Chapter Twenty-Three: Revealing the Bottom
Xizhu's sudden movements made no one expect, and when the few people who were specially arranged to watch him didn't react, Xizhu had already disappeared into the crowd like a loach.
"Damn, where's the people?"
Suddenly, there was a loud shout, and the faces of several people changed, and Xizhu almost rushed out from under their feet when he lowered his body, like a slippery shadow, and soon rushed to the side and disappeared from the crowd.
"Can't let that guy slip away, chase after him!"
Seeing this, a few people didn't have time to think too much, so they quickly chased after them.
This time, not only the people of the caravan, but also Xu Wen, who was with Xizhu, was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that although this guy gave himself a look, he slipped away so fast, and now he was left alone, and then looked at the remaining people around him at the same time, and his heart sank.
At this time, no matter how good his personality is, he can't help but want to scold in his heart!
After a long time, next to a water bridge outside the downtown area of the border city, Xizhu was panting, leaning on the railing of the stone bridge tiredly, and looked back at the street behind him, and only then did he show a smug smile on his face after making sure that no one had caught up.
"If you want to catch my Xizhu boy, you guys are still a little tender!"
The words fell, and the tossing of the past few days and the exhaustion just now made him tired, so he simply turned around and rested on the bridge railing.
There are not many people coming and going here, and I see a small river running through the border city under the bridge, and there are countless houses and buildings on both sides, and there are many different meanings in this bustling city.
"I didn't expect this to be a border city......"
Xizhu muttered, raised his head again and looked at the sky above his head, and suddenly gave birth to an inexplicable emotion.
Everything seemed like a big dream, but now that he had come here, he was no longer in a hurry, and he had a long experience.
After resting for a while, Xizhu stood up again and prepared to find his way away to make the next step, but looking at his dress, he was really downcast, like a beggar wandering on the street, which was really a little unsightly.
Xizhu, who was recovering and walking towards the unfamiliar street in front of him, felt that something seemed to be wrong after walking a short distance, and when he turned around, he realized that his eyes were dark.
"Me @#¥%"
"Damn, run, you'll run again!"
This was the last sound Xizhu heard before he fell unconscious, and then he was completely knocked out by a heavy blow.
I don't know how long it took, when Xizhu slowly woke up, he only felt that his whole head was groggy.
When he instinctively reached out to wipe the back of his head, a sharp pain made him sober again.
"This ...... Where is this?"
Of course, after opening his eyes completely, he saw a strange room in front of him, and he was lying on a hard wooden couch in the room.
Looking at the room around the room, there were already piles of clutter, except for the window next to it, where there was a somewhat familiar figure leaning alone against the window, not knowing what to think.
And who is that guy if it's not Xu Wen.
"Why are you here?"
Xizhu spoke, it turned out that during the day, Xizhu took the lead in running out, and it didn't take half a day to catch someone else again, and he was locked up in this grocery room with Xu Wen again.
Hearing Xizhu's voice, Xu Wen glanced back at him, and then showed a trace of displeasure on his face, and quickly turned sideways and ignored Xizhu again.
Obviously, it was because Xizhu's behavior of suddenly running away alone made him a little unhappy, but now that the two of them are trapped here, they are not good at seeing those guys, so there is no way.
"Huh?"
Soon Xizhu had already guessed everything that had happened before, and he was not angry when he saw that Xu Wen ignored him, and said to himself: "Who are they!"
As soon as the words fell, Xu Wen suddenly got up from the spot and stepped back, with a defensive look on his face.
After listening carefully, I heard the sound of someone talking gradually, and the sound of fragmented footsteps was also getting closer, and someone was walking towards the house of the two.
"Squeak~"
The door of the house was finally pushed open, and there were three guys coming, and if you looked closely, these guys were all some of the people in the caravan who had entered the city before and were responsible for guarding Xizhu and Xu Wen.
I saw that after the three of them walked into the room, they quickly looked at Xu Wen and Xizhu, especially when they looked at Xizhu, several of them frowned.
"Bring it to me!"
A deep voice sounded, and under the loud scolding of the leading guy among the three, the two people behind him were not ambiguous, and walked directly towards Xizhu and Xu Wen respectively.
"Who the hell are you and what are you going to do!"
Xizhu was shocked, but the other party didn't answer him, the big man who walked towards him looked indifferent, and he couldn't resist and grabbed him from the wooden couch......
Soon after, in another large hall, a man with a solemn expression was sitting on a large chair at the front of the hall, and he was seen leaning against the wooden table next to him with his right hand supporting his head, his eyes staring quietly at the teacup in his right hand, not knowing what he was thinking.
And he was the leader who had led the caravan into the city before.
"This city is based on the southern Xinjiang of Luoguo, it is impregnable, and it is even more conscripted in all directions, and at most a month, the southern Xinjiang trickle will gather into a division of 10,000 people, I am afraid that it will be ......."
A somewhat hesitant voice sounded, and there were five people standing in front of the leading guy at this moment, all of whom looked heroic and powerful, but there was a bit of recklessness hidden under the disguise of the pretending to be a businessman.
When the spoken's voice fell, the other people on the left and right were all facing each other, and everyone had a solemn look on their faces, except for the man sitting in front of everyone.
I saw him slowly bring the teacup to his mouth, and then take a sip of good tea before slowly putting down the teacup in his hand.
"Solid? no...... Without him, this city, this southern frontier will have no guardian spirit!"
His voice was calm, and there seemed to be something different in the depths of his contemplative eyes, like an aftertaste full of vicissitudes.
He knew the border city very well, otherwise the man wouldn't have let him come here this time.
"Let's go!"
After a long time, there was a report from outside the hall, and then the door was slowly pushed open, and several figures walked in, it was Xizhu and Xu Wen who were brought here by a few sturdy guys.
After Xizhu and the others were brought to this room, the first thing they saw was the indifferent man sitting above the room, and the other five people standing in the hall.
Xizhu was startled, he remembered that these five people were the leaders of the caravan that entered the city the day before yesterday and rode on the big horses, and a bad feeling faintly rose from his heart, maybe this group of guys is indeed not simple.
When he and Xu Wen were pushed into the center of the room, the few people who were responsible for bringing them here hurriedly retreated towards the few people in the room, and then closed the door again.
"Who are you?"
At this moment, the other people standing in the hall separated and walked to the seats on the left and right, and it was a guy on the right who spoke, and Xi Zhu turned around and saw that this person was very familiar, it turned out to be the man with the burden who had looked at him at the beginning of the caravan.
The other people all looked indifferent, their eyes were staring at them quietly, Xizhu swallowed his saliva carefully, and then his eyes fell on the man directly above, and found that this person was the only one who ignored the two of them.
"Speak quickly!"
However, when the previous shouting and questioning sounded for a while, another voice sounded again, Xizhu was shocked, and when he turned around, he saw that Xu Wen at this moment was always with his head down, his face was pale, and it seemed that he was also shocked by the other party.
Xizhu's heart was also inexplicably a little flustered, after all, these two people were not very old.
"That...... The bosses must have misunderstood, we two little ones just want to go into the city..."
Finally, Xizhu finally began to speak after thinking for a while, but seeing this battle, this guy had to give in immediately as soon as he came up.
"I'm asking who you are!"
At this time, the person who asked before asked again, seemingly a little impatient, and Xizhu, whose explanation was interrupted, was also stunned, and then frowned slightly.
"Dead is dead......"
Xizhu took a deep breath, suddenly raised his head and looked at everyone again, and then said to a few people with a loud voice: "We are here to join the army in the border city!"
He tried his best to make his voice louder, wanting to use that voice to suppress the uneasiness in his heart, at this time, Xu Wen next to him looked surprised, raised his head and looked at Xizhu blankly.
This time, the hall suddenly fell silent, and several people were staring at Xizhu and Xu Wen in the field, and the expressions on their faces seemed to freeze for a moment, and even the man directly above was stunned, so they looked at Xizhu and Xu Wen intentionally or unintentionally.
After a while, the leader of the caravan regained his previous calm, and then with his hands folded, he suddenly got up from his seat, ignored the crowd and walked straight to the door.
When he came to Xizhu and Xu Wen, he frowned again for some reason, and glanced back at Xizhu, who also happened to look back at him.
This glance was hurried, and the two quickly staggered away, and the man walked to the door of the hall.
Then a man with an indifferent face who was sitting next to him suddenly took out a dagger from his sleeve and placed it on the table next to him.
No one spoke the whole time, except for the sound of the door being pushed open and the soft sound of the dagger being placed on the table.
"You...... You guys!"
The atmosphere was extremely depressed, and even Xizhu suddenly felt that something was wrong after saying that he thought he could save the two of them, swallowed two mouthfuls of saliva and took two steps back.
"I ...... I know General Xu!"
At this moment, another voice suddenly sounded in this room, but it was Xu Wen, whose face was already extremely pale, suddenly spoke, and after finishing speaking, his chest rose and fell, obviously very nervous in his heart.
At this time, Xizhu turned around all of a sudden, staring at him with wide eyes, and the man who walked to the door was also stunned, and stood at the door all of a sudden......
As the gateway to the southwest of the entire Luoguo, the significance of this city is self-evident, and the people who can guard this place are none other than the henchmen of the royal capital.
On the city wall with mottled traces of time, a man was wearing heavy armor, carrying his hands behind his back, and his eyes were quietly looking into the distance, but in those black eyes, there seemed to be no reflection of mountains and rivers, only the thick melancholy.
"General!"
Behind him, there was a group of soldiers standing in unison, each of them showing a solemn look on their faces, as if the person in front of him could naturally reveal a kind of majesty standing there, and that majesty made people a little frightened and a little at a loss.
It's just that today's inspection has already been completed, and the sky has darkened, and one of them still cautiously stepped forward to remind him.
"Pastoralist...... What do you think Tuoba looks like?"
The general spoke, his voice was flat, but when it reached the ears of the soldiers behind him, they were all shocked.
Tuoba seems to have descended from the sky, leading the herdsmen to be enemies of the Luo country, but this originally inconspicuous nomadic army has become a huge momentum, and it is even more powerful, and the place where it passes is a mess, and the Luo army is also panicked when he hears it.
Seeing that everyone did not speak, the general shook his head, don't say that it is them, even he himself can't tell, but deep in his heart, what can a person who can shake the country of Luo, a person who can shake the majesty of the royal capital, look like.
Maybe this kind of person may have been, but there are very few people who can have this courage, thinking of this, his heart inexplicably feels a kind of emptiness, maybe this is an extremely dangerous signal for him, because he is an important person guarding the border city, and he is the one who prevents such a person from appearing!
His eyes closed slightly, and he seemed to have a feeling in his heart that since that kind of person was born in the same era, the day when they met might not be far away......