(West of Chengdu, Xinghou Mansion)

Meng Yan endured the pain on his body, and took advantage of the change of guards to quietly enter the Xinghou Mansion through the back door, hoping to understand the cause and effect of the whole incident of his parents being imprisoned through Xinghou Ye, who had always reconciled with his father. Fortunately, after sneaking into the mansion, he saw Xing Hou in the study, and Xing Hou was first surprised by Meng Yan's sudden appearance, and then quickly reacted to let the subordinates around the study leave, and then calmly greeted Meng Yan with a warm greeting. Under Meng Yan's somewhat anxious questioning, Xing Hou told him that the reason why King Jin was imprisoned was because in the assassination case of the former emperor a few months ago, the Tang Dynasty assassins confessed that they had made an agreement with King Jin to cooperate with the outside to subvert Dashu, and promised that after the matter was completed, King Jin would be crowned the king of Shu and oversee all affairs in Shu. At that time, due to the deterioration of the emperor's illness, he was unable to personally inquire into the matter, so King Mu, who had taken advantage of this opportunity to control the government for a short time, relied on the assassin's confession to convict King Jin, and at the same time, he also used the emperor's troop transfer token to mobilize the soldiers in the city to immediately raid the palace of King Jin and arrest all the people in the palace of King Jin and imprisoned them.

Hearing this, Meng Yan was already so angry that he gritted his teeth, and he reluctantly said to Xing Hou that his father was loyal and pure, loved the people like a son, and could never be a person who killed the lord and committed treason. Xing Hou also agreed, but he also emphasized that King Mu is now in the power of Dashu, and he himself is a cautious and suspicious person, so it is difficult to find any flaws in him, and he is also a little helpless about King Jin because of the lack of titles. He reminded Meng Yan that if he wanted to prove that King Jin had nothing to do with the assassination, this assassin was a key witness, and if he could find a way to find out the truth of the matter from him, the whole situation would be clear. In the end, Marquis Xing advised Meng Yan to be careful if he wanted to search for evidence to prove King Jin's innocence, as it would be difficult for him to escape safely once he fell into the hands of King Mu.

After Meng Yan thanked Xing Hou and said goodbye, a little girl in yellow with long hair running over from the other side of the courtyard and entered the study: "Daddy, don't you want me to accompany you to the palace today?" I'm all set, you see, pretty, right? After the little girl finished speaking, she raised her sleeves and spun around in place a few times.

"Beautiful, my father's daughter is beautiful no matter how she dresses, but Mingming, you are a big girl now, and you still have to look like a lady in every gesture." Xing Hou pretended to be angry and said to the little girl.

In the interval between Xing Hou tidying up, the little girl's eyes were inadvertently attracted by a sword spike at the foot of the table, and after she picked it up and looked at it for a while, she asked if Xing Hou was her brother Yan who had been here today.

Xing Hou was stunned for a moment, then sighed and nodded, the little girl hurriedly asked him where he was now, but only heard the answer from Xing Hou's mouth that he didn't know. The little girl silently put away the sword spike with some disappointment, but after a while, the little girl thought that she finally had news of Meng Yan, and knew that he was in the city now, so at this moment she secretly buried the idea of trying to find Meng Yan in her heart, just as she said to Brother Yan when she was young, no matter where the smart man would hide every time he played hide and seek, she would definitely be able to find him.

On this day, the city of Chengdu was as noisy and bustling as usual, due to the impact of the gang fighting the night before, more soldiers were sent to patrol the city, and the various forces of the rivers and lakes that were eyeing Meng Yan seemed to have disappeared and failed to plan any action. Soon, it was getting dark, and it was difficult to see pedestrians on the streets of Chengdu where the curfew was imposed, except for the footsteps of patrolling soldiers in the silence of the night.

At this moment, a dark shadow deftly shuttled between the buildings in the city, and after avoiding the sight of the patrolling soldiers, he came to the back wall of a large mansion, where the height of some of the walls was significantly reduced due to some obvious damage. The black shadow jumped to his feet with a light flick and barely jumped over the broken wall, and then stealthily followed the wall to the roof of the largest main hall in the courtyard. He took off a few tiles and observed the movement in the house, and when he saw that there was no one, he stepped on the beams and jumped into the house quickly, and Meng Yan's face was gradually revealed in the darkness under the light of the lights in the house. Soon, he began to rummage around the house for a mechanism to open the secret room, and he always remembered that when he was a child playing hide and seek in the Mu Mansion, he had inadvertently witnessed King Mu enter a secret room behind the screen in the main hall, and thought to himself that if the King Mu wanted to hide the assassin as a bargaining chip to bring down his father, then this secret room that should exist in his memory must be the best choice for the Tibetans.

When Meng Yan was rummaging in the house, suddenly a large number of arrows shot into the house from outside the door, and Meng Yan quickly retreated behind the screen and waved his knife to resist. When the bows and arrows stopped, the guards of King Mu's Mansion entered the house, and Meng Yan instantly understood that it was a trap that led him to appear. After fighting with the guards for a while, Meng Yan flew out of the house through a side window in the house, but when he entered the courtyard, he saw several groups of heavily armored soldiers rushing towards him, and King Mu was looking proudly at Meng Yan who had become a turtle in an urn behind the soldiers.

"Good nephew, I advise you to quickly put down your weapons and be captured, this king can also let your family reunite and go to Huangquan together, otherwise you can only be a lonely ghost in the mass grave!" King Mu said triumphantly to Meng Yan, who was trapped in the heavy armor array.

"Despicable villain, don't want me to submit to you, even if I, Meng Yan, risk my life today, I will never let your conspiracy succeed." Meng Yan was still unafraid in the face of heavy surrounding.

"Catch me alive, on!" With King Mu's order, the soldiers rushed forward and fought fiercely with Meng Yan. Due to the fact that he had already experienced several hard battles, Meng Yan's physical strength was almost overdrawn, and he was gradually unable to parry in the confrontation with the guards, and he also left several large and small wounds on his body in dozens of rounds of confrontation. As a soldier kicked Meng Yan down on the stone steps in front of the main hall, a mouthful of blood spurted out of Meng Yan's mouth, and the knife in his hand also fell to the ground. Meng Yan already felt a little dizzy from the continuous heavy blows, and wanted to stand up tenaciously again, but the strength of his hands and feet seemed to be taken away, and he couldn't move, and he watched the soldiers who surrounded him gradually approaching him.

At this moment of near despair, he saw several white silk falling from the sky, knocking the soldiers around Meng Yan to the ground, and then Meng Yan vaguely saw a familiar and beautiful figure descending in front of him from the rooftop. Although she could only vaguely see her back, this cyan off-the-shoulder palace dress and her chic and agile posture when waving the white silk still made Meng Yan sure that she was really here with the one she was haunting in her mind.

"Ling Gongzi, take him away!" Ouyang He once again exerted all his internal strength to control several white silk in his sleeve to kill all sides in King Mu's mansion, even the heavily armored soldiers could not resist Ouyang He's attack and were beaten to pieces. Ling Rui took advantage of the chaos to put Meng Yan, who was lying on the stone steps dying, on his back, and after glancing worriedly at Ouyang He, who was still fighting with the soldiers, he quickly took Meng Yan and escaped from the Mu Mansion from the back wall. After noticing that the two of them were leaving, Ouyang He also quickly forcibly broke through from the weakest side of the encirclement formed by the soldiers, and performed light skills to jump out of the wall and leave the Mu Mansion as lightly as a fairy. Seeing the situation in front of him, King Mu panicked a little, and anxiously ordered all the soldiers around him to go out of the palace to arrest these people, and asked an attendant to immediately go and inform General Xuanwu Wei Xiahou to ask him to send additional men to search for Meng Yan throughout the city. An hour later, the city of Chengdu was brightly lit, and more and more soldiers reinforced from outside the city began to walk the streets and alleys with torches, searching for Meng Yan and the three from house to house.

At the same time, after arranging the search outside the palace, King Mu quietly returned to the main hall that was already full of corpses, and after distracting his entourage, he cautiously walked to a picture of Luo Shen hanging on the right side of the main hall. When he slowly lifted the scroll, he was surprised to find that the secret passage switch that should have been covered with fake bricks appeared in front of his eyes unobtrusively.

"Lord Mu, I came uninvited, I hope I didn't disturb your Yaxing!" A man wearing the makeup of Liyuan Opera slowly walked out from behind the screen, and the dark red lines on his face were as chilling as blood.

"Who are you? Pretending to be a ghost and appearing in the mansion, could it be Meng Yan's accomplice? King Mu couldn't help but shudder when he looked at his distorted and oozing face.

"Who? Meng Yan? No, no, no, I don't have anything to do with him. Who am I? How so? Haha, maybe even I forgot about myself, it's been too long since anyone asked me that. The man said a little crazy, and at the same time slowly approached King Mu, "Haha, the prince doesn't have to care who I am, I advise the prince not to try to know, because the people who know my name, no matter how you say it, are no longer at ease in this world of flowers." After this man finished speaking, he suddenly restrained one of King Mu's fingers with his left hand, and King Mu was suddenly wailed in pain, and then this person took out a slender iron needle in his right hand and put it against King Mu's carotid artery.

"Don't move, the prince is just coming to cooperate with the prince on behalf of the Wind Thunder Hall tonight. Oh, by the way, the prince should know what the Wind Thunder Hall is, if you don't know, you can use this iron needle to engrave words on your body for you to remember, haha! The man's laughter was so eerie that King Mu nodded in fear for a while.

The mysterious man then pulled out a letter from his sleeve and threatened King Mu to follow the steps they had arranged inside, and that they could help King Mu make Meng Yan disappear from this world completely and make him the ruler of the Great Shu he wanted.

"Lord Mu doesn't have to bother to come to us, he will come back to visit when he has time, be careful, don't let us down." After the man finished speaking, he laughed, and then dropped a smoke bomb, and by the time King Mu reacted, there was no one in front of him. King Mu looked at the yellowed letter that he was still holding in his hand, and his eyes collapsed to the ground in confusion, recalling the sickly and twisted sneer of the mysterious man, as if what he had just experienced was just a nightmare.

And after leaving the shogunate, this mysterious person came to the pawnshop that Ouyang He and Ling Rui came to during the day, yes, this pawnshop was Liu Li's pawnshop. The man entered the door with ease, and after turning the incense pot next to the door, the stone door of a secret room opened, and Liu Li, who was full of flowers, was lying exhausted on the haystack inside. This person sneered, walked out of the house and took out a basin of water to remove the makeup on his face, revealing a face that was exactly the same as Liu Li. After a while, a group of black-clad men dressed in night clothes gathered at the door of the pawnshop from all directions and knelt down to the people standing in front of them in unison and said, "See the great boss! ”