Spring comes to the desperate place

Chapter 486 Forgot to name it

Not long after Song Chunlin left, another small group of Gu family soldiers in disguise left the city overnight. In the fields not far outside the county town, there were a few gray-faced people hiding here and there. Song Chunlin also discovered these people. He guessed that they might be spies left behind by the person behind the scenes. He had already used his mental power to remind Gu Fengyue in advance, and he continued on his way.

Cai Sheng has the formulas for various explosives. The apprentices he accepts are also selected through layers of screening. After the most basic training at Dajing College, the best and most outstanding talents are assigned to Cai Sheng to learn blasting technology. Moreover, the court will carefully investigate their family members and relatives, and restrict their travel within a certain range. On the surface, it is protection, but in fact it is a disguised surveillance of them. Once these apprentices dare to have bad ideas, their families will be the first to be attacked.

By now, the news of Cai Sheng's disappearance should have been reported back to the capital. I believe someone will soon go to control their families. Song Chunlin just wants to find Cai Sheng and the apprentice before those people are harmed.

As for whether Cai Sheng would betray Dajing, Song Chunlin was sure that he would not, because he had already placed a mental hint in the other party's spiritual sea. No matter what happened, Cai Sheng would not betray Dajing. As for the apprentice, Song Chunlin had never seen him and could not make a conclusion.

As soon as Gu Fengyue sent out the team to search for Cai Sheng, the spies of the people behind the scenes hurried back to inform them. While they were still desperately rushing on the road, Song Chunlin had already taken a short rest in a desert.

He was still some distance away from where Cai Sheng was, so he decided to take this opportunity to search the surrounding area and replenish his energy.

He was not afraid of being discovered late at night, so he quickly took out the stove and food, used the stove to heat up the milk tea at room temperature, and ate his snack with the warm milk tea. It was a high-calorie fried chicken set, a large box of boneless fried chicken, and two peppercorn chicken legs, which were fragrant and juicy. If other people who were traveling at night knew about this, they would probably be so sad that they would cry out loud.

Others have to sleep in the open air when traveling, but Song Chunlin has to eat well and set up a tent to rest, which is equipped with a sleeping bag, mat, and hot water bottle. It's really the same life but different fate.

After having supper, Song Chunlin still couldn't find any trace of Cai Sheng, and he felt confused.

Logically speaking, Cai Sheng and the apprentice disappeared after the explosion. They were discovered not long after they disappeared, and then someone was sent to deliver the message to Gu Fengyue without stopping. Logically speaking, with the speed of Cai Sheng and the apprentice, if they were lost unintentionally, they would not have been able to run far.

As for riding horses, that was even more impossible. Riding horses would be too conspicuous. In order to prevent the horses from being frightened by the noise of the explosion and running around, every time they arrived at the place, they would arrange for someone to take the horses to a slightly farther place and assign someone to guard them.

If Cai Sheng took his apprentices with him and rode away on horseback, the people guarding the horses would definitely not give them the horses. This was a rule set by Cai Sheng himself. No horse could be ridden away until everyone was present.

Not to mention that Cai Sheng is sometimes as unreliable as General Lin, but once it comes to serious matters, he is more serious and responsible than anyone else, and he would never abandon a group of people and leave alone with his apprentice.

If Cai Sheng didn't leave on his own, then someone took him away. No matter who it was, his purpose in taking Cai Sheng away was definitely not just to get the formula of the explosives, but also to get Cai Sheng's blasting skills.

Song Chunlin is now worried that these people may be barbarians from the grassland or remnants of the Jin people, trying to capture Cai Sheng and find the secret of the explosives.

Song Chunlin didn't rest for long. After eating, he stood there and rested for more than ten minutes. He drank two sips of spiritual spring water and set off again. This time he slowed down a little. His mental power was mainly concentrated on searching for some suspicious traces. As long as he found traces of suspected human passing, he would move in that direction to check whether there were traces left by Cai Sheng and others. If he found that they were not, he would quickly change direction.

He was certain that Cai Sheng was taken away by someone. It was definitely unrealistic for a carriage to suddenly appear in this desolate mountain area. The most likely possibility was that he was tied to a horse and taken away, so Song Chunlin focused on investigating the horse hoof prints.

Unfortunately, the wind was strong these two days, and the traces on the ground had been almost covered by sand. It was extremely difficult for Song Chunlin to identify them. After finally locking onto a direction, it was almost sunrise. Once the sun rose, those people would move faster, so he had to find Cai Sheng faster.