Yubi was only eight hundred miles away from Yingchuan, so he rushed to the place before dawn. Nanfeng had been to Yubi before, and after following the map, he quickly found Yuan Anning's previous residence.
Yuan Anning did not live in a military camp, but in a remote and secluded independent courtyard in Yubi West City.
Yubi City had been violently attacked by the Eastern Wei army before. At this time, the traces of the war have not faded. The city inside and outside was in a state of depression and dilapidation. Many houses in the city collapsed and were damaged. The courtyard where Yuan Anning lived was not spared either. A big tree fell to the west, crushing the west wing.
Nanfeng jumped off Master Ba's back, and when he fell towards the courtyard, he suddenly discovered a detail. The big tree in the courtyard was broken in the middle and had been broken into two parts, but the branches and leaves of the tree were green and only hairy. It is wilted and curled, but has not dried or fallen off.
It has been some time since the Eastern Wei army attacked Yubi. If this big tree had been broken by the catapults of the Eastern Wei siege, all the leaves would have fallen off long ago, and even the branches would have dried out.
Thinking of this, I had a vague premonition in my heart that something might have happened to Yuan Anning.
Although the fallen tree collapsed the west wing, it did not affect the courtyard wall. The courtyard walls around the courtyard were intact. Since no one had lived in them for a long time, weeds had grown in the courtyard. It was now the fourth watch. , the courtyard shrouded in night was dead silent.
The Nanfeng artist was bold and not afraid of an ambush. He landed straight in the middle of the courtyard, frowned and looked around, but saw nothing unusual. He listened carefully, but there was no strange sound.
The fallen tree was not far to the left. When I stepped forward to check, I saw that the stubble on the tree was uneven. Inhale and smell, and there was still a faint smell of saltpeter and sulfur. Needless to say, this big tree was shaken. Firearms such as thunderbolts can explode.
At this time, the door of the main house was closed. The lock that was originally used to lock the door fell on the stone steps in front of the door. If you look carefully, you can see that the lock has been broken by someone.
Seeing this situation, Nanfeng frowned. Oh no, something happened. Something must have happened to Yuan Anning.
Although they were anxious, they could not lose sight of things. From the fallen tree, we could roughly deduce the time when Yuan Anning was attacked. It should be shortly after the two returned to Middle-earth and the day Yuan Anning came here to pick up firearms.
After he separated from Yuan Anning that day, he first went to Chang'an to rescue Zhuge Chanjuan, and then took Zhuge Chanjuan to dig out the seal. After returning, he waited for two days in the ruined temple in the south of the city, and then went south to visit Tianqi Zi at Qingqing Academy. After getting clues about Mo Li, he returned to Chang'an to look for Mo Li, and then took Mo Li south. He was delayed for a few days since Jiankang, and then went to Lihuo Palace for a day. After careful calculation, he had been separated from Yuan Anning for more than ten years. Oh my god.
Judging from the route and direction Yuan Anning took when she left Yingchuan, she did not take Shui Hu with her. Therefore, after he left, Yuan Anning needed to stay in Fuyun Mountain for a while to resettle Shui Hu, and she only stayed in Yingchuan for half of the time. In an hour, according to Yuan Anning's speed, he should have arrived at Yubi between midnight on the day he left and early morning the next day.
Things have happened for so long, and there is no point in rushing. The top priority is to determine what happened to Yuan Anning.
The big tree in the yard was blown down by firearms. The most suspected one is Gongshu Momen. The war between the two Wei Dynasties was huge. Most of the city defense utensils used by Wang Sizheng and others were borrowed from Gongshu Yaoshu. Momen probably got wind of it.
But then I thought about it, no, it shouldn’t be the Mo sect. Yuan Anning has already been promoted to Jushan Lizi, and the Mo sect is not good at Qi training. If the two met, it would be the Mo sect and not Yuan Anning who would be unlucky.
Yuan Anning never went to join him, which means that Yuan Anning has been attacked. It is still unclear whether he was captured or killed. However, one thing is certain, that is, Yuan Anning entered the house and took the firearm. After coming out, he and Yuan Anning The firearm that the opponent encountered and blew up the big tree should have been made by Yuan Anning.
There are two possibilities for Yuan Anning to blow up the big tree. One was to attack his opponent, but the opponent dodged the weapon and the big tree was damaged. There is another possibility that Yuan Anning deliberately fired the firearm to blow up the big tree. If he found it in the future, he would be able to detect the abnormality and take precautions.
After thinking about it carefully, the first possibility is more likely. There are not many places to hide people in the yard. This big tree is as thick as an arm. The person who ambushed Yuan Anning that day should be hiding behind the tree.
This person was able to dodge the firearms thrown by Yuan Anning, so he was undoubtedly a Qi practitioner, and his spiritual energy cultivation level must be higher than Yuan Anning's to be able to take out Yuan Anning.
At this point, Momen is completely ruled out.
Since it wasn't Momen, there shouldn't be any hidden weapons hidden behind the closed door of the main room. However, after the other party grabbed Yuan Anning, he closed the door again. This move naturally had its purpose.
Thinking of this, Nanfeng became more and more nervous. He was not afraid of encountering a machine gun after opening the door, but was afraid of seeing the scene he least wanted to see after opening the door.
Stretching out one's neck is a stab, and shrinking one's neck is also a stab. No matter how scared or nervous you are, sooner or later you have to open the door.
He stepped forward and pushed the door open, only to find that the door was blocked by something on the inside. Since he didn't know what was going on, he didn't dare to break in. He moved two feet to the left and directly broke through the wall.
After breaking through the wall, a smell of mold spread out. The mold must not smell good, but at this moment, the smell of this unpleasant mold in the south wind was more refreshing than the fragrance of flowers. What he was most worried about was smelling other smells. .
After the dust settled, Nan Feng entered the main room through the gap. He saw that the door of the main room was blocked with a door stick. There were not many furnishings and utensils in the room, and they were all in their original positions. There was no sign of a fight. It showed that his previous guess was correct, Yuan Anning was ambushed after going out.
Qianyang is odd, Kunyin is even. At this time, most of the Yang houses are odd numbers such as 3579. This house has five rooms, the three rooms in the middle are connecting halls, and there is one room in the east and west. Go to the west house first. In addition to simple life Vessels and nothing else.
Then go to the east room. The east room was originally Yuan Anning's sleeping place. There was a bed and other things. There was a five-foot-square pit near the bed. There were several stone slabs scattered outside the pit. An iron box had been opened. , the contents have been taken away, leaving only some moisture-proof oil paper in the box.
There was a letter left on the wooden bed where Yuan Anning originally lay. The letter was placed in a conspicuous position. There were four red letters written in cinnabar on the envelope, "The letter knows the south wind."
Nanfeng stood in front of the bed, frowning and looking at the letter. He stood there for a long time, but never reached out to take it. The reason why he didn't take it was not because he was worried that the letter had been soaked in poison, but because the letter was wrapped in a cloud of purple air. The purple energy on the letter was unusually weak, which did not prevent him from picking it up and reading it, but once he picked it up, the owner of the purple energy would immediately feel it.
This person may not know that he has obtained the Longmu Celestial Eye, which is why he did this. But the problem now is that even if he finds that the other party will feel the letter if he touches it, he must touch it, otherwise he will not be able to read it.
With worries in mind, Nanfeng did not rush to read the letter. As long as he did not touch the letter, the other party would not know that he was in Yubi. Once he touched the letter, the other party would immediately sense it and he would immediately fall into passivity.
He is a Taoist priest, so he naturally recognizes Zhu characters. These four characters are written with the cinnabar used by Taoist priests to draw talismans. The sword is windy and bone-like, and the stroke is like a hook. It is undoubtedly made by a man. From this, it can be seen that the opponent should be a monk with a body. As a male Taoist priest.
Who is this person
The most suspected person is Long Yunzi. There are two reasons why Long Yunzi is suspected. One is that Long Yunzi has a grudge against him and has the motive of revenge against him. Second, only Long Yunzi could know the whereabouts of Yuan Anning.
Previously, he went to Yingchuan to look for Wang Sizheng. He saw two Yuqing Taoists in Wang Sizheng's general mansion. Those two Yuqing Taoists were sent by the court to protect Wang Sizheng and lived in the same courtyard as Wang Sizheng. Yuan Anning went to look for Wang Sizheng. They will definitely see it.
Whether the two Yuqing Taoists sent by the imperial court were sincerely protecting Wang Sizheng, or they had heard some rumors and were monitoring them while protecting them. These are not important. What is important is that these two Taoists are from the Yuqing Sect. Since they are Yuqing Taoist He will definitely obey Long Yunzi's orders.
Of course, the Yuqing Sect also had internal differences, and some Taoists were unwilling to obey Long Yunzi's orders, but Long Yunzi would not send these disobedient Taoists out on errands.
The two disappeared for a long time, and few people knew that they were back. Therefore, there could be no premeditated ambush. The most likely possibility is that the two Yuqing Taoists discovered Yuan Anning, heard the conversation between Yuan Anning and Wang Sizheng, and reported what they saw. Feiniao sent a letter to Long Yunzi about what he heard and where Yuan Anning would go next.
After Long Yunzi got the news, he went to Yubi to intercept it. Yingchuan was closer to Yubi, and Chang'an was far away from Yubi. Therefore, Yuan Anning arrived first, but Long Yunzi's cultivation level was higher than Yuan Anning's, although he was the later one. He arrived, but he rushed over before Yuan Anning left. As soon as Yuan Anning went out, he was caught by him.
All of these are only his guesses. Although they are just guesses, they are undoubtedly the truth, because this is the only reasonable guess. Other than this, no one has the conditions, motivation, or ability to do such a thing.
Letters have to be opened sooner or later. If you don't open them, you won't know what Long Yunzi wants to do. Even if you fall into a passive position as soon as you touch the letters, you still have to open them.
As he picked up the letter, the faint purple energy lingering outside the letter immediately revealed that the reason why Long Yunzi used the door stick to hold the door was undoubtedly because he was worried that victims of the disaster would accidentally enter and touch him.
The letter was written on talisman paper, "tell the bandit: while you are reading the book, I also feel that from now on, two hours later, the remaining evildoers and the conspirators, the leader An Qianyang, the rebellious ministers and traitors will be punished in Yingchuan, Zhengzhou, and the Great Wei Dynasty" Long Yunzi, the true protector of the country. '
After reading the letter, Nanfeng's soul came out and immediately broke out the window and whistled to summon the eighth master.
If it's an ordinary summons, it's a whistle, but this time it's three times in a row, an urgent summons.
While waiting for Ba Ye Jifei to pick him up, Nanfeng was thinking anxiously in his heart. He had too deep grudges with Long Yunzi. Forget about tormenting Yan Yinzi, let’s just talk about Long Yunzi who was killed in front of the Ten Thousand Army Formation that day. Losing face was enough to make Long Yunzi hate him and gnash his teeth. Now Long Yunzi finally seized the opportunity and began to take revenge.
Long Yunzi left a letter to him in the name of the real person protecting the country of Wei, explaining that what he did was done from the official position of the imperial court. The remaining accomplices naturally referred to Yuan Anning, and the rebellious ministers and traitors undoubtedly referred to Wang Si. The younger brother of Zheng He and Yuan Anning.
What he was worried about at this time was not whether Long Yunzi was avenging his personal revenge, or whether he was claiming to be righteous. No matter where he stood, people must be saved. What he was worried about was that he didn't have enough time. Long Yunzi was clearly teasing him. It took him two hours to get to Chang'an from Yubi, but even with Master Ba on his behalf, he still didn't have enough time. In addition, Long Yunzi also deliberately distracted him, making it difficult for him to take care of both ends. After Long Yunzi sensed that he had read the letter, he was afraid that he would immediately send out a letter and order the two Yuqing Taoists from Yingchuan to kill Wang Si. Wang Sizheng and Yuan Anning's brother, if he rushes to Chang'an to rescue Yuan Anning, Wang Sizheng and Yuan Anning's brother will be killed.
Long Yunzi thought very carefully, but there were two things he didn't consider. To be precise, he didn't know. One was that he could transfer his own spiritual energy to Ba Ye to help it accelerate. The second is that he has been promoted to Taixuan and can use the Earth Escape of the Shangqing Sect.
Taixuan spiritual energy can help Ba Ye fly back to Yingchuan in the middle of the night, but Taixuan spiritual energy has been overbearing in the past, and Baye must not be able to bear it. When the time comes to rush from Yingchuan to Chang'an, he can only rely on earth escape, but earth escape is fast It is fast, but it consumes a lot of spiritual energy. Long Yunzi will definitely set up a dragnet in Chang'an. If the spiritual energy is exhausted, even if it is gone, it will be like a moth flying into the flame.
There is no other way, Wang Sizheng and Yuan Anning's brother must be saved, otherwise Yuan Anning will be depressed for the rest of his life even if he is alive.
While he was thinking about it, Ba Ye flew over quickly and chirped to remind him. Nanfeng jumped up and landed on Ba Ye's back. Qi came out and connected the meridians, "Go south, back to Yingchuan..."