Jiangshan Fengwuzhi

Chapter 16 Investigation (Thanks to the leader of "Jian Bao Xiao Yu")

"Ouch."

There was a soft sound in the darkness.

Master Ma ran very fast, but the wound on his foot caused by the crossbow arrow had not healed yet, and the road was dark, so he finally stumbled and fell to the ground.

When he tried to get up again, Gu Jingnian had already stepped forward and put the dagger against his neck.

"How dare you be dishonest? Since I already have a clue, the worst that can happen is that I kill you now."

"Don't."

Master Ma was indeed afraid. He rolled his eyes and said, "Whatever Master Gu wants to know, I have a way to let you know."

Instead, Gu Jingnian pressed the dagger in his hand and cut Master Ma's neck, drawing blood.

He himself is not easily injured, and he does not hold back when he strikes.

"real!"

Master Ma was horrified and said quickly, "I will tell you the truth, sir."

"explain."

"General Gu is definitely wronged. Wanchun Palace has been raising vipers for several years. It has nothing to do with General Gu. I can find evidence for you. As for your mother's family, I don't know, but I can lead out the people who know about this matter for you."

"You've lied to me so many times, how can I still trust you?"

"Everything I say is true!"

"What are you looking for?"

Master Ma saw that he couldn't escape, so he had no choice but to tell the truth: "I want to find the six-headed viper and take its heart to save people."

"Save who?"

"My...daughter, although she is not my biological daughter, I really treat her as my own daughter. She has been sick since she was a child. If I hadn't helped her, she would have died long ago. But without the miracle medicine, she would not live long."

As he spoke later, some tenderness appeared in Master Ma's cunning eyes, and he looked at Gu Jingnian and begged bitterly.

Gu Jingnian was not moved. Instead, he felt that this devotion to seeking medicine for his children was like Gu Jizu's towards Gu Beiming, which only made him sick.

"Tell me about your origins."

"I used to belong to an organization called Cage People. I used anesthetics to subdue aliens for them, so I was called the Anesthesia Master. That year, they captured a little girl. She was also an alien like you. They wanted to burn her to try. Before that, they had burned many people to death, and I knew that she clearly couldn't be burned. She was very scared. She was born afraid. She looked at me with bright eyes and tears flowing down her chin. She was so young... I don't know how many aliens I have killed in my life. At that time, I suddenly hesitated. You wouldn't understand that feeling. I finally decided to rescue her. From then on, my life changed. For twelve years, we were hunted by the Cage People and had to hide from place to place."

As Master Ma spoke, a faint smile appeared on his ugly face, but tears flowed from his eyes.

At some point, Gu Jingnian moved the dagger away.

Maybe it was when he heard the words "She is the same as the young master".

His life was as lonely as an endless night, with Gu Caiwei as his only ray of light. When he occasionally heard such words, it was like a star in the sky flashing and then fading away.

"I really can't watch her die." Master Ma choked with sobs, turned over, knelt on the ground, kowtowed and said: "Master Gu, I will take you to find the six-headed snake. Once you find it, you can prove the innocence of the Gu family. I just need to take the heart. Master and Kaiping Division are not the same people, we are!"

"Where is the six-headed viper?"

"I know how to lure it out. Just watch and don't ask any more questions."

"Okay, lead the way."

Master Ma looked around and said, "Wait a minute, I have something in my stomach, wait for me to get it out."

Gu Jingnian asked, "Are you trying to use tricks to escape?"

"Just watch, sir."

Master Ma did not run away, and what he said was true, but when he used his fingers to pinch out two small bamboo tubes from the excrement and wiped them casually on his clothes and was about to hand one to Gu Jingnian, Gu Jingnian frowned and refused to take it.

"what for?"

"Put it in your mouth and you can spit out the drug. Then you won't be afraid of encountering the guards. Others can't use it, but you can."

"I do not need."

"Well."

Master Ma didn't force him. He put one in his mouth and waved his hand, asking Gu Jingnian to follow him.

The two of them turned back the same way and returned to the vicinity of Chunchi.

"The pond water can attract six-headed vipers." Master Ma said in a muffled voice.

He hid in the bushes, looked up at the sky, but didn't see any birds. Then he pulled Gu Jingnian, stood up, and walked towards Chunchi.

"stop!"

The two silver-armored guards shouted loudly and raised their swords directly at Master Ma.

Master Ma raised his head and spit, and a cloud of mist immediately sprayed towards the two people's faces. He bent down and slipped between the two people, quickly spitting out the bamboo tube in his mouth and replacing it with another one.

"Whoosh."

A crossbow arrow shot out, and Master Ma rolled on the ground, shouting, "Master, save me!"

Another silver-armored guard had arrived, and Master Ma quickly opened his mouth and spit out mist, knocking him unconscious.

But when he turned around, he saw that the last silver-armored guard had arrived and was about to chop with his sword.

Master Ma didn't bring anything with him this time except two emergency tubes, so he could only sit and wait for death.

"puff."

Gu Jingnian pounced forward and was stabbed, but he also knocked down the silver-armored guard, stabbed him with his dagger, and fought with him.

Master Ma ignored their fight, stood up and ran towards Chunchi. From the corner of his eye he saw a pair of deerskin gloves hanging around the waist of the fallen silver-armored guard, so he pulled them off and put one on his hand while running.

Finally, he ran to the vernal pool.

The small pond was made of strange gray stones, five feet square, and the water inside was shallow and sticky, with a foul odor.

Master Ma picked up another deerskin glove and scooped up a full bucket of water from the pool.

He turned and ran with the pool water in his hands, not caring that Gu Jingnian was still fighting with the guards. When he passed by the three unconscious guards, he picked up the knife, wiped their necks, and poured some of the pool water on their flesh.

After doing this, he dropped the knife and ran towards the palace at the foot of the mountain where flames were shining brightly.

He was so excited that his eyes were shining, he kept breathing heavily, and he was muttering to himself.

"Heaven and earth are unkind and regard all things as stupid dogs..."

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Gu Jingnian didn't know how many times he was stabbed, but he finally cut the throat of the silver-armored guard before he ran out of strength. He fell to the ground helplessly, thinking that if he had bad luck and couldn't kill the other person before he passed out, he would be arrested.

This time, his chest and abdomen were almost torn apart, and the bleeding had not completely stopped.

Turning around, he saw another silver-armored guard lying beside him. The shiny armor reflected the moonlight, and in the light, there was something as thick as a grass stem floating.

After regaining some strength, Gu Jingnian took a closer look and saw it burrowing into the flesh and blood of the corpse like a mayfly.

He suddenly realized what was in the spring pond. He propped himself up, walked over there, and stood by the pond to look at it.

The leech spits out saliva to form eggs, and this is probably a pool of eggs.

"Take it!"

There were rapid and dense footsteps behind him, the sound of armor clanging, and another team of silver-armored guards quickly arrived.

Gu Jingnian didn't dare to stay, staggered a few steps, and fled into the darkness...

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After an unknown amount of time in the darkness, Pei Nian finally slowly opened his eyes.

She was startled when she saw herself locked in a huge cage. She immediately reached for the dagger in her boots, but found nothing.

When he reached into his arms again, he found that the small crossbow, fire signal, token and other items he had carried were all gone.

Her whole body felt sore and there was only a buzzing in her ears. She struggled to sit up and take a look. Yu Kui and Huang Hu were also waking up. There was another tall and strong man lying in the cage, snoring.

After a while, Pei Nian shook his head and gradually began to hear the sounds, the big man's shrill snoring, and the complaints of You Gui and Huang Hu.

"Damn it, I was hunting geese all day and got pecked in the eye by a goose."

"Listen, what's the sound?"

The first thing Yougui did when he sat up was to lean over to check on the big man.

"This is a leech!"

"Cut off his head!" Huang Hu said immediately.

He searched his body but couldn't find the knife, so he crawled a few steps towards the big man, trying to twist his head off with his bare hands.

But he couldn't even stand up right now, so how could he have the strength?

"This man is wearing the imperial army's military robes." You Gui said, "He might be Lu Yanning's subordinate."

Huang Hu saw that the big man's stomach was rumbling more and more violently, and said anxiously: "It's already this time, and you're still saying it's useless."

Suddenly, footsteps were heard from the darkness of the hall.

Someone was walking slowly towards us, holding a candle.

"We are the Kaiping Division!" Pei Nian shouted, "Now that you have the token, have you ever thought about what will happen if you touch the emperor's confidant?"

"Oh, Pei Jishi, why don't you wait until you see clearly who I am before you say such things."

The man walked closer and held the candle to his chin, illuminating the face. He looked a little scary. He was very thin, but his eyes were very big and seemed to be bulging out of his eye sockets.

"Liu Ziyan!"

Huang Hu was furious and asked, "Who ordered you to do this? What are you going to do?"

Liu Ziyan said, "I am the one questioning you now. How did you find Wanchun Palace? What did you find? Do you have any accomplices?"

Pei Nian glanced at the big man from the Imperial Army who was obviously about to change. He pinched himself desperately with his fingers, trying to regain his strength as quickly as possible, while trying to get some words out of him.

"You are the mastermind behind this? Are you a spy from Yong State? Or an alien? When you and Liu Heng failed to poison him, you caught the imperial commander Cui Hao and the Minister of Works Chao Juzhi for killing the people. You used them, hid in Wanchun Palace, raised leeches, and caused the Western Suburbs Incident. You are preparing to assassinate the emperor again."

Liu Ziyan said: "You are going to die soon, what's the point of checking these things?"

He didn't look at Pei Nian, but at You Gui, and said, "If you are willing to cooperate, you can live."

"Get out!" Huang Hu cursed.

Liu Ziyan turned a deaf ear and said, "Captain You, you have fought for your whole life. It is not worth dying here."

Yugui lowered his head and thought for a long time, then he spoke with a hoarse voice, "Okay, let me out, and I'll tell you."

"If you say so, I'll let you go."

"He's about to turn into a leech. Let me go."

"Then tell me quickly."

Huang Hu was furious and said anxiously: "Yougui...you!"

Yugui said helplessly: "We caught a few caged people and asked them to bring us in. We saw the six-headed viper..."

He spoke in a low and unclear voice, and with Huang Hu and Pei Nian shouting at the side, Liu Ziyan failed to hear several key points.

But when he heard the word "caged", he subconsciously took two steps forward and listened attentively.

"say what?"

"We caught..." Yugui came forward and spoke.

At the same time, the yellow tiger pounced forward and stretched out its hand out of the cage to grab the animal.

"Oh!"

The cage rattled and Huang Hu's head was broken and bleeding, but he couldn't reach Liu Ziyan at all.

Liu Ziyan was startled and quickly stepped back, cursing, "Three fools who don't know how to live or die."

Pei Nian and You Gui realized that they could not deceive Liu Ziyan, so they turned around to check on the big man from the imperial army.

Huang Hu was still cursing, his face flushed with anger, and he was even sweating slightly. He seemed to be trying to regain his strength in this way.

"Liu Ziyan! Your entire family will be executed and torn into pieces!"

"Shhh."

Liu Ziyan pointed behind Huang Hu and said, "Let's begin."

Huang Hu turned his head and saw that the big man from the imperial army had sat up and opened his emotionless eyes.

The three people in the cage were stunned and confronted him for a moment, until a loud sound of flesh and blood being broken broke the silence.

In the bloody rain, a bloody mouth burst out...

(End of this chapter)