sword sentient beings

Chapter 740 Camp

Without further ado, the two decided to set out immediately to look for clues. We need to find both people and places.

The people are Gao Yuanhou and Wei Se, and the place is the location where Gao Yuanhou disappeared.

After summing up, Tang Zhao really had to use the same stupid method as when Xing Ji came.

Just rely on luck to pass the ball.

There was no way, they didn't know where Gao Yuanhou fell, they only knew that it should be on the road from Yunzhou to Beijing. Gao Yuanhou's last message did not specify the location. Obviously, since she gave up on herself, there was no need to give a specific location and occupy the information capacity for no reason.

But now that Tang Zhao and the others were looking for someone, they definitely couldn't search inch by inch along the way. Even a month or two would not be enough.

So, let’s gamble on luck.

Of course, you can't gamble blindly like Xingji, but... fill up the buff before gambling.

Tang Zhao took out his lucky bag. This was not the bag given to him by the Third Senior Sister at the beginning, but an upgraded version. There is real auspicious Ganoderma inside.

He had received a Ganoderma lucidum before, which was like a wishing machine, allowing him to reunite with the Sui family he had not seen for several years. This time before Zhu Ying left, he gave him another copy.

Even if it is an auspicious sword, it takes a lot of effort to condense such a treasure that makes all wishes come true. Zhu Ying is not rich. The one in Tang Zhao's hand should be unique in the world and will be gone after it is used. Even if we look for Zhu Ying again, we won’t be able to get him again in a short time.

It is so rare. Although it is a one-time use, this blessing will not last for a short time. It may be able to protect them throughout their search for Gao Yuanhou.

Of course, Tang Zhao can't just rely on this. He also has the remaining good luck spring water from the year, and the good luck swordsmanship that he has almost forgotten. They all need to be topped up. If he is not too stupid, he even wants to get some lucky colors and lucky numbers. , lucky stars and other feudal superstitions.

"Once!" Tang Zhao stretched out a finger and said, "Try to get it right once and find the exact location."

Xing Ji said: "There is no need to put so much pressure on yourself, it doesn't matter if you try it two or three times. The distribution -"

A flash of sword light flashed, and Tang Zhao and Xing Ji disappeared at the same time. Even if the Imperial Master monitors every entrance and exit of the capital, he cannot guard against the swordsmanship in those spaces. In this seemingly airtight capital, countless people like Tang Zhao and Xing Ji come and go.

The space was distorted, and Tang Zhao and Xing Ji landed at the same time, landing in a withered yellow bush.

It's the wild!

As soon as Tang Zhao landed, he raised his hand and looked at a dial on his wrist and said, "One hundred and fifty miles away from the capital."

Xing Ji said solemnly: "Is it so close?"

Tang Zhaodao: "This distance is very reasonable. We had already walked for a while, and then I left the team and went back to Weise for more than a day. If we count the normal distance, we should be closer. We are already here. The Lord is deliberately delaying time. It seems that this time it is possible."

Xingji nodded, he also hoped to succeed in the first attempt.

Surrounded by forest. The forests in the Gyeonggi area are not particularly dense. It is early spring, and most of the branches are still bare. Occasionally, you can see yellow and tender new shoots. Everywhere you look, you see nothing out of the ordinary.

Although his luck was high, Tang Zhao also knew that landing near the destination just once was good, but landing in the center of the coordinate point was too high. Maybe there are clues not far away.

"Separately look for clues?"

Tang Zhao hesitated for a moment, and Xing Ji saw that he was worried that he would be in danger while traveling alone. He felt as if he was powerless and needed someone to take care of him. He was angry and funny. Now he was already weak in the eyes of this kid?

When you were twelve years old, I wasn't so worried about you!

He took the initiative and said: "I won't go far, it's nearby. You can go far away. If you need anything, I'll call you."

Tang Zhao said: "Be careful."

The two separated, and Tang Zhao searched alone in the forest. In fact, he didn't know what he was looking for. Bloodstains? Traces of battle? Sword essence breath?

The best you can find, but these things may or may not be available.

Marquis Gao Yuan should have been involved in a big battle, but he was not necessarily injured. After all, she wasn't dead yet, she was just restrained. Maybe someone took her away in an instant using a powerful confinement sword technique, so the traces that could be left behind were limited.

What Tang Zhao hopes to find most is the clues left by Marquis Gao Yuan on his own initiative. After all, Marquis Gao Yuan can still send the letter at the end. If he can leave one belonging with him, then he has a definite target.

However, he searched for a while and couldn't find any clues.

He walked forward, turning the light into several beams and releasing them. He can search slowly, and the light is like an eye in the sky, looking at the flowers at a glance, looking for conspicuous signs from a bird's eye view of the ground, while he himself observes the details inch by inch. One is broad and the other is thin, alternating between the two phases, there should be nothing missed.

Not to mention the details, on the far side, the speed of light was extremely fast. In an instant, it had flown far away and reached the end of the same forest.

Outside the woods is a flat land.

This is not naturally flat land, but has been cut down, and there are still traces of burning on the ground. But Tang Zhao didn't look carefully at those small marks, because there was something more obvious.

It's a campground.

In other words, it was a collapsed camp. Seeing the dilapidation of the camp, Tang Zhao's heart tightened, and then he realized: This was not Gao Yuanhou's camp. The shape of the tent was completely different, and the method of setting up camp was also different from Yunzhou.

Even the scale of this camp is really not small, several times the size of the Yunzhou team. It extends far away, and even at the end, there is another camp not far away. There is a clear dividing line between the campsites, and it seems that several campsites in different places are spliced ​​together.

But the appearance of a destroyed camp in this place has nothing to do with Marquis Gao Yuan?

If it's not the Yunzhou team's camp, couldn't it be the enemy's?

The splicing of several teams together does not also conform to Tang Zhao's guess that "the monarch is besieged by many enemies of the same level"?

Tang Zhao's sword light turned around in the sky, and he found that although the camp had completely collapsed, it was not severely damaged. There seemed to be no blood stains or broken walls. Rather than saying that it had collapsed, it looked more like it had been demolished. .

However, if it was dismantled on its own initiative, why not transport the baggage away? These tents and materials are valuable, and even a prince should not abandon them at will, they should always take them away.

Could it be that it was too late to take away because of the defeat?

Tang Zhao thought about it, and was about to adjust his perspective to take a closer look, when he saw a few people coming from a distance and sneaking closer.

"Huh? Good luck!"

Tang Zhaozheng was worried that he couldn't see any clues, so it would be best to have a living person. He immediately condensed the light and turned into a human appearance. There was no difference between him and the real person. He fell from the sky and landed in front of these people.

"what?!"

Several people were startled and turned around to run. They saw a flash of light in front of their eyes, and a ditch appeared out of thin air on the ground, blocking their way.

Although the ditch was very narrow, it was clearly a warning. The people were so shocked that they turned around and prostrated together, shouting: "Spare your life!"

Tang Zhao's light and shadow asked calmly: "Which family is it from?"

Several people immediately said: "We are from a nearby farmer..."

Tang Zhao said coldly: "You fool, how dare you bully me? Can't you see that we are all in the military? It's just that we are not elite soldiers and generals. We are just scattered soldiers who are only a little better than the common people."

The last sentence made several of them look dissatisfied, and they could no longer hide it.

Tang Zhao named someone and said, "Say it!"

The reason why I called this person is that he is the leader at first glance. He has higher martial arts skills and has the fewest flaws.

"I...we are the military academy under Long Shanbo's command."

Uncle Longshan... I don't recognize him. He is a minor prince anyway. Nowadays, the Jin Dynasty is especially full of titles. Even a marquis cannot recognize him, let alone an earl?

"Where is Uncle Longshan?"

"Uncle has arrived in Beijing. This is where we camped last night."

"Yesterday? Why did you abandon your supplies here when you set up camp yesterday? Are you so rich? Since you left, why did you come back? Or did you soldiers come back secretly disguised as common people?"

"Yesterday..." The team leader hesitated.

Tang Zhao sighed: "Actually, there are some methods that I am too lazy to use. Don't seek death. You guys only need one tongue. I only have one left..."

The captain immediately said loudly: "Actually, we were scared away. Last night, we camped here properly, and there were thousands of people in the house just like usual..."

Tang Zhao thought: Thousands of people? More than a thousand people stationed 150 miles away from the capital? Do you want to rebel? The national teacher doesn’t care?

The captain said: "But suddenly, there was an earthquake. It was like the ground shook slightly, and we all jumped up. We didn't know what was going on. But soon the uncle ordered us to form a team on the spot and not to move rashly. I heard that the uncle What I mean is that there is a strong man fighting, and the aftermath of the battle can actually move the earth. We don’t know how powerful this person is. But the uncle personally held the sword on guard, so we guessed that it must be the swordsman fighting. "

In places like Yunzhou, there are still many swordsmen below Gaoyuanhou, but many small princes may have no swordsmen except themselves. Long Shanbo was on guard personally, but there might be no one available.

"Originally, my uncle was just on guard, but suddenly, the entire camp collapsed."

His expression became frightened and a little confused: "There was no warning before the collapse, and the earthquake stopped. There was no wind, no air waves, nothing. Suddenly, all the tents collapsed. Moreover, in the camp All the fires have been extinguished. The water in the cooking pots has dried up. So many tents, one after another, spreading for dozens of miles, so many fires, as numerous as stars in the sky, and the pots The water, the smoke from the firewood...it was as if they were pressed down by a big invisible hand, and they were all gone."

"Of course everyone was dumbfounded, and the whole camp was silent. Suddenly someone shouted, 'The Imperial Master is here!' Then with a bang, everyone ran away. It was like a water bottle exploded and boiling water splashed out. Everyone ran as fast as they could. We He also ran, but he only knew how to run and didn’t know where he was going.”

Tang Zhao said: "The camp roared?"

The man said: "It was almost. Fortunately, there were few people in each camp, and there were swordsmen and swordsmen holding the battle, so we were able to restrain ourselves. The uncle gathered us all up and ran towards the capital. People around us shouted: 'Guo' The master is here!' The uncle just ran to the capital. But as he ran, he suddenly stopped running and told us: 'No, the one who came is definitely not the national master.'"

(End of this chapter)