Murder

The Condor Battalion was originally an institution dedicated to training recruits, named "Battalion", but it was actually a fortified fortress set up on the outskirts of the imperial city.

The imperial court recruits troops every year, and sends some of the recruits with excellent qualifications to the Shenying Battalion. After a period of training, these recruits will not return to the ordinary army, but will be scattered to various secret agencies to perform tasks.However, not all young people who enter the camp will eventually have the opportunity to leave the camp.Those who performed poorly in training, or who were injured in training and were unable to continue their duties, disappeared in the battalion.

That is to say, to be killed.

The Condor Battalion fell 40 years ago.Because almost all the people who came out of the Shenying Camp had smooth official careers and prosperous official careers, many high-ranking officials and nobles tried their best to send their children in, and also tried their best to keep their children.As for whether they can learn the skills, it is not important, the most important thing is to get to know generals, instructors and future comrades in the camp.Over time, the Shenying Camp has become a disguised official training ground, and the new recruits no longer have to worry about their lives.

A tragedy that happened 20 years ago directly led to the banning of the Condor Camp.

As usual, a group of young people selected from among the recruits entered the Condor Battalion.Eighty percent of these young people are descendants of nobles, and the rest are real ordinary people.Four months later, a tragedy that shocked the government and the public occurred in the camp: two factions among the recruits fought with weapons, killing more than 30 people and injuring at least [-] people.

As an elite training camp, all those killed and injured were capable people who could become important intelligence forces and combat forces, not to mention that there were quite a few children of officials and eunuchs among them. For a while, the Shenying Camp became the target of public criticism.

The various factions in the court did not trust each other. In grief, the fathers and brothers unanimously agreed to bring in forces from outside the court to investigate. Sima Liangren set off immediately on the second day after the incident and rushed to the capital.

The brawl happened late at night.

Among the recruits, young men belonging to different factions quietly got up from the bed, escaped the loose security, and gathered outside the kitchen of the Condor Camp.Almost all the sharp weapons in their hands were poisoned, and even the poison was one of the teachings in the Condor Camp. They extracted the poison from herbs, but instead of diluting it and pouring it out as required, they secretly hid it and sprayed it all on soldiers. on edge.

The brawl had just begun when the coaches arrived, but the dozen or so pioneers in the lead were very tough, and almost all of the more than 20 people who died were seriously injured at this time.

The square outside the kitchen was full of corpses and blood. Young soldiers slashed and stabbed frantically.

Gan Hao listened for a long time, then turned his head and asked Ah Si curiously: "Then what do you say, a recruit killed it? Didn't they kill each other?"

"But it was the recruit who provoked factional disputes, instructed the use of drugs, and found out the frequency of alerts." Ah Si added.

Sima Feng nodded: "That's right. What's more interesting is that the recruit was also injured, and he was among the crowd fighting. It was only a minor injury, and he hid behind the crowd."

When Sima Liangren interrogated the wounded, all he got was testimony such as "the other party provoked first" and "they took the initiative to tell us that we must rely on weapons to compete for territory".And the most critical people have all died, and the case fell into a stalemate for a while.At this time, all doubts are concentrated on the leaders of the two factions.There were six leaders of the two factions, and all of them died. Although there is no proof of death, but with the testimony of everyone, there is barely conclusive evidence: it was these six people who provoked it.

Sima Liangren was ready to close the case at that time, but the Mr. Wu Zuogan he brought told him a strange thing.

"Mr. Gan?" Gan Hao raised his eyebrows, "My father?"

"Exactly." Sima Feng said, "Your father told my father that among the many wounded, there was a wounded man whose injury was very strange. He was stabbed seven times, and the knife avoided the vital point. Nine out of ten times it was stabbed by myself."

"Isn't my father responsible for disposing of corpses? Why do we have to dispose of living people too?" Gan Hao asked doubtfully.

"At that time, there were not enough manpower, and this matter seemed to be just a fight between recruits, but it actually involved a deeper court root. My father asked Mr. Gan to pay attention to the condition of the wounded, so he went to see everyone." Sima Feng smiled. Laughing, "Thanks to him."

The wounded man who stabbed himself seven times immediately caught Sima Liang's attention.

Before contacting him, Sima Liangren looked through his training records for four months in the camp.

"This man is an orphan. Before joining the army, his father just died of illness. He applied because he had no money to eat. Almost all of his subjects failed to meet the standard, except one." Sima Feng looked at Ah Si. Do you remember what it was?"

"Intelligence investigation." Ah Si immediately said, "His intelligence and investigation ability is far beyond everyone else, but his physical fitness, martial arts, making tools, poisons, drugs and other subjects are all substandard."

"He admitted very quickly. Because he couldn't bear the pain." Sima Feng narrowed his eyes, "When my father smashed his sixth finger with a hammer, he said everything."

Gan Hao was stunned: "Why is he?"

"The first course that all recruits who enter the Condor Battalion must take is the history of the Condor Battalion. The so-called history is nothing more than what I just said. Excellent people leave, and unqualified people are dismissed in the camp." Kill. This rule almost didn’t exist at that time, and the officials and eunuchs who attended the lectures naturally wouldn’t take him seriously—except for this recruit.” Sima Feng said.

Sima Liangren found that in the first month of his camp, all the courses were quite good.However, from the second month onwards, the new recruit seemed to focus entirely on intelligence investigations, and dismissed others.

The young man whose left metacarpal bone was completely shattered was crying because of the pain.

He spoke intermittently.

Unlike others, he believes in survival of the fittest.However, after working hard for a month, he was shocked to find that the final rewards were all high-ranking officials and nobles without exception. Even if he was better than most of them, he would not get anything.

"So he thought it was extremely unwise for the coaches of the Shenying Camp to abandon the screening criteria of the Shenying Camp." Sima Feng said, "So he decided to do the screening himself."

"...The outstanding ones can survive and go out, and those who fail to meet the standard will die?" Gan Hao asked with a smile.

"Yes." Sima Feng nodded.

Gan Hao also narrowed his eyes like him: "Pervert, this one."

"A good monster. He's a double agent, constantly moving between the two factions, using intelligence-gathering interrogation skills to get the information he wants, and using it to instigate. And he enjoys it very much If the situation had not gotten out of hand, he had no intention of stabbing himself and pretending to be the wounded to avoid suspicion."

Gan Hao touched his half-grown mustache: "Although it's abnormal, it's also very interesting."

Sima Feng knocked on the table with a smile, and leaned his head closer: "I think it's more interesting to ask you if I taught you about killing people."

Gan Hao is very calm: "I have no suspicion. I ask this question to give you some clues."

"What clue?"

"After I gave medicine to He Sanxiao, I left Zhaomeifeng. When I went back to visit her a few years later, she asked me about it." Gan Hao said with a smile, "Is there anyone who will guide others to kill? She is asked me that."

Both Sima Feng and Ah Si were taken aback: "Why do you ask that?"

"Because someone is teaching her disciple some weird things." Gan Hao frowned, as if recalling, "Her disciple looks very clever, and his name seems to be Ling, although she is a little girl, she knows how to learn kung fu. Well done. He San said with a smile, there is a guest on the peak who is knowledgeable, but she always feels something is wrong."

He gestured.

"According to Meifeng, there are quite a lot of rabbits. The very small rabbits are raised by the girls on He Sanxiao Peak. They are white and round. The guest taught the little girl to kill little rabbits."

That night, Sima Feng made Ah Si stand on the porch all night as punishment.

Gan Hao will not know about Zhao Meifeng for no reason, let alone know that what he said will become a "clue".

Sima Feng turned around and asked, it was indeed Ah Si who had slipped up and told everything about Shao Jinjin and He Ling.

"Punish yourself to stand overnight first, and you will receive other punishments after you go home." Sima Feng sternly sternly said to him, "Don't forget your identity, don't forget what we do. It doesn't matter if you speak freely on weekdays, This time it was wrong!"

Ah Si lowered her head and dared not make a sound.

Sima Feng listened to him for a while, and because there was no response, he continued to ask: "I'm going to interrogate Xu Ying tomorrow, do you want to go in?"

Ah Si didn't dare to look up, and whispered the word "think".

"Stand still if you think about it!" Sima Feng said ferociously, "If I get up tomorrow, if you move an inch, then you don't have to follow me in the future, go and pick up bones for Gan Lexie!"

Ah Si immediately straightened up, and said loudly, "Okay!"

This night, he really stood extremely steady, Sima Feng got up and called him, and Ah Si quickly responded.

"Well, good." Sima Feng nodded slightly, "Let's go."

When he went out, Gan Hao was preparing to open a stall to sell meat, and waved to the two with a smile.Ah Si didn't even dare to greet him, and followed closely behind Sima Feng.

Halfway through the walk, Ah Si couldn't bear it after all, and leaned over to ask Sima Feng: "Master, there is something I can't figure out, it's related to the Shenying Camp."

"Say."

"In a place like the Divine Eagle Camp, you can enter if you want to. Who decided to select and put the recruits in the Divine Eagle Camp at that time?"

Sima Feng pondered for a moment, grabbed Ah Si's hand, and hurriedly wrote a word in his palm.

A "Lu" word.

Ah Si was startled and sweated all over: "...?!"

"The old one." Sima Feng sneered, "If it wasn't for this incident, he wouldn't have died so quickly."

Ten days later, Sima Feng finally asked Xu Ying where and how the remaining thirty murders happened.

Ma Haoyang was very surprised and thanked Sima Feng repeatedly.

Sima Feng had already removed the cloth strips over his eyes. Although his eyes were blurred, he could see a little bit of light, and his eyes were no longer completely black.

He settled Xu Ying's matter, and Gan Hao said that he didn't need to soak in the medicinal bath anymore, as long as he remembered to take the medicine on time, he immediately urged Ah Si to pack his luggage and set off for Yingbeishe.

"Dangjia is not at home now." The leader of the Qinghe sub-house who came to see him off said.

Sima Feng: "...Where did you go?"

Leader: "I went to find his master."

Sima Feng: "Going to sea? What kind of sea is this season? Isn't there a typhoon coming soon?"

Leader: "It is to go to the island before the typhoon comes."

Sima Feng grabbed the leader: "Did you tell him that I finished my work and my eyes were healed!"

The leader: "Then...you have to say it, right? The head of the family has a very close relationship with the head of the Sima family, and he told us to report all kinds of situations about you to him."

Sima Feng: "What are the various situations?"

The leader smiled and said, "Everything."

Sima Feng: "...then why not come see me yourself!"

He threw the leader aside, turned to Ah Si and said, "It doesn't matter, let's go to Yingbeishe first. He must go home."

Ah Si immediately agreed: "Yes!"

The leader didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and couldn't say anything more, so he and Gan Hao sent the two of them out of the city.

Gan Hao asked for the address of Sima's house, and said that he would go to see Gan Lele when he had time. Ah Si became vigilant, but it was useless not to give it. He would know when he arrived in Pengyang.

The two finally set off.Although Chi Yebai was not at Ying Bei She, Sima Feng still hurried all the way and finally arrived at Ying Bei She in the morning of the second day.

From a distance, Ah Si saw a very flamboyant white horse standing beside the town of Yunyang Town.Immediately there was a dark-faced Murong Hai.

"Brother Murong!" he shouted happily.

Murong Hai glanced at him, and his eyes fell on Sima Feng, with a sinister smile on his black face.

Ah Si: "..."

Sima Feng waved his hand: "Why is Murong Hai so murderous?"

Ah Si: "The murderous intent is from Brother Murong..."

Sima Feng was about to speak, Murong Hai waved his hand away, and then something was thrown towards him quickly.

Murong Hai is a master of lightness kung fu, and his concealed weapons are also very delicate.Sima Feng stretched out his hand to grab it, but he missed it, the object turned around halfway and flew towards his neck.He leaned back a few inches, narrowly holding the object with his other hand, and found that it was a letter.

"Patriarch Sima, Murong Hai has been ordered to wait here just for a message." Murong Hai said loudly, "Master Sima orders you to go home immediately. We have important matters to discuss, so don't delay."

"Four, open the letter!"

Ah Si quickly opened the letter.

"Master, it's urgent." Ah Si read out the words written on the paper in a low voice, "Master said, the imperial court's secret order, return quickly."

After he finished reading the letter, he mobilized his inner strength and immediately burned the special paper.

Sima Feng's eyes were blank, and he sighed deeply.

"Let's go," he said, "Let's go!"