Early the next morning, Niu Xiaosheng and Li Qingqing found Fan Rumeng.
"Uncle Master, our agency has given up on this case."
Niu Xiaosheng placed the document on Fan Rumeng's desk.
"Okay, I understand, put it here."
Fan Rumeng nodded and agreed simply, without even asking for a reason, which surprised both of them.
"You don't have to investigate the case for now, but I have a task for you."
Fan Rumeng took out a letter from his waist, "Some time ago, a caravan under the command of Dao Yigong disappeared and suffered a lot of losses. This happened on the border of Youzhou. A letter was sent to me from within the sect, asking me to
Take care of it, but I can't leave for a while, so I can only leave it to you two. But because it is a private matter, you have to handle it quietly. I have granted you a month's leave. The caravan is missing.
The location is here, you should leave as soon as possible."
Fan Rumeng said and handed the letter to Niu Xiaosheng.
Niu Xiaosheng took the letter and read it.
"Okay, I still have official duties to attend to. If you are fine, just go home and get ready."
The two looked at each other and slowly retreated.
"Little Saint, why do I feel that the master seems to be trying to separate us?"
Li whispered softly.
Daoyigong is the top sect in the Chu Kingdom, with 80,000 registered disciples. Why does the disappearance of the caravan need to be investigated by the people of Supervisor Tiansi?
Niu Xiaosheng glanced at the back, and he always felt that Fan Rumeng seemed to be hiding something from them, and this matter was probably related to the case they had just given up.
"Don't think so much. No matter what happens, Uncle Master will never harm us. Go back and prepare. We will set off early tomorrow morning."
Back home, Niu Xiaosheng called Zhen Yun and Xiao Man to him, "I'm going out tomorrow. Xiao Man will go with me. Butler Zhen will go to the village outside the city to help. Don't go back to the city for the time being."
The two of them naturally had no objections to Niu Xiaosheng's arrangement and nodded one after another.
Early the next morning, Niu Xiaosheng took the two of them to meet Li Qingqing and then left the city.
The place where the caravan disappeared was ten days' journey from Youzhou City. The three of them rode horses day and night, and arrived at a place called Jingshan Town on the eighth day.
"It's getting late. Let's rest in the town tonight and then go to the location of the caravan's accident tomorrow to look for clues."
Niu Xiaosheng looked at the town not far away and said.
Li Qingqing nodded when she heard the words. After traveling for so many days, she was very tired. Now she just wanted to find a place, take a shower and have a good rest.
When the three of them entered the town, they found that it was a little too quiet. Logically speaking, the town was right on a traffic thoroughfare, so there should be a lot of pedestrians passing by, but there were not a few people on the street at all.
"Uncle, I would like to ask, how to get to the best inn in town?"
Niu Xiaosheng rode his horse and stopped an old man passing by and asked.
The old man pointed ahead and said, "Go straight to this street and turn left."
"Thank you sir."
Niu Xiaosheng cupped his hands, turned the horse's head, and walked forward.
In front of the door of the inn, a young man who looked like a waiter was dozing off against the door frame. Suddenly, the sound of horse hooves suddenly woke him up. Then he rubbed his eyes, smiled, and went out.
"The guest is here to stay at the hotel, please come quickly, please come quickly."
The boy said while helping to hold the reins.
"If you have any delicious food in your store, bring it up first."
Niu Xiaosheng walked into the inn, and the entire lobby was empty.
"Three objective persons, please come over here."
The shopkeeper inside threw away the fly swatter and came forward with a trembling buttocks.
After ordering the food, Niu Xiaosheng asked curiously: "Shopkeeper, your business here doesn't seem to be very good?"
"Hey, this is not because of the weird things that happened on Fenglin Road. Now no merchants dare to pass by here, so business will naturally stop."
The shopkeeper said with a sad face.
"No way, what happened there? We are going to Fenglin Road tomorrow."
"Sir, you'd better take a detour. There is a lot of evil there now. In the past half month, everyone who passed by there suddenly disappeared. No one was seen alive, no corpses were found."
"Didn't the government send someone to investigate?"
"We sent, three groups of people were sent, but they never came back. Now no one dares to go near that place."
Niu Xiaosheng and Li Qingqing looked at each other, both showing surprise.
Soon, the food was served. Except for the rice, which was ordinary white rice, the meat, vegetables and soup were all made from the meat of exotic animals. They were all delicious and delicious, but the price was not low.
"Please be patient, guest, these are our inn's signature dishes."
The shopkeeper was all smiles, he had been losing money for half a month and now he was finally able to make some money back.
The three of them were all warriors, so they naturally had a lot of appetite. They ate for half an hour before going back to their rooms to rest.
After breakfast the next day, the three of them set off for Fenglin Road.
It's less than twenty miles away from the town. If you ride a horse, you can get there in less than half an hour.
Standing on a high place, Niu Xiaosheng looked down at Fenglin Road to see the ability to open his left eye.
In his field of vision, a hemispherical black cover covered the entire mountain road. His sight could not penetrate the cover to see what was inside, but he could see clearly the appearance of the entire mountain road just by looking at it with ordinary naked eyes.
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"Xiao Man, help me catch some small animals and bring them alive."
Niu Xiaosheng said to Xiaoman.
"Um."
Xiaoman nodded, and disappeared in a flash.
"Did you find something?"
Li asked gently.
"No, just doing an experiment to see."
Not long after, he came back carrying a wild boar.
Looking at the big wild boar that kept struggling and screaming, Niu Xiaosheng silently took out a hemp rope from the saddle bag, tied the wild boar's belly, then carried it to the edge of the maple forest road and threw it inside.
The moment the wild boar was thrown in, it immediately got up and ran away. As it fled, it suddenly disappeared without a trace. In addition to the wild boar, even the rope tied to it disappeared out of thin air.
Later, Niu Xiaosheng tried it with other things, and without exception, they would gradually disappear into the maple forest road.
"This is going to be difficult, let's go back first."
Niu Xiaosheng said softly to Li.
"Go back now?"
Li blinked slightly.
"The situation here is very strange. I plan to send a letter back to ask if my uncle and the others know what this is."
After returning to the small town, Niu Xiaosheng immediately wrote a letter to Fan Rumeng and Dongmei respectively, in which he introduced the situation of Fenglin Road in detail.
There was a post station set up by the imperial court in the town. With his status as the general banner, he simply used the post station's letter eagle to send the letter.