IV. Disappearance
Early the next morning, just after midnight, the crowd was woken up by the noise outside the house, followed by the sound of chaotic footsteps.
"What's wrong?" Meng Lin rolled over and continued to sleep.
"Don't sleep, don't sleep, it seems that something has happened," Yu Feng felt that his voice was wrong, "I'll take a look, Xiaoxue, you come to wake up Meng Lin." "Yufeng quickly got dressed and walked out of the room.
Some of the soldiers and Confucian disciples were talking in the courtyard, and their expressions looked nervous, and something big had happened.
After searching for a long time, Yu Feng finally saw someone he knew, who was the Confucian disciple Tantai Ming.
It's terrible to ask, Zhao Gong, the monarch of Lu State, suddenly disappeared early this morning, and no one knows where he went, nor whether he was kidnapped. Now the whole Qufu city is in chaos, and the people are panicking, not only that, Sanhuan actually sent an army to ask for people from Kongqiu, and Kongqiu ordered the city gate to be closed to find Zhaogong, which caused Sanhuan's misunderstanding, and the two sides are now tense and may break out at any time.
"It is inconvenient for us to participate in the war as outsiders, but we may be able to help by recovering Zhaogong. ”
He thanked him and instructed a few Confucian disciples to be guides and guide them.
Back in the guest room, everyone was already dressed, and Meng Lin was still rubbing her sleepy eyes.
"There is a big mess, Lu Zhaogong is missing, and Sanhuan surrounds Qufu......" Yufeng repeated the situation.
"It's two or three days away from Philadelphia to get here, and the fiefdoms of the other two are not close to Qufu, and they are asking for someone outside the city just after Zhaogong disappeared, who else can they do if this matter wasn't planned by them?" Meng Lin came to her senses, "We have to move our muscles and bones again." ”
"No, you can't participate in the use of force. "Baili Yaoguang understands that it is powerful.
"I have offered to help Mr. Kong Qiu find Zhaogong, and I feel that although it is very likely that he was taken captive, he should not leave the city.
"It makes sense, we act immediately. ”
The nine of them divided into three ways to search, searching every possible corner of Qufu City.
Finding people in the world of nations can be said to be extremely difficult and very simple.
If a person escapes to the wilderness or in the mountains, then tens of thousands of people may not be able to find him, and the lack of tools and information provided by the mountain people has brought infinite difficulties to the search for him. But if it is placed in the city, it becomes very simple to find people, no one will take in strangers, let alone people who hold the monarch hostage, and the surrounding people will definitely report any abnormalities to the government, and there will hardly be people who have nothing to do with themselves.
Therefore, ordinary people's homes and public places do not need to be found at all, and everyone's goal is to lock on the Luhou Palace, the minister's mansion and the temple.
Speaking of Baili Yaoguang's team alone, they searched for the palace and several nearby mansions but found nothing, and were about to go to the next place, Wan Qiyu stopped everyone, "Wait a minute, let's change our thinking." ”
"Which way?" Baili Yaoguang was not yet familiar with some modern words.
"Yu Zhan said that he would find it in a different way. Xin Yan explained, "I'll use the Psychic Technique to perceive it and try it. Xin Yan found a stone bench and sat down, began to luck Cui Gu, closed her eyes and meditated for a while, "There is no abnormality around here." ”
"I'll help you. "Wan Qi Yuzhan was inspired by the phenomenon of the transfer of divine power, and injected some of his divine powers into Xinyan's jade bracelet.
"It's useful, the range of perception has expanded a lot......! There is also some special feeling, but I don't know what it is. Xin Yan searched and experienced the changes that Yu Zhan brought to the spell, "Here!"
Several people came to the vicinity of the north gate of the palace, "I sensed that Lu Hou went out of the palace from this gate, and there were two or three people beside him, and the time was about ...... Ugly time. ”
Baili Yaoguang immediately made arrangements, notified others to gather at the North Palace Gate, and collected clues from door to door, a few people left the palace in the middle of the night, it was impossible that no one saw them or heard the movement, as long as they investigated carefully, they would definitely be able to find clues.
......
Everyone went separately to ask the people around them, and Xin Yan continued to track Lu Hou's whereabouts, "I feel like I am going forward...... It was vague, and I could only be sure that they were going out in the direction of the North Gate Street. ”
Finding Lu Zhaogong's whereabouts gave everyone a rare experience - like a detective solving the case, everyone collected clues from all sides, after summarizing and sorting, everyone confirmed that Zhaogong must not have left Qufu, but hid in a corner of the city, someone provided clues that they had heard suspicious sounds, and the location was in the Chengbei Sheji Shrine.
Sheji Shrine is the building used to hold the ceremony of sacrificing soil and valley in Lu State, covering an area that is not large, and the big guy searched the Sheji altar inside and out and did not see the shadow of Zhaogong.
"No, no......" Yu Zhan noticed the strangeness of the matter, "Xinyan, why can you still feel Lu Hou's breath more clearly at the north gate of the palace, but then it is getting weaker and weaker?"
"I don't know, or if it's because people interfere with the accuracy of perception. ”
"When it's ugly in the middle of the night, who is there?"
"yes, what do you think?"
"I want to ...... The fact may be the opposite, the faint traces of the breath on the street and the strong gate of the North Palace indicate that they did not come out of the palace, but entered the palace!"
"But we've already searched the palace......"
"Maybe they managed to hide it. ”
"The rain has a point, let's go back quickly. ”
Stepping into the palace gate again, Xinyan immediately noticed that the situation was not right, it seemed that there was a force enveloping the palace, it was cut off from the outside world, and now there was a strong psychic reaction in the palace.