This is a prison located deep underneath the Kokin Temple.

Not long ago, in order to facilitate arraignment and management, Lian Mu decided to use it to hold important prisoners. From Lord Yao to this prison, you have to pass eighteen levels. Each level is guarded by four eighth-order peak level martial artists, and the number of prisoners on each level is different. There were eighteen prisoners on the first floor, and so on, and only one prisoner on the last floor.

There is only one entrance to the entire prison.

Due to the fact that this prison is a long distance from the ground, and each level is heavily guarded, it is impossible to leave alive unless you are dead.

Even if a "prison break" occurs, not to mention whether the person who "escaped" can defeat the gatekeepers on each floor, the "silver and gold" giant doors used to block access on each floor alone are enough to break the idea of "prison escape" for the person who "escaped".

Silver gold, as the hardest iron in the world, will exude a biting chill in the darkness that cannot touch the brilliance of the sun, moon and stars, and then strengthen the hardness, as if wearing a layer of "frost armor" in the dark, so silver gold is also called "ice gold".

Most of the prisons located in the depths of the Illumination Courtyard are made of silver and gold, and they are located deep underground without access to the light of the sky, so this prison is called the "Ice Prison".

In the past few years when the Light Closed Courtyard was deserted, basically all the prisoners would be locked up in the prison in the northern part of Frost Sword City. But now, with the Guangqi Courtyard re-becoming the headquarters of the Three Divisions of the Frost Sword, this "ice prison" designed by the ancestors of the Liu family himself back then was naturally reactivated by Lian Mu.

There was no wailing and weeping, no rat squeaking.

In addition to the sealed doors at the entrances and exits, the cells inside are also made of silver and gold. The heavy frost cut off all sounds from the outside world, and also cut off the prisoners who were held here from each other. The lonely and secluded "Ice Prison" is like a forgotten world under the eighteen silver and gold sealed doors.

The silver-gold gates opened from time to time, bringing fleeting light, and the prisoners who were locked here saw hope, but also endured endless despair alone when the gates were closed.

It is said that the sound of water flowing in the depths of the "ice prison" is often faintly heard. However, the Frost Sword guarding here had never heard of it, and the prisoners who were locked up here could often hear it. Over time, a chilling rumor spreads that anyone could hear drops of water in the "ice prison". Either you're going crazy or you're dying.

At this moment, Xiao Li was closing his eyes, quietly enjoying the faint sound of water flowing through his heart. In the face of Mo Yan's torture and questioning before, Xiao Li casually said everything he wanted to say, and those who didn't want to say, no matter how hard Mo Yan tried, there was no way after all.

The wounds cut by the torture instruments had long since scabbed.

The pain also fades away in the process.

Xiao Li can't remember what day it is.

During the days he was locked up in the "ice prison", he didn't know when it was day and when it was night. For Xiao Li, there is only endless seclusion and biting cold. If you are an ordinary person who is locked up in such an environment, it is simply a more painful torture than death.

While thinking about it, Xiao Li slowly opened his eyes.

He noticed that the giant gate made of silver and gold began to fade away from the "armor of frost". At this moment, a sly smile hung on the man's face. A moment later, the eighteenth-layer giant gate of this "Ice Prison" slowly opened with the combined force of the four frost swords.

Then, the long-lost Mo Yan held up the torch and appeared in front of Xiao Li with Lian Mu. Xiao Li after seeing Lian Mu seemed to be smiling. For the scene in front of him, he was neither surprised nor surprised, but said lightly: "You are here." ”

After hearing this, Lian Mu glanced at Mo Yan and asked Xiao Li, "Listen to your tone." Waiting for me here for a long time?"

Xiao Li: "It should be night outside." ”

Lian Mu: "Is this important to you?"

Xiao Li smiled and didn't answer, and turned to ask Mo Yan: "I didn't lie to you about what I told you before, right?

Mo Yan ignored Xiao Li, Xiao Li smiled: "Alas, how can you be like a different person after not seeing you for a few days, you frost sword people are really ruthless!"

Lian Mu turned to ask Mo Yan in a low voice: "I forgot to ask you just now, have you checked the identity of this person?"

Mo Yan shook his head, and Lian Mu frowned: "You also believe what an unknown person said?"

Mo Yan: "It was because of his unbelief that he disappeared and secretly verified what he said to me before. ”

Lian Mu pondered silently, and Xiao Li on the side smiled: "At first, I thought that you would lock me up in the 'Ice Prison', but I really didn't expect that you would lock me up on the eighteenth floor. ”

Lian Mu looked at Mo Yan suspiciously: "By the way, why did you lock him up on the eighteenth floor?"

Mo Yan: "At first, I locked him up on the seventh floor, but due to the confidentiality and severity of the information he provided, I gave him special treatment. ”

Between the words, Lian Mu pondered silently, and slowly walked to the cold iron fence in front of Xiao Li with Mo Yan, and by the light of the torches, he looked at the prisoner who seemed to know a lot of things with a solemn face. And Xiao Li also looked at Lian Mu by the firelight at the same moment: "You are Lian Mu, the Great Commander of the Three Divisions of the Frost Sword?"

Lian Mu: "Exactly, who are you?"

Xiao Li: "It doesn't matter who I am, the important thing is that Commander Lian knows who he really is?"

Lian Mu was puzzled: "Who am I to care about your?"

Xiao Li smiled and asked Mo Yan instead: "Deputy Commander Mo, I ask you to bring the last bloodline of the Su Guo Lian clan to me, why did you bring such a vulgar person?"

Mo Yan said coldly: "This vulgar Lian Commander in your mouth is the last bloodline of the Su Guo Lian clan, I have completed the agreement, and now it is you." ”

Lian Mu was puzzled: "What agreement did you make with him?"

Mo Yan said lightly: "I brought the last bloodline of the Lian clan to see him, and he told me who the inner ghost of the Frost Sword was, and who was behind it." ”

Lian Mu cleared his throat after hearing this, and said to Xiao Li majestically: "It turns out that you are the one who wants to see me in Mo Yan's mouth?

Between the words, Xiao Li turned around, stood with his hands in his hands, and said lightly: "You guys go back." ”

Lian Mu and Mo Yan glanced at each other, and then wondered, "You're playing with us, aren't you?" Believe it or not, I'll kill you right now." ”

Xiao Li: "Kill me, and you won't get what you want to know." The person I want to see is not your Lian Mu, but the last bloodline of the Shuguo Lian clan. ”

After hearing this, Lian Mu's temper instantly rose: "What you mean by this is an allusion that Lao Tzu is not a descendant of the Lian family, right?"

"The Lian family is a family of generals, how can the last bloodline be a vulgar person like you," Xiao Li paused and continued, "Could it be that your mother steals people?"

Lian Mu said angrily: "Mo Yan!"

Mo Yan was puzzled: "The subordinates are here!"

Lian Mu: "Open the door to this cell!"

Mo Yan hesitated: "This ......"

Lian Mu: "You don't understand what I'm saying, do you?"

Mo Yan: "Isn't the key to the last cell on the last floor of the Ice Prison kept by you? ”

Lian Mu was stunned, and said angrily to Xiao Li: "You are lucky today! I went out without a key, otherwise I will kill you!"

Xiao Li smiled: "Commander Lian is really interesting. ”

Lian Mu: "Who are you?"

Xiao Li: "I'm just a mask seller. ”

Lian Mu: "The mask seller will know that there are ghosts inside the Frost Sword?

Xiao Li: "Maybe the inner ghost of the Frost Sword has bought a mask from me." ”

Lian Mu: "Buy your mask and know that person is an inner ghost?"

Xiao Li: "The masks I sell are not ordinary masks. ”

Lian Mu: "It's hard that your mask is inlaid with gold!"

Xiao Li: "Dare to use the family totem as a mask, I dare to sell it, and no one may dare to buy it." ”

Mo Yan: "But whoever buys it, there must be a problem. ”

Lian Mu: "Who bought masks from you?"

Xiao Li tilted his head slightly, hesitated for a moment, and said, "I heard that the Frost Sword has caught a lot of secret agents from the Mo Kingdom recently?"

Lian Mu: "What, you know someone?"

Xiao Li: "Maybe there are acquaintances of mine in it." ”

Mo Yan was puzzled: "Are you from Mexico?"

Xiao Li: "I said I am, do you believe it?" I say I don't, do you believe it or not?"

Lian Mu: "Tell me, who bought masks from you, and I'll let you go back to Mexico, how about it?"

Xiao Li: "It's better to be like this, let me tell you what you want to know, you let me go with those captured agents of the Mexican Kingdom, how about it?"

Lian Mu thought for a while: "Yes, but we have to wait for us to verify whether you lied to us first." ”

Xiao Li: "That's natural, when the time comes, I hope that the commander of Lian Da will do what he says!"

Lian Mu: "A gentleman's word, a quick horse!"

When Mo Yan heard Lian Mu say this, he wanted to stop it, but it was a moment too late, and Lian Mu's voice had already settled. Without waiting for Lian Mu to ask, Xiao Li continued: "Wait for me to finish answering your question, please please bring me from this deep eighteenth layer to those Mo country spies who were arrested by you." ”

Lian Mu: "No problem. ”

Mo Yan: "No. ”

Lian Mu and Xiao Li looked at Mo Yan with puzzled expressions at the same time. Lian Mu was puzzled: "Why not?"

After thinking about it, Mo Yan gradually understood why Xiao Li wanted to see Lian Mu, the purpose was to wait for someone who could make a final decision. Out of caution, Mo Yan and Lian Mu whispered: "Before this person's identity is fully investigated, Mo Yan advises the Grand Commander to think twice. ”

Lian Mu responded: "Don't panic, I have my own measure." ”

Maybe it was because he was tired of standing, or the wound was aching, when Lian Mu and Mo Yan exchanged ears, Xiao Li sat cross-legged, looking at the two people in front of him, waiting for them to give him a final decision: "Have you thought about it?"

Lian Mu: "Just as I said." ”

Xiao Li glanced at Mo Yan: "Deputy Commander Mo doesn't have any objections, right?"

Mo Yan held the torch and was silent, and replied to Xiao Li's eyes full of murderous intent, Xiao Li turned to Lian Mu and smiled: "If there is anything you want to ask about Commander Lian, just ask! However, you can only ask three questions." ”

Lian Mu: "Why?"

Xiao Li: "This is my rule. ”

Lian Mu thought for a while and said, "Okay." ”

Xiao Li: "May I ask the second question. ”

Lian Mu frowned, thinking, "The first question is gone, is this guy playing with me?", but in the end, reason prevailed over impulse. Lian Mu asked Xiao Li calmly: "Since you came to the Kingdom of Shu, who has bought your mask?"

Xiao Li pondered: "Mo Yan, the deputy commander of the Frost Sword and Han Armor Division, Lord Luyou, the eldest son of the Liu family, Liu Fengchen, and the apprentice Zhou Kang of the deputy commander of Mo. ”

Lian Mu was surprised: "Liu Fengchen?"

Mo Yan lost his voice and said, "Zhou Kang?"

Lian Mu frowned and looked at Mo Yan with a solemn expression.

The names of those people reported by Xiao Li just now, except for Lu You, actually none of them did not surprise Lian Mu: "You also bought a mask from this person?"

Mo Yan: "I paid for it, but the mask wasn't given to me." ”

Lian Mu: "What do you mean?"

Mo Yan: "Why do you give me a mask when someone else is locked up here?"

Lian Mu seemed to understand the deep meaning of Mo Yan's words: "Could it be that the previous information about the inner ghost was bought from him at your expense?"

Mo Yan nodded silently, and continued to silently hold the torch. Lian Mu gave Mo Yan a thumbs up: "Deputy Commander Mo is really heroic!"

Mo Yan: "It's all for the Frost Sword. ”

Xiao Li seemed to smile: "The third question." ”

Lian Mu thought for a while and asked Xiao Li, "Who is that ghost inside the Frost Sword?"

Between the words, Xiao Li set his eyes on Mo Yan who was standing beside Lian Mu, and Lian Mu followed Xiao Li's gaze and looked at Lian Mu, and quietly kept a certain distance from him. Mo Yan listened, frowned, looked at Lian Mu and then at Xiao Li: "What do you mean by this?"

Xiao Li smiled and said, "Please listen to Deputy Commander Mo, I can only tell you about the identity of this inner ghost." ”

Lian Mu was puzzled: "Why, the person who can decide your ending is me and not Mo Yan!"

Xiao Li didn't pay attention to Lian Mu, and Mo Yan turned his ear to Xiao Li at this time. Seeing this scene, Lian Mu was a little angry, but there was nothing he could do. After Xiao Li finished talking to Mo Yan about this, he turned to Lian Mu and said: "I hope that Commander Lian will keep his promise." ”

Lian Mu smiled: "You have to tell me who the inner ghost is first, otherwise don't expect me to honor what I just said!"

Xiao Li replied unhurriedly: "Actually, I have already told Commander Lian, if you don't believe it, you can ask Deputy Commander Mo." ”

Lian Mu looked at Mo Yan suspiciously.

At this time, Mo Yan's expression was solemn, as if he had understood what kind of message the note that had not been burned out this afternoon wanted to convey, and he frowned and said to Lian Mu: "Let's go." ”

Lian Mu was puzzled: "Where to go?"

Mo Yan: "Get out of here." ”

Lian Mu: "He hasn't told me who the ghost is!"

Mo Yan: "He told you just now. ”

Lian Mu: "Could it be you?"

Mo Yan: "If it were me, there would only be one person who could leave the eighteenth layer of the Ice Prison today, not 'us'. ”

Lian Mu looked at Xiao Li again in confusion: "So who is that inner ghost?"

Xiao Li looked at Mo Yan and smiled without answering.

At this time, Mo Yan avoided the gaze of Xiao Li and Lian Mu, turned around and left slowly, Lian Mu hurriedly followed when he saw this: "You explain it to me clearly!"

Mo Yan: "Let's get out of here first." ”

Lian Mu: "So who is the inner ghost?"

Mo Yan replied to the question: "Before he is caught and convicted of the crime, being suspicious does not mean that he is." ”

Lian Mu: "Then what are you going to do now?"

Mo Yan thought for a moment: "This depends on Lord Lu." ”

Lian Mu was puzzled: "Why do you want to see Lu You again?"

Mo Yan didn't answer, and walked forward on his own.

When the giant gate of silver and gold opened again, Xiao Li turned around and slowly closed his eyes, and continued to quietly listen to the faint sound of flowing water flowing through his heart. When the silver and gold giant gate was closed, in the darkness, a black eye with bloody pupils, like ghost fire, Huo Ran opened in front of Xiao Li's forehead.

The faint purple true qi slowly extended down Xiao Li's fingertips, slowly extending to the place below the seat, and finally seeping into the deepest part of this "ice prison", as if to find out where the sound source of the flowing water was. With a sly smile on his face, he said to himself in the dark: "The show is about to begin, but it's a pity that I can't watch it with my own eyes." Alas, Lord Deer, we'll see each other again soon, and this time we'll probably be the last. ”

As everyone knows, when Xiao Li opened the third eye in front of his forehead, the Zhenguo Divine Beast "Bloody Eye Frost Hoof", which was sleeping in the depths of the palace of Mingyue City in the Kingdom of Shuguo, also felt the movement of the eighteenth layer of the "Ice Prison" of the Guangyuan Courtyard at the same moment, and woke up from his sleep.

......

There are two flowers, one on each branch.

At this moment, it is late at night, and the people of Lufu are still busy completing the tasks assigned to them by Lu You before, and they are very serious, and they dare not slack off. At this time, Lu You sat with his only son Lu Ming in the VIP room where Qianyu Fenghua was entertained before, playing a game of reversi.

On the chessboard, sunspots have the upper hand.

Lu Ming held the white child in his hand and hesitated.

Lu You looked at the situation faced by Bai Zi on the chessboard, and felt like the embarrassing situation he was facing at the moment. Because of Yun Fan's return, he is not advancing or retreating at this moment. After thinking about it, he finally had to follow the path that Qianyu Fenghua pointed out to him and keep going.

He believed that no matter when, the Thousand Feather Clan would not harm him, after all, his life was given by the Thousand Feather Clan, and he had also mastered a lot of secrets about the Thousand Feather Clan over the years.

Originally, Lu You planned to use these secrets to hold the Qianyu clan hostage and arrange for him to evacuate the country. The army of Xiji Qianlei Kingdom will soon fight, and Yun Fan and the others don't know if they will have a showdown with the family of Shu Country in the next time.

For Lu You, there is chaos at home and abroad, and if he can leave here as soon as possible, Lu You will definitely not hesitate for a moment. And the timely appearance of Qianyu Fenghua made Lu You see hope.

Lu You believed that since Thousand Feather Fenghua appeared in Bright Moon City, there would definitely be a way to satisfy his wish to leave the country. So, greed made the twilight old man think that he could make another profit before leaving, instead of leaving empty-handed.

But before that, Lu You must first get through the current difficulties. Just like the white chess on the chessboard now, as long as you don't make the wrong move, this endgame will always be an endgame, just like the current turbulent Shuguo, as long as Luyou survives, anything about Shuguo will have nothing to do with him next.

Looking at Lu Ming's hesitant appearance, Lu You slowly took a sip of tea to moisten his throat: "How are you thinking, where are you going to land next." ”

Lu You was puzzled: "The child hasn't thought about it yet." ”

Lu You didn't blame him, but continued: "How is the matter of the invitation arranged, have you been notified in place?"

Lu Ming: "According to my father's request, a thousand jars of special 'drunkenness', Mingyue City's chef who is best at making Hokuriku cuisine, will be in place at noon tomorrow at the latest." ”

Lu You: "Everything will depend on three days later." ”

Lu Ming: "Does Father really plan to cooperate with those barbarians in the future, and what good will it really do us to win them over?"

Lu You: "The important thing is not to win over, but to let the entire Shu country know that we are trying to win over, and mistakenly think that we have secretly formed an alliance with them." Got it?"

Lu Ming: "At that time, what does the father need the child to do?"

Lu You: "I need you to be smart, don't talk nonsense that shouldn't be said, and don't do stupid things that shouldn't be done." At the night banquet three days later, those barbarians will be the honored guests of our Lufu, no matter how much you hate barbarians in your heart, don't show it when the time comes, let alone slack off in the slightest. ”

Lu Ming: "The child understands. ”

Lu You: "At the night banquet, you remember to keep toasting with the beautiful woman of the Northern Desert, using the special offerings we prepared in advance to 'get drunk', and drink until they are unconscious." Then, it's up to you to arrange for them to stay in our house. ”

After hearing this, Lu Ming showed a sly smile: "The child understands his father's good intentions, please rest assured that the child will let go of this matter." ”

Lu You looked at the child in front of him suspiciously. In fact, Lu Ming has long been an adult, but in Lu You's eyes, he will always be a child who will not grow up. Because of this, in the face of the current chaotic dreaming country, Lu You didn't dare to stay here with Lu Ming.

Maybe it's because you've done too much bad things, since Yun Fan's return, Lu You has often been haunted by nightmares about Yun Fan. He dreamed that Yun Fan finally settled everything he had done before one by one and confiscated his family property, but did not kill him.

This is a more painful torture than death for Lu You. Maybe I was afraid of a hard life when I was young. So Lu You didn't want to go back to that time, even if he died.

Therefore, after Qianyu Fenghua appeared in Mingyue City, after thinking twice, Lu You decided to strike first and surprise Yun Fan before leaving.

After thinking about it, the hesitant Lu Ming dropped his hesitant white son, and at this time, the chessboard, which was originally dominated by the black son, entered a weak see-saw situation again because of Lu Ming's hand. Lu You was not worried when he saw this: "This son has fallen well and has grown." ”

Lu Ming happily looked like a child: "Thanks to the careful cultivation of the father, the child can make this move." ”

Lu You snatched his beard and looked at Lu Ming with great satisfaction: "Yes, now you still know how to be polite, humble and respectful, I hope that at the night banquet in three days, you will be able to be like now." ”

Lu Ming smiled knowingly and said:

"I will live up to my father's high expectations!"