It was already noon when he returned to Tongfu Inn, and it was estimated that Cheng Xue should also wake up, so Bafeng Han went straight to Cheng Xue's room and knocked on the door.

After a while, Cheng Xue opened the door and turned sideways to signal Ba Fenghan to enter the house.

The two sat opposite each other at the table, Cheng Xue poured a glass of water and pushed it in front of Bai Fenghan, and said, "Thank you for your hard work, what news can you hear?"

After Ba Fenghan heard about the sailor in the morning and told her, Cheng Xueliu frowned slightly.

Speaking of sailors, it is not difficult for Cheng Xue to think of the embarrassed appearance of those people rushing to escape for their lives when the merchant ship sank, and the picture of Mu Hongqi being pulled off the ship by sailors.

After the shipwreck, she no longer had any good feelings for the sailors.

"The sailors were hired by Uncle Mu's family before the caravan went to sea, and they shouldn't know who was going to pick them up, otherwise they wouldn't have been downtrodden to take refuge in the abandoned City God Temple. Remembering that Ba Fenghan didn't know who Uncle Mu was in her mouth, she continued to explain: "The caravan was led by Uncle Mu to the sea, and he was the leader of the caravan this time. ”

Bai Fenghan nodded, thought about it for a while, and told Cheng Xue the idea that the caravan might be related to the government.

After listening carefully to Bai Fenghan's analysis, Cheng Xue quickly figured out the key to it, looked at Bai Fenghan and blinked his apricot eyes: "If it is really as you said, it is related to the government, or the person who receives it may be a person in the court who is in an official position, even if they have a way to get in touch with Nanlu, we can't identify ourselves." ”

Ba Fenghan cast an approving glance at Cheng Xue, and then her words said: "The scale of your caravan is not small, and there are only a handful of incidents in the history of Yan Kingdom where all the caravans were killed on such a large scale. ”

Bai Fenghan stared at the cup in front of him and pondered, and continued: "If it is indeed related to the government, since they can't stop the spread of the news, what will they do next?"

He looked at Cheng Xue suddenly: "What would you do if it were you?"

Cheng Xue got up and opened the window, outside the window was the artificial lake built by the inn with a hot spring eye, she looked at the steaming lake and thought for a while before saying: "If I am from the government, since I can't stop the spread of the news, I will simply let everyone know about it." ”

Ba Feng looked at Cheng Xue coldly, waiting for the following.

Cheng Xue suddenly closed her mouth, as if she had thought of something terrible, her already white cheeks gradually turned pale, and it took a long time before she slowly spoke: "Hanxiao City is the closest land to the caravan where it was shipwrecked, and it is also the destination of the caravan, the survivors will definitely rush here, and the survivors who land first will spread the news, and the people who land later will do everything possible to find the source of the news after they get the news, because finding the source also means finding a companion, after all, this is the North Continent, for them, where there is a companion, there will be a sense of belonging." ”

Cheng Xue's voice trembled a little: "As long as you set aside some time, wait for all the survivors to gather together, and then all of them will be wiped out, and after everyone in the caravan dies, there will naturally be no way to check the details of the caravan." ”

Cheng Xue is very smart, but she has been cared for by her family since she was a child, and she is far away from conspiracy and blood, and now she is in such a huge net, which is difficult to accept for a while.

Seeing that Cheng Xue had been standing in front of the window for a long time, Ba Fenghan looked at her back and said softly: "This world is never as good as imagined, nor is it so bad, it is full of killing and calculation, but there is no shortage of heroes and heroes, and all kinds of people have created this world."

Greed, hatred, ignorance, loyalty, filial piety, righteousness, human nature has not changed since ancient times, and the world in which people live is just what it is. ”

Cheng Xue sighed: "I understand, it's just that it's hard to accept it at the moment." ”

She turned to look at Ba Fenghan, "Is there no way to keep them alive?"

'They' naturally refers to sailors who survived.

Ba Fenghan shook his head: "As we guessed, even if we try to save it, their deaths still can't be changed, and in the end, it will only make you and me fall into it." ”

Unconsciously, Ba Fenghan had already taken Cheng Xue's affairs as his own business.

Ba Fenghan continued: "But everything that may happen right now is just our speculation, and there is probably only one way to confirm this speculation. ”

Cheng Xue's eyes lit up, and she said at the same time as Ba Fenghan: "I (you) went to the City God Temple to pretend to find survivors!"

The two blurted out at the same time, Cheng Xue's somewhat pale cheeks flushed faintly, and she didn't continue.

Ba Fenghan pretended not to see it, and continued: "When the time comes, I will hide in the shadows, and when you leave, if someone follows you, then our guess is right. ”

Cheng Xue suddenly remembered that Ba Fenghan had just returned from the City God Temple, and said, "If someone is staring at it, then will you have been followed?"

Ba Fenghan shook his head, although his cultivation had plummeted, his spiritual sense was fine, and as long as someone followed him, he would sense it, unless it was a fourth-order or above or a spirit who was good at concealment.

Cheng Xue breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "When are we leaving?"

Ba Feng said coldly: "Go to eat first, rest well in the afternoon, and rush to the City God Temple before the curfew." ”

Cheng Xue understood in her heart and nodded.

The winter in the northern continent is extremely cold after dusk, even in the southernmost Hanxiao City, after the sun sets, the temperature begins to plummet, and the biting cold wind sweeps through the gradually deserted streets, and Cheng Xue, who is walking on the street, can't help but tighten the big red robe.

Tongfu Inn is located in the center of the city, and when she arrived at the City God Temple in the south corner of the city, it was almost the end of the unitary time.

She stood in front of the dilapidated temple gate and wandered for a long time, stretched out her hand several times to knock on the door but retracted it, and after a moment of entanglement, she turned to leave, and still looked back at the temple gate from time to time.

About 100 meters away from the City God Temple, Cheng Xue didn't look back, and the delicate body under the big red robe didn't know if it was cold or trembling slightly because of nervousness.

She followed the route that Ba Fenghan had told her before setting off, and then walked all the way down the street, and then turned into a frontage alley.

Walking along the long dark alley, only the faint moonlight illuminated the way forward, and Cheng Xue's heart beat faster and faster.

At this time, the drum tower in the city resounded with bursts of drums.

When the hour came, the guards in the city began to change their guards, the soldiers on the night patrol were ready to go, and the pedestrians on the street hurried back to their quarters.

In the continuous sound of drums, Cheng Xue suddenly heard a 'click' sound behind her that made her scalp tingle.

The sound is extremely short, inaudible under the drumbeat.

But at this time, Cheng Xue, who was highly nervous, felt that her voice was so clear and loud.

She turned around in fright and looked behind her.

Only a dozen meters away from her, a figure walked out of the darkness at the foot of the wall.