Under the heavy cover of night, the silhouette of Eiwei Castle in Kyoto of Southern Rhine-Westwi Kingdom looks very tall and majestic. By the murmuring moat, a man in a cloak and hat still sits quietly and leisurely fishing.

Out of curiosity, a wild child pretended to catch shrimp at the water's edge, and gradually approached the fisherman. Unbeknownst to him, the "Demoiselle" was unaware of this, and continued to wait quietly for the fish that belonged to him like a stone statue.

The child's sharp eyes, in the hazy night, suddenly discovered: the fishing rod used by the "Demoiselle" was reflected in the river - it was actually shining golden yellow! It's not hard to see that the rod was made of gold!

At the first glance, the child almost screamed out loud! This apparently finally alarmed the "Demoiselle", and his neck turned slightly—a piece of Demoiselle shot out!

The stunned child didn't even have time to close his mouth before he was shot in the throat by the leaves, and then fell limp......

"Demoiselle" didn't even turn his head to look, and a smile was already rippling on his face that was as cold as iron just a moment ago—because he had found that a fish had been hooked! After a while, after catching several live fish weighing two or three catties one after another, the "Demoiselle Weng" returned satisfied.

On the edge of the moat that flows quietly with a river of spring water, under the light of the dismal light of the half-round waning moon, the grass is still swaying with the breeze, as if lamenting the fate of the wild child......

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Inside the thick walls of Nanwei City, due to the implementation of the curfew, all the neighborhoods and alleys are silent. A small team of people from the City Defense Division who patrolled the night, and the iron armor walked through a street with sonorous steps, so that a "night wandering ghost" quickly shrank and dodged!

After a long while, the "nocturnal ghost" who shrank and hid under a wooden board leaning in front of a cloth shop slipped out. He looked around at no one, then took out the fire fold from his bosom and blew it up with all his might.

The "Night Wanderer" raised the fire and turned around to take a picture, and suddenly let out a cry of "Huh! ”。 It turned out that he had just hid in the long wooden board underneath, and in the upper right corner there was a character in the shape of a "meter" drawing.

Even when ordinary people see this "rice" character, they either turn a blind eye to it, or they think that it is just a child's random graffiti work - they will never use their imagination in other aspects. However, the meaning of this "m" character in the eyes of the "Night Wanderer" is absolutely extraordinary!

In the past ten years, Manichaeism, which had been introduced from foreign lands, has gradually declined due to various reasons, and its general rudder has also migrated all the way west to the outer lands. Later, due to the sudden rise of the Sidi Kingdom entrenched in the desert and grassland of the west, its lord respected the "Batong Holy Religion" as the state religion that evolved from Manichaeism.

The "Batong Holy Sect" of the Xidi Kingdom has always intended to infiltrate the outside world, and the code used by its followers to contact and communicate outside is the "meter" character that the "Night Wandering Ghost" sees now!

At the moment, the "night wandering ghost" suddenly realized under the light of the fire: this cloth shop is its own person! So, he cautiously opened his eyes and looked around, before tiptoeing up the front steps of the shop and gently knocking on the door of the shop.

"Who?" The door slammed open, and a sharp-beaked monkey's head squeezed out.

"Wow, what a word!" "Night Wanderer" hummed like a song, reciting the pre-agreed joint code.

"Boom!" The "monkey head" who came to open the door spoke in a hurry, stretched out his hand and hurriedly opened half of the door panel, and turned sideways to let the guests squeeze in.

The "Night Wandering Ghost" looked up and found a huge cloth shop, which was silent at this time. And those cloth hanging high in the air, swaying slightly in the faint light, added a little bit of a psychedelic feeling......

"Come this way!" The "monkey head" didn't want the "night wanderer" to see the situation in the shop clearly, so he urged a little impatiently.

The "Night Wanderer" had no choice but to follow the "monkey head" with his head covered, passed through a secret door, and entered a narrow passage with twists and turns. Perhaps the "monkey head" deliberately didn't let him see too much, so he deliberately didn't light the lamp or hold up the torch, relying on his familiarity with the environment to "wade through the water" in the dark.

And so, after about a quarter of an hour, they finally came to the entrance of an underground cavern. The torches on both sides of the cave were automatically lit when they "heard" the sound!

Under the light of the fire, the "Night Wandering Ghost" saw a stele standing next to the entrance of the cave, on which was written "Qingming Realm" in seal script - he immediately felt a little puzzled......

At the moment when he was slightly stunned, the "monkey head" had quietly pressed a hidden switch, and the door of the cave slowly opened. So, they lowered their heads and went into the hole, and after two more turns, they saw a slightly more spacious cave in the world......

The "monkey head" bowed a few times and said, "Yu Qingmingjun, there is a messenger from the main altar!" ”

A voice echoed in the air—let him take out the Holy Religion token!

Hearing this, the "Night Wanderer" hurriedly took off his coat, took out a stone badge polished with bloodstone from the mezzanine of his close-fitting jacket, and handed it to the "monkey head".

The "Monkey Head" carefully studied it for a while, and then returned the badge to the "Night Wanderer", raised his head and said in the air: "Yu Qingmingjun, the identity of the envoy has been verified. ”

"Hmm-" As a long, snort sounded, a tall, lanky man in a blue hooded robe slowly spun out from behind a stone pillar.

Seeing the Qing Mingjun himself appear, the "monkey head" hurriedly pulled the "night wandering ghost" and knelt down together to salute. Qing Mingjun glanced at the face of the "Night Wandering Ghost", and said leisurely: "Say, what does the sect leader command?" ”

Seeing this, the "Night Wandering Ghost" immediately stood up, took out a thin piece of parchment from his arms, and presented it to Qing Mingjun with both hands. Qing Mingjun respectfully saluted the parchment, and then took it with both hands, but the strange thing was that there was not a word on the paper!

Qing Mingjun was not surprised at all, and with a slight stroke of luck in his wrist, the parchment floated flat and floated more than a foot high—and at the same time, he pinched out some brown powder from his sleeve and flicked it in the direction of the parchment!

When the parchment fell into his hand, it was covered with some cuneiform script that was popular in the West. Qing Mingjun glanced at the paper hastily, and immediately understood: this is no different from the usual "Jun Decree", which is to urge the collection of iron and salt and other materials that have always been scarce in Xidi's country.

The business was over, and Qing Mingjun stopped dabbling about anything, and only said in a deep voice: "Reward-"

The "monkey head" standing at the bottom simply agreed: "Obey!" He exited the cave with the "Night Wanderer", and once again walked out in the darkness by touching the wall......

Back in the cloth shop, the "monkey head" casually gave the "night wanderer" a bag of broken silver, and arranged for him to rest in the small room in the back.

Early the next morning, the dung truck that passed through this section of the street and was in a hurry to get out of the city suddenly had an extra helper pushing the cart behind! A few quarters of an hour later, as the dung truck left the city, the extra helper ended his work and set out on the road to return to his life......