The five of them waited patiently, and the sky gradually darkened.

Except for some businesses that need urgent loading and unloading of ships and carriages, which are still busy with lights on, many Lifu on the dock have finished their day's work and returned home in groups with a stinky sweat and today's wages.

But the little baby had eaten dinner in his own house as if nothing happened, and only after the moonlit treetops did he quietly sneak out of the house and head towards a nearby house.

I saw the child nimbly climb into the low wooden fence outside one of the rooms, lie under the window and whisper.

"Uncle Tiger, Uncle Tiger, I'm here......"

The wooden door opened a crack, and a man's voice sounded in the room:

"Cats? Come on in, no one is being noticed, are you? ”

The little baby named the cat boy cleverly squeezed in through the crack in the door.

"Don't worry, Uncle Tiger, don't you know how clever I am?"

"I turned seven alleys in the city, and then I got out of the hole, and when I went home, I went to play with them as usual, and I slipped out when my father and mother slept!"

The man throws a cloth bag to the cat.

"Haha, I don't have to worry about you kid, give! I bought it with today's wages, so go back and share it with your sister." ”

The cat boy opened the cloth bag and found that it was a small half bag of candy wrapped in oiled paper, and he was immediately overjoyed, carefully put it into his arms and said to the man:

"Thank you, Uncle Tiger."

"Okay, go back to sleep, don't get tired after a day of running."

At the mention of the man, the cat boy suddenly felt a little sleepy, in the end, he was sleepy, nodded hurriedly, got out of the crack in the door again, and ran back to the house with a smoke.

After the cat left, the house fell silent, and after a few breaths, suddenly a faint but clear low voice sounded in the darkness.

"Huzi?"

“…… Is that the Captain? ”

A soft but excited inquiry came from the low, dark house.

"It's me!"

The people inside opened the door excitedly, and when they saw Yu Honggang's burly figure with obvious characteristics, they immediately said happily:

"Captain! Come on in. ”

Yu Honggang beckoned to a few people behind him, and everyone entered this low house together.

There were suddenly five more people in the originally less than 20 square meters room, and with the addition of broken furniture such as wooden beds, wooden tables, and benches, the space suddenly became cramped.

After entering the house, Gao Jingfei removed the effect of the blindfold for everyone, and when he saw the modern dressed people led by his own captain, the person in the house suddenly became even more excited.

Yu Honggang asked directly without nonsense:

"Huzi, why are you alone, Lao Zhao and Xiao Li?"

The man was probably close to thirty years of age, dressed in short clothes, with a flushed face and a dark complexion, not much different from the coolie wroughts on the docks.

Apparently this person is well disguised and has blended into this world environment.

After listening to Yu Honggang's words, the man's eyes turned red, and he said with grief and indignation:

"Captain, Lao Zhao and they were captured by the government here, after we entered this world before, we found that the fog had disappeared, and we had to go separately to investigate the local situation. Because I have a lot of strength, I blended into the wharf Lifu, and most of the Lifu here are outsiders who have fled from outside to eat, so I fit in very well. ”

"Lao Zhao and they went to the wine shop, teahouse and merchant gang and other places, every day we meet to understand each other's situation, three days ago I saw Lao Zhao in the agreed place to leave a secret mark, according to the news to meet at the old wharf three miles outside the city. As a result, I went late because of the delay, and I found out from a distance that Lao Zhao Xiaoli and they were taken away by a group of officials and officers, obviously someone deciphered our secret mark, this can't be the natives of this world, it can only be an alien enemy! ”

Yu Honggang's brows furrowed after hearing this, obviously things were not much the same as they had expected.

His own team members were shaded by outsiders who are also modern people.

At this time, he remembered to introduce Gao Jingfei and others to the team members.

Gao Jingfei and the others also knew the identity of this person, his name was Duan Wenhu, he was Yu Honggang's old subordinate in the army, and he was also the first batch of law enforcement team members who were selected into the Demon Capital Special Affairs Bureau.

Yu Honggang pointed to the direction where the little baby and the cat boy left before and asked:

"What's the matter with that kid?"

Hearing this, Duan Wenhu showed a smile and said:

"This child's family has fled from Yu Province, and they have no local roots, so they won't have anything to do with the government and local ruffians, and I just use this child to find out some information, and no one will pay attention to causing trouble to their family."

Hearing this, Yu Honggang put his mind at ease and knew that his team members were still very safe.

Then he opened his mouth to ask Duan Wenhu about the situation in this world.

Duan Wenhu said with a confused look in his eyes when he heard this:

"This world is strange......

After listening to Duan Wenhu's narration, everyone understood the specific situation of this world.

This was a period similar to that of the mid-to-late nineteenth century in the real world, and according to the newspapers of the imperial court and the information they had learned from the people, it was not two years after the vigorous movement of the Kingdom of Heaven ended.

It is now 1864, and there are still sporadic rebellions in various parts of the imperial court, and there are also twisted armies in the Central Plains to the Lianghuai area, which is second only to the Heavenly Kingdom Movement, which has not been subsided.

In addition, although the Sichuan-Chu-Shaanxi White Lotus Rebellion has been pacified for several years, with the rise of the Heavenly Kingdom Movement, these folk sects have also become active, and the entire Houjin Kingdom is now like sitting on a volcanic crater that has just erupted, and there are more large and small powder kegs piled next to it, and the slightest carelessness will cause a terrible explosion.

Although there was a new little emperor in the dynasty, the little emperor was only six years old when he ascended the throne, and the power was in the hands of the queen mother of the two palaces and a group of princes and ministers.

The court praised it as "the holy queen of the pilgrimage".

In this, the Empress Dowager of the West was scheming and politically skillful, so she gradually gathered power, and there was a hidden trend of Empress Lu and Empress Wu. Of course, compared with those two, the Empress Dowager of the West is still a lot worse, not to mention the Empress Wu of the only empress of the Middle Earth, even compared to the Empress Lu, who controls the power of the court, is also inferior, after all, there is a Empress Dowager of the East above the Empress Dowager of the West.

Although the Empress Dowager of the East gives people the posture of worshiping the Buddha wholeheartedly and not asking about the politics of the court, in the end, it is the queen canonized by the first emperor, and the name is congenitally overpowering the Empress Dowager of the West, who was originally just a concubine.

Speaking of this, Duan Wenhu sighed meaningfully:

"Maybe this Queen Mother of the West really has the sole power, just like the Lafayette over there, and it will not be possible to really ascend to the throne until the Queen Mother of the East is gone, but I don't know if it will be the same as what Ye Shili said, this Queen Mother of the East will also have a serious illness soon after?"

After listening to Duan Wenhu's narration, everyone felt very novel, because this feeling of witnessing the historical process was a very rare and special experience for them.

Zhang Lin opened his mouth and asked:

"Brother Duan, have you found extraordinary power when you came here, and how did you get caught by the local government with your skills?"

When Duan Wenhu heard this, he said with fear:

"The water in this world is very deep, we have been integrated into this city for several days, and we have not found any signs of transcendence, but Lao Zhao and they have obtained a lot of hearsay news from well-informed places such as teahouses and restaurants, saying that there are three great masters in the world today, and there are also eight masters in the rivers and lakes."

"The Three Great Grandmasters? Eight masters? ”

When you hear this name, you have a feeling of uncertainty.

Yu Honggang: "Can you tell us which grandmasters and masters they are?" ”

Duan Wenhu scratched his head and said:

"I don't know much, these are all Lao Zhao and they inquired about, we met before and he told me, Lao Zhao They should know more."

"The three major grandmasters are Li Lianying, the purple-robed head of the imperial court, Li Wencheng, the head of the Tianli Sect of the Northern White Lotus Sect, and Zhang Yifeng, the sect master of the Daomen and the contemporary head of Maoshan Zhang Yifeng."

"Originally, there were four great grandmasters, but the Hong Tianwang in the south, who was as famous as the Tianli Sect Master and known as the Southern Hongbei Li, had just been broken by the imperial court gathering hundreds of thousands of troops to break the Tianjing City, and was finally besieged and killed by the purple-robed chief, so there were only three great grandmasters left......"