treacherous world

Both sides couldn't help frowning after seeing each other's faces clearly.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao's attention quickly shifted away from Feng Tingshui, because standing beside him was a masked figure.Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang are not sure whether this person has been seen before, but this mask is very familiar, and they have seen it not long ago.

When Wu Bue was arrested that day, a masked man escaped.

The reason for the slight change in Bai Yutang's face was that this man had obvious hostility towards Zhan Zhao, and even wanted to put him to death, and even wanted to kill Yin Hou.

Feng Tingshui obviously recognized Zhan Zhao, but Bai Yutang's gap still caught him a little by surprise. Just as he was about to say something, the masked man beside him suddenly raised his hand slightly, stopping Feng Tingshui, and signaled——Let's go!

Feng Tingshui looked at the black cloth box on the ground, seemingly hesitating, but saw the masked man reaching out to touch his chest.

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were stupefied... Because they were hesitant just now, they turned around and left when they saw the masked man raised his hand.The two had a premonition that the masked man would take out something extraordinary from his arms.

Then he suddenly laughed, his voice seemed to be deliberately lowered, "Zhan Zhao, leave the coffin to you, enjoy it." After speaking, he raised his hand and threw something... and stepped back.

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang subconsciously tried to block the people around them, fearing that there was a hidden weapon.At the same time... a strange white smoke was seen rising from the ground.

Originally, the two thought it was some kind of poisonous smoke, but after it rose up, it seemed to be a human figure.

Bai Yutang frowned slightly, feeling Zhan Zhao's sudden pressure on his shoulder, "Be careful!"

Bai Yutang lowered his head subconsciously, a cold light flashed over his head, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a figure sneaking up on him.Bai Yutang is not a cheap lamp, although he was puzzled in his heart, who is so strong in lightness kung fu, sneaking behind him and attacking without him noticing?

Taking advantage of the situation, Bai Yutang swiped at the person next to him, but he didn't feel it when he struck. Suddenly... the person was chopped into two pieces like a cloud of smoke. At the same time, his hand Still attacking with a knife, it seems that he was not injured at all-this is not a person at all!

Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows, turned around and took a step back.

Behind him, Zhan Zhao also retreated to the front, and the two stood back to back to see the besiegers clearly.It turned out that there were four warriors with swords standing on all sides, two white and two black, which seemed to have the meaning of black and white.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang took a closer look, and they understood why there was a feeling of being elusive. This is not a human being at all... Light and floating like a smoker, or to put it more sinisterly, a soul?

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang are not people who believe in strange powers and gods, but seeing is believing, so it is inevitable that they feel weird.

The four smokers seemed to have the same facial expressions, they joined forces to attack Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, the key point was that the smoke came and went without a trace.

No matter how good Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao's martial arts are, they can't stop some insubstantial objects with nothingness in them. When the sword is swung up, it's like slashing in the void, and there is nowhere to strike.However, the weapons in the hands of these four people are still sharp blades, and there are gusts of sword wind and knife wind wherever they go.

Zhan Zhao was frowning, when Bai Yutang said, "Cat, go up."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang had a tacit understanding, knowing that the mouse must have thought of something, so he jumped into the air.I saw Bai Yutang raised his hand and swiped several times, using his internal force to stir up a gust of wind.

"Huh..." Several gusts of wind swept by, and the smoke was blown away after three or two swaying.

Zhan Zhao fell, and Bai Yutang still stood back to back, looking around vigilantly.After a long time... the surrounding area calmed down, the smoke completely dissipated, and the four warriors never appeared again.

Except for a big black box on the ground, there is nothing else.Feng Tingshui, the masked man and the two strange giant beasts just now disappeared.

Bai Yutang raised his hand to show Zhan Zhao, and saw that his sleeves were still a little open.The two looked at each other silently. It was the first time they had suffered such a disadvantage after walking in the rivers and lakes for so long.

After a long silence, Zhan Zhao asked Bai Yutang, "Have you seen it before?"

Bai Yutang shook his head, "I've never seen it before."

Zhan Zhao didn't say any more, since this matter has something to do with Zhan Hao, it's not surprising how weird it is, so he looked back at the coffin.

Bai Yutang stood right behind him, "Feng Tingshui and the others left so easily?"

"This box is so heavy, even if they want to move it, they probably won't have enough strength..." Zhan Zhaozhou reached out and tapped the box lightly, and sure enough... behind the black cloth was a hard metal texture.

"We can't get it back either." Zhan Zhao looked up at the sky, the night was still quiet, and there were no arrows. It seemed that Zhao Pu and the others hadn't had time to do it yet, so they had to wait for the shadow guards to come to support them.

Bai Yutang took out the dagger, and lightly scratched some black cloth, and under the moonlight, he could see something that looked like brass underneath.

Bai Yutang tapped the handle of the dagger lightly, then turned around and told Zhan Zhao, "The cat is gilded and very old."

"Then it should be the golden coffin?" Zhan Zhao also walked to him, leaned on his shoulder and looked at it, "There is still mud in the gaps in the pattern on it, obviously it has just been unearthed."

Bai Yutang tilted his ear, and also reached out to tap lightly, and there was an empty echo coming from inside.

"It's empty." Zhan Zhao became suspicious, "Feng Tingshui and the others gave up so easily, did they take something away?"

"Although they said they were looking for the golden coffin, no one ever knew whether the golden coffin was empty!" Bai Yutang also felt a little regretful, "It's a pity that someone escaped."

……

At this time, the sound of horseshoes came from the road.

I saw Huiying coming with a team of people.Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao asked them to find a way to transport the golden coffin back, while they chased forward for a while.

It's a pity that after chasing for a long time, there is no trace of Feng Tingshui and the others, so I have to give up.

"How's the situation?" Bai Yutang asked the gray shadow who was directing the coffin into the carriage.

"He Zheng's mansion, yamen, and military camp have all been taken. The prince has found the place where He Zheng and Dabing are drinking flowers and wine. It is estimated that they will soon be arrested."

"grown ups."

At this time, a soldier turned his head and asked Hui Ying, "The box is too heavy for the horse to pull."

Gray Shadow frowned and asked people to add horses and exchange for a larger carriage.After tossing for a long time, it took a total of 20 horses and more than [-] soldiers to push the golden coffin away.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang wondered—what are those two giant horse-like beasts?Running so fast and having so much strength?

While walking back, the two asked if Huiying had seen him.

Hui Ying was taken aback, "The big black horse or the red eyes?"

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang nodded.

Gray Shadow thought about it carefully, "I really haven't seen it before, could it be a yak?"

"That thing can't run so fast, can it?" Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang didn't think it was right, and they shook their heads in unison.

"Wild donkey?"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang continued to shake their heads.

"brown bear?"

When Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang heard the name, they thought to themselves, "Ma Xiong Ma Xiong, is that a horse as strong as a bear?"They answered in unison, "This is possible!"

"Really a brown bear?" Gray Shadow asked with wide-eyed eyes, "A bear to pull the carriage?"

"Aren't you talking about brown bears?" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were picking at each other. Just now, they were talking about brown bears, but in an instant, they turned into bears!

"Pony bear is a name, but it actually looks similar to a big black bear." Gray Shadow shook his head, "I think Xuan, that bear is unlikely to listen to people, and it is impossible for it to run for a long time."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang didn't guess anything, they just picked up a big coffin, and they all went back to the city together.

After entering Chengdu Mansion, the situation is different.

Zhao Pu's soldiers and horses moved quickly, occupying the Hezheng Mansion without bloodshed, and the mansions of officials from all over the country were occupied. He also brought the crowd with him.

At this time, Zhao Pu was not there, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang asked, and heard that they were taking people to the restaurant to congratulate them, so they also rushed there.

At this moment, Zhao Pu brought Ziying and Zheying to the door of the restaurant.

This is a place to drink flowers and wine, and the kiln sisters were quite happy at first. Although Zhao Pu was a bit of a hooligan on weekdays, he was a good-looking man with a dignified appearance. Once he walked in, the kiln sisters would lean up.

But all of a sudden, hundreds of officers and soldiers came in.

Everyone was taken aback.

Some wanted to shout, Zhao Pu told Ziying, "Anyone who dares to speak out will be killed."

With this sentence, everyone swallowed back the shouts that came to their lips.

Zhao Pu asked the bustard to take him to He Zheng.It is said that He Zheng and Dabing were drinking flower wine on the second floor just now, and now they have picked two kiln sisters to go to different rooms to rest.

Zhao Pu sneered, led his men upstairs, kicked open the door and grabbed He Zheng first.

At this time, He Zheng was tying up a kiln sister to suck blood, his night demon disease was still not healed, he was so hungry without blood, and the life-sustaining elixir that Bai Yutang gave him had limited efficacy.

He Zheng once met Zhao Pu with a glance, and after seeing him face to face, he secretly said badly, knowing that he was being plotted against, this is the end of the world.

Zhao Pu had someone arrest him, and after he was tied up, he was escorted by heavy soldiers and sent to Kaifeng Mansion for Bao Zheng.

In the next room, Da Bu didn't know it, and was still enjoying himself, when he heard someone knock on the door, he yelled, "Who is it? Get out of here."

But before he finished speaking, he heard a "bang", Zhao Pu pushed the door in and came in, and after a face-to-face meeting, he was so happy, "Hey, I haven't seen you for a long time, and I'm so rich again."

When Da Bing heard the tone, he looked up again, and there was an unconscious "ow" in his throat, and his legs were so frightened that his legs went limp.

Zhao Pu ordered people to arrest him, and escorted him back to Bao Zheng.

When they went out, they happened to run into Zhan Zhao and the others.

The two sides talked about what happened just now.

"Smoke?" Zhao Pu thought it was fresh, and looked at Bai Yutang's torn sleeve again, then frowned, "How many people?"

"Four popped up all at once."

Zhao Pu nodded, signaling to the two not to tell more people.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang naturally knew the pros and cons.This smoke leaves no trace, and has no weaknesses.The two of them have deep internal strength and can use their internal strength to disperse the smoke, which is impossible for ordinary soldiers.These are four samurai, if thousands of troops fight against thousands of horses, it will be a little troublesome.This is something that shakes the morale of the army, so it's better not to say it before you figure it out.

Zhan Zhao saw that Dabing was tied up, and followed with his head drooping, while Ziying teased him, "Oh, Dabing."

Dabing was miserable, and he smiled bitterly and looked at everyone.

Zhan Zhao also stepped back and asked him, "What do you want to bring here?"

Dabing's face changed slightly, he looked around at the crowd, and asked pretending to be puzzled, "What are you lucky for?"

"The things you promised to bring to He Zheng." Zhan Zhao knew that he was pretending to be confused, and helped remind him.

"No……"

"Don't tell me?" Bai Yutang sneered, "Look at your fat head and big ears, you can shave off a lot of meat."

Dabing yelled at Zhao Pu who was in front, "Oh! Zhao Pu, I am the royal family of Tubo, you... you are not afraid of war?!"

Zhao Pu looked back at him and grinned, "Do you think I'm afraid?"

Everyone around looked at the idiot general speechlessly, thinking that Zhao Pu was crazy about the battlefield these days, if you gave him a chance, wouldn't he be happy to let him do it? !

Dabing is a complete idiot, Ziying took out a dagger and wanted to cut off his ears first, so he started yelling, saying whatever he wanted, but he couldn't kill him.

The crowd sent him to the study of He Zheng's mansion, where He Zheng had already been imprisoned, and there was a pile of account books in front of him, and the gold and silver embezzled by him were also dug out from the cellar. , Tell him about his usual evil deeds, so as not to hurt himself.

Bao Zheng looked at his former colleagues who were now downcast and looked terminally ill, and could only sigh.

With the arrest of Da Bing, He Zheng's charge of collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country was confirmed.

Da Bing had been frightened on the way, so he knew everything, and told everything together, how he and He Zheng colluded without mentioning, Bao Zheng asked him, what kind of treasure is he going to bring?

Dabin said it was nothing unusual, but an old cat carved in clay.

Everyone has been very sensitive to coffins and cats recently. When they heard that it was a cat, they all became a little interested.

Bao Zheng interrogated He Zheng, "What's so special about that cat? Why do you say it can deal with thousands of troops?"

He Zheng didn't resist anymore, and now he only wanted to save his life, and replied quite cooperatively, "That's something I heard when I first entered Shu."

It turned out that when He Zheng was in charge of the Chengdu Mansion, he was troubled by many bandits.He sent a large number of troops to suppress the bandits, which took more than ten years.Once, he caught a bandit, and the bandit told him to tell him a big secret in order to protect himself.

According to legend, a hundred years ago, the land of Shu was once a place where thieves were popular, and something happened during this period.At that time, there was a mountain king who accidentally caught a century-old wizard while robbing a business trip.

The sorcerer told him that he knew how to use a treasure. If he didn't kill him, it would help him defeat all the bandits here and rule the land of Shu.

The bandit thought he might as well give it a try, so he spared his life.The sorcerer took out a big cat made of mud, and for some unknown reason, the closed eyes of the big cat suddenly opened.

At the same time, the place the cat saw was instantly filled with blood... Everyone within the range of its eyes was decapitated.

It didn't take long for the bandit to become the overlord in central Sichuan.It's just that people's hearts are not enough, and the bandit wants to be the emperor. The old wizard persuades him not to be too greedy and refuses to help him.In the end, he forced the sorcerer to teach him how to use the clay cat, but the sorcerer was unwilling, so he became murderous.In the end, the wizard felt that if this person stayed in the world, he would bring disaster to the world, so he recited the spell, and the cat's eyes opened... As a result, almost half of the bandits in the entire village died, leaving a few escaped, one of them was The predecessor of this snitch bandit.

The description of the cat handed down at that time was that it was a mud cat half a person tall, very simple, squatting, with its eyes closed and its face facing straight ahead. The strangest thing was that it had five tails behind it.

The cat, taking human life, plus five tails, everything seems to be very similar to the five-life cat, and it also touched Zhan Zhao and others' minds. Could this be the five lives that Tang Qingsong and the others couldn't find? Where's the cat?

He Zheng told Bao Zheng honestly, "It's all because of the Night King who harmed me. It made me think that my life was in danger, so I neglected to control and let those informers go to Kaifeng. One must protect oneself. I remember that the bandit told me that the wizard It's dressed like a lama from the Western Regions, so I wonder if that cat will be in Tibet." He said, looking at Dabin.

Dabin wept sadly, "I've seen that cat before, and it was kept in a small temple beside the snow mountain. It was a fetish of the snow mountain, and no one knew what it was. It was only worshiped as a fetish. Mr. He and I happened to Mention, since he is willing to spend a lot of money to buy it, then I will send someone to get it and transport it here, if it is really magical, it is a rare treasure."

This is the first time everyone has heard this statement.Everyone guessed before that it was a black cat that bumped into the corpse and caused the fraudulent corpse. It was already very scary, but now it sounds even more sinister. Good guy, you can die at a glance? !

At this time, Hei Ying and Bai Ying, who were sent to chase another fleeing team, came back and reported to Zhao Pu, "My lord, we intercepted them. They are all like logs. Mr. Gongsun is diagnosing, but the child has not been found. In addition, Something was found in the carriage!"

Everyone quickly followed out.

I saw a big carriage in the yard.Hundreds of prisoners kidnapped by He Zheng stood in a few rows blankly, their eyes blank and completely unconscious.Gongsun felt their pulse one by one, "They are all just poisoned by a simple poison, which can be cured!"

"what is this?"

Zhao Pu asked people to open the carriage, and found that what was hidden inside was neither a person nor a fake coffin, but bundles of bamboo slips, with a lot of dirt on them.

"It looks like it was just dug out of the ground." Everyone moved those bamboo slips out of the car.Bao Yan picked up a scroll and opened it, frowning, "It's empty."

Gongsun and Bao Zheng also came over, and everyone opened the scrolls one by one, and found that they were really empty bamboo slips, many, many.

"Who is so boring, bury the diabolo slips in the ground."

"There are words..."

Everyone was taken aback for a moment, then looked back, it was Zhan Zhao who spoke.

Bai Yutang frowned, "Cat, can you see it?"

"Yeah." Zhan Zhao took a roll of bamboo slips and opened it, "There are clearly written characters, but I can't understand what they are, like ancient characters."

Everyone remembered at the same time that only Zhan Zhao could see it and everyone else couldn't see it.

Bai Yutang thought for a while, stretched out his hand to pull Zhan Zhao, and touched his waist.

"Hey!" Zhan Zhao quickly grabbed his hand and glared at him——what are you doing!

Looking at the other people around, they coughed and looked up at the sky.

"That piece of glazed stone!" Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao with a serious face, obviously not thinking about playing around right now, "Do you still remember that there was a piece of colored glaze or jade stone, through which you could see blueprints!"

One word awakened the dreamer, and everyone remembered that there seemed to be such a problem, but where was the jade at that time?

"it's here."

Everyone was looking for it, and the fourth son sat on the back of the stone, took out a glazed stone from his purse and handed it to Zhan Zhao, "Is it this?"

"Yes!" Zhan Zhao took it.

Zhao Pu curiously leaned over to look at the bulging purse of the fourth son, "What treasure is hidden inside?"

The fourth son hurriedly hid the little lotus bag, and smiled a little embarrassedly.

The jade pendant was still the same, with pictures on it, no one could see it, but Zhan Zhao could see it, and when he put the jade pendant on the bamboo slips, he seemed to be able to vaguely see some strokes.

"I can't see very clearly, but I can see a little bit." Both Gongsun and Bao Yan watched seriously.

Bao Zheng ordered people to light up the lamp more brightly, and everyone watched together.

Gongsun frowned, "The fat font doesn't look like the ancient writing."

"I think it looks familiar." Zhan Zhao could see clearly without a jade pendant, so Bao Zheng gave him a pen and asked him to trace the handwriting on a bamboo slip.

Zhan Zhao sketched stroke by stroke for a while, and finally finished the painting, showing it to everyone.

"It's like the bamboo raft I found in Wufen Village before, do you remember?" Bai Yutang still had a good memory, and asked everyone, "It's just the wooden board with birds painted on it."

Everyone has naturally remembered that it has something to do with the Restoration of the Former Dynasty and the Four Leaf Sect, but they seem similar, but not exactly the same, which is very weird.

"Bao Yan." Bao Zheng asked his son first, "Can you understand?"

Bao Yan shook his head a little ashamedly, and asked, "Father, my son is a little talented and uneducated, so I don't understand."

Bao Zheng nodded, remained silent for a while, and said very seriously, "I didn't understand either."

Everyone was a little speechless, Master Bao was still in the mood to joke.Afterwards, everyone instinctively looked at the knowledgeable Gongsun.It's just that Gongsun looked at the bamboo slips upside down for a long time, then shook his head as if giving up, "I don't understand."

This time, everyone was dumbfounded. Since the files were written on bamboo slips, a cart full of dossiers must have been left over from ancient times.Feng Tingshui they want to transport away, and the expression is also very important... What is written on it?

Zhan Zhao and the others asked He Zheng and Da Bing, but neither of them knew why there were such bamboo slips.For a while, everyone was embarrassed, and finally Bao Zheng had no choice but to order people to carefully store the files and transport them back to Kaifeng Mansion.

All that remains is to track down the whereabouts of those missing children.He Zheng didn't know anything about Feng Tingshui's actions, and neither did the servants around him.

In the end, Zhan Zhao and the others had no choice but to use the clues given by Tang Qingsong to ask Da Bin, "Is there a Castlevania in Tubo?"

In a word, Dabin raised his face and looked at the crowd, "Devil City?"

Everyone was a little discouraged, this Tubo general had never heard of it... Don't be fooled by Tang Qingsong's tricks.

"Is it the City of Myriad Demons?"

Just when everyone was giving up hope, Da Bing asked a question.

"City of Ten Thousand Demons?" Bai Yutang asked him, "What place is it?"

"It is said that the place where evil spirits gather is also a treasure place where all demon scrolls are buried." Dabin replied, "There are records in the ancient scriptures of Tantric Buddhism."

"The Dome of Ten Thousand Demons, what is it?" Gongsun loved reading books most, but he had never heard the title of the book.

"The Scrolls of Ten Thousand Demons are not books or scriptures, but ten thousand scrolls locked with demons and resentful spirits." Dabin recalled, "I heard from the Great Master of Preaching that there was a gap in the door of reincarnation. Thousands of demons escaped from the gap. Back then, the Dharma Protector gathered thousands of eminent monks to chant scriptures and cast spells day and night to recover these resentful spirits. Unfortunately, the door of reincarnation has been closed, so the resentful spirits were sealed in the scroll. It is said that after ten thousand years, the resentment will disappear, and the scroll will be turned into ashes. That place is called the City of Ten Thousand Demons. The specific location is only known to be in the snow-capped mountains. Even the oldest eminent monk, I don't know where it is, but once this treasure land is moved..."

"What will happen?" Everyone asked.

"The legend should be that the sun and the moon will reverse." Da Bing thought for a while, "The world will fall, and hell will rise. From then on, evil spirits will come to this world... But I said it, it's just a legend."

Although it is a very mysterious legend, but the listeners are interested, and this matter is related to Zhan Hao, everyone can't help but have doubts in their hearts.

Bai Yutang was extra careful, and showed Dabin a portrait of Zhan Hao, and asked, "Have you seen this person?"

"Of course!" Dabin took a look, "Are you an archmage?"

"What?!" Zhan Zhao was surprised, "He is Han Chinese!"

"Who said that?" Da Bing disagreed, "This is our heaven-sent great mage, who preaches and spreads the Dharma, and is our divine protector. He told us about the City of Demons!"

Everyone felt a chill in their hearts... an ominous premonition!