There was deathly silence in the post, with Xiaoqi and the five captains missing. Judging from the decorations, there was no battle. Song Zheng's eyes were covered with a special aura, and he tried to find traces of souls in the post.
The traces of the souls of Xiaoqi and the captains were very obvious, but no one else was found. Song Zheng calculated from the traces: "They disappeared two days ago."
Qi Bingchen was better at investigating cases than the other two peak ancestors. He walked around the post, and then came outside the post. He quickly found traces after scanning with his spiritual sense. He pushed aside a patch of grass and found some ancient trees.
Several footprints were found underneath.
Song Zheng and three others came over, and Qi Bingchen said: "Looking at the footprints, these people are very tall and majestic. They should be about nine feet tall."
He looked in the direction of the footprints, his eyes penetrated the cover of the jungle, and found another trace seven or eight miles away: "Let's go."
There was a broken branch here, and it looked like a wild beast passing by. But Song Zheng took a look and saw that the traces of souls on the branch were very faint, but he could still tell that they were human.
Qi Bingchen continued to follow, but this time his whole body was shocked: "Sir..."
He took Song Zheng and others a dozen miles further, and there was a small cave. It was dark inside and the entrance was damp.
When we arrived here, the ancestors could tell without looking at the cultivation level that there were six corpses piled in the cave, and they were the Longyi guards from the Xiaomohe outpost.
Song Zheng gritted his teeth, his cheek muscles bulged, and he took a deep breath: "Remember the location first, then order people to come over and restrain them. Let's go and avenge the six brothers first!"
Qi Bingchen climbed to the top of the mountain and looked around. Lingjue let go of his full search. But this time, he could not find any clues.
Song Zheng pointed in a direction below: "Catch up over there." The three ancestors didn't know what was going on, but Song Zheng insisted on walking in that direction.
Thirty miles later, at the mouth of a canyon, they found some traces, which seemed to be where some people stopped to rest.
"Found it!" Qi Bingchen was excited: "They can't escape!"
Yang Liumu asked: "Do you know their purpose?"
Song Zheng nodded and said: "Based on their movement trajectory, their target is...the Third Jiangnan Shipbuilding Factory." This is a secret of the Hongwu Celestial Dynasty, and not many people even know about it in Huzhou City.
"It is located on Taiji Lake. It is a warship factory established during the Beizheng Emperor's era. It mainly builds our country's most advanced 'Nuhai-class' cultivation warships."
Taiji Lake is extremely vast, and the Third Jiangnan Shipbuilding Factory is in a hidden location, with a high-level spiritual formation covering the outside. Pinghu Tower may be aware of it, but the Bangong clan and the Yushan Sect are not aware of it.
Qi Bingchen said angrily: "The dog thief is so bold!"
Bangong Xie frowned and asked: "Such a secret shipyard should have very strong defense capabilities. What will they do even if they find it?"
Song Zheng also shook his head slightly. This was what he was puzzled about. There were sixteen ancestors of the imperial court sitting in the Third Jiangnan Shipbuilding Factory, one of whom was the peak ancestor, and the rest were in the late and middle stages of Xuantong Realm.
Moreover, the construction of warships must be indispensable for all kinds of powerful combat equipment. They can also ask for help from Huzhou City at any time. The ancestors of Long Yiwei arrived in just a few breaths. It is almost impossible to sneak attack on the Third Jiangnan Shipbuilding Factory.
Chance.
"Follow up and have a look."
But after leaving the mouth of the canyon, those people seemed to disappear out of thin air. Song Zheng used the Void God Town to search for traces of souls but found nothing.
They walked around the mountain for several times and found nothing.
Qi Bingchen said to be on the safe side: "Sir, let's go to the third factory first and tell them to be on strict guard. As long as we are here, together with other defense forces in the factory, even if the strong men of the country come, they will have the power to fight.
Don’t let those thieves succeed.”
Song Zheng shook his head slightly and said: "The Nuhai class is an important weapon of the country, and we must be careful. If the gang of rebels are secretly watching us and waiting for us to point out the location of the third factory to them, we can
Good intentions turned into a big mistake.”
Qi Bingchen said solemnly: "That's what your Excellency said."
"The spiritual formation outside the Third Factory was built under the personal supervision of Emperor Beizheng. The specific location is the top secret of our government. Even if the rebels know the approximate location, it will not be easy to find it."
He said to Qi Bingchen: "Senior Qi, please return to Huzhou City immediately, take out the homophonic bone talisman specially used by Wei Zhong, and warn the Third Factory."
"Okay." Qi Bingchen said: "I will come back immediately after giving the warning. Please be careful during this time and don't take risks."
He then handed over to Pangong Xie and Yang Liumu: "Please protect me, sir."
"Brother Qi, don't worry, leave it to us."
Qi Bingchen broke through the air and left. Song Zheng stood at the mouth of the canyon and continued to observe the traces. Bangong Xie asked: "Sir, can you tell from these traces how many people there are?"
Song Zheng nodded: "There will be no more than twenty people."
"The thieves dare to take advantage of the Third Factory. They must also have some understanding of the defense power there. Only twenty people dare to come. These twenty people are probably ancestors, even top ancestors."
Regarding Pangong Xie's analysis, Song Zheng shook his head: "It is unlikely that twenty peak ancestors will be gathered to do this. What I am actually worried about is... the strong ones who govern the country!"
Pan Gongxie and Yang Liumu were shocked. Thinking about it carefully, it was indeed as Song Zheng said. To complete this task, a strong person who can control the country can be truly confident.
Song Zheng sighed in his heart. He knew that the situation in the capital was complicated and he was unwilling to work for Fan Zhenguo, but now he had to inform Xiao Zhen.
He was extremely angry and remembered what King Pingtian once said to him: Hongwu is too weak.
In the past few years, there have been almost no newly promoted strong men in Hongwu. Military fortune is the fate of the country. This shows the decline of the fortune of the dynasty.
Song Zheng whispered: "Two seniors, we don't really need to go all out to track down, we can just pretend to search around. If we really find it and force the other party to take action, we..."
The two ancestors nodded repeatedly.
They didn't want to die, and Song Zheng didn't want to die either.
An hour later, Qi Bingchen returned quickly and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Song Zheng was safe. Song Zheng told his speculation again, and Qi Bingchen also looked solemn.
Song Zheng said: "I have secretly informed Mr. Xiao that Fan Zhenguo is on his way. He will arrive in Huzhou in one hour at most."
After two hours of traveling from the capital to the south of the Yangtze River, even the most powerful person in the country would be exhausted.
Song Zheng was thinking that he would delay for a few hours to buy Fan Zhenguo time to recover.
They began to search for something in the surrounding mountains, but found nothing. Then when it got dark, Song Zheng saw a man walking from the mountains and forests with a sword on his back. He was ordinary and inconspicuous. Even
Song Zheng and the three peak ancestors clearly saw him, but they still felt that there was no one there.
He greeted him overjoyed: "Fan Zhenguo."
The latter nodded: "It's time to take action."
Song Zheng cupped his fists and bowed: "Please Fan Zhenguo search for the rebels."
Fan Zhenguo tapped his hand on the divine sword behind his back, and the sword flew up into the sky with a whoosh. The tip of the sword pointed downwards. In an instant, infinite sword intent enveloped a three hundred-mile radius, encompassing all the surrounding barren mountains.
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Under the sword intention of the strong man in Zhenguo, the insect beasts all over the mountain were so frightened that no hidden creature could escape.
But Fan Zhenguo frowned: "No one?"
Under his sword intent search, the area around No. 3 Factory was peaceful, with no other pedestrians except them in the dark night.
Song Zheng was also surprised: "No one?"
Fan Zhenguo took a deep breath, and a large area of ​​the surrounding heaven and earth energy suddenly emptied. He pointed his hand to the sky again, and the range of the sword expanded to five hundred miles.
But still nothing was seen.
He glanced at Song Zheng, put away his divine sword and snorted dissatisfiedly, stepped out into the void, and returned to the capital. Not only was there no enemy, but after searching with his methods, he could find that there was no one in this area.
Enemies at the town-state level have appeared.
The situation in the capital was about to break out. If he rushed to Huzhou and delayed for a few hours, he might be caught by his opponent and take the opportunity to kill Xiao Zhen!
Song Zheng also thought about this possibility: Could it be that the other party did this just to raise suspicions and drop a strong man from Xiao Zhen's side to gain time to kill Xiao Zhen?
The blood vessels on his forehead bulged, and his heart was beating wildly. He immediately took out the jade charm and contacted Xiao Zhen. Xiao Zhen's voice rang out: "Mr. Fan has informed me. Don't worry, I'm fine."
Song Zheng said anxiously: "You must not be careless!"
Xiao Zhen felt the concern in his heart and said with a smile: "Okay, if you care about me, you have a conscience. Don't worry. After so many years, there are many people who want to plot against me, but none of them have succeeded yet."
Song Zheng was still a little worried, worried that Xiao Zhen would be careless due to being overconfident.
He paced in place, waiting for Fan Zhenguo to rush back to the capital. After a full hour, news finally came from Xiao Zhen: "Mr. Fan is back in a hurry, can you rest assured now?"
Song Zhengchang breathed a sigh of relief.
The capital was fine. Song Zheng frowned and reconsidered the matter in Huzhou. After such a delay, it was almost dawn. Song Zheng still couldn't figure out what the secret group of people wanted to do.
"Isn't their goal the Third Jiangnan Shipbuilding Plant?"
Song Zheng looked at the sky and took everyone back the same way before dawn. In the dark night, he activated the Void God Town for a long time, not letting go of any clues along the way, but no more clues were found.
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After dawn, he suddenly thought of a possibility: "They couldn't disappear out of thin air. Fan Zhenguo examined the five hundred miles, and they should have fled five hundred miles away."
He opened the map and looked at it: "The Xiaomohe outpost is exactly five hundred miles away."
The four of them rushed to the Xiaomohe outpost without stopping. Song Zheng looked into the void. This time, he was not using Yin Shen's magical power, but Void's magical power.
"Over there!" He pointed with his hand, and behind a mountain peak, there were traces of strange movements in the void.
Chapter completed!