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Most of the dungeons are filled with damp and darkness, and accompanied by the sound of mice, basically every day and night there are living creatures other than people sharing your bed with you.

And the dungeon of the cult is located deep underground in the dark, so the surrounding conditions are not the worst, only worse.

There are not only rats in this dungeon, but also some strange insects wherever you look, and even one or two snakes that don't look very good to people's eyes from the haystack. Anyway, the people in the prison are killed After the interrogation, it was used as a culture body for various Gu insects when it was useless.

Because of this, there are not only all kinds of weird bugs here, but also occasional screams, as if they were crazy people.

A person stepped on the moss-covered stone steps, the hem of his robe lightly rubbed against the ground, step by step unhurriedly, there was a unique peace in this slightly noisy dungeon.

At the corner, a man in a cloak came forward, presented a key with both hands, and uttered a bad Central Plains dialect in a very strange tone: "Akta, a man who is holding a knife in Imada people?"

Acata nodded, took the key and walked inside.

He walked past the rusty iron railings, and finally stopped in front of a slightly larger cell where several people were locked up. The lights here were dark and the only light came from the candlestick in his hand. from.

Acata took out the key and opened the big lock, and the iron railing was rattled. It happened that a person in the cell seemed to have woken up. When he heard the sound, he shrank back and dragged his hands and ankles. Put on heavy iron shackles.

He walked into the cell, lit the left and right two stumps of candles on the wall with the candle in his hand, and then stopped in front of Ah Ling who had woken up, without speaking, silent like a wooden stake.

Ah Ling looked up at the man who captured him so easily, he already had the resolute idea of ​​losing his life in his heart, and he would definitely not be able to survive if he entered this group of crooked places, as long as they gritted their teeth and didn't reveal what they knew If you speak out what you have said, you have done your duty and died a worthy death.

But what Ah Ling never expected was that the person from the cult suddenly squatted down, turned his hands over, and a few small brown forehead balls appeared in the palm of his hand, and he handed it to her: "You have been infected by Gu, and now it's just internal force. If you are suppressed, you will bleed to death from the seven orifices in three days, this is the antidote."

Arling looked at him with wide eyes, and subconsciously stepped back: "...Why should I believe you?"

"It's fine if you don't believe me. I just don't want to see such a miserable end for a young and beautiful girl like you." After finishing speaking, Acata stretched out his hand again, "Really don't want to?"

Ah Ling was like a frightened little animal, staring at the person in front of him intently, helpless and on guard, as if he regarded this cultist as something more terrifying than demons and ghosts, and at the same time sneered at this perfunctory answer.

But the girl calmed down very quickly, she thought that she had already been reduced to a prisoner, whether she ate or not, could she still escape death?

So she glanced at the man, took the small pill and took one by herself, then saw the man said "offend" like a Central Plains person, then raised her arm, stretched out two fingers to hit an acupuncture point, and then pulled out The big knife she was carrying quickly cut a gash on her arm, and when she moved her two fingers, a small black bug was forced out along with her blood.

"This is the unique Gu worm of my sect. If it enters the body soon, you can use this medicine to force it to your arm," Acata said, and gave the little bug that was still moving slowly on the ground a kick, " Remember to kill them all, otherwise they will breed here and crawl all over the ground, and you will cry."

As Akta said, he was about to stand up, as if he was about to leave, but Ah Ling quickly grabbed the corner of his robe, and he didn't know where the courage came from. It seemed that she forgot that she was under the control of others, so she stretched out her hand Lifted his hood.

There is no raging wind and sand inside the cult, so naturally no one will continue to wrap their face in a layer of sackcloth. Under the hood is undoubtedly a well-defined foreigner's face illuminated by candlelight, and its facial features reveal a She has a hostile air that should not be approached by strangers, and those light brown eyes that are different from those of the people in the Central Plains are looking at her in surprise.

"...you girl is so bold." Acata stretched his brows and eyes as if he wanted to laugh, but maybe he felt that his smile was not very good-looking, so he just moved the corners of his mouth and stood up again. The hood fell back.

"People from the Central Plains don't seem to reveal their veils at will, right? You're a girl." Akta walked out of the dungeon, locked the door, and walked away at the same pace he had come here.

Ah Ling sat on the spot and watched the back of the man walking further and further away, but couldn't grasp the slightest clue in his mind.

Why do strangers in this cult help them?And just by looking at his face, he can tell that this person must be a person with a cold and stern personality, but in front of her, he seems to be so lively that he seems to be a bit disobedient, and his every move is very much like those glib young masters he usually sees.

Although the girl probably didn't know it, the tall villa owner in her heart was also the same in someone's eyes.

Acata didn't know that he just blurted out a sentence, so that the girl gave him such an evaluation of "stupid boy". After he walked out of the dungeon, he didn't run to his resting place, but took a detour and returned to the place where he was resting. Qigu City.

The night in Qiegu City is still lively, and people wearing cloaks and big hoods are too common here, so even if people from a cult walk on the streets swaggeringly, they will not be as conspicuous as they are on Zhongyuan Avenue.

Acata didn't stay in the busy city for too long, but bought a small jug of spirits as usual when passing by the tavern, carried it to the west of the city, knocked on the door of a room, and the door was opened not long after. , a thin old man poked his head out, and when he saw him, he laughed until he narrowed his eyes.

"Haha! Acata, you're here!" The old man patted Acata's shoulder vigorously, very enthusiastically, and then stepped back to let the door open to signal him to enter the room.

Acata pulled off his hood, put the small wine jug tied around his waist on the table, and raised his chin: "The one who brought you this wine trough, save some."

"Hey, you know me best!" The old man quickly picked up the flagon, lifted the cork and took a sip first, "I said, you can't do it like you patrol every day, when can you get close to that church?" Forbidden place?"

Akta said: "The forbidden place in the religion is something that people of my status can easily enter. Now that the leader and Huli are having a good time, I still have to wait for the opportunity."

"There is no movement in the Central Plains for the time being. The emperor has obviously been forced to do this, and he hasn't mobilized all his troops to counterattack the Khitan with all his strength, um..." The old man looked at Akta who was silent at the side, "How about you? He also grew up in the Central Plains, and he knows the personality of the Han people to some extent, so does he have any other tricks?"

"...Perhaps, although the emperor is young, he really cannot be underestimated." Acata seemed to respond absent-mindedly.

The old man glanced at him, and sat down next to him, with a solemn and somewhat relieved expression: "Don't worry, you don't have to worry too much, with the ability of the old leader, you should be living well now, and there will be a moment when no one is allowed to go outside." The worry-free Qu Changyi is also a kind of protection for him inside."

"What's more..." The old man seemed to want to say something, but after thinking about it, he said, "Hahaha, I almost forgot your name... Ayun, the right protector, her spirit in the sky, will definitely protect you father and son."

When the sky was slightly bright, a carriage outside the city of Qigu bone passed the checkpoint guarded outside the city leisurely, and entered the city together with several carriages loaded with goods behind it.

The coachman driving the carriage went straight to the main street in the city. He seemed to be very familiar with the road conditions here, so he parked the car at the entrance of an inn in the city after a while, and turned around to ask the owner's opinion.

"My lord, the inn is here, can I ask for a room for you first if you want a small one?"

"Oh, no need, I'll get out of the car and take a look first, I'm sorry to trouble you." A man's gentle voice came from inside the carriage, "Qing'er, go and pay the driver first."

Immediately, a person opened the curtain and came out, jumped down lightly, followed by two tightly wrapped people, one supported the other, the one who was supported seemed to have a leg that couldn't walk, almost The one who got off the carriage.

Qing'er, who got off the carriage first, has already paid the bill, and asked for a room with the innkeeper: "Young Master, Qing'er has asked the shopkeeper to arrange a room next to the street according to your instructions. It's windy outside, so please go in first."

"Okay." The man wrapped in linen responded, nodded to the coachman, and went in with the people around him. Qing'er led the carriage behind to settle the people and goods.

After Li Wanshu returned to the room, he took off the outermost layer of cloth that was covering the wind and sand, and sat at the table to rest leisurely. Soon after, a person knocked on the door, who should be the person who came to explore the way before him.

After the man came in, he opened his mouth to report what he knew: "My lord, I have already found out that there is only one patrolling troop on the main street in the city, and that strange troop is surreptitious, appearing only once every three to five days, except for Ah Ling who is in charge of them." In addition, I have never seen this team attack anyone."

"So they are likely to be a cult? After all, no one in the city may have noticed the existence of the cult's general altar." Li Wanshu pondered, "You can observe for a while, and if that group of people appears, notify me immediately."

The person who reported the news cupped his hands: "Yes, this subordinate will retire first."

Although Li Wanshu gave such instructions, it was four days later when this person came to report again, and what he brought back was not news about that team, but two people.

When Li Wanshu saw that three people wrapped in seeds came in through the door, the movements of his hands froze involuntarily.

Li Wanshu: "...Who are these two?"

The one at the back couldn't help but lifted the cloth covering his face: "...Young Master!"

"My lord, I have betrayed your trust and been arrested by the other party for my ineffectiveness. I implore you to punish me!" The two said in unison, kneeling on the ground and refusing to get up.

The two extra people turned out to be A Ling and A Mu who had been taken away and disappeared.

Li Wanshu sized them up for a long while before choking out a sentence: "...how did you get back? Have you been followed?"

"This subordinate brought them here after confirming that no one was following them." The person standing in front of the report said, "When my subordinate was investigating the street today, I found a man in a cloak behaving very strangely. A large wooden box was pulled out of nowhere by a cart. The man pulled the box into a remote alley and left. The subordinate didn't want to be troublesome, but he heard a faint cry for help from the box. I went to open it and have a look, I didn't expect..."

Li Wanshu's expression was solemn, he really couldn't figure out how these two would be spit out after they got into the tiger's mouth. Even if the cult couldn't find out their identities, it would definitely not be a good man and a good woman who let them go. This move by common sense really made him a little uneasy.

Li Wanshu could only hope that the two subordinates who escaped from danger could provide some clues, so he asked, "Do you know how the two of you came back?

Ah Ling frowned and thought for a while, nana said: "I don't know, I was just in the dungeon of the cult when I was awake, and then I was knocked out, and when I woke up, I was already in a box, but... The subordinates encountered a strange person."

Li Wanshu: "Weird?"

"Exactly, this strange person has a frivolous and moody personality, but he is also highly skilled in martial arts. It was because he met him that we were all wiped out, but this person did not know why he went crazy, and suddenly gave us anti-gu medicine in the dungeon." Arling paused and said again, "This subordinate felt that he should get to know him, so he lifted his hood to see Lushan's true face."

Li Wanshu felt terrified as he listened, for this girl dared to do such an easily irritating thing when she was overwhelmed by power.

"But... this person is actually a foreigner. The subordinates have confirmed that they have never seen this person, but he can speak the Central Plains dialect." Ah Ling said.

Li Wanshu frowned, and tapped his knees with the fan in his hand: "You have never seen a foreigner who speaks the Central Plains dialect, but saved you in the dungeon of the cult?"

Among the people he remembered, there was indeed nothing about such a foreigner. Even though he did meet a few foreign businessmen in the tea business, those big bosses were all sloppy and did not look like they knew martial arts.

So Li Wanshu paused for a moment, his eyes stopped on Ah Ling's face covered with dust and mud, and he hesitated for a while before saying: "You just said that this person behaved frivolously, could it be that you are against Ah Ling?" Are you interested?"

In an instant, the eyes of the other two men in the room silently focused on Ah Ling's face.

A Ling: "..."

The girl shook her head desperately under the eyes of the three rough men.

In the cult general altar, Luo Xingyun was on his way to meet the leader. He carefully thought about what he had done in the past three years since he was recalled to the altar. There was nothing that did not conform to the character of Akta. It's just that he won't be noticed by the leader. His current status should not be enough to meet the leader.

Luo Xingyun spent a long time observing Akta before deciding on this person. This person was raised in the Central Plains since he was a child. He is not good at speech and can only speak the Central Plains dialect. Helping the cult members in the Central Plains.

Luo Xingyun's disguise method is really not very good, so he specially went to a disguise expert to help him change his appearance. A foreigner's face is lifelike, but it can't be removed without a special potion.

"Akta, please come to the side." The status of the person leading the way is not as high as that of the leader of a team, seeing that Luo Xingyun was distracted, he reminded him in a low voice and kindly.

Luo Xingyun's head didn't move, but his light-colored eyes moved slightly, matching the slanted corners of his eyes with a hint of coldness, after successfully making people feel a little nervous, he nodded subtly.