Just after Tam and his men left under the cover of night, the scouts Zhao Si had sent out to keep watch returned to their post and reported the situation to Zhao Si.

"Captain, they've led their men towards another tribe in the northwest!"

Upon hearing his subordinate's report, Zhao Si couldn't help but sneer: "Heh~ Ignore them. Tell the brothers to set up sentries and guard our grain carts to prevent any desperate thieves or petty thieves from taking advantage of the situation!"

"promise!"

Just as Zhao Si had guessed, several figures quietly approached the caravan late at night.

They cautiously approached the caravan's grain wagons, listening to the guards' snoring, who were clearly fast asleep.

The group was overjoyed and grabbed the bags of grain, hoisting them onto their shoulders. But as soon as they turned around, they saw several guards holding daggers, grinning maliciously at them.

Before the grain thieves could react, the guards stabbed their chests with daggers and covered their mouths, preventing them from making a sound. The men died on the spot, their eyes wide open.

"You don't know what's good for you. Wouldn't it have been much better to go with them to steal women than to come here and die? Why are you so foolish?"

Looking at the neatly arranged corpses, Zhao Si couldn't help but sneer. He had the utmost contempt for petty thieves.

However, the appearance of these few thieves was just the beginning. In the latter half of the night, more than a dozen people sneaked close to the caravan, but unsurprisingly, they were all killed by Zhao Si's men and dumped by the roadside.

A bloody stench permeated the entire area around the caravan.

Meanwhile, Tam and the others arrived at the outskirts of another tribe.

A cold glint flashed in Tam's eyes as he looked at the tribe in the darkness ahead.

Tam then drew a short knife and whispered to the men beside him, "Tell the brothers to go in groups of five, sneak up quietly, split up in each house, and act independently. Just kill any men who can resist and then take the women! Be quick!"

The men next to Tam nodded, and then began to divide the brothers who had come with him into groups, as Tam had instructed.

"Set off!!"

After the groups were formed, with a low shout from Tam, the group quickly dispersed and poured into the tribe.

Before long, screams of men and cries of terror from women broke the silence of the night from this small tribe of less than a hundred households.

Because they were caught off guard and it was late at night when they were tired, the people in this tribe did not put up any effective resistance.

About half an hour later, the men in the tribe were all slaughtered by Tam and his men, while the young women were bound hand and foot and driven towards Zhao Si and his group.

The next day, just as dawn broke, Tam and his men escorted nearly a hundred young women back.

Upon seeing the dozen or so corpses laid out by the roadside, Tam and the others felt a chill run down their spines, and their eyes were filled with fear as they looked at Zhao Si and the others.

Despite their rampage last night, killing dozens or even hundreds of people, Tam and his men were still quite self-aware. They were just a bunch of untrained civilians, and they only succeeded last night by launching a sneak attack.

Seeing the faint aura of bloodlust emanating from Zhao Si and his men, it was easy to guess that they were an extremely fierce group. Even the soldiers of Juyan would have a hard time dealing with them.

Zhao Si, who was in the caravan, also spotted Tam and the others. Seeing the blood on their bodies and the hundred or so pale-faced women behind them, Zhao Si couldn't help but smile slightly.

Soon, Tam led his men and brought the group of women to Zhao Si.

"Look, would you like these women?"

Tam gave Zhao Si a fawning smile, then pointed to the group of women they had robbed.

"Yes, of course I want it!"

Zhao Si smiled and nodded. Then, under the excited gazes of Tam and the others, Zhao Si arranged for people to start counting the number of people and then handed over an equal amount of grain and salt to Tam and the others.

"Captain, in my humble opinion, they will definitely go to other places to snatch people again. We can stay here for a few more days."

After Tam and the others left happily with the grain and salt, a soldier approached Zhao Si with a joyful expression.

"That's right, and with so many women, we brothers are a bit short-handed and need to wait for reinforcements!"

Zhao Si nodded in agreement, and then instructed his men to set up camp there.

In the north of Jincheng, inside a secret outpost of the Detective Agency, Cheng Yu, dressed in a blue robe, sat at the head of the table with his eyes slightly closed. The key members of the Liangzhou Detective Agency were lined up on both sides of the hall, and everyone held their breath.

A moment later, Cheng Yu opened his eyes, turned to look at the man at the head of the group on his left, and asked, "How is the situation in Chang'an?"

The man stepped forward and respectfully said, "Reporting to my superior, those people have already begun to take action. In the past few days, Zhong Yao has arrested no fewer than twenty people in Chang'an, half of whom are His Majesty's disciples."

The remaining people were all, to varying degrees, connected to the powerful families that supported His Majesty! Clearly, they were there because of His Majesty!

"Ha! A bunch of clowns!"

Cheng Yu couldn't help but sneer, then said, "Immediately give the order to have our men start operating as well, using the exact same methods as them!"

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