Chapter Twenty-Four: Thinking of the message, reading the message, the message is regrettable!
The content of the message is very strange and shocking. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The second team of the operation department arrived at Xuzhou Mansion on time on the fifth day of June, but the captain Zhang Wu found that he could not contact the "joint action team", and the personnel of the Xuzhou letter report point were also missing; Only two of the twenty members sent out that day came back the next night, and the others disappeared mysteriously; According to the descriptions of the two people who returned, they pretended to be deaf and dumb beggars and wandered around the streets to "listen" to the "gossip" of the people.
The news heard on the street was: Lin Daiyu fell into the water on the official boat at the Pizhou Canal Wharf on the night of 28 May, and a leper monk came by volley and rescued Lin Daiyu, and then Lin Daiyu was seriously ill by wind and cold, and stayed at the Xuzhou Canal Wharf with the official boat to recuperate, and the medicine she took was the prescription prescribed by the leper monk.
Zhang Wu was very puzzled, because the plan in advance was for the joint action team to "fake the incident of Lin Daiyu's disappearance in the water", secretly bind him underwater, and send him to Liuqiu; Now that I know that Lin Daiyu once fell into the water and was rescued, it means that the joint action team has been launched and missed; Well, where is the "joint action team" now ?!
Zhang Wu divided the remaining 60 team members into three teams, one along the canal to the north of the Taierzhuang Canal Wharf to explore and search, and one stationed at the Xuzhou Canal Wharf to investigate Lin Daiyu and Jia Lian, and investigate the cause of the disappearance of the 18 team members that day; He led 20 team members to search along the canal between Xuzhou and Pizhou. But the strange thing is that Zhang Wu led the team to search for a month and did not find any clues, and even the other two search teams disappeared mysteriously.
Zhang Wu was finally a little scared, feeling that things were very strange, so he finally decided to retreat to the Haizhou Intelligence Station first; When I didn't want to go out of the east of Pizhou City, I heard a "rumor" -- "An unnamed ancient tomb near the canal wharf in Pizhou emits an extremely foul smell, and a large number of ghost fires and wild ghosts howl at night often appear at night, and the villagers dare not approach it during the day." After hearing the rumors, Zhang Wu decided to go to the ancient tomb at night.
The scene they saw when they visited the ancient tomb on the night of July 7 made Zhang Wu and others extremely frightened. -- There were four or five hundred corpses in that tomb; The latest corpses belong to more than 40 members of the second team of the Operations Division who have recently disappeared, and it can be seen from the corpses that the team members were smiling and fully equipped when they died, without the slightest trace of injury or poisoning, and the grenades, pistols, flying grabs, blow arrows, ropes, steel crossbows, poison and drugs and other equipment on their bodies were also intact, no less; As for the decomposing corpses, according to the characteristics of the corpses, such as tattoos, costumes and equipment, and token symbols, Zhang Wu distinguished that the decomposed corpses were mainly from the members of the "Joint Action Team", and the other corpses included the "Wind Guard" of Emperor Qianping, the "Blood Grid" of the Four Princes, the "Tang Guard" of the Third Prince, the "Flame Warrior" of the Six Princes, and the newly built "Liuying" of the Eighth Prince, and there were still about 60 corpses that could not be identified.
Zhang Wu couldn't imagine what kind of force had done such a thing; The members of the tomb visit wanted to collect the corpses of "their own people", but they were stopped by Zhang Wu. Zhang Wu did not dare to touch everyone's corpses, but found a rotting corpse suspected to be the head of Huaiyang Hall Ding Mao according to his costume and token symbols, and found a wax pill the size of a pigeon's egg from his stomach; Because the training of the Intelligence Division has required that "the leader of the intelligence operation should have a plan of action and a record of the course of the operation so that it can be summarized afterwards; In case of distress and miss, the recorded information should be hidden". After finding Ding Mao's secret information, Zhang Wu immediately asked the team members to restore the tomb to its original state, and laid a twinkle mine under some of the corpses, and then quickly evacuated.
Just over two miles after evacuating the ancient tomb, a dull explosion was heard from the direction of the ancient tomb, followed by the "boom" of a large number of grenades. The team members all looked strangely in the direction of the ancient tomb, and they were all puzzled. A moment later, I saw a figure running from the direction of the ancient tomb, and the speed was strange.
When the person passed by Zhang Wu and the others, he stayed for a second or two, and looked at everyone indifferently and "quickly floated away".
Zhang Wu nervously felt his heart jump to his throat and held his breath; He didn't know how long it had been, and after a cool breeze, Zhang Wu took a breath and relaxed.
After taking a long breath, Zhang Wu asked the team members, "What did you all see?!" β
One of the team members said, "A monk holding a Taoist priest!" β
Another member of the team said, "A leper monk holding a wounded Taoist priestβ?" After thinking for a while, he added, "It's a seriously injured Taoist priest!" β
Then one of the team members said, "He floated away-?!" β
The first player to speak retorted, "It's not 'Floating'!" It's 'Flying'! βγ
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Zhang Wu coughed, "Who else saw it?" -- Let's talk about it! β
But no player spoke again.
Zhang Wu suddenly found that the other team members who did not speak all had weird smiles on their faces, and after a gust of wind, they began to slowly collapse to the ground one after another.
Zhang Wu only felt creepy and his scalp was numb, and when he stepped forward to investigate, he found that those team members had died silently.
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There were twenty-one people, including Zhang Wu, but only four survived, and none of the four people knew how their companions died, so they stood in the field for a long time without speaking.
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"Grass him! ββ,It's so wickedββ! β
Zhang Wu scolded fiercely. "Everyone immediately dispersed and ran! ββ, Makeup! Lurk! No matter what, you must rush to Haizhou to summon Ryuqiu! -- The symbol of the Haizhou letter point is the plum blossom cross! Did you all get it?! β
The three surviving team members immediately stood up and saluted, and said in unison: "I understand!" Disperse away, Haizhou arraignment, plum blossom cross! β
Zhang Wu: "Action!" β
So the four of them immediately dispersed and walked away.
Zhang Wu did not go to Haizhou, but continued to disguise himself as a homeless person, a beggar, a mountain bandit, a merchant, a Taoist priest, etc., and spent more than 20 days through Xuzhou, Suxian, Fengyangfu, and Chuxian to arrive at Jiangning City, and found the Jiangning letter point of the chrysanthemum symbol on the second day of the eighth month. Jiang Ning Xin reported that he did not dare to delay, and immediately flew the pigeon to send the chicken coop.
The message left by Ding Maomi's secret collection was also passed on to the chicken coop by Jiang Ning.
Ding Mao's last message was: "All the staff departments gathered in Xuzhou on May 27, intending to summon the headquarters after the incident was completed; Lin Daiyu has Yahuan and Mama by her side, and the three of them are the peripheral intelligence officers of our hall, and they will cooperate with the action; The ministry sent 80 people to act at the Pizhou Canal Wharf on the night of the 28th, not wanting Lin Nu to suddenly appear as soon as she fell into the water and a monk and Ling Bo to save her on the water; Eighty operatives disappeared immediately, and no one was seen alive or dead! The Xuzhou letter clerk has also disappeared; Things are weird, the department has a premonition of death, and has already sent out a message of fireworks! β
The five-flower fireworks signal is a means of communication by the Ryuqiu Intelligence Division, which is a means of transmitting all intelligence officers to immediately assemble and be on the highest level of alert against the enemy by lighting fireworks with five flowers.
After reading the message from Jiang Ning, Fu Ning also felt that his scalp was numb. Fu Ning didn't intend to hurt Lin Daiyu, but just wanted to use the means of kidnapping Lin Daiyu to come to Keelung to lure out the monk; Now I have brought out the monks together, but I have not seen them, so I have no chance to inquire. As for other information, Fu Ning's head has been stirred up.
Fu Ning was a staunch atheist in his original life, and he was still a staunch atheist after mysteriously coming to this world of Red Mansions; And the development of Liuqiu science and technology in recent years has also proved that all the scientific laws of this world are the same as the original world, and Fu Ning has never seen any real "gods, Buddhas and ghosts", so Fu Ning never believed that the monk was a "god", so there must be something in these weird things that Fu Ning still doesn't understand, but Fu Ning can't find an entry point to solve the problem now, which is the most troublesome thing. Fu Ning believed that as long as he could contact that monk a few times, then he would definitely be able to figure out the truth, but he just couldn't find the opportunity.
All the high-level leaders of the Intelligence Department gathered in Fu Ning's office in the General Staff Division, and several people took turns reading the news from Jiang Ning, and everyone was silently thinking; The outdoor vigilance has been extended to the entire scope of the General Staff Division, and each door has three posts, so that the staff of the General Staff Division dare not speak loudly, because this level of vigilance means that there will definitely be a big incident, but no one dares to ask more, even Lao Yue hid to the Finance Department; The director of the Military Affairs Department came to report to Fu Ning on the work of recruiting Japanese soldiers, and when he walked to the door of the General Staff Department and saw so many personnel from the Intelligence Department, he immediately turned back to the Military Affairs Division, because everyone knows that the Intelligence Department is a first-class department with real power in Liuqiu, and this level of alert is definitely the first time in the history of Liuqiu, and there is definitely a big incident happening, and the people who Fu Ning has not notified must not ask indiscriminately.
Everyone in Fu Ning's office didn't think about it so much, because everyone was shocked by Jiang Ning's intelligence, and no one spoke.
"Let's talk about it! Tell us what you think! Fu Ning's words first.
"The Xuzhou letter point has been lost for three months, the Haizhou letter point has been lost for two months, and no abnormalities have been found in other letter points, presumably the three surviving team members are no longer there!" , the first to speak was Luo Yingfei, the minister of the letter cabinet.
"I have heard my master say that the martial arts are extremely high enough to cross the river, the legendary Bodhidharma ancestor can do it, the late Tang Dynasty spear double general Liu Pingqing and Liu Pingxi brothers have done it, Liu Shangting in the late Southern Song Dynasty also did it when he killed the Yuan army general Wu Erbald, and Zhu Yi in Dingchun at the end of the Ming Dynasty has also done it, but I have never heard of such a character in the past hundred years, presumably that the monk is such a character, this kind of person is too demonic and too difficult to prevent!" , Liu Buren, director of the Operations Division, is a master of martial arts, and he also spoke.
"The Logistics Department has developed a drug that can make people die silently, and it is called 'sighing', but although it is colorless, it has a pungent odor, and after poisoning, people will not be able to move and then die silently, but they cannot die so quickly; as for the colorless and odorless drugs that can make people die quickly, no one has heard of it. The subordinates suspected that they were poisoned, and as for Zhang Wu and the others who were able to survive, they must have held their breath at that time and were not poisoned! Hao Bangyan, head of the logistics department of the Intelligence Department, then spoke.
"There were four or five hundred corpses in the tomb, and the equipment on them had not been touched at all; There are corpses of hidden forces such as 'Wind Guard', 'Blood Grid', and 'Tang Guard', which is not something that one or two people can do, and the subordinates guess that there must be other forces secretly helping that monk. The people of the dark help must not be among the forces to which the corpses belong! This is the speculation of Wang Su, director of the Intelligence Department.
"I think that the forces that helped the monks also have corpses in the tomb! It's probably the 'Blood Grid'! Fu Ning spoke.
Everyone was stunned and thought about it after hearing this.
"Impossible! They don't kill their own people to cover it up; If it weren't for Zhang Wu's accidental discovery of the corpse of the ancient tomb, the monk would not have been exposed, so there was no need for the 'Blood Grid' to kill his own people, which showed that the 'Blood Grid' was also a victim. This is Deputy Director Yang Zhen's rebuttal to Fu Ning's words.
Fu Ning asked rhetorically, "There are two hundred and thirty-two people in the joint action team, how many people know that they belong to the Ryuqiu forces?" -- There are only more than 50 people! In the same way, those dead 'blood grids' may not know that they are allies with that monk! What I wonder now is why so many forces appeared on Lin Daiyu's way to Beijing? β
"My subordinates know that! - Huaiyangtang once reported in advance that several forces had wanted to kidnap Lin Daiyu to force Lin Ruhai to comply, which is the same as we thought. Wang Su said.
Fu Ning picked up the pen holder on the table and smashed it at Wang Su, "Who told you that the purpose of kidnapping Lin Daiyu was to force Lin Ruhai to submit?!" β
Everyone was stunned, and Wang Su hurriedly knelt on the ground and admitted his mistake, "It's the subordinates' mistakes!" Subordinates shouldn't guess! β
"Get up and sit down! ββCan't you ask me if you don't understand something? Did you know that guessing can ruin a big deal?! Tell you that I wanted to lure that monk to the chicken coop, I had something to ask them, but I didn't expect them to be so difficult! β
"Master Hou must not!" , Liu Buren said hurriedly, "That monk is definitely a peerless master, and no one can prevent them; Don't bring them in! β
"It's not that I want to bring them in, but I have to bring them because they may know information about another world, and even if I don't bring them over, they may come to me on their own initiative. But what I don't understand now is who are they? What do you want to do? How could it be so different from what I imagined? To tell you the truth, I thought they were outsiders, who would not kill people and prevent fire, but would only persuade people through words or some strange means; Who would have thought that they would be so murderous! If I had known this, I would not have ordered this operation. Now that you know all these things, don't think about it, the task at hand is to comfort the families of the deceased, and to rebuild and restore the strength of the Intelligence Division on the mainland; As for the monks, none of you should conflict with them, and when you go back, you send a message to all your subordinates, whether they are inside or outside, as long as you see that monk, tell them, 'Someone is looking for them, and they want to ask them a question,' and that monk will naturally understand what it means, and they will naturally come to me. β
Fu Ning continued, "You all go back, just do your work well, and then withdraw the vigilance!" β
But everyone stayed where they were and didn't move, Fu Ning knew that they all wanted to hear his explanation, so he could only say helplessly, "I also want to explain to you, the key is that I haven't figured out what is going on yet, how can I explain it to you." β
So everyone had to go out silently and go to find their own work.