Qubu is a small border town in Dongyuan, located in the northernmost part of Dongyuan, at the junction of two continents, east and west.

If you only look at the territory of Dongyuan on the map, you will find that Dongyuan is like a crescent moon, and the southernmost Lixin and the northernmost Qubu are located at the two sharp corners of the crescent.

Tang Yinbrown and his entourage escorted Bao'er back from the west, which was the border that entered through Qubu. It's just that at that time, I returned to my homeland, and there was only a solid feeling that the dust had finally settled in my heart, and no one cared about the defense of this small city - after all, no matter how impregnable this city was, it would only open its doors to the subjects of the state's merits.

But now that he has stepped into this city, Xin Zi's mentality is very different from before.

About half a year ago, it took less than three days for a group of people to travel from Qubu to the outside of Tokyo.

But this time, from the northern suburbs of Tokyo City to Qubu City, Xin Zi, Takemoto and Li Yuan took a full seven days.

Such a speed of travel is not unrelated to the fact that Xin Zi's injuries have not healed and he tried to commit suicide by hunger strike before, but another reason is that the accompanying white tiger is too eye-catching.

Takemoto and Li Yuan, a pair of horses walking on Xin Zi's left and right to escort her, was already extremely high-profile, but the eyes of passers-by almost all fell on the white tiger where Xin Zi and her were sitting.

Most of the people are just surprised that such a shocking little girl leisurely rides on a white tiger, and at a glance, it looks like she has walked down from a painting, some of them stop and watch for a long time, some of them are amazed, and they have never seen such a strange scene when they live to this age, and there is even the young child who sees Xin Zi's appearance and sits down, and the white tiger is actually seven or eight points with the image of the Sacred Heart Niangniang and Rui Beast enshrined on the wall of his house, and he seems to shout "Niangniang has appeared" and "Sacred Heart Niangniang has reappeared in the world" 's words jumped all the way and chased after Xin Zi and the three of them.

Seeing this, Xin Zi just wanted to open his mouth to stop it, but the white tiger under him saw a group of children with sharp voices rushing over, but he mistakenly thought that danger was coming, lowered his head and roared, and was about to carry Xin Zi towards several unarmed children.

Seeing this, Xin Zi hurriedly leaned over and whispered in Yuchen's ear, her hands tightly covering her neck and gently caressing the fluff on the side of her chin with her palms.

The white tiger put away his lust under Xin Zi's appeasement.

But the children who approached with joy were shocked, why was the Rui Beast so fierce and vicious, different from the tame and loyal appearance in the painting?

A thin boy of about six or seven years old was the first to cry, and this cry quickly infected the other children, and for a while, several children who chased after him all had snot and tears, and cried loudly.

The crying caused the nearby villagers to go out to find out, and Xin Zi and the three of them were surrounded in an instant. The crowd whispered at the trio.

Xin Zi and the three of them faced the crowd of about thirty people back to back, thinking about how to deal with it.

"This is a demon, arrest them and hand them over to the government!" A young man who was a little back and was blocked by the head in front of him, and even Xin Zi's appearance had not yet been seen clearly, suddenly shouted.

This proposal was quickly approved by the onlookers, and they all rolled up their sleeves and gathered around Xin Zi and the others.

Takemoto's hand holding the soft sword at his waist hesitated.

At this moment, if it is a mountain bandit or an enemy on the battlefield, she is not afraid, she can simply kill a bloody way. But in the face of the defenseless people, she must have never done anything to break the law, but she was just blinded for a while, which made her subordinates hesitate a little.

On this side, Takemoto was still thinking about it, but on the other side, Li Yuan couldn't help but say, stepped forward, held the arm of a strong man who rushed to the front with both hands, and threw him to the ground with an over-the-shoulder fall, and when the villagers behind him were stunned, he turned his head and glared at Takemoto and said, "Don't do it at this time?" What are you waiting for? The promise that you said that you would sacrifice everything for the sake of the mission was eaten by a dog? ”

When Takemoto heard this, it was like a thunderbolt hitting his head, his body shook, and he drew his sword and stabbed forward.

More than half of the more than 30 villagers were hung up in that fight, but fortunately, Takemoto and Li Yuan both restrained their hands, but it was just a bluff and did not really seriously injure any of them.

But after that incident, the three of them had to abandon the official roads, even the remote muddy paths, and took the inaccessible wilderness.

This saves you the hassle of dealing with people, but you spend twice as much time on the road.

At the foot of Qubu City, Takemoto helped the three of them dress up in disguise and hide the white tiger in the secret compartment of the carriage bought by Li Yuan, so that he successfully infiltrated the city and lived in a small inn that seemed to be some years old.

"It's going well to enter the city today," Li Yuan leaned against the wall and said when the three of them gathered in one place in the evening to discuss the countermeasures for leaving the city, "Why don't we try to continue to use this method to get out?" ”

Xin Zi shook his head when he heard this: "Entering the city is just passing through a city gate, naturally there is not much screening, and we can get away with it." But when you go out, it's different, when you go out of the West City Gate, the outside doesn't belong to the territory of the East Plains. There is a natural barrier outside the city of Lixin in the south Xinmen Pass to cover, but the Qubu in the north is different, inside and outside the city wall are a horse and a flat river, if there is no strong army to guard, it is easy to attack the city. ”

Li Yuan could only nod lightly when he heard this, and contemplated with one hand on his cheek.

"Does the girl have any suggestions?" Takemoto looked at Xin Zi.

Xin Zi pondered for a while, and then said, "Let's act separately......"

Unexpectedly, as soon as they started, Li Yuan and Takemoto blurted out a sentence of "no" at the same time, and the two of them were stunned and looked at each other.

This is the first time that the two have stood in the same camp since their identities, Li Yuan smiled at Takemoto, but Takemoto turned his head indifferently and said to Xin Zi: "It's too dangerous to let you go out of the city alone, in case something happens to you, what kind of face do Li Yuan and I have to face Lord Zuo?" ”

Li Yuan nodded and agreed: "The three of them going out of the city together may not be easier to expose their identities than acting alone, after all, we are together, and many people can also deal with any emergencies together." ”

But in the face of the insistence of the two, Xin Zi just shook his head and said firmly: "The goal of three people plus a white tiger is too big, it is impossible not to be investigated, if they act separately, maybe one or two will be able to escape." ”

Hearing this, Li Yuan and Takemoto looked at each other, and they both wanted to argue again, but Xin Zi said strongly: "Okay, don't say it again." I have made up my mind, what did you promise me when I blew the jade whistle? Do you want to oppose me now over such a trivial matter? (To be continued.) )