Sanmu took Qianqi and Lingyu all the way west, and arrived at a contact point close to the royal city of Yongchuan at midnight. This was the first time Qianqi saw what the contact point that Sanmu often talked about looked like. He had only heard some simple descriptions of it before.
The small house was located in the middle of ruins and was protected by a special barrier. When Sanmu just told Qianqi and Lingyu to dismount, they still felt a little strange. How could anyone come to such a desolate and desolate place
"Just follow me!"
After Sanmu finished speaking, he jumped off the demon horse and called it away. His demon horse is even shorter than Lingyu's Xiao Hui, because only this height is suitable for his height. It has shiny black hair. The special thing is that the leftmost ear has a small silver ring. .
Qianqi and Lingyu also got off their horses and followed Sanmu to a relatively complete wall. He knocked twice randomly on the wall, and a doorknob suddenly appeared where he had knocked. When he fully grasped the doorknob, the outline of a door appeared vaguely.
"Come in!" Sanmu opened the door and walked inside first.
He transformed a ball of demonic fire in his hand and ignited the lamp on the small table in the room, and the whole room suddenly lit up. The four walls of the house are made of stone, and there are two smaller windows on each side. The height of the windows is just right for standing and observing the outside situation. The facilities in the house are very simple. In addition to a table, there is only a shelf and two chairs.
After both Qianqi and Lingyu entered the room, Sanmu closed the door. He walked straight to the shelf standing against the wall, took down a book from it and read it.
"What is this?" Qianqi walked up behind him curiously and followed him.
"These notebooks are all left at the contact point for information exchange. You see, I have accumulated so many notebooks, and this one is the most recent." Sanmu said while turning to the last page of the notebook in his hand, "It has been many days. No one has returned here. It seems like something happened to another one of my men too?!"
His mood instantly became depressed. When he came to this contact point, he was still full of hope. Because the person who is mainly responsible for this liaison is one of his proud subordinates. The biggest advantage of that person is that he considers problems more comprehensively and is calm and calm in situations. In addition, he has been following him for many years and has considerable experience. If something unexpected happened to him, then the other people would be even more in danger.
"It seems there is no new information here?" Ling Yu also came over and asked.
"Yes, but don't worry, we will spend the night here tonight. Maybe my subordinate will come back soon." Sanmu's words appeared to be comforting the two teenagers, but in fact they were more like Comforting himself.
He took out the food from the pocket he was carrying. That kind of cake could be kept for a long time, but it was already hard and hard to chew. When eating it, you must take a few gulps of water, otherwise you may not be able to swallow it.
Seeing Qian Qi chewing hard, he asked with some regret: "Young Master, are you not used to eating? It's all my fault for not thinking carefully and not bringing you anything else from the royal city!"
"Do you usually eat this when you are out?" Qianqi asked after swallowing hard.
"If you pass by a busy place or an inn, you can eat something good, but there is nothing you can do at the contact point. You can't light a fire here, so you can only eat something simple."
Qianqi has loved listening to Sanmu telling stories since he was a child. Most of the stories are about how he collects all kinds of intelligence from everywhere. He always felt that the three eyes in the story were so powerful and free. He could roam the demon world as he pleased and had so many thrilling memories. But in fact, gathering intelligence itself is very boring and dangerous. In order to wait for news, he often has to stay alone at such a contact point for a long time, or lurk in the enemy's ranks.
After finally swallowing the whole dry cake, he begged Sanmu: "Sanmu, since I have to spend the night here and there is nothing else to do, why don't you tell us about your interesting experiences! Let Lingyu Listen too!”
"Haha, I thought, young master, you no longer care about listening to my stories. After all, your experience in the past year is no less than what I have experienced in the past few hundred years." Sanmu laughed, and even The third eye on the forehead was also narrowed into a slit, and the pointed little ears twitched with joy.
"But I still like to hear your stories!" Qian Qi turned to Ling Yu after finishing speaking, "right, you want to hear it too, right?"
"Well!" Lingyu was actually a little tired. His eyelids started to fight just now, but when he heard that Sanmu was about to tell a story, he suddenly became energetic. In the past, when we were in the dungeon, the landlady of Paradise would occasionally tell them stories when she was in a good mood.
Hearing what Qianqi and Lingyu said, Sanmu stopped trying to evade. He cleared his throat and said, "Let me tell you a story about my youth. I have never mentioned this story to anyone, because that time I Not only did it fail to complete its mission, it actually failed, and it almost made a big mistake."
The story Sanmu told happened when he was in his twenties. At that time, he was still a small character. As the most inconspicuous soldier under the intelligence team in the royal city's army, he worked hard every day to learn how to collect intelligence from the boss of the team.
Although he didn't study for a long time, he felt that he already knew everything. He often fantasized about having the opportunity to show off his skills and make great achievements. So one time the boss came back after receiving a mission from his superiors. He was not assigned any work at first and was asked to stay in the camp and wait for the others to return. But after the other old team members left, he also sneaked out, planning to complete the mission before them without knowing it.
"The mission that time was actually relatively simple. The boss heard that someone was selling information about the royal city to a guy related to Qingyun. In addition to sending people to follow him, he also found someone to pretend to be a buyer who needed the information and talk to him. Let’s meet.”
The memory suddenly brought Sanmu back to the long past. At that time, he was determined to pretend to be an information buyer and meet the information dealer named Jinya before his teammates. Before meeting him, he thought everything was wonderful, and thought that with the experience he had accumulated from being with his boss for so long, such a small thing would be accomplished easily.
Who knew that he had actually found out the place where Jin Ya usually exchanged information? He was only one step away from meeting him face to face, and he was already extremely nervous.
"I'm really riding a tiger. If I back down, my secret will be exposed immediately. Not only will it delay other teammates from collecting intelligence, but I may also be caught by Qingyun's spy. In the desperate situation, I had no choice but to bite the bullet."
As a result, after just a few words with Jinya, he was already full of loopholes. That person was much more experienced than him, and he quickly figured out his true identity and notified Qingyun's staff with a coded signal. subordinates. Just when Sanmu thought he was about to be caught, the boss arrived with a whole team, rescued him, and captured the intelligence dealer.
"At that time, they were fighting against Qingyun's people. I was stunned for a long time before I remembered to go up and help. My legs were weak. That was probably the most embarrassing moment in my life, but it also left a deep impression on me!"
"Have you ever been punished?" Although Qian Qi really wanted Sanmu to tell a story about a wise and powerful person so that he could show off to Ling Yu, this story was obviously more interesting.
"Of course! But being punished is a small matter. I thought I would be forced to leave the intelligence team." The three-eyed gaze suddenly became far-reaching. He recalled that the boss in the team interceded for him and finally allowed him to stay in the team. "But the boss told me that he had made similar mistakes when he was young. There is nothing wrong with young people wanting to succeed, but in everything You must think before you act.”
Lingyu and Qianqi were still enjoying what they heard. They remembered that they had made many mistakes along the way. Due to their inexperience and impulsiveness, they often had unexpected results. However, they were always forgiven by their companions during their stumbles. and help.
"Shh!" Sanmu suddenly made a gesture to speak out. He listened attentively, and then pointed to an inconspicuous round hole in the turret like two teenagers.
A small pink nose poked out of the hole first. After sniffing for a few times, the little brown mouse drilled its entire body out of the hole.
"This is this?" Qianqi looked at the little guy in surprise. It ran up to Sanmu skillfully and climbed up his legs and body to his shoulders.
"You can be regarded as one of my little intelligence soldiers." Sanmu put his ear close to the little mouse's nose so that he could hear it squeaking in his ear.
"Why can't we understand what their calls mean?" Qianqi asked, shaking his head.
Sanmu didn't answer him quickly. He waited until the little mice stopped screaming and said, "Because they can't speak. They rely on the rhythm of their calls to convey information. These little guys have all undergone special training by me. And master a method of transmitting information that I invented similar to human Morse code."
"What did it say to you just now?" Qianqi asked with his eyes wide open.
"My man was injured and is now hiding at another temporary contact point, but he was surrounded by three of Qingyun's men." Sanmu responded.
"We should rescue him! How far is the temporary contact point from here?" Qian Qi said and stood up from his chair.
"It's not too far, let's go now!"
Sanmu put back the book he had picked up from the shelf. The little brown mouse was still standing on his shoulder, like his little pet.
"This little guy is really smart, he is able to deliver such a responsible message!" Ling Yu reached out and touched the brown mouse's little head.
Unexpectedly, it hugged one of his fingers with its two front paws, and then rubbed it with its nose before letting go.
"It's called chocolate because the color is very similar to the chocolate that humans eat, isn't it? It's the smartest of the batch of mice I trained, and it knows the most password combinations." Sanmudai said with some pride.
"What a smart little guy. The rats I saw in the dungeon in the past are incomparable to him. They only do wanton destruction and steal food." Lingyu touched the chocolate again, but this time it turned its head Turned to the side and ignored it.
"It also got angry because you said bad things about other mice, hahaha! Sometimes I think it understands everything!"