The shadow of the huge mountains is falling here, it is dark on all sides, and the sound of the wind is even deeper.
Apart from the low sighing sound of the wind, there was no other sound at all.
Standing at the foot of the pagoda and looking up, it was pitch black in front of me. Not even the light could be seen. It was impossible to tell whether there was anyone in the pagoda.
In other words, we don’t know what is in the pagoda at all. Maybe there is a swordsman lurking in the dark, maybe there is a mechanism that can kill people, maybe there are two contemporary first-class masters.
Maybe, maybe there is nothing.
There are cornices slanting out from the outside of each floor of the tower. With Su Yang and Ding Xi's light skills, it is not difficult to leap up one floor after another.
But they would rather take the stairs. They don't want to suddenly see a knife sticking out of the darkness when they are leaping upward, nor do they want to be kicked down by someone in the air and fall to death like a local dog.
No matter how narrow or dark the stairs in the tower are, they are always down-to-earth. As long as a person is willing to keep his feet on the ground, he can always reach the end, even if it is a little slower, but even if there are some unexpected changes, there is still time to react.
Sometimes, slowness is actually fast.
There was neither an ambush nor anyone inside the pagoda. The paper covering the windows on all sides was torn and whistled in the wind.
The higher we go, the stronger the wind becomes, the louder the sound becomes, and the darker the surrounding area becomes.
Step by step, we walked a total of five floors, one hundred and sixty-three steps.
After climbing the 164th step, we finally reached the sixth floor.
A wisp of light came from the plywood on the seventh and sixth floors. Although it was only an extremely weak candlelight, in the darkness, it was no less than the dazzling sun.
There is someone on the seventh floor!
Su Yang and Ding Xi looked at each other and stopped at the same time, holding their breath and concentrating.
Maybe the people above them didn't hear the footsteps approaching, or maybe they heard it and took precautions, but no matter what, there was no movement on the seventh floor, and there was only the whistling of the night wind in their ears. Window paper
The sound of huffing and flapping.
Su Yang made a gesture to Ding Xi, and they both lowered their waists at the same time, like two thieves breaking into a house. They walked forward vigilantly and slowly, passing through the sixth floor, and slowly stepped onto the stairs leading to the seventh floor.
layer channel.
One step, two steps... Climb up the stairs. Be ready to strike at any time.
Finally, we have reached the seventh floor.
A lamp, two chairs, two people sitting opposite each other.
It was Gui Dongjing and Ximen Sheng, facing outside the tower and facing Su Yang from the side.
The dim light flickered, illuminating the faces of the two people, showing their sinister profiles. They seemed to be smiling but not smiling. They seemed to be crying but not crying. The corners of their mouths were slightly raised. But the muscles on their faces were drooped.
, like a zombie, and like a clown on the stage.
At this moment, a gust of wind blew in from the window, carrying a faint rancid smell.
The smell of death.
Su Yang sighed, and jumped out of the stairs carelessly, jumping onto the floor of the seventh floor. Until this moment, Gui Dongjing and Ximen Sheng were still slumped in their chairs, with that strange expression on their faces.
Smile.
"Come up, something happened!" Su Yang waved to Ding Xi: "These two people will probably never fight against us."
Ding Xi also followed and was stunned when he saw the scene in front of him.
Of course he could also see that these two people were actually dead.
"What's going on?" Ding Xi asked unexpectedly.
Su Yang walked up to the two people and reached out to poke under their noses. Sure enough, they were not breathing at all. He pressed Gui Dongjing's face again. The place where he started was soft and inelastic, and he immediately fell into the trap.
As soon as he took a piece of it, a smell hit his nose, and a smelly pus mixed with blood flowed out of his nose and ears.
The same is true for Ximen Sheng, no different.
"If this wasn't a dead person, there would be no more dead people in this world."
Su Yang sighed and his eyes flickered to the front of their bodies.
A judge's pen made of fine steel was inserted diagonally into Gui Dongjing's lower abdomen, while a dagger was inserted into Ximen Sheng's chest. The dagger was inserted deeply into his chest, leaving only a handle.
Outside.
"These two people died in a fight?" Ding Xi took a breath. This judge's pen is Ximen Sheng's unique weapon. The pen is always with the person, and the dagger also has a small "
It has the character "Gui", the handle is inlaid with gold and jade, and there is a huge pearl at the end, which is in line with the luxurious habits of Guidong Jing.
"How come these two people started fighting among themselves?"
Su Yang and Ding Xi almost kept asking questions, but no one could answer their questions.
Ximen Sheng was originally half of Gui Dongjing's subordinates. After being poisoned, he should only follow Gui Dongjing's orders. After Gui Dongjing was injured and his combat power was compromised, he would not kill his right-hand man for no reason.
A fight between the two would be of no benefit to anyone.
Ding Xi circled around the two bodies, made a few more strange movements, and suddenly said: "Look, before they died, they didn't seem to be preparing to take action, but were talking about something." He said as he said
, pointing at the two corpses, and said: "Look, they are sitting on chairs, not far apart, and almost facing each other. If you are going to take action, they should not be in this posture."
"Then what were they talking about? They actually got into a fight while they were talking?" Su Yang finally understood that Ding Xi's movements just now were imitating the positions of the two of them in life, so he also tried it again, and sure enough,
Yes, the distance and angle between the two people, as well as the current state of their corpses, are very consistent with the scene of chatting and then suddenly taking action.
Ding Xi took a breath of cold air and said doubtfully: "Gui Dongjing was injured. Maybe Ximen Sheng saw an opportunity and asked him for the antidote. Of course Gui Dongjing didn't give it, so he took action at the first disagreement."
After he finished speaking, he pointed to the ground. There was a small amount of light white powder on the ground. The powder was like an irregular line, extending intermittently towards the corner of the room.
Looking along the white powder, a little further away and near the corner, there is indeed a small kraft paper bag that has been opened.
Ding Xi walked over and picked up the paper bag. There was still some remaining white powder in the paper bag.
At this time, Su Yang had also discovered that the direction of the insertion of the judge pen on Gui Dongjing's stomach was diagonally, not vertically. In other words, when the killer struck, he did it from the side, which was exactly where Ximen Sheng was sitting.
.
The same is true for the dagger on Ximen Sheng's chest.
Seeing the postures of the two people clearly again, Su Yang suddenly closed his eyes, and this picture appeared in his mind:
Ximen Sheng and Gui Dongjing were sitting across from each other. Ximen Sheng asked Gui Dongjing for an antidote, but Gui Dongjing certainly refused to give it. He even took out the antidote and threatened something. After a back and forth, the two of them were at a standstill, and Gui Dongjing suddenly had evil thoughts.
, feeling that it was useless to keep Ximen Sheng around any longer. He might still be a living person who could leak secrets, so he got angry and stabbed Ximen Sheng in the heart with a knife.
Ximen Sheng was so shocked that he subconsciously picked up the judge pen next to him and stabbed Gui Dongjing in the lower abdomen. Gui Dongjing didn't expect that he had difficulty moving after being punched by Deng Dinghou. Instead of getting out of the way, Ximen Sheng
With his last breath, he inserted the judge's pen deeply into Gui Dongjing's lower abdomen.
Opening his eyes again, the two tasks in the picture in his mind continued to move for a moment. The movements and bodies of the two people were exactly what they saw in front of them, and they matched the current shapes of the two people.
"If Gui Dongjing hadn't been injured, Ximen Sheng might not have been able to kill him." Ding Xi looked at the position where the judge's pen was inserted and said, "This is not fatal. Gui Dongjing was seriously injured and fell into coma. He died of excessive blood loss."
"Injured?" Su Yang had an idea. Yes, Deng Dinghou once said that he seriously injured Gui Dongjing.
Su Yang immediately endured his nausea and touched Gui Dongjing's body bit by bit, starting from his face.
"Look for the injured area. It was Deng Dinghou's fist that Gui Dongjing received. There must be a broken bone. The broken bone is not a flesh wound. It won't heal within a month or two."
Ding Xi also understood. He bent down and touched the calf of Gui Dongjing's body. While touching, he asked, "Do you doubt Deng Dinghou?"
"Anyone can doubt it. Neither Ximen Sheng nor Gui Dongjing's martial arts are inferior to Deng Dinghou. He was able to seriously injure Gui Dongjing when fighting one against two. This is beyond my expectation. If Gui Dongjing had no injuries,
Then there is a huge hidden secret in this matter.”
From the bottom of his heart, Su Yang really hoped to find the broken bones on Gui Dongjing's body. In that case, the answer would be ready to come out. But if there were no broken bones, then this series of seemingly clear clues would immediately become one.
A completely unexplainable mess.
Just as he was thinking about it, he touched Gui Dongjing's ribs with a light hand. He felt along the direction of the ribs and found that at least four ribs were broken in two.
"Found it?" Ding Xi saw Su Yang stopped moving, so he raised his head and asked.
"Let's go, there seems to be no doubt." Su Yang pondered for a moment, nodded, stood up, turned around and walked downstairs.
Ding Xi caught up and asked, "What do you mean it 'seems' it's over?"
"It seems to mean that once these two people die, the whole thing will make sense." Su Yang said.
"Does what makes sense mean it is correct?" Ding Xi shook his head and said, "At least there is one thing we haven't done yet."
Su Yang stopped suddenly, turned back and stared at Ding Xi with bright eyes, and asked: "Are you really going to do that?"
Ding Xi was silent for a moment and said: "If it was really him, I would do it myself. Since Deng Dinghou said that Baili Changqing could not use internal strength, he lied to warn us, then Wang Wanwu's death, and
Evergreen is inseparable from the relationship. I even suspect that he has joined the Qinglong Society in order to keep his Evergreen Escort Agency."
"Using what the other party cares about most to intimidate the other party into submission is the usual method of the Qinglong Society. Controlling newly emerging forces like the Joint Escort Bureau is also one of the most important goals of the Qinglong Society." Su Yang nodded.
"The King's Escort Agency's refusal to join the Joint Escort Agency has become the biggest obstacle to the Joint Escort Agency's dominance of the escort agencies in the pass. And if Baili Changqing is really a member of the Qinglong Society, he directed and acted in the assassination drama to get rid of
It is normal for Wang Wanwu and a few people in the joint escort agency to be disobedient."
Ding Xi said: "The only thing I'm not sure about is that Wang Wanwu's painting 'May 13th, Stay Away from the Blue Dragon' existed decades ago. Why is that?"
Su Yang shook his head: "Perhaps Baili Changqing himself needs to answer us for all this."
As soon as he finished speaking, a shrill and frightened cry came from outside the tower.
Miss Wang! (To be continued...)
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