Chapter 71: To change or not to change, in a word
"Be careful!" Shen Muzhou dragged Lin Yanxi to his side.
The arrow grazed Shen Yu's sleeve and pierced into the door frame of Zhihai Tower.
After Shen Muzhou stabilized Lin Yanxi, he jumped up in a few steps and flew to the opposite eaves to chase the archers.
There was a small piece of fabric tied to the dart short arrow, Lin Yanxi pulled out the short arrow, and put the cloth on it in his hand to look at it repeatedly.
The pattern and color of the fabric were somewhat familiar, and she thought about it for a moment, and exclaimed, "It's a small stone."
Shen Yu also leaned over and asked, "Is that the kid you want to bring back to the capital?"
She nodded worriedly, the bottom of the short arrow still carried the totem of the pit, a "ghost" word.
Shen Muzhou jumped down from a height, took the fabric in her hand and said, "No one was found."
"Little Stone has been taken by the people in the pit, and we have to save him." Lin Yanxi was a little flustered for a while, and when she saw Shen Muzhou hesitating, she hurriedly said, "He was arrested because of me."
Shen Yu's drunkenness also sobered up, and he shook his head and said, "Xiao Liu hasn't brought anyone back yet, since they have captured people, they have already laid a net to arrest us, and going at this time, isn't this equivalent to sending us to death?"
Lin Yanxi also agreed with what Shen Yu said, but she couldn't look at Xiao Shi because she was affected, "I want to find a way to blend in, and you guys will pick me up outside."
Both of them looked at Shen Muzhou, waiting for his decision, his gaze was up little by little, a pair of bright eyes looked back at him nervously, and the expectation in his apricot eyes was a little scorching.
"Okay, let's go, let's go together."
Lin Yanxi's heart relaxed a little, and the nervous expression on his face eased a lot.
A few people came to the no-man's land at the end of the alley, Shen Muzhou checked again, and after confirming that there was no one else around, he picked up the branch and drew a rough location map on the ground.
He took the branch, circled a door, raised his eyes and looked at the two of them and said, "Yan Xi, you can't get in anymore, the people in the pit prison must have found out that we had entered before, plus the incident of breaking the tea shed, they want to use small stones to lure us over and kill people."
"So you and I went to the prison to save people, fifth brother, I need you to help me."
Shen Yu nodded and said naturally, "Naturally, you say."
Shen Muzhou held a branch and stared at the location map and said, "I want you to change into the clothes of the pit prison and find a way to sneak in, and delay the time when Lin Yanxi and I are saving people head-on, their attention is on us, and no one will notice you."
"Once you've gotten in, find their arsenal and set it on fire."
He took out his firearm, handed it to Shen Yu, and pointed at the circled position with a branch and said, "From here, there is a cave, and one layer further down from the cave, here, is the warehouse."
"There's a lot of gunpowder in the storehouse, and when you light the haystack, get out of it quickly so that you don't get hurt."
He wanted to draw the location again, so that Shen Yu could remember it better.
Shen Yu put the firearm into the placket of his clothes, and only glanced at the topographic map with a cursory glance and smiled: "Oh, don't worry, such a simple thing is wrapped around me."
"Without further ado, I'll find a way to sneak in first."
After he finished speaking, he left the alley in a hurry.
Staring at his distant figure, Lin Yanxi couldn't help frowning and said worriedly, "Can he do it?"
When she looked back at Shen Muzhou, suddenly he stretched out two fingers against her eyebrows.
Under the dim candlelight, his side face reflected half a circle of soft light, making his fair cheeks flushed, and the usual cold eyebrows and eyes, at this moment, the peach blossom eyes were seductive, and the eyes were as clear as obsidian, burning her face.
The girl's innocent apricot eyes are the most touching, and he can't bear her sorrow.
The slightly rough fingertips tapped twice, and then poked her forehead hard and said, "This panics?"
Lin Yanxi rubbed his eyebrows, why was he inexplicable?
He walked ahead, and she took two quick steps to follow him, and said, "Who is panicking? With you, I have nothing to panic about."
After saying that, I thought it was good to say it like this
It's like you're leaning on him.
After a while, he whispered "oh", the corners of his lips gradually curved into a nice arc, he lowered his eyes slightly, and walked a little faster to hide the expression on his face.
Lin Yanxi also followed him a few steps quickly, and muttered inexplicably, "Why are you walking so fast?"
The old rule left a secret signal for Xiao Liu all the way, and when he came to the pit, the sky was already a little dark, and an extra layer of guards was sent outside, Shen Muzhou suddenly paused, grabbed Lin Yanxi's wrist, and whispered: "If there is any accident in a while, you leave here first, don't worry about anyone, including me."
"What? Are you panicking?" Lin Yanxi learned from him just now, and reached out to touch his eyebrows, but he almost couldn't touch it.
He froze, leaned down slightly, and pressed his eyebrows against her fingertips.
A trace of strangeness crossed her heart, and the next moment her fingers poked his eyebrows hard, and looked at him a little provocatively.
He didn't say anything, just took her soft and delicate little hand in the palm of his hand, and the other hand grasped the hilt of the sword, and pulled her towards the pit.
"Stop!" The outermost guards stopped the two, and everyone immediately looked at them with a look of wariness.
Shen Muzhou's calm eyes concealed infinite cruelty and coldness, he pulled out the long sword at his waist, flipped his wrist slightly, and the guard who stopped him spurted blood from his throat and fell to the ground.
Seeing this, the other guards rushed up and surrounded Shen Muzhou in the middle, and Lin Yanxi was tightly protected by him.
The maiden was in her robe, and she cried out fiercely, "Come out of you, or you will all die!"
The guards were also armed with weapons, but their hands were vain, and the hands holding knives were trembling slightly, and they looked left and right, but no one dared to get out of the way.
Shen Muzhou's eyes flowed with a hint of fierceness, and he said easily, "I don't believe you can try."
This is said easily, but the people who can listen to it are like facing a great enemy, no one dares to move, this is a small place, they are used to bullying others here, and they have never used a real sword, let alone cut a person's throat between the young man's hands in front of him.
The man immediately splattered blood on the spot, and died a miserable death.
Just as the few people were at a stalemate, a hearty and mocking laugh came from inside the pit, "Let them in."
After the jailer spoke, the guards breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately made way for an open path that led straight into the prison.
Listening to the voice, he was the one who brought people to see the weapons before and asked for an official position.
"Tell me, who are you? What is the purpose of coming here to investigate me?" He was not tall, with a scarf around his face, revealing only a pair of eyes.
There was also a woman in his arms, although he was dressed casually, this woman was pampered, wearing a long skirt of rosewood satin, a set of white jade heads, tall and white.
Shen Muzhou's long sword was still dripping with blood, and he chuckled and said, "Why do you knowingly ask?"
The prison chief's eyes sank obviously, and he stopped pretending, and asked directly, "Did the imperial court send you?"
Lin Yanxi poked a small head out of his big and frowned and said, "Since you know that you are not quick to confess your sins, there may be a glimmer of life for you."
The warden looked at the woman in his arms and laughed as if he had heard something particularly ridiculous.
"Little girl, do you think I'm as naïve and easy to deceive as you? Private weapons, this is a big crime of the Nine Clans! But don't forget that this is a ghost town."
He took a few steps forward, not afraid of the long sword in Shen Muzhou's hand at all, and said wildly: "Once you enter the ghost city, life and death do not matter."
Shen Muzhou's swordsmanship was very fast, and a sword pointed straight at it, and it was already on the neck of the prison head.
The head of the prison is very precious to the woman in his arms, and when the long sword came, he pushed the woman away as soon as possible, "Mingyun, be careful!"
Originally, he could retreat with his whole body, but in order to protect Ming Yun, his shoulder was cut by a long sword.
"Sir." Mingyun shouted softly.
"Mingyun, it's okay, wait for the master to take you away and fly away." He nodded at her to reassure her.
Ming Yun nodded, took a half step back,
The guards around them, long knives, took a few steps forward and surrounded them again.
The prison boss raised his palm, flipped his wrist back twice, signaled the guard to retreat, he raised his head to meet Shen Muzhou's cold eyes, his neck moved from side to side, and asked with a chuckle, "What? The swordsmanship of the Nine Princes is unparalleled in the world, plus ......"
His eyes fell on Lin Yanxi's body and said, "This little talisman master."
Lin Yanxi looked at him in surprise, with a hint of disgust in his eyes.
Her reaction confirmed the warden's words, and he asked, "We all have a chance of winning together, but why are you holding back?"
Shen Muzhou's sword blade suddenly appeared, and when he was about to fall the blade, a young man was tied up and came out of the pit.
The small stone was held by two people and thrown to the ground, and he fell to the ground with bruises all over his body, the bright eyes of the young man trembled slightly, and the guard's long sword was also on his neck.
"Don't!" Lin Yanxi grabbed Shen Muzhou's body, shook his head and said, "Don't kill him."
She turned her back to everyone and looked at the soul ring in her hand, Shen Muzhou understood what she meant.
He put away his sword, hung it at his side, and said, "Tell me, how can you let him go?"
Lin Yanxi wanted to condense the magic aura in her body, but she had just used the soul bell and tried it twice, but the soul ring still had no response.
She needed more time to condense and procrastinate.
The prison boss paced back and forth nonchalantly, smiling triumphantly, "So what? I'll let her go back when we get to safety."
He glanced at Lin Yanxi a few times with compassion, Xiao Nizi looks like a peugeot and is a beauty, but it's a pity, the black cloak asked her by name.
As long as Lin Yanxi was changed to his hand, under the protection of the black cloak, he could naturally retreat with his whole body.
Xiaoshi fell to the ground and said weakly, "Don't promise him, Sister Yan Xi, you and Brother Shen go quickly."
"Uh......"
Before he could finish speaking, the guard kicked him in the stomach, he covered his stomach in pain, and when she looked at Lin Yanxi, her face was full of worry.
Little Stone grinned hard, and his white teeth were stained red with blood.
The more anxious Lin Yanxi was, the more she couldn't condense the rune power, and she roared hoarsely, "If you dare to touch him again, I will die here with you!"
The little stone fell to the ground with a dying breath, revealing a smiling face, this smile was not to comfort Lin Yanxi, it was that there would be people in this world who would fight for his life and death.
"Sister, run......
When the prison boss looked at Lin Yanxi's anxious appearance, he knew that she cared about this kid in her heart, and she would agree.
Pretending to be impatient, he said, "I don't have that much time to spend with you.
"Change it or not, it's a matter of one word."