"Don't be nervous, we are just here to ask you some questions today."
"But I can't tell you. Once I tell you, I won't be able to live. I haven't figured out what information I can tell you yet."
Liu Mu smiled bitterly and said.
"It doesn't matter. Next, His Majesty will ask you a question. You can try to nod or shake your head."
"Oh well."
Liu Mu originally wanted to refuse, but thinking that his life was now in the hands of these people, he could only nod his head resignedly.
Xia Zi's eyes flashed, and then he asked: "Is Mr. Jiang the boss of your organization?"
He shook his head. Then he closed his eyes suddenly.
Qin Yun raised his eyebrows, and the three of them looked at each other, feeling quite relieved.
It seems that this contract is not as strict as imagined, and there are no loopholes that can be exploited.
"Do you know where Mr. Jiang fled to?"
Liu Mu shook his head again.
At this time, Xia Tianzi sneered and asked his father-in-law to bring a writing brush and a piece of rice paper and put them in front of Liu Mu.
The expression on his face was blank for a moment.
"Where your organization is currently located, write it down on this piece of paper."
Liu Mu closed his eyes, picked up the brush, and tapped it lightly on the rice paper. As soon as he wrote a stroke, his wrist began to shake violently. The brush fell directly onto the paper, and the ink blurred out, forming a thick layer on the paper. of ink marks.
There was a look of pain on his face, he shook his head and said with difficulty: "No."
"Puch..."
Liu Mu spurted out a mouthful of blood.
Xia Zi frowned.
He sent someone to take out a map and asked Liu Mu to point to it, but it still didn't work.
Helpless, Xia Tianzi had no choice but to use stupid methods, pointing one by one to make Liu Mu nod or shake his head.
Finally, the location was determined. In addition to the capital, there were two places, Qingzhou and Liangzhou.
Xia Tianzi asked the eunuch on the side to take out the maps of these two locations, but Liu Mu shook his head.
"You have been stationed in the capital for a long time. Don't you know where these two strongholds are?"
Qin Yun raised his eyebrows.
Liu Mu nodded lightly.
This is troublesome. The areas of Qingzhou and Liangzhou are not small. If they want to search, they must at least have a rough location. Now that Liu Mu can't even provide a rough location, they can't go to these two states to find a needle in the haystack.
Helpless, Xia Zi had to change his strategy.
At the end of the day, they got a lot of useful information. Xia Zi sorted it out and handed it all into Qin Yun's hands. He said with a smile: "Thank you for your hard work."
Qin Yun gave a bitter smile.
"This is what I should do."
After returning to Chengguo Palace, Qin Yun spread the current information on the table.
"Where's Liu Mu?"
Qin Yun shook his head.
"With His Majesty's character, he probably won't be allowed to survive."
As long as Liu Mu lives, he is equivalent to a time bomb. In order to prevent the bomb from exploding, he can only dismantle it.
"According to the information provided by Liu Mu, it is speculated that Mr. Jiang is still in the capital, but is hiding in someone's home, and that person is probably a small official with some power."
Their organization will only recruit some special people, such as Li Chengguang and Liu Mu, who are powerful warriors who have cultivated themselves to the earth level. The proprietress of the restaurant runs a huge intelligence network in the capital by herself, exclusively through the restaurant. Here to sell information, not all the diners in the restaurant are diners, many of them are customers of the proprietress, who come specifically to buy information from her.
As for Wang Long, he was probably just a temporary worker they hired to deal with Qin Yun. He didn't even sign a contract.
"General Qin, where should we investigate next?"
Xu Huibao asked.
Qin Yun looked at the pile of information in front of him and said with a smile: "Have a hard time today. Let's sort out the information, and then list the places where Mr. Li Jiang may be hiding, and then slowly investigate."
"no problem."
Although this information is not much, the amount of information contained in it is very large.
Although the organization is attached to the Blood Shadow Palace and is not large in scale, all members of the organization are located in every corner of the capital, ranging from ordinary people to court officials. They are so hidden that even if they want to investigate, there is nowhere to start.
In the end, Qin Yun targeted a teahouse called [Luoyunxuan].
This teahouse was the organization's former stronghold, and its boss also ran a rather large intelligence network in the capital. Moreover, this guy was Mr. Jiang's right-hand man before, but later, for some unknown reason, there was a relationship between him and Mr. Jiang. After the conflict, he finally left the organization directly.
In Qin Yun's opinion, this guy is quite capable, and he actually left the organization despite being restricted by the contract.
Qin Yun was deeply impressed by this teahouse because when he asked Liu Mu, he and Xia Zi spent a lot of effort to understand what the other party wanted to express.
"Okay, then we will go investigate this teahouse tomorrow."
As the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. The owner of this teahouse may know some secrets about Mr. Jiang.
The next day.
Qin Yun and Li Ruyi dressed up in disguise and arrived at Luoyunxuan. When the waiter came to greet them, the latter waved his hand and said, "Where is your shopkeeper? We have something to do with him."
The waiter was stunned for a moment, then looked them up and down. Seeing that the two of them were dressed in luxurious clothes, he guessed that they were rich people who were not easy to offend, so he welcomed them in and whispered: "I know, I'll go right away." Looking for the shopkeeper, you two will wait here."
"Hey, show him this jade pendant by the way. He will naturally understand what it means."
After saying that, Qin Yun took out a jade pendant from his sleeve and handed it to the waiter in the teahouse.
"okay."
The two of them sat aside and waited. Li Ruyi asked doubtfully: "Didn't you say that this guy would help us? Why did you give him the jade pendant? He had already broken up with Mr. Jiang. What if he saw this jade pendant?" What should I do if the jade pendant refuses to see us?"
Qin Yun smiled and shook his head.
"This jade pendant is just a test. Now we can only confirm that the teahouse owner is not an enemy, but we cannot guarantee that he is on a united front with us. What's more, most of those who run the intelligence business are unwilling to deal with court officials. , if we confess our true identity when we come up, we will fall into passivity."
"This... okay, anyway, this time you come to investigate, I will at most assist you, so I won't ask any more questions."
Li Ruyi still seemed to understand, but she didn't ask any more questions and didn't bother to think about it. Qin Yun couldn't trick her anyway.
Seeing this, Qin Yun was about to continue explaining to her when the figure of the waiter in the teahouse appeared again.
"Boy, please invite me to the private room upstairs."
