Chapter 12: Clues
A fire in Dongshan caused the dragon city to complain, and the yin wind blew through the whole city, leaving the remnants of dead branches and ashes. Yang Zhentian, the commander of the Broken Army, was even more reprimanded, although the General's Mansion of the Broken Army was mainly responsible for the security of Dragon City, but the matter of walking the water was also his responsibility.
The fire hit most of Dongshan, Yang Zhentian, who returned to the palace from the Yongwang Palace, looked angry, he ordered people to immediately go up the mountain to extinguish the fire, and the armor-breaking army sent hundreds of people and more than ten water dragon vehicles to go straight to Dongshan.
The crowd marched eastward from the main street of Longcheng "Suimian Street", and the fire in the mountain was extinguished at night. Gong Fuchen took the shadow guards of the Shangguan Mansion to secretly infiltrate Dongshan after the armor-breaking army left.
Ying Wei is a dead soldier killer raised by the Shangguan family, each of them has unique skills and kung fu, and they do some shady things for the Shangguan Mansion. The doctors in the city who had treated Shangguan Junqian's illness were all targeted by the shadow guards, and all of them issued blood orders, so that they did not dare to say half a word, otherwise the whole family would suffer.
At this moment, Gong Fuchen was standing in front of the tea shop restaurant that had been burned by the fire, next to it was the place where Shangguan Junqian and them soaked in Tianquan a few days ago, and there were now shadows dressed in black all around.
"Master Gong, we have searched the entire Kunlun Pool, and we haven't found anything suspicious." A black-clothed shadow guard stood aside respectfully and reported the results of everyone's investigation to Gong Fuchen.
Gong Fuchen glanced back at him, with a calm face, and said in a low voice, "Brother Huangfu, the head of the family sent you out just to find nothing?" ”
The shadow guard looked like he was about thirty years old, with a black mole in the corner of his eye, full of energy, and his name was Huangfu Jia. The expression on his face froze, and he hurriedly lowered his head, and exclaimed, "What Lord Gong said is extremely true, I will order someone to search carefully again." ”
Gong Fuchen glanced around, Fang Cai Ying Wei carefully searched every inch of the surrounding area, he also saw it with his own eyes, and at this moment he locked his eyes on this burnt ruin.
He patted the shadow guard on the shoulder, took the torch and walked towards the ruins, stepping on the ashes on the ground to stand on the edge of the cliff, throwing the torch down, and the fire fell into darkness. Gong Fuchen leaned sideways, poked his head out, and looked down with the firelight.
"Be careful, sir." The shadow guard saw his swaying body standing on the edge of the cliff, and hurriedly shouted in fright.
"It's okay!" Gong Fuchen waved his hand, took a few steps back, came to the skeleton of a wooden ladder, looked at the iron chain tied to the pillar stone, his eyes lit up, his right hand pointed there, and the two shadow guards behind him hurriedly rushed up and respectfully held the half of the iron chain.
"Lord Gong, please take a look." The Shadow Guard bent over and held the dusty chain in his palm.
Gong Fuchen pointed down the chain with his finger, and the other shadow guard hurriedly turned the chain over, he looked at the knife marks on the chain, and his heart was shocked, and suddenly thought of the huge wound on Shangguan Junqian's back, which was very consistent with this knife mark.
"Your Excellency?" The shadow guard who was standing on the side saw Gong Fuchen staring at the half of the iron chain in a daze, as if he thought of something, so he hurriedly shouted.
Gong Fuchen didn't pay attention to him, went straight to the edge of the cliff, looked down again, the look in his eyes was abnormal, a trace of surprise flashed at the corner of his mouth, and he shouted urgently, "Come on a few people, go to the bottom of the cliff and have a look." Remember not to miss every corner. ”
"Yes!" More than a dozen shadow guards quickly came to the edge of the cliff, pulled out two short knives from their waists, jumped down, and the two short knives in their hands went up and down, and quickly moved towards the bottom of the cliff.
Gong Fuchen carefully recalled the knife marks on the iron chain, if it was pierced head-on, it would have pierced through Shangguan Junqian's chest, but the wound was cut from top to bottom, and there must have been other people in the chain at that time. But they didn't find every corner of the scene, there was only one possibility, it must have fallen to the bottom of the cliff, so he ordered the shadow guards to go down the cliff to investigate.
After about an hour, the shadow guard jumped from the steep wall to the giant tree below the cliff, and could faintly hear the sound of rushing water under his feet. Under the cliff on the west side of Dongshan, there is a deep pool, and the water of the pool is dark and the bottom is not visible. The shadow guards raised their torches and quickly shuttled through the forest, turning over every corner of the pool, beachhead, and dense forest.
"Here!" One of the shadow guards found a corpse on the branch of a towering giant tree and hurriedly shouted, and the rest of the group hurried over and jumped onto the giant tree.
"Found what?" Huang Fujia stood on the beachhead under the giant tree and looked up and asked.
"Commander, it's a corpse." The shadow guard replied, he put his finger between the man's snort and felt a trace of breath, and said sharply, "It's alive." ”
After Yun Ruowu was kicked out of the chain, he fell into the clouds, fell to the giant tree under the cliff, and passed out. The black-clothed killer who pursued them that night turned back halfway because of the steep cliff, but was unexpectedly found by the shadow guard of the Shangguan family on the towering giant tree at the bottom of the cliff.
"Alive?" With a hint of surprise on his face, Huang Fujia waved his hand and motioned for the shadow guard to carry the man to the ground. The two shadow guards leaped down and placed Yun Ruowu, who had fainted, on the ground.
"This person?" Huang Fujia looked at the gorgeous robe he wore on his body, and he looked very familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it for a while. Yun Ruowu and the three of them were chased to the second floor of the inn, and in a hurry they changed into the wrong clothes of Shangguan Junqian, he looked a little familiar.
Huang Fujia squatted aside, covered Yun Ruowu's chest with both hands, pressed it a few times but still didn't respond, shook his head, and sighed, "I'm afraid I won't live long, forget it." Look around and see if you find anything else. ”
"Yes" The shadow guard scattered around, and after carefully searching the dense forest and beachhead, he returned to Huangfu Jia's side without finding anything else.
Huang Fujia looked at the pond in the distance, looked at Yun Ruowu under his feet, waved his hand, and said sharply, "Withdraw!" ”
Everyone tied Yun Ruowu with branches and vines, tied them into three giant vines and tied them to the waists of the three people, and everyone climbed up the steep wall.
At the top of the cliff, Gong Fuchen sat on the edge of Kunlun Pool, staring at a pool of clear water with his eyes, the moonlight was like a bright moon, but he didn't have half of the mood. Although they escaped Shangguan Gu's punishment, if they couldn't find half a clue on this east mountain, they would still be punished when they went back.
"Who?" He suddenly felt a figure flashing behind him, Gong Fuchen hurriedly turned around, his eyes were stunned, and he hurriedly bowed.
The man who came was about fifty years old, with a burly figure, a heroic face, wearing a torn army armor, he held a spear in his hand, gasped, coughed and asked, "How is it, what have you gained?" ”
"I don't know if it's a general, I was offended just now." Gong Fuchen bowed, and the person in front of him was none other than Yang Zhentian, the general of the armor-breaking army who was reprimanded by King Yong during the day.
Yang Zhentian suspected that the fire in Dongshan was strange, so after the armor-breaking army descended the mountain, he led a team of personal soldiers to sneak into Dongshan under the night to find out. I never thought that as soon as I arrived in Kunlun Pond, I met the shadow guard of the Shangguan family and the old acquaintance Gong Fuchen.