Chapter 42
Chen An and Li Yin were still lying on the ground, after a noise in Li Yan's house just now, there was no sound, and after a while, they only felt a chill on their bodies, but they returned to normal after a while, but they still didn't dare to get up.
The purpose of his trip was to find the person who was talking to Chen An in the barracks yesterday afternoon, and the guard on duty at the north city gate told Li Yin, "Master Li has left the city more than two hours ago." "The other soldier, of course these two soldiers know well where in the camp, Chen An and Li Yin are old men in the army, they all know these two soldiers, just now under his careful questioning, Chen An and Li Yin have already told the two soldiers what they know, like pouring beans on a bamboo tube.
Soon, the third division came to the front of the barracks, it was zero morning at this time, the gate of the barracks was closed, and there were patrol teams inside from time to time neatly walked by, but in the eyes of the third division, it was as if there was nothing, and he came and went from the hundreds of thousands of garrison camps, not to mention the military camp of tens of thousands of people in the city, the time was not big, and a figure shot out of the barracks.
Feng Chuang woke up slowly, feeling chills all over his body, and couldn't help but open his eyes, but he was stunned, thinking that he was sleepwalking, he was now lying in what seemed to be a dense mountain forest, and when he opened his eyes, there was a little moonlight sprinkled between the leaves of the trees above. Hurriedly turned his head, the surroundings were pitch black, he couldn't see clearly, he clearly remembered that he had routinely conducted a whole team training after dinner today, and then turned off the lights and went to bed early, obviously sleeping in the camp tent, how did he get to the mountains and forests outside the city now?
He sat up, shook his head, and sobered himself up, "This must be a dream", and when he opened his eyes again, the things in front of him were still the same, even with a brave man like him, he couldn't help but be afraid, and hurriedly pinched his thigh, it hurt, this is not a dream.
"You don't have to be sure, this is not a dream, what you have to do now is to answer my question honestly, that's enough. An eerie voice rang out in the darkness.
Feng Chuang only felt a chill on the back of his neck, and when he looked back, there was a slender black-robed man standing there in the darkness not far away.
"You... Who is it?" Feng Chuang asked with a trembling voice.
"It's not you who ask, it's me who asks, you know? Remember, if you lie when I ask later, the result will be a little uncomfortable. The voice was cold and emotionless.
"Yesterday afternoon, when you were on duty, Li Yanke, a disciple of the third military division, walked out of the barracks?"
Feng Chuang was stunned, he didn't expect this person to plunder himself here, and asked this question, so he couldn't help but hesitate, but he didn't dare not answer, "Oh, yes, he came out soon after entering the barracks." β
There was a crisp sound of "click", and then a terrible scream sounded through the night in the mountains and forests, startling the perched bird fluttering and flying, and the black-robed man had already deceived Feng Chuang at some point, and broke off one of his fingers as soon as he stretched out his hand.
Then, in the midst of this continuous low questioning, there were terrible screams from time to time, and from time to time there were bitter voices begging for mercy.
Half a quarter of an hour later, the third division slapped Feng Chuang's head on the head of Feng Chuang, who was already unrecognizable and had few intact places on his body, and Feng Chuang fell softly, bleeding from his seven orifices, but with a relieved smile on his face, as if death was his happiest thing.
The third division used a lot of inhuman means in this half an hour, but his question was repeated as "Li Yanke, a disciple of the third division, who walked out of the barracks?"
After half a quarter of an hour, he determined that "Li Yan did not come out of the barracks." β
Then, as soon as he leaned over and woke up another soldier, there was not much time, and the terrible screams sounded again, and in the dark night in the mountains, even the frightened birds around him were long gone, only the night and the ghostly screams continued to echo.
Another quarter of an hour later, the third division slapped his palm on the soldier's head again, and the screams stopped abruptly.
The surrounding trees are towering, and the third division is standing there, "Li Yan really went out of the city, and he went out from the north city gate, but another barracks guard said that he didn't go out of the barracks gate, hehe, Hong Linying, it's really a good means, there are only two exits in the barracks, since Li Yan didn't go out at the camp gate, but Li Yan at the north city gate appeared, did you use the tiger talisman to let Li Yan go out from the army?"
Once this city goes out from the south gate or the north gate, if you want to come back and go out, you can only return from these two city gates, where to go out, where to go back, unless he secretly enters the city through the north gate again, but this possibility is almost zero, Li Yan went out of the city yesterday This is now undoubted.
When he went out, he walked alone, did not ride a horse, and was in a hurry, he could push out and avoid Hong Linying, with that kid's caution in secretly practicing my handwriting, and he was the one who could let Hong Linying use the tiger talisman, how clever his mind was, he must be a person who would not put his life in the hands of others, but I don't know what method he used to dump Hong Linying, hmph, that Hong Linying seems to have been put on a table by him.
In this way, it can be judged that he will not sneak back secretly, because that will only increase his chances of being caught, and the so-called 'dark under the lamp' trick also depends on the timing, how can he not know how to advance or retreat with such a mind.
In this way, there is basically no need to investigate in the city, and I originally wanted to arrest Liu Chengyong and Li Yan's fellow villagers to interrogate, but now it seems that there is no need to do it, Li Yan is now hiding somewhere outside the city. β
Li Yan and Hong Linying couldn't help but be surprised if they were here, what they had been planning for a few months was just that the third division that had calmed down was launched in just half of the night.
Although he has Liu Chengyong, Li Shan, and Li Yu in his conclusions, he is more directly looking for the key people who witnessed Li Yan, and after getting the answers he wants, and then reasoning along the way, the truth of the matter will emerge little by little, and the other conclusions will be solved, saving the time to find and interrogate one by one, but this also invisibly saved Liu Chengyong, Li Shan, Li Yu's life, if it weren't for the calm Ji Junshi, he might have gone to find anyone he suspected, and the fate of the person he found was basically certain, and he would not leave him alive.
"Then next, is that kid's place, Daqingshan Lijia Village?" Hehe" When the third division was in the darkest before dawn, his dark face had already blended with the night, but the exposed Bai Sensen's teeth were particularly eye-catching.
The figure flickered, and he was about to break through the air, but then he stopped again, he stared for a while, and said to himself, "No, although there may be a situation of "black under the lamp" in Lijia Village, but this kind of gambling method is too hasty, this is not something that kid can do, in these conclusions, there are two things that may reveal the traces of this kid, one is why Li Yan has recently bought a large number of farm tools and clothes?
He just stood motionless, time passed little by little, and slowly the eastern sky was already a little bright, and the mountains and forests began to be a little hazy.
Finally, the figure of the third division moved, and shook his head, "Those farm tools and clothes seem to be really useless, this should be a way for him to calm his mood, after all, Li Yan grew up in a mountain village, and he still has a primitive dependence and possessiveness on farm tools and things in the city, but this flower and plant looks a little weird, it may be a use for him to escape, how it is, I still have to go back and investigate." Thinking of this, he got up and walked towards the military master's mansion.
At this time, the cauldron exploded in the barracks in the city, and the whereabouts of the two soldiers disappeared overnight. For a while, the tension in the barracks was abnormal, and each battalion was wary of each other, among these people, one of them faintly felt that this matter might be related to Li Yan, that is, Liu Chengyong, among the two missing people, one of them acted as ordered by himself, and the other person was also the person who guarded the city that day, but he didn't dare to talk nonsense, he just felt extremely nervous, he guessed that it might be done by the third division, otherwise with the strict level of guarding of this military camp, it was not possible to come to a few masters of the rivers and lakes to plunder it, and this was done quietly, thinking about the unpredictable methods of the third division when he was facing the enemy outside the city before, he was more and more sureγ
Hong Linying sat in the big tent of the Chinese army, and after getting the news early in the morning, he rushed over.
Looking at the generals in the big tent, he said in a deep voice, "The south gate is closed, and the north gate is strictly checked, and the inside of the military camp must also be thoroughly investigated.
The generals in the big tent stepped forward in unison to "obey the order", and then walked out with a brush, and in an instant, there were only a few strategists and Marshal Hong left in the big tent.
Marshal Hong looked at a few strategists and waved his hand, "You guys should go out too." β
"Yes, Boss"
After the personnel left, Marshal Hong looked at the handsome case, and was stunned for a while, "Hehe, is this going to do it?" You are really fast, since you are already suspicious, then I will follow that kid." β
In the military division's mansion, Neigu, the third military division has returned here, looking at the two people who are still crawling and kneeling there, a trace of murder flashed in his eyes, he slowly walked in front of the two people, looked at the two people who were lying on the ground silently, and after a while, the sleeves of his robe waved, "You two go out." β
Chen An and Li Yin have been kneeling all night, even with the bodies of these two people, they are already confused, suddenly hearing this sound, they were shocked and sobered up a little, quickly kowtowed, and then slowly stood up with difficulty, and then the two helped each other and limped out.
What the two of them didn't know was that they had already walked around the Ghost Gate just now, but Ji Junshi saw the two of them like this, and now he was concerned about his affairs, so he temporarily let the two go.
Ji Junshi didn't pay attention to what happened to the two of them, he looked at the various flowers and plants that had been planted not far in front of the stone house and couldn't help but look carefully, and then carefully walked along the path between Gongjian and stopped between them, and bent down from time to time to take a closer look.
In this way, the sun slowly rose in the early morning, at this time the third division was squatting in front of a flower, this flower was planted on the south side of the valley, has been close to the foot of the mountain, compared to the stone house and this piece of flowers and plants, it is extremely remote, he patiently walked one by one, and when he came here, he found that a flower planted was higher than the surrounding flowers, which was originally a very ordinary thing, the height of the plant was inconclusive, but the strange thing is that the flowers and plants around this flower should be empty a lot of places, but it is not very empty, but if you look closely, this is a little different from other placesγ
The third division squatted in front of this flower, first observed this flower, and found that although this flower is taller, it seems to be malnourished, which is a bit strange, the tall flowers and plants that generally grow are luxuriant, but this plant is a little sparse in branches and leaves.
When he saw this, he stretched out his hand and dug a few times at the root of this flower, and the flower fell, and it seemed that the roots were not very deep, and then he saw that after the main stem of the flower fell over, a piece of silk was revealed underneath, and he couldn't help but feel refreshed, and his hands were full of spiritual power to grasp the piece of silk, but in the subsequent process of picking up, there was no abnormality.
After holding it in his hand, he took a closer look, and it was a small piece of black silk, which had been folded into boxy pieces.