It was dark in the woodshed. Gu Mingzhou followed Yu Shiqi with a firebrand in hand. The two of them looked at the long-dead Gu Jie who was lying on the haystack and were speechless for a long time.

"Did he commit suicide?" Yu Shiqi was the first to speak.

"Then it's hard to say..." Gu Mingzhou decisively put out Huo Zhe and turned around to form a defensive posture with him.

The two slowly exited the woodshed, and then they looked up to the roof at the same time. A black cat flew past and stopped briefly to look at it. Its jewel-like eyes shone brightly in the night.

"Special task force, if Fang Wurui comes in person, are you sure?" Gu Mingzhou's tone showed his worry.

"You have to fight to find out." Yu Shiqi responded while spreading his Yunmai Qi like a net, trying his best to detect nearby enemies.

After a while, everything was still silent. The two of them relaxed slightly. Gu Mingzhou took the lead and sheathed his sword and said, "We may be a little overwhelmed. Let's check the way that person died, in case he really committed suicide."

"I'll cover you." Yu Shiqi promised.

The cold sword energy forcibly removed the left and right windows on the front of the woodshed. Yu Shiqi inserted the lit torch diagonally on them, and then nodded to Gu Mingzhou.

"So you know Liu's Heavenly Sword Technique? This was also taught to you by Liu Yike?" Gu Mingzhou exclaimed.

Yu Shiqi shook his head: "What Zhongling abandoned to teach me is incomplete."

Gu Mingzhou came to the haystack with a torch and leaned over to inspect the man's death state. No wounds were found on the vital points from the top of his head to his chest. He couldn't help but wonder: "I didn't see any external injuries. Could it be that he died of poisoning?"

He then pinched the deceased's cheek to open his mouth, and saw the black blood accumulated in the mouth, which seemed to confirm his suspicion.

"It seems really..." Gu Mingzhou suddenly stopped mid-sentence, feeling vaguely that something was wrong.

Yu Shiqi stepped forward and asked calmly: "If he committed suicide by taking poison, why didn't he do it as soon as we captured him?"

Before Gu Mingzhou could answer, he continued to speculate: "If this person had the ability to commit suicide at that time but did not do so, it means that he still had hope in the rescue of his accomplices."

Gu Mingzhou reacted and said: "What caused him to despair was his accomplices' refusal to save him..."

"It's even possible that the killer would be killed through pain." Yu Shiqi turned the body over, examined it carefully again, and finally found a fine needle on the back of the neck covered by the hair.

A new enemy had arrived, and Gu Mingzhou felt a chill in his heart. Unexpectedly, the clues he missed almost led to their misjudgment of the situation.

"Could it be Fang Wurui himself?"

"It's not like his style. Most of the time he is alone and robs the crowd."

"How does the special agent know Fang Wurui's behavior?" Gu Mingzhou felt strange.

Yu Shiqi stood up and drew his sword and said: "Senior Liu gave me special training against all the evil people. Fang Wurui is known as the one who deceives his master and destroys his ancestors. He was originally a disciple of Qianyi Sect in Yanqi Mountain. He later assassinated the master and defected. After becoming famous, he gathered

The Gujie people completely wiped out the Qianyi Sect. But even so, the martial arts he used were still the Qianyi Sect's martial arts."

"I heard that the Qianyi Sect focuses on internal strength, fingering, and minor sword skills." Gu Mingzhou continued.

"So I don't think he would use poisonous needles if he wanted to kill people."

Gu Mingzhou was silent for a moment and suddenly asked, "How is An Nianjiu?"

Yu Shiqi was reminded by him and suddenly remembered that An Nianjiu was still alone in the room on the second floor of the inn. If the opponent attacked again and chose to defeat them one by one, the priority target would definitely be An Nianjiu who was alone at this time.

"If you're worried, go take a look." Gu Mingzhou suggested.

"Aren't you going to go together? If you are alone at this time..." Yu Shiqi heard that he seemed to want him to go to An Nianjiu's place alone. Based on his years of experience in Yunzhongjian, he felt that this arrangement was a bit inappropriate.

Appropriate.

Gu Mingzhou smiled faintly: "As I said before, if I die, my family will ask you to be dispatched..."

Yu Shiqi decisively interrupted his joking: "It's okay if you want to act alone. At least tell me the reason, and I can feel at ease and think about how to cooperate with you."

Gu Mingzhou looked around cautiously, and then whispered to Yu Shiqi: "I think there is nothing to worry about fighting the Gujie people openly. The only thing to worry about is their secret attack. If Fang Wurui doesn't come, there will definitely be a leader here to take charge.

Commander, I want to find him."

Yu Shiqi understood what he meant. Splitting the troops here would allow himself and An Nianjiu to be used as bright cards to attract the opponent. Gu Mingzhou, who had learned assassin techniques in Wangchuan, could better hide his traces and search for the opponent's leader.

"Even if Fang Wurui doesn't come, don't be careless." Yu Shiqi warned, "I'll go to An Nianjiu's side first."

Gu Mingzhou made a gesture of understanding to him, then took the initiative to hide his breath and retreat into the shadow behind the stable.

Yu Shiqi did the opposite, converting the weak Yunmai Qi into wind and thunder veins to surround his body, and jumped towards the main building of the inn. In the process of withdrawing the Yunmai Qi, he briefly captured

Arriving at the tree outside the backyard wall, there was a fleeting breath, and he threw his bladeless autumn leaves in mid-air without thinking.

The whirling sword wheel cut into the tree crown, and as the branches and leaves fell in succession, a figure fell from the top of the tree with a muffled sound.

Yu Shiqi stood on the outer eaves above the first floor of the inn. He reached out and grabbed the flying bladeless sword. He glanced at the blood on the sword and estimated that the enemy who fell from the tree was probably not dead, but he was not dead either.

Plan to pursue the past.

The man was probably staying near the backyard to monitor his and Gu Mingzhou's actions. Injuring him was enough to give Gu Mingzhou enough time to disappear from his sight. Yu Shiqi turned around and rolled over from the open window into the corridor on the second floor of the inn.

The moment he landed on the ground and stood up, his heart suddenly tightened, and he had an inexplicable premonition of danger. In an instant, two bursts of energy came from behind. Two lone robbers who were hiding their auras and ambush on both sides of the window took action at the same time, sealing with two palms quickly.

On Yu Shiqi's back, he activated his true energy and knocked him forward.

Relying on the Swallow Spin technique of the Desolate Sect, Yu Shiqi turned around in the air and barely stabilized his figure. After landing, he raised his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth. He thought that Gu Mingzhou was right. For them, the secret attack of the Gujie people was the most threatening.

of.

Although the sneak attack had injured Yu Shiqi, the two Gu Jie members did not rush in at all. In the blink of an eye, they had already climbed out of the window through which Yu Shiqi came in and disappeared from his sight.

Yu Shiqi looked around both sides, using the faint moonlight to see that the opposite window at the end of the corridor was also open. He immediately became more vigilant. He had already thought that the other party might have planned to ambush him at the window from the beginning.

.The two palms just now were already quite dangerous. If he hadn't activated his Qi to actively resist the moment he climbed through the window and felt the danger, he might have been seriously injured by this time and it would be difficult to move.

Because of the previous commotion, everyone in the inn had escaped. At this time, the darkened inn was more suitable for the opponent to lay out an ambush in the dark. In such an environment, Yu Shiqi did not dare to expose his position.

, fortunately, after some time, his eyes have slightly adapted to the dark environment.

The second floor of the inn has a square and hollow patio layout. Looking from under the corridor guardrail, you can see the messy lobby on the first floor due to the previous fight. An Nianjiu's room is in another parallel corridor opposite. Yu Shiqi is waiting for himself

After the breath in his body calmed down, he cautiously started to move along the guardrail towards where An Nianjiu was.

Suddenly, two "clang" sounds were heard. Yu Shiqi followed them and saw that the two originally open windows had been tightly closed. Of course, this could not have been caused by the wind. It was obvious that

It was the other party's initiative.

He didn't understand the other party's intention of closing the window for a moment. He just thought it was a pretext to interfere with his judgment, so he continued to move towards the opposite corridor.
Chapter completed!