Chapter 331 The World is a Huge Lie
Chapter 331 The World is a Huge Lie
As the night deepened, the clouds above the capital city were blown faster by the wind. The wisps of clouds were like rags, wiping the moon, which was as clear as new and reflecting the cold light.
Around the Kong family residence, there were soldiers in night clothes hiding in the darkness, ensuring that any mosquito that flew in would be detected.
"Huff...exhale..." At the entrance of a narrow alley diagonally opposite the house.
Zhang Han stood straight, leaning against the cold gray wall, his chest heaving with his breathing.
This number one king of the nine halls will lead the team tonight, guarding outside Kong Hanlin's house, ambushing and tracking the evil Taoist priest.
Not long ago, he witnessed a woman walking straight into the mansion.
Zhang Han silently counted his heartbeats and estimated that he had been inside for a full quarter of an hour.
"Sir, are we just going to keep waiting like this?" A police officer walked out of the narrow alley and asked in a low voice.
In the darkness, in the long and narrow alley, there were more than a dozen pairs of eyes hiding. Everyone's knife was wrapped in cloth, and their boots were also made of the softest cloth to prevent any noise from collision.
Zhang Han said nothing, just shook his head, but his eyes were fixed on the house.
Due to the information conveyed by Zhao Duan during the day, Ma Yan temporarily changed his tactics.
"Since the demon can possess others and get close to the target, the strategy of waiting for the prey will not work. If someone approaches Kong Hanlin, do not alert the enemy. Wait for the demon to leave, and then follow him secretly and try to trace his true form."
Ma Dugong's voice echoed in his memory.
"Out!"
Suddenly, everyone who was feeling uncomfortable was pleasantly surprised. They saw the closed door of Kong's residence opened and the jealous woman walked out alone.
She closed the door, determined the direction, and walked a distance toward the side of the deserted street.
Suddenly he stopped, turned on the spot, and headed straight for the narrow alley where everyone was hiding.
"Come out, I see you."
The woman said with a smile. At this moment, the clouds were blown away by the wind, and the moonlight sprinkled down, illuminating her strange smile.
Zhang Han's heart sank. He grasped the hilt of the seven-foot sword, stepped out, and said in a deep voice: "Take it down!"
Behind him, people in brocade clothes came out one after another, the sound of swords being drawn was continuous, and they quickly formed a semi-arc formation.
No one tried to communicate with this evil spirit who could bewitch people.
However, under the moonlight, the woman just looked at them approaching with a smile, and suddenly pressed her head with both hands and turned it hard!
"Crack!"
The woman broke her own neck, turned her head 180 degrees, and fell to the ground, dead.
"what--"
Even the Jinyi soldiers who killed and mauled people were shocked.
"Hulala-"
Suddenly, there was a sound of fluttering robes in the night sky.
Ma Yan was like a giant night owl, riding the wind, rushing over from the distant buildings and landing gracefully on the ground.
He was wearing a black and red cloak, and his stern face looked serious: "What's going on?"
Zhang Han quickly explained the situation and said at the end:
"Just like what Zhao Jisi said, the demon's true body never came, and he noticed us, so he didn't give us a chance to follow him."
Ma Yan turned his head, looked towards Kong's residence, and said, "Where is Kong Hanlin?"
"I haven't gone in to investigate yet."
Ma Yan took a step, his cloak spreading out behind him like a lotus leaf:
"Go and have a look. Take Kong Hanlin away and take control of the entire Kong Mansion. Once we are sure that everyone inside is alright, we will release them."
As he spoke, the policemen who were lying in ambush all around rushed into the Kong residence. Amid the frightened and panicked gazes of the people in the house, Ma Yan went straight to the study and stretched out his hand to push the door open!
Then he was stunned.
In the study, the candle had gone out and the thin and old Kong Hanlin hanged himself on the beam.
His eyes were bulging and his body was like a piece of hanging bacon. Under his feet was a stool that he had kicked over to the ground.
"Ah! Master!" Outside the door, the old wife who came rushing in wailed and fainted.
Ma Yan's face was as gloomy as water. He ignored the noise and walked to the desk. He saw the torn "The Master Does Not Talk About Speed, Strength and Destruction" and the saints' books scattered on the floor.
"Master Du... this..."
Ma Yan said nothing, but suddenly realized something and thought to himself, "Not good!"
Immediately, he flew out of Kong's residence, leaped into the air, his cloak fluttering, and ran towards the night.
He suspected that accidents might also happen to the deputy general of Qianniu Guard and the priest Zhao of Dandao.
Now that the evil Taoist has seen through the government's trick of tracking, he must change his plan and try his best to avoid more casualties.
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"Sir, we are about to close, please see..."
In the city, inside a store.
A waiter wearing an apron and holding a rag in his hand walked to a corner of the store and spoke to the particularly handsome young customer.
Apart from brothels, there was no other "night life" in the Dayu Dynasty, and food and drink shops would close early.
At this moment, there was only this table left in the shop, and the waiter had blown out half of the lanterns.
Wu Ling, the signature actor of Bafang Theater, who had already gained a certain reputation in the Beijing theater circle, was stunned.
He looked at the empty shop, then at the table in front of him, at the all-eaten side dishes and the empty wine jug.
After a moment of silence, he stood up, put down a string of copper coins, smiled apologetically, and left. After leaving the shop, Wu Ling walked on the quiet street with a serious expression.
Today is the day agreed to meet with the online "ballast stone" and convey the message.
However, Wu Ling waited until the shop closed, but did not see "Shangxian".
"Could there be some delay? Considering how thorough Ballast Stone is, this shouldn't have happened." Wu Ling felt a strong sense of uneasiness.
As a member of the Kuangfu Society's spies, he didn't know that his "superior" was dead, and he knew nothing about the arrival of the national teacher.
But as a spy, his instinctive sense of crisis made it difficult for him to remain calm.
After weighing the pros and cons, Wu Ling gritted his teeth and decided to take the risk and meet another member.
As a martial arts sorcerer who is at the Divine Chapter Realm and specializes in "The God of Drama", he is a senior figure in the branch and has the contact information of more than one spy.
Wu Ling ran in the night like a ghost, and made a big circle in the alley to make sure there was no "follower" behind him, and then appeared outside the "Golden House" bookstore.
I knocked on the door, but no answer.
Wu Ling simply jumped and floated into the yard. He pushed open the door and saw the dishes on the table that had not been cleared away and the candles that were still burning.
There was no trace of the "Golden Eagle" in the dim room.
"Something's wrong!"
Wu Ling's eyes focused, and he suddenly found some strange traces in the house. He followed the traces, pushed open the back window, and found that the window was damaged, as if it had been forced closed by someone.
When he walked to the backyard, he saw the obviously messy and unclean footprints on the ground.
"Oops!"
Wu Ling's heart sank and his body turned around. He suddenly turned into a thin, palm-sized "donkey skin shadow" depicting a little man in costume. He floated out of the yard in the wind and flew far away. Only when he was sure it was safe did he return to his human form.
"Something happened to the Golden Eagle?"
Wu Ling was anxious. He gritted his teeth and turned around to look for another spy who was closest to him, but still found nothing.
He did not give up, so he used magic to run away for a distance and found the third spy, but failed again!
Missing!
Missing!
Still missing!
At this moment, Wu Ling was filled with extreme anxiety and didn't understand what was going on.
He gritted his teeth, forced himself to calm down, turned around and ran towards his residence - Bafang Theater!
He didn't have many spies under his control, so he couldn't continue searching, but he knew that if something unexpected happened, someone would definitely come to inform him.
When Wu Ling returned to the Bafang Theater, he crouched on the outer wall, used a secret technique to touch his brow with his finger, and a faint blue light shone through his eye sockets.
After making sure that there was nothing unusual around the theater, he carefully transformed himself into a "donkey-skin shadow man" and floated into the yard to avoid the attention of other people in the theater.
Then he turned sideways and squeezed into his room through the crack in the door.
"Huh... something is wrong, very wrong! I can only wait until dawn. If the ballast stone still doesn't send any news, I can only risk using the backup channel and try to contact the headquarters..."
Wu Ling was pondering, when suddenly, his whole body froze. The palm-sized donkey-skin shadow figure suddenly widened his eyes and stared at the figure sitting cross-legged on the bed in the room.
He was a Taoist wearing a black and white checkered robe, his hair fixed with a peach wood hairpin, and carrying a peach wood sword at his shoulder.
He was about fifty years old, with slightly three-dimensional facial features and two very eye-catching yellow eyebrows.
"Haha," Guhuo Guoshi looked down at the little man at the door with his deep eyes, the corners of his mouth slowly curled up, and he pointed his hands forward:
"It's just right. I'm here to protect my country's teacher."
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On the other side, Zhao Duan led a group of people from Lihuatang and did the same thing.
Based on the intelligence obtained from Huang Jinrong, spies were quickly removed one after another.
Each time, the Thousand-Faced God would disguise himself to gain the other party's trust, first ask questions and keep the other party steady, then take action when the other party is unprepared, and with the cooperation of the Lihuatang Jinyi, capture the person, and then Gongshu Tianyuan would interrogate him using the fox fairy.
Back and forth.
At Zhao Duan's deliberate request, the Thousand-Faced God repeatedly and with different people revealed the truth about the Xuanmen coup.
Holding the "two-tone flower" in her hand, Yunxi was forced to hear the cruel truth again and again.
The girl tried hard to maintain her composure at first, with a firm demeanor, but gradually, as more and more people gave answers, the cracks in the sincere heart of this girl who was personally trained and cultivated by Zhuang Xiaocheng, and who thought she was eliminating harm for the people and fighting for justice in the second world war, continued to widen.
Until I don't know when, I was already in tears, like a puppet without a soul.
The handkerchief in Bluebird's hand that was used to wipe her tears was soaked.
"You all know that the Master is lying, right?"
During another stop, Yunxi suddenly turned her head and looked at Qingniao with tears in her eyes.
Bluebird avoided his gaze in shame and whispered, "I...I didn't dare tell you in prison..."
"So, Master is lying to me? Lying to us? Lying to everyone in the world?"
"……kindness."
Yunxi closed her eyes painfully, then opened them again and turned to look at Zhao Duan. A self-deprecating sneer suddenly appeared on the pretty face of the girl:
"Am I stupid? You all know, but I'm the only one who doesn't know. I'm still foolishly thinking about dying a heroic death in prison. So, when Zhuang Xiaocheng abandoned me, I should have understood."
Zhao Duan was too lazy to pay attention to the girl whose faith had collapsed. He got off the carriage and looked at the people who returned empty-handed. He frowned and said:
"No success?"
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