thousand words

"What did you say?!" Baili Mingyan shook his hand holding the teacup, and the hot tea just made splashed out, making Baili Mingyan hiss.

Shangguan Zhe repeated frankly: "Last night, Qingyue Tower was slaughtered."

Baili Mingyan was pulled back by this straightforward answer. He slowly put down his teacup and turned to look at Shangguanzhe, and said seriously: "The whole building was slaughtered, and no one survived?"

Shangguan Zhe: "Probably."

"Probably..." Baili Mingyan understood the meaning of these two words, and finished the sentence for Shangguanzhe who was too lazy to speak: "Haven't you had time to investigate carefully?"

"Yes." Shangguan Zhe nodded.

Baili Mingyan also knew that Shangguanzhe was the world's number one mechanism art master, and he wasn't the one in Qianji Pavilion who collected information every day. It's normal that what happened last night hasn't been clarified yet.In fact, it's not that Qishanglou doesn't have talents in this area, it's just that Gu Shangqing has gone somewhere recently, and Baili Mingyan has already sent a pigeon, and it is estimated that he will be back in a few days.

Baili Mingyan couldn't wait, he picked up the teacup and drank the remaining tea in one gulp, stood up and said to Shangguanzhe in an unquestionable tone: "Come with me to Qingyue Tower at night."

After midnight, even Liaoyi, the city that never sleeps, should rest.

Fengyue Street, which is sleepless all night on weekdays, is also unexpectedly quiet tonight. There are no drunks who are still strolling on the street after playing the flute for a long time, and there are no red candles in brothels and restaurants to keep guests overnight.Except for one or two scattered lanterns fluttering in the night wind, the only thing left in the whole street is the clear sound of clappers echoing in the air.

Baili Mingyan and Shangguanzhe walked towards Qingyue Tower in such a swaggering manner. After seeing the seal on the vermilion gate of Qingyue Tower, they jumped onto the wall without hesitation, and then turned inside.

There was dead silence in the huge Qingyuelou courtyard, not even a cricket chirping on a windless night.The two groped in the courtyard in the dark, and searched around in the dim moonlight. The corpses had been cleaned up by the government during the day, and now there was nothing but a few puddles of blood.

Afterwards, Baili Mingyan took out the fire pocket from his bosom, and was about to ignite it but was blocked by Shangguanzhe's raised hand, and immediately untied a brocade bag from his waist, and took out a night pearl slightly smaller than a fist from it.

Baili Mingyan immediately understood, took Ye Mingzhu, turned around and walked into the front hall.

In the front hall, the neatly arranged carved tables and chairs were now lying on the ground, and the light gauze curtains were chopped into strands by swords.This is obviously a trace of a fight, and it is more than two martial arts practitioners fighting, not a unilateral beating.

The blood volume is also slightly more than that in the courtyard, but only slightly more. In Baili Mingyan's opinion, this level of blood volume is not enough to kill forty or fifty people, unless...

Baili Mingyan didn't go upstairs, but walked around the hall on the first floor before coming out.Seeing Shangguanzhe approaching, Baili Mingyan shook his head helplessly.

There is no body, and there is no reason for it.

This time, I don't know whether it was because the government acted quickly and efficiently, or because it was clear at a glance that it was a grievance between the world and the rivers and lakes, so they let it go. There was not even a patrol person at the scene of such a large murder case at night, but all the evidence that should be collected was swept away. Not a single trace was left.

"Forty or fifty people have died, such a small amount of blood is unreasonable..." Baili Mingyan analyzed it on his own: "There are signs of fighting in the room, but it is not chaotic. One side was tortured and killed. As far as I feel, it's more like a fight between three or four people."

"But the fact is that more than 40 people were killed in the Qingyue Building. As for whether there are any survivors, it is still uncertain. Since the news from the government is that the whole building is dead, even if there are survivors, it is definitely One or two escaped on the spot, and the government didn’t know about it.”

"There are so many people dead, but the blood volume is surprisingly low. There are two situations: one, most people have been poisoned and died before they found out that someone has invaded; Struggling, probably a hidden weapon..."

While Baili Mingyan was speaking, he had already quickly listed several killer organizations using hidden weapons in the Jianghu, and tried to eliminate them based on the traces left at the scene. After a while, he selected several suspicious gangs in his mind.It's just that he couldn't understand his motives.Until Shangguanzhe, who was left aside by him, spoke.

Shangguanzhe handed a small thing in his hand to Baili Mingyan's eyes, it was a long and thin silver needle, shining coldly under the light of the night pearl.

"The murder weapon." Shangguanzhe said.

Baili Mingyan took the silver needle, the silver needle is very ordinary and nothing special, but Baili Mingyan's heart is like a mirror, he smiled lightly and said: "I know a brother who uses flying needles." Not only Yes, I'm an old acquaintance.

"who!"

The smile on Baili Mingyan's face hadn't had time to subside when he glimpsed a black shadow on the wall out of the corner of his eyes.With a movement of his feet, Baili Mingyan's figure flashed two or three steps up the wall and ran after the black shadow, Shangguanzhe immediately followed.

Appearing at the murder scene late at night, apart from people like Baili Mingyan who have nothing to do, there is only the murderer.

Are you here to clean up the scene?Like recovering the silver needle he left behind?

Baili Mingyan originally thought that if that person really did it, he wouldn't need to hide anything, and if he was discovered, he would have discovered it, so what?In the vast rivers and lakes, no one would avenge a group of prostitutes.

However, when the man in black appeared like this, Baili Mingyan felt that something was wrong.

The two chased after the black shadow biting its tail tightly, the black shadow turned left and right in the alleyway of Fengyue Street, and fell on the wall for a while, and it took half a stick of incense to follow, although the distance was not far , but always unable to catch up, even Baili Mingyan and Shangguanzhe, who are masters of Qinggong, feel a little dizzy and tired.

Today, Baili Mingyan felt that among the people in the Jianghu who surpassed him in terms of martial arts, he was within ten.But to say that Qinggong is better than him, he is really not sure.

Seeing the man in black jump off the beam and turn around and run into an alley, Baili Mingyan also jumped off and turned into the alley.The cramped alley was pitch-black, and the few rays of dim moonlight leaking from the narrow sky above were useless, neither shining through the alleyway nor illuminating the road ahead.

Baili Mingyan stood at the entrance of the alley and saw people being followed, feeling depressed.Suddenly a gust of night wind blew head-on, Baili Mingyan paused suddenly as soon as he inhaled, and he immediately thought about it.

As soon as Baili Mingyan stopped, Shangguanzhe, who was following behind, also immediately stopped and stood behind Baili Mingyan.Only Baili Mingyan seemed to laugh, and said in a low voice: "Don't you think the coquettish lightness movement of the man in black looks familiar?"

I thought it was the murderer returning to the scene, but he didn't want to come, but he was just like them, "a person with nothing to do".

For the first time, Shangguanzhe echoed Baili Mingyan's slightly unserious argument: "It does look familiar."

"It's too much like his style..." Baili Mingyan took a deep breath and said, "And the familiar smell in the night wind..."

Shangguanzhe said indifferently: "Baishangniang."

Baili Mingyan nodded and said, "That's right. So, Gu Shangqing, come out! You've been exposed."

As soon as the words fell, I felt a breeze in my ears, and then a black figure appeared beside Baili Mingyan, and said in a slightly annoyed voice: "It was discovered again, could it be that my disguise technique is not good enough?" ?”

Baili Mingyan and Shangguan Zhe were speechless, who can see your stinky face in this dark and windy night...

Gu Shangqing was still picking on his own faults, Baili Mingyan and Shangguanzhe turned around and left, they were too lazy to talk crazy with this unscrupulous person.

Baili Mingyan continued to discuss the murderer with Shangguanzhe, and when Gu Shangqing saw that no one was paying attention to him, he followed up and poked here and there, looking very bored, with something in his mouth that he didn't know where to pick it. Willow said vaguely: "Discussing the case of Qingyuelou, how come our landlord has become a volunteer arrester after not seeing us for a few days?"

Gu Shangqing borrowed carrier pigeons to be recruited back to Liaoyi. He had just arrived in Xiyuan and didn't see the two of them, so he came directly to see the murder case he had heard about when he first entered the city, not wanting to run into it.

Shangguanzhe was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself that we can't say that our landlord is here to avenge Xiang Haoer's natal family...

Fortunately, Baili Mingyan didn't make things difficult for him, and answered by himself: "I suspect that these people are here for Qian Yuhan."

Gu Shangqing was taken aback for a moment, and said in surprise, "Did Qian Yuhan find it?"

Baili Mingyan frowned: "I'm not sure if it is... But the purpose of the gang of killers is probably related to Qian Yuhan."

Gu Shangqing let out a 'tsk', spat out the willow sticks, took out the jug from his waist, and took a sip, looking extremely thirsty, then he smacked his lips and continued: "Lord, I didn't say, Qian Yuhan is still He really has the ability to invite so many people to come to him after everyone is dead..."

Shangguanzhe crossed Baili Mingyan and tugged on Gu Shangqing's clothes with great difficulty, and Gu Shangqing's voice immediately turned: "In the final analysis, our landlord's wife is very powerful, not only a peerless master but also a peerless beauty..."

Baili Mingyan's cold eyes forced him to go back before he was ready to finish his flattering words, but Gu Shangqing was by no means a person who would stop talking when he was intimidated. He and Shangguanzhe had complementary characteristics. Absolutely.

Facts have proved that Baili Mingyan, the landlord, is still better. He said nonchalantly: "I saw Xiao Jinle a few days ago."

Gu Shangqing's noisy voice disappeared immediately, Baili Mingyan was very satisfied, and continued: "We met in Qingyue Tower."

Gu Shangqing paused, cursed and said: "Why did you go to the brothel to be a rabbit? Didn't you just say a few words to him that day, so I can't think about it..." He seemed to realize something, and said quickly in a low voice: " I'll go and come back." In the blink of an eye, his figure disappeared into the vast darkness.