Fan Yuntian is still wandering around Jian'an City, since he has dissolved the master-servant agreement, he can leave An Ran alone and go wherever he wants, and An Ran will no longer be locked up in the servant space when he goes offline, even if he looks at the stars all night.

At first, the NPC kid felt that this was very free, very cool, and he could throw off his arms and run to the suburbs to bully those wooden little wild monsters; Go to the river, a fierce man plunges into the river to catch small fish; Go to the bookstore and buy a few books to read; Go to the teahouse and listen to the storyteller's storytelling; Or simply go to the streets and alleys to taste the snacks of the capital. He sometimes meets a lot of data in his mouth, those NPC teenagers like him, but it seems that Fan Yuntian will never be able to play with them less than a bunch, sometimes his apprentice blades will be online, Fan Yuntian will practice with them to level up and fight monsters to guide their martial arts, and then watch these adventurers go offline one by one. Gradually, he felt lonely, except for Brother An Ran, there seemed to be no one in this world who could understand him Fan Yuntian.

He didn't want to run far anymore, and many times he just wandered around his offline line, looking forward to An Ran appearing all of a sudden. He doesn't have a message box where adventurers can contact each other, at most he can communicate with people who are far away in the world, not to mention that he went to another world, how can the NPC kid write to his brother An Ran? So he waited for him like this, and sometimes he would sit at the table with his cheeks on his hands and be listless; Sometimes I take a book and read it for a long time.

"You're saying you'll be back in two days, and it's been two and a half days, and you're still not trustworthy?" Fan Yuntian sat on the ground like a left-behind child, leaned his head against the door and said to himself, "Lao Tzu will also be like you in the future, what should I do if I turn around and look at you?" ”

Suddenly, the light in front of him dimmed, and a tall figure blocked his view.

"You're not here, Senior Brother An Ran?" An old voice asked.

"Dead!"

Fan Yuntian was in a depressed mood when he blurted out the word An Ran, and then he suddenly remembered something and suddenly raised his head, only to see the gray-haired Ye Hong frowning and looking at him condescendingly, and the NPC kid jumped up from the ground like a spring.

"How are you?" Fan Yuntian tilted his head and asked, "Old man, what are you doing in the capital?" ”

"No rules!" The old man pretended to be warm and patted him lightly on the shoulder with his hand, "Sitting at the gate of the inn to block business, I am not afraid of Xiao Er driving people and not afraid of jokes from the tourists entering and leaving, and I don't call me a senior brother when I see me, be careful when I see the master and I will sue you." ”

"Whatever you want! Anyway, Lao Tzu handed over the money to the shopkeeper, and they had the ability to catch up with the God of Wealth. ”

"Don't dare! Naturally, we don't dare! The shopkeeper who was wearing a coarse cloth shirt, a gray hat, and a white handkerchief on his shoulders greeted him with a smile, "Young Master Fan is the most distinguished guest of our Ruyi Inn, this old gentleman must be a friend of Young Master Fan, right?" Are you going to play the top or stay in the hotel? ”

"Find a quiet place to serve some good wine and food to the old man," Ye Hong strode across the threshold, "Anyway, Young Master Fan has money." ”

"Why the do you pay for your meal?" Fan Yuntian muttered in his heart and glanced at Ye Hong.

"Senior brother, let's talk in the private room." Ye Hong turned his head and showed a disrespectful smile.

So Fan Yuntian had no choice but to let the shopkeeper take them to the private room on the second floor, besides, the NPC kid was indeed idle, and it was much better to have someone he knew to drink with him than to lean against the door alone in a daze. The shopkeeper was indeed obedient, and served them a table of good wine and food, Fan Yuntian didn't talk much, just ate and drank, anyway, since he paid for it, he had to eat more, otherwise wouldn't he be wronged?

The old man Ye Hong only asked them if they had encountered anything interesting when they came to the capital, and then Fan Yuntian answered as briefly as possible, anyway, most of the time there was silence in the private room, until a familiar voice sounded outside the door.

"Senior brother, don't come unharmed!" An Ran pushed open the door and saw Ye Hong, who was raising a glass and drinking, and walked into the private room with a smile, "Why don't you call me when you invite Fan Yuntian to dinner?" Could it be that you only have him, the little junior brother, in your heart, and not me, the little junior brother? ”

"Senior brother, hurry, come and sit!" Ye Hong immediately got up and moved the chair for An Ran, "Senior Brother Huai Taoshan misses it very much, no, it hurts me to come thousands of miles to the capital to see the two junior brothers." ”

"Why don't you order more? Anyway, it's the senior brother who treats you. After An Ran sat down, he taught Fan Yuntian a lesson first.

"Fart! He invited us to pay for it. ”

Fan Yuntian was actually very happy when he saw his brother An Ran, but he complained that this bastard refused to return for a long time, so he was not polite to speak.

"Then your mother still calls so many dishes, is Lao Tzu's money the mud and sand on the ground? Just grab a handful? ”

Fan Yuntian was about to refute when he was interrupted by Ye Hong with a smile.

"Alright! All right! Ye Hong pressed down with both hands to signal the two to pause, "This meal, senior brother, please, senior brother, can't you please?" Look at you guys...... Yes...... The dignified disciple of the Sword God is now well-known in the rivers and lakes, and he is actually arguing for a small amount of wine money, does he have a bit of a heroic demeanor? ”

"Look at the people." After Fan Yuntian muttered a sigh, he took a large number of chopsticks and fried shredded pork with bamboo shoots and put them in his mouth and chewed them.

An Ran didn't continue to quarrel with him, but just picked up the wine jug and poured Ye Hong a glass of wine.

"What is the so-called matter of Senior Brother coming to Beijing this time? It shouldn't just be for the sake of looking at us! ”

"It's true," Ye Hong stroked his beard and said with a smile, "Senior brother, I want to tell you good news, because of our meritorious rescue in Hulu Gorge, Your Majesty has already given us permission for our Imperial Sword Sect to go to Taiwang Mountain to spread the leaves, this is still the credit of my two junior brothers, for this senior brother I want to toast you." He raised his glass.

The three of them drank it all.

"What credit do we have? It's all the senior brother who calculates thousands of miles away. An Ran smiled and waved his hand, "Isn't that Taiwang Mountain the territory of the Taiyi Sect?" Could it be that the assassination of Hulu Gorge really caused the entire Taiyi Sect to take a catastrophe? ”

"You can't talk about the catastrophe of annihilation, but it must be done to move the nest," Ye Hong gently put the wine glass on the table, "Assassinating the monarch is a great crime to punish the nine clans, even if our majesty is generous and benevolent, it is impossible to ignore it, in fact, let them withdraw the Taoist orthodoxy and move away from Taiwang Mountain is already on the incense in the past, otherwise I am afraid that the army will not leave the mountain pheasants and dogs." ”

"Will they?" An Ran was a little incomprehensible, "The sect on the mountain has never been afraid of the imperial court, it is impossible for the emperor to tell them to move away from Taiwang Mountain!" This pile of old cow noses knows the Dao of the Immortal Family. ”

"Must be moved!" Ye Hong said: "Senior brother as an adventurer may not know, don't say that it is just a Taiyi sect, even if the gods in the sky come to the world, they must follow the rules set by the sages, and the immortal monks cannot participate in the worldly affairs at will, once they cause the catastrophe in the world and affect the correct direction of history, then these people will be suppressed and punished by heaven and earth, otherwise today a god will defeat thousands of troops, and tomorrow an immortal will destroy a dynasty, then how can this world continue?" How do living beings follow nature? ”

"That's it!" An Ran probably understood the reason why many big people rarely walked around the rivers and lakes, "What is the benefit of the Imperial Sword Sect going to Taiwang Mountain?" ”

"Senior brother! That's a huge benefit! Speaking of this, the tall old man's eyes shone brightly, "First of all, Taiwang Mountain is the first of the five mountains in the middle of the Jin Kingdom, and the aura contained in the mountain is incomparable to ordinary mountains and rivers. It can allow you to cultivate thousands of miles a day to ascend to the sky, and if a sect wants to be full of talents, of course, it must have talents, and it must also have the soil for cultivating talents. Second, since Taiwang Mountain is the head of the Five Mountains, with the grace of His Majesty, our Imperial Sword Sect went to Taiwang Mountain to gain a foothold, which shows from the side that His Majesty intends to make the Imperial Sword Sect the authentic sect of the Sword Sect, isn't it good? ”

"Dare you to ask us to go to Huluxia to protect the emperor Lao'er, that is, if you calculate a rescue skill, you can let the Imperial Sword Sect go to Taiwang Mountain to open a sect!" An Ran thought secretly, "Sure enough, it's not profitable not to get up early, but I didn't expect that the emperor Lao'er would really drive away the Taiyi Sect and let you go to Taiwang Mountain." ”

"If that's the case, it's worth a celebratory drink." An Ran said.

So the three of them smiled and drank again.

"And then why did Senior Brother come to the capital to find me?"

"I'll send you something," Ye Hong took out a letter from his arms and handed it to An Ran, "Senior brother, take a look at the contents of the letter first." ”

When he opened the letter, he saw that there were only eleven words on it: 'The north wind blows south, and the rain passes through the valley, so it is advisable to do it.'" ’

"It's ...... It is said that the emperor's southern tour is in the rainy season of the valley, and if he wants to pass through the Hulu Gorge, where can he set up an ambush and assassinate? Seeing that this was a little scribbled, An Ran frowned and asked.

"Not bad!" Ye Hong tapped his fingers on the table and said, "This secret letter was searched by our people from the body of that female crown, and that female crown named Xiao Wunian used to travel to the Northern Desert. ”

"In other words, this female Taoist priest has a certain relationship with the great prince in the Northern Desert, and the assassination of the emperor in Huluxia may be the arrangement of the eldest prince......"

Ye Hong smiled and was noncommittal.

"That's not right!" An Ran said again: "If it is the arrangement of the eldest prince, then there must be someone in his palace, otherwise it is impossible for him to be so clear about the emperor's travel in the Northern Desert, so who is the person who sent the letter?" The player who dressed up as a palace maid? And since it is a secret letter, of course, it will be destroyed after reading it, how can a female Taoist priest be stupid enough to put it on her body for people to discover, this doesn't make sense, so this secret letter ...... It's fundamentally fabricated. ”

"That's right! That's right!" The old man smiled and said, "This letter was not found from the female Taoist priest at all, nor is it evidence of the assassination of the emperor by the eldest prince, in fact, it is just a letter of misfortune stored in the prince's study, as for how to let it go to the prince's mansion without being discovered, junior brother!" That's why Senior Brother must come to the capital to visit you in person. ”

The matter finally became clear, An Ran suddenly realized, "It turned out that the assassination of Huluxia was arranged by him, he arranged for the female Taoist priest and the palace maid to assassinate the emperor, and then asked us and the people of the Imperial Sword Sect to rescue the driver, and blame the assassination to the Taiyi Sect, and then put this so-called secret letter into the Prince's Mansion to blame Li Jiade, which not only benefited the Imperial Sword Sect, but also allowed the emperor to abolish the Taiyi Sect and the prince in anger, so as to kill two birds with one stone." ”

"What did you do about the assassination in Hulu Gorge?" Fan Yuntian finally reacted and was taken aback.

He stared at the NPC old man in front of him for a long time, and then An Ran gradually began to smile.

"The senior brother's plan makes the senior brother admire, say it! What do you need me and Fan Yuntian to do next? An Ran said.

"I heard that you have a good relationship with the prince and his party," Ye Hong thought for a moment and said: "Senior brother, you only need you to quietly hide this letter in the prince's study, and then your majesty will naturally hear a secret report that the prince has the intention of killing the king, and then he will search for this letter from the prince's mansion." ”

"Aren't you afraid that my relationship with the prince will break this matter?" An Ran raised one eyebrow and looked at Ye Hong.

The old man laughed and patted An Ran on the shoulder.

"Senior brother! No matter how good your relationship with the prince is, is it better than that of our fellow disciples? Let's do things for the sect, for the sake of course, the Imperial Sword Sect will be better in the future, the Royal Sword Sect will have a face in the future, the master and his old man, I Ye someone is bad at everything, but he looks at people accurately, whether it is from the friendship of the same sect or from the point of view, the junior brother will definitely not do anything that harms others and is not beneficial to himself. ”

"Who the am I hurting?" An Ran thought, "Is it bad for you old turtle?" Lao Tzu doesn't want to have anything to do with that NPC prince, and he also doesn't want to fall into the trap you set, I'm afraid your wishful thinking will come to naught. ”

"The benefits? Senior brother, of course, the friendship of the same family cannot be ignored, but you know that as an adventurer, the junior brother still needs this. He tossed upwards with his hands.

"Of course," Ye Hong said: "After the matter is completed, the junior brother will definitely get a considerable amount of wealth, this is actually nothing, the old man as the head of the sect can also allocate a mountain in the King Mountain to the junior disciple as a place to practice, all the swordsmanship disciples of the Royal Sword Sect can learn and obtain the right to collect disciples at the same time, junior brother!" In the words of you adventurers, this is a reward that can only be earned by a legendary quest! And the point is, if you come to do this task, it can't be said how hard it is. ”

"Promise him!" Fan Yuntian jumped up suddenly, "Promise Senior Brother!" We have a fucking bird relationship with that prince, and killing him will contribute to our sect. ”

An Ran was almost tempted, with a large amount of game currency; Owning a hill; You can learn upper swordsmanship; arranged a part of the elite gang in Tai'an State to go up the mountain to practice swords; From now on, how many players can have his peaceful scenery? How many ordinary NPCs in the game can afford to mess with him? It's just that An Ran's pursuit is not here, especially when he misses Mei Si'an more and more.

"Contract!" An Ran grinned and grabbed the letter, "You can't regret your senior brother, otherwise, don't blame your junior brother for going to the master to sue you." ”

"When does your senior brother stop talking?" Ye Hong was in a good mood and drank quickly, "How can this kind of thing be a contract?" Senior brother rest assured that you should travel and travel, we will notify you to come back from the day we go to Taiwang Mountain, the incense of the ancestral hall is indispensable for your share, and the golden statue of the master needs you to carry it. ”

After talking about the business, they chatted while eating, and what they said was some interesting things in the capital and the old man's plan for the future of the Imperial Sword Sect, and then the head of the Imperial Sword Sect with heavy sideburns and evergreen silk was leaving.

"Senior brother remember to settle the bill," An Ran reminded, "There are still books to pay me back for a long time?" ”

"The account will be closed downstairs...... And then a little later. Also, I am the second senior brother, your senior brother Wang Bowang has wandered away, don't shout wrong. Before going out, he turned his head to remind Fan Yuntian and went downstairs.

Fan Yuntian walked to the staircase and looked at it, then entered the private room and closed the door.

"You're really leaving," the NPC kid said, "are you really going to do this quest?" Anyway, Lao Tzu didn't think he should agree to him. ”

"Then you still look like you have milk and are mothers?" An Ran grabbed a few peanuts on the plate with his hand, chewed them in his mouth, and said indistinctly.

"Lao Tzu is not trying to confuse him," Fan Yuntian shouted: "You have been gone for two and a half days, do you know how Lao Tzu spent these two and a half days?" I can't go anywhere, and no one talks to Lao Tzu. Finally, someone I know came, or a fucking scheming old bastard, I'm afraid I'll sell him if I'm not careful, rely on you, the idiot master, hehe! ”

"Isn't the agreement already broken?" An Ran shrugged his shoulders, "We are not a master-servant relationship anymore, Lao Tzu is your brother at most." ”

"That's why you don't care about Lao Tzu?" Fan Yuntian's voice became louder, and even tears rolled in his eyes, "I said that I would leave for two days, but you didn't come back for a whole fucking day, how could you go to bed with your little concubine and forget Lao Tzu?" Do you know how painful it was when Lao Tzu blocked the knife for you? ”

"Alright! All right! An Ran had to rub her temples, "I was wrong!" Am I wrong, can't I do it, little ancestor, do you want to whisper or something? Is that money enough? What more could you want? ”

"Forget it!" Fan Yuntian directly picked up the wine jug and poured wine into his mouth, and then the NPC kid paced the wine jug on the table, "You also have your difficulties, Lao Tzu just misses you very much, in the future, try to go to your world less during the day, Lao Tzu can still sleep at night, and as soon as his eyes are closed, he can see you again the next day." I regret it now, why did I break the contract with you? Otherwise, if you get out, I'll be locked up and sleeping, and I won't come out until you come back, and it's uncomfortable to wait for someone to come home. ”

"Actually, it's beneficial," An Ran put a chopstick dish in his bowl for the NPC boy, "For example, you can take charge of the money, you can also pick up the loot, you can buy things by yourself and put them in your bag, and even make your NPC friends one day." surnamed Fan, Lao Tzu is not the only one in this world, you still have a lot of landscapes to see and many people to make friends with. ”

"I'm not adaptable," Fan Yuntian shook his head gloomily, "Brother An Ran, I've been with you since I was reborn, and I don't know where the road is without you." ”

"Then Lao Tzu will take you to the Northern Desert first," An Ran comforted, "Maybe you will know the direction as you walk?" ”

In fact, this sentence is a bit sad, just like parents sometimes don't want their children to grow up, they always want their children to live a carefree childhood, when one day the children grow up and have their own way to go, then the child will leave his parents to feel the wind and rain and sunshine of life, and it is difficult to pounce into the chest of his parents. Parents are the backers of their children, but why are children not the padded jackets of their parents? For Fan Yuntian and An Ran, who have been with each other all the way, this feeling is roughly the same.

"Doesn't it matter here?" Fan Yuntian said, "Since you don't want to get involved in these messy things in the capital, why bother to pay attention to the banquet of the prince and his party, and why do you take the task of this old prince?" ”

"If we refuse directly, we may have one more enemy," An Ran sighed and stood up and put his hand on the shoulder of the NPC kid, "Yuntian, sometimes we have to deal with these people, many people are like this, since they can't get you, they will destroy you, those ambitious people want to control others in their own hands and work for him, if once they find out that this person is unwilling to be used for their own use and is afraid that he will fall into the hands of the opponent, he would rather kill him, so if we directly refuse the prince's words, Maybe he will attack us on the road to the Northern Desert, and if he doesn't pretend to agree to Ye Hong, he may also be secretly plotting to kill us. ”

"So Lao Tzu needs the protection of you, a big idiot," Fan Yuntian said, "It would be nice if everyone was like Brother Guyan and Sister Yanluo, everyone treated each other with sincerity and didn't have to live so tired of intrigue." ”

"It's not realistic, after all, there are not many people like your big brother and sister Yanluo in this world, so we should get along with a gentleman like a gentleman, and we should be more villain than him when we deal with villains."

"I understand Brother An Ran," Fan Yuntian realized, "This is also a kind of self-protection." ”

His light blue eyes flashed again, and the growth-type NPC Fan Yuntian learned some skills again.

Later, just as Enron planned, he first found Dao Dachuan on the line, and asked him if he was willing to add a professional title in addition to his profession - this is the candidate for the 'Imperial City Division' that the young man said to Leng Wentai - the chubby high school student who had no scheming agreed to this matter, he could trust his idol, and even if he couldn't believe it, as a player, what was wrong with being able to add a title and receive some secret tasks and money from time to time?

An Ran is actually wary of Dao Dachuan, which is called 'Blade' in this game, how did he know Shangguan Qiutong? Did he know the old man's identity in the first place? And what is the purpose of his contact with himself and Fan Yuntian? These An Ran don't know, so since this is the case, it is better to push the boat and let him enter the 'Imperial City Division' to jump in the quagmire of the capital, if he is with them, they will naturally not harm him, if he is not a person over there, then as an idle player, *** may not have any way to deal with him. It's just that the matter of the blade joining the Imperial City Division still needs the approval of the crown prince.

Then An Ran went to the place where the prince Li Jiaming gathered guests, and discussed the issue of the employment of some personnel with Shangguan Qiutong, the prince, the servant of the ministry and others, and the prince and Shangguan Qiutong said privately about letting the blade join the Imperial City Division, and asked him to tell the prince Li Jiade, and An Ran received a reply from the prince in the evening. 'Feasible' Then the prince reminded An Ran that when he traveled north to collect intelligence on the Northern Desert Army, he must hide his identity, and he needs to protect some family forces in the north because they are the people of the eldest prince, and he will secretly arrange people to protect him and Fan Yuntian's trip.

In the prince's reply, the establishment of the Tai'an Gang rudder in the capital should also be implemented as soon as possible to lay a good foundation for their future events, so An Ran sent a message to the drinkers in Huaitao County, asking him and NPC Ma Yuan to select some trustworthy brothers to go north to the capital. He specially explained in the news that this time he went to the capital to nominally set up the Tai'an Gang rudder, but in fact it became a non-governmental organization used by the prince to collect intelligence, and he must not have anything to do with the people of the Imperial City Division, and the people of the Tai'an Gang are in the capital to do business and not become anyone's spies, and inconsequential trivial matters can be handled for ***, once it involves the party struggle of the imperial court, it must not be agreed, even if it is to turn the other cheek with ***, be hunted down by them, and cannot gain a foothold in the capital.

Because An Ran knew that what the prince said about sending people to secretly protect him was just to spy on himself; The establishment of the Tai'an Gang in the capital to conspire with great things is actually just that he, Li Jiade, used some of the brothers of Tai'an Bang as chess pieces, and once things change, these brothers will be reduced to abandoned sons or simply used to balance someone else.