Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Night Detective (New Revised Edition)
(I'm sorry, big guys and sisters: Little pig, I've been on a continuous business trip these days, in order to ensure updates, so this chapter of "Night Detective" was released at 7 o'clock before the first release of an unmodified version, which has a lot of errors and omissions, and now a new completely modified version is released, please forgive and enjoy the face, thank you!)
At nightfall, Lu Zhan didn't rush home to practice as usual, he had a slow dinner in the nursing hall, and then went to the lounge and began to equip himself.
To deal with a fierce character like Third Young Master Lu, you must use the best equipment without sparing.
He put on the "ghost-faced spider silk armor" close to his body, and he didn't forget to carry the Mithril heart guard that saved his last name in his arms.
In the Qiankun bag on his waist were several high-level weapons carefully selected from the treasures of the Great General Duobao, as well as the two yellow strange talismans with magical effects, and the "Tiger Roar Soul Breaking Knife" that had just been upgraded and tempered with the Blood Light Slash and was equivalent to a thousand tempers.
After equipping all this, he left the courtyard hall and went to the "Gilded Garden" where the third young master lived on the east side of the Lu Mansion.
"Gilded Garden" is located in the east of the Lu Mansion, which is the largest and most luxuriously decorated courtyard in the Lu Mansion.
Just from the extremely luxurious style of this garden, it can be imagined that the third young master Lu is self-explanatory in the Lu Mansion, and his influence is even much greater than that of his father, the current Marquis Lu Bufan.
Lu Zhan walked around the "Gilded Garden" for half a circle, and since he was the leader of the Guardian Hall, he naturally would not attract the attention of others. But if he swaggered into the "Gilded Garden" to spy on Lu Sangongzi, it would be too public.
First, the "Escort Group" that protects the Third Young Master in the "Gilded Garden", although there are Ma Lixiong and a few other henchmen of their own team, but there are more people from other teams, of course they can't completely obey their orders.
Second, he didn't have a very legitimate reason to get close to the third young master's residence, so he couldn't directly say that he suspected that the third young master and the dried corpse monster had problems and swaggered in to monitor, not to mention that the "guard group" would not agree, even if Tie Song, who had been helping him, would not agree.
Then, it seems that there is only other way to monitor the third young master.
Lu Zhan was already familiar with the surrounding environment.
The "Gilded Garden" is located on the southeast side of the "Golden Swallow Hall", next to the "Treasure Library" in the "Golden Swallow Hall".
Although it is not the tallest building in Lu Fuli, the three-storey building is in the shape of a pagoda, but because of the library-like design, it is tall enough to surpass any building in the "Gilded Garden".
Therefore, if you stand on the top floor of the "Treasure Library", you can see all the scenery in the "Gilded Garden" at a glance. If you want to observe the movement in the "Gilded Garden", standing on the "Treasure Library" is obviously a very good choice.
Lu Zhan had already made up his mind, so he came lightly outside the "Golden Swallow Hall".
At this time, it was getting late, and there were only a few guards left in the "Golden Swallow Hall".
And the guards guarding the "Jinyan Hall" are all a team of people, not their own subordinates, and they are not familiar with each other. So if Lu Zhan wanted to go in and pretend to inspect, it would obviously not work.
He tiptoed to the outside of the high courtyard wall of the "Golden Swallow Hall", looked at an angle, and swooped up on the wall with his feet.
Silently volleyed a few vertically to the side of the building of the "Treasure Library", and then lifted his breath and jumped upward, flying straight up more than three feet high, and stood lightly on the eaves of the second floor.
Then he stepped on the roof tiles and jumped up again, and then he climbed to the verandah of the third floor.
If this kind of ability to lift his spirit and fly up to a tall building was placed half a year ago, he would not even dare to think about it.
He walked along the verandah to the side near the "Gilded Garden" and looked down against the railing.
The bright moon was in the sky, and the silver moonlight sprinkled all over the land, although the night was a little deep, but the vision was quite clear.
The "Gilded Garden" has a vast area and dense buildings, but the third young master is extremely unpopular in the mansion, so except for the subordinates who are designated to take care of their daily lives and the guardian of the guard group, almost no one wants to go back and forth between the gardens that belong to him.
Therefore, the whole courtyard of the "Gilded Garden" is deep, and it seems to be extremely lonely and deserted, with only a few buildings shining with a faint light.
Only a few guards patrolled the courtyard with lanterns, but there was no movement in the building near the west wing.
From the information given by Ma Lixiong before, Lu Zhan knew that the third young master's underground cultivation was located under the building room in the West Chamber.
Thinking about it, those guards were afraid of the third young master to the core, so without his personal consent, no one dared to go to that building recklessly.
According to Xi Liuzi's account, the time of the girl's disappearance was in the middle of the night, if the third young master was really related to this matter, then it would not be long before he was ready to leave to commit the crime.
So Lu Zhan lay on the third floor of the "Treasure Library" and waited patiently and quietly.
Just after the hour, I suddenly saw a light gray shadow flashing in the corner of the west wing of the "Gilded Garden".
The gray shadow floated up to the roof, and then flew in the air, quickly jumping from one room to another, and in a few flashes, it had jumped to the top of the courtyard wall on the side of the "Gilded Garden" near the "Treasure Library".
Here it comes!
Lu Zhan felt a little nervous in his heart, although the sky was dark and he couldn't see the true face of the gray shadow, but Lu Zhan knew that this person's martial arts attainments were only above him by relying on that person's superb body like light smoke.
Now in the entire Lu Mansion, he has only seen that the cultivation of the third young master can be higher than his own.
Lu Zhan quickly took out the face-changing mask and put it on his face, and casually came up with the face of a passer-by in his mind, and the mask immediately changed into the face of the passer-by, and then he leaned on the railing and quietly observed the gray shadow's movements.
The gray shadow jumped off the courtyard wall of the "Gilded Garden", dodged and ran to the courtyard of the "Golden Swallow Hall", and ran quickly along the courtyard wall towards the high wall to the south of the Lu Mansion.
In order to prevent himself from being detected, Lu Zhan waited until the gray shadow had passed through the "Golden Swallow Hall" before jumping down from the upper floor of the "Treasure Library" and chasing the direction of the gray shadow to the south.
After tracking for a long time, they came to the south of the Lu Mansion under the high wall.
Without pause, he jumped up to the top of the wall, which was more than four feet high, and stood on the wall and looked out to the four sides, only to see that on the roof of a house not far from the south wall, the gray shadow was stepping on the ridge of the roof and moving towards the west of the city.
Lu Zhan jumped down and sped in the air in the same direction.
He didn't keep tracking and chasing on the roof, so it was easy for the enemy who was running in front of him to be in the realm of condensing qi and with keen senses to find himself, so he had to follow the direction of the man's running for a while, and then jump on the roof to observe again, so that he was obviously more difficult and slower than the gray shadow running in front.
The two of them flew between the roof tiles like two wisps of light smoke, Lu Zhan's method of lifting his body was originally slightly inferior to the gray shadow, and he had to use a roundabout way to prevent himself from being discovered by the other party, so the distance between the two was getting farther and farther.
The two figures jumped between the heavy eaves and the stacked buildings for about two teas, and Lu Zhan saw that the gray shadow in front of him turned into a small black dot, and suddenly disappeared into a dense building area.
"Oh no, this guy, so fast. Lu Zhan struggled to speed up.
At this time, he chased him to the roof of a wide bluestone road, and was about to fly across the bluestone road, and when he jumped to the opposite side, he suddenly saw several warriors dressed in nocturnal costumes with bows and crossbows at their waists and weapons coming from the street below.
In order not to alarm the team walking below, he quickly gathered his body, leaned on the eaves, and waited for the samurai to walk over, and then jumped across the road.
Unexpectedly, several warriors walked not far below Lu Zhan, and suddenly stopped in unison.
Then one of them shouted and asked, "Who is it?" who dares to hide his head and show his tail!"
Lu Zhan, who was lying on the eaves, was stunned when he heard this, and wondered in his heart: "Could it be that I was discovered?"
But I heard an answer from the street below from a few feet away: "Don't panic, it's me." ”
When several warriors standing under Lu Zhan heard this, they hurriedly saluted in unison and said, "My subordinates have seen the second master. ”
Then he heard the footsteps on both sides approaching, and Lu Zhan poked his head out of the eaves to look down, only to see two people approaching the group of warriors in the night.
One of them, a short man in leather armor, led the way with a lantern in his hand, and the other was about fifty years old, dressed in dark armor, with a fat body and a majestic bearing, and looked like a man who had been in a position of high power for a long time.
Lu Zhan felt that this person was very familiar, and after thinking about it carefully, he remembered it-
A few months ago, when he was practicing the "Blood Light Slash" in the stone forest of Zixia Mountain, he and Qiu Xianfeng of the secret workshop appeared in the mountain, and they were going to mourn Yan Dahai, who died tragically at the "Capture the Flag Martial Arts Conference" in Lu Mansion.
Now that I hear those samurai call him the second master, could it be that this person is actually an extremely powerful relative figure in the Yan Mansion?
I only heard the second master ask a few samurai: "How is the situation at the 'Baiju Restaurant'?"
One of the leading samurai bowed down and replied, "Back to the second master, there are already more than a hundred warriors gathered in the 'Baiju Restaurant'. ”
The second master asked again: "What about these people's martial arts attainments?"
"Generally, most of them are in the realm of refining bodies, and only seven or eight have reached the realm of forging bones, and the most powerful ones are only in the middle stage. ”
The second master said "um" and asked again: "Have you checked the owner of the 'Baiju Restaurant'? Who came to the restaurant to set up the 'Juying Banquet'?"
"The subordinate asked the boss carefully before, and the boss said that he didn't know the person, but he was a man dressed as a white-clothed scribe wearing a hat and a black veil, and he gave the boss thirty taels of gold at that time, saying that he would charter the entire restaurant tonight, except for those who have martial arts cultivators who came by appointment, and other idle people will not be accepted. The owner of the restaurant was so happy to see that the other party had paid so much gold, so he didn't ask the man's origin again. ”
"A masked white-clothed scribe?" the second master frowned, stroked his long beard under his chin, and muttered: "Who the hell could this be? Didn't he see any clues from the man in white?"
The boss said he didn't see any clues. ”
The second master snorted coldly, "This 'Thousand Souls Society' dares to recruit troops and set up gangs on our territory so arrogantly, but they don't have the courage to show their true faces, there must be some ghost in this, what arrangements have you made now?"
"This area is the territory of the Lu Mansion, so the subordinates didn't dare to be too public, but arranged for five brothers to sneak into the restaurant to participate in the 'Juying Banquet', so as to see who was organizing this night banquet. The second master, it's almost time to start the banquet, but the guy from the 'Ten Thousand Souls Society' hasn't shown up yet. ”
"Hmph, the territory of the Lu Mansion?" the second master sneered again and again: "The Lu Mansion is just a declining family now, and it has been pressed and beaten by us all these years. And not to mention their Lu Mansion, even the entire Yunmeng City will become the world of my Yan family in a short time! The little ones don't need to worry about anything, you first send all the people to surround the 'Baiju Restaurant' for me, and ask all the people to ambush me, wait for the guy from the 'Ten Thousand Souls Society' to appear, and then listen to my orders. Lao Tzu wants to see where the 'Thousand Souls Society' is sacred, and dare to spread wildness on the head of my Yan family. ”
"Yes, my subordinates will do it. "A samurai was ordered to run away quickly;