All the way through the tunnel, until the exit from the city smoothly escaped did not encounter any danger, but the direction of the royal city behind him was brightly lit, and even the four watchtowers outside the city were lit with torches for alarm. Obviously, the city already knew about the theft of the gold bricks at this time, and was mobilizing all forces to search for it. It's just that the Zhao people don't know that they have left the city, and they are closing the city gate and searching everywhere in the city.

The reaction of the Zhao people helped God bless them, the city gate was closed, and the pursuers were locked in the city, but they could swagger away.

A few hours later, the courtyard with tunnels in King Zhao's city was finally discovered. No matter how weak the Zhao State is, it is an independent kingdom after all, and it still has considerable control over this acre and three points of land within its own royal city. However, it was too late for them to find out, and it had been four hours since God blessed them to leave the city. Not to mention the spirit ride, at the speed of an ordinary chariot and horse, four hours is enough to run a long distance.

"The King. In King Zhao's palace, a general broke into the main hall in a hurry, and without waiting for King Zhao to ask, he clasped his fists and saluted, and then said: "The question is out." ”

"Oh?" King Zhao stood up from his seat and asked sharply, "Tell me, what did you ask?"

"Back to the king, those people are just ordinary people who have taken money, and they really don't know much. The ministers had already used the punishment, but they had only gotten some fragmentary information. After consolidation, it is now possible to determine that the total number of thieves should be 30, of which only two are men, and the rest are all women. It is said that these people are all monks, and most of them do not follow the right path when they come and go, and they climb over the walls of their houses as if they were walking on the ground. In addition, based on the speech accents of these people, it can be concluded that this is a group of Qin people. However, it seems that there is a young man who is a native of my Zhao Kingdom, and he should have lived in the local area for at least a while, and he is very familiar with the various low-grade ways in the city. ”

"Qin people?" Although King Zhao was weak and stupid, he was not really stupid, and he keenly grasped the point.

A person dressed as a civil official next to him also immediately stood up and arched his hand: "King." The thieves are Qin people, and after stealing the gold bricks, they will inevitably be transported to the Qin State. The thieves can't teleport the gold bricks, and they can't be determined at this time. At this time, it is only necessary to order someone to block the pass, block the road for the Qin people to enter the neutral zone, and then send a strong force from Wangcheng to search and pursue in the direction of the border pass along the way, so that the front and back interception will definitely capture the thief in one fell swoop. ”

"Well, that's a great plan. But Aiqing, who do you think should lead this pursuing team?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister has a nephew, Qi Changbai, who is under the gate of the Bingyan Palace, and his cultivation is the leader of the younger generation, and he should be established as the commander-in-chief. ”

Another civil official on the side stood up at this time and said, "Doctor Qi, although my nephew has a good cultivation, he has no experience in leading the army, would it be a little too hasty to entrust him with such a heavy task?"

King Zhao, who was at the top, also nodded and hesitated a little when he heard this, but the one who spoke before immediately said, "This is easy to do." Qin Mo, the former garrison general of Taimiao, actually let the thief take away the gold bricks from under his nose this time, the crime is heavy, and he should be severely punished. But this is exactly the time when our dynasty is employing people, and we should order them to make meritorious contributions and assist Qichang in recovering the gold bricks. ”

As soon as these words came out, King Zhao immediately nodded with satisfaction.

"Not bad, not bad. I still have some impressions of Qi Chang's child, he is indeed young and promising. General Qin is also a rare talent, although he made a mistake this time, it is a pity not to leave it alone. This time, he ordered these two people to be the leaders, and the handsome people immediately set off to pursue the thieves of the Qin State who stole the gold bricks, and they were determined to recover the gold bricks. ”

"Minister, obey the order. ”......

There seem to be a few people below who have opinions, but King Zhao's words have already been spoken, and it is not this time to refute them, so if they have opinions, they have to accept this arrangement for the time being.

......

At a tea stall a hundred miles away from King Zhao's City, a galloping horse team roared past with billowing smoke and dust, and then suddenly turned around in front of it and came back. The leader threw down the ingots and cried out, "Fill up the water, and bring us something to eat." As he spoke, a bunch of water bags were thrown down.

The old man in the tea shed quickly collected the money, and together with a pair of young men and women beside him, he took the water bag on the table to add water, and an old woman in the back hurriedly came out and asked: "Guest officer, there are only some steamed buns, steamed buns and tea eggs in the small shop, I don't know if it's feasible?"

The people on the horse couldn't see their faces clearly with their hats, but the family of four in the tea stall didn't have any suspicions, because the people who passed by were basically dressed like this. Zhao Guo is not like other countries, there is a lot of wind and sand here, and there is no way to ride long distances without bringing some dust-proof things.

"Yes, give us two eggs and a bun each. When the words fell, the rider turned to the people behind him and shouted, "You have to hurry, don't eat too much, you will vomit." ”

Dahai, who was about to complain that there was not enough to eat, immediately swallowed back the words that came to his lips. At this time, the old woman was embarrassed again: "Guest officer, there are not so many eggs in the shop, and there are not enough buns!"

"Then take as much as you want, move fast, don't delay any longer. ”

"Yes, yes, yes. The old woman promised to return to the tea shed.

Of course, this group of people is God Bless. Coming out of King Zhao City, a group of people rode spirit horses and galloped here overnight, the speed was not very fast, but it was not slow either. After all, this is not a highway on Earth, and a spirit bike is not a motorcycle.

"Benefactor, can't we stop and rest?" Hu Qingxuan, who was sitting behind Tianyou, took off his hat with a tulle and deliberately begged in a delicate voice, causing the young man in the tea shed to look straight in the eyes, and he didn't hurriedly withdraw his gaze until he was slapped by the old man next to him.

"No, I can't. Tianyou refused very simply. "We're not here to travel, so there's no time to delay. As he spoke, he shouted at the people in the tea shed: "Move faster." ”

The old man hurriedly agreed, filled the water bag with his son and daughter-in-law and handed it to these people, and then helped the old woman to distribute the buns and eggs to everyone. Tianyou, who was riding on the horse, did not get off the horse from beginning to end, and after taking the things, he immediately galloped away with a shout, and disappeared in the mountain pass in front of him in the blink of an eye.

Away from the tea shed, Tianyou, who was the head, suddenly slowed down his horse, and then said to everyone: "Eat the eggs first, and throw the eggshells on the road." ”

Although I don't know why, everyone who has already started peeling eggshells still does the same, and throws the freshly peeled eggshells on the road, and immediately leaves a lot of peeled eggshells along the way.

After eating the eggs, Tianyou quickly swallowed the bun in his hand and said to the others: "Get off the horse, put away the spirit horse, and go up the mountain." ”

"Huh?" the crowd did as they were, though they were a little confused. Tianyou has already emphasized that he will have absolute command along the way. There was no such hypocrisy among the group of people brought out, and although they had doubts, they still carried out Tianyou's orders efficiently.

After the crowd dismounted, they immediately entered the mountain forest on the side of the road, Tianyou pointed out the direction to let them go first, and he stayed at the end to remove all the traces they left, and finally sprinkled some loess prepared at some unknown time, and then escaped into the mountain forest.

The group of people with Bai Bingyu moved in the mountains, but the speed was not much slower. Tianyou and his entourage are either monks or monsters, and even those wolf soldiers have a certain cultivation foundation, and there are no ordinary people, not to mention that it is a mountain forest but not a primeval forest like Qingyuan Mountain, but just a small mountain with a small number of drought-tolerant plants.

It took the team an hour to climb the small mountain and then return to the road on the other side of the mountain. It was already very strange to suddenly change the route halfway, and what surprised Bai Bingyu and Zhao Lingyun even more was that Tianyou actually dragged out three carriages from a hidden cave, and even the horses that pulled the carriage had been prepared in advance.

"This ...... When did you prepare?" Zhao Lingyun asked in surprise as she touched the carriage, which was not bad.

Tianyou quickly took out two sets of clothes from the carriage, threw one of them to Dang Hai, and said, "When I was in the black market before, didn't I go out for a spin? Okay, don't worry about this." There are clothes on the carriage, you go to the cave and change them. The sea, come with me, let's go over there to change. You have come out and called us when you are done. ”

A group of women entered this small cave that was not deep in surprise, and sure enough, they found a lot of clothes in the carriage, and it was obviously the one that Tang Guo was wearing, and they were actually sent here. Because it was worn before, everyone quickly found their own set to put on, and the speed was naturally not slow.

After everyone changed their clothes, Tianyou was called back, and he also brought a lot of dry firewood. This thing is all over the mountains, and with this dry environment, dry firewood is extremely easy to find.

Under the command of Tianyou, everyone threw all the previous coats into the hole, then pressed them with dry firewood, and then took out a jar from their bodies, supported a tripod with three pieces of wood, fixed the jar on the shelf, tied twine on one of the supporting woods, pulled the other end all the way to the entrance of the cave, made an elastic mechanism with a few pieces of wood, and finally covered the twine and this small mechanism with a bow buckle with floating soil.

The huge sea looked at Tianyou busy but didn't know what he was doing, but they didn't disturb him to work. Fortunately, Tianyou quickly finished his work, and then explained it himself, which made everyone understand that this is a trap that will explode as long as someone walks by.

After a brief explanation, Tianyou began to direct everyone to act.

"Bingyu, Bingqian, Senior Sister Zhao, you get into the carriage in front. Frost, snow, and dew are the last one you go to, and Qingxuan you and Qi Xiaomei and Hu Niu are on the middle car. After speaking, he turned to the group of wolf soldiers: "You pick three people here to come out to catch the car, and the identity of the others is guards, so you can act if you understand." ”

Soon everyone pedaled, and Tianyou made some camouflage to the surrounding environment after the team went on the road, the speed of action along the way was not fast, after all, it was a carriage, even if it was pulled by two horses, it could not be compared with the spirit horse, fortunately, the trot was not really slow.

After a while, the people in the car finally noticed that something was wrong. Zhao Lingyun lifted the curtain and asked Tianyou: "Where are we going? Why do I feel that the direction is not right?"

"Well, that's right, we're on our way to Song now. ”

"Song Guo, aren't you going to the neutral zone?" A few more heads stuck out of the carriage in front, obviously everyone was concerned about this issue.

Tianyou simply explained it to everyone. "It's because everyone thinks we're going to the neutral zone that I don't go this way. Although we ran out of the royal city without knowing the sky and the sea, so we bought a few more hours, it was impossible for us to run past the encirclement and interception of Zhao State. We have gold bricks with us, and we can't use teleportation, but the pursuers have no such restrictions, they will inevitably set up an ambush in front of us to intercept us, and there will be a large number of pursuers in the rear. Unless we have the ability to run out of the scope of Zhao Kingdom within a few hours, we must face these things. ”

Everyone nodded after hearing this, after all, there is a teleportation array in the Shenzhou Continent, and these people can't outrun the teleportation array by relying on spirit horses alone.

Tianyou continued: "If we alone forget it, I naturally have a way to take everyone through the level, but we still have gold bricks." As you all know, gold bricks can be found by monks and special circles, and even if they are hidden, it is useless, so as long as the other party knows where we are going to pass by, it will be difficult for us to escape.

However, the monks who can find the gold bricks can only be a few people who have learned special spells, and this spell is quite difficult and has a single function, so even if Zhao Guo cheats, there will never be many people. As for that kind of formation, it is even more difficult to make and expensive, and the number is also very rare.

To put it simply, there are not many people and magic circles who can find gold bricks, and Zhao's pursuers will inevitably not be able to spread these people and magic circles everywhere, and can only concentrate on possible routes and key points. ”

"Ah, I see. Bai Bingqian said: "So Zhao Guoren thought that we would go to the neutral zone, and they would inevitably send the people who could find the gold bricks and the magic circle to the front checkpoint to check the passers-by, maybe there were even people patrolling the mountain." But as long as we don't take this line, it is impossible for Zhao Guo to put this kind of inspection power on all levels. We can easily get by. ”

Tianyou nodded. "That's right, that's what it means. ”

"But isn't it more dangerous to go to the Song Kingdom?" Zhao Lingyun asked: "The national strength of the Song Kingdom is stronger than that of the Zhao Kingdom, and there must be more props for monks and inspections, so won't we be easier to find out at that time?"

Tianyou didn't answer directly, but asked with a smile: "Is there any theft of the gold bricks of the Song Kingdom?"

Zhao Lingyun shook her head, and then suddenly realized: "I understand." The gold bricks of the Song Kingdom have not been lost yet, so they will not send out these people and the formation used for inspection, but will all gather near the Taimiao Temple, in case the gold bricks are stolen, they can immediately track them down along the way, right?"

Tianyou nodded affirmatively this time and said, "That's right, so as long as these golden bricks of ours don't enter the Song King City, there is nothing to worry about." Of course, we can't just swagger and pass by. Although Zhao Guo will not place inspectors or magic circles everywhere, most of all levels will have one or two basic existences just in case. Therefore, we still have to be careful to pass through the mountains and forests, and not directly cross the border. Whether it is the Zhao State or the Song State, it should not be possible to arrange too many defenses in this non-key direction, at least in the mountains and forests. ”

After listening to Tianyou's explanation, everyone felt that it was very reasonable, so they no longer doubted. However, Tianyou still made up a set of rhetoric with everyone, at least when someone investigates, they must find out the relationship between everyone, as well as where they come from and where they are going. Even Tianyou has forged several sets of spare parts in advance to prevent all kinds of accidents. Of course, if you really want to meet a certain level of official, most of the forged road guides will not be able to be fooled, but that kind of person will not come out and hang around.

Everything was going on in an orderly manner on Tianyou's side, although the speed was not fast, but it went smoothly towards the border of Song and Zhao, and it was smooth. However, on the other side, Zhao Guo's pursuers were not so peaceful.

Qi Chang and Qin Mo quickly led the order to go out on the expedition, and chased them out with a group of selected young monks and good soldiers in the army.

According to King Zhao's will before, they first arranged for some personnel to teleport to the border checkpoint with a magic circle that could detect the gold bricks, and then laid a net and waited for God to bless them to get in. At the same time, a team of men was sent from the border checkpoint, with two monks who could spot the gold bricks, along the road from the border to the direction of the royal city.

However, although it was quickly resolved on the border side, there was a contradiction between Qi Chang and Qin Mo on the Wangcheng side.

"Those people don't run away immediately after they get the gold bricks, do they still plan to live with us?" Qi Chang looked at Qin Mo with a foolish look and asked rhetorically.

Qin Mo explained neither humbly nor arrogantly: "Young Master Qi, the last general doesn't mean that they didn't leave......

Qin Mo was interrupted by Qi Chang before he finished speaking, "Since they have already left, what are we searching for?

"But we can't be sure where they're going!" Qin Mo argued, "We only know that the other party has left the royal city, but since these people will use the rat path to enter and exit the royal city, we can know that this is a group of extremely cunning people. There is no guarantee that they will not change course and flee from other places. If we blindly follow the wrong direction, won't we delay a great opportunity?

Taking a step back, the border direction has already laid a net anyway, and even if we don't chase it, sooner or later they will throw themselves into the net, and for us it is just a difference between a few days earlier and a few days later, so why bother?"

Qi Chang was born in a big family, and he is indeed talented and intelligent, and he is a cultivation wizard, so whether it is at home or in the sect, he has heard praise and praise from others since he was a child. Although he didn't learn badly because of his strict family education, he still developed a proud temperament. However, after all, he is not the kind of waste wood with a muddy brain, and he knows some priorities.

Qin Mo analyzed the reason why he opposed Qi Chang's order to pursue immediately, Qi Chang didn't have to twist it in a hot mind, but thought about it for a while, and after feeling that what Qin Mo said was indeed reasonable, he also accepted this suggestion.

Qin Mo thought that the other party was going to make trouble for a while, or in the end, he forcibly asked to start the pursuit immediately, but he didn't expect it to be so simple to agree. While feeling a little relieved, he immediately began to send people around to investigate.

The local officers and soldiers wanted to go all out to track down something, and the speed was naturally fast, and in less than half a day, they had already found out their whereabouts, but this result made Qin Mo's face very ugly. It's not because this result is taken for granted, but because Qi Chang and a group of people around him are giving him a face.

Originally, the group of monks under Qi Chang who had delayed them for half a day were already very dissatisfied, but now that the results came out, it proved that what they had done in the past half day was useless, and these people were naturally even more indignant. Even Qi Chang, who had behaved fairly sensibly before, couldn't help but say Qin Mo a few words.

"Look, I'll just say it's good to chase it directly, it's a long time to delay, and I don't know if I can catch up with those thieves!"

Despite some internal problems, the team is at least functional. The group did not begin the pursuit until noon, and then found no trace along the way.

Tianyou has the existence of a high-altitude reconnaissance plane, Mocking Wind, and can always deliberately avoid the convoy along the way. The transportation of the Shenzhou Continent is inconvenient, and many people have never walked out of a radius of fifty miles in their lives. Zhao itself was weak, and commerce was not developed, so caravans and travelers walking on the road were even rarer. God bless them to take the initiative to avoid, and naturally they can force all pedestrians and travelers along the way. And the result of this arrangement is...... The more Qi Chang and Qin Mo chased after each other, the more they felt that something was wrong.

"Strange. If those people leave along the main road, it doesn't make sense that no one along the way will find them?" Qin Mo asked people to ask every traveler and caravan they met along the way, but the result was nothing. No one has discovered the existence of God Bless their team.

"It can't be. "Some people are starting to wonder if something is wrong.

Although Qin Mo was also puzzled, he still felt that he should chase after him. Qi Chang's side was a little shaken, but in the end he decided to continue chasing, so they chased all the way to the tea shed.

"Hahahaha, sure enough, I said they couldn't have disappeared out of thin air. Qi Chang, who had finally discovered the clue, was very happy, but Qin Mo was a little worried.

Riding a tall beast version of the spirit horse, Qi Chang's high-spirited sword pointed ahead. "Chase me, those guys can't run away. ”

"Wait. Qin Mo spoke up to stop the team's pursuit.

"Qin Mo, what are you going to do?" Most of the people who followed Qi Chang were also sons and brothers with extraordinary family backgrounds, and they had long looked at Qin Mo unpleasantly. Coupled with the contradictions in the morning, they who were in a hurry to make meritorious contributions were stopped by Qin Mo, and they naturally became angry.

Qin Mo was unmoved, just looked at Qi Chang and explained: "The other party was so careful along the way, deliberately avoiding all the travels, why did he appear here and communicate with the people in the tea shed?" Qin Mo raised his own question.

Before Qi Chang could speak, someone next to him immediately said: "Are you stupid? Didn't you listen to what the old man said? Those people have run out of water, so they can replenish their water here and eat something by the way." They ran out of the royal city last night, and they must have run desperately along the way, and they felt that they had run far away, so they naturally had to stop and rest for a while. What else is there to doubt about this?"

"But isn't that weird?"

"What's so strange?" everyone looked at Qin Mo with disdain, waiting for his explanation.

Qin Mo turned a blind eye to everyone's disdainful gaze, and still said: "These people know how to use the rat path to enter and exit the royal city, and after many inquiries in the city in advance, they have figured out the time of our patrol shifts, and they have also specially chosen a foggy night operation according to the celestial phenomena. After leaving the royal city, he acted in concealment all the way, and so many people passed by along the way, but no one found this team. This shows that these people not only have the consciousness of hiding themselves, but also have a strong ability to disguise and conceal. But isn't it strange that such a group of people should swagger and openly supply water and food to this tea stall in a very obvious location?"

"What's so strange about this, maybe they were in a hurry and happened to find the tea shed so they came over to replenish the water?"

"It's also possible that they felt far enough away from the royal city, so they let their guard down. ”

The people brought by Qi Chang began to speak word by word, but not everyone took this matter for granted, at least Qi Chang himself was not so optimistic. However, most of the people he brought with him didn't think it was strange, and since they were able to find traces of thieves here, it meant that the pursuit was in the right direction. If it was just because of some of Qin Mo's suspicions, it would be even more strange to overreact. However, Qi Chang didn't intend to ignore it, but took the initiative to ask Qin Mo.

"So what do you say is going on, and what are we going to do about it?"

Qin Mo originally felt that something was wrong, but he didn't have a clue what the problem was. Suddenly, don't ask like this, it's a little stuck, and after hesitating for a while, I can only shake my head and say, "I don't know." I just think that these people are weird, but it is a little strange to suddenly boldly expose themselves. ”

When Qi Chang heard that this guy was just speculating, he immediately said angrily: "You don't have the idea of talking nonsense? Quick, everyone get on their horses, and we continue the pursuit. ”

In fact, with the temper of these nobles, Qi Chang is already magnanimous. It is natural to whip him with a bad temper, not to mention just a scolding, it is not even a scolding. Qin Mo also knew that his grassroots without roots could not be as knowledgeable as these dignitaries, and his life over the years had already made him understand the truth of enduring a moment of calm and taking a step back.

The team quickly got back on the road, and after a short walk, they found the eggshell peeled off by the roadside, so someone pointed to the eggshell and began to count Qin Mo's no, but everyone was in a hurry, and it was not easy to talk during the gallop of Pegasus, and everyone who didn't want to drink the northwest wind didn't hold on to Qin Mo, but the speed became faster and faster.

Qin Mo fell behind the team alone, and when he passed by the place where God blessed them into the mountain, he still felt that he had crossed the horse, but after all, he still couldn't see anything wrong. looked up at the team that was about to disappear in front of him, and finally had no choice but to chase after him.

At this time, Qin Mo and Qi Chang didn't know what they had just missed, but soon they would regret it.