Dongji Imperial Capital, Jingguang City.

Dozens of soldiers in silver armor stood guard outside the gate of the Crane Pavilion like cold stone sculptures. The grim faces, without a trace of emotion, could not dispel the indifference in their eyes even the torches that were used to illuminate them all night.

This place is heavily guarded, and every soldier is at least at the level of the ninth order or above. The internal structure of the Crane Pavilion is complex, it seems to be magnificent and solemn, but in fact, there are hidden organs at all levels, if ordinary people wantonly break here, it is easy to be beaten into mud by various unexpected hidden weapons in the pavilion.

The design of this attic comes from the masterpiece of Zhang Ghost, the first master of the Ji Dynasty who has now been retired, yes, it is the famous craftsman of the imperial capital who designed and built the palace of the Emperor of the Autumn Leaves City of the Yan Kingdom, it is said that in order to invite Zhang Ghost to go out of the mountain, he also specially troubled Chu Yu to run to the imperial capital.

The moonlight gilded their armor with a faint layer of frost, and in the evening breeze, the solemn soldiers, dressed in silver armor, still stood at their posts as usual. If nothing happens, they will stand like this for the night.

These soldiers in silver armor are the Guangfeng Guards, and the Crane Pavilion is the stronghold where they gather in the imperial capital, and it is also the place where they usually work. Although there is a wind prison inside the Crane Pavilion, this magnificent attic was not designed to hold prisoners, it was just one of its functions, not the whole story.

Due to the recent surge in many cases of missing people in Jingguang City, after the reports and cooperation of the enthusiastic people in the city, the Guangfeng guards arrested many suspicious people. The yamen cell in the imperial capital was soon full, and the heavenly prison could not casually lock these suspicious people in, so these people were transferred to the Crane Pavilion.

This disappearance was sudden and involved a wide range of social classes. Among the missing people are the children of the family, as well as passers-by. Considering the seriousness of the matter, the Son of Heaven ordered the Feng Pavilion and the Crane Pavilion to investigate this case of missing people at the same time.

As a result, because Ning Haochen was busy and didn't have time to coordinate with Jing Xuan, handle relevant cooperation documents and formulate their respective division of labor, this was the farce that Huangyu Jinyi went deep into the tiger's den in Longtan in plainclothes, and was finally arrested by the Guangfeng guards as a suspicious person.

And Fang Peng, who was the Jinyi Division of Qifeng Pavilion, was not qualified to discuss these things with Jing Xuan at all because of his lack of authority. When it comes to the will of the Son of Heaven, everything can't be arranged according to Ning Haochen's sentence "Fang Peng will handle this matter on my behalf" according to the meaning of Qi Feng Pavilion.

Since it is cooperation, the important thing is sincerity.

But neither side saw this sincerity.

The fog is thick in the middle of the night, and the moon is dark.

Jing Xuan never thought that there would be such a day when he would bring a group of Phoenix Feather Armor from the Phoenix Pavilion to his old nest and give them people. Although, this was Jing Xuan's own decision, but in view of the slight friction between the Guangfeng Guards and Huang Yu during this time, especially after learning that Jing Xuan was bringing these Phoenix Feathers to pick up people, those Guangfeng Guards who were standing guard thought that Jing Xuan was being held hostage by Huang Yu.

Therefore, when Jing Xuan appeared in the eyes of the Guangfeng guards guarding the Crane Pavilion, the guards who were originally a little troubled drew their swords one after another, became very spiritual, and immediately sent a message to the brothers who stayed in the pavilion to save Jing Xuan.

Outside the Imperial Capital Crane Pavilion in the middle of the night, the Guangfeng Guards and the Phoenix Feather Armor were tense. In the wind of slaughter, the sword was unsheathed, the sword groaned, and the moonlight fell on the cyan armor and silver armor, making the already suffocating atmosphere even more tense and dangerous. Looking at that formation, it was like killing each other's whole family.

Jing Xuan didn't expect that the relationship between Qifeng Pavilion and Heer Pavilion had deteriorated to this point unconsciously, but fortunately, just when everyone was losing their minds, this handsome man was still calm and calm.

He waved his hand, motioning for the Guards of Light to collect their swords and return them to their sheaths.

But those guards saw the wound on Jing Xuan's arm by the torch of the light, and hesitated for a long time, but still did not move. Seeing this, Jing Xuan repeated again: "I'm fine, everyone put away their weapons." ”

At this moment, a chilling killing intent approached from the depths of the Crane Pavilion.

As Jing Xuan's words settled, a one-eyed man with a spear in his hand didn't ask the reason, and directly killed him from the Crane Pavilion! The target was actually Fang Peng, the commander of the Jinyi Division standing beside Jing Xuan, Jing Xuan secretly sighed in his heart that something was wrong! Fang Peng, who was seriously injured, was defenseless at this time, and in a hurry, he pulled out the knife of Huang Yu beside him and forcibly took this shot!

Between the collision of swords and guns, bewitching flowers of fire bloomed in the night.

The spear was forced back by Fang Peng's knife, but Fang Peng spit out a mouthful of blood while repelling this shot, and then half-knelt behind Jing Xuan, it seemed that although he was still conscious, he was no longer able to stand up.

The Phoenix Feather Armor, who had already relaxed his vigilance, immediately pulled out the long knife he had put away and built a wall of blades to resist the strong enemy in the shouts of Fang Peng, who was seriously injured. Seeing this, the Guards of Light Wind also brushed their respective swords and relined themselves in the crackle of torches.

Jing Xuan frowned, and before he could stop it, the confrontation between the two groups of armies instantly isolated him in the formation of the Phoenix Feather Armor. With the shouts of the Glorious Wind Guards, the one-eyed man with the spear in his hand stepped on the shoulders of the many Bright Wind Guards, leaped up, and overturned the strength of the blade of the Phoenix Feather Armor, and slammed into its formation.

It was a dark red spear, with a sleeping bat in the neck of the spear, and the bat's fangs were its edge! This dark red spear was in the hands of the one-eyed man, and many of the armor of the phoenix feather armor were torn by this spear, and the hot blood stained their armor red.

The one-eyed man's goal is very clear, take down Fang Peng and exchange Fang Peng for Jing Xuan!

All the people who stood in front of Fang Peng were injured to varying degrees.

In the eyes of the one-eyed man, the Guangfeng Guards are the forbidden army of the Dongji royal family.

They are under the rule of the Son of Heaven and are the guardians and practitioners of imperial power, and their authority cannot be questioned or challenged by anyone except the Son of Heaven! If there is! Then it is equivalent to challenging and questioning the authority of the Son of Heaven! They are regarded as complicit in rebellion, and their crimes should be punished! There is no forgiveness!

At this time, Fang Peng could no longer take the one-eyed man's second shot.

However, the one-eyed man's gun had already picked off the phoenix feathers that were blocking in front of Fang Peng, and he was about to completely turn Fang Peng into a wasted man! At the last moment, the sparks fell, and the golden streamer cut off the dark red Jiaolong's way, before everyone could notice what had just happened, the flying sword was returned to the sheath, and the one-eyed man retreated dozens of steps in a row, Jing Xuan took advantage of the situation to hold the dark red spear with both hands, and rubbed the barrel of the gun with brute force, the one-eyed man's hands were numb, and Jing Xuan successfully disarmed him.

Under the miserable white moonlight, the dark red spear swung between Jing Xuan's fingers, and in the stunned eyes of everyone, Jing Xuan, the commander of the Light Wind Guard, danced the spear as if he was juggling. The confrontation that was originally extremely critical was resolved by Jing Xuan in an instant.

When the spear stopped turning in Jing Xuan's hand, the cold eyes met the unwilling gaze of the one-eyed man. Jing Xuan pestled the gun on the ground under his feet in front of everyone, and then loudly questioned the one-eyed man in front of him: "Zhong Xia, is there enough trouble?"

Zhong Xia didn't speak, but chose to silently walk up to Jing Xuan and take his gun away. Seeing this, the Phoenix Feather and the Guangfeng Guards made way for Zhong Xia one after another, and the original tense confrontation ended with Zhong Xia's lonely back. After looking at Zhong Xia who didn't look back and sank into the depths of the Crane Pavilion, Jing Xuan helped Fang Peng up.

With Fang Peng's character, he would never let Jing Xuan help him, after all, the "snake shadow" was broken under Jing Xuan's sword, but just now Jing Xuan pulled out the flying flower sword and saved his life. This surprised Fang Peng, considering that it was now to solve the problem rather than intensifying the problem, Fang Peng did not push Jing Xuan away.

In this way, the conflict between the Crane Pavilion and the Qifeng Pavilion disappeared after the scene of Jing Xuan supporting Fang Peng. The woman in brocade who had been silently observing all this from a distance before also slowly appeared at this time. Compared with this group of stinky men who don't understand the amorous feelings, this woman is a different kind of gentleness outside the Crane Pavilion tonight.

Willow eyebrows, brocade clothes and plain waist, and calm steps.

Her sleeves are tattooed with a family crest in the shape of golden leaves, which is the symbol of the "Golden Leaf Locust Tree", the totem of the Ye family crest of the imperial capital. After Jing Xuan saw this woman, the coldness in his eyes melted instantly. For some reason, whenever he found this woman looking at him, Jing Xuan would always be a little overwhelmed.

But these are only temporary. As the commander of the "Bright Wind Praetorian Guard", reason and calmness are synonymous with Jing Xuan, and because of this, Jing Xuan is still alone after all these years.

It is not appropriate to describe Ye Mei with a small family of jasper and Xiuwai Huizhong, because she is not a girl from a small family. As the youngest daughter of the Ye family in the imperial capital, Ye Mei came out very early. At that time, people didn't know that she was the daughter of the Ye family. And Ye Mei can have today's status, it can be said that it is completely dependent on herself.

In this patriarchal era, women can get a place in a place like Heer Pavilion, either because there are people in the court at home, or they are really capable. Unlike Qifeng Pavilion, there are no internal and external divisions in the Crane Pavilion, but it is divided into nine layers from top to bottom, and each department corresponds to a person in charge.

Ye Mei is the person in charge of the second layer, in charge of confidential archives and external cooperation, if Ning Haochen and Jing Xuan completed the docking at the beginning, then the person in charge of the Heer Pavilion who is now cooperating with Qifeng Pavilion will be Ye Mei. Zhong Xia, who had just come out with a spear to save Jing Xuan, was the person in charge of the first floor of the Crane Pavilion, responsible for public security and the defense of the imperial capital.

Jing Xuan, as the commander, takes care of everything.

When the hustle and bustle settled, the sword was sheathed, in the wind in the middle of the night, the faint incense flowing, inadvertently, the bloody nose emanating from Fang Peng's body was silently covered, Ye Mei slowly came to Jing Xuan's side under the gaze of many light and wind guards behind her, and her playful little mouth pursed, as if she wanted to say something, but she held back.

Seeing this, Jing Xuan wanted to speak, but in the blink of an eye, Ye Mei had already circled behind him, stood in front of Fang Peng, and took out a cyan medicine bottle from his arms and threw it to the Phoenix Feather Armor beside Fang Peng: "This bottle is the secret medicine Xiu Yuan Dan of the Crane Pavilion, it cannot be used externally, it can only be taken internally, it can relieve pain and stop bleeding, and it can repair the damaged meridians in a short time." ”

Fang Peng looked at the woman in front of him coldly, and only after a long time did he come back to his senses and said, "Thank you." ”

"Not necessarily. Ye Mei was not frightened by the man with no eyebrows in front of her, but waved her hand to Fang Peng very solemnly, then glanced at Jing Xuan, and said without a good voice: "Now that the imperial capital is in an extraordinary period, Brother Jing didn't say hello when he returned to the pavilion so late, and the brothers thought that you were held hostage by Huang Yu." ”

Jing Xuan joked: "Actually, it's about the same. ”

Ye Mei: "I think it's a lot worse!"

Jing Xuan: "Is voluntarily being held hostage considered hijacking?"

Ye Mei: "You have to ask the brothers about this." ”

Jing Xuan: "Getting back to business, you go and talk to Zhang Meng on the third floor, and ask him to make a copy of the list of people who have been arrested recently and bring it to me." ”

Ye Mei: "Copy?"

Jing Xuan: "Could it be that you want to provide the original book?"

Ye Mei: "That's going to have to be copied for a long time!"

Jing Xuan: "Commander Fang and I are waiting for you here." ”

Ye Mei frowned, covered her mouth with her hand and whispered in Jing Xuan's ear: "Brother Jing, are you really being held hostage, if so, you cough or blink." ”

Jing Xuan: "Don't ask more, go find Zhang Meng." ”

Ye Mei sighed, then turned around and went back to the Crane Pavilion, and Jing Xuan behind him urged: "Be quick!"

Between the words, Ye Mei quickened her pace, and Jing Xuan's gaze fell back to Fang Peng's body at this time, Fang Peng was very hesitant at this time, he didn't take the pill in the medicine bottle, but silently waited for the woman who left to bring the list he wanted. Jing Xuan saw that Fang Peng didn't mean to take the pill, so he took the medicine bottle that Ye Mei gave him just now from him, opened it and smelled it, and then said to Fang Peng: "This pill is not poisonous, you can just eat it with confidence." ”

Fang Peng was stubborn: "I'll eat later, it's important to do things." ”

Jing Xuan: "The two things are actually not in conflict, as for whether your injuries are serious or not, I know, you know, don't blame me or Heer Pavilion if you can't hold a knife in the future." ”

Fang Peng: "Do I still have a knife?"

Although the knife in his hand is broken, the knife in his heart is still there. ”

When Fang Peng heard Jing Xuan say this, he immediately laughed out loud.

Jing Xuan turned around and looked in the direction of the Crane Pavilion, silent.

It was the middle of the night, outside the Crane Pavilion in the imperial capital, there were dense phoenix feather armor and light wind guards, and they were also waiting quietly for the news to come out of the Crane Pavilion like Fang Peng and Jing Xuan. No one had any intention of leaving.

After a long time, Ye Mei hurried over with a list of recently detained people and an ink pen, Jing Xuan saw that he was the only one who came out, so he asked, "Why did you come down alone, Zhang Meng?"

Ye Mei: "Sister Zhang guessed what Brother Jing wanted to do, so she didn't come down." She asked me to tell you that there are so many people who have been arrested in recent days that if you make a copy, you will have to wait until tomorrow morning. In order not to let the Phoenix Feather Armor outside the pavilion wait for a long time, Sister Zhang asked me to directly bring down the name book and let Brother Jing take care of it yourself. ”

Jing Xuan listened, took the name book from Ye Mei's hand, flipped through it, and then handed it to Fang Peng. And said to Fang Peng: "Whether the brocade envoys of the Jinyi Division have real names or pseudonyms left on this, I don't know this, Commander Fang will make you turn it over yourself." ”

Fang Peng: "Not long ago, I told them that in order to solve this matter, I was wrongly arrested by you, and I used my real name when I registered. I didn't expect that this suggestion would come in handy today. ”

Jing Xuan: "Then you look at the circle, I'll let them mention people later." ”

Fang Peng didn't speak, just flipped through the list in silence that had cost a lot of money. His attitude made Ye Mei on the side a little disgusted, feeling that this guy was too rude, so he muttered in Jing Xuan's ear: "You and he are friends?"

Jing Xuan: "Pingshui met and fought. ”

Ye Mei: "Lost?"

Jing Xuan smiled awkwardly, Ye Mei glanced at Fang Peng, who was covered with wounds at the moment, and then looked at Jing Xuan, who only had a knife wound hidden between his arm sleeves, and held his sword in thought. Under the moonlight, the phoenix feathers held torches high to illuminate Fang Peng. After about a cup of tea, Fang Peng circled most of the people who were mistakenly arrested by the Guangfeng Guards.

The name book clearly records the names, places of origin, military ranks, genders, time, reasons, locations, and so on of those who were arrested, which is very detailed. As the commander of the Qifeng Pavilion Jinyi Division, almost all the Jinyi envoys now are seeds that Fang Peng and Ning Haochen jointly selected and carefully cultivated. For Fang Peng, these people are not only his brothers, but also his children. So he remembered everyone's name, everyone's appearance.

Even if they turned to ashes, Fang Peng frowned when he found out the person who was arrested at the gate of Jingfu today. Since Fang Peng didn't have eyebrows, when he frowned, his forehead seemed to be frowning with two eyebrow muscles. Jing Xuan noticed Fang Peng's hesitation, so he asked, "What, is there something wrong?"

At this moment, the name of the person who was arrested outside the gate of Jingfu recorded in the name book made Fang Peng feel very unfamiliar, he didn't know if it was a pseudonym or the wrong one, at this time, a phoenix feather armor who hurried from Qifeng Pavilion passed through the sea of people and finally found Fang Peng in Heer Pavilion.

Seeing this, Fang Peng asked the man, "What's the matter?"

The man glanced at Jing Xuan and Ye Mei beside Fang Peng, the two of them also understood what they meant, so they returned to the back of the Guangfeng Guards from the formation of the Phoenix Feather Armor, and Ye Mei did not forget to remind Fang Peng before leaving: "Remember to return the name book and pen to us after painting, this can't be taken away by you." ”

Fang Peng nodded silently, and the Phoenix Feather Armor who came in a hurry whispered in Fang Peng's ear after Jing Xuan and Ye Mei left: "The brother we were arrested outside the Jing Mansion today was just thrown from a carriage of unknown origin to the door of our Qifeng Pavilion, I saw that something was wrong, so I specially rushed to report this matter to you!"

Fang Peng: "Is that brother alive or dead?"

The phoenix feather armor who reported the news: "Alive, temporarily unconscious." ”

Fang Peng: "Can you see the trajectory of the carriage and the route it left?"

The phoenix feather armor who reported the news: "Zhang Cheng is being chased by Jinyi, and his current whereabouts are unknown." ”

After hearing this important news, Fang Peng handed the name book to Jing Xuan with the support of the phoenix feather armor around him, and then waved goodbye to Jing Xuan and left in a hurry. Fang Peng knew that Jing Xuan had always done what he said, so he didn't worry about the Guangfeng Guards not letting go of those who were caught wrong, but Fang Peng's style made Ye Mei, who had been waiting in the cold wind for a long time tonight, very unhappy: "Is the attitude of the people in Qifeng Pavilion so dragged now?"

Jing Xuan looked at Fang Peng's departing figure, then flipped through the name book, his eyes stayed on the page where Fang Peng stayed just now, every word clearly recorded that someone was arrested by the Guangfeng guards at the gate of Jingfu this evening, and he frowned and asked Ye Mei to check this person.

Ye Mei looked at the name that Jing Xuan was referring to, it was a little familiar, and after thinking for a moment, she said to Jing Xuan: "This person is dead." ”

Jing Xuan was puzzled: "Dead?"

Ye Mei: "Well, not long after I was caught, I bit my tongue and committed suicide." ”

Jing Xuan: "Can you find out the identity of this person?"

Ye Mei: "I'm still investigating, but I don't have a clue." ”

Between the words, Jing Xuan frowned, he felt that everything that happened tonight was too strange. He couldn't say anything strange, but he always felt connected. From the beginning of Yun Fan's entry into the city to the Phoenix Feather Armor to the Yanyu Building to find him, and then to the past few days, many brocade envoys have been arrested by mistake. Although it was a matter of the Guangfeng Guards to catch the brocade envoy by mistake, when Jing Xuan flipped through the list, he saw dense circles.

All of them were painted by Fang Peng.

It can be seen that there are too many people who have been arrested.

For a while, Jing Xuan was a little skeptical that the Jinyi Division of Qifeng Pavilion had been emptied by them. In the blink of an eye, Jing Xuan suddenly understood why Fang Peng had such a bad attitude when he was looking for him in Yanyu Tower tonight. After Ye Mei found that Jing Xuan was solemn, she noticed that Jing Xuan seemed to be hiding a lot of things from her, she didn't know what Jing Xuan had experienced tonight, so she asked casually: "What, is this matter related to the recent disappearance of people in the imperial capital?"

Jing Xuan: "In addition to these, have we caught any other suspicious people recently?" ”

Ye Mei: "It's basically on this book." But to be honest, among the people who have been in and out of the imperial capital recently, there are quite a few people who are suspicious, and it stands to reason that those people should be kept an eye on by the people of their Qifeng Pavilion. ”

Ye Mei's words made Jing Xuan, who was already deep in thought, feel like a thunderclap. Everything seems to be unrelated, but in fact, it is very likely that they are all coming for Yun Fan, and they started planning long before Yun Fan entered the imperial capital, for tonight, now, at this time, in the dead of night, there are not too many idle people waiting for haunting.

If this is the case, once Yun Fan is alone, he will definitely die!

Jing Xuan's expression changed in an instant, so that Ye Mei didn't know what to say! Without waiting for Ye Mei to speak, Jing Xuan hurriedly ordered: "Immediately mobilize the two thousand bright light armors that followed me to the imperial capital before, and let them come and join me quickly!"

Ye Mei looked at Jing Xuan suspiciously: "What's the matter?"

Jing Xuan: "Save people!"

Ye Mei wanted to ask clearly, but seeing that Jing Xuan had never been so serious, she thought that something important that she couldn't explain was about to happen, so she hurriedly asked the others to send the name book to Zhang Meng of the third layer of the Crane Pavilion, and she quickly dealt with the matter assigned by Jing Xuan just now.

Looking at Ye Mei's disappearing figure, Jing Xuan turned around and returned to the Crane Pavilion.

He was going to take out the Mingguang armor that he had treasured for many years.

Once again, and for the last time to fight for Yun Fan.