There is a god in the sky

Chapter 297 Mad Dog

Seeing that the man had entered the cave, Suiying was originally going to take Shen Lan away, but Shen Lan stopped her.

Shen Lan shook her head at him.

The two waited quietly for a moment, and saw that the man in black had come out again, looking around.

After watching him slowly close the stone door, Shen Lan whispered, "There's nothing inside. What's this person doing here?"

Could the man in black that Fu Xin saw be him?

"Shall we go in and arrest them?" Suiying asked.

"Go in and see what he's doing here." Shen Lan walked over, winked at Sui Ying, and then pressed the switch.

The stone door made a heavy sound when it opened, which the person inside would definitely hear. Therefore, as soon as the stone door was opened a crack, Suiying quickly darted inside.

Soon, the sounds of fighting came from inside.

Shen Lan followed her inside, closed the stone door, and guarded this only escape route.

Sure enough, after about a hundred moves, the man in black was no match for her and ran over here, only to be kicked away by Shen Lan.

Suiying pinned the man to the ground and severed his tendons.

Shen Lan lit a torch and walked over, turning the man in black over.

Upon meeting them head-on, the man saw that it was a man and a woman, and his eyes turned fierce.

"Dislocate his jaw!" Shen Lan said in a deep voice.

With lightning speed, before the other party could react, their jaw was already dislocated.

Sui Ying understood Shen Lan's concerns and directly pried open the man's mouth to check his teeth. Sure enough, she saw a molar that had been pulled out.

Typically, assassins would stuff poison between their teeth before carrying out a mission, and if the mission failed, they would bite through the poison and commit suicide.

The fact that there was no poison in the man's teeth indicates that he did not come here for a mission.

Suiying pushed his dislocated jaw back in and searched his body for everything.

"Dagger, poison, flint, food, and water." Shen Lan checked everything one by one, then looked at the bag of food and asked, "This stuff is enough for you to eat for at most two days. What are you doing here?"

The man in black turned his face away and remained silent.

Suiying punched him, but the other party only grunted and didn't react at all.

Simple torture is not very effective against these specially trained assassins.

Before the man could bite his tongue and commit suicide, Shen Lan knocked him unconscious, and then the two of them carried the man in black back home.

"If this place was once a training ground for assassins, where would they have moved to now?"

Shen Lan gazed at the layers upon layers of mountains and forests, lush and verdant. It was enough to hide not only a group of assassins, but even an entire army.

She became even more certain that this was the Tong family's back garden.

The mummified corpse case from back then might really have been the work of the Tong family, and the various rumors they spread were also to completely bury this mountain forest.

As soon as they reached the cliff face of the canyon, they heard fierce barking coming from the other side.

The dog that the Xiao family kept barked like a wolf howling, very imposing, and sounded more like a warning cry before danger was approaching.

"Where are they?"

The three people on the other side of the river were nowhere to be seen, and no one knew what had happened.

The two of them came lightly equipped and easily made their way up and down using the ropes, but when they returned, an unconscious adult male was with them, and how to get back became a problem.

“Miss Shen, please go first. I will carry him across the valley below.”

Shen Lan shook her head, "No need, I'll do it."

She secured the grappling hook to the tree, raising its position.

I cut down another branch as thick as my arm, peeled off the bark, and prepared to make a simple version of the zipline.

After the man in black was hoisted onto the rope, Shen Lan said, "I'll go and meet him first."

"it is good."

Sui Ying was surprised to find that this young woman was so capable with her hands and did a very good job as a carpenter.

Once they returned to the other side of the valley, they couldn't wait to search for the person.

Fortunately, the barking of the hunting dogs guided them, and they were able to find Xiao Ji and the other two.

Fu Xin lay dead under a large tree in the distance, his fate unknown. Sui Feng held a knife in one hand and stood in front of Xiao Ji, his hand trembling slightly, and he was being supported by Xiao Ji.

“That’s a mad dog,” Xiao Ji said when he saw them.

Shen Lan had already figured it out; the mad dog was the one Zhao Xuan had released, and it was currently tearing into the Xiao family's hunting dogs.

In terms of ferocity, a normal dog can't compare to a rabid dog.

Sui Feng said angrily, "That mad dog's teeth must be poisonous. Fu Xin was bitten on the leg and fainted after only a few steps."

"your hands……"

"It's nothing, I was just bitten by a poisonous snake..." Before he could finish speaking, Sui Feng collapsed.

Shen Lan quickly checked his wounds and saw two bloody holes on the back of his hand.

"How could he have been bitten by a snake?... Wait, why are there so many snake corpses around here?"

"That's how it's been since that mad dog appeared. I don't know what it carries that can attract snakes."

No wonder the three of them and their dog were driven to such a state by a mad dog; its destructive power is truly formidable.

With a swift strike, the mad dog's body was pierced, but the mad dog seemed oblivious to the pain and continued biting its opponent.

The Xiao family's hunting dog convulsed and collapsed. Upon seeing this, Sui Ying immediately chopped off the mad dog's head, ending its life.

Shen Lan hadn't brought any antidotes with her, so she had to search for herbs in the forest to counteract snake venom.

When she returned with the herbs, Fu Xin was also carried back, and the atmosphere at the scene was not good.

"Miss Shen, come and see Fu Xin, he..."

Shen Lan ran over and took a look. Fu Xin was bleeding from all seven orifices and had already died.

She looked at Fu Xin's injured leg; the area where he had been bitten by the rabid dog was severely ulcerated. What kind of poison was so potent?

She handed the herbs to Suiying, saying, "Pound them up and apply them to Suifeng." Then she got up and walked towards the mad dog's corpse.

The Xiao family's hunting dog also died; a large chunk of its neck was bitten off, and the wound was dark black.

Shen Lan wrapped her hands in cloth, pried open the mad dog's mouth, and pulled out a sharp tooth.

These teeth are as sharp as a wolf's, and when you smell them up close, you can almost smell a strange odor.

It smells like some kind of medicinal herb.

Shen Lan turned around and said, "I don't know much about poisons, it would be best to see Imperial Physician Lan."

There were six people at the scene, one dead, two unconscious, and two dog carcasses, making it difficult to carry them down the mountain.

Xiao Ji dug a pit and buried the hunting dog deep inside. As for Fu Xin, he would definitely take him back to the Marquis of Pingyang's residence.

He died protecting himself. Xiao Ji felt a heavy weight in his chest, but his eyes held a resolute look.

"Let's go down the mountain!"

Fu Qingyan waited for Fu Xin for a long time at the academy, but he did not see Fu Xin return. He thought they were still in the mountains.

To everyone's surprise, the very next morning, the manor sent a new person, who was also a highly skilled guard leader.

Xiao Ji brought the man in black to his manor and interrogated him overnight, but he couldn't get any useful information out of him.

The person was still alive, and Shen Lan spent the whole night trying to save him.

She went outside and asked, "There's no use keeping someone like that around. It's best to hand him over to someone who can use him."

The assassins were all unregistered, so even if they handed the person over to the authorities, it wouldn't be of much use.

"The Tong family is the Crown Prince's maternal family. It's hard to say whether this group of assassins is the Tong family's business or the Crown Prince's business."

Xiao Ji rubbed his temples, his fatigue was clearly visible.

"There's not much difference, anyway, the fate of the Tong family and the Crown Prince are intertwined."

"You're right." Xiao Ji looked at her with heartache. "Go and rest for a while. I'm waiting for someone."