Chapter 149

The mountains are rugged and difficult to walk, especially with horses, it was a toss, and I found a valley to hide.

The advancing state suddenly changed to an emergency hiding state, naturally because of the perceived danger.

The sudden interception made Niu Youdao aware of the unprecedented danger. This danger was beyond his expectation. He didn't expect it at all. Without a clue, he really didn't dare to go any further!

If you don't clarify this matter, you don't know where the danger comes from, and you don't know why you were targeted. You are too passive!

The people settled down, and everyone looked at Niu Youdao who seemed to be preoccupied from time to time.

Niu Youdao stood by the stream with a stick and sword, looking up at the bright moon above the valley.

Yuan Fang leaned over, "Master Dao, are we going to hide here?"

Niu Youdao remained indifferent, and waited for a while before saying, "Give fifty thousand to Black Mudan."

"..." Yuan Fang was speechless, if he had known earlier, he would not have come to talk to her.

It was Hei Mudan who heard the sound and came over, "Master Dao, no need!"

Niu Youdao said nothing, still thinking.

Yuan Fang took out 50,000 yuan and gave it to Hei Mudan, keeping away from it.

Looking at the golden ticket in his hand, seeing that Niu Youdao was thinking about something, Hei Mudan didn't bother him anymore, and also got a little understanding of Niu Youdao's behavior, since he gave it, he took it.

There was a fluttering sound, mixed with birdsong, and Niu Youdao came back to his senses in shock, and suddenly turned his head.

"There's a cave here."

Duan Hu, who was investigating in the valley, flashed back and found a natural cave. He went in and took a look, only to disturb the birds that lived in the cave overnight.

A few people went to have a look, and it really was a cave, to be precise, it was a hole after the mountain was split. Not too big, with an oblique triangle entrance, two or three feet deep.

Going into the cave to have a look, Niu You said: "Bring the map."

Duan Hu took out the map from the package he was carrying, and there was no table here. Wu Sanliang at the side gave him a hand, and the two of them pulled it apart.

Niu Youdao stood in front of the map with a pestle and sword, his eyes followed the way he came, and finally landed on Duyun Mountain.

Who is going to kill him? His enemies are only those people at the moment, generally speaking, those from the Song family, and the court of Yan Kingdom involved in the killing of Song Long. Except for these two groups of people, he really can't think of anyone who will come to Zhao Guo to put him to death.

And this precise interception has proved that he was being targeted, and his route was precisely locked.

Who is after him? How did you follow him? If he couldn't figure out how he was targeted, he might fall into someone else's net at any time, and he wouldn't dare to trespass a single step!

What he knew so far was that the Liuxianzong, Fuyunzong, and Lingxiu Mountain sects were chasing and killing him, and the other ones who knew his approximate route were most likely to be Duyun Mountain.

Judging from the situation and reaction of contacting Yunhuan, Duyunshan should be ruled out. It is unlikely that Duyunshan knew that he would visit before Duyunshan. If he had received the news long ago that he wanted to plot against him, he would not have let him go, and he could have been easily kept, let alone what happened later.

Therefore, Hou Qingtian's words are credible, Du Yunshan only received the news of the interception after he left.

People from the three factions can also be ruled out. If the three factions can accurately grasp his specific route, they can take a shortcut and intercept him personally, without the help of Du Yunshan.

In this way, a third party has a precise grasp of his whereabouts.

There are only two possibilities for the third party to find Du Yunshan, either there is no manpower at hand who can kill him, or there is a problem with the distance, and the manpower who can kill him cannot arrive in time.

It is also certain that a third party cannot contact the three sects of Liuxianzong's killers, otherwise there is no need to find Duyunshan.

So how did the third party accurately grasp his travel route?

First of all, he must be found, and then the follow-up arrangement.

He directly ruled out the possibility of being targeted within the area of ​​Star Picking City, not to mention other reasons, just like the three factions, it is difficult to grasp his precise whereabouts.

Then the ones being targeted may have been targeted after leaving the Gobi Grassland and becoming an official.

The prerequisite for staring at him is to know him, he is a bit strange, does anyone here also know him? In Zhao country, no matter whether he knew him or not, there were not many people who knew him, not to mention meeting him in such a remote area, the probability of meeting him was too low, so it wouldn't be the case of meeting Chen Guishuo again in Jinzhou, right? Liuxianzong is because he has his portrait in his hand. Could it be that there are also people who have his portrait along the way?

"Did you notice any abnormalities along the way? Think carefully, and don't let go of any abnormalities."

Niu Youdao stretched out his hand and gestured back and forth on the route he came here, saying that his own thoughts have actually been fixed on the stations along the way. There are not many passers-by in this remote place, and the places where people are most common are the stations along the way.

A few people pondered for a while but didn't respond, and couldn't think of anything unusual.

Hei Mudan asked: "Master Dao, if you went to Duyun Mountain to visit Yun Huan, does it count if you were intercepted and killed before?"

Niu Youdao: "It doesn't count!"

Black Mudan: "Then there was nothing unusual along the way. After we left Zhaixing City and went to the official road, except for these two things, we basically didn't stop all the way, and we changed horses at the post station in the middle."

"Where is the horse-changing post station? Mark it for me on the map, as well as Yunhuan's old nest, Yunxiaodong Mansion, and the location where we were intercepted at Sandao Bend, and try to mark it as accurately as possible." Niu Youdao gave an order, then turned around and said to Yuanfang: "Take out the charcoal pencil."

The charcoal pen that can make money by drawing casually, Yuan Fang took it with him all the way, and took out the charcoal pen to Hei Mudan.

After discussing with Duan Hu and the others, Hei Mudan confirmed the location of the post station beside the official road. It is not difficult to remember that the post station is quite large, it is a hub-like post station, and it is located near a fork in the road, so it is easy to locate. As for the location of Yunhuan's lair, on one of the main peaks of Duyun Mountain, he found the main peak and circled it to locate it. The position where the three bends are intercepted is at a certain bend, so it is easier to find.

"Master Dao is done." Hei Mudan turned around and said.

Niu Youdao took away the charcoal pencil from her hand, and looked at the map carefully. If it is standard, this map is really not standard, but compared with the ancient abstract maps he knew in his previous life, it is really too standard. It is probably related to the help of monks everywhere, which is convenient for surveying and mapping.

He took the scabbard to draw on the map, calculated the distance from a certain place to a certain place, and then marked the scale on the scabbard with a charcoal pen, and then measured the marked positions of Duyun Mountain and Sandao Bend with this scale to verify the accuracy of the scale.

A series of inexplicable actions made several people look at each other in blank dismay, completely unable to understand what he was doing.

Niu Youdao put down his scabbard and stood in front of the map, staring at the map and asked, "Where do you think the intermediary who contacted Duyun Mountain for the person who killed me would be?"

Black Peony smiled wryly: "How could you know that?"

Niu Youdao's eyes were fixed on Chizhou Fucheng, and he said slowly: "You two cast spells and tighten the map."

Duan Hu and Wu Sanliang followed suit.

Niu Youdao Hengjian was in Chizhou Fucheng and Yunxiaodongfu. According to the distance displayed on the scale, divided by the known approximate flying speed of the golden wings, he got the approximate time. He wrote a number next to the map with charcoal pen, a number that several people could not understand.

Niu Youdao pointed at Chizhou Fucheng, and the charcoal pencil held by his fingertips was restrained by mana and slowly drifted away, and he clicked on the location of Yunxiao Cave.

Absorbing the charcoal pen, Shen Mo calculated the time from leaving the post station to leaving Duyun Mountain, subtracted the time just obtained, multiplied by the approximate flying speed of Gold Wing, and calculated the approximate distance, then placed the scabbard across Chizhou Fucheng as the starting point, and marked the distance point just obtained in a random direction.

Then point Chizhou Fucheng as the center again, the charcoal pencil floats to the point just now, and draws a circle with a swish sound as the rotating mana.

Niu Youdao grabbed the charcoal pencil and looked at the position of the post station, and found that the round edge he just drew had framed the post station, which was wrong with his guess.

But this is not important. It would be strange if there is no error. There is a time difference between the transfer and sending of the message, as well as the error in timing, and the map is not accurate.

And what he wants is only a rough verification, not exactness.

Then he drew circles one after another, constantly holding the scabbard to measure the circles, and kept writing down some strange numbers that few people could understand.

After finishing these things for a while, he stood in front of his sword and stared at the map and said, "There is a problem with the post station where we changed horses before, and it should have been discovered there."

Several people looked at each other in blank dismay.

Then Niu Youdao said slowly again: "The news should have been sent out around the time of a stick of incense after we left the post station. After the news arrived in Chizhou City, it stayed for about half an hour before it was sent to Duyun Mountain by the intermediary. If I guessed correctly, the person who bought my life and the intermediary are both in Chizhou City."

After saying this, several people were speechless, and this kind of thing was done as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

Hei Mudan tried to ask: "Master Dao, I think you seem to be aiming for Chizhou Fucheng from the very beginning."

Niu Youdao: "Chizhou Fucheng was just a hypothesis at the beginning. The business of buying and selling human lives, if you can do this business, you can't keep both buyers and sellers under control. And being able to contact people at any time to help buyers solve problems is not something that can be done by individuals. It must be an organization. I don't know how big this organization is, but the first-level center should not be in a small place near Duyun Mountain. Suspicious, so it is used to verify the hypothesis. The final calculation result is more reasonable in terms of time and distance, so the hypothesis of Chizhou is valid."