A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 463: Arrests
Duan Rong carried the box and walked into the secret room. In front of him was a small space connected to a dark corridor. The screams came from deep in the corridor.

At the entrance of the corridor, on the stone wall, a candle was lit, and under the candle a man from the Dali Temple was standing there, guarding the place with a sword in his hand.

The man had met Duan Rong in the afternoon. When he saw Duan Rong coming in, he called out respectfully, "Sir!"

Duan Rong put the box on his shoulder on a stone table not far away, then sat on a stone chair, exhaled, looked at the man, and said, "Ask Zhu Cheng to come over, I have something to ask him."

"Yes!" The man clasped his fists and accepted the order, then turned and walked into the corridor.

The creepy screams in the corridor died down at this moment, and the man walked to the door of a room.

It was an iron door with a window, and a dim light was flashing through the iron window.

He bent his fingers on the iron door and knocked three times. The dull sound of iron clanging rang out in the dark space.

After a few breaths, the iron door opened with a bang, and a face that looked uncertain under the light poked out. The voice was filled with anger, and he asked hoarsely, "What's the matter?"

Zhu Cheng's eyes were sunken in the shadows, and the man couldn't see clearly, but he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, and said in a trembling voice: "Boss, Lord Duan is back and is outside. He said he wants to see you."

Zhu Cheng was silent for a while, and the tyranny and cruelty in his eyes seemed to fade away a little. He stepped out and casually closed the iron door behind him.

There was a dead silence inside the iron gate. Under the dim light, a human-shaped blood gourd was chained to a wooden frame, motionless. At the base of the frame, blood mixed with minced meat flowed all over the floor...

After Zhu Cheng walked out of the corridor, he looked up at Duan Rong who was sitting on a stone chair. His cheeks were a little stiff due to the long-term killing with clenched teeth.

Duan Rong glanced at Zhu Cheng who came out, and his eyelids couldn't help but twitch slightly. Zhu Cheng's face and neck were splattered with flesh, his stiff face and the residual cruelty in his eyes seemed to explain what he had just done. At this moment, Zhu Cheng gave Duan Rong a miserable smile.

The smile was stiff and weird, like a puppet.

In a trance, Duan Rong seemed to see the serial killer demon in the movies.

Zhu Cheng said respectfully, "Sir, are you looking for a humble position?"

Duan Rong was distracted for a moment, then pointed to the box on the stone table beside him and said, "The things in this box are very important. Your secret room is well guarded. Find a place to hide it. I will need it later."

Zhu Cheng glanced at the box. Although he didn't know what was inside, since it was something Duan Rong brought back specially, it was obviously not an ordinary thing.

"Don't worry, sir, I will keep it safe!" Zhu Cheng said, and reached out to pick up the box on the stone table.

Duan Rong noticed that Zhu Cheng's raised hands were both covered in blood.

Duan Rong suddenly asked, "How is the interrogation of the people in Taihe Tower going?"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Cheng's bloody hands paused for a moment, then he used two fingers to pinch out a piece of paper from his lapel.

Zhu Cheng placed the piece of paper in front of Duan Rong. Under the dim light, he could see several bloody fingerprints on the four corners of the paper.

Zhu Cheng said, "Five people have been interrogated so far. Four of them have confessed." At this point, Zhu Cheng paused and said, "But one is dead."

Duan Rong asked: "Who died?"

Zhu Cheng said, "The owner of Taihe Tower is Qin Ya."

Duan Rong frowned, Qin Ya was obviously the most important person in this group.

Duan Rong's face was obviously unhappy. He stared at Zhu Cheng and asked, "How did he die?"

Zhu Cheng said: "Qin Ya had a tongue nail with a strong poison hidden in it. During the interrogation, as soon as I woke him up, he bit off his tongue, and the poison in the tongue nail sprayed out, and he died on the spot!"

Duan Rong sighed. This Qin Ya must have an important person who was held in Ge Rushong's hands. Otherwise, he wouldn't be so stubborn.

Come to think of it, since Ge Rushong entrusted him with the management of such an important stronghold as Taihe Tower, how could he not use some means to control him?
Duan Rong's expression had eased a lot, and he said, "This is inevitable. He is determined to die, and he has been prepared for this."

"Yes." Zhu Cheng said respectfully.

Duan Rong reached out and picked up the paper on the stone table. He saw about a dozen names written on it, and each name was followed by an address and martial arts level.

Zhu Cheng said: "These are the names of the four people who spoke up. I was originally going to report them to you, my Lord."

Duan Rong's eyes were cold as he scanned the martial arts realms on the list.

There were a total of four people in the True Qi Realm.

Duan Rong said: "I will take Zhu Peng with these four people in the True Qi Realm. Send your people to take the rest."

"Yes!"

Duan Rong tore off a corner of the paper, and the information of the four people in the True Qi Realm was written there.

Duan Rong handed the paper with a large corner missing back to Zhu Cheng. Zhu Cheng took it with his bloody hands. Duan Rong then stood up and walked out of the dark room.

Zhu Cheng glanced at Duan Rong's departing back, picked up the box on the stone table, and walked deeper into the corridor.

Duan Rong came to the entrance of the dark room in the rockery, looked at Zhu Peng who was guarding there, and said, "Take four sacks and follow me."

Zhu Peng was slightly stunned and asked, "Where are you going?"

Duan Rong said: "Go and catch him."

Zhu Peng was originally covered with two rolled-up sacks, and then he pulled down the sacks of the two men beside him and tied them to his lower back. Then he followed Duan Rong and jumped over the high wall of the backyard in the dark.

Duan Rong was not very familiar with the area of Shenyun Mansion, especially some remote places, which he had no idea where they were.

As soon as the two of them were outside the high wall, Duan Rong looked at the shadow beside him and asked, "Where is Shiyi Lane?"

Zhu Peng asked, "Are you going to Shiyi Lane?"

"Yes!" Duan Rong said, "Let's go there first."

This person's name is written at the very front. In addition to the address and martial arts level, there is also a note that this person has another identity, which is the contact person of the Tongzhengshisi liaison point.

When Duan Rong was an outer disciple, he dealt with this kind of people a lot.

Ge Rushong built the Taihe Tower as an intelligence base to eavesdrop on the powerful and control the officials, but all the intelligence he obtained was not reported to Master Chu of the Council of Elders, but became his own private property.

An elder of a sect uses the records of officials to control the government and the country in the secular world. This act is suspected of usurpation and treason.

And proving the connection between the contact person at the Tongzhengshisi contact point and Taihe Tower can further confirm Ge Rushong's suspicion, which is obviously very important.

Therefore, although the four people were from different places, Duan Rong went to Shiyi Lane first.

Zhu Peng grew up in Shenyun Mansion and knew every street and alley like the back of his hand. Later, he became the Privy Councilor and became even more familiar with some remote alleys.

Duan Rong and Zhu Peng walked together in the shadow of the night.

The two men were no longer as easily exposed as the twenty or so shadows. They hid in the shadows at the entrance of an alley, and waited until the patrolling soldiers on the street walked away before they suddenly crossed the street and jumped into another alley across the street.

About half an incense stick later, the two came to an alley. Soon, they stopped in front of a somewhat dilapidated house. The yard and the house were all made of adobe bricks. They couldn't even afford blue bricks, which showed how poor this family was.

In the yard, there is a faint aroma of beans... This family is grinding tofu...

Duan Rong's spiritual consciousness had already passed through the wall and the courtyard, and he saw a couple sleeping on the bed in the inner room of the adobe house, sleeping naked in each other's arms.

The spiritual consciousness penetrated the dantian of the two men. The woman on the bed was obviously just a civilian with no martial arts skills. She might not even know that her man had another identity.

Duan Rong couldn't help but sigh. He turned his head and whispered to Zhu Peng, "Wait for me here."

Zhu Peng was only at the Qi realm. Once he moved, it would easily alarm the person in the room.

Duan Rong suddenly flew up like a big bird, jumped over the courtyard wall, and landed in the yard as lightly as a fallen leaf. Then he tiptoed and stood in front of the door of the main room like a ghost.

At this moment, the person in the room was still snoring softly.

Duan Rong suddenly formed a knife with one hand, and the vital energy flashed on his fingertips. With a flick of his finger, he slashed through the crack in the door, and the bolt inside broke with a sound.

The man who was sleeping soundly on the bed woke up suddenly when he heard the slight breaking sound of the door bolt, but before he could get up, he saw the curtain in front of the inner room door sway, and his face was like a breeze blowing across it. Duan Rong's palm had already slapped his dantian through the quilt.

In the darkness, cotton wool fluttered in the air. The man groaned and fell on the bed with blood coming from the corner of his mouth.

The woman was obviously awakened by the noise. She was about to turn over, but at this moment, Duan Rong shook his sleeves and a ball of medicine powder was sprinkled on the woman's face.

The man lay there, enduring great pain, and said in a hoarse voice: "She knows nothing. Let her go..."

Duan Rong ignored the man. He shook his sleeves and sprinkled the same powder on the man's face.

The man's eyes flickered, and the words he hadn't finished were stuck in his throat...

Duan Rong stood there, his spiritual sense sweeping across the room. On the bed, both of them were naked. When his spiritual sense swept across the woman, his eyelids couldn't help but twitch.

In the darkness, Duan Rong suddenly turned his head and looked towards a corner of the room. He walked over slowly and took out an adobe brick from there.

The adobe brick was only half a piece. Duan Rong stretched out his hand from the hole in the wall and took out a wooden box. After checking with his spiritual sense, he could see clearly that the wooden box contained the sect's cloud certificate and the seal of the Ministry of Public Administration.

Duan Rong stood there, his eyes flickering. He looked at the naked woman on the bed, and a hint of hesitation flashed through his mind.

He still couldn't bear to kill!
Duan Rong suddenly leaped and landed lightly on the bed. He squatted down, hugged the woman's neck, and the quilt covering her slipped down.

Although the bedding seemed to be nothingness when he explored it with his spiritual sense, the real vision was still more shocking, and Duan Rong couldn't help but feel his blood surge up.

He suppressed the throbbing in his heart, flipped his hand and took out a porcelain bottle, fed a pill into the woman's mouth, then rubbed her plump chin and throat to make sure that she had swallowed the pill.

He had given this pill to Yang Zhen in Xiangu County. After swallowing it, the woman would fall into a coma for five days.

After five days, everything should be settled!
Duan Rong stood up, holding the wooden box in one hand, grabbed the naked man with the other, and jumped out.

Duan Rong jumped out of the courtyard wall silently like a ghost and landed beside Zhu Peng who was waiting there. He threw the man to the ground beside Zhu Peng and whispered, "Take him with a sack!"

Although the starlight was dim, Zhu Peng could still see that it was clearly a naked body. His eyes moved, and he looked at Duan Rong and asked in a somewhat strange tone: "What did you do to him?"

Duan Rong's forehead suddenly bulged with a vein when he heard this. "What do you mean I should do to him? He was naked when I went in."

"Oh, so that's it!" Zhu Peng didn't know whether to believe it or not, but he had already put the man in a sack.

Then, Zhu Peng carried the sack and went to the next location with Duan Rong.

About an hour later, the two men, each carrying two sacks, jumped over the high wall in the backyard of Zhu Cheng's mansion, and then flashed towards the rockery without slowing down.

Not long after the two men left, dark shadows jumped into the high wall from the darkness, and they all carried sacks on their shoulders. One by one, they disappeared into the rockery.

After Duan Rong and Zhu Peng handed the captured people to Zhu Cheng, they jumped out of the high wall of the backyard again, and disappeared into the dark night like a ghost...

When they returned, Zhu Cheng had already interrogated another group of people.

This was the rhythm Duan Rong had planned, repeating over and over again, to kill all the grasshoppers on this line one by one. He had originally planned to take down Taihe Tower, and pull out everything that could be pulled out...

When it comes to actual implementation, the most important thing is actually the word "secrecy", as the saying goes, things are accomplished through secrecy.

If the pigeon had flown away when they destroyed the Taihe Tower, their current actions would probably have been in vain...

Duan Rong and Zhu Peng carried the sacks and jumped over the high wall in the dim light. They had long forgotten how many times they had jumped over the wall.

Duan Rong carried two sacks on his shoulders, while Zhu Peng only carried one sack on his shoulders.

When Zhu Peng landed on the ground, he stumbled and fell to the ground with the sack with a cry.

After falling down, Zhu Peng actually lay there with his arms and legs spread out, gasping for breath and sweating all over.

Duan Rong glanced at the lying Zhu Peng. After a busy night, even he felt a little tired, let alone Zhu Peng who was in the True Qi realm.

Duan Rong put down the sack on his right shoulder, then kicked with his toes, and Zhu Peng's sack fell to his right hand. Duan Rong grabbed both sacks with his big hand.

Then he carried a sack on his shoulder and held two sacks in his right hand, and flashed towards the rockery.

Not long after, Duan Rong came here again, but Zhu Peng was still lying on the ground, like a dead pig, motionless, and constantly swallowing saliva...

Duan Rong kicked Zhu Peng in the waist and said, "Get up!"

Zhu Peng turned around and saw Duan Rong holding another piece of paper. He felt hopeless and complained, "Why is there more?!"

Duan Rong said, "Get up! Quickly! There are two addresses on this sheet, and I don't know where they are."

"My bones are almost scattered..." At Duan Rong's urging, Zhu Peng struggled to stand up. He glanced at the sky above his head and murmured, "It's almost dawn."

Duan Rong looked up at the sky and said, "Prepare a carriage. Let's go there."

Duan Rong had asked Zhu Cheng to prepare the carriage in advance, so that they could travel more easily after daybreak.

At daybreak, they could no longer walk on the streets carrying sacks on their backs, as that would be too conspicuous. Putting the sacks in the carriage helped to conceal their tracks. Even if they were checked, they had tokens from the Dali Temple and the Privy Council, so no one dared to check them.

Duan Rong and Zhu Peng drove a carriage out of the backyard from the corner gate...

In the dim light of day, the three-story Taihe Tower was seen to have its door tightly closed.

Taihe Building usually opens its doors to customers after breakfast, but even so, at this time on normal days, the door to the lobby on the first floor has already been opened. Although customers are not allowed in, the shop assistants delivering the day's fresh fruits, vegetables and snacks are already shuttling in and out of the building.

But at this time, there were seven or eight guys pushing carts, all crowded outside the door, and some of them had been waiting for quite some time.

"What's going on? I'm in a hurry to deliver to the next family! If I'm late, the shopkeeper will scold me!?"

Some people couldn't wait any longer and knocked on the door, but the Taihe Building was dead silent, with no response at all...

(End of this chapter)