On the eve of the Hundred Flowers Festival, a torrential rain suddenly came.

Egg, Mei Huaijin, Xiao Liu'er, and Portman were attacked in Qingshui Valley on their way to Pinghai County.

The group of people were dressed in black and masked, and they took out one at random, and the two internal skills they practiced were nothing special.

If there is no weapon in his hand that is extremely strange and rare, and the forging craftsmanship is close to the same, his strength is not comparable to that of the second-rate masters on the ordinary rivers and lakes.

But between them, groups of three or five, and even groups of ten people can cooperate seamlessly, even the top masters are difficult to be ten.

It is said that in addition to the four people on Buji Island, many gangs also encountered the attack and killing of these black-clothed masked monsters that night, but the next day at the Hundred Flowers Conference, there was no relevant matter, I don't know if the people in the know were secretive, or the people involved were in a different place.

The subsequent developments proved that the big and small waves that these black-clad masked monsters turned over in Pinghai County were just a small test.

On the night of the Hundred Flowers Conference, more than 20 powerful gangs from all over Kyushu were attacked.

Although they were defeated in front of several gangs, those black-clothed masked monsters still dealt a heavy blow to many gangs and destroyed several factions, and terrified Zhongzhou Wulin.

Since then, the people in the rivers and lakes have tacitly called it "that gang".

The birth of "that group" is even more unexpected than the unexpected rise of the Red Dust Inn.

The background of "that gang" has long been self-evident.

It's just that where such a well-trained, disciplined, military-like organization came from is always a mystery.

If it weren't for the accident on the Dancing Sword Floor, Jiang Yichen might have investigated this matter in detail after the Hundred Flowers Conference as a black impermanence.

But there is no if, in the past three months, Jiang Yichen has been born and died, and he has no time to take care of this matter.

It wasn't until he was in front of the noodle stall in Niuxin Village that he suddenly realized where "that gang" was most likely to come.

- Nursing home.

This is basically an institution that is opened in all counties of Zhongzhou, funded and managed by the imperial court, and is dedicated to sheltering those who are lonely and disabled.

It took more than two months for Buji Island and Tushi Gang to find out the general details of the nursing home.

Jiang Yichen only went deep into it in just three days, how could he see the true face of Lushan.

Most of the credit for this investigation should be attributed to the people of Buji Island.

Buji Island is not a gang.

Buje Island is where they put their roots.

Yes, Buji Island does not have a sufficiently mature intelligence system.

Not everyone on Buje Island is skilled, but at least they must know how to survive and gather intelligence.

Each of them is an ordinary member of the people of Zhongzhou, including all kinds of characters.

There are thousands of skins like eggs, and there are little ghosts with ruffians before they are disguised.

There are poor and sour talents like Mei Huaijin, Lan Sheng, who looks like a god stick in the rivers and lakes, a porter who sells coolies to make a living, Xiao Liu, who will be like a treasure wherever he goes to be the second boss of a shop, and Shu Tong, who is so simple that he looks even stupid, and some other people that Jiang Yichen has never met.

Among them, there are not many who are outstanding in force, but they have the courage to follow Xie Fei to track down and expose the root cause of the destruction of their homeland.

They have a variety of perspectives, and they may not be able to solve all kinds of puzzles immediately, but they will definitely imprint what they see, hear, think and think.

In this way, after the various sources of information are collected and unified, and then the cocoon is screened and connected, valuable information can be obtained.

At first, Jiang Yichen thought that Xie Fei had completed the process of summarizing information and sorting out the context, but when the smiling Maitreya explained the overall situation and details to him in an orderly and simple way, he realized that Xie Fei and the smiling Maitreya were probably half of the reason for finding a think tank for Buji Island.

Within two months, Bujidao and the Tushi Gang infiltrated a total of eight nursing homes in Zhongzhou, Tiannan, Dibei, and conducted investigations.

In these eight nursing homes, there have been some seemingly ordinary but hidden mysteries.

For example, in six nursing homes, a total of 11 young patients with no relatives, friends, and no one to rely on have been admitted in the past two months.

Of these eleven patients, three were seriously ill and did not recover for a period of time, and within a few days their complexion deteriorated, and their lives were dead.

There was a seriously ill man who had been recuperating and was already looking better, but he suddenly died violently.

Of the remaining seven who were mildly ill, three had started to earn their own lives with the help of the hospital after being cured, and four were serving in the hospital.

One of the three self-employed people set up a local pancake stall and told the hospital that he planned to go out to earn a lot of money, so he never returned.

And one of the four people in the hospital worked too hard to repay the kindness of the nursing home, and died of overwork.

For example, the three nursing homes located in remote areas and sparsely populated are small in scale, but the organizational structure is extremely complete, and the ratio of the number of people in the nursing home is not inferior to that of the large nursing home.

For example, the majority of the people in these eight nursing homes are elderly and young, with fewer people in the prime of life and very few young people; they have at least one meat dish for three meals a day, and they can even eat three or four delicacies from the mountains and seas in ten years; and the higher-level officials all carry rations and supplies during their routine examinations.

It is true that if we want to turn these nursing homes upside down, the time limit of two months is really limited, but we can combine the archival data recorded by each institution for many years and the follow-up part of the follow-up investigation results, and carefully screen and analyze, and the truth under the cover of the nursing homes has been revealed.

The three seriously ill people did not look good after treatment, and it is understandable that the nursing home selectively gave up these three lives and used resources on more people who still have hope of life.

The only person who recovered from a serious illness died violently, and there was a suspicion of returning to the light.

The place is difficult to make a lot of money, and the young man who has recovered from illness should be encouraged to have the courage to go outside.

Losing his life in order to repay his kindness is an accident and a pity.

The number of young and strong people in each hospital is small, after all, as long as they are not missing arms and legs and are not seriously ill, they should be the most self-reliant.

Every year, one out of ten young Zhuang people die in an accident in each hospital, and three out of ten young Zhuang who leave the local area to be self-reliant after leaving the hospital, all of which are more in line with the general environment of Zhongzhou after the war.

Judging from this case by example, no one will feel that there is anything wrong.

Because these situations are the epitome of the current situation in Zhongzhou, I can't find fault with it.

It can be said that without the appearance of "that gang" out of thin air, almost no one would have gone out of their way to explore deeply.

But it is precisely because of the existence of "that gang" that it provides a backward way of thinking for Buji Island and the Tushi Gang.

The size of "that group" is by no means small, and these people never jump out of the rocks.

They must have a place to come.

Where they came from, it is likely that they "disappeared".

There are two kinds of "disappearance", death and disappearance.

"That group" is still alive, and the disappearance is, of course, a false disappearance.

So, could their deaths and disappearances also be fake?

Compared to being exposed in the wilderness or being dumped in mass graves, people who die in a hospice can gain basic dignity.

They will be changed into plain clothes as shrouds, put into camphor wooden coffins, and buried in a sparsely populated place in an orderly manner, with tombstones.

Three days after the burial of the four young men who died of illness, the graves were dug up.

There were people in all four coffins.

Two of them are no longer the original two.

The bodies of the two young men who died of serious illness and sudden death from overwork have been replaced.

They all "disappeared".

Another person who "disappeared" was the mildly ill patient who chose to go out to earn a lot of money after curing from his illness and setting up a pancake stall for a short time.

This mild patient did make a lot of money, and in less than ten days he followed a foreign merchant to earn more silver taels than selling pancakes for a year.

Ten days later, however, he was nowhere to be seen beside the runner.

The place where this person "disappeared" is the place where "that group" trained secretly.

In order not to startle the snake, the Tushi Gang and Buji Island did not further investigate and investigate.

Rather, it is repeatedly corroborated and confirmed by other clues.

There are fewer and fewer people in each nursing home, because young people are the most valuable to cultivate.

If you want the horses to run, you have to let the horses have enough to eat, and the people who will be admitted to the nursing home will have difficulty in solving the daily food and clothing problems before then, and after being admitted to the nursing home, they will improve their physical condition through dietary supplements, so that they will not be sick when they are sent to the secret training.

At the same time as the routine assessment of higher-level officials, it is not an exaggeration to have the responsibility of distributing gold, silver, cloth, silk, grain, and medicinal materials, and the advantages outweigh the disadvantages for the remote nursing home.

It can be placed in more affluent areas, and it is obviously more economical to buy daily necessities directly there.

It is too far-fetched to say that the unified scheduling and allocation of resources is too far-fetched.

When things go wrong, there must be demons, and cats are hidden in those elixirs that are wrapped in the shell of healing and healing.

After examination, at least half of those pills were similar to the powerful pills that stimulated their potential by depleting the vital essence and blood.

There are also pills that can make people fall into a state of suspended animation.

Sick young men will take this kind of pill after being admitted to the nursing home, and only those who can survive are eligible to "disappear".

The reason why the small sanatorium in the middle of nowhere is well-equipped and the number of people is only a little larger is because the secret training place of "that gang" is nearby.

The small nursing home is the last transit point.

Those who have "disappeared" from the major nursing homes will be carefully observed and screened here, but all those who are able-bodied and mentally normal will have the opportunity to enter the secret training ground, and whether they will go there to receive secret training or do labor service depends on their personal understanding.

Twenty years after the Waiyi disaster, the number of beggars in Zhongzhou has decreased sharply, and "that gang" has mysteriously appeared, and the logical chain has been strung up so far.

That night, the shock that the Tushi Gang and Buji Island gave Jiang Yichen was more than that.

It wasn't until dawn at night that Jiang Yichen digested the intelligence information, and delayed for half a day in Luzhou County before setting off to listen to the rain pavilion in Jiangning County.