Castle Lord's Mansion. Council Chamber.

Zhong Xiong sat in the front of the hall, and on the table in front of him was neatly placed a large pile of official business and secret reports.

On both sides of the hall sat twelve burly men, these were the Red Cloud generals known as the "Red Cloud Twelve Iron Shields". They are all fierce men who have broken through the sea of corpses and blood.

At this time, Zhong Yi, the man sitting in the second place on the left, was making a report. "Lord County, the proclamation officer is still 5 days away from our Hongyun County, and there are 2,000 soldiers from the inner court and 8 generals accompanying him. There are still 11 carriages, one of which is used by the proclamator himself, and 4 are ridden by 8 nurses, and the other 6 cars are the same as leaving the imperial city, and there are no people on the way through the counties and counties, and the people and things hidden in them are still impossible to detect. ”

"Lord County, why is the proclamator so elusive this time? In previous years, the people who came either brought soldiers with them, and at most brought a few singers and beauties along the way, and these nurses were on the road。。。。。。 Could it be that there is a baby in the car?" Zhong Qian, who was the first on the right, asked suspiciously.

"Hehe," Zhong Xiong said with a smile: "Don't say that you can't think of it, if it weren't for the secret report, I wouldn't have thought of it, this proclamator has a special hobby, likes to drink human milk, and has never broken it since he was a child for more than 40 years." ”

"Coax。。。。。。 All the people who sat there burst into laughter.

After laughing, Zhong Ren asked a question: "What happened to the six cars that have not seen any movement? If it is a dead thing, only a large car is needed, and there is no need to use the imperial frame." If it's a living creature, it's been nearly 60 days all the way, doesn't the living creature need to eat and drink?"

"That's right, it's really hard to figure out," the rest of the generals also scratched their heads and pondered.

"Lord County, according to the report of the personnel of the Xia Capital, 3 months ago, 8 mysterious people came to the Xia Capital, and the lord of the country treated them with the highest courtesy. These 8 people are all wrapped in white robes, outsiders can't see their true faces, after the proclamation official left the capital, these 8 people also disappeared, could it be that they stayed in those 6 cars?" Zhong Zhi slowly expressed his doubts.

As soon as these words came out, everyone fell silent.

After tea time, "Come with me." Zhong Xiong got up and said to the others. and transferred to the back hall.

The back hall is a room decorated with a study, I saw Zhong Xiong walk to the bookcase on the left, take out 6 books in order and insert them in a different order, at this time the three bookcases in front of him moved at the same time, and a cast iron door was revealed after changing places.

Entering the heavy gate, it is a stone staircase that goes down, and the perennial lights illuminate the passage, and after everyone enters, the iron gate and bookshelves are restored to their original state, and there is no trace of them outside.

After walking along the curved stone steps for a long time, I came to a huge temple - "Zhong's Ancestral Temple"

In the middle of the ancestral temple is a big "鈡" character painted with gold, and below is a dense row of spirit cards.

"Patriarch". The "Twelve Shields" who entered it knelt down and saluted Zhong Xiong, who was standing in front of the tablet.

It turned out that the Zhong clan could be the only hereditary county in the Xia Kingdom, because not only the Zhong clan had laid down Hongyun County, but also whether it was a general or a county lord, they were all members of the same clan. When the occupation of Hongyun was occupied that year, the entire Zhong clan and 15 branches were ordered to attack, and after the war, they lost the three major branches of "Liang", "Gong" and "Rang", and the clan and other branches were almost disabled. The monarch of the Xia State immediately ordered the Zhong family to inherit the red cloud. And can control everything in the county. The Xia State only sent a proclamator every year to convey the king's concern.

In addition, the Zhong clan people also have a special feature, that is, their bloodline contains a strong heavenly imprint, although after years of reproduction, the Zhong clan's bloodline is stronger than ordinary people's healing ability has not been weakened. And in the past many years, there have been many clansmen who have awakened the talent of the gods, but the awakening talent of each awakened person is different, and the strength is different. The strong ones can open the mountain and cut off the flow, and the weak ones can only make their vegetables grow faster.

After the ceremony, the two men and the twelve shields sat back in the room in the side hall of the ancestral temple.

Zhong Xiong looked at the three empty chairs, pondered for a moment, and said, "Since the appearance of the white-robed mysterious person a few years ago, every time they appear in a country, all the tribes in that country will disappear or die tragically. And these tribes all have one thing in common, that is, their bloodlines all have the mark of the gods. Their appearance in the Xia Kingdom this time, whether or not they came to us with the proclamator, is a warning. We must be prepared for prevention and preparedness. I'm afraid that the things that my ancestors have explained are about to start. ”