Chapter 269: The Fish That Slipped Through the Net
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A muffled sound suddenly sounded from the pitch-black Zhuo Wolf Grassland, and under the hazy moonlight, a black figure suddenly fell rapidly from the misty mid-air, and fell to the ground in embarrassment. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Before this person had time to struggle to get up, he saw a gray-robed man suddenly fall into the air, and finally stepped heavily on the chest of the black-clothed man, only to hear the black-clothed man snort and his body collapsed to the ground again, and then a mouthful of blood spurted directly from his mouth.
"Hurry up, he's here!" Suddenly, seven or eight torches suddenly lit up around him, and then he saw seven or eight people with swords quickly gathering towards the man in black.
"Xuan Zheng, it's better that you're moving fast! I almost let this kid run away!" said a black-faced man with a smile on his face, and at this moment, through the light of the torch, he could also see the vicissitudes of life and simplicity of the gray robed man's face, this person was the childhood brother who had drunk with Xuan Fang at the Beard Tavern, and was now the subordinate of the Holy East King Yan Yi, Xuan Zheng.
The man in black who was trampled under Xuanzheng's feet was Xiao Han, who had just escaped from Liu Sandao's knife.
It's a pity that Xiao Han seems to be destined to be like this tonight. Even if he finally escaped from Liu Sandao's clutches, he fell into Xuan Zheng's hands in a blink of an eye.
"Raise your head!" Xuan Zheng leaned over to stare at Xiao Han's face with an evil smile, holding an unsheathed sword in his hand, and gently poked Xiao Han's cloak head with the scabbard, "Let me see what you look like!"
At this moment, Xiao Han was covered in blood, and he was already seriously injured at this moment, coupled with the rush all the way, he had already become weak, so he could only lazily lie on the ground with his head sideways without saying a word, and let Xuan Zheng humiliate him wantonly.
For Xiao Han's silence, Xuan Zheng didn't seem to be angry, he still looked at Xiao Han with interest, and when he saw the blood stains on Xiao Han's body, he couldn't help but sneer: "Was beaten just now?"
Xiao Han was still silent.
"Tut-tut!" Xuan Zheng smashed his mouth a few times to himself, and then laughed weirdly, "Seven Transformation Soul King, your cultivation shouldn't be weak, can you be beaten into such a master, I'm afraid there are not many in the entire Northern Frontier, right?"
Hearing Xuan Zheng's words, Xiao Han's eyes suddenly flashed with a gleam, and there seemed to be a faint contemplation between his eyebrows, which were covered by hair.
"Is it Xi Chen or Chu Lingtian?" Xuan Zheng asked again, "Who is the person who injured you?"
"Who are you?"
After being silent for a long time, Xiao Han finally opened his mouth to speak, and with one mouth, he actually asked directly about Xuan Zheng's identity.
"Don't worry!" Xuan Zheng lightly tapped Xiao Han's chest with his sword scabbard with a smile, and then the smile on his face suddenly retracted, replaced by a ruthless look, "I'm definitely not your friend!"
"You ......"
"You just need to answer my words now!" Before Xiao Han could open his mouth, Xuan Zheng slammed his feet, and a touch of pain appeared on Xiao Han's face again, "If not, I promise that you won't be able to survive or die!" Now I'll give you one last chance......" Xuan Zheng said as he gently slashed his sword scabbard across Xiao Han's cheek, and the cold chill on the scabbard instantly penetrated through the pores on Xiao Han's skin and into his blood, "Report your name and tell me your identity!"
In the face of Xuan Zheng's aggressiveness, Xiao Han first looked at Xuan Zheng coldly for a moment, and after about half a pillar of incense, Xiao Han finally chose to compromise under Xuan Zheng's strength, sighed faintly, then lowered his eyes, and slowly opened his mouth and said, "Xiao ...... Xiao Han: I'm the elder of the Beast Domain Rat Clan...... Today, I am hereby ordered by His Majesty the Emperor to follow the Lady Zhao of the Yaksha clan to the northern frontier of the Holy Realm to conspire with great things......"
"Conspiring to do a big thing?" Xuan Zheng frowned, and asked with a puzzled expression, "What do you Beast Domain Leaders send you to our Sacred Domain to plot?"
"This ...... I don't know......" Xiao Han's eyes flashed with a sly light, and then he opened his mouth and asked, "Since you are from the Holy Domain, why don't you take me to the Northern Frontier camp so that they can kill me?"
"Why do you need to go to the camp in the north to kill you, now I can send you back to the west...... Wait a minute!" Just when Xuan Zheng was about to sneer and mock, he suddenly realized something in his mind, and then his eyes rolled slightly, looked at Xiao Han with a suspicious expression, and asked coldly, "Even if I want to kill you, I should send you to the Border Guard Mansion, why did you say the words Northern Xinjiang Battalion?"
"Hmph, if you were really willing to send me to the Border Guard Mansion, then you wouldn't be pointing your sword at me now......" Xiao Han's eyes flashed with a touch of cunning, although he was beating a drum in his heart, he still maintained a confident look on the surface, and then pretended to be surprised and asked, "Could it be that you are really Xi Chen's subordinates?"
"What do you mean?" shouted a man with a torch in his hand, "Why don't we point our swords at you because we are Xi Chen's subordinates?"
"Since you can ask such a question, it is enough to prove that you have nothing to do with the Border Guard Mansion!" Xiao said with a cold smile, and then he turned his head abruptly, simply ignoring Xuan Zheng and the others.
In fact, Xiao Han was also gambling when he did this, because he was not sure whether these people in front of him were the masters from Jinling City that Chu Lingtian secretly told him, but his intuition told Xiao Han that these people were very likely to be, so the reason why he wanted to show such a vague relationship with Xi Chen was to arouse these people's suspicion of Xi Chen.
"You guessed wrong!We are not Xi Chen's subordinates, and we won't send you to the Border Guard Mansion tonight!" Xuan Zheng said coldly.
As soon as he heard Xuan Zheng's words, Xiao Han immediately showed a look of surprise and horror.
"But there is one thing you can rest assured, that is, you won't die tonight!" Xuan Zheng sneered, and then ordered the big men on the left and right, "Tie up!"
Several big men tied up Xiao Han to Wuhua in three times and divided five by two, and then under the leadership of Xuan Zheng, this group of people took Xiao Han to take advantage of the hazy moonlight to slowly disappear on the Zhuo Wolf Grassland, and the direction they went away was where Jinling City was located in the south.
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After a night of fighting, in the early morning, Han Xiao, Xi Chen, Lu Yifan and other seven people rushed back to the camp one after another, last night at dusk they went a total of more than 300 people, but at this moment there are less than 100 people, and almost all of them are injured, which shows what a tragic price was paid for this so-called sneak attack and assassination last night.
At the end of this group of people, there were more than a dozen bloodstained soldiers pulling seven carts, but on these seven carts were now full of corpses of people from the Beast Domain. When he was leaving last night, Han Xiao personally ordered to bring back all the corpses of the people he had killed to take an inventory.
"Yifan, it looks like the people you brought with you have the least casualties!" Han Xiao, who was smiling, walked slowly to Lu Yifan's side, looked around at the subordinates who were following Lu Yifan, and said with a smile, "And you are even more unscathed, you really have a way!"
"Lord Han laughed, it was all the result of the bloody battle of the brothers!" Lu Yifan smiled modestly, "But even so, I still killed and injured many brothers, Yin Xi and Liu Meng were seriously injured, and the most important thing is that I still failed to capture Xiao Han in the end, and he ran away!"
"Hey! I've heard about this, it's really nothing! It's not just you, except for me and Xi Chen, almost all of the other five people have escaped the net, I have already sent someone to count these corpses just now, and the total difference between the number of people I knew in advance is a full nine! But I have sent a large number of people to search for these nine fish, as far as I know, almost all of them are seriously injured, so it is impossible to run far, I believe that before sunset today, my people will be able to find them all!"
"What does Lord Han mean by this that a total of nine beast clan masters escaped last night?" Ji Yuan asked.
"Not bad!" Han Xiao nodded slightly, but there was an irresistible look of fortitude in his eyes, "Even if I dig three feet into the ground, I will definitely kill these nine people to establish the power of my holy domain!"
"What Lord Han said is good!" Xi Chen didn't know when he stepped forward, and at this moment, there were three people behind him, Tan Si, Hu Lao, and Qin Bao, who were covered in blood, "If you don't give these beasts of the beast clan a little color, they will only be a place where I can come and leave as I want!"
"Haha...... What Governor Xi Chen said is right!" Han Xiaolang laughed loudly, "But after a night of bloody battles, I think you have all worked hard, everyone can go back and recuperate now, we just have to wait for good news in this camp!"
Under Han Xiao's greetings, Xi Chen, Lu Yifan and others retreated one after another, and after standing in front of the big tent of the Chinese army and smiling goodbye to everyone, Han Xiao's face sank suddenly, and then he looked around with solemn eyes and then turned around and walked quickly into the big tent.
And just as Han Xiao walked into the account, several sergeants who were in a hurry also hurriedly bowed their heads and followed in.
"Whew!" After entering the account, Han Xiao took off the armor on his body under the service of the left and right, and then soothed his muscles and bones a little, and let out a long sigh in his mouth, and then he glanced at the respectful sergeants standing in the tent with deep eyes, and slowly asked while raising his feet to his main seat, "Tell me! After I left last night, was there any unusual movement in the camp?"
Han Xiao said and took a cup of hot tea handed over by the attendant, put it to his mouth and took a sip gently.
"My lord, there was nothing unusual in the camp last night!" said one of the sergeants, "but not long after the adults left, a group of refugees from outside the camp came to ask for food. ”
"Oh, what kind of refugees are they?" Han Xiao asked curiously, putting down his teacup with a puzzled expression.
"They said that they were originally herdsmen on the Zhuo Wolf Grassland, but because the tribe was plundered by the beast people, they were forced to flee for their lives, and they were really hungry, so they came to the camp to ask for food. ”
"Oh, who's in charge of this?" Han Xiao nodded lightly and continued to ask.
"Originally, the head of the garrison, Chitoda Dami, was in charge of this matter, but on the grounds that the refugees should be in the hands of the Border Guard Mansion, he pushed the matter to the only Border Guard Mansion banner owner who remained in the camp at that time, Lan Chen!" replied the sergeant respectfully.
"Lan Chen?" As soon as the sergeant said this, Han Xiao's gaze suddenly froze, and then he turned his gaze to the other sergeant standing aside, "What's going on?" Obviously, the sergeant Han Xiao asked later was the person in charge of spying on Lan Chen.
"Lord Hui, Tian Dahai did send someone to push Lan Chen on the matter of refugees at dusk yesterday, but Lan Chen didn't pay attention to this matter personally, but sent his subordinates Sanchun and Hai Lao over with some bread and water......!
"Who?" Before the sergeant's words fell, Han Xiao's eyes suddenly converged, and his tone was gloomy and a little scary, "Who did you just say Lan Chen sent to deliver dry food?"
"Three ......"
"The one in the back!"
"Sea ...... Hai Lao ...... "Being so frightened by Han Xiao, the sergeant's voice became a little trembling.
"Smack!"
Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and I saw that Han Xiao's right palm had already slapped heavily on the handsome case, and at this moment, the corners of his mouth trembled slightly with anger.
"This bastard thing, knowing that I will be wary of Lan Chen everywhere in whatever I do, but he just sent things to other people's doors!" Han Xiao said to himself with an angry face, "Go, go, go and bring me this bastard Tian Dahai now!"
"Yes!" The guards on the left and right heard Han Xiao's order, and immediately agreed, and then walked out of the main tent quickly.
"And then, go on!" Han Xiao's gaze fell back on the sergeant.
And then ...... And then...... Then Hai Lao and Miharu took people to deliver bread and water...... Then the group of refugees dispersed after eating......" replied the sergeant with trepidation.
"Leave after eating?" Han Xiao was such a character, he immediately heard the suspiciousness in this, "So, isn't it a little too strange for this group of refugees to suddenly appear and then leave suddenly? Have you ever wondered where this group of refugees came from? Where did they go after they dispersed?"
"This ......," Han Xiao's words left these sergeants speechless.
"Back to ...... Back to my lordship, yesterday the Lord of the Thousand Households was disgusted with the filth and smell of those refugees, so when Hai Lao and the others appeared, they ordered us all to follow him back to the camp...... So what's after that...... Only Hai Lao, Sanchun and the others know......"
"Bastard thing!" Han Xiao was furious, and scolded with a sinking face, "Tian Dahai, this bastard thing, has been acting on his own all day long! Go and tell the left and right, you don't need to bring this person to me, just pull it to the back camp with a hundred heavy canes, and if you have anything to say, wait until the fight is over!"
"Yes!" said one of the guards, and then trotted out of the tent to give his life.
After a day of silence, Lu Yifan and the others each meditated in their own tents, and at the same time, as Han Xiao said, patiently waited for the results of the search.
However, a whole day passed, and until sunset, the result that Han Xiao was waiting for in the end was far from being as smooth as he expected!
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