In the face of Ye Feng's intentional or unintentional ridicule and temptation, Jiu Mengzi's expression slowly froze.

He looked at Ye Feng's smiling appearance, and couldn't help but secretly marvel in his heart.

Today's Ye Feng is no longer the newcomer who just wants to avoid trouble. He now sits firmly in the position of the hall master of the South Hall, and quickly cultivates his subordinates, forming a news network in the Purple Cloud Sword Sect.

In the past few days, although others have been locked up in the dungeon of the Nine Star Division, they still control every move in the Purple Cloud Sword Sect. Even his secret conversation with Su Yang was seen by him.

It seems that there are some things that should be known to him.

"Come in and talk about it."

Cover the wine gourd with the wine gourd and retie it around the waist. The drunkenness on his face before also disappeared in an instant, and he became extremely serious.

Ye Feng knew that his temptation had worked, so he gave Lin Xiyao a look, and followed Jiu Mengzi into the Nantang courtyard.

In the courtyard, Jiu Mengzi stood still, turned around slowly, and stared at Ye Feng with his eyes tightly, as if he didn't know him.

Looking at Jiu Mengzi's strange behavior, Ye Feng tried to speak again: "Did you really put the fire?" ”

Jiu Mengzi didn't answer this question, but asked rhetorically, "Why should I burn down the house of the Purple Cloud Sword Sect?" ”

This is the best answer, because whether he answers yes or no, it is possible that he is lying, and only this answer can make Ye Feng believe it.

Jiu Mengzi was the former Purple Cloud Sword Sect, although he is now in name, but he is also a member of the Purple Cloud Sword Sect. Moreover, he and Su Yang did not reach the point of tearing their faces, and the ultimate goal was still to restore the status of the Purple Cloud Sword Sect in Yangning Kingdom. He categorically will not implement the strategy of "fighting in the nest" and burn down the houses in Xitang to vent his anger.

"Then this fire ......" Ye Feng looked at him and said faintly.

Regarding the sudden fire, Jiu Mengzi was also very puzzled: "The fire caused by the explosion is definitely not so simple. ”

Ye Feng stepped forward quickly, came to Jiu Mengzi, and asked again: "Su Yang said that the fire house is a library pavilion, since it is for the collection of books, why did it explode?" ”

Jiu Mengzi's expression was serious, he stared at Ye Feng for a long time, and suddenly nodded thoughtfully.

He looked at the smoke in the distance and said in a deep voice: "After the fire is extinguished, you go to investigate the cause of the fire, I believe it will be discovered." ”

"The cause of the fire is important, but after all, it was the West Hall that caught fire, as the master of the South Hall, will Su Yang agree to my investigation?" Ye Feng looked embarrassed and said.

Jiu Mengzi showed a meaningful smile: "Don't you still have the identity of the Nine Star Division?" ”

"What if Su Yang insists on not letting it?" Ye Feng asked rhetorically.

"That makes it even more clear that the fire was not an accident." Lin Xiyao's voice came from behind him.

Jiu Mengzi continued to speak: "Moreover, Su Yang invited you to have a drink, and he has already had a showdown with you." I don't think he had a reason to refuse, even if he wanted to. ”

Ye Feng slowly raised his head and stared at Jiu Mengzi's eyes.

Jiu Mengzi also looked back at him with the same gaze, and both of them laughed.

Ye Feng pretended to be a pig and ate a tiger, and Jiu Mengzi was not, neither of them was idle, they were both investigating each other's every move, and everything that happened in the Purple Cloud Sword Sect couldn't escape the eyes of the two.

It seems that after the hunting in Hita that day, Su Yang looked for Ye Feng to drink and have a showdown, and Jiu Mengzi already knew.

……

The fire burned for three hours, and with hundreds of people from the Purple Cloud Sword Sect fighting it, all the open flames were finally extinguished.

The house collapsed, and there was still a faint glow of fire among the dark beams and columns.

The air was filled with white smoke, which was pungent but not as thick as it had been.

Hundreds of people sat on the ground, all black and exhausted, and wooden buckets carrying water were thrown around them haphazardly, covering the entire square. Another group is moving the rubble and demolishing parts of the crumbling building.

"Hall Master Su."

Ye Feng came to Su Yang's side and arched his hand.

Su Yang was also blackened by the fire, he looked at Ye Feng, and then at Lin Xiyao behind him: "Virtuous nephew...... Something? ”

"This fire came suddenly, and it was accompanied by an explosion, and I came to help Hall Master Su investigate the cause of the fire." Ye Feng showed an enthusiastic appearance of helping, revealing a smile that Su Yang could not refuse.

Su Yang smiled awkwardly, and the corners of his mouth twitched a little: "This is very good, the virtuous nephew has the ability to solve cases, and he is in the Nine Star Division." I saw that this fire was burning very strangely, and I was about to clean up the wreckage of the ruins and ask my nephew to come and help. ”

The building that caught fire has three floors, and although the floors are not high, the building area is huge. It is mainly used as a collection of books, and can be understood as the library of the West Hall of the Purple Cloud Sword Sect.

The building is built against a hill and fires from the inside and burns outward. Despite all the efforts to save the fire, the buildings on the outside have all collapsed, like a giant axe that opens the sky, splitting vertically from top to bottom, splitting the building in two like cutting a cake. The side of the hill is basically preserved, and the outside side is already in ruins, and from a distance, it looks like an unfinished building.

Su Yang led the way for Ye Feng, while Lin Xiyao, Lu Jiang and Cheng Fan followed behind.

Everywhere I went, it was scorched and dark, and most of the houses were in ruins

Some of the trainees are carrying out "salvage digging", picking out items that have not been burned and moving them out for cleaning.

Along with the belongings, several charred corpses were removed.

"Alas, natural disasters......" Su Yang looked at the corpse that was carried out, his eyes were full of unbearable, he shook his head, and sighed repeatedly: "Quickly investigate the names of the victims, take gold and silver and send them to their families." ”

As the bodies were moved to the open space outside, at first glance, at least ten people had been killed in the fire, and all of them were scorched by the fire, and they could no longer be distinguished.

Ye Feng looked at the charred corpse, and then at the part of the building that had not been destroyed by the fire, and suddenly felt a little weird.

Even if the fire broke out suddenly, and it was accompanied by an explosion, the people in the building were trapped, and there was no way to escape. They should also run away to the place where the fire is small or there is no fire to save their lives, how can they wait to be burned to death by the fire in the same place?

In other words, even if they fled to a building that was not affected by the fire and were killed by the smoke, they would have left their bodies completely unscorched.

Did they die from the explosion?

An explosion that could cause such a fire would certainly not leave a whole corpse.

"Virtuous nephew, virtuous nephew?"

Su Yang's voice called out, bringing Ye Feng back to his senses.

"What did the virtuous nephew discover?" Su Yang asked seriously.

Ye Feng shook his head and said casually: "Someone died in the fire, it's unbearable." ”

"Ugh." Su Yang sighed and said quietly: "It's really unbearable." ”

Everyone continued to follow Su Yang inside, Ye Feng was suddenly attracted by the black powder under his feet, he squatted down, gently twisted some with his fingertips, and put it on the tip of his nose to smell it.

Gunpowder?!

I was shocked: no wonder there was an explosion.

"Virtuous nephew, virtuous nephew?"

Seeing Ye Feng squatting on the ground, fiddling with a cloud of black ash debris, Su Yang called out again.

Ye Feng stood up, clapped his hands naturally, wiped off the gunpowder residue from his fingertips, and followed Su Yang to continue walking inside.

As several people walked into the interior of the building, the situation became even more dire, and it was clear that this was the very center of the fire.

Or rather, the very center of the explosion.

"What is this place?" Ye Feng stood still and asked.

Su Yang looked around, carefully recalled the layout of the house, thought for a long time, and said, "This should be a storeroom for storing some books." ”

Ye Feng let out an "oh", nodded, and didn't say anything more.