Chapter 365: Stone Hut
Mime traveled west with Senqi and Lingyu, and arrived at a point of contact near the royal city of Yongchuan at midnight. It was the first time Senki had seen what the contact point in Mime's mouth was like, and he had only heard some simple descriptions of it before.
The small house sits in the middle of a ruined wall, protected by a special enchantment. When Sanmu just asked Qianqi and Lingyu to dismount, they still felt a little strange, such a barren and desolate place, where did it seem that someone would come?
"Just come with me!"
After saying that, Sanmu flew and jumped off the demon horse and summoned it away. His demon horse was even shorter than Spirit Feather's little gray, because this height was the only height suitable for his height, it had shiny black hair, and the special thing was that it had a small silver ring in one of its leftmost ears.
Senqi and Lingyu also flipped off their horses and followed Mime to a relatively intact wall. I saw him knock on the wall twice, and a doorknob suddenly appeared in the place where he had knocked, and when the doorknob was fully grasped by him, the outline of a door appeared faintly.
"Come in!" Sanmu pulled the door open and was the first to step inside.
He conjured a demonic fire in his hand, and lit the lamp on the small table in the room, and the whole room suddenly lit up. The walls of the room are made of stone, and there are two smaller windows on each side, which are just right for standing and observing the outside. The facilities in the house are very simple, except for a table, only a shelf, and two chairs.
After Qianqi and Lingyu both entered the house, Sanmu closed the door of the house, and he walked straight to the shelf standing against the wall, and took a notebook from it to look through it.
"What is this?" Curiously, Qianqi leaned up behind him to watch.
"These books are all left at the contact point to exchange information, you see that you have saved so many books, this one is the most recent." Sanmu said as he turned to the last page of the notebook in his hand, "No one has been back here for many days, it seems that another of my subordinates has also had an accident?!" ”
His mood instantly began to be depressed, and he was still full of hope before coming to this point of contact. Because the main person in charge of this liaison place is one of his more proud subordinates, the biggest point of that person is that he thinks about the problem more comprehensively, is calm and calm, and has followed him for many years, and his experience is also quite rich. If something happens to him, then the others are even more dangerous.
"Looks like there's no new information here?" Ling Yu also came over and asked.
"yes, but don't worry, we'll spend the night in this place tonight, maybe that one of my men will be back soon." Sanmu's words are ostensibly comforting the two teenagers, but in fact, it is more like comforting himself.
He took food out of his pocket, the kind of bread that would last a long time, but it was hard enough to chew. When eating it, you must take a few sips of water, otherwise you may not be able to swallow it.
Looking at Qianqi's laborious chewing appearance, he asked a little reluctantly: "Young master, are you not used to eating?" It's all because I didn't think it through and didn't bring you anything else from the royal city! ”
"Do you usually eat this when you're outside?" Qianqi asked with a hard swallow.
"If you pass by a lively place or a post station, you will eat something good, but you can't help it at the contact point, you can't make a fire here, so you can only eat something simple."
Since he was a child, Chiki has loved listening to Mime's stories, most of which are about how he gathers various information from various places. He always felt that in the story, Sanmu was so powerful and free, he galloped in the demon world as he wanted, and had so many thrilling memories. But in fact, gathering information itself is very boring and dangerous, and in order to wait for news, he often has to stay alone in such contact points for long periods of time, or lurk in the ranks of the enemy.
After finally swallowing the whole dry cake, he pleaded with Sanmu, "Sanmu, there is nothing else to do to spend the night here anyway, why don't you tell us about your interesting experiences!" Let Lingyu listen to it too! ”
"Haha, I thought that it was not uncommon for you to hear my stories, young master, after all, your experience in the past few hundred years is no less than my experience in the past few hundred years." Sanmu laughed, and even the third eye on his forehead narrowed into a slit, and his little pointed ears trembled with joy.
"But I still love to hear your stories!" After speaking, Qianqi turned to Lingyu, "yes, you want to hear it too, right?" ”
"Hmm!" Ling Yu was actually a little tired, and just now the eyelids on both sides of him began to fight, but when he heard Sanmu about to tell a story, he suddenly came to his senses. In the past, when they were in the dungeon, the proprietress of Elysium would occasionally tell them stories when they were in a good mood.
Hearing both Qianqi and Lingyu say this, Sanmu no longer shirked, he cleared his throat and said, "Let's tell me a story from when I was young, I haven't mentioned this story to anyone, because not only did I fail to complete the task that time, but I also failed to be exact, and almost made a big mistake. ”
The story that Mime told happened when he was in his twenties. At that time, he was still a small character, as the most inconspicuous soldier under the intelligence group in the Wangcheng army, he worked hard every day to follow the boss of the group to learn how to collect intelligence.
Although he has not studied for a long time, he feels that he has understood everything, and often fantasizes about the opportunity to show him his skills and make great achievements. So once the boss came back with a task from his superiors, he was not assigned any work, and let him stay in the camp and wait for the others to return. But after the other old team members left, he also sneaked out, intending to complete the task before them unknowingly.
"That mission, it's actually relatively simple, the boss heard that someone was peddling information in the royal city to a guy related to Qingyun, in addition to sending someone to follow him, he also found someone to pretend to be a buyer who needed information to meet with him."
The memories suddenly brought Sanmu back to the distant past, and he was determined to pretend to be an intelligence buyer and meet the intelligence dealer called Golden Tooth before his teammates. Before meeting him, he thought about everything very beautifully, and thought that with the experience he had accumulated with his boss for so long, such a small thing must be easily completed.
Who knew that he had really found out where the Golden Tooth usually exchanged information, and he was only one step away from meeting him face to face, and he was already too nervous.
"I'm really hard to ride a tiger, if I retreat, I will immediately show my stuff, not only will it delay other teammates to collect information, but I may also be caught by Qingyun's eyeliner. In desperation, I had no choice but to bite the bullet. ”
As a result, after only a few words with the golden tooth, he was already full of loopholes, that person was much more experienced than him, and quickly recognized his true identity, and notified Qingyun's subordinates with a code. Just when Sanmu thought he was going to be caught, the boss arrived with the whole team, rescued him, and captured the intelligence dealer.
"At that time, they fought with Qingyun's people, and I was stunned for a long time before I remembered to go up and help, both legs were soft. It was probably the most humiliating moment of my life, but it also made me remember it deeply! ”
"Have you ever been penalized?" Although Qianqi really wanted Sanmu to tell a story of wisdom and martial arts so that he could show off to Lingyu, this story was obviously more interesting.
"Of course! However, the punishment was small, and I thought I would be forced to leave the Intelligence Group. Sanmu's gaze suddenly became profound. He remembered that the boss of the group at that time helped him intercede, and finally let him stay in the team, "But the boss told me that he made a similar mistake when he was young, and there is nothing wrong with young people wanting to succeed, but everything must be thought before acting." ”
Lingyu and Qianqi were still smug when they heard it, they remembered that they had made many mistakes along the way, due to their lack of experience and impulsiveness, they often caused unexpected results, but when they stumbled, they always received forgiveness and help from their companions.
"Shh Sanmu suddenly made a few vocal gestures, and he listened intently, and then pointed to an inconspicuous round hole in the corner tower like two teenagers.
A small pink nose poked out of the hole first, and after a few sniffs, the little brown mouse got its entire body out of the hole.
"What is this?" Senki looked at the little creature in amazement, and it scurried up to Sanmu with great skill, and climbed his legs and body to his shoulders.
"Sort of a little intelligence soldier of mine." Three-eyes brought his ear close to the mouse's nose so that he could hear its squeaky in his ear.
"Why can't we understand what their calls mean?" Qianqi shook his head and asked.
Sanmu didn't answer him quickly, and waited for the little mouse to stop screaming before he said: "Because they can't speak, they rely on the rhythm of their calls to transmit information, and these little ones have been specially trained by me, and have mastered a method of transmitting information similar to human Morse code that I invented." ”
"What did it just tell you?" Qianqi asked, his eyes widened.
"That one of my men was wounded and is now hiding in another temporary contact point, but he is surrounded by three of Qingyun's men." Sanmu answered.
"We should go rescue him! How far away is that temporary point of contact? Senki said and stood up from his chair.
"It's not far, let's go now!"
Sanmu put back the notebook he had picked up from the shelf, and the little brown mouse was still on his shoulder, like his little pet.
"This little guy really has two strokes, and he can deliver such a responsible message!" Lingyu reached out and touched the little head of the brown mouse.
Unexpectedly, he actually grabbed one of his fingers with his two front paws, and then rubbed his nose before letting go.
"It's called chocolate because it looks a lot like the chocolate that humans eat, isn't it? It's the smartest of the rats I've trained, and has the most password combinations. Sanmu said with a bit of smugness.
"It's really a clever little guy, the rats I saw in the dungeon in the past can't compare to it, they just wanton destruction and steal food." Lingyu touched the chocolate again, but this time it turned its head to the side and ignored it.
"It's also angry because you say bad things about other rats, hahaha! Sometimes I feel like it understands everything! ”