After he finished drawing, Song Qingshu's heart sank. He stared at the mark on the map and muttered to himself, "How is this possible? Why is there no intersection?"
The arc of Bamboo Pole Alley and the spot where Ren Yingying disappeared on the map overlapped, but Huang Rong's circle was very far away. Even if the radius was increased, it would not be able to reach this side.
"How could this happen?" Song Qingshu originally thought that this was a foolproof method, but reality gave him a loud slap in the face.
The only method also proved to be a failure. Song Qingshu leaned on the table and gradually fell into a state of despair. It should be known that the first few hours of a kidnapping case was the best time to rescue. The longer it took, the lower the probability of rescuing them. Moreover, they were beautiful women, so their situation was even more dangerous.
At this time, a pair of gentle hands rested on his shoulders and gently massaged him. Song Qingshu looked up and saw that it was Chen Yuanyuan.
"Sister Luo Bing was going to come over, but I saw that she was too tired, so I let her rest first." Chen Yuanyuan smiled gently and replied softly.
Song Qingshu nodded and said in a hoarse voice.
"Is it not going well?" Chen Yuanyuan was best at understanding men's thoughts and emotions, so she was very sensitive to his frustration.
Song Qingshu hugged her waist and buried his face in her soft belly. "I've tried my best, but I still can't find their whereabouts. Now I have no other way."
Previously, Song Qingshu was high-spirited in front of her, but today he seemed particularly weak. Not only did Chen Yuanyuan not dislike him, but she also felt that this man was real. In the past, he always made her feel illusory and unfathomable, but now he poked at the softest part of her heart.
"You must love Miss Ren very much." Chen Yuanyuan gently stroked his hair, and there was a trace of envy in her tone.
"Not only that, I also like Huang Rong very much …" Song Qingshu added in his heart. Their relationship was too unethical. For the sake of Huang Rong's reputation, he couldn't tell a third person, not even the women around him.
He couldn't bear to part with either Huang Rong or Ren Yingying, so his feelings for Huang Rong were understandable. Ren Yingying, on the other hand, was different. Although the two of them were now enemies and lovers, and nothing had really happened, Song Qingshu had known her for a long time. He knew everything about her and Linghu Chong.
Just like how Linghu Chong had poured out his love for Ren Yingying in Green Bamboo Alley, causing Ren Yingying to unknowingly fall in love with him; Song Qingshu had also seen what had happened between the two of them, and was unable to extricate himself from falling in love with that outwardly proud but inwardly gentle and magnanimous young girl.
"Qingshu, I believe that you will definitely be able to save them. You should know that in my heart, you are an immortal-like person who can pluck the stars with your bare hands. Is saving people more difficult than ascending to the heavens to pray for rain?" Chen Yuanyuan continuously stroked his hair, and her voice became increasingly gentle.
"That's right, I can defy the heavens and change fate, so how can I not save a few women!" Song Qingshu gradually reignited his fighting spirit, and looked gratefully at Chen Yuanyuan. "Thank you!"
Chen Yuanyuan smiled gently, and her ten slender fingers continued to massage his shoulders, doing her best to eliminate the fatigue in his body.
Song Qingshu patted her hand. "Everyone says that you are a femme fatale, but in my opinion, you are more like the virtuous Empress Zhangsun."
Chen Yuanyuan's face slightly reddened. "How could I dare to be compared to Empress Zhangsun?"
Song Qingshu smiled faintly, no longer speaking. His attention once again returned to the map in front of him. Suddenly, he thought of something, and immediately changed the center of the circle on Huang Rong's side to the point where the carriage had been attacked.
This was because he suddenly remembered that the masked man who had kidnapped Huang Rong had such a high level of martial arts, and his hair was grizzled, so he must be extremely experienced in the jianghu. How could he have directly fled to his hiding place? He would definitely have subconsciously led his pursuers in the opposite direction, and then made a large detour to return to his destination.
After redrawing the third circle, he finally determined a small intersection point. Although he did not specify a specific point, it was enough for Song Qingshu.
Anxious to save people, he did not have the time to leave any instructions. With a flash, Song Qingshu rushed out of the Prince of Qi's residence. Watching his figure flash by, Chen Yuanyuan revealed a trace of a gentle smile.
Not long after Song Qingshu left, Lin Pingzhi excitedly ran in, leading a person. "Elder brother Song, there is news of senior sister and the others. Elder brother Song?"
Seeing that the study table was empty, Lin Pingzhi's excited voice came to an abrupt halt.
Chen Yuanyuan explained, "Qingshu just went out."
Lin Pingzhi immediately turned around, "Then I will go find him."
"Hey ~" Chen Yuanyuan hurriedly stopped him, "With Qingshu's lightness skill, even if you rode on a thousand-li horse, you would not be able to catch up to him. Who is this person beside you?"
Li Jiannan's face became lifeless. Heavens, there is actually such a beautiful woman in this world!
Chen Yuanyuan had long been accustomed to this kind of breathtaking gaze, and did not care in the slightest. She only lightly coughed to remind him.
Only then did Li Jiannan return to his senses. Wiping the pig's saliva from the corner of his mouth, he introduced himself in a somewhat flustered manner, "My name is Li Jiannan, a member of the Loyal Army. I know the whereabouts of Miss Ren and Chief Huang …"
Chen Yuanyuan finally understood what was going on, and hurriedly said to Lin Pingzhi, "The place that Qingshu went to is the place that you mentioned. Pingzhi, bring the people from your residence and rush over with this warrior, you might be able to help him."
Although she had a weak temperament, after all, she had experienced great storms and waves, so in a hurry, she was able to arrange things in an orderly manner.
"Yes!" Lin Pingzhi nodded, and hurriedly beckoned Li Jiannan to catch up with him, and hurriedly led the people out of the residence.
Meanwhile, when Song Qingshu arrived at the area where the map intersected, it was easier than expected for him to find the place where Ren Yingying and the others were previously imprisoned. Because of the chaos in the middle of the night, Song Qingshu, who was standing on a high vantage point, immediately spotted the place.
In a flash, he arrived at the large residence, and just happened to bump into Zhang Rou and Zhang Hongfan, who were hurriedly carrying their luggage and about to leave.
"Where are the two of you going?" Song Qingshu's voice was extremely calm, but under the calm surface hid the anger that had been suppressed all night.
"Kill him!" Since the other party could find this place, Zhang Rou knew that there was no point in talking nonsense, and immediately decided to kill him.
As soon as his voice fell, dozens of archers appeared around the walls of the house, and with a whooshing sound, they shot towards Song Qingshu's body.
Song Qingshu coldly snorted, and casually took a step forward. As if an invisible sound wave rang in the air, the sharp arrows suddenly stopped halfway, and then instantly turned into flying ash. The archers all gave a muffled groan, and all of them silently fell from the courtyard wall.
Zhang Hongfan spat out a mouthful of blood, and his whole body fell straight to the ground. Zhang Rou's cultivation was profound, and he just barely withstood the attack, but even so, the impact of the attack still caused his blood and Qi to churn. In the end, he could not help but half-kneel on the ground, his mouth continuously coughing out blood.
Song Qingshu did not look at him again, and went straight to the courtyard, and found a few rooms, in which the fragrance of women still lingered. Unfortunately, the rooms were empty, and there was no trace of them.
"Where are they?" Song Qingshu took a step forward, and returned to the door, and looked down at Zhang Rou.
Zhang Rou hugged Zhang Hongfan's body, which was gradually turning cold. With his experience, how could he not know that his son was already dead? His whole person seemed to be stunned, and he quietly knelt there in a daze.
"I asked you, where are they?" Song Qingshu coldly repeated.
"My son is dead." Zhang Rou's voice also became hollow.
Song Qingshu glanced at him, and indifferently said: "Serves you right to die, I should have killed you back in Yangzhou, then there would not have been so many problems."
Zhang Rou's eyes moved: "So that Jin official was also you!"
Song Qingshu's face was indifferent, and he did not answer.
Zhang Rou bitterly smiled: "No wonder, no wonder … just now I was thinking that you were one of the two strongest experts I have met in my life, but now it seems that these two experts are all the same person."
"Are you done with your nonsense?" Song Qingshu frowned.
Zhang Rou slowly said: "Everyone says that the Golden Snake King's martial arts are unparalleled in the martial arts world, but at first I did not believe it. I boasted that I was also a master in Jianghu, and I thought that if I gathered the strength of my subordinates, I would at least be able to contend with you … Now it seems that your real martial arts are much higher than what people think."
Song Qingshu lightly snorted, and did not deny it.
"But no matter how high your martial arts are, in the end, you will still lose to me." Zhang Rou mysteriously smiled.
"Is that so?" Song Qingshu's tone was full of disdain.
"Since I am going to die today, why don't we play a game?" Zhang Rou laughed, and suddenly spat out a mouthful of black blood.
Song Qingshu's eyes narrowed: "Did you take poison?"
Zhang Rou's face showed a trace of a strange smile, as if he was reluctant to live, but also as if he had completely let go of his burden: "In our line of work, sooner or later this day will come, so we prepare a highly toxic thing in our teeth. Originally, this kind of poison would kill upon contact with blood, but my skill is deep enough to protect my heart meridian, and I can barely speak a few more words."
Song Qingshu's figure flashed, and directly grabbed his acupoint. A strange light appeared in his eyes, and he planned to directly use the Soul Transfer Technique to ask for the whereabouts of the outstanding woman.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Rou seemed to have expected this, and turned his head, sneering: "I can die at any time. If you use the Soul Transfer Technique on me, there is no one to control the Genuine Qi in my body, and I may die in an instant."
Zhang Rou wanted to deal with Song Qingshu, so naturally, he thoroughly investigated his information, and knew that he knew the Nine Yin Manual, so he must also know the Soul Transfer Technique.
"If worst comes to worst, I will force the poison out of your body." Song Qingshu said indifferently.
Zhang Rou shook his head: "I am now controlling the poison near the atrium of my heart. As long as I slightly relax my Genuine Qi, the poison will instantly enter the atrium of my heart. At that time, even the Almighty Golden Immortals won't be able to save me. If you don't believe me, you can try."
Song Qingshu frowned, and finally gave up the risk: "Tell me, what game?"
Zhang Rou showed a trace of a successful smile: "Just now when I came back, I found that Li Jiannan was nowhere to be seen. When I asked Li Haotian, he hesitated and looked suspicious, so I knew that the two of them had betrayed me …"
"Get to the point!" Song Qingshu interrupted impatiently, knowing that he could die at any time, how could he have the time to listen to him slowly tell a story here.
Zhang Rou did not mind: "Later, I immediately ordered people to transfer Miss Ren, Master Huang, and Miss Yue to three different directions. I asked them to wait for me at the agreed place, and if they did not see me in an hour, they would … kill them. Now that I think about it, an hour is almost up, hahaha ~"
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