Chen Shi

In Chen Zhi's mind, the Xinyang City at this time must be in flames of war and everyone is in danger, but when he got there, he realized that he had made a mistake.At this moment in Xinyang City, the streets are bustling, the people are safe and the dogs are idle, in twos and threes, lazy, how can you see the tension of soldiers approaching the city?On the other hand, I came here in a hurry, like a person hiding from debts thousands of miles away, which attracted many people's curious eyes.

Chen Zhilue straightened his clothes, went into the nearby teahouse, chose a table next to the scholar, lit a pot of Maojian, and listened to their chat.Sure enough, he was talking about the Southwest King's attack on Xinyang.

One person said that the king of the Southwest is coming in a menacing way, so if there is no fight, it will be nothing but victory.Immediately someone retorted, as the saying goes: the archway in Xixian County, the woman in Luoshan, and the city wall in Xinyang.The city wall of Xinyang was as solid as gold, and Bao asked him to become the king of the southwest, and Xinyang surrendered.

Of the five scholars, two won, two lost, and one was a peacemaker, they settled the war without any sense of urgency.

Chen Zhi couldn't hold back anymore, and squeezed between them with a teapot in hand: "You guys are right, I don't understand something, please ask me."

The scholars said in unison that they dare not.

Chen Zhi said: "Everyone foresees that the war will start, why are you still so calm?"

The scholar gave him a strange look and said, "Where did you get out of?"

Chen Zhi was stunned for a moment, knowing that he must have missed something, he shied away from drinking and getting drunk a few days ago, woke up yesterday, and went out today, hearing such a big event, he was inevitably flustered.

The scholar said: "Then you are very drunk!" It turned out that Xinyang was found out in the collective corruption and malfeasance case of the government before, and now the highest official in the city was sent to judge a year ago.In his early years, he followed the black armored soldiers to fight in the north and south, and he had rich experience. Long before the Southwest King's army came down on the border, he foresaw that the battle would be difficult, so he notified the people early and sent them out of the city.Those who are left now will live and die with the city voluntarily.

The scholar said: "You go to the Tongpan Mansion immediately, before you have time to leave!"

Others persuaded one after another.

Chen Zhi said, "Why don't you leave?"

The scholars all laughed loudly: "Do you know what we called Xinyang before? It was called Yiyang!"

Chen Zhi came out of the teahouse and asked for directions to Tongpan Mansion.

The gate of the Tongpan Mansion was wide open, and people could come in and out at will, and only when they got inside did anyone inquire.Chen Zhi said that he was going out of the city, and the man took him to the registration office without saying a word, and agreed to wait at the north city gate in two hours.

Chen Zhi asked curiously, "Are there many people who left?"

The man patted him on the shoulder: "If you keep the green hills, you don't have to worry about no firewood. You don't have to be burdened! Just walk, and Xinyang will rely on you to rebuild in the future."

Chen Zhi saw a person in a red official robe hurrying out, and immediately chased after him: "Excuse me, is this the judge?"

The judge turned his head and was about to nod when he froze: "King Chen Liu?"

Chen Zhi didn't expect to be recognized as soon as he met him: "Uh, who are you?"

"Chen Liu, my lower official, when I followed Mr. Wang Weixi, I saw you from afar."

Chen Zhi felt that his title seemed to have stolen someone else's name.

Chen Liu said: "Why is the prince here? Could it be that the reinforcements from the capital have arrived?"

The light that burst out from the eyes is too familiar, just like the vitality when the ice and snow turn into spring, each light is engraved with nostalgia for the world.Who is not afraid of death, who is not greedy for life?It's just that sometimes, what you insist on is stronger than your fear, and you appear fearless.

Chen Zhi's throat choked for a moment before he said, "Well, send me over to check first."

Chen Liu has been in the officialdom for many years, how can he not understand?Just for a moment, she put away her expectations and put on a businesslike smile: "Oh, of course, please come here, my lord."

The Southwest King's army has been stationed for two days, but they have not attacked. They just sent people to patrol around the city wall from time to time. Occasionally, when they saw people fleeing from Xinyang, they ignored them and let them go.That's why the city has been kept calm.

After hearing the news, Chen Zhi was very restless.

The calmer the sky, the crazier the storm that is brewing.

After coming out of the Tongpan mansion, he put on an invisibility talisman and waited at the assembly point where the people were sent away. After nearly an hour, a small group of soldiers came to count the number of people.Since Chen Zhi was not among them, they waited for a while before leaving after having a cup of tea.

Not long after leaving the north gate, he saw the cavalry under the command of the Southwest King cruising around.The Xinyang soldiers immediately guarded the people in the middle and stared at each other warily.

The cavalryman didn't know what to say, and burst into laughter.

The soldiers and civilians in Xinyang suddenly became tense, and the knife rubbed lightly in the sheath.

The distance between the two sides is getting closer...and then getting farther away.

The cavalry looked back at them, and went elsewhere with the horse's belly between them.

It wasn't until they were out of sight that the soldiers breathed a sigh of relief and urged the people to leave quickly.Chen Zhi followed them out for two miles and turned back after confirming that there would be no danger.

Back to the original place, the cavalry is no longer there.

Chen Zhi walked around the city wall before finding them under a row of trees.They were stacking sticks to warm the fire, and they didn't say a word for a long time. It was completely different from the smiling faces when they met the people. In the evening, they got on their horses and returned to the camp.

The camp is stationed outside the south gate of Xinyang, and it is divided into five camps, which seem to be independent but complement each other.

Relying on the advantage of invisibility, Chen Zhi went in and out of the camp as if no one was there.It's just that in the middle of the night, I didn't see the Southwest King. The largest tents in the camp were occupied by a few generals, who were either reading or sleeping. There was no sense of urgency that a big battle was coming.Moreover, many tents in the camp are empty, and there are no signs of the legendary 50 troops.Full count, at most [-].

Chen Zhi vaguely felt something was wrong.If the Southwest King was not attacking Xinyang, then they were stationed here, most likely to deceive others.Maybe it's for the purpose of building plank roads in the open, and keeping the warehouse in the dark... making a fuss?

He rushed to Nanyang City overnight.

Although the atmosphere in Nanyang City was very tense, the army of the King of Southwest was still stationed at the gate, just like a shepherd dog guarding the sheepfold, docile and harmless.

If the goal of the King of Southwest is neither Nanyang nor Xinyang, then where?

Suddenly I remembered what Tan Shu had said that the Southwest King's soldiers were divided into three groups.

One more way...

That way is real!

Chen Zhi quickly opened the map in his mind.Xinyang and Nanyang are the gateways of Henan. If they cannot open here, it is impossible to invade the Yan Dynasty.Jiangxi and Fujian are already in the pocket of the Southwest King, so his next goal is likely to be——

Jiangnan.

That's right, the news that Rong Yun is Cui Yan's descendant reached the Southwest King's ears, and he will definitely try to disintegrate the alliance before Jiangnan and the Yan Dynasty are completely merged.The trick he is using now is to break through each one.

Hope it's not too late for him to understand!

Chen Zhi didn't dare to think too much, and hurriedly turned around and ran towards Jiangnan.

The gateway to the south of the Yangtze River bordering Jiangxi is Yuzhou.On Rong Yun's birthday, the prefect of Yuzhou sent someone to present a pair of white jade pendants, and the prefect of Hangzhou made fun of him saying that he was full of fishy spirit.

Chen Zhi kept thinking about the bits and pieces related to Yuzhou, and the panic in his heart rushed out as if the gate had been opened.People are still halfway, the premonition seems to make things real.

Near Yuzhou, the sky is red.The light in the east is as bright as the sun, and dripping with blood.There was a faint fishy smell in the air, which made me want to vomit.

The city wall of Yuzhou was in sight, and there seemed to be a howling sound, and it was Night Breeze again.

Chen Zhi stopped outside the city wall.

The city gate was slightly open, just enough for a person to enter sideways.

After entering the city gate, there are many pedestrians on the street, like wooden piles.

Chen Zhixin sank suddenly, almost unable to stand still.Among those standing pedestrians, there were peddlers, women with children in their arms, rich men with big bellies, and skinny beggars...the only thing in common was that all of them had faces like gold paper, and their expressions were stiff, as if they had been immobilized suddenly. The technique is fixed.

If you look closely at the red light in the sky, you can see a mass of light floating in the mid-air in the center of the city.

There is a person sitting cross-legged in the light.

Just as Chen Zhi was about to approach, he heard a rush of footsteps. Many soldiers under the King of Southwest were patrolling the street with steel knives in hand.They interspersed among the stiff commoners with expressionless faces, turning a blind eye to all the strange phenomena.

Chen Zhi boldly appeared and stood in front of them.

The soldiers' gazes remained unchanged, but the steel knives in their hands slashed at him in a well-trained manner.

He hurriedly dodged and re-attached the invisibility talisman.

The knives of the group of soldiers lost their target, stopped, put them back into their sheaths, and continued to move forward.

By now, Chen Zhi could naturally see that the soldiers under the King of Southwest, like the people in the city, seemed to have lost their souls. Just as they were thinking of countermeasures, the light in the sky suddenly moved over.A clear male voice said: "Who didn't pay close attention to the child and put it here? I'm not afraid of being eaten." Without waiting for Chen Zhi to answer, he continued, "It's useless to be afraid, I'll eat it. "

Chen Zhi turned to run, but his body seemed to be sealed with wax, unable to move an inch.The invisibility talisman attached to his shoulder spontaneously burned into ashes, revealing his true colors.Not long after, the clothes also burned, and then the flesh...

It's just that although his skin burned quickly, his recovery was not slow, just like a chasing battle, both sides were evenly matched.

"Oh? So it's the Dzogchen Golden Body." The man said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

The fire on his body was extinguished immediately.

Chen Zhi's lips turned white from the pain, and he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, when the other party said again: "Well, it's okay, I can't move your body, I can attack your soul. Anyway, this is what I'm best at."

Hearing this, Chen Zhi felt numb all over, and an indescribable pain seemed to come from all the limbs, and it seemed to be from a place deeper than all the limbs... It was just a moment, like eternity.He passed out from the pain.Before going into a coma, I vaguely heard someone shout: "Stop."

The dark hours were too long and too short.

When Chen Zhi woke up, the painful memory engraved in his soul followed, making him want to pass out again.Fortunately, after waking up completely, he found that there was no more pain in his body, and everything was as usual.

Open your eyes and see a person sitting beside the bed, who is it?

"You..." Chen Zhi wanted to sit up excitedly, but as soon as his elbows were bent, he became paralyzed from weakness.

Jie Wu said: "Your soul has been severely injured by the endless fire, and you need to rest for a while."

Chen Zhi took a breath and said, "Fish..." With faint hope, he looked at him expectantly.

They said helplessly, "I'm late."

"Those people..."

Jie Wu said: "It is also an endless fire."

Thinking that all the people in the city had suffered the pain he felt, Chen Zhi's heart twitched, he couldn't speak, but with a little strength in his fist, he punched the bed.

Jie Wu looked down at him: "But their souls are not as strong as yours, and it is not painful to go."

Chen Zhidao: "They...do they still have reincarnation?"

"Travel around the world, maybe one day I can come back." None of them comforted him.

Chen Zhi closed his eyes and rested for a while, then opened his eyes again and looked at him: "Where have you been during this time?"

No one was silent for a long while before he said, "Have you been to Nanshan?"

Chen Zhi said, "I've been there."

None said: "Nanshan was attacked by demons, and the gods of Nanshan turned into steles in order to protect me. I was chased to the end of the world and recuperated for a long time before I came back. Unexpectedly, I heard the battle between gods and demons just after I came back. I am afraid that something will happen to the world. , just come and have a look. Unexpectedly, something happened.”

A cloud of anger welled up in Chen Zhi's chest: "The Southwest King wanted to use human lives to refine soul banners before! Now he has colluded with some demons who don't know where they came from..." The conversation changed, and he said suddenly, "Do you know the Southwest King?" The portrait that ranked first in the Baimei Banquet made him brood.

Junwu admitted without hesitation: "I know you." He explained, "After the death of the old Southwest King, the original subordinates saw that Chen Xuanxiang was fledgling and ready to move, and spent more than ten years trying to sway his power. If Southwest King The forces are falling apart, and it will take time and effort to clean them up in the future, so I turned into an ordinary Taoist priest and gave him a few words of advice."

Chen Zhi retorted: "It's better to disintegrate and break each other!"

None sighed: "Yes, if I had asked your opinion then, I wouldn't be in such a big trouble now."

Seeing that he wanted to clean up the mess, Chen Zhi immediately asked: "What are you going to do?"

No one said, "How are you feeling now?"

"...How is it good? So what if it's not good?"

"I'm afraid you won't be able to bear the shock."

"As long as the King of Southwest doesn't suddenly open the door and come in to call your master, I can bear it."

Hearing this, Ji Wubo held up a wooden box wrapped in cloth and lifted the lid, revealing a dead head.