Silence finally returned to the room once more—dead silence.

Bao Yong had already left, and after dealing with Sun Zixian, he didn't continue to check the room, and turned around and left without saying a word.

However, Liang Zheng was still hiding in the closet.

Although he is very anxious now, anxious to leave, anxious to spread the news of the White Lotus Sect's incident, and anxious to mobilize his regiment to enter the city to quell the rebellion, he ......

But he couldn't go.

Because of the extremely quiet environment, he could completely hear the dense footsteps and shouts outside—it was obvious that the entire White Lotus Sect in the West Cross Courtyard had already been alarmed.

They are ralliing.

So even if I leave the room now, I can't leave this courtyard.

What to do?

Liang Zheng racked his brains and pondered hard, countless thoughts flashed through his mind one after another, but one after another he was vetoed by himself.

For the first time in his life, he hated himself for not knowing martial arts.

If he knew martial arts, at least he would have been able to fly with a sword just now Bao Yong couldn't even hum, so that Sun Zixian would not die, let alone be like now, like a turtle in an urn, trapped here by someone.

An almost desperate powerlessness continued to devour his heart, and he finally couldn't help but slam a punch on the wall of the cabinet with hatred!

Then there is a sudden emptiness under your feet!

"Oh no, there's a mechanism!"

Liang Zheng secretly exclaimed, but it was too late, and his entire body fell into the boundless darkness along the trap that suddenly cracked at the bottom of the cabinet.

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At the same time, the study of the Liang Mansion.

The night was darker, there was no wind, no light sound of the wind moving the leaves, no whispering of the larks in the distance, and there was a dead silence between the heavens and the earth.

However, even on such a quiet night, outside the small house in the Liang Mansion, there were still family members vigilantly patrolling, allowing the steel knife on his waist to shine in the moonlight.

"Hey, I said." A young man on night guard walked over with a cower, "It's really cold tonight." ”。

"I can't help it if it's cold." The other didn't look back, still looking at the constant darkness around him, "Be careful, don't be careless." ”

"Come on. There are so many brothers outside who are on duty at night, and the young master hasn't come back, so you don't have to be so nervous, right? ”

"It's because the young master is not there that he can't be careless." The other one insisted, "If something happens, you and I won't be able to eat and walk around." ”

"I'm afraid not even a fly can fly to us, right?" At first, the little guy rubbed his cold hands, "If there are really outsiders who can break into our level without knowing it, it's not something you and I can handle." ”

As the two were talking, they suddenly heard a soft sound on the tile, followed by a scraping sound on the ground. The two of them immediately woke up and shouted: "What person? The figure swayed, and a knife rushed out in one hand.

But none of them expected that at the same time as they rushed out, a black shadow jumped up, climbed the eaves, and gently and skillfully climbed through the window into the study.

This person is naturally Satsuki.

She's coming back to steal the talisman.

The soldier talisman is a certificate for Liang Zheng to convey orders or transfer troops, half of which is kept in Liang's mansion and half in the barracks. When the army is dispatched, it must be verified before it can take effect, the most important thing is that Liang Zheng always collects it tightly, although he is his personal maid, he only knows that Liang Zheng put things in the study, but where in the study, it is unknown.

The room was dark with no lights, and she couldn't see her fingers, she dilated her pupils, stared for a while, and as her gaze gradually adapted to the darkness, she carefully rummaged through the study.

However, she rummaged through the boxes and cabinets for a long time, and all the bookshelves, pen holders, drawers, and even the cracks of the pages were found, but there was no trace of it.

Liang Zheng's regimental training camp is well guarded, if there is no soldier, how can he open the camp door in the middle of the night to prevent the town army from entering the city to help?

The scene seen in the training camp that day is still vivid in my mind, and once this army of tigers and wolves enters the city, it will be difficult to predict how the outcome of tonight's move will be......

Could it be that there is a providence in the darkness that will make tonight's plan a failure?

Xiao Yue was secretly anxious, and an extremely ominous premonition, even if she didn't want to, it was gradually turning into a cold sweat and appearing on her back.

She was a little nervous, and she didn't give up and reached out to carefully knock and grope along the seams of the wall tiles...... After another meal, I suddenly felt that behind the bookcase, a wall tile three inches away from my left hand seemed to protrude a little more than the others, but it was empty when I tapped it with my hand, as if the other end of the brick was empty!

Xiao Yue knew that something was wrong, took a deep breath, pressed the wall tile hard, and didn't know where it touched, only to hear the "click", the tightly fitting wall actually cracked, and a stone box appeared, and half of the tiger-shaped copper talisman in it was impressive!

"Found it!" Xiao Yue's heart was overjoyed.

Next, as soon as the altar master's dead man arrives, he can do a big job.

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"Dead!"

At the same time, in the secret passage of the Li Mansion, there were three completely different words in Liang Zheng's mind.

This trap is so deep, his eyes are pitch black, his body can't help falling, he feels that he has fallen at least four or five feet deep, but he still hasn't touched the ground, and he can't help but secretly complain:

"If you fall this time, where is your life?"

Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly felt that my whole body was like entering an ice cave, and my limbs and bones were constantly piercing into the cold that made my bones hurt, followed by a stream of water rushing into my mouth and nose, and my ears "buzzed", as if I had lost my connection with the world and immersed myself in nothingness—it turned out to have fallen into the water.

As soon as Liang Zhengfu entered the water, he was immediately alarmed, and quickly closed his breath, but he didn't drink much water, and when he got out of the water, he could see that he was in a well with a faint and dark light, and there was a smooth well wall on all sides.

"It looks like this is an escape mechanism set up by the White Lotus Sect bandits."

It is no wonder that the White Lotus Sect occupied the West Cross Courtyard and plotted to rebel, so this secret passage and secret room were built in case of a critical moment to escape. It's no wonder that Sun Zixian didn't know about the mechanism here, so he accidentally stumbled into it and came in instead......

It's just that this secret passage is a bit of a hole - it's actually in a well.

Although he can swim, this is in the water, not on the ground, and now he can rely on his physical strength to support him in the water, and once his physical strength is exhausted, he has to sink and drown.

But since it is a secret path, then there must be a way out, and it makes no sense that Li Shiqing will let him think about trapping himself in the water when he stays in the secret path!

Thinking of this, he took a deep breath and dived into the water to grope carefully, but the undercurrent at the bottom of the well was so dark that he couldn't see anything, only a little light in the far distance in the upper left corner, Liang Zheng was happy in his heart, and hurriedly rowed towards the light.

After swimming for about a cup of tea, Liang Zheng was very depressed, and gradually couldn't support it, and wanted to surface for ventilation, but when he looked up, he found that he had dived into an underwater aisle, looked back at the dive, and had swam out of most of it, and then looked at the light in front of him, there was also a lot of distance, this time there was no way to enter the ground and no door, and in desperation, he could only forcibly endure it, desperately sliding his hands and feet, and swimming towards the light.

At this time, he had already drunk a stomach of water, fortunately, the light in front of him was becoming more and more obvious, and soon he finally came out of the water, and the moon and stars in front of him were scarce, and it turned out that he had reached the edge of the land temple in the north of Yongning County.

Liang Zheng died nine times this time, and he didn't feel it at the moment of life and death just now, but now he was suddenly saved, and he suddenly felt exhausted, lying on the ground just trying to catch his breath......

But at this moment!

He noticed that there was one more thing in front of him!

It was a long, chilly sword, held in the hand of a young girl, the tip of the sword pointing downward, pointing at his face for a moment.

He raised his head, and then he saw Xiao Zhao's bright and beautiful face.

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An hour later, Xiao Yue converged with the elite dead soldiers transferred by Bao Yong, leading everyone to march lightly, but in the dark night, I saw a piece of black pressure over the dense forest, and the surrounding night was like one, looking indescribably weird and terrifying.

Not long after, the group rushed to the regimental training camp on the outskirts of Yongning.

At this time, the bleak moonlight was sprinkled all over the land, and the desolate grass gave birth to countless mysterious shadows under the cold moonlight, looking from afar like the flames of the undead in the forest, endlessly.

Xiao Yue stared at the camp gate like a giant beast in the dark night, and an inexplicable apprehension began to spread unrestrainedly in the bottom of her heart.

"Sister Yue?"

The closest to her was a scar-faced bearded man, who saw Xiao Yue suddenly pause, so he stepped forward and asked.

Satsuki glanced at him, then at the black-clad masked warriors behind him, and in the dark night, he saw a pair of moves shining with a ghostly glow, making them look like wolves.

She shook her head, and once again slammed a pair of starry eyes into the door......

The camp was as silent as death, the black lights were blinding, and only the flags in the western corner of the village flew fiercely in the wind, which looked creepy in this uneasy cold night.

"What's wrong, Sister Yue?" Seeing that she didn't say a word for a long time, the big man couldn't help but speak again.

"Something doesn't seem right...... Satsuki said.

"Isn't that right?"

"Don't you think it's too quiet?"

"Xu is asleep, right? It's all this hour. "That big man said.

Xiao Yue was speechless when she heard it, she clearly remembered the scene she saw when she came back here last time, the military discipline in the camp shocked her, and the soaring murderous aura made her scared - such a tiger and wolf army, even in the dead of night, how could there not even be a guard patrolling?

Just as he was thinking about it, he saw a torch lit up on the corner tower, followed by a voice shouting and asking, "Who is it?" ”

Xiao Yue immediately waved her hand, and the black-clothed people who followed her disappeared into the darkness in an instant.

"I'm the personal servant of the Ruler," she said, holding her talisman aloft, "I've been ordered to come here to have a military order to announce." ”

There was no sound on the corner tower, only the light of the torches seemed to be a little brighter, and after a while, the man could be heard: "You wait." ”

After a while, the gate of the barracks opened left and right, and a soldier with a loaded gun ran out, running to Xiao Yue with a torch, and said, "Since the military order has been announced, can there be a military talisman?" ”

"The talisman is here."

The man stretched out his hand and took the talisman and looked at it: "Why didn't Lord Liang come?" ”

"There are gentry who ask for wine tonight, and the adults have drunk two more sips, and they are a little drunk, so they can't come." Xiao Yue remained silent, "Why is there no one in the camp?" ”

"Who says no one?" The man said, "No wonder you don't know, the ruler has a life: no open fire at night, no noise when there is nothing to do, it is said that it is to exercise everyone's ability to fight at night." ”

"I see." Xiao Yue nodded, only then was she a little relieved, and said, "So, all the people are in the camp?" ”

"This is natural."

"Good." Satsuki nodded slightly.

She said this very coldly, and the air around her seemed to have dropped an octave because of this, and the soldier obviously felt it, and raised his head for some reason and was about to speak, when there was a pain in his chest, Xiaoyue's slender hand had already slapped his heart, and the weak and boneless little hand instantly burst out with overwhelming palm power, "click", and I don't know how many ribs were broken, and the whole person flew out like a paper kite.

“…… Just today, kill~! ”

With a clear sound, the tongue bloomed with spring thunder, Xiao Yue brushed out the long sword at his waist, and took the lead, followed by a group of black-clothed dead soldiers, like a dark cloud in the dark night, and like the big sword of the Hades, it swept through the gate in an instant.

However, as soon as she entered the barracks, she stood up again!

The barracks are silent, except for themselves, who are so quiet that they can even hear a needle falling on the ground, where is the patrol sentry from?

Fooled!

These three words flashed in his mind, and Xiao Yue was excited, and the hairs all over her body exploded, as if she had been stung by a scorpion.

"Withdraw!"

She shouted in a hurry.

But it's too late!

I could only hear a loud explosion like thunder, followed by the shaking of the earth, and the flames erupted from the ground one after another, tearing the black-clothed people apart......

But that's not the worst......

The worst thing is that at this time, drums shook the sky in all directions, crowds of people, and columns of soldiers with loaded guns poured out, and clusters of gunfire flashed out like cannons in the muzzles of black holes, and the pale white smoke of gunpowder filled unscrupulously in the dark night.

Although the black-clothed dead soldiers under Xiao Yue were fierce, but at this time, they had just passed the gate, and they were still huddled together and couldn't show their skills at all, and then they were blown up by a "mine" and turned over on their backs, and then they were shot by a platoon of guns, and suddenly a ghost cried wolf, and countless casualties were killed.

Only Xiaoyue desperately swung her sword to resist the bullets that kept accumulating, but no matter how good Rao is at her, how can her physical body block the bullets? After a few strokes, he was shot in the waist, left leg, and right arm one after another, and when he landed, the blood gushed like a spring, and the long sword in his hand was only half of it, and he stumbled and almost fell to the ground.

At this time, the black-clothed dead soldiers had already been killed and wounded, and the gunfire gradually stopped. Xiao Yueyou looked around, all around the ground were full of the corpses of his own people, his ears were filled with the wails of the wounded, the shape was as miserable as a hell, looking up, in the smoke of gunpowder that gradually dissipated in all directions, columns and columns of soldiers holding muskets, like nails, all of them were aimed at themselves, and a little higher, there was a person standing on the earthen platform of the middle camp, looking at himself with burning eyes, but who was not that Liang Zheng?

And the ...... who stood beside him

It's Xiao Zhao!

Suddenly, a deep feeling of powerlessness penetrated from the soles of her feet—she finally understood what was going on.