Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Difference Between Cloud and Mud
"Tell Master Hou, my subordinates have compared all the people they have found, but they have not found the woman drawn on your picture." A man dressed as a non-commissioned officer with a drawing in his hand bowed back.
"Got it, you go ahead and search." Liu Sheng frowned slightly and commanded. He looked back at Yu Han, who was tied to the bed and couldn't move, and couldn't help but sigh slightly in his heart and continued: "Jing Zhan, if that little girl is a smart and clever person as you said, she may have hidden from the island at this moment, and you are not too worried. Listening to my uncle's words, a macho man still needs to focus on the family, country and society, and the personal feelings of his children and daughters. Although people saved you, we need to repay them with a spring. But that girl can't tell whether she is right or evil now, and you are now on the stage of making a new contribution, it is a good time to build a business, and you must not ruin a good future because of impulse. Don't blame your uncle for imprisoning you, uncle is really afraid that you will do something disrespectful to His Royal Highness the King of Han for the sake of these irrelevant people. β
"Huh, irrelevant people? Uncle, you are a little strange in what you said. Yu Han said with an ugly face.
"Confused, are you just because of your own impulsiveness, even your parents and the people of the nine clans have to be involved, have you forgotten the whole clan of Fang Xigu back then? Uncle tried his best to help you cover up the existence of this girl, which has already buried a nail under the feet of His Royal Highness King Han in the future, don't make it difficult for your uncle. β
"Whew...... Alas" Yu Han, who was originally angry, heard Liu Houye mention his parents' family, took a long breath in his mouth, and sighed helplessly. Sansan, I'm sorry for you.
The two men in the cabin were silent and looked at each other for a long time.
I only heard Yu Han, who was close to calm, ask: "Uncle Liu, do we still have to pursue the remnants who escaped from the West Cliff along the road?" The other person sent by the commander should have marked us along the way."
"Well, the most obvious signs of the rainy season a few days ago should have been diluted by the rising sea, and there are many people on the surrounding islands, who knows which island they are hiding on. Now that the first evil has been ambushed. The others should be scattered as well. After all, the Emperor only asks us to recover this island. As for the expedition, it is better to leave it to the Zheng Gong fleet that is about to return. Anyway, it was only a matter of time before that person was mixed in with them, and it was only a matter of time before they were cleaned up. β
"Yes, uncle."
Yu Han, who was lying on the futon at this moment, recalled the scene of lying on the bed when he broke his finger, and the thin figure who gritted his teeth and carried himself on his back didn't know if he could see it again in this life. Yu Han's fist hidden in the futon clenched even tighter.
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The moon was slightly revealed, the sound of horses' hooves gradually dispersed, and a large number of family members and soldiers moved to the direction of the dock with the fleet, but there were still several squads searching in the bamboo forest, and there were no soldiers stationed near the prison anymore.
The sharp cry of an eagle came from the sky and spread throughout the island, and there was only one place left that seemed to have never heard it. In the underground cave**, except for the dull breathing of the two of them, there was no sound coming out. Zhi Ning and Shi Lu were still sitting silent, in the conversation between Liu Sheng and the soldiers not long ago.
After being silent for a long time, a crazy laugh suddenly came out of Shi Lu's mouth: "Mushan, Mushan, you despicable villain died like this?" You have calculated that you have been the king and hegemonic on this island for several years, and you are so stupid as to sneak attack the king of Han? In the end, it was the brains of the Dongying people, who didn't know that half of the Ming Dynasty was defeated by the King of Han when the Ming Dynasty was martyred, and there would be few secret guards around him to protect him? Do you think that if you use a few children to stimulate King Han a little, you will mess up your mind? You're relieved to die, what can I do with my antidote? The old immortal thing, do you still want to pull me when you die? As he spoke, snot and tears were already flowing down alternately, and there was a little whimper in his voice.
The sound was so abrupt in the empty night.
"What do you say, master... How could he let Eleven provoke King Han. Master, he knows that Eleven is my brother's. Zhining, who was almost in a coma due to the pain of losing his relatives, suddenly heard Shi Lu's shouting, and his brain suddenly sobered up.
"You think he took you in as an apprentice because he was sincere, but I just didn't want to demolish him. You naΓ―ve fool to believe him? Why do you think you're coming to see me? Why did your brother suddenly go crazy in front of His Royal Highness the King of Han, even though his injury was almost healing? By the way, have you heard that Dongying people also celebrate the New Year? Hehe, buy people's hearts. Shi Lu raised his face buried between his legs slightly, and said with a sneer.
Zhi Ning heard Shi Lu speak, and the wariness that had gradually disappeared towards Mushan in the past year suddenly came to his mind again: I said why didn't Eleven get on the boat, is it really the master, no, Mushan he ...... No, but Eleven's madness is almost cured, how did Mushan know that Eleven would get sick at that time, could it be ......
In the coming days, Zhi Ning endured too much panic and grief, and after a few days, she suddenly found that there seemed to be no one around her who could be trusted.
She was silent.
There was a long silence in the dark cavern.
When the night was approaching, Shi Lu, who had already seemed a little anxious, once again broke the silence, he shrunk and moved in the direction of Zhining, checked the rope on Zhining's body, turned around and took out a water cylinder from his backpack and poured a few mouthfuls into his mouth, chewed the dried meat in the package in his mouth a few bites, and swallowed it all in his stomach.
I only heard him say to Zhining: "Little girl, since Mushan is dead, it's useless for me to keep you, but for the sake of your two relatives who died in one day, Lord Ben will be kind enough to leave you first." If I wait to find the antidote, maybe I will let you go as soon as I feel good, but if I can't find the antidote, hum, Lord Ben has to be a merry ghost before he dies, I heard that you are the leader of the step girls? The skills of that job should be very good. As he spoke, Shi Lu reached out and touched Zhi Ning's face. Climb towards the hole with a long exhale like a cheer up.
In the darkness, only a few clicks were heard, and a faint light shone in through the entrance of the cave. Looking up from the entrance of the cave, it turned out to be against the wall of the table where Zhining was resting in the morning. It turned out that this secret hole was made in the floor of the bedroom in the house, so it is no wonder that the soldiers did not find anything when they searched it.
At this time, there were several sounds of heavy objects being moved on the ground, and Shi Lu's low voice came from above: "Little girl, I have crushed the entrance of the cave to death, don't bother to run out in vain, wait for me to come back." There was a soft push on the door, and the silence began again.
The silence lasted for less than half a tea time, and the eyes of Zhi Ning, who had a muddy appearance in the cave, suddenly brightened. The Witch of Steps? Zhi Ning pursed her chapped lips. But his mind was spinning rapidly. I thought that I could change after I was reborn, and it turned out that the aura of the protagonist in many novels I read in my previous life did not exist, and the tragic fate finally befell me, and even the wood spirit who I thought was inconspicuous was a chess piece on this chessboard, and her last kindness was completely spilled. There is no one around who can be trusted, and fortunately, no one will let themselves be deceived. King Han, Yu Han, you are waiting for me to give you all the punishment you deserve, no matter what the reason for Eleven was killed, I will not let any of you brutes go.
Shilu still doesn't know ninjas in the end, and Zhi Ning, who has been practicing for a year, has already brought several kunai with him, although the kunai in his arms just now has been searched, but the kunai that has been hidden on his ankle for a long time has not been discovered. Zhi Ning braced his shoulders hard, the rope on his body was indeed much looser than at the beginning, and the flexible physique of a year's cultivation was in use at this time.
Zhi Ning curled up, using a strange posture similar to yoga: her neck was close to the ground, her legs were bent towards the top of the cave and she was close to her chest, slowly supporting her head, her legs were tense and gradually approaching the hands tied in front of her chest, the dark and narrow space in the cave and the strange posture squeezed her sweat so much that she was about to drip back into her eyes, she took a deep breath, leaned back hard, and became, two fingers had been twisted to the mouth of the rope. With a strong pull, the knot was opened, and all the ropes that had been tied to his body for half a day fell to the ground.
Zhi Ning crawled forward a few times, moved his body slightly, and crawled towards the entrance of the cave as he had just learned.
She crawled less than two meters with her body hunched, her head had touched the wall, she reached out and groped left and right on the wall, and felt a depression less than three inches deep less than ten inches from the ground. You can stand up straight, and this should be the passage where you can go up. She stepped on the hollow in the wall with her right foot, and her left foot probed the wall a few times, and found a place where she could put her foot, which was somewhat similar to the cellar in the countryside. Stepping up, I vaguely saw a swarthy ring-shaped object, which was the handle of the hole. Zhi Ning couldn't help but be overjoyed.
But her optimism did not last, the iron plate on the roof of the cave was buckled under the ring, and although Shi Lu had not closed it when he left, she could not push away the weight pressed on it by exerting force from the bottom up. Zhi Ning was very anxious, it had taken a lot of time to break free from the rope just now, and he saw that Guo Ming might be coming back.
Zhi Ning slowly retreated to the place where Guo Ming was sitting just now, and picked up the dough cake in the backpack by the faint moonlight from the gap, and ate and drank the small piece of beef quickly.
When the time came, there was a sound of footsteps in the complete silence of the night, and the sound of footsteps mixed with the wind would have been almost inaudible if it had not been for the fact that they were underground. When the footsteps came to the front of the house where Zhi Ning was, the man hesitated in front of the door for a long time before gently pushing the door open.
The sound of heavy objects moving on the ground sounded, and the hole in the ground was opened again. Shi Lu probe looked inside, and there was almost nothing to see in the dark cavern. "Little girl, little girl." There was no answer from the cave, "Are you asleep?" It's really heartless. Shi Lu asked himself.
Perhaps it was the joy of finding the antidote from Kiyama's residence that made him relax his vigilance and jump into the cave, gently closing the iron plate on the top of the cave.
In the darkness, Shi Lu slowly groped forward, wondering in his heart: it is said that the girl who whispered from above should have heard it, even if she slept soundly and opened the hole. Could it be that her relatives could fall asleep so heartless just after she died? Could it be that you're going to attack me? Thinking of this, Shi Lu moved a little slower. The ramp that he climbed with his head down was not far, and when he climbed to the place where Zhining was tied just now, Shi Lu was slightly startled, and sure enough, this girl was no longer here. The weight at the entrance of the cave had obviously not moved, and the girl should still be inside.
Thinking of this, Shi Lu called softly to the depths of the cave: "Little girl, I know you can't get out of it, but you have something to say." β
There was still no answer in the cave. Guo Ming held his breath, and the cave was so quiet that he really couldn't hear the second person's breathing.
Could it be that the girl ran away? Shi Lu was suspicious for a while. The subordinates unconsciously sped up and climbed a few steps forward. I was about to climb out of the low road.
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew in his face in the dark, and he saw a figure at the low road crossing swinging his fist at him, Shi Lu can be a guard is naturally not incompetent, he subconsciously lowered his head to avoid the boxing, and grabbed forward with his right hand, only to see that the figure immediately took half a step back after a blow, and Shi Lu, who was leaning on the ground, rushed forward with the force of his fist. Half of his body was almost about to burst out of the low crossing.
"I knew you weren't a good girl." Shi Lu squinted his eyes, looked at the thin figure by the moonlight, and hurriedly pulled his hands out.
The black figure seemed to know that it would be difficult to fight if the punch just missed, and his hands were crossed in front of his chest to protect, but his body slowly retreated.
This was the moment to get out of the low hole, and she took two more steps back and I could get out safely. Teacher Discipline Heart.
"Little girl, fortunately I searched the dagger on your body (he thought it was a dagger) Otherwise, I would not be able to bear it if I asked you to give it to me in this low road." Shi Lu smiled pitifully.
"You, don't come here, I still have weapons." The figure's weak voice threatened, but it sounded full of coloring and stubble to Shi Lu's ears.
"And weapons, you should take them out. The little girl still gives me heart, you are still tender. β
The trembling of the faceless figure was already evident in the darkness, and the whining sound in her throat was probably about to cry. I saw that the figure shook and quickly took a few steps back.
Shi Lu saw the figure take two steps back through the faint light in the gap, and his hands were on the ground to come out of the low passage. His head was fully protruding from the hole, when he suddenly felt a chill on his neck, as if he were entangled in something. He wanted to step back, but the slender noose was already around his neck. Fooled.
Damn, I didn't think where that bundle of rope went.
"I didn't expect you to become my prisoner so soon." As he spoke, the figure in the darkness took two steps forward, and the figure that appeared in the glimmer was Zhining. Zhi Ning raised his hand to make a pulling motion, and a feeling of suffocation came from Shi Li's neck. At this time, half of his body was already outside the cave, but he was still standing diagonally in the cave from the waist down to support his body. Both hands can only hold the hole so that the neck can not be pulled up higher.
"Little girl, what do you want?" Shi Lu had some difficulty breathing in his neck, and asked with pain.
"Do as I say, or I'll cut your neck right now." I'll loosen the noose around your neck a little bit, and you tie your hands on yourself. Let's talk about the rest. β
"I, how can I tie my hands myself? Otherwise, come and tie me up." Shi Lu, whose face had begun to turn purple, gasped for breath.
"That's your own business, I'll only say it once. Then. "A half-length rope was thrown into his hand in the darkness.
Shi Lu, who was breathless and almost vomited, couldn't think about it anymore at the moment, and quickly tied his hands together. But at this time, the body that had lost the support of his hands could no longer support it, and he fell to the ground in an instant. Zhi Ning, who was in the dark, immediately jumped up when he saw this, raised his elbow and waved it at Shi Lu's face.
Shi Lugang, who lost the pressure on his neck in an instant, felt his breathing go smoothly, and his consciousness slowly woke up, but his face had been hit by Zhi Ning. His nose was sore, and the blood in it was flowing like water. But at this time, Shi Lu didn't care about wiping the blood, and his hands pulled the untied rope indiscriminately, and his body hurriedly shrank back. At the same time, the right hand had begun to reach into his bosom to find a dagger to cut the rope around his neck. I saw that a lot of the things he was carrying in his arms had fallen off when he was busy groping, but fortunately, he finally found the dagger.
When he was about to cut the rope, Zhining's feet were already in front of his face again. Bang kicked Shi Lu in the face again, and he screamed in pain, but he always cut the rope on his hand. Seeing that the second kick was about to come again, Shi Lu hurriedly protected his face and shrank into the low road. It's funny that in a panic, he even took off his coat upside down.
As everyone knows, this is exactly what Zhi Ning wants, and what Ling Shilu didn't expect, but this kick was not aimed at his face. I saw Zhi Ning make a virtual kick. Taking advantage of Shi Lu's subconscious dodge, a bow under his foot has hooked all the things that Shi Lu fell to the ground, along with his coat, into the hole.
Taking advantage of the fact that this kung fu master used both hands and feet, he climbed upside down and climbed out of the low road.
"Little girl, you are ruthless enough, but Lao Tzu still ran out, and now you are trapped inside, see how Lao Tzu cleans you up." The extremely angry Shi Lu took a mouthful of phlegm and scolded viciously.
"Oh, is it? So what do you see what this is? Zhi Ning held an object high in his hand. But there was a gleam in his eyes.