Chapter Fourteen Baishui
Baishui City is located on the bank of Baishui River. This city is under the jurisdiction of Guangyuan Prefecture. It is a very ordinary small county town with a population of less than 30,000.
However, this city is the northwest gateway of Shu Kingdom, adjacent to the three counties of Yinping, Wudu and Hanzhong.
Hanzhong is now in an independent state, and Wudu belongs to Qin, and the Yinping County is Tuyuhun and Tubo. The geographical location can be said to be extremely important, so there are four city protections here, with nearly 20,000 Shu troops stationed.
After coming out of the teleportation array of the city protection, even though Bai Ya and the others showed the identity card of Qingcheng disciples, they still underwent a very strict inspection. Compared with the relaxed military discipline of the city protection in Yizhou, people feel a significant difference.
"Junior brother, where do we need to start?" Meng Tian couldn't help asking after walking out of the teleportation array.
"Just find the six doors and ask." Bai Ya replied without hesitation.
"Look for the people from the six doors to ask?" Meng Tian was immediately surprised.
"Haha, do you think it's incredible? This is what Master Mei Xun means..." Bai Ya replied with a smile.
When Mei Xun first said this to him, he was also surprised.
Heroes violate the ban with martial arts!
In the eyes of many sect warriors, the Six Gates are just a fly that cannot be provoked and cannot be slapped to death with one palm. Generally speaking, they hide far away.
In fact, it is often psychological. The meaning of the existence of the Six Gates itself is not only for the secular world, but also for the Immortal Martial Sect. It’s just that the sect warriors themselves are too strong, so they always turn a blind eye, but instead regard it as a trouble to restrain freedom.
The Xianwu Sect has its own source of information in the secular world, which is a foundation accumulated over thousands of years of inheritance. However, the imperial court's public system naturally has natural advantages over local control.
The world of China is too vast, and the place where humans live is just one corner of it.
Not to mention the few sect warriors, even if an army leaves the city, they will sometimes be silently destroyed in the wild. If they do not investigate carefully, no one will know what they have encountered for a long time.
The Evil Sect Demon Sect is better. Most of their inherited disciples will leave soul cards, soul beads and other objects in the sect, and they will still know the general direction once they die. However, the famous and upright sects do not have this convenience, and their sects do not allow the disciples to use soul control methods.
At this time, the imperial court's public system must be used, such as the registration information for transmission arrays and remote modes of transportation.
Especially for the teleportation array, you must register your real name when entering and leaving the teleportation array, and ordinary people register their household registration, while the sect warriors use their identity cards.
Baiya was in a dilemma in Liangzhou that year because he had no household registration and had to work in a restaurant. As a result, he was kidnapped by Wang Peng from the Blood Knife Sect and left Liangzhou City.
Of course, the identity card used by sect warriors is similar to the Buddhist sect certificate. Except for the special material, there is no detailed information on it.
For example: Baiya’s Qingcheng identity card only carved “Qingdu Guanluo Altar Boy Qingyuan”, so ordinary people cannot learn about the Xianwu Sect from this, and only a few public officials know the inside story.
The Xianwu Sect cannot intervene in the court and cannot inspect such public information, so it can only pass through the Six Gates. In fact, Qingcheng will know that the three disciples fell near Baishui City, which is also the feedback from the Six Gates.
Baishui County is a small place with no six gates. The news of the disappearance of these three people was reported by local constables.
"The official constable? How did they know that these three people were missing?" Meng Tian asked curiously.
"This is related to the merit mission of the three brothers..." Bai Ya sighed and said, "The three of them would come to such a small county town in order to solve a merit mission here."
It turns out that people in Baishui City have been missing in recent months, and there are even several teams of officers and soldiers who have defended the city.
They were all missing in the mountains and forests outside the city, without seeing anyone in their lives or corpses in their lives.
Baishuicheng County Government organized a few search and rescue teams, but too few people entered the mountains and forests and accidents would occur frequently, and instead, many search and rescuers would be involved. If the army that defended the city entered, they would not find any clues.
Originally they could ask the county government for help, but everyone knows the efficiency of the bureaucratic system. So when encountering such things, the local county government in Shu would rather find a secular institution set up by the Xianwu Sect for help. This is how the merit tasks of the Qingcheng merit ritual are basically done.
This time the same is true, but no one expected that the three people who took on the merit mission also failed, including a real Qingcheng disciple.
Any artistic disciple who can be included in Qingcheng in advance, except for the aliens like Baiya, most of them are outstanding in talent and very outstanding in talent.
For example: the junior brother Ji Nan who entered the artistic conception as his teenager and regarded Bai Ya as his idol.
Such an artistic warrior actually fell here silently, which shows that the situation is indeed a bit strange.
"It's so dangerous!" Meng Tian stuck out her tongue, and her expression finally became serious. "Since that's the case, why didn't Master Mei Xun send a senior brother from the power level here? Can we both handle it?"
"Haha, are we two worse than our senior brothers in the Strategy Realm?" Bai Ya smiled confidently.
This is not because Bai Ya is blindly arrogant. He has strong true energy and many magical weapons. In addition, he has practiced the Bagua Fengjia and the Sanyi Guizang Step, and even if he encounters a martial artist in the Strategy Realm, he will not be completely unable to resist.
If we include Meng Tian's various formations... Although the two people's head-on martial arts are not as strong as those of the power realm warriors, when dealing with complex situations, they are no less inferior to those of the power realm warriors.
What's more, Bai Ya also has a Taoist baby peach doll who is sleeping and promoted. He can be awakened at any time of crisis, which is equivalent to an extra force in the power realm.
"According to what you said, Master Mei Xun's arrangements are reasonable." Meng Tian turned around and thought about it, and suddenly felt much more at ease.
"Okay, let's go, we have to go to the county government."
The Six Gates have no yamen in Baishui City, and the temporary office location will definitely be placed in the county government. After all, they have more contacts with the secular world and are of public nature, not an immortal martial arts organization.
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"Ning Mingcheng (Gong Zhen) in the lower six doors..."
"I have met two officials in Qingdu Guan Baiya (Magu Guan Meng Tian).
Bai Ya and Meng Tian arrived at the county government office. The gatekeeper had obviously received a notice. After reading the ID cards of the two of them, they put them in. They also met the two six-door tolerance officers who came to work here temporarily in the soap class of the constable room.
What is surprising is that Ning Mingcheng, the leader of these two, is not a constable, but a coroner, and another younger soapy tolerant Gong Zhen, is the constable.
"Don't be surprised. The six doors have never been sufficiently staffed, unlike the local government office's Zaozhuang class, so everyone has learned a lot. They usually have multiple jobs and serve as several people."
Ning Mingcheng always had a smile on his face, which made people feel good, but in Bai Ya's opinion, this person smiled a little fake, as if he was wearing a mask, which made people unable to know the true thoughts in his heart.
However, it doesn’t matter to Baiya. Most people in the public sects talk about people and talk about ghosts, and that’s it.
"You two should know the purpose of our visit. I wonder if you have any news about the lost disciples in this temple?"
Bai Ya said it seemed that ordinary people came to report the case and search for lost relatives. In fact, both sides understood that this was the Xianwu Sect's request for the assistance of the Six Gates.
"Is there any news? There are some, but six doors have taken over this matter. If the two want to find the missing person on their own, they must be under our supervision." Ning Mingcheng smiled friendly.
His meaning is very clear, that is, if Bai Ya wants news about the six doors, he must bring them to act together.
Bai Ya frowned slightly, and there were two professional Six Gate detectives who helped him, which was naturally helpful for finding clues, but there were many things that would be inconvenient.
For example: If the three missing brothers encounter an enemy kill, then with these two people, they will not be able to seek revenge.
However, he quickly stretched his eyebrows. The most important thing now is to find clues. If he needs to use force to avenge, it can be delayed for a period of time.
"... Brother Guanning is agile and I don't know where he learned before joining the public?" Bai Ya asked with a faint smile, "Of course, if it is inconvenient to say it, I will forgive me for being abrupt."
"It's okay. Since you have to take us out of the city to search, you naturally have to talk to us, so as not to become a burden." Ning Mingcheng narrowed his eyes slightly, waved his hand to his companion who was lowered from his face, and said with a smile.
"I have practiced in the Medicine King Valley for a while, and before joining the public, I also studied in the Law School in Chengdu. Brother Gong next to me once practiced in the Gongliang Sword Sect and was an artistic swordsman."
"Oh, I feel respectful!" Bai Ya raised his eyebrows in surprise.
Today's Xianwu Sect, except for external Buddhism, has basically all the predecessors of various schools of thought.
For example: Qingcheng belongs to Taoism, while Medicine King Valley belongs to medical schools.
Like Ning Mingcheng, it is rare to study medicine and law. No wonder he has a specific position as a coroner, but he is a leader after being sent out.
As for the other Gong Zhen, it was inconspicuous. Gongliang Jianmen is a small sect near Dali in southern Shu. Only the swordsmanship among them is more famous. It is called the Dianyue swordsmanship in the southern school of swordsmanship.
Bai Ya also told them about their martial arts skills and specifically explained that Meng Tian was a formation master, and agreed to leave the city early tomorrow morning to search for clues where the three disciples of Qingcheng were missing.
After making the agreement, Ning Mingcheng and his wife finally conveyed the news about the Six Doors.
It turned out that the matter in Baishui City was getting bigger and bigger, and it had attracted the attention of Liusanmen. Even if there were no three disciples of Qingcheng who disappeared, Ning Mingcheng and the others would come to check it out.
Before Baiya arrived, they had reviewed the case information and had a conjecture based on clues.
(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!