The man frightened and invited the woman to a teahouse not far away, opened a private room by the window in the top pavilion, and ordered a pot of Wuyan Cliff iron leaves. The best Wuyan Cliff iron leaves only grow on the backlit windward side of the Wuyan Ridge in the Xuqin Mountains within the territory of the Xiling Empire, with an altitude of 3,000 to 3,500 meters above sea level, with a slope of more than 70 degrees, and the entrance is bitter and the aftertaste is sweet. Three or four tea leaves with the size of a fingernail are enough to make a pot of strong tea, and some tea drinkers who don't like strong tea can spend an afternoon with just one piece of Wuyan Cliff iron leaf. This kind of Wuyan Cliff iron leaf needs to be soaked in warm water at 60 degrees repeatedly seven to eight times before brewing, and it takes a lot of effort to wake up the tea each time. Therefore, unless it is a tea customer who has a lot of time, he generally does not order Wuyan Cliff Iron Leaf.

He specially instructed that the tea should be served when it was awake. The waiter in the teahouse was quite eye-catching, and immediately understood what the man meant, and immediately withdrew.

Seeing that there was no one around, the man finally couldn't help but speak: "I don't know, what is the matter with the charm general looking for the little one?"

How can there be a dull person who can mix well in the reverse current, he saw that this beautiful but terrifying female charm general did not directly pinch her cervical vertebrae, and immediately realized that she was looking for something to ask for. As for what it was, he had already guessed seven or eight times out of ten, but he still had a hint of luck.

Mr. Bu said this, but he asked knowingly. I don't know, what's the matter with the envoy looking for Mr.?"

The woman's words instantly shattered his luck psychology.

"Yes······ For the sake of the fragment. He said in a dry voice.

"Yes, I heard that the gentleman has a clue. ”

"Not a clue, but a ······" The man kept rubbing his palms, "Rather······ It's already there. ”

"Oh?" the woman raised her eyebrows at the sight of his strange behavior.

"Yes, that's right. The man seemed to muster up a lot of courage, "Actually, I should have died at the hands of the charm department a long time ago, and it was the envoy of the Xi who spared my life." Since then, I have had a triple identity, ostensibly as the head of the arsenal of the Yisang City Defense Army, and secretly as the killer of the countercurrent mercenary group, but in fact I am the eye of the envoy of Xi in the mercenary world. ”

"Later, the envoy gave me a task to search for an ancient fragment. After much inquiry, I finally got the fragment in my hands, but at this time, the envoy did not contact me. So, I hid the fragment. But then, things were lost. I have a one-way contact with Envoy Xi, he doesn't look for me, and I don't dare to look for him, after all, I was the killer of the Countercurrent Mercenary Group. After that, the envoy was transposed, and Master Xiu became the new envoy, and I didn't dare to contact the charm department. I just didn't expect you guys to come so quickly. ”

"Lost it?

"I'm in charge of the eleventh arsenal of the Yisang City Defense Army, and I'm used to casting some items that haven't had time to trade in weapons and sealing them. This method is very stealthy and there are never accidents. However, just a few months ago, there was a theft of Arsenal Eleven, and a batch of weapons was lost. That batch of weapons was of little value, and the military department raised the alert level and did not care too much. But when I checked it, I found that the weapon containing the secret scroll was also missing. ”

"The dignified Yisang City Defense Army was broken by a snitch like this, which really gave the empire a long face. The woman chuckled, but the coldness in her eyes was undisguised.

This is too arbitrary, since ancient times, there have been many strange people. Didn't the treasury of the Yisang Palace be invaded by a snitch back then? Hearing this, the man was also a little unhappy in his heart, and he shot back without thinking too much. However, as soon as the words came out, he regretted it, and looked at the charm in front of him with some fear.

"Did the snitch leave any traces?" the woman didn't seem to pay attention to the man's words.

He knocked the guards of the arsenal unconscious, and was later discovered by the patrol, so he killed the soldiers who came to support him, and fled from Yisang City. I chased after him and fought him in the woods on the outskirts of the city. ”

"The result?"

The man suddenly pulled down his collar, only to see a scar extending from his collarbone and down into his shirt.

"Not his opponent, let him run. The man let go of his collar and, to put it mildly, skipped a terrible battle.

"Can you guess who he is?"

"No need to guess, I can vouch for him with my life. The man's eyes suddenly became fierce, "Probe the sword." ”

Tanner Sword, a well-known figure in the rivers and lakes in recent years, the number one thief of the Countercurrent Mercenary Group. He only steals, not kills, but he also shows no mercy when it is time to see blood. A thin sword is haunted, and it can take people's lives under the face. The sword out of a probing hand, even as a ghost hook soul, the people of the rivers and lakes called "probing sword".

"How can you be sure?"

"Not an inch, half a step away, the distance between the two swords, the soul of the probe. I was more than arm's length away from him, out of range of his rapille. As a result, he suddenly burst into the sword, leaving the same scar on my chest, but his body did not move. This is his famous skill, and it is also the origin of his name 'Probing Sword', I can't be mistaken. Moreover, he only knocked the arsenal guard unconscious, but he didn't kill him, and he didn't kill me after defeating me. This is the style of the probe sword, which only steals, not kills. Only he would."

"He's coming for the splinter?"

"No way, Countercurrent never issued a task about the fragment. ”

"Maybe he got information from another source?"

"Then it's impossible to know that the fragment is hidden in the arsenal. ”

"Then why would he, a first-class snitch, take such a big risk to steal a pile of worthless scrap metal?"

"Who knows, no matter how famous he is, he's still a thief after all. The thief didn't go empty, maybe his goal was not the arsenal, but there was something wrong with the plan, and he had to give up, so he took a few weapons halfway. ”

"Sounds convincing. The woman chuckled and got up to leave, "Drink this tea yourself, we'll see you next time." ”

"Next time!" Hearing this, the man was startled and hurriedly got up, "Lord Charm, I am the eyeliner of the envoy Xi, and now that the position of the envoy has changed hands, I have nothing to do with the charm department." Is this the end of our cooperation?"

"Cooperation? When did I say we were working together?"

"This ······"

The woman's eyes were cold, and she left with a word.

"The sunrise shines through the western mountain pass, the wild partridges have frost in their eyes, and the black eaves are coated with wax. (You are given two paths, either die as a mercenary or live for the Charms.) ）

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Meifu, Xiu didn't take off the ghost mask, a map was placed on the table in front of her, and there were more than ten small red dots scattered on it. Xiu held his forehead with his left hand and a brush in his right hand, wanting to fall several times, and lifting it several times, and finally could only helplessly dip ink on the inkstone to play.

The map had been given to her by Mr. Bu, and the red dots on it were the marks of the suspected mission she had collected for the Detective Sword, and next to each red dot was a detailed description of the mission. Some of these tasks had already been detected by the Phantom Department, and it was impossible for them to be done by the Detective Sword, so Xiu crossed them out. Excluding some temporal conflicts, there are still a lot of messy red dots left. Among them, there is a particularly large red dot, which is in the center of Yisang City, and it is the theft of the secret vault of Yisang Palace five years ago.

In this case, the thieves infiltrated the palace disguised as the Oiler, but instead of killing the real Oiler, he was knocked unconscious and tied up in his home. The captain of the guard, who first discovered his hiding place, was only slashed at the wrist and ankle. A shocking case that caused a sensation in the entire mercenary world, and the final casualties were not enough to catch up with a street fight, which is very in line with the style of "only stealing, not killing" of the detective sword.

According to Mr. Bu's marking, the Huashi Jade Pagoda stolen from the secret vault had a reward of 20,000 gold coins, and it had been hung on the countercurrent mission list for more than half a year without anyone caring about it. At that time, the probe sword had not long been in the industry, and its reputation was not good. After that, he and several other mercenaries who became famous earlier completed several tasks together, and his name and style gradually spread, and the mercenary world linked him with the thief who dared to steal to the Yisang Palace.

A mere Huashi jade pagoda is a dime a million for the Xiling Empire, oh no, it's just a dime. The military department was greatly enraged, not only the army was reshuffled, but even the officers were all removed, and only the patrol team that first noticed the abnormality was promoted. In this regard, Shan Huaixi, who was the emperor of Xiling, did not have a seizure, but ordered the cancellation of all wanted notices for the snitch, and made a list to the world: all people in the rivers and lakes, those who have the ability to steal property in my palace, as long as they can take even half a step out of the palace alive, no matter what he steals, I will not be to blame in the past, and the knight who stole the Huashi Jade Pagoda, as long as he is willing to join the military department or the charm department, I will personally meet the Yisang city gate.

As soon as this order came out, it undoubtedly showed the heroic appearance of the heroic lord of Shan Huai, and the people in the rivers and lakes all admired and admired his heroic spirit. Over the years, there have indeed been people who are not afraid of death who have tried to replicate the Miyagi robbery, but they have not even left a complete corpse. There are also some desperate people who try to disguise themselves as the snitches of the past and blend into the white road to make a living, but because the details in the case do not match, they show their feet and die extremely poorly. From beginning to end, the most suspicious probe sword in the mercenary world has not been revealed.

"Detective Sword, if that snitch back then was really you, the two of us would have to settle the old and new accounts. As soon as Xiu remembered the events of that year, his chest ached faintly, and his heart was even more ashamed and angry, and he couldn't help gritting his teeth. That damn guy, it doesn't matter if he slaps the military department in the face, he still puts himself in the most ······ The most admired Xi Shangenvoy lost face in front of him, and even slashed at the ······ with a sword Chop in ······ Chop it on your chest. Injured, she didn't want to reveal her woman's identity, so she didn't dare to seek medical treatment in the charm department, and found a civilian medical center in the strange eyes of her companions. She wasn't wearing the costume of a charm general at the time, and the way Lang Zhong looked at herself made her almost want to find a crack in the ground to get into.

Speaking of Shang Envoy Xi, I don't know how he is, is he still alive? Xiu suddenly remembered the figure of that man, and a smile unconsciously appeared on the face covered by the ghost mask, and he suddenly woke up, shook his head fiercely, and cleared the messy thoughts out of his mind.

What kind of person is this?

According to Mr. Bu's recollection, the figure of the probing sword was that of a man, with a medium to tall stature, a thin body, and did not appear to be very strong. The swordsmanship is exquisite, and he is also proficient in some small secret techniques. He can be regarded as extraordinary, but if he is compared to a top master like the legendary leader of the mercenary world, "Yan Hong", he still has a big gap.

Steal, not kill······ Xiu muttered in his heart, picked up the pen, and slowly wrote down the word "weak". Two seconds later, she erased the "weakness" again, wrote down a "soft-heartedness", and added another "kindness" on the side. She didn't look at it for long, and then crossed out the words again.

She examined the missions in detail, and found that most of them had one thing in common, that the probe sword would leave some pranks on the scene. Once, he sneaked into Zhang's Mansion in Haoyuan City, and as a result, most of the people in Zhang's Mansion went out of the city to worship, leaving only the lady with a big belly. As a result, the lady was born prematurely, and the guy in the mask actually went to help deliver the baby on a whim. Then, before the people of Zhangfu rushed back, in front of a group of maids and subordinates, all the valuables that could be taken away were swept away. Despite this, he never left anything related to his identity, not even footprints.

"Naïve", "careless", "active", "skillful", and "cautious" Xiu wrote down a series of words, some of which even had completely opposite meanings, but quickly erased them all. After being silent for a long time, she slowly put down her pen and wrote the word "young".

The Tanner Sword is a young man, and he is by no means a young man, he is a flamboyant person, and his actual age may be a little older than his mental age.

Compared to other counter-current mercenaries who only operate in a stable area, the probe sword's movements can be found in almost every corner of the Xiling Empire. Xiu tried to cross out some cluttered dots, and found that in recent years, the whereabouts of the probe sword have always revolved around the same place: Yisang City.

No, for a person living in Yisang, the radius of activity of the Tanner Sword is still too large. So, Xiu began to compare the time of these tasks again.

Gradually, the Xiu Ti pen drew a small arc on the periphery of Yisang City.

It seems that the Tanshou Sword is centered on Yisang and is constantly moving.

Then he should be in the northwest direction of Yisang now.

In the end, Xiu gently clicked the pen on Haoyuan City.

Hopefully, the fish will bite the hook.