Hearing Uncle Ling's answer, the man in black took out a small book, opened one of the pages, and illuminated the words on it against the dim light of the lantern.

"0-3-67," the man in black whispered the number in Uncle Ling's answer, while carefully reading the notes on the page of the small book, he squinted his eyes hard to see more clearly, and finally the finger on the top of the small book slowly stopped somewhere: "What is your name and department?" ”

"Dao Ling, the point of the barbarian temple in the watch hall." Uncle Ling replied.

The man in black nodded: "It's you, hello, Dao Ling, I am one of the commissioners of the Divine Palace Department who is in charge of the intelligence docking of the Barbarian Temple Village this time, and I have been waiting for you for a long time." ”

"Have you been waiting for a long time? I didn't get any information about the time limit. "Uncle Ling, or Dao Ling, still asked his own question.

"Presumably there was an accident, the military master has instructed that there may be any unexpected situations, and in the end, it is possible that you will not be able to wait for the news of the return at all," the black-clothed commissioner's voice behind the mask began to soften, after all, the identity of Dao Ling had been completely determined: "Although I have waited for a long time, it is still worth waiting for news." ”

"Was there an accident? Dao Ling couldn't help muttering in his heart, when he saw that Meng Zheng gave him information, his demeanor couldn't be more normal, and he didn't mention anything like an accident at all. What happened to him that prevented him from getting the basic time limit required by the military master for this matter?

"What was the original time limit?" Dao Ling asked.

"It's noon today, when the sun is shining." The black-clothed commissioner pointed to the sky above him: "Because this is the most urgent information, it must be sent to Mengyang City as soon as possible, and the military master requires all the messengers and horses to be used as tools between all the contact points regardless of the cost." ”

Dao Ling shook his head: "I have never received a similar request. ”

"I can see it, after all, you yourself came from the Barbarian Temple Village to the Mang Ancient Castle, in fact, you can see that you have not received the request of the military master." The black-clothed commissioner Ying He said: "I actually came to Mengyang City from the Mansi Village alone, and it's really a shame that you were able to come over within one day." ”

Hearing the black-clothed commissioner's somewhat flattering words, Dao Ling couldn't help but feel a little proud: "The connection point of our Mansi Village is the manpower specially selected by the secretary general of the Shouguan Hall to establish a stronghold in the past, if you want to say that on the road from Mengyang to Jiangtou City, the entire Mang Castle may only be my head if it is more familiar than me." ”

Speaking of this, Dao Ling was suddenly stunned, and the sense of disobedience that he had been feeling for a long time finally found the source at this time, that was his head, Duo Zi'an, the person in charge of the Mansi Village Reception Point.

It stands to reason that if something comes from Mang Castle, it must be handed over to Duo Zi'an to do, and if there is a follow-up to this matter, it is like the return work to Meng Yangcheng that needs to be done now, and it should be Duo Zi'an to tell him and make arrangements for him, not Meng Zheng, a hairy boy who used to hunt rabbits every day, to make such an important emergency information notice to him.

But if Duozi'an had an accident, what kind of accident was it? Dao Ling had no clue for a while, after he just woke up in the early morning, he was eagerly arranged by Meng Zheng to arrange the task, and he didn't think much about it, after all, Meng was the intelligence officer on duty, if there was a problem with the intelligence, he would be held responsible, and now thinking about the situation at the connection point at that time, he didn't have any ideas for a while.

"It's really powerful, if it's someone else, it's probably not the ability to send information at night, and you're also a kung fu person." The black-clad commissioner praised.

"It's okay, it's okay." Dao Ling didn't boast about his thoughts at this time, but tried to recall the details of the connection point at the Mansi Village at that time, and wanted to dig out something from his memory, but he was helpless, just doing useless work.

Just when Dao Ling was wondering what was going on at the Mansi Village pick-up point, why the news of the military master had not been conveyed to him, and why the person in charge of the mission, Duo Zi'an, did not look for him in person, but just sent an intelligence officer to arrange his work, the black-clothed commissioner was already ready to leave and began to walk towards the other end of the Mang Ancient Castle.

There is the road leading to the north gate of Mang Castle, out of the north gate, is a long downhill road, and the final destination is the south gate of Mengyang City.

Originally, this road was chosen by the Luchuan army as the path to break through Mengyang City, but Jiang Yu's crossing changed their plan.

Jiang Yugang used the design of the new firecracker brought by him, as well as the cooperation of several excellent craftsmen under his command, and finally changed the defensive situation of the Manggu Mountain defense line, after preventing the Luchuan army from raiding for the first time and holding the defense line camp, he went deep into the Manggu Mountain, organized the largest of the villages, and combined with dozens of successfully manufactured new firearms, completely ruined the Luchuan army's plan to attack Mengyang City from Manggu Mountain.

However, the Luchuan army was not rigid, and after the successive setbacks in Manggu Mountain, they quickly chose to give up, but reorganized the threat to Mengyang City from the defense of the weaker, almost not many natural dangers such as mountains as a base of defense line to the south of the Indoji Great Lake and Heping Town.

Manggu Mountain, which once seemed to be quite important, has slowly turned into something tasteless like chicken ribs and a pity to discard.

The black-clothed commissioner who received the intelligence letter sent by Dao Ling was not in the mood to think about the importance of the Manggu Mountain defense line, but just blindly quickened his pace and ran briskly in the Manggu Castle at night. The inside of Mang Castle is not too big, and it is only a tea time to walk, so there is no reason to ride a horse in Mang Castle to speed up.

Li Chong's heart, who had been waiting for news for a long time, was already cold, thinking that it was just like what the military lord told him before leaving: "There is a big possibility, there will be no news from Jiangtou City at all, you must not be anxious, just wait patiently in Mang Castle, remember, even if you wait until Mang Castle is breached, you must not leave the nearby range, you must wait." ”

Just when he thought that the worst situation that the military master said was about to happen, he did not expect that an intelligence officer came to the south gate of Mang Castle at this time. After an inspection, it was actually a herald who came directly from the barbarian temple village, and there was no replacement in the middle, and one person traveled nearly two hundred miles of jungle and mountain roads a day, among which there were countless poisonous insects and beasts, and he did have some ability.

Thanks to this man, the intelligence could have arrived sooner. Li Zhong sighed in his heart, and quickened his pace again.

Mang Castle did not have the habit of working at night, and the people who had not fallen asleep at this point were the people on duty in various departments, and some of them were quite surprised when they saw Li Chong running in Mang Castle, but after looking at it again, after vaguely seeing the mask on Li Chong's face in the night, he immediately understood Li Chong's identity as a secret soldier of the Secret Academy, and he was no longer curious.

The Secret Academy has its own set of rules for doing things in the Manggu Castle, and everyone knows that they are the direct subordinates of the military master, and in terms of status, they may only be worse than the handsome young man who often follows the military master and gives orders to everyone, and the official position is called the envoy of the Cardinal's Academy.

However, there are also people who know more about the internal affairs of Mang Castle Management muttering in their hearts, this secret army is in such a hurry, it must be something terrible that has happened, combined with the previous reorganization and training of everyone in the entire Mang Castle, I am afraid that there will be a big war.

It was in this unsettling silence that Li Chong came to the north gate of Mang Castle. Because Li Chong had already begun to prepare in the Mang Castle, he had already made contact with the soldiers in charge of guarding the door, and when he walked to the small door, he also took out a token, and the soldier knew Li Chong's outfit and token, and whispered: "Peace." He quickly opened the small door and let him go.

Li Zhong saw the small door open, nodded in response, came to the stable near the gate of Mang Ancient Castle, took out a horse, turned over, and immediately drove to gallop.

This is a special pony raised in the Manggu Castle for movement in the area of Mangu Mountain, and the Baicao Yuan, which is responsible for planting and breeding, has selected all the local horses raised in Manggu Mountain for a long time, and then found someone to buy them in the big market around Ava, so that it can be able to raise about ten ponies.

These horses are used only when they matter most, and like the task at the moment, it is the most urgent matter to be able to use them as a means of transportation.

Leaving Mang Castle, Li Zhong galloped all the way to Mengyang City at the fastest speed.

At the beginning, the environment around him was overdeveloped because of the construction of Mang Castle, many places have been cut down and a large number of people have passed by and become lifeless, there are no animals, and there is no cover from trees to wild grasses, leaving a strange emptiness in the flourishing mountain forest.

Farther away, the surrounding environment is once again into the range of the mountain forest, tonight was an exceptionally clear night, the moonlight was bright, shining under the sky, pasted with a layer of boundless silver silk.

On the mountain road where Li Zhong walked, the thick and dense branches and leaves densely blocked the bright moonlight, and only countless moonlight was cast on the ground through the translucent leaves in some of the overlapping and thin places, leaving some illusory shadows, as if it was the light of another illusory world.

Walking on this road, Li Chong also felt a little unreal, just like whether it was the war in Luchuan, the arrival of the military lord, or the completion of the Mang Castle, it was all the illusion in the legend, but he still tried to concentrate and try his best to see the dark forest path under the moon.

The pony under him galloped quickly, and soon left the range of Manggu Mountain and embarked on the road leading to Mengyang City. The road surface in this area is much wider than the forest path on the Manggu Mountain, and there are scattered bamboo buildings and reclaimed fields on the side of the road, which are many times deserted, but there are also some crops such as rice that grow well, and on the surface, there are several crops that grow gratifyingly.

At this time, the bright moonlight poured on Li Chong's body like a river, and he raised his head to look at the shadow of Meng Yangcheng in the distance, in the hazy night, the outline of Meng Yangcheng appeared to be a black silhouette, with a sense of heaviness and oppression that he did not have in the daytime.

The closer you get to Mengyang City, the more you can see the details on it, on the south side of the city wall of Mengyang City there are many torches hung for lighting, there are scattered a few people on duty under the city wall, looking to both sides, there are pieces of camp tents stationed in the military camp and fortifications built.

On the newly built tower, there are soldiers in full armor standing solemnly on duty, they are responsible for the operation center of the night reconnaissance work of the entire Mengyang City, the scouts and scouts on the periphery, the soldiers stationed near the city wall, and then the soldiers defending the city, and the dispatch between the soldiers on the tower is all used as a transit.

It is also for this reason that the soldiers on the tower are often low-level officers with certain positions, and if Jiang Yu is still a small banner, he may also be assigned to stand guard above.