Chapter 54: Clues

What people?!

In an instant, Zhao Yan's right arm crossed the elbow and crashed into the armpit of the ghost-faced man, and at the same time held the umbrella handle upside down with his left hand, the umbrella surface opened angrily with a "bang", and the backhand fanned the ghost-faced man's head, the latter just blocked the empty door under the armpit, and noticed the strong wind blowing on his face, and immediately buckled Zhao Yan's right arm and pulled it back, and the whole person rubbed shoulders with him, and the small bone spurs hidden under the umbrella edge could be scraped from the side of his face, cutting off a strand of messy hair.

After the wrong body, Zhao Yan stepped on the umbrella handle and stood on the pool, the umbrella surface was like a ship, lining a big living person as light as a feather, and the ghost-faced man knew that his light skills were far above himself at a glance!

The night pearl fell to the ground in the battle just now, and the turquoise glow could only faintly illuminate their shadows, Zhao Yan stared at the ghost-faced man for a moment, seeing that his body shape and posture were very different from the man in Tsing Yi, and asked in a low voice, "Who is Your Excellency?" ”

"You're Zhaoyan." The ghost-faced man's voice was hoarse and low, obviously deliberately suppressing his voice to speak, "Dare to come back after killing someone, are you really not afraid of ghosts?" ”

"I don't do bad things in my life, and I'm not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night." Zhao Yan sneered, "But Your Excellency is so sneaky, and he indiscriminately slaps a black hand at me, is it a thief shouting to catch a thief?" ”

The ghost-faced man didn't say anything, he suddenly took a step out of his feet, Zhao Yan only felt that there was a flower in front of him, and the figure came to the front of him, raising his palm to hit the door in front of him, he was not stunned at all, his body was folded in the air, he held the umbrella handle and raised it, a splash of water rose in a row, and the head and face were hit at the ghost-faced man, seemingly light and powerless, each one hit the body like an iron lotus seed and hurt, and it was inevitable that ordinary people would be in a hurry, but he saw that the ghost-faced man drew a circle with his palms, and the internal force stirred and surged like a wave, and the water droplets were all shaken open by him, and a thousand catties fell under his feet, Straight towards Zhao Yan's back!

Zhao Yan was not in a hurry, closed the umbrella and blocked it with his backhand, and the person also flew out with his strength, the ghost-faced man missed a blow, and the next move pressed over, but seeing him tear off the gold bead hanging on the branch Bai Lian, he threw his backhand over his shoulder, Bai Lian came like a dragon out of the water to devour people, Zhao Yan flashed sideways, and the gold bead hit the place where he was standing just now, and the stone brick immediately cracked, which shows how shocking and strong this soft and boneless weapon is!

The ghost-faced man is obviously very good at whipping, this time he grabbed Bai Lian in his hand, and the shot was swift and without delay, and the sound of Bai Lian breaking through the sky was endless, as if a white dragon demon showed its original form in this cave, and all he saw in front of him was a white shadow flying by, suppressing Zhaoyan in a dilemma, and his heart gradually came back to his senses, and he scolded this ghost-faced man more than eight times.

There are no more and no less whip masters on the rivers and lakes, Luo Bingyan is one of the best, creating a set of jade dragon whip methods, killing many enemies, but her whip method takes the road of overcoming rigidity with softness, and many whip methods are similar, heavy and fast and light strength, but the whip method of the ghost-faced man in front of him is different from others, not only smart and changeable, but also fierce and fierce, obviously the way to reduce ten will be a force.

Zhao Yan has only seen this kind of whip method in the hands of one person, and he is higher than the ghost-faced man in front of him, but there are similarities between the two, if it has nothing to do with it, I am afraid that a fool will not believe it.

In an instant, a thought appeared in Zhao Yan's heart, he looked at the ghost-faced man's cold eyes, and vaguely saw a familiar shadow, and suddenly felt a sense of absurdity of lifting a stone to hit his own feet.

Annoyed, a sentence of "sick ghost" immediately came to his mouth, and was suppressed by reason, Zhao Yan secretly said in his heart: "Okay, you, I passed down the exercises to save your life, but you want to take revenge, see how I clean you up!" ”

After making up his mind, Zhao Yan flew out of the gap, Luo Umbrella opened again, Jin Zhu smashed on it with a thousand strengths, and did not break this seemingly ordinary and simple umbrella piercing hole, the ghost-faced man was stunned for a moment, and immediately noticed that something was wrong, his body flew out obliquely like a swallow, and finally took a step slower, his right shoulder was grabbed by Zhao Yan's fingers, and the fingernails were clearly cut off, and the sliding down was actually torn into the flesh, and five narrow blood marks immediately appeared from the shoulder to the wrist, and before he could break free, Zhao Yan's free left hand also fell on his elbow, Pushing inward and pulling out at the same time, but when he heard the sound of "click", the ghost-faced man only felt a sharp pain explode between the two bones, and the pain was so painful that he lost his strength for a while, and the golden bead Bai Lian flew out, and the person was also kicked into the hot spring water by Zhao Yan.

Fortunately, after a day and a night, the medicinal power in the hot spring water had already been exhausted, and when the ghost-faced man climbed ashore, there was no trace of Zhao Yan in sight, and the slippery guy obviously ran away after bargaining!

"Bastard!" The ghost-faced man scolded secretly, knowing that with Zhao Yan's light achievements, he would never be able to catch up.

The ghost-faced man saw the firelight from far to near through the gap in the rockery, and knew that this place was not suitable for a long time, so he hung the golden bead Bai Lian back to the tree, picked up the night pearl that fell to the ground and put it in his arms, kicked it under his feet, stepped on two mountain rocks in a row, and got out of the dome as light as a swallow, and got out from under the sloping mountain wall.

The ghost-faced man carefully bypassed the guards, sneaked all the way back to the foot of the mountain, found a dark corner to change out of his night clothes, took off his hideous mask, and revealed a handsome face that was still full of sickness.

Fang Yongyan's face was gloomy, and he threw his night clothes and mask down the mountain stream, still feeling angry in his heart.

It is not a whim for him to visit the hot springs at night tonight, because there are many people during the day, and he is a well-known "embroidered pillow", it is inevitable to be constrained when he starts to do things, since the weak water palace is pressing step by step, rather than staying by Jiang Pingchao's side, it is better to stay openly, no matter how vicious Shen Luoyue and the others are, they will not dare to rashly do anything to him within the three-day time limit.

However, the facts are often unsatisfactory, first Jiang Yanluo didn't worry about him anyway, and took Qiu Niang to stay in Xianyu Villa to take care of him, and then Luo Bingyan's body was sealed and placed, he was an outsider, and he was not an experienced man, so he naturally couldn't take another look.

The only fortunate thing is that with Qiu Niang here, Fang Yongyan said that he would send Liu Yishou to take care of Jiang Pingchao and the others, without such an inseparable watch, Shi Yu is a simple-minded person, and he was easily fooled into falling asleep, Qiu Niang guarded Jiang Yanluo and lived in the courtyard next door, as long as he was careful, he would not alarm them.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Fang Yongyan decided to go to the hot spring again, looking for clues that might have been missed during the day, but he didn't expect that the place was very lively tonight, and there were already uninvited guests who arrived before him.

Fang Yongyan saw Zhao Yan in Xiangmanlou that day, and the other party didn't mean to hide it, so he recognized the person at a glance.

For a while, the wound hidden in Fang Yongyan's sleeve was faintly painful, and he gritted his teeth with hatred, and quickly calmed down.

There is something very wrong with this case.

If it was according to the previous conjecture, Zhao Yan came to avenge the daughter of the old palace master, after Luo Bingyan's death, his task had been completed, and he only needed to try to escape from the city, there was no need to take a big risk to return to Xianyu Villa, even if he wanted to take something as a sacrifice or a voucher, Jin Zhu Bai Lian hung there, and he didn't see him move.

He came to the hot spring cave tonight, more like himself, looking for something in the dead of night, nothing more than an important item or clue left behind during the killing.

Fang Yongyan is inclined to the latter, but unfortunately he wants to hide his identity and can't talk openly and honestly with Zhao Yan, maybe there will be an unexpected gain.

Thinking so crankily, Fang Yongyan was destined to not be able to sleep tonight, he was about to find a place to rest temporarily, when a gust of mountain wind blew, and the tip of his nose smelled a smell of sulfur.

There was no one here, Fang Yongyan was stunned for a moment before he realized that the smell was emanating from his body, the cave was difficult to disperse, and the smell of sulfur was stronger than that of ordinary hot springs, so Luo Bingyan used spices to neutralize it, but now that she is dead, the incense burner is cold, and the smell of sulfur is very domineering, even if he has only been in the water for a few breaths, his whole body is stained with a strong smell of sulfur.

Luo Bingyan died in the hot spring pool, and there was no trace of blood left on the surrounding stone walls and floor tiles, indicating that the murderer cut her throat in the pool, and the blood was splashed in the water.

Looking at the entire weak water palace, there are not many people who can be allowed to enter the hot spring cave, the eighteen guards who have died do not have this smell on them, but the two servants do, they serve Luo Bingyan all year round, they must be the people she believes, it is not surprising that they have this smell on their bodies.

Wen Rou San's medicinal properties for people with strong martial arts are becoming more and more intense, Luo Bingyan knows it well, and she should be alerted by the medicinal properties just after the attack, what will she do at that time? Naturally, it is to let in trustworthy people.

"We were wrong......"

Cold sweat inadvertently slipped from the corners of her forehead, and Fang Yongyan realized that they had made a big mistake!

In normal times, the person who can kill Luo Bingyan must be a top master, but she is gentle and scattered, and a move of internal force will only catalyze medicinal properties, even an ordinary person who doesn't know martial arts can kill her!

Fang Yongyan didn't say a word, turned around and ran.

Luo Bingyan is the palace master, her body is stored in the underground ice cave, the eighteen guards do not have such treatment, the body is stacked in an empty room, there are few guards, and now they are napping, Leng Buding saw Fang Yongyan coming, and immediately stopped the door and asked: "Young Master Fang, what are you doing here at night?" ”

"Think of some clues, let's take a look." Fang Yongyan had no intention of talking nonsense with them at the moment, "If you are not at ease, you can go in with me." ”

The gatekeepers glanced at each other and sent a clever one to follow him in, Fang Yongyan didn't care, and after entering, he directly tore off all the eighteen corpse coverings, revealing the shirtless corpse underneath.

Eighteen guards, eighteen heart-piercing sword wounds, it seems that one person did it.

Fang Yongyan looked at these corpses carefully, and his fingers stroked the wounds inch by inch, as if looking at his closest lover, which made the people of the weak water palace who followed him stunned, thinking that this sick man was guilty of hysteria or some quirk, and he was almost called a person.

After a while, Fang Yongyan withdrew his hand, and his face sank like water.

These eighteen people all died last night, and the stiffness of the corpses and the spread of corpse spots should be about the same, but he touched and pressed a little bit, and found that the bodies of five of them were extremely stiff.

He remembered the layout of the hot spring cave, the eighteen guards were divided into five groups, guarding the front and back, left and right in five directions, if there were five long-planned killers mixed in, and then they all attacked together, could they kill the others in the same group by surprise?

Of course, it can.

Fang Yongyan looked at these corpses, quickly connected the clues, and tried to restore what happened last night in his mind-

After the banquet, Elder Huo went to find a healer to heal his wounds, Shen Luoyue sent him and Liu Yishou into the guest room and left, Luo Bingyan went back to the dormitory to get a change of clothes and incense burner, and went to the hot spring cave to practice on the third watch, eighteen guards scattered in all directions, and two servants waited outside the rockery with sprinkler cleaning tools. It didn't take long for Luo Bingyan to notice that something was wrong, with her cautious and cautious nature, she would never expose her weakness to the strong guards, so she forced her composure and called the two servants in as usual, and they went into the water to help her up, but she didn't expect to suddenly attack, one covered her mouth, and the other cut her throat.

The servants were sure that she was dead, went ashore to change the clothes they had brought in advance, hid the bloody clothes and the murder weapon back in the barrel, and walked out pretending that nothing had happened, and when the two of them walked out of the cave, the five killers received a signal at the same time, and immediately took out their swords to kill the guards around them, and then dragged the five guards who had been killed in advance to fill their vacancies, and then took the things in the hands of the servants and retreated, creating the appearance of foreign murderers.

When this was done, the two servants returned to their original positions and waited quietly as usual until the fifth watch came.

"I should have understood......

Fang Yongyan muttered to herself, others only felt inexplicable, and couldn't help but ask, "Young Master Fang, what do you understand?" ”

"Where are the two servants?" Fang Yongyan suddenly turned his head and looked at him, startling him.

Before the man could react, he stammered, "Which, which two?" ”

"It's the two people who are waiting for the Luo Palace Lord to bathe!" Fang Yongyan said sharply, "Where are they, take me over!" ”

In a hurry, Fang Yongyan leaked a little momentum, and his strong martial breath turned into an invisible force, which made people breathless, only to feel that the sick and weak son in front of him had become very strange and terrifying, and all his thoughts flew out of the clouds, and he hurriedly said: "You, you come with me......"

He crawled on the ground to lead the way, not noticing that the weak Fang Yongyan could keep up with him, and soon arrived at the side courtyard where the rough envoy lived, knocked on the door and shouted a few times, the porter rubbed his eyes and walked out, he wanted to scold, but he saw Fang Yongyan's face by the firelight, and then he reined in, and his expression was still dissatisfied.

Fang Yongyan was too lazy to care about this, and directly said the intention, the porter thought about it, and said, "Those two mothers-in-law, they are not here." ”

"What?" The person leading the way was stunned for a moment, "Didn't Shen Protector order that they were not allowed to go out?" ”

"Yes, but soon after nightfall, they were taken away by Elder Huo, saying that they were interrogated."

Fang Yongyan's face suddenly changed greatly, he didn't have time to say a few more words, and hurried to the dungeon of the Weak Water Palace, but it was too late.

The two servants were tied to the shelf, covered in blood, and no longer alive.