In the dead of night, when most people should be immersed in sleep, a figure quietly came to a location in the back mountain.
The man asked anxiously in a low voice: "They seem to have discovered something. What should they do next?"
A chuckle sounded in the darkness. The man in black wore a robe and a hat, covering most of his face and said: "It's not your fault for being indecisive. I just said, why don't I just poison them all? Why worry so much." "
The man choked on his words, paused and said to him: "Now is not the time to talk about this! You said you would help me!"
"That group of people is more difficult to deal with than Shen Xuan." The man in black said nonchalantly and handed him a small bottle, "Just find a way to get them to drink this, and you don't have to worry. Aren't you the best at it? "
Seeing that he didn't move, the man in black said impatiently: "If you can't kill anyone, you don't have much time. If I can't get that thing tomorrow, I will kill your sister first! Then I will kill you." Junior brothers and sisters, let everyone see what good things the good senior brothers in their minds have done, hahahaha!"
"How dare you!" the man said angrily.
"Gah ga ga, do you think I dare?" The man in black's laughter made people's hearts tremble.
The man's voice weakened again, and he said in a low voice: "Tomorrow is too soon... Just give me a few more days, maybe three or five days."
"Don't play tricks, I will watch you." After saying this, the man in black disappeared into the night, as if he had never appeared before.
The man was left standing there holding the bottle in his hand.
All this was seen by the little girl who followed him quietly and hid behind a big tree. There was a recessed hole under the tree, which could just cover her figure.
The man looked around and saw that there was no one around, put the bottle away and returned. The little girl covered her mouth and squatted down carefully, her eyes full of tears, and waited for a long time before leaving from another path.
And all of this was seen by Miyou who was hiding in the tree.
I don’t know whether to say that the mantis stalks the cicada and the oriole is behind, or that you think you are on the fifth floor but someone else is already on the tenth floor.
It was a long way from the back mountain to where they lived. Mi You was very fast. After returning, he immediately threw pebbles and knocked on Ruan Xianbei's window. Yun Zhijueqian woke up as soon as he knocked.
"it's me."
Hearing that it was Miyou Yunzhi who opened the window a crack and asked, "Is there something wrong?"
"Yes, tomorrow the saint wakes up and tells her that I'm looking for her. I'm in a hurry. I'll keep an eye on her again." Miyou said and walked away. According to his expectation, yes, the man just came back. .
He watched the man enter the house and lie down on his roof.
"Cen Er, why are you out so late?" The man entered the room and brought a bit of chill. The roommate in the room turned over and hugged the quilt and asked him drowsily.
"I thought about the young grass growing on the Xuan Yan Guo in the back mountain. I was afraid it would rain tomorrow so I went to take a look." Cen Er casually found an excuse and said.
"Oh, you are always so attentive. Go to sleep, snoring--" The roommate did not suspect at all, and after saying this, the snoring sounded almost at the same time.
Cen Chen sat in the dark for a while and then went to bed.
The person on the roof quietly picked up a tile and blew some smoke into it. After a while, Miyou walked in from the door with his face covered, and groped for the piece of tile in Cen Chen's arms. The bottle of medicine was taken away.
Miyou went back and knocked on Ruan Xianbei's window again. This time it was Ruan Xianbei himself who opened the window for him.
"Saint, are you awake?"
"Come in and talk."
Ruan Xianbei's eyes were clear and her tone was calm. There were no lights in the room, so she made room for Mi You to come in.
"I gave him the most powerful medicine, so he can sleep until at least nine o'clock." What Mi You took was the Demon Sect's unique secret recipe. Elder Jin prepared it to make him sleepy, and no one could resist!
Ruan Xianbei immediately made a decision after listening to Miyou's explanation and went to find Lan Zhao.
At this time, when people were sleeping most deeply at night, Ruan Xianbei took the bottle and went directly to Lan Zhao's room and knocked on the door. Shen Xuan walked out from the next door again.
Ruan Xianbei:? ? ? Doesn’t Shen Xuan need to sleep as an owl?
"Let's go together." Shen Xuan didn't say what she heard or how much she heard, she only said these three words.
Ruan Xianbei nodded and didn't bother to ask him what he heard and how he heard it. There were more important things to do now.
Mi You hid in the dark and sighed that he was lucky enough not to go out. Shen Xuan's cultivation level was probably far above him. He was either at the third level of the Tianxuan Realm or was about to break through the Tianxuan Realm and enter the Demigod Xuan Realm, which was a bit scary.
Since Song Xun became the acting owner of the valley, Song Xun and Lan Zhao moved together to a courtyard, a small independent courtyard.
So there was no need to worry about disturbing other people. When a few people came to the door of Lan Zhao's room, Ruan Xianbei motioned to Shen Xuan to step back temporarily.
"Who?" The lights were lit inside, and Lan Zhao's hoarse voice came. He must have fallen asleep.
"Zhaozhao, Shen Xuan and I have an emergency." After Ruan Xianbei finished speaking, he knocked on the door next door again.
The light inside came on before she knocked on the door, and Song Xun said, "Let's stay in Lan Zhao's room. I'll put on some clothes and come out."
Today's progress has made everyone nervous all the time. They didn't expect that they would really expect news so late.
Song Xun got dressed and came out to see Ruan Xianbei standing at the door and Shen Xuan standing in the yard with his back to them.
"Come in." Lan Zhao simply tidied up and asked them to come in.
Ruan Xianbei turned around and called the person who had his back turned: "Senior Brother Shen, please come in too."
After closing the door, the atmosphere became serious.
Ruan Xianbei handed the bottle in his hand to Song Xun: "This is the medicine given by the man in black found on the man's body. I don't know what the medicine is. The man asked him to put the medicine into our water or food."
Song Xun and Lan Zhao also chatted for a long time after they came back, and they probably had a guess about the candidate.
"The man has a handsome face and a somewhat thin figure. He has a mole under his eyebrow. He looks approachable."
"Cen Er." Miyou's description was very clear, and the answer was ready to come out.
Song Xun explained: "This person's name is Cen Chen, and he is also an outstanding disciple in the sect. The master treats him very well. Before, everyone thought that the master would pass the throne to her, including us."
Ruan Xianbei raised her eyebrows. She was just relatively outstanding. She vaguely remembered that Lan Zhao had said before that the male disciples in the sect were not as good as her. This should be the same for Cen Chen.
Is it because Qingyun didn't choose him as the acting Valley Master when he was selected by Songxun that his mentality was unbalanced and he had evil thoughts?
If this is the case, it can explain how that person prepared a poison that is harmless to the human body but can accurately poison plants.
"Since you attach great importance to it, why didn't the Martial Arts Association take him with you?" Shen Xuan asked.
Song Xun said: "Because his sister was ill and Cen Er had to take care of her, he didn't go. His place was given to Miao Tong."
Ruan Xianbei asked: "He has a younger sister? Is she also in the valley?"
"Yes, he was also picked up by Master. When he came back, his sister was still in her infancy and was about to starve to death. She seems to be nine years old now." Song Xun recalled the past as if it was not long ago.
Lan Zhao added: "That was nine years ago. He was seven or eight years old at that time." After that, she glanced at Ruan Xianbei. She was a nine-year-old girl, the same as the time when she gave Ruan Xianbei cakes.
Lan Zhao asked: "Can we arrest people directly?"
"No." Shen Xuan and Ruan Xianbei objected at the same time.
Shen Xuan said calmly: "Now that we know his plan is to poison us, why not use the trick to lure out the man in black behind him. We don't know what deal Cen Er has with him, and we don't know where the man is hiding now. If we get If he doesn't get what he wants, will he hurt other people? If he is caught directly, if the person finds out that the plan is revealed, will he take extraordinary measures? We can't arrest him now."
"Then can you persuade him to return from his lost ways?"
"Is it possible that he has been poisoned for so long?"
"Alas." Song Xun was worried about what to do if too many disciples of Wanhua Valley were killed or injured because of this.
Shen Xuan asked: "Can you smell what's in this bottle?"
"The taste is a bit sweet and a bit astringent." Song Xun said after smelling it.
She brought a pot of flowers and dropped a few drops of the liquid in the bottle. In front of their eyes, the pot of flowers seemed to have been sucked out of nutrients by something inexplicable and instantly withered.
What about that person? Can't even think about it.
Before this, he used poisons that were harmful to plants but harmless to humans... What about this time?
Ruan Xianbei rolled his eyes and said, "Senior Brother Shen, could you please catch a mouse?"
Shen Xuan frowned with disgust in his eyes. He hated mice the most.
"No, no, no, we have a white rat here for experiments." Lan Zhao got up and hurried out, then hurried back after a while, carrying a cage in his hand, which contained a squeaking white rat.
"Try it."
Lan Zhao pinched the white mouse and prepared to pour out the liquid in the bottle.
"Wait a minute, wait a minute!" Ruan Xianbei shouted, "If this thing is extremely poisonous, you will be injured. How about wrapping it up with a handkerchief."
There are no medical gloves at this time, which is really troublesome. Later, she will draw a pattern and ask the hard-working people of Wanhua Valley to make one. Maybe if it is well made, it can be wholesaled and promoted to avoid unnecessary casualties of contemporary outstanding doctors.
Lan Zhao listened to her and wrapped it up in a handkerchief, then carefully poured the liquid in the bottle into the mouth of the white mouse again.
There were only three drops. It didn't take long for the white mouse to come into contact with the liquid. It withered a little slower than the plant. It was struggling in Lan Zhao's hand and gradually stopped moving. It only took a few minutes.
"We can't keep this," Ruan Xianbei said.
Lan Zhao's expression was ugly: "If I don't return it, will he find out? Where can we find the exact same bottle?"
Song Xun said: "We seem to have this kind of bottle. Let's replace this one. Come with Lan Zhao and follow me to the warehouse to look for it."
Ruan Xianbei looked at the sky and said, "You have to be fast! Every disciple of your Ten Thousand Flowers Valley has his own resistance to medicine, and he will wake up around nine o'clock."
There was less than an hour before Mao time, and several people immediately set off to find the exact same small bottle in the warehouse.
Several people came to the warehouse and found obvious signs of being rummaged through. This had not happened in the past few days.
"It seems I really can't wait."
They have been dormant for so long, why have they become more and more active in recent days?
Is there someone else behind it? Which force is it?
Ruan Xianbei shook his head and ignored it for now. It was more important to find the bottle.
I found several people sweating profusely on this winter night. Time passed by minute by second. There were only sounds of searching for things and breathing, and no one spoke.
"Found it." Shen Xuan's voice rang out.
In his hand he held a small bottle almost identical to the blue bottle.
The difference may be that the small blue bottle given by the man in black has scratches on it, but this one doesn't, but it's good if it does.
Song Xun said: "Go back and make a few strokes, hurry up."
After locking the door, they hurried back to the room. Of course, Shen Xuan was given the task of beautifying the bottle. Lan Zhaosong went to the house to prepare a potion with a similar taste to this one. You can definitely not smell the difference when using it.
"I'll put it back." They had been racing against time that night. The bottle they got back was given to Song Xun, and the new bottle was given to Ruan Xianbei. Ruan Xianbei and Shen Xuan returned to their yard, and they didn't even look at each other. After talking, Shen Xuan entered the room first. Ruan Xianbei was waiting at the corner and handed the things to Mi You.
She went back to her room, and only breathed a sigh of relief when Mi You came back.
At midnight, Cen Er suddenly woke up from a nightmare. He dreamed that there was blood everywhere in the Ten Thousand Flowers Valley, all caused by his one thought. He dreamed that his junior brothers and sisters looked at him with cold eyes, and they were bleeding. Accusing him, the culprit, with his eyes. In the end, he dreamed that his sister was killed in a cruel way by the man in black. His sister cried desperately until her voice became hoarse.
His only sister...
He touched the bottle in his arms. It was still there. He turned over again and his back was covered in cold sweat. He was obviously very nervous now, but somehow he felt sleepy again.
Several people who had been busy most of the night also took the time to catch up on their sleep and went to meet Zhou Jing.
When you wake up, the world will change.
