A glance at the spring breeze

Yin Jian and Cui Hong finally rushed back outside the cave and found the narrow entrance they had entered before.

The sky darkened, and the dark clouds in the sky gradually gathered into piles, obscuring half of the sunlight.The green trees and red flowers around are slowly withering and withering, as if they have lost their vitality, and go with the wind.

The howling wind swept the green and red all over the place.

Who would have thought that Wu County, which was just in the midst of the scorching heat, would have already entered autumn in the blink of an eye.

Cui Hong raised his eyes and looked at the sky: "Your Majesty, in about half an hour, it will start to rain heavily."

"We must get in as soon as possible."

The two walked to the small stone cave where the four of Yin Jian took shelter from the rain before, and groped for the mechanism that could open the secret door.

The light here is dim, and the surroundings exude a damp and salty smell.Yin Xian remembered that he was sitting on the front right, while Qi Mo was sitting diagonally across from him——

Yin Xian pressed a certain part of the stone wall according to his memory, and sure enough, an inch of the wall collapsed immediately.

right here!

With a bang, a secret door opened behind him.

at the same time--

"Whoosh-" sound.

There was still a short distance between Yin Jian and Cui Hong, unable to stop him, he could only shout: "Be careful, Your Majesty!"

Yin Jian leaned his body to the left, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a hidden arrow flying towards him.But it was clearly very dark here, but the arrow cluster reflected a sharp and dazzling light, making him close his eyes.

Fortunately, Yin Jian's hands didn't stop moving, Cui Hong watched helplessly as Yin Jian quickly conjured a shining golden folding fan out of nowhere, opened it with a "swish", and then threw it in the direction where the hidden arrow appeared.

The wide cuffs were blown up by the wind from waving.

There was only a crisp sound, and the arrow cluster was directly shot in the wrong direction.

The fan was not damaged at all, and the paper was not even wrinkled. It whirled briskly in this small cave and fell back into Yin Xian's hand.

Cui Hong was dumbfounded.

Only then did Yin Jian open his eyes, and there was no trace of fear on his face.He put away the folding fan in his hand, lightly tapped his right palm twice with it, and said with lowered eyes: "It seems that a lot of hidden weapons have been added here, so you must be more careful this time."

Cui Hong paused for a moment, then nodded and said, "Yes, yes..."

The two walked into the secret door together, and blew a fire in the dark and silent secret passage.

In an instant, the situation in the secret passage unfolded before their eyes.

This is--

The secret passage ahead is flat and open, but there are sporadic bloodstains everywhere.

Some splashed on the ground, some on the walls, and some sprayed on the top.

Cui Hong frowned, squatted down immediately, stretched out a finger, wiped the blood beside his heel, and put it under his nose to sniff.

"The blood on the ground is very fresh. It should have been left within half an hour, at most no more than an hour." Yin Jian recalled: "When I came here yesterday, it was very clean."

Cui Hong said: "Could it be the blood that Eunuch Zhang shed after being injured?

After all, Manager Zhang had told him before that he was going back here.

Yin Jian pondered for a moment, then suddenly took out a thumb-sized stone from his bosom, raised his hand and threw it on the ground far away.

"Whoosh whoosh—"

As soon as the stone fell to the ground, several hidden weapons flew from all directions, even from the top of the secret passage, and shot straight at that place.

Ping zero bang bang, the speed is so fast, there are so many hidden arrows, ordinary people must be unable to react in time.

People who are skilled in martial arts may be able to use lightness kungfu to avoid, but after avoiding, they need to settle in another place, which will trigger a mechanism in a new place, and after repeated repetitions, their physical strength will definitely be exhausted.When you are exhausted, you need to use lightness kung fu to avoid the hidden arrows from all directions, it is as difficult as climbing the sky.

But if Mr. Zhang is a master of martial arts... Yin Jiandao really doesn't know if this kind of chain formation can trap him.

At this moment, there was a "cracking" sound from the wall when the mechanism was in operation, and the five-inch ground where the stone was located, where several sharp hidden arrows were inserted, suddenly sunk, forming a scorpion. The dark hole, and then, the hole was quickly refilled.

Except for a few blood stains that were stained on it before, everything else was gone.

There are no stones, and no stabs in the back.

It was as if nothing had happened just now.

Yin Xian's eyes were suddenly covered with a faint mist of unknown meaning.

He cast his eyes on the ground, bent down to observe the ground carefully, and sure enough——

Yin Jian said: "He left a mark here."

"Who?" After Cui Hong asked, he realized that Yin Jian was referring to Mr. Zhang, and he quickly asked, "Where is the mark?"

"On the ground."

"Oh? Let me take a look." Cui Hong squatted down again, keeping his eyes on the ground, and indeed found an inconspicuous symbol on a nearby aisle.

"This is..." Cui Hong looked familiar.

"This is the mark of the Kan hexagram in the gossip. I guess, Yun Sheng marked it here to mean... If you step into this area, the hidden arrows will fly from the knuckle."

In addition to the nearby row of ground, the marks left by Manager Zhang can also be seen a little farther away.

Cui Hong followed Yin Jian's words and thought for a second, "No, look, Your Majesty, just now you threw a stone into it at random, and the hidden weapons that flew came from everywhere, not just from one direction Also... How can we clearly know where is the threshold, where is the dry position, and where is the earthquake position in this dark and gloomy small cave?"

Yin Jian swept towards the place marked "Kan Gua" with his burning eyes.

"Try it, and you will know."

Before Cui Hong could react, Yin Jian took out another small stone from his bosom, flicked it with his fingertips, and landed there with a "bang".

"Whoosh-"

At the same time, a sharp arrow light immediately appeared from the front of the two of them, and shot towards the place where the stone fell. After landing, it was cleared out of the secret passage by the functioning mechanism just like before.

Cui Hong suddenly realized: "Your Majesty, it seems that the meaning of this mark is exactly what you said, this time there are only arrows flying from one direction, not from all directions as before. Then... our main Is the convenience in front of you a barrier?"

Yin Jian replied: "It should be so. However, there are no extra stones on my body, and there are no other things that can be thrown away at will. If you want to try again, you don't have to try."

Cui Hong asked in surprise: "Speaking of which, why does Your Majesty carry two useless stones with him?"

Yin Jian's hand holding the fan paused for a moment.

He looked away: "Remembering some things when I was young, I picked up two stones from the ground and put them in my arms."

"..." Cui Hong felt very at a loss.

So what does the stone have to do with the emperor's youth?

It's just that it's not time for small talk now, before Cui Hong could ask any more questions, he heard His Majesty beside him say: "Yun Sheng is superb in martial arts, he is one of the best masters in the palace, and he also has a little knowledge of yin and yang, five elements and eight trigrams. He marked it, presumably both of you and I will be buried here."

Cui Hong laughed: "It seems that I have to thank that father-in-law."

"So, are you familiar with gossip directions?"

"I know a little bit."

Yin Jianping looked at the flickering secret way in front of him: "For a while, you are walking very fast. Every time I step into a place marked by Yun Sheng, I will call out the gossip direction indicated by the mark. You just need to follow This is enough to avoid the hidden weapons that are flying."

"Yes! Thank you, Your Majesty!"

……

In the end, the two passed the secret passage smoothly according to the sign left by Manager Zhang.

"Phew, it's too tiring..." Cui Hong collapsed on the ground panting, with one hand covering his forehead, "Your Majesty, let me rest for a while... Are there any more marks in front? I don't remember the front There is an exit in the distance, I can’t walk anymore, hoo—”

Yin Jian looked at the ground three feet in front of him thoughtfully.

There was a pool of thick, blackened blood, surrounded by mottled blood splatters.

It's as if it spit out of your mouth in an instant.

Yin Jian also had some sweat on his forehead, he said: "The convenience is the exit, don't delay, get up quickly."

"Yes..." Cui Hong got up from the ground.

The two walked towards the hidden door ten steps away.

No one would know that at the highest point above the two of them, there was a folded dark yellow envelope stuck on the most important gear of a mechanism.

Just over half an hour ago, Manager Zhang who passed through the secret passage just now stood at the place where Cui Hong was lying.

At that time, he only suffered a little superficial injury, but luckily the arrow cluster was not poisonous, so he was fine.

He brushed the dust off his cuffs, and spat out a mouthful of blood on the ground.

This kind of mechanism maze, Mr. Zhang discussed it with the young master of the Zhang family in a letter a few years ago. Although there are some details that are different from the previous discussion, overall, it does not pose a threat to him.

He secretly said in his heart, from this point of view, Zhang Yushen is indeed still alive.

but--

Director Zhang thought about it for a second: Your Majesty and the others don't know anything about these organs. If he doesn't leave a way to break the formation, then His Majesty may be in danger of life after entering.

After some deliberation, he returned to the starting point and engraved gossip marks on every channel to break the formation.

His Majesty is naturally intelligent, if he saw these marks, he would know how to pass.

Director Zhang finally got everything ready. He was exhausted, and the wounds on his body began to ooze blood, soaking his sleeves and skirt.

Sweating profusely on his forehead, he walked towards the exit of the secret passage ten steps away.

at this time--

Suddenly, a waterfall of darts and arrows rained down from above his head.

Even if he blocked it with the long sword in his hand, these hidden weapons were as hard to dodge as fireworks falling from the sky. In an instant, there were many hidden weapons in his body, and some of them penetrated into his back and abdomen as if they had life.

"puff--"

He immediately spit out a mouthful of blood and knelt down.

Beads of sweat rolled down his forehead, wet his eyelashes.As soon as he stretched out his hand, he popped out an envelope that was folded in his arms, and it happened to get stuck on the highest mechanism.

The falling darts disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

He dragged his exhausted and seriously injured body to the secret door ahead.

quick--

Seeing him soon--

……

Yin Xian pushed open the secret door, and saw a man standing in the empty cave with his back to him.

And in the innermost part of the cave, there was a huge birdcage hanging, and Ruan Lan was tied up, with her head hanging down, leaning against the stone wall beside the cage.

Inside the birdcage was a chirping gull with black wings and a white body. Yin Jian seemed to have seen it somewhere.By the way... Zimo had told him that this was an albatross in the sea.

Yin Jian immediately shouted: "Ruan Lan!"

But Ruan Lan, who was sitting on the opposite side, didn't respond at all.

"Your Majesty, don't shout. He has passed out, and he can't hear you if you shout again."

At this moment, the person with his back to Yin Jian turned around step by step.

Yin Xian was instantly taken aback by the fleshy head in front of him.

"You are... Xiaoyuzi?"

Even in astonishment, Yin Jian quickly recognized the other party's voice.

"That's right, Your Majesty, it's the slave, Xiao Yuzi, who is the Eunuch Yu you have been using all this time."

Cui Hong stepped forward and whispered in Yin Jian's ear: "Your Majesty, be careful, he may be the master who has been hiding in the palace to help Chen Chuiling."

Yin Xian understood, but still couldn't believe that the usual timid but kind and loyal Eunuch Yu would be the killer lurking beside them.

It's just... unbelievable.

Yin Jian is not an emotional person, he quickly cleared up his chaotic and entangled thoughts, stepped forward and said: "So, the maid in the palace who threw herself into the well, and Wei Wanpin were all murdered by you?"

"Your Majesty is really talented, and you can guess it after a little reminder. That's right, I did all of this, including Master Ruan's mother and father, and even the secret letter to impeach Ruan Shangshu that His Majesty received before he took the throne, as well as the people who walked in Yudi. The granary in the eastern suburbs of the water..."

"You!—" Yin Jian couldn't say a word that he usually used to accuse ministers and guards.

What Eunuch Yu has done is really too much, even the description of "harming nature and reason" seems to be overshadowed by him.

Yugong said fairly: "Oh, Your Majesty, please don't be in a hurry to scold the servant, the servant reminds you, the letter that Yin Cheng carried in his arms before he died, has the word "go to sea", do you still remember it? "

"of course I remember."

After Yin Cheng jumped off the tower and fell to his death, Yin Jian found a secret letter from him, on which there were only two sentences written.

"Towering giant trees will shade the sun."

"Go to sea."

The first sentence refers to the crazily growing towering tree in front of the Yellow Crane Temple.

As for the second sentence——

Yugong said fairly: "Your Majesty, you think that the second sentence refers to the way to solve the mystery of the big tree in the Yellow Crane Temple, so you think that the sea above is the East China Sea. In fact, the sea above refers to the North Sea, which is this island. The sea area where it is located. Yin Cheng has discovered the ambition of Princess Yueyang's son-in-law a long time ago, he is reminding you..."

Yin Jian couldn't stand Yu Gonggong talking to him in his shrill voice, so he asked bluntly, "Who are you?"

"Oh? Your Majesty asked me? I am Zhang Yushen, the only son of the Zhang family whose clan was exterminated by Yin Cheng. Yin Cheng set fire to the entire Zhang family, and now only a few members of the Zhang family survived. Although I survived, but Look at my face, how does it look like a living person! Why, don’t you remember, Your Majesty, what Yin Cheng did? Raising the corner of his lips, he said, "Or, do you really have no memory of certain things?"

"..."

There was a trace of blood in Yin Xian's eyes.

He spoke again, his voice was already hoarse, even with some unsteady breath.

"You even did this?"

Zhang Yu said with a deep smile: "Where is it, how can this slave have such a great ability, it has to be attributed to Lord Xichen, and this slave must not take the credit of Lord Xichen."

Yin Jian seemed to have reached extreme grief and anger, but he sneered self-deprecatingly.

He didn't want to waste time with the other party on this topic, so he continued to take a step forward and asked: "Since you are Zhang Yushen, and Manager Zhang is Cen Kong, you two old friends who have been separated for many years should embrace each other now." Qi Cai, why is there no sign of Director Zhang here?"

Zhang Yu's dark eyes seemed to suddenly protrude from the two empty eye sockets, and he immediately yelled: "Shut up, shut up! He is not my Cen Kong, my Cen Kong, Cen Kong! Kong died a long time ago... he died a long time ago!"

Yin Xian gave a low laugh, but there was no trace of joy in that laugh.

"Looking at your distraught appearance, could it be that...you silenced him before knowing his true identity?"

Zhang Yushen's two dark eyes rolled around: "I, I..."

Yin Xianfu took another step closer to him: "Why, I guessed right? He has searched for you and waited for you for so many years, yet you killed him without asking a word? Didn't you!"

The tone gradually rose, and the voice increased word by word.

It was rare for Yin Jian to be so aggressive.

He was also feeling angry and regretful for Director Zhang.

Zhang Yushen watched the tall figure of the other party walking towards him slowly, and took a step back guiltily.His chest heaved violently, and he pointed at Yin Jian and Cui Hong behind him and shouted: "So what! Anyway, none of you can get out alive today... You, all of you, must die!"

"What about you?" Yin Jian didn't stop walking, looking down at Zhang Yushen who was not far in front of him, and the other's undulating chest due to emotion, "Can you get out alive again? Daoist Xuan Mo Letting you land on this island, he must have a way to discipline you."

"Hahaha, you mean that old Taoist priest?" Zhang Yushen raised his head and laughed loudly, "What can he do, a stinky Taoist priest who will be sent thousands of miles away if he uses a spell, how can he help me? what?!"

Yin Jian continued to walk towards him.

Zhang Yushen turned to look at him: "Let me tell you Yin Jian, ordinary swords can't hurt me at all, and none of you can kill me, even if you hurt my little finger. If you want to kill me, you Go ahead and daydream your blue sky...uh!"

At this moment, Zhang Yushen looked down at the dagger stuck in his waist in disbelief.

The sharp front end of the dagger has sunk into the abdomen.

Yin Jian put his lips close to his dark ears and said, "Oh?...Really?"

A few drops of blood oozed from the corner of Zhang Yushen's mouth: "You, how could you..."

"Unfortunately, just before I came in, I met Daoist Xuanmo, and he gave me a dagger, which was made of my keel, and the keel was cut out from my body A rib..."

Yin Jian pulled out the dagger with a harsh and decisive tone.

"Any evil thing in the world will be afraid of it."

Zhang Yushen immediately fell to the ground.

——Yun Sheng, I have avenged you.

I saw that the sword body was stained with a layer of blood, and fell to the ground along the edge.

"Boom--"

At this moment, there was a loud noise from the top of the cave, and immediately afterwards, Yin Jian felt the ground shake.

"It's bad!" Cui Hong yelled at him, "Your Majesty, this cave seems to be sinking! We must get out as soon as possible!"

"You go out first, and I will follow right away."

Yin Jian used the lightness kung fu Feng Xu to leap to Ruan Lan's side, and carried the unconscious Ruan Lan on his shoulders.

During the period, he accidentally bumped into a birdcage on the side, and the albatross in that cage began to chirp.

The stone on the roof of the cave suddenly shattered and fell down like a rain of stars. Yin Jian had no time to care about the bird, and flew out with Ruan Lan on his back.

"Your Majesty! The mechanism here seems to have failed!"

And from the broken stone on the top, water waterfalls leaked out one after another.

The flood is coming again...

Yin Jian followed Cui Hong and ran out of the cave, then out of the secret passage, and out of the last secret door.

There was a sudden light in front of him, and they finally escaped. It was raining heavily outside, and the island was sinking. He instinctively ran to the beach he had come to before.

"Your Majesty! Come here! Pindao will take you out of this island!"

At this time, Yin Jian heard Taoist Xuan Mo's voice, and he saw Taoist Xuan Mo was waiting on the shore in a small boat, and Princess Yueyang was still lying on the boat.

Yin Jian carried Ruan Lan on his back and boarded the boat with Cui Hong.

Daoist Xuanmo's flat boat was like a fish swimming in the water, swiftly swimming away from the shore.

After boarding the boat, the sudden raindrops could not hit the two of them.

Cui Hong felt that it was novel, so he asked Taoist Xuan Mo: "Daoist, what's going on?"

Daoist Xuan Mo stroked the straight and white beard, and said, "Don't look at this as a flat boat, it can take you through any barrier set by anyone."

"So that's how it is." Looking back, he saw that Wu County not far away was wrapped in thick dark clouds and shrouded in black mist, just like the chaotic state in ancient times when the heaven and the earth were not separated. The sea view is separated on this side.He said: "I always thought that only I, as a remnant of Wu County, could find the entrance to enter Wu County. I didn't expect that it was because someone set up an enchantment, so other people couldn't find it."

The dark clouds over Wuxian County and the sunset over the sea at this time formed a distinct boundary line.

The fiery red sunset is rippling on the blue sea, and the sea breeze blows head-on, bringing a cool and gentle atmosphere.

Cui Hong took a deep breath, it had been a long time since he felt so comfortable.

"Boom--"

They seemed to still be able to hear the sound of thunder in the sky in Wu County.

"Daoist, Your Majesty! Look——Wu County is about to sink—"

Rao is that there are no people on it, it is his hometown after all.Cui Hong shook his head with a sigh.

Yin Jian hugged Ruan Lan in his arms, looked at her silent face, and frowned slightly.

"Daoist, can you help Ruan Lan take a look... What's wrong with him, why hasn't he woke up?"

Cui Hong who was on the opposite side suddenly said for some reason: "Your Majesty, do you think that our escape from the cave was a bit too smooth?"

Before Yin Jian could think carefully about the deep meaning of Cui Hong's words, the unconscious Ruan Lan suddenly opened his mouth to speak.

"Choose him..."

"Ruan Lan, what are you talking about?" Yin Xian eagerly held Ruan Lan's hand, intersecting with it.

However, he suddenly couldn't feel it.

Can't touch the opponent's hand.

Ruan Lan's body began to become illusory, dissipating on the sea surface like moonlight and stars reflected in the water.

Yin Jian was like a stone sculpture, stunned on the spot.

And at this very moment, in a cave in Wu County.

"If only one of you and Yin Jian could survive this time, who would you choose?"

Zhang Yu clutched his wound deeply, stepped on the thigh-high flood, and staggered to the side of the birdcage.

"Master Ruan, if you say you choose him, I'll let him survive, how about that? Am I very kind?"

He looked at the albatross with black wings and white body in the birdcage, and reached in with a finger, trying to touch its forehead, but it pecked at the fingertip with its beak.

"Okay, okay, I won't touch you, let's see how long you can spend with me." Zhang Yushen smiled very peacefully, "Anyway, we are all going to sink into the bottom of the sea together. You say you, just now Yin Zhan What are the twittering calls? Where did the albatross call like that? Haha... Fortunately, he didn’t notice it.”

He leaned his body against the stone wall next to the birdcage, and expressed inexplicable confidence in his words: "I said, I will let you bear all my sorrow and humiliation. But death is too easy, people die once, what? There is no need to bear the pain. Then leave one of you to suffer in the world, and let him taste the taste of getting what you ask for, and losing it again. How? From this point of view, I am still affectionate and righteous to you, my lord. Let you Once you die, you don’t have to suffer the pain of the world.”

At this moment, the human skin|mask in his sleeve suddenly began to cry, the cry was sad and miserable: "You let the lord go, the lord is a good man...you let him go. Uh..."

It was Eunuch Yu's voice.

The albatross in the cage began to chirp again, and it opened its mouth.

——In his mouth is a piece of pink peach petals.

Zhang Yushen pointed at his sleeve and said: "Shut up! You are so kind and kind! Let him go? What should I do if I let him go?! What about my Cen Kong?..."

The human skin|mask said: "Your Excellency is innocent, and His Majesty is also innocent. Cen Kong was killed by yourself! He was killed by your own evil thoughts!"

"Shut up! Shut up for me!"

"Woooo...you are me, and I am you. If you don't shut up, why should you tell me to shut up?"

"..."

"..."

The water in the cave is flowing more and more.

Torrential rain, lightning and thunder.

The flood above the cave gradually overflowed.

The island sank.