Tang Wei of the Great Wan Guild Hall had been keeping a low profile in Shang Jing City these days.
After the last gathering with the Blood Demon Church, Tang Wei didn't have any more gatherings with them. He only bought some things for the Tang Family in Shang Jing City and met with a few business partners.
Just yesterday, Tang Wei was ready to leave Shang Jing City. He told the Tang Family that he was going to visit a few friends. In fact, he had already prepared to go to Beihai Harbor in advance.
Although Xia Pingan didn't know what Tang Wei's specific mission was, Tang Wei's trip to Beihai Harbor was definitely related to the Blood Demon Church's conspiracy.
The Blood Demon Church's plan to assassinate the Crown Prince of Shang Kingdom, Beitang Wangchuan, was progressing steadily. It was April 23rd now. There were still more than 20 days before Beitang Wangchuan went to Beihai Harbor to participate in the launching ceremony of the Shang Kingdom's new navy.
"Apart from that, did that mysterious person say anything else?" Lan Wuwei asked.
"That person told me that he knows another important person from the Blood Demon Church hidden in Shang Jing City. If we want to know the identity of that person, we need to take out the Five Suns Realm's Divine Spring and 100,000 gold coins in exchange!"
The Divine Spring of the Five Suns Realm was more valuable than all the other Divine Springs added together, not to mention the 100,000 gold coins at the end. Lan Wuwei frowned when he heard this condition and sucked in a breath of cold air. "How dare he make such a condition?"
"I asked him the same thing!" Xia Pingan sighed and spread his hands. "He said that the important person from the Blood Demon Church is hidden in the Imperial Guards in Shang Jing City. He can enter and leave the Imperial City at any time. His status is not low and he knows many secrets of the Dark Battle God Church. It's up to us whether we want to find that person or not!"
"What? There are people from the Blood Demon Church hidden in the Imperial Guards?" Lan Wuwei was shocked by this news.
Whether the Tang Family's Elder was from the Blood Demon Church was still to be confirmed. However, if there were people from the Blood Demon Church in the Imperial Guards, the situation would be more serious.
If people from the Blood Demon Church infiltrated the Imperial Guards, many people in the Imperial City wouldn't be able to sleep well. This matter was very serious. Hearing this news, Lan Wuwei anxiously paced around the room twice. "Did you feel that he was lying to us? Or did you find anything special about him?"
Xia Pingan shook his head. "I didn't discover any of that. When that person contacted me, he was either invisible, only audible, or a mass of black fog. Actually, I don't even know whether that person was a man or a woman. It's probably because I'm weak that that person felt at ease to contact me. That person also said that he would soon leave Shangjing City, and there's not much time left for him to make a deal with us. If we still want to know the secret of the Blood Demon Church hidden in Shangjing City from him, we have to hurry …"
"Wait here for a moment. I will immediately report this matter to the higher-ups. As long as that Elder of the Tang Family is still in Shangjing City, we will soon be able to verify whether he is a surviving member of the Blood Demon Church!"
"How long will it take?"
"Very soon. These important figures of the Blood Demon Church should have participated in the sacrificial ceremony of the Blood Demon Church. As long as we can confirm the specific target, the Judgment Army will have a way to determine whether that person is related to the Blood Demon Church in a short time!"
After saying this, Lan Wuwei hurriedly left the secret room, leaving Xia Pingan there to wait.
Xia Pingan estimated that this method of the Judgment Army would not be able to be popularized on a large scale. Either it was inconvenient to use, or the cost was too high, or both. Otherwise, everyone in Shangjing City would be able to easily find out the hidden members of the Blood Demon Church.
Xia Pingan patiently waited for the results of the Judgment Army's investigation. As long as there was a result, the Judgment Army would definitely agree to the conditions he had just proposed.
…
More than an hour later, at the entrance of the Great Wan Guild Hall …
Just as Tang Wei walked out of the guild hall, a flock of pigeons flew across the sky.
"Pa …" Just as Tang Wei walked down the stairs, a pool of pigeon feces fell from the sky and directly landed on the ground in front of him. It spread out like a small bomb. The gray and white pigeon feces spread all over the ground, dirtying the pair of shiny black shoes on his feet, leaving some spots.
Tang Wei was also stunned for a moment and cursed in his heart. He had just come out of the guild hall and did not expect that pigeon feces would fall from the sky. There was no way to avoid it.
The curator of the Great Wan Guild Hall also respectfully sent Tang Wei out. When he saw that the Elder's shoes were dirtied by the pigeon feces in the sky, he was also shocked.
"Elder, please don't blame him. There are so many pigeons in Shangjing City. I will ask someone to bring water for you to wipe your shoes!" After the curator finished speaking to Elder Tang with a smiling face, he turned around and scolded the two servants beside him. "What are you still standing there for? Don't you have any eyesight? Elder Tang's shoes are dirty. Quickly go and fetch water …"
When the servants in the guild hall hurriedly fetched water and wiped Tang Wei's shoes clean, Tang Wei put on a straight face and got on the carriage that was waiting at the entrance. Before he got on the carriage, he ordered the coachman, "Go to the Five Lakes Chamber of Commerce …"
Elder Tang's carriage drove on the bustling streets of Shangjing City. Sitting in the carriage, Tang Wei narrowed his eyes and looked at the bustling streets outside with an indifferent gaze.
More than forty minutes later, the carriage suddenly stopped.
Tang Wei looked out from the carriage and saw that the carriages on the street were all congested together. Just as his carriage stopped, there were other carriages that followed behind it. In an instant, his carriage was squeezed on the road and could not even turn around.
"What's going on?" Tang Wei opened the front window and asked outside.
"Elder, please wait a moment. I'll go and see what's going on!" Tang Long, who was sitting in front of the carriage, immediately jumped off and ran forward.
A moment later, Tang Long ran back and reported, "Elder, just now at the intersection in front of us, there was a horse that was suddenly frightened. It pulled a carriage that was carrying rapeseed oil and ran wildly in front of the road, hitting a few carriages. Now, there are horses on the road in front of us twitching on the ground. On the road, two carriages overturned and blocked the road. There's oil everywhere on the road. The police have already arrived and are evacuating the traffic and cleaning up the oil on the ground!"
"How long will it take?"
"There's too much oil on the road, and we still have to clean up the carriages. I'm afraid it won't be done in a short time …"
Hearing this, Tang Wei got off the carriage.
He looked at the road in front of him and saw that it was blocked for seventy to eighty meters. All the carriages were blocked here, no less than hundreds of them. In just a short while, there were already more than thirty carriages behind his carriage. Even a small train with rails had to stop.
This was the busiest street in Shangjing City. In just a short while, the road was so congested that it gave people a headache.
"Elder, do you want to wait in the carriage?" Tang Long asked.
Tang Wei raised his head and looked at the sun above his head, then looked at the situation on the street. He shook his head, "This place is not far from Five Lakes Merchant Guild. Let's walk there. If we have to wait, it will be too late. After a while, the road will be cleared and the coachman will come over himself!"
"Alright!"
Then, Tang Wei and Tang Long walked from the road to the sidewalk and walked forward along the sidewalk.
The sidewalk was bustling with people coming and going. There were all kinds of shops on both sides of the road. Many people who were stuck on the carriages and small trains got off the carriages and walked through this block.
On the road, there were many people selling flowers by the roadside. In April in Shangjing City, spring was bright and beautiful. Flowers were like brocades. Many farmers outside the city picked flowers to sell in the city. There were people selling flowers everywhere on the street.
"Flowers, flowers, freshly picked flowers. Everyone, take a look. They're fragrant and cheap …" An old granny with a blue headscarf was holding a large flower basket filled with all kinds of flowers and hawking on the sidewalk.
Passing by this kind of flower seller, Tang Wei didn't even look at the old granny. He directly walked past the old granny.
There were many people on the street. When Tang Wei passed by, an impatient young man hurriedly walked forward and bumped into the old granny's flower basket. The old granny's flower basket fell to the ground. The young man quickly apologized and helped the old granny to pick up the flower basket that fell on the ground.
Tang Wei had already walked to the front, so he didn't notice that when the old granny's flower basket fell on the ground, it just happened to fall on his shadow. The flowers in the basket swept over his shadow.
On the bustling street, such small details happened all the time. No one would care about it.
Tang Wei walked far away in the blink of an eye. After turning around the corner, the old granny pulled the young man and talked. In the end, the old granny let the young man go only after the young man promised to buy a bouquet of flowers.
The old granny continued hawking flowers along the street. After walking for a while, the old granny turned and walked into a small alley by the roadside.
There weren't many people in the alley!
The old granny picked up an ordinary-looking white daffodil from the flower basket and looked at it carefully.
For some reason, in just a few seconds, the white daffodil's petals slowly turned black. Then, the petals withered and fell to the ground, turning into ashes in the blink of an eye.
Unknowingly, an old man who was also selling flowers with a shoulder pole appeared beside the old granny. He also lowered his head to look at the withered daffodil in the old granny's hand and sighed softly. "Sure enough, it's the devil child of the Blood Demon Church. Looks like he's a backbone, and his level isn't low …"
"Sigh, it's a pity for this lotus pond daffodil …" the old granny said regretfully.
"It's not a pity. It's enough to pay with his life!"
"That's true …" the old granny smiled.
In the next second, the light and shadow in the alley blurred. A gust of wind blew, and the figures of the old man and the granny who sold flowers disappeared. Even the slight ashes on the ground were blown away, leaving no trace behind.
A few seconds later, the boy of fortune drilled out from the wall beside him in a red dudou. He looked at the ground and then looked in the direction where the wind disappeared. Then, he drilled into the ground and disappeared again.
…
In the secret chamber, Xia Pingan opened his eyes and was secretly shocked. He didn't know what the lotus pond daffodil was. It could actually determine the identity of the Tang family's elder just by looking at his shadow. The Judgment Army's foundation was really deep. It seemed that he had to be more careful in the future.
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