two hundred and sixty-four
Mu Qinglan and Yun Yi walk towards the front together. There are dark bones around them, which makes the atmosphere between them cold and serious.
Mu Qinglan has been carefully observing the surrounding terrain and looking down from time to time.
She wanted to know how the 50000 soldiers died.
Judging from the situation in this battle, only a few thousand soldiers of the kayah Empire died, accounting for only about one tenth of those soldiers of the Shengyuan empire. The number of deaths and injuries is so great that anyone will doubt that there is something fishy in it.
There is little difference in the strength of the soldiers of both sides, but the result is so. Obviously, there are other factors.
She looked around, and there were some signs of fighting on the dark red cliff.
There are many places, which are obviously caused by knives, guns, swords and halberds.
Did the people of the kayah Empire surround the people of the Shengyuan Empire and kill them?
But the terrain of sunset is steep, so it should be difficult to do so.
The two sides are most likely to face each other.
But the Jedi won''t do that.
Mu Qinglan frowned: is it because the other party has the help of super strong people that will cause one-sided situation?
But once the strong man started, he would leave a trace, and she didn''t find it.
Click.
At this time, mu Qinglan suddenly stepped on something at her feet. She looked down and saw that it was a white bone.
When she stepped on it, she was crushing the white bone.
Mu Qinglan recognized that the man was the clothes of the kayah empire.
The sunset has happened for nearly a year. In the desert, the wind and the sun, these bones have already been moved, and the position is not necessarily.
Or the remains of countless people are buried under the yellow sand.
With them, there is absolutely no turning over.
Mu Qinglan felt a burst of sadness in her heart. When she was about to move forward, she looked wrong, but suddenly saw something under the white bone.
She made a movement and bent down to take out the things under the bone.
It was
A jade slip?
Mu Qinglan looked at the already incomplete white jade slips in her hand, with complex patterns carved on the top, and vaguely felt the fluctuations in them.
Is this... A jade slip for arraignment?
Mu Qinglan looked carefully and saw that there were small cracks on it.
It seems that someone once wanted to destroy the jade slip, but it didn''t succeed in the end.
As a result, the jade slips were preserved, and even there was a breath in them.
Although this kind of jade slips is not common, mu Qinglan knows it best.
Because this kind of jade slips is specially used to convey messages!
In short, these jade slips are usually a pair. As long as the power of two yuan gods is injected into it, there will be induction between the two jade slips.
Even if it is thousands of miles apart, as long as one jade slip breaks, the other will burst!
People usually use this jade slip to convey important news, more accurately, the news of life and death.
Mu Qinglan is very familiar with this kind of thing, because when his parents left the imperial capital for Jiuge, they left two jade slips like this!
She and her brother sometimes miss them so much that they sneak into the ancestral hall to see the two jade slips.
This kind of thing is too valuable. It is stored carefully. Most people are not qualified to go in.
And now, I found this kind of thing here
Mu Qinglan rubbed his fingers gently on it and looked carefully. Whose is the power of the yuan God in the jade slip?
The cost of this thing is not cheap. Ordinary soldiers will not have it.
Fortunately, this thing hasn''t broken yet. Maybe it''s a breakthrough.
Yun Yi also noticed something and came over.
When I saw the white jade slips, a clear color flashed in my eyes.
"It seems that someone tried to send back the message, but failed."
He hung his eyes and saw the broken white bone. He immediately understood something.
Mu Qinglan nodded, and the corners of his lips lifted a radian without smiling.
"My luck seems very good. The owner of this jade slip doesn''t seem to be simple..."
Then she suddenly looked up and shouted, "Da Yuan, come here."
Jiang Dayuan was looking for something. Hearing the sound, he immediately flew over.
Seeing what was in Mu Qinglan''s hand, he wondered, "San Shao, what did you find?"
Mu Qinglan handed things over: "look, do you know."
Jiangdayuan carefully picked up the things and looked through them carefully.
When he saw the grain on the top, he looked shocked.
Mu Qinglan stared at him closely: "whose is this?"
Jiang Da Yuan seemed to be still in shock. He looked up at mu Qinglan and took a deep breath:
"San Shao, where did you find this thing?"
Mu Qinglan raised her chin.
Jiang Dayuan looked along the line of sight. When he saw the armor belonging to the soldiers of the kayah Empire, his face became more serious.
"San Shao, these jade slips are owned by the small captains of the third army."
Mu Qinglan was stunned.
"After commander Mufeng came to Jiuge, he created some jade slips and distributed them to the following generals, and one of our ten team leaders. On the one hand, it is to ensure the lives of the team leaders. More importantly, the team leaders usually take the team out. In case of emergency, they can crush the jade slips, send back messages and ask for reinforcements. "
He said and took out the same jade slip from his body.
"You see, this is mine."
Mu Qinglan took over and compared the two jade slips together.
As like as two peas, they are the same shape, color, and texture.
Her heart was shocked. She just felt something flash in her mind!
"There''s another thing that my subordinates haven''t mentioned to you." Jiang Da Yuan swallowed his saliva and said with difficulty, "what happened at sunset is too strange. None of the team leaders who followed the commander and went on the expedition together crushed the jade slips and sent the news back."
"My subordinates once thought this was too abnormal. Even if the situation was critical, there must be time to crush the jade slips, but none of them did so. Because of this, it was too late for the people on Jiuge side to realize that it was wrong. "
Otherwise, how could they have learned the news after the total annihilation of the army?
Mu Qinglan didn''t speak, his eyes drooped slightly and looked at the two jade slips.
Jiang Da Yuan clenched his fist and said:
"However, although the jade slips have the same structure, they can still be identified. Look at the back of the jade slip. Is there a small pattern? "
Mu Qinglan heard the speech and turned the jade slips over. Sure enough, he saw a pattern the size of a fingernail in the lower right corner.
It looks like an axe
"Our ten team leaders are represented by ten different weapons. On my one, there is a rotary knife, and on the one you found, there is an axe, which is the fourth team leader he Jiang''s."
Mu Qinglan looked at the bones on the ground.
Is this man... He Jiang?
However, this person has become a pile of bones. How to confirm his identity?
Jiangda said, "you''ve retired one after another. Let me see if I can identify this man."
Mu Qinglan was surprised: "how to identify?"
Jiang Da Yuan smiled bitterly.
"Although the relationship between he Jiang and his subordinates is general, his leg bone has been injured by an arrow and his right arm has been fractured. Therefore, if the characteristics of the bones can be consistent with him, he can basically confirm his identity."
For now, this is the only way.
Mu Qinglan took a step back. Jiang Dayuan came forward and cleaned up the yellow sand around the bones, carefully putting them together.
Fortunately, the bones were wrapped in clothes and armor, but they were relatively complete.
Soon, a complete skeleton finally appeared in front of us.
Jiangda originally looked at his right arm, and sure enough, he saw traces of fracture.
Mu Qinglan''s heart jumped.
Jiang Dayuan''s movements paused, lowered his head and couldn''t see clearly.
Soon, however, he looked at the position of the leg bone again.
Take off your armor and take off your clothes.
A piece of Mori''s white leg bone appeared in front of him.
Mu Qinglan looked at it.
There is a hole in the leg bone!
That''s definitely the mark left by the sharp arrow!
Jiangdayuan''s whole body froze.
Although he had imagined countless times, when everything really appeared in front of him, when the evidence was so naked in front of him, he found that he was even more uncomfortable than he thought!
"... why... Why is this..." Jiang Dayuan murmured, his voice hoarse, like crying with endless depression and pain in his throat.
"The commander treats us so well... He trusts us so much. Why... Why betray... Why!"
Jiangda''s knee was soft, knelt down on the ground, covered his face and trembled uncontrollably.
Mu Qinglan looked at the hole in the bone and thought that he was finally one step closer to the truth.
But in her heart, it was like being torn by something. It hurt badly.
Dad, mom.
When you encounter all this, do you know the betrayal of these people?
If you don''t know, everything you suffer is too unjust.
If you know, how painful should it be?
Betrayed by the most trusted people, pushed to the edge of life and death by them!
Mu Qinglan closed her eyes.
She wanted the truth, but now she had a premonition that the truth might be very cruel.
Just then, Yun Yi''s voice suddenly came.
"There seems to be more down there."
Mu Qinglan was stunned and opened her eyes to see.
But he saw Yun Yi walking to the bone and staring at a piece of yellow sand with a cold voice.
"There are fluctuations similar to the jade slips below."