C17 Catenary meter

As he was passing by the lone mountain near the city gate, Yan Zhongshan suddenly thought of something terrifying. Since ? Since Mu Qianxue did not hide within Jiang Yue's carriage to leave the city, it was most likely that he was hiding within this lone mountain. However, not long ago, he had evacuated all the people that surrounded the lone mountain.

In other words... He was the one who released Mu Qianxue with her own hands!

Thinking up to this point, Yan Zhongshan was drenched in cold sweat as he hurriedly ordered his subordinates to regroup all the important parts of the lone mountain. He still had a sliver of hope in his heart that Mu Qianxue was weak and might not even be able to escape the lone mountain!

If he hadn't said that he saw that there was someone in the carriage, he wouldn't have suspected that Jiang Yue was protecting the culprit and would have gathered so many people to chase after him. But now, not only had he offended Jiang Yue, he had even given Mu Qianxue and the rest a chance to escape.

Xiao Ruo Ao knew about this, but he didn't know how to deal with him!

As soon as he arrived at the city gates, Yan Zhongshan was stunned. The officials of the city gates fell to the ground in a mess. Whether they were dead or alive was unknown. The commoners pointed at them from afar, not daring to get too close.

The Heaven's Secrets Guard rapidly rushed to the side of the city gate officials to inspect them. Fortunately, they were only knocked unconscious, so their lives were fine. After a moment of rescue, each of them woke up.

Yan Chong Shan dismounted and looked around. He did not see the city gate official who he spoke to before and casually picked up a city gate official who had just awoken and asked sternly, "Who knocked you out? Where is the person who spoke to me earlier?"

The officer at the city gate opened his eyes and saw his ferocious appearance. After a long while, he finally said, trembling in fear, "The person who answered the lord chief, the one who knocked out the little ones, was the one who spoke to you before."

Yan Chong Shan did not expect such a response, his face was filled with surprise, "What did you say?"

The official at the city gate answered truthfully, "Not long after you left with your men, that person suddenly launched an attack and knocked out all of the youngsters."

"What's his name and where does he live?" Speaking of which, if he still didn't realize that there was a problem, then Yan Zhongshan had wasted these decades of his life.

The officer shook his head. "I don't know him."

"What did you say? Don't know him?" If he hadn't listened carefully, Yan Zhongshan would have thought that he had misheard.

"Yes. I have never seen him before." The officer said with a firm tone.

Yan Zhongshan was already gnashing his teeth as he said, "Since that's the case, why didn't you say so earlier?"

"At that time, the first lord was present. Furthermore, I thought that he might have been brought here from another city gate, so ?" "I didn't ask." Before he finished speaking, Yan Zhongshan had already thrown him onto the ground and kicked him, "Bastard thing, you actually didn't bring up such an important matter. You harmed me and made all of you commit crimes and escape!" As he spoke, he kicked the other party a few more times. The latter shrank back to the ground, not daring to cry out in pain.

The underling said worriedly, "Sir, what do we do now?"

Yan Chong Shan took a few deep breaths and calmed himself down with difficulty. Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly realized that the trap he had walked into was not just this.

As soon as Mu Qianxue and her men left the city, Jiang Yue, who was the envoy of the Northern Zhou, wanted to leave the city with a firm attitude. After he had let Mu Qian Xue go, someone immediately came to tell him that they had seen someone inside the city when the carriage doors had been opened and closed, and also said that they had not seen the appearance of the criminals who had escaped from the city. They had led him to suspect that Jiang Yue had colluded with the culprits to evacuate the people in the lone mountain.

This was a complicated and intricate series of plans. Every step he took was within the other party's calculations. There was nothing wrong with it!

After realizing this point, a chill rose from the bottom of his back and quickly spread throughout his entire body.

Mu Qianxue, it had to be Mu Qianxue. Only she could arrange such a terrifying trap!

No wonder why Xiao Ruo Ao used the entirety of the Heavenly Secrets to capture her. Letting someone like her escape would bring about endless troubles in the future. But now, she was let go. He seemed to have already seen Xiao Ruo Ao's monstrous rage.

Just as Yan Chong Shan was being surrounded by fear, a large group of guards appeared in their line of sight, and stopped a few steps away from Yan Chong Shan. The commander of the guards took a step forward, and said while cupping his hands, "According to your majesty's orders, bring two thousand guards here to help search the mountain and capture the criminals."

There were only three thousand guards in total, and Xiao Ruo Ao had already dispatched two thousand men to search the mountain. It was evident how determined he was to get Mu Qianxue.

Yan Zhongshan bit the tip of his tongue and used the pain to calm himself down. Although the situation was dire, he had yet to reach a critical state. Who knew, he might still have a chance!

"Lord Commander, please lead the troops to search and capture this lone mountain and its vicinity. I am going to hunt down the accomplices!" After saying this, Yan Chongshan once again mounted his horse and galloped out of the city with his ten Heavenly Secrets Guards. If Yu Lin Army could not find Mu Qianxue, then Jiang Yue would be the last clue, even though he still could not think of the reason why Jiang Yue was helping Mu Qianxue.

The hunt for Jiang Yue unexpectedly went smoothly. After only dozens of miles, they saw Jiang Yue's horse carriage. It was moving slowly at a place not far from where they had seen it before.

Yan Zhongshan's spirit was lifted as he urged his horse forward in order to prevent Jiang Yue from escaping. In a few short breaths, he caught up to the horse carriage, but the result was that Yan Zhongshan was disappointed.

The carriage was already empty, not even a coachman was present, and the horses were pulling them. It seemed that they had expected him to catch up, so they abandoned the horses and ran.

The underling looked around the empty area with a pale face, "Sir, what do we do now?"

"Find!" "We have to find them even if we have to flip the entire outer city!" Yan Chongshan squeezed out these words from the gaps between his teeth.

When the entire Heavencraft Guard and the imperial guards were searching without restraint, Mu Qianxue and her group appeared on a remote and narrow mountain path a hundred li away from the city.

Mu Qianxue, who was mounted on the horse, leaned against Dongfang Yi with her eyes half closed. Her face was so pale that it was almost transparent, and one could even see the green tendons beneath.

Dongfang Gu looked back and said, "No one's coming. Let's rest here for a while."

"No way!" "They won't stop until they catch me. Continue heading east, and hurry to the place I told you about. They shouldn't be too far away."

"But your body ?" How could Dongfang Shan not know that they had yet to shake off their threat? However, with Mu Qianxue's situation, it was really inappropriate for them to continue on their journey.