[Ancient Sword II] Morning Light Shadow

Seeing that Qinghe Ying came forward to explain the poison donation to Emperor Shengyuan together with Yigao, Shen Xi finally breathed a sigh of relief, after thanking and leaving, as before, she directly let Xiaodaotong who went out to see the guests go back, and walked to the mountain gate by herself .

Although Chu Qi has treasures to cover up the devilish energy, there are many capable people and strangers in the Taihua lineage, and Shen Xi does not want to take risks, so every time she comes to Taihua, she makes an appointment with Chu Qi to meet outside the mountain gate.

On the court side, with Qinghe and Yigao coming forward, they will probably be able to solve the problem smoothly. Now only the Western Regions are left. Shen Xi doesn't know the specific situation there, and the corresponding solution is even more unknown.

Shen Xi is petite, and her stride is already inferior to ordinary people. When thinking about problems, she unknowingly slowed down, and walked a short distance for two minutes without finishing it.

On the contrary, Yiqing who was passing by saw her hesitating, with a rare gloomy expression, and thought she had some dispute with her master, so she joked with her a little bit, and the words spoiled the next episode of Princess Jiaoman. For Shen Xi, the content was really a surprise.

Originally, I wanted to sneak a look at Wen Liu and touch his big fluffy tail. After all, Qinghe opened the back door, and Chenghuang didn't guard the secret realm of Taihua all the time, but when he heard Yiqing mention his teacher mysteriously, When Zun and Chenghuang had to talk about two or three things, Shen Xi felt that it was better not to add insult to injury... It turned out that Giao Yiqing, who licked his chest and tasted blood, had also thought about it.

In fact, when she saw that Li Guer and Yiqing were getting along in harmony earlier, Shen Xi had the idea of ​​throwing the big burden of princess illness to Yiqing.Although Li Bao'er has some minor flaws in her personality - such as Wan Nian Shi Tsao Jiao, but these years of traveling together in various places, her knowledge and vision have improved a lot. Yi Qing also needs material for writing scripts, so I happen to have some chats.

But thinking about Yiqing's background, even though Taihua is tolerant of demons and ghosts who do not do evil, he is still a monastic sect, and he is born to be the nemesis of demons and ghosts.One must know that Li Bao'er couldn't even bear a panoramic photo of Taihua in the crown of the sky. Even if she was protected by the blood of the Tian family, she had achieved a little success in these years, and it was still too much for her to follow Yiqing into and out of Taihua. Reluctantly, not to mention that there is such a crooked zombie like Lala, and if he ran after him, it would be a deadly death.

So when Li Gu'er and Lala didn't know it, they escaped a crisis of being abandoned.

Seeing Shen Xi coming out of the mountain gate, Chu Qi was sure at a glance that the matter had been settled. After all, there was a tacit understanding that had been inseparable for many years. Regarding Shen Xi's thoughts, he could at least guess most of them, not to mention clearly.

Holding Shen Xi in his arms, he walked outside the temporary camp of Lieshanbu, Chu Qi put her down, used magic to sort out the traces of wind and sand on the two of them, and then followed Shen Xi, and entered the camp together.

Apart from Shen Ye, Congyang who went to Longbing Island to look for Yigao was also there. According to her, after Yigao got the news, he mocked Shen Ye for his unreliable work, but he didn't delay the business, and rushed to Chang'an directly. up.Shen Xi knew that he and Qinghe also had some ways to communicate, so he was probably confessing to each other right now.

Although Emperor Shengyuan knew that Shen Xi, Yigao and Qinghe were acquainted with each other, but people from outside the world intervened in the court affairs, which would easily arouse suspicion. In the sky, Qinghe will not act lightly... If he accidentally leaves the impression that the three of them colluded to interfere in the government affairs, they will really be able to eat and walk away in the future.

"Xiao Xi has worked hard on this journey." Seeing her sister entered the tent, Shen Ye stopped displaying the high priest's sheet music, stepped forward and hugged her sister familiarly, and raised her high after a long absence, "Yun Yu is also in the camp , I'll finish the business in a while, let her wash it up for you."

Shen Xi actually doesn't have much to report. After all, the most important thing for her mission this time is Yigao and Qinghe. directly related to poison.

Watching his younger sister go out bouncing around, Shen Ye thought to himself that it was indeed the [-]th female college change, turned around and turned to Chu Qi, his expression returned to seriousness.

"There are all reliable people in the camp. You don't have to worry about Xiaoxi's safety. I have other important things for you to do."

In Shen Ye's original plan, Chu Qi should be the master of the way of assassination. Although he was later reassigned to be his sister's bodyguard, the skill of stealth and intelligence had already been instilled in him.Now Shen Xi's safety is not a problem, and Chu Qi should be allowed to do some work occasionally.

"Let Chu Qi go to donate drugs and take care of the people who infiltrated earlier?"

After taking a rare hot bath in the desert and changing into clean clothes, Shen Xi was a little surprised when she heard the news when she arrived at her brother's tent, "Could it be that the situation over there is more serious than we expected?"

Shen Ye nodded: "At the beginning, we sent people to throw the wooden branch to the town where the plague broke out in the Far West. According to the report from the person who sneaked into the poison donation palace, the missing wooden branch was infected with the plague and mutated. The impact of it is not just a simple loss of mind, it cannot be destroyed by the usual method of dealing with wooden sticks."

Shen Xi suddenly had a sense of sight of shooting himself in the foot with a stone - he was the one who suggested throwing wooden sticks in the hardest-hit areas.

Then she quickly noticed something strange.

"No," Shen Xi thought about it carefully, and said, "Things are not quite right... Brother, do you remember that when we were planning to release jumu branches in the epidemic area, we specially tested the effect of the disease on the jumu branches? Has there been any change... At that time, the Priest of the Seven Kills seemed to have said that the devil energy would not intensify the disease, and that disease, which I also used to raise Gu, would not infect plants at all..."

Hearing this, a sharp light flashed in Shen Ye's eyes: "Xiaoxi means... is the mutation of Jumuzhi man-made?"

"This possibility cannot be ruled out." Shen Xi said softly, "Maybe there are some changes between the wooden branches, magic energy and the epidemic that we didn't notice at the time. Further verification... No matter what, the source must be found out, so that we can prevent it from happening."

As they were talking, new information came back. After the Zhengxi Army and the drug-donating army bumped into each other several times, the two sides remained silent. The drug-donating king Hunxie seemed to be suspicious of the general who was going to fight, and the commander of the Zhengxi Army Here, they plan to besiege the city.

So Chu Qi's task changed from supporting the advance personnel to directly stealing Jumu branches.Shen Ye and his entourage are no more difficult than Zhengxi Army, and there are often scouts from the two armies around, it is better to retreat as soon as possible to solve the problem. As for the mutated wooden branches, once they are found, they have plenty of time to investigate.

On the other hand, Chu Qi soon joined up with the people who sneaked into the palace of the poison donor. It happened that a high-ranking official in the city was assassinated and died. It only takes half a day for the wooden branches to go and come.

"...What is this?" Seeing the pottery pot brought by Chu Qi filled with slender white and green fruits, Shen Xi really didn't know what expression to put on.

"It's grapes. This subordinate has already washed them." While talking, Chu Qi put the fruit bowl on the table in front of Shen Xi, "The desert is dry and hot, and there are few trees. Miss Xi is not resistant to heat, so you can eat some grapes to relieve the heat." heat."

"I know it's grapes..."

Shen Xi rubbed her forehead, "Didn't you go to steal a wooden branch? Don't tell me that grapes can still grow on a wooden branch!"

Everyone else was busy. She hid in the tent and ate grapes to cool off. How bad it would be to be seen by others!

As if seeing what Shen Xi was thinking, Chu Qi rubbed her hair: "Miss Xi, don't worry, the master ordered that no one else be allowed to enter Miss Xi's residence... Grapes are born from the garden of the palace donated to poison, not the fruit of the tree."

"Hmm...then when you were washing the grapes, did anyone see you?"

Looking sideways at the kumi grapes with water droplets, they are so fresh and plump that they must taste very sweet... Shen Xi thinks that Chu Qi is actually pretty good.

"This is absolutely impossible." Chu Qi said confidently.

"Yeah, it's also your kindness, I'll accept it first... I'm not going to be an example!"

Shen Xi repeatedly reminded herself that you are no longer a weird physique that recovers once every three days, you will gain weight if you eat too much, especially sweet things!Not even fruit!

"Miss Xi, this subordinate passed by an oasis before and found that the melons are already ripe."

"... Chuqi, you hate me, don't you?"

"The desert is dry, don't force me to find a torch..."

As Shen Xi's little friend, the priest of Tianfu is obviously not within the range of "other people" that the high priest said, so she can come to chat with her little friend at any time.So as soon as he walked to the door of the tent, Cong Yang heard that his little friend planned to eat alone.

Others are so busy that they wish they could grow two pairs of arms to work, but you are showing off your affection, are you looking for it? !

"Do you want to eat?" Shen Xi handed over a small bunch of grapes, "It's short for eating people!"

"Thank you~" Cong Yang's position quickly changed from reporting to joint crime.

As for Chu Qi's gaze that can almost stab people to death, Cong Yang doesn't care... Let you show your affection, let you abduct a girl, you should!

When Shen Xi and Cong Yang eat together, the food always disappears very quickly, and the competition is quite fierce.But all along, Shen Xi always wins more and loses less. She used to be Shen Ye, but now she is Chu Qi, and there is always someone to help her grab food.

When Chu Qi proposed to find cantaloupe and Shen Xi was in the dilemma of growing into a chubby girl or continuing to eat fruit, Yun Yu reported outside that Shen Ye invited Shen Xi and Cong Yang to discuss matters.

After discussing with a few confidants, Shen Ye decided to quickly find out what happened to the mutated wooden branches. Although everyone had taken simple measures to prevent and control infectious diseases before, professionals were still needed at this time.

Shen Xi is the best at this aspect in the camp. He is a priest of the Seven Killers under Congyang, but he is not good at Gu, so he can barely do it.

Seeing that she was not named, Chu Qi resolutely left the camp and headed for the oasis where she had seen the cantaloupe before - the little girl was a bit fatter and softer to hold more comfortably.

The wooden branch in the table case enchantment is surrounded by a layer of faint purple-black mist, and the upper half looks the same as the ordinary branch folded from the wooden branch. The only difference is that the fracture of this wooden branch is inserted in a On a walnut-sized ball of dirt.

And what attracted Shen Xi's attention was that very inconspicuous dirt ball. For some reason, this dusty dirt made her feel a little strange.

"The lump of mud under the branch doesn't seem to be the soil around here?"

"Indeed." Cong Yang nodded, "Your brother had someone check it with magic, and it seems to be the soil in the Lingzhou area."

Lingzhou...the Black Death...

With a flash of inspiration in his mind, Shen Xi suddenly had a bottom line.After a little thought, she reached into the barrier, picked up a wooden branch, and crushed the dirt ball. As expected, the hard and dry soil split and shattered, revealing a beetle wrapped in it, and a growth appeared from the lower end of the wooden branch. Many roots wrap around the surface of the beetle, penetrate the chitin shell, and penetrate into the beetle's body.

Congyang opened his eyes wide: "This, this... isn't the scarab from Lala's hometown?"

"It seems that Qinghe and Yigao went out to explain to Emperor Shengyuan, and they found the right person... Including me, the three parties involved in Lingzhou that year were all present."

"Yigao, Lingzhou..." Congyang recalled for a moment, and finally remembered the connection between these points, "You mean, the appearance of Jumuzhi in donating poison is related to the barbarian rebellion in the Northwest?"

"That year when the two armies faced each other in Lingzhou, because there was a pagan wizard in the enemy army who was good at Gu, Yigao asked me to try to get rid of that wizard, so I used the plague you brought back together with the scarab to refine the plague Gu, Everyone who stepped into the camp where the sorcerer was staying was killed... Later, the rebel army was defeated, and the remnants fled to the Western Regions, and the drug donation happened to be on the main road from the Central Plains to the Western Regions..."

Shen Xi's voice gradually dropped, and her face became darker and darker.

She was the one who came up with the idea of ​​throwing the wooden sticks to Europe, and she was the one who smelted the plague gu. The result of adding the two together has now turned her around... If she can hold back this breath, she will say "Shen Xi" Come and write.