On the long street, Lin Sheng occasionally stopped to buy some rare food he hadn't seen before from the stalls on either side.
As if he were truly just aimlessly wandering.
However, a hundred meters behind him, two pairs of eyes occasionally swept over him.
Before long, as if remembering something, he slapped his forehead, quickened his pace, and walked towards the front of the long street, quickly turning into a small alley on one side.
The alley was sparsely populated, and Lin Sheng's hurried steps were noticeably faster than before.
The two figures following behind exchanged glances, then one of them raised his chin. The other immediately understood, stepped into the alley and followed, while he quickened his pace and slipped into the alley ahead of the small alley.
"This kid seems to have found something. I'd like to see what exactly he's up to."
The man dressed like a peddler among the two, trailed far behind Lin Sheng, softly muttering to himself.
The two were separated by two or three hundred meters, one in front and one behind. His movements were extremely careful and cautious; he didn't look directly at the other person but kept a vague watch on the target with his peripheral vision, clearly an old hand skilled in tracking techniques.
However, before long, Lin Sheng in front made a turn, and his figure disappeared from sight.
"That direction, he must have turned into Fengshun Alley. No matter how he goes, he'll eventually end up on Changping Main Street."
The man dressed like a peddler watched the target disappear from sight. There was no urgency in his heart; instead, he sneered and walked forward unhurriedly.
After a dozen breaths, he finally reached the small alley where Lin Sheng had turned.
"Where is he!?"
However, to his surprise, there was not a single person in the narrow alley.
This situation made him frown slightly, his gaze sweeping over the doors of the few residences in the alley.
Immediately, he quickened his pace and hurried forward in pursuit.
He hadn't walked many steps before he suddenly stopped, because in front of a residence in the alley, a tall figure was calmly watching him.
The peddler's heart tightened. He calmly withdrew his gaze and walked forward as if nothing had happened, but his hand had already gripped the short dagger hidden in his sleeve.
"Red Hair Bandits?"
A calm voice sounded by his ear. The peddler didn't hesitate at all, his dagger already stabbing behind him. His movement was clean and sharp, making it impossible to guard against.
However, the peddler's expression quickly changed, because the short dagger behind him struck empty air.
And his vision darkened; the sunlight above his head had been blocked.
Before he could react further, he felt his vision go black.
Carrying the peddler, Lin Sheng gently pushed open the courtyard door behind him. The iron lock on it shattered as if it were made of paper.
The courtyard was quite old and worn. The only stone table was covered in thick dust, clearly having been deserted for a long time.
He threw the man who had already fainted onto the ground. Lin Sheng closed the door and walked out of the courtyard.
"Why hasn't he come out yet? Could it be he didn't take Changping Street? Impossible. No matter how he goes around inside, he'll have to come out onto Changping Main Street eventually."
The other surveillance person stood at the entrance of the small alley leading to the main street, quietly waiting for the target to appear. However, after waiting for a long time and not seeing anyone, he couldn't help but feel a little doubt in his heart.
"Why hasn't Old Wang come out either? Could it be that the place that kid is going is in these alleys!?"
Thinking this, he hesitated slightly, but still hurried into the alley.
But soon, he stopped in his tracks, because the target he had been waiting for so long had already appeared in his sight.
"He's here."
He muttered to himself, but a subtle smile appeared on his face.
"As expected, he had to come out in the end."
However, the next moment, the smile on his face froze.
"Old Ma!?"
At this moment, the target was walking towards him with a smile on his face, calling out affectionately.
"Old Ma!? Who is Old Ma?"
The surveillance person was full of questions. He looked left and right, but there was no one around him.
"Who is he calling?"
Thinking this, he quickly understood something, his expression changed, and he immediately turned around, ready to run.
But a large hand had already landed on his shoulder, making his body stiffen. Finally, he felt himself being uncontrollably pulled into the other person's embrace.
"I've been looking for you for a long time, Old Ma. I didn't expect you to be here. Let's go, a friend is waiting for you..."
Lin Sheng's face was full of smiles. Holding the other person, he walked into the alley.
The surveillance person's face was full of shock and anger. He wanted to struggle but couldn't move at all. More than half of his body felt as if it had been paralyzed, and he could only be pulled forward by the other person.
The few pedestrians in the alley didn't find this scene strange and went about their business.
Before long, the surveillance person was brought by Lin Sheng to a residence.
It wasn't until he saw his companion lying in the courtyard, his life and death unknown, that he realized they had been exposed at some point. The other party had deliberately led them here to make it easier to deal with them.
Lin Sheng threw the surveillance person he had subdued aside and then kicked the other person who had fainted on the ground.
Soon, that person slowly woke up. After seeing Lin Sheng and the other companion in the courtyard, he was also shocked and angry.
"Alright, tell me, where is Luo Hu?"
Lin Sheng looked at the two and asked calmly.
"What are you talking about? I don't know. But in Pingshan County, if you dare to do this, someone will soon discover we're missing. When they report it to the authorities, you definitely won't be able to escape from this County Town. If you know what's good for you, let us go."
Facing Lin Sheng's question, the peddler instead sneered and spoke in a threatening tone.
Crack...
However, the next instant, the crisp sound of bones breaking echoed from the courtyard.
Before the peddler's scream could even sound, he was slapped away again.
After doing this, Lin Sheng's gaze fell on the other person again. His indifferent eyes made that person's heart tighten.
"Now it's your turn."
Seeing Lin Sheng walking towards him, the thin man's face showed a look of struggle. When the other party approached him, he finally couldn't help but speak.
"I'll tell you... I'll tell you..."
"Where is Luo Hu?"
Lin Sheng stopped and spoke calmly.
At this moment, the distance between the two was less than a meter. The thin man mumbled, the fear on his face suddenly turning into deep malice. He opened his mouth and spat a ball of black liquid at Lin Sheng.
Unfortunately, the black liquid hadn't flown far before it was slapped away.
Seeing that his sneak attack had failed, the thin man's face showed a hint of disappointment, but soon he spoke slowly with a malicious tone again.
"You won't learn anything you want to know from my mouth. You will die. I'll be waiting for you down below... Hahaha..."
The man sneered, black blood already flowing from the corner of his mouth. It was clear that the black liquid was a deadly poison, hidden in his mouth.
"Very meticulous methods. It seems you are indeed not ordinary..."
Looking at the thin man who kept sneering and spitting out black blood, Lin Sheng frowned slightly.
He really didn't expect that two small fry responsible for tracking and surveillance could be so ruthless. After knowing they were exposed, they actually chose to end their own lives directly. Such quality was something he had seen for the first time since coming to this world.
Clearly, the power behind the other party had something going on.
"A group of bandits can achieve this level??"
This thought flashed through his mind.
"You won't know anything. Just wait, it will be your turn soon..."
And when the thin man saw Lin Sheng frown, he seemed quite pleased. He continued to mock, and the vitality in his body was rapidly weakening. Clearly, he would die from the poison soon.
"Since you love talking so much, I'll let you talk a little longer."
Looking at the thin man's pleased appearance, Lin Sheng narrowed his eyes, reached out, and pinched his neck.
His palm quickly turned gray-black, and his fingertips directly pierced into his skin. The thin man only felt a suction force coming from his neck, the pain of flesh and blood being stripped away, coming from his neck, no, from more than half of his body.
Accompanied by intense pain, he clearly felt his originally somewhat blurred consciousness become clear again.
"Now we can play slowly..."
"No, no... let me die..."
Bang!
An indifferent voice sounded in his ear. The thin man's face showed a look of terror, and he immediately thought of biting his tongue to commit suicide. But with just one slap, his mouth full of teeth was shattered. A series of crisp bone-breaking sounds and a series of painful groans soon echoed in the small courtyard.
After the time it takes an incense stick to burn, the tightly closed courtyard door opened. Lin Sheng walked out, closed the door, and stepped away.
And in the small courtyard, only two bloody and mangled corpses remained.
In the time it took an incense stick to burn, he almost crushed all the bones in their bodies, but these two still didn't reveal any valuable information. He also didn't have the patience to continue, so he crushed their throats.
It was true that these two had deadly poison hidden in their mouths and were indeed close to dying from the poison. However, as luck would have it, the deadly poison in their mouths was precisely corrosive poison.
So Lin Sheng very simply used the Three Corpse Soul Severing Palm to absorb most of the corrosive poison in their bodies.
Three Corpse Soul Severing Palm, this technique can not only administer poison but also absorb toxins. This was the first time he had experimented on a person, and he didn't expect the effect to be quite good.
"It seems this mission is quite a bit more troublesome than I imagined."
He walked in the alley, softly muttering to himself.
After learning that Pingshan County was vast, he directly abandoned the idea of painstakingly searching for the Red Hair Bandits bit by bit.
Even with the Snow Silver Moth in hand, the workload was too large. Moreover, who could be sure whether the Red Hair Bandits were still in Pingshan County after suffering two consecutive attacks.
Therefore, his plan from the beginning was to search for information about the Red Hair Bandits in Ping Shan County.
They had been entrenched in the Ping An County area. It was impossible for there to be no presence of the Red Hair Bandits in the County Town. Even some major forces in the County Town are highly likely to have had contact with these Red Hair Bandits.
A Blood Transportation Realm Martial Artist could be considered a top-tier combatant in any County Town. It was impossible for the high-level forces in the County Town not to be aware of this.
Moreover, the Red Hair Bandits themselves were a considerable force in this Pingshan County. How much profit could they make just by robbing passing merchants? Therefore, it was highly likely that they also had business operations in this Ping An County Town.
From the moment he brought Cao Luan into the County Town and deliberately allowed that kid to mention the Red Hair Bandits in the largest Songhe Tower in the city, he intended to fish. To his surprise, the fish took the bait much faster than he had imagined.
Just as Cao Luan finished speaking, he clearly felt that the two of them had been targeted, and the surveillance people were basically changed every day.
Clearly, the other party was quite careful and cautious.
Originally, he thought he could finish this mission quickly, but he didn't expect things to be quite a bit more troublesome than he had imagined.
Just some small fry could be controlled to such an extent, preferring death over revealing any useful information. Therefore, it wouldn't be easy to root out the Red Hair Bandits.
"Forget it. It's time to go check the other side. I hope the result won't disappoint me..."
Thinking this, he twitched his nose slightly, determined the direction, quickened his pace, and disappeared into the alley.
And at the same time, on the other side.
Cao Luan walked on the long street and stopped in an empty, sparsely populated area.
He took out the small jade gourd from his sachet, opened the mouth, released the Snow Silver Moth, and stared intently at its movements.
Seeing that the Snow Silver Moth only circled in mid-air before flying back into his hand, a look of disappointment appeared on his face, and he put it back into the small jade gourd.
"As expected, it's not in the County Town. I shouldn't have followed that bastard and wasted a few days here for nothing..."
He clenched the jade gourd and glanced at the sachet in his hand, then directly threw it on the ground and stomped on it hard twice.
"I'll try it one more time from the eastern district. If there's still no reaction, I'll leave the city. I can't keep delaying like this, otherwise my sister will definitely worry..."
Thinking this, Cao Luan was already walking towards the east side of the County Town.
"Flatbread, fragrant and crispy flatbread, delicious and not expensive. Young man, would you like one?"
He walked into a side street and met a short peddler carrying a wooden basket filled with flatbreads. Upon seeing him, he greeted him warmly.
"No need..."
Cao Luan said calmly.
The flatbread peddler, however, acted as if he hadn't heard and continued walking towards him.
"I already said no, you..."
Seeing the peddler who had walked close, Cao Luan frowned and spoke coldly. But before he could finish speaking, he saw the flatbread peddler lift the white cloth in the wooden basket, and a wisp of white mist puffed onto his face.
"Not good!!"
At this moment, he finally reacted, his eyes wide with anger, and he raised his fist to strike the peddler.
Unfortunately, just as he raised his fist, he felt his vision blur, and then he lost consciousness and slumped down.
The peddler grabbed Cao Luan's falling body, revealing a hint of a sarcastic smile.
"As expected, these naive kids are all fools, knocked down so easily... Tsk tsk, it was easier than I thought."
As the peddler spoke, he tore off the hat he was wearing, revealing himself to be Sun Mazi.
"Take him away and send him to Wu Laoda's villa. Later, Wu Laoda wants to personally interrogate this kid..."
As his voice fell, two people had already come up from behind, supporting Cao Luan on the left and right, and quickly left.
Sun Mazi, meanwhile, looked in another direction.
"I wonder how things are going on Wang Sandao's side."
He hesitated in his heart whether to go take a look over there, but in the end, he dismissed the idea.
"Forget it. He's just a fool with a slightly higher cultivation level. What kind of waves can he possibly stir up..."
Muttering to himself, Sun Mazi dropped the wooden basket in his hand and also stepped forward to follow.