Chapter 576: The Non-Existent Person

Zhou Chen has always believed in the theory of life choices.

If you make the right choices in life, everything will go smoothly.

Zhou Chen climbed from a refugee to his current position step by step.

The biggest and most correct choice Zhou Chen has made in the past few years is probably to express his loyalty to the Third Young Master when he was still "insignificant".

Although Zhou Chen did not get any real benefits in the first year, he was even assigned to the northern frontier to perform those dangerous tasks.

But there will always be rewards for making the right choice.

Because the Third Young Master is the son of the Prime Minister after all.

After being able to practice, the Young Master's status rose to the sky.

And he, the "minister who follows the dragon", naturally took advantage of the opportunity.

After the end of the Barbarian War, Zhou Chen immediately received a transfer document for his contributions in the war.

From an idle guest official, he was transferred to the Black Scale Guard branch in Zhenxi Prefecture as the head.

There is a very complete performance evaluation system in the Prime Minister's Mansion.

In the Barbarian War, his most glorious moment was probably when he went into the enemy camp alone on the eve of the Beifeng Campaign and completed the negotiation task assigned to him by the Third Young Master after a fierce debate with many scholars.

This matter was very important and was a very important part of the Third Young Master's plan.

But no matter how important it was, the credit for the matter belonged to the Third Young Master.

He, Zhou Chen, was just an executor, and executors are often the least valuable.

Because they are too replaceable.

The stage had been set by the Third Young Master. According to the average level of the guest officials in the Xiangfu, the result would be the same if someone else took over.

According to the guest official assessment rules, his achievements should only be enough to raise his salary by one level, and then receive a considerable amount of "risk subsidy", and then there would be no more.

Therefore, when Zhou Chen received the secret letter of transfer, he was a little confused.

After thinking about it, he finally realized that it was the Third Young Master who made the effort.

Otherwise, with the independent status of the Black Scale Guard in the Xiangguo Mansion, it is basically impossible for him, an ordinary guest official, to be transferred there, not to mention directly serving as the director of the provincial government.

After nearly a year in Zhenxi Mansion, Zhou Chen has also adapted to life in the Black Scale Guard.

There are only three points to remember when doing intelligence.

Caution, ruthlessness, and humanity.

After becoming familiar with the relevant business, Zhou Chen, who has worked his way up from the bottom, is like a fish in water in this position.

After taking the position firmly, the Black Scale General Office directly approved him a Class A intermediate-level practice method, and the salary was tripled on the original basis. In addition, the position of the director of Zhenxi Mansion can also make a lot of reasonable share money without violating the bottom line.

The no longer shortage of practice resources and the new high-level practice methods have made Zhou Chen's practice, which has been stagnant for many years, begin to show signs of a breakthrough.

Everything is getting better

"Mr. Zhou, please sit down."

The indifferent voice made Zhou Chen suddenly come back to his senses.

I don't know when, he has walked into the carriage again.

The strange young man in brocade robes in front of him was staring at him calmly.

It's bad, the revolving lantern scared him.

Near the desert, the temperature difference between day and night in Zhenxi Prefecture is very large, and the weather gets hotter at noon.

But today, when the sun just rose from the east, Zhou Chen already felt a little sweaty.

His throat rolled up and down, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva with some difficulty.

Then,

Zhou Chen bent his legs, did not sit, but knelt directly on the carpet of the car, and pulled the corner of his mouth:

". Third Young Master, you are not dead?"

"." Xu Yuan looked surprised and raised his hand to point at himself.

You want me to die?

"." Zhou Chen.

Zhou Chen wanted to give himself a slap in the face.

Isn't he a very clever talker, why can't he speak smoothly now?

Anyway, the words have been said after all, and he can only find a way to remedy it.

Xu Yuan slowly withdrew his gaze at this time, opened the secret letter in his hand, and asked casually:

"I haven't seen you for a long time, why have you become so timid?"

Zhou Chen immediately smiled and said:

"I'm just a little surprised that you trust me."

He is not timid. As a master, he can already look down on most people in the world, but after entering the Black Scale Guard, he really realized the supreme power of the Third Master to decide life and death.

With such a gap in status, he naturally dared not play tricks again.

While thinking, Zhou Chen bowed solemnly:

"I just offended you, I hope you will forgive me."

"What is the offense."

Xu Yuan's voice was smiling, with a hint of ridicule: "Haven't you been like this since the first time we met?"

Because of his grassroots experience, Zhou Chen, the Grandmaster Zhou, has developed strong abilities, but it also created his shabby habits.

He was respectful at first and then slid to his knees at the speed of light.

Zhou Chen wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked at the secret letter in Xu Yuan's hand, and quietly changed the subject:

"Young Master, you are right, but you must have something important to do here, right? If you want to know any news, I should be able to help."

Xu Yuan did not respond, but quietly browsed the secret letter in his hand.

Zhou Chen had no choice but to kneel and wait eagerly.

After half a minute, Xu Yuan frowned and cast his eyes on Grandmaster Zhou:

"Are you now the director of the Black Scale Guard Zhenxi Mansion Division?"

Zhou Chen's eyes flickered for a moment, and he nodded:

"Yes."

Xu Yuan burned the letter casually, his eyes were a little strange, he didn't see what he wanted on it, and asked:

"Is this the only important information here?"

Zhou Chen hesitated slightly and asked softly:

"Sir, what do you want? The content of the letter is limited. Lord Mu Qing only summarized the most important information, and there may be omissions."

Mu Qing, the director of the Black Scale Guard in Xizezhou, Zhou Chen's immediate superior.

Xu Yuan leaned back slightly on the couch, frowned, and murmured:

"Such a major event cannot be missed, and the Black Scale Guard didn't even receive any news."

Zhou Chen asked tentatively:

"Sir, why don't you talk to me?"

Xu Yuan snorted lightly, his eyes dim:

"Yesterday a "good friend" told me that Li Junwu captured the Desert Goddess alive, but after that, the two disappeared together."

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The air suddenly became silent.

Zhou Chen drooped his eyes and slightly widened them, and his brain crashed for a moment.

He remembered that Li Junwu seemed to be the princess of Zhenxi Prefecture, and the goddess was the second king of the Tartar Chao people.

After realizing the identities of the two, Zhou Chen suddenly felt a sense of panic in his heart.

With such a huge change, the Black Scale Guards did not receive any news.

After a pause, Zhou Chen lowered his head directly:

"I failed in my duty, please blame me, sir."

"This is none of your business."

Xu Yuan interrupted Zhou Chen directly.

For the Black Scale Guards, this is indeed the most serious dereliction of duty, but a good cook cannot cook without rice.

Da Yan is too big. With limited resources, the layout direction of the Black Scale Guards will inevitably be tilted. It is impossible to take care of every continent evenly, and Xizezhou happens to be the state capital with the weakest intelligence network of the Black Scale Guards.

But this makes the whole thing strange.

Although the Black Scale Guards have no resources in Zhenxi Prefecture, a lean camel is still bigger than a horse. The Tatars and Zhenxi Prefecture kept Li Junwu's affairs so secretive. Xu Yuandao can understand that the Mu Chamber of Commerce can get the inside story through the relationship with Zhenxi Prefecture, but why can Mu Xingyi know about this?

His mother is not well-received, and he himself has fallen to the point of being assassinated in the family struggle. He should not be qualified to know about this.

Moreover,

Under such a strict confidentiality level, Mu Xingyi told him so simply

Why?

Xu Yuan's eyes suddenly condensed as his mind raced, and he turned to ask:

"Mr. Zhou, have you investigated the Mu's Chamber of Commerce?"

Relevant information flashed through Zhou Chen's mind quickly, and he whispered back:

"Of course, as the largest chamber of commerce in Xizezhou, the Mu's Chamber of Commerce is one of our important layout directions. The framework of its internal intelligence network has been initially built and should be able to help you, young master."

Xu Yuan nodded, raised two fingers, and said slowly:

"Two questions.

"First, what is Mu Xingyi's status in the Mu's Chamber of Commerce? He said he was not favored, but he knew such important information.

"Second, he encountered several monster waves when he went to Mo Nan for business. Who in the Mu's Chamber of Commerce wants him dead now?"

"Young master."

After listening carefully, Zhou Chen was silent for a moment, leaned forward slightly, and asked tentatively in a low voice:

"The Mu Xingyi you are talking about. Is he a collateral person?"

"."Xu Yuan.

Xu Yuan frowned a little bit, and exhaled lightly:

"Mr. Zhou, do you think I'm talking about the side branch of the Mu family again?"

Zhou Chen opened his mouth, sweating on his forehead, and said with a stiff face:

"..but there is no Mu family's legitimate son named Mu Xingyi."

A pseudonym?

Xu Yuan responded immediately, and then reported several characteristics of Mu Xingyi:

"Pale complexion, as if he has been ill for a long time, six feet tall, thin body, hooked nose, thin lips, peach blossom eyes, and a lazy and world-weary personality."

After listening carefully, Zhou Chen searched his mind over and over again, and shook his head with despair.

He started.

It was not easy to meet the third son.

First he behaved rudely, and now he doesn't even know his job.

Hahaha, it's over.

In the dead silence of the carriage,

Bai Muxi, who was sitting quietly beside him, suddenly spoke at this time, with a clear voice:

"Mr. Zhou, who is the leader of the Mu family caravan that left the city this morning?"

Xu Yuan also raised his eyes when he heard this.

Yes, he and Mu Xingyi rode on horses and paraded through the city this morning.

He fixed his eyes on Zhou Chen and said:

"Today at noon, I rode with him at the front of the caravan. You Black Scale Guards should have spies watching you, right?"

"There are spies."

Being stared at by two pairs of eyes, Zhou Chen subconsciously raised his hand to touch his unshaven chin, hissed lightly, and then whispered:

"The leader of the Mu family caravan is a shopkeeper named Di Tong, a fat man."

Speaking of this,

Zhou Chen glanced at Xu Yuan and said cautiously:

"As for the person who accompanied you on horseback.

"Didn't you ride alone on horseback this morning? ”

“.”

There was a moment of silence.

Xu Yuan rubbed his brows and grinned. His voice was smiling, but with a hint of anger:

“Zhou Chen, I don’t know, and I don’t want to know what you did after being transferred to Zhenxi Prefecture, but you can’t even do the most basic spy work at the city gate. Isn’t it a little too much?”

“But I saw it with my own eyes.”

Zhou Chen looked at Xu Yuan, his expression seemed to be crying, and explained anxiously:

"Lord Mu Qing ordered that there was an important matter to be handed over. I immediately came to wait nearby after curfew, but I didn't see anyone riding with you."

The carriage fell silent. After Zhou Chen wrote down the message that the young master asked to pass on to Di'an City, he left with trepidation. Before leaving, he did not forget to close the door respectfully.

Xu Yuan lowered his eyebrows, slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, and glanced at Bai Muxi beside him:

"Muxi, what do you think about this?"

Bai Muxi frowned gracefully, and her voice was hesitant:

"Mu Xingyi's blood and qi are insufficient, but he has only the soul-condensing cultivation. Even if his skills are special, he can't hide from Mr. Zhou's prying eyes, but Mr. Zhou has no reason to lie to you about this matter.

"So, either Mu Xingyi's cultivation is extremely high and he deceived us all, or he has a rare treasure on him. "

"But what is the purpose?"

"Well, could it be that he discovered your identity, young master?"

"Do you think it's possible? "

Xu Yuan had a strange expression on his face, pointing to the brand new human skin mask on his face and the brocade robe on his body.

The clothes and human skin mask he was wearing were modified from the soul-avoiding clothes that Emperor Sean had exploded.

Even his uncle Feng Jiuxuan, a saintly strongman of this level, couldn't lock this thing with Qi, let alone penetrate and detect it.

Shaking his head slightly, Xu Yuan used the source Qi to control the carriage to drive towards the city gate, and whispered:

"I recalled the past half month, and in the huge caravan, apart from us, it seems that only the fat shopkeeper surnamed Di had spoken directly to Mu Xingyi. "

Bai Muxi glanced out the window and asked tentatively:

"Are we going to find them?"

"Bang! "

Xu Yuan raised his hand and hit Xiao Bai's head with a knife, neither light nor heavy, and glared at her:

"Too much banditry, it was like this before in the Feng family's ancestral land, they wanted to fight and kill before things were clear, and the result was that the two geniuses were loyal to our Xiangfu, and the situation was not clear, so don't fight and kill for no reason."

As he said, Xu Yuan sighed:

"So far, I haven't seen any hostility from Mu Xingyi, only the kind reminder that seems to be indifferent, so let him go for the time being."

Bai Muxi hesitated slightly:

"But what if he is hiding hostility?"

"Hostility?"

Xu Yuan smiled and grinned, spread his hands, and said:

"Didn't I just let Zhou Chen send a message to Di'an City? If there is a conflict, then we will fight in Qianji Gorge with our own means. Anyway, with the terrain of Qianji Gorge, the army cannot be deployed. "

After that, Xu Yuan let out a long breath and said with a smile:

"Take a dragon essence. I didn't expect that the Thousand Thorns Gorge would be so lively. Mu Xi, you might be able to meet the Saint Lady again this time."

"Saint Lady?"

"Yes, the secret letter Zhou Chen gave me just now said that Su Jinxuan brought Tian Yan into the Thousand Thorns Gorge together."

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After the words fell, the King of Juan, who was quietly practicing on the side, suddenly raised his eyes when he heard the words, with a little vigilance in his black eyes.

Xu Yuan directly chose to be blind, stretched out his hand and patted Xiao Bai's slender waist:

"Okay, get up, I want to sleep for a while. "