Chapter 0348: Abandoned Manor
"I'm afraid that's not right." Guan Heng dissuaded in a low voice: "The door-to-door search is too big, if the gangsters panic in their hearts and jump under the wall to hurt Mrs. Linka, it will be counterproductive." β
"This ......" Commander Lacey's heart was burning at this time, and his mind was already a mess, so he had to ask Guan Heng for help: "Then do you have any good ideas?" β
"Well, I'll figure it out first."
Guan Heng said to Captain Hodley and Lessy: "In Digong City, I know some friends who are inconvenient to name, they are more familiar with the dynamics of the three religions and nine streams, as long as you strictly guard the city gate and do not let the gangsters take Mrs. Linka out of the city, I can take this opportunity to let my friends investigate the whereabouts of the gangsters in the city." β
Guan Heng paid attention to the position of the sun at this moment and calculated the time, and then said to Commander Laixi: "After half an hour, if there is no progress on my side, you can let the ironclad soldiers start to search the city, this is a last resort, please, you must give me half an hour to investigate alone." β
"Understood, it's all up to you, Mr. Guan Heng." Commander Lacey heard from Hodley about a lot of deeds in the royal capital, and thought that Guan Heng was a wise and brave person who could be trusted, so he agreed to Guan Heng's request.
A moment later, the stronghold of the Black Feather Raven, the shoe and hat shop, Guan Heng, told the person in charge, Jacques, about the abduction of Lady Linka.
"I've heard from the beggar liaison about Lady Linka's abduction." Jaco's eyebrows were furrowed at this time, and he paced back and forth in the living room twice, and said in a low voice: "But the strange thing is that before you arrived, I had already mobilized dozens of spies in Digong City to investigate the traces of the lady and the gangsters, but now there is no response. β
"Really?" Guan Heng was also a little surprised when he heard this: "If you want to say that the place in Digong City is not too big, can it be that these guys disappeared like air with Mrs. Linka?" β
At this moment, hurried footsteps suddenly came out of the door, and then a guy ran in, and he shouted in a hurry: "Mr. Jacques, Elder Guan Heng, there is the latest news." β
"What's the news?" Jacques and Guan Heng asked in unison, "Did you find traces of Lady Linka or those two gangsters?" β
"Uh, almost." The man saw the two of them staring at him with four eyes intensely, and his heart was inevitably a little hairy, and he immediately said: "Twenty minutes ago, one of our informants found traces of two men and a woman in an abandoned manor in the south of the city, and according to him, they looked like two gangsters with Mrs. Linka, but ......"
"But what?" Jacques said anxiously: "Don't ramble, make things clear!" β
The man hesitated and said, "Well, that's right, our men searched inside and out of the abandoned manor seven or eight times, but found no trace of those three men. β
"You're all rubbish!" Jacques shook his head and scolded: "In a place with a big palm, you can't find two men and a woman?!" It's all some dry rice eater idiots! β
"Forget it, Mr. Jacques." Guan Heng opened his mouth to persuade: "It's also a clue, you have already helped a lot, so leave the rest to me." β
"This ...... Mr. Guan Heng, will there be any danger if you go alone? Jacques said with some trepidation: "Otherwise, I will send a few people with you." β
"No, it's just a few thieves." Guan Heng said nonchalantly: "If there are too many people, you will be tied to your hands and feet, and all of you of the Black Feather Crow are good at intelligence gathering, not fighting and killing villains, and if you encounter danger, I will notify the ironclad soldiers led by Lacey to help, this is for everyone's safety." β
After listening to Guan Heng's seat, Jacques also felt a little reasonable, he bowed his head slightly and said, "Okay, if Mr. Guan Heng still needs to use us, please inform me immediately, I, Jacques, will definitely do my best to help." β
After a while, Guan Heng, who went to the abandoned manor, arrived at his destination, which covers a large area, and when you look inside from the ruins, there are long-abandoned courtyards and dilapidated houses.
At this moment, Guan Heng secretly thought: "The people of the Black Feather Raven said that the gangsters took Mrs. Linka and did not come out again after entering this abandoned manor, and they searched inside and out several times, but there was no trace of the three of them, which is really strange." β
"Anyway, let's go search first and see what happens." Guan Heng made up his mind and walked into the dilapidated living room of the largest in the manor.
Glancing around, Guan Heng found that the rooms here extend in all directions, and this living room also has seven or eight small doors leading to various rooms.
"Huh!" Guan Heng took out the metal cylinder and released the golden-eyed finch, and he said softly: "Big Bird, you are staring at the movement inside from the big tree at the gate of the abandoned manor, and if anyone wants to run out, stop them immediately!" β
The golden-eyed finch nodded slightly, and suddenly spread its wings and shook its feathers, landing on the big tree in the distance, using the dense canopy to cover its figure.
"Now, let me search this abandoned manor." Guan Heng muttered to himself, "Where should I start?" β
Thinking about it, Guan Heng unconsciously walked forward a dozen steps, when he looked down, he suddenly found that there were some messy footprints and traces of wet mud on the floor of this living room, not long ago, it had been drizzling here for less than an hour, and there was a shallow puddle at the entrance of the abandoned manor, the color of these wet mud was exactly the same as around the shallow puddle.
Guan Heng initially thought it was the person who was the Black Feather Crow, and he came in to search the footprints left by the manor, but he squatted down and took a closer look, and found that the middle part of some thin mud footprints was directly broken off in the brick joint, as if the middle was cut off by a knife, which looked very weird!
"I seem to understand that the floor tiles should have been lifted by someone, and when the people who did it put the tiles down, the footprints they left behind were separated by a few inches." Guan Heng secretly thought in his heart: "After the people of the Black Feather Crow came, they stepped on it indiscriminately, so they confused the previous footprints, but in fact, there are ...... under the tiles of this floor."
"Bang!" Guan Heng thought of this, waved his fist and gently knocked on the two-meter-square floor tile in front of him, only to hear a soft sound of "cluck, click", this floor tile has been silently shattered, Guan Heng smiled slightly at this time: "In fact, under this floor tile, there is a secret way!" β
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At the end of the tunnel under the abandoned manor, there is a soil cave of dozens of square meters, although the area is wide, but dim, damp, and the smell is extremely unpleasant.
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