Taking advantage of the dusk, Mingna pulled Alex and carefully followed the six people, watching from a distance as they walked into a dilapidated old wooden house in the suburbs.
It was an abandoned house that once belonged to a shepherd, but that was more than thirty years ago. Now the shepherd's son has moved his family to a nearby village, and this house has become a children's play. place. They like to break down some wooden boards to make small gadgets such as cars, wooden shovels, or swings, or play hide-and-seek there. Occasionally, Minna will give them some advice. During May Day last year, she followed her grandfather's description of the "haunted house" in her memory, and took a group of half-year-old children to decorate the place with black cloth, scarecrows, tree branches, masks, animal bones, red paint and other things. Fan. The adults who were brought over to play by their children were scolded and laughed, but they actually made one at the National Day celebration. It became very popular in Mayton, and even the residents of Mayton came to see what happened after hearing the news.
Minna lay crouched behind the haystack, quietly waiting for the reactions of those people who entered the house. Sure enough, soon she heard a scream, followed by the sound of objects collapsing and groans, and then someone yelled: "Why is this floor hollowed?! Is there a trap?!"
"Idiot, you're holding my leg down!"
"Get your stinky feet out of my face!"
"It's not a trap, it's the floor that's rotten."
"ah-"
"What happened?" "What happened again?!" "What is that?!"
"It's a corpse! No, it can move, it's a ghost. Several people rolled out of the house in embarrassment. Among them, Kraba just looked back and accidentally hit the pillar next to the door. A pile of hay fell from the roof. It poured water all over him. In addition, he sprained his foot in the house before, making the whole person look particularly disgraced.
The leader strode out menacingly and knocked him to the ground with a punch: "Idiot! You saw clearly! Where is the ghost?!"
The man who was bathing the cows was carrying a large piece of white cloth stained with "blood" in one hand. He walked out with a rabbit in one hand and said, "This little thing is tied under the cloth. It's really scary if you can't see clearly." He threw the rabbit to the ground and it rolled and ran away.
Everyone looked at each other. All a little ashamed. They are all people with many years of mercenary experience. Unexpectedly, I have only been pampered for two years. It's no use being fooled by a rabbit. When the man who was bathing the cows saw this, he advised the team leader: "This is just an accident. Weren't you just scared and took a few steps back? Stop blaming them."
The leader's face darkened. She glanced sideways at him: "Let's put it this way. You were the only one who acted calmly just now. Isn't that right?"
The man yelled haha. Then he pulled Kraba over. Patting the grass clippings on his head for him: "The team leader was also angry just now. Don't take it to heart. We are all our own people."
Kraba wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve. He stared at the leader. No words were spoken. But he was extremely angry in his heart. It's not like he said that thing was a ghost. Why should the team leader hit him? !
The team leader ignored his resentful gaze. He said to everyone directly: "Okay. Now it proves that there is no danger inside. Let me go in!" He was about to turn around. Suddenly his feet stopped. He said to the man who was bathing the cows with a smile: "You are too careless. We haven't had dinner yet. You actually let the rabbit run away. What shall we eat tonight?" The man's face froze. . Then he lowered his head with shame and admitted his mistake.
Minna looked over and watched them re-enter the house. He lowered his head and snickered again. Alex leaned close to her ear and whispered: "What other tricks were done inside?"
Ming Na said proudly: "Just watch, even if they are unlucky, they won't think it's a trap set by others."
Before she finished speaking, another scream came from the room, followed by the leader's impatient voice: "What's wrong?!"
"Boss, boss...I stepped on cow dung..."
"what? What?!"
"Ah! There's one here too!"
"Dead man's bones?"
There was another chaos, until they rushed out of the house again, and the leader cursed angrily: "They are all idiots! Idiots! It's obviously a cow's leg bone! Can't you even tell the difference between humans and animals?!" The person at the cow bathing place once again came forward to mediate: "Okay, everyone, stop arguing. Boss, we didn't mean it. This kind of abandoned house is too old and dirty to live in. We'd better find another one." Place."
The team leader glared at him fiercely: "Do you think there are still inns willing to take us in? Just spend the night outside the house! Let's not be too fussy. We will go to inquire again tomorrow and leave after finishing the matter in the evening! I warn you, everyone Be careful! If this operation fails, I will definitely let the superiors teach you a lesson when I go back!" After saying that, he walked to the side of the house and found the only straw shed that could keep out the wind and rain. Regardless of its previous use, Sit down on your butt and close your eyes to rest.
The other five people looked at each other, a little unconvinced, and muttered to each other to find a place to rest. Kraba hesitated for a moment and felt that the house was actually not that bad. He had lived in shabbier houses before. On a March night, the air was still very cold. Instead of blowing the cold wind outside, he would rather sleep in the house. Moreover, he seemed to have seen a complete bed in the house just now, which was not damaged.
He sat down next to the door and pretended to be asleep. Seeing that his companions did not look towards him, he quietly retreated into the door, carefully avoiding the two large holes in the floor and the animal excrement that was almost all over the room. Then he sat on the edge of the bed. The bed was indeed in good condition, and he happily lay down on it, covering himself with his cloak as a quilt.
Minna quietly approached the house. Seeing that all these people seemed to be asleep, and two of them were snoring, she snickered and returned to the haystack. Alex looked at Tian Se: "It's very late. How long do you want to play?"
"It'll be ready soon." Mingna took out a strange-shaped flute and blew it gently. A scream came out, and a similar scream immediately sounded from the grassland in the distance, and then the earth shook.
Hundreds of cows and sheep ran out of the woods on the edge of the grassland and headed straight for the house. The team leader was the first to wake up and looked at the billowing dust in the distance. He didn't know what it was, but his intuition was that something was wrong. Busy and loudly wake up his companions. After a day of hard work, everyone was tired, hungry, and sleepy. He barely managed to wake up, and was frightened when he saw this, and hurriedly ran away. In the blink of an eye, the cattle and sheep had rushed over. The slowest runner was knocked to the ground by the cattle, and then several cattle hooves trampled over his face. He screamed in pain, and his two companions, under the command of the leader, took the risk of dragging him back. As a result, he became a victim of the sheep, and they all fell to the ground with their heads in their hands.
Herds of cattle and sheep rushed into the house. When he found an open space, he couldn't stay there. Even the hay shed where the leader temporarily lived was crowded with five or six cows. He was cursing and jumping around, but suddenly he heard a scream coming from the house. The two subordinates beside him looked at each other and whispered: "It seems to be Kraba..." "He just entered the room..."
The screams came one after another, making the five people frightened. After finally waiting for the cattle and sheep to calm down, they dared to push aside the group of animals and enter the house to look for their companions.
Ming Na was already weak from laughing. Alex couldn't help but asked with a smile: "You won't die like this, right?" "How could you die?" Minna smiled, "These cattle and sheep are actually used to it. As long as you don't mess with them, they will It won't attack humans." It's just impatient with "items" that block its way.
She looked over a few more times. Hearing Kraba's weak moans from inside the room, he pulled Alex up and left. On the way, he met several soldiers hiding in the bushes and made several gestures to them. He ran back to the city. She enthusiastically said to her good friends around her: "Alex, it's getting late now, why not come to my house for dinner, and let's think about how to deal with them."
Alex was about to refuse as usual, but suddenly thought that it would be too rude for him to have not visited the host for so long, and it made him feel guilty, so he agreed.
Regardless of how the dinner went or how everyone was feeling, the next day flew by.
Minna kept receiving surveillance reports: the six people spent the night in the woods near the abandoned house in a very miserable state. They even lost their luggage and could only eat some mountain nuts to replenish their muscles. Originally, they wanted to kill a sheep to eat the land, but the shepherd discovered it and called a large group of people to catch the thief. They were afraid of attracting the attention of the lord's palace, so they had to escape in a hurry, and finally stole a few pieces of cake from a farmhouse. After entering the city again, they originally wanted their companions to continue digging cesspools or bathing cows for a chance to take over the lord's mansion. As a result, the latter was disliked by others because of his stinky body, and his odd job was ruined. Only the man who dug the septic tank successfully found out the route to sneak into the lord's mansion through the back door, and even found out the location of the room where the target lived.
All six people were extremely excited, including Braba, who was being carried on someone's back and unable to move on his own. They secretly gathered in a dead-end alley to discuss their plans for the night. They thought no one would hear them, but they didn't expect that residents of several houses in the alley quietly opened the small windows on the second floor and heard their plan clearly. Chu.
Night fell again, and in the dead of night, five black figures came to the back door of the Lord's Mansion one after another. They divided their work and cooperated. Two people stood guard. They worked together to lift up the fifth person. The latter used the strength to climb over the wall and jumped into the backyard. They were delighted to find that it was daytime. The big dogs that were barking were no longer there. They must have fallen asleep. He hurriedly reached for the back door and opened it. The lock was opened easily. It seemed easier than when he observed it during the day. He felt a little strange, but the urging sound outside the door made him have no time to think deeply, so he hurriedly opened the door and let his companions in.
The man who was digging out the dung was most familiar with the terrain. He led the way and led his companions to the back corridor of the castle. There was no one along the way and everything was quiet. For some reason, several people had a bad premonition. The man who was bathing the cows stopped and grabbed the team leader: "Boss, something is wrong. Let's give up."
The team leader hesitated for a while and shook his head: "No, there will never be such a good opportunity again. No matter what, we must complete the task first!" He ignored the other party's persuasion and rushed forward. Unexpectedly, his feet fell into the air and fell into the ground. He fell into a big pit, and then four companions followed him one after another. Before they could react, bright torches lit up all around, as if it were daytime.
The leader immediately understood that his group had fallen into a trap, and couldn't help but secretly cry out that they were unlucky. In a moment of quick wit, he shouted loudly: "Noble sir, please spare my life. We are so poor that we have no food to eat, so we took the risk to steal a few dollars. Please spare us!" After that, he knelt down and begged, The other four people saw this and followed suit.
Although they were strong and tall, with shiny skin, and they looked like they were used to a good life, after two days and one night of torture, coupled with their ragged clothes and suspicious smell, they still looked a bit like poor people. The team leader was very confident, and he was very foresighted in not asking his men to get some civilian clothes to change into.
An Long walked to the edge of the pit with a smile, looked down at everyone, and said casually to the people next to him: "These are the ones, it's up to you from now on."
The man smiled and said, "Don't worry, we will squeeze out all the truth from them. You are also from our Security Department, don't you know what we are capable of?"
The team leader heard something was wrong and asked carefully: "Master, we are just ordinary thieves, you..." He was secretly shocked, looking at the ordinary round face, bald head, and thick and fat figure, he really Unwilling to guess the identity of the other party - Lourdes, Director of the Northern Intelligence Department of the Security Agency.
The man smiled at them: "Little thief? Joseph, your master will cry. The person he plans to promote is actually a little thief?"
The leader's face turned pale, knowing that he had really guessed it right. He jumped up suddenly and wanted to escape, but he smelled a fragrance and his head became dizzy. There were several sounds of objects falling to the ground around him, and he shook He shook his head and lost consciousness.
Ming Na covered her nose and walked out. She used wind magic to take away all the smell of the potion that was left in the air. Then she smiled at her father and said, "Dad, there is another person who was injured and was left nearby by them." He's in a dead end alley, please let someone catch him."
Anlong nodded and called a junior officer to let him go. Lourdes smiled respectfully and said to Minna: "Miss Minna, you have made a great contribution this time."
Ming Na glanced at him and ignored him. She just said hello to her father and went back to her room to sleep. Someone will naturally do the next thing.
The Lord's Mansion was bustling for half the night before it returned to calm, but many people's sleep was affected. Minna was in high spirits the next day to deliver medicine to Prince Hyatt, but found that the prince and the three guards all had dark circles under their eyes and said hello to her depressedly. Herbie smiled particularly reluctantly and took a step back subconsciously.
Ming Na smiled and held the potion in front of Hyatt and said: "You didn't sleep last night, okay? A few thieves ran in. Because we haven't encountered this kind of thing for a long time, we are a little excited. You After you drink the medicine, just sleep a little longer."
"No..." Hyatt took the potion with some restraint, "I slept all day, and I'm not sleepy now... Well, I mean, I actually heard some rumors, thank you, and your father." He Lowering his eyes: "Can you tell me who sent you?"
Ming Na thought for a while and said: "Leave it all to the Northern Intelligence Division of the Security Agency. They will report the results. Just wait for their investigation report. I have never interrogated the prisoners and I don't know their origins."
Hyatt was a little disappointed, but soon smiled again: "That's good, I believe that my father will make the most appropriate decision." He raised the potion cup and drank it in one gulp, sighed, and said with a smile: "I I feel much better. Herbie helped me walk around the room yesterday. There is only a slight pain in my leg, but it seems numb and I have no strength."
Ming Na said: "That's because your injury hasn't fully healed yet. Your foot bones were almost cut off. It's not easy to cure them. I just added anesthetic to the medicine to make your feet heal." It’s not too painful. But you’d better not move around casually until it heals.”
Hyatt responded with a smile. Mingna felt a little depressed when she saw his submissive look. She took another medicine bottle and replaced the gauze on his face.
After the medicine was changed, she exited the room. She clearly heard the three guards breathing a sigh of relief, and she couldn't help but feel a little annoyed. Who is it? Do you regard her as a scourge? Just as he was about to walk away, he heard Herbie whisper at the door: "This lady is really scary..."
You are the scary one, and your whole family is scary!
Minna turned around and walked away angrily. From then on, she prepared the medicine, threw it in front of Herbie, and let them deal with it themselves!
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