"How is the situation in the north?" asked the first sentence after Sanqian Plum Blossom came to Sanqian Academy.

Guan Jue raised his head and said, "The Eastern Wilderness Army has started to fight back from Beiyun. With the cooperation of the Far North Army and Lao Shanzin, the troops in the entire northern provinces have begun to be honest. While they are steadily advancing towards the imperial capital, it is estimated that there should be one month left to basically be cleared."

"That's good." Sanqian Plum Blossom put down a document and said, "This is the antique I found from the Royal Archives, look."

"Good guy, what era is this? Or paper files." The Administration Bureau picked up the folder that was already dry and cracked on the table and glanced at the time on it: "Grass, the 901st year of the Empire calendar, isn't that the first thousand years about to be explained?"

Sanqian Plum Blossom said, "Don't worry about when it comes, in short, this thing should be useful, please take a look."

Guan Jue did not continue to speak, opened the contents in the folder, opened the thick stack of materials one by one, and looked carefully. Guan Jue was responsible for many tasks these days. They were the core tasks of the wartime interim committee, and they all took care of everything, and there was no division of labor at all.

But the difference is that among these people, only one person has no cultivation at all, and his work naturally makes him exhausted. His body has obviously been much clearer, the edges on his face have become clearer, and there are a lot of blood in his eyes.

Sanqian Plum Blossom also knew that Guan Jue hadn't slept well for a whole month. His already gray temples have now spread upwards, almost expanding to his head, making him look like he was fifty-year-old. But he is only thirty years old...

But what can I do? Now the empire is in a crisis. The entire imperial capital is a talented person who is trustworthy and good at planning and analysis. It is only a top-notch person like Juehui, and it is good to be able to fight the rest.

Only then did the rest of the committee realize that the empire had indeed taken a detour and lacked talents who could control the field. The remaining people were either good at war or civil affairs, or masters who fought alone, but what about those who planned the article?

In the past, they all relied on Chaoge, and Chaoge relied on the absolute strength of the empire and had no brains at all. If the five-man team had not supported the direction of the entire empire behind their backs, now I wouldn't know what they would have become.

In the future, we must cultivate such talents with a sense of overall situation and a keen sense of smell, otherwise the empire will continue to decline in the future, which is simply cutting off its foundation.

Guan Jue looked at the information in front of him seriously, which recorded an incident that happened in the far north in 901 of the imperial calendar.

It is worth mentioning that at that time, the one who guarded the border in the extreme north was not the imperial army or the army, but a certain sect. An Xiaoyu was also very familiar with this sect. Its name was Daxueshan. It was the origin of the martial arts found by Ni Yu's wife Xu Huixin's grandfather.

After the Great Snow Mountain left its original address, it was not to escape, but because after the establishment of the Three Thousand Empire, all sects began to respond to the empire's call and contribute their own strength to the stability of the human empire, and they were the people responsible for guarding the extreme north.

But it is precisely because of this that the inheritance of Daxue Mountain completely disappeared from this world and there is no possibility of returning to the ancestral land. Xu Huixin's grandfather was allowed to get the secret method, and then the administrator cracked it, An Xiaoyu handed it over to Bengbang.

Daxue Mountain guarded the extreme north and prevented those who were exiled to the extreme north from escaping from the extreme north. It was always stable. Of course, fighting was indispensable. The prisoners who were sent to the extreme north were all madmen who opposed the Imperial City and colluded with alien races, and their combat effectiveness was quite extraordinary.

In addition, the restrictions on laws of heaven were not so deep. Many of the top masters and even mixed-race masters that appeared before the founding of the country were still alive. Their descendants and their disciples made a mess in the extreme north.

At that time, the extreme north was considered a truly chaotic prison.

Therefore, Daxueshan often fights with these people, and because of this, the combat effectiveness of the disciples of Daxueshan is generally much richer than that of the disciples of other sects or forces. After all, these people in the extreme north are all the most terrifying enemies in the human category.

But such a snow-capped mountain was almost completely destroyed in an instant.

According to the records in the archives, the first person to report the case to the Beiyun Guard was an old man from a small village near the far north. The old man was in his seventies and had no children. His wife had already died, and he could only rely on more than 20 chickens raised at home to lay eggs and sell them to survive.

However, in the price state of that year, one pound of eggs could be exchanged for ten pounds of sweet potato noodles. The old man should be considered very rich. But that night, he lost two chickens in his family. This is amazing! These chickens are the lifeblood of the old man! So the old man found the guard and reported the case.

At that time, the two chickens were considered to be a small and small disappearance case. The development status of the empire in the first thousand years was simply terrible. The whole country lived a planned economy, and the matter between the two chickens was indeed quite good. So the guard team came to the old man's village to investigate.

After a survey and visit, the police found that the old man's chicken lost the case, and someone did steal it. Because they found two strings of barefoot footprints next to the chicken cage, they found two barefoot footprints of the man's barefoot footprints next to the chicken cage. According to neighbors, the chickens at the old man's house screamed wildly for a while last night, and even interrupted the couple's good things.

The police asked the old man if there was any such situation.

The old man was in a dilemma. He was old and his sleep was not very good, so he had to drink a glass of wild mountain fruit wine he had made every night. The guards had seen the wine and could almost always turn a cow. It was obvious that the old man also knew the distillation technique.

After drinking, the old man lay down to sleep as usual, never woke up at night, and he had some ears, so he slept until dawn. When he touched the eggs in the morning, he found that he had lost two of his life roots.

Then he called the police without thinking.

The old man has been helpless for so many years, so of course he never thought about finding someone else when something happened. Under the precise publicity and education of the country, the first thing he thought of was the guard team and if he had something to do, this is an idea that has been deeply rooted in people's hearts since he was a child.

So the guards did not get any relevant clues on the old man's side, but it was basically certain. That night, someone did sneak into the old man's yard, then took away two chickens, and left the yard, without alarming the owner of the chickens.

As for where they came in and where they went out, they should be the low wall behind the old man's house. The evidence is that the chicken poop pulled out from the two caught chickens nervously, extending sparsely from the direction of the chicken cage to the low wall, and there are even two drops on the top of the wall.

The old man told me that he cleaned the yard every day and regarded it as exercise, so it was absolutely impossible for chicken shit to stay on the ground. As for the low wall behind it, it was actually built recently. The reason was that in order to create a civilized village a few days ago, it was said that the old man's backyard was a security loophole.

As a result, the security loopholes are blocked, and it is still unsafe if they are blocked.

The members of the guard team kept following the traces of chicken poop and passed through a wasteland from outside the low wall. They chased them forward for about a mile, but lost their traces. The reason was probably because the inventory in the two chicken belly was pulled out.

You can't be able to get one for 17 or 18 miles?

So the guards began to visit the villagers nearby and investigated the traces on the wasteland, but found no clear footprints, and no one went to the place where birds do not shit but chickens do not shit in the middle of the night, so the clue was broken.

The case was temporarily put on hold due to insufficient clues and needed to continue to investigate. After the old man expressed his trust in the police, he did not continue to pester. At that time, the people, especially the rural people, were honestly of the quality. Although it was very painful to lose two chickens, they did not make any unreasonable demands.

The guards promised that if they found clues, they would come back and tell him, and then left the old man's home, archived all the information and investigation results, and then saved them.

Of course, if you just lose two chickens, you will not be able to enter the royal document library at all. Even when you fully enter the electronic document, you may be regarded as a headless case and deliberately lost it in order to ensure the successful political achievements.

The reason why this file is kept is the follow-up that happens next.

Two days later, someone ran to the county guards panting and shouted "Murder" in the guards sweating profusely. The person who recorded the archives at that time was probably a clerk with a bit of literary ideals. The description was very clear and the details were very exquisite.

When the man ran to the guard team, he was so tired that he could hardly stand up. He held the front desk with both hands, which scared the female clerk at the front desk and asked him what had happened. The man was probably in his twenties and was probably the best person in the village to run away.

He quickly told the policewoman that he wanted to report the case and the murder case!

When he heard that it was a major criminal case, the local security guard quickly let the criminal investigation personnel take over. When the detachment leader came to him, he asked him what was going on. The young man shouted loudly, "I killed me, I killed me", almost a little incoherent.

Thanks to the rich experience of local police officers, the reporter quickly comforted the reporter.

Yes, this is what the archives were written on, and that was what the archives were written on back then. In order to gild their faces, they were all "thanks to the rich experience of local officials" and "adhering to the empire's consistent..." and so on.

In short, after the young people stabilized, they told them the matter, saying that it was an old man who raised a lot of chickens in their village. Many people like to go to his house to buy eggs. So after touching the eggs in the morning, those who want to sell eggs will come to their house.

Today is no exception. Several aunts and aunts came to the old man’s door and knocked on the door, wanting to "look the same". As a result, after knocking on the door for a long time, the old man didn’t wait until the old man opened it. So more and more people were in front of the old man’s door, and people began to guess whether the old man hadn’t woken up.

Some people opposed it at that time. At such an old age, I couldn’t wake up? Even if I was not dead.

When I said it, the man thought it was a joke, but after he said it, everyone was stunned. What you said makes sense! The old man was dead, right? He was the only one in the old man's family. Don't know if he died then. The body is smelly and cannot be buried!

So the two young men in the village volunteered and turned over the wall, intending to see the old man's condition. Everyone was from the village, and these two young men were all grown up, so they were naturally extremely relieved.

But not long after, the two young men opened the door of the yard from the inside with pale faces and told them that the old man was dead, but not old man died, but was killed. They were both frightened at that time. The young man was just thinking about calling the police, and immediately ran out of the village and ran all the way to the county town.

At that time, there was no phone number in the village, let alone calling the police. He ran over the way, but he took the boss's efforts because he was afraid and anxious, so he didn't pay attention when he came. Until he arrived at the guard team, his legs became weak and he couldn't get up after sitting down.

After hearing this, the guards suddenly felt familiar. This village, an old man, alone, raises chickens, isn't it such a coincidence?

They immediately realized that this matter might not be that simple, so they quickly sent a police officer and took the young man to the village. After coming to the old man's house, they finally confirmed that the old man who was killed was indeed the one who lost two chickens a few days last year.

When they arrived at the scene, the scene was well protected, and no one dared to approach the villagers, so there was no damage. They immediately collected evidence on the scene and conducted corresponding analysis.

The old man died miserably, really miserable.

He died next to the chicken cage, his neck was broken, and a piece of it was sagged on the left back of the skull, half of which were flowing out. Both of them were fatal injuries. The remaining wounds, as well as five ribs on his chest, should have been broken by someone, and some scratches on his body.

The old man's death should be because he was punched in the chest. It was not fatal at that time, but when he fell down due to stress or pain, he hit the stone platform of the chicken cage on the left back of his head, which not only broke the skull, but also broke the neck.

Then the guard team counted and found that two chickens were missing in the chicken cage, but this time they did not find any footprints of the invader. After thinking twice, they decided to position the target of the murderer this time and the last chicken thief as the same person.

Because after investigation, they found that the old man must drink every day, obviously he had not moved these days. It is very likely that the old man had not slept well these days, but planned to catch the thief with his own hands and send it to the guard team.

But unexpectedly, the thief waited, but in the end it caused his death.

There was no sign of fighting on the scene, which meant that the old man had no room for resistance. The opponent was very powerful and very fast. Even the neighbors did not hear the old man making a sound when he died, which meant that the opponent was already a habitual offender, with rich experience in killing people and very neat.

So the guards began to report the case to the city, and the municipal bureau reported it to the province, because there was a murderous criminal here. The police speculated that this person was probably a mortal from another place. In order to avoid hunting, he came here and stole chickens because he was hungry, and this happened.

If things really look like they guessed, they are definitely not something that a county guard can handle. What's more, except for leaving a footprint when stealing the chicken for the first time, no other clues were found, which shows that he is a master.

It should have been practiced! After nine hundred years of hiding, the practitioners almost disappeared except for their position at the border. Most of the guards have never seen or even heard of it. So they defined this person as a martial arts practitioner and reported it to them.

Soon the Provincial Bureau organized a special task force to investigate the matter. The result was a terrible conclusion. The person who came to the old man's house to steal chickens and was found to kill the old man was actually a practitioner!

When I reached the provincial level, I could still know some things about practitioners, so this incident alarmed the center. Yes, it was still called the center, the central court under the rule of the Three Thousand Family. After the matter was reported to the court, the court immediately dispatched the practitioners to investigate, and because it was close to the extreme north, it informed the letter to Daxue Mountain to ask for assistance.

but……

Daxueshan did not reply.

It was at this time that the empire discovered the fact that Daxue Mountain was wiped out. When their people arrived at the extreme north border, there was no living person at the entire Daxue Mountain station. The bodies that fell to the ground had been dead for at least ten days.

After counting, they found that not all the corpses of the people in Daxue Mountain were present, and a large part of them were not at their residence. So while blocking the extreme north border, the empire investigated the whole matter while sending an investigation team to the extreme north.

At that time, the members of the investigation team were very strong. The two Taishi, and the rest were all powerful people from the Dao Realm. A total of sixteen people went in. In the end, only one Taishi ran back. When he came back, he was already dying. He left only a message and passed away.

He said: "It's a trap!"

Trap, what is a trap? The Empire began to think about it.

Fortunately, the news of the demise of the Great Snow Mountain was not widely circulated. The chicken thief also discovered this phenomenon by chance. Then he ran out with his three brothers and went his separate ways. He couldn't help it anymore and stole two chickens, but it was out of control. The second time he wanted to go, he was discovered.
Chapter completed!