Chapter 111: Strange Whereabouts
It worked!
Lin Ye successfully established a point of contact there by imitating the mode of transmission of the beacon tower, using an immortal paper crane carrying his essence and blood breath as the first beacon tower, making his sensing range of the immortal paper crane expand by more than a mile. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"This method works, so let's keep going...... The second beacon tower is settled!"
Under Lin Ye's order, the second immortal paper crane flew out of a distance of about a mile in the direction of the Li Mansion, and landed on the eaves of a family, becoming the second beacon tower for connection.
"The third fairy paper crane, the fourth fairy paper crane, the fifth fairy paper crane...... Let's go!"
Immediately after, Lin Ye let the three immortal paper cranes fly out together in one go, which was already the highest limit that his heavenly soul could control the flight of immortal paper cranes at the same time. These three fairy paper cranes flew south in a straight line quickly, just like Fang Cai, when they crossed the first fairy paper crane, they would lose contact for a short time, but almost a breath of time, they regained contact with Lin Ye.
However, when they crossed the position of the second crane, they regained contact. Lin Ye felt that the connection between the three immortal paper cranes and himself seemed to be a little weaker. And this feeling is much more obvious after the third fairy paper crane settles down to become the third beacon tower.
After the fifth beacon tower was completely settled outside the walls of the Li Mansion, Lin Ye sent another fairy paper crane to fly out as an experiment, and he completely felt that the farther the distance, the weaker the sense of the fairy paper crane. Although the method of using this beacon tower to expand the sensing range was expanded, when this immortal paper crane flew to the Li Mansion five miles away, Lin Ye's sensing and control ability was already very weak, and sometimes it would even lose control temporarily, and it would take a few breaths to recover.
"It seems that sending a fairy paper crane is not enough insurance, so ...... Send out the rest of them, and let them alternate and fly back to deliver the message, so I can keep up to date what's going on over there. ”
After the experiment was completed, Lin Ye sent the remaining five immortal paper cranes out in two batches in one go. In this way, the current state of the eleven immortal paper cranes that Lin Ye refined tonight was that the five immortal paper cranes were used as relay beacons, and they were hidden between the straight-line distance from the Lin clan's ancestral hall to the Li Mansion at a distance of one mile each.
The other six fairy paper cranes are all used for inquiring about the news, and after each of them inquires about the news, they fly back at intervals of half an hour. In this way, from the distance of five or six miles from the Lin Clan's ancestral hall to the Li Mansion, it would take about a quarter of an hour for each immortal paper crane to fly back, and there were six immortal paper cranes constantly detecting and flying back and forth, so Lin Ye could receive the news and pictures transmitted over there in time.
After formulating such a detection method, Lin Ye boldly ordered the fairy paper crane to fly into the courtyard of the Li Mansion, and then after Lin Ye waited for the fairy paper crane to fly back, he could know what the situation was in the entire Li Mansion.
The black fairy paper crane is very inconspicuous in the dark night, and there are not many candles in the Li Mansion, and it is obvious that there are not many clansmen, and even the subordinates rarely see it. The courtyard of the Li Mansion is not large, covering an area of three or four acres, which is twice as small as the ordinary courtyard of the Bingpin clan that puts more than ten acres.
Lin Ye had never been in contact with the Li family before, let alone come to the Li Mansion as a guest. Therefore, he was not familiar with the layout in the Li Mansion at all, so he could only let the fairy paper crane carefully sneak into it, probing one side room after another, to see which side room Li Zonghan, the patriarch of the Li family, was in.
"It's strange! This Li Mansion is really a thrifty housekeeper, not only are there not many subordinates, but even there don't seem to be a few female dependents. Most of the wings were empty, by the way, it was recorded in "Yuanfeng Zhi" that when the Li family moved into Yuanfeng City, there were only more than 100 people. Later, the first did not use the exile order to gather the exiles, and the second did not absorb the clansmen of other ruined clans. In addition, it seems that some clansmen were killed in the middle, so it can be seen that the number of people is probably not even a hundred now......"
Through these scenes transmitted back by the fairy paper crane, Lin Ye found that the Li Mansion was sparsely populated, and most of the side rooms were empty. There are almost no servants and maids in the mansion, and the layout is relatively simple, and it doesn't look like a dignified high-class clan at all.
Even if you are a thrifty clan, if you really want to recuperate or develop in Yuanfeng City for a long time. It is necessary to recruit the clansmen and recruit some domestic slaves and miscellaneous servants, unless they ...... This Li clan came to my Yuanfeng City not to escape and develop at all. Rather, they had other plans, and once that purpose was accomplished, it was highly likely that they would leave Yuanfeng City again. ”
As far as these points have been discovered so far, Lin Ye can judge that the Li family is only using this Li Mansion in Yuanfeng City as a temporary place to settle down. As for what their plans were to come to Yuanfeng City, Lin Ye still couldn't figure it out for a while, and he could only hope that the fairy paper crane could find the patriarch Li Zonghan's wing, and from some of the items in his wing, could he see any clues.
And at this time, Lin Ye suddenly found that a figure suddenly jumped out of the east wing of the Li Mansion in the east wing of the Li Mansion, and walked out of the wing room without a lantern in the dark night, taking advantage of the darkness to walk quickly in the direction of the back door of the Li Mansion.
"This figure looks so familiar. By the way, it's Li Zonghan, his figure and body shape are obvious. It's so late, where is he going without a lantern?"
At a glance, he recognized that this suspicious figure was Li Zonghan, the patriarch of the Li clan, Lin Ye immediately became interested, and quickly ordered the immortal paper crane nearby to follow, and quietly followed behind Li Zonghan to see where he was going so late.
The Li Mansion did not occupy a large area, so Li Zonghan came out of the east wing, followed the remote corridor by the garden, and quickly slipped to the direction of the back door of the mansion, opened the door lightly, looked at the street outside, and saw that there were no guards patrolling the curfew, so he quickly slipped out.
However, what Li Zonghan didn't expect was that although he came out of the Li Mansion without being discovered by the curfew guards, he was targeted by a few fairy paper cranes fluttering their wings in the dark night sky.
"It's curfew time, Li Zonghan is risking being discovered by the guards, where is he in such a hurry? There must be some secret in this, fairy paper crane, keep up!"
Li Zonghan's strange trail aroused Lin Ye's suspicions, and he immediately ordered the fairy paper crane to follow quietly.