Chapter 13 - Darkness Chencang

Listening to Mocha's words, a slight smile appeared on Liu Xun's round face. At the same time, his right hand stroked his long beard, which hung down to his chest. With a victor's expression, he beckoned Mocha to sit down, and he continued to introduce the third reward that His Majesty had entrusted to him. He didn't bother with Mocha anymore, and in his opinion, the Yue people were no threat at all. He didn't need to bother to curry favor with a down-and-out Yue prince.

Liu Xun didn't feel that there was anything wrong with him talking like this. Ever since he learned Mocha's identity, his whole body had become proud. So he didn't continue to talk to Mocha. Instead, he looked at Mocha in a victorious manner, pursed his lips slightly, and continued to introduce the last reward of His Majesty the Emperor in a posture of victory.

Xia Qing and Feng Baiyi's gaze did not shift back from Mocha's body, when they saw Mocha's face blue and white for a while, and his expression changed uncertainly. Xia Qing and Feng Baiyi leisurely discovered something. They saw Mocha's fists clenched silently there, his eyes hiding murderous intent in his eyes.

Liu Xun didn't see Mocha's expression, and he didn't care about it. Liu Xun turned around and lifted the red silk that was covering the last piece of reward with his right hand. The voice said with some excitement: "This is His Majesty's last reward, and even I can't help but blush when I talk about this reward."

With a loud bang, a man in silver armor who looked like a guard rushed in from outside the exhibition hall, and then fell to the ground, he staggered to Liu Xun's feet, muttering these unclear words in his mouth. This Ouchi guard not only attracted the attention and attention of everyone in the exhibition hall, but also interrupted Liu Xun's words of praise for His Majesty the Emperor.

"What's the matter? What kind of system is Zhang Cheng in such a panic?" Liu Xun looked at the Ouchi guard who was prostrate on the ground under his feet, and Liu Xun guessed that something might happen. So he held back the contempt in his heart and asked in a deep voice.

The Ouchi guard lying on the ground raised his head and replied with a trembling voice: "Lord Liu Xun, something is wrong!

"What!" Liu Xun froze instantly when he heard the news, and then an imperceptible smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he hurriedly waved his hand and called out to the guards who were still standing there: "You guys go and put out the fire! I'll be there later!"

Ten heavily armed Ouchi guards immediately bowed down and replied, "Yes!" and left the exhibition hall on the eighth floor as fast as they could. Follow the stairs all the way up to the sixteenth floor.

Liu Xun looked at the figures of the guards who had all left, then turned around and said to all the people in the exhibition hall with a slight apology: "Everyone, I'm sorry. There was a situation of water walking on the sixteenth floor of Yunsheng Juxian Building, and it may not be possible to continue this auction. Please go back to your residence and wait for the situation to change. I'm sorry to all of you, I'm sorry!" Liu Xun bowed slightly, and lifted the curtain in front of everyone.

Looking at Liu Xun's departing figure, some of the Jiangnan heroes who were originally sitting in the exhibition hall and the visitors who came to visit looked at each other. I don't know exactly what I found.

Xia Qing looked at the figure of Liu Xun and the guards leaving in a hurry, and what lingered in her heart was the smile that Liu Xun had after hearing the news. It stands to reason that Liu Xun, who was given the temporary management of Yunsheng Juxian Tower, should not have a smile after getting the news. Xia Qing had some doubts in his heart, and then turned his head and asked Feng Baiyi, who was still sitting next to him, in a low voice, "Senior brother, do you think there is something wrong with Liu Xun's expression?"

Feng Baiyi was also thinking about this question, and he was also slightly stunned when he heard Xia Qing's question. Then he replied with relief: "It's not a secret, junior sister, I just found out about Liu Xun's unusual behavior, but I don't know what he is thinking and doing." Senior sister, what do you think?" Although Feng Baiyi thought of some possibilities in his heart, when Xia Qing asked this question, he still felt that he had to consider Xia Qing's thoughts first.

Xia Qing smiled slightly, with a hint of joy on his face. "Senior brother, I think, let's go and take a look, we may see more clues, maybe this is something that Liu Xun secretly arranged"

Feng Baiyi nodded, he also thought of this possibility. So the two of them took advantage of the fact that others were still there, and secretly left the exhibition hall on the eighth floor of Yunsheng Juxian Building. Following the footsteps of Liu Xun and the Ouchi guards leaving, he followed the stairs all the way to the sixteenth floor of the Yunsheng Juxian Tower.

Feng Baiyi and Xia Qing had not yet reached the sixteenth floor, and they smelled a faint smell of smoke and gunpowder on the fourteenth floor. At the same time, the two of them looked up, and when they watched, they saw a stream of wood with red flames falling from their heads. This piece of wood with red flames on it seemed to be aimed at Xia Qing's head and smashed down directly.

"Be careful!" Feng Baiyi's eyes were sharp, and when he saw that Xia Qing hadn't dodged the wood falling from her head in time, he quickly shouted and then pushed Xia Qing away violently. When Xia Qing was not ready to fly out in an exclamation, he bypassed the burning wood and pulled up Xia Qing who fell to the ground, and the two of them bypassed the wood burning there and stepped on the stairs to continue walking.

Xia Qing's eyes were like water, and he looked at the man in front of him gently. Feng Baiyi didn't say a word, but such a silent action aroused Xia Qing's incomparable gratitude and touch. She couldn't help but clench Feng Baiyi's big hand, which looked a little rough. The woman in Xuanyi shows infinite tenderness.

Feng Baiyi's heart fluttered slightly, but then calmly took Xia Qing's hand and walked up the stairs. The two men walked up the stairs and continued to the fifteenth floor.

As soon as they reached the fifteenth floor, Xia Qing and Feng Baiyi saw the two Ouchi guards guarding the staircase, and the two Ouchi guards were standing on both sides of the stairs with serious expressions. As soon as they saw Xia Qing and Feng Baiyi, the two Ouchi guards immediately pulled out their waist knives and walked up to stop Xia Qing and Feng Baiyi from continuing to advance.

"I'm sorry, but there was a water walk up there. Don't go up! The serious expressions of the two Ouchi guards were not shocked, Xia Qing and Feng Baiyi. On the contrary, they firmly believe in the fact that this fire is definitely not a natural phenomenon, but a phenomenon that is deliberately caused by someone and does not make sense.

Seeing that Xia Qing and Feng Baiyi did not want to leave, the two Ouchi guards immediately put their knives on the necks of Feng Baiyi and Xia Qing, preparing to directly expel the two of them.

Just as they were about to push away Feng Baiyi and Xia Qing, Xia Qing suddenly shook out a bright waist card and held it in front of the two inner guards. Immediately, the two Ouchi guards were shocked on the ground, and the waist knife in their hands was stunned and did not dare to swing it down.

"Isn't this the token of Lord Yu? how can you have it" Obviously, Lord Yu's name is well-known among the Ouchi guards, not only because he is a prince. It's more because he has always used an approachable and good personality when he interacts with Ouchi's guards.

The corners of Xia Qing's mouth raised a comfortable smile, and he said lightly: "I am Xia Qing, Xia Yu's daughter, do you dare to stop me like this?"

As soon as Xia Qing's words came out, not only the two inner guards in front of him were shocked, but even Feng Baiyi was shocked on the ground. Feng Baiyi's eyes burst out with a faint look of disbelief, and he asked in a deep voice, "Senior sister, is this true?"

Xia Qing wiped a smile on her face that was incomprehensible to others, she turned her head to look at Feng Baiyi, and replied lightly: "Senior brother, I'll explain this matter to you slowly later, okay?"

Feng Baiyi was stunned and looked at Xia Qing with some resolute eyes. He could only nod silently and did not speak.

Xia Qing wiped the beads of sweat that were slightly on his head, and calmly said to the two inner guards in front of him: "I was instructed by my father to find Lord Liu Xun. I wonder if Lord Liu Xun can be here?"

"I'm here!" When the two inner guards confirmed that the waist card in Xia Qing's hand was indeed the personal order of Prince Yu, they naturally didn't dare to stop Xia Qing and Feng Baiyi anymore. So the two Ouchi guards hurriedly dodged away, one left and one right. After whispering a reminder to the two of them to be careful of walking through the water, he watched Xia Qing and Feng Baiyi continue to advance towards the sixteenth floor.

Xia Qing and Feng Baiyi stepped on the stairs like sixteen floors to advance. The further they walked, the thicker the flames grew. Xia Qing and Feng Baiyi carefully bypassed the burning wood that had fallen to the ground. Keep moving upwards.

When they arrived on the sixteenth floor, the first thing that caught the eyes of the two of them was more than a dozen Ouchi guards who were holding buckets and fighting the fire in full swing. The sixteenth floor was filled with thick smoke, so that Xia Qing and Feng Baiyi did not find their way for a while. Xia Qing and Feng Baiyi covered their mouths and noses and groped their way on.

"Bang-" sound, in the thick smoke around him, Xia Qing knocked on a fallen piece of wood on his back, and the defenseless Xia Qing directly lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground. Fortunately, Feng Baiyi's reaction was quite agile, and he bypassed the falling wood with an arrow step and helped Xia Qing who fell to the ground.

"Senior sister, be careful" Feng Baiyi helped Xia Qing up, and before he finished his words of comfort, he heard laughter not far ahead, he quickly stopped what he wanted to say and listened attentively. As soon as Xia Qing wanted to say something, Feng Baiyi's fingers covered her mouth. Motioned for her to stop talking for a while.

Xia Qing was held by Feng Baiyi's hand, and she could only listen to the laughter coming from not far away with Feng Baiyi. The laughter in the thick smoke around was eerie.

"Your lord's means are really high, I didn't expect your plan to be so thorough, no one would know that they died like this. It seems that my matter can be successful, please rest assured, once it is done, I will thank my lord!" was accompanied by a whisper of laughter. This voice was not very familiar to Xia Qing, but Feng Baiyi realized the seriousness of the situation the moment he heard this voice.

Then I listened to it, and when I heard the voice of the answer, Feng Baiyi and Xia Qing both heard it, this was the voice of Liu Xun, the chief examiner of this Jiangnan martial arts competition.

"Zhang Xu, let me tell you, it's best not to be too arrogant. If you are too arrogant, you may be seen by others. It's better to take your time in this matter. However, it will be just around the corner. Liu Xun's answer made Xia Qing and Feng Baiyi dumbfounded.

When he heard the name "Zhang Xu", Feng Baiyi couldn't help but secretly clench his fists, his face was solemn, and he said to Xia Qing beside him in a deep voice: "Maybe, this time it is not an accident. It was planned by them, ready to kill the Jiangnan heroes who might threaten Zhang Xu this time. โ€