After discussing the arrangements for the evening with Li Kuang, Xu Rui walked out of the tavern alone, and what he had just said echoed in his mind.

At that time, the Central Plains regime spent a lot of money to build a stone city on the 800-mile Hanhai Gobi, and today's New Territories City is better than the stone city in terms of scale and prosperity.

It's all built on huge financial resources.

Obviously, it was impossible to sustain such a large city by relying solely on the robbery of the horse bandits, and the only remaining source of wealth was the mysterious treasure.

Xu Rui didn't believe that Jin Yiwei and Long Tu would risk their lives to conspire with the horse bandits just for money, after all, there were too many ways for them to make money, there was no need to tie their heads to the waistband of their pants like the horse bandits, there must be something more important attracting them.

In this way, whether it is the money in the treasure or the cheats, it is actually just a by-product, and the truly precious things must have been divided between the dragon figure and the ghost-faced demon god.

In fact, it's nothing if the treasure is carved up, Xu Rui is most worried about the role that Long Tu plays in this link.

Although he is still the "King of the Northwest" in the actual sense at this moment, anyone with a discerning eye knows that he has greatly offended Emperor Hongwei because of this matter, and now it is like walking a tightrope, and he will be crushed if he is not careful.

Long Tu's actions don't look like the boss behind the scenes, and if he is just a pawn in this game, then this brings three most critical problems.

First, if the dragon is a chess piece, then this game will probably be much bigger than originally thought.

Second, if Long Tu is a chess piece, then he is very likely to be wiped out at any time like the head of the brocade guard in Tianqi Pass, even if he can be controlled, but the chance of trying to extract the treasure secret from his mouth is about zero.

Third, if the dragon figure is a chess piece, then who has the ability to manipulate this chess game?

It seems that everything has to start with the mysterious ghost-faced demon god......

"Stop!"

Thinking about it, Xu Rui didn't know where he went, and suddenly a loud shout in front of him interrupted his train of thought.

Xu Rui looked up and saw two big men dressed as horse bandits standing in front of him, blocking the way and looking at him with fierce eyes.

Xu Rui was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly saluted: "I don't know why the two heroes stopped me?" ”

The two of them glanced at each other, their faces sank, and one of them sneered: "The little scholar asked Grandpa why he stopped you, why don't you look at what kind of place this is?" ”

"What is this place?"

A trace of doubt flashed on Xu Rui's face, and then he realized that he had walked to the north of the New Territories at some point, as if he had entered another world, and there were no noisy crowds around, only countless horse bandits patrolling back and forth.

Instead of tents, it is a huge, exotic complex, like an otherworldly manor, with a spacious courtyard behind a not-so-high wall, and even a rare Gobi greenery.

Behind the courtyard is a group of buildings that can be seen at a glance, large and small, scattered like a slightly smaller castle.

All the buildings are made of rocks, and there are lifelike reliefs on the stone walls, which are not only luxurious and exquisite, but also very artistic, if the scale is a hundred times larger, some people even say that this is the palace Xu Rui will be convinced.

"Here?"

Xu Ruihu asked suspiciously.

The man who spoke just now said coldly: "Open your dog's eyes and take a good look, this is our city lord's church, and it is also a place where lowly people like you can come?" Don't hurry up and get out of the way with Lao Tzu's tail between your legs, run slowly, be careful that grandpa cuts you! ”

"What, church? You say it's a church? ”

Xu Rui was extremely shocked, without pretense.

Since Xu Rui came to this world, he found that the religious beliefs in this world are very simple, except for the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism that are not perfect, only the immortal heaven on the grassland can barely be regarded as a kind of faith.

And Christianity, *** religion in the other world is unheard of here.

Now look at this huge complex, with its high stone walls, pointed towers, icons all over the walls, and the cross on the top of the building, isn't it a Gothic Christian church?

Having a church means that there are believers, Xu Rui has never seen any Christians in this world, even these two horse bandits guarding the door do not look like Christians at all, so the real Christians are very likely to be the masters here!

"Do you mean ......?"

Xu Rui's brows furrowed slightly, and a lightning bolt suddenly crossed his heart, and an incomplete conjecture suddenly emerged.

"Hey!"

At this moment, the impatient horse bandit pushed Xu Rui's chest with a palm, interrupting his train of thought again.

Xu Rui came back to his senses, and hurriedly pretended to retreat, planning to borrow the slope to get off the donkey, and leave this place first to sort out Fang Cai's thoughts.

But as he retreated, his gaze suddenly fell on a stone wall in the courtyard.

To be exact, it was the patterns on the stone walls that attracted his idea.

It was a pattern carved by someone with stone, the pattern itself is not complicated, the lines are crooked, and it can be seen that the person who carved the pattern does not have much carving skills, at least much worse than the relief carving on the wall.

But what shocked Xu Rui was the content of this pattern, because it was actually a star map!

It was an extremely shocking thing that a star map would appear in a civilized world with cold weapons, not to mention that Xu Rui recognized at a glance that this star map was the solar system!

"Who drew that?!"

Xu Rui couldn't care about the disguise anymore, grabbed a horse bandit and asked eagerly.

At the moment when the question was spoken, Xu Rui suddenly seemed to think of something, and a sneer hung on the corner of his mouth: "Church, star map, so ......"

"Can you read that picture?"

The horse bandit who was questioned by Xu Rui was not only angry because of Xu Rui's rudeness, but even ignored why such a thin teenager could firmly grasp his wrist and couldn't break free.

A hint of joy flashed on his face, and he hurriedly said to another companion behind him: "Quick, report to the city lord, the prophecy has come true, the person who can understand the picture has appeared, the treasure, the bigger treasure can finally be opened!" ”

"Oh, oh, I'm going, I'm going!"

The companion was equally overjoyed, turned and ran, hurriing into the church.

The horse bandit who was grabbed by Xu Rui turned his head with laughter, and was about to explain a few words to Xu Rui, but the one in front of him was already empty, where was Xu Rui's shadow?

He searched left and right in confusion, but there was still nothing confused, Xu Rui seemed to disappear out of thin air, or he never appeared at all, and the man's smile suddenly froze on his face.

It didn't take long for Xu Rui, who had a gloomy face, to walk out of the crowd, and he had returned to the lively street market, surrounded by all kinds of people in a hurry, and in the crowd, there was a woman wearing a hat leaning against the corner, as if waiting for someone.

When Xu Rui saw the woman, he walked straight up to her and asked in a low voice, "Are you all settled?" ”

The woman looked up, and it turned out to be the shadow maid who had been lurking in the shadows.

She looked left and right, and when she saw that no one had an idea, she said softly, "Settle down, it's on the second floor of the inn opposite." ”

Xu Rui nodded, turned around and walked towards the inn, the shadow maid glanced at the nearby crowd, found no danger, and disappeared in the crowd in a flash.

Xu Rui didn't have much effort to find the room that the shadow maid said, and gently pushed the door open.

The moment the door opened, Princess Qixia and the Yan family brothers and sisters inside turned their heads to look at him at the same time.

"Everyone is waiting for you, where have you been?"

Without waiting for Princess Qixia to speak, Yan Siqi jumped up from the side of Yan Sheng's bed where she was resting, stepped to Xu Rui's side in a few steps, and asked loudly.

The words are still this sentence, but in addition to blame, there are three more points of coquettishness in the tone.

Xu Rui was slightly stunned, and for no reason, he felt weak in his heart, and subconsciously looked at Princess Qixia.

"Why don't you speak? Is it because he hurt my brother and became a thief? ”

Yan Siqi himself didn't notice anything, and still kept counting Xu Rui's farewell at the critical moment.

Princess Qixia looked at Xu Rui with a wicked smile, as if to say, it's all your fault, see how you end up?

Xu Rui suddenly smiled bitterly in his heart, and his eyes were full of helplessness when he looked at Yan Siqi.