The two commander-in-chiefs observed their words and soon understood the concerns of Li Chuan and Fang Hong, and gave them a warning: "There are also clean and tidy people in Baihualou, so I hope this gimmick will make the wealthy young people quarrel. The three of you can invite a few servants to chat over tea and investigate secretly."
After hearing this, Li Fan nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, it seems that I can investigate carefully here."
Fang Hong also nodded: "It is necessary to conduct a thorough investigation."
Gao Feng looked at the two of them and was speechless for a while, then said quietly: "Is it necessary to order people for investigation?"
Li Fan said quietly: "Brother Gao, that's not what you said just now!"
Fang Hong spat directly: "Who screamed happily at Yang's mother's place just now?"
"The three adults are of noble character. It is normal for them to look down on such a romantic place. However, the demon cultists are not taboo about meat and vegetables. We have previously investigated that several suspicious characters are hiding in Sister Yao's place. They are hunting down the officers and soldiers by hiding from them. In the name of it, I didn’t go out for ten days and a half.
If you want to know more inside information, I'm afraid you really have to deal with the girls in the building. "
Another person also said: "The incense owner of a certain altar who is related to the shadow puppets is among them. There is also a prostitute named Qin'er who has been rented to live in a private courtyard for a long time, but the guests never show up. Those incense owners, teach No one dared to go to her.
So we guess that the Shadowless Man most likely hid in her room to recuperate after being injured! "
"oh?"
Li Fan and Fang Hong looked at each other, and their expressions became serious.
Indeed, it is also possible that those demonic believers are using the funds raised by the believers to procure prostitutes in the name of missionary work and live in luxury here.
What's more, a place like Baihualou is a good place for preaching.
Whether they are famous prostitutes with miserable life experiences, or frustrated heroes, scholars, or even ordinary people who have finally saved enough money to spend once, they can all become sources of intelligence. With the help of the large passenger flow here, the comings and goings can be monitored. It is not easy to deliver messages and transfer people.
Since ancient times, people in the world have liked to gather in such places, and even though the court knew this and tightened supervision many times, it still prohibited it.
After all, this kind of thing is related to human instinct, and this industry is difficult to eliminate.
The current situation is that even if they knew this, it would be difficult for them to force their way in to find someone.
It would be fine if he could be caught right away, but if he couldn't, it would be a mistake to scare the snake away.
There are many similar brothels nearby, and the demon cultists can easily move, and it is even possible to leave Pingkangfang and go to other places.
There are also many brothels in the western neighborhoods of Xishi, Yiningfang and Judefang.
What's more, important figures in the Demon Sect may have something like Evil King Gray in their hands.
"Forget it, this is not the place to talk. Let's go in and take a look before we talk."
Li Fan sighed and walked inside first.
Although there were not many weird abilities suitable for reconnaissance, they were not completely absent. He did not want to talk more in this not very quiet place, lest the demon cultists would listen to them.
And compared to all kinds of speculation, he is more willing to believe his own eyes and use his own truth-seeing eyes to take a good look.
When going upstairs, Li Fan used the pillars to cover himself. When no one was paying attention, he took out the Eight Immortals golden bottle from his sleeve and took a sip. He opened his eyes to see the truth, and then looked down at the lobby downstairs.
In an instant, everything appeared in detail, and all the places where strange power might remain could be seen at a glance.
There really is something!
The kind of gray-black mist that is unique to the strange realm permeates the surroundings, but it is very thin and cannot be noticed if you are not paying attention.
In contrast, some strange traces are scattered throughout Baihua Building, which is even more eye-catching.
That is……
Scorch marks burned by fire!
If you look carefully, you can see that the area where these traces spread is not small, but many places seem not to have been directly burned, but to have been smoldering by some strange force, forcibly evaporating the water and turning it into coke.
Just looking at this scene, Li Fan seemed to be able to smell the burning smell of wood, feathers, fur, flesh and blood mixed together.
Vaguely, there seemed to be gray and black mist rising from inside, but it only reached a few inches high before dissipating without a trace, giving people a feeling of lingering smoke and still smoldering. It seemed that even the temperature in the air had changed. It became a bit more anxious, and the burning smell became more real and concrete.
Although Li Fan didn't know much about analyzing the traces of fire, he could vaguely see that there seemed to be multiple places where the fire was burning.
Some places were burned almost to ashes, while other places were only superficially charred and then extinguished.
It is conceivable that it was not in the dead of night or that it suddenly spread, and someone was on the scene to put out the fire in time, which obviously delayed the fire.
Li Huan looked around and began to make some confirmation. This was similar to the scene outside the world when passing by the mysterious realm and looking out through the window.
Now he is standing in "reality", and through some kind of mysterious window he sees Baihua Tower, which is located in another time and space, in the strange realm.
What does this phenomenon mean?
Entering the private room, Li Fan was still thinking about this problem, but soon found that he couldn't figure out the reason at all.
After all, it is inevitable to ask someone who is familiar with the situation in the area.
He calmly told the attentive and eager Madam: "No one is waiting here for now. Let the girls wait outside. Come in when you are called."
After the madam left, he motioned to Xue An to go out and check around to make sure there were no ears on the partition wall, and then looked at the two commander-in-chiefs.
"Do you know when this Baihua Building was built? Has it been burned by fire before?"
When the two of them heard this, they were a little baffled.
But soon, one person seemed to remember something: "What do you want to ask, sir, what happened to this Baihua Building eighteen years ago?"
"Eighteen years ago?"
Li Fan was a little surprised.
The general said: "This place was burned down once eighteen years ago, and it was abandoned for two years before it was rebuilt.
To be more precise, most of the buildings on Donghui Sanqu and several nearby buildings were burned down. "
When he said this, he couldn't help but laugh dryly and said with a bit of contentment: "Speaking of which, sir, even if you ask the madam just now, you may not know it better than me. She came to our holy city to make a living after she became famous in other places. "
Everyone was speechless after hearing this. Where did your pride of being more familiar with Baihua Tower than other madams come from?
Li Fan was surprised. Based on what he had seen before, he confirmed a possibility: "Several songs were burned. Could it be a strange incident?"
"Ah!" Gao Feng suddenly exclaimed, "I remembered, wasn't that the lantern fire incident that caused a sensation eighteen years ago?"
