Abduct a shadow guard to investigate the case

Time back to half an hour ago.

Shen Yao inspected the stone room where the owner retreated, and there was a thin layer of frost particles on the surface of the icy jade plate and the joints with the ground. Shen Yao waved the cold smoke on the jade plate, and carefully discovered that the On the edge of the jade plate near the door, there was a pale red frost slag in the frost grains, which was less than the size of a fingernail.

"Let's look at Hall Master Xue," Shen Yao pointed to this place and said, "The color of the frost here is a bit strange."

"Is this dyed with any color?" Xue Feng looked at it and asked.

"It's possible, but Shen still has a guess." Shen Yao thought for a moment, then said.

"What guess?"

"If, as I assumed just now, the shadow guard and the owner of the villa were both poisoned by a strange drug that can cause hallucinations at the same time last night, this drug is most likely to spread in the form of gas. Taking advantage of the night, even a little color is very It's hard to find out. And you said just now that the master is practicing pure yang internal energy, so does that mean that when he was practicing, the temperature in the room was not as low as it is now?"

"The heat emitted from the owner's body when practicing the exercises will counteract the coldness of the ice jade, so it's true that the room won't be that cold."

"If at that time, the criminal took advantage of the shadow guard and the owner's hallucinations, quickly robbed the owner, and closed the stone door from the outside. The temperature in the room quickly dropped to freezing point, and the weather has been rainy and humid recently, and the air in the room is humid. The content is relatively high, and if a small part of the smoke trapped in the house does not disperse, it is likely to be mixed with water vapor and condense directly on the jade plate to form ice crystals, which is the red frost we see."

"This... Xue is unimaginable." Xue Feng's eyes were full of confusion.

"Oh, it's actually the same as the principle of frost forming outside the house in cold weather." Shen Yao tried to explain again, but seeing Xue Feng still looked puzzled, he said, "Of course, Shen's speculation needs the right time and place. It could be realized. This point of red cream, Shen took it for an experiment, if the subject showed hallucinogenic behavior, I believe it could prove that the owner’s disappearance was caused by drugs.”

As Shen Yao said, he took out a porcelain bottle with a thin mouth from his arms, pulled out the cork on the mouth of the porcelain bottle, and poured out a pair of small tweezers from the bottle. He carefully used the tweezers around Hongshuang to cut off the whole piece Dial it back into the bottle, tighten the cork, and put the porcelain bottle and tweezers in your pockets and put them away.

"The area of ​​this red frost is so small, the amount of remaining medicine may be very small, what kind of medicine do you use?" Xue Feng asked.

"Rat—"

After Shen Yao and Xuan Qi parted, they went to the shadow hall to find Xue Feng.

"You said you asked me to release those four shadow guards?!" In a remote reception room of the Shadow Hall, Xue Feng closed the door and asked Shen Yao in a low voice.

"Yes, I have heated the red frost collected on the edge of the ice jade plate just now into gas, and tried it on mice. It can make the mice float in place almost immediately, and after a while, what will it look like?" It can be proved that the four people were indeed poisoned by the drug that can quickly produce wonderful hallucinations and lose short-term memory."

"Even if it is proved that drugs were involved, these four people have also committed the serious crime of negligence of guards, and they have to be imprisoned. As for how to deal with it, the shadow hall has its own arrangements." Xue Feng said two or three sentences to the shadow guard. Arrangement, and then concerned, "Does Mr. Shen have any clues about the whereabouts of the owner?"

"Not yet." Shen Yao frowned and shook his head slightly. He hesitated for a while, and asked Xue Fengdao, "Master Xue, you know that two years ago, when the Tibetan name villa destroyed the branch altar of the Demon Sect, he seized a record refining The secret volume of the evil secret medicine?"

"..." Xue Feng was taken aback for a moment, then understood, and asked back, "Did Shi Bozhong tell you?"

"Well, Shi Bozhong wrote to the Wulin League for help at that time, and briefly talked about the events of the year, saying that the secret scroll was stolen shortly after you discovered the secret scroll, but the person who stole the scroll was quickly caught. The spy of the Devil's Cult, that person said that in order to prevent Zhengdao from studying the secret scroll, he had destroyed the secret scroll, and you really didn't find the secret scroll again."

"Yes, after the man pleaded guilty, he committed suicide by biting his mouth with poison/medicine. We searched his whole body and related places, but we couldn't find the secret file, so we let it go." Xue Feng frowned, and suddenly said in surprise, " Could it be that the disappearance of the villa owner is a harbinger of the conspiracy of the Demon Cult's comeback? Only the Demon Cult can refine magic weapons, and there is this kind of evil drug! No, I have to notify the whole village to be on alert!"

"Master Xue, please be safe!" Shen Yao hurriedly comforted, "The Martial Arts League has been secretly monitoring the Demon Cult who has retreated outside the customs since two years ago, and has not found any changes in them recently. Of course, the possibility of the Demon Cult cannot be ruled out. But I am even more suspicious that the secret volume back then may have been obtained by others, and now it is coming out to cause trouble. From the discovery of the corpse of the suspected magic soldier by Hall Master Shi to the appearance of the strange drug now, it is more likely that this person refines the evil drug and keeps obtaining it. Progress, and then advance the plot operation."

"Impossible! At that time, we found the token of the Devil's Cult from the person who stole the book, and he admitted it himself." Xue Feng denied.

"Who is the person who stole the book? Did you think the whole thing was weird?"

"I remember that that person was an ordinary disciple of Wutang. He was eager to get out of the village after stealing the book, and he was exposed and was found with the token of the Demon Cult. It's weird..." Xue Feng turned his head and thought for a while, " It may be that the secret scroll was gone, but the man did admit that he had destroyed the secret scroll."

Shen Yao raised his hand and touched his chin. It seemed that what happened two years ago could indeed be justified, but he intuitively felt that there was a faint "deliberation" in this matter.He turned his thoughts back to the matter in front of him, trying to think of a breakthrough.

Xue Feng looked at him anxiously from the side, the person in front of him was good-looking, and judging from the previous ones, he was also intelligent and good, but there was still a trace of greenness on his young face that hadn't faded, although the Wulin League investigator The title sounds quite reliable, but can you really trust this young man...

Just as he was thinking, Shen Yao raised his head to look at him, and said, "Master Xue, Shen feels that the two incidents at present are more like crimes committed by acquaintances in the village, but you must guard against the Devil's Cult, and how to guard against it is up to your villa to decide. Shen will go down the mountain tomorrow to see if he can find some new intelligence clues."

"Mr. Shen's words are reasonable," Xue Feng obviously thought about it, "In order to prevent disturbances caused by the owner's disappearance, we should suppress the news for a while. Our studio and Mr. Shen are investigating at the same time, hoping to be able to as soon as possible. Find the owner."

"That's very good." Shen Yao nodded.

"Does Mr. Shen need to be manned to go down the mountain?" Xue Feng asked again.

"Oh, no need, it's more convenient for the next person to act."

"Yeah." Xue Feng slightly raised his eyebrows, thinking that Shen Yao was probably going to find some exclusive sources for the Wulin League alone, so he said, "Then Mr. Shen, be careful."

After discussing with Xue Feng, Shen Yao was about to leave the reception room. Just as he was going out, he turned back and said, "Master Xue, Shen has an unfeeling request. Can the four shadow guards who made mistakes be okay?" Do you convict after the matter is revealed?"

"Oh," Xue Feng chuckled, "I didn't expect Mr. Shen to be a bodhisattva."

Shen Yao smiled bitterly, and listened to Xue Feng, "This matter can be discussed later, the most important thing at present is to find the owner."

"Exactly." Shen Yao said.

Before dawn on the second day, Shen Yao borrowed a horse from the stable and rode down the mountain.

The sun was shining brightly in the morning, and the warm wind made people slightly drunk. By the river beach at the foot of the mountain, there were green grass, pink and white wild rhododendrons and bright red poppies dancing in the wind, which were colorful.

A black horse is pacing by the river, its reflection reflected in the river.Shen Yao lay on his back on the grass, with one hand behind his head, and a straw stick in his mouth, waiting for the horse to eat grass and drink water, and then he rested for a while.

Suddenly, there was a slight sound of piercing through the air, Shen Yao's eyes tightened, and he jumped up abruptly, and a few sleeve arrows shining with cold light were nailed straight to the place where he was lying down just now.

Shen Yao turned sideways in the air, and before he landed, he saw a long sword sweeping towards him, and the sword wind swept away a piece of flowers and plants.He immediately lowered his palm, hit the blade of the sword, jumped up again with his strength, changed his figure, and retreated to the ground.

The sword light followed, and the person holding the sword was a masked man in gray clothes, his eyes were full of murderous intent. No matter how hard the sword move was, Shen Yao waved his palm to meet the attack, but he heard the sound of a hidden weapon coming from behind. And the number is not small.The man holding the sword obviously had a tacit understanding with the person who cast the hidden weapon. The sword moves changed abruptly, sealing off the escape route in front of Shen Yao. If Shen Yao wanted to dodge one of them, it would be difficult for Shen Yao to retreat completely from the other attack.

Shen Yao quickly swung his left palm to shake the long sword away, and hit the man's chest with his right palm. Clearing the scene behind him, dozens of cold needles were scattered and attacked. Although he had jumped up, there were still one or two needles that he couldn't avoid. Under the sun, the cold needles flashed green light, obviously poisoned.

Shen Yao groaned in his heart, seeing that the needle was about to hit him, at this moment, only hearing the whistling wind, a few green leaves flew across the air from the side like a dart, and hit the cold needle first, the green leaf was pierced by the needle, At the same time, the force on the cold needle was completely removed, and it fell together with it.

Shen Yao landed on the ground and stabilized his figure. The moment he saw someone using flying leaves to help him, he had a guess in his heart, and a kind of expectation that naturally emerged.But before he had time to think about it, he quickly pulled out a jade flute from his bosom, and the gray-clothed man on the opposite side made another ultimate move, and Shen Yao controlled the flute like a sword, blocking the attack.

At this moment, there was a noise from the bushes behind him, the sneak attacker had been discovered, the sound of fighting came, two figures jumped out from the shadows, fighting each other, one was also covered in gray clothes, while the other, Black clothes, black hair, familiar face, it is Xuan Qi.