November 30th.
At Yinzheng time, clouds cover the moon.
Wuyang City has reached its quietest time, and Yin Zheng will slowly start to "wake up" after that. Some people who rush early will get up and live.
There is a red leaf forest fifty miles east of the city. Few people come here on weekdays, let alone this time.
But today there were many human figures in the woods. Although they were not illuminated, they were still vaguely visible.
The person who escorted the goods was Zhang Lie, and he was accompanied by dozens of people, most of whom were secret agents of the Xuanqing Guard. Nowadays, the strong military temperament can no longer be seen in these agents, instead they are vicious and unruly. , looks like a black market thug.
Suddenly, a figure ran from a distance and entered the forest to find Zhang Lie.
"Did you see anyone?"
"I didn't see anything. There was no movement on the official road or the private road."
"Boss Zhang, do you think the other side won't mess with us?"
Before Zhang Lie could say anything, someone next to him curled his lips and retorted: "What the hell! Seventy percent of the money has been paid. How dare they cheat on us because we didn't earn it with our own blood? You have a pretty good idea."
After waving his hand, his subordinates quickly silenced themselves. Zhang Lie's eyes were bright: "Stop arguing, people are coming."
"people?"
The surrounding men looked around quickly, and finally followed the direction of Zhang Lie's sight and saw three black figures jumping from the treetops.
"Clang!"
There was a sound of weapons being unsheathed. There are sixty-one carts of grain here. It should be a convoy that comes to pick up the goods, not three people jumping from a tree. Therefore, the people present immediately regarded the incoming person as an enemy and were on guard.
However, the cultivation level Zhang Lie shook his head and said: "Just be careful, it's Ma San who's coming."
Sure enough, after more than ten breaths, three people in the distance got into the red leaf forest. They were closer, and everyone could see clearly the appearance of these three people. The person in front was really Ma San, but this time his figure was a bit stooped and sickly. A sad look.
There were two other people following Ma San, and their cultivation levels should not be low. At least Zhang Lie sensed that the other party was not inferior to him, and there was even an unexpected feeling of déjà vu.
"Haha, Brother Zhang, I didn't expect you to escort me in person but I came late." Ma San looked sickly but full of energy, and greeted him with a haha as soon as he arrived.
"It's not too late. Where's the receipt?"
"Here. Is that what's in the car behind this time?" Ma San took out the receipt that Scarzi had given him before for a 70% advance payment, and pointed at the car parked behind Zhang Lie in the woods. asked the carloads of covered goods.
"Yes, you can inspect the goods. If there is no problem, we will handle the handover."
"Can."
Ma San waved his hand, and the two people behind him walked over without saying a word. They opened the barriers one by one and smashed the straw on the cars for inspection.
The carriage was full of bags of grain. It was impossible for the two of them to check every bag. They just took a bag from each cart and opened it to check the quality. They are all about two years old grain. Can they be stored well without getting moldy or spoiled? They can be eaten.
"The food is fine. Is this the remaining silver? Brother Zhang, can you order it?" Ma San saw the two men nodding to him after checking the food in the car, and then took out a stack of silver notes and handed them to Zhang Lie.
Zhang Lie did not answer the question but asked, "I told you that transportation is not included, right?"
"Haha? Yes, Brother Zhang, you did say that. Didn't I bring someone here?"
"Very good." Zhang Lie then took the money and looked at Ma San: "Hurry up, I'm going to take the carriage back after unloading it."
"Of course." Ma San waved his hand. Now that the money has been paid, the goods are naturally theirs.
Only the more than ten Zhang Lie's men standing beside the carriage stepped away and watched as Ma San's men began to unload the goods.
"This is......"
"It's just a storage bag, brother Zhang, don't be surprised."
Zhang Lie took a deep look at the two people who were unloading the goods from the carriage and stuffing them into storage bags, and was extremely surprised. Transporting bulk grain in storage bags? !
It's really the first time I've seen it.
Ordinary storage bags, like the one on Shen Hao's body, are only one foot square. The value of larger storage bags will increase several times. This kind of thing with an obviously limited loading capacity is generally not used for bulk cargo transportation. Although it is convenient, the cost is too high. For example, if you want to use storage bags to pack the sixty-one large carts of grain, you will need at least twenty storage bags measuring one foot square.
This is like using a pure gold box to store chaff? It's totally not worth it. With the slightest accident, these storage bags will be wiped out. The risks and benefits are extremely unequal.
Sure enough? Zhang Lie saw that the two people had changed a total of twenty-four storage bags, each of which should not be as big as one foot square. But it's not much smaller, and the size is very even, only the last one is smaller, and the ones in front are all the same.
"Let's go!" Seeing that the other party had finished unloading the goods, Zhang Lie nodded to Ma San and waved, and his men began to drive the carriage out of the forest.
At the same time, Ma San also bowed his hand towards Zhang Lie and led the two people who packed more than twenty storage bags away quickly in the direction they came from. They didn't dare to stay for a long time, and they didn't know whether Zhang Lie would become malicious after seeing so many storage bags, so they naturally escaped very quickly.
Zhang Lie did not follow the others here, but returned to Wuyang City first and found Feilong who was not sleeping waiting for news.
"how's it going?"
"The goods were taken away, and three people came and packed them away in storage bags."
"Ah? Storage bag? Is there such a big storage bag?"
"There are twenty-four in total."
"Is there something wrong with these people? Where did they get so many storage bags?"
"I don't know. But the two people Ma San brought felt a little strange to me, as if they were quite familiar."
Feilong's expression changed when he heard this, and he asked in a deep voice, "Have you seen them? They won't recognize you, right?" This is an incredible thing.
"It's not that they look familiar, but they feel familiar. It's like those two people are very similar to me before."
"Before..." Feilong mumbled and then consciously closed his mouth. Feilong didn't want to know what Zhang Lie's previous job was.
Then Zhang Lie wrote all the actual situation and his feelings towards the two people brought by Ma San on the note, and then handed it over to the ghost gate through secret channels, and the ghost gate handed it over to Wang Jian, who then handed it over to Wang Jian. Wang Jian reported to Shen Hao.
Because the situation was urgent, even though there were many twists and turns, the report was still very fast. In just a short time, the note arrived at the Fengri City Qianhu Office. Shen Hao quickly read it with a serious look and immediately reported it to the Jingxi Town Envoy. I went to the Yamen to report urgently, hoping to get support.
That afternoon, spies were posted around all the teleportation circles in Jingxi. Everyone had the appearance of Ma San and others in mind. They also had detection magic weapons in their hands and watched closely the people entering and exiting the teleportation circles. The magic weapons on everyone's body fluctuated.
Not only Jingxi, but also Haixia further south was also targeted by spies.
But until the third day of December, nothing was found for three full days.
Ma San and his party seemed to have simply disappeared.
