At the beginning of June, the eastern part of Yanzhou was already scorching hot, and by noon, the sun was high in the sky, and it was so bright that there were few pedestrians on the road. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Even the frogs in the rice fields on the side of the road were so hot that they only opened their mouths but did not make a sound, when two men walked along the wide official road, and they led their horses to the gate of the Cangguo Prison City.

Two men dressed in white robes, each leading a tall horse in Yanzhou, with a black gauze hat covering their faces, and it can be seen that one of the horses has a simple banner on its back, in which is written "Lotte knows his fate and is not worried" seven black characters.

The city of prayer is a huge city, and it can be regarded as one of the largest cities in the Cangguo, with an outer city wall that is five zhang high, and an inner city with an area of not less than one city in the city. In the inner city, there is also a Weng city that covers an area of several miles, and the city wall of Weng City is six zhang high. There is also a heavily guarded stone tower in Weng City. I don't know how high the stone tower is, even outside the city of prayer, you can clearly see it.

The city gates were very large, and more than thirty soldiers sat inside and outside each gate, all wearing shorts, with simple rattan armor on their upper bodies, and guns and knives on the ground. The leader of the team was a lieutenant named Cha Xing, in his twenties, tall, with thick eyebrows and a round face, and he was very neatly dressed.

When he saw two fortune tellers coming, he stopped them with two soldiers guarding the city.

"Take off the face towel and show your true face!"

Originally, there were no less than a few hundred soldiers stationed at the city gate, and at this time there were few pedestrians at noon. Most of them rest in the barracks. There are not many people entering and leaving the city now, but even so, the soldiers who defend the city will carefully check every pedestrian.

The two men removed their face towels and revealed their faces.

One of them was about fifty years old, with a thin and thin face, black and white hair that had been uncombed for a long time, and a long beard like weeds.

The other person is about thirty, and his face is quite delicate, but he also has a mustache, which looks a lot more mature. Behind him was a huge basket full of things.

The two were Lin Qiqi and Gu Qiuyu, and they had been tossing and turning for more than two months, and finally crossed the Yang Kingdom and came to the territory of Cangguo, which was closer to Huazhou. As long as you walk through the flag country again, then Huazhou will be close at hand.

The two of them slept in the open along the way, not only to hurry up, but also to be vigilant to avoid being discovered.

Luckily, there were no surprises along the way, except for the hot weather.

"What are you doing, why are you here in the city of prayer?" Cha Xing asked, waving his hand to the soldier and motioning for the soldier to check on the two of them.

Lin Qiqi, who was about fifty years old, smiled politely: "Master Jun, we are fortune tellers, aren't we going to be June 6 these days, come to the temple fair in the city to see your luck." ”

Cha Xing pointed to Gu Qiuyu on the side and asked, "Are you too?"

"Master Huijun, yes. This person is my second uncle, and our grandfather and I just came here from Yangguo. Gu Qiuyu replied with low eyebrows.

Cha Xing looked at the two of them suspiciously, and asked, "You two gentlemen, how can you have two horses......?"

In the end, Cha Xing's tone changed, and he looked at the two of them with sharp eyes, and the other soldiers heard the wrong voice and stood up one after another.

Seeing this, Gu Qiuyu was shocked, he didn't expect this non-commissioned officer of Prayer Prison City to be so difficult, just on the horse, he found out that the two of them were suspicious.

The two rarely went into the city to stay in hotels along the way, and they avoided this kind of big city. However, since the supplies and water on the two of them have been almost consumed, they want to buy some items in this Hell City.

At this time, Lin Seventeen came to Cha Xing in one step, and said with a miserable expression: "Official, you can't misunderstand us, you look at the small body of the two of us, how can we still steal the horse? ”

Seeing that Cha Xing's face was a little loose, Gu Qiuyu also reacted, and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Yes, sir, how can the two of us steal the horse? ”

The two sang harmony, and subconsciously transferred Cha Xing's suspicion of their identity to whether they were horse thieves.

At this time, the two people who went to search also walked back, and it seemed that they didn't find anything.

Seeing the two of them like this, Cha Xing didn't feel that the two of them had internal energy, nodded, turned around and ordered, "Look at the basket he carries." ”

In fact, there was indeed nothing on those two horses, only some food and water, and Lin Qiqi's only weapon was also placed in Gu Qiuyu's sword box, and the sword box was hidden in the basket.

Prayer Prison City is the first time Gu Qiuyu has come, and before he enters the city, he feels that there are some places that are different from other cities, and these soldiers in front of him are too strict.

He originally thought that the soldiers in this Prison City were the same as other places, and it would be good to have a simple review, but what did he think, he actually got up endlessly, glanced at Lin Qiqi, but saw that Lin Qiqi was still obedient.

Slowly putting down the basket, a soldier walked forward quickly and looked through it.

The soldier also noticed the sword box at a glance, picked it up and looked at it for a long time, but didn't find anything strange, only felt that it was a very heavy box, so he looked at Gu Qiuyu and said, "Come here, open this box, I want to see what is inside!"

Gu Qiuyu was uneasy in his heart, as long as he opened the sword box, the weapons in it would definitely be exposed, and his identity would be suspected at that time.

He looked at Lin Seventeen on the side again, and suddenly became angry. I saw that this guy was still looking at himself lightly at this time, and when he looked at those eyes carefully, he was full of laughter!

Gu Qiuyu glared at Lin Qiqi behind him, eager to give him a slap now, and slowly walked towards the soldier, thinking of countermeasures for a while.

Seeing that there were soldiers all around, Gu Qiuyu didn't think that he would gain any benefit from the conflict here, and besides, their main purpose was to hide people's eyes and ears, if they were exposed, not to mention that the task was difficult to complete, even their own safety would be difficult to guarantee.

So Gu Qiuyu quickly rejected this idea.

Just as he was in a dilemma, a shout suddenly sounded not far away.

"Bloodstained Knife Pu Jinglong, hurry up and stay on the desk!"

The sound was so loud that it could be heard clearly throughout the city gates.

Cha Xing's face changed, he immediately looked over there, and cleaned up behind him, and the surrounding soldiers immediately took their weapons from the ground to their hands.

"Don't linger here, let's go inside!"

The soldier in front of Gu Qiuyu put down the things in the basket and let the two of them enter the city, while he came to Cha Xing's side.

"What's going on?"

Gu Qiuyu looked at the soldiers who were suddenly busy around him, and came to Lin Qiqi's side with a puzzled expression.

Lin Qiqi shook his head and said with a smile: "Who knows, it's okay this way, it saves us a lot of trouble, let's go to the city directly." ”

"Hmm. ”

The two led their horses and walked quickly towards the city.

At this time, I saw countless soldiers running out of the barracks, they were in groups of ten, all naked, and a total of eight groups carried the horses and placed them at the gate of the city.

A lieutenant shouted from a distance to Cha Xing, who had just interrogated Gu Qiuyu and the others, "Lieutenant Cha Xing, Lieutenant Du ordered you to take someone to capture Pu Jinglong."

Cha Xing nodded, and with a wave of his hand, more than a dozen soldiers followed, and one soldier handed a long knife to his hand and led everyone to run not far away.

But at this time, he suddenly turned his head and looked at Gu Qiuyu and the others who had entered the city suspiciously.

Gu Qiuyu also seemed to feel the vibration of Cha Xing's internal qi at this time, and then looked at the soldiers of Cangguo around him, and said in his heart: "No wonder Cangguo can always defeat Yang Guo on the battlefield, it seems that the quality of this Cangguo non-commissioned officer is indeed too high." ”

He followed Cha Xing into the distance, only to see that there were already people fighting together, and there were bursts of wailing, I don't know who was bold enough to dare to look for trouble outside the Cangguo military camp, the two did not continue to watch, and led the horse towards the city.

After walking through the long streets, the two finally came to this somewhat strange city of prayer.

The situation on the street is similar to that of other cities, except that in such a large city, there are no pedestrians on the streets at all.

Outside in the middle of the day, it's hot enough to bake eggs, and it's reasonable that there are no pedestrians.

The two walked for another moment, and they were also sweating, and then Gu Qiuyu was attracted by the tall stone building in the distance.

The stone building was dark on the outside, and it was estimated that it should be thirty zhang high, which was incredible in his eyes.

And what's even more strange is that the stone tower is actually located in the center of the city, and the color and slender snake-like form make people can't help but get goosebumps in broad daylight.

"How can there be such an out-of-place building in this city?"

Gu Qiuyu looked at the stone building in the distance and couldn't help asking.

Lin Qiqi said: "Whatever, find a place to fill your stomach first, these days, eating those jerky will almost make me vomit!"

"Well, it's okay, take a rest first, and then ask the people in this city when the time comes. ”

The two came to a small restaurant, found a corner, and ordered a few ordinary meals.

This is also what Lin Seventeen did on purpose, their current identity is a fortune teller, and if they eat and drink heavily, they will also attract the attention of others.

Gu Qiuyu didn't expect Lin Qiqi to seem casual, but he was so careful, these were things he had never expected.

Perhaps, that's why he can have such a high status in the Xingtian Palace.

Gu Qiuyu took a sip of hot tea, letting the heat in his body flow out with sweat. Quietly checked the breath in his body.

In the past month or so, Gu Qiuyu has been on the road while checking the sea of qi in his body.

The small amount of vitality that Punishment Wuming had given him was now calm in his sea of qi, but there was nothing abnormal except for a slight increase.

Gu Qiuyu also tried to drive that vitality, but it was useless, no matter how he ran the exercises, or urged the internal qi, the vitality was still like an old monk sitting still, no matter how he tossed, there was no reaction.

Fortunately, he could feel that a trace of internal qi had been born in the sea of qi, although it was not much, but the speed of birth was equivalent to the daily progress he had made when he first cultivated internal qi.

But when Gu Qiuyu was in the valley, he practiced wholeheartedly, or under the blessing of Xuandao Tian's inner qi, it took seven years to have the internal qi that could resist the four swords.

He didn't know if he could only continue to practice little by little like this in his current state, or if he would suddenly explode one day and return to his original strength.

In this regard, Gu Qiuyu was also very helpless, hoping that his internal qi would recover as soon as possible, but he could only wait quietly.

At the very least, compared to before, there is finally hope.