The old bachelor didn't know when he got up and turned around, he held a pen and paper in one hand, stroked his beard with the other, and his eyes were closed one by one, the little thief who was cut off by his friend fifty years ago was slowly walking into the current night from the twilight at that time, and the figure of the old man in front of him was the end.

The old man raised his head slightly, and asked the moonlight to spread on his face, as if to make the old bachelor see more clearly, and provide some convenience for the latter to recognize him. He stretched out his hands and folded his sleeves in front of his chest, a simple action that was a little unnatural to see him do. The old man stared at the old man's two hands, watching the long sleeves gradually slip off, and the chill arising from the cold moonlight also faded away, driven away by the two bright golden hands.

The old bachelor frowned slightly, even if the two golden hands were extremely vivid, they could not make him perceive half a point of vitality, and the surprise of the appearance for a moment quickly returned to flatness. The old bachelor said in a deep voice: "You have today's achievements, you can use a pair of golden hands, but in addition to the scenery, will you see the loss of your flesh and blood hands as a regret?"

The old man lowered his head, and the two golden hands also returned to his sleeves, and said: "In the past 50 years, I have suffered hardships and regrets, if I say that the younger generation really has nothing to let go, there are only two things in this world, one is that the younger generation has been crawling and rolling all their lives, and only then has it taken root in the family business bloodline overseas; the other is to create today's me, fifty years ago, your predecessor your salvation! Although this trip has a mission, for the family bloodline has to go, but with the seniors to talk about the old feelings, repay the kindness, compared with the mission, the younger generations can not distinguish which is more important!"

"Yes...... But his sword is very neat, and his broken bones and tendons are as smooth as a stone, and your hands should not have been lost, and I have pointed out to you a skilled healer who can break limbs, and you will not seek a doctor, but what other accident has happened to you, and the hour has been delayed?" sighed the old bachelor.

I still remember that at that time, the seniors bandaged the wounds of the younger generation, comforted them with kind words, leaned over and picked up the severed limbs of the younger generation in the filth and mud, and threw all the clean water and dry food they carried into the stomach and intestines of the younger generation that had not been full for more than ten years. This is a great kindness, but anyone who meets in the water cannot bear it, let alone the younger generation wearing a sinful body!" The old man let out a long sigh and continued: "What is the difference between me and them, the people who died by the sword at that time? But they were punished, but I did not, and I thought that I would have died at the hands of the sword-wielding knight, but I must live to repay the kindness of my predecessors...... Do you know how much I am grateful to you, how much I hate myself! I would like to make a career with your blessing, but I don't want to forget to punish myself for my original sins!"

"Alas!" the old man turned and sat down again, muttering, "What have I done...... he whispered softly, so that the old man would not hear, and was embarrassed to leave the old man aside, and said, "Whatever you say...... After all, you have come to this day, and the sins of more than ten years are not worth the credit of more than fifty years, right?" the old bachelor smiled, and put the book and pen in front of him again, he turned his head to look at the old man, but saw the solemnity on the old man's face......

"You're going to be disappointed, senior......," said the old man, "I'm sorry, I can't think of the world like you all the time in the past fifty years, and I'm respected only because I'm old, but not because I've been gracious." In this world, interests have never been something that can be created out of nothing, so the younger generation starts from scratch, creates a family business, continues the bloodline, and what they do is to forcibly take and rob their lives......"

"Hey......" said the old bachelor smiled, he may have been troubled by the same problem for a while, but now he had long regarded it as an inconsequential concern, so he could feel about it as much as an adult feels when he is childish.

The old man thoughtfully stretched out the two golden hands again, rested his eyes on them, and said to the old bachelor: "Senior, if there is anyone worthy of the trust of everyone else in the world, then this person can only be you! The younger generation has already been destined to stand in the coming troubled times, this time, I still can't simply fight for the common people in the world, and after this night, our relationship, whether it is an enemy or a friend, is not something that the younger generation can decide. But I want to tell my seniors that I still have the will to do my best for the common people in the world, or I still want to redeem the sins that my hands can't atone, and I still want to repay the great kindness of my predecessors fifty years ago, even if there is not much I can do this night, I just ask my seniors to be lenient with me for this incompetent work, don't let the wishful thinking of the younger generations become self-deception!"

The old man acquiesced to his statement, after all, the pen and paper had been in front of him from the beginning, and he had anticipated the exact purpose of the conversation from the moment he first recognized the old man. It's just that he didn't expect that the tacit reminiscence between the betrayer and the spy would make him so calm when he accepted this key information flying out of thin air.

......

When it comes to the word "world", everyone has their own mind of the world, although these two words have already defined the scope, but with the insignificance and humility of people, how ambitious they are, it is difficult to break through this established limitation. A village, a township, a city and a town, how many cloth clothes that have not left their names throughout the ages have been trapped in front of their own homes by all kinds of trivial things for a lifetime, and they have to leave some regrets in the end; and the people who can leave their names should be people who have a higher "world" in their hearts, have chivalrous courage or hegemony ambitions, so how big is their "world"?

A building that has just collapsed, the Shengping Dynasty, which has been in the center of the sea for more than 1,000 years, has no way to be the right of the Shengping Dynasty in its previous historical records, whether it is the land area, the population of the people, smelting and forging and civilization and education. Even so, in the most powerful period of the Shengping Dynasty, its attempts to annex other countries did not dare to encircle the entire sea, until its royal family was destroyed, there are still some countries in the sea whose territory has not been set foot by Shengping's envoys, from this point of view, with Qi Wuwei, who has traveled through the countries of the sea, to compare the Shengping Dynasty that is in the center of the sea, this person's two years, but it has been better than the greatest country in the sea for a thousand years.

Therefore, when the name of "Iron Palmer" quietly appeared in Zhongzhou's "Strange Guest Spectrum", curious people naturally wanted to explore the details of Qi Wuwei, even if Qi Wuwei carefully hid his identity background, but his deeds when he traveled, but they were all over many corners of the sea, and a trace of mystery crawled into the hearts of those curious, and then became a deep fear, just like a schoolchild who is still in the endorsement stage, in awe of the Hongru who is full of wealth.

However, whether it is a "schoolchild" or a "Hongru", their vision is only limited to the sea, and the impression in their hearts of the world beyond the sea is mostly prejudiced. The generally barren and unstable land, the emaciated people who survived the frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and the itinerant pirates who came in small boats to raid the coast and fishermen......

Qi Wuwei didn't plan to swim in the sea at the beginning, but when he first arrived at the beach and saw the large surging seawater, his chest was tight and panicked, and he was even more determined not to set foot in the ocean in the future. Just like the man who defeated the greatest dynasty in two years, the small coastal countries did not have much interest in the overseas world, and in their opinion, there were no unique specialties or precious treasures on the islands, and they could not even afford to support an educated regime.

Raising his pen and waiting for a long time, the old bachelor waited for the golden hand to pass him a roll of parchment, and without thinking he spread it out before him, and what he saw was so astonished that he could not speak. I thought I was seeing a facsimile of the picture book of "A Brief Map of the World", but after a little attention, I realized that outside the "Sea" part, there were many black shadows of different shapes faintly visible in the moonlight, which was not what the sea looked like in the map......

"There are no two dynasties for thousands of tides, and all lands return to one lord. The old man behind him slowly said a word, and the old bachelor also saw from the map that there were not only many black shadows representing islands surrounding the "sea", but also the words "Frontier Sea Empire" written on the black shadows, these four words covered the sea area in every direction of the east, west, north and south, so that all the black shadows were under its shroud. At this moment, there was the old man's words, even if the old bachelor wanted to pretend to be confused, he couldn't pretend to be confused, but there was too much information pouring into his mind, and he couldn't believe that the islands, which were not as weak as the weakest country in the sea, made the whole sea look much smaller when they formed a whole, and he couldn't imagine that the dragon slaying army would have anything to do with this "Frontier Sea Empire".

He hadn't experienced such a rapid heartbeat for a long time, but now it was only painful, and he whispered some unspoken words to himself, and suddenly let out another breath, as if he had jumped out of the panic. The old bachelor got up suddenly, and he threw the pen and the book aside, turned to the old man and asked, "The one you showed me is not true at all, right?"

"Senior, I hope so......"

......

"Master, do we really have to leave in such a hurry? Is this polite?" Qiu Ling asked Jing Shuiyi as he packed his luggage, these things were only left here before the banquet, and now they were about to pack up and leave before dawn.

Jing Shuiyi fastened the package under his hand and replied: "I just went around outside, and found that the monarchs and their wives of the Quartet have left, they are not in our plan, but they are really extremely important people!

"Can you inform Canghui senior?"

"He just knows that the next step is to go to Zhongzhou, let's deal with the monarch and his wife, it's best not to let him interfere. ”

Qiu Ling nodded, quickly packed his luggage, walked to the door in two steps, turned around and waved his hand, and several lights in the room were extinguished at the same time. He pushed the door and was about to leave, when he suddenly saw a black shadow standing behind the door, and the Gazelle couldn't dodge, so he crashed into it, but the black shadow did not move, but the Gazelle took a few steps backwards.

"Damn, who are you?!" said Qiu Ling angrily.

The shadow didn't answer, just waiting for the voice he wanted to hear to ask him.

"It's you...... Did you get it?" Jing Shuiyi asked slowly.

The black shadow moved slightly, and seemed to nod, "Yes, the demon general is dead, I have rescued my son, and nothing went wrong with what you promised!"

Jing Shuiyi replied: "Then you should take your son to retire, there is nothing between us anymore, is it possible that you still want to force me to avenge the innocent people who died tragically under your hands?"

The black shadow sneered, if he still deliberately concealed his own identity in his words just now, then the laughter at this moment exposed himself, and he was not afraid to make the people of the Dragon Slayer Army realize that there was an uninvited guest breaking in, Lian Mu said loudly: "Today's young people don't pay attention to 'helping people to the end'? I still have two things to ask you to help with, since it is not you who owe me, and it is not considered that we use each other, it will be regarded as a favor, whether you agree or not, Lian Mou only listens to you!"

Jing Shuiyi thought for a while and said, "You say." ”

"First of all, I also have a daughter who has been heard from since the Zhongzhou Demon Disaster, do you have the means to get her back?"

Jing Shuiyi sneered back and said, "I'm about to go to Zhongzhou to deal with those corpse mountains, you can give me a portrait, but I don't dare to keep the corpses that have been dried for a long time, and I can still recognize them." ”

Lian Muhuan was silent, quietly making the atmosphere around him heavy and solemn, I don't know what kind of fierce struggle he had done in his heart, but in the end, he avoided the thorn in Jing Shui Yi's words, and calmly made his second request, "The second thing, my son is very weak now, he needs food......"

Jing Shuiyi nodded and motioned for Qiu Ling to find some food. Qiu Ling walked out expressionlessly, even if he passed by Lian Muhuan, he didn't show half a bit of fear, Jing Shuiyi knew that he was young after all, not stable enough, and he was worried that he would secretly call the Dragon Slayer Army to deal with Lian Muhuan, but when Qiu Ling's return alone after a while, Jing Shuiyi's worries were superfluous.

"Take it!" Qiu Ling snorted coldly, and handed a small bowl to Lian Muhuan, under the moonlight, the porridge in the bowl was like a piece of white jade, but a slight shaking could break the scene. Lian Muhuan looked at this bowl, and he could see it, he thought that his son had just returned to Yang, and it was inconvenient for his tongue at the moment, he was negligent for a while, and forgot to mention these, but the porridge in this bowl also dispelled his concerns.

"Thank you!" Lian Muhuan solemnly thanked him, but not at Jing Shuiyi, but at Qiu Ling. After he finished speaking, he walked away quickly with the porridge. Qiu Ling didn't appreciate it very much, and as soon as he left, he muttered, "Hmph! I will reward you with a bowl of rice soup, take it to satisfy your hunger!" turned around and asked Jing Shuiyi again, "Master, why are you willing to help him?"

Jing Shuiyi said in a deep voice: "He has some connections with my master, anyway, I don't plan to care about these anymore." Be careful when you go down the mountain, don't let us be on the same road with him again. ”

"Yes!" replied Quillen.

......

In the night, a knife with the moonlight became the most conspicuous place in the mountains and forests, Lian Muhuan rushed towards the knife, his eyes were a little dim at some point, and he looked for a long time to find a huddled figure near the knife, his son returned for some reason always timid, he had placed him next to the knife, but he rolled to the far side.

Lian Muhuan put down the bowl of rice soup, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and didn't let himself look too tired, the way down the mountain was not long, and he walked very slowly, but he had to carry such a small bowl carefully. The whole body cooperated, and I tried my best to prevent the rice soup in this bowl from falling outside.

"I owe your sister and brother, and after that, it's a chance to pay it back!" said Lian Muhuan softly to his son. Except for the necessary covering, he had put all the other fabrics on his son's body, almost wrapping them into a rolled pancake, but Lian Fengqi was still shivering in his sleep.

Lian Muhuan gently woke up his son, brought him the rice soup to drink, and when he looked at him again, he saw immediate results, his hair was shiny, and his face was a little bloody. Lian Muhuan smiled with relief, and a few tears of joy crossed his face.

"Ha!" The sudden contemptuous smile made Lian Muhuan take back all the true feelings revealed, and the loving father of Fang Cai became a vigilant warrior in an instant, and his first thought was to turn around and run away to get the knife that stood on the ground. His movements were swift, but he didn't expect a flash of light to suddenly appear behind him and in front of him, and before he was about to pick up the knife, he took the knife away.

"What a pair of hard-working fathers and sons! I am so moved!" the man who spoke with the knife in his hand had a playful smile on his face.

"It's you!Imperial Robe Guest!" Lian Muhuan exclaimed, "Why do you want to get along with my father and son?" When Lian Muhuan went to Zhongzhou, it was when the Imperial Robe guest made waves and killed Qiu Shaotang, he naturally knew what kind of ability this person who could wear the imperial robe under his feet and suppress black and white should have, and he couldn't help but have a little fear hanging in his heart at this moment.

The royal robe asked, "Aren't you afraid that your son will not be discovered by others when you put this knife so conspicuously?"

Lian Muhuan sneered: "I have no choice but to do it, and if any beast passes by, my knife is enough to scare it away, but if it is someone like you who wants to oppose us, I can't hide him from you!"

The royal robe nodded and shook his head, he returned the knife to Lian Muhuan with both hands, took a few steps back, and said to Lian Muhuan: "Father-in-law is above, please bow to my son-in-law!"

......

It was already dawn, and the two of Jingshui Yi's master and servant followed the obvious traces left by Luo Jingming and caught up with the Quartet monarch and his wife.

"Please report your names first!" said the Quartet Monarch, who recognized that the two were guests in the Dragon Slayer Army with his husband and wife, and that there was something to discuss.

"In Xia Jing Che," Jing Shuiyi said, pointing at Qiu Ling, "This little brother is called Qiu Ling." ”

The monarch of the Quartet said coldly: "If there is anything, just say it directly!" The couple seemed to be unhappy in their expressions, which was reflected in the words of the monarch of the Quartet, Jing Shuiyi didn't think much about it, and said stubbornly: "Now that the royal family of Shengping has been slaughtered, the queen is really the only one left in the royal family.

The couple glanced at each other, and the queen of the four directions stood up and said, "My husband and wife didn't think about it so much, they just wanted to be able to punish the thief who harmed my Shengping royal family with their own hands, and they were satisfied." As she spoke, she poked Luo Jingming, who was dying on the ground, with the tip of her shoe, the broken body could not give any response, but the slight rise and fall of his chest also showed that he was still alive, no matter what, this immovable Luo Jingming must be a reason why Jing Shuiyi and the others could catch up.

"But the two of you...... It doesn't seem to be satisfied?" Jing Shuiyi asked tentatively.

"It's just that he's going to die, but my wife and I are still angry!" said the Quartet King angrily.

A shrewd look flashed in his eyes, and Jing Shuiyi said with a smile: "Jing wants to offer a strategy, which can not only make the king and queen do their most crucial part for the stability of Shengping, but also give the sinners the harshest punishment, so that the two of them can earn the greatest satisfaction from the body of the person who is about to die!"