Late at night, the north wind howled.
The Tang Mansion is brightly lit.
"Sir, the people from the inn are here!"
"Bring it in."
The inn where Bai Youruo and his party stayed after entering the city was the territory of the Blackwater Gang.
Tang Wen wanted to meet the shopkeeper and manager of the guests, but it was just a matter of words.
"Greetings, sir!"
Seven or eight people bowed and saluted.
Tang Wen glanced over, looked at the little old man at the head, picked up the three portraits on the table and handed them over.
"Have you seen these people?"
The shopkeepers and waiters from the inn circulated the three portraits in turn.
One of the young men immediately raised his hand when he saw the portrait and said, "Sir, I received two of these three people."
As he spoke, he picked up the portraits of Bai Xue and Bai Shuo, pointed at Bai Xue and said:
"This girl is good-looking and lives in the best courtyard. Therefore, the villain remembers her very clearly.
At that time, the three of them were staying in the hotel, and the other one was also a woman. However, her face was covered by a white gauze, so her face could not be seen clearly.
So I can’t be sure if it’s the girl in the other portrait! "
Tang Wen pondered: "There are three people staying in the hotel? Can you be sure?"
The young man thought for a while, bent down and replied, "It's basically okay. Although we don't keep an eye on the guests coming in and out, we do prepare three sets of toiletries and clean up the beds in the room every day."
"Not bad, the observation is very detailed." Tang Wen praised him and looked at the housekeeper Shui Mo: "Promote me."
The young man was overjoyed when he heard this and thanked him quickly.
Tang Wen stretched out his hand and said to several people: "If anyone else comes to you for information, be careful to conceal it, and try to find out the identity of the person who comes."
The shopkeeper and others agreed, bowed and left.
The matter has an investigation direction.
"Chirp, chirp"
Two mutant hummingbirds that were more than a circle larger than ordinary hummingbirds were called.
After a while of comfort, feed him some blood marrow.
The two hummingbirds immediately became excited and flew back to the hummingbird garden of the Giant Rock Martial Arts Hall at night.
It was not early, and hummingbirds were flying out of the garden one after another.
Hummingbirds are free-range and often go on missions. It is normal for them to come in and out of the garden.
But this batch of hummingbirds that went out were all mutant bees.
At this time, the impact of the purple pearl honey theft incident has not yet passed.
The Hummingbird Garden and the Black Bee Place are each guarded secretly by five ranks.
Nearly a hundred mutated hummingbirds flew out and immediately attracted attention.
The Giant Rock Martial Arts Hall reacted quickly. Rank-5 masters including Shi Lei gathered in the courtyard, and many rank-6 masters went out to track the hummingbirds.
I want to figure out their whereabouts and who is behind them.
Half an hour passed, and an hour passed.
Just when Shi Lei couldn't hold his anger anymore.
A sixth-grade practitioner of Fengbu Kung Fu has returned.
Seeing that all the fifth-level bosses in the martial arts hall were there, he didn't even have time to catch his breath. As soon as his feet landed on the ground, he blurted out: "Hummingbird is conducting a search!"
"Doing a search?"
"Yes, and it's a door-to-door search."
"Search for what?"
The sixth-grade Fengbu spread his hands, indicating that he didn't know.
"Continue to follow and send more manpower to ensure the safety of these mutated hummingbirds. We must also find out who is controlling them behind the scenes!"
The sixth grade of Fengbu left, and then a large number of extraordinary people gathered in the martial arts hall.
The owner of the museum added: "If anyone asks, just say that we have received a tip. Huang Shiqilang may have sneaked back into the city and is conducting investigations!"
Shi Lei also suggested: "Send more Hummingbirds to search for suspicious people."
"Yes! Do what Lao Shi says, and think about what you want to do."
The curator stood up and looked at the fifth-grade masters: "Don't be idle, everyone. Bring the Red King and each of you will be responsible for an area!"
Everyone agreed with a bang.
Shi Lei waved his hand: "I remembered something, don't count me in."
"What's more important than this?" The curator wanted to scold him angrily, but turned around to see his serious and thoughtful expression.
Shi Lei: "I'll tell you what happened when I get back."
The curator frowned, and Shi Lei turned around and walked out of the Hummingbird Garden.
He rushed all the way to Tang Wen's house.
"Sir, Deputy Master Shi is here. He wants to visit you, but his face doesn't look good."
Tang Wen's eyes flashed: "He's quite sharp. Prepare some tea and invite him in."
Shi Lei strode into the Tang Mansion and observed carefully all the way, but he didn't see a single hummingbird.
When he saw Tang Wen, he was not polite. After greetings, he directly explained his purpose:
"I remember that Mr. Tang seems to be very interested in hummingbirds, and he is also a beast master?"
Tang Wen smiled and pointed at the tea table: "Uncle Lei, please sit down."
Shi Lei sat down and said tangledly: "Your master is younger than me. Logically speaking, you should call me uncle. But uncle is not nice to hear."
Tang Wen smiled: "Uncle Lei is one of our own, and I won't talk nonsense. Is there something abnormal in the Hummingbird Garden?"
"You really know!" Shi Lei frowned: "Could it be your kid who did it?"
He stared at Tang Wen, trying to get some clues from his expression.
The latter did not answer directly, but talked about the Bai family:
"Uncle Lei should know that the Boat Gang, the Huang family, and the Bai family have formed an alliance. And just a few nights ago, there was a brief battle on the Boat Gang's territory. You should have heard about it. I suspect that it was against me. A trap set by a friend."
What are you kidding me about?
If he were facing an ordinary junior, he would have already pushed him away and asked them to answer the question.
It's a pity that this kid in front of me is not ordinary.
He may not be able to beat the tiger next to him.
No matter how anxious you are, you have to endure it.
Shi Lei replied: "Our martial arts school seems to have detailed information. As you know, we have been checking Huang Shiqilang day and night recently, and there are people watching him in many places."
As he spoke, he communicated with the red queen bee on his shoulder, and the extraordinary hummingbird flapped its wings and flew away.
Tang Wen did not wait for the information to come back, and directly showed his cards: "Yesterday, I came back from practicing outside the city and realized that some friends might have encountered something unexpected. So I used the mutated hummingbird."
"It's really you!"
With a bang, the tea bowl fell on the table, and the lids of the tea bowls rolled around.
Tang Wen smiled: "I can't help it. Those friends are also from the Bai family. If you don't activate the hummingbird, you won't be able to find them. You can't use the white tiger to search the city, right?"
Shi Lei took a few deep breaths to calm down, then picked up the tea cup again, drank it all in one gulp, and chewed the tea leaves inside hard: "How can you control a hummingbird?"
"Uncle Lei, don't be so heavy-handed and make it look like there's a big feud between us."
"Tang Wen! This matter is much more serious than you think! Hummingbird is the lifeblood of our martial arts gym!"
Shi Lei called him by his name and his tone was solemn.
"Speaking of this, I have some guesses about the use of hummingbirds to you!" Tang Wen became interested. He first enveloped himself and the other party with the power of darkness, and then said: "Although you didn't express it too obviously, I see that you are several You are all fifth-level ones, all with red hummingbirds. I guess this extraordinary hummingbird has something to do with your technique!"
Shi Lei's expression changed several times. He had the desire to kill someone but couldn't do it.
After a while, he said in a dry voice: "Let's talk about how you control the mutated hummingbird. If your methods are shady, the impact of this matter will be great."
This is a disguised admission.
Tang Wen didn't pay attention to his words: "Actually, it's very simple. I raised these dozens of mutant hummingbirds one by one!"
"What?!"
The calm tone fell on Shi Lei's ears like a thunderstorm.
Shi Lei jumped up suddenly, losing control of his strength, and the stone bricks under his feet shattered into powder:
"What did you say?!"
Tang Wen shook his head, closed his eyes and used his mental power to sense the hummingbird's position.
Not long after, two mutated hummingbirds flew over quickly and landed on the tea table between the two of them.
Then there was a sixth grader from Juyan Martial Arts School: "Mr. Tang Wen? Sorry, sorry, I'm really sorry. We sent Hummingbird to check the traces of Huang Shiqilang..."
"Okay, you go back first!" Shi Lei said to dismiss the other party.
Two mutated hummingbirds jumped on Tang Wen's shoulders, feeling particularly intimate.
"You really nurtured it."
Tang Wen motioned for him to sit down again: "I quietly climbed over the city wall you were guarding and was tracked by a hummingbird, so I locked it up and studied it for a while.
I need spies in the city, and whether it’s controlling birds or rodent monsters, it’s easy to attract attention. "
"So, you're targeting hummingbirds?"
"That's right. There are so many benefits to doing this. You keep it for me and mobilize it when I need it. When others see it, they think it's your giant rock martial arts school who is doing it, so they will naturally give it some face."
Shi Lei felt unhappy and felt like he had suffered a big loss: "What are you, what are you kid?"
"Whoring for nothing!"
Tang Wen handed over a message very thoughtfully.
Shi Lei felt even more depressed and wanted to lift up his sandbag-sized fist and hit him hard on his handsome face: "Robbing our hummingbird, using our resources, if something goes wrong in the end, we will have to take the blame!"
Tang Wen laughed: "Don't worry about these details, didn't I also raise nearly a hundred mutant hummingbirds for you?"
Shi Lei's eyelids twitched and he ignored the rebuttal and asked, "What was your success rate during training?"
"Very high!"
"How high?"
Tang Wen used a hundred hummingbirds combined with purple pearl honey to cultivate seventy or eighty mutant hummingbirds, with an astonishingly high success rate.
But after saying that, he couldn't explain the source of purple honey.
After thinking for a while, I had to make up: "Three or four hundred."
"One out of five, are you sure?"
"Not bad." Tang Wen heard his surprise and felt confident: "Unfortunately, there seems to be a lack of some kind of recovery elixir. It would be difficult for me to let them continue to evolve. Otherwise, among these little guys, there would already be extraordinary ones." Hummingbird!”
"Extraordinary hummingbird, do you know how much materials it costs to cultivate an extraordinary hummingbird, and how many times it will fail! How dare you think!"
"I am an expert in beast control, and my talent in beast control is as good as my martial arts talent!"
While the two were talking, a stream of fire flew in from outside.
It was the extraordinary hummingbird that left just now. It held a bamboo tube in its long beak.
Tang Wen stretched out his hand and used "Appease".
Feeling the kindness and comfort, the red hummingbird turned its flight direction slightly without thinking, and landed directly on Tang Wen's shoulder.
Shi Lei's face was full of sarcasm, and his face froze.
This kid!
Hooked up with my Red King again.
Tang Wen hit him with two more soothing blows, and the flaming red hummingbird began to nuzzle his neck with its little head.
"Come, the Red King is back, come here."
Shi Lei was frightened and hurriedly stopped them from getting close. Seeing that it had no effect, he simply grabbed the Red King.
"Chi chi chi chi chi!"
The extraordinary hummingbird was dissatisfied.
Shi Lei was like licking a dog to coax his girlfriend, bringing out all kinds of food to please her.
The red hummingbird ignored him and kept turning to look at Tang Wen.
Tang Wen, the aloof male god, didn't even look at the two of them. He picked up the bamboo tube just delivered and poured out the secret message:
[Night, two top sixth-grades of unknown origin were engaged in a fierce battle with the masters of the Boat Gang. Two fifth-grades from the Boat Gang were suspected to be dispatched. The top sixth-grade shouted a trap and both fought for their lives. They almost broke out of the encirclement. At the critical moment, three fifth-grades from the Huang family appeared. After joining the battle group, two sixth-grade soldiers were seriously injured and captured alive. Their lives and deaths are unknown. 】
Tang Wen's eyes darkened: The matter is already obvious.
The situation is probably that Bai Shuo and another sixth-grade man went into the city to find the Bai family exploration team.
He thought that with the strength of his two top sixth-grades, even if he encountered trouble, he could leave calmly.
Because the Bai family has an invisible rule in seizing the heir, that is, no fifth-grade masters are allowed to be used.
After all, it is an internal fight within the family. Using the fifth grade would waste resources and make it easy to get really angry. The family chooses the heir based on his skill, not who is more ruthless to his brothers.
As a result, the Bai family lady named Bai Ningbing actually directly involved the Huang family and the boat gang, and dispatched five fifth-grade people to ambush Bai Shuo and the other two members of the Bai family.
However, the report mentioned two top sixth-grade men and did not mention the extraordinary woman.
Tang Wen took out the portraits of Bai Youruo and Bai Xue, and said to Shi Lei, who was still comforting the hummingbird, "Help me find these two people."
Shi Lei looked at them: "Two beauties! It's simple. Is there any clothes for them? It's best if they are close-fitting."
Tang Wen looked at him speechlessly.
Shi Lei said: "Boy, what kind of look is this? It's for tracking hummingbirds. They are very sensitive to fragrance."
Tang Wen suddenly understood, but was troubled again: "They and I are just friends. Huh? Can the place where they slept be allowed?"
"Haha, you kid has already slept with me, and you still call me a normal friend."
Tang Wen: "..."
"People can help you find it. But you have to pay something." Shi Lei hinted.
"You want me to help you raise extraordinary hummingbirds?"
"It's an attempt."
The Giant Rock Martial Arts School thought of too many breeding methods and found countless beastmasters, but in the end the number of extraordinary hummingbirds still couldn't increase.
Shi Lei didn't think Tang Wen had the ability to surpass his predecessors.
"It seems that Uncle Lei doesn't trust me! What if I train him?"
Shi Lei said angrily: "If you can really train them, everyone at the Giant Rock Martial Arts School will definitely regard you as the future master of the gym!"
"Huh?" Tang Wen thought he was talking nonsense.
Then I thought about it, could this extraordinary hummingbird have a greater impact on the Giant Rock Martial Arts Hall than I imagined?
Shi Lei didn't explain any more. Tang Wen took him to the inn and entered the house where the three of the Bai family lived.
"Chi Chi Chi Chi"
The red queen bee chirped, and the sound spread very far and was extremely penetrating.
Several groups of hummingbirds that were nearby arrived and each flew to a house. After taking note of the smell in the house, they flew away separately.
Tang Wen thought for a while, took out the bone flute from his arms, and blew it three times long and three short, but no sound came out of the bone flute.
But soon, the seven tigers and five girls came to the yard together.
Tang Wen explained the situation and suggested: "Let's follow up separately?"
Everyone in the Hu clan did not move. Hu Li said: "The Boat Gang and the Huang family are very strong. We have twelve fifth-level members in total. It is not suitable to be scattered. Elder Tang, you should inform the saint as soon as possible and send people to support you. You can ask one or two fourth-level people to support you." Only by leading the team and bringing in enough fifth-grade guards can we ensure nothing goes wrong."
Tang Wen and Shi Lei were confused: Leading the team at the fourth level is guaranteed to be safe?
What is foolproof?
Looking for someone, or destroying the city?
(End of chapter)
