In the night.

Chen Ji returned to the edge of the roof and stood on the high hanging eaves, calmly overlooking his feet.

Is there any problem, Prince?

If there is a problem, the other party has been in Donglin Academy for the past three years and can't do anything at all.

If there is no problem, the other party comes back at this time and appears in Jinfang.

Chen Ji frowned. He wanted to sort out some clues, but found that there were too many clues missing.

In the courtyard.

When the prince realized that the knights of the martial arts had left him and ran away, he immediately turned around with a curse: "Aren't you knights of the martial arts? Don't you always say that you are a righteous person? This is too unloyal!"

Six secret agents armed with knives had rushed into the courtyard and surrounded the prince and Bai Li under the courtyard wall. One of the secret agents said coldly: "Those who resist arrest will be punished with an additional penalty."

Bai Li said: "We are..."

Before she could finish speaking, the Crown Prince gave her a little tug and said, "We are just ordinary people who come to Hongyi Lane to have fun. We have not violated Daning's laws. Why are you pursuing us?"

The secret agent looked at them carefully, as if he was looking at the two people by the moonlight. After a moment, he hesitated and said: "... Prince, princess? I recognize you! Our secret agent department has conclusive evidence to prove that there is a traitor from Jingchao tonight.

There are activities in Jinfang, it’s such a coincidence that you two appear here, please come with us back to the inner prison.”

The prince secretly screamed in his heart. The Chief of Ceremony has always wanted to find something to do with Prince Jing's palace. In recent years, many people from Prince Jing's old department have been arrested and sent to the inner prison and never came out.

In the inner prison, the identity of the prince of the royal family has no effect.

Seven years ago, the King of Huai was captured by the Secret Service for hiding his armor and crossbow, and died in the inner prison that night. Six years ago, there was a severe drought in Guanzhong. When the King of Jin was drinking, he said that this was Emperor Ning's neglect of government affairs.

As a natural punishment, he was arrested by the Secret Intelligence Service and sent to the inner prison on the charge of "falsely claiming to make prophecies". He died in the inner prison that month, along with Wu Guan Ling Tai Lang of Qin Tian Prison, Wu Guan Bao Zhang Zheng.

The prince knew in his heart that the Ning Dynasty vassal king was like a weed in front of the eunuchs. If he entered the inner prison today, he might never come out again.

Thinking of this, the prince quickly built a ladder with both hands: "Bai Li, you go first!"

The spy's face was grim: "No one can leave. If the prince is fine, why don't you dare to come with us?"

The prince cursed, picked up a bamboo broom in the courtyard and blocked it in front of Bai Li: "I went to the inner prison with you, and no problem will become a problem. If I fight with you, if you have the guts, kill me here!"

Chen Ji watched this scene in silence.

Save or not?

If they don't save him, the Crown Prince and Bai Li will definitely be caught in the inner prison no matter how hard they struggle. The Golden Pig is already looking for evidence of Prince Jing's palace colluding with Jing Chao. If the Crown Prince and Bai Li happen to be caught here, they will be dozed off.

Sometimes someone hands you a pillow, and the other party can make excuses to torture you to extract a confession.

If they were to be rescued, the six spies would be very difficult to deal with, and there would be reinforcements from other spies at any time... The key is that Chen Ji came to kill Shopkeeper Yuan tonight, not to save people!

But this is the same Red Lane, the same night, how pleasant it would be if I could finish my drink and then go to the Drum Tower to watch the sunrise.

Chen Ji's hand was wrapped with a strip of cloth, and on the short knife he held tightly in his right hand, blood was slowly sliding down the tip of the knife, and finally gathered into a drop of bright red blood, which fell on the gray tiles.

When the blood dripped on the tiles, the traces had disappeared.

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…

"Come on!" The prince swept the bamboo broom in his hand, trying to repel the spy.

But how could he stop these elite secret agents? However, he saw six secret agents surrounded in a fan shape. One of the secret agents came forward and slashed with a knife, cutting the bamboo broom in two with just one swing.

The prince looked at the bald broom and felt bitter in his heart. He said solemnly: "I can go with you, but you have to let my sister go. What can a girl know about her?"

The spy shook his head: "No one can leave. If it weren't for your valuable status, why would we bother to persuade you? Just follow us to the inner prison, so that neither of you will be hurt. Wait until we find out who you are." If I am innocent, I will naturally let you two out."

The prince said solemnly: "How many people can enter the inner prison and come out again? Do you believe it? Are you not afraid of revenge from Prince Jing's palace?"

"Your Highness, we have even arrested princes over the years. You can't scare us. Come on, catch them."

Several spies rushed over.

The prince still wanted to resist, but was struck by a secret agent in the abdomen. He bent over in pain and vomited out the wine and bile in his abdomen.

These secret agents really didn't take the Crown Prince's identity seriously.

They knew very well how much their boss wanted to overthrow Prince Jing's Mansion, and their stance determined their thinking.

While pulling, someone twisted Bai Li's arm and clamped it behind his back. Bai Li was so painful that cold sweat broke out on his forehead, but he didn't cry out in pain, and just stared at the spy in front of him stubbornly.

In the chaos, when she glanced around, she was suddenly stunned.

A secret agent noticed something was wrong and turned around.

In an instant, he raised his knife and struck behind him, but as soon as the hand holding the knife was raised above his head, a figure silently approached him before it fell.

The opponent's left hand clamped his arm, making it impossible for him to cut it with the knife.

While he was breathing, the attacking figure supported his arm and stabbed him twice, once in the kidney at the waist, and once in the lung under the ribs. The short knife was like a poisonous snake spitting messages in the opponent's hand, extremely vicious.

The fellow spies on the side were horrified when they saw this, and immediately responded with chopping swords, but the figure only waved his hand lightly to block it. The short knife and the long knife collided in the dark, sparks were produced, and with a clang, the long knife broke!

The expressions of the secret spies changed. They had seen swordsmen from all walks of life like a crucian carp crossing a river, but they had never seen a swordsman with such a broken sword that he could pick it up with ease.

There was no sword spirit, no mysterious means of being an official. The opponent just waved his short sword lightly, and his steel sword broke like an ice edge!

Bai Li was restrained by the spy and stared blankly at the figure. The figure's face was painted with black charcoal powder, and his eyes were particularly unfamiliar, but the figure looked familiar no matter how he looked at it.

At this time, she suddenly discovered that the person who was attacking in the darkness seemed to be losing some strength in his right leg while he was moving around.

This person seemed to know that his right leg was a flaw, so he tried his best to cover it up, but there was a serious injury on his leg, and it could still be seen no matter how hard he tried to hide it.

Bai Li thought of a person who also had injuries on his legs...

However, she could not overlap the figure of the neighbor's apprentice sweeping the floor with the figure of the fierce killer in front of her.

It seems that the two figures, one bright and one dark, are full of contradictions.

Bai Li's expression became complicated.

At this moment, she saw the spies taking off their hand crossbows from their waists and pointing them at the figure, and she immediately exclaimed: "Be careful, there is a crossbow!"

The battlefield suddenly became quiet. Chen Ji held the spies' arms and blocked the corpse in front of him. He revealed half of his face behind the spies' bowed heads and quietly looked at the short crossbows in the spies' hands.

The secret agent had his lung stabbed through and was coughing up blood.

The spy who was coughing up blood, and the calm assassin who was hiding behind him to avoid crossbows, were both silent and moving, but they were particularly cruel and mysterious.

Bai Li looked at this scene and felt that the answer in her heart was a little uncertain... The person in her impression smiled as if he would never say a harsh word, and even when questioned, he would just lower his head and remain silent without making any rebuttal.

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At this moment, the spies were looking for an opportunity to fire the crossbow, but found that there was no shooting angle at all.

During the stalemate, the spy who was coughing up blood finally closed his eyes. His hand that raised the knife slowly dropped, and the long knife was released.

Chen Ji dropped the short knife and caught the falling long knife.

While he was taking advantage of the knife, with a hiss, a crossbow arrow shot toward Chen Ji's exposed half of his face.

Everyone's eyes were dazzled when they saw that Chen Ji only tilted his head slightly to avoid the crossbow arrow. When the crossbow arrow was nailed into the wall behind him, Chen Ji's head had tilted back again and he was still hiding behind the dead spy, staring calmly.

Everyone.

Just as the spy wanted to re-string the crossbow, Chen Ji pushed the spy's body in a rampage, and the crossbow arrows were shot one after another, either nailed to the body or missed.

Close!

Chen Ji dropped the body and ducked out from behind, fighting the spies one against four. From time to time, the spies' swords would be cut off with a sound.

The spies have never felt so powerless. The assassin in front of them seemed to have no flaw in his body, and his every move and every move protected his entire body, making him completely impregnable.

Even if four people were besieging him, there was still no chance for a fatal blow.

Let alone a fatal blow, their blades could only cut through traces of clothing without leaving even a single wound.

The spies didn't know what kind of sword skill it was. There were only a few famous sword skills in the world. This kind of sword skill that was so impenetrable was unheard of.

As everyone knows, when Chen Ji and Feng Huai are fighting, if he reveals a slight flaw, the opponent will seize the opportunity. A flaw means that he will die again.

As a result of this crazy extreme training, what Chen Ji first learned was not offense, but defense.

You can't attack until you die.

The spy who was holding Bai Li clamped the knife on Bai Li's neck: "Put down your knife, or kill her now."

But Chen Ji seemed to be deaf, and he still went his own way and fought with the spy, without stopping at all with the long knife in his hand.

The secret agent froze, and it was one thing to send the princess to the inner prison, but it was another thing to directly kill the princess here.

He gritted his teeth, suddenly let go of the princess, and went to support his colleagues with a knife.

No one was restraining Bai Li, but she didn't run away. She just stood there and reminded her anxiously: "Be careful behind you!"

The secret agent who supported the past slashed diagonally towards Chen Ji's back.

When Chen Ji heard the reminder, he suddenly turned around, turning the knife with him!

However, he saw two long knives colliding head-on. Chen Ji turned his wrist and the blade in his hand went upstream, causing sparks to burst out from friction with the spy's blade.

The spy was mesmerized by the sparks bursting out. Before he could react, Chen Ji raised the long knife in his hand and cut it from his arm to his neck!

Blood splatters!

Chen Ji looked at Bai Li and the Crown Prince, and said in a deep voice: "Hurry up, don't hold us back here!"

The prince was just about to say that he wanted to go together, but Bai Li pursed his lips and pulled him to climb over the wall: "Let's go quickly, we can't help him here, we will only distract him! Only when we leave can he leave!"

"Oh," the prince quickly turned around and ran away.

A spy wanted to chase him, but he was chopped down by Chen Ji with a knife.

He bent down and held his sword across the side, blocking it under the courtyard wall, coldly blocking all the spies. The blood on the blade kept falling, and the smooth blade reflected the blood-red moonlight in the sky.

When the prince climbed over the wall, Bai Li rode on the wall of the courtyard and looked back in disgrace. She thought of the people in the world who had escaped, and then looked at the bloody battle in front of them, and said with a complicated expression: "Be careful with yourself!"

After that, she turned around and jumped off the courtyard wall and ran away.

The courtyard became quiet, and only three spies were left in a fan shape to firmly block the traces under the courtyard wall. They slowly changed their steps, trying to find any flaws in the traces, but they couldn't find them.

Just when they thought they could hold off until reinforcements arrived, Chen Ji took the initiative to fight.

In the past, when Chen Ji and Feng Huai were fighting, he would feel depressed every time he died. But now he understands that the sword skills he has learned at the cost of countless deaths are his reward.

The figures of the four people intertwined, and the sword light in Chen Ji's hand was like a moon arc, cutting off the three people's swords and cutting off the three people's necks.

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…

Chen Ji gasped and bent down, picked up the short knife he had just thrown on the ground and hid it in his sleeve.

He did not escape, but turned back and climbed the ladder back to the roof.

Chen Ji limped to the ridge of the roof, lay down on the ridge and quietly observed the situation in Hongyi Lane.

In Red Clothes Alley, countless disheveled prostitutes and girls were driven out of the brothel by spies.

Chen Ji's eyes searched for Shopkeeper Yuan's figure in the crowd. Handing over the goods tonight was the most important thing. There was no way the other party would not come and watch in person.

But as he watched the pavilions being emptied one after another and everyone being driven to the bluestone road of Hongyi Lane, he still could not find Shopkeeper Yuan.

wrong.

The scene in front of him was completely different from what Chen Ji had expected.

There was no chaos in Red Alley. No one tried to break through the defense line of the Secret Service, and no one fought with the Secret Service. Even the trouble-relieving guards specially transferred from the Mengjin Camp by Golden Pig were not used!

Lin Chaoqing wore a bamboo hat and sat calmly on the horse: "Master Golden Pig, it seems that you are no different from the White Rabbit and the Cloud Sheep, but you are more lucky and did not go to open the coffin of the old father in the Chao Pavilion... I am in charge of the punishment.

The Si Jiefan Guards and the Fish Dragon Guards are the direct soldiers of the inner court, but they have to follow you every day to bear the infamy."

"Don't worry," Golden Pig jumped off the horse with a smile, grabbed a middle-aged man who just wanted to escape, and asked with a kind face, "What's your name?"

"Villain Wu Dongliang."

"What do you do for a living?"

"I am the tax collector of Xin'an County..."

Golden Pig raised his eyebrows: "I'm just a tax collector. What did you just run away from..."

At this point, Golden Pig had already realized why the other party was running away.

The law of the Ning Dynasty prohibited officials from engaging in prostitution. It was okay to go to a place like Qingyin Xiaoban, but if you were caught in a place like Hongyi Lane, you would be dismissed immediately and investigated.

This law was set down by Ning Taizu many years ago. Nowadays, everyone turns a blind eye and ignores it. However, occasionally there are officials who are unlucky enough to be reported and lose their official positions.

Jin Zhu said something bad in his heart and told his spies to immediately verify the identity of this person. Then he came to a middle-aged man and asked, "What do you do?"

"I'm reporting to you, sir. I am a Huizhou merchant. He came to Luo City to buy some furs and sell them in the south... This is my guide."

The golden pig took the other party's guide and knew with just one glance that the other party had just arrived in Luo City tonight.

He said with a smile: "Check, check everyone's identity for me and see if there are any suspicious people."

At this time, Golden Pig's heart was slowly sinking to the bottom. He didn't expect that he would capsize in the gutter... What went wrong?!

The secret spies began to investigate everyone. These people were either Hui merchants from the south or Shanxi merchants from the north, as well as market traders and small gang leaders in Luo City. Everyone could clearly answer their origins, household registration and

There are no signs of forgery on the roadmap.

Chen Ji watched silently.

Except for the two men in black he had just killed on the roof, no one present looked like Shopkeeper Yuan’s spies!

Are these people disguising themselves too well?

No, no, Chen Ji searched Hongyi Alley, only to find that the Madam and Yan'er from Hongyi Alley were not among them either!

Someone must have tipped off the information and leaked the Golden Pig’s actions in advance!

That’s why the Madam and Yan’er ran away early!

Chen Ji suddenly remembered something. When Coachman Si Cao was interrogating him in Bailu Pavilion, he mentioned that the other party knew clearly what evidence Yunyang and Jiaotu had seized from Liu Shiyu's house... There was also a hidden treasure next to Jin Zhu.

With an undercover agent!

This undercover agent not only has access to the Secret Service's evidence, but also has access to the tonight's operation.

Chen Ji believed that with the level of caution of the Golden Pig, he would be careful and careful to ensure that nothing happened, but the news still leaked.

Who is it?

At this moment, Golden Pig suddenly turned his head and looked at the roof: "Who is there? Catch him!"
Chapter completed!