Instead of riding a horse or taking a boat, Zhang Lie used the teleportation circle to reach Haixia directly.
The investigation here has been very strict. There are many soldiers guarding the outside of the teleportation circle. There are portraits posted on a huge notice wall. They are all those who ran away before the second batch of arrests in the "Jingxi" operation. However, if the official document is released, these people will not be able to hide for long.
However, even if the investigation was strict, it would not be enough to turn the monk's storage bag out for inspection. Even a behemoth like Jing Jiuchao would not dare to do this kind of behavior that infringes on the monk's vital interests.
Therefore, when Zhang Lie came out of the teleportation circle, he was looked at a few times by the soldiers and was not interrogated.
He found a horse and carriage shop nearby and paid a deposit to rent a horse for his trip. Zhang Lie didn't even stop at Haixia and went straight out of the city and followed the official road south to Tanshi.
Tanshi was built as a fortress group and there was no public teleportation array, only the array provided by Jun Wu, so Zhang Lie could only go there on horseback.
There are many checkpoints on the official road from Haixia to Tanshi, guarded by Xuanqing guards and border troops. Faced with Zhang Lie alone, there was also an interrogation, but Zhang Lie took out a "hunting document" and immediately made the interrogator lose interest.
The hunting document was issued by Yaxing. It was a license to hunt overseas barbarians, and it was also a certificate for legally leaving the country and bringing back barbarians. Large slave caravans also have hunting documents, but they are slightly different. What Zhang Lie holds is the kind held by retail investors.
The monks who dare to break into the barbarians single-handedly are ruthless characters, and the people at the checkpoint are not willing to embarrass themselves.
These were all prepared by Shen Hao after Zhang Lie received the mission. Not only these, but also dozens of joints along the way.
Not long after leaving the city, several carriages were parked outside a tea shed on the official road, and people were sitting inside drinking tea and resting. A signboard hung at the door. On the signboard was a large and eye-catching word "tea", and there was also a swan goose pattern as an embellishment.
Hongyan...The Yanjidao is forged according to the width of the back of this bird, and it has an unusual symbolic meaning for Xuanqingwei. Zhang Lie knew very well that this tea shed should be the joint point where Xuanqing Guard was established.
But Zhang Lie did not stop, but galloped past.
After galloping all the way until the afternoon, the horse's lips began to turn white and it could no longer run. Zhang Lie dismounted and found a roadside tavern to rest and ask someone to help get some water and fodder for the horse. There is a pair of brass geese on the door knocker of this pub, which looks very festive.
Zhang Lie did not identify himself when leaving. It was as if he had forgotten his mission and Shen Hao's instructions.
In the evening, Zhang Lie parked his horse in the woods on the roadside, planning to spend the night here instead of entering the inn.
Light a fire, take out some dry food packed in the tavern in the afternoon, and eat it when it's hot.
After just two bites, Zhang Lie put the pancake in his hand aside, looked at the dark side, and asked coldly: "Who? Come out!"
His words were filled with murderous intent, and a wave of heat seemed to begin to gather in his body, especially as Zhang Lie's palms glowed slightly red, like heated metal.
"Haha, brother Zhang, don't be nervous, it's me." A person walked out of the darkness, it was Ma San.
"Oh? Is it you?" Zhang Lie's face was expressionless, but the redness in his hands faded away. But he sneered secretly in his heart. After he came out of the teleportation circle under the sea today, he felt someone following him. The other party's shadow hiding method was very clever, but he couldn't escape the perception of a specially trained person like him.
There were people following him all the way, which made Zhang Lie dare not hastily identify himself with the meeting point of Xuan Qingwei along the road. Now he didn't dare to choose an inn to stay at night, just waiting for the other party to show up. But Zhang Lie didn't expect that the visitor would be Ma San. He thought it would be one of Ma San's accomplices.
"Brother Zhang, why don't you come into the inn? It's really hard in the wilderness."
"Hey, I'm traveling with goods, so I won't go to crowded places if I can. There are too many variables on the road. Who knows if a person with a kind face also has a kind heart? You can't be too careful." Zhang Lie did not go to Ma San. How can a person whose name is even fake be trusted? And even if the other party doesn't know that he is a secret agent of Xuanqing Guard, it cannot be ruled out that the other party has bad intentions.
It is not uncommon for people to get cheated. It is not impossible to turn around and say that the goods have not been received and ask Feilong to refund the money.
"Brother Zhang is indeed very cautious. I can rest assured that you will escort the goods this time. But further south is the border of Xiaochuan. There is chaos all year round, and horse bandits gather from all walks of life. There are many masters there, and they always like to find people who come and go. Sheep, although Brother Zhang is not weak, it is inconvenient to work alone. I can accompany Brother Zhang for a journey."
"You mean I look like a fat sheep?"
"Brother Zhang, don't get me wrong, just in case." Ma San didn't get too close, just two feet away, he found a tree to sit against, ready to spend the night with Zhang Lie.
Zhang Lie didn't speak anymore. He can act very cold but cannot show strong resistance to Ma San's behavior. After all, the goods he carries are actually paid by Ma San and belong to Ma San. It's just that Ma San's request is that Feilong, the intermediary, is responsible for the transportation, and the transaction has not been completed yet.
Withdrawing his gaze, Zhang Lie just used his senses to keep an eye on Ma San who was not far away. He seemed to be just wary of strangers, but in fact he was carefully observing this mysterious figure who had been blacklisted by the Black Flag Camp in the morning.
His cultivation level should be between the third and fourth levels of the God Gathering Realm. His true age cannot be seen, but he should not be more than fifty years old. He didn't have any weapons on him or had them in a storage bag. He has an ordinary appearance, but his biggest feature is that he has a lot of wrinkles on his face when he smiles, which makes him look strange.
In addition, Zhang Lie also noticed that as the night went on, he felt an increasingly obvious cold aura from the other party's body. I secretly thought that Ma San was practicing water attribute ice magic?
At dawn the next day, Zhang Lie mounted his horse and continued south. The destination was still near Xiaochuan, but Ma San said he would not tell him the specific location until he got there. So the two of them galloped one behind the other.
noon.
"Hey, there is a sesame cake stall here? What a coincidence. Brother Zhang, why don't you stop and have something to eat before you go on your way?" Zhang Lie ate dry food last night, but he didn't give half of it to Ma San. Now Ma San can't carry it either. Stay hungry.
Zhang Lie glanced at the Hongyan embroidery on the apron of the owner of the sesame cake stall and his eyelids jumped several times, secretly thinking that there are still many talents in Xuan Qingwei.
After the two of them finished eating three sesame seed cakes each, they filled a pot of water and continued to mount their horses and head south. Xiaochuan was not far ahead.
As soon as the two people left, the owner of the sesame cake stall took out the broken silver that Zhang Lie had just thrown down. He weighed it a few times and found that the weight was wrong. Then he took a knife and cut it open. Inside was a piece of wood with a nail clip on it. There is a word Wei.
