Chapter 306 Dead End

Just as Yan Qing said, the carriage passed through the city gate smoothly.

The support team that had been arranged in advance for activities in the suburbs came into play. Through the agreed meeting point, Xia Fan and Fang Xiandao quickly met Li and others. In fact, they were staying in a private house two or three miles away from Shangyuan City. They could even see the movements in the direction of the city wall when they climbed to the top of the building.

"Doesn't it matter if you don't evacuate immediately?" Xia Fan asked.

"Don't worry, sir. The most important principle in counter-tracking is to first find out the opponent's actions." The captain who commanded the response team was a school lieutenant named Shi Zhong. "The humble position has spread his subordinates, no matter where they come from. We have arranged bait and false clues at the border gate and out of the city. Unless the enemy mobilizes an army of 100,000 people, it will be impossible to catch our tail."

It would take two or three days to assemble an army of 100,000 people.

What's more, Shangyuan City alone can't bring out so many people.

"I feel like this isn't the first time you've done something like this." Seeing that he spoke clearly, Xia Fan said with great interest. After all, leading troops in battle is not what he is good at. Having such a calm and composed backup is undoubtedly reassuring news.

"Beizhi was carefully selected by Her Royal Highness the Princess." Shi Zhong said with some pride, "When we were at the border of Gao Kingdom, Beizhi entered Futian Castle several times, mapped out the terrain of the fortress, and stayed there for nearly half a year. He escaped no less than ten arrests."

He is indeed an expert.

Xia Fan simply left the retreat plan to him, "Then what are the next arrangements?"

"If the opponent sends troops to search the outer suburbs, we will use the forest road to enter Yazhou along the eastern mountain range, and then take a boat to Jinxia City. If the opponent only sets up checkpoints on a few key roads, we will go north and then south. Bypass the roads that lead directly to Shenzhou and return to Jinxia in the other direction, "Shi Xiaowei said in an orderly manner, "In short, the opponent is in the light and we are in the dark. As long as they don't panic and expose their whereabouts, the enemy can only do so. Cast a wide net and try your luck.”

At this point, he cupped his hands and said, "Sir, please have a good rest tonight. Early tomorrow morning, I will be able to determine which way to leave Gyeonggi."

Xia Fan nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

"This is the responsibility of a humble position."

After the captain left, Li Cai couldn't wait to ask, "Did Yan Qing find you two? Have you seen her?"

"It's this Qing Jian." Xia Fan briefly told his situation, "What about you?"

"She was also the one who saved me." Luo whispered softly, "When she first broke into the house, I thought she was an enemy - I didn't expect there would be such an alchemist in the Privy Council Palace."

"I suggest you don't worry about her." Fang Xiandao spread his hands, "Maybe she will be our enemy next time we meet. In the face of the general trend of the world, this friendship will eventually be shattered - hiss - "

He suddenly took a breath.

Fang Yanni timidly withdrew her hand from his waist.

"Master, you deserve it." Qianzhi muttered.

"But in general, this trip went smoothly. At least everyone was able to return to Jinxia safe and sound." Qian Yan said while flipping through the books he got from the Privy Council Mansion, "Although they found out that you and the princess were found in the end relationship, but it will only happen sooner or later. Once the news about the Seven-Star Privy Council is made public, I am afraid no one can be left alone. "

Everyone was silent for a moment, and when they were about to go back to their rooms to rest, Gungun suddenly climbed up the window sill, "Meow————!"

After Li opened the window and let the fat cat in, it raised its front paws and barked twice in succession.

"Are you sure?" The fox demon's expression suddenly changed.

"What's wrong?" Xia Fan stopped and asked, "Can you understand the ghosts now?"

"It's not about understanding, it's about sensing emotions." Li corrected, "As long as you observe carefully, you can understand its meaning."

Gungun ran back and forth, then pounced, and finally rolled, with his feet in the air and his belly exposed.

Xia Fan hesitated for a moment, "Uh... I don't quite understand..."

Li said solemnly, "Yan Qing's secret summons was exposed and he was attacked by the alchemist."

Now everyone's expressions changed.

"How could it be...isn't she the Qingjian of the Privy Council?" Fang Yanni said in disbelief, "They...killed Sister Yan Qing because of this?"

"I don't know whether she was killed or not. Gungun didn't see the end." Li gritted his teeth, "But she was indeed attacked by the alchemist."

"Fang Xiandao." Xia Fan immediately looked at the only person present who could hope to see the overall situation, "Can you figure out her situation?"

"Theoretically, there is no problem, but I need her horoscopes or personal objects to determine the hexagram." Fang Xiandao also became serious at this moment, "If there is nothing, it will be difficult for me to target this person."

Everyone looked at each other in confusion for a while. To them, Yan Qing was just a person they had met twice, and his life was almost a blank.

"Is this okay?" Xia Fan took out the note reminding him to leave the brothel.

"If it was written by her, it should be effective." Fang Xiandao took out the medicine bag and poured out the gems inside, "Sister, help boil the water."

"Okay, I'll go right away!" Fang Yanni immediately ran downstairs.

"You don't really want to take a shower first, do you?"

"Bathing and burning incense can indeed make the mind more focused, but I have said that a gifted alchemist like me no longer needs to rely on external objects to complete divination." Fang Xiandao took out the hexagram basin, which looked like a bronze eight-diagram plate with a convex edge around it and wooden stripes inlaid in the basin. Those textures are not made of wood, but are self-contained, as if they are still alive. "Boil water to obtain pure water. Whether it is a clear spring in the valley or an icy lake on the top of a snowy mountain, it is not as pure as a bowl of boiled water. This is also the conclusion reached by fortune-tellers of all generations."

This conclusion is so correct that it makes people... speechless.

Fang Yanni quickly brought hot water, Qianzhi performed magic to cool it down to room temperature, and then poured the water into the hexagram plate.

Fang Xiandao held the gem and the note in his hand and closed his eyes.

In an instant, the water in the basin trembled.

They seemed to be pulled by something, forming planes of different heights on the hexagram plate, and black mist was wafting in the water, dyeing these well-arranged "water mountains" with different colors.

Fang Xiandao suddenly opened his eyes and stared at the hexagram plate. After about half a quarter of an hour, the water image in the hexagram plate returned to calm, as if nothing had happened.

"How is it? Have you come to a conclusion?" Xia Fan asked first.

"Very clear, much easier to identify than the chaos when the hexagram was calculated for you." Fang Xiandao let out a long breath, "At present, it can be concluded that "Lock Weaver" Yan Qing is still alive."

Everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Only Xia Fan's expression remained unchanged, "You won't have any more buts next, right?"

"... But the subsequent hexagrams continue to decline, which means that her situation in the next few months is not optimistic, and it can even be said that her life is worrying."

After saying this, the room suddenly fell into silence.

Everyone involuntarily cast their eyes on Xia Fan.