The Crows chased the trail of the other party while arranging for the patrol to set up a checkpoint, and it didn't take long for them to lock down the carjacker.

Although the legs were not as fast as the carriage, they still relied on the sentry post to control the opponent's movements, forcing the opponent into a desperate situation, and not long ago this ambush successfully ambushed the carriage on the way it must pass, and the tall man driving was hit by at least two arrows, believing that the other party could not hold out for long.

Traced the traces of the other party, and then found the carriage discarded by the other party in an alley in the old street, the carriage was empty, and there was a little blood stain under the carriage, stretching into the distance.

"The man couldn't get far and told the patrol to put the neighborhood under martial law. ”

The blood disappeared as soon as it left the alleyway, but that didn't stop the keen veterans from continuing to track each other, and eventually, they came to a teahouse.

"The military is checking people, everyone is standing still!" the leader of the soldiers broke down the door and shouted.

Zhou Lie, who was about to leave, was startled, only to see several soldiers in black armor rushing in, directly reaching out to push him to the ground, Zhou Lie subconsciously jumped backwards and dodged this push.

"Huh?" The soldier who had been dodged was obviously furious because of Zhou Lie's behavior, and took two steps forward and swung his sword scabbard and smashed it into Zhou Lie's face.

The short body dodged this blow, and Zhou Lie said angrily, "You guys check, you can't see that I'm a student of Santa Fes Academy?"

The soldier was about to fight again, but was stopped by a hand next to him, "Enough, we're here to check." Then he looked at Zhou Lie and snorted coldly and said, "What's wrong with you coming from the east, you are a student, it's not strange that the rebels are disguised as students, and everyone is not allowed to leave until we finish the search!"

The boss and the maid, who were startled by the movement at the door, hurried out and nodded at the soldiers, but these people were completely unmoved, and turned around the store.

"Boss, did you see an injured man passing by your shop?" asked the captain.

"No, there are few guests today, I've been dealing with the newly arrived tea in the back hall, and this little guest just came, and I'm going to work again, so even if there is, I'm afraid I haven't seen it. The boss said with a small face.

"If you think about it, that person can only enter your store, and if I find out that you are harboring a suspect by then, you know the consequences. ”

"How do you feel, it's the Archon's mercy that we can do business here, but I'm really not watching at the counter today, I've been in the back hall, so I really don't know, but if there's a thief in the store, please help find the thief." ”

The shopkeeper spoke earnestly and humbly, although his intuition told Zhou Lie that the boss was talking nonsense, but there was really no evidence that he was lying.

If only he could get the marks a little more perfect.

"Boss, there's blood here. A crow soldier reported.

Zhou Lie looked at it, his pupils shrank, that wall was where the secret passage was, so the reason why this boss would refuse him was because an injured person had entered the secret passage to cultivate, and the injured person was a member of the rebel army who was being tracked, so the boss naturally couldn't get out of it.

The captain turned his head to look at the boss, smiling, the boss's eyes flashed, and he hurriedly said, "That is the blood left behind when I killed chickens not long ago." ”

"Oh, such bright red blood, it seems that the dead chicken is not far away, the boss will take us to see?"

"Already, the stew has been drunk. The boss stammered back.

"Poof. ”

The captain directly drew his sword and cut the boss's throat, the boss covered his throat and fell, and the maid on the side took out the dagger on the upper of her shoe and stabbed at the captain.

However, the soldier on the side took a quick step before the dagger was drawn, and the long sword pierced the maid's waist and took her life.

In just a few breaths, the owner and maid of this tea shop died before his eyes.

"These don't know what to do. The captain shook off the blood stains on his sword and said fiercely.

Zhou Lie frowned, according to the charter, there was no reason for the boss to be killed on the spot, but should be taken to prison for interrogation, this kind of random killing is really disgusting.

Then the captain looked at Zhou Lie, shook the bloodstained long sword in his hand, and said in a slow tone, "I wonder if this student can surprise me a little?"

"I'm just a guest. Zhou Lie said calmly.

"As a student who can enter Santa Fes Academy, you will actually appear in the old street, isn't the noble street enough for you to have fun, even if you want to drink tea, there are many places for you to go, and you appear by chance on such a day, who would believe that it is a coincidence?" said the captain.

"I'm from the Libay family. Zhou Lie said.

"I've never heard of them giving birth to a boy with an oriental face. Without hesitation, the captain swung his sword and slashed down.

Before the words fell, Zhou Lie moved, there were guards at the door and at the window, he didn't expect to break out with his bare hands, Zhou Lie's target was the secret door.

The opportunity to open the secret door is near the secret door, and Zhou Lie, who has been here many times, has secretly looked at it a few times when the boss opened the door for him, and has already grasped the method of opening the door.

Dodging the long sword swung by the captain, Zhou Lie went straight to the secret door, pressed a brick next to him, and then pushed hard, and without waiting for the secret door to open itself, he forcibly entered it, and the soldier reacted and wanted to pursue, but the secret door had already closed.

"Sure enough, it's a rebel, you hurry up and find a way to open the secret door!

Entering the familiar dark passage, Zhou Lie rushed forward, this was originally an underground casino, there was no popularity at all, it seemed that no one was there, through a short passage, it was the casino hall, at this moment there was only one wall gas lamp in the hall, and there was no one in the usually lively gambling hall now, revealing a trace of weirdness in the quiet.

"Heh~Whew~"

Intermittent moans came from somewhere, thinking that it was the owner of the bloodstain, and following the sound, Zhou Lie came to the door of a room.

After opening the door, he found that a strong man with three or four arrows in his body was lying on the bed, and the wound was only briefly bandaged, and as the man's exhalation fluctuated, blood seeped out of the wound little by little.

"Is it a liaison? The man heard the footsteps, said with difficulty, raised his right hand, and pointed to the box on the side of the table, "Give this, to Aiden." ”

Looking in the direction of the man's finger, there was indeed a quaint wooden box on the table.

"Hey, what is this box, why are those soldiers looking for you like crazy!" Zhou Lie rushed forward to check the other party's wounds, but the sturdy man was already extremely weak, and he just repeated vigorously, "Box, to Aiden, box, to Aiden." He ignored Zhou Lie's question.

After hesitating again and again, Zhou Lie held the other party's hand and said, "Don't worry, I will bring it." ”

It seemed that after hearing Zhou Lie's answer, the man breathed a sigh of relief and died.

It's just a soothing lie.

Looking at the box on the side, Zhou Lie's face was complicated, although it could choose to hand over this box to the empire, but looking at the captain's appearance, it was estimated that he would not believe himself, the people in this city who knew their identity except for the archon Augustus were the Orlando family who took care of themselves, and now it was best to find a way to go out and join one of them, and then it would be easy to say anything.

It's just that what is in this box that makes these two people so desperate?

Zhou Lie picked up the box and looked at it carefully in the dim light, the wooden box was engraved with a flame pattern around it, and there was a long sword emblem with wings on the lid of the box, and there was no other clue other than that.

I tugged hard twice, and found that the lid couldn't be opened, and there was no keyhole on the outside, it looked like it was sealed by a secret technique or there was some mystery inside.

It seems that he can't get a glimpse of the secret for the time being, and gave up the idea of opening the box, Zhou Lie began to bang on the wall of the room, he believed that the rebels built such a place, it must not be possible to have only such an entrance, and there was no exit, and he had to take advantage of this time to find the exit and leave, otherwise when the group of soldiers rushed in, he would only have to wait for death.

knocked on this room, and found no possible place, so Zhou Lie took other rooms to explore, this gambling hall is not big, but for one person, it is really difficult to complete all the exploration, press the bricks of the three rooms, Zhou Lie still did not find the switch of the secret passage.

Time passed bit by bit, and Zhou Lie's heart became more and more anxious.

"Secret passage, secret passage. ”

"Where!"

There were footsteps in the corridor and the captain's order, "Find that student, and then interrogate it well, you can know that this secret passage must be a member of the resistance, if you resist, you will be killed directly." ”

The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and Zhou Lie was still looking for a possible mechanism in a room.

Suddenly, there was a different banging on a wall, and there was a gap behind it!

The next step is to find the mechanism.

Outside the room was the footsteps of soldiers, in order not to be discovered, Zhou Lie did not dare to beat vigorously, and finally, when he twisted the candlestick on the wall, the door of the secret passage slowly opened with the sound of stones rubbing.

"Here!"

The sound of the dark passage opening alarmed the soldiers outside, and one of the nearest soldiers had already rushed into the room and slashed at Zhou Lie with a sword.

Subconsciously, Zhou Lie grabbed the box and blocked it in the middle, but the fragile wooden box was directly split in half under the sword, and the sword blade was unabated, slashing towards Zhou Lie's body.

Can't hide!

If it was normal times, Zhou Lie would naturally be able to dodge, but because he had spent a lot of physical strength looking for the secret passage before, he was in a hurry to fight at this moment, and he had no corresponding means.

The blade of the sword cut through the wooden box and slashed towards Zhou Lie, and at this moment, the surrounding time seemed to slow down, Zhou Lie could clearly see the long sword slowly chopping down, the debris of the wooden box flew everywhere, and everything around him became extremely slow, but he couldn't move.

"Yo boy, do you want to live?" a non-serious voice came out of nowhere.

"Who?"

"Looks like a good body, much better than the last hapless one, I'll get you out, and you need to fulfill my wish, how?"

"What are you?"

"Hey, hey, there's not much time left for you. ”

Under the urging of this voice, the speed of the long sword fell a little faster.

"I don't know what you are, but, okay, I promise you. ”

"Okay, the contract is made. ”

As the words fell, the surrounding time returned to its original state, and a crimson rapids surged in front of Zhou Lie's eyes, and then a huge amount of heat erupted between him and the iron sword, and the rapid heating brought about a violent expansion of the air, forming an explosion of wind, which actually blew the iron sword and the soldier holding the iron sword away.

"That's the ability to control the flames and all the heat, and that's the only rule I master. In the back of his mind, the voice sounded again, "You can call me Frem, and from now on, you will be my host." ”