"No, we definitely didn't do anything like that, don't get me wrong."

Ling Xue's face also changed, and she hurriedly explained: "Our department is an external counter-espionage and anti-extremist organization, and it does not have any right to monitor legal citizens in China. If this iron law is violated, whoever is punished will be punished the most. The severity of the punishment is unimaginable to outsiders, and imprisonment for life is already the best outcome. ”

"I admit that although we speculate that you have something to do with the centipede's 'disappearance', this is only speculation after all, and there is no conclusive evidence that you have committed any illegal criminal acts against him, so we will never take any surveillance measures against you, and after confirming that the centipede has 'disappeared' from China, the department sealed a record of all the people involved in this incident. What we know about you is limited to some of your most basic information, and we have absolutely not probed on anything else. ”

Speaking of this, Ling Xue hesitated for a while, and then as if she had made some serious decision, she whispered to Zhao Yi: "In order to give you peace of mind, I will also sue you for a breach of discipline." A scumbag like a centipede, a considerable number of people in the department are actually happy to see his 'disappearance', and there are even many people who faintly admire your methods. Moreover, we may have the opportunity to cooperate with you in the future, so we will never do anything that you will not like. You have to trust me about this. ”

After listening to Ling Xue, Zhao Yi looked at her carefully with a cold face and a scrutinizing gaze, and Ling Xue also faced Zhao Yi extremely calmly at this time, as if she wanted to use such a table to prove that she didn't need to lie.

After a long while, Zhao Yi retracted his gaze, his heart was a little lighter, just now he was not only using his eyes, but also used the strength of his whole body, carefully probing every subtle reaction of Ling Xue's body, and from Ling Xue's reaction, he also came to a conclusion, what Ling Xue said was basically true, and he did not deceive himself.

But even so, Zhao Yi still planned to keep his distance from Ling Xue from now on, even if his perception of Ling Xue had greatly improved now.

Because Zhao Yi has always been a little jealous of Ling Xue's department, he doesn't want to have anything to do with them at all, and listening to what Ling Xue meant just now, it seems that her department has also taken a fancy to his extraordinary skills and intends to pull him into the gang, but Zhao Yi has always been comfortable with himself, and he is unwilling to accept the control and restraint of this official department.

Anyway, now that the information about the "hidden thorn" is in hand, the transaction between the two can be said to be complete. Zhao Yi said goodbye to Ling Xue in a flat tone.

For Zhao Yi's deliberate sense of alienation, Ling Xue immediately noticed it. She said with a somewhat gloomy face: "Big handsome guy, I know you have always misunderstood us, I don't blame you, we are also acquaintances after all, this is my phone number 182xxxxxxxx, if you encounter any trouble in the future, you may wish to call this number to contact me, maybe I can help." ”

After listening to Ling Xue's sincere words, Zhao Yi's face finally softened. After all, the two of them can be regarded as companions who have fought side by side together, and he still has a good impression of Ling Xue, and after writing down this number in his heart, Zhao Yi nodded at Ling Xue and turned to leave.

Looking at Zhao Yi's back as he gradually moved away, Ling Xue had a complicated expression on his face, and suddenly muttered, "Big handsome guy, I'm sorry." Because of my duty, there are some things that I don't tell you all, and I hope that one day in the future, when you know the truth, you won't blame me. After speaking, she poured the bag she had been holding into her hand, and an extremely compact mobile phone fell out of it, and then Ling Xue used it to dial a number.

"Minister, it's me. Yes, after my contact with Zhao Yi this time, I can be sure that our previous analysis is correct, Zhao Yi is indeed a martial artist. As for his strength, my personal judgment should be between the peak of the day after tomorrow and the second layer of the innate sky. ”

"No, no, minister. From my contact with him, I can clearly feel that he is definitely not an experienced practitioner from the Hidden World Sect, and his various behaviors are more like a loose cultivation without a sect, and the source of his strength, I personally tend to believe that he has obtained the ancient martial arts inheritance left by a certain senior master, so that he will have strong strength at such an age. ”

Regarding Ling Xue's analysis, the person on the other side of the phone didn't seem to agree, and his tone gradually became urgent, as if he was arguing with Ling Xue about something.

After listening for a while, Ling Xue suddenly interrupted loudly: "Minister, you can question my analysis, but Zhao Yi is definitely not the kind of evil cultivator who will cause danger to the country, the death of the centipede does not mean that he is a bloodthirsty person, I can guarantee this with my life!" No, I'm definitely not making a subjective assumption with emotion......"

As if stimulated by the person's point of view on the other side of the phone, Ling Xue's attitude gradually became full of gunpowder, and when she was about to refute the other party's statement more fiercely, she suddenly exclaimed: "What, the chief wants to talk to me?" Okay, I'll get ready. ”

After waiting for about half a minute, until a gentle and majestic voice came from the phone, Ling Xue immediately greeted respectfully, "Hello, chief! ”

Then after listening carefully to what the other party said, a trace of hesitation flashed on Ling Xue's face at first, but he immediately said with a resolute expression: "Yes, chief, I still insist on my point of view, Zhao Yi will definitely not be an evil cultivator, he is completely the object we can fight for." Chief, an innate martial artist in his early twenties, isn't it clear to you what such potential means? If because of our misjudgment, he has a ...... on us"

Before Ling Xue could finish her words, she was suddenly interrupted by the other side, and then she shouted as if she had heard something incredible: "Chief, do you want to listen to my report in person?" If my report is clear, is it possible that Zhao Yi and I will be included in the list of candidates for the 'Dao Seed' program? Okay, I'll rush back right away, thank you for the trust you have placed in me. ”

Hanging up the phone, Ling Xue was still in a trance of complete disbelief. After a while, she came back to her senses, looking at the direction in which Zhao Yi had disappeared, and the corners of her mouth flashed a charming arc.

"Big handsome guy, looking at your cold appearance just now, you obviously want to never see me again from now on, right? However, I now think that maybe it won't be long before we meet again, and I hope you won't be too surprised by then......"

On the other side, Zhao Yi, who had already left far away, suddenly had an itchy nose and couldn't help sneezing.

He touched his nose and felt a little strange, with his current body, would he still have a cold?

Looking up at the sky, it was almost late at night, but Zhao Yi didn't bother to go back to Jingluo County to find a place to live at this time, but went directly to the entrance of the primeval forest.

When he arrived at the entrance to the mountain pass, Zhao Yi randomly found a clean pavilion and meditated in it all night. When dawn arrived, he bought some wilderness survival equipment such as a hiking bag, a windbreaker, a Swiss Army knife, and an outdoor water bottle at a nearby outdoor store, and then went into the jungle as soon as possible.

In order to complete the deal with Ling Xue, his entry into the mountain has been postponed by one day. So he planned to speed up and make up for the time, hoping to find the valley in the centipede's notes as much as possible.

But as time went by, Zhao Yi found that he was a little too optimistic about this trip to the primeval forest, and was awakened from his sleep by the dazzling sunlight, Zhao Yi got up from a big tree, and soon remembered that this was the fifth day he had entered the forest.

Following the clues on the centipede's notes, Zhao Yi searched in the jungle for five days in a row, but still did not find the valley full of rare spirit grass, which made him doubt the reliability of the centipede's notes.

For example, the note mentions that about 70 kilometers into the jungle from the entrance to the mountain pass, there is a cliff in the shape of a camel, and in the hidden place on the back of this cliff there are clues to the next route left by the centipede.

However, Zhao Yi has searched countless times in the vicinity of 70 kilometers in the past few days, but he has not found a cliff that matches the description in the notebook.

Instead, he encountered a variety of beasts along the way, including wild boars, poisonous snakes, and even black bears, but with his strength, these beasts posed no threat to him, and many of them became a delicacy for him to eat.

Such an experience made Zhao Yi have an idea, is it because of the many years apart, the environment in the forest has changed, and the centipede's notes have lost their effect.

Fortunately, the last thing Zhao Yi lacks now is patience, even if the notes are really invalid, he still plans to use his personal strength to go deep into the jungle to find out. After all, the rare spirit grasses recorded in the notes were too important for his cultivation, and he would never give up so lightly.

But before he can start today's operation, he first has to fill his stomach.

Zhao Yi jumped from the tree, walked forward for more than a hundred meters, and soon came to a small stream with a crystal clear bottom.

The reason why he chose to stay overnight in this vicinity was because of the storage of this stream, which allowed him to have a clean water source for drinking and washing, and Zhao Yi also found that there were many wild freshwater fish in this stream, so that he even had a stable food source.

Pulling up his trouser legs, Zhao Yi jumped into the stream to get today's breakfast, but before he could gain anything, two dull sounds sounded not far away.

Zhao Yi looked up in the direction where the sound came from, this sound was obviously a gunshot, could it be that he had met a hunter in the mountains and forests?

At that moment, a young man, about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, came out of the bushes on the other side of the creek, and then he staggered to the creek and threw himself down, buried his whole head in the creek and gulped down the water.