Fushun Building, which had become empty because of the poisoning case, has become lively again today.

The inside and outside of the restaurant were surrounded by officers and soldiers on three floors inside and three floors outside, and the professional spies in charge of the search went in and out of the house.

"Report to the two adults, we have searched once, and no suspicious traces have been found for the time being." A military attache of the internal guard said to Zhou Rong and Luo Cheng.

Zhou Rong thought for a while and said, "You immediately go and arrest everyone who has worked in this restaurant, including all the cooks and handymen, don't miss a single one!" In addition, a team of people will be divided to check the origin and background of the restaurant owner, go quickly! ”

After the military attache was ordered to leave, Luo Cheng ordered someone to take out the fragments of strange parts found in the tunnel, he looked at Chen Zhu, who had just arrived from Jiyu Village, and asked; "Elder Chen, you have been in charge of the Rapid Feather Classics Academy for many years, and you have seen a lot of things, can you tell what kind of equipment this thing comes from?"

Chen Zhu took the evidence collection cloth, looked at it carefully for a while, he shook his head and said, "Please forgive me for being a shallow learner, and Chen can't see where this thing came from." ”

Zhou Rong and Luo Cheng's faces showed disappointment, Zhou Rong coughed, and said, "In that case, let's see if there are any people who know the origin of this thing in the major chambers of commerce." ”

"Report!" Just when everyone was about to go up to the second floor to take a look, a herald hurriedly ran in from the outside, he knelt on one knee, and reported to Zhou Rong and Luo Cheng: "Oh no, two adults, something happened in the Martial Academy, Hu Tianming, the inner disciple who was originally going to be sent to assist in the investigation, died in the Martial Academy last night!" ”

……

"What, Hu Tianming is dead?" Iron Mask and Wu Neng screamed in unison.

Shi Cheng nodded, and then told the two of them what he had seen in the Western Desert Martial Academy.

"This is the scroll I got from Hu Tianming, he abandoned the sword at the moment of crisis, but held this scroll to the death, I think there must be some important reason behind this."

Tie Mian said: "According to your previous analysis, the origin of the murderer should have been discovered by Hu Tianming, so knowing that he was already in a certain situation, Hu Tianming would rather die quickly, but he must keep a piece of physical evidence that can point to the identity of the murderer." ”

"That's right." Shi Cheng nodded and said, "Hu Tianming's move is unreasonable, and I can't think of any other more reasonable explanation for the time being." ”

"But what kind of message does he want to leave behind?" Wu Neng asked puzzledly, "Could it be related to this painter?" Or does it have something to do with the landscape in the painting? ”

Shi Cheng replied: "I have already sent a letter to Xu Jincheng, inviting him to come out tomorrow for a talk, and asked some questions I am interested in by the way, we are leaving, although Zhao Ping may not come to see us, but Xu Jincheng is still okay." ”

Wu Neng nodded, and then he let out a long sigh and said with some emotion: "The last time I went to the Hu family, the Hu family was still prosperous, but I didn't expect it to ...... in just a few days."

Shi Chengpin didn't have any expression, "Everyone is responsible for their own choices. ”

Tie Mian didn't sigh like Wu Neng, and his head was thinking about another important question.

"Shi Cheng, have you ever wondered how the other party managed to kill Hu Tianming in the Martial Academy? Although the Southern Wilderness country's ability to defend important institutions is the same thing, if you want to kill an inner disciple silently, the amount of money spent during this period is not ordinary. ”

"This is exactly what I want to say next, it is obvious that the murderer has a considerable understanding of the internal situation of the Western Desert Martial Academy, so he learned of the fact that the main forces of the Martial Academy have been transferred away in large numbers recently." Shi Cheng said as he recalled the quiet and empty scene he saw when he sneaked into the student residence in the inner courtyard of the martial arts academy, "

"As far as I can see in the martial arts courtyard, there are only some miscellaneous servants who are responsible for daily cleaning in the area where the inner disciples live, for the murderer, as long as he quietly seals the courtyard where Hu Tianming lives with a secret method, then he does have a high probability of succeeding without knowing it."

Iron Mask groaned: "In this way, the murderer is very likely to be a disciple within the Martial Academy, could it be among those inner disciples who stayed behind?" ”

Shi Cheng shook his head and said helplessly: "These things are not something we can know, but I think the investigators of the Western Desert Country should be able to find this and see if they can find out." ”

……

The three of them exchanged some miscellaneous opinions, but after all, they couldn't think of a reason, Wu Neng and Tie Mian went back to the house, and Shi Cheng went to the side room in the inner courtyard to make alchemy.

These days, Shi Cheng spent six Tongbao to buy a batch of medicinal materials, but due to the fact that the price of medicine in Wangcheng is rising, Shi Cheng is not very satisfied with the quality and quantity of the medicinal materials he started.

Fortunately, Shi Cheng has the ability to turn coarse pills into delicacies, and it is not troublesome to refine some high-grade conventional pills, and more importantly, for Shi Cheng, alchemy is like calligraphy, which is one of the important methods that can allow him to think about things quietly.

As he manipulated the Danhuo, he recalled the details on the scroll, and as early as Hu Tianming's residence, he faintly felt as if he had seen similar landscape paintings somewhere.

The sun gradually sank from the sky, and just as the medicinal herbs were about to bottom, a flash of lightning suddenly crossed Shi Cheng's mind.

"Wait, I remember! It seems to be there, and there seems to be another place, but I can't remember it for a while......"

Shi Cheng stood up, "No, anyway, I have to go to the headquarters of the Camel Bell Chamber of Commerce in the west of the city again, the last time I went, I didn't take a closer look at the study, I hope that useful things are still there." ”

Shi Cheng originally wanted to call Shang Tiemian and Wu Neng to go to the west of the city together, but after thinking about it carefully, he decided to go alone. After greeting Tie Mian and Wu Neng, Shi Cheng changed his appearance and went into the drainage canal in the backyard again.

For most of the day, the small world that Shi Cheng rented in Yulin Lane was extremely quiet, but what he didn't know was that in the streets and alleys that he couldn't see, a violent storm had already blown.

……

At this moment, in front of the Dengwen Drum in the Western Desert King City, a large number of angry people gathered, and the black and oppressive crowd blocked the nearby streets.

The leading few scholars shouted in the direction of the altar in a crying tone while beating the drums: "Grass people Ding Yuan, on behalf of the fathers and villagers of Wangcheng, petition the court to get rid of the Western Barbarians!" Avenge the fathers and villagers of Fishing Boat Alley! ”

"Kill the West Dog!"

"Please let the king call the shots for the younger brother of the grass people!"

"Go to war with the Chita and their lackeys! War! ”

Angry shouts rang from one end of the long street to the other like a tsunami, and the faces of the priests who guarded the altar behind the drums turned white.

……

"What's going on? Why did the clues discovered by our Criminal Procuratorate and the internal guards leak to the outside in less than a day! In the main hall of the Criminal Procuratorate, Luo Cheng, the secretary of the Criminal Procuratorate, glared angrily at all the colleagues around him, his face was blue, and his right hand had been hammered several times on the wooden table in front of him in just a few words.

All the faces were clouded, but none of them could give an answer.

Luo Chengqi's hands were trembling, he picked up the teacup in front of him, trying his best to control his emotions, wanting to take a sip of water to press it.

He poured three full glasses of water down his throat before he regained his composure, and just as he was pondering how to clean up the mess next, a soldier suddenly rushed in from outside the door.

The soldier didn't care about a bunch of officials, he hurriedly came to Luo Cheng's side, and after a brief salute, he whispered: "My lord, the palace is coming, and the king wants to summon you into the palace." ”

……

"What's going on? It's been less than a day's work, why is it like a different outside? ”

Looking at the crowd of people holding banners and strips of cloth everywhere on the street, even if he cultivated as tall as a stone inheritance, his face completely changed color.

Another reason why Shi Cheng's face changed drastically was that he could fully recognize the words on the banners and the slogans shouted by the demonstrators, and a strong sense of crisis was spreading in his chest.

He hurriedly took the path to avoid the crowd wrapped in anger, turned left and right, and came to a wide street.

On the street in front of Shi Cheng's right, a row of shops has been smashed by the demonstrators, and some shops have even been exposed to fire and smoke.

The people of the Western Desert with sticks and stones in their hands came and went in these shops, and those who entered had deflated pockets, and those who came out returned with full loads.

The streets are littered with broken wooden plaques and glazed windows, and Shi Cheng's eye can clearly distinguish the names of the shops written in Chita and Mandarin on the wooden plaques.

In the ditch not far from Shi Cheng, two Chita people who had lost their lives were planted in the sky, and the cause of death of the two deceased was the same, they were both shot by a hunting bow and died.

At a junction not far from this row of Cheta shops, there stood a small line of city guards armed with wooden shields, indifferent to the tragedy in front of them, not so much to maintain order as to come to see the play.

Shi Cheng's eyes turned red, the knuckles of his fingers creaked, and at this moment, he suddenly thought of another tragic incident that happened in the past.

After the defeat of the Wei army in the Xijing Sea, a wave of hatred was set off in Wei against the Chita Wei and the Chita citizens who temporarily lived in the Wei state, and a large number of Wei Chita were insulted, plundered and even slaughtered, but the Wei government maintained a tacit attitude towards this, and arrested the Chita who organized the rebellion in prison.

After all, this was before Shi Cheng was born, so when Shi Cheng was reading the history books, it was still difficult for him to experience the tragedy at that time from the simple words, but at this moment, although the tragedy in front of him could not be compared with that time, Shi Cheng could already have a trace of resonance across time and space with the victims at that time.

"Let go of me, you let go of me, bastard!" A middle-aged Chita with a slightly fat body was dragged out of a shop by a group of Western Desert people.

A young man who seemed to have just reached adulthood was also dragged out, both of them were bruised and purple, and the middle-aged man still had a trace of bruise on his mouth.

"Please, my parents are just my child, please let me go! I don't want to die! The young man cried hoarsely in an unfamiliar Mandarin, but his helpless cry was nothing but a scolding and beating.

"You Chita pigs, we're going to drag you to the streets, and then you're going to die!" The leader of the Western Desert shouted viciously, and a strong man beside him exerted his strength and dragged the paralyzed young man out a few more steps.

"Stop!" A loud shout rang in the ears of the group of Ximo people.

The leading Ximo man turned his head and wanted to scold the passer-by behind him who was not long-eyed, but what caught his eye was a fist that was constantly getting bigger.

After a sharp scream, the leading Ximo people fell out far away, and they didn't wake up.

"Who are you?" The other Western Desert people were shocked, and a Western Desert man with a hunting bow on his back just wanted to pull out an arrow, but Shi Cheng had already appeared in front of him.

There was a muffled sound, and the hand of the Western Desert man had been crushed by Shi Cheng, and the Western Desert man with the hunting bow on his back had his mouth open, and he couldn't even speak in pain.

A heavy elbow blow followed, and a rain of blood sprinkled through, and Shi Cheng opened a big hole in the front chest and back of the Western Desert man's body.

Seeing that the rest of the Western Desert people were frightened, Shi Cheng, who was silent, suddenly burst into a roar, and his true anger came out, and all the thugs were shaken out, spurting blood from their mouths, and they couldn't bear it.

"Who are you?" The city guard soldiers in the distance only moved at this time, and a five-person city guard team pulled out their waist knives, raised the wooden shield in their hands, and forced Shi Cheng.

Shi Cheng sneered, stomped on the ground with his right foot, and several pieces of gravel were shocked into the air by him, and he exerted his strength in the air to knock the gravel out heavily.

The rubble was as powerful as a spear, and they easily shattered the wooden shield, breaking the tendons of the guards who wanted to surround them.

There was a soft sound of "whoosh", and a crossbow arrow shot towards Shi Cheng.

The crossbow bolt was fired by a city guard dressed as a small officer, who had thought that his sneak attack was unaware, but Shi Cheng's cold, murderous gaze had already preempted him.

Shi Cheng flicked lightly on the crossbow arrow that was fired, and the crossbow arrow reflected back at a faster speed, piercing the throat of the city guard officer.

The city guard officer looked at Shi Cheng with disbelief, he clutched his neck tightly, but soon, the whole person fell to the ground softly, completely choking.

Shi Cheng stepped out in one step, came to the two fellow villagers who fell to the ground, helped them up one by one, and calmly said in his hometown dialect under the stunned eyes of the two: "Follow me!" ”