-eater asked puzzledly, "I don't think it's strange that Black Pupil can see that there is something wrong with those people, but why does Sha You also see it?"

"There were no women on the street, no children. ”

"What's so strange about that. It was almost evening, and the women were preparing dinner at home, and the children were called home by the adults, and the chimneys of the village did have white smoke rising from the supper preparations. ”

"And what about the old people? The old people in the countryside like to hold chairs, sit in the shade at the door, and talk to other people about their daily routines. ”

"Can't there be exceptions? The old man who joined the village didn't like to do that. ”

Asakura nodded in agreement with the bee-eating cao, but he smiled again,

"There were no sounds of children being mischievous or being scolded by women in the house. And Iaias's voice was so loud that as long as he wasn't deaf, he should be curious to poke his head out to take a look, or ask his mother to let him come out and take a look. ”

Seeing that she still wanted to refute something, Asakura Ye preemptively said, "Don't tell me anything about strict parenting or anything like that, curiosity is strong, every child has it, no matter how strict the parents are, they can't stop them from wanting to satisfy their curiosity." That's what I learned as a father. ”

"I know, but they said that they sold the goods to the revolutionary army, didn't the revolutionary army inquire about the origin of those goods?"

"The forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, let Xiao Yue investigate the inside, is there anyone using power for personal gain. ”

"Got it. ”