Chapter 229: All the Way to the Abyss (Part II)
After an early lunch, the three of them continued north along the mountain road. I have to admire the recovery ability of the two children of the Long family, such a serious injury, I can't get out of bed for at least a month when I put it on others, but Long Shiyue and Long Shiyu have been able to walk slowly, and the wound is no longer bleeding. Long Shiyue walked in the front with a heavy sword, Gu Tie walked in the middle with a heavy heart, and Long Shiyu walked behind with a fluttering look in his eyes. The three of them had different calculations, and no one spoke for a while, which made the atmosphere a little heavy.
Gu Tie had been thinking about what Long Shiyue had said to him this morning, and Yu Hou told the story of Long Zunjun, there were many doubts in the story, and he couldn't justify himself, but Long Shiyue refused to explain carefully, and the Chinese did not delve into it. This Dragon Venerable Monarch is naturally the contemporary head of the Long family, one of the three powerhouses on the same level as the previous generation of the head of the family, the Storm Knight Long Shaori, and the oldest elder 'Nine Laws Tongshen' Long Jing, the person who plundered Long Ji, and is also the biological father of Long Ji. Why did the patriarch of the most powerful family in the East, a powerful man with a prominent reputation, fall into the sinner of the Long family overnight, the specific situation was not even clear to Long Shiyue, he only said that before the attack on the Long family's mansion, the Council of Elders had just decided to erase the name of Long Zunjun from the family tree, which was the most severe punishment for the descendants of the Long family.
The Council of Elders has ordered the Torture Hall and the Shadow Sect to send elite troops to hunt down Long Zunjun (and the five descendants of the Long family who follow him), and the official charge is "to confuse the public with the intention of corrupting the Long family". For any small feudal regime, this specious reason is used to measure the sins of dissidents, and as soon as the hat of "contemporary head of the family" is removed, Long Zunjun immediately turns from a respected elder into a street rat that everyone shouts and beats, and there is no eternal superior in the ancient family, only those who win and those who lose power.
"Evil words confuse the people? What kind of evil words confuse the people? Did he sneak out of the Long family just to run to the Southern Shang Kingdom to take Long Ji away? Why did he go to the Mo Han Kingdom? How do you know?" Hearing this, Gu Tie threw out a series of questions.
Long Shiyue replied by shaking her head: "I don't know, Mr. Yue." Soon after the Council of Elders issued a notice, Hou Qin Dog besieged the mansion, and I am not from the Torture Hall, so I can't get detailed information. ...... By the way, there are rumors in the market, saying that one morning Long Zunjun wrote a line of rebellious text in black mud at the door of the ancestral hall, the content is probably that the Long family is about to perish, and if you want to get a glimmer of life, you must give up the Long family mansion and move the family to the north of Xinjiang. The rumors may be hearsay, but let's listen to them, Mr. Yoo......"
"Wrote a line?" the Chinese touched his chin. Jonah's chin was smooth and smooth, with only a few immature and soft beard stubbles, which made Gu Tie very uncomfortable: "I remember that Long Zunjun has the ability to 'devour' and can absorb the power of other people's bloodlines, and do you remember that there was a little girl named Long Yi many years ago?" he recalled this fragment from his memory and spoke.
"Ah!" Long Shiyue was obviously stunned, "Long Yi is a descendant of the second Dongling Marquis of the Zong family, and he entered the other courtyard at the same time as me, Shiyu and Long Ji, and unfortunately died...... How do you know about her?"
"Hmph, I know more than you think. Gu Tie stinked and said, "Long Yi has an ability called 'pseudo-mud', which can make predictions about the future with the handwriting arranged in the mud, and on the day she died, the pseudo-mud wrote the date of her death, and that was the last time this ability appeared in the Long family, right? So far, the cause of her death has not been determined, and it can only be treated as an accidental death." Think about it again, now that the Long family's mansion has been wiped out, and you have to go to the northern border to move the rescue troops, is the passage written by Long Zunjun fulfilled?"
Yu Tuan Yu Hou was stunned. Gu Tie seemed to be able to hear that the big man was trying to calculate the cause and effect, and the brain made a clicking sound, and the Chinese were secretly happy, he knew that conspiracy theories were too difficult for a character like Long Shiyue who had a great sense of justice and did things, so he made a haha to divert the topic: "Hmph, don't talk about this, you just tell me why Long Zunjun wants to go to the last Han country." ”
“...... Oh yes, Mr. Joo. Long Shiyue blinked and replied, "When Long Zunjun betrayed the Long family, there were five followers around him, each of whom was a top master and loyal to him. But in fact, one of the five people was the eyeliner secretly arranged by the Elders, and this person left a secret message along the way, so that the foreign envoys of the Long family from all over the country could send Long Zunjun's traces back to the Long family's mansion. Before the contact was interrupted, the eyeliner reported that they had taken the female executioner through the Later Qin State, preparing to enter Yangping Mountain, and marching all the way to the northwest, and that Long Zunjun's goal must be to cross the border 'Tianyuan' to reach the end of the Han Dynasty. The foreign envoy of the Long family, who had arranged in the capital of the late Han Dynasty, sent back a message saying that Long Zunjun had recently booked three inns in the name of the head of the Long family, and his destination must be Da Weeping. ”
Gu Tie immediately poured cold water on him, and he was extremely disappointed. "What? I thought you had some unique tracking method, but I didn't expect to coax me to be your bodyguard just by relying on this little thing? If your family master is really a genius who has been rare in five hundred years, and a figure who is talented and martial arts in the world, can he not find out that you are tired of playing Infernal Affairs? He may just use the traitor to release false news, so that you can pounce in the north, and he will run away to the southern continent with Long Ji to be at ease!,! I'd better act on my own, and I'll spend this night in vain!"
As soon as he flicked his sleeves and stood up and left, Long Shiyue hurriedly chased after him, and his movements touched the wound, and the pain was so painful that cold sweat broke out: "Mr. Yue! Mr. Yue, I haven't finished yet! What I said is not a word of lie, there is this thing as evidence, please see!" He endured the pain, put the saber flat on the ground, unscrewed the hilt of the heavy sword, and poured out a smooth silver egg-shaped object from it.
Gu Tie stopped and watched quietly. "Walking away" is of course just a metaphysical high posture, he wants to see what the Long family can do to convince him of this gold medal bodyguard. But at the same time, the Chinese are also very angry, hating that they are not careful at all when searching their bodies, and they actually let such a strange thing hide under their noses without knowing.
Long Shiyue carefully picked up the silver egg, "Mr. Yue, this is an artifact that has been passed down from generation to generation in the Long family since ancient times, called 'Instant Thousand Miles', there are only seven such things in the world. No matter how far apart the owners of the instant miles are, they can talk to each other in the air, and their voices are clear and still near. That eyeliner carries such an artifact, as long as the time and place are right, activate the artifact, even if you don't speak, you can calculate the direction and approximate distance of the other party. As long as it is there, we can ensure that we can find Long Zunjun, and its use method is a secret that the Long family does not pass down, except for me, even the clan brother Shiyu does not know. ”
"Oh, that's more credible. Gu Tie snorted lightly and walked over to pick it up and take a look. Long Shiyue nervously withdrew her hand: "Ah, I'm sorry, Mr. Yue, this piece is too precious for outsiders to touch, please forgive me, after all, there are only seven in the world, and the Long family only has two......"
"Yes, yes, it's very strange. The Chinese reached out and dug around in the deerskin bag, and felt a silver egg to throw on the ground, "But coincidentally, I also have one or two of this thing." ”
The only remaining eyeball of Yu Tuan Yu almost popped out of his socket. He knelt on the ground and looked at the silver egg carefully, and raised his head with his head in a shout: "This, this, this...... Mr. Yoo, this is really a thousand miles, where did you get it?"
Gu Tie's gloomy psychology was greatly satisfied. This thing has been hidden in Jonah's bag for too long, and I'm afraid that the seventeen-year-old boy can't remember the calendar himself, but Gu Tie slowly replayed his memories like a slide, and naturally saw the scene a few months ago. When he became the cheap baron of the Tocharian Empire and was sent by Isebaink the Great to take up his post in Ecbatana, the old prince Halimaya gave him this communicator, saying that as soon as he found the traces of Elliot and others, he would immediately notify Jonah through the communicator. Afterwards, the thing seemed to be a bit of a technical hazard, except for one staccato sound, and then it lay silently in the deerskin bag. Who would have thought that this was still an artifact? Thinking about how much money the old prince of the Golden City had invested in trying to win over astrologers.
"Well, I got it by chance, and I have a lot of things like that. Replied triumphantly, Gu Tie suddenly remembered something.
First, the communicator cannot be used, it is estimated that the old prince has not mastered the communication technology of the Long family's secrets. Maybe this thing is really an artifact, and it was sent as a defective product.
Second, it also has the ability to track location. Could it be ......
The Chinese suddenly jumped back and took a few heavy breaths. If Prince Harimaya secretly knew about the tracking function and gave the communicator to the little boy Jonah, could it be that he was playing a big game of chess? Looking back, the Brotherhood did inexplicably lock down his whereabouts a few times, thinking that it was witnessed by a member of the Brotherhood, or that it was caused by the magic circle that detected the blood of heresy, but wouldn't it be more reasonable to explain it with a tracker? When there is no chaser behind the butt, wouldn't it be explained that the tracker can't work for the time being, and once the function is restored, the killer of the Brotherhood will immediately appear around?
Gu Tie didn't say anything at that time, he wouldn't say these thoughts to others, let alone to the Long family who couldn't be trusted. He decided to put the issue aside for the time being, and find a time to dissect the communicator and figure it out.
Time returned to noon, and none of the three of them spoke, slowly walking into the dense deep mountains. During a short break, I came across a passerby. The passer-by was dressed as a woodcutter, but in a red cloak. Long Shiyue wanted to ask about the road ahead, but Long Shiyu took out his short sword "Chopper" and walked over quietly, cutting the woodcutter's throat with a sword.
"Red is the color of Jingo's cavalry, and he may be a spy. The pale young man said calmly.
Long Shiyue was furious.
I agree with that. Gu Tie said. As soon as he said this, the nerve signals from the real world gently tapped the door of his senses, and he sighed. It's time to go back to another world.