Following Peng Zhenlei and the other two climbed to Santai Mountain as they were still emitting green smoke from the sky, Bai Shier and Zhu Jinxuan were more like they were here to travel around the mountains and rivers, rather than to investigate the case.

Because compared to the fact that he had just arrived and didn't understand the situation, the five Peng Zhenlei and the other two had a hint of fantasy in their hearts. They had already observed Zheng Yixiang's actions in Quanzhou Prefecture before that Mu Yixing had escaped and had not left any clues. Otherwise, how could Zheng Yixiang have rushed back to the city so anxiously, instead of leaving to continue to investigate and find clues.

However, Peng Zhenlei sincerely invited each other, and the two of them were embarrassed to fight for their relationship, especially after they learned from Peng Zhenlei that they had met Hu Xiaolin and his group before and the most important situation that happened later, the two of them became even more difficult to rush back to Zhangzhou Prefecture as planned.

Peng Zhenlei and the other two did not know Zhu Jinxuan's identity, and Hu Xiaolin and others came to the south from a mission, so they had no doubt about why Hu Xiaolin took over the assassins and escorted the mission of the spy.

But Bai Shier and Zhu Jinxuan obviously thought much deeper than they did.

So in Peng Zhenlei's view, Hu Xiaolin agreed to escort the arrested assassins to the Zhangzhou Prefecture City in order to enjoy the credit of the spy, but in the eyes of Bai Shier and Zhu Jinxuan, it was obviously different.

Although the two still couldn't figure out what Hu Xiaolin had for doing this, there was one thing they were sure of:

Peng Zhenlei must have done this to find their traces and even catch them directly.

After thinking this in mind, the two of them naturally delayed the plan. Before they could determine the whereabouts of Hu Xiaolin and others, they would better not act rashly, otherwise they might fall into Hu Xiaolin's trap if they are not careful.

Since the original plan has been disrupted by Hu Xiaolin and his group, I will simply accompany Peng Zhenlei and the others to take a look around. Maybe if I have good luck, I can find some clues.

...

When Peng Zhenlei and Bai Shier finally rushed to the original Taoist temple along the still conspicuous smoke pillar, only one ruin that had even the entire frame collapsed by the fire. The remaining blue smoke from the wind continued to emit like endlessly, and from time to time, it fell to the ground because it could not support its own weight, making waves of muffled sounds and sparks.

Looking at this scene, Peng Zhenlei and the other two looked a little ugly.

When Bai Shier told them, they were still a little unwilling to believe it. After all, the Jinyiwei who came this time were all elites from Yingtian City. Zheng Yixiang, the hundred-household family they led, was even a famous guy. How could he be like an idiot, scaring Mu Yixing away like an idiot, and not even caught a single living person.

But now they have to believe it when they see this "clean" ruins burning.

It was able to burn so cleanly that it was enough to show that the other party did not throw a fire casually in a hurry when leaving, but was very fine, igniting it everywhere to ensure that the fire spreads immediately after it was ignited and cannot be controlled and extinguished.

And to do this, it is obviously the result of having enough time to prepare.

"Okay, now you should believe that what I said is true."

Peng Zhenlei nodded silently.

"So that's the case, let's not continue to waste time here. Let's go to Quanzhou Prefecture City first and then make a long-term plan again."

Although the wood that can be burned has completely turned into charcoal and the open flame has almost disappeared, the smoke everywhere still makes people feel a little uncomfortable.

"No, since you've come here, then wait until the fire is completely extinguished and you can go in and see if you can find some traces."

However, Peng Zhenlei rejected Bai Shier's "kindness" suggestion, looked around for a while and shook his head and replied.

"Okay, then you guys are here waiting for it first. We both go back to the city first and wait for you to make up."

Bai Shier curled his lips secretly and pulled Zhu Jinxuan to turn and leave.

"By the way, we stayed at Yuelai Inn in the east of the city. If you have finished searching and enter the city, you might as well go there to find us. I'm also curious about what traces you can search."

After leaving a sentence of encouragement, but more like a ridiculous word, Bai Shier took Zhu Jinxuan down the mountain, leaving only Ye Bi who was also ready to move when he looked at the two of them, the Tie brother and sister, Wen Tailai, and Peng Zhenlei, who was unmoved at all, who had already begun to look for footprints and traces around.

...

"Who are these new guys?"

When Bai Shier took Zhu Jinxuan down the mountain, in the deeper dense forest, Mu Yixing stayed behind his subordinates who continued to stare at this "old nest". At this time, he was secretly cursing the sudden appearance of Peng Zhenlei and his group.

After confirming that Zheng Yixiang had returned to Quanzhou Prefecture City, Mu Yixing immediately took his confidant away and went to other secret strongholds in Quanzhou Prefecture to hide. He was the only one left. Because he received Mu Yixing's order, he continued to hide here and continue to monitor and investigate the situation.

The reason why Mu Yixing took the risk of leaving him alone here is naturally not because he wanted to "show his power" and fight against ten to clean up the subsequent enemies. The only reason he left was the gold and silver he had been transported away because he had no time to do so.

Since he supported the Zhenhai Gang more than ten years ago and gained a foothold in Quanzhou Prefecture, Mu Yixing has made a lot of money here by relying on brokers who acted as a killer business and using his own killers to take over the job.

When the situation spreads, income will naturally roll in.

Although there have been three experiences in the past ten years to send the saved money back to Jitian, the money accumulated in the past four years is still here.

It was difficult to bring so much money to the road in a hurry, so Mu Yixing chose to bury it on the spot and hide it in the Taoist temple. Therefore, in addition to burning the Taoist temple to destroy it, it was to cover up this batch of money that had been buried in the ruins.

Therefore, when he saw Peng Zhenlei and his group heading straight for the ruins that were still emitting blue smoke, his heart naturally became nervous immediately. When he saw Bai Shier and Zhu Jinxuan go down the mountain together, but Peng Zhenlei and the other two were still in place, with no sign of leaving, his heart immediately hung up.

Immediately afterwards, when he saw Peng Zhenlei searching for branches around him, approaching the ruins carefully, as if he was planning to enter before the fire was completely extinguished, his heart became extremely nervous.

He didn't know whether he should move now, so he attracted the attention of Peng Zhenlei and the other two.

After all, it was said to be buried, but because of the emergency of leaving, Mu Yixing just ordered people to throw the money into the cellar of the woodshed.

Because there is a lot of firewood, the fire should cover everything up. Even if Peng Zhenlei and the other two enter the search, they should not pay attention to the woodshed.

But he was worried about gains and losses in his heart, but he didn't notice that behind him, a figure was approaching him silently as if it was a ghost in the daytime.

...

Fang Ritu no longer knew how many times she had fallen into a coma due to severe pain and was awakened by the salt water with precious salt.

Without checking for a while, he was trapped by Bai Shier, the "old opponent". At the moment he was arrested, he knew what would be the one who greeted him.

But even though he was prepared, when he really experienced these things, he became less and less confident.

At this time, he had even begun to "understand" why Xinyuehu, who had been caught by the six doors before, had betrayed. Even a man who was a calm man who could not bear such pain, let alone Xinyuehu, a woman.

However, he did not choose to surrender.

He knew he still had a glimmer of hope.

He was so confident in his heart not only because he knew that the Dongchang men in front of him who were crazy torture, as if he wanted to torture him to death, it was impossible for him to torture him to death before he spoke out all the secrets, but also because he knew in his heart that these Dongchang men did not know that in five or six days, or even three or four auspicious times, Kang Jinlong would arrive at Quanzhou Prefecture City.

Of course, he would not naively think that Kang Jinlong could rescue him from the Dongchang men's men by just being alone. He bet on the magic of the 1,000 taels of silver in Kang Jinlong's hand.

Money can help ghosts and gods.

One thousand taels of silver may not be worthy of the hands of those rich and wealthy businessmen and those fourth-rank high-ranking officials who "a year of Qing magistrate, one hundred thousand snowflakes" but in the eyes of many civilians who are busy making a living, even if they divide this thousand tael into ten parts, it is already a shocking amount of money.

After all, a good acre of land is only a few taels of silver at this time. One hundred taels of silver is enough to buy more than ten acres of land and become a small landlord.

So as long as Kang Jinlong has the determination to save him and the courage to spend money, his chances of being rescued are not too high, and he can still be about 50%.

What he has to do now is to hold on until that opportunity appears and seize it to take a gamble.

The only thing to worry about is Kang Jinlong.

One thousand taels of silver are enough to give him a chance to save him up to 50%, but it is also enough to deliberately abandon him in order to make his own mistakes.

At that time, what Kang Jinlong needs to do is nothing more than repeating the plan in his mind when reporting to Qinglong, and then adding an unfortunate and failed ending at the end.

What he could think of was Kang Jinlong.

His only chance of winning may be Kang Jinlong, who had to choose to save him because he wanted to know Hua Linlang's whereabouts.

But if Kang Jinlong chose that thousand taels of silver, what should he make a decision?

The endless pain came again, and Fang Ritu's consciousness fell into a coma again.

But before he fell into a coma, he had already made a choice.

‘If he really gave up for that thousand taels of silver, then I would only let him feel the same, without more pain.’

...

While feeling the pain while waiting in Fang Ritu, Bai Shier had already seen the sneaky spy who was wearing dark brown and wrapped his whole body in it, and even his hair was not exposed.

If it weren't for the fact that the other party had already locked in, and the other party was occasionally lying his head to look at the direction of the Taoist temple that had turned into ruins, he wouldn't have been able to discover the other party.

This outfit is good.

Bai Shier did not jump over and capture the other party immediately, but lay on the tree branch and observed the other party from top to bottom.

What interested him the most was naturally the other person's clothes that were integrated with the surrounding environment.

Secondly, it was obvious that there was something in the Taoist temple that had been burned into ruins by the fire they set themselves, which would make the other party so uneasy and look extremely nervous.

I didn't know that I had become a spy who had become Bai Shi Er's target, and his expression became more and more nervous than before.

Because in his pupils, Peng Zhenlei and the other two were all holding five-foot sticks, walking and stopping in the ruins, poking around.

This search method of Peng Zhenlei and the other two made him very nervous.

If he was just relying on his hands and feet, he would not be very worried. After all, the firewood that had hidden money was piled up with enough firewood before, so it would be the most difficult place to clean and approach. Even if he wanted to find something wrong, he would first move the firewood that had been burned into charcoal.

But now, they all poked everywhere with five-foot sticks in their hands. If they really accidentally poked the entrance of the cellar, the dull sound that came out would immediately make them notice.

Now he only hopes that Peng Zhenlei and the others will notice that it was originally just a woodshed because they saw the piles of charcoal and ashes, and then give up the idea of ​​continuing to investigate.

Or maybe I was perfunctory because I was afraid that the clothes on my body would be stained by some charcoal ashes.

"What are you worried about?"

But just as he was thinking about it with great concern, a voice suddenly rang in his ears.

"I..."

His mind was occupied by many worries and subconsciously wanted to open his mouth to express his concerns, but as soon as he opened his mouth and spit out a syllable, his face immediately changed drastically, and he exerted force under his feet and wanted to retreat in the opposite direction of the sound.

But when he had been touched by someone and had not noticed it before, it was too late for him to retreat violently.

When Bai Shier touched him, he had already made a move like lightning when he opened his mouth, pointing at the acupuncture point all over his body.

After having the previous experience of building a house, he has gained experience in dealing with these dead soldiers who always think of suicide. After clicking on the other party's acupoint, his subordinates kept grabbing the other party's chin and exerting a little force to remove the other party's chin.

Then he exhaled a breath of turbid air from his chest as if he was relieved. While looking at the other person with interest, he began to grop on the other person.

He naturally wanted to hand this person over to Peng Zhenlei and the others for interrogation, but the good things on the other party naturally belonged to him.
Chapter completed!