Chapter 227 Tracking
Without choosing to ride a horse or take a boat, Zhang Lie used the teleportation array to go directly to the bottom of Hai.
The investigation here has been very strict. There are many soldiers guarding the teleportation array. A huge notice wall was posted with portraits, all of whom were those who had received the news of the second batch of arrests in the "Jingxi" operation. However, after the sea arrest document, these people could not hide for long.
However, even if the inspection is strictly carried out, it would not take out the storage bags on the monk's body to check. Even a giant like the Jingji Dynasty would not dare to do such an act that violated the vital interests of the monks.
So Zhang Lie came out of the teleportation array at most, he was taken a few times by the soldier and did not get investigated.
I found a carriage store nearby and paid the deposit to rent a horse as a foot trip. Zhang Lie didn't even stop at Hai and left the city and followed the official road south to the beach.
The beach stone is built as a fortress group, and there is no public teleportation array, only a special array provided by the army, so Zhang Lie could only ride a horse to go there.
There were many checkpoints on the official road from Hai to the Stone, including Xuanqing Guards and border troops. Faced with Zhang Lie alone, there were also investigations, but Zhang Lie took out a "hunting document", which made the investigations lose interest.
The hunting documents are issued by Yashang, which are licenses for hunting foreign barbarians, and are also certificates for legal departure and bringing the barbarians back. Large slave caravans also have hunting documents, but they are slightly different. Zhang Lie’s hands are the kind held by retail investors.
The monks who dare to break into the barbarians alone are all tough characters, and the people at the level are not willing to make things difficult for them.
These were all what Zhang Lie asked Shen Hao to prepare for him after receiving the task. Not only these, but also dozens of joint points along the way.
Shortly after leaving the city, several carriages were parked outside a tea shed on the official road. Someone was sitting in it drinking tea and resting. A sign was hung at the door. The sign was a huge "tea" character on the sign was very eye-catching, and there was also a pattern of a wild goose as an embellishment.
The wild goose...the geese ridge knife is forged according to the amplitude of the back of this bird, and has extraordinary symbolic significance for Xuan Qingwei. Zhang Lie is very clear that this tea shed should be the joint point set up by Xuan Qingwei here.
But Zhang Lie did not stop, but rushed by.
He ran all the way until the afternoon when the horse was riding his lips began to turn white. He couldn't run away. Zhang Lie got off the horse and found a tavern on the side of the road to rest. He asked someone to help him get some water and forage for the horse. There was a pair of brass geese on the door knocker of the tavern, which looked very festive.
When he left, Zhang Lie did not reveal his identity, as if he had forgotten his mission and Shen Hao's instructions.
In the evening, Zhang Lie leaned his horse in the woods on the roadside, intending to spend the night here instead of entering the inn.
Light the fire, take out some dry food that I packed in the tavern in the afternoon, and eat it when it is hot.
As soon as he took two bites, Zhang Lie put the pancake in his hand aside, looked at the dark side, and asked coldly: "Who? Come out!"
The words were even more murderous, and a wave of heat seemed to begin to gather on his body, especially Zhang Lie's palms had already emitted a slight red light, just like warmed metal.
"Haha, Brother Zhang, don't be nervous, it's me." It was Ma San who walked out of the darkness.
"Oh? It's you?" Zhang Lie's expressionless face, but the redness of his hands faded back. However, he sneered in his heart. After coming out of the teleportation array from the bottom of Hai, he felt someone following him. The other party's shadow hiding method was very clever, but he could not escape the perception of someone like him who had received special training.
There were people following along the way, which made Zhang Lie dare not sloppyly to show his identity with the Xuanqingwei point along the way. Now he doesn't dare to check in at the inn at night, just waiting for the other party to appear. But Zhang Lie didn't expect that the person coming would be Ma San, and he thought he would be a certain accomplice of Ma San.
"Why didn't Brother Zhang go to the inn? It's so hard to be in the wilderness."
"Wow, I'm going out with goods, so I won't go without going to places with a lot of people. There are too many variables on the road. Who knows whether people with good faces are kind-hearted? Beware of it too much." Zhang Lie did not go close to Ma Santao. How can a person with fake names be trusted? And even if the other party doesn't know that he is a secret spy of Xuanqingwei, it cannot be ruled out that the other party has bad intentions.
It is not uncommon to eat bad things. It is not impossible to say that the goods have not been received and asked Feilong to refund the money.
"Brother Zhang is indeed very cautious. You can feel at ease when you hand over the goods this time. But further south is Xiaochuan's territory. There are many chaotic people there, and there are many masters in it. They have always liked to find fat sheep when they come and go. Although Brother Zhang is not weak, after all, it is inconvenient to be alone. I can accompany Brother Zhang for a long time."
"You mean I look like a fat sheep?"
"Brother Zhang, don't misunderstand it just in case." Ma San did not get too close, but just two meters away, found a tree to sit on, and looked like he wanted to spend the night with Zhang Lie.
Zhang Lie didn't say anything anymore. He could be very cruel but could not show fierce resistance to Ma San's behavior. After all, the goods he brought were actually Ma San's money, and Ma San's things were Ma San's things. However, Ma San's request was that Feilong, the intermediary party was responsible for transportation, and the transaction had not been completed yet.
Withdrew his gaze, Zhang Lie just used his perception to pay attention to Ma San not far away, as if he was just alert to strangers, but in fact he was carefully observing the mysterious figure who had been blacklisted by the Black Flag Camp in the morning.
The cultivation level should be between the third level and the fourth level of the God-Concentration Realm. It is impossible to tell at its true age, but it should not be over fifty years old. It does not carry weapons on its body, or it is in storage bags. It looks ordinary, and its biggest feature is that it has many wrinkles on its face when it smiles, which looks strange.
In addition, Zhang Lie also noticed that as late at night, he felt an increasingly obvious cold air from the other party. He thought to himself that Ma San was practicing the water-attribute ice technique?
The next day, Zhang Lie rode his horse and continued to go south. The destination was still near Xiaochuan, but Ma San said that he would tell him the specific location before he could get to the place. So the two galloped forward and backward.
noon.
"Oh, there is a pancake stall here? What a coincidence. Brother Zhang stopped to eat something before rushing on the way?" Zhang Lie ate dry food last night, but he didn't give it to Ma San. Now Ma San can't stand his hunger.
Zhang Lie glanced at the embroidered eyelids of Hongyan on the apron of the owner of the Shaobing stall and blew several times, and thought to himself that there were still a lot of talents in Xuanqingwei.
After eating three sesame cakes, they put a pot of water and continued to go south. Not far ahead was Xiaochuan.
Chapter completed!