Feeling the approach of the murderous aura, Han Xin stopped and moved his gaze to the rear, only to see that there was nothing on the empty road.

But when he turned around, he saw a man with a sword in his hand and a heavy shield appear dozens of meters in front of him, blocking his way with a determined figure.

"That's it, Han Shin!" Arthur held the Sword of Oath in both hands and stared at Han Xin with a determined gaze. "Yo, who's the hero? I've never seen you before...... But you know my name......" Han Xinrin looked at the man who suddenly appeared in front of him and blocked his way, and said with the corners of his mouth curled slightly, "Am I so famous?" ”

"Single-handedly go straight to Xianyang Palace—you'll be famous in no time." Arthur said, "Although, that may be after you die!" "Death?" Han Xin frowned and sneered, "In your hands? As soon as the words fell, Han Xin released his own magic blue energy, condensing into a magic pressure as sharp as a spear blade.

"You can try." As Arthur finished speaking, a rock-solid pressure was released from his body. The magic pressure of the two collided silently in the void, and the invisible sparks flickered in the sharp eyes of the two. Battle, on the verge of breaking out!

- The black sky is silent, the black mountains are silent, the black forest is silent, the black rocks are silent, the black soil is silent - everything in the black land is silent as death, there is only the silence of death here, there is not the slightest sign of life, but it seems that all this black has condensed into a kind of ash-like reincarnation, just waiting for reincarnation in silence. Approaching midnight, Zhang Liang and Hua Mulan stood under the cover of the black forest, looking at the eight-hundred-mile vast palace city built in the central plain of the black land with faint lights - Afang Palace! After more than ten days, they finally arrived at this Afang Palace, which haunted countless events but never got a glimpse of the truth.

The gray-haired wolf shone on the black ground with its green eyes, and saw that it kept opening its mouth, and showed an expression similar to frowning, with an embarrassed face, it seemed that it didn't like this black ghost place very much. (Here the gray-haired wolf has a shadow in his heart: What the hell?) It's as black as a dog! ）

Mulan stared at the guards outside the Afang Palace through the cover of black branches, and saw that outside this huge palace under construction, there were four beacon towers, and there were soldiers equipped with crossbow arrows on the platform, and a certain number of ironclad guards were also guarded under the beacon tower.

"On the surface, it's just an ordinary guard force, and it's not difficult to break through." Hua Mulan looked at the garrison outside Afang's palace and said. "Hmm......" Zhang Liang closed his eyes, diffusing his perception to probe the three-dimensional guard situation of the entire Afang Palace, and then slowly opened his eyes and said, "That's right, the Afang Palace as a whole is just an ordinary level of guards." ”

"So how do you think we're going to get in? If I push hard, I can break down the defense line in one direction in a few minutes by myself. Mulan looked at Zhang Liang and said.

"No, we still have to be careful for the ......," Zhang Liang thought for a while and said, "According to the news of the King of Han, the construction of Afang Palace has always been supervised by Bian Que. ”

"During the few days in the coalition camp, I chatted a lot with Liu Bang, the king of Han, and learned more about the changes in the situation in Qin and Chu in the past ten years and some of the characters in Qin Chu...... Among them, Bian Que, I think we should be especially careful "Well, then what are you going to do?" Mulan asked.

"Wait for the early hours of the morning...... The guards of the Afang Palace are changing day and night, and the soldiers who are now guarding outside the palace are the next ones to keep watch all night, and when they wait until the early hours of the morning, it will be when they are most mentally exhausted and have the lowest concentration, and at that time, we will sneak in through one of the side doors. Zhang Liang thought and said. Their trip was to find out the secrets inside Afang Palace, and they didn't know what traps Bian Que would lay in Afang Palace, so they couldn't alarm him too early, and they acted as secretly as possible.

At three o'clock in the morning, Zhang Liang and Hua Mulan slowly got up, took the gray-haired Kui wolf, and walked down from the black forest. When they came to the end of the forest, they saw that most of the ironclad guards under the beacon tower were already drowsy, and the only ones who were slightly awake were the crossbowmen who monitored the guards on the beacon tower - it seems that in the past few years, due to the situation in the country and the remoteness of the black land, the environment of the Afang Palace has been too peaceful, so the guard guard has become so relaxed. I don't think those soldiers would have thought that someone would actually sneak into this empty palace under construction.

So Zhang Liang sealed with one hand, attracting the demon blue energy in his body, and silently condensed a fire-colored barrier on the sides of the few ironclad guards who had not yet slept. Before those ironclad guards knew it, they had already touched the spiritual barrier that appeared on the flat ground, and the fire-colored energy instantly invaded, directly paralyzing their nervous system, and instantly stunned them.

At the moment when Zhang Liang made a move, Mulan also moved-"Cang Po Chop" - Hua Mulan jumped and flashed, and pulled out the giant sword Cang Xiao tied on her back in mid-air, and then jumped straight onto the high platform with a sharp cherry red sword qi, and slashed through with a sword when the two crossbow archers were defenseless—and at this moment, the crossbow archers on a beacon tower dozens of steps away discovered the accident here, but only after this moment, the sword that frightened them approached in front of them-"Cang Po Chop: Double" Mulan leaped into the air, swung her sword and slashed, slashing them down the moment they saw her.

Mulan fell lightly from the sky, trying not to wake up the ironclad guards who were already asleep. At this time, Zhang Liang also walked over, and the two of them took the gray-haired Kui wolf to cross the defense line of the soldiers and sneaked in through a side gate of Afang Palace. As they passed by the group of ironclad guards who either fell asleep or fainted to the ground, the gray-haired Kuiwolf lowered his head and shook it helplessly. (There is a gray-haired wolf's voice here: they sleep like dogs...... ）

Although from the outside, the scale of Afang Palace is very majestic, but after actually walking in, Zhang Liang and Hua Mulan feel extremely desolate. Afang Palace is currently only a palace city under construction, to put it bluntly, it is only a palace city range of 800 miles, in fact, the palace has not built a few, let alone the appearance of the palace, empty, just a few huge empty pavilions.

And Zhang Liang and Hua Mulan are now standing in an empty pavilion in it, facing this dark and lonely empty huge room, Zhang Liang and Hua Mulan only feel that their mood is very complicated. Zhang Liang stretched out his hand, releasing the fireflies condensed by the magic blue energy, and used the fire-colored light to illuminate the huge palace pavilion in front of him, only to see that this huge palace pavilion was only built with the outer outline of a dome and the wall, and the inside was extremely desolate, not to mention that there was no decoration, and even the layout could not be seen, it was completely just a huge cubic empty house, the wall was not even painted, not only did there be no floor on the ground, but even the cornerstone had not been filled, it was completely the black soil paved with black soil unique to the black land.

"It's really empty to the point of desolation, if you don't walk in, you really can't imagine that the land in this Afang Palace is land......" Zhang Liang frowned slightly, looking at the black land under his feet, although he had been stepping on the void, he could also imagine that the ground in this palace was completely soft like soil after stepping on it.

The gray-haired wolf on the side blinked its green eyes, and it couldn't help but cry twice as it looked at the scene inside the palace. (Here is the mourning of the gray-haired wolf: what a pitiful owner, such a large house is as desolate as a dog.) ）

"And no wonder...... After all, this palace has only been built for three years, and it is not easy to achieve this point, such a large palace cannot be repaired in decades. Hua Mulan clasped her hands, stood on the soft black soil, and suddenly said suspiciously, "But the strange thing is that when building a palace, the foundation stone of the ground is laid first, but why did Yingzheng build the outer outline of the palace without building the foundation stone...... In this case, it will be much more wasteful to lay the foundation in the palace......"

"Because, they probably didn't plan to lay the foundation stone for the palace at all......" Zhang Liang said with a chuckle suddenly. Well? Mulan looked at Zhang Liang and said in surprise.

"When I first arrived at Heidi and saw this Afang Palace, I wondered how it was only three years that they were able to build such a large palace complex with a basic external outline - it turned out that they only started to build the outside of the palace, and did not care about the ......construction of the inside at all," Zhang Liang said. But why would they do it? Mulan asked.

"In order to cover up, in order to build the outline of the palace as soon as possible, to hide people's eyes." Zhang Liang narrowed his pupils slightly, and said in a deep voice, "I'm afraid that this entire palace is a tool they use to cover up, they don't want to build such a huge palace that stretches for eight hundred miles, so they don't need to spend time laying the foundation stone for it." ”

"That's an exaggeration...... How can you be sure that they didn't really want to build this palace? Mulan couldn't help but be surprised and asked rhetorically. I can judge it from the dialogue between King Han and Xianyang Palace alone and facing Ying Zheng......" Zhang Liang said contemplatively, "From the analysis of Ying Zheng's words, he has the heart of the emperor who swallows the world, and how can a person who has the heart of the emperor of the world succumb to the glory and wealth of Qin Chu?" It's just that in the country of Qin and Chu, no matter how big and majestic the palace is, it is meaningless for him! ”

Listening to Zhang Liang's analysis, the doubts between Mulan's eyebrows gradually dissipated. "Another point, did Lan Lan find a very strange place...... Zhang Liang suddenly said to Mulan, "We are alone here, and no Hua Mulan heard this, and immediately reacted to the fact that the "people" Zhang Liang said referred to were those adults who were forcibly recruited by Yingzheng from all over the country as construction laborers.

"Ying Zheng has captured millions of adult laborers from all over the country, but we haven't seen any of them here......," Zhang Liang said in a deep voice. Could it be that he was held in some hidden place......" Mulan thought and said, but saw Zhang Liang silent.

"You won't be ...... Suspect they have ...... Let's die......" Looking at Zhang Liang's silent eyes, Hua Mulan keenly saw the guess in his heart, and couldn't help but be a little surprised—after all, it was the lives of millions of people! Zhang Liang looked at Mulan, lowered his eyes again, and acquiesced, he really thought that those people were dead.

"In fact, when I was still in the coalition camp, I suspected that those people who were captured by Yingzheng might have died...... It's just that it was not easy to say to the King of Chu and the King of Han at that time......," Zhang Liang said in contemplation, "The reason why I asked for the order to come to the Afang Palace to inspect it in person is not only to know the secrets here, but also to confirm the guess in my heart—now it seems that the result is very similar to what I guessed." ”

"But how do you tell that those people are dead?" Mulan still asked suspiciously. "In fact, it is not difficult to think - Ying Zheng forcibly captured almost all the adults in the country as engineering laborers - this caused the grain production of the entire Qin Chu to drop more than ten times in the past three years, and in the ten years before Ying Zheng became emperor, Qin Chu had been suffering from Xu Fu's troubles, and there was no way to have any grain stock...

When Zhang Liang said this, Hua Mulan's eyes suddenly understood, and in an instant, an unspoken sense of fear surged into her heart. "There is no grain stockpile, and the country's grain production has plummeted more than ten times - without food, how can these millions of people survive, and if they are still alive, then what have they eaten for life in the past three years?" Zhang Liang stared at his pupils and said in a deep voice.

- When the collision of magic pressure reached the point of inescapability, Han Shin and Arthur both moved. Han Xin held his spear and rushed towards Arthur along the unstoppable magic pressure, the sharp blade pointed far at the lower part of Arthur's left chest, which was the breaking point that Han Xin aimed, and once the blade arrived, it was bound to break through the armor and pierce the chamber.

Arthur held his sword in both hands and strode forward in the most determined posture, without any excessive attack, but the guard-like sword of oath seemed to be ready to break Han Xin's spear at any moment and take advantage of the situation.

"Bang !!" Han Xin's spear blade stabbed straight out, but it was hit head-on by Arthur's sword of oath, and the moment the blades were handed over, the magic pressure of the two exploded, forming an invisible hurricane around the two. Han Xin didn't stop, and after the moment the blades staggered, he used his strength to move down, and the sharp tip of the spear slashed along Arthur's blade, stabbing towards his abdomen.

Seeing that the blade of the gun missed his block and stabbed straight into his abdomen, Arthur couldn't help frowning, seeing the sharp tip of the gun approaching, he slammed his left foot, turned sharply, and faced the blade with his back. "When !!" The sharp spear stabbed at the hard shield of the oath, splattering fierce sparks - yes, Arthur also had the shield of oath on his back, and at the same time as he turned his back to Han Xin's blade, the shield was facing Han Xin's stabbing blow.

Arthur's eyes were slightly cold, in this short confrontation, it was Han Xin who took the top - his cold spear martial arts were indeed as fast as the wind, as fast as lightning, which made it difficult for him in an instant, but his calm and powerful combat style sword and shield martial arts would never be willing to bow to the wind - just the moment Han Xin stabbed out the spear and the corners of his mouth turned slightly, Arthur suddenly moved. Arthur slammed his shoulder bone, breaking the shackles of the Oath Shield on his back. So the moment the shield of the oath broke free from its shackles and fell naturally, he suddenly turned around, took the sword in his left hand, and spread the five fingers of his right hand, and struck the fallen shield of the oath with the force of his entire right arm.

Arthur's right hand pressed the inside of the Oath Shield with all his might, and the golden shield slammed into Han Xin in front of him with great power. Seeing the huge Vajra shield coming head-on, Han Xin's eyebrows were slightly dark, and he immediately drew back his spear, blocking the steel spear shaft sideways to block the slamming Oath Shield. In the simple competition of strength, Han Xin finally owed Arthur a few points, and although the huge momentum of the Oath Shield was taken by him, it also shook his hands painfully.

However, at the moment when Han Xin's gun blocked the shield of the oath, the sharp sword of the oath stabbed out from behind the shield, and with the same golden light as the shield, it stabbed at Han Xin, who was unable to defend against the shield.

A cold light flashed in Han Xin's eyes—"Returning to the Horse's Spear"—Han Xin kicked on the Oath Shield held by Arthur, pulling the magic blue energy to release on the soles of his feet, so Han Xin's kick erupted with a huge shock force, and the whole person instantly retreated towards the rear.

"Don't want to escape—" Arthur felt a huge shock in the shield and saw Han Xin's retreating figure flash the sword of oath he stabbed, so he immediately shouted, "The light of the oath!" ”

Rui's golden light surged on the Sword of Oath and the Shield of Oath, and Arthur, who was holding the sword in his left hand and the shield in his right hand, burst out with extremely high movement speed at this moment, and saw that between the rise and fall of his feet, the Sword of Oath he held high had already approached Han Xin, who had retreated ten steps away in an instant.

(End of chapter)