Early the next morning

Kugi opened his eyes, feeling his numb limbs, his eyes just staring at the ceiling, his eyes radiating endless loneliness.

Zhou Budo pushed open the door, walked in and saw this look of bitter wood, he didn't say a word, just stood in place, not knowing whether to go or go.

The furnishings in this room, since the people of them moved in, only this room of Kumu has not changed at all, what they looked like when they first moved in, what it looks like now, without the slightest change, as if all these scenes have just added a lukewarm human atmosphere on the original basis.

Brother Kumu, he should be very uncomfortable now, right?

Zhou Budo pursed his lips, he didn't know how to comfort Kumu, Qi Wuhate them and said to himself, if they comfort Kumu now, only themselves will be suitable among them.

But they forget that they are never comforting as children.

I can only hope that the injuries on Brother Kumu's body are really as Qi Wuxian said, and they can heal after two or three days of rest.

Zhou Budo turned around and cautiously walked out of the door, and closed it again, he walked out of the house, looking at the emptiness in the courtyard, Zhou Budo let out a long sigh.

Inexplicably, a feeling of impetuousness appeared in Zhou Budo's heart.

Why did he go to all the lengths to stay here?

He was originally a prince of the royal palace, and he could be the arrogant and domineering prince of Jinling City, and after a hundred years, he would inherit his father's title and live his life like a gentleman, isn't it?

But what have you experienced this year?

When I woke up, I was inexplicably taken captive to a remote county, and finally escaped after a life-and-death struggle, but then I met Qingtan, who had left a deep impression on me.

Go to Dongxun, nine deaths and one life, Zhou Budo can dream of the man in black that night from time to time whenever he sleeps.

finally came back alive from Dongxun without incident, but he didn't rest for a while and hastily followed Brother Kumu and them north to come here.

Although Zhou Budo has not encountered any danger until now, Zhou Budo knows it in his heart.

That danger should happen soon.

This kind of thing, Zhou Budo doesn't know whether he should get used to it as soon as possible, or escape back to Jinling as soon as possible to be his prince in the palace?

It seems that in my memory, my father didn't expect much from himself since he was a child?

There is a big brother on them, and the youngest of them has become the son of the world, even if the eldest brother doesn't say anything, they don't have anything to say about it in their hearts, but after Zhou Budo became the prince of Zhou, he has heard many malicious slanders and rumors about him after becoming the prince.

Yes, Zhou Dunyi's son, Zhou Budo is not the only one from beginning to end.

Zhou Dunyi's son, counting the youngest Zhou Budo, there are four.

It's just that among these four sons, only Zhou Budo's background is comparable, which is in line with the vision of the royal family.

Among the three elder brothers above, two of them are abandoned babies picked up by Zhou Dunyi from the roadside in Shangzhou before, and as for the origin of the remaining eldest prince of Zhou Wangfu, it is only a child born to Zhou Dunyi and a partial concubine in the palace.

And Zhou Budo's mother, but that legendary woman, the queen of Zhou Dunyi, so the identity of the prince of the palace naturally fell on Zhou Budo's shoulders.

The only one who can compete with Zhou Budo for this position is the eldest prince, but this eldest prince has been leading troops to resist foreign enemies in the southern frontier all these years, and he has not taken the domestic power or anything to heart.

One person walked to the chessboard, Zhou Budo sat on the stone pier, he lowered his head, supported his head with both hands, he didn't know what he was thinking in his heart, but it was certain that Zhou Budo's mind must be a mess now.

This is when he is entangled and in trouble, and he has begun to wonder why he is here, why he has gone to great lengths to do these things.

It was when he was thinking about these things that he suddenly smiled and pushed open the door of the house, just stretched his waist and yawned a long time, and suddenly smiled and saw Zhou Budo sitting alone in the courtyard, he pursed his lips, moved his body, and walked towards Zhou Budo.

"Shizi, what's wrong with you?"

Suddenly, he walked to another stone pier and sat down, and lifted Erlang's legs, looking at Zhou Budo, who was a little wrong with the current situation, and suddenly smiled and felt a little confused in his heart.

Did Shizi take the wrong medicine? Why did it suddenly become like this, isn't it just a sleep? Could it be that when I was sleeping, something happened that I didn't know?

I saw that Zhou Budo raised his head, shook his head a little tiredly, and said

"It's okay, I just feel a little tired."

After saying this, Zhou Budo looked at Suddenly, and after hesitating for a while, he simply confided in the things he had just thought in his heart and Suddenly's smile.

"Hahahaha, what am I saying, it turns out that you have a headache here because of these trivial things, this kind of thing wants me to say, you don't have to think so much, as the so-called car to the mountain before there must be a road, let's take a step and see a step, anyway, I can see it, our every move now has been arranged by some people, we, it's just a chess piece."

"Chess pieces?"

Zhou Bu was puzzled, he didn't understand the word sudden laughter.

Suddenly, he raised his eyebrows and chuckled, then tapped his fingers lightly on the chessboard, and he said as if he were self-deprecating

"That's right, chess pieces, let's say it's just a few chess pieces in a chess game, our every move and every decision, in fact, can be said to have been arranged, we, it took a long time to come up with a countermeasure, in fact, it has been into the road that we should walk into."

Suddenly, after the events of the past two days, it was already considered clear and could no longer be understood.

All the things they experienced when they went north this time, even the idea of going north, it is estimated that some people have arranged for them, and these things they did are not so much the countermeasures that they finally came up with for a long time, it is better to say it directly, it is just that those big people have arranged for them a long time ago.

Even if they are the little ones who are known as the backbone of the next generation of the Nanli Empire, how can they not be the lives of chess pieces now?

But when you laugh suddenly, you will also be curious.

Taking the chess game of the first hidden dragon of the Nanli Empire, the other three hidden dragons and a prince as chess pieces, he suddenly smiled and wondered, who is the chess player in this chess game?

The white-faced scholar, the general of the town army, Bai Qi, the old commander of the Bai family, and even Zhou Dunyi himself, will they also be chess pieces in this chess game, will they be just slightly more important chess pieces?

All of this made Sudden Smile feel a little chilling.

The vast chess game made Su Di laugh and couldn't imagine how the character behind this big chess game was a big man with his hands and eyes?

Thinking of this, he suddenly smiled and sighed, and then continued

"Let's no matter what we do now, what we think about, we can't get rid of the fate of the chess game, this chess game, what swept is not a small fish and shrimp, but a huge half of the continent."

The words that suddenly laughed made Qi Wuxian's body, which had just pushed open the door and prepared to come out, tremble suddenly.

Qi Wuxian swallowed his saliva, looking at the sudden smile that he hadn't yet discovered with some jealousy, the jealousy of the sudden smile in Qi Wuxi's heart, from the moment he heard the words of the sudden smile, his evaluation of the sudden smile was raised several levels again.

It seems that Su Di Xiao has vaguely sensed that something is wrong, should he really be a disciple of the predecessor of the Iron Arrow Zen Master? He is a genius who is the best in his generation in terms of cultivation and mentality, and it really makes people can't let go of their jealousy of him.

It was only after learning the inside story of Jiangxia City and the reserves of the Jinyiwei Archives that he could vaguely perceive the possibility that they might have entered the set.

But it's only been a short day, and I didn't think that this sudden smile actually noticed that something was wrong, you must know that what suddenly laughing knew was far less than what he Qi Wuxian had reserved.

"You, guessed it too?"

Qi Wuxian simply didn't take a light step, and walked directly to the courtyard normally, and while walking, his tone was a little uncomfortable, and he asked directly and smiled suddenly.

Suddenly, his brows shook because of Qi Wuxi's sudden voice, but he reacted quickly, nodded, and said in disappointment

"Yes, I guessed it, we, we still take our identity and status too seriously, in fact, in the eyes of those people, we are just some chess pieces that can play on the chessboard, after all, the older generation has a saying that is good."

After saying this, he suddenly raised his head with a smile, looked at Qi Wuxian, stared at Qi Wuxian with his eyes, and said

"A genius who dies untimely will never become a strong man."

It's also quite interesting to say with a sudden smile, a genius who dies prematurely will never become a strong man.

At first glance, I feel that this is a contradiction in this statement, after all, how can this dead genius become a strong man, a genius is just a genius, and a genius is not a god, they also need a while to transform from a genius to a real strongman, but it is the genius who often dies during this period of time that they need to be the most worthless genius.

There are thousands of geniuses throughout the ages, but those who survive to the end can really be said to be one in a hundred.

Take Laughing at them as an example, Laughing at them is indeed superior among the generation of young people who are now leaving the Empire, but they have not yet reached the point where there would be no next generation without them in the Empire.

Not to mention, wasn't Kumu, the first hidden dragon, also thrown out as a pawn?

Talent or something, suddenly laughing at their so-called talent can be compared to Kumu?

In the end, Kumu still ended up with a chess piece like them, which became at the mercy of others, at most and the most, and the usefulness of Kumu's chess piece was more important than laughing at them suddenly.

As soon as the words of the sudden laughter came out, he fell into silence, and after a long time, Qi Wuxian looked up to the sky and laughed, and then lowered his head as if he was a little annoyed, looked at Qi Wuxie, and said interestingly

"Yes, what you said is not wrong at all, let's just be dispensable little guys in the eyes of those big guys, and we can be exchanged for a victory in such a huge chess game, for those big guys, this is a sure deal."

Yes, these little guys, can exchange for a victory that swept half of the continental chess game, and I believe it is not difficult to make a decision, right?

It's just weird, the sweeping side of this chess game is really a bit too vast, and the vastness has already exceeded the original vision of Qi Wuhate and them.

"What are you talking about?"

Although Zhou Budo didn't understand the conversation between Suddenly Laughing and Qi Wuxi, he could see and feel it, and if he suddenly laughed at them, he wouldn't feel very comfortable now.

Suddenly, they laughed at their hearts like this now, they are still sentimental here, it's really, a little too embarrassing.

Thinking of this, Zhou Budo bit the dead skin on his lips, he raised his head suddenly, and he didn't care about the surprised eyes that Qi Wuxian looked at him, and said in a somewhat resolute tone

"No matter what you say, let's complete this mission and return to Jinling, and everything will not be good, will it?"

Hearing Zhou Budo say this, Qi Wuxi's eyes suddenly lit up, and then he looked at Suddenly, and when he saw Suddenly, his face gradually improved, and he pursed his lips with a smile, and nodded to Zhou Budo with a smile

"Yes, Your Royal Highness the Prince of the World, you are right, no matter how vast this chess game is, how dangerous it looks, let's complete this task well, return to Jinling, everything will return to the original point, although the identity of the chess pieces makes us feel uncomfortable, but think about it another way, we juniors are already qualified to become chess pieces in this chess game at this age, so in the future, why don't we worry about one day becoming the chess player behind it?"

Suddenly, the words of the smile, like a shot in the arm, pierced into the heart of the smile, and the smile nodded vigorously, and then said

"You, that's right, we're the best among our peers, how can we be like this because of these things, hum, let's not lose our ambition."

Suddenly, he can figure it out now, the reason why they are here to think about these things is mainly because these guys have been too self-conscious over the years, and they have been blinded by the praise and experiences they have experienced over the years.

Now in the blink of an eye, they found that they were just chess pieces, and naturally they couldn't accept such a gap, so this made them become the current mood for a while.

The cruel reality can make them wake up from those beautiful imaginations, but this is not a bad thing, after all, this can be regarded as making them recognize the reality, and the province has always made them like this, unable to recognize the reality that should be recognized, and has always been in that kind of self-esteem.

At this time, Hei Thirteen also walked out of the house wearing a wide black robe, and Hei Thirteen moved his muscles and bones, and the muscles and bones of his body also made a crackling sound of bones colliding at this time.

"Your Highness, it's early."

Black Thirteen walked to Zhou Budo's side with a simple appearance, and said hello to Zhou Budo, and then saw the black-faced fat man who had just come out of Qi Wuxie's house, Black Thirteen turned his head sideways, looked at the black-faced fat man with some puzzled eyes, frowned, paused and continued

"Who is this guy?"

"Who?"

Qi Wuxian followed Hei Thirteen's eyes, turned his head to look, and when he saw the black-faced fat man who was sleeping in a daze and hadn't completely woken up, Qi Wuxian smiled, and then turned his head to Hei Thirteen and said

"This guy, a member of our Jinyi Guard, is also here to help us this time."

"Oh."

Zhou Budo and Hei Thirteen nodded in unison, and both of them looked at the black-faced fat man back and forth with some strange eyes.

This guy is a little obsessed and bloated, not tall, among the people in Nanli, this black-faced fat man can be regarded as short.

And the hair is still a little sparse, a proper Chinese face, dark face, no matter how you look at it, it feels a little out of place.

"Ahh

In the hazy eyes, Chen Hang caught a glimpse of a child's face, and instantly sobered up, and hurriedly trotted all the way to the middle of the courtyard, solemnly made a big salute to Zhou Budo, and then got up and bowed to Black Thirteen, with a playful look, if it weren't for the fact that there was still some eye feces in the corners of his eyes.

At this time, I suddenly laughed and realized that oh, it turns out that the name of this black-faced fat man is Chen Hang, this name, it sounds okay.

Qi Wuxian didn't know what he was doing, and looked at Chen Hang with some playful eyes.

There are more than 1,000 members of Jinyiwei's external staff, and the number is as many as 10,000, but there are only a few people who can remember his name.

Among these few people, there is this black-faced Chen Hang.

After all, this black-faced Chen Hang, in general, still has some specialties, no matter how he says that he is also a thousand households, and the Jinyi Wei who can make him remember his name is not an idle person.

Don't look at this Chen Hang, who has a dark face, is short and a little bloated, but ah, his unique skills are still worthy of Qi Wuxian's praise.

"Oh oh oh hello hello."

Zhou Budo was a little confused by Chen Hang's sudden gift, if he hadn't been used to these emergencies these days, he really didn't know how to deal with Chen Hang's experience.

Fortunately, the reaction was fast, and after Zhou Budo replied dryly, Chen Hang didn't care so much, and simply stood up, rubbed his hands with a smile, and looked at Zhou Budo and Hei Thirteen.

"Okay, except for the bitter wood guy who still has to recuperate, everyone is also together, wait, at noon, the white-faced senior will come to us to talk about the details of the mission."