"Lao Hu! We may have been exposed!"

Lin Junshu closed the door and immediately lowered his voice and said to Hu Jian.

"Just before we entered Ningxiang Pavilion, we might have been seen by the group of soldiers guarding the city. The owner of Ningxiang Pavilion has unknown intentions, so we have to be careful. We have to speed up the progress of the mission!"

Lao Hu nodded in agreement and pulled out the knife from his waist.

"Are you going to kill now?"

"Ahem..." Lin Junshu quickly pressed his knife back.

"We want to speed up, but we can't do it so fast, right? Although we have almost confirmed that Wang Cheng of Xushui City is indeed not a good person. But now we don't even know where the city lord's palace is, and I still want to go here

Check out other areas of the city."

When the two of them were wandering along the long street, Lin Junshu noticed that every five or ten shop on the street was separated by an alley about one person wide.

Through the narrow alley, Lin Junshu could vaguely see some vague shadows of buildings. It must be the area where civilians live. Different from the bustling long streets, that is where Xushui City really looks like.

Those tourists deliberately avoided the entrance of the alley, as if they were avoiding filth. In order not to attract attention, they had no way to get closer to check.

"It would be nice if we knew about the mask earlier. We could take advantage of the chaos and sneak in now. It seems that we will have to spend an extra day tomorrow. Let's buy the mask first."

Lin Junshu said regretfully that in the case of possible exposure, delaying one more day would increase the risk a lot.

Hu Jian glanced at the depressed Lin Junshu, "The little girl from before said that most shopkeepers sell masks."

"I know, so I said tomorrow... That's right! Most shop owners have them. Aren't we in the Ningxiang Pavilion shop now?"

"Let's go in and ask Qingqing now. She shouldn't have fallen asleep yet."

Lin Junshu and the two men hurriedly looked for the room that Qingqing had described before.

"Dong dong dong!"

Lin Junshu knocked on the door for a long time, and the angry little girl finally opened the door.

"Why are you two again! I just fell asleep!"

Lin Junshu smiled awkwardly at the girl who was woken up again: "Haha, haha, I'm sorry... Girl Qingqing, I want to ask, do you sell masks here? We have very important things and we have to go to the street.

One trip, all..."

The little girl showed a disdainful expression and pursed her lips: "Yes, five hundred taels of silver each. How many of you want to do important things?"

The little girl deliberately bit the "important thing" very hard. Lin Junshu pretended not to hear her sarcasm and honestly stretched out two fingers.

"Two!"

As he spoke, he turned his attention to Hu Jian.

He is a poor man, and all the money Zhang Jiao gave him is sitting with Hu Jian.

Hu Jian didn't say anything, silently reached into his arms, and then took out an ingot of gold with a "swish" sound.

After taking out a total of ten ingots of gold, Hu Jian stopped.

"Damn it, where did you put it?" Lin Junshu tightly suppressed his desire to complain.

He stiffly took the gold and stuffed it into the little girl's hands.

"Miss Qingqing, is this enough?"

"Humph!"

Qingqing snorted, carried the gold into the house, and soon took out two masks.

Lin Junshu randomly selected the mask with blood-red eyes, and Hu Jian took the remaining mask with a giant mouth.

"Let's go. Wear a mask and don't enter Ningxiang Pavilion again!"

The little girl's expression became much colder, as if she had some subtle misunderstandings about what they were going to do.

Lin Junshu also found it difficult to explain. He had already obtained the mask, so why did he come back?

After thanking the little girl, the two hurried downstairs wearing masks.

"Pavilion Master, are they really good people? Why don't Qingqing look like them?"

After the two left, Qingqing did not go back to the house, but turned around and went to the room at the end of the corridor.

The figure behind the screen shook his head slightly, and a cold voice came out.

"Everything that is not possible depends on the appearance. Let us see it until the end, and we will understand naturally."

……

On Lin Junshu's side, the two of them had already changed their masks and pushed out the door.

The madness outside the long street was still the same. The two of them lowered their heads and moved forward silently with as little sense of presence as possible.

"Hey - don't come closer! Put on your clothes, put on your clothes, I'm a man!"

"Damn! I told you I was a man and you still chase me!"

……

"Let me, let me, I don't want to eat late night snacks now, my brother and I still have things to do..."

"No, you will understand as soon as you say you understand, you hehe, you big-headed devil, hehe, stop right there!"

……

"If you don't want to buy, I won't buy anything! I'm a poor man, I can't afford anything!"

"What? Are you asking me if the nigger behind me is for sale? Are you kidding me! That's my brother!"

……

After squeezing through countless crazy masked people, the two of them, physically and mentally exhausted, finally found an alleyway with not many people around.

The two looked around and confirmed that the guys nearby were seriously busy with what they were "handing". The two suddenly accelerated and ran into the alley one after the other.

"Phew - I'm really exhausted. Didn't that guy just look like a scholar? Why are his hands so strong? I almost couldn't shake him off!"

Lin Junshu took off his helmet and gasped violently.

Hu Jian behind him was okay, not in a hurry or panting, but I don’t know which bastard had the tassel ripped off his helmet.

Hu Jian also took off his mask and put it away, revealing his camouflaged face in the middle of the night.

"Let's go, the front should be the last place we need to explore. Once we find one or two trustworthy civilians and inquire about the situation in the county magistrate's house, we will complete the mission and bring back the official seal and that beast's heart.

General Zhang will be the opening sacrifice."

I didn't ask Qingqing about the situation in the county magistrate's office before, because I couldn't believe it. It's okay to know that there is a problem with their identity. If the purpose of assassinating the magistrate is exposed and the purpose of assassinating the magistrate is revealed, it will be troublesome.

Lin Junshu still remembers Zhang Jiao saying that Hu Jian can solve the problem as long as it is not the Dog County Magistrate who holds the official seal. Does this also mean that if the Dog County Magistrate holds the official seal, Hu Jian may not be able to solve it?
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You still have to play it slow and steady.

Hu Jian nodded and followed Lin Junshu deeper into the alley.

Lin Junshu and Hu Jian walked in the alley one after another. This long alley always reminded him of the alleys in Jiangnan. Unfortunately, there were no bluestone slabs here, and there were no lilac-like girls holding oil-paper umbrellas.

There was nothing unusual in the alley at first, but as we went deeper, dark red bloodstains began to appear on the mottled walls, and the scars left by sharp blades and blunt instruments gradually increased.

The most horrifying thing was that Lin Junshu actually saw five shallow, juxtaposed scratches on a wall.

Lin Junshu paused slightly.

Judging from the size of the scratches, it might have been left by a thin woman or child when she was dragged backwards.

It was hard for Lin Junshu to imagine how desperate it was to allow such a petite human being to leave traces on such a long and solid wall.

The scratches slightly distracted Lin Junshu. He raised his head and looked forward, and he had reached the end of the alley.

Next, Lin Junshu stepped out.

"Wait!"

"Huh?"

Two soft calls came one after another in the darkness.

A huge force suddenly grabbed Lin Junshu's right shoulder and pulled him back.

The next second, "Shua!"
Chapter completed!