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A scream pierced the Shanyue army's early morning camp.

Fortunately, it was already dawn at this time.

Otherwise, this might cause a roar in the camp.

Zhuge Tian suddenly opened his eyes. Of course he fell asleep directly after coming back last night.

But he is a light sleeper, so if Mr. Zhao comes back, he will definitely not be able to hide it from him.

But he was awakened by this scream, which meant that Mr. Zhao had not returned all night.

"What happened?"

The others also sat up in panic.

"Hey, where is Mr. Zhao?" Someone found that Mr. Zhao was no longer in the tent.

The others shook their heads.

"Someone's dead! Someone, come! Someone's dead!"

From the place where the screams first came, another sound was heard. Because it was very close to Zhuge Tian and his men's tent, several people looked at each other and walked out.

Several people in nearby tents were woken up by the noise.

Zhuge Tian frowned. The place where the person died was actually the tree where he urinated yesterday.

Although the dead man's head was buried on the ground, his clothes showed that he was Mr. Zhao, who had not returned home the night before.

This also gave Zhuge Tian a bad feeling in his heart.

Zhuge Tian's residence was arranged by Liu Xie, right next to where Liu Xie lived.

So Liu Xie arrived very quickly.

Seeing the dead body, his face darkened and he shouted softly: "Except for the people in the two tents next to this one, everyone else should stay here."

Those who came to watch the excitement from other places looked back every few steps, speculating about the identity of the deceased and who killed him.

The two marshals soon arrived with their men.

Among them are two new leaders, Zhao Yun and Liao Hua.

Although there were constant fights and brawls among the Shanyue army.

Sometimes one or two lives are lost.

But those who died were basically thrown into the mountains or buried.

In the end, they were treated as missing persons or declared internally as deserters.

This is the first time that something has been placed so blatantly in the camp, obviously intended for people to know.

"Commander!" Liu Xie bowed and saluted, but was interrupted by the two men.

"No need to be so polite. Did you find anything?"

"I just arrived a short time ago and have chased everyone else away, but I don't think it can be hidden in the army anymore."

"But Zhao Si probably didn't die here. He was killed somewhere else and brought here."

"Oh? Why do you think so?" Qin Lang asked.

"It rained for half an hour last night, and the soil beneath the tree was soft. But there's no soil from nearby on the soles of Zhao Si's shoes, so he must have died somewhere else and been brought here."

"Died somewhere else..." Qin Lang frowned: "Then why was it specially transported here?"

"I don't know." Liu Xie shook his head. "Just now I looked and saw a footprint under the tree."

Then he looked at Zhuge Tian and the other two people who stayed in the nearest tent and asked, "Did you notice anything unusual yesterday?"

He especially looked at Zhuge Tian and his men, after all, these people were in the same tent as Zhao Si.

Everyone in the other tent shook their heads and said they slept soundly last night and didn't notice anything unusual.

Zhuge Tian naturally shook his head. At this time, the man in the same tent with him, who knew a little over 200 words, looked at Zhuge Tian timidly and said, "Pang... Pang Tong left the tent last night."

Zhuge Tian's eyes narrowed slightly, then he stepped out, saluted, and said, "Two commanders, Master Military Advisor, I just had to pee last night, so I came out to pee around three o'clock in the morning."

"Pee..." Qin Lang looked at him: "Did you notice that Zhao Si was missing at that time?"

"...I never noticed." Zhuge Tian could only say: "I woke up because I had to pee, and I was still sleepy. I peed here in a daze and then went back. I never noticed whether Mr. Zhao left in the middle of the night."

"Then come here and stand on it!" Liu Xie pointed to the footprints left under the tree.

Zhuge Tian sighed and glanced at Zhao Yun and Liao Hua out of the corner of his eye.

The fingers of his left hand clenched into a fist three times, seemingly nervously.

This was a secret signal from several people, indicating that the two should not act rashly.

After walking over, he found that the footprints were left by him when he went out to pee yesterday, so they naturally matched.

"Humph! Your name is Pang Tong, right? What else do you have to say now?" Qin Lang waved his hand: "You are deliberately killing your comrades. According to military orders, you must be executed. Capture him!"

Qin Lang and Lu He's men surrounded Zhuge Tian.

Only Zhao Yun and Liao Hua looked at each other, and then slowly approached Qin Lang and Lu He.

The Shanyue army has more than 3,000 people, and the three of them can't really defeat a thousand of them alone, so it's unlikely that they can break out of here.

The only way now is to capture these two commanders as hostages.

Just as Zhao Yun and Liao Hua were about to attack, Liu Xie suddenly shouted, "Wait a minute, Generals! Pang Tong is a bit suspicious, but if he really did it, there are only his footprints here. Why would he deliberately place Zhao Si's body here?"

"If he's not the real murderer, wouldn't that let the real murderer go unpunished?"

"Mr. Liu is right!" Lu He, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke.

"But Pang Tong is also a big suspect. To prevent him from escaping, we should lock him up first. It won't be too late to make plans after we find out the truth."

Lu He was the commander-in-chief, and since he had given the order, others naturally followed it.

Zhao Yun and Liao Hua looked at Zhuge Tian, ​​knowing that he was not in danger for the time being, so they just stood there without moving.

Zhuge Tian, ​​looking like he had just survived a disaster, said to Liu Xie, "Master Military Advisor, it really wasn't me. I just went out to pee in the middle of the night. You must find out the truth for me!"

"I...I went out to pee around midnight yesterday, and Mr. Zhao's body really wasn't here at that time!"

He was standing aside just now and watched when Liu Xie went to check Zhao Si's body.

From his point of view, Zhao Si had not been dead for long.

It might be two or three hours at most, and he came out to pee at midnight, so there were still several hours in between.

Unfortunately, he couldn't say this clearly because he was just a young shopkeeper who was ignorant of the world, not a coroner.

So he could only remind Liu Xie like this.

He didn't know why Liu Xie protected him, but this was the only way at the moment.

Otherwise, Zhao Yun and Liao Hua would have to kidnap the two commanders and run away.

In that case, I don’t know whether the subordinates of these two marshals would be willing to pay the ransom to redeem them.

Two people came up and put shackles on Zhuge Tian and pushed him to the cell.

Before leaving, Zhuge Tian took a look at the "two hundred words" that reported him.

I saw that the other person kept his head down and I couldn't tell what expression he had.

But when I left the tent yesterday, I confirmed that no one was awake.

Did this person pretend to be asleep and hide it from me?

Or……