Chapter 4: The Fantasy of Fortune
On the night of the third day after Jiang Liu'er's disappearance, Shu Twelve chased him alone to the green bamboo forest where Zeng had gone crazy due to the rejection of his eyes, and he saw the corpses of five of the Six Shadow Guards, as well as the corpses of the badgers not far away.
Following a two-foot-wide rolling trail, Shu XII found the cave where they had rested at the foot of the dangerous peak a hundred meters away, and the clue was broken after that.
Shu Twelve sat on the big stone on the side of the road and sighed, recalling that when they were in the beginner class before, they were the two of them the most daring and stubborn, and they didn't cause trouble for Tutor Zeng, but they never thought that the kind and kind Teacher Zeng at that time would actually be the murderer of Nan Huaisu, and now he has also taken his nemesis Jiang Liu'er captive.
"Clairvoyance!"
Shu Twelve's right hand and two fingers crossed in front of his eyes, and a red light appeared in the middle of his eyes, and then spread out towards the corners of his eyes, his gaze quickly rushed towards a radius of thousands of miles, flipped through countless mountains and villages, and finally froze on a tall stone wall, and in the middle of the round arched stone gate, three quaint and vicissitudes of life "Xifeng Town" appeared in front of him.
"It turns out that this is what the elders often call Xifeng Town, and they may be in it. The Twelve Vultures muttered to themselves, and were about to move towards Brookwind Town, but their shoulders were grabbed by a large hand.
Shu Twelve turned around in horror and found that the person who came was the third cultivator of Donglu Village, the three top major cultivators, his father Shu Huan, Jiang Liu'er's father Yin Mo, and Nan Huairou's father Nan Huaijin, behind the three of them was the leader of the Six Shadow Guards who had escaped death, and the silver-toothed ghost boy mask on his face had been split in half.
"Father, they might go to Brook Wind, let's chase after them!" Shu Twelve danced excitedly.
Shu Huan nodded and said:
"If you and I suddenly appear in the town, it will definitely cause an uproar, so it's better to let you go in first. ”
Nan Huaijin breathed a sigh of relief, took out a jade xun from his arms and handed it to Shu Twelve.
"Zeng Gang, this bastard, killed my son Nan Huaisu five years ago, and now he has two kinds of pupil techniques, which is extremely dangerous, you take this jade xun, if you find his traces, blow it, and we will be there in an instant. ”
"Dad, I'm going too. At this moment, a pretty girl stood up behind Nan Huaijin, stretched out her hand to take Yuxun, and then stood side by side with Shu Twelve.
"Nan Huairou, do you know how dangerous this is, you are not allowed to follow it. Shu Twelve suddenly said, with the tone of the elders reprimanding the juniors, which made the three major repairs dumbfounded.
"Boy, how old are you! let Nan Huairou follow, and you can take care of each other. Shu Huan looked solemn and looked at his son with disdain.
Shu Twelve shook his head and didn't continue to block, turned around and quickly ran in the direction of Xifeng Town, Nan Huairou nodded at his father, and then quickly followed.
The hustle and bustle of the town......
It's always been the case, in crowded places, everyone is always hoarse and desperate for others to hear their voice.
In the bustling street market, Zeng Yan carried a palm hat on his head, a long sword hanging under a black cloak, and followed by a slow little man Jiang Liu'er, who was rumbling in his stomach at the moment.
Walking to the door of an inn called Fulai Tavern, where the rich aroma of delicious food wafted out, Jiang Liu'er stopped and stretched his neck to look inside.
Zeng Yu walked far away only to realize that Jiang Liu'er did not follow, and hurriedly turned around to search the crowded streets, and saw Jiang Liu'er holding his stomach with his hands, standing at the door of the tavern and hesitating.
At this time, the patrol of the town came to meet him, he pulled the hat down a little, slowly walked to Jiang Liu'er's side, and pushed his shoulders into the tavern.
The inside of the tavern is very spacious, divided into two floors, and the tables and chairs are neatly arranged, most of which have peeled off the red paint, and the tables are shiny, and it looks like the shop has been around for some years.
The two sat down by the window, the guy in the store brought tea, handed over the menu, and then inadvertently glanced at the mysterious Zeng Yu, looked at the head of the wanted man pasted on the window paper, his body was stunned, and the tray in his hand trembled slightly.
Zeng Yu noticed the man's movement, an empty sleeve on the left shook it, and his right hand was already on the hilt of the sword, and the murderous look in his eyes was awe-inspiring, so frightened that the guy hurriedly bent down to wipe the table with a rag.
At this moment, Jiang Liu'er, who grabbed the menu, called out a few dish names:
"Osmanthus chicken wings, braised fish head, three flowers with ......"
I didn't see the guy answer for a long time, and when I raised my head, I saw Zeng Gang's eyes staying on the window paper, don't look over and take a look, there are four wanted criminals painted on it, marked with the words A, B, C, D, and the tutor in front of me is the C-level wanted criminal above.
Zeng Yu lowered his head and instructed his man:
"Just serve the food as he says, dare to say one more word, and ask for your life. ”
The man resigned himself from the table, while Jiang Liu'er stared curiously at the two avatars in front of him on the window paper, and muttered suspiciously:
"Class A wanted criminal, gathered in the village to overhaul Brahma, the danger level is five stars, and the head is worth five thousand gold. Mentor...... How is your head worth fifty gold?"
"Hurry up and eat, don't talk nonsense. Zeng Yu took out a pair of chopsticks from his chopstick pocket and knocked Jiang Liu'er hard.
Jiang Liu'er immediately became honest and buried his head to feast, he hadn't eaten such a delicious meal for several days, but just as he raised his head to pick up the food, a graceful girl walked in at the door, followed by four guards.
At a glance, this group of people knew that they did not belong to Xifeng Town, and their costumes were extravagant and luxurious, so they should have passed by here in an urgent situation, and they happened to enter the store to rest.
The girl was wearing a glass purple cloud robe, with a golden hairpin and silver on her body, her steps were elegant and brisk, and there was a burst of light fragrance in front of her, I saw her look around, there was an empty table in the store, but she did not sit down, but walked to a middle-aged man in ragged clothes and sloppy manners, leaned over and sat down quietly opposite him.
Zeng Yu was taken aback when he saw the escort behind the girl, because he had seen such an army ten years ago, with the White Tiger Army emblem engraved on the armor, they were the Imperial Army, this group of people came from the incomparably powerful Western Decisive Empire.
The girl attracted the attention of many people around her, but she was unmoved, just sat quietly, did not speak, her eyes fell on the tea handed by the man, and she did not move away for a long time.
Jiang Liu'er gobbled up his stomach and was about to pick up the tea on the table, but he was horrified to find that half a cup of tea actually shook back and forth for a moment, but the table did not move at all.
Following the gaze of Tutor Zeng, his gaze overlapped with that of the girl in the distance, and at the same time he stared at a cup of tea, the table did not shake at all, but the tea swayed slightly back and forth.
Zeng Yu withdrew his gaze and glanced out the window, the street was crowded with traffic, but his face became frightened, and his right hand tightly grasped the hilt of the sword at his waist.
Jiang Liu'er stood up, burped, and shouted:
"Teacher...... Now you can send me back to the village!"
I saw Zeng Yu sitting motionless, his eyes returned to the girl, and he saw the girl take out a sharp-angled hourglass from her wide sleeve and turn it gracefully on the table.
Suddenly, the scene became extremely strange, and all the action seemed to freeze, except for the hourglass at the girl's table controlling the passage of time little by little.
Jiang Liu'er turned his head, he could feel his movements, but the movements actually didn't work, in short, this feeling was very weird, very eerie, the tea spilled by the guy stopped in mid-air, and the faces of the guests in the entire tavern were hesitant.
This control seemed to dissipate in an instant, and then everything returned to normal, but the sharp-angled hourglass in front of the girl did not stop, as if it would never stop.
This kind of thing that the girl fiddles with is called Xuanji in the world of illusion, which is used to test whether the time and space she is in is real, and if Xuanji rotates endlessly, it proves that everything in front of her is an illusion.
In a matter of seconds, all the people in the tavern realized that they were trapped in an illusion, and the commotion spread in an instant, and they looked at each other in an attempt to find the caster.
At this moment of panic, the girl stood up, snapped her fingers with her right hand, and the whole illusion collapsed like an explosion, and the things around her faded color layer by layer.
When the illusion was completely cracked by the girl, everyone was shocked beyond words, there was no bustling street market outside the window, the furnishings in the tavern were clean, nothing was left, and the whole space was a huge fast-moving prisoner cart, galloping on the deserted field.
The man driving the carriage forward was dressed in black, with a hood covering his hair, and he could not see a side face, but the aura on his body was terrifying.
The prisoner cart was followed by a team of horses, dressed in the same clothes worn by the patrols of Brookwind Town, and escorted everyone in the prisoner cart with no expression on its face.
The girl was still in the prison car, but the sharp-angled hourglass Xuanji in her hand was swaying from side to side, and was about to stop in the palm of her hand, it turned out that it was the real world now, Zeng Yu recalled carefully, but he couldn't remember how they were imprisoned.
Jiang Liu'er looked even more confused, looking at the beautiful scenery outside the prisoner car, but she couldn't be happy......