——After returning to Huyao City, Liu Bang never talked about the Gourded Bat to anyone, and he was no longer worried. Go to bed early and get up early every day, eat on time, practice martial arts in the morning, and enjoy the sunset in the evening. Life is calm and regular, and leisurely and elegant.

But every afternoon, Liu Bang would go to his study alone and stay quietly for an hour or two.

It's the same today.

In order to be quiet, Liu Bang built his study in a claustrophobic underground, although it lacked the artistic conception of Fang Lan and green bamboo, but it also ensured a quiet pleasure where no one else was around.

There is a small light every five steps in the small and empty aisle, and the faint and clear lights converge to illuminate the quiet aisle, just like Liu Bang's footsteps echoing in the aisle, not loud or weak, just right.

Different lights from far and near scattered, pulling out several overlapping shadows of different lengths behind Liu Bang, as Liu Bang's footsteps moved, those overlapping shadows were also changing subtly, but in the darkest part where all the shadows were completely overlapped, there was no change.

In the darkest and most silent shadow stack, it seems that something black lurks in it, faintly following Liu Bang's figure, but its black and shadow are completely integrated, and no one can find it.

At the end of the aisle is Liu Bang's study, a separate room carved out underground. Walking to the door, Liu Bang walked in naturally, and even dragged his long shadow in. However, when Liu Bang's shadow moved into the room with him, a black shadow came out of Liu Bang's shadow and stopped at the door—it was stopped by the study.

After the black shadow couldn't keep up with Liu Bang's figure, it spontaneously rotated, as if a black vortex was born from the ground, Liu Bang glanced back at the black shadow that swirled as if to poke out something, without a trace of surprise, and didn't even look at the body it was about to poke out, and gently closed the door.

Liu Bang knew that something was following him all the time.

Not only today, as early as a few months ago, Liu Bang discovered that as long as he was in Huyao City, no matter where he went, there would be such a strange thing lurking in his shadow, following him inseparably.

He had stumbled upon all of this a few months ago, but he couldn't say for sure how long it had been with him, maybe months, or a year, or even three years.

The most important thing is that Liu Bang recognizes that thing - "lurking shadows, chasing people invisible" - Qin Chu royal secrets, ghost eye guards.

Liu Bang didn't dare to speculate whether this ancient royal secret technique was stolen by someone, or Yingzheng was tracking his whereabouts, or who secretly intervened in the land of royal power, just like Xu Fu back then. He didn't know, but he was roughly certain that in the three years since he went to the border city to guard, the Qin and Chu royal family was not as calm as he imagined.

However, Liu Bang couldn't easily eliminate the ghost eye guard who was following him, so as not to startle the snake in the unknown situation. Therefore, since he discovered this ghost-eyed guard, he has been very careful about his words and deeds in Huyao City, and he lives a regular and leisurely life every day, no matter what, this always makes the person behind the scenes who has been tracking him a little more leisurely.

However, there are some things that cannot be hidden and cannot be let go. Therefore, Liu Bang built this quiet study, and a layer of light blue magic circle graphics faintly appeared on the ground in the study, and the ancient spirit magic circle sheltered the entire study, isolating all the demonic power of foreign beings, so that the demonic ghost eye guard could not cross the forbidden boundary at all.

This spirit magic array is a kind of magic spell that Liu Bang asked Jiang Shang for the last time he went to Fengqi Mountain, which was originally used to suppress some uncontrolled demonic foreign objects, but now it is used by Liu Bang in the room to ward off evil spirits.

The study is actually a study, and there are three bookshelves standing in between, and the shelves are full of ancient books that are the same color as dust. And in the middle of the study there is a sandalwood copy, a white candle is placed on the case, the fire lit by the white candle is also jade white, the light is bright, the whole study is only lit by this white candle, but it is as bright as day.

On that copy, next to the open flame and white candle, there was the dark purple bat. Liu Bang walked straight to the copy, sat down lightly, and then gently picked up the bat.

The Pattern Bat is not immortal, once it is formed and flies out, there is no longer a source of magic blue energy, and it can only passively consume the magic blue energy condensed at the beginning of the moon. For the Silky Bat, the magic blue energy is its life, and now, it is already dying.

Liu Bang stared at the small Devil Pattern Bat in his hand, stared at the small word "Crackling" on its back wing, and then slowly attracted the magic blue energy in his body to inject into the Pattern Bat's body - this is a very terrible behavior, introducing his own magic blue energy into other people's magic blue energy condensation without authorization, which is a completely different concept from supplementing his own magic blue into other people's bodies.

The condensation of the magic blue energy has an inherently repulsive nature, once there is an influx of foreign magic blue energy, it will immediately trigger its aggressiveness, and if you are not careful, it will even cause the impact explosion of two waves of magic blue energy! Only those who have a deep understanding of the magic blue can be sure to carry out such a dangerous operation.

And Liu Bang was doing this, his magic blue energy was faintly injected, and as soon as the striated bat felt the influx of foreign energy, he immediately screamed and fluttered his wings a few times, but he did not strongly repulse, and slowly, he actually accepted the magic blue energy injected by Liu Bang.

The process of infusing the Pattern Bat with magic blue was very long, and it took about forty minutes before Liu Bang finished his work, let go of his fingers, and let the Pattern Bat fly in the air with vigor again. He saved the bat, without which he would not have been able to find the trace of the moon.

Staring at the bats flying in the air, Liu Bang's expression gradually became serious. He secretly searched in his heart - "Striped bat...... Devil's Eye Guard...... And Zhang Liang's prophecy ......"

Whether it is the Pattern Bat, the Ghost Eye Guard, and Zhang Liang's prophecy, they all ominously indicate the same thing - there is a change in the Xianyang Palace!

Yes, Liu Bang determined this very early. In fact, he didn't come up with the secret meaning hidden in the Mi Pattern Bat, and he didn't need to think about it anymore, the appearance of the Pattern Bat itself indicates that the situation of Mi Yue has changed, which also faintly indicates that the situation of the Xianyang Palace has changed, and everything cannot be done for no reason!

But although he had seen the heresy of the situation, Liu Bang never moved, but waited quietly. This is not actually his style, as soon as he sees that the situation is different, he will definitely respond immediately, instead of just waiting - sit back and wait.

But Liu Bang can't move, no matter how clearly he judges, it is impossible for him to make a move alone, he needs someone - he needs Xiang Yu!

Liu Bang has always been very aware of the proportions he has to grasp, and only by grasping the proportions can he always stand in the right position in countless games.

The situation he is facing now may be very big, and the only person who has always maintained a line with him is Xiang Yu! Therefore, he must hold the position with Xiang Yu and maintain a common attitude, so that they can ensure the final advantage in the situation that is about to change.

However, Xiang Yu has not yet seen the heresy of the situation. In fact, he should have seen some of them, but he didn't pay enough attention to them, and his reason was also very good, they were in the position of border city guards, and they had to guard the border city defense line first. Xiang Yu's words are good, and Liu Bang also has to maintain an attitude with him, so he can only sit with him and wait for the situation to change.

In fact, this also involves the fundamental difference between Liu Bang and Xiang Yu's concepts - they are both people with a great view of the overall situation, the difference is that Xiang Yu's consciousness attaches more importance to the responsibility of guarding the overall situation, while Liu Bang's consciousness attaches more importance to the decisiveness of determining the overall situation.

If Liu Bang could make a decision alone, he would inevitably abandon the guards of the border city first to determine the situation of the entire Qin Chu, instead of choosing this kind of "sitting and waiting" behavior.

But Xiang Yu's words were not wrong, he could only wait for the situation to change first.

"No one is immune to the coming storm." Savoring Zhang Liang's prophecy, Liu Bang felt more and more that the situation in Qin and Chu would never be as harmonious and peaceful as written in the political documents sent by Ying Zheng every month.

An unknown storm was brewing, and he could only wait quietly for the day when the storm would rise.

But what Liu Bang didn't know was that at this moment, three hundred miles away from Huyao City, where he was, and twenty miles away from Longshun City, where Xiang Yu was located, the dice of the storm were doing the final rock in the hands of fate.

The white bone scythe hook of the white god of death hung Han Xin's detached soul, and the chess pieces that glimpsed the true image of the situation were falling on the line of death.

Life or death, the outcome of the dice is about to be settled.

Maybe in a few hours, Qin Chu's storm will suddenly set off......