When Ma Hu said this, he seemed to be finished, and then stopped and looked at Qian Chao.

And Qian Chao has been thinking about what Ma Hu said, and he muttered involuntarily: "Zhang Jing, smiling man, a different person, alas, it's a pity, that Zhang Jing is also dead, otherwise you can ask him." ”

Knowing that Ma Hu had finished speaking, Qian Chao asked, "It's still that question, Senior Brother Ma, how is Senior Brother Wei who went out with Senior Brother Xun and escaped back after being seriously injured, have you seen him?" ”

Ma Hu sighed when he heard this, and said: "That Senior Brother Wei, I know him, and he is a good person, and he can go in and out with Senior Brother Xun, and his natural character will not be bad, but it's a pity that Senior Brother Wei is dead, which I later heard from the mouth of one of Senior Brother Xun's senior brothers, after they had an accident, I couldn't see that Senior Brother Wei, and after inquiring again, I knew that there was no one anymore." ”

Qian Chao listened and said strangely: "Didn't you say that you escaped back?" How can you still die? ”

Ma Hu said: "Alas, I said that this Senior Brother Wei was going to flee back to the sect after being seriously injured, but he was poisoned and unconscious halfway, and was seen by a few disciples who went out, so he was rescued from the sect, but when the person came back, he had half a life left, and it took him half a day to wake up, and then he knew that Senior Brother Xun had an accident outside." As for Senior Brother Wei's death, in my opinion, there are two reasons, one is that he was poisoned too deeply, the poison of the demon insect drilling bamboo wind is fierce, as long as the person who is poisoned by the drilling bamboo wind, the injury will leave a small stinger, I heard that a total of nearly two hundred such stingers were cleaned up on Senior Brother Wei's body, which shows the depth of his poisoning, even if he was cured, it was a step too late, and ...... It's no wonder that Elder Jin, at that time, Elder Jin was thinking about how his apprentice was, in order to be able to ask the truth from Senior Brother Wei's mouth, he used some fierce medicine to add fuel to the fire when he healed people, and at that time, he could indeed make Senior Brother Wei clear and speak, but later on his body had the harm of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle, alas! ”

Qian Chao nodded when he heard this, and said, "I'm afraid that Elder Jin thinks this Senior Brother Wei is suspicious, right?" ”

Ma Hu said: "Almost, who let this Senior Brother Wei have no foundation in the sect." ”

"And what about the second reason?"

"The second reason, after Senior Brother Wei woke up, he learned from the seniors who healed him that even if he was lucky enough to save a life, but because he was too seriously injured, the best outcome was a great reduction in cultivation, and the most likely outcome was that he would no longer be able to practice in the future, so he was disheartened, had no thoughts of life, and died after lying in bed for less than two days, alas, what a pity!"

Ma Hu sighed when he said this.

Qian Chao thought of the old ancestor in his Qian family's prime minister's mansion, and it was also because he was too seriously injured and broke the foundation of his cultivation, so he had to return to the Qian family gloomily, but his old ancestor was directly injured by the demon beast, and the injury was still dantian, but this Senior Brother Wei was poisoned, can poisoning also make people break the root of cultivation?

Thinking of this, Qian Chao couldn't help but ask:

"Senior Brother Ma, how can the poison of the Drill Bamboo Wind be so powerful that it can still make people unable to cultivate?"

"That's not that the poison of the drill bamboo wind is great, let's put it this way, if it is replaced by me, even if I am bitten by the drill bamboo wind for more than ten or twenty times, I can survive it by asking myself, as long as I can escape, quickly give myself medicine, and then return to the sect to find someone to heal, at most lie down on the bed, and then it will be fine, but there is too much poison in that senior brother Wei, and he is bent on fleeing to the sect, and the poison will completely spread throughout his body, and the dantian qi sea in his body will naturally be destroyed by the poison, which is still his cultivation is profound, If someone else is injured like him, I'm afraid I'll die on the spot, and there will be enough to escape for a while. ”

After a pause, Ma Hu said again: "At the beginning, this Senior Brother Wei was closely guarded by Elder Jin's people, in fact, it was a guard, not to let outsiders approach, let alone let Senior Brother Wei leave, after all, three people went out, two died outside, and when he came back, he would inevitably be suspected, so at that time, although I wanted to go over and ask Senior Brother Wei, but I couldn't see him at all, until this time I found a disciple of Elder Jin, a senior brother of Senior Brother Xun, I also recognized it, so I asked about Senior Brother Wei, From his mouth, I learned that Senior Brother Wei was also dead, but I learned from his mouth that some of the things that Senior Brother Wei said after he came back, well, it is indeed correspondable to what Jia Si said, and after Jia Si was injured and left, the three of them never met anyone else, all the way to Guanxikou, and then something happened. ”

"What was the situation like, what was it like when they were attacked?" Qian Chao asked.

"Senior Brother Wei is talking about the demon insects at the mouth of the river drill bamboo wind at that time like crazy, overwhelming the sky to rush towards them, at that time they were already deep into the mouth of the river, at the beginning there was nothing to do, but suddenly in all directions, and the sky is densely packed with that kind of demon insects, for a while it was like late at night, the first to suffer was that Zhang Jing, Senior Brother Wei said that the overwhelming demon insects seemed to recognize Zhang Jing as an enemy, chasing him to the death, not to hit him with his life, Zhang Jingxiu couldn't support it for long no matter how high he was, and soon his whole body was covered with a thick layer of drill bamboo wind and fell down from the air, alas, Senior Brother Xun was just to save him, and he could have escaped from the demon worm, but he returned to save people, and this was also harmed. ”

"Treat Zhang Jing as an enemy?" Qian Chao was puzzled, "Did Senior Brother Wei say that there were any other people present at the time, or to prevent them from escaping, or to take the opportunity to attack them?" ”

"No, this Elder Jin asked the most carefully, but Senior Brother Wei said that it seemed that he heard a very thin sound in the sound of demon insects flapping their wings in the sky, but it was vague and unreal, and it was intermittent, Senior Brother Qian, is there such a spiritual weapon that can be used to control the demon insects outside the sect without an owner with a sound?"

Qian Chao thought for a while and said: "Among the spiritual weapons that I know of that can make sounds, there are several that have the effect of deterring, dispelling and even harming demon insects, but if it is controlled, I am afraid that it will not be possible to do it with spiritual weapons alone, and it must be used with some means of imperial spirits to have this effect." Well, that voice...... Presumably, it must have made Elder Jin believe that his disciple was killed by someone, right? ”

Ma Hu said, "Yes, Elder Jin is still investigating this matter now. ”

Next, Qian Chao asked some things about Senior Brother Xun, but from what Ma Hu found out, whether it was the people he came into contact with or what he was doing, there was nothing abnormal about Senior Brother Xun's daily life, which is also right, after all, Senior Brother Xun has the guidance of a famous teacher, and he doesn't care about building the foundation. For Senior Brother Xun and Ma Hu in front of him, there is no reason to touch.

But this is the kind of person who was killed!

Thinking that Zhuanzhufeng regarded that Zhang Jing as an enemy, and chased him to the death, and it was this person who met an old man outside the sect before, so he chased him, but people didn't know him, Qian Chao asked:

"That senior brother named Zhang Jing, who is the 'smiling man' he said earlier, has Senior Brother Ma found out?"

"Checked! But I can't find out," Ma Hu said a little frustratedly, "I don't know if I don't check, I was shocked when I checked it!" ”

Qian Chao asked, "Oh, what did Senior Brother Ma find out?" ”

'Hmmm......' The three words "Smiling Lang", I have inquired from many people before and after, and there are a lot of people who ask, but only a few people say to me that they seem to have heard of this name, but you also know that Smiling Lang must not be his real name, it must be a nickname, but this person's real name has not been able to inquire, and the people who can remember these three words also said that they only vaguely heard it from other people's mouths, and then I started from the dead Zhang Jing, and checked the people who often came together two years ago, and found a few people, and those people also knew Smiling Lang, and they didn't know this Smiling Lang, But tell me that it seems that the smiling man often mixes with a guy surnamed Qu, and the seriousness of the surname Qu is not a good thing, and there are less than a dozen people around him, and they go in and out together, and they don't interact with outsiders, it's very mysterious, and I know this guy surnamed Qu, so I'll check all the way, hum! In the end, Senior Brother Qian, guess what it looks like? ”

"Could it be that ......," Qian Chao said hesitantly, "Could it be that the guy surnamed Qu is also dead?" ”

"Well, that's right!" Ma Hu was a little annoyed when he said this, and the ones behind him seemed to be a step slower no matter where they went, "The surname Qu, and the guys around him, it is said that they have not appeared in the sect for a long time, eighty percent...... What eighty percent, it should be all dead. ”

"Isn't there anyone who knows about this smiling man anymore?"

"Senior Brother Qian, although there are many people in the sect, there are so many close people who often come and go, think about it, you are a little famous, but many people only know the number one person who has a wealth tide, and you may not know that you are the money tide when you meet, you pinch your fingers and count how many people you know? If someone has been acting in a low-key and unobtrusive manner, there will naturally be fewer people who know him, and if all the people around him who know him are dead, then it can almost be said that no one in the sect knows him. ”

Qian Chao nodded after hearing this, it seems that Ma Hu's investigation has turned into a dead end.

I have to say more here that Qian Chao's cleverness is indeed true, but he is not an omniscient person, and his cleverness is that he can find the unusual in many seemingly ordinary things in front of him.

But as for what Ma Hu is doing now, firstly, Ma Hu did not let him interfere, and secondly, his mind was not on Senior Brother Xun's affairs, after all, Qian Chao had never seen him before that Senior Brother Xun was alive.

This is also to blame the person named Zhang Jing, he only cares about his own words, if he can say all the nicknames of that person in front of Jia Si at that time, I am afraid that Qian Chao will suddenly be alert.

Because the full name of the person Zhang Jing said should be "Crane Hair Smiling Face", and some people call him "White Hair Smiling Lang", or "White Hair", "White Hair", of course, "Smiling Lang" is also this person's nickname.

If Qian Chao could know this, he would immediately think of the scene he glimpsed when he watched that Yanshuang by Tianshui Lake: the guy who watched the excitement followed behind a gray-haired young man with a respectful posture!

Even if Qian Chao's news could be more well-informed, and the time when he knew that the people surnamed Qu had disappeared could be about the same as the time when a senior brother surnamed Bian in Qixia Mountain was building the foundation, and Qu Bian and the two still had some contacts in private, he should think more,

That way, things might be easier!

It's just that Qian Chao's energy will not be focused on these things, he only came to the sect to practice, and he naturally has to pay attention to things related to himself, such as Han Jin, such as Li Lihua, such as the person who doesn't know his name to watch the excitement, but where will other things be taken to heart, and everything has to be inquired about?

(For the above episode, see Test Feather Paper, Seventy-Three: A Pool of Clear Water Ripples.) The foreshadowing I buried was a little long, and there were too many words, but don't worry, there are even earlier. ）

"Smiling man, could it be that this person loves to laugh, or has a smiling face?" Qian Chao said, "Then what is Senior Brother Ma going to do next?" ”

"I only got the word 'smiling man' until now, and the other directions seem to be blocked, but it's better than not knowing anything, well, I'll keep checking it, maybe I'll be able to find out something new in the future, and even find out the 'smiling man' maybe, people have left their names, and there will be no traces at all."

Qian Chao could only nod at this time, he actually had an idea that might be able to help Ma Hu, but he didn't want to say it.

His idea was to use Na Jia Si as bait to lure the smiling man out.

Since there is nothing abnormal in other places, the only thing that seems to be a little wrong is that Zhang Jing, and the smiling man he met, if the news is released, saying that Jia Si saw that smiling man from afar, what will happen?

If Senior Brother Xun's death was really done by that Smiling Lang, then he must be covering up something, and Zhang Jing knew that this matter was still a very important thing for Smiling Lang, but from Ma Hu's words, it seemed that Zhang Jing didn't know what he knew, and Senior Brother Xun was involved by that Zhang Jing at all, so Zhang Jing was poisoned by the bamboo wind first, Senior Brother Xun also died in order to save Zhang Jing, and Senior Brother Wei, who escaped later, died in the sect, and it seems that everyone who was with Zhang Jing seemed to be dead, But if this smiling man knows that there are still people outside the sect who have seen him and Zhang Jing together, maybe he will kill again, so that when Jia Si goes out, or this smiling man himself or he sends someone else to get rid of Jia Si, and then he ambushes Jia Si may be able to take down those people, and then ask for an understanding.

But the reason why Qian Chao didn't say it was because he knew Ma Hu's heart, this person was now focused on avenging Senior Brother Xun, and he might not take that Jia Si's life very seriously, if it really led to the person who was smiling, Ma Hu might not be willing to protect the safety of that Jia Si with all his might, this is one of them; Second, if Ma Hu explained this strategy to Elder Jin and arranged this matter together, just looking at how Elder Jin treated that Senior Brother Wei, he knew that he would not take Jia Si's life in his eyes, and maybe how he would fiddle with the arrangement when the time came, and Jia Si might lose his life because of it.

Even though that Jia Si had done evil things before, he could hear that he seemed to have been influenced by Senior Brother Xun, and he might not do evil again in the future, but whether he did evil or not, human life should not be at the mercy of that, and he could be punished for doing evil, but he used other people's lives for a purpose without caring whether the person would die or not, such a thing, Qian Chao was unwilling to do such a thing.

In order to achieve a goal, taking other people's lives as a stepping stone, Qian Chao asked himself if he couldn't do it now, he always felt that if he acted like that, he and Han Ji would be the same, and he was still very resistant to such a thing in his heart.

Or perhaps, Qian Chao has no friendship with Senior Brother Na Xun, and he doesn't want to hurt another stranger for the sake of a stranger!