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Chapter 87 The Line Behind
Wang Fu said, "June 3rd."

Geng Xuan asked again: "What about the last time?"

Wang Fu thought for a moment and said, "I don't remember the exact time, but it should be between the first and fifth days of March."

"That's rare, isn't it?"

"I...I don't understand."

"There was only a three-month interval between his two visits, which is obviously out of line with the previous pattern. Didn't you discuss this privately?"

"No...no."

Wang Fu replied, and seeing that the other party was not satisfied, he quickly said:

"There is a rule in the team that we are not allowed to discuss or explore matters related to the special envoy in private."

Geng Xuan understood that this was actually a kind of protection for the "special envoy".

He must have a public identity in Yuanzhou, which is his disguise and also a kind of constraint.

Even if he covered it up well, he would inevitably reveal some clues as he appeared in front of Wang Fu and others so many times.

These clues may be difficult to string together into a clear line when seen by everyone, but if one person's shortcomings are noticed by everyone, and if everyone discusses them openly, over time, the "special envoy's" flaws will basically be exposed.

In this case, we should simply ban discussion of the issue and mystify the identity of the "special envoy".

"Then what do you think?"

Wang Fu glanced at the person in front of him quietly and whispered:
"I haven't thought much about it, but...but I think he is probably here just for Geng Biao."

In fact, now that things have come to this, anyone who is not a fool can guess what it is.

Geng Xuan asked again: "What did the special envoy tell you specifically?"

"He asked us to kill Geng Biao, and it would be best to do it covertly, making it look like a natural death or disappearance."

"that's it?"

"that's it."

"Didn't he ask you to visit his house?"

Wang Fu shook his head: "No, and, apart from a public visit, we have no reason to go to his home in Changpingfang."

"He asked you to kill him because he was a deserter, right?"

"That's what he said."

"What do you think?"

Wang Fu shook his head: "I don't know, I just followed orders."

"He also ordered you to get rid of Geng Biao's son?"

"No, it's been a long time."

Geng Xuan nodded in his heart, this was what he thought.

He thought for a moment and then asked, "When the special envoy came in early March, did you mention Geng Biao in the information you gave him?"

Wang Fu was stunned, and then suddenly looked up at the man in front of him.

He had already understood that the other party obviously believed that the intelligence they handed over during the routine visit of the "special envoy" in early March contained information unfavorable to Geng Biao. This led to the "special envoy" coming again only three months later and issuing an order for them to kill Geng Biao.

Wang Fu hurriedly shook his head:
"No, before the special envoy issued the order, we did not pay any special attention to Geng Biao, and we did not know that he was a deserter."

"So what was the content of the intelligence you submitted at that time?"

"They are all common news, including the price changes in Kangle Market, some things related to the several masters, some well-known rumors, and some information related to the surrounding neighborhoods. However, because each neighborhood is relatively closed, we can't find out much, and there is even less information about Changpingfang..."

Having said this, Wang Fu suddenly stopped talking.

Geng Xuan asked: "What did you think of?"

Wang Fu glanced at him carefully and said, "I did mention the Geng family at that time."

"what?"

“In fact, the Geng family was mentioned in the news only in passing. The main point was that an accident occurred at the cemetery in Changpingfang at the end of last year, and more than a dozen tombs collapsed.

Soon, Wanfufang also learned about this matter, and some old people in the neighborhood lamented that if Geng Shantong were still alive, this would not have happened. "

Geng Xuan was stunned. He knew about this incident from his previous life's memories. It caused quite a stir in Changpingfang at that time.

However, those were things that happened before he came here. He never expected that this would be related to the Geng family.

"Who is Geng Shantong?" Geng Xuan had a vague guess in his mind, but still wanted to confirm it.

“Geng Biao’s grandfather was good at finding and digging graves. All graves he dug were basically very safe and there would be no problems even after decades.

When he was here, not only in Changpingfang, but also in our own neighborhood, there were elderly people who specifically asked him for help before they died.

However, after Geng Shantong died, no one in the Geng family did this anymore.

Some people say that the small number of descendants in the later generations of the Geng family may be related to this. Geng Biao's father was very averse to people in the neighborhood mentioning this matter.

By Geng Biao's generation, no one in Changpingfang talked about this anymore, but the elders in our neighborhood would occasionally talk about it."

Geng Xuan asked, "You put all this into the intelligence and handed it over to the special envoy?"

"……Yes."

Wang Fu said nervously.

At this moment, he also vaguely realized something.

“What state do you work for?”

"Only the captain knows this. He said he would tell us after we officially join the state army." Wang Fu shook his head.

"What's the envoy's name?"

"……do not know."

"Do you know where you live?"

“I… don’t know either.”

After answering several "I don't know" questions in a row, Wang Fu became more and more uneasy.

Just as he was waiting for the next question so that he could perform better, he suddenly felt a darkness in front of his eyes, and a hand that seemed to be emitting an iron-colored luster appeared in front of him and was slapping him on the head.

"It's over."

Wang Fu felt a chill in his heart.

The next moment, he had no next moment.

……

[Capture the remaining energy, do you want to refine it? ]

"Yes."

Immediately, Geng Xuan felt a slight burning sensation between his eyebrows.

Then, another piece of information came to mind.

【Red luck eight, black luck five. 】

Geng Xuan looked at the two people who were still unconscious beside him, thought for a moment, then walked over and slapped them on the top of their heads, shattering their brains with such powerful force that they would be completely killed.

As Geng Xuan refined the remaining energy of these two people, two more pieces of information emerged in Geng Xuan's mind.

【You get 10 red luck and 4 black luck. 】

【You get eleven good luck and four bad luck. 】

From these three times of residual energy gains, it can be seen that the sins each of them carries are actually not too heavy.

Of course, his objects of comparison were those scumbags in Wuyou Palace, the thugs in Kangleji, the group of black-robed guards, and those dandies who did not take the lives of ordinary people seriously and enjoyed whipping people on horseback in the downtown area.

Compared with these people, the sins committed by these "out-of-state spies" are relatively minor.

However, if the comparison is with the residents of the neighborhood, the sins they bear are still far beyond the average level.

Besides this, another special thing was that the "bad luck" they brought to him was too much compared with previous situations.

This was because Wang Fu and the other two died last. The four people before him brought him even more bad luck.

Among them, the man in camouflage uniform who was killed first by him was the most serious.

Whether it is good luck or bad luck, his contribution far exceeds that of others.

"Good luck 21, bad luck 15".

The three people who died after him brought Geng Xuan “Good luck 11, bad luck 9”, “Good luck 10, bad luck 9”, and “Good luck 9, bad luck 6” respectively.

All in all, these seven people brought him a total of 80 points of good luck.

The black luck has 50 points, the highest in history.

In other words, the trouble that getting rid of these seven people might bring to him would be greater than annihilating all the people in Dingxing Hall of Wuyou Palace and killing the woman named Xu Nianwei.

However, Geng Xuan was not surprised by this.

If the bad luck they brought him was even worse than the one that wiped out all the people in the Dingxing Hall stronghold of Wuyou Palace, he would doubt the authenticity of the information he had been forced to extract. After killing all seven people, Geng Xuan began to think about how to deal with the aftermath.

If it is not handled properly, it will definitely cause an uproar in Wanfufang.

The forest of Wanfufang happened to be adjacent to Changpingfang. As long as someone instigated it, the turmoil might spread to Changpingfang and even provoke a blood feud between Wanfufang and Changpingfang.

In any case, this is a situation that Geng Xuan does not want to see.

Even if he could deal with all the bodies of these people and remove all traces without leaving any flaws, it would not help in preventing the situation from developing in the direction he was worried about.

Faced with the situation where no one from their own hunting team is found alive or dead, the people of Wanfufang are likely to react even more extreme.

Geng Xuan thought about it for a while and gradually came up with a solution.

He first gathered the valuable items on the four people to one side, then he chopped off the heads of the four people with his knife, gathered them to another side, and wrapped them in a pile with a piece of clothing.

Then he picked up the four headless bodies and threw them far into the depths of the jungle.

Soon, Geng Xuan heard rustling noises coming from those places, as well as the roars and howls of many wild beasts fighting for food.

Geng Xuan dealt with the two long-tusked wild boars in the same way.

Before processing, he deliberately used a butcher knife to cut open the body of a long-tusked wild boar. About ten centimeters deep under the hard skin, he finally found the long needle he shot with a blowgun.

Around this fine needle, an area about the size of a goose egg showed obvious tearing and erosion.

Geng Xuan dissected several more places and confirmed that this was not an isolated case, but that there was a large area around all the long needles that showed obvious tearing and erosion.

This was obviously caused by the power contained in the long needle spreading inside the unprotected body.

Geng Xuan imagined that it was like a long needle breaking through the long-tusked boar's hard skin defense and "imploding" inside its body.

"It seems that the lethality of this blowgun is a little stronger than I thought."

"From this perspective, using thin needles is not a disadvantage, but an advantage."

"The thinner the needle, the quieter and quieter it is, and the stronger its defense-breaking ability is.

As long as the realm is high enough to contain more strength, the damage caused after penetrating into the enemy's body will be greater.

However, the smaller the needle, the less force it can attach... The right size depends on individual circumstances."

“If the attack area is the brain, it can be a one-shot kill.

However, after refining the bones, the head's defense power is the strongest in the whole body, which is not easy.

The neck and heart are easier to hit. As long as the range of the implosion is large enough, it can be fatal. "

Thinking of this, Geng Xuan threw two long-tusked wild boars into the depths of the jungle, causing them to quickly disappear into the hungry and greedy stomachs.

After dealing with these, Geng Xuan used the same method to deal with the bodies of the man in camouflage uniforms and three other people hiding in the treetops.

Keep the head and throw away the body.

——This can cover up the fact that the man in camouflage was hit by more than ten arrows, and the other two were hit by three arrows each.

The people in Wanfufang didn’t know that the “murderer” was good at archery.

Because this may make them think of Mr. Chai who is famous for his "Three Arrows", and themselves whose reputation in Changpingfang has skyrocketed due to their extraordinary archery skills during this period.

Carrying the seven heads, Geng Xuan rushed to the temporary base of the seven people.

Before I got close, I heard the fierce barking of dogs in the distance.

One was loud and fierce, the other was mournful and weak.

Geng Xuan's heart moved, and he immediately accelerated and rushed forward.

Just as he saw the hut from afar, the dogs' unusually violent barking suddenly stopped.

A large, shiny black dog suddenly appeared at the door, its sharp eyes locked onto the figure of Geng Xuan, who was as agile and nimble as a ghost.

Wherever his body moved, the dog's eyes would stare there.

What is not easy for practitioners to do is easily accomplished by a dog.

Just when Geng Xuan was about two hundred steps away from the base hut, the big black dog's eyes suddenly looked towards Geng Xuan's waist with seven human heads hanging on it. Then, a look of obvious fear appeared on the dog's face, and it let out a "woohoo" sound, then turned around and ran towards the jungle away from Geng Xuan.

The speed was not slow at all.

At least it is at the level when Geng Xuanli's flying technique was still at the master level.

Although it is still far behind Geng Xuan now, catching up with it is not an easy task.

What Geng Xuan was more worried about was that while chasing the dog, he would encounter other hunting teams from Wanfufang, and then the two sides would inevitably come into conflict, which Geng Xuan did not want.

But we have to get rid of this dog.

Its reaction to scent is so acute, and it was given to this group of spies by the "special envoy". If this dog were to return to the "special envoy's" hands, all his "tricks" would be exposed.

After figuring out the key points, Geng Xuan threw out the seven human heads from his waist and hung them on a branch on one side, making his body become lighter and more agile.

While moving at high speed, Geng Xuan took the black bow on his shoulder and reached into the quiver.

When he reached out again, rows of long arrows were already placed on the bowstring. The arrowheads, which had become dark due to repeated collections and stained with too much blood, were pointing far away at the big black dog that was also moving at high speed in the distance.

This time, Geng Xuan did not shoot immediately, but slowed down a bit, waiting until the big black dog jumped up again and its four limbs left the ground almost at the same time. Then, the arrows flew towards the big black dog like locusts.

The arrow had only passed halfway through the air when the big black dog, with its limbs off the ground, seemed to have sensed something. It let out a squeak, kicked its limbs in the air, and twisted its body as much as possible, changing its trajectory in the air and avoiding the direction of the arrow.

But what the big black dog didn't know was that, almost at the moment when it was trying its best to change the direction of the landing point, the nine long arrows that had already cleared most of the air and were not far behind it suddenly bloomed to the left and right like flowers.

The position it was aiming at suddenly changed from a point to a line.

This line, combined with the rapid forward movement of the nine long arrows, formed a surface!

It was like the god of death's scythe, cutting forward.

Although the big black dog tried its best to change its landing position, it did not completely jump out of the range of this "surface".

When its two front limbs just landed on the ground and its two hind limbs were still in the air.

A long arrow grazed its left front leg, leaving a tear that cut through the dog's skin and injured the leg bone.

Another long arrow shot into the big black dog's lower back and pierced deeply into it.

The fast-moving big black dog was hit hard and fell sideways with a shrill howl.

When it tried to stop rolling and stand up to continue running away, another long arrow broke through the air and penetrated directly into the dog's brain, ending its life completely.

Geng Xuan came to the big black dog and couldn't help but feel emotional.

"This dog's nose is so sharp that it can detect abnormalities from such a distance!"

"You can predict danger so keenly. I'm afraid that ordinary people in the marrow refining realm can't have such an ability, right?"

“It’s so fast too.”

Geng Xuan had not expected that the one who caused him a little trouble in this operation was not a human, but a dog.

If he didn't have many tricks up his sleeve, the dog might have really gotten away.

He collected the seven arrows that were still in relatively good condition, and did not ignore the other three that were badly damaged. Instead, he put them aside separately, preparing to discard them in a hidden place after returning.

Then, Geng Xuan checked again and cleaned all the arrow holes on the ground.

Finally, he picked up the big black dog and threw it far into the depths of the jungle.

……

When Geng Xuan came to the door of the hut again, a low dog bark suddenly came from the house which had been silent before.

"Woo~~"

Geng Xuan clearly heard an emotion called joy from the dog's barking.

The familiar feeling in his heart became stronger.

Suddenly, the memories of his previous life surged up and Geng Xuan remembered.

He quickened his pace and entered the house immediately.

He saw a dog.

A dog was lying in a pool of blood, trying to raise its head and look outside the house, whimpering with joy.

Geng Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, and his guess was confirmed at this moment.

This dog turned out to be the same dog that disappeared into the forest with his previous father.

A dog that was both a playmate of the predecessor and a hunting partner of the predecessor's father.

The dog had obviously sniffed him out before he even entered the house.

Different from Geng Xuan's reaction, the dog, which had been holding its head high with strong anticipation in its eyes, became confused and puzzled the moment it saw Geng Xuan.

Finally, he even bared his teeth and growled at him.

Geng Xuan immediately understood what was going on. He reached out and wiped his face, returning to his original body.

The dog, which was growling at it, suddenly froze for a moment, then started barking at him, its tail wagging gently.

Geng Xuan, who had seen its current condition, silently squatted down, reached out and gently rubbed its head, while looking at its horrible lower body.

(End of this chapter)