Even in Tianyuan Town, monsters occasionally cause trouble and cause some casualties.
However, compared with the number of people who continue to pour in every day, it is still on an upward trend.
Therefore, the population of Tianyuan Town is constantly expanding.
The reason is also very simple.
The safest and largest town within a hundred miles is Tianyuan Town.
Coupled with the good public security, the strength of Yudi Mansion, and the word-of-mouth reputation, Tianyuan Town is almost one of the safest places to live in the vicinity for a long time.
Under this veneer of prosperity, there are demons lurking inside, and poor people are captured and sold as slaves without anyone knowing, and so on.
Fang Yu sighed, ordinary natives in this game are really difficult to get along with.
Being able to live to old age and die is a matter of luck.
"Ask whose children they are, how they were arrested, and what information you can provide."
Fang Yu gave a few instructions and then turned to Yu Xiguo to ask.
"Where is Mo Lingyu now?"
"I don't know." Yu Xiguo shook his head again.
"As soon as Ronghua Dyeing Shop was investigated yesterday, she ran away and there is no news about her."
Ran?
With such a huge industry, if a monk can run away, can he still run a temple?
"Where is her family?"
"They should all be staying in Mo Mansion."
That's okay, it's not easy for people with families to run away.
Fang Yu looked at Yu Xiguo and said curiously.
"Why don't you run?"
"I am innocent, sir! How could I run away! Besides, I invested all my worth in this peony dyeing workshop. If I run away, I will have nothing, and I still expect it to turn me around."
Oh, gambler.
The fate of Stud, hum!
Fang Yu thought to himself, completely forgetting how he studied attribute points before.
After asking these slaves, they were basically sacked, knocked unconscious and taken away, and they woke up here.
"Sir, my lord! I want to follow you!"
"Me, me too! I want to practice martial arts!"
Fang Yu was exchanging information with his men when the only two young men among the slaves suddenly took a step forward.
Fang Yu:? ? ?
Fang Yu had a black question mark on his face.
Brother, I am not a nanny.
And I can't protect myself. Do you think too highly of me? I'm not a martial arts master.
[Bi Yan: 3/5. 】
[Wei Quan: 4/6. 】
After looking at the blood levels of the two men again, Fang Yu waved his hand.
"I can't teach you. All my abilities were given to me by the Yuji Mansion and the martial arts school, and they cannot be passed on to others. If you want to practice martial arts, you can find a way to enter the Yuji Mansion. Someone will help you get started."
Do you want to practice martial arts? Enter the foolish hell first.
Do you want to enter the underworld of foolishness? Have the ability first!
This is an endless cycle, so things like martial arts schools came into being and became the lubricant in the middle.
As for martial arts schools, they need financial support.
So at the beginning of practicing martial arts, it is really important to have someone to help you guide you.
Without Li Qianxuan's kindness, Fang Yu wouldn't know where he would be now, how could he be so successful and climb up step by step.
For example, Chen Cangwen next to him, without Li Qianxuan, would probably be in the same situation as a gangster like Wang Er at this age.
Speaking of which, this guy feels a bit weird, like a player.
Forget it, it doesn’t matter.
In the disappointed looks of the two teenagers, Fang Yu led the people outside the outer secret room.
Mo Lingyu's Mo Mansion needs to be investigated.
If you can't find it, immediately turn around and check the remnants of the [Xingji Gang] given by Lin Wu.
After all, Mo Lingyu is cooperating with the [Xingji Gang]. Mo Lingyu can't be found. The remnants of the [Xingji Gang] are still there, maybe they can get some information.
Now it is no longer as simple as finding the missing eldest brother.
If your guess is correct.
The number of demons involved in the slave trade line is not small, and it is a major case that is enough to mobilize the upper-level forces of Yudi Mansion.
"It always feels a bit dangerous."
"No matter what, let's go check out the secret doors and secret rooms in the peony dyeing workshop that Yu Xiguo knows about first."
"If you still can't find me, I'll make another plan."
Fang Yu made some plans in his mind and waited for him to leave the secret room.
"grown ups!"
"grown ups!"
Those waiting outside immediately saluted.
Fang Yu nodded slightly.
"I found a few slaves inside and arranged for two people to take care of them. The others continued to follow me."
"yes!"
This is probably the feeling of being able to respond to a hundred responses at once.
Looking at these obedient subordinates, Fang Yu felt pretty good.
Fang Yu said as Yu Xiguo and others came out of the secret room.
"The fish is in charge, lead the way."
Yu Xiguo said with a bitter face: "Sir, can I be considered guilty of meritorious deeds?"
Fang Yu looked at him sideways.
"Are you guilty?"
Yu Xiguo immediately became happy.
"Thank you, sir!"
No thanks, no thanks.
I'm just asking.
I have no right to keep you safe.
Besides, if you are really innocent and not involved, no one will bother you.
Now, let’s stabilize the Yuxi Kingdom first and lead the way for ourselves.
The team sets out again.
This time it was Yu Xiguo who led the way.
He walked very fast and enthusiastically. He was familiar with Peony. His enthusiastic appearance gave people a strange feeling of "Taijun is walking here".
Everyone else heard what Fang Yu said, but they didn't say anything.
To them, this was just an ordinary slave trade incident.
It is very common for the peony dyeing workshop to be unclean and for the manager to expose the incident and try to make meritorious deeds.
It mainly depends on whether the leader of the execution team is willing to give him the opportunity to make meritorious deeds.
There is a lot of flexibility inside, and it belongs to the team leader.
After all, the after-action report was submitted by the team leader. Unless there were major mistakes or the deviation was too far from the facts, the higher-ups would not look into it in detail.
The case was solved and a slave trading den was destroyed. That was enough.
The people below can naturally provide some evidence to prove that the team leader is trying to steal people, pretending to be public for personal gain, and lining his own pockets.
But...who is willing to do such a thankless thing.
Not to mention, since Diao Deyi wants to protect people, those people with knowledge at the scene will usually get some benefits. Otherwise, how can we make the people with knowledge shut up?
However, in fact, all of them underestimated this matter.
This was not a raid on a slave trading den, but a discovery of the demon's flesh and blood supply bank. The difference was huge.
This is the advantage brought by information gap.
Fang Yu is lurking on the side of the demon. The Red Moon Demon personally mentioned the peony dyeing workshop, which means that this place must have something to do with the demon.
Coupled with the matter of the slave den, the association will naturally begin.
When Fang Yu thought of this, the second secret door to the secret room arrived.
This was a study room in an attic. Yu Xiguo moved the books a few times, the walls moved, the stone door opened, and a staircase spreading downward was revealed in front of everyone.
This secret room is so deep, do you know about it?
Facing Fang Yu's suspicious gaze, Yu Xiguo smiled awkwardly.
"When working with the Mo family, you have to be cautious. I swear, I have never been in! It has nothing to do with this!"
Just swear.
Fang Yu rolled his eyes slightly, not believing a word of this nonsense.
Let Chen Cangwen and others stay outside while he leads the team down.
After a while, Fang Yu came out of the secret room with an ugly face.
Behind him, there were two more demented girls wearing tattered clothes, looking dull and in a trance.
"What's wrong?" Chen Cangwen asked strangely without any sense of boundaries.
"There are several bodies down there."
Fang Yu didn't elaborate.
But with just such a sentence, you can roughly imagine what is going on below.
Chen Cangwen smacked his lips, somewhat disinterested.
Just a few slaves died, but two more were saved.
Yu Xiguo felt the change in Fang Yu's mood and accompanied him nervously.
"Sir, I really don't know. If I knew, could I have allowed Mo Lingyu to take his life? Absolutely not!"
Fang Yu stopped and gave him a cold look.
"Next secret room, lead the way."
"Yes Yes!"
Yu Xiguo quickly lowered his head and responded.
In terms of strength, he is above the average ten households.
But in terms of power and status, he was not even qualified to raise his head in front of these foolish officials.
It's not like Fang Yu has never seen corpses before.
It's just that he didn't expect the body to be tortured like that.
It is already strange that these slaves were not transferred in time.
Now that there are still traces of abuse left in the secret room, it's even more strange.
It's like having a split personality. On the one hand, he wants to evacuate, but on the other hand, he wants to leave a loophole for the slave, and even kills to vent his anger, as if he is waiting to be discovered.
Yes, judging from the traces on the bodies, these slaves were killed between last night and this morning.
At present, there are no traces of demons here.
But traces of the slave trade are everywhere.
Could it be that... they are planning to use the slave trade as an eye-catching spot to cover up the traces of the demon's operation?
Fang Yu frowned slightly, feeling that his ideas were somewhat on the right track, but also slightly off.
"Sir, here we are, this is the last secret room that I know of."
Open the secret room and enter it.
Soon, Fang Yu came out shaking his head.
This secret room is even more complete, everyone is dead and there is no one left alive.
Cruel enough.
Now Fang Yu is basically sure that Mo Lingyu should know that her three secret rooms have been discovered by Yuxi Kingdom.
These three secret rooms have a vague sense of being made for others to see.
Fang Yu looked at Yu Xiguo, who lowered his head nervously and said helplessly.
"Sir, it's gone, it's really gone. I only know those three secret rooms. That Mo Lingyu is very wary and has never trusted me."
It seems that we still have to start the investigation from Mo Lingyu.
As for the whereabouts of the eldest brother, there is no information at all.
The only good news is that there is no sign of the eldest brother among those corpses.
Fang Yu had known his elder brother's appearance before, so he could recognize him at a glance, but after looking twice, he still had no problem identifying the body.
Now that there are no familiar faces in the corpse, it means that the eldest brother did not die in the peony dyeing workshop. It is very likely that he... was sold as a low-quality slave, and was sold to the monster as rations.
It's not that Fang Yu likes to speculate on the worst case scenario, but based on the currently known intelligence information, this possibility is indeed the highest.
He wouldn't tell his second sister about this. Unless his eldest brother's body was really found, he might as well just treat it as a missing person and give his second sister some hope.
"If you still want to investigate, sir, I can provide you with a few suspicious places."
As if he was afraid that he would be useless and that the previous agreement to make meritorious deeds would be invalid, Yu Xiguo quickly stepped forward and lowered his voice.
Good guy, lead the way until the end.
So dedicated.
"Okay, you..."
boom! !
Before Fang Yu finished speaking, there was a sudden explosion not far away.
Everyone was stunned and looked in the direction of the source of the sound.
Fang Yu frowned slightly.
That direction seems to be...
"The main entrance! The entrance and exit of the peony dyeing workshop!" Yu Xiguo next to him affirmed.
Fang Yu was confused.
What's the meaning?
Someone is causing trouble?
This is a case being handled by the stupid government. Anyone who dares to cause trouble will die?
Fang Yu immediately thought that there were only two possibilities.
First, the lurking demon was exposed and killed.
Second, Mo Lingyu came back with his men.
No matter what it is, as the team leader, he must lead the team to see it immediately.
Fortunately, there were men beside him to help him hold the horse.
Immediately, Fang Yu mounted his horse.
"drive!"
After flattering him, Fang Yu headed towards the main entrance.
The others looked at each other and followed suit.
…
Peony dyeing workshop, main entrance.
"who!"
"Bold! Who dares to cause trouble when the hell government is handling the case?"
As the door exploded in pieces, sawdust flew everywhere, and a group of men in black standing at the door came into view.
Li Qianxuan was stunned for a moment.
Wearing night clothes in broad daylight is going to cause trouble!
For a moment, Li Qianxuan's thoughts were like lightning.
His reactions have never been slow and his ability has never been bad.
It's just that he was busy building forces and recruiting people, which slowed down the progress of martial arts practice.
His own ability has always been considered good among the ten households.
"Who would need to wear night clothes in broad daylight?"
"Kicking the door open, the oncoming force is fierce. It can be seen that what needs to be done is no small matter, and it is indispensable for the light of swords and shadows."
"Knowing that people like me and others from the Foolish Underworld are coming to investigate, you still dare to act like this..."
"Could these men in black be... people from the Peony Dyeing House!?"
Something moved in my heart.
Li Qianxuan made a prompt decision and grabbed the dyefang steward next to him. While pressing the steward to the ground, he drew a sword and put it on the steward's neck.
He put the sword on the butler's neck with one hand, tilted his head and looked at the people at the door, and shouted coldly.
"Everyone, stop!"
"Whoever dares to come one step closer will be killed by the butler of your peony dyeing shop!"
Butler Yu of the dyeing workshop is an elderly man.
He had long been frightened by Li Qianxuan's formation, and his hands and feet were trembling, and he did not dare to move rashly.
What he couldn't understand even more was why Li Qianxuan could blame their peony dyeing shop for this matter.
He didn't know these men in black who suddenly broke down the door and broke in. He didn't know who they were. What's the use of threatening me!
Butler Yu was panicking, scared, and trembling.
But what made him even more desperate was that the group of men in black looked at each other in confusion, as if they were looking at each other with confusion on their faces.
Then, with a wave of their hands from the men in black, they all swarmed in without hesitation.
Li Qianxuan's expression changed and he grabbed the housekeeper.
"wait……"
Before he could say anything, someone among the men in black suddenly waved his hand.
Whoosh——
A shrill sound broke through the air, instantly interrupting Li Qianxuan's words.
He didn't even have time to make a move, before the expression on his face changed, his arm suddenly shook.
Bah! !
The sharp hidden weapon like a dart had actually pierced Butler Yu's forehead.
Butler Yu's eyes widened, blood overflowed from his forehead, the body twitched twice and lost its breath.
(End of chapter)
