As the sun rose, the five-story luxury flying boat flew towards the mountains in the southwest.
On the spaceship, Yang Zhen took a few pieces of paper handed over by Zhao Youting, which were the guards and prisoners of the Hubeiling Lingshi Mine, and the changes in the personnel over the years.
One page records: "Zhao Lian, a lifelong prisoner, disappeared in the corridor of Lingshi Mine in May of the Jiaxu year, and his whereabouts are unknown..." and so on.
He flipped through it at random, and found that these prisoners were all heavy-duty prisoners who had been sentenced to more than ten years of exile. Some of them were indeed guilty of serious crimes, but there were also a few whose cases seemed unclear.
However, based on what they did to Wang Suhua in the corridor, even if she was innocent once, she is no longer clean now.
Suddenly, he saw a familiar name again.
Zhao Li.
Yang Zhen remembered clearly that this was the guy who found someone to poison him and almost lost his spiritual roots.
"Is this person missing too?" He turned around and asked.
"Yes," Zhao Youting's attitude was very respectful: "After Zhao Lian disappeared, the Hubeiling Mine was short of manpower, so he was transferred from another mine. He worked there for less than a month before he disappeared."
"How many people have disappeared in the Hubeiling Lingshi Mine over the years?" Yang Zhen asked, patting the pile of paper.
"After Zhao Lian, there are three more people." Zhao Youting said while pulling out the information of two more people.
Yang Zhen glanced at them. One of the two people was a guard, and the other was a casual cultivator from out of town. His name was Nie Xiaochu. He was charged with theft and attempted murder in Zhao Town.
"Did these three people also disappear in the corridor?"
"Zhao Li and Nie Xiaochu are. The guard named Zhao Yubao suddenly disappeared one night for unknown reasons."
"Four people have disappeared within eight years, why don't you investigate?" Yang Zhen asked.
Zhao Youting looked embarrassed and muttered: "They are just a few cheap lives. If you die, you will die."
…
A quarter of an hour later, the flying boat arrived at Hubeiling. The mountains in this area are rolling and there is not even a flat land for parking the boat. Dai Chenghong simply asked everyone to wait on the boat and only called a few people's names:
"Master He, Little Friend Yang, Patriarch Zhao, you and I will go down together."
Zhao Yunhe bowed to accept the order, and after receiving permission, he added Zhao Yunhu and Zhao Youting, with the latter escorting Wang Suhua.
Yang Zhen asked Zhao Yue'er, Dandan Zhuzhu and others to stay, and ordered Mu Zixue and Qing Xiaoling to accompany them.
Dai Cheng Hongyun looked at it calmly, but was secretly surprised:
"Those demon kings really listened to this young man!"
There was also the mysterious female cultivator she had been thinking about, who she hadn't seen since yesterday, making her even more elusive.
As for Mu Zixue, who was dressed as an inner disciple of the Yunxiao Sect, she didn't pay too much attention to it. She was just surprised by the other party's amazing beauty and secretly marveled at the boy's overwhelming luck.
A few people came to a valley. Zhao Yunhu had a gloomy face, took out an array plate, pinched it with his fingers a few times, and a cave suddenly appeared under a cliff somewhere.
The approximate location of each spirit stone mine has been made public during the sect's auction, but the specific coordinates, passages, etc. are kept secret by each family. The opening of this cave in front of everyone today means that this place will have to be abandoned in the future. A new cave must be opened and the formation must be rearranged. This will cost a lot of money.
Of course, this is nothing compared to Zhao Zhen's case.
"Did Wang Suhua enter from here too?" Yang Zhen asked in a low voice.
There are three cunning rabbit caves, and there is more than one entrance to the spirit stone mine.
Zhao Youting nodded.
"Send a few people to keep an eye on other cave entrances to prevent thieves from escaping." Yang Zhen ordered.
Zhao Youting quickly agreed and made a few gestures in the distance, and soon several sword lights jumped out from the spacecraft and scattered in all directions.
He lamented in his heart that as a result, this spirit stone mine would not be able to be mined normally for several months.
…
Eight hundred feet underground, in a huge cave.
In the dim light, the condensed magic circle for making spiritual stones made regular friction sounds, and snoring was loud in the tent not far away.
The atmosphere was dull and depressing.
Next to the hexagonal iron box, a monk in ragged clothes suddenly stopped delivering mana, his eyes widened.
"What are you doing!" shouted the monk next to him.
"Fairy, fairy..." The man looked into the distance and murmured.
Everyone followed his gaze, some turned their heads, some turned around, and then they were stunned.
Only dozens of feet away, a young girl with fluttering white clothes and beautiful appearance was seen suspended in mid-air. She looked a bit weird and strange deep in the ground.
However, these people didn't feel anything was wrong. They each raised their necks and looked at the girl blankly, as if they were obsessed.
The people in the tent were alarmed and walked out, also stunned.
"What a beautiful girl!"
"What are you doing here?" the girl asked, her voice like an oriole emerging from the valley.
"I'm producing spiritual stones!" everyone rushed to answer.
"Have any other women been here?" the girl continued to ask.
"Yes! No, it's not as good-looking as a fairy!"
"How often?"
"Half a year, no no, sometimes only three months."
"What is she here for?"
"Have fun with us!" Someone showed a silver smile.
"What else?"
"Look for his son." "Bring us food." Everyone was talking.
"Bringing food?" the girl asked curiously.
"Yes, we ate half of it and left the other half. She said she wanted to pay homage to her son, so she threw them all into the pothole under the corridor."
"Has she found her son?"
"Who knows! Anyway, if she wants to come, we all welcome her!"
"Why did Zhao Yubao disappear?" The girl's tone suddenly changed.
"There was a noise in the sinkhole. He went over to take a look, and then he disappeared."
"Did that son do it?"
"Yes!" "No, her son has died long ago!" "It doesn't matter if he is, it's a good death, a good death! Haha!" "It's a good death for you!"
These people suddenly started arguing and had a heated argument.
The girl immediately lost interest.
A strong wind swept across and all the prisoners fell to the ground.
…
"Bad guy, did I do well?"
The girl was Qing Xiaoling. As her cultivation level consolidated, the objects of her charm gradually increased from a single person to a group of people.
This time it was a small test of her skills. Although she was just a group of weak chickens at the Qi training level and didn't find anything useful, she was very satisfied.
"Not bad." Yang Zhen praised.
Dai Chenghong on the side was no longer calm. Good guy, I dare you to love this woman!
Zhao Yunhu took out several spirit beast bags and threw the prisoners into them. Being involved in such a big case, these are all witnesses and need to be brought back for retrial.
As for this spirit stone mine, it will not be usable for a while.
Zhao Youting escorted Wang Suhua in front of several people.
"Wang Suhua," He Shouxin shouted: "We are already here, don't take any chances. Cooperate honestly! Take us to your son's hiding place, otherwise..."
"Forget it," Dai Chenghong glanced at the silent woman with her head drooped, and said coldly: "Master He, let's search for the soul!"
"Yes." He Shouxin took out the soul-searching talisman from his arms, with a ferocious look on his face. He grabbed the woman's hair and made her look at him.
At the same time, the other hand was already pressing on the talisman.
Suddenly, he loosened his grip and stopped.
"Huh?" Dai Chenghong looked at him displeased.
"For the record, Master," He Shouxin said, "The soul of this goddess is already very weak. If we forcefully search her soul, I'm afraid she will become completely demented."
For a weak soul, the information found is likely to be incomplete.
Furthermore, this is a major case involving hundreds of lives. An important criminal like Wang Suhua will be interrogated many times in the future and must not be killed or maimed easily.
"Hahaha——" Wang Suhua laughed maniacally: "Come on, you devils, come and search for my soul, search! I won't tell you even if I die, haha!"
Dai Chenghong's face turned livid, and he raised his eyes to look at the dark corridor in the distance. This kind of place is full of holes and crevices. If there is no guide, even if you search for ten and a half days, it will be in vain.
"Search, whatever you find will be counted!" she said viciously.
He Shouxin cupped his hands, but stood still.
He was unwilling to take the blame for such an obvious violation of procedure, not to mention that the other party was not his immediate boss.
Dai Chenghong became even more angry and grabbed the soul-searching talisman. He just took a step and stopped again.
She didn't want to mess with this body either.
It would be a big joke if word got out that she, a real Jindan person, was searching the soul of a minor Qi practitioner, but caused the other party to go insane.
At this moment, Yang Zhen stood up:
"Master of the courtyard, Master He, why don't we walk around the corridor first, and if there are no results, how about searching for souls again?"
…
A few night-light pearls illuminated the front, and a group of people filed in the dark corridor.
Yang Zhen only made such a suggestion because——
Yiyi finally woke up.
Calculating the time, from yesterday morning to now, it is exactly twelve hours. It seems that the time period has been determined before the small fairy grass closes the six senses.
Yang Zhen quickly recounted the past two days in her consciousness.
"Hmph, you deserve it!"
What he got in return was Yiyi's merciless ridicule.
Yang Zhen quickly apologized and said a lot of good things.
Anyway, this is not the first time the two of them have played around like this.
Yiyi was soon coaxed into smiling happily, and she stopped fussing and began to help him search for news seriously.
This corridor has been excavated for more than a hundred years. During such a long time, small moss-like plants have grown in it and are distributed everywhere.
It didn't take long for a discovery to be made.
"Three people," Yiyi said, "I can't see their faces clearly. They passed by this place last night."
Yang Zhen was overjoyed.
Continuing forward, the road was full of bumps and bumps, but with everyone's cultivation, it was like walking on flat ground. It seemed slow, but in fact it was very fast.
A quarter of an hour later, we arrived at the place where Zhao Lian fell.
"There is a pothole down here," came the proud voice of Xiao Xiancao: "They went down from here."
…
"There is a pothole down here," Yang Zhen repeated Yiyi's words: "I'll go down and have a look."
After saying that, he stopped, found the crevice next to the stone, and rolled down.
Zixue did not hesitate, and followed next, followed by Qing Xiaoling.
Dai Chenghong and He Shouxin looked at each other. There are so many potholes in this place, why do you want to go down and take a look at this one?
However, Zhao Youting was keenly aware that Wang Suhua, who had been silent along the way, suddenly trembled and her breathing stopped instantly.
Looks like this is it!
PS: There are two details that still need to be worked out, that’s all for today.
