The distance between Nijo Castle and the Kyoto Imperial Palace is not far.

If you take the subway, transfer to the Tozai Line from Karasuma Oike Station and get off at Nijojo Castle Station, plus the time to go up and down the stairs and walk, half an hour is enough.

However, Akamatsu chose to walk slowly in the night.

When he returned to Nijo Castle, it was already early in the morning.

He stood outside the Ninomaru Palace, looking up at the pine bark on the roof, and at the clouds, ostremes, pines, and peonies carved on the eaves that symbolize wealth and prosperity. They have witnessed the history of the four islands of Yingzhou gradually becoming stronger and stronger, but finally becoming a corner of China.

"There is such an almost divine existence in Huaxia, and he is still sitting near the Kyoto Imperial Palace......" Akamatsu Hiroshi couldn't help laughing at himself, and muttered: "Could it be that all the actions of the shogunate over the years have been secretly revealed? ”

"Thank goodness you're finally back!"

Goemon, who had been waiting at the gate of the Ninomaru Palace, rushed over, his face anxious and ashamed: "If something happens to you, Lord Waiter, I will really die and not atone for my sins!" I'm sorry, my lord, it's all useless for me, if it weren't for me and Kimura missing ......."

"It has nothing to do with you!" Akamatsu Hiroshi waved his hand and sighed: "Even if I encounter such a terrifying existence as Tang Ze Qianjun, I can't get any advantage! Fortunately, Tang Ze Qianjun has no ill will towards us......

"No malice?" Goemon was stunned for a moment, "But Kimura-kun was eaten by the leopard cat he raised and the Shikijin wood carving, and there are no bones left!"

"I know! It's probably because Kimura's personality is too impulsive and offends the other party that he will be punished like this!" Akamatsu Hiroshi said categorically.

To the gods who walk on earth, they are nothing more than ants.

No matter how powerful a ninja is, in the eyes of the gods, he is just an ant with a slightly larger head, and he may occasionally attract the attention of the gods, but the gods will never be bored enough to deliberately hate and hate a large ant.

As long as the ants don't pretend to be clever enough to run in front of the gods and show their teeth and claws, or even open their mouths to bite without their own strength, the gods will not have any interest in paying attention to the ants......

"I can be 100% sure that His Excellency Tang Zeqian has no ill will towards us! So, don't offend him again!"

Goemon looked confused: "......"

"I have already given His Excellency Tang Zeqian the 'Tengu Order' representing the highest authority of the chamberlain, if one day he comes to us for help with the 'Tengu Order', he must complete the task at all costs, remember?"

Goemon's two faces were confused: "......"

Akamatsu Hiroshi pondered for a moment, and then continued: "In addition, you give me an order, from now on, No. 95 Gosho East Street in Kyoto will be listed as a forbidden place for all dark ninjas, and all actions within a kilometer of Gosho East Street must be reported in advance, and only after my consent can I act, otherwise there will be no forgiveness for killing, and it will be punished as 'treason'!"

"Hiss......" Goemon's mind was completely confused, "......"

Question marks popped up in his mind one after another: What happened to Hirosama Akamatsu in the hours after I left the "Gogenkan"?

For the semi-militarized shadow shogunate, it is true that there is a crime of contempt for the upper peak if they do not obey orders and act privately, but the punishment will not be too severe, and the crime will not lead to death in any case.

Unexpectedly, this time, not only will there be no forgiveness, but also the punishment of "treason", which is a crime to kill the whole family?

The influence of the owner is also ......

If it weren't for Goemon's previous personal sight in the "Gogenkan" where Kimura's head was different and his bones were gone, and because of the owner's attention to fate, he would have easily been promoted to an A-level ninja, he would have felt at this moment: Hirosama Akamatsu must be crazy!

......

Quiet early morning.

The lights of the Hook Xuan Pavilion have long been extinguished, and the hustle and bustle of the world has fallen silent at this time.

Tang Zeqian had already fallen asleep.

Only the ocelot, which seemed to be very lazy in the daytime, seemed to still have endless vitality at this moment, and it held the "egg" and continued to play with it for a while, before it got up with some interest, jumped over the window lattice, came to the rockery in the backyard, and got into it through a hole under the rockery.

There is a natural road under the rockery.

The leopard cat walked all the way along this road, and after a short time, it went deep into a strange empty crypt hundreds of meters underground, which was full of stalactites, stalagmites, and stone pillars, and everywhere was shrouded in a layer of pale yellow special aura.

On the ground, there were originally many springs of different sizes, but all of them were drained by bluestone slabs arranged in Tai Chi Bagua patterns, and the spring water gushing out of the springs was gathered into the middle pool.

The special pale yellow aura in the air slowly escaped from this pool.

In the middle of the pool, there is a bronze giant tripod that is nearly two people high, the ears are facing the crown, the four-legged shape is different and the strength is resolute, there is a thunder pattern to fill the ground, the inner wall of the tripod is covered with red spots and green embroidery, the treasure is contained, the momentum is majestic, the beauty is strange.

The leopard cat "meowed", like a fairy silk volley, jumped on the giant tripod, and put aside some strange small objects stacked on the inner wall of the tripod, and some were even thrown directly out of the tripod by it and fell into the pool and the shore.

Among these small objects, there are jade pendants, jade charms, jade pendants, opals, black crystals, and yellow jade...... It turned out to be all feng shui ornaments and ornaments sold inside and outside the "Hook Xuan Pavilion", and I don't know when this leopard cat came here.

At this time, he had a new love, so this guy abandoned all these things and threw them out of the inner wall of the ding.

After it vacated the inner wall of the giant tripod, a circle of curly dragon patterns on the periphery and an inscription on the inner side of the tripod were suddenly revealed, but the handwriting was ancient and rusty, and it was difficult to read.

The ocelot put the "egg" in the ding, carefully pulled it twice with its paws, and saw that the "egg" did not move, so he ignored it.

It didn't take long for it to yawn a few times, close its eyes to itself, and snooze off.

In mid-air, the pale yellow aura that escaped seemed to become smart, and quietly poured towards the "egg" in the ding, first circled around the egg a few times, and then began to slowly seep into the "egg".

A strange circle of runes was suddenly lit up on this "egg", and it was lit up in the darkness......