As soon as the words "Political Security Bureau" were planted in the hearts of Li Ziyu and Gao Chongjiu, they heard a voice shouting loudly.
"stand at attention!"
With a brush, all the men in black stood up straight, put their hands down, and put their heels together. The movements are uniform, as if they are one person. The entire playground fell silent.
Several people hurriedly walked in from the moon door. From the figure, Li Ziyu could tell that this was probably Director Mu. As for the others, he couldn't tell them apart. One of the tall and burly men seemed to be a Taoist priest - what's the origin of this?
There is a podium above the ground on the playground, which is used for open-air meetings on weekdays. These people came on stage together. It was completely dark. The two torch cages originally used for night lighting next to the playground were not lit, so the faces of these people could not be seen clearly.
Mu Min simply explained the mission content in a voice just loud enough for everyone to hear. The arrest operation would be launched near Liuhua Bridge outside the Dabei Gate, and the operation time would be early tomorrow morning. All personnel will move to the arrest location in batches at night and wait for unified instructions to act.
She announced a few disciplines and explained a few points of attention. Then everyone was ordered to collect their equipment.
"Be good, do you want to get something if you catch someone?" Li Ziyu thought to herself.
The items given to each group were different. Since the police were not responsible for the main arrest work, in addition to the standard police equipment, they only added leggings and gloves made of thick cloth, and they were repeatedly reminded to wear them.
After each group received and dressed, Mu Min sent someone to check the equipment one by one, and then ordered in a low voice: "Let's go!"
Not far from Liuhua Bridge, there is a cemetery belonging to a wealthy family. This cemetery is quite large, with a mound on one side and a pond on the other. There are tombs at the bottom of the hillside facing the sun. The owner built three houses next to the pond for worship. Use. Several more houses were built to house the family members who watched the tomb.
Later, the family declined, and the cemetery became a charity park where coffins were parked. The houses collapsed, the vegetation was deep, and it was no longer what it used to be. In addition, it is surrounded by deserted tombs of Yi Di, and it is very close to the incarnation site of Liuhua Bridge. On weekdays, except for a few beggars who rest in the Yi Zhuang and take care of guarding, it has become an inaccessible place.
At this moment, in the back room of the three halls where the coffins were parked, Gao Tianshi and Na Wu Zhiqi were discussing countermeasures in a secret room. Different from the previous few days, Gao Tianshi's tone was a bit unkind: "Witch Master, are your spells still effective? According to the news from above: Not only is the thief magistrate still alive and kicking, but he is also very angry because of the haunting. Maybe they will take action against the Guandi Temple troops in the next few days! By then you, old man, will just pat your butt and leave, and Gao’s whole family will be here in Guangzhou!!"
Since Wu Zhiqi moved here, Gao Tianshi not only sent people to guard the surrounding area, but also strictly protected him. Not to mention, this Wu Zhiqi looks like a poor Taoist priest, but in fact he lives a luxurious life. Not only does his food and drinks strive to be exquisite, but Gao Tianshi also provides women to use as cauldrons, and he has to change one every three to five days.
Not only must it be kept secret, but it must also be supplied with a steady supply of women, which is very difficult to handle. Although Gao Tianshi got a lot of money from this matter, it was really difficult to do this laborious task, and from time to time there was no supply, which made the Taoist priest furious.
"Hehe... Hehe... Hehehehe..." The old man continued to sneer, and then said after a while: "The whole family? Gao Tuantou, you really think you are an old man, don't you know? I'm afraid your Yangzhou concubine has already brought you an illegitimate child. My son has gone back to his hometown, so he must have taken a lot of goodies with him, right?"
Gao Tianshi took a breath of air: the affairs outside his room were very secretive, and he rarely visited him. Not to mention his subordinates, even his own wife kept it a secret. How did the old man know?
Gao Tianshi insisted: "One code is one code. Who doesn't leave a way out for those who come out to mess around? If it weren't for the sake of money, would I go against the Australians when I'm full? I'm all living with my head on my head. Mr. Gao just doesn’t want my Gao family to lose its incense! But then again, if Mr. Gao cannot escape, don’t blame me for confessing everything!!!”
"Hehe, escape?" The old man sneered again, "I'm afraid you also understand that even if others can escape, you are still dead. Your Guandi Temple people have been running rampant here for many years, and everyone in the city wants to be the official and the gentry. Selling your face, you are afraid that your men will cause trouble for them - I am afraid that if the Australians catch you, you will be a lost dog without even a place to hide."
"Am I afraid of him?" Gao Tianshi said angrily: "The worst case scenario is that the fish will die and the net will be broken! I have tens of thousands of brothers in the Guandi Temple. It's really urgent. Our brothers will not survive, and the city of Guangzhou will be smashed to pieces."
"Brother Gao Xian, you'd better say such harsh words in front of your brother." Wu Zhiqi said, "We are still in the same boat. Wu Yue is in the same boat and we are talking about being in the same boat. You want to jump off the boat now? It's too late! Pindao is an outsider and would have left long ago if he wanted to, but you have a family and a family..."
After saying this, Gao Tianshi was immediately discouraged and slumped in his chair.
Wu Zhiqi glanced at him with disdain, stared at Rudou's oil lamp, and sighed quietly, "Our matter has failed! There are also capable people in Australia... My spell has been broken! I sent ghosts again. I killed Liu Xiang but the spirit ghost hasn’t come back yet, I’m afraid it has been taken away by someone!”
"Spirit ghost?" Gao Tianshi took a breath of cold air. He had seen that thing before. It looked like a human but not a human. It seemed like a ghost but not a ghost. It came and went without a trace. It killed people invisible. This old man loved it as much as life.
I never expected that such a powerful monster would fall into the hands of Australians!
"Then, what should we do now?!" Gao Tianshi looked serious but couldn't help but change his tone to a discussion.
"Please stay calm and protect me for a few more days. When I finish performing the method of transshipment, I will naturally fly far away and leave this place of right and wrong. As for you, even if you can't bear to part with this land in Guangzhou, you can only live on your own. I wish you all the best." The wizard said, sitting cross-legged on the futon, closing his eyes and concentrating on himself, and no longer paying attention to Gao Tianshi.
Gao Tianshi's face turned pale. Only now did he know that this thief could not be disembarked from the ship. He had a premonition that his end was coming! However, he knew that he would not get any new ideas for how long he stayed here. Both the wizard and the "stone man" have regarded themselves as "abandoned children".
He staggered out. Outside Yizhuang, the dark wilderness was filled with ghostly fire and phosphorus. Gao Tianshi was blown away by the cold wind and sobered up a lot. In an instant, he had the idea of attacking the Australians.
However, he immediately put aside this idea, not to mention that this half-human and half-demon wizard was too terrifying. Even if he had no magic power, with what he had done, he would only be able to chop him into pieces if he fell into the hands of the Australians. !
Wu Zhiqi couldn't help but smile coldly when he saw him walking away in despair. He put away the bamboo cane leaning on the corner of the table and put the lid on it. He looked out the window. At this time, the bell and drum tower were striking three o'clock in the morning, midnight was past, and it was the darkest time of night. Tonight was a night of black moon and sparse stars, and the moonlight outside the window was particularly thick. Suddenly his expression changed, he counted with his fingers silently, and muttered something, his face was uncertain. After hesitating for a while, he took out a packet of medicinal powder from his arms and sprinkled it on the grass, then bent down to arrange it, and finally took out a yellow-skinned gourd. He hung it at the door and went back to the house.
The arrest team secretly left the city in several groups at night and waited secretly at several locations outside the Dabei Gate, waiting for the final news from the scouts. Because there are very few residential buildings in this area and it is within the sphere of influence of the Guandi Temple troops, strangers are very eye-catching. Although it was already known that the mage to be arrested was in the cemetery, plainclothes personnel could not be dispatched for surveillance according to the conventional routine. We had to ask the special reconnaissance team to take action and sent several groups of latent sentries to conduct latent surveillance nearby at night and use walkie-talkies to report in real time.
"It has been confirmed that the target is in the cemetery."
A correspondent trotted into a guard room in the gate of the Great North Gate and reported the latest situation to Mu Min and others who were waiting there.
"Okay, let's take action immediately!" Mu Min waved his hand.
Cui Hantang was currently fighting against the dark dirt path. There is a hilly landscape outside the Great North Gate, and there are no decent roads except for an official road extending northward from the city gate. Most of them are muddy and narrow paths. For someone who wears 20 pounds of chainmail and carries a lot of equipment, it is definitely not a pleasant experience to operate in the dark with one foot deep and one shallow.
In addition to the armor, there are a bunch of scattered props. Because the operation was relatively dangerous, he did not bring his apprentice and Xiaoqian with him, so no one shared the various props, so he had to carry them alone.
Fortunately, he was very strong and could still hold on.
As soon as he left the city, he couldn't find the north at all - he couldn't see the environment clearly. It wasn't that he was night blind, but that the night lighting in Lingao was too advanced for this time and space. The result of staying in Lingao for too long was that he was completely blind. I can no longer adapt to the dark nights of the 17th century.
Cui Hantang seemed to have returned to shortly after D-Day. When he was standing on the night watch in the watchtower of Bairen City, the entire Bairen City was brightly lit, but outside the fortress, there was endless darkness like the ocean.
At this moment, he was in such darkness again. The only thing that could barely identify the direction was the luminous strip behind the local policeman who was leading the way.
He trudged one step at a time, and the hem of his Taoist robe was completely wet with dew. He would stumble as soon as he took a step when it was wrapped around his legs. If he hadn't practiced martial arts regularly and his lower body was more stable, he might have fallen a few times. However, even though he complained in his heart that this damn Ming colleague was hiding in such a remote place, he still strode to the front of the team.
Barren graves, ruined coffins, and dead bones appear from time to time, surrounded by ghosts and fires. In the complete silence, the shrill barking of dogs and the strange laughter of night owls came from near and distant, making people's hair stand on end. Cui Hantang thought to himself, what the hell kind of place is this! (To be continued.)
