Datang Demon Sealing Record: True Demon Tribulation

020, secret visit to Pu Changhai

Guo Hua saw Duguhuan's thoughts, he was attracted by the three corpses, and immersed himself in the joy of work.

Since leaving Chang'an, Duguhuan's spirit has improved a lot, although he is still silent, he no longer drinks and is dedicated to doing his own job.

It was Guo Hua who came to find the gold, and by the way, he might be able to find the magpie.

Guo Wu didn't make his intentions clear, and Duguhuan didn't refuse, nodding his head and agreeing.

Guo Yu stretched out a place for everyone to get out of the way, placed the three corpses side by side, planted a few torches around them, and found a few shields, which could make the place brighter through reflection.

Let's take a look at the general situation.

The style of the clothes is almost the same, coarse cloth clothes, one of them looks like a Tang person, and the other two have obvious Hu characteristics, a towering hooked nose, and deep eye sockets.

The valuables on their bodies, such as nameplates and emblems, which can indicate their identity, have been stripped away.

Dugu Huan said that the corpses were placed very neatly, the clothes and shoes were all well dressed, and the people who took away their things were probably their companions.

Dugu Huan was the first to come in, and after these three people, before Dugu Huan, no one else should have come in.

The four "halls" of the bunker are full of footprints, people, camels, cattle and sheep, and it is a large camel team.

Those cattle and sheep were on the road, they were killed and eaten, and the food was better than Guo Xin's regular army.

"Probably a camel driver. Dugu Huan stared at Guo Hua's eyes and said.

"It could also be a camel ride. Guo Yu joked.

If you ride a camel, you are probably a caravan. Camels have good endurance to trek thousands of mountains and rivers.

Most of the horseback riders are horse bandits, or warriors from the oasis tribes.

Horses are fast, agile and nimble, and robbery raids are much better than camels.

In the past six months, there have been very few caravans from Chang'an to the Western Regions, if there is any way to contact Chang'an, check it, and you will definitely be able to find out which caravan it is.

Guo Hua cut off the clothes of their pants near the inner thighs, and wet them with water, and the smell of camels came out.

"Hehe, you kid really has a way. Dugu Huan smiled rarely.

"Take a hand, take off all their clothes, and be careful of running into a poisonous needle or something. Guo Hua instructed that he should first take care of a corpse and take off his clothes.

There was a corpse's clothes, which had been taken off by Dugu Huan before, and nothing was found.

All three bodies were stripped naked, but nothing could be seen.

I don't know what kind of poison is among them, they are purple and black, and their skin is like a sun-dried apple, wrinkled, originally poisoned and swollen, and after drying up, it forms many deep folds.

"Can you see anything?" Guo Hua teased Dugu Huan.

"It's not a snake or scorpion, it should be a poison carefully prepared by a poison master. ”

"Now sure?"

"Well, if it is a snake or scorpion, it can poison three middle-aged men, it must be very toxic, there will be abscesses and ulceration near the wound, although the skin of these three corpses is shriveled and wrinkled, but it is certain that there is no festering skin. ”

“......”

"The whole body is purple and black, which means that the poison spreads very quickly, and it is generally a fast and lethal poison, and the toxin can't wait for the toxin to spread all over the body, that person has already died thoroughly, and it will not form a situation of purple and black all over the body, and ****, although theoretically it can eventually spread throughout the person's body, it will also bring great pain to the poisoned, they will scratch their own skin, and even commit suicide, and the condition of these corpses is obviously not in line with it. ”

“......”

"A fast and deadly venom, a snake and scorpion or something like that is impossible to do, only people, only people can take it to the extreme. Dugu Huan shook his head helplessly.

Someone, most likely a person, set his sights on a large caravan.

Of course, he alone could not deal with the entire caravan of hundreds of people by force, so he came up with this vicious and terrifying method, killing a few of them without knowing it, so that the terror penetrated into their hearts, and then disintegrated them.

This is by far the most reasonable assumption.

"A person, robbing a camel caravan, are the horse bandits so ruthless now?" Guo Wei sighed.

"It is not certain whether the murderer is a horse bandit or not, but it is certain that they should have met by chance, and even if it is a horse bandit, his lair is likely not nearby, otherwise, he will choose to report the news first and bring a large group of horse bandits to come, that is the safest choice. ”

"It makes sense, otherwise, no matter how strong his poison is, it is difficult to guarantee that he will not be discovered, and then the camel drivers will have to burn him to death. Guo Yu agreed.

The two of them cut the body open again, and a foul smell suddenly came out, and Guo Hua quickly stuffed his clothes into their incision and plugged them, dragging the body out.

The two of them hid in Stonehenge outside the bunker, and continued to look at the dissected corpse, which was carried away by the stench, but it was convenient to take a closer look.

The two suddenly brightened their eyes, and shouted at each other happily, the wind was so strong that no one could hear who was shouting.

The two threw the corpses out of Stonehenge and let the sandstorm sweep them away.

These corpses are highly poisonous, and it is not a solution to put them in the bunker, in case heavy rain pours into the bunker, the poison is leached out, and the bunker is useless.

Sandstorms can bury them, or they will dry and weather, turning them into dust, and the poison will dissipate.

The two returned to the bunker and spoke their minds to each other.

It turned out that the corpse was dry on the outside, and the internal organs were still wet and rotten, and the dry and hard outer shell protected the internal organs from the rapid evaporation of the internal water.

None of them had ever seen a dried corpse in the desert before, but judging from the "freshness" of the corpses, they were willing to believe that the three corpses should have been killed more than a month ago.

They invariably thought of the camel team that Lu Donglai sent to transport gold, 30,000 taels of gold, packed on different camels, it must be a large caravan.

"Hehe, no matter what, let him be a clue. Guo said excitedly.

Early the next morning, Duguhuan and Guo Hua checked the caves where people could go together, and determined that there was no more valuable information, and the two told Guo Xin about the situation, and the team entered a state of urgency.

Four days later, Guo Xin led the team to Puchanghai (Lop Nur), where there are several oases, and the people who live in the oases regard themselves as descendants of Gu Loulan, and they have been friends with the Central Plains since the Han Dynasty.

Moreover, it is also the only way to Yanqi Town and even the Western Regions. In the past, business travelers had to replenish water here.

One of the oases also had a small town, which was made of sand mixed with tree bark and sap.

There is a government office and a garrison of less than 100 people in the small town, in addition to various inns and shops.

Living in the city is not only comfortable, but also safer, and many large caravans are still willing to spend more money and stay in the hotel.

Smaller caravans simply lived in poplar forests outside the city.

Before leaving Chang'an, I went to the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Officials to understand that the official office of Puchang Haicheng, that is, the official post, can provide food and accommodation for past officials, but the scale is not large, and a team of 500 people and more than 1,000 horses must not be arranged.

Guo Xin went to the official office to sign the customs clearance documents, and the local officials suggested that Guo Xin and a few people live in the post station, and 500 cavalry were stationed outside the city, where there was a rammed wall to block the wind and sand.

The suggestion of the little official was decisively rejected by Guo Xin.

He knew very well in his heart that if these recruits wanted to forge into steel, they had to eat and live with them, and there was absolutely no reason to throw them out and live in a post station by themselves.

Guo Hua and Dugu Huan have also been through the sea of swords and fires many times, and they are not afraid of hardship.

After the group settled outside the city, Guo Hua and Dugu Huan went into the city to inquire about the recent caravans.

The small city is very depressed, with more than 20 inns, only two open, and one shop barely supporting it.

It's all locals. The inn has no business, so it should be lived in by its own family.

Seeing Guo Xin and a few people coming in, a few children who were kicking pig urine bubbles on the street, hurriedly ran back to the store, chirping and shouting.

I couldn't understand their language, but when I saw that the adults in their family came out with a smile on their faces, guessing that they were shouting something like "Abba and Mommy, come to business" or something like that.

The adults came out to take a look, and when they saw that it was an officer, they were going in the direction of the official office, and they went back dejectedly.

Officials have official post houses to live in, and they will not live in their shops.

In that small shop, there is also a local old man and his little grandson taking care of it, selling some salt, iron pots, iron knives and so on.

Those who were engaged in the business of merchants in the past have all dispersed and returned to their hometowns. Some went back to Shazhou and Suzhou, and some went to Yanqi.

Together with the officials of the official office, I went to several small bosses in the city, and after inquiring, they all said that they had not seen any decent large camel caravans in the past six months.

They were all small caravans, going back and forth between several state capitals, doing small business such as salt, ironware, dried vegetables, rice and grain.

They would go to the government office to sign official documents, and then live outside the city with the caravan.

There are also some small camel caravans that live in several other oases, although these camel caravans are small, they are all doing business nearby, and they are very familiar on the ground, and no one has studied them until they sign a report at the official office.

It is likely that the large camel caravan did not enter the city and did not go to the official office to sign the report. Because it is signed at the official office, it is necessary to inspect the goods.

However, few of the Loulan people in those oases speak Chinese, and it is a lot of trouble to find out the news.

As for the matter of gold, it should not be said to the local officials, for fear of causing panic.

Just when Guo Hua and Dugu Huan were worried, Yan Jie stood up with a giggle and said a few words.

When the two of them heard it, it was the same as what those Loulan people said.

It turned out that Yan Jie was not only proficient in Confucianism and mathematics, but also proficient in many local languages and ethnic languages. His ideal is to run the Western Regions for Datang and expand his territory like Ban Dingyuan.

Ban Dingyuan is the famous general Ban Chao of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and he is the Marquis of Dingyuan. At that time, he led only 36 death row prisoners to the Western Regions alone.

During the Western Han Dynasty, all the Western Regions were returned to the Han Dynasty, and the imperial court set up the Western Regions Protectorate. By the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu had grown stronger again and continued to invade the Western Regions.

It was at this time that Ban Chao sent an envoy to the Western Regions. In Shanshan, because of the arrival of the Xiongnu envoys, Ban Chao was keenly aware of the change in the attitude of the leaders of Shanshan, so he led people to kill the Xiongnu envoys and burn the Xiongnu tents, forcing the leaders of Shanshan to strengthen their determination to join the Han Dynasty.

Yan Jie, Guo Hua, and Dugu Huan took off their official uniforms, changed into local clothes, and began to make secret visits among the oasis tribes.