Under the spray of water jets pressed by the wooden water crane of the nearby street rescue and extinguishing club, the fire around Songbaiju was quickly suppressed, and the fire did not spread outward. （_

However, this is clearly a man-made arson, and it is not difficult to find that the arsonists are heading to the east of the city.

The official response was not slow, and a cavalry force led by several criminal officers and military generals soon appeared in the streets, which had become more noisy and crowded by the fire.

Hundreds of gate defenders had surrounded dozens of people in a large open space near the east gate of the city, which had been used to scrutinize large quantities of goods, and more defenders were rushing along the city walls, while all the gates that had been allowed for an hour were closed, prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving.

The cavalry galloping from the barracks quickly arrived.

The calmness and composure of the dozens of people who were surrounded made a middle-aged general in claking iron armor who rushed to the front of the cavalry frowning - there were only two possibilities for a team that dared to set fire openly and stay here, and could be so calm, one was to have the terrifying force to ignore the defenders of the entire city, and the other was to have a background that did not need to be worried at all.

Just as the middle-aged general began to slow down and prepare to stop outside the encirclement of the city gate defenders, he saw a young man in a wide shirt with a large sleeve focused on him.

"Who among you can call the shots?"

The young man suddenly spoke quietly.

"Who are you?" the middle-aged general paused, frowning even tighter.

The young man didn't respond, but just took out a token from his sleeve and threw it at the middle-aged general from a distance.

The middle-aged general took this golden token, which was extremely heavy in his hand, but at a glance, he saw that it was extremely complicated, and the best craftsmen in Hou Que City could not imitate the layers of dragon patterns carved at all, and his face changed suddenly.

He suddenly thought of the matter in the west, and vaguely guessed the purpose of this column.

After a brief pause, he dismounted, waved his hand to widen the encirclement of the defenders to the astonished gaze of many behind him, and then walked up to the young man and bowed slightly to the group.

Lin Xi bowed slightly and returned the salute.

"Do you need me to do anything?"

The middle-aged general handed the golden token back to Lin Xi, then lowered his voice and asked respectfully.

"We're going to camp here, and you send people to help us defend it, help us isolate a five-hundred-step unguarded circle, and all the best archers among the generals will be brought in, and no birds or beasts can be allowed in except our men. Lin Xi was not polite, looked at the middle-aged general and said softly: "We are going to find an extremely important opponent in the city... From now until noon tomorrow, the city gate checkpoint cannot be released, and no one can be allowed to leave Houque City. ”

The middle-aged general nodded without hesitation.

Although he knew that even if he only closed the city gates and closed them for most of the day, he would definitely suffer pressure from countless large trading houses, but he knew very well at the moment that this was a war between who and whom, and he knew that even if the provincial governor was here at this moment, he would choose to carry out this request of the other party.

"After extinguishing the embers of Songbaiju, a cordon was set up to prohibit anyone from entering the fire, otherwise those who entered would most likely die. Lin Xi looked at the middle-aged general, and then added.

The middle-aged general's face turned pale, "Is there anything else you want me to do?"

Lin Xi pondered for a moment, and saw that An Keyi was already walking slowly in the distance, and he said softly: "Martial law is issued, and before we leave tomorrow, no one will be allowed to go to the high places in the city, and all brass eagle eyes will be confiscated first." We will place manpower in high places around us, and arrest anyone who is suspicious of us spying on us. ”

......

Because he fled from the pine and cypress center in a hurry, he couldn't hide his tracks, and at the same time, he only had time to bring out three carriages.

One of the largest carriages was naturally used by Lin Xi as a place to discuss things.

"What the hell is going on?"

Gao Yanan looked directly at Lin Xi and asked.

She knew that Lin Xi couldn't know more things than her, so she felt that this whole thing was extremely weird.

"In short, there is an extremely powerful figure under Wenren Cangyue called Gongsun Quan, who is a master of refining and using poison. Tonight, he just wants to use the means of killing everyone in the middle of Songbai to severely damage our team. Lin Xi looked at her eyebrows and explained succinctly: "We found the person who launched the attack, but it is very likely that that person is only one of Gongsun Quan's subordinates, not Gongsun Quan himself. ”

"Kill everyone in that big inn?"

Gao Yanan, who originally felt that Lin Xi was hiding something from him and even had some anger on his face, suddenly froze, and his face turned a little pale.

Jiang Xiaoyi, Bian Linghan and Meng Bai also froze suddenly, their faces full of shock and disbelief.

"How did you find out that Gongsun Quan was doing it?" An Keyi looked at Lin Xi as if she was looking at a scroll that she couldn't understand.

"I don't want to tell lies, but there are some things that you will find ridiculous even if I do explain them. Lin Xi looked at An Keyi, Gao Yanan and the others, and said with a wry smile: "So don't ask me why I know... I just know. ”

Jiang Xiaoyi and Bian Linghan looked at each other and smiled bitterly, the two had already seen many unexplainable things that happened to Lin Xi, so in their hearts, they both felt that Lin Xi might have some kind of strange intuition.

Meng Bai was dumbfounded, but he kept chilling all over his body, feeling that Lin Xi was like an unknown monster.

Gao Yanan thought of a conversation between himself and Lin Xi in the academy, his brows furrowed, but he didn't ask anything anymore.

An Keyi was obviously sluggish, she thought about it seriously for a long time, and suddenly, she seemed to have figured out some key issues, and a glimmer of light flashed in her eyes that she had never seen before.

"What do you mean when you asked me how many people I can poison at one time?" she didn't ask anymore, but tried her best to control her mood, looked at Lin Xi and asked.

"I thought of a way to find out the real Gongsun Quan, the premise is that you have to believe in me absolutely and carry out my orders, I need you to be able to poison many people at once. Lin Xi looked at the deepest part of An Keyi's eyes, and from the luster that An Keyi concealed in his black pupils, he knew that this female professor, who looked nerdy on the outside, but was actually extremely smart, probably guessed that she had the talent of "God of Gods" from some of Dean Zhang's deeds and the inexplicable things that happened to him at this moment, as well as Vice Dean Xia's special attention to himself. But An Keyi is a figure that Vice President Xia and himself trust very much, so he is not worried, knowing that An Keyi will definitely try his best to help him hide the identity of the "general god".

"Poisoning everyone in an area as large as Songbaiju at one time, can you do it, teacher?" Lin Xi then asked seriously.

An Keyi glanced at Lin Xi, and suddenly thought of Lin Xi's performance in the fire at Qingluan Academy, her deepest eyes instantly brightened a little, and she nodded a little too hard: "Yes." ”

"What are you going to do?" Gao Yanan looked at Lin Xi and said, "This plan should always be clear, right?"

"I really can't tell. ”

Lin Xi looked at Gao Yanan extremely apologetically, and said, "But I always feel that the real Gongsun Quan can't help but come to see us... I sent an arrow yesterday, and the power of the arrow shot by Xiao Hei is too different from that of an ordinary soul soldier longbow, and he may not be able to help but come to see Teacher An, or the archer who sent this arrow. Or if you don't want to give up, you will continue to do it... Or is extremely unwilling, wanting to see what kind of opponents break his game. Or unwilling to fail, unwilling to be looked down upon by us, and take a hand to remind us that he is still alive... Human nature has always had some weaknesses, and for whatever reason, if he wants to come and see us up close tomorrow, I might be able to find him. ”

......

Martial law was soon imposed throughout the city.

In the midst of a sudden increase in tension, all the caravans and travelers who had only passed through the lodgings spent the night in a state of unease.

After sunrise, all the people inside and outside the city found that all the gates were closed and still closed to pass.

Many caravans, unprepared and unprepared, were about to suffer some heavy losses and began to rush out, trying to use all the means at their disposal to make an exception for the city.

However, all these activities were in vain, and even some of the large trading houses, which even the provincial governors usually had to sell a few cents, were politely refused, and not even a person or horse could leave the city.

This made all the people in Houque City even more shocked, and they didn't know what kind of serious crime they were going to hunt down.

And all the people in Houque City also know that not far from the east gate of the city, there is a column of people stationed, and that column of people is said to have set fire to the people and horses of Songbaiju yesterday, but instead of being arrested, those people were protected. It is said that only a silver ticket was passed out to compensate for the loss of Songbaiju.

For a while, all the people in Hou Que City couldn't help but guess what the origin of this team was.

Because it is not known when the entry and exit of the city will be resumed, and the vast majority of people who are in a hurry to get out of the city want to be inspected and cleared as soon as possible, so by noon, there were already long queues inside and outside the city, stretching for miles.

Suddenly, there was a commotion in the long queue in the city.

Because at this moment, some of the defenders who had prevented the long dragon in the city from getting too close to the city gate and guarding the column of men and horses showed signs of shrinking.

And Lin Xi and An Keyi walked out of the eccentric team in their eyes at this moment.

"Teacher, please do it, poison everyone within sight of this city!"

Lin Xi looked at the long queue of bustling people, and said with great certainty in An Keyi's ear, in a voice that only two people could hear.

An Keyi turned his head and looked at Lin Xi, "I can poison... But there can't be enough antidote..."

"I know. Lin Xi looked at her and nodded seriously, "But I still ask the teacher to believe me, even if it's ridiculous... Ask the teacher to do it as quickly as possible, and don't let anyone in front of us leave. ”