In the second year of Emperor Huai of Dongji, October 6.

It's been a while since Yun Fan left Bright Moon City.

In the heartfelt restaurant late at night, in a secluded wing, the candles have been burned halfway. This is a wing room hidden behind a famous painting, and it is the most high-end of all the restaurant wings in Bright Moon City, and it is definitely not open to the public because it is usually used as a secret meeting.

When the candle flame went on and off as the secret door opened, a man in a mask was late. Under the mask, cold eyes swept over the dim secret room, there were three people waiting for him at the table for a long time, and the food on the table was already cold at the moment.

They didn't move their chopsticks, as if they weren't in the mood.

As the man sat down, the old man at the head made a hoarse voice: "You are finally here." ”

The masked man glanced at the old man and ignored it, but asked, "Why are there only three of you, and there is still one person?"

"Before you informed us of the change of target, who had already preempted the original plan. It was a simple woman who spoke, and there seemed to be a slight complaint in her tone.

The masked man didn't speak, he was waiting for the woman to continue, but the woman didn't. But the masked man saw the end of the story from the eyes of the three of them, and the one who preemptively acted according to the original plan failed.

"With his skills, it shouldn't be a problem to get out of the way. After all, he has entered the tenth order. The masked man tentatively asked the three people present, but in exchange for the woman's ridicule: "It was Liu Fengsoul, the second son of the Liu family, who killed him, and he didn't reach the peak of the tenth order, who would dare to go one-on-one with him?"

"With Liu Feng's soul as the leader of the palace guards of the long-cherished country lord, unless the four of us join forces, there is no chance of victory. Between the words, the young man who had been silent for a long time spoke. The words of the young man were exchanged for the approval of the old man and the woman.

"Everyone here is at the ninth order level or above, you should know this from the beginning," the masked man asked rhetorically, "isn't it?"

"If the secret envoy could have been conveyed earlier, maybe he wouldn't have died now!" The old man's hoarse voice attracted the attention of the masked man, who looked at the old man, and after a moment of silence, said slowly: "Now that the person is dead, there is no point in saying this. ”

"Then something makes sense. The woman said impatiently, "We've all been waiting for you for so long, what about the intelligence?"

"Recently, Mingyue City has been checking tightly, forgive me. The masked man's tone was unhurried, and when all three looked at him with tired eyes, the man took out a piece of parchment from his sleeve, "All the information you want is here." ”

As he spoke, the man moved the food on the table elsewhere and slowly unfolded the parchment. By the dim candlelight, the three of them could see the contents of the parchment.

It was a map, a map of Qi Temple.

At this moment, Yun Fan lives in this position, and I heard that he was sick on the day he came back and has been resting in the house. The masked man held out his hand and nodded at a spot on the parchment, "I've marked it all for you, don't go to the wrong room then." ”

"After you get it, are you going to finish it for us?" the young man asked more, and there seemed to be some unease in his words, but the masked man didn't speak but nodded. Seeing this, the woman and the old man's faces were not good-looking, and so did the young man, so he continued: "Is there anything special to pay attention to in this operation?"

The masked man thought for a while and analyzed: "Only one of the six generals of the Sa Department who returned with Yun Fan is in the city, and the other five people are currently unknown, in addition to the six generals of the Sa Department, there is also a woman with blond hair and blue eyes who returned with Yun Fan." ”

"What's the woman's origin?" the woman looked at the masked man suspiciously.

"She is Yun Fan's advisor, she is usually absent during the day, if she is in the Qi Temple on the day of your operation, you can take her hostage if necessary. ”

The boy asked, "How is this woman?" ”

"I tried, but I was just a weak ordinary woman. The masked man affirmed, "With your skills, she will die with a casual finger." ”

"And what about the other one?" asked the old man.

"A barbarian female warrior at the mid-ninth order level, when the time comes, one person can drag her first, and the other two should kill Yun Fan very quickly. The masked man continued, "Although there are currently soldiers in Mingyue City, there is no army around the Qi Temple to protect Yun Fan and them, it may be a deliberate target of the family clan. ”

"What about the Red Yan warriors and barbarians?" the old man asked.

"The Chiyan warriors took over the defense of Mingyue City, and as for those barbarians, they were basically arranged to go to Jingyue City to help Shuguo rebuild the former glorious Dongji Imperial Capital. There is only one maid in the entire Qi Temple who delivers meals on time every day, and there are no other subordinates. I don't know if someone deliberately made things difficult for Yun Fan or for some other reason. The masked man lifted his chin and looked at the three people in front of him, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Is there really no one to protect the future lord of this long-cherished country?" the boy asked, "is it a trap?" ”

"It's a trap, and we have to go. The woman sighed, "Even if there is a giant wolf waiting for us in this trap that eats people and does not spit out bones, we will have to bite the bullet!"

"Bloody Eyes and Frosthoof are in the palace, you don't have to worry. As soon as the divine beast came back, it lived in the aunt's dormitory of Yun Han, the former lord of the state of the kingdom, that is, Yun Ji, the current lord of the kingdom. ”

The masked man looked at the three helplessly:

"Any questions?"

The woman asked, "I heard that Yun Fan holds the Heavenly Vertical Tooth!"

Masked Man: "You're a professional killer, it shouldn't be difficult for you to kill him before he draws his sword!"

The three of them did not speak, and they seemed to be lacking in confidence.

After a moment of thought, the masked man took out three red pills and one blue pill from his sleeve and reluctantly handed them to them.

The three of them looked at the two color pills taken out by the masked man suspiciously, and said in unison, "What is this?"

Mask man: "This blue pill is our secret poison of the Mo country" Thousand Needles and Tricky Abdomen, once the poisoned person is poisoned, it will be like being stabbed in the abdomen and intestines by a thousand needles at the same time, chronic poison, the poison is slow, but the longer the time drags on, the more deadly. ”

The three of them looked at each other: "Why are you giving us this?"

Masked man: "Seeing that you all lack confidence, then find a way to poison first and then do it to increase the chances of winning!" I don't have any other poison here, just this last one, do you like to use it." ”

After hearing this, the old man directly snatched the blue pill into his hand, and the masked man snorted coldly and continued: "The other three red pills are the Battle Madness Pill, the forbidden medicine of the Xia Kingdom. ”

The three of them looked at each other: "What does the secret envoy mean by this?"

Masked man: "If there is an accident, take it directly, you can improve the strength of about one order in a short time, if there is no accident, don't eat it, after the outbreak is over, you will become a waste, and you may never be able to hold a knife in the future." ”

The old man was surprised: "I have heard of this kind of forbidden medicine in the Xia Kingdom, it is not the magnates of the Xia Kingdom, it is difficult for outsiders to get it, I don't know where the secret envoy got it?"

Masked Man: "Does it matter?"

The three of them were puzzled and speechless.

"Don't ask what you shouldn't ask, I've checked all around Qi Temple, and there is really no one to protect Yun Fan. The masked man sighed, "Either he's too confident, or he's too miserable." Although the assassination of Yun Ji, the lord of the Shu Kingdom, failed, it made the entire Shu Kingdom now focus on the issue of protecting Yun Ji's safety, and neglecting the protection of Yun Fan, which is a very good opportunity for us. ”

"It's kind of a stone throwing to ask for directions. The young man comforted everyone, but the result was ridiculed by the woman: "It's the sound of the east and the west." ”

The old man smiled, but did not speak. The atmosphere of the originally serious and awkward secret meeting tended to ease, and then the young man tried to find the next topic to divert the small embarrassment caused by his improper wording: "It is said that we have been arrested by many secret agents recently. ”

"It's not our spies who have been caught. The masked man laughed, "As for which side it is, it doesn't matter to us." Your task is to kill Yun Fan, and these questions are not what you should worry about, but what I should think about. ”

Between the words, the candle flame went out in the old man's sigh: "I hope everything can go smoothly." ”

"I won't say much else, waiting for your good news. The masked man blessed, but it did not alleviate the bad impression of the three of them, after all, because his news was not delivered in time, one of the killers was exposed and sacrificed in advance, which also indirectly added a little difficulty for the remaining three to complete the task.

"That's basically all there is to it, remember to let me know in advance when the time comes. The masked man wondered.

"I hope you don't arrive late as you did today and delay our best disembarkation session. The old man's hoarse voice seemed to be about to suffocate, which made the masked man a little uncomfortable: "Don't worry, if you succeed, I will collect the thread for you, and if you fail, I will collect the body for you." ”

"I really don't understand how our lord would send someone like you to be a secret envoy. The boy muttered quietly after listening to the masked man's words, but was heard by the masked man, and the masked man seemed to make a joke to ease the atmosphere again: "Maybe it's because I'm running faster than anyone else!"

As a result, the other three people only felt more embarrassed when they heard it.

......

West of Mingyue City, early morning, Qi Temple.

Today is the fifth day that Xin Zaima came to Mingyue City in Dongji Shuguo, and she really wants to go out for a walk, but because the other five people in the Sabu will be arranged by Gu Yina on a "special mission", and now Gu Yina needs someone to stay behind to cover for Yun Fan, who has secretly left the Shuguo at this time, to prevent anyone from approaching Yun Fan's residence.

Therefore, this person can only be the "curious baby" Sinzaima. At this time, Xin Zaima didn't know where Gu Yina went, but she knew that from the moment they entered the city, Gu Yina's schedule was full, such as coordinating the change of defense between the Chiyan warriors and the defenders of Mingyue City, visiting the big families in the city, dealing with important politicians, and so on.

Everyone is busy, except for Sinzaima.

Qi Temple is actually strictly speaking, it is a suburb of Mingyue City. After they moved into the Qi Temple, the officials of the Qi Temple had already arranged for a special subordinate to be responsible for the food, clothing, and living of Yun Fan and the others.

Embarrassingly, Sinzaima from Hokuriku is face blind. In her eyes, Dongji people are only divided into men and women, regardless of appearance. This also added a bit of "freshness" to her, making her feel that there were different people who came to serve them tea and water every day.

After a few days of rest, Xin Zaima no longer has the restraint and worry when she first entered the city, and she takes the observation of these Qi temple people who usually serve them tea and water as a way to get in touch with Dongji etiquette and learn the walking manners of Dongji people.

Although she is from Hokuriku, she has fallen in love with this place since she entered the city, so Sinzaima does not want to be looked at strangely by the people here, she wants to integrate here as soon as possible, this is a small wish of hers.

In a blink of an eye, it was noon.

Sinzaima sat on the steps in front of Yunfan's house, in a daze for a morning, and her stomach also grumbled with her for a morning. The girl who served them tea and water on weekdays didn't come this morning, so maybe something happened temporarily. It seems that there is no one to replace her from the officials of Qi Temple, and Sinzaima does not know if she will come today, and if someone will come.

Just when she was about to go crazy with hunger, an old man pushing a noodle shop cart appeared at the gate of Qi Temple. The aroma of ramen wafted to Sinzaima's nose in the midday wind, and she rushed up with an arrow and asked in her broken Chinese language, "What is this?"

The barbarians of the Northern Continent eat beef and mutton all the year round, and drink heartburn spirits, and pasta and rice can be said to be very novel things for them, and they have all heard of it, but it is estimated that only those tribal nobles of the Northern Continent have really tasted it.

"This is ramen. The old man didn't actually understand what Sinzaima was saying, but looking at her expression, he understood what she meant, so he scooped a bowl for Sinzaima.

The old man's hoarse voice, combined with his kind eyebrows, successfully lowered Sinzaima's vigilance. His appearance reminded Sinzaima of Gan Doufu, the master who taught her sword skills.

"How do you eat this!" she asked the old man in front of her with a red face, for fear of provoking the old man's ridicule. After all, she is from Hokuriku and doesn't know Dongji's eating habits. The old man didn't laugh at her, but took a pair of chopsticks from the cabinet next to him: "Use this." ”

"Oh! I know this!" Xin Zaima, who saw the chopsticks, suddenly remembered the tableware when he participated in the night banquet in the palace that day, and picked up the chopsticks and demonstrated to the old man the way the guests used chopsticks in the memory of Dongji: "Is that so!"

"That's right. The old man nodded, and Sinzaima asked happily, "How much is this for a bowl." ”

The old man stretched out five fingers: "Five copper plates." ”

Sinzaima didn't know how many copper plates five were. In Hokuriku, food was usually exchanged for animals hunted, so Sinzaima was not very clear about the concept of money.

However, she knew that silver ingots were worth more than copper, and I made the old man very affectionate, so Sinzaima gave the old man a silver ingot: "Here you go, don't look for it! Do you think this is enough for ten bowls?"

The old man hurriedly took the silver ingot, and smiled from ear to ear: "Enough is enough, you can eat hundreds of bowls!"

"Then you don't need to look for it, let's try ten bowls first!" After paying, Sinzaima was hungry, she took a deep breath of the aroma of ramen, and prepared to eat it: "Fragrant !!"

The old man bent his waist and smiled: "Guest officer, you use it slowly, it's not enough for me to give you more." ”

"Okay!" said Sinzaima happily, but she didn't notice that a strange smile appeared on the corner of the old man's mouth after she took a sip of the ramen soup.

After Sinzaima finished the first bowl, a teenager came to her and sat down and ordered a bowl of ramen with different flavors. ”

After hearing this, the young man glanced at Sinzaima, was silent for a moment, and then continued to bury his head in eating noodles. After hearing this, the old man immediately served Sinzaima the taste that the young man had eaten. Soon, Sinzaima finished two bowls of noodles. The different flavors of the soup and the uneven hardness of the noodles made Sinzaima feel a taste that she had never felt before! This was a very, very special, delicious and cheap food of all the foods she had eaten when she was so old! She loved this place called Bright Moon City to death!

Subsequently, on the recommendation of the old man, Sinzaima ate sixteen bowls of ramen of various flavors in a row, and when it came to seventeen bowls, she burped: "Comfortable!"

It was at this time that the maid in charge of the living of the VIPs in Beilu who she thought would not appear slowly came late, and was walking towards Yun Fan's residence. Seeing this, Sinzaima hurriedly stopped her: "Wait!!"

When the maid heard this, she stopped where she was, and put one hand in her sleeve. The maid was hiding a highly poisonous dagger in her sleeve at the moment, and since it was facing away from Sinzaima, Sinzaima did not notice anything unusual.

The well-fed Sinzaima stepped forward and patted her on the shoulder: "Why are you here now!"

"There is something going on at home today, so it's delayed, and I hope the general won't be angry!" said the maid, still not turning around.

Sinzaima sighed and walked around to her.

At this time, the maid's forehead shed the first drop of cold sweat, and the hand she put in her sleeve tightened her grip on the dagger, and was ready to strike preemptively once she was discovered.

However, Sinzaima was face blind and did not recognize it, but just took the cutlery in her hand away: "It's okay, understand! Didn't I tell you a few days ago, the prince has been uncomfortable these days, afraid of life and light, I can bring in the food!

"Good ......," the maid felt that Sinzaima didn't notice her strangeness, so she saluted and stood in place, waiting for Sinzaima to turn around. After taking away the food brought by the maid, Sinzaima saw that the maid did not seem to have any intention of leaving, so she asked, "Is there anything else?"

"No," the maid said embarrassedly.

"Then I'll go in first, you call me if there's something! I'm here all day!" said Sinzaima enthusiastically, and the maid said "no" before pretending to turn and leave.

Xin Zaima, who was carrying the meal, also turned around and walked towards Yun Fan's residence at this time. The food in her hand is for three people, and Gu Yina usually comes back at night, so usually, Xin Zaima will eat all the food for her and Yun Fan plus herself in Yun Fan's house, but when she turned around and walked towards Yun Fan's residence, the woman's natural instinct suddenly reminded Xin Zaima that the maid who came to deliver the meal today was a little wrong.

What's wrong?

Sinzaima thought as she walked.

At this time, the maid who pretended to leave turned around, while the old man and the young man at the door quietly entered the Qi Temple at the same time and closed the door. The old man took out two scimitars from behind his back after the gate closed lightly, and the young man's fingertips had a few more steel balls.

They originally planned to bypass this Beilu girl and attack Yun Fan, but now it seems that they can only deal with her first.

Sinzaima walked very slowly, and the maid behind her had already pulled out a sharp poisonous dagger and was approaching Sinzaima step by step. These killers are all elites of the Mexican country, and they don't have a sound when they walk.

The eventful autumn wind blew off the locust leaves in the monastery at this time. When the autumn leaves that had fallen by the autumn wind fell to the ground, Sinzaima noticed that something was wrong with the maid who had come today.

Walking posture and footsteps.

The posture is too ugly, not like a maid.

The footsteps were too soft, and there was no sound at all.

This was very abnormal, so Sinzaima suddenly looked back and wanted to see the back of the maid who had not gone far, to see if she had thought too much about herself, but when she turned around, a ruthless dagger stabbed in the wind!

Xin Zaima was shocked, and immediately raised the delicacy in his hand to block the dagger, and then used all his strength to kick the maid's lower abdomen, which directly kicked the maid far away, and it is estimated that it will take a long time to get up again.

Seeing this, the old man and the young man rushed towards Sinzaima and showed their weapons. At this moment, how can Xin Zaima still care about eating! Hurriedly threw away the cutlery, pulled out the golden knife at his waist, and raised the "Split Wind" above his head, pressed down his right leg and bent his left knee, lowering the posture of the whole person. At this time, Xin Zaima is no longer the curious baby before, but the "demon knife" Xin Zaima of the powerful Hokuriku. When the killing wind lifted the bangs in front of her forehead, she revealed a terrifying killing intent, facing the steel beads that sprinkled at her like a rainstorm of pear blossoms in the young man's hand. Sinzaima very calmly and calmly waved the "Splitting Wind" in his hand. I saw a burst of dazzling sparks, and the weak-looking Hokuriku girl waved the golden knife in her hand like a cheerful dancer.

The old man, who had been rickety, suddenly straightened up during her dance, and three fine steel needles ejected from the old man's arms towards Xin Zaima at this time, and she shouted loudly to cut off the three steel needles, and the old man took advantage of the moment when Xin Zaima cut off the steel needles and dropped the two scimitars in his hand, straight to his neck.

Seeing this, the battle-hardened Sinzaima had no intention of dodging, she raised the "Splitting Wind" above her head, and completed an operation that could not be caught by the naked eye at the moment when the old man's knife was about to cut off her head.

The eventful autumn wind drops a few golden leaves here.

"Slash the Wind!"

With a loud shout from Sinzaima, a scimitar in the old man's hand was destroyed by the golden knife "Splitting Wind" in Sinzaima's hand in the brilliant sparks between the blades. The Broken Blade was picked up by Sinzaima here, and accurately blocked the several steel balls that were about to touch her face, and if it wasn't for the young man's timely dodge, this broken blade would have buried deep in his heart in the next moment.

The maid who had just been kicked away by Sinzaima was able to get up at this time, and she didn't bother to pat the dust on her body and rushed towards Sinzaima. This time, instead of using a dagger, she drew a sharp soft sword from her waist, and the old man who only had a scimitar left dodged Sinzaima's fatal blow in the instant confrontation just now, but the hand holding the broken blade at this moment could no longer lift the knife.

The maid's pace was very light and fast, and the soft sword in her hand was faster than her pace! Under the sword that was only ten moves with Sinzaima, due to the characteristics of the soft sword, the edge of the golden knife "Splitting Wind" was entwined by it, and the arm of Sinzaima holding the knife was also colored within ten strokes.

"What a weird sword!" Sinzaima, who had grown up in Hokuriku and had never seen a soft sword, sighed in her heart! Before she could think about how to deal with it, her eyes suddenly went dark, and her abdomen had a sharp pain, and her whole person's movements gradually slowed down a lot during this period. Seeing this, the old man and the young man must have had a poisoning attack in the ramen just now, so they smiled slyly and slowed down the attack, turning the siege of Sinzaima into a process of enjoying the dying fear of their prey.

"Not good!" Xin Zaima poured all her strength into the golden knife to repel the maid's next attack, and then retreated to Yun Fan's door. At this time. There was no way back for her.

"Don't struggle uselessly. The old man's hoarse voice said, "We'll give you a good time." ”

"Don't think about it!" Sinzaima roared with a golden knife, "Actually win by poisoning! despicable! What a hero!

The old man, the woman, and the young man stood side by side.

They sneered at each other and looked at each other without saying a word, as if they were discussing who would give the final stab to this Hokuriku girl. The young man glanced at the old man: "You are the oldest and experienced here, this girl has come from afar, start quickly, it will be regarded as if I have exhausted the friendship of the landlord." ”

Lao Xie shrugged his shoulders, feeling as if there was some truth, so he raised the knife above his head and said to Xin Zaima, who had lost his combat effectiveness in front of him: "Don't worry, it doesn't hurt at all, soon, good boy, close your eyes!"

"Shameless! despicable!" Sinzaima scolded aggrievedly, and as the sharp scimitar fell at breakneck speed, the gate of the Qi Temple behind the three killers was kicked open by a man who suddenly broke in.

The knife that the old man originally fell was also numbed by the extremely strong wind attached to this kick during this period, and the blade was blown off. So instead of cutting off Sinzaima's head, the sharp scimitar landed in front of her, blooming with a fleeting spark that was gone.

The three people who originally planned to kill Xin Zaima turned their heads when they heard the sound, and Xin Zaima, who had lost his combat effectiveness at this time, also saw the appearance of the comer clearly at the moment before he lost consciousness.

The visitor was a young man of her age, wearing a ponytail but half of his bangs covering his left eye, wearing a brocade robe tattooed with the pattern of the purple willow family crest, and dragging a weapon similar to the Taidao system, much like a prince who sat at the head of the family table at the night banquet a few days ago.

The high bridge of the nose, starry eyes and sword eyebrows, the difference is that the young man's eyes are less cold, and more gentle and stubborn than the son who sat down at the family banquet, it may be Sinzaima's illusion, but before she can think about it, she has lost consciousness in the next moment.

The three people who wanted to kill Xin Zaima first and then Yun Fan suddenly became confused after seeing the man who suddenly broke in. They weren't sure who the young man in front of them was, but his clothes and weapons, as well as the wind that had just been attached to the kick, reminded the three of them of the same name. They weren't sure, and after a moment of staring at each other, the young man with the steel ball in his hand asked the man with the sword weapon, "Who is coming?"

Facing the three major killers of the Mexican Kingdom, this brocade-clothed man wearing the purple willow family emblem raised his weapon with one hand and pointed at the three people in the distance, and said provocatively: "You don't even know who Uncle Ben is? No wonder you dare to make trouble here." It's okay, Uncle Ben will tell you with this knife in his hand later. ”

Before the man could finish speaking, a night crow landed on the eaves of the Qi Temple very inopportunely at this time, making a quack-quack-quack call, the man cleared his throat and continued, "Standing in front of you is the second son of the Liu clan of the Shuguo family, who is known as the amorous moon and ruthless knife, and is handsome and dashing! The legend of Jibei that is often mentioned by the world!

In order to make a special impression on the three guys who didn't know who he was, the man deliberately dragged out his voice, but before he could call out his name, the three killers of the Mexican Kingdom had already told the man with panicked eyes that they already knew who he was. However, the man still had to speak, and as he spoke, he waved the weapon in his hand in turn towards the three killers.

"That's right, Uncle Ben is-"

"Willow—"

"The wind—"

"Soul—"

“！——”