Star Trace Gate

"Damn it, don't say that, that's really a stupid horse."

Old Liu, who was standing beside Ren Ye, was also surprised and said, "I've seen this horse in Qingliang Prefecture. Isn't it called Little Orange? It lost the Erlang brothers because they had no navigation. But how did this horse appear here?"

The doubts in Old Liu's heart also made Ren very curious.

They came here to track down Song Xing, but they didn't expect to hear that Song Xing and his companions were fighting with an unknown supernatural being as soon as they entered the county. And now it seems that their opponent is most likely Erlang.

What the hell, what does this have to do with anything? All the events and characters that are intertwined together seem to have nothing to do with each other?!

Ren was anxious and instinctively wanted to move forward, wanting to go to the ruins to carefully identify the white horse.

"brush!"

However, he never expected that just as he was about to leave, two long spears would pierce his face directly from both sides. The officers and soldiers in charge of the alert shouted in unison: "No way! If you move forward, we will arrest you!"

Ren also stopped and turned to look at Yan Bo, as if to say: Brother, please think of a solution.

Yan Bo put his hands behind his back and asked, "Brother, have you found anyone you know here?"

"Yes, a very important person." Ren also approached him and whispered, "We want to go in and take a look."

Yan Bo nodded slightly, turned around and looked around, and saw the magistrate's official sedan parked not far away, surrounded by many minor officials and soldiers.

"Wait a moment."

He threw down these words, turned around and walked towards the magistrate's daughter.

Ren Ye and others stood outside the confined area waiting, their faces looking somewhat anxious.

About half a quarter of an hour later, Yan Bo walked back and whispered in Ren Ye's ear, "The person in the sedan chair is indeed the magistrate of Funan County, a seventh-rank official. I did not reveal my identity, but only said that I was from the Qianli Green Camp headquarters, and came here to investigate a case and wanted to enter the forbidden area to have a look. He used excuses with me, and spoke only official language... In the end, I still had to pay."

"...Are you asking for it openly?" Xu Bangzi asked in disbelief.

"It is normal that corruption is rampant in remote areas," Yan Bo replied.

"How much?" Ren Ye asked.

"Twenty thousand star sources."

"Old Liu, hand Xingyuan over to Brother Yan." Ren also gave an order.

Old Liu nodded slightly and said, "Let's go, Brother Yan, I'll go with you to pay the money."

Yan Bo was stunned for a moment, as if asking: Damn it, you still don't believe me? Is it necessary to go together to pay the money?

Old Liu's eyes were pure, as if he was saying: "Yes, I just don't believe you. The way you embezzled money from the horse racing gang was so smooth and shameless."

The two looked at each other and sparks flew.

Yan Bo smiled helplessly: "Haha, okay."

After a while, the two bribed the county magistrate together, and then the lawyer next to the sedan chair shouted to the officers and soldiers: "Let those guys go in and take a look."

Money really does make the world go round. With a shout from the lawyer, the officers and soldiers around him immediately made way for him.

The leader warned, "Don't move the body or destroy the evidence here, otherwise we will be in trouble."

"Understood." Yan Bo nodded.

……

The group walked into the battle scene between the psychics and saw many corpses hidden in the ruins.

However, Ren Ye and others did not enter the collapsed inn first, but came to the side of the white horse and identified it carefully.

The light of the lamp shone on the white horse. Ren looked at it carefully from top to bottom, but he felt something was wrong.

At this time, Xu Qingzhao stood by and said, "This is not the old horse of Guard Hong. It has just reached adulthood. However, the two are indeed very similar in appearance."

Ren Ye reached out, opened the white horse's mouth, took a look at its teeth and mouth, and said, "It's definitely not a little orange, but the appearance of the two is almost exactly the same."

"Could it be that we made a mistake? The person who fought with Song Xing was not Erlang?" Old Liu asked doubtfully.

Ren Ye turned his head and looked at Yan Bo: "Brother Yan, can we summon the spirit of the corpse?"

"We have already paid the money, a full 20,000 star sources. As long as you don't carry the corpses here and run away, or rape them on the spot, the county magistrate will pretend not to see it." Yan Bo is also an old driver. He speaks very truthfully and humorously.

"Okay." Ren nodded, "Let's go into the ruins and take a look."

……

After a stick of incense.

Ren Ye and others walked around the collapsed inn and the surrounding broken houses, and finally found that there were nearly thirty corpses here, and they were all ordinary people, without a single person with supernatural powers.

Judging from the scene, the fight between the two groups of supernatural powers was more like a spur-of-the-moment or a one-sided sneak attack. And after the fight, accidents happened frequently, which is why so many guests staying in the inn and the people in the shops nearby were accidentally injured.

Judging from the scene, this gang was extremely ruthless and had a completely disregard for human life. They didn't care about the lives of ordinary people at all.

This seems to be the style of the Guanfeng Master lineage. They secretly created plague incidents and turned Qingliang Prefecture into a ghost town at any time; later they killed Zhang Changshou's family to silence them, not only killing them, but also roasting the children with fire and hanging them in the cellar...

The details of these events allowed Ren Ye to form a basic "character portrait" of Master Guanfeng in his mind.

He is a ruthless man who is good at hiding, good at plotting behind the scenes, and will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals.

Ren Ye stood outside the ruins, frowned, and then ordered: "My beloved, summon the spirit. Start by searching for clues about Erlang and confirm our guess."

"can."

Xu Qingzhao nodded slightly and used the soul-summoning technique on a corpse lying in the inn.

As the spell was uttered, a solid ghost rushed up, its eyes bloodshot, howling like mad.

Not far away, Yao Chi saw this scene, his eyes lit up, and he whispered, "Is this woman the legendary Princess Huai? A member of the Yin-Yang School?"

"It should be her." Foxy nodded.

"This woman is stunningly beautiful, like a banished angel from heaven, and her magical powers are so powerful." Yao Chi sighed, "King Huai really has a virtuous wife."

"Ha." Foxy sneered, "This Umbrella Fairy - in my life I am no weaker than any woman."

"No, you two have different personalities and cannot be compared together."

"Humph, they both have one mouth and two eyes, what's the difference?" Foxy replied with a deliberately indifferent expression.

Yao Chi paused for a moment and said succinctly, "She is a good wife and you are taking off your underwear, so naturally you can't put them together..."

"Yao Chi!!! I'm going to cut off your tongue!" The vixen clenched her pink fists, and a fierce murderous intent burst out of her curved eyes.

"I spoke without thinking, bah bah bah!" Yao Chi immediately took a few steps back and smiled awkwardly.

not far away.

After Xu Qingzhao summoned the spirit, he cast a spell to appease it, and then asked, "Is there a fight between people with supernatural powers in this inn?"

The ghost looked hesitant and nodded slowly: "Yes."

"How many people fought and how many died?" Xu Qingzhao asked again.

"I vaguely remember that there were about fifteen or sixteen people fighting with two people." The ghost seemed to think for a long time before murmured back.

"Who strikes first?"

"Those fifteen or sixteen people first sneaked into the inn, then attacked the guest in Room A. The guest in Room A resisted and fought with them. Not long after, the guest in Room C suddenly appeared and joined the fight, fighting fiercely with the fifteen or sixteen people." The ghost paused for a moment and added: "Three of the fifteen or sixteen people died, but their bodies were taken away by their companions when they fled."

Ren Ye frowned upon hearing this: "Ask him if any of those two people have the appearance characteristics of Er Leng."

Xu Qingzhao nodded slightly and asked the ghost, "Among the two guests in Room A and Room C, is there a male, a young man, about nineteen or twenty years old, with a strong body, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and carrying a silver single-edged sword?"

The ghost said without hesitation: "There is indeed such a person. He lives in Room C. He joined the battle some time after the guest in Room A was attacked. And his knife is very fast... One of the other party was caught off guard and was killed by his knife. His head flew off."

"Is that white horse the one this young man is riding?"

"Yes." The ghost nodded.

"Tell me in detail the physical appearance of this young man, and I will draw a portrait of him on the spot."

"As you command, Immortal!"

"...!"

In this way, Xu Qingzhao asked the soul while sketching a portrait on the ground with the Yin-Yang Sword.

She grew up in the family of the Prime Minister of Daqian, and was naturally proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, so it was not a difficult task for her to draw a portrait on the spur of the moment.

However, in order to ensure that there would not be any deviation in the information, the beloved concubine asked the four souls in succession before completing the painting completely.

Ren also looked down and saw that the person in the portrait was Erlang who had disappeared for a long time.

Sure enough, the previous guess was correct, the one riding the white horse was Erlang. However, Xiaojuzi might have died, so he replaced it with another very similar white horse as a foothold.

However, why did Erlang appear in Funan County?

Is he leaving his hometown again and preparing to return to Qingliang Prefecture?

This speculation is well-founded, because if you go further from Funan, you will reach Lingnan Prefecture, and if you cross Lingnan, you will reach the territory of King Huai. From the perspective of the route, there is nothing wrong with this route.

However, he was just a passer-by, so why did he suddenly join the battle?

Ren also suppressed his curiosity and immediately said to his beloved concubine, "Erlang took action to help the guest in Room A. My beloved concubine, continue to ask about the appearance of the guest in Room A and see who he is."

"it is good."

Xu Qingzhao nodded, and after summoning the spirit, he began to ask: "Describe the appearance of the guest in Room A."

The ghost of the waiter was slightly stunned, then he said, "The guest in Room A... is an old man with gray hair, about seven and a half feet tall, and thin..."

Xu Qingzhao listened to the other party's words and began to sketch a portrait on the ground.

After a full half hour, a lifelike portrait of an old man appeared in everyone's eyes.

……

at the same time.

In the vast green mountains, Erlang, half of his body covered in blood, walked quickly towards the forest and asked an old man softly, "Why are they here?"

The old man sighed and said, "Little King Huai's great calamity has arrived."