After taking care of the dead soldier's body, Xiao Lingyue put on her cloak and hurried down the mountain.
When it got dark, she returned to Li's house again.
There were still government officials guarding the outside of the house, but Xiao Lingyue climbed over the wall of the alley where she left last night without disturbing them.
This is almost the most remote place in Li's house. The garden is overgrown with weeds and not a single person is seen.
Xiao Lingyue looked around cautiously, then turned and walked towards the bushes in the corner of the wall.
After being stunned by her, the dead soldier hiding here was still lying on the ground, his body covered with dew, and there was no sign of anyone approaching him.
"Good luck."
Xiao Lingyue breathed a sigh of relief, squatted down, and searched carefully.
There are many bits and pieces on the dead soldier, such as tokens, weapons, signal tubes, fire seals, etc.
"You are quite well prepared." Xiao Lingyue murmured softly, and took out a small bamboo tube from the dead man's arms.
The style of the bamboo tube looks familiar.
One end was sealed with wax, and a small hole was drilled into the other end.
Xiao Lingyue weighed it with her hands and found that something was obviously stuffed inside the bamboo tube.
She instantly thought of a weapon used for assassination: "Blowgun?"
But it feels different.
Xiao Lingyue thought for a moment, then put the bamboo tube to the tip of her nose and smelled it. The familiar smell of drugs came to the tip of her nose.
She raised her eyebrows suddenly: "No wonder you have to carry a fire stick with you. It turns out to be a smoke pipe."
This thing is also one of the hidden weapons and is easy to make.
Fill the prepared powder/drug into the hollowed-out bamboo tube, drill holes in one end, and open up the other end. When using, use a fire breaker to ignite the powder, and then blow it into your mouth, and the smoke will flow along the other end of the bamboo tube.
The small hole floated out.
Silent and difficult to detect.
Don't pick up things for free.
Xiao Lingyue put it into the bag unceremoniously. She looked at the unconscious dead soldier and felt a little headache.
To kill or not to kill?
If you keep it here, someone will find it sooner or later.
She didn't have time to deal with it now. If she killed him directly, it wouldn't be easy to move the body out.
Got it!
An idea flashed in Xiao Lingyue's mind, and she came up with a good idea.
She first opened the dead man's mouth and used a dagger to pry out the poison sac hidden in his tooth socket to prevent him from committing suicide by taking the poison. Then she used the dagger to cut his clothes, and quickly twisted the torn off strips of cloth into ropes and tied them tightly.
The dead soldier's hands and feet were tightly tied up.
After doing this, Xiao Lingyue still felt that it was not safe, so she simply removed the joints of his limbs.
"Click", "click" several crisp sounds.
The severe pain of having his bones and joints removed alive made the unconscious soldier's face pale and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
Xiao Lingyue tore off the cotton cloth from his mouth, used the nearby branches to throw the man over the wall with great effort, and threw him heavily on the ground in the alley.
"Ah..." The severe pain woke up the dead man, and he screamed subconsciously.
At the same time, Xiao Lingyue shouted at the top of her lungs: "Catch the assassin!!"
Then he retracted his head like lightning and hid in the wall.
It was still dark at this time, it was gray in the early morning, and there was silence all around.
Xiao Lingyue's voice was so shocking that it woke up the drowsy guard outside Li's house.