Rebellious officials bow their heads

It was night, and the dark clouds were like scattered ink, pressing half of the bright moon and swallowing the shallow moonlight.

After Xu Yan came out of the tea bar, he changed into his outfit and hibernated quietly under the palace wall, blending into the shadows.

When it was pitch black, the guard on the high wall turned to the other side, and he threw the rope, just hanging on the protruding corner of the stone wall.

Xu Yan tugged the rope, and after making sure it would not be broken, he stepped on his toes and flew high like a night bird. After a few breaths, he landed on the palace wall without a sound. Before Wei turned around, he retracted the rope and entered the palace.

The majestic eaves and corners of countless palaces are shadowy in the night, as if covered with a layer of black veil.

Along the deep and winding path, Xu Yanfang stepped lightly. A group of guards approached the corner in front of him. He quickly avoided it, and sat down behind a house. Taking advantage of the light reflected by the window, he took out the clothes in his clothes. The drawings are expanded.

You can clearly see the criss-crossing palace routes above, marked with dense marks, and the center circled by the red pen is the Taixuan Hall where the emperor lived, with a shining pearl painted on it.

However, the Taixuan Hall was empty on all sides, and there was a gate tower. Once there was any abnormal movement, it would be shot through by the archers upstairs condescendingly.

Xu Yan put away the drawings, raised his eyes, and murmured in a low voice: "One thing is missing."

He just stood up and continued to walk forward, but he heard a noise from the room behind him, it seemed that a few guards had entered the room, calling for the palace servants to bring wine quickly.

"Almost forgot." Xu Yan turned around and said inaudibly, "It's the token of the imperial guards."

He knocked out the palace man who delivered the wine, took off his clothes and changed himself, then put on a gauze hat to cover half of his face, and opened the wooden door.

The room was brightly lit, and two or three guards gathered at a wooden table. Xu Yan lowered his head and put the wine on the table. He heard the leader reprimand him for coming so slowly, and then talked about the previous topic with his colleagues. .

Holding the tray, Xu Yan retreated timidly. The moment he passed by, his hand moved, and at the same time the token on the guard's waist disappeared.

Just as he was about to go out, the guard took a sip of his wine and inadvertently rubbed his arm across his waist, and suddenly realized that something was wrong—the token was gone.

"Where is my token?" The man stood up quickly.

"I didn't see you playing with the token, don't drop it when you came." The companion said.

"Impossible, it was still hanging on my waist just now..." The guard swept around the ground, raised his head, saw Xu Yan who had stepped over the threshold, squinted his eyes, and noticed that the man was tall Unexpectedly, he immediately shouted: "Stop! Which palace are you from?"

At that moment, Xu Yan froze, didn't look back, and didn't answer.

The guard immediately became vigilant, "Who are you? Turn around, did you hear me!"

Xu Yan withdrew that foot, picked out the black cloth from the collar of his neck with one hand, and pulled it upwards, covering most of his face, leaving only a pair of cold and sharp eyes.

With a creak, he closed the wooden door and turned around.

When the guard saw that the other party was covering his face, his murderous aura almost dimmed the whole room, and he panicked.

"who?!"

"There's an assassin! Catch him!"

One of them was just about to pick up the saber on the table, so he could only raise his hand to block the tray flying towards him. At the moment when his vision was blocked, the whole person was suddenly lifted up by a strong force.

Xu Yanli stood behind the guard, with one hand on his neck, and said to the two opposite people in a deep voice, "Don't move."

The two guards froze suddenly, "What do you want to do?!"

"Let him go!"

The guard who was held hostage trembled all over, not daring to struggle, and looked at his colleagues as if asking for help.

The two guards didn't dare to move again, they could only yell: "I tell you, this is in the palace, you can't escape! Let him go quickly, there is still a way out!"

Hearing this, Xu Yan nodded slightly, as they said, he pushed the hostages towards them violently, and then he followed suit, and when he passed by, there was a sound of hunting, causing the candles on the table to tilt. off.

The light in the room was very dark, only a clang sound was heard as the long sword came out of its sheath, and a ray of snow pierced the darkness. Xu Yan turned sideways in an instant, avoiding the sharp blade that could split him in half, and swung his palm to stun the sword guard.

The other person was obviously terrified. The sword was only half out of its sheath, but Xu Yan grabbed the scabbard and thrust it back. Before he could react, he had already lost consciousness under the opponent's blow.

The candle flame rose gradually, the light in the room was blurred, and the two fell down.

The last remaining guard shrank back tremblingly, "Don't kill me..."

"Don't worry." Xu Yan made a promise, and the next moment stepped forward to knock him out.

When he walked out again, he was already dressed as a guard, with a slim robe and a long sword. The line from shoulder to waist was very conspicuous, smooth and straight.

The neckline of the cloud pattern on Xuan's chassis was too tight, and Xu Yan raised his hand to loosen it.

After getting the token, he quickly passed the inspection, passed through the gatehouse, and entered the Treasure Pavilion next to the main hall.

The inside of the pavilion was pitch black, Xu Yan lit a lamp, and when the light came on, there were a variety of luxury treasures displayed on the elevated shelves on all sides, which almost dazzled him.

Time was limited, and before he had time to look more, he began to look for the pearl that Xiyi paid tribute to.

There was silence all around, Xu Yan searched for a long time before finding the silver-gilt crown, he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, but when he got it in his hand, he found that the beads that should have been inlaid on it were gone.

He frowned suddenly, turned around and scanned the pavilion, feeling something was wrong belatedly.

The candlelight at hand moved to the depths, and the covered shadows faded away, only to see a man standing not far away, with ragged clothes, disheveled temple hair, face covered with dust, the outline of facial features could not be seen clearly, just looking at him leisurely.

——There was a person standing here without a sound, and he didn't notice it at all. This scene was simply horrifying.

Xu Yan's whole body tensed up immediately.

The man on the opposite side met his gaze, tilted his head, raised the hand in the sleeve casually, and threw a bright white pearl into the air, and when it fell, he firmly caught it in the palm of his hand.

"You..." The man seemed to find it quite interesting and wanted to say something, but before he made a sound, he was grabbed by Xu Yan who suddenly stepped forward and slammed him to the ground.

With a bang, the man hit the ground on the back of his head, and fell into a daze.

The dust on the ground drifted and fell, and the moonlight shone through the wide window and fell on them.

"Who are you?" Xu Yan pressed against him firmly, the outline of the moon behind him formed a huge shadow, completely covering the man under him.

The man blinked, "...me?"

"Say." Xu Yan threatened in a serious tone, "Otherwise I'll kill you!"

"Kill me?" the man said, "Are you scaring people?"

Xu Yan snorted coldly: "If you're scaring people, you'll know soon."

Compared with Xu Yan's tenseness, the man was obviously very relaxed, even with an imperceptible smile: "I know now that you can get the token to come here, it is impossible not to be discovered, but you have a little blood on your body. There is no smell at all, which proves that you didn't kill anyone on the way into the palace."

Xu Yan choked, the atmosphere was very strangely silent for a while, and he asked, "Who are you?"

"Thank you..." The man paused very briefly, "Well, my name is Ye, Ye Liuzhou, who are you?"

Xu Yan thought about how to solve the trouble, but didn't say anything for a while.

But Ye Liuzhou had already started to move, asking a series of questions: "Who sent you? What are you looking for?"

"Shut up." The veins on Xu Yan's forehead twitched.

"I'll know if you don't tell me." Ye Liuzhou raised a hand, shaking the faintly glowing pearl in front of him.

As if being bewitched, Xu Yan's eyes followed the pearl.

"You came here for it." The man said in an affirmative tone, "Me too."

Xu Yan made up his mind to snatch the pearl and knock the man unconscious, and then leave the palace quickly.

Just as he was about to make a move, unexpectedly Ye Liuzhou seemed to have sensed his intention, put down the pearl and said, "Hero, if you have something to say, please take the pearl and don't do it."

Xu Yan snatched the pearl with his hands, let go of the man and stood up, opened the window without stopping and turned out, but before he took a step, he felt that the hem of his clothes was stagnant, and he turned his head.

The man was separated from him by a window, and reached out to grab the corner of his clothes.

The fog in the sky cleared away, the ink clouds retreated to both sides, and the bright moonlight poured out.

The man's face gradually became clear. Although it was covered with dust, the lines at the ends of his eyes could still be seen. They were peach blossom eyes, like a crescent of moonlight reflected on the water.

He asked, "Let's go together?"

Xu Yan and him looked at each other for a few breaths, and said two words: "Let go."

Ye Liuzhou spread his hands cooperatively and took two steps back.

Xu Yan turned and left mercilessly. Before he could go far, he saw lights stretching in the distance, moving quickly, and the forbidden army had already been well-trained to surround them from all sides.

Helpless, he had no choice but to retreat to the court again.

Ye Liuzhou walked out of the pavilion with slow steps, and said very leisurely: "What a coincidence, you were discovered."

He looked at Xu Yan jokingly, "What to do... If you are caught, do you know what will happen?"

Xu Yan said: "What's your idea?"

Ye Liuzhou didn't make any detours, and said, "You take me out of the palace together, and I'll tell you how to avoid these forbidden troops."

"Since you can come in, why don't you go out by yourself?"

He raised his eyebrows and replied: "Because my skill is not as good as yours. If you want to avoid the imperial army and leave the palace, you need to go through the secret passage very quickly so as not to be discovered."

After a while, the Kung Fu Forbidden Army will arrive, Xu Yan quickly said: "Deal."

Ye Liuzhou laughed, "Go to the top of the pavilion first, then jump to the main hall."

Xu Yan took the lead and flew over quickly. When he lowered his head, he saw that the other party was climbing the wall slowly, and it seemed to be very laborious.

At that moment Xu Yan felt that it was a wrong decision to take the other party out of the palace.

He could only say to Ye Liuzhou annoyedly: "You are more than just poor in skill? You don't know it at all, do you?"

"Wait for me, I'll be here soon..." Ye Liuzhou was still working hard.

According to his speed, Xu Yan closed his eyes slightly before the forbidden army arrived.

He could only fall down and strode forward. When he passed Ye Liuzhou, he grabbed the opponent by the back collar and lifted him up. He stepped on the stone carving and landed firmly on the glazed tile roof.

With the weight of a person, his movements were not sluggish at all, and he jumped to the Taixuan Hall like flowing clouds and flowing water. Xu Yan let go of Ye Liuzhou, and leaned down to check the secret path that the other party said.

His Highness's black imperial army had arrived, Xu Yan held his breath, and suddenly heard Ye Liuzhou's soft call from behind him.

He also thought that the other party had made some important discovery, turned around and found that this guy was standing upright like a big pillar, for fear that the imperial guards below would not be able to find it, pointing his finger at the vast night sky, and said with a smile: "Look, starry sky!"

The veins on Xu Yan's forehead bulged, and he knocked the man unconscious with a knife in his hand. He picked up the unconscious man and walked non-stop through the dark passage covered by flowers and trees.

The scattered light and shadow between the branches continued to pass across his face, and the scattered petals fell on the ground from his clothes.

The night sky in the distance, as Ye Liuzhou said, is covered with diamond-like stars, converging into a bright silver line, standing on a high place, as if it is within reach.

The moment Xu Yan grabbed the rope on the palace wall and fell down, he saw the lights of the entire palace spreading like hellish red magma, and the imperial guards shuttled through it with gold and iron horses.

He couldn't help frowning, "As for?"