Chapter 21 Why bother
The middle-aged man frowned slightly and didn't say much. He knew that he was a clever man like this, and even if he asked, he couldn't tell the reason. Just waved his hand, and two people had already followed and took the fat businessman out.
"Everyone, Wang Er doesn't know what's going on here, so let him help me guard the shop." As he walked out, the fat businessman shook his head and greeted a young man with a confused and horrified look mixed with sleepiness, and told him to guard the shop.
Looking at the fat businessman disappearing outside the door, one of the two men left behind said in a deep voice: "This household is too presumptuous. I really thought I was visiting where we are."
"Hehe, although I am not a guest, it's almost the same. These guys are naturally fearless because they are from Li Wufeng in the northwest. Who asked us to have an ally with them? It's not a routine question to take them back. They are detained for a while and wait for the other party's superior authorities to coordinate. What else can you do?" Another man replied with a wry smile.
"Alliances? How can there be such an allies? Look at the activities they do, which one is not a stolen act? It is either spying on our military deployment or collecting social dynamics in various aspects of our Hanzhong. Or just wander around to survey and map the map. Do you think this is the performance of an allies?" The man who spoke first curled his lips with great dissatisfaction.
"Brother, don't you talk about the second brother, we are not doing the same job in their territory? This is not the right thing. We caught their people and just exchanged for the brothers we caught by them. It's just a deal, and we don't owe each other." The latter man put his head on the entrance of the dark cave and listened carefully for a while before saying, "I didn't expect this guy to be quite cunning. When he left the secret passage at the back door, he actually set up a hole passage here. It seems that the secret passage is used as a cover to paralyze us. He hunted all day long, but was pecked by geese. It's not simple!"
"Have it not sounded yet?" another man asked.
"Well, I guess this tunnel should lead to a complex terrain, forest or river, so that it is easy to escape and hide and get rid of tracking. These guys have learned very quickly." The man stood up and shook his head with regret and said, "It is probably difficult to catch that guy, but it is also a small gain. The special information organization in the northwest in our Hanzhong should not have much climate."
A dark river quietly poured into the gentle Han River. As it approached the ship dock, the area was cleaned up very clean and there was no place to hide. The black shadow quietly poked his head out and gasped for a few breaths. From a distance, you could see that the lights on the dock had risen. It seemed that the other party had mobilized in full, and it would not take long to search for this area.
Looking around, the area near the dock is some shanty towns, and some shabby wooden houses formed a slum area. Most of the people living in this area are porters on the dock, sailors and long-term workers who run boats, and most of them are foreigners from remote mountainous areas. With the prosperity of Xuankou Town, this area has gradually developed, and there are even some romantic places, but they are all low-level places for sailors who have worked hard for a day or returned from a boat. From time to time, there are bursts of laughter coming from afar, probably because of the pheasant prostitutes who are still picking up customers at night to hurry up and do business.
After a little thought, the shadow turned over the shore, and the water stains immediately formed a ball on the shore. Without any time to think about it, the shadow ran along the river bank and ran towards the dense shanty towns. It soon disappeared into the darkness. After a dog barking, the shadow quickly returned along the original path. He was extremely careful while walking, but the speed remained very fast.
Back to the shore, the lantern torches extending from the pier were getting closer and closer. I knew that I could no longer delay it. The black shadow, a beautiful fish jumped into the water without splashing a splash of water, quietly disappeared into the dark water.
Two purebred wolfdogs with long and golden hair quickly passed along the river bank with a light footstep. A series of lights swayed closely in a group of neat figures. At this time, two black shadows appeared silently from the exit of the dark river, like two ghosts.
"Who? Stand out!" The alert search team immediately formed a semi-arc encirclement, and the two wolfdogs also let out a low roar from their throats, making a move to pounce.
"I," two figures rose up from the water gently. The flexible figure could tell at a glance that they were Lian Jiazi.
"Oh, Brother Deguang, Brother Wen Bai." The leader in the search team immediately recognized the person and hurriedly came forward, "Why, didn't catch up? Where are Brother Zhou and Brother Li?"
"Well, this guy is very cunning. He still has time to set up a trap in the dark ditch, which almost hurt Brother Wen Bai and me, delayed for a while. They were led to another fork, and it may take a while to get here." The man called Brother De Guang was still searching around. He knew that the other party had not thrown him far, but the rugged and complex dark ditch caused him and Wen Bai to suffer a lot. A small crossbow was set up at the corner. If he hadn't been cautious, he would have been almost pitted by this damn crossbow. However, this also brought great psychological pressure to both of them. He did not dare to chase him too tightly. It was hard to say what magic weapon the guy who escaped ahead had not used. The closer the dark ditch was to the river, the faster the water was, and it greatly limited the speed of the two of them.
"Let the brothers disperse and raise the torch and lanterns high. This guy hasn't escaped much. It should be in this area." Brother Deguang directed the search team to quickly disperse. He and the man named Wen Bai carefully looked at the traces on the river bank with the help of the light.
"Brother Deguang, there are water stains here!" There are many people and powerful people. With the help of the wolfdog, the search team quickly discovered the place where the black shadow came ashore before, "He ran over there!"
Under the light, a clear water stain extends along the river bank to the dark residential area. It is obvious that the other party has escaped into the shanty town. This shanty town has many people and the environment is even more complicated. It is the best place for opponents to use. It is very difficult to find such a stranger in this area. However, if you enter the shanty town, it will be even more difficult to escape the encirclement of the search party. Although the time is delayed longer and more troublesome, the final result is the fate of falling into the trap.
Seeing the search team excitedly pounced in the direction where the water stains extended, the two wolfhounds were even more excited to break free from their master's pull. They grinned and turned their heads and even wanted to bite off the cowhide ring restricted to their necks. The huge force even staggered the two tractionmen until they gave the dog a hard palm, and the two wolfhounds that were about to explode became a little quieter.
Brother Deguang was not confused by the traces he had discovered. He did not believe that the other party would escape into the shanty town so easily. Now that he could hide in the shanty town, he could not escape once it dawned, facing search teams from door to door, it would be difficult for him to escape. This guy was extremely cunning, bold and careful, and would not make rash decisions casually. With this idea, Brother Deguang still ordered Yiren to hang lanterns for him after everyone disappeared, and he carefully observed the water stains on the ground.
Suddenly, as if he had noticed something, he immediately ordered the people next to him to put down some lanterns. A few water stains left marks attracted his attention. These water drop marks were a little different from other points, smaller. And the strangest thing was that other water drop marks were round in the front and pointed at the back due to the inertia caused by walking speed, and they were all round in front and pointed at the back, and some water whiskers were dragged out. Most of the directions were round heads facing the shore, and the water whiskers and pointed tails were in the direction of the river, but the directions were exactly the opposite.
What does this mean? Brother Deguang was happy. This only means that these points were left by the opponent when he returned. Due to time reasons, the water on his clothes was much less, and these water droplets became much smaller than the water droplets when he just left the shore. It turned out that this guy was using this trick, trying to direct his attention to the shanty town so that he could escape from the river. This guy must still be hiding in the river, most of whom was somewhere downstream, so that he could sneak away while his side was relaxing in searching both sides of the river!
Excited, Brother Deguang, who stood up, did not even notice that there was a person on the river bank. He was about to get up to call his companions who had disappeared in the dark. Suddenly, he found that the light had dimmed suddenly. It turned out that the lantern fell to the ground. He was about to blame the lantern for being careless, but suddenly he found that the lantern had suddenly softened. He was shocked and turned his head suddenly before he could make a defensive posture. A huge palm had already twisted his neck. He looked at the other party's white and blue face in horror, as if there was a hint of sigh. However, he could only hear the sound of his throat shattering, and he no longer had any consciousness.
After dealing with the two, the black shadow gasped for a while. Obviously, this period of time had consumed a lot of energy. He did not expect that the guy lying at his feet was so smart that he could actually see the double act he thought was foolproof from clues. He changed his shoes and returned. As a result, the other party saw the flaws, so he had to take the risk of going ashore to kill the other party. Fortunately, the other party was too focused on observing the traces on the ground, so he took the risk to succeed by taking the attack. Why bother? If you neglect it, it wouldn't be like this. He glanced at the two people lying on the ground and shook his head with regret.
With two thumps, the two corpses slid into the water. The black shadow dared not stay for a long time. He also knew that the two corpses would be discovered by the other patrol soldiers by dawn. However, with this night, it was enough to escape. He took a long breath, narrowed his body, and dived into the water again. The Han River, which was slowly facing east, returned to peace again, with a little sparkling under the starlight, as if nothing had happened.
Chapter completed!