Black Fairy, the master is a female ghost

Lu Xunhuan slept until dark, and a whole day passed like this.

Turning over and sitting up, he felt hungry.

After waiting for a whole day and seeing no sign of the captain coming, he decided to go out and eat something before coming back.

He climbed over the wall and walked along the street to find a restaurant.

But at this time, a long line of torches was moving on the street.

The garrison originally stationed in Nanjun City is being dispatched urgently.

It seems that the fighting on the front line is not easy.

The Nanjun garrison received an order to support the Tongmu Pass front line.

Could it be that the Zhou Kingdom’s offensive was so fierce that the garrisons in the three counties surrounding Tongmu Pass were not enough?

Otherwise, why would even the garrison troops of Nanjun City be dispatched?

After walking about a mile along the street, he finally found a small restaurant, went in, sat down, and ordered two dishes at random.

The diners in the restaurant were talking about the news that Tongmu Pass had fallen and the enemy had surrounded Tongmu County.

Lu Xunhuan was a little surprised when he heard that Tongmu Pass had fallen.

Did the Zhou Kingdom still have any decent generals who could lead the army to capture Tongmu Pass?

There may be only one reason why Dongyan lost the natural barrier of Tongmu Pass: they were even worse than Zhou Guo.

From what Lu Xunhuan had seen and heard in Nanjun City these days, he knew that the people of Dongyan were living in dire straits and corruption was rampant, which was indeed more serious than that of Zhou Kingdom.

He ate his meal in silence, returned the same way, and jumped into the house again.

He didn't want to care about the battle situation.

Now, he only wanted to get information about the dragon bones.

When he jumped in, there was already a person standing in the open space in the courtyard.

It was just dark, so I couldn't see the person's face clearly.

Lu Xunhuan asked, "Password."

The man replied, "Turn off the lights and eat noodles."

Lu Xunhuan turned around and walked towards one of the rooms.

As he walked, he covered his face with a mask.

"Come in and talk."

In a room, Lu Xunhuan lit a tinder stick and lit it up.

Then, he sat down at the table, looked at the man, and said, "Sit down."

The man was about thirty years old and looked quite calm, but his eyes and body were alert.

Obviously, although he came, he did not completely believe the so-called special envoy identity that Lu Xunhuan said.

He said to Lu Xunhuan, "Since you asked me to come here, why can't you show your true face to me?"

Lu Xun Huan replied, "My status as a special envoy is naturally special. I'm responsible for the Shenlong Pavilion's search for the divine bones. I must be careful no matter when and where I am."

He said to the man, "Please report. Is there any news about the dragon bones in Nanjun?"

The man said, "Forty-one years ago, a large number of fireballs suddenly appeared in the sky. Throughout Dongyan, objects probably fell from every state, and Nanjun State saw the heaviest rain."

Lu Xunhuan nodded slightly: "So, Nanjun has a good chance of finding the divine bone?"

The man shook his head. "At the time, there was a rumor that a dragon's bones had fallen from the sky, triggering a massive bone-collecting exodus."

"And within Nanjun, the most concentrated drop was in Tongmu County."

"During that period, people from all over the country flocked to the area. Within the hundreds of miles of the Tongshui River Valley, people could be seen everywhere, carrying tools and searching for dragon bones in the mountains and plains."

Lu Xun Huan touched his chin and said, "So, it's possible that a large number of dragon bones have been found."

The man nodded: "Yes."

Lu Xunhuan asked, "So, what are the results of your investigation?"

The man took out a few bones from his arms and said, "These are all dragon bones, but none of them are divine bones."

"After the bone-mining craze broke out, the imperial court launched an investigation, targeting thousands of households, and then arrested and exterminated them all in one fell swoop."

"After the clan was wiped out, the ancestral tombs of thousands of families, tracing back eight generations, were all dug up and eventually razed to the ground."

Lu Xun Huan pondered and said, "This is complicated."

"The imperial court exterminated those thousand families, dug up eight generations of their ancestors' graves, and probably took away a lot of dragon bones."

"There must be some that have escaped detection by chance. Even the imperial court hasn't found them. It's naturally not an easy task for us to investigate."

The man nodded: "So, Nanjun Province seems to have lost a lot of dragon bones, but it is actually very difficult to find the divine bones."

He paused for a moment and continued, "I heard this morning that a special envoy had arrived, and this special envoy was the masked man who had previously eliminated the Hongtian Gang. To be honest, I find it hard to believe."

Lu Xunhuan asked, "Why?"

The man said, "Although the Pavilion Master doesn't appear often, he has come to Nanjun at least three times since the establishment of the Shenlong Pavilion."

"Even though he never showed up, he would still ask me a few questions from afar. He never mentioned his subordinates or the special envoy."

Lu Xunhuan smiled slightly under his mask: "I only started serving as a special envoy more than a year ago."

"This special envoy has met with Yao Xue from Zhongzhou City in Zhouguo, Meng Tianfang from Baocheng City in Nanliang Kingdom, and Meng Tian from Yingzhou City in Nanliang Kingdom."

The man asked, "If you are a special envoy, why don't you have our list?"

Lu Xun Huan shrugged. "The Pavilion Master only gave me one sentence: go find the divine bone. If I can find it, it proves I have the ability. If I can't find it, it means I don't have the ability."

"He didn't provide me with everyone's list because he wanted me to expand the scope and not just limit it to the Shenlong Pavilion."

"But whenever I go somewhere, I need information about the dragon bones in order to find the sacred bones. So, who should I turn to for information? Naturally, it's you guys."

The man nodded: "That seems to be the case."

His trust in Lu Xunhuan has increased a lot.

He asked Lu Xunhuan, "So, Special Envoy, given the current situation in Nanjun Prefecture, how do you think we can more effectively find the divine bone?"

Lu Xun Huan touched his chin and said, "Just because a lot of bones have fallen out doesn't mean there are divine bones among them. There may be, there may not be. It's all unknown right now."

"Report what you know."

The man pulled out a piece of parchment from his arms.

"This is a list of people we've identified based on information, some of whom have escaped the imperial court's pursuit and are currently hiding dragon bones."

"We've thoroughly investigated the top ten on the list and found these dragon bones."

Lu Xunhuan asked, "So, after investigating the top ten on the list, most of them still haven't found the divine bone?"

The man said, "It is possible that the news is wrong."

Lu Xun Huansi took the list and looked at it for a while: "Most of them are from Tongmu County."

The man replied, “Yes.”

Lu Xun Huan thought for a while and said, "How about this? You send one of your men to be my assistant, and I'll go to Tongmu County for a while."

The man said, "But I heard that the Zhou Kingdom army has surrounded Tongmu County."

Lu Xunhuan stood up and said, "If I can't even overcome this little difficulty, then I'm serving as an envoy in vain. I'll see what happens after I go."

The man also stood up: “Then I’ll send Noila Mo to go with you.”

Lu Xunhuan asked, "Mo Xiaoqian, is this the woman who came last night?"

The man replied, “Yes.”

Lu Xun Huan nodded: "Okay, let her wait for me outside the South City Gate tomorrow morning. I will naturally call her when I arrive."

He walked towards the door and said, "Several people have died here. It's a haunted house. Let's not stay here any longer. Let's go."