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Chapter 318 Search
After everything was ready, the team set out overnight. When the prefect and his entourage arrived at the foot of the mountain where Fufeng Village was located, it was already dawn. Climbing the mountain at this time was much less dangerous than walking at night.
Even so, General Kobayashi still did not dare to relax his guard. He sent out two small teams and asked them to stand in front of the team to explore the way for the main force.
The two team members took the order and left, and soon found the traps ahead, but all the traps they found had been destroyed by humans, and the signs of destruction were obvious. It seemed as if they were specifically reminded that this was a trap and had been destroyed.
After hearing his subordinate's reply, General Kobayashi became more cautious. Seeing this, Shen Nian became more convinced that the brother and sister named Zhuxie were not simple people, and he became more determined to clean up the Mingzhou officialdom.
The group arrived at the vicinity of Fufeng Village smoothly. Looking around, they did not see any patrol officers from Fufeng Village. The entire Fufeng Village was dead silent.
General Kobayashi was worried about a trap, so he cautiously tested the situation for two quarters of an hour, but nothing happened. So he arranged for several agile soldiers to climb over the wall to check the situation inside Fufeng Village.
Soon they found a group of bandits tied up in the main square of Fufeng Village, and a group of captives who were sleeping soundly with iron chains tied around their bodies.
After receiving feedback from his subordinates, General Kobayashi no longer hesitated and immediately ordered his men to climb over the wall, open the gate, and enter Fufeng Village.
General Kobayashi sent soldiers to check whether the hemp ropes tied on the bandits were strong and their physical condition. He also sent some soldiers to each room to see if there were any people left behind.
Shen Nian arranged for the doctors who came with them to treat those bandits who seemed to be particularly seriously injured, and asked the doctors to save their lives and let them live for at least three to five more days.
Although the doctors who followed them came on orders, they had no good feelings towards the bandits. As long as the patients met the requirements of the prefect and could survive for three to five days, they would not treat them, or would only give them some simple treatment. However, there were few ladies and many bandits, so each of them was very busy.
After confirming that the bandits were not going to die, they went to check on the captives. The doctors treated these people's injuries much more seriously than they did the bandits, which was a double standard.
Shen Nian naturally noticed the doctor's different treatment, but he pretended to be ignorant. This group of bandits had committed many evil deeds, and giving them treatment was just to keep them alive, so that they could live until the day when the verdict came out, so that their crimes could be made public, and they would be condemned by thousands of people, and finally die on the guillotine in full view of everyone.
It's not to let them recover their health and continue to do evil. The fact that doctors are willing to treat them is already a sign of their professional ethics. We can't ask doctors to treat such evil people equally.
After listening to his subordinate's report, General Kobayashi frowned and came to find Shen Nian. When he came to Shen Nian, he bowed to Shen Nian.
"Sir Governor, my people have searched the entire Fufeng Village, but there is no sign of the brother and sister you mentioned. Apart from the people in the square, there is no sign of anyone else in the village. This is... not normal."
When General Kobayashi said the last sentence, his eyes swept over those people whose vitals were broken by being kicked. Shen Nian knew that the "others" General Kobayashi was referring to were those who were abused by the bandits.
When Shen Nian heard General Xiao Lin say this, the image of the masked man immediately appeared in his mind. He had a hunch that the disappearance of these people was related to the brother and sister who called themselves Zhuxie.
Perhaps they wanted to protect those people and did not want them, the victims, to suffer from worldly prejudice and the gossip of others, so they took them away and settled them before leaving.
However, all of this was just his personal intuition. Without any evidence to support it, it was not easy for him to express his guess out loud.
Shen Nian thought for a moment, took out a bottle from his arms and handed it to General Kobayashi.
"The masked man said that the sleeping potion they made is only effective for twelve hours. But according to his description, these people may not wake up that soon. If we want them to wake up earlier, we can only use their special antidote."
"This bottle contains the antidote left by the masked man. I brought it with me before I left. Just open the bottle stopper and put it under the nose of the unconscious person and let them smell it. In a few breaths, they will wake up. Since we can't find anyone now, why not wake up a few people and ask them if they know anything?"
"Your Excellency actually has the antidote! This will make things a lot more convenient." General Kobayashi was overjoyed when he heard this. He originally thought that he had to wait until everyone woke up before escorting them back to the city. Now that he has the antidote, he can save the waiting time.
General Kobayashi took the bottle from Shen Nian, handed it to his subordinates, and told them the specific usage of the antidote. Then he and his subordinates went to the kidnapped bandits.
General Kobayashi selected a few bandits based on their clothing, asked his men to wake them up first, and then carefully interrogate them for the information he wanted to know.
The awakened bandits were all injured to varying degrees. The first thing they did after waking up was to passively accept the pain of their wounds, then they had to accept the bad news that the entire Fufeng Village was wiped out by the officers and soldiers, and then they had to deal with the interrogation of the officers and soldiers.
They had no idea how they got possessed. They only remembered that it rained copper coins before they fainted. The copper coins scattered around them were the best evidence for their words.
Although General Kobayashi was quite curious about how the copper coin rain worked, he knew that these people did not understand it, so he stopped asking about it and began to ask about the whereabouts of those who had disappeared.
The bandits kept silent at first, but they were already injured and finally gave in under General Kobayashi's torture, and all pointed to the same small building.
All the small buildings in Fufeng Village had been searched by the officers and soldiers brought by General Xiaolin, but after the bandits' testimony, he sent people to search again, but still found nothing.
General Kobayashi was unwilling to give up, so he went into the small building to search it himself. There was an unpleasant smell in the building, and clothes were scattered in many places, which made him frown. He searched everywhere in the building, but found no basement or hidden mechanisms. He only found a pile of broken iron chains. Judging from the neat broken ends of the iron chains, the person who did it had very precise control of strength and power, and was obviously a master.
In this way, General Kobayashi had a clear idea of where these people were going and no longer worried about it.