In front of the government office on the main street, Yan Qing let go of the corner of his clothes that he had been holding on to, and turned to frown and look somewhere behind him.

Yu Huaining also came to Yan Qing in confusion and lowered his voice: "It seems that the group has left?"

Yan Qing's eyes swept across several corners where people were squatting before, and finally turned back to the government office in front of him.

The main entrance of the government office was wide open, and at a glance, there was no one in the lobby.

"What's going on?"

Someone muttered.

Yan Qing walked from behind Jin Ming to the front of the team, gestured to the others, and walked to the Yamen first.

Yu Huaining took a step closer and followed Yan Qing cautiously.

The rest of the group shrank their formation, sandwiching Jin Ming in the middle, and followed Yan Qing and Yu Huaining.

Stepping into the gate of the government office, Yan Qing quickly scanned both sides of the door - the blind area of ​​vision that was previously invisible outside the door was empty.

Yu Huaining exchanged glances with Yan Qing and led them around the lobby and into the inner hall behind the lobby.

Yan Qing, Jin Ming and others checked the lobby for a week and after confirming that there was nothing unusual, they left the two of them guarding the door in the lobby and entered the inner hall one after another.

As soon as Yan Qing came in, Yu Huaining came over: "Little general, come and take a look at this."

Following Yu Huaining into the room on the side of the lobby of the inner hall, everyone saw the empty room and a female body lying in the mess on the ground.

The exposed hands and feet of the female corpse, and her shoulders were covered in bruises and stained with blood and mud. A pool of bright red blood was even slowly flowing under her body.

Jin Ming, who saw this bloody scene for the first time, turned pale, his stomach turned, and he subconsciously turned his head.

However, Yan Qing took a few steps forward, stepped into the pool of blood, squatted down and felt the pulse of the female corpse.

It feels cold to the touch, but still has a soft texture. It's obvious that it died not long ago.

Yan Qing's eyes moved down and landed on the outer shirt that could only cover the lower part of the female corpse's breasts. He stretched out his hand to check.

There were three or two large holes in the aqua blue coat. Under the holes in the coat, there were several fatal wounds on the female corpse, which almost penetrated the entire body of the female corpse, resulting in such a large amount of bleeding.

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The body of the female corpse was naked under her shirt, and the mottled marks on her body revealed everything she had suffered before her death.

Yan Qing pursed her lips tightly, raised her hand and closed the female corpse's round eyes, twisted up the skirt of her coat, and covered the gray face of the female corpse, but suddenly paused, and carefully touched the skirt of the clothes twice with her fingertips.

He pulled out a willow leaf knife from his wrist.

Yu Huaining, who was cursing the bandits in his mind, suddenly saw Yan Qing frowning. He took off the shirt covering the female body and touched around the skirt, as if he was looking for something. He was about to ask Yan Qing who it was.

He didn't find anything, but Yan Qing suddenly turned to him and said: "Turn around."

Yu Huaining was startled and immediately realized that Yan Qing must have found something on the clothes.

Out of respect for the deceased, two or three people in the room turned their backs.

"Little General, what's in those clothes?"

Yu Huaining asked with his back to Yan Qing.

Yan Qing did not answer, but held the willow leaf knife and followed the rough seams of the outer garment's lapel, and slowly opened the entire garment's lapel, revealing the collar support - several neatly folded pieces of tissue paper.

After covering the woman's body with his outer shirt again, Yan Qing took the pieces of tissue paper to Yu Huaining and others.

"This is……"

Yu Huaining came up and took a look, "Map?"

Yan Qing unfolded a thin piece of paper and vaguely drew something like a map. Yuhuai, Jiangmen, and Leigong Mountain in between were marked on it, and he drew it as detailed as possible.

Some defense situations on Leigong Mountain.

But maybe because it was drawn with dry charcoal left over from a fire, and it was drawn in a hurry, the whole map is blurry and scrawled. Some things can be seen, but it is not detailed.

"Yan Qi."

Yan Qing suddenly shouted into the void.

Under Jin Ming's surprised eyes, a person appeared out of thin air, but Yu Huaining and others were not surprised.

After following Yan Qing for a long time, they all know that there is such a dark person beside Yan Qing, who is responsible for Yan Qing's safety.

"Does this picture match the one you got earlier?"

Yan Qing handed the map to Yan Qi.

Yan Qi took the map and frowned after just a few glances. He pointed at a few places on the map and said: "These places should be hidden sentries. Our people predict that these places should be guarded, but it is difficult to get up to these places.

, and couldn’t get any specific information.”

Yan Qing knew it well: "Did our people keep it?"

"no."

Yan Qi stared at the map twice and shook his head, "When our people draw the map, they will use special code words to mark the situation, and they will not draw it so crudely."

"Could this be a trap set by bandits to lure us into?"

Yu Huaining raised questions.

"impossible?"

Jin Ming retorted, "If it is to lure us into taking the bait, it should be hidden in a study room, desk or other places that are easier to find. If it is hidden in clothes, it should be difficult for ordinary people to detect it, so there is no such thing as luring people into taking the bait."

"

Yu Huaining also felt that it made sense, and Yan Qi also confirmed that the map was fine, but he still felt that the map appeared strange.

"Look at this."

Yan Qing handed another few pieces of tissue paper to Yu Huaining.

Yu Huaining took it and took a look. Several pieces of tissue paper were densely written with words. He could barely tell that they were people's names, and most of them were women's names.

"This is……"

Yu Huaining was shocked and confused, "The list of people who were sold?"

Yu Huaining asked Yan Qing uncertainly, their eyes met. Although no one had an answer, they vaguely knew what was going on.

After reading the rest of the paper in his hand, Yu Huaining found the clearest sentence on the last piece of paper.

"Save them..."

Yu Huaining thought about these three words and felt very uncomfortable.

There is a list of more than 300 people. I only know their names and no other information. I don’t know where they were sold and whether they are still alive. How to save them?

Moreover, even if they knew where they were and had been relegated to slavery, what could they do?

Redeem them all?

Where does the money to redeem a person come from? Who provides it?

How will the redeemed people be placed?

There are no answers to these many questions, which means that the person who left this information is destined to be unable to do so.

Taking the tissue paper back from Yu Huaining's hand, Yan Qing handed it to Yan Qi and only told two things: "Go and confirm the map and ask King Shu to send as many people as possible. Find the people on the list."

, those who are alive and want to redeem themselves, fish them out."

Yu Huaining opened his mouth, wanting to say something but not knowing what to say.

Jin Ming opened his mouth directly: "If the money is not enough, I can..."

"Need not."
Chapter completed!