Shi Cheng and Tie Mian's infiltration can be said to be unaware, and none of the members of the Chamber of Commerce in the courtyard who were still lit noticed that there were two more uninvited guests in the empty and silent compound outside.

Before sneaking into the courtyard, Shi Cheng had already written down the layout of the entire courtyard on the small building outside, and he walked in front, cautiously moving forward, while alerting for possible traps.

Shi Cheng stopped in front of a huge wooden door, he looked at the huge two-story house in front of him, and whispered to Tie Mian: "This should be a warehouse, when we came here during the day, I paid attention to it, and there were many people running here with goods on their backs. ”

Iron Mask looked around and said, "I took a look, there are no traps or formations around here. ”

Shi Cheng took out a strangely shaped compass from the storage bag on his waist, he looked at the pointer of the compass, and gradually frowned, "There is indeed no formation, but you must not be careless, and you can't relax." ”

"Search the surroundings as soon as possible." Iron Mask's tone was very calm, but his grip on the hilt of his sword revealed his true thoughts.

"Okay, let's start with this warehouse." Shi Cheng nodded, then glanced at the warehouse, and said, "Go in from the skylight above, try not to touch the door lock in such a conspicuous place, I'm worried that they have someone here who can see that the lock has been moved." ”

Iron Mask didn't speak, he looked around, and after making sure that there was no one nearby, he jumped up to the roof of the house with a light leap without making a sound.

Shi Cheng also jumped up, and the two of them walked quietly to the skylight. Shi Cheng gently pushed open the window, took a look at the warehouse by the moonlight, and then decisively jumped into the warehouse with Tie Mian.

After falling to the ground, Shi Cheng quickly hid himself behind a large sack, he spread his five senses, and after repeatedly confirming that there were only himself and Tie Mian in the warehouse, Shi Cheng took out an illumination talisman with confidence, and with the light of the lighting talisman that was not strong, he and Tie Mian began to investigate the warehouse carefully.

The goods in the warehouse were piled up, and Shi Cheng held the lighting charm while carefully looking at the labels on the different cloth bags.

"Medicinal herbs...... This is also a medicinal herb, and these cloth bags are...... It seems to be wheat and corn made in Wei. ”

"These things have been here for a while, and they seem to have been processed for a long time...... "Shi Cheng thought to himself as he walked to the next pile of goods.

There are relatively few goods on the side of the iron mask, and after checking the goods, he said to Shi Cheng from afar: "I have finished reading the east side, most of them are grain and medicinal materials, and there is a small amount of salt, but from the perspective of technology, it should be official salt." ”

Shi Cheng replied with a "understood" gesture from afar, and then squatted down to look at the wooden box in front of him.

"These willow wooden boxes also contain herbs, or the common plague medicine...... Wait, what is this? Shi Cheng's eyes were suddenly attracted by a small open space next to the box.

"Sawdust...... It seems to be ...... Fir? It's not a willow tree. Shi Cheng was a little unconvinced, so he took a small piece of sawdust and carefully wrapped it in a cloth.

"There seem to be marks of scraping on the ground by metal objects, and there seems to be less dust in this small clearing than there is in the surrounding area, could it be that something else has been put here?" Shi Cheng stared at the open space in front of him, his brain spinning rapidly.

"Did you find anything?" Iron Mask walked over.

"There's something different to be left out here, look at this." Shi Cheng said as he took out the piece of cloth wrapped in sawdust, "If my guess is correct, this should be the sawdust left by the cedar tree." However, for the sake of insurance, I have to ask Lao Wu to help identify it when I go back. ”

"Fir ......" Tie Mian frowned, "The deacon of the Huibao Pavilion said that the Camel Bell Chamber of Commerce has recently purchased a large number of fir trees, but the purpose is unknown. ”

"We have to find a way to find out where these fir trees are going and what they are used for." Shi Cheng said. He looked around, then said to Iron Mask, "Other than that, I haven't found any other anomalies here, let's go somewhere else." ”

After carefully cleaning up the traces they had left behind, Shi Cheng and Tie Mian returned to the place where they had entered, jumped over, and the two of them quietly disappeared into the night outside the window.

Just as the two of them were leaving, there was a strange noise in the silent warehouse, and four wooden feet suddenly protruded from under a somewhat worn wooden medicine box. The medicine box that "stood up" from the ground shook its body, and the four wooden feet moved quickly, moving towards the place where Shi Cheng and Tie Mian had left.

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"There are no valuable clues in this house either." Shi Cheng looked at the compass in his hand and continued: "I don't know where their account office is, if I have the opportunity to look at their documents and account books, I may be able to find more clues." ”

"None of the houses we've seen seem to be, and the accounts should be in the ones with the lights on." Iron Mask said.

"What do you think, do you want to find a way to go and see?" Shi Cheng asked.

"I'm just a swordsman, and I can't think of any other way to infiltrate than knock the people inside unconscious. You're good at alchemy, so you might have a different approach. Iron Mask said as he took out the long sword behind his back.

"Okay, okay, I know, don't be impulsive yet." Shi Cheng waved his hand and said, "If you don't cooperate with the illusion, even if you use a good drug, the people inside will still find that they have been poured by the human medicine when they wake up." I don't know how to do illusions, so we might as well come back another day. ”

"Actually, you don't need to have so many concerns, Huang Yuan may already know that you are in the royal city now, and you have already set your sights on his chamber of commerce, and the snake has probably been alarmed."

With that, Iron Mask looked at the houses with the lights on and continued, "Also, can you guarantee that the houses won't be lit up the next time you visit?" ”

Shi Cheng hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded. He glanced at the lit houses in the distance, thought for a while, and then pointed to a room in the northeast and said, "Judging from the layout habits of the Western Desert Country, it is possible that the account room will be set up in that place in the compound. ”

"I didn't expect you to have an understanding of these things, and your preparation before coming to Nanhuang is indeed very sufficient." Iron Mask gave a rare compliment.

"Let's go over and have a look."

"Okay." Iron Mask replied crisply, and then sneaked into the shadow of the wooden house and felt towards the room with the lights on.

Shi Cheng followed Iron Mask and quietly came to the foot of the wall of the house. He took out a small bag of medicinal powder from his coat pocket, and then secretly used his internal strength to send the medicinal powder into the house very lightly. The powder formed a thin cloud of smoke in the air, seeping into every corner of the house at a breakneck speed.

Soon, the two of them appeared in the house, and after confirming that there were no traps in the house, Iron Mask helped a member of the Chamber of Commerce who had fainted back to the chair and put him in a sleeping position on his stomach, trying to make the person who looked like a steward wake up thinking that he was just too sleepy to fall asleep.

"It seems that this is indeed the accounting office, and your assumption is correct." Shi Cheng said as he looked at the ledger in his hand.

Iron Mask nodded and said, "I'll leave the one on the shelf to you, I'll go and see what is on this table." ”

"Try to be as fast as you can, there are a lot of night watchmen in this area."

After speaking, Shi Cheng and Tie Mian began to quickly check the books in the room, both of them were very vigilant, and they did not forget to pay attention to the movement outside while flipping through them.

"The accounts look very normal, but this camel bell chamber of commerce seems to have been buying food and medicinal herbs all this time, which is very close to what I saw in the warehouse." Shi Cheng thought to himself.

There were more and more books that were turned over on the table, and the sense of disappointment in Shi Cheng's heart became stronger and stronger, if it weren't for the clues he got before that all pointed to the Camel Bell Chamber of Commerce, he really had some doubts about whether the Camel Bell Chamber of Commerce was a problematic Chamber of Commerce.

But at this time, Tie Mian suddenly said loudly: "Shi Cheng, look at this, it's a receipt for goods." ”

"Receipts?" Shi Cheng hurriedly leaned over and saw that Iron Mask was holding a piece of papyrus paper that was somewhat darkened in his hand.

"This is the goods purchased from the Chen Kee Trading House in Lingnan County." Shi Cheng read the letter, and his heart began to feel more and more puzzled, "Chen Ji Commercial Bank, Lingnan County...... Purchased 900 catties of Kangyuan steel, 240 catties of cooked copper, and some finished wooden gears ......"

Shi Cheng's heart turned through countless speculations and thoughts for a while, and Tie Mian looked at the letter and said, "Judging from the content of the letter, it seems that this is not the first time that this camel bell chamber of commerce has purchased steel and parts from them. ”

"Yes, but there are no such things in these books."

"I have the books here." Iron Mask handed Shi Cheng an account book at hand, "It seems that the purchase of these steel and parts has only recently begun to appear in the account books. ”

Shi Cheng pondered for a moment and said, "It seems that we have to check whether this camel bell chamber of commerce has been involved in any projects recently." ”

"However, the county government steward named He Qun seems to have denied this when he was in Wangchao Tower today."

"He's just not sure, and this matter still needs to be investigated carefully." After speaking, Shi Cheng looked at the end of the receipt, "Judging from this letter, this batch of goods was transported from Pier 3 in Xidennan Port, and the cargo ship carrying this batch of goods is called 'Fengping'. ”

"Looks like we're going to have to make a trip to the docks tomorrow."

The two of them quickly went through the rest of the books, but found nothing more.

Shi Cheng and Tie Mian put the books back in their place, and then quietly walked out of the house.

"Shall we go and see the other lit rooms?" Iron Mask asked.

Shi Cheng thought for a moment and said: "Forget it, the movement of putting down the people on night duty in the courtyard one by one is too big, it is difficult to make people not suspicious the next day, it is better to be cautious for now, the snake has been alarmed This is just your guess after all." ”

"It's fine." Tie Mian nodded, "Although today is considered a futile, it can't be said that we have gained nothing, at least there is a new direction now." ”

"Let's go back first, it's already late at night." Shi Cheng looked around, gestured to Tie Mian, and said, "Go in this direction, there are more trees here, so it's convenient for us to go out." ”

Just as the two of them were halfway there, Shi Cheng suddenly turned his head and looked behind him.

"What's wrong?" Tie Mian sensed Shi Cheng's movements and asked with some confusion.

"Do you feel as if something is behind us?" Shi Chengzhi hid himself behind a large tree, watching warily behind him.

Hearing this, Tie Mian also became alert, he knew that Shi Cheng's five senses were sharper than his own, so he immediately hid behind another tree, and asked Shi Cheng, "Is it the nursing home of the Camel Bell Chamber of Commerce?" ”

"No, it's not like a human being, it's a strange feeling." Shi Cheng's brows furrowed very much, he took out the compass in his pocket, carefully examined it several times, then shook his head, and said, "Ordinary people or ordinary martial artists don't give me this feeling, but I can't detect any spiritual power fluctuations, and so does this compass." ”

Iron Mask was still very calm, and said, "If your feelings are correct, then I'm afraid we have been exposed." ”

"However, there is still no movement in the courtyard."

"Anyway, it's not a good place to stay for long, let's leave quickly."

Under the cover of the night and trees, Shi Cheng and Tie Mian left the headquarters of the Camel Bell Chamber of Commerce very smoothly, and after jumping out of the courtyard wall, the strange feeling in Shi Cheng's heart quickly disappeared.

Shi Cheng glanced back at the Camel Bell Chamber of Commerce under the cover of night, and tried one last time to find out the source of the strange feeling, but in the end he found nothing. Shi Cheng had to give up the search, and went to Yulin Lane with Qinggong and Tie Mian.

At this moment, in the compound of the Camel Bell Chamber of Commerce, an inconspicuous small wooden box suddenly "stood up" from the grass, it looked in the direction of the two of them, and the moonlight shone a cold light on its polished and smooth legs.