The outer courtyard of the city lord's mansion.

Rows of guards on night patrol walked by with lanterns in neat steps.

No one noticed that a cat with black markings was hiding in the bushes on the side of the road, secretly observing them.

When the figures of the guards were gone, until they disappeared, the black spotted cat walked out of the grass, a trace of human disdain flashed in his eyes, and with a light step, he jumped onto the wall of the city lord's mansion.

In an inn outside the city.

Zhao Si and Qingxi had already changed into a set of black night clothes, turned off the lights and sat in the room waiting.

Neither of them spoke, and the room was quiet with a pin drop.

Moment.

The carved window of the wing room was slowly opened a crack, and a small figure came in from the window, it was the black-spotted cat in the city lord's mansion.

Zhao Si and Qingxi both have cultivation in their bodies, and they can see clearly even if there is no light in the room, this is the cat that Qinglin said.

I just saw that the black-spotted cat jumped into Qingxi's arms, rubbing and rubbing in her arms, screaming softly, as if to say something to Qingxi.

Qingxi's complexion slowly became surprised from serious at the beginning to the end.

"Xiao Lin's hunting cat said that it would lead us to where we wanted to go and let us follow her. Qingxi turned his head and looked at Zhao Si.

Zhao Si was a little surprised and asked, "Can you understand her?"

"Hmm," Qingxi nodded, explaining, "This is our Meizu's racial talent, using spiritual power and uncivilized wild ** flow. ”

When the word "uncivilized" was spoken, the hunting cat in her arms was obviously a little unhappy, and it meowed, looking at her with some anger.

Qingxi hurriedly changed her words and said, "Of course, Xiao Lin's hunting cat has followed her since she was a child and has a high IQ. She just said, let's believe that she is right. ”

Zhao Si: "......"

Hearing only one sentence of "uncivilized" evaluation, this hunting cat exploded, and that's it? How high can the IQ be?

At most, the IQ of a three- or four-year-old child has just begun to enlighten.

Today is the night to break into the city lord's mansion, once you are caught, you can't explain it at all, it is definitely dead or alive.

So in his heart, he didn't want to pin his hopes on a cat.

He had a map of the City Lord's Mansion in his hand, so he could sneak in and find it himself, and it would be ridiculous if the cat took them to the gutter.

"Xiaoxi, you ask this cat, Qing Lin has anything else to explain besides letting her lead the way. After thinking about it, Zhao Si asked.

What is the deployment of troops in the City Lord's Mansion? Which position is relatively empty, these are all things that need to be clarified, and if he doesn't figure it out, he definitely doesn't want to follow a cat.

When Qingxi heard his words, she immediately leaned down, gently stroked the hunting cat in her arms, closed her eyes slightly, and an invisible spiritual power fluctuation emanated from her, obviously communicating with the hunting cat.

Moment.

She opened her eyes and said, "The City Lord's Mansion has a night patrol team, four teams in the front mansion and eight teams in the backyard, a total of twelve, and the teams in the backyard are every two rounds of each other, each on duty in the east, west, north and south gardens, replacing each other. These patrolling night patrols change every half hour. ”

"Tonight, the Rose City Lord Su Tinglong stayed in Beiyuan, and the patrol team of Beiyuan has been managed by Qing Lin to transfer away at this time, and the next patrol team will not be on duty until two quarters of an hour later, that is, we have two quarters of an hour to complete what we need to do. ”

Zhao Si nodded slightly when he heard this, and his heart settled down a lot.

He stood up and said, "In that case, let us go now, without further ado." ”

The two of them flew out of the inn all the way, carefully avoiding the city guards in Rose City, and came to the Rose City Lord's Mansion.

The Castle Lord's Mansion is built in the middle of the peninsula, with a great slope up and down, and the East Garden is at the top of the Castle Lord's Mansion, and you can even see most of the Rose City at a glance.

The North Garden, where the Rose City Lord sleeps tonight, is located at the lower end of the City Lord's Mansion, although there are several Rose City Lord's wives and concubines living here, but most of them are not favored, and the Rose City Lord himself rarely comes here on weekdays.

If it weren't for today's Xinna's shadow demon concubine, Su Tinglong couldn't wait to taste all kinds of tastes, and I am afraid he would not have thought of visiting Beiyuan at all.

The Rose City Lord's Mansion.

In the former house.

A small figure climbed over the courtyard wall and silently landed on the ground of the City Lord's Mansion.

"Bang".

The figure was bounced away heavily, and its body flew upside down three or five feet away.

The small figure did not panic, but as if it was not strange, it had stabilized its body in the air, grabbed the ground, opened its mouth, and the fluorescent light on the surface of the body flickered, and it actually spit out a dark green jade pendant.

The cat grabbed the jade pendant with one paw, and swiped lightly in the air, and a large array of black gas suddenly appeared in the void in front of him.

This formation was like an inverted round bowl, firmly enveloping the entire City Lord's Mansion in it.

It's no wonder that the moment this hunting cat jumped, it was knocked out by the large array in a defensive state.

Behind them, Zhao Si and Qingxi watched this scene, their eyes widened.

At this time, the two of them understood why Qing Lin wanted this hunting cat to lead the way for the two of them.

Without this hunting cat breaking through the big formation, they wouldn't have been able to get in.

Even if the formation is forcibly broken, I am afraid that it will still be detected by the defenders in the city lord's mansion, and by then the people will be surrounded before they reach Beiyuan.

Zhao Si was a little embarrassed, he helped his forehead, and followed the hunting cat into the big array.

When the three of them walked into the city lord's mansion, the hunting cat opened its mouth and swallowed it, and the emerald jade pendant that was originally floating in the air and constantly rotating disappeared at this time.

The City Lord's Mansion Protection Array, which appeared in the air, was not stimulated by external forces at this time, and gradually became virtual, and finally escaped into nothingness again.

Seeing that Zhao Si and Qingxi had quietly escaped into the night, a hint of vigilance flashed in his dark eyes, and after looking left and right, he stepped on the cat's steps and left the place.

A few people had just walked past the front yard.

Under the leadership of the cat, I finally passed through the outer promenade without danger and came to the outside of Beiyuan.

Just when Zhao Si was about to drill into Beiyuan.

Suddenly.

A heavy footstep sounded, as if someone had walked out of the darkness, and for a while Zhao Si hurriedly retreated and hid in a corner where no one was around.

A moment later, a tall sergeant in iron armor walked up the corridor.

He frowned slightly and looked at the empty Beiyuan.

"Hey, what about the guards outside the North Garden?" The burly man's face became a little serious, and he muttered in a cold tone, "This group of lazy guys, even the protection of the adults in the city dare to steal and play tricks, wait for me in the city tomorrow, see how the city lord cleans you up?"

With a cold snort, the burly man stood at the door very consciously, temporarily acting as a guard.

He was the deputy commander of the guards in the City Lord's Mansion, and almost completely overlapped with Chu Chaosheng's scope of responsibility.

Tonight, I also had a sudden whim, got up in the middle of the night, and came to the door of Beiyuan.

Sure enough, when he came, he discovered something strange.

What about the guards on duty?

He thought that it was time to get off duty at this moment, and it should be a handover between the two teams, but he stood at the door and waited for a long time without waiting for anyone.

And Qingxi and Zhao Si, who were hiding in the shadows, saw this person standing at the door like a door god, and they couldn't leave, and they were suddenly a little speechless in their hearts.

If it goes on like this, in another quarter of an hour, I'm afraid that the rotating guard team should come.

At that time, it would be tantamount to a fool's dream for them to try to assassinate Su Tinglong, the lord of Rose City.

Even if the assassination is really successful, I am afraid that it will not be able to escape the encirclement of these guards in the city lord's mansion.

Just as Zhao Si was hesitating whether to retreat temporarily tonight, the hunting cat in Qingxi's arms suddenly jumped down, flashed past the two of them, and his figure flashed to the other side of the Beiyuan corridor.

Although her speed was very fast, the deputy commander of the City Lord's Mansion guarding the gate of Beiyuan was also a master, and when the hunting cat flashed, he caught the flashing trace as soon as possible.

"Who? Who's there?"

The burly man pulled out the long sword at his waist with a "swish" and strode towards the hunting cat.

The hunting cat turned around and jumped straight onto the roof, meowing and playing a game of hide and seek with the burly man.

You chase after me.

Moment.

Under the burly man's leap, the hunting cat finally fell into his hands, and when she saw that she could not escape, she simply stopped struggling, and kept wagging her tail and "meowing".

"Qinglin's pet cat?"

Seeing the hunting cat covered in black markings in his hand, the burly man was obviously a little surprised.

He knew the cat.

It is Qinglin's pet, who is almost inseparable on weekdays and always carries it with him.

The burly man frowned, looked at the innocent hunting cat, and secretly thought in his heart: "Qinglin's mother lives in Xiyuan, why did this guy come to Beiyuan?"

Although it is only a one-word difference, in fact, the City Lord's Mansion is not small. If you want to walk the distance between the North Garden and the West Garden, you have to walk about a stick of incense.

Moreover, there are a few unfavored wives and concubines living here in Beiyuan, which are not as lively as those in Xiyuan and Dongyuan, and Su Tinglong himself rarely comes to Beiyuan, so the people in Beiyuan are even more deserted.

In the impression of the burly man, Qinglin almost never came to Beiyuan, and several of the housewives who were good friends with her did not live in Beiyuan.

So why did this cat come to Beiyuan?

The burly man pinched the back of the cat's neck in his hand and fell into deep thought.

Moment.

He shook his head a little helplessly and said, "I don't understand...... Let's send the cat back to Qinglin's mother first. ”

This is not a stammering gesture to Qinglin.

But he knew in his heart that Qing Lin valued this hunting cat very much. And Su Tinglong, the lord of Rose City, spoiled Qinglin very much.

If Qing Lin wakes up from sleep and finds that her cat is gone, I'm afraid that it will be their guards who will suffer in the end.

After all, as long as Qing Lin was coquettish in front of the city lord and begged him to help find the cat, then in the end, the errand of finding the cat would still fall on the heads of their guards.

Rather than that, it's better to get this cat back now, and it's better to have more than one thing to do.

Thinking of this, the burly man finally made up his mind, glanced at the dark North Garden, and strode towards the West Garden.

When he was gone.

A hint of sarcasm flashed in the eyes of the hunting cat in his hand that was choked by the back of his neck, and at the same time he glanced at Zhao Si in the dark.

Zhao Si: "......"

He is now beginning to admit that this hunting cat is probably born with wisdom, right?

He underestimated the hunting cat.

actually knows how to transfer the tiger away from the mountain, it seems that under Qinglin's training, he usually reads books on the art of war.

He shook his head, shook out the distracting thoughts in his heart, glanced at Qingxi beside him, and said, "Let's go." ”

The two tiptoed into the North Garden.

Although the North Garden is a courtyard, the construction in it is not bad at all, it is like a palace.

There are more than a dozen rooms in the courtyard.

Except for a jubilant room with a red lantern hanging from the door, the doors of the other houses were closed and the lights were extinguished.

"This is it, right?" Zhao Si silently spread out the map in his hand and said to Qingxi.

Qingxi closed her eyes at the moment, as if she was perceiving something.

After a while, he responded to Zhao Si's transmission, nodded and said, "Yes, I just sensed that there was a couple of men and women lying in this room, hugging each other, and they were all without an inch on their bodies. ”

"That woman is exactly what Qing Lin mentioned, Su Tinglong Xinna's beautiful concubine, born in the Shadow Demon clan. ”

Zhao Si nodded and said, "Do it." ”

Qingxi realized, and a huge spiritual power fluctuation was instantly released from his body, sweeping the entire Beiyuan.

A solid soundproof barrier immediately appeared, blending into the Beiyuan's guard array.

There is this invisible and colorless soundproof barrier.

Even if they really made a disturbance in the North Garden, I was afraid that the guards outside would not hear it, let alone come to support.

As soon as he approached the room with a red lantern hanging at the door, Zhao Si was keenly aware that the voices of a man and a woman speaking came from inside.

The man's words were filthy, and they were all love words between the sheets, which made the woman giggle.

Zhao Si stood on the roof.

After standing for a moment, the ghostly light flashed in his hand, and two diamond-shaped flying blades that had been quenched with poison appeared.

This poison is taken from the black river in the land of chaos.

At that time, he heard Li Yangming say that the water of this black river has the effect of eroding souls and devouring souls, once the wound is contaminated, it will spread rapidly, and it is extremely difficult to heal, so he can only wash away the corrosive power contained in the river water through the pure and huge divine power, and then let the wound slowly heal.

Li Yangming said this, Zhao Si naturally did not let it go, and specially found someone to create a small bottle made of water and gold to hold the water of the Black River.

At this time, when he came to assassinate Su Tinglong, he naturally made a foolproof strategy, quenching his weapon and the hidden weapon in his hand with the deadly poison of the water of the Black River.

There was no hesitation.

With all his strength, the flying blade in his hand burst with cold light, breaking through the roof like two sharp blades and shooting at a man and a woman on the bed.

"Who?"

Su Tinglong has lived in the gentle countryside for a long time, and he has long lost his vigilance, coupled with being tortured by Qinglin's chronic poison, his cultivation is not advancing but retreating, and at this time, he was touched by the assassin on the eaves, and only then did he react.

He let out a loud cry, and saw the flying blade shoot towards him, but he couldn't avoid it.

In a hurry, Su Tinglong directly grabbed the shadow demon woman on the bed and blocked it in front of him.

"Shui "!

The poisonous blade entered her body, and the shadow demon woman didn't even react to what was happening, her body twitched, and her vitality faded like a tide.