In this large forest, the trees are tall, the vegetation is luxuriant, and the soil is soft.

The soldiers were searching around.

Fruit Man crouched down to look at the footprints in the grass. This footprint is obviously left by the player, and the soldiers' shoes are all uniformly configured and will not have such patterns.

Moreover, the arrows taken from the dead and wounded soldiers can be seen that these arrows belong entirely to the player. However, you can only tell that it belongs to the player, and you don't know who it belongs to.

While I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard a voice outside, vaguely someone coming.

One of the soldiers said, "It's an adult!" ”

When Guoziman stood up to look, Nangong Sima rode the chief and came quickly, approached, got off the chief, and asked, "How is the investigation?" ”

"Judging from the footprints, there are more than 20 people in total, 3 of them women, most of them assassins and archers, and there should be a shield battle. Because the shield was found rubbing against the bark of the tree and poking into the ground. ”

"Judging from the arrows, they also belong to the player, and they are arrows above level 30. Judging by the route, they knew the environment, they knew where it was safer, and the ambush location was good, so we killed two soldiers. ”

"It's impossible for players to travel this far to scout the environment, arrange tactics, and then destroy vegetable patches and stop pursuers...... Someone must have arranged it for them, knowing the situation in this area, and supporting them. ”

Nangong Sima pondered: "This range is too wide, it may be the people in the prisoners, it may be the soldiers, it may be the masters who are monitoring us, or...... There are traitors in us. ”

Fruit Man was stunned for a moment, and said, "There aren't many players, and we are all among the suspects." ”

Nangong Sima said: "If it's an NPC, how can you know who it is, there are so many NPCs, who can guarantee that every NPC who follows you is really your person?" ”

Fruit Man didn't speak.

Nangong Sima said: "You bring these things and report to the vice president, and this matter will be handed over to you to investigate." Give you 50 people, and when you investigate clearly, you will talk about how many people you need. ”

"Yes, President."

Nangong Sima turned around and went to the chieftain, went straight to the stronghold teleportation array, put away the chief, and teleported to Rock City.

Out of the teleportation array, Nangong Sima went straight to our house is not Xiucai's house, and when he looked over, the gate was actually closed, and there were no guards at the door!

Nangong Sima was very surprised, it's fresh, what kind of trouble is this?

As a last resort, I turned around to look for Qian Liu, and found Qian Liu who was napping in the stall area.

"Hey, wake up, wake up!"

Qian Liu's eyes were sleepy, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that it was Nangong Sima, and asked, "Why are you here again, what are you doing?" ”

Nangong Sima asked, "Have you seen Xiucai?" Why don't you see anyone? The doors of the house are closed, and the guards are gone. ”

"You don't know?"

Looking at Qian Liu's surprised eyes, as if he had missed something, Nangong Sima asked, "What's wrong?" What's wrong? ”

"You're really out of this world!"

"Tell me, what's the matter?"

Qian Liudao: "Xiucai did business, bought a batch of goods into the city gate, and was inspected by the city gate, which was originally a routine thing, and Xiucai also took care of it." ”

"Who knew that suddenly the city gate guards were very strict, not only checked for half an hour, but also checked that there were prohibited items in the goods, and they were even detained by people with goods at the moment."

"How could such a thing happen? What the hell is going on? Nangong Sima asked in surprise.

Qian Liudao: "We all wondered, why didn't a good relationship work, and we detained people." Later, the son of Xuande paid a ransom of 200,000 yuan to get people out, but all the goods were confiscated. ”

Nangong Sima asked, "Nothing to say?" What about people? ”

Qian Liudao: "Not long after they came out, the Red House suddenly opened a mount store on the street, and began to sell mounts and other things, as well as pets. ”

"This time Xiucai couldn't help it, and took someone to smash the store, but it happened to fall into a trap, and let people bring people and guys to take it right. The guards poured in directly from outside the door and were taken to the prison. ”

"Later, I had to be sentenced to the crime of confiscating the army, and I lost the son of the second child Xuande to make some connections everywhere and spend money, so the sentence was changed to drive him out of Rock City, and he was never allowed to enter, and even the house was collected."

Nangong Sima raised his eyes and asked, "What did the red house do?" ”

"Fools can see it, but the question is why did the Red House suddenly do such a thing?"

Nangong Sima also thought about it and asked, "What about Xiucai and them?" ”

"After moving, the whole family finished handling their things, and the carriage was pulled out of the south gate. I guess I went to you. ”

"! Why don't you contact me, I don't know! ”

Nangong Sima hurriedly sent a message to the alpaca in his heart, asking him to send someone out to go back to pick it up, we are not Xiucai, we definitely don't know the way. Besides, there is such a large group of people, and the road must be slow, what if you encounter a monster.

Nangong Sima remembered the attack on himself and asked, "Have you seen the secret actions of whose guild in the city recently, and the traces of someone traveling long distances?" ”

Qian Liu thought for a while and said, "If you want to say that the brigade of people and horses moves, then all guilds have them, but it seems that there is only one red house in and out of the south gate." And they all looked elated, as if they had won a battle. ”

Nangong Sima said angrily: "It's the red house again!" ”

Qian Liu saw that he was so angry, and said strangely: "Did I miss something good again?" ”

Nangong Sima thought for a while and said, "In this way, you should pay special attention to the people in the red house who went out from the south gate for a while, pay attention to it, and if anyone goes out, notify me." If there is any movement in the City Lord's Mansion, you can also notify me. ”

"Okay, no problem."

Nangong Sima got up and walked quickly to the nearest warehouse, opened it and saw that the warehouse was full of gems. A rough count of them amounted to more than 1,400.

I selected 100 beautiful colors, which are actually red, yellow, green, etc. Packed together. The rest were divided into more than 300 pieces and packed together, and 1,000 pieces were packed together.

He returned to Qian Liu's side, handed the 300 gems to Qian Liu, and said, "You can take this money, which is considered the initial operating expenses, and help me start to purchase medicinal materials, especially the materials for the magic potion of Neng Lian, and buy them all back." ”

Qian Liu wondered: "They are all the most valuable materials for life potions, why did you buy so many magic potion materials?" ”

Nangong Sima said: "Don't worry about it yet, buy it." When you buy a batch, send me a batch, call me when the money is finished, and I will give you money. Grade 2, grade 3 materials, grade 1 do not accept. ”

Qian Liudao: "Okay, you're all getting more and more chattering, and you don't understand what you're doing." ”

Nangong Sima smiled, turned around and left.

When he entered the City Lord's Mansion, the two guards outside the gate saw him and smiled.

Taking advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, Nangong Sima stuffed 10 gold coins into the guards and asked in a low voice, "Has the city lord been out recently?" Or who has been? ”

The guard hid the gold coins and said with a smile: "There are too many people coming and going, I can't remember it clearly." ”

Nangong Sima stuffed a gem for him and said, "It's okay, sometimes you forget it, think about it and remember it." ”

The guard smiled: "Yes, I suddenly remembered that a few days ago, the people from the Red House seemed to have come, a man, who is said to be their boss, and I don't know." ”

"Uh-huh, your military posture is so charming. Keep it up! ”

Nangong Sima entered the City Lord's Mansion with a smile, and after entering the City Lord's office, City Lord Luo stood up from behind the desk and said with a smile: "Lord Sima, the progress of the development over there is not very fast, is there any problem?" ”

"There's no problem, I'll bring it to you if there is a problem. Hehe. ”

Nangong Sima smiled and put the bag of 100 gems into the underground corner of the main desk of Rock City. Said: "My lord, I am here to ask for something. ”

Locke pretended not to see it and said, "Is there any problem I can help?" ”

Nangong Sima said: "I want to apply for a construction plan, to build a castle on the prairie, it will take about 15 years, please approve this plan." ”

"Haha!" Locke laughed and said, "15 years? You don't want me to see it in my lifetime, do you? Ha ha! ”

Nangong Sima was embarrassed: "No way, my lord, by the time I develop the prairie, it is estimated that seven or eight years have passed, not to mention to build, where to buy wood, where will the water and stones come from, what if an enemy attacks me?" ”

"Isn't it close to the forest, and there is a water source in the nearby tribes?"

Nangong Sima smiled: "It seems that adults are also familiar with the grassland, I thought that adults only know more about the situation in the city." ”

Locke smiled and said, "In your own territory, you always have to master something." Otherwise, you won't be able to answer badly when asked. ”

Both of them laughed.

Nangong Sima said: "I still have something I want to ask for your consent, the manpower is really insufficient, send those prisoners to escape, I punished and killed a group, except for some cripples, there is no one left!" There is too little manpower! ”

"Didn't you recruit last time, how many people did you recruit?"

"More than 300 people, less than 400 people, but after I went, I ran a few ......"

"Of course I support this business, so do your best to recruit people, but I have to tell you in advance that there is a shortage of supplies, and who has and who doesn't depend on luck."

"Okay, with the consent of the adults, I can let go of these two things." Nangong Sima smiled and saluted, exited the room, turned around and walked out.

Nangong Sima then found Xingtian's Wrath, found the masked man, and told the masked man that if the masked man bought all the life potion materials on the market from now on, he would receive one for each of them, and then he would give the masked man a castle when the south developed it.

"Why should I believe you, you still owe me 400,000 gold coins for the potion that has not been refined." The masked man said.

Nangong Sima smiled: "400,000 is your investment." If you want to take it back, you'll have to join forces with me. What's more, you won't find anyone else to stand up to the Red House except me. ”

The masked man paused and said with a smile: "Then, as far as I know, the south belongs to the state, even if it is developed, it is not your private, how can you send it?" Where do I get it? ”

Nangong Sima's eyes lit up, and he said, "The south is my kingdom!" ”