The night was silent, and the crescent moon had just climbed into the treetops. In the bedroom of Yisang Mei Mansion, Xi was still in the costume of a charming general, sitting on the edge of the bed. Ling Chuyi lay in Xi's arms, and Xi stroked her long hair.

"Are you leaving?" Ling Chuyi asked softly with her eyes closed.

"Yes, when you are asleep, I will go. Xi's tone was gentle.

"Where are you going?"

"Jifeng City. If you're willing to go, I can take you to see it. ”

"Me?" Ling Chuyi opened her eyes suddenly, and immediately dimmed, "Forget it, it's too far, thank you." ”

"What do I have to be thankful for?" Under the ghost mask, a trace of sadness flashed in Xi's eyes, "Have you ever been out of Yisang City?"

"Just once. Ling Chuyi closed her eyes again, "That's the time you rescued me." ”

"Same as when I was a kid. At that time, I always wanted to go outside Yisang City, but the people in my family did not allow me to go out. Later, I found out that there was a place in Yisang City where I could go out secretly. ”

"What?" Hearing this, Ling Chuyi's heartbeat skipped a beat.

"It is the sluice gate of the southern city wall of Yisang City, which connects the canal in Yisang City and a branch of the Zhuan River. The standard sluice bearing should have ninety-one teeth, but at that time, the people in the Ministry of Engineering embezzled money, and the gear of the bearing was one circle smaller, and the tooth was one less, and the gap between the teeth was too large, and the bite was not tight. The operation cycle of the sluice gate is one year, and the large cycle is divided into 36 small cycles. After a large cycle, the gears of the sluice gate will be offset to a certain gap, and return to their positions after a small cycle. Unless you know the inside story, outsiders can't see that there is a problem with the sluice. ”

"And how do you know?"

"At that time, the person in charge of the project in the Ministry of Justice was investigated by the Ministry of Justice, and the son of the person in charge of the case in charge of the Ministry of Justice was interning at the Ministry of Government. The people from the Ministry of Labor bribed my father, and my father held a banquet at home, and the three of them reached an agreement, and the officials protected each other, and the matter was suppressed. I eavesdropped on the whole thing. ”

"And then?"

"Later, I've been going to the sluice gates ever since. Finally, it was discovered that the beginning of July every year is the time when the sluice bearing is deviated, and the offset gap is enough for one person to enter and exit. Since then, I've been sneaking out from there to play. ”

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It was late at night, Xi gently picked up the sleeping Ling Chuyi, put it on the bed, kissed her affectionately on the forehead, and turned to leave. Pushing open the door, two ghost-masked generals had been waiting in the courtyard for a long time.

"I've seen the Envoy. Seeing Xi, the two bowed their heads and saluted.

"Let's go!"

A month ago, the charm department received information: the Ministry of Engineering of Jifeng City made an illicit communication with the ancient kingdom of Jingchuan and betrayed the defense fortification map of Jifeng City and nearby cities. The charm department sent someone to investigate, and as a result, the two charm generals sent died in the ministry hall together with the ministry envoy, and none of the guards survived.

In the early morning two days later, the three of them rushed to Jifeng City. The Ministry of Works has been locked down, and the other four Charms are maintaining the site.

There was not a single witness, not even a single suspect, and all that went through the scene was corpses everywhere. Some of the corpses were killed by a huge blow, some were stabbed to death by sharp objects, and some were badly torn wounds. The Ministry of Labor was strangled to death. The deaths of the two generals were particularly ugly, unlike the other deceased, they should have resisted before they died. One of the weapons of the two is a short-handled crescent halberd, and the other is an eight-sided plum blossom hammer, as a result, the crescent halberd curls the blade, the handle of the eight-sided hammer is broken, the hammer head is deformed, and the wrist bone of the charm is crushed and fractured.

The incident was defensive, and the patrol team of the Ministry of Affairs was not aware of it. In the entire Ministry of Industry, no one had time to raise the alarm.

"Lu, what's the situation?" Xi casually grabbed the copy on the table and opened it to look at it.

"There are two points. A general stood at the bottom of the lobby and replied, the nail of his right thumb was black and long, "The injuries of the deceased varied, at first we thought they were the work of different people, but later we found out that they were all caused by the same weapon. ”

"What?"

"Trident, and it's an extraordinarily heavy trident. It causes sharp wounds when stabbed forward, and severe lacerations when slashed due to its weight. Since he could use a trident of this weight, the murderer's strength must have surpassed that of ordinary people, and the heavy blows on the bodies of the other deceased may have also been caused by him. ”

In other words, although the injuries of the deceased varied, it cannot be ruled out that it was a master. Xi still flipped through the copy in his hand, "Did he deliberately want to disguise himself as someone else?"

"It must have been done unintentionally, otherwise it would not have been possible to choose a trident with a very recognizable wound. ”

"Well, is there anything else?" Xi flipped through the pages of the copy, and a small line of poems caught his attention.

The iron body of a hundred refining is first sharpened, and the morning light is born in a thousand nights.

There is no war in Lingnan, and the mountains and rivers are looking for the deceased.

"The second point is that those who died from heavy blows, they all had only one bruise on their bodies, and they should have killed with one blow. Moreover, there were abrasions from metal objects on the skin of their bruises, very similar, similar to ······"

"But it doesn't hurt to say it, it's similar to no claws, isn't it?" Xi stretched out his right arm, and no claws grabbed the deformed hammer head, and looked at it carefully.

Xi has only one eye, and seeing things with one eye has always been vicious. Moreover, Xi dares to imagine terrible scenes that ordinary people can't imagine. To others, it was just a deformed hammerhead, but in Xi's eyes, the deformed depression was very familiar, and it seemed to be······ ······ on the left half of the enemy's face Forehead and eye sockets!

"That's right, the murderer may have been wearing armor that resembles a clawless one. He replied.

"Understood. Xi stared at the sunken hammer head, how to look at it felt like one eye was staring at herself, her eyes were cold and firm, as if she had seen through herself on the other side of time and space, "Let the people from the Ministry of Engineering come and wash the floor." I'm in charge of this alone, and the six of you can go back, and I won't repeat it a second time. ”

The six of them looked at each other, didn't dare to say more, and said in unison: "Yes." "Leave the Ministry of Work lobby.

Xi dropped the hammer and looked back. On the lobby of the Ministry of Industry hangs a map of Jifeng City and the surrounding area, and a line of small characters is marked in the corner: Baiyuling.

Baiyu Mountain, bamboo forest full of mountains, surrounded by moisture, there are no less than 100 kinds of precious medicinal materials, and countless elixirs have not yet been discovered. Perhaps in response to the saying of "elixir with poison", Baiyuling has gathered thousands of poisons, especially snakes, what life-killing gold, demon devouring red, and jade-faced ghosts are all terrifying poisonous snakes, but they only live in Baiyuling.

It's okay to provoke anyone in Jifeng City, just don't provoke the medicine pickers, because the only medicinal herb production area near Jifeng City is Baiyuling. The people who can collect medicine in Baiyuling are not mortals, and they are the top masters who are hidden in the city, with unique skills, well-informed, and perverse temperament.

Xi entered Baiyu Ridge at noon, which was the time of the day when the yang qi was heavy. The poisons of Baiyuling like to be yin and damp, and they generally hide in the cracks of the stones at this time.

Xi came to a valley, went up the mountain stream, turned over the cliff, and saw a waterfall. Next to the waterfall, a tall iron man carrying a trident on his shoulder is none other than Poor Ying.

"The aborigines here are very hospitable, and they will entertain their guests with their own poisonous wine, especially guests like us, if they were there. ”

"I didn't expect your poem to be very well written, 'Hundred Tempered Iron Body' is reporting to your home, 'Sheng Chenxi' is to see me, 'No War' may be to tell me that you are for personal matters, and 'Seeing Mountains and Rivers' is to let me find a waterfall valley. It's just that this sentence of looking for the old man seems to have something in the words, what does it mean?"

"The envoy is a smart man, and I like to deal with you without difficulty. I have come here to ask the Envoy to help me find an old friend of mine. ”

"Old friend, or old enemy?" Xi sneered, "You can't find him, what can I do?"

"I don't have to know where he is now, I just need to know what he used to do in the Xiling Empire. ”

"The Xiling Empire is so big, and it is impossible for the Charm Department to know every mouse lurking in the Empire. ”

Poor Ying walked up to Xi step by step and said, "What if this mouse is the last soldier?"