"I don't know your senior brother, it was that person's letter that guided me to find him, but I have only secretly observed Chu Lekang, and I found out that his purpose was also to find the Shaman Spirit Palace." Ye Da sighed, "Although I followed him to Feibi Mountain, I found out later that he was with that Japanese, and I couldn't get close to questioning him." ”

Tang Qianlin suddenly thought of something: "I remember Takahashi Jiro said that on that rainy night back then, someone once sniped the captain of the Kwantung Army's exploration and garrison team, Toshiharu Shimomura, on a mountain a few hundred meters away? Did you do this? ”

Ye Dadao: "I did it, I was just entrusted by others." ”

Tang Qianlin asked: "Entrusted by others?" ”

Ye Dadao: "I have always been incognito and low-key, for fear of being discovered by the chasing soldiers. After I arrived in Fushun, I lived in a farmer's house temporarily, and the family treated me very well, and did not ask me who I was or where I came from, and was kind to me......"

In order to catch coolies to open mines, the Japanese army started with open recruitment, and later turned into forced kidnapping, and the men in the farmer's family who took in Yeda were kidnapped by Shimomura Toshiji, but when they went out, because they struggled to resist, they were shot dead on the spot by Shimomura Toshiji, which was considered an example.

Ye Dadao: "After the death of the man, his wife held the body of her man in a daze, and said to herself that she wanted to let Shimomura Toshiharu pay for her life, because they were kind to me, so I chose a suitable time to kill that bastard, that's all." ”

Tang Qianlin nodded: "Understood, by the way, is my senior brother's apprentice Ni Xiaowan?" ”

Ye Dadao: "It's indeed Ni Xiaowan, the girl who has been following you, why do you ask that?" Do you doubt her? ”

Tang Qianlin said: "Yes, I do doubt her, I always feel that she doesn't seem to be the real Ni Xiaowan, there are too many doubts." ”

Ye Dadao: "I don't know much about the actual situation, after all, I am only one person, and I have no skills, and your senior brother is not an ordinary person, it is difficult to continue to monitor him without him finding out." But the person who wrote to me seemed to know what I was going to do, and would write to me from time to time. ”

Tang Qianlin asked, "What is written in the letter?" ”

Ye Dadao: "There is no actual content, just like a letter from a relative, encouraging me, let me wait for your arrival with peace of mind, the first few days you arrived in Harbin, I received the letter, the letter was written in detail about the date of your arrival in Harbin and the number of trains." ”

Tang Qianlin said: "Then you are eyeing me?" ”

Ye Da said: "No, after that, the person on the letter instructed me to go to the Bone Temple and find Zhou Yu. ”

Tang Qianlin said: "In this way, the person who wrote the letter should be the one who controls all this behind his back, that is, the lone soldier who is helping Kyoji Miyake, strange, why does he know all this?" Why did he ask you to go to Wednesday Yu? ”

Ye Dadao: "He said in the letter, maybe the Bone Temple is the Shaman Spirit Palace, but to determine whether it is or not, you still need to cooperate." ”

Tang Qianlin asked again: "In that bone forest, why do you want to plot against us?" ”

Ye Da said: "He asked me to kill the Russian woman, saying that she would hinder my search for the Shaman's Spirit Palace. ”

Tang Qianlin was puzzled: "Why do you do what this person asks you to do?" ”

Ye Da shook his head: "I don't know, I always feel that this person knows my background, and maybe it's my relative, because the news he told me is true and reliable, and he has never harmed me, do you remember that you were ambushed by Qian Sinian in the Bone Temple?" I had already heard from him before that, so I could have escaped in the first place. ”

Tang Qianlin shook his head: "You don't doubt this person?" ”

Ye Da said: "What if I doubt it? I can't control the situation at all, I can only take one step at a time, and besides, I don't even know who I am. ”

Tang Qianlin sat there pondering, and said to himself, "Why did he ask you to kill Nazuka? Why kill Nazuka at that time? Could it be that Nazuka is also his man, and he wants to kill people? Or ......"

Tang Qianlin suddenly thought of something, and suddenly got up and said, "Yes, maybe you and I are the same as those leopard slaves, whose memories are blocked by hypnosis, and this person is afraid that our memories will be opened by people like Nazuka." ”

Ye Da said: "You mean, we have to go to Nazuka and ask her to use hypnotism on us, maybe we can retrieve our memories?" ”

Tang Qianlin sat down again: "No, since you don't want us to retrieve our memories, why do you want to lead me to the Nightmare Flower?" ”

Ye Da shook his head: "I don't know why, anyway, I just want to find the Shaman Spirit Palace quickly now, you better read Gu Yunrong's diary first, maybe there will be any clues in it." ”

Tang Qianlin flipped through the diary, and after turning the first page and seeing the first few lines, he trembled, and the diary in his hand almost fell off the ground.

Seeing this, Ye Da hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Tang Qianlin looked at the first page of the diary in surprise: "How, how could it be ......?"

Ye Da took the diary and saw that on the first page, there were four words written on it, "I am a lone army", and the next content was that Gu Yunrong confessed that she was a member of the lone army, and in order to find out a secret, she sneaked into the hunt.

Ye Da was also surprised: "Gu Yunrong is also alone? ”

Tang Qianlin looked at the page and said, "If Gu Yunrong is alone, and my master is helping her, and my senior brother is also helping her, does it mean that my master and senior brother are also ......?"

Ye Da looked at Tang Qianlin and nodded: "Yes, Lone Army, the normal logic should be like this." ”

Tang Qianlin got up and walked back and forth: "How can this be, how can there be lonely soldiers everywhere?" What exactly does this organization want to do? ”

Ye Da handed over the diary: "You read Gu Yunrong's diary first, anyway, we have time now, however, I suggest that after you finish reading, don't tell anyone else about it, including Li Yunfan and Yi Mochen." ”

Tang Qianlin took the diary and sat down again.

The first half of Gu Yunrong's diary is basically written about how she skillfully infiltrated the capture with the help of the organization, and how she became the catcher. At the same time, she also clearly wrote that she left this diary, and if anyone found out, she would be dead, and whether it was a lone soldier or a hunt, she would be killed.

But she had to write a diary, because only in this way could she prove that she was alive, existed in this world, and was not a void existence.

Gu Yunrong's words give people a kind of loneliness that penetrates into the bone marrow, while she tries to make everyone around her believe in her, she is extremely wary of them, and she doesn't trust anyone, not even her own connector in the lonely army.

Moreover, Gu Yunrong didn't know what the meaning of her existence was?

Could it be that every lone soldier is like this? Is this true for summer frost? The same is true of the person behind all this? Master and Senior Brother are also living in confusion? If He Chenxue is also alone, is she also like this?

If so, something might explain it.

However, in each diary, Gu Yunrong wrote a similar sentence at the end - what is that thing we are looking for? Does it really exist?

What does this mean?

Gu Yunrong was in charge of managing the archives in the hunt, so she knew a lot of secrets inside the hunt, which was why she could easily take away the "Kyushu Ten Thousand Beasts" and "Guzhou Demon Words" after receiving the order to escape from the hunting organization.

But after Gu Yunrong fled, she did not immediately go to the northeast, but fled all over the Central Plains.

"If it weren't for Xiahou Shidao's help, I'm afraid I would have been killed long ago." Tang Qianlin read this sentence in the diary, which showed that her master was indeed helping Gu Yunrong, but she did not write in the diary whether Xiahou Shidao's identity was alone or not.

After fleeing from various places for about a year, Gu Yunrong arrived in Tohoku as an archaeologist who had returned from studying abroad under the instructions of the connector, and began to wait for an opportunity to approach Utsunomiya Motohito, the director of the Manchurian Railway.

Gu Yunrong had spent a lot of time studying Utsunomiya Motohito, and she needed to know everything about this man.

Why do you want to approach Utsunomiya Motohito?

The reason is very simple, this company, called South Manchuria Railway Co., Ltd., referred to as Manchurian Railway, on the surface, is simply operating the railway, but in fact it is a comprehensive intelligence organization. This organization conducts surveys of the products and natural resources of Tohoku and provides political, economic, and social information for the policies of the Japanese government.

A number of investigative agencies were set up under the Manchurian Railway, all of which were composed of scholars and students from well-known Japanese universities in related fields. This is a large, shrewd and capable investigation team that systematically and systematically investigates and understands China's political and economic situation and customs.

In other words, Manchurian investigators knew more about Northeast China than the Chinese at the time.

As for how detailed their report is, it can be clearly reflected in Gu Yunrong's diary.

Gu Yunrong transcribed part of Mantie's investigation report in her diary, which is roughly divided into three parts: investigation time, investigators, and investigation content.

Take the investigation report of the 8th Economic Survey Team of the 14th Division of the Qiqihar Division from November 5 to January 19 of the following year (1933) from November 5 to January 19 of the following year.

The survey consisted of 42 people from various departments such as water quality, geology, natural resources, general economy, and agricultural resources.

The report records in great detail from the time of their departure, the number of days they stayed in a certain place, what they did, and even what they ate for three meals.

The contents of their investigation include the historical evolution of the place, the situation of households, the number of people in each household, and even the number of people in each agricultural, commercial, and industrial household.

What's even more terrifying is that they even recorded how many tools such as plows, planting plows, pickaxes, shovels, and iron rakes for vegetable gardens were in the farmers' homes, and even marked the estimated service life of the tools.

So, not to mention how detailed they are about other surveys.

This is the main reason why Gu Yunrong tried her best to get close to Utsunomiya Yuanren, only through the Manchurian Railway, she could find the location that the lone soldier had been trying to find in the easiest way, and she could enter the place without being suspected.

In addition, Gu Yunrong's disguised identity is an archaeologist, so she is interested in the affairs of Mantetsu, which is also a matter of course in the eyes of Utsunomiya Motohito.