Rivers and lakes in another world

Chapter 338 The Truth
So, in the end, Guan Tao still couldn't control the killing intent in his heart. He knew that if he really acted like this, it might bring risks to his identity, but he didn't regret it and had no other choice.

From the moment he was chosen by Mr. Iron Face, the fate of people like them has been doomed.They will either die in obscurity in the future, or they will use their last light and heat and then go into complete silence.

Do you still want to be a spy and want to be aboveboard and spend your days and nights?That was really hard.

And last night's timing was also very good, Guan Tao couldn't find a more suitable timing to make a move than that.

Ma Rui came to drink with him this time, without his confidants by his side, it was after a day's work that Ma Rui came out secretly to relax in order to relax.

The two simply fried a few appetizers in the small wine cellar where Guan Tao was in charge of storing wine.

Ma Rui was in high spirits and drank a few more drinks than usual.On weekdays, he tries not to drink too much to keep a clear head, but this time, the news of Mrs. Huaying can be said to be a major discovery. Ma Rui is very happy, and he can't help but drink a few more glasses.In addition, Guan Tao was determined to deal with him and brought high-strength alcohol, which made him drunk after a while.

Ma Rui was drunk but still had no problem walking, so he was going to go back to his residence to wash up, sober up and rest. He would start notifying his staff tomorrow to start setting up an intelligence network for Mrs. Huaying.

Guan Tao naturally accompanied Ma Rui to leave, seeing each other off along the way.When he walked near the ditch, Ma Rui slipped and fell down accidentally.In a daze, he asked Guan Tao to help him.

But what he was waiting for was not Guan Tao's outstretched arm, but an alloy ingot.The heavy blow hit Ma Rui on the back of the head, and he, who was already a little dazed, was even more dizzy.

In order to ensure the power, Guan Tao also stimulated his true energy, used his greatest strength, waved the alloy ingot and hit Ma Rui's back of the head one after another, and did not stop until Ma Rui was completely unresponsive.

At this time, blood was splashed all over his body and hands.

Guan Tao was not sure whether Ma Rui was really dead. Out of caution, he secretly took out the steel needle he carried with him, inserted it directly into Ma Rui's head and stirred it to ensure that Ma Rui could not live at all. Then the corpse was pushed into the ditch, and then a simple cleanup was carried out to reduce the clues that might be discovered as much as possible.

Back in the house, the first thing Guan Tao did was to burn all the clothes on his body.

These bloodstains must be cleaned up, as well as the alloy ingots and steel needles.The former was Ma Rui's reward to Guan Tao, who was going to make him a handy weapon, even if it wasn't for killing people, he had to make one for self-defense.But this has become something to send Ma Rui on the road.And that steel needle was a strange weapon that Guan Tao carried with him.He once learned a method of acupuncture under the guidance of Mr. Tie Mian.

But it's not for killing people, but for taking care of your body.Guan Tao has a bag of steel needles on his body, and it is not a problem to dispose of any one at will.

But the development of things seems to be beyond his expectation.

When he woke up with apprehension, Guan Tao was still worried that there would be a group of vicious action team members when he opened the door.It turns out that they saw people from the intelligence department who were like house flies.

It turned out that Ma Rui was killed and his body was abandoned in the ditch.He knew this a long time ago, and he did it himself. He didn't feel anything in his heart, but he still had to show that expression of shock, sadness and sadness on the surface. Anyway, it was complicated.

But what Lao Zhang and the others said next was even more shocking. Not only did Ma Rui die, but even his confidants disappeared.No one alive, no dead body, just disappeared out of thin air.Originally, they had seen those few people yesterday, and they were all working hard to collect information, but in the past night, it was a bit scary that they disappeared.

This news was both surprising and joyful to Guan Tao.

Surprisingly, I didn't attack Ma Rui's confidantes. I was in the middle stage of luck, and I was lucky to be able to deal with Ma Rui. After being drunk and trusting myself, I didn't have any precautions. If I changed If you meet a stranger, it is estimated that using true energy can make yourself good or bad.If it wasn't his own action, then who was targeting Ma Rui's confidantes, and determined the target so accurately?

The good news is that the person or group of people who made Ma Rui's confidant disappear perfectly took over the pot from Guan Tao's hands.Originally, there was still a slight risk of exposure, but now almost everyone thinks that the ones who killed Ma Rui and those who made those people disappear were the same group of people. In this case, the possibility of Guan Tao being exposed is greatly reduced.

But one bad thing is that the people from the action team intervened to restrict their freedom.

Guan Tao didn't have much confidence in this department with the same status as the intelligence department. He didn't know if the people in the action team would find anything unusual. Even the delicious food and wine in front of him was tasteless.

But Guan Tao is not going to think too much now, if he acts too much, maybe people will see his flaws, so it is better to maintain the previous appearance.

My heart is more or less sad about my behavior.As the saying goes, Lu Yao knows the horsepower and sees people's hearts over time.Ma Rui took great care of Guan Tao, and put in a lot of effort in both work and study.Guan Tao also has a crush on him.Unfortunately, the positions of the two are different.It seems to be under one roof, but in fact it is doing things for two people.

The fundamental difference between the two people determines that the day when they will eventually be hostile in the future is only a matter of time.

Instead of having a deep relationship with each other in the future, it would be better to stop thinking about them now.Downed with a glass of wine.Guan Tao regained his hard-heartedness as before.

Perhaps if Guan Tao really followed what he thought, the future development of things might really be as he imagined.

However, it has been proved afterwards that sometimes people should not take chances and think that everything will work according to their own ideas, otherwise they will suffer a lot.

In this way, Dingbei City was tense for about three days.That is, the fourth day after Ma Rui's death.Shen Kuo finally found something.

It can be said that among the manpower, Shen Kuo's side has the most manpower, and the purpose is to find the whereabouts of the four missing people.Whether they are alive or dead, there must be a clue left behind.

For this reason, most of the manpower of the action team and the city guards cooperated to take active actions.And it is a coincidence that today, Shen Kuo directly discovered the traces of the four missing persons.

With the exception of no doubt, they were all killed, and all their bodies were found.

There is such a corpse in each of the four districts of Dingbei City: the southeast, northwest and northwest.

Four people, four ways to die.One was strangled and suffocated; one was poisoned; another had his throat cut;

Some special treatment methods were obviously used on the corpse.Four days have passed and there has been no unusual change, obviously someone did it on purpose.

The release of these corpses was not to help Chen Zheng and the others investigate clues, but to provoke.

After disposing of these four people, these murderers released them specially for the action team to see.

People were killed by those murderers, and there is a high probability that they did it in the city.

Chen Zheng and the others had ugly faces, including those from the intelligence department who also had ugly faces after they knew about this.It's fine to kill people, this kind of behavior similar to desecrating a corpse is really disgusting, and it also arouses the anger in their hearts.He vowed to find out these murderers and avenge the murdered comrades.

For these four corpses, the members of the action team worked very hard to examine them, hoping to get some clues from them.

But there are few clues on the body.The murderer's method was very simple, and it was fatal with one blow, and then it was over.

There were not many signs of struggle on their bodies, and like Ma Rui, almost all of them had no resistance.

But one difference between them and Ma Rui is that Ma Rui didn't put up much resistance because he was drunk, and the murderer tried to kill him many times in order to ensure his death.

But these four people are different.First of all, there is no obvious alcohol smell on them.Obviously, Ma Rui is not in the same place.

And the murderers were not together.

The death of these four people was clean and neat, and they were veterans at first glance.As for the news left over from Ma Rui's side, there are more.

From this point of view, there were at least two murderers, but it was not known whether they were together or two groups at all.Just when Chen Zheng and the others fell into discussion and struggled.

Help has arrived.

Liang Shi and other members of the third action team who stayed in Jianzhou also rushed to the scene.There are about 30 people up and down.These people are all former subordinates of Su Tianyu. It can be said that Chen Zheng and Yan Luo brought either the old background of the previous embroidery guards or the newcomers who joined later. Compared with the old men like Liang Shi and Shen Kuo, they are still somewhat Not enough to watch.

After Liang Shi and the others knew about Ma Rui's accident, under Su Tianyu's order, they rode fast and rushed over without stopping.It should have been about half a month's journey, but now they arrived in four days.

He could clearly see the tired faces of Liang Shi and the others.It looks like it's not well rested.Eating, drinking, and sleeping are probably all done on horseback,

Don't believe it.This is a skill learned by the people of Beiyan and grasslands.

The prairie people are not useless, they are just different from the culture of the Central Plains. Although there may be some traditions that are not barbaric in terms of living customs, sometimes there are merits in fighting.

For example, Beiyan's cavalry has been stealing from the prairie people since its establishment.Learn from the master's method, and then challenge the master's position after growing up.

This immediate solution to life problems is one of the outcomes.The reason why the cavalry of the prairie people are so powerful is that, in addition to the configuration of one man and three horses, there is also the means of eating, drinking, and messing up immediately.

They can perform various activities on the horse by adjusting their posture.At the beginning, it was when the horse was walking slowly, and after the latter became more advanced, they could eat and drink when the horse was sprinting at full speed.

Ahem, it’s okay to talk about other things, but the latter two forms are a little heavy-handed, and can be used to disgust the enemy when necessary.It can be said that it is too much.

But it can keep soldiers with sufficient mobility and energy, and can often achieve the effect of running thousands of miles.

The enemy has such a skill, it is impossible for Bei Yan not to learn it.They even have to learn better than the prairie people.

From cavalry to scouts behind the army, anyone who needs horses needs to train this skill.

After Chen Zheng and the others knew that Liang Shi and the others had arrived, they rushed out to greet them.

They have even arranged for people to prepare meals and wash items to clean up Liang Shi and others.

Liang Shi and the others came all the way, but they were a little tired, so they didn't refuse.

People are dead, even if they fly over, they can't bring the dead back to life.

So don't be in a hurry.

And no matter how experienced they are, they haven't even read the results and information, so naturally they can't jump to conclusions, everything must be based on facts.

At the dinner table, Chen Zheng and others shared a table with Liang Shi, and other arrangements were naturally made.

Liang Shi didn't have any other ostentation, he wolfed down his meal, and listened to Chen Zheng, Shen Kuo and others tell the information they had obtained from the investigation in the past few days, as well as some of their analysis.

Liang Shi was thinking while listening, and his mouth was not idle.

"Okay, Xiao Chen, Lao Shen, I have a general understanding of the situation. My thoughts are somewhat the same as yours. I think Ma Rui and his four confidants were definitely not killed by the same person. The murderer There should be at least two, one is experienced and the other is relatively unfamiliar." Liang Shi pouted and continued.

"However, have you ever thought that if you were the planners who arranged to kill people, would you choose to let an old hand kill someone with a low cultivation level, and let an immature person deal with a Zhou Tianjing warrior? Ma Rui was not prepared On the one hand, when he was drunk, there was another reason, that is, he knew the murderer, and he was acquainted. You said that a little blood was found at the scene near the ditch, so it should be the scene of the murder. Don’t forget the horse Rui's identity, he is a member of the intelligence department, if he is not familiar with someone who knows the basics, he will never let his guard down so easily. This is an acquaintance committing the crime, we need to start with Ma Rui's interpersonal relationship. This person is impossible It's his friends who are in the outside world looking for information, and they should be inside the Military Intelligence Department."

"As for the four confidantes, have you ever thought about the possibility that Mrs. Huaying, whom the prairie people have been looking for, also has her own power, and she did it?"

(End of this chapter)