Found "License" (28)

  Yang Shuo Ming and Huang Yunzhi admired the magnificent scenery of the underground waterfall for a while. After storing the relevant information about the rock salt mine and the path inside the cave in the "Super Computer Eye", Yang Shuo Ming was about to return by the original route, but Huang Yunzhi pointed to another direction.

  "Look! There seems to be a light over there too." She said, pulling on his hand.

  Yang Shuo Ming also saw the light there, like it was reflected from another rock salt cave, but Yang Shuo Ming vaguely felt that this time he saw a different kind of light.

  "Go take a look," he said, checking the gun in his hand.

  Yang Shuo Ming and Huang Yunzhi carefully entered the newly discovered cave entrance with guns, but as soon as they stepped into the entrance, a gust of cold wind suddenly blew out the torch in Yang Shuo Ming's hand that was almost burnt out.

  A strong gust of cold wind blew, causing Huang Yunzhi's body to lose its balance and fall to one side. Yang Shuoming dropped the torch in his hand and grabbed her arm with lightning speed, barely preventing her from falling over.

  Huang Yunzhi, who had slightly calmed down, hugged her husband's waist and looked around, only to find that the couple was at the bottom of a huge crevice in the mountains.

  Yang Shuo Ming did not light the torch again, he looked up at the thin seam on top of his head that let out a sliver of sky light, and the rays of light coming from there were already enough for them to see everything around them.

  "Wow... it's so high..." Huang Yunzhi looked up at the thin seam above her head that let in a sliver of light - the very top of this mountain fissure.

  Yang Shuo Ming looked around and his "Super Computer Eye" was activated again, displaying relevant data.

  The bottom of this mountain seam is not narrow, and it can barely accommodate two people walking side by side. On both sides are steep and precipitous slopes that are impossible to climb, with strange rocks occasionally protruding out. The entire rock seam seems to have been split open by Pangu's heavenly axe, looking both majestic and eerie.

  "If anyone falls from above, they will surely die." Huang Yunzhi looked up at the rocky wall of the mountain seam and said softly.

  "It's no wonder... if he didn't end up a mess..."

  Yang Shuo Ming looked straight ahead and suddenly stopped what was behind him.

  And indeed, just a short distance away from them, several "meat pies" suddenly appeared.

  Huang Yunzhi also immediately noticed those few bloodied and mutilated corpses, and couldn't help but cover her mouth in shock.

  Yang Shuo Ming made a gesture to her, indicating that she should stay there and cover herself. She nodded obediently and raised her pistol.

  Yang Shuo Ming held the box-shaped pistol and cautiously approached the location of the corpse. When he saw the appearance of the corpse, he couldn't help but be shocked.

  Judging from their attire, they should all be soldiers!

  After making sure it was safe, Yang Shuo Ming let out a breath, straightened up, put away the pistol, and turned to Huang Yunzhi, waving his hand, "It's okay, come over."

  Huang Yunzhi put away the gun and carefully approached Yang Shuoming's side, sizing up the multiple corpses on the ground with a look of shock and uncertainty.

  Yang Shuo Ming slowly picked up the military cap with a large brim that was covered in bloodstains from his feet, looked at it, and the light spot in his eyes immediately locked onto the bloodstain on the cap, displaying the time of blood coagulation.

  Yang Shuo Ming put down the military cap in his hand, and the light spot in his eyes locked onto the corpses on the ground one after another, continuously giving out relevant analysis data.

  Even without relying on the computer's analysis, Yang Shuo Ming could determine that these soldiers had not been dead for long, probably just over an hour.

  Yang Shuo Ming used his foot to turn the corpse over, which was face down on the ground. The corpse's facial features were already unrecognizable, but the gunshot wound on its chest was very conspicuous, and it should have been dead before falling off the cliff.

  Watching this terrible scene, Huang Yunzhi turned her head in fear.

  Yang Shuo Ming began to examine the objects on these corpses. He noticed that although they were all soldiers, their weapons had all disappeared.

  Yang Shuo Ming did not find anything valuable or indicative of their identities on the corpses, but from the style of their military uniforms and combined with data analysis from the computer eye, Yang Shuo Ming was still able to determine that they were Beiyang Army officers under Yuan Shikai.

  "How did they...fall down?" Huang Yunzhi asked in a low voice.

  "They weren't killed by the fall, but were shot dead with a gun and then thrown down from above." Yang Shuoming replied calmly, "You see? They all have gunshot wounds, and they're all in vital places. There aren't many extra bullet holes, which means the person who killed them is a very good shot."

  "No matter how good your marksmanship is, it can't compare to yours." Huang Yunzhi thought of Yang Shao Ming's divine shooting skills, and her eyes shone with proud and happy light.

  After listening to his wife's uncontrollable praise, Yang Shuo Ming only smiled slightly. He was about to get up and leave when a package-like object in the distance caught his attention.

  Yang Shuo Ming quickly stepped over the corpse and walked a few steps to the side of the package, only then did he see clearly that it was a file bag made of gray canvas.

  Yang Shuo Ming bent down to pick up the pocket, pinched it, and found that there was something else inside besides the documents. He stood up and returned to Huang Yunzhi's side, opening the pocket.

  In his pocket was a thin stack of documents. Yang Shuo Ming opened them and couldn't help but laugh foolishly.

  These documents turned out to be the appointment letters from the Beijing Army Ministry!

  The official positions on these certificates are of varying sizes, but what surprises Yang Shuo-ming is not the strange names of these positions, but rather that the certificates bearing the large seal of the Beijing Yuan Shi-kai Central Government and Ministry of War have blank spaces for the name!

  "Look at this," Huang Yunzhi handed a square brocade box from the canvas bag to Yang Shouming, "I think it's a big seal."

  Yang Shuo Ming opened the brocade box, and inside was indeed a jade seal with a Rui beast button, he took a look at the seal face, on which were the six bold relief characters "Ganxi Town Guardian Seal".

  Yang Shuo Ming understood what was going on, he put the seal back in the box and started flipping through those appointment documents. As expected, he found an appointment document with the same official name as the seal, of course, the column for the name on this appointment document was also blank.

  Yang Shuo Ming carefully looked at these blank appointment documents again, and verified them with the history of this period that he knew. Just like his first reaction when he saw the seal just now, among these blank appointment documents, the only one that was printed with "Ganxi Town Guardian Envoy" was the highest official position.

  According to Yang Shuo's understanding of this period in history, after the establishment of the Republic of China, many official positions were set up and differed little from those of the Qing dynasty. For example, the powers of the "Garrison Commander" were similar to those of a General-in-Chief in the Qing dynasty (many Garrison Commanders were actually former Qing Generals), equivalent to the Provincial Military District Commander of later times. During the Republican period, Garrison Commanders were generally established in key locations within provinces and appointed by the Ministry of War of the central government, usually filled by active-duty Division or Brigade Commanders (Major General or Lieutenant General).

  Was there a lieutenant general or major general under Yuan Da Tou among the corpses just now?

  No, it should be none.

  Yang Shuo Ming had just noticed the military rank of the deceased during the autopsy process, and did not find any high-ranking officers among them.

  "Shall we leave this place...?" Huang Yunzhi looked at those gloomy and terrifying corpses, shivered with cold, and whispered to Yang Shouming.

  "We're leaving." Yang Shuo Ming nodded, putting all the things in the canvas bag into his backpack. After throwing away the canvas bag, he took Huang Yunzhi and left this place.

  The couple of two began to return along the original road, although they didn't make any marks when they came, but Yang Shuo Ming had the help of "super computer eyes", so they could easily find the correct route, and the time spent on returning was much less than when they came.

  When Yang Shuo Ming and Huang Yunzhi returned to the ground, it was already afternoon. Due to their long underground "adventure", the couple's physical strength was greatly consumed, and they were both hungry and tired. The two walked a short distance along the mountain road and stopped by a stream. Yang Shuo Ming started a fire, and Huang Yunzhi helped Yang Shuo Ming cook the food they had brought, while the two shared lunch and chatted idly.

  "You've noticed, haven't you, that this cave is actually quite close to the underground fortress." Yang Shaoming said to Huang Yunzhi, "I suspect that the former Qing dynasty Hanlin scholar discovered the salt mine here and built his villa here for that reason."

  "Yes, the scenery here is not considered beautiful and it's very remote. The road isn't even accessible, so logically speaking, a villa shouldn't be built in such a place." Huang Yunzhi expressed agreement with Yang Shao Ming's view, "However, if we want to mine salt from this area, the cave fortress is already a ready-made location."

  Yang Shuo Ming looked at his beloved wife with admiring eyes. Although they had not been married for a long time, under Yang Shuo Ming's "training", her intelligence and talent were also increasingly brought out.

  After lunch, the couple's spirits were restored, and they were about to take a rest before heading back when they suddenly heard the sound of horses neighing in the distance.

  Yang Shuo Ming and Huang Yunzhi suddenly stood up, both of them simultaneously drawing the guns from their waists.

  Soon, several horseback riders appeared, accompanied by the sound of horseshoes splashing water, and these horses galloped quickly along the stream.

  The horseback rider soon discovered Yang Shuo Ming and his wife, and rushed over. Yang Shuo Ming and Huang Yunzhi didn't have time to find a place to hide, so Huang Yunzhi stood back-to-back with Yang Shuo Ming as he had taught her, ready to shoot.

  Several horsemen quickly surrounded them, and several knights who saw the young couple holding guns were obviously stunned for a moment, but they didn't touch the long gun on their back.

  A knight in white came forward, and Yang Shuo Ming immediately recognized him. He was the man who had been watching him and Huang Yunzhi intimately with a monocular telescope on the mountain top.

  The man in white carefully sized up Yang Shuo Ming, and immediately recognized them too. A hint of a sly smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.