章節 25: The Leader's Arrival
At a certain distance away from the Northern Town, a carriage was traveling at great speed. It was moving towards the town and seemed to be coming from the direction of Wu Lim City.
The Carriage was being pulled by four black stallions that looked robust and hearty. Every step of theirs made a loud clopping sound that traveled far. The carriage was lightly decorated, yet still looked elegant. A man dressed in the clothes of an official was sitting at its helm and was driving it.
Four more men dressed in black clothes and large straw hats were following the carriage from behind. They were riding similar looking horses and seemed to be traveling at the same speed as the carriage so as to keep up with it.
Inside the carriage, four more people were currently sitting. Except for one person, all of them seemed to be extremely alert, and they were wearing featureless masks. Out of the four persons, only one person was was a woman and she had a veil on her face that hid her features.
This Woman was currently sitting in a meditative posture and seemed to be cultivating. The carriage driver that was sitting at the front of the carriage turned to the back and knocked on the front window of the carriage.
One of the masked men sitting inside the carriage opened the window and looked at the carriage driver.
"We're about to enter the town." The carriage driver said.
"Anything abnormal?" The masked man asked.
"Fortunately, nothing. Except for the absence of the snow today, everything seems normal." The carriage driver answered.
The masked man nodded and closed the front window. The closed eyes of the veiled woman trembled for a moment before returning to normal.
The carriage soon reached the southern entrance of the Northern town and was halted by the guards. The four men that were following behind it also stopped in tandem. The guard who stopped the carriage came forward and looked at the carriage.
"All the people that are inside the carriage, come out and show us your faces." The guard ordered.
The man who was the carriage driver paid no heed to his words and simply withdrew a small bronze plate from his sleeves. He then held it out for the guards to see. The guard came close and used the lamp he was carrying to illuminate and observe the bronze plate.
The instant the guard saw the bronze plate, he tensed up and cupped his hands in salute.
"Greetings to the High officials. This lowly one could not recognize your magnificence thus made a mistake, please forgive this lowly guard." The guard spoke with the utmost respect while bowing his head.
The other guards that were standing around too joined him and greeted them with a salute.
"Greetings to the High officials!" The guards shouted in unison.
A single knock came from inside the carriage and the driver understood it. The carriage driver then just gestured with his hand for the guards to clear the road. The guards instantly understood this and opened the gate. They then moved to the side and bowed their head while saluting.
The carriage driver flicked the reins, and the carriage started moving again. The carriage moved at a slower speed than before, after entering the town, and continued on. While on their way, they saw multiple guards running around busily.
The men inside the carriage seemed to have noticed the sound as they opened the windows to look outside. They saw the abnormal amount of guards and became conceded.
"Is this what we are here for?" One of the masked spoke.
The closed eyes of the woman sitting inside the carriage trembled once again as her lips gently moved.
"Don't bother and just hurry for now." The veiled woman spoke with an indifferent tone.
All the masked men immediately nodded, and the driver seemed to have heard this as well. The driver then cracked the whip in his hand, urging the horses to run. The carriage picked up speed and rushed through the streets.
A couple of minutes later, the carriage once again slowed down as it entered a narrow alley. The alley was just wide enough to let the carriage barely pass. The carriage then came to a halt in front of an old shop that did not have a sign board.
The veiled woman sitting in the carriage opened her eyes and gestured to the masked men. The driver of the carriage jumped down from it and went to the side to open its door. One of the masked men first alighted from the carriage, looked around, and pointed with his hands to the exits of the alley. The other four black-robed men that were following the carriage instantly understood the orders and split into two pairs and stood at the two ends of the alley, preventing anyone from entering.
Everyone then alighted from the carriage, with the veiled woman being the last person. They then walked up to the door of the shop and knocked on it in a certain pattern. Unlike before, there was no delay in opening the door, as it instantly opened.
The old woman who was in charge of the shop greeted the visitors by saluting with cupped hands and stood at the side as they walked inside. She did not speak anything, and the men did not expect anything either.
The Veiled woman walked into the shop and looked around for a second before walking into the next room immediately. Two of the masked men stayed in the shop while the other two followed her. They smoothly opened the hidden entrance of the safe house and walked downstairs.
They reached the bottom of the stairs soon and opened the door that was standing in their way. As soon as they opened it, a brightly lit room appeared in front of them. A few people were already waiting for them in two files.
They were all standing as they looked at the woman and shouted in unison.
"Greetings to the mistress!"
章節 26: Briefing The Leader
Hei Bao inwardly sighed with relief upon seeing the veiled woman who had just entered the safe house.
'Finally, she's here.' Hei Bao thought.
Hei Bao had been extremely stressed ever since last night's events. He had experienced one shock after the other and was becoming more and more worried. Their investigations were not bearing fruit for a while, but now that they actually had some leads, it just seemed like a mountain fell on his mind.
It started with the emergency signal called by Hei Wen, then the appearance of the culprit's corpses, after was that the surprise of Lin Mu's status and then finally the incident with Hei Wen this morning. Hei Bao felt that everything was occurring too fast and it was beyond his capacity to handle the alone.
Hei Bao walked forward and greeted the Veiled woman personally.
"Greetings leader. We have been waiting for your arrival." Hei Bao spoke.
"So what was the emergency for which you have summoned me here?" The Veiled woman coldly asked.
Hei Bao took a deep breath before speaking again,
"I'm afraid we have more than one issue that needs to be addressed."
"If you may please." Hei Bao added while gesturing towards the other room.
The veiled woman did not speak anything, but simply followed Hei Bao's lead. Hei Bao brought her to the locked room, which he opened to let her inside. This was the same room where the plates which were used to send an emergency signal were kept in. These plates were very precious, thus were kept securely locked in this room, which also served as a meeting room for important matters.
The room was fifteen meters long and ten meters wide in size. It had a tall ceiling, from which multiple lamps were hanging. There were also some vents that were at top of the room, which supplied fresh air to it.
On one side of the room, there were multiple tables on which the rectangular metal plates were kept. These plates hung from a stand each and had a circular cutout in it. This circular metal disk would start spinning whenever an emergency signal was triggered.
The veiled woman looked towards the rectangular plates and quickly spotted the one plate whose inner disk was not in the right place. Hei Bao noticed this and quickly spoke,
"It was Hei Wen who used the distress whistle to trigger the emergency signal."
The veiled woman looked towards Hei Bao and continued following him to the large table that was kept on the other end of the room. She then sat down at its helm, on a large and comfortable chair before speaking.
"So is Hei Wen fine now?" The veiled woman asked.
"He was when we originally returned last night, but today in the morning there was an incident." Hei Bao answered.
"What kind of an incident?" The Veiled woman questioned.
Hei Bao took a deep breath and thought about everything for a second before starting his explanation. He knew that it was going to be long and winded, thus wanted to get all his thoughts in order first. The veiled woman waited patiently in silence, for she trusted her subordinates.
Hei Bao then started explaining all of the events of yesterday. His explanation lasted for a good fifteen minutes and he added every minor thing during it as he didn't want to miss anything. He knew about his leader's capabilities, thus knew that the more thorough he was in his explanation, the more concise conclusion she would reach.
After finishing his explanation, Hei Bao took another deep breath and stopped. The veiled woman also went silent and thought for five minutes before speaking again.
"I would like to see the corpses of the culprits and also the evidence you had found."
Hei Bao nodded and retrieved the blood-stained piece of paper from his pocket before passing it to the leader. She looked at the paper and read it quickly before analyzing it's every inch. She even smelt it for a moment just to get an accurate judgment.
"Let's go and see the corpses now." The Veiled woman ordered.
"Yes, leader." Hei Bao replied politely.
Hei Bao then guided the veiled woman to the storage room where the dead bodies of the culprits were stored. As soon as they reached the cold room, the woman approached the bodies. Hei Bao suddenly felt a certain wave pass through and understood that it was just the spirit sense probe of the veiled woman.
The veiled woman did not touch any of the bodies, but instead just scanned them with her spirit sense. She seemed to have frowned for a moment, but it wasn't visible under her veil. A minute later, she was done with the observations.
"They are death warriors, low-level ones, but death warriors indeed." The veiled woman concluded.
"We can also confirm that the town guards may be involved in this. From now on, all the town guards are to be closely investigated." The veiled woman added.
"Leader, the boy named Lin Mu also wants to meet you." Hei Bao spoke with bated breath.
"Yes, I want to meet this boy as well. The lord is especially interested in him." The veiled woman replied with a little interest in her voice.
"Leader, I'm afraid that we may be going beyond our limits with that boy. I can tell with a great surety that he is a category four party." Hei Bao seriously spoke.
The Veiled woman's pupils widened underneath her veil.
"That boy also knows about the other category four-party in the town; Old man Jing." Hei Bao added.
If the veiled woman's shock was hidden because of her veil at first, now it was completely revealed as even Hei Bao could hear her breath getting rough. He could swear that he even saw her tremble for a brief moment.
"Do you have an estimate about his cultivation base?" The veiled woman questioned.
"I did not dare confirm it myself, but Hei Wen is sure that it should be at the peak of the Qi refining realm as the boy has refined his spirit sense as well. We also witnessed the carnage he had caused. All the bodies that you see here are his handiwork." Hei Bao explained.
"He... he... he has skills that are rather strange and terrifying, Hei Wen seemed to have experienced it and has become very disturbed because of it." He added.
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