"What, the above wants me to retreat immediately?"

In an elegant room in Wangyun Tower, Skylark was looking at the man in front of her who was delivering a letter to her with an incredulous expression.

"The situation deteriorated very quickly and we did not expect it. Yesterday morning, I don't know what's going on, the internal guards actually found our main station in the West Desert King City, many people have been arrested, otherwise I wouldn't have come to deliver a letter to you today. The man dressed in the costume of the Wangyun Tower miscellaneous servant frowned and said, "Don't worry, we still have a reliable force in the city, they will escort you out of here to the border, and someone from your hometown will also come to pick you up." Don't forget, be sure to protect that journal in your hand! ”

"How did their message become so smart?"

"It's not clear yet, but I suspect there may be a mole among us."

The two were silent, and after a while, the lark asked worriedly, "The above asked me to leave, so what should you do?" ”

"I have to stay for a while, only you and I know Zhuye's true identity in the royal city, he is not exposed yet, I have to contact him and deal with some things quickly."

The man looked at the lark and said with a smile: "Don't worry about me, I must not be here for long, you can wait for me when you go home and rest for a few days." ”

"Awan......" The lark held back a sour feeling from Joan's nose, "You must be careful." ”

The man said "um", nodded, walked softly to the window, and said again, "Have you remembered the evacuation route and code?" ”

"Remembered."

"Take care." After saying this, the man forced himself to turn his head and rolled out the window.

……

When the moon had risen in the sky of the Western Desert King City, the west of the Dongdan King City was still full of sunset, and the time difference between the two places was about an hour and a half.

A troop of twenty-three cavalry marched neatly beside the wheat field, ten horsemen with cavalry guns on their backs, the rest with cavalry crossbows on their backs, all with sharp sabers at their waists.

Although these cavalrymen with one man and two horses were not numerous, they seemed to have a mighty momentum.

The clothes on these people are not the style of the Dongdan army, and their uniforms do not have the bells and whistles on the uniforms of other countries' armies, but they can give people a simple sense of power and power. If you look closely at the dark green military uniforms and dark brown leather armor on these cavalrymen, those who know will find that this complete set of concise and clean military uniforms is actually quite meticulous in the materials.

The cavalry all had a dark green armband on their left arm, embroidered with a long sword entwined by two ears of wheat, and above the long sword was a line of graphic text that the surrounding Dongdan people could not understand.

"Cheng Wei, how did you do it? Be careful not to step on the crops. The middle-aged man at the front of the queue turned around and reprimanded softly.

The middle-aged man at the head was obviously an officer, but without looking at the markings on his armband, it would have been difficult for onlookers to distinguish him from the twenty-three uniformly dressed cavalrymen.

The young soldier named Cheng Wei scratched his head embarrassedly and replied: "Report to the commander, can you change a horse for me when I go back, this guy is afraid that he was not a starving horse in his last life, and he likes to rub it up when he sees something to eat." ”

The cavalrymen around laughed, and the officer at the head shook his head helplessly and did not continue to say anything.

The children of the village crowded curiously to the side of the wheat field, and looked at the cavalry with wide eyes, many of whom had seen for the first time these strangers who were completely different in appearance and clothing from the officers and soldiers.

A cavalryman who understood Chu Ze's dialect and Chu Zewen looked at a stone tablet engraved with the name of the village on the side of the road, then turned his head and said to the officer in front of him: "Commander, we have arrived at Tianlong Village, not far from our military camp." ”

Since it was once a colony of Chu Ze in Cold Moon Continent, the official language of Dongdan Kingdom is basically Chu Ze script, and only some remote places still use the local tribe's native language.

The expressions on everyone's faces became much lighter, and after three more villages along the road, they could return to the garrison of the 10th Guard. At this moment, all the cavalry wanted was to hurry back to the barracks and take a hot bath, so as to wash away the sweat and dust of a busy day on the exercise ground.

After greeting the village chief, who had come to greet them, the cavalry quietly passed through the village and headed for the next one.

However, not long after they left the village, they were greeted by a herald dressed in the same uniform and with a red herald flag tied to his back.

"Fellow robes, fellow robes! Please stop! The herald saw them and shouted as he waved the flag.

The officer gestured to stop his advance, and then waited quietly with the crowd.

The herald reined in front of everyone, and after looking at the armbands of the leaders, he gave a military salute to the cavalry, and then asked the officer: "May I ask you are the commander of the 1st Cavalry Battalion of the 29th Brigade of the Guards, the commander of the Qian Zhiwu battalion?" ”

"I'm Qian Zhiwu, do you have anything to do?"

"You are really on this road, I am Lu Feng, the deputy captain of the communication team directly under the military department, to convey to you the urgent order of Yujing City." The herald said as he showed the crowd the token he was carrying.

Qian Zhiwu knew in his heart that things might be very unusual, so he hurriedly asked, "Yujing City?" What is the command? ”

"The order asks you to take the detachment behind you and immediately go to the port of Gray Tower, where you will take the military ship waiting there to carry out a pick-up mission at Baibei Beach on the eastern border of the Eastern Dan Kingdom. There will be a crossbow detachment and two Mindful Sect monks to meet you in Gray Tower Harbor, and the detachment will be named Li Jian, and you will be the commander-in-chief after the meeting. ”

After saying this, Lu Feng added: "In addition, you need to change into the military uniform of the Dongdan army and change your appearance in the Gray Tower Port, so as not to be recognized by the opponent. Rest assured that someone will be there to explain the details of this operation. ”

Qian Zhiwu pondered for a moment and asked, "Is it a request from the Dongdan Kingdom?" ”

Lu Feng nodded, "It's a request sent by the Dongdan Internal Guard to the Military Machinery Department of the Metropolitan Protectorate, hoping that we will send a capable force to support one of their secret operations on the border. They have a spy with important items and will soon return to Dongdan from the border. It may be because someone leaked the news, and now the major sects of the Western Desert Kingdom have secretly sent elite forces to monitor the border and try to capture this spy, so it is very likely that an armed conflict will break out in this response operation. As you know, the strength of the Eastern Dan Kingdom is not as strong as that of the Western Desert, and they are very worried that their manpower will not be able to complete this important mission. ”

"I see, I promise to complete the mission!" Qian Zhiwu said very simply.

……

"Old Shi, which house should we go to investigate next?" Wu Neng cautiously lay in the grass and asked Shi Cheng quietly.

"Take a look at them all as you can, starting with the one in front of us."

Shi Cheng and the three of them watched as they walked, and soon, except for the two nursing homes guarding the gate of the courtyard who were still yawning outside the door, the other nursing courtyards were basically put down by the three of them.

Wu Neng was keenly aware that although Shi Cheng said that he wanted to take a look, the focus seemed to be only on two places, one was the treasury of the Camel Bell Chamber of Commerce, and the other was the account room where various important books were stored.

"Lao Shi, it seems that you have carefully checked the treasury and account room when you came here last time, is there any omission?"

"There should be." Shi Cheng said as he looked through a stack of bound manifests.

Tie Mian frowned and said: "But there doesn't seem to be anything wrong, there is nothing suspicious in the goods, I just checked their accounts for the past three months, and I can't see anything wrong for a while." ”

"Do you remember what Hu Enli told us?" Shi Cheng asked.

"You mean the shipment that Huang Yuan entrusted him to deliver?" Iron Mask shook his head, "If the murderer who killed Huang Yuan was a person sent by the Lu Clan, then what happened tonight was obviously to extinguish the mouth, and now that the murderer is nowhere to be found, even if there are any clues in the Chamber of Commerce, it may have been destroyed." ”

"It's very likely, but I don't believe they can really do it without leaking anything."

"Old Shi, have you already discovered something?" Wu Neng asked with interest.

Shi Cheng put down the list of goods in his hand, he pressed his hands on the table, and looked down at the wooden table in front of him with a strange face, on which were placed two stacks of ledgers, a chamber of commerce journal, and a list of goods that had just been flipped through.

Wu Neng saw that Shi Cheng didn't say a word, and he didn't dare to disturb his train of thought, he quietly stood aside and continued to flip through the book in his hand, while waiting for Shi Cheng's next words.

After a long while, Shi Cheng raised his head.

Iron Mask hurriedly asked, "Did you think of anything?" ”

To his and Wu Neng's disappointment, Shi Cheng finally shook his head.

"I'll think about it when I go back, but I always feel that something is weird."

"Then Lao Shi, should we go back now or take a look here again?"

Shi Cheng pushed open the window and looked at the sky outside, judging from the position and height of the moon, it should not be too late.

"This is the last room, let's take a look at it again, after all, the things stored in the account room are one of the most important things in the entire Chamber of Commerce."

Tie Mian and Wu Neng nodded, and the three of them sat down together, continuing to look at the remaining books.

About three quarters of an hour later, there was a sudden commotion on the periphery of the Chamber of Commerce.

"Lao Shi, Lao Tie, listen. Did they stay outside and notice something was wrong? Wu Neng asked anxiously?

"Something is wrong, why is there such a big movement, and there are few people outside?" Shi Cheng was quite shocked in his heart, "No matter what, let's go out and have a look first." ”

Not long after the three of them rolled out of the window, a loud shout came from the front yard, "The government takes people!" Kill the reckless! ”

Clusters of torches kept flickering in the front yard, and the originally cold chamber of commerce became lively in an instant.