Anti-Japanese War: Starting from Yaobai

Chapter 2411 The Eyes of Phoenix!

Inside the City Lord's Mansion, the lights were as bright as day, illuminating the ancient hall with golden splendor. Every lantern was like the brightest star in the night sky, gathering into a dazzling sea of ​​light, keeping the night out.

The air was filled with a faint scent of incense, which seemed slightly out of place with the solemn atmosphere of the mansion.

As the hurried footsteps of the hotel waiters echoed in the empty hall, the originally quiet City Lord's Mansion was instantly broken by the complicated sounds.

The guards of the City Lord's Mansion watched quietly, and four of them followed.

They knew the hotel staff, but they caught an important criminal.

"Lord City Lord, we have captured two spies and have drugged them."

As soon as we entered the hall, the guys shouted with a hint of seeking credit.

But when they saw the city lord in the red cheongsam, they hurriedly bowed and dared not look directly at him.

Because at this moment, on the high couch, a charming woman was reclining.

She was wearing a high-slit, bright red cheongsam embroidered with intricate and delicate golden patterns. Under the bright lights in the City Lord's Mansion, she shone dazzlingly.

The texture of the red cheongsam is soft and smooth, swaying gently with her casual movements, like a flower of the other shore quietly blooming in the night.

Her face was breathtakingly beautiful, with dark eyebrows like distant mountains, affectionate eyes like autumn water, and vermilion lips, making her charming even without any makeup.

There was a hint of smile at the corner of her mouth, which was hard to understand.

In her hand, she was holding a long, thin pipe between three fingers.

The pipe is carved from precious jade and is crystal clear.

She took a leisurely puff of cigarette, and the smoke rose up, interweaving with the faint fragrance emanating from her body, adding a different style to this solemn city lord's mansion.

Seeing this, the hotel staff hurriedly lowered their heads, as if looking at the city lord for even a second longer would be a blasphemy to him.

The guards didn't even dare to look directly at him and bowed their heads.

"Oh? A spy?"

At this moment, the low and magnetic voice of the woman in red came, with a subtle hint of amusement.

She turned her head slightly, her eyes passing over the hotel waiters who were bowing to her, and finally fell in a certain direction behind them, where Duanwu and Li Ergou were lying.

The hotel clerk quickly replied: "Yes, Lord City Lord, they knocked out our people, wore their clothes and sneaked into the city, and we caught them. And they killed people."

At this point, the hotel clerk quickly added: "The one killed was a spy sent in by the Japanese."

The woman in red smiled slightly: "Killing the Japanese spies means they are not Japanese. But they have killed people, that's for sure, otherwise they wouldn't have killed people and then went to eat without any hesitation.

So they might be gang members. But they didn't kill any of us, which means they don't want to be enemies with us. Interesting, interesting! Then guess who they are?"

  The woman in red asked the people present, but everyone present had a bitter look on their face, because how could they guess?

But since the city lord asked, they did not dare to neglect his inquiry.

One of the smarter guys rolled his eyes and answered carefully: "My Lord, I dare to guess that they might be chivalrous heroes who punish those who do evil, including those lurking Japanese spies." Another guy shook his head and said with a wise look: "No, no, I think they are more like bounty hunters who travel around the world and specialize in taking bounty missions. This time they just happened to take the job of getting rid of the Japanese spies."

The guards were not to be outdone and joined in this unfounded speculation.

A guard hesitated and said, "In my opinion, they may be members of the Lixing Society, specializing in assassinating Japanese spies."

Another guard disagreed. There was a hint of ridicule in his voice: "Maybe they are mysterious killers from afar who came to Phoenix City by mistake, and that Japanese spy accidentally knew their secret, so they killed them to silence them."

The woman in red listened to these various speculations and raised a playful smile: "You all have reasons, but you may also be wrong."

The woman in red paused for a moment, then continued slowly, "In this chaotic world, people's minds are hard to predict, and identities are even more unclear. However, since they have no direct conflict with us, and the Japanese invaders' spies have been eliminated, we might as well detain them first, and wait until they wake up and find out their details before making plans."

"The city lord is wise! Let's lock them up now."

The guards took the order and took the two drugged "spies" away, preparing to interrogate them after they woke up.

The hotel staff felt relieved and left without asking for any reward.

In their hearts, being able to serve the city lord is the greatest reward.

  ·············

At the same time, the guards had carried Duanwu and Li Ergou to the dungeon in the back mountain of Phoenix City.

Here, it is surrounded by towering wooden walls, and the tops of the walls are covered with sharp iron spikes. Even a bird cannot fly out from here.

Inside the dungeon, the air was filled with dampness and mold, mixed with a faint smell of blood, which made people feel a chill in their hearts.

Rows of wooden fences divided the space into several small cells. Each cell contained only a simple wooden bed and a broken bowl for food, nothing else.

The faint torches swayed along the wall, lengthening the human shadows and casting them onto the cold wall, adding a bit of desolation.

Duanwu and Li Ergou were placed in two adjacent cells respectively. As the wooden doors slammed shut, they both became prisoners.

Soon, a burly jailer holding a torch slowly walked over and checked the conditions of each cell one by one.

When he walked to the cells of Duanwu and Li Ergou, he stopped and illuminated their faces with the torch, as if to see who the new prisoners were. Then he checked the lock on the door and left with another jailer.

Time passed minute by minute, and as the two people walked further and further away, Duanwu suddenly stood up and sat up.

There is nothing to worry about during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Of course, it’s not that he was immune to all poisons, but although he seemed to have eaten the meat, he actually put it in his pocket.

The guards at the city gate ignored them, and only the Japanese spies followed the two strangers into the city. Doesn't this explain something?

  Even the Japanese spies could recognize that they were in disguise and were strangers. So, wouldn't other people living in the city be able to recognize them?

There are only a few hundred residents in the entire city of Phoenix, so even if they don't know each other, they should have met each other before.

However, no one in the city found it strange, which was also the biggest doubt.

So Duanwu guessed that although there were no natives of Phoenix City following them, they were always in the sight of these people.

So there is something wrong with this hotel, including the hotel owner’s sneak peek, which Duanwu saw!