Chapter 45: The undercurrent is turbulent

Qinglian Gang has more than ten acres of medicine fields, Lu Ming manipulated the black ants with his magical powers, and spent an hour carefully probing, and finally made a discovery.

Under a hill near a medicine field, Lu Ming found a very hidden and winding secret passage that extended downward.

Out of prudence, Lu Ming did not appear in person to enter the secret passage, but remotely controlled Black Ant No. 1 to sneak in and find out.

"Sure enough!" When Lu Ming saw the large number of medicinal materials stored underground through the perspective of No. 1, he finally confirmed the guess in his heart.

The medicinal materials among them are of very high quality, including a lot of in-grade treasure medicines, which cannot be produced by the Qinglian Gang Medicine Field alone.

Lu Ming can roughly speculate that this must be the county government stealing the beams and changing the pillars, exchanging some of the medicinal materials produced by the county ya's medicinal field with here, and then sending the medicinal materials produced by the Qinglian Gang out with shoddy.

The key question now is what the county government is doing with the seizure of these medicinal materials, or is it an exchange of interests, or is it training a true martial arts master? Lu Ming has no way of knowing for the time being.

Relying only on the medicinal materials piled up here, there is no evidence at all, and the county government can completely say that this is an important warehouse for them to store medicinal materials.

After thinking about it, Lu Ming didn't rush it, just asked Black Ant No. 1 to take the photo ball and hide it in the corner of the secret warehouse, and then quietly returned to the post station with No. 2 and No. 3.

Lu Ming believes that the county government will never let those medicinal materials pile up and rot, no matter what they want to do, they will definitely leave some clues, and then it will be a good time for Lu Ming to make a move.

It was close to dawn when he returned to the post station, Lu Ming made up for his sleep, and when he woke up, it was already noon. After calling Lao Hei to have lunch together, Lu Ming once again came to the dense forest behind the post station.

Confirming that there was no one around, he took out a blood-colored jade slip from the time and space in his body, and looked at the flickering light on it, a little hesitant. This is from the Ant King's communication jade slip, and the glimmer represents that there is news coming.

In the past, Lu Ming had never dared to take it out, for fear that the evil cultivator would detect his location by strange means. However, thinking of Mrs. Sun's reaction at the beginning, the evil cultivator opposite this jade slip didn't seem to be very strong, and there was still some room for maneuver.

"This evil cultivator, could it be related to the county government's reserve of medicinal materials?" Lu Ming faintly guessed, so he took out this jade slip and wanted to confirm it.

"Try it. Lu Ming is also a master of art now, and he didn't hesitate too much to urge the jade slip.

"Big brother, how are you doing over there? I'm ready here. ”

"Big brother, why don't you reply to me, is something wrong?"

"Big brother, I'm going to go to you in person, are you there?"

......

Several messages in succession were obviously transmitted by the evil cultivator on the other side every once in a while, and Lu Ming could even feel the person's increasingly nervous mood swings.

"Is it the brother of the Ant King?" Lu Ming put away the jade slip and did not respond to the other party, in case he startled the snake.

This information did not allow Lu Ming to get many effective clues, let alone the county government, that is, the last one made Lu Ming secretly vigilant.

This Ant Monarch's brother seems to be preparing to rush to Qinglan City in person, is there any other purpose besides looking for Ant Monarch?

Lu Ming is not sure, he can only wait for the rabbit, and maybe there is a chance to catch this evil cultivator who doesn't know the roots.

"Recently, I have to let No. 2 and No. 3 hide, so as not to alarm each other. After Lu Ming carefully scrutinized, he felt that it was better to wait and see first, at least to know the true purpose of the other party first.

As for No. 1, Lu Ming was not too worried, after a few months of predatory evolution, No. 1 was now a nine-rank consummation realm, and the hidden aura was absolutely certain.

In the next few days, Lu Ming will still take people out step by step to clear the hidden monsters in other parts of Donghua Mansion, although the harvest is getting smaller and smaller, but it is always a way to make a fortune, and it cannot be abandoned.

What's more, by dealing with other demon divisions these days, Lu Ming has also broadened his horizons and the circle of contacts in Donghua Mansion, and now his name is about to spread out of Donghua Mansion.

Tie Lihua even revealed that if Lu Ming was willing, he would be able to go to other counties to serve as the commander of the town demon division now, and the future would be bright.

It's just that Lu Ming finally politely refused, he felt that he was still holding on to the important place of Qinglan City for the time being, and he had more room to play. And it's not too eye-catching.

There is Donghua Mansion behind Qinglan City, there is the Demon Subduer of Qinglan Mountain in the east, and the Zhennan Army and the barbarian demon leader who confronts it in the south, these can all be regarded as potential opportunities by Lu Ming, where can they be easily given up?

In addition to the whack-a-mole action after the expanded range, Lu Ming will also take time to look at the photo ball every day to look for clues.

It's just that although there are more and more medicinal materials in the secret passage, there is no further movement.

It wasn't until the full moon night of October 15 that Lu Ming finally made a discovery, not through taking photos, but through the perspective of Black Ant No. 1 after he personally infiltrated the Qinglian Gang's medicine field.

In the medicine depot leading to the secret passage at the bottom of the mountain, a short figure shrouded in black robes appeared, and the first thing Lu Ming thought of was the Ant King, this person's dress and aura were too similar to the Ant King.

In addition to this person, Lu Ming also saw an acquaintance from the county government, the county lieutenant Sun Shengfu.

Sun Shengfu didn't have the humility he usually had at all at this time, but looked at the vigilant black-robed man in the distance with a fierce expression, and said coldly: "The medicinal materials you want are here, what do we want?"

The black-robed man was silent for a moment, then sneered: "I naturally brought the spirit stone, but I can't give it to you now." My eldest brother is missing from you, how dare I trust you so easily?"

As soon as the black-robed man spoke, Lu Ming, who was hiding in the shadows, confirmed even more that this person was the evil cultivator who sent a message to the Ant King.

Listening to his words again, Lu Ming was even more shocked, the transaction between the Qinglian Gang and the evil cultivator was really manipulated by the county government behind the scenes.

It was only because the Qinglian Gang was almost uprooted by Lu Ming that the county government lost its middleman, so it appeared in front of the stage and personally made a deal with this evil cultivator.

"Where did they get so daring! Spirit Stone ...... Could it be that there are still demon subduers involved in Qinglan Mountain?"

The more Lu Ming thought about it, the more frightened he became, he originally thought that the demon subduer in Qinglan Mountain just appeared by accident last time, but now that he looks at it, I am afraid that there are more vested interests in Qinglan Mountain, which are inextricably linked to this matter.

Evil cultivators need medicinal materials, and Qinglan Mountain demon subduers need spirit stones, the two hit it off, plus the county government is in the middle of the hand, the three parties can be said to have their own needs.

Lu Ming even suspected now that this matter might involve Donghua Mansion, and even the Zhennan Army and the Barbarian Demon Leader might not be able to say. After all, Qinglan City is originally an important place for all families to fight openly and secretly.

"Sure enough, although there is a turbulent undercurrent here, it is more suitable to profit from it. Lu Ming woke up from his trance, but became excited.