Dark black clouds squeezed the sky, as if they were about to fall heavily. Seeing a white light flashing through the clouds from time to time, the townspeople hurried, wanting to go home before the rainstorm came.
Among the hurried passers-by, an old man with long beard was walking leisurely on the street.
He came to an inn unhurriedly, glanced at the signboard and walked in.
Under Xiaoer's guidance, the old man quickly came to a Tianzihao private room.
When Xiao Er closed the door and exited, a middle-aged man who had already been sitting inside immediately got up and saluted the old man: "Meet Sect Master Lin."
Taking off the cloak on his body, Lin Renwu frowned and said, "If you don't talk about it in the valley, you must come to this inn."
Taking out a talisman and lighting it up, Yin Xiuliang replied: "Report to Hierarch Lin, my subordinates have set up a formation here, and everything we say next will not be passed on."
"What are you trying to say? It's so mysterious." Lin Renwu sat down at the square table and asked.
"The reason why my subordinates invited you here to meet, leader, is because they are worried about being seen by interested people in your teaching."
"Who cares?" Lin Renwu's expression became more and more strange, "What do you mean?"
After saluting to Lin Renwu, Yin Xiuliang replied: "Then the subordinate just said it straight. Two days ago, you asked me to investigate why Wujizhai and Zhenyuanzong suddenly joined forces. During the investigation, the subordinate discovered... …”
Seeing Yin Xiuliang hesitate to speak, Lin Renwu shouted: "You are talking! Why are you talking!"
"The subordinate suspects that there is an inner ghost in the sect."
"Continue." Lin Renwu said with a gloomy expression.
It is normal for a sect to have ghosts. Which sect would not have a few spies from other sects mixed in
But since Yin Xiuliang brought up this matter alone, it shows that this inner ghost is by no means an ordinary little disciple.
"Reporting to Sect Master Lin, do you still remember Yan Qi?"
"Remember, the disciple you secretly taught, right?"
"That's right, a few years ago when you asked your subordinates to send some people to Wujizhai, he was one of them. Now he is a formation master in Wujizhai. Although his position is not high, he knows a lot of things, because I asked him to secretly modify their mountain guard array, so he can hear things that many people can't hear."
"Your disciple is quite capable."
The mountain protection formation is the top priority of every big sect, and it is definitely quite capable to be able to manipulate it quietly.
"This subordinate thanked the suzerain for his praise." After thanking Lin Renwu, Yin Xiuliang continued: "When I asked him this time, he said that he overheard a conversation by accident. I didn't know what was going on at first, but now some Understood."
"What?" Lin Renwu asked.
"A conversation about how to inquire about how to crack the Heavenly Touching Formation under the subordinates, and how to set up the Gloomy Formation, and the end of the other dialogue is... This time you should help out when you are Muslim, don't let your leader get angry, and call directly at the door Well, that would make things a lot more troublesome."
"Damn it!"
Lin Renwu slapped the table after listening! How many guru Liang Guoneng dare to go directly to Wujizhai? Isn't it just him, Lin Renwu!
"What else did you hear!?"
"He said just listen to these, and nothing else."
"One by one! You're so gutsy! How dare you eat inside and outside of me!" After crushing a wine glass, Lin Renwu looked at Yin Xiuliang and asked, "Who do you think this ghost is!?"
"This... subordinates don't know either."
"I didn't ask you to answer me! I asked you to guess, guessing will always happen!?"
"This..." Yin Xiuliang wiped his forehead in great embarrassment, and then replied in a low voice: "There should not be many people in the sect who can deal with you. Master, you can think about it from these few people."
The moment he heard these words, Yan Wenguang's figure flashed in Lin Renwu's mind. Could it be that he stopped him stubbornly two days ago, otherwise he would have entered Wujizhai long ago.
'Impossible, impossible. '
Lin Renwu shook his head. Yan Wenguang was the one with him the longest in the teaching, and he trusted him very much. He would never do such a thing.
'But what if...'
Once the seeds of doubt were planted, many things Yan Wenguang did suddenly made him feel very wrong.
For example, a few days ago, I wanted to send him to Zhuoyou County to manage the new branch, but he refused in every possible way, and refused to go, saying that he wanted to stay by his side to help make suggestions.
At that time, Lin Renwu felt that Yan Wenguang was loyal, but now thinking about it, before this incident, Yan Wenguang always obeyed no matter what orders he gave, only this incident had a particularly violent reaction.
'Something is wrong. '
'He doesn't want to leave my side so much, does he want to...'
When he felt that his thoughts were getting more and more wrong, Lin Renwu stood up abruptly and said: "That's the end of this matter, don't mention it any more!"
"Yes." Yin Xiuliang cupped his hands.
"Is there any other news?"
"My subordinates have already found out some of the reasons why Wujizhai and Zhenyuanzong joined forces, but they haven't fully figured it out yet. I hope Sect Master Lin can give me some more time."
"Go, go." Lin Renwu waved his hand.
"Farewell, subordinate."
When Yin Xiuliang left, Lin Renwu spat on the ground. Although several major forces have been fighting each other, the sect has never been peaceful, and it is normal to catch a few spies from time to time.
But Yan Wenguang is definitely one of his most trusted subordinates, if even he...
'Ugh… '
Lin Renwu sighed heavily suddenly. In Liang Guo, being betrayed by close relatives is a common occurrence, and it is not uncommon for people to be betrayed by their most trusted subordinates and lead to death without a place to bury them.
'Damn it! Wen Guang, please don't do anything to offend me. '
After calming down for a while, Lin Renwu opened the door and left the inn. Just below the room where he was just now, Meng Sipei was eating snacks to pass the time.
"Clatter..."
Meng Sipei poured out a handful of fried peanuts from the bamboo tube, held them in his hand, and threw them into his mouth one by one.
'He's thinking about me, he's thinking about me, he's thinking about me...'
When the last peanut was eaten, the words "he didn't think of me" were swallowed back by Meng Sipei, and then he shook the peanut in half with profound energy, and continued counting happily.
"He didn't think about me, he was thinking about me, hehe."
Satisfied, Meng Sipei ate half a peanut, and Meng Sipei couldn't help recalling the voice that sounded in the crescent valley that day.
"Don't be afraid, Si Pei, I will take you away."
This sentence has been repeated in her mind for several days, as long as she is free, she will hear it, as if he is by her side.
Thinking of how that senior could easily rescue her from a group of Xuanzong's siege, it became even more difficult for Meng Sipei to imagine how powerful this senior was.
But just like before, Meng Sipei didn't come up with any results. This senior was so mysterious that she couldn't think of it at all.
'But why on earth am I here? '
The reason why she came to live in this inn was because Li Fucheng brought a man named Huo Hongfei.
After a conversation, although they couldn't say this or that, Meng Sipei also understood that this was the senior's plan, and this plan required her own cooperation.
Since it was the senior's order, Meng Sipei naturally agreed immediately.
And the first thing Huo Hongfei asked her to do was to stay in this inn, no matter what happened, don't come out, and don't emit any profound energy.
And she just stayed here for two days, and she still doesn't know why.
'Could it be... the senior invited me here! ? '
With such anticipation, Meng Sipei suddenly became fidgety, sometimes looking at the bronze mirror, sometimes tugging at the hem of her skirt, and finally calmed down a little in the evening.
But after calming down, Meng Sipei still didn't get rid of this idea. After all, although the possibility is very small, but...
'What if? '
In such anticipation, another four days passed quickly. In the early morning of this day, there was a knock on the door, and Meng Sipei clearly felt that the knock was different from Xiaoer's.
Meng Sipei's heartbeat suddenly accelerated and said in a trembling voice: "Please... come in."
Pushing open the door, Li Fucheng walked into the room and saluted: "Sect Master Meng."
However, just after saying hello, Li Fucheng found that Meng Sipei was looking at him with extremely disappointed eyes.
This made Li Fucheng puzzled for a while.
'Did I do something wrong... ?'
But soon Meng Sipei adjusted his mentality, changed his expression, looked at Li Fucheng and asked, "Is there something wrong?"
After listening to Gong Shou, Li Fucheng said: "Sect Master Meng has worked hard these past few days. The senior just issued a new order. You can leave the inn at Shenshi."
"Will you leave as soon as Shen Shi arrives?" Meng Sipei asked in confirmation.
"That's right, the seniors said so."
"okay, I get it."
"Then I'll take my leave first, thank you Sect Master Meng."
After Li Fucheng finished speaking, he closed the door, and then heaved a sigh of relief.
Although Li Fucheng had already known Meng Sipei's identity a few days ago, it was still inconceivable to think that the deputy lord of the Sifang Sect in Lanzhou was being used as a subordinate by Brother Wang.
Dispelling these thoughts, Li Fucheng hurried downstairs, he still has other tasks.
At that time, Meng Sipei pushed open the door and came out on time. The two passing guests couldn't help being stunned when they saw it. They couldn't believe that there was such a beautiful woman in the world. It was simply unbelievable beauty.
'Google...'
Swallowing, the two hurriedly stepped aside when they saw Meng Sipei approaching, but their eyes were still reluctant to look elsewhere.
The other guests in the inn were no better than these two, staring straight at Meng Sipei, if it weren't for the message that strangers should not enter from Meng Sipei, there would have been disciples who couldn't bear to go up and start a conversation up.
Just walking out of the inn step by step, Meng Sipei didn't find anything unusual.
Looking left and right, Meng Sipei walked towards the house that Li Fucheng arranged for her before.
…
In Crescent Moon Valley, the atmosphere in the valley is a bit tense at this time. The disciples of the major sects thought that they would not do anything until the treasure was born, but now their suzerain seems to be a little impatient.
Lin Renwu kept pacing in the room, and his mood became more and more irritable these days.
There is no other reason, the more he looks at Yan Wenguang now, the more he feels that there is something wrong with him, because after so many days, his investigation can be said to have made no progress. Find out what the two are planning.
According to his words, there was no sign of cooperation between the two companies before, and this collaboration is really sudden.
On the contrary, Xiuliang's side is getting good news frequently, and a lot of substantive evidence has been obtained, whether it is documents or witnesses, it has been found that the two cases have long shown signs of joining forces to deal with him, and There is also an inner ghost in his own sect.
Now that Yan Wenguang is obviously "dealing" with himself, Lin Renwu is even more annoyed.
Just when Lin Renwu was walking more and more anxiously, Yan Wenguang's shout sounded at the door.
"Sect Master, I'm back."
Stopping, Lin Renwu responded with a long breath: "Come in."
Lifting the curtain, Yan Wenguang walked into the big tent and saluted Lin Renwu, "Sovereign."
"Did you find anything today?"
Yan Wenguang shook his head, "Reporting to the suzerain, the spies sent out did not find any useful information, I..."
"Enough!" Lin Renwu snorted coldly.
Hearing the suzerain's sudden anger, Yan Wenguang was also taken aback, and quickly knelt down on one knee and said, "It's because the subordinates are not doing well, so I ask the suzerain to punish me."
Staring at Yan Wenguang, Lin Renwu said: "You can always find out some clues when encountering things before, what's wrong this time! Why is there no news at all!?"
"Reporting to Sect Master, I think maybe we really misunderstood Lord Qiu Zhai and Sect Master Yan, and I sent them out..."
Hearing that Yan Wenguang actually spoke for those two old dogs, Lin Renwu only felt a surge of enthusiasm, and directly shouted angrily: "Shut up! You eat everything! Those two old dogs have made it clear these days that they will join forces to deal with me , You actually said that I misunderstood them!?"
Seeing the suzerain's look of losing his mind, Yan Wenguang was also a little dazed.
Although the suzerain is a bit reckless, most of the time he is very calm and willing to listen to his own opinions. What's wrong today
"Sovereign, I..."
"Stop talking! You go back to the sect now, you are no longer needed here!"
"Sovereign? Why is this!?" Yan Wenguang was shocked. This was the first time that the suzerain drove him away.
"Why? You are so unfavorable, why should I keep you!?"
In fact, Lin Renwu is really restraining himself very calmly now, otherwise he would have kicked this left and right hand who has almost marked himself as a traitor.
But thinking of Yan Wenguang's past loyalty, Lin Renwu still softened his heart, and just drove him back first, and decided how to deal with him after the matter was fully clarified.
Hearing the heartless meaning in the suzerain's words, Yan Wenguang had no choice but to salute tremblingly: "Yes, this subordinate takes orders, suzerain... take care."
Seeing Yan Wenguang turn and leave, Lin Renwu breathed a sigh of relief, but still felt panicked in his heart.
It was indeed a big blow to him that his most trusted left and right hands went wrong at such a time.
'Yan Laogui... wants to mess with me, huh, wait, I will let you know who is the oriole! '
…
"Ah Choo." In a courtyard, Jiang Beiran sneezed, rubbed his nose, looked to the sky and stretched.
'The time is coming, and the actors are basically in place, and we are just waiting for the big show to take the stage. '