The sky is getting darker and the evening breeze is slightly cold.

After the daytime operation, not many people were captured back to the ward station alive. Except for Qu Xin and several other killers who were in the thatched hut at that time, most of the members of the Ghost Shadow who were responsible for keeping watch and alert outside the house died under the encirclement of the Jinyiwei.

It’s not that Youying’s killers have a lot of martial arts skills, but the main reason is that the number of people is too different.

After all, the Jinyiwei belongs to the Dazhen court. The troops they can mobilize are definitely not comparable to those of civil organizations. Moreover, Youying itself is also a secret organization with not too many personnel.

After this battle, the members of Wuchang, namely the Yingying Base Camp, were almost caught in one fell swoop, and the remaining fish, such as those who collected intelligence in other places, were only a matter of time before they were arrested; because these people had to go back to Wuchang regularly to take the medicine for the resumption of the Gu, but now their highest-ranking Qu Xin has been dismissed, so as long as these people come back, they will be caught, and if they don’t come back... they will die.

Ran Ling, who played a decisive role in this entire network closing operation, was a great achievement; compared with his role, Sun, Huang and Lei, who traveled thousands of miles to Wuchang, seemed to be just three advanced baits...

Even Zhuang Baihu patted Ran Ling's chest and said that he would be promoted to him no matter what, and at least he had to give him a seat for Baihu.

What was a bit surprising was... this time, Ran Ling did not refuse anymore. Not only did he accept Zhuang Li's praise, but he also clearly expressed his hope that the latter could help him keep up with him.

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That night, in Ran Ling's room.

Although he had been busy for a day, he didn't lie down very early.

He sat at the table, and he set up a pot of wine on the table and poured it on his own.

Twist -

Suddenly, someone knocked on the door.

"Who?" Ran Ling asked when she heard the sound.

"It's me, Brother Ran." Huang Donglai's voice sounded outside the door, "I saw that the lights in your room were still on, so I came to disturb you. Is it convenient to chat?"

When Ran Ling heard this, he thought for a few seconds, and then a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Okay, the door is not locked, come in."

When Huang Donglai opened the door, the smile on Ran Ling's face had disappeared, and he still looked as serious as usual.

"Brother Ran, it's such a good mood tonight." Huang Donglai didn't be polite to him. After he brought it to the door, he sat down at the table talking.

"I am in a good mood today." Ran Ling replied, and naturally picked up another cup and poured a glass of wine for Huang Donglai. "Ran originally wanted to hold a banquet in the restaurant in the city tomorrow and invite his brothers to have fun together, but he didn't expect that you are here now, that's right... We brothers, maybe we have a few drinks tonight."

"Ha... Then Donglai would be more respectful than obedient." Huang Dong said, and then took the wine glass handed over by the other party.

The two raised their glasses, presented a gift to each other, and each drank a glass of wine.

As soon as he put down the cup, Ran Ling wanted to get the pot again, but Huang Donglai quickly got it and grabbed the pot before him: "Oh~ Brother Ran, I should like to pay my respects to you this cup, let me do it."

Ran Ling smiled and said, "Okay, OK."

So, Huang Donglai poured two glasses of wine this time. After pouring, he raised one and said loudly: "Today, the Jinyiwei defeated the remaining party of the Eyeshadow to eliminate the harm to the people. Brother Ran made an indelible contribution. Donglai to greet you."

"please."

"please."

Ran Ling was not humble either and had another drink with Huang Donglai.

"Huh..." After doing this, Ran Ling let out a long sigh from his throat and continued, "Young Master Huang is so serious. Ran is just doing his duty. But you, Young Master Sun, Young Master Lei... are not from the public, but you can still come from thousands of miles to become enemies with the shadow... Ran sighs that he is not as good as this chivalrous heart. I should respect you."

As he said that, he poured wine again.

Huang Donglai did not refuse, and the two of them had a third cup.

"Oh..." But after drinking this cup, Ran Ling's expression showed a hint of solemnity, "But... Young Master Huang, I don't know whether to say it or not."

Huang Donglai knew that the other party would come like this, so he had been waiting: "Oh? Brother Ran, but it's okay."

Ran Ling looked hesitant and entangled, paused for a moment, and then said: "Well... Young Master Huang, how many have you recorded about Gu Qiying's notes on drug production and refining poison?"

"This..." Huang Donglai also pretended to be a little embarrassed, and thought for a moment before saying, "I don't hide it from you. The notes were just in my hands for a night. Although I have studied toxicology and remembered them very quickly, many of Gu Qiying's secret recipes are very strange, and I can't quite understand them, so I just recorded about 50% of them."

"Oh..." Ran Ling nodded and asked again, "But I wonder, have you ever recorded a prescription called 'red pus'?"

"Hmm?" Huang Donglai's face changed significantly when he heard this, "Where did Brother Ran hear about 'red pus'?"

His answer, in fact, has admitted that he remembers it from a certain perspective.

Seeing this, Ran Ling smiled slightly again: "Oh~ Because I have fought with Youying's people many times before, and have captured and interrogated several people alive, so I know that each of their Youying's members has been planted with Gu Qiying's body, and "Red Pus" is the Gu that the highest-level members carry."

"Brother Ran means..." Huang Donglai asked tentatively.

Ran Ling was also calm and replied slowly: "If nothing unexpected happens, the Quxin we caught today is 'red pus'. If you still remember this prescription, it would have helped a lot... We can use this prescription to detoxify Quxin and let him gather the remaining shadow members as soon as possible..." Speaking of this, he raised his hand and made a "cut" action, "... I will kill the weeds and remove the roots."

"Oh~" Huang Donglai shook his head and continued, "That's what you mean..." He suddenly laughed, "Ha... I just remember this recipe."

"Be serious?" Ran Ling couldn't help but widen his eyes excitedly when he heard the other party say the word "remember".

"Of course." Huang Donglai said again, "and I had already made the medicine just now." He paused, "not only did it, but he had already taken Qu Xin."

"What?" Ran Ling was surprised when he heard this. He even wondered if he had heard it wrong.

But before he could fully appreciate the real taste of this passage, another person pushed the door and walked into his room.

That's not someone else, it's Qu Xin...

At this moment, Na Qu Xin was no longer wearing the prison uniform he changed into in the afternoon, but... the flying fish uniform.

"Master Ran Qi, we meet again." Qu Xin looked calm and his tone was calm when he said this.

But his eyes looked at Ran Ling were cold.

"You..." Ran Ling stood up with the flow, instinctively reached out and grabbed the sword hanging on the head of the bed, "Bold Qu Xin! How dare you pretend to be the Jinyiwei! Who released you from the prison?"

He didn't expect that an acquaintance of his immediately came to answer the question.

"I." Zhuang Li said as he came in through the door.

Behind Zhuang Baihu, Sun Yixie, Lei Buji, and five or six Jinyiwei who are excellent in this ward.

"Baihu, you are..." Ran Ling began to feel something was wrong. An ominous premonition spreads across his back like a group of spiders covering his back, causing him to sweat coldly.

"General Ran Qi, let's get to know each other again." Qu Xin said, "After Qu Xin, I was also a small Qi ten years ago. After that, I left the Jinyiwei and lurked in the shadow for ten years until the official regained his post."

Ran Ling just looked at the other party and didn't say anything because he was afraid that if he said it wrong, he would reveal his flaws.

"We are also destined to be. When I was sent to Youying, you happened to be sent to the Jinyiwei, so none of us met each other, and we didn't know that the other party was an undercover agent." Qu Xin continued, "In fact... I still don't know what your real name is."

When he finished speaking, Huang Donglai also stood up and slowly retreated to the side of everyone, away from "Ran Ling", and continued: "If you want me to tell me, the ones you two are most destined to be... the Gu in your body is the same."

"Oh~ Young Master Huang, this is a bad word." Qu Xin said, "This is not a fate, but because... in Gu Qiying's heart, he and I are equally important, so the Gu on our body is also of the same level."

"Master Baihu! Is there any misunderstanding here?" At this moment, Ran Ling, who had been holding it in for a long time, finally spoke. He also had a clear idea. Among the people present, the only thing he needed to convince was Zhuang Li, and the others were secondary.

But Zhuang Lili ignored him and just stood there expressionlessly.

Qu Xin responded: "Master Ran Qi... Ha... I'll call you Ran Ling. After all, I don't know what you originally called..." He said leisurely, "Actually, I'll think about it now... your plan is very good.

"When Gu Qiying died, you must be very anxious, because if you can't get the prescription for the detoxification of the Gu within half a year, you will die.

"But when you get the news and learn that Young Master Huang, who has mastered some of Gu Qiying's secret recipes, is coming to Wuchang, you suddenly have hope...

"Little did they know that this news was actually smoke deliberately released by Lord Yun and Lord Shui. These three young heroes appeared to help the Jinyiwei wipe out the remaining party of Youying, but in fact... their real mission is to 'use themselves as bait to help me find out the inside line of Youying lurking in the Jinyiwei'."

Ran Ling's expression was tense and his mind was also turning rapidly. When he heard this, he interrupted: "If this is the case, why did you take people to attack them last night?"

"Ha..." Qu Xin smiled, "Has the sneak attack become?"

After he said this, Ran Ling remembered the voice that Qu Xin shouted "Kill me" in the official post last night...

Ran Ling realized now that this seemingly mentally retarded behavior was actually intentional.

"That inn is very dangerous. If I don't do anything, it's hard to guarantee that someone will take action without me knowing it." After a breath, Qu Xin continued, "and if I leave it to my subordinates to deal with it, it's hard to say what would happen last night... Only by leading the team and picking people in person can I guarantee the failure of the action to the greatest extent." He said, shrugging, "Of course, your appearance is not in my prediction, but judging from the results, you have helped me."

"If I were really an undercover agent, I would have brought someone to your nest long ago. If you kill all of you, you can clean yourself. Why should I wait until today?" Ran Ling once again started talking.

"Isn't that too obvious?" Qu Xin continued with a smile, "If you really do that, you must explain how you found Youying's nest; such questions are not just 'I caught someone and asked, and the man is dead now' that can be evaded; even if you can keep trashing this kind of nonsense for a while, you will sooner or later be suspected by Yunshui and the other two..."

He paused for a moment and said, "What's more, even if you take off Youying's nest, you can't help you remove the Gu on your body; it will even make Young Master Huang and the others lose the reason to come to Wuchang. Where can you get the antidote at that time?

"So, it is best to leave it to others to do something like 'discovering shadow nest'. What about you... Just arrange the so-called 'backhand' in advance, and then take the three of them to the tea shop you already know, pretending to be caught unexpectedly, and just come and fall into the trap.

"And... you hid in their room downstairs last night, but you didn't rush up as soon as the raid occurred. It must be because you were hesitating at that time... He was hesitating whether to simply let Young Master Huang and the others be captured, and you ran back to the guard station, claiming that you found the shadow nest by following us, and then brought people to take us off.

"But you quickly figured it out. If you do that, there will be too many variables and things you can't explain clearly... so I'll give up."

Qu Xin said this, tilted his head and scratched the back of his neck, sneering: "Ha... Ran Ling, do you still remember that when I was in that hut during the day, I said to you with a sudden enlightenment look, 'It's you'?" He paused for a moment, "At that time, you thought I wanted to say 'It was you who decided', so you proudly told me your 'backhand', but in fact... I didn't mean this, but meant - I already knew that the undercover agent was you."

Ran Ling was ashamed when he heard this, but he still held on and responded with a tough bullet: "You said so much, but it's just speculations. Do you have any evidence?"

"If you want evidence? It's very simple." At this time, it's Huang Donglai's turn to perform. "If you weren't from Youying, you wouldn't have a 'red pus' on you, right? What about me... I know how to match the fragrance that induces this gu. I'll match one now, and we'll see the difference in a while."

This sentence is the decisive.

The so-called last straw that broke the camel's back.

"No need..." Ran Ling, or the shadow who pretended to be Ran Ling, finally gave up the quibbling when he heard this sentence. "I just admit it..." His tone was relieved, "Yes, I am the shadow man. Ten years ago, I killed an Jinyiwei who had no relatives and had a similar appearance to me, and then impersonated him. The organization gave some money and cleared the relationship, and then transferred me to this place where no one knew me."

"Hmph..." Qu Xin immediately snorted coldly and said in a sarcastic tone, "In the past ten years, Youying has been able to establish a foothold in Wuchang and manage it smoothly. You have also made an indelible contribution to Mr. Ran."

"I'm just doing my order." Faced with a desperate situation, Ran Ling was still neither humble nor arrogant, and said calmly, "Qu Xin, you have been controlled by the Gu for years. You should be able to understand me. When Gu Qiying was still alive, no one could disobey him... But now, he is dead, and what I do is nothing more than because I want to be a new person...become a good person."

As he said that, he bowed his fists and said to Zhuang Li: "Master Baihu... You and your brothers have seen what Ran Ling has done over the years. Ran Ling dare not take credit. Now he only asks Master Huang to give me the medicine to relieve the Gu and save my life. I will leave after that. I hope that Master will see the love for these ten years..."

"Ran Ling." Unexpectedly, Zhuang Li was not moved at all, but just interrupted him coldly, "No... you are not Ran Ling, no matter who you are... Just killing the Jinyiwei and stealing officials and bullying titles is a death sentence. No matter how many there are, I won't list them one by one.

"You said just now that you are acting on orders, so what you did as Ran Ling is nothing more than part of your order, and a need for disguise...

"And now I am acting in accordance with the law, and not to mention that the relationship between you and me may not be true. Even if so, I will not let you go."

He said this to death.

People usually say death, but there are many ways to die.

"Ha... OK." After hearing Zhuang Li's response, Ran Ling gave up his last verbal attempt, and then... revealed his true face, "Okay, then I'll kill you all, and then ask Young Master Huang slowly."

After the words fell, the knife began to sing.

In the already crowded room, Ran Ling stepped up and drew his knife and headed towards Naquxin first.
Chapter completed!