Chapter 227 Tracking

Instead of riding a horse or taking a boat, Zhang Lie used the teleportation circle to go directly to Haixia.

The investigation here has been very strict. There are many soldiers guarding outside the teleportation circle, and there are portraits posted on a huge notice wall. They are all those who ran away before the second batch of arrests in the "Clean West" operation. However, after the official document is caught by the sea, these people can't hide for long.

However, even if the investigation is strict, it will not be possible to turn out the storage bag on the monk's body for inspection. This kind of behavior that infringes on the vital interests of the monk would not be dared to do by such a behemoth as Jing Jiuchao.

So when Zhang Lie came out of the teleportation circle, at most he was looked at by the soldiers a few more times and was not interrogated.

He found a horse and carriage dealer nearby and paid a deposit to rent a horse for his journey. Zhang Lie didn't even stop in Haixia and went out of the city and followed the official road south to Tanshi.

Tanshi was built as a group of fortresses, and there was no public teleportation circle, only the magic circle specially provided by Junwu, so Zhang Lie could only go there on horseback.

There are many checkpoints on the official road from Haixia to Tanshi, guarded by Xuan Qingwei and frontier soldiers. Facing Zhang Lie alone, there was also an interrogation, but Zhang Lie took out a "hunting document", which immediately made the interrogators lose interest.

The hunting document is issued by the dental office. It is a license to hunt barbarians abroad, and it is also a certificate to legally leave the country and bring the barbarians back. The large slave caravans also had hunting papers, though slightly differently. The one in Zhang Lie's hand is the one held by retail investors.

The monks who dare to break into the barbarians alone are ruthless characters, and the people at the checkpoint are not willing to make things difficult.

These were all prepared by Shen Hao after Zhang Lie received the mission, not only these, but also dozens of joints along the way.

Not long after leaving the city, a few carriages stopped outside a tea shed on the official road, and some people were sitting and drinking tea to rest their feet. There was a signboard hanging at the door. The big word "tea" on the signboard was very eye-catching, and there was a pattern of swan geese as an embellishment.

The Hongyan goose spine knife is forged according to the width of the bird's back, which has an unusual symbolic meaning for Xuan Qingwei. Zhang Lie knew very well that this tea shed should be the connection point that Xuan Qingwei set up here.

But Zhang Lie didn't stop, but galloped past.

He galloped all the way until the afternoon, when the dismounted horse's lips had turned white, and he couldn't run any longer, so Zhang Lie dismounted and found a small tavern by the roadside to rest, and asked someone to get some water and fodder for the horse. And there is a pair of brass swan geese on the door knocker of this tavern, which looks very festive.

Zhang Lie did not reveal his identity when he left. It was as if he had forgotten his mission and Shen Hao's instructions.

In the evening, Zhang Lie leaned his horse in the woods beside the road, intending to spend the night here instead of entering the inn.

Light the fire, take out some dry food packed away in the tavern in the afternoon, and eat it when it is hot.

As soon as he took two bites, Zhang Lie put the pancake in his hand aside, looked at the dark side, and asked coldly, "Who? Come out!"

The words were even more murderous, and a wave of heat seemed to be gathering on his body, especially Zhang Lie's palms were already glowing slightly red, like heated metal.

"Hehe, brother Zhang, don't be nervous, it's me." A person came out from the darkness, it was Ma San.

"Oh? It's you?" Zhang Lie was expressionless, but the redness of his hands faded away. But he sneered secretly in his heart. Today, after he came out of the teleportation circle under the sea, he felt that someone was following him. The other party's Yingzang was very clever, but he couldn't escape the perception of a specially trained person like him.

There were people following along the way, which made Zhang Lie dare not rashly identify himself with Xuan Qingwei along the road, and now he dared not choose an inn to stay at night, just waiting for the other party to show up. But Zhang Lie didn't expect that it would be Ma San, he thought it would be one of Ma San's accomplices.

"Why doesn't Brother Zhang go to the inn? It's really hard work in the wilderness."

"Hey, I'm going out and I'm carrying goods. If I can't go to crowded places, I won't go. There are too many variables on the road. Who knows if people with kind faces are also kind-hearted? It's not too much to be careful." Zhang Lie didn't go to talk to Ma San It's almost like, how can a person who even has a fake name be trusted? And even if the other party doesn't know that he is Xuan Qingwei's secret agent, it cannot be ruled out that the other party has bad intentions.

It's not uncommon for black people to eat black people. It is not impossible to turn around and say that the goods have not been received and ask Feilong to refund the money.

"Brother Zhang is indeed very cautious. You can rest assured that you will be responsible for the delivery of the goods this time. However, further south is the border of Xiaochuan. There is chaos all the year round, and there are many horse bandits. Sheep, although brother Zhang is not weak, it is inconvenient to go alone, I can accompany brother Zhang for a walk."

"You mean I look like a fat sheep?"

"Brother Zhang, don't get me wrong, it's just in case." Ma San didn't get too close, so he found a tree to sit at a distance of two feet, and made himself ready to spend the night with Zhang Lie.

Zhang Lie didn't speak any more. He can be very ruthless, but he can't show fierce resistance to Ma San's behavior. After all, the goods he is carrying are actually paid by Ma San and belong to Ma San. It's just that Ma San's request is that Feilong in the middle is responsible for the transportation, and the transaction has not yet been completed.

Withdrawing his gaze, Zhang Lie just used his senses to keep an eye on Ma San not far away, as if he was just wary of strangers, but in fact he was carefully observing this mysterious figure who was blacklisted by the Black Flag Camp in the morning.

The cultivation base should be between the third and fourth levels of the God Gathering Realm, and the real age cannot be seen, but it should not exceed fifty years old. He didn't carry a weapon on his body, or had a storage bag in it. The appearance is ordinary, and the biggest feature is that there are so many wrinkles on the face when he smiles, which looks very strange.

In addition, Zhang Lie also noticed that as the night deepened, he felt more and more obvious icy aura from the other party. Secretly thought that this Ma San could not be repairing the water attribute ice technique?

As soon as the next day dawned, Zhang Lie rode his horse and continued southward. The destination was still near Xiaochuan, but Ma San said he would not tell him the exact location until he got there. So the two galloped one after the other.

noon.

"Hey, there's a sesame seed stall here? It's a coincidence. Brother Zhang, stop and eat something before we go on our way?" Zhang Lie ate dry food last night, but he didn't share half of it with Ma San, and now Ma San can't carry it. live hungry.

Zhang Lie glanced at the Hongyan embroidered eyelids on the apron of the sesame seed stall owner and jumped several times, secretly thinking that there are still many talents in Xuanqingwei.

After eating three biscuits for one person, the two filled a pot of water and continued on their horses to head south. Xiaochuan was not far ahead.

As soon as the two left, the owner of the biscuit stall took out the broken silver that Zhang Lie dropped just now, weighed it a few times, found that the weight was wrong, and then took a knife to cut it open. Inside was a piece of wood with nail clips on the top. A Wei word.