Stone Town has been locked down for three days, and because there are fewer traders or travelers, the three markets in the city are obviously a little deserted.

On the contrary, instead of discounting the cost of gambling houses and hook bars in the city, business is booming day by day, and I think that many merchants and hawkers who are locked up in the city have nowhere to go and nothing to do, so they can only linger in the entertainment and sound places to chat to relieve their boredom.

The immortals in the sky are the most envious, but it is the pleasure of the mortal world, and the mortals who have leisure on the earth will naturally not be willing to miss a cent.

Whether it was according to what Xu Wei saw and heard in Huairenfang at that time, or what Xie Jiayin Shanwei witnessed at the gate of the city, there was still a group of masked people who had not left after the gate of Stone City was closed, and these people must have been scattered in Stone City at this moment, and if they wanted to know where their stronghold outside the city was, they had to catch this group of people.

Therefore, according to Xu Wei's description, Xie Bo'an divided his staff into several teams, the first team was responsible for inquiring about the travelers who stayed after the city gate was closed in various squares and restaurants in the city, and the second team was responsible for inquiring about the large and small places in the city.

Lu Min also divided the few subordinates into two teams, because of the suppression of Gao Zhen and Yu Dajiang, Lu Min's only property in the city was only the Fengyu Goolan near Shangxianji, so what he could command at present was just some of the thugs and subordinates in the Gool.

However, Fengyu Goolan has always been well-informed, and Lu Min is mainly responsible for inquiring about Gao Zhen and Yu Dajiang's private houses and properties outside the city this time, and also to grasp the traces of Yu Dajiang and Gao Zhen.

Because they knew that Gao Gong had hinted that Yu Dajiang was going to kill Yuwen Chenglong, Sima Yujiao and Ah Fu didn't dare to slack off, and could only stay by Yuwen Chenglong's side almost every step of the way.

However, after losing Ngawang, Yuwen Chenglong seemed to be calm for half a minute, and actually took the initiative to hand over a part of the Golden Snake Guard to Xu Wei for deployment, and wrote a letter to Lu Min to borrow the flying pigeons of Fengyu Goulan to send back to Chengtouzhuang, asking the accompanying young lady of the family to repair the book and go home to inform the danger in Stone City and the truth behind Gao Gong's instructions, and also instructed the housekeeper to immediately contact the Yuwen family forces to find Gao Gong's traces.

If Gao Gong really wants to personally bring elite soldiers to get the "Sanskrit Samadhi Sutra", then he must have already hit the road at this moment, Yuwen Chenglong and they must grasp his specific traces, and seize the scripture before Gao Gong.

Otherwise, if it is against the elite soldiers of Gao Gong, not to mention whether the private soldiers and thugs under Lu Min and Xie Boan can defeat the elite prince guards. Once the two sides collide, Yuwen Jackie Chan and his gang of people who have no official status will be charged with colliding with the minister first.

According to Xu Wei, the masked people scattered in the city may also be divided into two parts, one is the fugitive exile prisoners with very obvious shackle scars on their necks and arms, more whip marks on their bodies, and may have the habit of taking betel fruit and their appearance characteristics, in addition, because they have lived in the land of Baiyue for a long time, their accents should be different.

Others are more mysterious, with a sturdy physique that looks like a military birth, with a Sui knife at their waists, and a unique jet-black armor in their clothes.

Xu Wei and others all felt that those masked people who were born as felons were best to look for, on the one hand, the characteristics of these people were very obvious, the appearance of eating betel fruit, the accent of their speech, and the scars of wearing shackles that might be exposed on their wrists from time to time, these were all things that could not be concealed, on the other hand, according to common sense, these felons should also be people who could not bear loneliness.

On the fourth day of the lockdown, Xu Wei and others searched around for two nights, and overheard Lang Zhong, who treated Yinshanwei, said that he had been going to an old house in Yixiufang in the north of the city for the past two days to treat people.

Lang Zhong said that the two brothers lived in the dilapidated house in the north of the city where he went, and they were both as strong as the person Xu had found for them, but one of them seemed to be dying due to the lack of adaptation to the soil and typhoid fever, and at a glance it was clear that he was not a local who lived in Yixiufang.

After Xu Wei heard this, he immediately summoned the people of the Golden Snake Guard around him, and took advantage of the twilight to touch the old mansion of Yixiufang.

Because the old house was really dilapidated, and there was only a fence outside, Xu Wei and the Golden Snake Guards cooperated in pairs and almost silently climbed in.

Xu Wei commanded the golden snake guards around him to block every entrance of the old house, including the small windows that were difficult for ordinary people to climb through, to ensure that the people in the house had no chance to escape.

After everything was ready, Xu Wei took the lead and kicked open the wooden door with all his might, and happened to kick down a young man who was leaning against the door and listening to the sound with the wooden door.

There were not only two people in the old house, as the man had said before, but there were five of them, and in addition to the one who was kicked down and couldn't get up for a while, there were three standing and one lying on the shabby bed.

"Don't even come in! Hold your spot. Xu Wei pulled out the rough horizontal knife in his hand and shouted at the Golden Snake Guard who firmly surrounded the old mansion, he didn't want to let go of anyone in this room, after all, one more live one could be one more clue.

Now the city gate has been sealed for four days, but Xu Wei and others have not found the place where the scriptures are hidden or have not been able to find a way out of the city.

Although Lu Min didn't show too much anxiety, how could Xu Wei not know that he and Yuwen Chenglong were both anxious.

The other three strong young men in the room had also taken up arms, and it was obvious that these people were aware of Xu Wei's encirclement, but unfortunately they were still too late for Xu Wei to break into the old house.

"I don't need to say more about the reason for looking for you." Xu Wei looked at the Sui saber in their hands and smiled, "If you want to hide in the city, you should use less of this kind of ostentatious weapon." ”

The two strong young men standing at the front wanted to subdue Xu Wei when they saw Xu Wei alone, but they both came with horizontal eyebrows and raised eyebrows at Xu Wei.

Xu Wei knew that the two of them had extremely tough armor, and he didn't rush towards the middle door of the two from the beginning, he didn't slow down to meet the two people in front of him with a knife in one hand, and only one of them dodged the two knives that swung tightly, and at the same time, the knife in his right hand came out quickly, hitting the wrist of the person on the right side with the back of the knife, and then turning around and holding the knife with both hands and hitting the soft knee of the person on the left, almost overturning the latter.

The right wrist was injured, the man was in pain, and pressed the knife with his left hand to cut at Xu Wei, but the speed of his swing after the injury was slower than before, Xu Wei's body was short, and he swung his ankle with the back of the knife.

The remaining one saw that the two brothers were severely injured, and the knife that vowed to take revenge slashed at Xu Wei from top to bottom, Xu Wei barely looked back and poked the horizontal knife straight back, although the tip of the knife could not penetrate the tough Xuanjia, but it was able to transmit the rapid strength to the Xuanjia and knock the knife-wielding young man behind him straight away.

The last person was allowed to open with the tip of the knife and then lost the opportunity, Xu Wei turned around and slashed the man's ear with the back of the knife from the bottom diagonally, and only one blow knocked the person to a shaky and fainted to the ground.

Seeing this, the golden snake guard at the door had rushed into the house and grabbed everyone as soon as possible, and when Xu Wei went forward to look at the last person lying on the bed, he found that this person had long since lost his breath and whined.

"You will gather together to see him off on his last journey, and you are not afraid that his typhoid fever will pass on to you?" Xu Wei turned his head to look at a young man in Xuanjia who couldn't get up after his knee was hit hard.

"Hmph, if you don't even have the friendship and guts to send your brother on his last journey, it's better to die." The young man in the Xuanjia who had been hit hard in the knee gritted his teeth.

"Good friendship, good armor." Xu Wei said and stabbed the man's Xuanjia hidden in his clothes with a knife, although it was not as hard as the excellent outer armor after all, ordinary people should still be able to pierce it with a hard stab, but its advantage was that it was close and light.

The young men who were caught and pressed to the ground were not only wearing armor around the middle door, but also their thighs, hips, calves, shoulders, and forearms were also protected by armor.

Wearing so much armor and barely losing agility, and being able to withstand many more slashes and swings than ordinary armor, it was rare to see such lightness and toughness.

If he hadn't surveyed the masked man's corpse in advance and knew the place covered by the Xuanjia, Xu might not have been so easy about this battle.

Looking at the few people who had been restrained by the Golden Snake Guard, Xu Wei picked up a Sui knife and put it in front of one of them and said, "Since you have been caught, why don't you tell me where the scripture is, and who is your master?" ”

Xu Wei finished asking but did not respond, neither one answered his question, nor did anyone say anything like "you don't want to know".

In an instant, Xu Wei reacted immediately, and hurriedly said, "Quickly break their mouths!" ”

Don't say that the Golden Snake Guard, even when Xu Wei did it, it was too late, they should have hidden the poison in their mouths before Xu Wei rushed into the house, and when they saw that they were caught and had no chance to escape, they resolutely bit the poison between their teeth, and this resolute unyielding death made Xu Weilian sigh and annoyed, and finally despised the opponent.

There was no other way at the moment, Xu Wei could only order the Golden Snake Guard to rummage through the entire room and the corpses of these resolute young men on the ground.

The whole old house is very simple, and I have to say that the whole Stone Town is still relatively poor except for a few squares near the market and the entrance of the small temple.

There were a lot of medicine bags stacked on a chair in the old house, and it seemed that except for the person who died of illness in the bed, he must have been more or less contaminated.

But there are only two pairs of chopsticks on the table, Xu Wei remembered that Lang Zhong said before that there was a pair of brothers living in this room, it was obvious that there were only two people living in this room, and the others should live nearby, so maybe there would be another one.

Thinking of this, Xu Wei immediately asked the Golden Snake Guard to send a few brothers to the surrounding houses to inquire.