Chapter 8 Chasing the Murderer
"Young Palace Master, as expected, these people were indeed joined by Jiang Cheng, and they were all people who had hatred with my Xingyue Palace.
However, they didn't know who did the Tuzhen town before. Jiang Cheng directly informed them of the layout in advance with a letter. They were about the same time as our time in the town."
Yuexi finished telling the news that he had been questioned, stood quietly aside without expressing his own opinion.
"Young Palace Master, if Jiang Cheng wants to complete this layout, he must keep monitoring your whereabouts, so that he can know the time you arrive in this town and make arrangements in advance. So how did he keep monitoring you?"
Wang Quechen's eyes turned around on the people in the Xingyue Palace, and suddenly said, "Are you missing one person?"
Jiang Ji glanced at him: "The little loach is gone?"
Yuexi immediately exclaimed: "Okay, it must be that he betrayed us and sold our whereabouts to Jiang Cheng."
"It shouldn't be."
Facing Yue Xi's puzzled gaze, Jiang Ji said, "Not to mention that Xiao Niu grew up in Xingyue Palace since he was young, he has not left me for a long time. How can he inform Jiang Cheng of our location? Maybe there is a master who is good at hiding and hiding on both sides of the road to track us."
Yue Xi curled his lips: "Why is he missing now? He is not guilty of being a thief, so he ran away? With his martial arts, who could have captured him silently in the situation just now? It must be that he left on his own initiative."
Jiang Ji didn't know how to answer for a while. He didn't notice how Xiao Niu left just now, and what Yue Xi said made sense.
Seeing Jiang Ji frowned, Yue Xi sighed in her heart and tried to change the topic: "Young Palace Master, what should we do next?"
Jiang Ji wanted to find Xiao Niu first, but there was no clue or clue. He couldn't run around, so he said, "Wang Quechen, take those two survivors to the nearest county town to report to the officials, and send someone to spread all the things Jiang Cheng did."
"Yes, the young palace lord."
Jiang Cheng has been pretending to be a righteous hero before, and has accumulated a lot of connections and made many friends.
Once this matter is promoted and cooperated with the government's wanted business, it will be enough to make most people who are not very close to him turn against him.
Even those who have good relationships will inevitably have some doubts.
This is a trick to get rid of the firewood from the bottom of the pot.
"Also, if you find out about Jiang Cheng, you will immediately send someone to notify me."
"Yes, the young palace lord."
Jiang Ji said again: "As for us, we should go directly to Nan Shaolin according to the original plan. I wonder if those monks will protect Jiang Cheng? Will Jiang Cheng have other plans and not go to Nan Shaolin?"
It is difficult for these people around you to answer these questions, so Jiang Ji didn't expect them to answer them.
At this time, Wang Quechen suddenly said, "Young Palace Master, I have a clue about the murderer of massacre of the people. I wonder if you want to know?"
Jiang Ji rolled his eyes and said helplessly: "Tell me."
"When I entered the town just now, I found that not only were there people but also poultry and livestock in the town. But the only ones who could do such things and could do such things were the murderers.
So as long as you find the traces left by those poultry and livestock, you will naturally find the murderer."
Wang Quechen looked at Jiang Ji with some anticipation.
Jiang Ji nodded first and then said, "It's indeed a good idea, but it's dark now, and it's really difficult to find traces. Why not wait for us to rest for a night and go to find them tomorrow."
"Everything is followed by the young master's instructions."
The group came to the edge of the town, which was a little distance from the corpses, making people feel a little relieved.
Anyway, they have become empty rooms now, so they can live anywhere they want.
No words all night.
Early the next morning, it was dim and the group of people in Xingyue Palace separated from Wang Quechen.
The Xingyue Palace and the group began to track the murderer along the footprints, blood and other clues left by poultry and livestock.
Then Jiang Ji and others discovered that the direction the murderers left was the same as the direction they originally planned to go.
The group chased the clues at an extremely fast speed. When it was almost noon, Jiang Ji finally caught up with the murderer.
Hundreds of horses, all of whom were black-clothed and black armor, were the eighteen horses of the Black Clouds.
"Young Palace Master, they really betrayed Xingyue Palace. What should we do now?"
Jiang Ji's tone was cold: "Of course, it's a clean-up portal! But they all have horses, and it's relatively empty here, so it's easy for them to escape. Follow them first and wait until the right terrain before taking action."
Because he was pursuing the murderer, Jiang Ji gave up the sedan chair.
The people in Xingyue Palace and his group basically have no bad martial arts skills, so even if they get a little closer, the people of the Eighteen Cavalry of the Black Clouds could not find it at all.
A quarter of an hour later, the Eighteen Black Clouds entered a canyon section with mountains or so.
Jiang Ji and others immediately realized that the opportunity had arrived.
Jiang Ji let out a long roar, and the rolling sound waves spread with the internal force, and then echoed between the canyons.
Suddenly, many livestock and poultry were frightened and started running around and rushing around.
The formation of the Black Cloud Cavalry was suddenly disrupted.
Jiang Ji no longer concealed his figure, jumped out and rushed down from one side of the mountain peak, with his fingers covered with stars and falling like meteor showers.
Suddenly, figures fell down from the horse.
"Who is the rat, who dares to attack my Black Cloud Cavalry!"
A loud shout echoed, dispelling the panic in the hearts of many Black Cloud Riders.
"Let your dog eyes open and see clearly, and see who I am? Yan Feixiong, you are so brave, you dare to betray Xingyue Palace and cooperate with Jiang Cheng to design it for me.
You may not kneel down and take the blame quickly, otherwise you will know the temper of the palace master. Some of you may be able to escape, but your family is still in the mountains of stars.”
The Star Moon Palace is located on Qunxing Mountain. After the Eighteen Black Clouds were conquered, it was arranged on the periphery of Qunxing Mountain.
Together with some other affiliated forces, they developed a small town not far from Qunxing Mountain, where many people took root and started their families.
Many of them had seen Jiang Ji's appearance, and many of them immediately panicked.
Most of them didn't know what they slaughtered the town last night, and just carried out Yan Feixiong's orders.
When he saw Jiang Ji, he heard what he said again, and immediately realized that they had made a mistake, so he really dismounted and knelt down to take the blame.
"Damn it!"
Yan Feixiong's face looked ugly. Most of these black cloud cavalry were recruited after being subdued by the Star Moon Palace. The authority of the Star Moon Palace is deeply rooted in people's hearts, so it is not surprising that such a situation will occur.
So even if he has a rebellious intention, he will not dare to say it out, otherwise many people will not follow him at all.
"There is only one way now, that is, kill the young palace master, forcing them to stand on my side."
Chapter completed!