Zhou Dong didn't hesitate or didn't dare to accept it. He brought Bailang out and recommended him, and he regarded him as one of his own. Now that one of his own is in trouble, there is no reason for him not to help and give advice.
After thinking about it at home, Zhou Dong and Bai Lang left the city again. In the cold night, they hurried to the woods on the outskirts of Dongcheng and found the bodies of Li Jiang and Li Jiang. In the cold winter night, the corpse did not attract any wild beasts for the time being. After all, the woods were close to the city, and wild beasts rarely came.
Zhou Dong carefully circled around the corpse, and then jumped up to the big tree nearby to see the treetops where Li Jiang and the two might have settled, and to look into the distance where Bai Lang said he practiced swordplay. I became more and more certain of my guess.
"Brother Dong, please speak up. What on earth are Li and Jiang planning to do to me? They are dead now, and I discovered their bodies. Will this matter be blamed on me then?"
Bailang was indeed pretending, but he was really panicking. It's just that he was worried that Zhou Dong couldn't give the direction according to his idea.
But Bailang's heart soon fell back. Zhou Dong didn't come up with any "fantastic ideas". All based on reasonable reasoning based on the information he had now, he came to the conclusion that Bailang was used as a scapegoat.
"How should I put it? If you say you are lucky, you were almost used as a scapegoat to escape. If you say you are unlucky, you were spared at the critical moment. The key is that you are still unaware of it. As the saying goes "Luck comes to you" probably refers to people like you!"
"Brother Dong! Can you please stop showing off?"
"Haha, okay, I'll just tell you."
After a pause, Zhou Dong said seriously: "You should know that last month, the blood guards of the state capital led by Li Jiang turned Yongchuan City upside down, looking for people and things, but they never knew about our swordsmanship and didn't say anything. They were looking for someone to investigate something. Until now, these blood guards have not left, but more people have arrived. However, due to the pressure from the city lord's palace, they did not continue to make a big splash, but went to the dark to continue. Trace.
I heard that the two deputy commanders of the Blood Guard came later, and their positions were above Li Jiang. Can you see what this means to Li Jiang? "
Bailang thought for a while and then said: "It means that Li Jiang is not doing things well and is not wanted by the state government, so he sent two deputy commanders to take over?"
"That's right. And it is said that the internal rules of the Blood Guard are very strict. If you fail to do things well, you will be severely punished. So, what would you do if you were Li Jiang and his deputy commander?"
"This...I will find a way to excuse myself? Hiss...Brother Dong, you are saying that because of a coincidence, I was practicing swordsmanship in this small forest that day, so I was regarded as a fool by Li Jiang and the others. A scapegoat to exonerate them?!”
"Yes, that's what I think. Otherwise, there is no way to explain why these two big figures from the Blood Guard of the state capital came to this forest to stare at you at night. They probably want to know your every move, and then Find an excuse to lead you in the direction they want. These blood guards have no mercy.
But...how did those guys target them? She actually gave up the fifteen or sixteen year old girl she had always been and changed into a third-grade warrior like Li Jiang? Isn’t this a big change? Or maybe someone deliberately framed it to confuse the public? "
Zhou Dong did not look at Bai Lang as he spoke the next few words, but squatted beside the two corpses, looking thoughtful.
Bai Lang, who was standing behind Zhou Dong, was secretly frightened.
As expected, the female ghost Lingyu's frame-up was not very clever. A quick-thinking person like Zhou Dong can see the problem at a glance. But this is not a problem for Bailang. Because he had indeed never participated in the death of Li Jiang and his wife, and was completely unqualified. Even the most suspicious person would not be able to assign the identity of the murderer of Li Jiang to a person like him who only had a mere eighth grade strength.
"Brother Dong, what do you think of this matter?"
"You stay here and I'll go find Mr. Liu. We can't bring this matter up directly. We have to make full preparations in the knife shop beforehand. Remember, don't move this body around to avoid trouble."
"Brother Dong, I understand, don't worry!"
Zhou Dong patted Bai Lang on the shoulder, then turned and ran away without saying another word.
Bailang walked away a few steps, found a piece of dry grass and sat down cross-legged. He closed his eyes and let go of his spiritual sense. At the same time, he calmly sorted out every detail of this matter and what he would need to do later. response.
Almost half an hour had passed since Zhou Dong left, and there were rapid footsteps outside the grove, as well as Zhou Dong's guiding voice. Bailang knew that people had arrived. And it sounded like there were a lot of people coming, and the footsteps were numerous and mixed.
Soon after hearing the sound, Zhou Dong took the lead and appeared in front of Bailang, and there were no less than ten people following Zhou Dong. Among them were Liu Xu, who Zhou Dong had clearly stated to seek help before he left, and a man who looked about the same age as Liu Xu, but had white hair and a scar on his face that stretched from the center of his eyebrows down to his right cheek.
The sword in the sword shop is Tang Yan!
Tang Yan actually came in person! ?
Bailang was horrified and rushed forward to meet him. He bowed and saluted: "The newly promoted Yao Dao Bai Lang, see Tang Zuo Dao, Hall Master Liu!"
Tang Yan glanced at Bailang expressionlessly, then turned around and walked to Li Jiang's two corpses without saying a word for a long time. His eyes were as sharp as a knife as he carefully plowed around the corpses.
Liu Xu, on the other hand, waved his hand towards Bai Lang and said, "Okay, just wait by the side. I'll ask you something later."
Bai Lang should have stepped aside and cast a questioning look at Zhou Dong. The latter responded with a "reassuring" signal and also stood aside without daring to speak.
At this time, the corpse with a radius of more than ten feet in the center was covered by several waist knives and red knives from the knife studio who came with Tang Yan and Liu Xu. Every tree and grass was carefully searched.
The movements of those people were very fast, and they gathered together again in less than the time it took to burn an incense stick. Moreover, the scene was not damaged by their search, and there was almost no change. It can be seen from this that these people should be the experts who specialize in finding traces in the knife studio.
"Tao Dao, the dead are indeed Li Jiang, the prefectural guard chief, and his deputy chief, Chen Ming. Their bodies were mutilated and seemed to have been bitten. They were almost the same as the nearly ten similar murders in the city recently.
But there are also doubts.
First, Li Jiang and the two showed no signs of resistance and were killed instantly. This is not consistent with their strength, and it is also different from other similar murder situations.
Secondly, although the bite marks on the bodies of Li Jiang and Li Jiang were obvious, the blood spatter and the amount of blood around them were wrong. They were not torn into pieces while alive, but should have been torn into pieces like this after death. This is also different from other similar murders.
Finally, we found no trace of the suspected murderer nearby. There were no footprints or anything else, not even a smell. "
After listening to his subordinates' summary, Tang Yan was noncommittal and turned around to look at Bai Lang who was standing beside him...
