"Drunk Dream Dragon"
Liu Xin picked up a parchment book on the bookshelf. The writing was yellowed and the handwriting was blurred. Liu Xin was a little surprised because he knew this secret book.
Among the martial arts, the most famous sect for using poison is the Phoenix Sect of Xiangxi. It is located in the deepest part of the mountains in western Hunan. It is isolated from the world and does not interact with others. However, almost all members of the Phoenix Sect are masters of using poison, but they are different from the Xingxiu Sect, another poison-using sect. The people of the Phoenix Sect are unwilling to go out, and at the same time they uphold the attitude that outsiders are not allowed to come in.
Among the few well-known poisons in the Phoenix Sect, the several strange poisons of Longzihao are the most famous, and almost everyone in the world knows them.
And this "Dream Dragon's Drunk Saliva" is one of the strange poisons of Long Zihao.
Liu Xin did not expect that secrets about the configuration of such strange poisons would be collected by Emperor Wu City. The quality of martial arts secrets in Emperor Wu City's archives far exceeded his imagination.
But he did not open "Dragon Drunken Salvation" to take a closer look. People in the world would assume that those who use poison are demons. If they find one, they will arrest them. The court also has the same policy.
Therefore, although the Xiangxi Phoenix Sect hardly travels in the Jianghu, it does almost no harm to the Jianghu and the people. But it was still classified as a demonic sect.
Putting down "Dream Dragon Drunk", Liu Xin picked up a bamboo slip on the shelf next door. The bamboo slips have a long history, and may even be from the dynasty before Zhengyang, or even older.
After opening it and looking at it for a while, Liu Xin put down the bamboo slips. They were full of ancient characters. He could understand some of them, but they probably had nothing to do with the poison in the Yumajian case.
Before he came, he had obtained a description of the conditions of the three eunuchs after they were poisoned in the Royal Horse Prison case.
Liu Xin has a general understanding of this poison. It has three main characteristics: colorless and odorless, delayed, but once it attacks, the toxicity can spread throughout the body in a very short time, and the poison can be dissolved in water. , burned in smoke.
These characteristics were all investigated by Dongchang, because although the three eunuchs were poisoned to death at the same time, they were also in sequence.
The first is the third characteristic, it can be dissolved in water and burned in smoke. Because Dongchang's investigation found that two of the eunuchs died of poison after drinking tea, and did not eat anything else during this period. The other eunuch had eaten nothing, but there was a burnt incense stick in the room. The eunuchs of the Royal Horse Guard always smell bad because they raise horses, and incense is used to eliminate this smell.
Dongchang tested the remaining tea and burned incense and confirmed that they were the same poison. Because after feeding the pigeons, those pigeons all suddenly died suddenly after the same time, and this also verified the second characteristic of this poison.
The third characteristic is that it is colorless and odorless, because whether it is tea or incense, it is no different from normal.
Such a strange poison was unheard of in Dongchang. I contacted some military attachés with martial arts backgrounds, but they had no clue. The same was true here in Jinyiwei. In the end, there was really no other way, so Liu Licheng, who was born in Emperor Wu City, was asked to help enter the case library to investigate.
Liu Xin picked up several secret books one after another, but put them down quickly. He looked up at the bookshelf, which probably contained thousands of books of all kinds, and felt that his head was extremely heavy. Such a huge workload cannot be completed by himself. This is because he is the senior brother of the Holy Sect and has profound knowledge. He has actually read some of the secret books here.
If according to his character, he is a casual cultivator from a small place, the collection of books in this room is enough for him to read for several years.
Just when Liu Xin regained his energy and was about to continue reading books, there was a knock on the door. Liu Xin opened the door curiously and saw a eunuch handing in a note.
Liu Xin took the note strangely and found that it was empty. His eyes fell on the eunuch who handed the note, but the eunuch just gave him a strange smile and then left in a hurry.
Liu Xin closed the wooden door with a weird smile on his lips, exactly the same as the eunuch's.
The Sacred Sect's secret investigation team has made a great sacrifice. As a eunuch, this senior brother has paid too much for the sect...
Liu Xin had already realized that this eunuch was probably also a member of the secret investigation team. This role surprised Liu Xin, but despite being surprised, he also admired and respected this senior brother.
Soon, Liu Xin used a secret method to decipher the contents of the note. The note was handed in by Senior Brother Cheng and contained only a few words:
Leave the document library immediately!
Liu Xin frowned. Senior Brother Cheng was using spies from the secret investigation team at this time, especially in a place like Emperor Wu's case library, which was the most secretive and important place. It must be extremely difficult to lurk spies here. The information that such a precious spy used to convey to him must be very important!
So Liu Xin left the case library without hesitation. He had a token that allowed him to enter and exit the case library repeatedly during this period.
After leaving the document warehouse, Liu Xin went to a nearby restaurant because he was called to the Qianhu Office early this morning. It was still early and there were many people on the road, either going to work or going out to do errands. Yes, some came out to have breakfast.
Walking through the crowded restaurant lobby, Liu Xin couldn't help but sigh, the imperial capital is the imperial capital, so many people come to the restaurant to eat early in the morning...
Because he saw the mark left by Senior Brother Cheng for him outside the restaurant, Liu Xin saw the mark again at the door of a private room on the second floor. He naturally opened the door of the private room, walked in, closed the door again, and found that Senior Brother Cheng is already sitting inside.
"Senior Brother Cheng, why are you so anxious to find me?" Liu Xin asked anxiously before he sat down.
Senior Brother Cheng didn't seem too anxious. He poured a cup of tea for Liu Xin, and then slowly said: "The details of the Yongzhou County King have been found. His real name is An Xiyi, and he is the nephew of the current emperor. Because he is still young, Young, has been living in the imperial capital. He is still a young man now, it is not him who posted the post for you, but someone borrowed his hand."
Liu Xin frowned, with a puzzled face: "Who has so much energy to command a county king? I don't know such a big shot."
Senior Brother Cheng nodded and said: "We are still continuing to investigate this, but I think there should be no problem if you go to the banquet."
Liu Xin nodded.
Senior Brother Cheng continued: "I am anxious to call you out, but this is not the reason."
Seeing Senior Brother Cheng's solemn expression, Liu Xin sat upright and listened carefully.
Brother Cheng said: "You suddenly went to the archives today. I felt something was wrong, so I asked someone to check it. It turned out that Liu Licheng had sent someone to contact Qianhu Yuan Dongxiang in Dongchang last night. Dongchang has been tracking down the poison. Clues, their main direction is this poison. Today you were suddenly sent to the record library to check for poison. Combined with Liu Licheng's contact with Yuan Dongxiang, I think it is likely that Liu Licheng is planning to harm you again!"
After hearing this, Liu Xin's face showed anger: "This old boy can't calm down. If you don't investigate the case properly, why are you staring at me every day?"
Senior Brother Cheng nodded: "That's the problem. Liu Licheng's actions are so unreasonable. He wants to mess with you too impatiently, as if someone is forcing him. We are already investigating this, combining him with the Xungui faction. With Shao Shiwang’s sudden cooperation, this matter shouldn’t be difficult to investigate, and we’ll probably have some clues soon.”
When Liu Xin heard this, he immediately smiled, and then looked at Senior Brother Cheng with a flattering look: "Senior Brother Cheng, you are so reliable, your thighs are so reliable!"
Senior Brother Cheng was a little surprised, and his face froze for a moment. He didn't quite understand what Liu Xin meant when he said his thighs were reliable. He glanced at his thighs without any trace. The muscles were indeed very tight. He had always led him to lower body skills. To be proud of.
Ahem...
Senior Brother Cheng coughed lightly, retracted his divergent thoughts, and said attentively: "This is just one of the reasons for calling you out, and more importantly, you asked me to arrange for the spy to be around the family of women and children I rescued that day. I received the news. There seems to be a demonic warrior appearing near the courtyard!"
"Devil!" Liu Xin immediately suppressed the smile on his face, and he asked in disbelief: "How come the devil appears here at the feet of the Emperor of the Imperial Capital!"
Senior Brother Cheng shook his head: "Although I don't know how they entered the city, they are indeed people from the devil's path, and they appeared next to those women and children. I think they are the target!"
"Then they are very dangerous now. People in the devil's path behave strangely and can do anything. If they use poisoning again, the people Liu Licheng arranges there will probably not be able to do anything. The top priority is to find out , what do these women know that makes the people behind them want to kill them at all costs!" Liu Xin analyzed with a solemn face, then remained silent for a long time, suddenly stood up and said:
"The demonic people have appeared. They may attack those women at any time. I have to get there quickly!"
Senior Brother Cheng also stood up and said, "I think you need to conceal your identity. If Liu Licheng knows that you are acting without permission, he will have justifiable reasons and will fire you directly!"
Liu Xin nodded, and suddenly thought of something again, and said, "Senior brother Cheng, what Liu Licheng and the Dongchang Thousand Households planned is probably related to this poison. Can the secret investigation team help me investigate?"
Senior Brother Cheng nodded and said, "No problem!"
Liu Xin immediately left the restaurant and soon disappeared after entering the crowd. A moment later, in an alley somewhere, Liu Xin, who had finished changing his clothes, walked quickly towards Chongbeifang in the outer city.
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Outer city, Chongbeifang
At the entrance of Liu Licheng's villa, Cheng Guotao thought deeply and slowly left the villa. Wu Hao saw this and walked up.
"Lao Cheng, how are you? Did you ask anything?" Wu Hao was the most thoughtful among the three hundred households under Liu Licheng, but when it came to wisdom, Cheng Guotao was the most outstanding. Wu Hao is better at performing tasks. As for Gong Kexin, he is a reckless warrior.
Cheng Guotao smiled and shook his head: "I think these women should not be hiding any more information. The content that is known is not much different from what we know. There is no reason to silence anyone at any cost. .”
Wu Hao frowned. He believed in Cheng Guotao's ability to tell lies. If these women and children could lie or hide something under Cheng Guotao's sharp eyes, they would have to be old foxes even shrewder than Cheng Guotao. But if he was such an old fox, how could he have struggled in a place like Baizhifang for more than ten years!
"Lao Cheng, could it be that the problem is not with these women, but with what they have in their hands?"
Cheng Guotao shook his head and looked up at the cloud-covered sky. The sun was hidden behind the thick clouds, just like the answer to a mystery was hidden behind a thick mystery.
"They moved here after the attack. Unless they are personal belongings. Otherwise, we have already searched for other items, right?"
Wu Hao's eyes were dark, and he suddenly lowered his voice and said, "How about I ask someone to check their personal belongings?"
Cheng Guotao glanced at him and said calmly: "Don't get caught!"
Wu Hao smiled and nodded slightly in silence.
Cheng Guotao did not stay and left directly, returning to Qianhu's office to resume his duties.
Wu Hao summoned a captain and gave him a few instructions in his ear. The captain nodded repeatedly and left in a hurry.
The captain walked all the way through the alley, and his target was a fireworks alley in Chongbeifang. If he wanted to check the personal belongings of a group of women, he had to find a woman.
But the captain had just walked from one alley to another. This was a shortcut. As a native of the Imperial Capital, he was very familiar with the roads here. Usually, this alley was almost deserted, but it was different today. The alley was full of people. !
The captain was stunned for a moment, but the next moment he realized something was wrong. Each of these people had fierce looks on their faces, and they also exuded a creepy murderous intention.
"you..."
Before the captain could ask, the hand pressed on the handle of the knife at his waist didn't even have time to exert force. He only heard a plop. In the captain's last sight, he saw the ground and the toes of the group of people...
Kill the owl with a knife!
A strong man with beards all over his face, with sinister eyes, slowly retracted a slender scimitar.
"The lancet is as fast as the wind, worthy of being a wind demon!" A man with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks behind the beard whispered.
The rest of the people nodded. Their mission this time was to massacre a small courtyard. However, there were guards guarding the courtyard outside, so it was a tough idea.
Facing the Jin Yiwei, ordinary people in the devil's path would not dare to provoke them, but this group of people was not among them.
The bearded man is nicknamed Wind Demon, the man with sharp mouth and monkey cheeks is nicknamed Bloodthirsty Rat, and the rest of them also have their own names, and they are some famous people in the magic world.
The few people here have a small level of success per capita!
Under the orders of the twin Qin brothers, this group of demonic people was divided into two groups, one of which was responsible for killing, while the wind demon and the bloodthirsty rat were responsible for supporting.
After all, this is the imperial capital. They need to hide in time after completing their mission. It is impossible to leave the city immediately. Hiding in the city is far safer than leaving the city.
After leaving the city, they will not leave for a short time. There is a hundred miles radius around the imperial capital. Once the imperial cavalry arrives, no one will be able to survive.
Therefore, the supporting team is also very important. They need to keep an eye on the periphery to see if there is support, and they must stay behind when retreating.
The bearded Feng Mo let out a laugh, then kicked the captain's body to one side, letting the blood soak the soles of his shoes: "They should have already taken action, we need to support them at any time, everyone is pricking up their ears!" "
The bloodthirsty rat monster with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks laughed twice, and a cold light shone under his robe.
Wu Hao was sitting by the window of a restaurant. From here, he could directly see the small courtyard opposite. While drinking tea, there were a lot of snacks on the table. His eyes seemed to be shining brightly, and he was constantly wandering around the small courtyard.
Suddenly, Wu Hao's eyes narrowed, and he stared in one direction. There, near the back door of the small courtyard, a figure carrying a load was walking forward slowly.
At a glance, there was nothing wrong with this scene, but Wu Hao knew that something was wrong, because he had already arranged manpower there to block everyone going in that direction.
He has always believed that as long as the source is blocked, nothing will happen later.
He didn't have time to go downstairs, so he turned over and jumped out of the window. He jumped from the ten-foot-high floor. When he landed, he only slightly bent his knees and felt very stable, and there was minimal movement. He walked quickly towards the small courtyard, the sharp and harsh sound of the bamboo flute in his mouth.
He was summoning the nearby captains. Because they had been in ambush for several days and there was another battle last night, many captains rested in place at his signal. Therefore, in order to quickly recruit people, he carried a bamboo flute with him.
The harsh sound of the bamboo flute spreads throughout the vicinity. The advantage of the bamboo flute is that the sound is high and harsh, but the disadvantage is that the sound does not travel far, but it is extremely appropriate to use it at this time.
Except for a few captains who were also in the restaurant, they rushed out immediately after Wu Hao. The other captains who were hiding in various places were a step slower, but Wu Hao had already heard their footsteps.
Wu Hao led the way and was very fast. The restaurant was only a hundred steps away from the small courtyard, and he was halfway there in two breaths!
But at this moment, a cold light came from the diagonal stab. Wu Hao stamped his foot on the ground, stopped his body, casually pulled out the saber from his waist, and struck the cold light away with a slash in the air.
Whoosh whoosh!
The sound of breaking through the air came, and the cold light flickered, but this time the target was not Wu, but the several captains behind Wu.
"careful!"
Just as Wu Hao sounded the warning, a muffled sound came from behind him, and Wu Hao knew that someone had been hit. Although he was a little anxious at the moment, he was not panicked.
Since Liu Licheng took over the case, he mobilized a lot of people from other Qianhu police stations. Because he felt that these women and children were important clues, there were as many as a hundred school captains and six or seven flag officers deployed near the small courtyard. , distributed everywhere, as long as an encirclement is formed, even Dacheng realm warriors have to temporarily avoid the edge.
Wu Hao did not look at the situation of the captain behind him, but quickly approached the small courtyard. With a flash of his eyes, he found that the man carrying the burden had turned around and ran towards him, holding a pole.
The man was wearing a bamboo hat, and his face could not be seen clearly. After approaching Wu Hao, he shouted angrily. The pole in his hand was like a long stick, and he was struck head-on. The wind was howling!
Wu Hao is a member of the Hundred Households of Jinyiwei, so he is very powerful. With his cultivation in the late stage of Xiaocheng Realm and his exquisite skills, he is invincible against casual martial arts practitioners and those in the demonic path at the same level.
Even if he is at the peak of Xiaocheng Realm among casual cultivators, he still has the strength to fight. This is the advantage that the imperial court has after gathering the secrets of Jianghu. The official warriors of the imperial court have the best resources, and their combat power has far exceeded that of Jianghu warriors of the same level. , especially those casual cultivators without resources and demonic warriors.
Wu Hao drew the knife, raised it, and floated two steps to one side. This was a very clever movement, and the change in body shape caused the diameter of the knife to become ethereal.
The pole hit the ground, making a loud cracking sound. Wu Hao's knife brushed against the pole, and the blade struck the man's neck. The man with the pole also reacted extremely quickly. He turned his body to one side and picked up the pole. The pole was drawn across the air towards Wu Hao's waist and abdomen.
Wu Hao didn't expect that the man with the pole was very strong, but he used his scabbard to block the blow from the pole. After all, the blow came in a hurry and lacked strength, so it was easily blocked by Wu Hao.
Wu Hao blocked the blow, and the knife in his hand was cut down quickly. The light of the knife flashed past, and the pole broke with a sound.
The opponent uses a shoulder pole like a stick. The stick is a weapon that is one inch longer and one inch stronger. Cutting off the shoulder pole can greatly reduce the opponent's strength.
Wu Hao originally thought that the opponent would retreat after this strike, but the man with the pole gave a strange laugh, stood up and rushed towards Wu Hao. He also casually discarded the half of the pole in his hand. Wu Hao only felt that the opponent's hands were thick and strong. There was still a thick strip of cloth wrapped around it, and he punched Wu Hao's middle door. After the pole man abandoned the pole, his speed suddenly increased. Wu Hao quickly drew his knife to protect himself, and at the same time, he raised his hand holding the scabbard. .
The blade and the scabbard formed a cross, and the opponent's fist hit the blade. A strong force came from Wu Hao's feet and he stepped back. After four steps, he barely stabilized his body.
"Practice iron fist horizontally! Refining body and martial arts!" Wu Hao frowned deeply.
