Chapter 197: The Battle for the Altar (End Thirty-two)
The fact that Wang Wei's county magistrate's mansion was turned into ruins probably happened not long ago, as evidenced by the dust that has not completely settled on the ruins.
Among the ruins, Wu Ma accurately found the location of the secret room where he had been bound like a corpse and suffered inhuman torture.
After peeling away the rubble on the upper level of the ruins, there were only finer stones and the bloody floor tiles of the secret room that looked very familiar to him.
The moment he saw the upturned and whitish ground on the floor tiles, Wu Ma was sure that Tian Deping's altar had been moved to another place.
Not many people know where the altar is hidden: the late Qingxia, Yuwen Jianxue who has gone far away, and the dancing horse who is currently eating ashes on the desolate ruins of the County Cheng Mansion.
The last one: the new Nayan of the Tang Dynasty, Liu Wenjing, an official fan who remained loyal until death.
"Liu Wenjing, Liu Wenjing..."
Wu Ma murmured the name and locked onto the suspect almost instantly.
Wu Ma vaguely recalled that he seemed to have met with Liu Wenjing to discuss leaving Tian Deping's altar to him before going north to the grassland to carry out the task of peace talks.
At that time, Liu Wenjing agreed very happily, and said: Tian Deping was killed by Dancing Horse at the risk of his life, so about all the damp and moldy trophies and related objects on Tian Deping's body (except for the meteorite fragments that summoned the Tang Tower)
, even the underpants on Tian Deping's body should belong to Dancing Horse by rights.
Wu Ma seemed to be able to feel Liu Wenjing's sudden relaxation from Liu Wenjing's sudden relaxation, as if the other party had dropped a time bomb from his arms - if Liu Wenjing knew what a bomb was. From Liu Wenjing's point of view at that time, Wu Ma
Hazardous materials and garbage disposal stations literally delivered to your door.
According to this logic, Tian Deping's altar can be regarded as Wu Ma's personal belongings.
It's just that Wu Ma has been endlessly busy in the past few months and has no time to take back the altar. And in his private residence at that time lived a black hyena who had not yet evolved into an awakened disciple.
There is no suitable place to store the altar in the house, and Black Coyote cannot take care of the altar alone.
To sum up, the reason why the altar is still sitting quietly in the secret room of the Juncheng Mansion after a long time is not because Wu Ma does not want it, or has forgotten or forgot about it, but because it cannot be placed temporarily.
As for Liu Wenjing, the nature of quietly taking away Wu Ma's personal belongings was very bad and unethical.
Dancing Horse returned to Chang'an all night, planning to take Tian Deping's altar away from the warehouse of Liu Wenjing's home before dawn, and then leave an envelope with an extremely cold ice pheasant painted on it, leaving the other party to worry and think without any clue.
As soon as this idea started, he thought that Liu Wenjing would never put the altar in his own home even if he moved it because of his superstition. The most likely possibility was to put Tian Deping's altar in the treasure house on the second floor of the Tang Tower.
in.
Li Zhiyun had to personally count everything that was put into the warehouse, and it would be extremely difficult to take out the things that Li Zhiyun had counted.
Wu Ma quickly thought of sneaking into the Datang Tower to steal Tian Deping's altar, but just when he was about to make a detailed sneak plan, he remembered that his book sculpture in the Datang Tower had been destroyed by Li Zhiyun, and he wanted to enter the Datang Tower again.
There are no tickets for the tower.
Thinking of this, his heart went cold, but he still refused to give up and ran all the way to Jinyang City. Even if Tian Deping's altar was really transferred to the Datang Tower by Liu Wenjing, he would still go to Liu Wenjing's warehouse to make a fuss.
The thought of doing everything possible to force the other party to return the altar to him.
On a small road about seventy or eighty miles away from Chang'an City, Wu Ma heard the chaotic and rapid sound of horse hooves from far away. His heart suddenly moved, thinking to himself what kind of emergency would happen if he was rushing on his way in the middle of the night?
He covered his body, quickened his pace and hurried forward, and soon saw a group of hurried cavalry. In the center of the cavalry was an extremely spacious carriage.
The dancing horse was keenly aware that there was no one alive inside the carriage, but the leader of the cavalry was extremely attached to the carriage. From time to time he would ride to the window of the carriage and look inside to feel at ease.
The leader of the cavalry was an awakened disciple from the Tang Tower. Wu Ma had met him once when he returned to Jinyang City from the northern grasslands.
Wu Ma became suspicious. Taking advantage of the gap where the leader had just watched from the window, he quietly got into the hood of the carriage wearing a dark cassock and saw two blood-stained bodies wrapped in straw mats three layers inside and three outside.
Altar.
Damn it, all this is covered with my blood. Wu Ma thought to himself.
The moment the dancing horse appeared in the hood of the carriage, I felt the silent but definite call of the two altars.
Without much thought, the dancing horse reached out to the altar. The moment it touched the altar, the two altars whined at the same time.
Immediately, a gray light shot out from the altar of the furbolg picture in the Dancing Horse Illustrated Book, covering both altars at the same time.
The next moment, the altar in the carriage disappeared, and two altars appeared in the picture of the furbolg.
"who!"
"Hey!~"
The Awakening disciple of the Tang Tower who led the team seemed to have noticed something strange in the carriage, and hurriedly stopped the rushing team.
Wu Ma had no intention of killing innocent people and silencing everyone, and he didn't want to cause unnecessary trouble, so he opened the curtain of the car hood wearing a dark cassock and disappeared into the gradually whitening dawn like a ghost that had never appeared before.
After a while, the sound of the carriage being knocked to pieces by an angry palm came from behind him.
The next day Liu Wenjing came to Wu Ma and asked him to hand over the altar.
Dancing Horse's face was filled with astonishment: "Altar?"
"Stop pretending!" Liu Wenjing said, "It's Tian Deping's altar. There are two of them."
"Aren't they all placed in the secret room of Wang Wei's family in Jinyang City?"
"Hey~ do you really don't know, or are you pretending to be confused?" Liu Wenjing lay on the dancing horse's face and looked hard, as if to dig out evidence of lies from his eyes, "Last night, Li Jiawulang went to Wang Wei according to the order of the emperor.
The shabby house took the altar to the Tang Pagoda in Chang'an City, but unexpectedly it was transported successfully and disappeared out of thin air."
"The Holy Spirit's will?...disappeared? Speak slowly...Why am I a little confused..."
Liu Wenjing took a long breath, looked to calm down, and repeated what she said.
"Why would the Holy One pay attention to a broken altar?"
"Don't worry about this for now, just tell me whether you know it or not."
"What's Li Zhiyun going to do?" Wu Ma suddenly became furious, "We have agreed that the altar is at my disposal. How come I didn't even get a hair on it, so why did I ask him to take it?"
"You really don't know?"
"It really can't be true anymore," Dancing Horse swore, raising his palms: "I'll keep that altar, it will be of great use. If you two lose it to me, you must find a way to get it back for me."
"You have a good idea," Liu Wenjing said: "The Wulang of the Li family discussed with the Holy Lord a few days ago that all the spiritual treasures and foreign objects obtained by the awakened disciples in previous battles belong to the Tang Dynasty and will be taken back together until the time of reward.
, and then distribute them according to needs according to merit. Otherwise, why would Tian Deping’s unlucky altar, which was hidden in Wang Wei’s secret room and buried in a heap of ash, be moved to Chang’an? Isn’t it considered unlucky?”
"The good one belongs to the Tang Dynasty," Wu Ma sneered: "The Tang Dynasty belongs to the Li family, and Li Zhiyun manages the Tang Tower for the Li family. In the end, it all went into Li Zhiyun's pocket."
"You are now a member of the Ruby Pagoda, and you have the new General Zuo Yiwei to support you. What are you afraid of?" Liu Wenjing said, leaning close to the dancing horse's ear: "I heard A Xue say that when Tian Deping was killed, from
Is it true that two eyes popped out of his corpse?"
"never seen it."
"Hey, don't say it, your tone sounds quite real," Liu Wenjing said, "If Li Jiawulang asks, just tell him like this to save me trouble."
He said goodbye to the dancing horse, "To be honest, if Wu Lang hadn't insisted on asking me to come over and ask, saying that he wanted to give you a chance to be honest and lenient, I wouldn't have bothered to come over. However, don't think that you fooled me today.
, and you're done.
Li Jiagoro said, the bright moon hangs in the sky, how come the beautiful altar disappears? Except for the dark side of the horse dancing cassock, no one else can do such bizarre things. "
Wu Ma said: "There are so many awakened disciples in the world, and there are countless invisible awakening techniques. Li Zhiyun, a child with a yellow mouth, has seen a few of them, and he dares to make false claims to frame them——"
"Yes, yes, yes!" Liu Wenjing hurriedly covered his mouth, "Don't say anything, and I won't ask. I'm just reminding you that this matter is not over yet."
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After Liu Wenjing went back to resume her life, Li Zhiyun really showed his true intentions.
He filed an imperial complaint in front of Li Yuan and obtained a search warrant that allowed him to search at will. He led a group of soldiers to build a crude but sturdy palace with dancing horses in the northeast corner of the Ruby Pagoda Courtyard.
The temporary laboratory was searched inside and outside.
Li Zhiyun even went through all the experimental records Wu Ma had done these days, but he couldn't understand the other party's handwriting.
Although the awakened disciple who was responsible for transporting the altar lost the altar earlier, he used a small magic weapon that he had exchanged from the soul of the Great Tang Pagoda to collect the aura of the altar in advance. He originally had someone else.
I don't want it to be a prudent move to make up for my mistakes.
There is another awakened disciple in the Tang Pagoda whose natal monster is the Sky-Swallowing Dog. As long as he has smelled it, he can follow it. They searched the entire Chang'an City, but they did not smell anything similar to the altar.
breath.
Li Zhiyun immediately changed his mind and tried to investigate whether Wu Ma left Chang'an for Jinyang. However, Wu Ma's departure from the city deliberately did not alert others, and no trace was left along the way. The ruins of the Juncheng Mansion were evacuated at that time.
All the guards made the horse dance a perfect crime scene.
Although Li Hongyu, the only insider, was estranged from Wu Ma, she was wearing a pair of trousers with Wu Ma under her bright long skirt. There was absolutely no reason to betray Wu Ma.
Li Zhiyun's investigation was in vain.
He once asked Li Yuan that because the method used by the person who stole the altar that night was very similar to that of Wu Ma's dark side cassock, and there was no other semicolon in the world, he could take Wu Ma as a key suspect and put him in jail.
trial.
Li Yuan was also moved at a certain moment, but then the scene of Li Hongyu pulling out the sword appeared in his mind. He thought about the wound on his daughter's neck that had not faded yet, and told Li Zhiyun:
Forcing a confession without conclusive evidence is a heart-wrenching move that must be avoided at all costs. The eyes of the entire Tang Dynasty are staring at you.
Li Zhiyun felt as if he had swallowed a fly.
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