The winter night came early, just after the unitary hour, and the darkness completely enveloped the earth like an invisible hand. The moon is hidden and the stars are hidden, and the five fingers are not visible beyond the light and candle shadow.

The cold wind rushed through the streets and alleys, and the doors and windows that had fallen into disrepair or forgot to lock them made "clang" and "squeak" sounds, and they were heard far away in the silence. In the deep alley, I don't know whose dog was alarmed, kept barking wildly, and then turned into a whining and low sobbing amid the owner's scolding.

The weather is cold, and the swords, swords, and flesh and blood are flying on Dongmen Street, and the people who are afraid of harming themselves have closed their doors and hid at home. The bloody battle was exaggerated by eyewitnesses, and spread rapidly throughout the city of Ezhou, so that there were few pedestrians on the streets, and the people were in a hurry.

Di Ren has been running the dart bureau for decades, visiting the government and the powerful, making friends with the heroes of the rivers and lakes, and the black and white people who meet the Golden Lion Dart Bureau or the dart will give some face.

Although the Golden Lion Dart Bureau is out of self-preservation, if you want to make a big deal small and close the case as soon as possible, you will inevitably have to spend money to dredge it around. However, for Di Ren, the problem that money can solve is not a problem, so he has made a comprehensive response before the official mission arrives.

Di Ren had already made arrangements, and the pony didn't need to say much, as he walked through the streets and alleys to the Ezhou branch, the horse's hooves made a cold sound on the bluestone slab.

After about half a pillar of incense, Di Ren motioned for Pony and the others to stop.

At this time, the chaotic noise of the east gate has been left far behind, and there is silence all around. Through the faint moonlight occasionally falling from the clouds, the pony saw the four large lacquered gold characters "Ezhou Branch" on the door of the house on the corner of the street.

There were no lights, no guards, no ringing......

The dark and silent house stands on the same dark and silent long street, and there is something faintly strange and unsettling at this time when it should have been busy.

Xiao Ma frowned, there was a vague premonition in his heart, he turned his face to look at Di Ren, but saw Di Ren with a puzzled look on his face and said: "Strange, why is there no one on duty today......?"

As he spoke, his face changed slightly, his figure flashed, and he had already turned over and dismounted, and ran quickly towards the courtyard gate. After a few taps on the black lacquer door, there was no response in the room, and with a slight push, the door opened.

The pony followed, and listened for a moment, but there was no sound in the dark-lit courtyard, and a faint trace of blood in the darkness permeated the courtyard door.

Knowing that something was wrong, the pony quickly removed the windproof lamp from the eaves of the porch, lit it with a fire breaker, and stepped into the courtyard first.

Through the dim light, the scene in the courtyard is faintly visible. There were several dart carts parked in the open space, and there were many boxes of goods on the ground on the car, seven or eight dart board guys fell to the ground in different forms, and the broken boxes next to them did not have too many scars on their bodies, and five of the eight deceased had their throats pierced by sharp weapons, and the other three had their necks choked.

Pony examined their wounds carefully, his brows furrowed, and the shape of the wounds was neither a knife wound nor a sword wound, and he compared the bruises on the necks of the other three with his hands, and remained silent for a while. Scanning the scene in the courtyard, my mind quickly restores the scene when the murder happened. This person's speed and ruthlessness are rare.

"What did Brother Pony find?"

Xiaoma shook his head helplessly, and said: "Judging from the scene at the scene, the murderer's martial arts are unfathomable, and the incident happened only in an instant, and the guys in the dart bureau are busy with their duties, and even the two dart masters who rushed out of the hall have been poisoned before their weapons are unsheathed." ”

"This person seals his throat with one move, and the position of the wounds of the five deceased is not the same, but this weapon is strange in my opinion, more like a technique such as eagle claw gong and vajra finger, but ......"

"Just what?"

"It's just that judging from the bruises on their necks, if it is really done by finger power, this person is only afraid that he is also skinny and resembles a skeleton, and I really can't think of this person in the rivers and lakes. ”

"Things have come to this point, I'm afraid these people are not so simple as coming for the white jade wolf carving, their goal is only the Golden Lion Dart Game. ”

"The Golden Lion Dart Bureau was founded more than 100 years, the pattern is getting bigger and bigger, naturally it will touch the interests of some people, and now the five major dart game alliance, it is a sensation in the whole Jianghu, frankly speaking, the dart game and the green forest are opposites, you have an alliance to protect each other, their hard days will come, naturally they are doing everything possible to disintegrate and destroy your alliance. ”

Pony smiled bitterly: "At first, we all thought that this group of mysterious people was coming for the white jade wolf carving, so that they were in a predicament, although this time we can't conclude that they aim to destroy the golden lion dart game, but since this is possible, the scope of our thinking does not need to be limited to those who covet the white jade wolf carving." You might be able to find some clues. ”

"Shopkeeper Xu should be leaving clues for us, but it is difficult to fulfill his wish, leaving only this half of the blood word, what does Mr. Di have in mind?"

Suddenly, I heard the lights flickering outside, the figure swaying, and someone shouted outside the courtyard gate: "Listen up, the people inside, I am the patrol of Ezhou City, put down the weapon, and be captured, if you resist stubbornly, you will be killed!"

"How did the people from the government chase after me so quickly, dozens of people in the Ezhou branch were brutally murdered, we just happened to be here, I'm afraid that there will be troubles again. ”

Shanyuan raised the red flame stick and shouted: "If it weren't for the monk's wild words, only two or three hundred officers and soldiers would want to arrest me, but it is really beyond my strength, wait for me to kill the general, tear off the head of the leader, and see how arrogant he is." ”

The pony shook his head and said: "If we want to leave forcibly, they really can't stop it, but once we resist arrest and start a war, we will openly oppose the government, and the Golden Lion Dart Bureau will be in big trouble in the future, not to mention ......"

"What's more?"

"As soon as we arrived at the Ezhou sub-bureau, the officers and men appeared, don't you think it's strange? We fought with the officers and men, but we were afraid that we were playing into the hands of others. They can effortlessly destroy the Golden Lion Dart Bureau with the help of the government, and then disintegrate the Dart Game Alliance, which is really wonderful. ”

"Although there are some coincidences, it doesn't mean anything, maybe the government received the report and just arrived. ”

"If that's the case, then the leader shouldn't have shouted like that, how could he conclude that the murderer was hiding in the dart game without being investigated?"

"Having said that, once we enter the yamen, we want to retreat, but I'm afraid it's not so easy, if the government is in cahoots with them, and we insist that these people were killed by us, we will never get out, so it's better for me to kill the generals first, and then try to clear the suspicion." ”

"It's never too late for us to break out of prison. All this is just my speculation, we went with the government, and we knew what kind of medicine they bought in their gourds. Mr. Di, what do you think?"

"What Brother Pony said is very true, the inspection department is the Longtan Tiger's Den, Di also went to it, I want to see who wants to put me to death. ”