Dark clouds covered the night sky, and the thick clouds obscured the bright moon that should have been bright, blocking the dim moonlight that could bring some light to the earth, and the Great Sun City was immersed in darkness.

As soon as he left the dark hall, a black shadow spat on the ground and scolded in a low voice: "I have been hiding in the tunnel for several hours, but I can be regarded as suffocating Lao Tzu!" ”

"Less nonsense!" The black shadow who was the first to drill out of the dark passage glared at the black shadow who spoke, and lowered his voice angrily and said, "There may be people guarding outside, we must be cautious!" ”

"No!" The black shadow who drilled out of the dark passage first was obviously the leader, and after the other three black shadows had spoken, they all responded softly, and no one dared to say more.

The leading black shadow walked to the window, looked out of the window for a while, lowered his voice and said to the servants behind him: "It's too dark outside to see really, I'll leave from the main entrance." ”

"Walk through the door?" As soon as the words of the leading black shadow fell, a black shadow whispered and questioned: "King Hongnong should have laid eyeliner at the door, and I will leave from the main gate, isn't it just in the right place?" ”

"Do you have a way to cut through the lattice silently?" The leading black shadow glared at the questioning man, and said softly angrily: "Leave from the main gate and the corner of the wall, even if he leaves eyeliner, he won't find me so quickly." ”

The other three shadows glanced at each other, and no one questioned them anymore, and they all nodded.

The room was very dark, there was no moonlight outside the window, and there were many miscellaneous items piled up in the back hall, and the four of them cautiously touched the guest hall.

When they arrived at the guest hall, the four of them found that the door of the guest hall was not closed from the outside, and from the slightly open door, they could see the street slightly brighter than the inside of the house.

He beckoned to the servants behind him, and the black shadow in the lead took the lead and rushed towards the door.

When he reached the door, he didn't open it immediately, but looked out cautiously along the crack in the door.

Sure that there was no danger outside, he gently pulled the door open a gap large enough for one person to squeeze out.

Four black shadows squeezed out of the door one after another, their backs against the wall, and quickly rushed towards the corner of the liquor store.

As soon as they reached the corner of the liquor store and were about to burrow into the dark shadows, a shout suddenly came from the darkness, and a huge net appeared above their heads out of thin air, covering them.

When they reached the corner of the wall, the four people who were about to breathe a sigh of relief heard the shouts from the dark corner, and their hearts were cold, and they were about to flee in all directions, when the big net that fell from the top of their heads had covered them.

Covered by a large net, the four hurriedly waved the long sword in their hands, trying to cut the net and escape. But their long swords cut on the soft net ropes, but they couldn't borrow any strength, and they couldn't cut through the big nets at all.

A black shadow reached out and grabbed the net rope in front of him, and was about to cut it with a long sword, but suddenly his feet were loosened, and the big net was violently pulled, and the whole net was retracted, and all four of them were wrapped in it.

More than a dozen soldiers who had been hiding nearby dragged the ropes of the big net, dragged the four men who were caught in the net, and ran quickly in the direction of the government.

They had barely taken a few steps when thirty or forty heavily armed soldiers poured out of the dark corners behind them.

These soldiers carried strange blades that the trapped men had never seen before, and followed the large net all the way to prevent them from escaping.

Caught in the net, the four of them were able to run behind the soldiers at first, but they didn't run a few steps, and one of them fell to the ground with his head on his head, and rolled twice like a ball, knocking the other three to the ground.

After the four fell to the ground, the dozen or so soldiers who were dragging the ropes did not stop, still dragging the large net that wrapped them along the street.

With the sound of metal rubbing against bluestone, the four people who were wrapped in the net threw off the long swords in their hands one after another, and the long swords fell from the mesh and lay quietly on the bluestone pavement.

The soldiers who followed behind picked up the long swords they had dropped, and one of them looked at the blade that was still flowing with a metallic luster in the night, and said to his companion beside him, "The sword they made is really good!" ”

In a hut in the front yard of the government, seven or eight white candles were lit.

The hut had no windows, and there were five round wooden stakes standing straight inside the house, and the blood stains on the wooden stakes were faintly visible in the candlelight.

In addition to the white candles, there was a small brazier with a red flame burning in the room, and two iron bars were on top of the brazier, on which a clay pot of boiling water was boiling.

The boiling water "gurgling" and steaming white steam brought a bit of lifeless sound to the quiet hut.

Liu Wei, dressed in golden armor, knelt not far from the brazier, and behind him stood two pro-soldiers and Zhou Cang, who was also heavily armed.

Kneeling in the house, Liu Wei reached out and pulled out the short sword from his waist, and **** the short sword into the brazier, before his hand left the hilt, the door of the hut was pushed open by a personal soldier.

"Your Highness, it's been caught!" After entering the house, the pro-soldier clasped his fists and bowed down to Liu Wei and said, "Four people, one is not less!" ”

"Bring it in!" Liu Wei looked down at the short sword inserted in the brazier, and Zhou Cang, who was standing behind him, frowned, and gave an order to the pro-soldier.

The soldiers answered, and ran out of the house again, and after a while, Liu Wei and the others in the house heard a snort outside that only came when someone was in pain.

Eight soldiers took one of them and carried the four men into the hut.

When the four men were escorted into the hut, Liu Wei was stunned for a moment, and what appeared in front of him was not four imaginary masters, but four people whose faces were covered in blood and looked very embarrassed.

"Tie them up!" Zhou Cang, who was standing behind Liu Wei, was also stunned when he saw the miserable appearance of these four men, but he immediately remembered Tao Huanniang who was captured, frowned tightly, and gave an order to the soldiers who were holding the men.

The soldiers who escorted the four men pushed them to the stakes in the house, and when they reached the stakes, the soldiers tied the dying men who had been dragged tightly to the stakes.

When the soldiers had tied up a few men, Liu Wei stood up, pulled out the burnt red short sword from the brazier, and walked towards the men who were tied to the stakes.

"This king knows that you are all spies under the command of Dong Zhuo's old thief!" When he arrived in front of the four men, Liu Wei reached out and held up the chin of one of them, and gently placed the burning red short sword on the man's shoulder.

The red-hot dagger struck the man's shoulder, instantly burning the clothes on his shoulders to ashes and sticking to the skin of his shoulders.

A light smoke with the smell of burnt smoke came out, and the man howled and writhed a few times, but his writhing not only did not relieve the severe pain caused by the burn, but also increased the area of the wound, making the wound bigger and bigger.

"I just want to know, how many of you came? Where are you hiding the girl who was robbed from here last night? Taking the short sword from the man's shoulder, Liu Wei gently blew on the sword that had cooled and blackened slightly, and said to them while walking back and forth in front of the four men: "If you don't want to say it now, it doesn't matter! I have a lot of ways for you to say it, but I'm afraid I'm not necessarily interested in hearing it then. ”

The four men who were tied to the stake had been dragged all over their bodies along the way, including the man who had just been burned on the shoulder by Liu Wei with a burning red short sword, and the four of them all tried to raise their heads and glared at Liu Wei viciously.

"Don't think your accomplices will come to the rescue!" Turning around and walking to the brazier, Liu Wei stuffed the short sword into the brazier, turned his back to the four men and said, "Before you were arrested, the streets were emptied, and there would not be a single witness. This is the punishment hall of the government again, as long as the door is closed, no matter how terrible your screams are, you will not be able to hear a single star outside. ”

"If you want to kill, you will kill, if grandpa frowns, he is not a man!" The man in the lead was tied to the middle stake, he glared at Liu Bian hatefully, straightened his body as much as he could, and shouted at Liu Bian: "Don't waste your words here, we are all good men of the Xiliang Army, how can we be afraid of death?" ”

"Okay!" Stuffing the short sword into the brazier, Liu Wei straightened up, turned his back to the leading man, muttered at the clay pot filled with hot water on the brazier, and said to a personal soldier: "His brain may be a little chaotic, wash his hair with hot water." ”

The soldier answered, lifted the clay pot from the brazier, and walked towards the man.

The clay pot is not as good as the metal kettle used in later generations, the metal kettle is generally removed from the fire, and the boiling water will soon stop boiling, and the water boiled in the clay pot, after leaving the brazier, will boil for a short time.

The man tied to the stake opened his eyes in horror and looked at his own soldiers who were walking towards him with boiling water that made a "gurgling" sound.

"Liu Wei, if you have the guts, kill me with a sword!" Under excessive fear, the man no longer called Liu Wei the king of Hongnong, but called him by his first name, shouting for Liu Wei to kill him.

"The moment you captured Huanniang, this king swore an oath!" Liu Wei turned around violently, glared at the man angrily, and said coldly: "Catch you and wait, this king will let you wait for one and die!" ”

His words were poignant and cold, not only did the four men who were tied to the stake feel a chill from the bottom of their hearts after hearing this, but even Zhou Cang and the soldiers in the house felt that the air around them seemed to be cold in an instant.

"If you want to die happily, tell this king, how many of you have come? Where is Huanniang hidden by you? Pulling out the short sword from the brazier, Liu Wei jumped up at the man who was shouting just now, and stabbed the short sword into the man's arm.

With a terrible howl, the reddish dagger pierced the man's arm, and the room instantly filled the room with the stench of burnt flesh.