The Devil Sword Swordsman
Ch. 204 - Solving the Puzzle
Dozens of stilt houses judiated the place that most likely was the Blood Devil Man area storing all their supplies of goods. After surrounding the entire house filled with many necessities and not finding a single clue regarding Shen Xuemei, Xin Fai paused for a moment.
His gaze fell on the largest house, symbolizing a red-robed skull. Inside there are only a lot of oil barrels and also cotton supplies, visible also piles of sailcloth that they most likely get from the results of robbing ships.
This shows that the attack of the Blood Devil Man is expanding to the waters, in order to pay the salaries of all the more members they all rob money and also items that can be sold.
Xin Fai recalled the swordsman's words while muttering. "The biggest house, the three houses on the right..."
Her footsteps moved past two houses and stopped at the next one. Zhuan Ang opened his mouth. "What are you doing?"
"Follow me," he ordered as he ducked under the rather tall stage house, the cobwebs were instantly sticky as they forced their way in.
"Can you explain what we're doing here?" Zhuan Ang's mouth again grumbled, of course because he didn't know what to do under the house stage smelled of this rat piss.
The young man closed his mouth in silence, cursing again and the result made Xin Fai's ears hot to hear his chatter.
"If you can't get out, let me find it myself."
"You haven't even said what you're looking for here!"
"What do you think I'm looking for besides Shen Xuemei?" Xin Fai finally showed her upset face that she had been holding back, also because not getting any leads after half an hour driving around under this house made her emotions easily provoked.
Zhuan Ang hissed faintly. "Yes, yeah. You just look until you are satisfied. I'll keep watch from the front so no one suspects us."
Where he stood was nothing more than muddled clay, Xin Fai pulled back his almost sunken legs. Three hours of pacing over the dirty ground made his body start to slum, there was no other choice. This was all for the sake of saving his sectmate first.
"Well... This really doesn't make any sense." - Grunts. "Where might they want to hide a hostage under a house like this."
Zhuan Ang started to dabble in front of the house, one of them realized their actions since two hours ago and felt suspicious about it.
The fighter frowned as he peered under the undercarriage of the house. "Oi boy, what are you doing in a place like that? Less work, huh?"
Just as Zhuan Ang was panicking, he tried to find a reasonable excuse but his lips were twisted. His panic stopped when Xin Fai who took over replied.
"Not to think about it, my gold coin fell when I entered this house. It seems like the fall is not far from here." he said while throwing a look for.
"Oh, how pathetic of you, boy! Your clothes are so dirty, just come out let me replace them with my gold coins!"
"No need, uncle. I'll just look for him. No need to worry about me" he replied. The warrior was still willing to not leave the place, he had a quick look before actually leaving from there.
Xin Fai was completely dead-end, he could not find a basement after circling the entire part of this place many times. While thinking further his eyes stared at the drier ground ahead. A rope stuck out on the ground towards somewhere else, he smiled faintly.
"Oh, I'm tired of thinking that the answer is in front of my own eyes."
Zhuan Ang observed the surroundings getting bored, when he decided to have Xin Fai speak again it turned out that the young man was walking around sneaking around killing his enemy in a quiet place. He was confused.
"You want to change your clothes? What's for?"
Their footsteps crept slowly past the group of Blood Devil Humans who had just finished archery training, Xin Fai lowered his head so that the commander did not recognize him. After all it seemed like the new people in their group were not particularly concerned.
The direction of the rope that stretched out from the house led to an area where there was a cooking place, some dried meat that had been smoked for days hung up making flies swarm the place, he said, and also a dry well next to it increasingly makes people lazy to pass through the place.
"I think this Blood Devil Man is smart enough to also hide his secret," Xin Fai's remark stopped as the rope reached the dirty spot.
"The rest we find ourselves."
Zhuan Ang suddenly pulled his body tight, the two of them lowered their heads behind the well as two guards crossed the place. They watched for five minutes until they finally went somewhere else.
"It's useful for you to come here, too" Xin Fai muttered softly.
"Whatdidyou say? I worked a lot from before too!"
"You mean nagging vaguely?"
At that time Zhuan Ang seemed to be swallowing his own emotions, he knew arguing with the young man would only clarify his defeat in the argument. Zhuan Ang peeked to make sure no one else was passing by and got up from his squat checking around.
The same thing Xin Fai did, he hauled some boards looking for clues, the place was also arguably spacious.
Suddenly Zhuan Ang gave his opinion. "If I were them, I would definitely hide the hostages in the basement rather than in the stilt houses like that."
"I also thought like that, the problem is how do you mark the location of the place without being known by people?"
Zhuan Ang tried to think further but his brain felt heated, he snorted heavily. "If you're alone? What say?"
"I will make the place blend with the surrounding area so that it is not easily known."
"How?"
"Like..."
The two of them were dead-end, Zhuan Ang grumbled tiredly, he sat on the ground as he raised his head to the sky. "It's only then that we'll be stopped here until Ren Yuan chooses to return to the city."
"Have you given up? Why don't you go home to your mother's father."
"Stop insulting me, you're your mouth just like my mom's. Once nagging made me want to cry."
"Hahahaha," Xin Fai's laughter sounded mocking, she was satisfied making Zhuan Ang so. "Either do not complain, all this will be in vain if you whine without working."
The next search still did not find a bright spot, Xin Fai paused for a moment while sitting leaning his head against the tree trunk. Hot air blew on his face that afternoon, I don't know how likely to try but all failed and even added to his head dizziness.
Xin Fai tried to recall some of the secrets of the previous Blood Devil Man that he had managed to break, his brows furrowed deeply after that. "Normally they hide things in a simple way, but also outwit. Simple but complicated, so they think."