Baili Brothers 3: Scarlet Capital Chapter 8: Painting
Baili Shouyu was held by Shangguan Wan'er like this, and suddenly felt extremely unnatural, so he had to wave to Baili Xuance, and the three of them rushed out together. Shangguan Wan'er shook out ink in the air at the same time, and the three of them disappeared into nothingness.
More than a dozen guards outside the Jianfu Gate had rushed in, but they didn't find any movement. They themselves did not want to go any further, lest they fall under the attack of the organs, so they drove out again.
Although Baili Shouyue and Baili Xuance have both trained for the ink sprint more than 70 times, they really act in reality, and they know that once something goes wrong, their lives will definitely be in danger, so both of them are a little uneasy.
Although Shangguan Wan'er rushed to the front, she also knew the brothers' worries, and she had no extra way, so she had to turn around and say, "You two don't have any baggage." Just go on the road. As soon as she said this, although the brothers relaxed their minds, Baili Xuance thought that it would be safer, and tightened the rope of the flying sickle and wanted to wrap it tightly around Baili to keep the contract, but suddenly the flying sickle tilted forward and hit the pine trunk next to it. Baili Xuance followed the force and hung directly on a branch of the pine tree with the flying sickle. Baili kept the covenant and continued to run forward with the original strength, but he was also entangled by the flying sickle and suddenly stopped.
Shangguan Wan'er, who was at the front, saw it, and hurriedly shook her brush, and drew on the bodies of Baili Shouyue and Baili Xuance, covering their bodies with pen and ink, and at the same time waving the paintbrush back. The bristles of the paintbrush suddenly stretched out, wrapped around Baili Shouyue's right leg and pulled it back hard, and finally broke Baili Shouyue, Baili Xuance and the branch together.
"It's so dangerous!" Baili Xuance breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and now he turned his heart sideways: "This kind of has happened to us, so what else are we afraid of?" grabbed the rope and followed closely behind Shangguan Wan'er. The three of them continued to make a rapid march in, and only then did they cross the section of the road shrouded by the mechanism, and stopped in front of several storehouses.
"Is this the end?" Baili Xuance suddenly looked nervous, and said with a grin: "It seems that it is difficult for us to practice, but in this actual battle, if it weren't for that nasty pine tree, it wouldn't be so terrible." Baili Shouyue looked at Shangguan Wan'er's paintbrush shining with a bright green light with great curiosity, and said, "Wan'er, what does this light on your paintbrush mean." ”
"Oh. Shangguan Wan'er said and rubbed the tip of her pen, and the flickering light on the pen dimmed again, and she continued: "Every time I complete five sprints and enter the state of nothingness, I will have ten energy stored for attack. There are all traps here, so I naturally have no need to attack, so I have stored all my energy. ”
Baili Shouyue nodded at this time, and Baili Xuance asked again: "Okay, since you have come in safely, can you enjoy the beautiful scenery of this Daming Palace safely?"
"What are you kidding?" Shangguan Wan'er glared at him and said, "Time is pressing, there are many warehouses here. As far as I can remember, my grandfather left the evidence in a storeroom. We'll have to hurry up and find it. Remember, anything my grandfather wrote or drew had an extra pen on the paper. As he spoke, he shook the brush in his hand.
Baili Shouyue smiled bitterly and muttered, "Isn't this looking for a needle in a haystack?" but he and Baili Xuance quickly separated, and each sneaked into a different warehouse to look for it. Shangguan Wan'er looked at the figures of the two, pursed her lips and showed a hint of a smile, and her smile froze as the small movement beside her sounded.
She looked around the storeroom vigilantly, but the slight movement was no longer heard, and she slowly walked towards the other storerooms.
"How can I find this?" Baili Xuance walked into a thick storeroom, and looked at the mountains of dossier paper that had accumulated a thick layer of dust, and felt extremely big. He scratched his head and said to himself, "What would he do if he let the stupid cat deal with this matter?"
"Hmmm······" He couldn't help but paced in place, muttering, "Stupid cats always tell me to do it before doing a task, and then act according to my experience." So I have to learn this lesson······ Hmm······ This old case happened decades ago, when the emperor was ······ Yes, it was Emperor Taizong. Thinking of this, he changed his position and said, "Then I just look for the files and papers of the Taizong period?" Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look around proudly, but was surprised to find that there were no files or papers from the Taizong period in the warehouse where he was, so he could only walk out and go to other warehouses to look for them.
"Whoosh-" The wind around me was somehow a little colder than before.
"What is it?" Baili Xuance only felt uncomfortable, scratched his head and said, "What······ How do you feel that there is movement?" looked around, and peeked in the side of the warehouse next to it. I saw that Baili Shouyue was illuminating the surroundings with a blind gun, rummaging through them one by one.
"My God, why is my brother's patience so good? When will he be a head if he continues to look for it like this?" Baili Xuance couldn't help but sigh: "Brother, let's just pay attention to the file when we look for Emperor Taizong." Baili Shouyu let out an "oh" inside, smashed a file in his hand back to the shelf, and didn't say anything else, and continued to look for it on other shelves.
"Alas······" As soon as Baili Xuance turned around, he saw a black figure flashing in front of him. Baili Xuance immediately screamed in fright, and said, "Aha! I think someone is staring at me in the dark! Come out for me!" The black shadow flickered slightly, reversed on the scythe, and then disappeared. Baili Xuance only felt that the black shadow's attack was powerful, and the flying sickle was quickly bounced backwards, and even he couldn't control it and had to dodge, and the flying sickle flew out of the room behind him and crashed into a bookshelf.
The bookshelf was suddenly hit hard, and it couldn't resist it at all, and the Baili Shouyue inside heard the sound and hurriedly rushed out to support the shelf. Many of the paper rolls on the shelves all fell down and smashed on the head of Baili Shouyu, and more were spilled all over the ground.
"Brother?" Baili Xuance slipped in very nervously at this time, and helped Baili Shouyu to hold up the bookshelf together. Before Baili Shou Yu could speak, Shangguan Wan'er followed in several flashes in a row, and said strangely: "What happened?"
"Yes······ Maybe there's a ghost ······." Baili Xuance trembled as he spoke, and said, "That'······ The ghost had been staring at them. Just ······ I saw it just now, but he has so much strength. One smash knocked my scythe far away. ”
"There can be no ghosts. Shangguan Wan'er just shook her head and said, "I guess it's the guy who attacked the guards just now and wanted to cause us to reveal our position." In my opinion, this person just doesn't want us to come looking for something, be careful, if he dares to come out again, just set fire to kill him. ”
"Be careful. Baili Shou said, "You must know how hard it took us to rush in from the scans of the agency. That enemy was able to wound the guards at the back door first, and then follow up so quickly, I'm afraid his ability is not low. ”
"That's right······" When Shangguan Wan'er heard this, she immediately became nervous, and said, "It seems that ······ This person also knows some ways to avoid the attacks of the organs······" Won't he do what we do?" Baili Xuance said with some horror: "That's terrible?"
"No······ No way. Shangguan Wan'er's eyes were shocked, but she still shook her head and said, "Except for the people in our Shangguan family, it is impossible for anyone else to know my move." We still have to be careful, this person comes and goes without a trace, and the kung fu must be unfathomable. Now that he's in the dark, we're in the light, it's better to finish it quickly. ”
"Not bad. Baili Shoujo said as he blew the paper that had fallen on the ground, and kept putting it back on the shelf.
"Just take a look. Baili Xuance said, and also followed Baili Shouyu, took the paper on the ground and put it back on the shelf while looking at it. Shangguan Wan'er looked out vigilantly, but it was still dark outside, and there was no figure or sound. Her mood was extremely complicated: "Who is this person, and how did he rely to avoid the attack of the agency and chase him all the way?"
"This ······" Baili Xuance glanced at a painting in his hand and muttered: "Painting, just painting, what do you do with such a small ink pen in the upper right corner······? As he spoke, he had just put the painting on it, when his eyes suddenly widened and he said, "Drew an ink pen, right?"
Baili Shouyue was concentrating on sorting out the paper on his side, not paying attention to what Baili Xuance said, but when he heard what he said about the "ink pen", he suddenly stopped and said, "Xuance, have you found it?" Baili Xuance took down the painting like lightning and looked at it carefully, nodded and said, "Yes, this is an ink pen······ Seriously, it's very similar to the one in Sister Wan'er's hand. Ah, Sister Wan'er······"
Shangguan Wan'er had also rushed in at this time, and as soon as she heard Baili Xuance's words, she was very excited to snatch the painting. She just glanced at it, and then she couldn't stop shedding tears, and nodded while covering the tears in her eyes and said, "Yes······ yes, long time no see, that's my grandfather's mark. ”
Baili Shouyue slowly approached and looked at the painting, only to see that the emperor was lying on the hospital bed, with four courtiers standing in a row beside the bed, and another young man like a son was kneeling under the sickbed. He didn't understand what this meant, and said, "Wan'er, can you see what this painting is trying to express?"
Shangguan Wan'er held back her emotions at this time, and also looked at the painting carefully, and said a little strangely: "This painting is obviously the four important ministers of Taizong Tuogu. Grandfather······ I can't believe you could have guessed what it would be like after you died······" Baili Shou didn't care about her continuing to miss her relatives, so she had to look at it herself, but she couldn't see anything, and couldn't help but say anxiously: "This emperor is seriously ill, and there seems to be no problem with summoning the crown prince and a few important ministers? What does this painting want to express?"
Shangguan Wan'er watched it for a long time, but she couldn't say why. But Baili Xuance scratched his head and said: "It's really strange, these four important ministers don't look at the emperor and the crown prince, but they all stare directly at the wooden box next to the bed, it's really strange." Does it matter if a broken box can have an emperor and a crown prince?"
"Oh?" Baili Shoujo and Shangguan Wan'er noticed this strangeness. Shangguan Wan'er patted her head and said: "I once saw this thing in the empress's study! Although it is in a wooden box, it is obviously an ordinary thing, otherwise how could these four important ministers attach so much importance to it? Maybe to them, this thing is more important than the emperor." ”
"Then I see. Baili Xuance said triumphantly: "In other words, these four important ministers all coveted the contents of this box, and they joined forces to harm your grandfather." ”
"Impossible!" Shangguan Wan'er retorted: "The four important ministers joined forces to harm my grandfather? How is that possible? The four important ministers were originally selected to contain each other, how could they join forces to act together? You really like to talk nonsense." Besides, what they really dealt with was not my grandfather, but the crown prince. ”
"But in any case, the general direction is there. Baili Shou said: "At least one of these four important ministers is related to the old case of the year. Now that the painting has been found, then we will leave first and go back to Dali Temple to ponder its deep meaning. Shangguan Wan'er and Baili Xuance had just nodded, and the three of them saw a dark shadow standing outside the warehouse at the same time through the gap in the bookshelf.
"It's over, isn't it?" Although Baili Xuance was afraid in his heart, he also knew that no matter how much he was afraid and afraid, he couldn't always rely on his brother's protection, he roared, turned the scythe and was about to throw it towards the black shadow.
"Don't act rashly!" Shangguan Wan'er grabbed him first and said, "This person also has the ability to take off in the air!" grabbed the paintbrush and said: "Get out quickly, don't fall in love!" Baili Shouyu stopped at the entrance of the warehouse almost at the same time as her, and shouted to Baili Xuance: "Quick, go out first!"
Baili Xuance was annoyed in his heart: "This broken place is just such an entrance, where is there any other way to get out? You two are too much, right?" Thinking of this, he hooked the bookshelf with a flying sickle, turned over and jumped out, standing behind Baili Shouyue and Shangguan Wan'er.
The black shadow looked at the three of them in a posture of about to fight, reached out and touched it in his arms, and found a long object, which turned out to be a paintbrush when he looked closely. Baili Shou was stunned for a moment, then looked at Shangguan Wan'er and said, "This person ······" Shangguan Wan'er still had a cold face, and shouted: "We can't deal with him! You two go first, I'll hold him back!"