Ever since Qi Ning knew the legend of the Xuanwu Divine Beast, he had decided that it was just a false story.

Throughout the ages, how many kings want to live forever, but it can cost a lot of manpower and material resources, after all, it is empty, throughout the ages, the so-called long live, really can live to a hundred years old almost none, those myths and legends of the gods and emperors are naturally not counted in it, birth, old age, sickness and death is the pain that everyone can not get rid of, whether you are the emperor or the pawn of the peddler, after all, you have to be buried in that pool of loess.

Even so, there is no shortage of people who seek immortality.

White Yujing in the sky, five cities on the twelfth floor. The immortals caressed my top, and my hair was immortalized.

He has always felt that the legend of the Xuanwu Divine Beast can be passed down without suffering from anything more than because people have endless expectations for immortality, and the Xuanwu Pill is just the result of people's fantasies.

However, the cicada Kotaro actually said that the cicada clan had seen the Xuanwu Divine Beast, which really surprised Qi Ning.

"Have you ever seen a Xuanwu Divine Beast?" Qi Ninghu wondered: "Where did you see it?" ”

"A long time ago." Cicada Kotaro said: "I was still a child, and it was when my Cicada clan left Dongying. More than 200 members of the Cicada clan left by boat from Dongying, floating on the sea, and that day we docked on a lonely island, which was desolate and unsurvivable, so we had to wait for the heavy rain to pass and then look for an island to live again. ”

Qi Ning stared at the cicada Kotaro, only to hear Kotaro continue: "It was on that day that we saw the Xuanwu Divine Beast passing by the edge of the island, and it surfaced ......! Speaking of this, the voice of the cicada Kotaro suddenly stopped, and Qi Ning saw that his eyes flashed with a different color, which could not be said to be a look, intertwined with shock, fear, and excitement, and seemed to return to that day again, with a glimmer of brilliance in his eyes.

"How can you be sure it's a Xuanwu Divine Beast?" Qi Ning frowned and said, "What does it look like?" ”

"A mountain!" Kotaro said, "It'..... It's like a mountain, a floating mountain on the sea! ”

"A mountain on the sea?"

"It's big, it's as big as a mountain." Kotaro the cicada doesn't seem to know how to describe it: "Where it walks, the waves roll, like ..... Just as the sea is boiling, some people in the tribe have painted the shape of it rising to the surface, thinking that it is the god who protects us, and that painting has become a sacred object for my cicada clan. ”

"You've only seen that once?" Qi Ning said: "There are many creatures in the sea, why are you so sure that he is a Xuanwu Divine Beast?" ”

"Moying told us that it was the Xuanwu Divine Beast." Cicada Kotaro said: "Many years later, Moying came to the island where we lived and found the painting, and it was at that time that the leader made a life and death covenant with him. He told us that if we could find the mythical beast in the painting, he would ask the Dongqi Naval Division to send troops to help us return to Dongying. ”

"Are you saying that in the covenant of life and death you made back then, Moying asked you to find the Xuanwu Divine Beast?"

Cicada Kotaro said: "The Cicada clan was in a very difficult situation at that time, and we needed his help, so .....!" After a pause: "Over the years, the Cicada clan has been recuperating on the island, except for us to follow Moying's orders to carry out orders, we have been secretly looking for traces of the Xuanwu Divine Beast on the island for a long time, but since then, no Xuanwu Divine Beast has appeared." Mo Ying sent a secret ninja to the East China Sea because the legend says that the Xuanwu Divine Beast will land on the island every thirty years, and the island that the Xuanwu Divine Beast landed on is on the other side of the East China Sea. ”

"Have you ever heard of the Hidden Lord?" Qi Ning finally asked.

Cicada Kotaro shook his head and said, "I haven't heard of it." ”

Qi Ning frowned and said: "The secret forbearance you sent is to assist the fleet of the East China Sea to find the Xuanwu Divine Beast on the sea, and the Jiang family of the East China Sea is under the order of the Hidden Lord, so is Mo Ying the Hidden Lord?" "He had already sent out the possibility that Mo Ying was the hidden master, but Mo Ying was bent on using the cicada clan to find the Xuanwu Divine Beast, and the Jiang family was ordered by the Hidden Lord to find the Xuanwu Divine Beast, and the two coincided, which seemed to prove that Mo Ying was the hidden master.

There was a blank look in the eyes of the flying cicada Kotaro, and Qi Ning thought to himself that Kotaro had never even heard of the title of the hidden master, so it was naturally impossible to know who the hidden lord was.

Although Cicada Kotaro doesn't know too much, what he knows has further strung together the clues that were originally a little scattered in Qi Ning's heart, although Qi Ning will not give up on investigating the truth of the hidden master, but the top priority at the moment is to solve the big trouble of Shen Tuluo, and he groaned slightly before asking: "You came here by the order of Moying, where is Moying now, do you know?" ”

He thought that the Moying Divine Dragon was missing the head and the tail, although the cicada Kotaro came to carry out the mission, he may not know the trace of the Moying, who knew that the cicada Kotaro did not hesitate: "On the boat!" ”

"On board?"

"When we set off, Moying was on Shentuluo's ship." Cicada Kotaro said: "After Linzi was breached, we were ordered to protect the prince of Dongqi in case someone assassinated him. ”

Qi Ning's eyebrows raised slightly: "You mean that the prince of Dongqi is also on the ship?" ”

Flying Cicada Kotaro said: "The army of Chu State attacked the city, it was us and the prince guard to protect him and leave Linzi City, the prince guard was responsible for close protection, and we were to explore the road for them, and even help them divert the pursuers." ”

"I see." A sneer crossed Qi Ning's lips.

The words of Cicada Kotaro further prove that Moying is indeed involved in the battle for hegemony of the dynasty.

"Duan Shao is with Shen Tuluo now?"

Cicada Kotaro replied: "Yes, let's come to burn the granary, it is also the idea of the prince of Dongqi, Mo Ying obeys the words of the prince of Dongqi, and Mo Ying will obey the orders of the prince of Dongqi." ”

"You sent a human head to the city, that was also Duan Shao's idea?"

"Yes." Cicada Kotaro said: "The prince of Dongqi expected that someone would assassinate, so he asked people to pretend to be him, we have been ambushing nearby, and someone did assassinate in the middle of the night, stabbing the fake prince to death, but he also fell into the trap, a total of six people were killed, except for the assassin leader who was cut off and sent here, the rest of the corpses were all thrown into the sea to feed the fish." ”

Qi Ning's gaze crossed sharply and asked, "Then now Mo Ying is by the side of the prince of Eastern Qi?" ”

Cicada Kotaro said: "In addition to Moying, there are more than a dozen skilled guards who are guarding the prince day and night, but .....!" ”

"But what?"

"Although the fake prince was assassinated, they found someone else to pretend to be the prince of Dongqi, so the prince on the ship is still fake." Cicada Kotaro said: "The real prince, disguised as an escort, is among the more than ten guards, these guards are all wearing masks, and they can't recognize who the real prince of Dongqi is." ”

"Is Shen Tuluo also by Duan Shao's side?"

"The prince of Dongqi is on the boat, and he is not with Shen Tuluo." Cicada Kotaro said: "Sometimes the prince of Dongqi summons, and Shen Tuluo will go to the small boat to meet the prince, and other times it is on the largest warship. ”

"Do you know where they are now?"

Cicada Kotaro said, "I can find the fleet." ”

Qi Ning pondered for a long time before he said: "Kotaro, since you have made a life and death covenant with my Da Chu, I will naturally help you return to Dongying, and as for the likes of Jiahe Yeyin, I will also help you catch them all." ”

Cicada Kotaro knelt on one knee on the ground and said respectfully: "Swear allegiance to Da Chu to the death!" ”

"I'll give you a chance to make a big contribution this time." Qi Ning said with a smile: "If this mission is successful, I will ask the emperor for the credit of your flying cicada clan, and when the emperor is happy, maybe he will soon send someone to assist you in returning to Dongying." ”

The night was quiet and quiet, but Mo Wentui, the head of the household, was not sleepy at all, walking back and forth in the hall with his hands behind his back, his eyebrows locked, and his mind was restless.

On such a night, no matter how sleepy he was, he didn't dare to lie in bed.

Thinking that if it weren't for the reminder of the Protector, the Huize granary would probably be burned down by the Eastern Qi spies, Mo Wenrui's vest broke out in a cold sweat.

After the Qinhuai War, the loss of the Chu State was serious, and the treasury was empty, but fortunately, Dou Butang had a skill in financial management, coupled with the continuous raid of the Huainan Royal Mansion and the Donghai family, and barely let the treasury have the treasury silver that went north this time, and the grain and grass requisitioned from the rear were also very difficult, in order to protect the grain on the front line, the court could be said to be thrifty, and he knew that every grain in Huize City was hard-won, if there was a problem with this batch of food, the Chu State would no longer be able to support this war. The great cause of unification, which generations of emperors had dreamed of, would also come to an end.

If there is a loss of grain, the first person to lose his head is himself.

When he took over this errand, Mo Wentui never slept well, and was often awakened in his dreams, and went to check the granaries everywhere in three days, but fortunately, the protection of Huize City was very tight, and Han Yu even took elite soldiers to guard the city, which also made Mo Wentui slightly relieved.

But today, after being reminded by the Protector of the Kingdom, Mo Wenchui broke out in a cold sweat, he was glad that the Protector appeared in the most appropriate place at the most appropriate time, and he was even more glad that the Dongqi people were clever and sent a head to deter, if it wasn't for the human head, he had not been able to find out that the Dongqi spies had sneaked into the city.

I have to say that although Captain Lu Cun was killed by mistake during his lifetime, the head after his death still made a great contribution to Da Chu.

The Protector expected that the Eastern Qi spies would burn the grain, so traps were laid in several warehouses, and the Protector personally sat in the largest granary in the south of the city, while Han Yu and Xuanyuan Po set traps in the other two granaries separately, waiting for the Eastern Qi spies to throw themselves into the net.

It has already passed midnight, and there has been no news to come, Mo Wenchui is anxious, he only hopes that those spies will act as soon as possible, if those spies do not do it for a long time, it is a hidden danger buried in the city, and they must be on guard day and night, and the torment can even drive him crazy.

"Report .....!" Hearing the sound of hurried footsteps outside, Mo Wenchui's heart sank, and he immediately went out to greet him, and before he went out, he had already asked, "How is the situation?" ”

"Fire in the city!" One person rushed over and knelt on the ground: "In the south of the city, the fire is ..... sky!" ”

Mo Wenzhui's body shook, and he almost fell softly, but fortunately, the man's eyes were quick and he grabbed it and held it: "My lord, my lord, .....!" ”