Spring comes to the desperate place

Chapter 491 Big Meat Bun

Not long after Song Chunlin and his men left, Zhuangzi noticed something was wrong. However, they did not discover that the people were missing, but that nearly two-thirds of the rice was missing when they were transporting it!

"Investigate! Investigate everything thoroughly. It's impossible to transport so much food all at once. Go, call everyone on duty tonight. I want to see who is so bold as to deceive their superiors and subordinates."

The old man roared and asked those people to investigate thoroughly. He came here just to collect food, but he didn't expect that they caught the people, but something went wrong with the food. At the same time, he was extremely puzzled. He had clearly checked the rice inside when he followed them into the cave. He was old, but not to the point of having blurry eyes. Although he did not check all the rice one by one, those randomly checked were all genuine food and could not be fake.

The old man didn't think that his men would cheat, let alone cheat so badly. Suddenly, more than half of the food was gone, and only the food that was right in front of him was left.

At this moment, an idea suddenly flashed through the old man's mind, but he didn't catch it at all. He just thought about it for a while before he thought of the imprisoned master and disciple. For some reason, the old man's heart was beating wildly at this moment, as if it would jump out of his throat at the next moment. The old man thought that so much food disappeared silently, could it be related to the master and disciple?

But when he thought about it this way, he felt that something was not right, because from the beginning to the end, the master and disciple had never been to the cave, and their people would not have told the two of them that they had such a large amount of food. It seemed that it had little to do with the master and disciple at this time.

Even though he thought this way, the old man still felt uneasy, and his steps began to quicken. He quickly came to the yard where Cai Sheng and his apprentice were imprisoned. Seeing the guard standing at the door, he stepped forward and asked a few questions. The guard replied that there was nothing unusual.

The old man's doubts were temporarily relieved, but he still asked someone to open the door. He wanted to see for himself whether the two were still there.

The moment the door opened, the old man could only see two tied-up people lying on the simple bed. Because there was no light in the room, the light was dim. After the guard brought a lantern and lit the oil lamp on the table, everyone could see the figures on the bed clearly. The clothes were indeed those of Master Cai Sheng and his apprentice, but the old man always felt something was wrong, so he took a step forward. This step forward allowed him to see the faces of the two people clearly. They were a little different from the Master Cai Sheng and his apprentice he had seen before.

The old man secretly said that something was wrong, and snatched the oil lamp directly. He approached the two men and found that they looked familiar. When he pulled the smelly socks out of their mouths, the two men immediately began to complain weakly.

"Hurry up and chase them! Those two were rescued by a young man. If we chase them now, we will definitely catch up with them."

Everyone's heart sank when they heard this. The old man didn't dare to delay. More than half of the food had been lost. If this man ran away, ten of his heads would not be enough to compensate.

The rest of the people were even more frightened. They probably didn't expect that someone could actually rescue people under their noses, and the other party also spared two of their people. You know, the people who carried out this mission were all masters carefully selected by the master. To be able to knock them all down and rescue two people who had no martial arts skills quietly, this person must have great magical powers. Can all of them really beat him together?

Of course, they thought so, but they still had to do their work. These people were indeed top-notch masters with strong tracking skills. Unfortunately, they met Song Chunlin, who was not a normal person. A group of people tracked him to the foot of the mountain, but found that the other party's trace had completely disappeared.

A group of guards looked at each other in bewilderment at the disappearing traces.

"How is this possible? Even the best Qinggong requires leverage. There are only a few footprints around him. Could it be possible that this person can fly?"

"Nonsense! How could people fly? They must have used some other method to leave here. Maybe these footprints were left there intentionally to confuse us. Everyone, spread out and dig deep. They can't have gotten far. They're probably hiding somewhere. Search carefully and don't miss any suspicious places."

"Yes."

The crowd dispersed in all directions and began to search the nearby mountains and forests carefully. However, they searched until dawn but found no clues. Even though they saw traces of mutant vines growing and crawling, the traces were too strange and many people could not figure out what left them.

If it's a human, it doesn't look like it. If it's an animal, there's something wrong with it. It's even more impossible for a plant to fly. Which plant can fly?

So the more everyone searched, the more frightened they became. When everyone returned to Zhuangzi, their scalps were tingling, and for the first time in their lives, they experienced what it meant to be anxious.

"You mean, we've been searching for half a day and still haven't figured out which direction they ran to?" The old man's voice was already filled with murderous intent. From the theft of food to the escape of the hostages, he was in a very bad mood that night. He sent people to investigate, but they couldn't figure out how the food was lost over there. The people here said that they had no idea how the hostages ran away or where they ran to.

He let out a deep breath, and now he understood what it felt like to be dizzy. His master had only asked him to do two tasks, and now, he had messed up everything!

While everyone was getting anxious here, Song Chunlin had already settled Master Cai Sheng and his apprentice and started to rush back. He didn't dare to stop for a moment on the road and didn't even eat much. He just relied on the spiritual spring water for support, for fear that these people would run away. He hurried back and found that these people were still there and even the food was not taken away. Song Chunlin scanned them with his mental power. Oh, it turned out that they found that the people were missing, so they stayed here to search for Master Cai Sheng and his apprentice.

However, Song Chunlin believed that even if these people turned over the soil in this area, they would not be able to find Master Cai Sheng and his disciple. No one would have thought that the master and disciple were already in Wanshan City a hundred miles away.

Song Chunlin found a roof to hide on, using his mental power to block out the prying eyes of those people. He was not afraid of being discovered. He just sat on the eaves, eating buns while watching the people below busying themselves.

Perhaps the buns were too fragrant, the old man was so angry that he slapped the person in front of him.

"You bastards, it's already this late, and you still have the mind to eat buns?"

The man who was beaten looked aggrieved: "Your Excellency, we haven't had anything to eat or drink since this morning, and everyone in the kitchen has been sent out to find someone else, so there's no one to make buns."

After they finished speaking, they were both stunned. They sniffed the surroundings carefully again. There seemed to be a hint of the aroma of meat buns in the air. Although the smell was very faint, it was not their illusion. But looking around, no one was eating at all. Where did the aroma of buns come from?