In the tent of the Chinese army, General Shu Cheng was discussing with officers at all levels of the Northeast Frontier Army. Suddenly, he noticed the movement of heaven and earth vitality coming from the depths of the camp, and heard the subsequent miserable howl, and couldn't help but change his expression slightly.

One of the generals suddenly tightened his expression, stood up and prepared to rush out of the tent.

General Shu Cheng stared at him coldly and asked in a cold voice, "Xu Yin, what do you want to do?"

The border army general named Xu Yin turned around, looked at General Shu, whose face was like iron, and finally understood why there was such a meeting today. He forcibly suppressed the shock in his heart, and explained in a deep voice: "There is movement in the camp, maybe there is an enemy spy infiltrating, and the general, as a partial general of the Shanzi battalion, should go to inspect it." ”

"No need. General Shu Cheng's level was far above Xu Yin, he looked at the other party expressionlessly and said, "The imperial court is on a mission, so you don't need to go to inspection." ”

Xu Yinxiongkou was hit hard, not only worried about the situation over there, but also worried that if it was really the imperial court that was checking the matter of the horse thief, it might be more involved, so he gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "Why doesn't the last general know what the imperial court is investigating? ”

General Shu Cheng slammed the table and shouted: "Presumptuous, do you still need to explain to you, a little general, when the court does things! Shut up for me, and then sit down!"

The middle-aged man with a pale face was the leader of the horse thieves who were killing the grain team in the wasteland, he looked at Ning Que's face with blank eyes, and said weakly: "Since you can find me, why do you have to ask who I am?"

"I can find you because I guessed your identity, but I can't guess after all. ”

Ning Que took the big black umbrella and continued: "It doesn't really matter who you are, and it's easy to find, you just need to draw a portrait for the military department to check it out." ”

The middle-aged man frowned painfully and said, "Then you can go and check." ”

"Now that I'm in the wasteland, it's impossible for me to go back to Chang'an, and even if I find out who you are, it won't help me with what I want to know, just like if I break Tang Law and kill someone, no one will dare to say anything bad about my master. ”

The middle-aged man slowly closed his eyes and said, "My name is Lin Ling, the chief general of the Inner Forward Battalion of the Northeast Frontier Army of the Empire. ”

Ning Que looked at his pale cheeks, silently repeated the name in his heart, and then said, "Very good, then the next thing to say, who instructed you to kill me?"

The middle-aged man sipped the bloodless dry shuang chun tightly, and he couldn't say a word anymore when he saw the meaning.

Since he is the chief general of the Northeast Frontier Army, then the top boss is General Xiahou, in fact, Ning Que doesn't need to ask the middle-aged man and doesn't need to say, they both know who wants to kill Ning Que, but the inference can never be turned into evidence, just like Ning Que said before, Da Nian Shi Lin Ling admitted his identity because he knew that it was nothing.

Ning Que looked at the middle-aged man who was tightly closed, and glanced at a place outside the tent with his spare eyes, where there was a faint figure, and after a moment of silence, he said with a serious expression: "I swear in the personality of a master that as long as you are willing to tell who the instructor is, I can let you go back alive, and let the academy guarantee your safety." ”

Great Nian Shi Lin Ling opened his eyes and looked at him, but he still didn't say a word.

"I've sworn by the Master's personality, don't you believe it?" Ning Que said.

Lin Ling said with difficulty: "There is really no one to instruct me, this is my own decision." ”

"Even if it's your own decision, there must be some tacit consent. You must know that although you are a strong man in the Cave Realm, you are still not qualified to command more than six hundred horse thieves in the wasteland. ”

Ning Que looked into his eyes and said, "I want to know that person's name." ”

Lin Ling gasped and said, "Is it really so important to hear that name from my mouth?"

"For the imperial court...... ，... Maybe it doesn't matter. Ning Que paused for a moment and said, "But it's important to me."

Lin Ling suddenly laughed, and his pale smile looked a little weird: "If it's important to you, then how can I say it?"

Ning Que frowned, finding that he had underestimated Xiahou's prestige in the other party's heart and underestimated the other party's loyalty. He gently stroked his knees, and after a long silence, he suddenly asked, "Do you have any parents and children?"

Lin Ling seemed to guess what he wanted to say, and said with a difficult smile, "No." ”

In Ning Que's opinion, this smile was very hateful and proud.

After a moment of silence, he continued to ask with a gentle expression, "Then as a cultivator, you always have a sect of masters, right?"

Lin Ling replied: "Hmph, but since I joined the army, I have rarely interacted with the division, and I have no feelings. ”

"You're lying. ”

Ning Que looked at him and said calmly: "If you don't have a relationship with the teacher, you can let me this empty door, but you are in a hurry to tear the division apart" proves that there is a great intention to protect it. ”

Lin Ling was slightly stunned, frowned painfully, and said, "Believe it or not, I won't say anything anyway." ”

Ning Que smiled and said, "Okay, whether you retract the lie or not, but you have to know what kind of crime it is to collude with horse thieves to attack the grain team, especially to murder this disciple on the second floor of my academy." ”

Jing Ling said with a resolute expression: "It's just one death, who hasn't died through the ages?"

"Of course it's not as simple as death, and although I think death is indeed the biggest threat, I know that loyal people like you have always thought that there are more important things in the world than life and death. ”

Ning Que looked into his eyes and said: "I am a disciple of the master, I am a believer of His Majesty, just by virtue of this matter, I can ask your master and elders, disperse your sect, and even kill all your relatives and fellow disciples, maybe you really don't care about their life or death, but in case there are your childhood sweethearts among those relatives, in case those fellow disciples have a senior sister who gave you a quilt on the first night, and they die like this...... Wouldn't it be a pity?"

Lin Ling couldn't understand his childhood sweetheart, but he understood Ning Que's undisguised killing intent, so his cold body became colder and colder because of excessive blood loss, and it seemed to be even more desolate than the wind and snow outside the tent.

"I'm not used to being so threatening, because I used to have very little capital to threaten people. ”

Ning Que said very seriously: "And I don't want to threaten people, I just want to know an 'answer' case, which you and I both know, it's just the 'answer' I want to hear from your mouth." ”

Lin Ling's emaciated cheeks showed a look of struggle, and his gray eyes gradually overflowed with feelings of abandonment and apology, Ning Que looked carefully, and added calmly: "I swear by the personality of a husband and a half." ”

I don't know how long it took, but the dry syllables finally came out slowly from the withered chunk of the dying Great Nian.

Ning Que lowered his head, listened quietly and carefully, and said something from time to time.

After hearing all the things he wanted to know, he stood up and nodded his head at the middle-aged man who was dying, but his eyes were a little calm and relaxed in the midst of guilt.

Then he pulled out the Pu knife in his sheath and slashed downward, the cold blade slashing through the opponent's throat.

The complicated feelings such as guilt and fear after relaxation in the eyes of the Great Nian Master all turned into gray shock and despair, and his eyes were so wide that he couldn't close them even if he couldn't breathe.

Walking out of the tent, Ning Que looked at the Tang soldier who was waiting for him and said, "It's really a pity that he couldn't come down." ”

This Tianshu Tang soldier, who was buried in the border army, watched what happened today from beginning to end, and he didn't know how to deal with this sentence at all, looking at the residual blood on Ning Que's blade, he had to be silent. @。