"Is this the cave?" Qi Yoyo asked, pointing to the dark cave entrance in front of him.

Zhang Xiaopu glanced at the ashes left by his roasting snake meat on the riverbed, and nodded, "Well, this is the cave." ”

Looking at the entrance of the cave, Zhang Xiaopaw only felt that his scalp was numb, his hair stood on end, and the sense of death and loneliness in the darkness enveloped his heart, making his body tremble uncontrollably, and a drop of cold sweat slipped down his forehead.

"What's wrong with you?" Qi Yoyo was the first to notice Zhang Xiaopaw's strange appearance and hurriedly asked.

"Pawn, what's wrong with you?!" Niu Dawa grabbed Zhang Xiaopaw's trembling body and asked eagerly.

Zhang Xiaopaw took a deep breath and tried his best to control his body not to tremble, but his voice still had a trill, and said, "I'm not afraid of your jokes when I say it, I'm afraid of this cave." ”

"Is there danger in the cave?" Qi Yoyo asked.

"No, it's safe. "What I was afraid of was the boundless darkness, the dead silence and the loneliness in the cave, and I almost died in it. ”

"Little brother, understandable. A handsome black man stepped forward and slapped Zhang Xiaopaw's shoulder, and said with a wry smile: "The confinement of the small black house is the most terrifying punishment in our military camp, and in just three days, a man as strong as a bear can be tortured to tears, like a milk baby." I heard that you walked in the dark in this cave for seven to ten days, admiration and admiration. ”

"Little brother, good job. Another man gave Zhang Xiaopaw a thumbs up.

"Don't be afraid, this time we have torches and companions to talk to, and we won't feel dark, dead and lonely. The black handsome man patted Zhang Xiaopaw's shoulder and comforted.

"Hmm. Zhang Xiaopaw nodded, and kept taking deep breaths to adjust his physical state.

With Qi Yoyo's order, thirty people were divided into six groups, each group of five people, each group was equipped with a torch, ten steps apart from the front and back, and entered the cave in turn according to the group number.

Zhang Xiaopaw, Niu Dawa, Zhou Jianlai and the two men who comforted Zhang Xiaopaw just now were in the first group and led the team at the front.

The black handsome man is named Zhao Quan, and the other square-faced man is named Qu Kai.

There are torches to illuminate, and the cave is quite spacious, and the pedestrian path is fast.

Although, as Zhao Quan said, with torches and lighting and companions to chat, you will not feel dark, dead and lonely, but as time passes, the feeling of depression caused by being in a narrow and dim space gradually envelops your heart, making people feel unspeakably uncomfortable.

"Rest. When the first torch was about to burn out, Qi Yoyo gave the order to rest.

Sit on the floor in groups of five and take out dry food and water to replenish your strength.

......

"Have you heard, the patio in our Yancheng has been dry for more than a month. ”

"How is it possible? The officials have been distributing clean water every day for a month, and if the patio runs out, where does the water come from?"

"It is said that the government hoarded water before the patio dried up. Haven't you noticed? This month, the government has been distributing less and less water. ”

"It seems like that's true. ”

"It must be that the patio has dried up. I heard that the powerful and wealthy families have begun to pack up their belongings and prepare to roll up their belongings and run away. ”

"Where are you going?"

"Run north. ”

"Ah, isn't there a bigtooth dog making trouble in the north? If you meet a bigtooth dog on the road, won't you kill yourself?"

"The fart big tooth dog is all fake news released by the powerful and wealthy families, specially used to confuse us poor people, they are afraid that we will run with them, and when the time comes, it will cause riots and anger the officials, and the officials will close the city gates, and no one will be able to escape. ”

"Whether it's true or not, let's go back and clean up, if the powerful and wealthy really run, let's run together. ”

In the past two days, similar topics have been discussed in the north and south of Yancheng, making people panic and unable to sleep and eat.

In the Central City, in the City Lord's Mansion, the City Lord Qi Wuwei slapped his face on the desk with a cold face, shaking the scrolls on the desk to the ground.

His deployment was almost completed, but the news of the exhaustion of the patio was actually released one step in advance, and he also exaggerated and deceived the public, intending to mess up Yancheng. He knew who did it, but now was not the time to do it, so he was furious.

A beautiful woman smiled, picked up the scrolls that Qi Wuwei had slapped down one by one, put them on the desk, and then reached out and stroked Qi Wuwei's chest, and comforted: "It's all expected, what's so angry?"

"Lao Tzu is angry that in order to fight for power and power, they even ignore the life and death of the southern border, and regard the lives of thousands of people as child's play. Qi Wuwei said hatefully.

"The rebel army in the south has broken through ten cities in a row, and two more cities will attack our Yancheng City. It stands to reason that the East King City and the West King City should ask us for help, but there has been no movement in the two cities so far. In my opinion, most of them have already hooked up with the rebels, ready to open the door to welcome them into the city. The beautiful woman said.

"Someone wants to rob the Su family!" Qi Wuwei sighed, "I don't know if it's the old master of the previous dynasty, or which clan is a wealthy family?" In the southeast and northwest, only the situation in the north is within a controllable range, and the situation in the east and west is similar to that in the south of us, which is turbulent and precarious, and may collapse at any time. ”

"That is, there is my master Zhang Butcher in the northern Xinjiang, who dares to make a mistake?" said the beautiful woman proudly.

"Butcher Zhang, you're old! If you can stop it for a while, I'm afraid you won't be able to take advantage of the general trend!" Qi Wuwei sighed.

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"Gotta thank you. Niu Dawa said gratefully.

"Well, when I return to Baiyun City, I should come to thank you. Zhang Xiaopaw nodded.

"What happened later?" asked Niu Dawa.

"Later, Su Mou, the first wizard of Baiyun City, found us hiding in the cave, Miss Qi carried me unconscious on her back and followed them to leave the Black Forest, but I was attacked by the big tooth dog halfway, but fortunately, I woke up in time and killed dozens of big tooth dogs in one go, and killed the big tooth dog back. Unexpectedly, after the big tooth dog retreated, Su Mou and Miss Qin suddenly attacked and forced me to join the City Lord's Mansion to work for them. You know my temper best, eat soft rather than hard, the more they force, the more I don't agree. Hmph, the two of them are angry and want to abolish me. As a result, a huge black giant ape fell from the sky and slapped Su Mou, the number one wizard in White Cloud City, into the soil, and then I was taken away by the black giant ape, which was considered to save my life in disguise. Zhang Xiaopaw briefly recounted.

After speaking, he turned his head to look at Zhou Jianlai beside him, and said, "Brother Zhou, I'm sorry, I hid something from you before, the contradiction between me and Miss Qin is very deep, and the reason why Su Mou embarrassed me, a nobody, was all instructed by Miss Qin." ”

Zhou Jianlai opened his mouth, not knowing how to answer.

Before he asked Zhang Xiaopaw why Su Mou was embarrassed by him, Zhang Xiaopaw didn't answer, he thought that Zhang Xiaopaw was ashamed to say it, but now after listening to Zhang Xiaopaw's story, he understood that the reason why Zhang Xiaopaw didn't say it was because he was afraid of his relationship with Qin Xinru.