Volume 1 Border City Chapter 9 Night Detective
The next day, some magistrates came to Bai Qi's room to inquire about the night, but they never found any clues.
Bai Qi, who woke up and found himself lying on the bed with some silver coins on the table, was lost for a while but never mentioned it, Bai Qi understood that what happened in the restaurant must be related to the young man, and he just picked up a guest normally that night, but the guest was a little generous.
Han Xiao was actually not afraid of what Bai Qi would say, his own appearance at that time had changed a little, and he had not disclosed any information, and with the existing clues, the security department would not be able to find him. Besides, Bai Qi is not stupid, no matter what he said is true or false, as long as he is sure that he has something to do with him, Bai Qi's fate is estimated to not be very good, so Bai Qi will definitely not say anything.
Han Xiao was in an inn on another street at this time, and he looked at the money bag in his hand, although it was not a lot, it was enough.
When he thought that he had no money to pay the bills, Han Xiao had a headache, he still had to have money when he went out in the future, it was really difficult to mix without money, and then thinking about his experience of getting the money bag, he did the work of Hongzhai again, but Han Xiao has not done this kind of thing in Hongzhai a few times, after all, Hongzhai itself does not have much of this kind of work.
After Han Xiao did this vote at the moment, he was thinking that it was still a little cool, thinking that he should not really be addicted to it and become a Jiangyang thief.
Thinking of the situation where the security departments in various places wanted to arrest him, Han Xiao himself felt a headache for those departments, put down his things, Han Xiao looked in the direction of the west of the city, where the Xiao family's mansion was located, and the regiment where Xiao Ming served was in the west camp farther away. No longer thinking about it, his eyes shifted to the distance, and Han Xiao kept thinking about how to find out in his heart.
In the Xiao family's mansion in Xicheng, a young man was reporting something to a middle-aged man, and after a while, the young man left alone, and the middle-aged man in the house asked people to go to other mansions to call a few friends, and then this group of people were secretly discussing something in the house.
A week has passed, Han Xiao has been wandering around the Xiao Mansion in Xicheng for a few days during this time, and he has not seen the people he saw that night at all, if nothing else, those people and Xiao Ming should be in the big tent in the army, and it is absolutely impossible for him to enter the military camp to investigate.
Not to mention going to the barracks, even the Xiao Mansion in front of him Han Xiao didn't dare to enter at will, although he was already a master of the Grandmaster Realm, but among the people who entered and exited the mansion in the past few days, Han Xiao saw a lot of master-level masters. Although there are still some materials that are blocked, Han Xiao can still tell that those are military crossbows, and even siege crossbows, those things cooperate with the elite of the master level, and it is not impossible to kill himself.
There is a pair of stone lions in front of the gate of the Xiao family, which is the most common furnishing in front of the door of the Blood Dome General's Mansion, and at this moment a pair of lions seem to be asleep, and there are bursts of birdsong from time to time in the mansion of Nuoda, and even on the side of the high-walled compound, you can see a few bright pink flowers hanging their heads on the Daiwa.
It's just that all this can't hide the deep murderous intent of Xiao Mansion, in Han Xiao's eyes, Xiao Mansion is actually a deep pool, and under the calm surface is a cold abyss, and the people in it will constantly fall into that endless darkness.
A few more days passed in the peaceful days, and on this day, a team of people and horses from the Xicheng camp entered the mansion, and Han Xiao, who had found nothing, did not see the face of the person who came, and he could not confirm whether it was Xiao Ming, but he decided to take a risk and explore the Xiao Mansion at night.
The night seemed to come much slower than usual, Han Xiao prepared a night suit in his residence, and bought a ghost servant's mask on the street, and the ordinary dagger he carried with him was also polished at the moment.
For many years, Han Xiao has never been so serious as he is today, not only because the killing machine hidden in this dark night is so deadly, but because Han Xiao knows in his heart at this moment that there are some things that he must complete.
In the past, Han Xiao and the teacher traveled a lot of places together, and experienced a lot of warmth and coldness in the world, at that time Han Xiao was just a spectator, but now his flesh and blood are really connected with those people in Hongzhai.
Finally, the last rays of the western glow vanished, and the city did not fall silent. Night, come alive.
When the night was still bustling, but it was dark enough, Han Xiao blew out the candles in the room and carefully left his residence.
Han Xiao kept shuttling between the jagged rooftops of the southern city, and under the protection of night, he slowly approached the Xiao Mansion.
At this moment, the Xiao Mansion was the same as usual, two soldiers were guarding in front of the main entrance, and there was a soft light in the mansion through the gaps in the flowers and trees in the courtyard, casting mottled shadows on the flat walls, constantly swaying with the rhythm of the breeze.
For some reason, Han Xiao suddenly had an intuition that today's Xiao Mansion was not the same as usual, not because a team of people came to the Xiao Mansion today, but because today's Xiao Mansion gave Han Xiao a much quieter feeling than before. As a matter of common sense, since there are people here, usually the house should be more active.
Outside a section of the high wall on the west side of the Xiao Mansion, Han Xiao heard the footsteps of a patrol soldier in the mansion passing by, and after making sure that there was no one inside, he turned over and entered the Xiao Mansion. At this time, Han Xiaoke no longer dared to shuttle casually between the eaves, in the mansion of an important military figure, that kind of behavior was basically no different from looking for death.
As soon as he entered the Xiao Mansion, Han Xiao confirmed that today's Xiao Mansion was wrong, because the place he chose to enter was the place where the Xiao Mansion female dependents lived, the guards here were not so strict, and there would be a lot of people's activities every day, and from time to time there was the laughter of the Xiao Mansion female dependents, and I don't know if it was talking about which family's son was so talented, or if another good man in the army rose strongly, and the topic of female dependents was still inseparable from these.
Although there are still a few people walking around in the courtyard here today, and there are lights in the house, but the entire Xifu seems to have reached the order of curfew, and those who don't know think that it is the second half of the night at this moment, and have some doubts in their hearts, but Han Xiao still decided to continue.
After carefully avoiding several groups of patrolling guards and secret sentinels, Han Xiao came to the East Mansion, which was usually the place where the owner of the Xiao Mansion discussed and lived, and at this moment, it was the same as the West Mansion, which seemed extremely quiet.
When Han Xiao, who was hidden behind a rockery in the courtyard, was puzzled, a person who looked like a housekeeper hurriedly carried a pot of tea, crossed the back door of the East Mansion and entered the innermost courtyard, and there was the entire Xiao Mansion's weapons warehouse and the master's study, and Han Xiao immediately followed.
Xiao San, the housekeeper of Xiao Mansion, is the old man of Xiao Mansion and the confidant of Xiao Jue Xiao of the Xiao family, he has just made a pot of good Western Regions tribute tea, and he is quickly rushing to Lord Xiao's study at this moment.
Xiao San looked at the tea in the teapot, and knew in his heart that something big might happen today, and Lord Xiao had just explained that he would rest in the mansion early today and not disturb him, and this tribute tea showed that his master was not going to sleep tonight.
Although he didn't know the inside story, it didn't prevent Xiao San from feeling the tension of the atmosphere at the moment, and he was even cautious when he walked today, for fear of making a mistake.
Han Xiao followed Xiao San into the backyard, and watched Xiao San knock on the door from a distance, but did not get closer, because the backyard was brightly lit at this moment, and there were several figures in the study, and in the courtyard outside the study, there were nearly a hundred sergeants dressed in armor, with a posture of fighting at any time, and in various hidden places in this courtyard, there were many masters hidden.
Then he shook his head, if he was discovered, I am afraid that he will not be greeted by soldiers standing neatly, but an invisible net.
"How's it going?"
"Rest assured, father, I have checked the people and plans involved before I come back, and this plan will definitely be implemented smoothly. It's just that no matter how smooth the plan is this time, there is little hope, and my father must be prepared. ”
The middle-aged man sitting on the main seat took a sip of tea, looked at his proud son, and said slowly: "Ming'er, some plans are very valuable even if they don't achieve their goals, such as tonight, do you think those guys don't know that tonight's plan has a slim chance." We're going to do it, just to try the one in the house, and I don't know if the old man can still hold his weapon now. Saying that, a trace of heat flashed in Lord Xiao's eyes.
But Xiao Ming's eyes lit up at this time, and he also understood in his heart why no one related to the Xiao family participated in this operation, and even the other parties were not involved at all.
Han Xiao could only feel that the people in the room were talking at this time, but he didn't know anything, the door of the study was suddenly opened, and out of it came a general, this person had a silver snake on his cuff, which was the symbol of the partial general of the Blood Dome Empire Division.
Although he does not have real power in his position, his status in the actual army is second only to the deputy commander of the division and regiment, and he can even mobilize the brigade under the division and regiment to fight when necessary. The adjutant of the deputy commander of the division had one or two silver snakes tattooed on his cuffs, and the adjutant of the division commander had three silver snakes of the same color.
Seeing this person, Han Xiao's eyes froze, that's right, this person was the adjutant next to the person that night, and through the gap in the door opening, Han Xiao could vaguely tell that there was a figure inside that was the person he was looking for.
"Xiao Ming!" Han Xiao shouted out the name fiercely in his heart, the killing intent in his heart became stronger and stronger, and the dagger in his arms was also held tighter.
Just when some masters in the courtyard sensed something unusual, Han Xiao's surroundings suddenly regained calm, as if nothing had happened, he quietly hid in the dark, waiting for an opportunity, as long as there was a chance to sneak attack, Han Xiao was at least seventy percent sure that he could kill Xiao Ming in an instant, and then escape.
And as long as he didn't kill the other party in an instant and was dragged for a moment, then today next year will be Han Xiao's death day, this is no better than the dense forest, once exposed, he has no place to hide, not to mention that the other party is more familiar with this battlefield than himself.
After a while, the house fell into silence, only the sound of someone holding a tea cup from time to time, a father and son waited quietly inside for the results of tonight, and the hunters outside the house were also quietly waiting, as if they were still melting into the night, and no one could perceive this hidden crisis.
The night slowly walked into the second half, and there was still no movement in the house.
Han was also very depressed, the father and son didn't even step out of the room once, and they didn't even release water once after drinking so much tea. Han Xiao didn't know that Lord Xiao's study was fully equipped, and he was the only one holding it outside.