Chapter 1040 Narrowing the scope

He has a poison sac hidden in his mouth. When he is exposed, he bites it gently, and the poison bursts and he commits suicide directly.

Li Chengxi has only seen this operation in TV dramas, and he doubts whether he will accidentally bite it himself.

But then again, the serious expressions of the imperial guards are also justified.

The killer with a poison sac hidden in his mouth must be a deadly soldier raised by dignitaries. If it is related to the disappearance of the princess, it is very likely that it was done by dignitaries in Liuzhou.

The nature of this is different from the princess being kidnapped. If it is not handled well, the entire Liuzhou country will be purged because of this.

Li Chengxi saw that the two people were from Anxiangtang, but they started fighting before he could tell Yang Yiyi. During the fight, the imperial guards also came, so it was not easy to explain at this time.

Yang Yiyi had to say that she didn't know, and then told the imperial guards what happened just now.

After hearing this, their expressions seemed to be more serious. Maybe they really thought that the dignitaries in Liuzhou were related to the disappearance of the princess. They quickly ran into the shaky cabin and controlled the man who was knocked unconscious by Yang Yiyi. As expected, they also took out the poison sac from his mouth.

Yang Yiyi's steel mace hit the man's jaw by accident, so that the man had no chance to bite the poison sac, but he was still alive.

The imperial guards quickly searched him again. Good guy, they almost broke his chrysanthemum to see if there was anything hidden inside. After a series of operations, they tied him up. It is estimated that he will be treated with tiger bench and pepper water later.

However, no clues about the princess were found in the cabin, and the imperial guards who had just explored separately also found nothing. The clues were cut off here.

After a brief discussion, two imperial guards took the man back for strict interrogation, and the others continued to search.

After all, the princess had been missing for a short time, and the thief must not have run far. If they split up and chased him now, they might be able to catch up.

Before leaving, the imperial guards gave Yang Yiyi a few more "cannons". This thing is really useful. If you find something, you can blow the whistle to call people at any time.

The imperial guards were very nervous about this. If it was really done by dignitaries, then the matter would be even more serious.

But Li Chengxi had a different opinion. He felt that the two assassins from Anxiangtang were shot while lying down.

Not to mention that Anxiangtang has always not provoked the power of the court, if they really kidnapped the princess, why would they only leave these two people behind?

Let's take a step back. If it was Anxiangtang who did it, who entrusted it?

Beidi?

Then how to transport people away?

After the incident with Princess Rousi, all the ten countries in the Central Plains that were close to the sea thoroughly investigated the sea transportation to see if there were any people who were engaged in sea transportation who were in collusion with Beidi. At this juncture, if they still wanted to go by water, they would be walking into a trap.

Going by land, Liuzhou is not close to the Northland at all. Not to mention the long night and many dreams, the war in the Northland is imminent, the border has been closed for a long time, and no one can enter or leave. In this case, if you want to secretly transport people out...

Thinking about the success rate, the possibility of Anxiangtang kidnapping the princess is very low. Li Chengxi is more inclined to believe that the people of Anxiangtang just followed Yang Yiyi and wanted to find an opportunity to attack, and they happened to be shot while lying down.

The possibility is too low. Unless there is more evidence, it is unlikely that Anxiangtang did it. When the man wakes up, a severe torture should have results.

However, you can't just wait for news during this period. You must chase him, but you have to have some rules. Blindly chasing him will be a hassle.

After all, Wangyun Mountain is not a small mound. The terrain here is complex and the mountains and forests are dense. Hiding a few people is just a piece of cake.

Li Chengxi thought about it carefully. You see, when I found blood on the leaves before, I clearly noticed that the blood had not coagulated. Let's not talk about why there was blood. This alone is enough to prove that the person who kidnapped the princess had just passed by not long ago, not even more than ten minutes.

But Yang Yiyi and a group of imperial guards chased all the way, but they didn't find any trace at all.

What does this mean?

Either the thief who kidnapped the princess was extremely good at light work, and he could walk briskly while carrying a person weighing more than 100 pounds, and Yang Yiyi and others couldn't catch up at all.

Or, this thief was very familiar with the environment of Wangyun Mountain, and he knew every blade of grass and every tree by heart.

Li Chengxi personally tends to the latter, because if it was a person with outstanding light work, Yang Yiyi and others would not see footprints on the ground when they chased him all the way. Compared with the terrain with a lot of grass and vines on the ground, people with outstanding light work walking on the treetops are obviously faster.

So, who is very familiar with Wangyun Mountain?

Of course, it is the locals, especially those who live in the villages and towns at the foot of Wangyun Mountain.

Moreover, if it was an outsider, it would be unlikely that he would know the secret passage leading to Lingyun Temple. After all, even the people of Lingyun Temple themselves did not know about this secret passage. It was only possible that someone who was very familiar with Wangyun Mountain accidentally discovered the secret passage cave leading to Lingyun Temple.

Another proof from the locals is that there is still no news of finding the person.

The forest is not a small forest in the park. The terrain is complicated. No matter what kind of expert you are, you will get lost on the spot when you enter an unfamiliar forest.

Especially when the princess was kidnapped, it was still dark before dawn. In this case, Yang Yiyi and the others did not catch up, which itself shows that this person is very familiar with the forest of Wangyun Mountain.

I just don't understand why someone near Wangyun Mountain would kidnap the princess.

After all, there is no clue, and Li Chengxi decided not to consider things that he couldn't figure out.

From another point of view, carrying a person weighing more than 100 kilograms, he definitely can't go to the town.

Even though it was daybreak, the city gates would not open until a certain time. Carrying a person up the city wall was a bit of a suicide mission.

So Li Chengxi thought that the criminal should live in a village near Wangyun Mountain, be very familiar with the forest, and be able to take the princess out of Wangyun Mountain when the imperial guards blocked the nearby traffic arteries.

This scope was narrowed down a lot at once.

I told Yang Yiyi about my speculation, and she'd better not wander around the mountain, or she might get lost again.

Let Yang Yiyi get out of the forest first, go back to the steps down the mountain, and then go down the mountain directly on this road.

There are many villages and towns around Wangyun Mountain, and there is no way to narrow down the scope of which one is where the criminal lives. We can only look for them one by one according to the distance.

As soon as I got down the mountain, I saw imperial guards passing by. They were patrolling and blocking the road at the bottom of the mountain. After asking, there were indeed no suspicious people walking on the main road.

The good news is that since the princess had decided to come to Lingyun Temple from the beginning, the imperial guards had also sent people to investigate the environment around Lingyun Temple in advance to facilitate their deployment.

So the imperial guards had a map with nearby villages and terrain marked, which made it much easier to find.