The group of people walked through the woods of Yandang Mountain and divided into three waves, looking left and right, looking for something.

Seeing the woman in front of him swaying around, Tang Shi finally broke out and cursed: "Xiao Sese, you bastard, can you get away? How can I see the road with you like this? If you don't want to come, don't come. Who cares about the extra person like you?"

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"That won't work. What if you have any evil intentions? I have to come and monitor you." Xiao Sesu was like a proud big rooster, holding his head high and walking forward slowly.

Who has evil intentions? Tang Shi secretly cursed a lunatic, pushed her away and walked around quickly, trying to get rid of her.

After walking a certain distance, a whistle suddenly sounded, which meant gathering and indicating that something had been discovered. Tang Shi immediately ran in the direction of the sound. About fifty meters away, he saw Mu Mingran and Zhang Tingyan.

Standing there, squatting and looking at something.

"found it?"

As soon as Tang Shi ran over, he saw the tragic situation on the ground at a glance, and his speed suddenly slowed down and he was stunned.

Zhang Baoxuan also came from the east direction and saw the grave bodies. Si Zhu frowned and stepped forward to inspect these dead people.

"There are eight people in total. The cocoon at the tiger's mouth is very thick, the muscles in the right hand are even and strong, and the wrists have the same tattoos. These people are specially trained to die." Mu Mingran stood up and said.

Sizhu also quickly came to a conclusion and added: "No one is alive. The wounds on their bodies vary. Some are caused by short daggers, and some are caused by the long knives they used. But it is certain that they were all made by one person. Three people were killed with one knife, and four were killed with one knife."

There was blood from multiple stab wounds on the person, and the last person had strangulation marks on his neck and his arms were broken, indicating that the person was seriously injured and was at the end of the road, but narrowly escaped."

Xiao Sese finally arrived, cursing at Tang Shi, and then almost jumped up when he saw the situation here, "Hey, my mother, why are so many people dead? What is going on? Chen Ling was killed?"

"Shut up!" Tang Shi's face darkened, and he calmly speculated: "If these people want to kill Chen Ling, then she is not here now, so she is probably still alive and injured and can't walk far. Let's go and look nearby."

Zhang Tingyan made a new discovery, pointed to a place and said: "There are blood stains here, go to the west."

Mu Mingran took a step forward: "Let's go."

There wasn't much blood, it was intermittent, but human blood is inherently limited. Even with this blood, the person who bleeds would at least faint from excessive blood loss. But they followed the blood stains all the way, but they couldn't find any clues about the injured person.

It was broken in one place, and the grass showed signs of being pressed for a long time. It was speculated that Chen Ling was taken away.

Tang Shi was anxious and couldn't think of where to find Chen Ling. He could only sit on the ground and take a break to discuss countermeasures. He said: "Who did she provoke? So many masters came to kill her. Now no one knows who brought her."

Either leave or be rescued, but what should I do?"

Xiao Sese kept stabbing in a mean tone: "If you can't find it, go back. It's definitely gone."

Tang Shi cursed angrily: "I don't have you!"

Zhang Tingyan said: "We can't go back. Master Qi means that we are looking for Chen Ling. We don't need to go back to the military camp until we find him. We can go directly north to join the army at Weizhou."

It is true to say that this matter can be traced back to this morning.

Because of the assassination and disappearance of the eldest princess, envoy Dongxu was furious and was forced to stay under house arrest. It was obvious that the peace talks had failed. So early the next morning, the large army organized and prepared to return to the imperial city.

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Chen Ling disappeared.

The people in the elite battalion quarreled with the official in charge of the autumn hunting because of this matter. Tang Shi and Mu Mingran, who were close friends, asked to find someone. What the other party meant was that the elite battalion was supposed to protect His Majesty and could not be killed because of a soldier.

Leaving the house without permission.

Chen Juanjuan had been in a wait-and-see mode and did not speak to anyone during the whole process, because her position and responsibilities did not allow her to favor others. However, Qi Xinlin later stepped forward to help, saying that it was His Majesty's wish to have the elite battalion send out a few

People are looking for people.

Zhang Baoxuan didn't understand and asked: "Don't you think this arrangement is strange? I can't think of anything wrong, but it just doesn't feel simple."

He glanced at several people. Mu Mingran and Zhang Tingyan didn't say anything, Xiao Sesu didn't take it seriously, Si Zhu lowered his eyes and didn't know what he was thinking, but Tang Shi was complaining.

"What's simple is not simple. We want to find Chen Ling. Qi Xinlin agrees. And because the army is about to leave, isn't it normal for us to go to Weizhou in advance? Oh, don't think about it blindly. It's important to find someone. You guys said we will pick him up.

What should we do when we get down?"

Zhang Baoxuan said: "If you are looking for someone, you will definitely find them, but can you stop just looking for them without using your brain? If you keep going like this, when will you find them?"

Tang Shi replied: "You can do it, you can do it, you can say it, what's next?"

"If I knew, why would I need to discuss it with you, an idiot?"

"Hey, it's rare for a fool to say that others are fools."

"Tang Shi! Keep your mouth clean."

The two quarreled, leaning against the tree and laughing.

While the two were quarreling, Mu Mingran and others had already agreed to go nearby to see if there were any clues. News soon came out that this was already the edge of Yandang Mountain, and there was a trail leading out of the city at the foot of the mountain. There was something fresh there.

rut marks.

Mu Mingran speculated that Chen Ling was probably taken away by someone, and the direction of the track was north. This was a coincidence. It happened that their mission was to go north to meet up.

A small city in Minzhou is the closest location to the imperial city. You can go directly north through the city. Caravans shuttle through the busy city and people come and go.

Fengling was woken up by the noise. Her head was groggy. She opened her tired eyelids after sleeping for a long time and saw the top of a box. At the same time, the fragments of last night flashed through her mind quickly, and she immediately sat up on alert.

look around.

This was inside a carriage. The swaying movement indicated that it was still driving. She lowered her head to check. Her clothes were intact and her hands and feet were free and unrestricted. All the wounds had been bandaged. She raised her eyebrows. Was she rescued?

She made no sound of waking up and listened intently to the sounds outside, including shouting and noise in the market. This was in the market.

At this time, the person who saved her seemed to have arrived at her destination. The carriage and horse slowly stopped, and the curtain was opened from the outside, revealing the face of a man, who smiled and said to her: "Is the girl awake?"

He obviously didn't say anything, but he knew it in time. It seemed that this person was either smart or an expert.

Fengling deliberately leaned against the car wall to pretend to be weak and asked, "Did you save me?"

He smiled and hung the curtain aside and said, "Girl, get off the car first, we've arrived at the inn."

Fengling nodded. His movements would involve the wound, making it difficult to get out of the car. He waved, and an accompanying female servant came to help him. She took the opportunity to glance at the carriage and people who were coming. There were about seven or eight people.

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Two of them were women. There were two carts of goods parked in front of the carriage, which were covered with tarps, so you couldn't see what was inside.

The man seemed to be the leader here. After paying the rent, the inn’s young lady took the car to the backyard, and someone else led them upstairs.

The man opened the door and said to Fengling: "If you have anything to do, girl, let's talk about it on the way tomorrow. Let's have a good rest tonight and recuperate. Then the servants will bring you a change of clothes. If you need anything, come to me. I'll stay here."

The one next door.”

From getting off the carriage to entering the room, he was in control of the entire process. It can be seen that this person has always been in a high position and can handle things with ease.

Fengling looked at them and said nothing else. He thanked her. He smiled at her friend and left.

After closing the door, I took a casual look at the room. The space was not small, and the layout was clean, elegant and comfortable. This was the kind of treatment you only get when you go to the upper room. Soon the door was knocked, and the second lady brought you bath water, food, and a change of clothes.

Delivered, the one-stop service is excellent.

Before leaving, the second lady also stuffed a small sign into it. Fengling snarled speechlessly and threw it back to her, saying it was unnecessary because it was a shameful skin-trading deal in the inn.

I didn't encounter it in the Imperial City Inn. I thought it was Lanyue's rectification that had an effect, but it reappeared after leaving the Imperial City. It seems that this kind of dark transaction cannot be eliminated in a short time. The reason why the Imperial City is not there is just because of the emperor's feet.

Just being strict.

Because there was a wound on my body, I could only wring out a towel and wipe the skin outside the wound. Perhaps because I was afraid that my identity would be discovered, my armor was stripped off, leaving only my inner clothes. I changed into the clothes they gave me, ate some food, and started to lie on the bed.

Reason your thoughts.

Thinking back on what happened last night, it was really thrilling.

After overhearing the transaction between the two, the two carriages left separately, but she was surrounded and killed by a group of men in black who suddenly appeared on the way back to the camp.

The opponents came well prepared, and their skills were not weak. There were nine of them in total, and she just fought her way out. After one of them was seriously injured and escaped, she didn't have the strength to catch up again. She couldn't help but fainted.

I thought I would be eaten by wild wolves or freeze to death, but when I woke up, I found that I had been rescued by a caravan. Moreover, this caravan was not simple.

She had just taken a preliminary look at these people. Except for the leading man, the rest of them had some skills and were light and steady in their steps. Unless they were from the escort agency responsible for escorting the goods, it would not make sense.

However, the escort agency is unlikely. She had come into contact with the escort agency in Lancheng before. Although the status of men has improved now, men who learn kung fu are very rare. It is impossible for there to be so many men in the escort agency at one time.

So who are they? Why did they save her by such a coincidence?

Let's put this matter aside for tomorrow. The assassination last night alone is worthy of scrutiny. Who sent those people? There were too many opponents last night, and there was no time to torture the person behind it. He killed her on sight and only had time to deal with it.

And because it was still dark, except for the black clothes and the cold light of the blade, I couldn't see the characteristics of the opponent clearly, so I killed someone and ran away for my life and fell into a coma. Now after careful consideration, I found that there are still traces. These people's moves are all swords.

The sword sees blood and hits the vital parts. The style is very similar to the death warriors trained by the princes and nobles, who are used to deal with people who are an eyesore.

Not many people knew about her whereabouts yesterday. The eldest princess, Lan Yue, Tang Shi, excluding Tang Shi, could they be one of them?

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