Unraveling the Truth

Chen An and Li Yin were still lying on the ground. After a series of noises from Li Yan's room, there had been no sound. After a while, they only felt a chill on their bodies, but it returned to normal after a moment. Still, they didn't dare to get up.

Military Advisor Ji once again infiltrated Green Mountain Pass. He went straight to the military camp. His purpose this time was to find the person who had spoken to Chen An at the camp gate yesterday afternoon, and the other soldier who had been on duty at North City gate and told Li Yin, "Lord Li left the city more than two hours ago." Of course, it was easy to find out where these two soldiers were in the camp. Chen An and Li Yin were old soldiers, and they both knew these two soldiers. After Military Advisor Ji questioned them closely, Chen An and Li Yin had already told him everything they knew about the two soldiers, spilling the beans completely.

Soon, Military Advisor Ji arrived at the military camp. It was already past midnight, and the camp gate was tightly closed. Patrol teams passed by neatly from time to time inside the camp, but in Military Advisor Ji's eyes, it was as if they were nothing. He could come and go freely from the camp with hundreds of thousands of troops, let alone this military camp with tens of thousands of people in the city. Before long, a figure shot out from the military camp. If anyone could see clearly, they would see that this person was carrying one person in each hand, as if they weighed nothing. In a flash, the figure had floated out of the military camp.

Feng Chuang woke up slowly, feeling cold all over. He couldn't help but open his eyes, but he was stunned, as if he were sleepwalking. He was now lying in what seemed to be a dense mountain forest. Where he opened his eyes, there was some moonlight sprinkled through the treetops. He hurriedly turned his head, but it was dark all around, and he couldn't see very clearly. He clearly remembered that he had routinely conducted the whole team training after dinner today, and then turned off the lights and went to bed early. He was clearly sleeping in the camp tent, so how did he get to what seemed to be a mountain forest outside the city?

He sat up and shook his head to clear his mind. "This must be a dream," he thought. When he opened his eyes again, the scene in front of him was still the same. Even a brave soldier like him couldn't help but feel scared. He quickly pinched his thigh, and it hurt a lot, so it wasn't a dream.

"You don't need to confirm it. This is not a dream. What you need to do now is to honestly answer my questions. That's enough." A sinister voice sounded in the darkness.

Feng Chuang only felt a chill down his spine. He looked back and saw a slender Black-Robed Man standing in the darkness not far away.

"Who are you?" Feng Chuang asked in a trembling voice.

"You don't ask, I ask, understand? Remember, if you lie when I ask questions later, the consequences will be a little unpleasant." The voice was cold and without a trace of emotion.

"Yesterday afternoon, when you were on duty, did Military Advisor Ji's disciple Li Yan ever walk out of the military camp?"

Feng Chuang was stunned. He didn't expect this person to kidnap him here to ask this question. He couldn't help but hesitate, but he didn't dare not answer. "Oh, yes, he came out not long after entering the military camp."

With a crisp "crack" sound, followed by a shrill scream, pierced the night in the mountain forest, startling the roosting birds to flutter and fly away. The Black-Robed Man had already approached Feng Chuang at some point. He reached out and broke one of his fingers.

Then, in this continuous low questioning, there were shrill screams from time to time, and there were also bitter cries for mercy.

After a quarter of an hour, Military Advisor Ji slapped Feng Chuang's forehead with a palm. Feng Chuang, whose face was already disfigured and almost no part of his body was intact, fell softly, bleeding from all seven orifices, but with a smile of relief on his face, as if death was the happiest thing for him.

In this quarter of an hour, Military Advisor Ji had used many inhuman methods, but his questioning was repeated over and over again: "Did Military Advisor Ji's disciple Li Yan ever walk out of the military camp?"

After a quarter of an hour, he confirmed that "Li Yan did not come out of the military camp."

Next, he bent down and woke up another soldier. Before long, a shrill scream rang out again, and in this dark night in the mountains, even the surrounding startled birds had long since disappeared, leaving only the darkness and the screams like evil spirits constantly echoing.

Another quarter of an hour later, Military Advisor Ji slapped the soldier's forehead again, and the scream stopped abruptly.

The surrounding ancient trees towered into the sky. Military Advisor Ji stood there. "Li Yan really went out of the city, and he went out from the North City gate; but another military camp guard said that he did not walk out of the military camp gate. Heh heh, Hong Linying, really good methods. There are only two exits in the military camp. Since Li Yan did not go out at the camp gate, but Li Yan appeared at the North City gate, did you even use the Tiger Tally to let Li Yan out from the military baggage area?

Once this city is out from the South Gate or the North Gate, if you want to come back, you can only return from these two city gates. Where you go out, you go back, unless he secretly enters the city from the North Gate again, but this possibility is almost zero. There is no doubt that Li Yan went out of the city yesterday.

He went out alone, not on horseback, and in a hurry. It can be deduced that he also avoided Hong Linying. With that kid's caution in secretly practicing handwriting to hide from me, and being someone who can make Hong Linying use the Tiger Tally, how clever is his mind? He will definitely not put his life in the hands of others. I just don't know what method he used to get rid of Hong Linying. Hmph, it seems that Hong Linying was also tricked by him.

In this way, there is basically no need to investigate in the city. I originally wanted to capture Liu Chengyong and Li Yan's fellow villagers to ask questions, but now it seems that there is no need. Li Yan is now hiding somewhere outside the city."

If Li Yan and Hong Linying were here, they would be shocked. What they had planned for several months was deduced by the calm Military Advisor Ji in just half a night to be eighty or ninety percent accurate.

And Military Advisor Ji's entry point was also very particular. Although his conclusions included Liu Chengyong, Li Shan, and Li Yu as suspected targets, he directly looked for the key figures who witnessed Li Yan, and after getting the answers he wanted, he deduced the truth step by step. The other conclusions were easily solved, saving the time of finding and interrogating them one by one. However, this also saved the lives of Liu Chengyong, Li Shan, and Li Yu in the invisible. If it weren't for the calm Military Advisor Ji, he might have gone to anyone he suspected. The fate of those who were found by him was basically certain. He would not leave anyone alive.

"So, next is that kid's whereabouts. Great Green Mountain Li Family Village? Hehe." In the darkest hour before dawn, Military Advisor Ji's dark face was integrated with the night, but the exposed white teeth were particularly conspicuous.

His figure swayed, and he was about to break through the air, but then he stopped again. He concentrated again for a while, and muttered to himself, "No, although Li Family Village may have a 'dark under the lights' situation, this kind of life-gambling method is too hasty. This is not something that kid can do. In these conclusions, there are still two things that may reveal this kid's whereabouts. One is why Li Yan recently bought a large number of agricultural tools and clothing? Second, what is the significance of Li Yan's recent large-scale planting of those flowers and plants?"

He stood there motionless, and time passed little by little. Slowly, the eastern sky was a little bright, and the mountains and forests began to be a little hazy.

Finally, Military Advisor Ji's figure moved, shaking his head. "Those agricultural tools and clothing seem to be really useless. This should be a way for him to soothe his mind. After all, Li Yan grew up in a mountain village, and he still has a primitive dependence and possessiveness for agricultural tools and things in the city. It's just that these flowers and plants look a little strange. It may be a way for him to escape. To be specific, I still have to go back and check." Thinking of this, he got up and went to the Military Advisor's Residence.

At this time, the military camp in the city was in an uproar. Two soldiers had disappeared overnight. Could they be enemy spies? Were they discovered and sneaked away in the middle of the night? Or did enemy personnel appear in the city and kidnap the two soldiers? For a time, the military camp was extremely tense, and each camp was wary of each other. Among these people, one person vaguely felt that this matter might be related to Li Yan, and that was Liu Chengyong. One of the two missing people was acting on orders like himself, and the other was also the person who guarded the city that day, but he didn't dare to talk nonsense. He just felt extremely nervous. He guessed that it might be the work of Military Advisor Ji, otherwise, with the strictness of the military camp's defense, it was not something that a few Jianghu experts could kidnap, and this was done silently. Thinking of Military Advisor Ji's unpredictable methods when fighting against the enemy outside the city, he became more and more certain.

Hong Linying sat in the central military tent. After receiving the news early in the morning, he rushed over.

Looking at the generals in the tent, he said in a deep voice, "The South Gate is closed and no one is allowed to enter or exit. The North Gate is strictly checked. The military camp must also be thoroughly investigated. Two large teams will be transferred from each camp to investigate each household in the city. The external statement is that it is suspected that enemy spies may have sneaked into the city. Do not reveal the disappearance of the soldiers, understand?"

The generals in the tent stepped forward in unison, "Yes, sir," and then walked out in unison. In an instant, only a few strategists and Marshal Hong were left in the tent.

Marshal Hong looked at the strategists and waved his hand, "You guys go out too."

"Yes, Marshal."

After the personnel left, Marshal Hong looked at the marshal's desk and stared blankly for a while. "Hehe, are you going to do it? You are really fast. Since you already suspect it, then I will follow that kid's wishes."

In the Military Advisor's Residence, in the inner valley, Military Advisor Ji had returned here. Looking at the two people who were still crawling and kneeling there, a flash of killing intent flashed in his eyes. He slowly walked to the two people in front of him, silently looking at the two people lying on the ground. After a while, he waved his sleeves, "You two go out."

Chen An and Li Yin had been kneeling for a night. Even with their bodies, they were already mentally blurred. Suddenly hearing this voice, they were shocked and sobered up a little. They quickly kowtowed, and then slowly and laboriously stood up, and then the two supported each other and limped out.

What the two of them didn't know was that they had just walked around the gate of hell. It was just that Military Advisor Ji saw the appearance of the two of them, and now he was concerned about other things, so he temporarily let the two of them go.

Military Advisor Ji ignored how the two of them went back. He looked at the various flowers and plants that had been planted not far in front of the stone house and couldn't help but observe them carefully. Then, he carefully walked along the Gongjian path, stopping and stopping, and from time to time he would lie down and observe carefully.

In this way, the morning sun slowly rose. At this time, Military Advisor Ji was squatting in front of a flower. This flower was planted on the south side of the valley, close to the foot of the mountain. Compared to the stone house and this piece of flowers and plants, it was extremely remote. He patiently walked through each place, and when he came here, he found that one of the flowers was a little taller than the surrounding flowers. This was originally a very common thing. There is no fixed conclusion about the height of plants, but the strange thing is that there are many empty places around this flower away from other flowers and plants, but it is not a very large empty place. But if you look closely, this is a bit different from other places.

Military Advisor Ji squatted in front of this flower, first observed the flower, and found that although the flower was taller, it seemed to be malnourished. This was a bit strange. Generally, tall flowers and plants are lush, but this one has sparse branches and leaves.

Seeing this, he reached out and dug a few times at the root of the flower, and the flower fell down. It seemed that the roots were not very deep. Next, he saw that after the main stem of the flower fell, a piece of silk was exposed below. Immediately, his spirit was lifted, and his hands were covered with spiritual power to grab the piece of silk, but in the process of picking it up, there was nothing unusual.

After taking it in his hand, he took a closer look. This was a small piece of black silk, folded into a square.