The carriage gradually went further away. Ying Wei sat by the window and lifted the curtain to look into the distance. He saw black smoke billowing into the sky, and the mountain stream was engulfed in flames.
More than a hundred people died on the battlefield where Ying Wei was assassinated. Many of them were killed by Xuan Jian himself. In order to not give the network any chance to investigate, all Xuan Jian could do was burn everything.
Ying Wei believed in Xuan Jian's professionalism, thus he withdrew his gaze after taking a few glances.
……
Three days later, a tall man with a mask on his face and wearing a net combat uniform appeared in the mountains.
Dozens of assassins from the Network were carefully searching for clues in the surroundings, hoping to find some clues.
The face behind the mask looked at everything in front of him with a gloomy expression.
Everything he could see was scorched earth, and the surrounding trees had even been burned into charcoal.
Amidst the charred ashes, one could vaguely see a pile of bones. However, these bones were charred black, and some of them were even shapeless.
One could imagine how difficult it would be to find out what had happened not long ago among the ashes.
Masked Day fiddled with the scorched earth with his sheathed Masked Sun Sword and found a few corpses. In the end, he shook his head and knew that all the clues were broken here.
These skeletons had probably been burned more than once, in order to destroy everything as much as possible so that the net would not be able to detect them later.
Ever since the Network joined the Qin State's Prime Minister, Lu Buwei, the entire organization had expanded rapidly in a very short period of time.
With Lu Buwei's support, the number of people and funds in the network had increased exponentially.
With such a huge amount of resources, the network naturally developed very quickly. However, the network also had some problems because of this, such as a lack of manpower.
In the dozen years that the Network had been under Lu Buwei's protection, they had been working day and night to train as many assassins as possible.
After all, most killers did not have the ability to act independently. They only knew how to take on missions and kill people.
Naturally, when there was no one to use, he could only personally go to work and then train more capable subordinates to share the work.
However, the ones that covered the sun were only responsible for the vast majority of Heavenly Slaughter Land.
Lu Buwei was personally in charge of the largest, closest, and most important intelligence network of the Network.
Although Masked Sun coveted the information system of the 'Demons and Demons' of the Network, he didn't dare to covet it in front of Lu Buwei, and he had always been careful.
Masked Sun clearly understood that Heavenly Slaughter and Earthly Absolutes were just tools for carrying out missions. He seemed to have great power as he controlled these killers, but in fact, he was only following Lu Buwei's orders.
Only by mastering the demons and monsters could they combine the two to unleash the full power of the net and obtain great power at the same time.
Such a national intelligence system was enough to make anyone envious.
Because most of the work had to be done by himself, he had been physically and mentally exhausted for more than ten years.
Especially for some important tasks, even if he was not the one who directly took action, he still needed to supervise.
For example, Xuan Jian's mission to assassinate Cheng Jiao not too long ago, or the mission to assassinate Ying Wei with the Startling Salamander this time.
This was also the reason why Masked Sun was able to arrive at the scene in a short period of time after receiving the news. He himself was supervising this mission from behind the scenes.
"There are hundreds of assassins from the network and the Startling Salamander is here personally. How could the mission fail?”
Masked Sun was puzzled. The information he had received earlier was that the Startling Salamander had gained the trust of Lord Chang 'an, and he even knew that Lord Chang' an had left the Small Holy Manor.
This information was also correct. Lord Chang 'an had indeed left the Small Sage Manor on time and entered the Wei Kingdom from the Qi Kingdom. The assassination of the Network was also carried out according to plan.
Everything was going so smoothly, but there was a big problem with the results.
With the strength of the Startling Salamander and the sneak attack, Lord Chang An should not have survived.
No matter how hard he tried, he could not figure out the reason. He also did not think that there was a traitor within the network.
This was because very few people knew about this mission, and it was impossible for these people to have any contact with Lord Chang An.
"Sir, this area has been checked. There are no useful clues.”
A network killer came to Masked Sun and reported.
Although he had already guessed the result, Yami still did not give up and asked,""…No useful information at all?”
As soon as he finished speaking, another killer reported,"…Sir, we found the marks of a wheel here!”
Masked Sun was overjoyed when he heard this. He quickly looked at the marks under the lead of the assassins and ordered the network assassins present,"…Chase!"
Then, under the personal leadership of Masked Sun, the many assassins chased after the tracks for more than ten miles. In the end, they completely lost all traces.
Masked Sun personally checked the place where the traces disappeared, and his expression became even uglier. He knew that there was an expert hiding their tracks, so the net could not find any clues.
"Has Lord Chang 'an come into contact with anyone in the past four years?”
Masked Sun called over a killer in charge of intelligence and asked.
The man hesitated for a moment and said,"
"…Sir, we have been monitoring Lord Chang 'an for the past four years. However, we don't have enough manpower in the Kingdom of Qi. Moreover, we have only increased our surveillance on Lord Chang' an in the past year.”
"However, Lord Chang 'an has been in the Small Sage Manor for a long time. There's nothing we can do about it.”
"As for whether Lord Chang 'an has met anyone, I don't know.”
Yin Ri didn't blame him, because this Lord Chang 'an of the State of Qin had only risen to fame in the past year.
In the past ten years, whether it was when he was in Xianyang Palace or after his study tour, he was just an ordinary young master of the Qin country.
Even if he was taken in as a disciple by the scholarly faction's Xun Zi, it was not something worth paying too much attention to.
Until about a year ago, this unknown young master of the State of Qin sent a batch of bamboo slips from the Small Sage Manor.
Those bamboo slips were all his works with Han Fei, the Ninth Young Master of Korea, as well as his own thoughts and theories.
The bamboo slips recorded a large number of legalism, the emperor's mind, and the concept of governing the country that he respected,'Virtue and Punishment'.
When the current King of Qin saw these contents, he cheered loudly and urged his younger brother to return home as soon as possible.
Even Lu Buwei praised him for his talent in governing the world and recorded his works in his own " Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals ".
One had to know that Lu Buwei had spent a lot of money to recruit talented people from all over the world to compile this masterpiece.
With Taoism as the core, and the famous, legalist, Confucian, peasant, military, Yin-Yang, and many other schools of thought as the source material, it could be said to have melted all schools of thought into one furnace!
Lu Buwei wanted to use this to find the ideology of Qin after unifying the six states, and then obtain a unified way of governing the country.
Although Lu Buwei's miscellaneous methods were despised by the Hundred Schools of Thought, it had to be said that this unfinished work was the culmination of the Hundred Schools of Thought.
Ying Wei's book, Virtue and Punishment, was also based on Taoism. However, unlike Lu Buwei, he did not integrate so many theories. He only used Legalism and Confucianism as branches.
That was because although Lu Buwei had accepted hundreds of theories, they were not his own, but compiled by his followers.
Ying Wei, on the other hand, had learned the true meaning of Confucianism from Xunzi, and with Han Fei as his senior brother, he had mastered Legalism, so his books were naturally more profound in Taoism, Confucianism, and Legalism.
What Lu Buwei praised the most about this book was that Ying Wei seemed to have known about the state of the country after the unification, so he gave a well-founded theory of consciousness.
Lu Buwei was only testing the waters with the various theories, wanting to see which theory was more suitable for the unification. Who would have thought that Ying Wei would dare to clarify the details?
This made Lu Buwei shake his head and sigh. He had really misjudged this Lord Chang 'an in the past, for he was such a rare talent.
Since he was a great talent, Lu Buwei would naturally be even more wary of Ying Wei. This was why the Network had been paying close attention to Ying Wei for the past year.
After the rumor that 'Ying Zheng was Lu Buwei's son' spread out, he had the intention to kill Ying Wei.
In the plan to assassinate Ying Wei, Lu Buwei, who didn't like assassinating these people, had personally carried out the plan.
He had come to the decision to use the first-class assassin of the Network, who was also a peerless beauty, as a candidate to assassinate him as his concubine.
Initially, the Startling Salamander was prepared to assassinate Wei Wuji. Although Lord Xinling was hated by the King of Wei, he could not be underestimated.
However, after some comparison, Lu Buwei felt that Lord Xinling was nothing, and that Lord Chang 'an was more dangerous.
There was only one Startling Salamander, so it was better to give it to him. Who asked this Lord Chang An to have a huge weakness, and that was 'lecherous'.
For this reason, Lu Buwei had deliberately created a fake identity for the Startling Salamander. If Ying Wei suspected that the Startling Salamander had gone to investigate, he would find out that the Startling Salamander's past was complete, and that she was a concubine sent here.
After all, he had already sent Ying Zheng's mother away, so he would not say anything if he sent another person away.
But who would have thought that Lu Buwei's plan would fail even after he had placed so much importance on it?
Even Cheng Jiao had been killed by Lu Buwei, but this Lord Chang 'an, who seemed to have no soldiers or power, was completely unharmed.
For a moment, Masked Sun also developed a deep fear of this Lord Chang 'an.
How did he avoid the pursuit, how did he see through the identity of the Startling Salamander, what did he do in these four years, and whether the Startling Salamander was dead or alive, no one knew.
Especially when the other party returned to the State of Qin at this time, what was his plan?
The more unknown and mysterious it was, the more terrifying it was.
By the time he returned to the State of Qin, the King of Qin, who had lost his left arm, had gained his right arm. If the two brothers joined forces, Lü Xiangbang would probably be in trouble.
After all, the King of Qin and the Lord of Chang 'an were the royal family of the Qin State, while he, Lu Buwei, was ultimately a subject of the Qin State.
'If Lu Buwei is weak, he will have to rely on the power of the net. I might be able to seize more power from him.'
A hint of greed flashed in the eyes of the masked man.
Back then, he had brought the net to join Lu Buwei. He had borrowed the power of the State of Qin from the leader of a small assassin organization to become a behemoth that terrified the nobles of various countries.
But now, these powers could no longer satisfy him. He wanted to go one step further and seize the most important powers in Lu Buwei's network.
After tasting the delicious taste of power, no one could quit. If the Network became the small organization it once was, Masked Sun would probably be the first to go crazy.
……
At this time, Ying Wei had already passed through the State of Wei and arrived at the border of the State of Qin and the State of Chu. The former capital of the State of Chu, Ying Du, was guarded by Wang Ben, the son of Wang Jian.
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