After the firelight, Wang Hu's face was hidden in the empty darkness of the night, as if wearing a mask, so that people could not see clearly. Only his eyes were blazing, as if they were about to pierce Qiu Shaohu.

Qiu Shaohu looked at each other, and in silence, it was each other's dullness, which seemed to freeze everything.

Only the sound of torrential rain outside the window, the sound of "rushing" water constantly washing the roof and falling from the eaves, noisily heralding the flow of time.

"What are you going to do?" In the end, it was Qiu Shaohu who spoke first and broke the silence.

"I see that you don't have anything to light up, so I specially sent you a lamp." Wang Hu walked in with an oil lamp, the light reflected in Qiu Shaohu's eyes, and the young man's eyes were a dark color, deep with a delicateness.

"Don't move." Qiu Shaohu said suddenly.

Wang Hu was stunned and involuntarily stopped.

Then I vaguely heard a "click".

Following the light of the oil lamp, Yu Guang saw that there seemed to be a thin line with a metallic luster under his feet, and the end of the thin wire was connected to some kind of bracket, which was ready to go.

In the shadows, the forest is sharp, and there is a hidden murderous intention. I don't know if I really don't know the depth of this step, and what kind of terrible mechanism will be launched.

"It's funny that you're setting up this trap in your room." Wang Hu smiled dumbly.

"When the unexpected happens, you naturally be prepared." Qiu Shaohu replied lightly, watching Wang Hu directly step over the trap he had arranged, showing an attitude of no resistance but no welcome.

"If you're guarding against ghosts, you won't need these, and if you're guarding against people, you won't necessarily have a chance to use them." Wang Hu said, his hand gently flicked on the oil lamp.

Like pinching the petals slightly, at that moment, a spark was like a body, and it was actually held directly in Wang Hu's hand. Fingers flicked slightly, like dust floating in the air, and in an instant, the spark exploded into countless points of light, floating around, flying like snow fluttering with countless colors, and the light and sand filled the sky, illuminating every corner of the originally dark room.

This kind of method is amazing, and people can't imagine that he will be a ruffian.

"You're a monk?" Qiu Shaohu didn't seem surprised.

"It's a little trick, but it doesn't get into the house." Wang Hu's words carried these feelings, "I yearn for those free immortals, and I always want to be in the immortal class one day, but unfortunately the world is not as I wish." Those famous and decent families did not accept me, and they never found a way to check the ancient books and explore the cultivation by themselves. I wanted to go overseas to find the relics of the immortals, but in the end I was also blocked by the Fushen Governor. The imperial court specially set up this new yamen to manage those major cultivation sects, and perhaps in the future, even if you become a monk, you will not be able to go free. ”

Wang Hu said as he looked more and more depressed, so he took a medicine bag from his waist, took out a white pill from it, put it in his mouth and chewed it openly. Immediately the ruffian's countenance became refreshed, as if he had heard some good news that pleased his whole body.

"Five stones?" Qiu Shaohu raised his eyebrows slightly, "This thing is very harmful, the empire forbids it, but you are addicted to it." ”

Although these drugs can temporarily refresh people's energy, they can greatly consume people's energy, and people will immediately languish after the drug is strong. Moreover, the medicine is highly poisonous, but anyone who overdoses will die violently on the spot, so it has long been banned by the government.

"Your fake and serious appearance is as annoying as that official. But that's right, if you make it to the gold list, it will also be a day of prosperity, and from then on you will be sheltered by the government, although you are not a monk, you will also step into another avenue, which is much luckier than me. Wang Hu smiled contemptuously.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Qiu Shaohu didn't want to say too much to the other party and it didn't matter, today's things were already too unbelievable, and he couldn't afford to waste any more energy.

"Survival." Wang Hu's face stretched out, and he suddenly said.

"Survival?" Qiu Shaohu asked rhetorically.

"Two people died in a row, aren't you afraid that you are the third?" Wang Hu said as he pointed his finger at it, "Which of those people upstairs do you think can be trusted?" ”

Without waiting for Qiu Shaohu to answer, Wang Hu continued: "That Qiu Ba has already found out just now, and the few people who said it are hiding secrets. But I think the most suspicious person is himself. Isn't it strange that he is a disarmoured frontier soldier, but he has a northland accent? The border troops on the northern front were mostly recruited on the spot, and they were also locals. But he trekked through mountains and rivers, but ran to this remote small place in the south that is not related to him, if it is strange, this is the most suspicious. ”

"You said so much, why don't you think that you don't go to sleep at night and come to me, but you yourself are the most suspicious." Qiu Shaohu yawned, showing a tired look and was about to send off the guests.

Wang Hu suddenly laughed, as if he had encountered something particularly funny, pointed at Qiu Shaohu and said, "Why did I come to look for you, you don't know yourself?" Isn't it because you are the most suspicious of all people? ”

"Me?" Qiu Shaohu's eyes narrowed slightly, waiting for the other party's next words.

"You are a weak scholar, and it stands to reason that you are not diligent and weak, but in the past few days, it seems that you are not only quick with hands and feet, but also full of physical strength, but your thin arms and legs can hang the huge plaque at the door, and you can at least have the strength of a stone bow on your arm."

Wang Hu hit the nail on the head, "And you said you were rushing to take the exam, but you didn't seem to be interested in going to the capital." Today, people have died one after another, and you are not afraid of implicating you and delaying your great future. You don't look like an ordinary scholar. ”

"That's all?" Qiu Shaohu was indifferent.

"Of course it's more than that, you explain to me, what is it?" Wang Hu said as he pulled down a piece of paper from the shelf next to him. Originally, all the miscellaneous books there were Qiu Shaohu's miscellaneous books, but at this time, the ruffian accurately found a piece of paper with strange runes drawn.

"This is an orthodox immortal talisman, which can destroy evil and pray for blessings and eliminate all falsehood. Moreover, the drawing method is extremely difficult, and without hard practice, even a corner of it cannot be traced. How can you, a scholar who is rushing to take the exam, know this kind of thing? Wang Hu stared at Qiu Shaohu.

"You don't know how hard it is to go to Beijing?" Qiu Shaohu's tone was still flat, "Along the way, you may encounter all kinds of accidents. I carried it, of course, to ward off disasters. ”

Qiu Shaohu said seamlessly.

"Okay, you can explain this to me again." Wang Hu didn't give up, and then took out something, "This is the brush you used in the lobby before, I specially helped you pick it up!" ”

The corners of Qiu Shaohu's eyes moved unconsciously, and he suddenly understood why Wang Hu was the last to come when he first discovered Zhang Qi's body, it turned out that he had deliberately picked up this brush before.

Wang Hu simply took this brush, and the inner core inside was exposed, and a piece of pale red strange material was carefully taken out by him with his hand, and said: "This is overseas fire coral, which is usually hard to find." I'm just passing through the Junction Islands, and I've been lucky enough to see one that isn't in such good condition. The locals told me that this is also a treasure that only occasionally drifts from the open sea, so why is it that such a rare thing is only in your pen? ”

"Is the brush that the proprietress gave me unintentionally so precious?" Qiu Shaohu still didn't admit it.

"Don't admit it yet, okay, then you can explain this to me again!" Wang Hu pointed to Qiu Shaohu's bedside, where the four big words "Double Cultivation of Life" hung there. "These four words, if they seem to those who are familiar with the scriptures, are naturally outrageously wrong." 'Dual cultivation of life' is a saying that most people know, and when I first explored the means of cultivation, I couldn't understand this sentence at all. 'Life' is obviously one thing, why should it be accompanied by 'two days off'? ”

"But today, after reading these four words you wrote, it suddenly dawned on me that 'double cultivation of life' should be the original meaning, and 'life' is a miscommunication caused by the ambiguity of one word." 'Life' is external, 'life' is the origin, and the double cultivation of life is naturally to have both internal and external gains, so as to be the avenue, which also coincides with the consistent pursuit of Xianmen. ”

"The so-called 'true transmission of a sentence, false transmission of ten thousand books', the difference of one word, is very different. But I've looked through all the Scriptures, and I've never seen such an explanation. Why is such an important sentence so clear to you? ”

Wang Hu took a step forward again, got closer to Qiu Shaohu, and his tone trembled: "You must be from that legendary fairy island, that is, the person who came out of the fairy island!" Only the people there will bring rare treasures in the world, and they will know the secrets of the immortal sect that they don't know anything about on the mainland! ”

He was as excited as if he had seen a treasure of ten thousand treasures, and the fiery feeling stimulated him, making him look at Qiu Shaohu and couldn't help but gasp.

It was a possibility that he had always dreamed of, and it was right now in front of his eyes.

In the confrontation of indifference and agitation, time passes imperceptibly.

"Okay," Qiu Shaohu finally relented and said, "I'm going to Kangjing, but I'm also really from overseas, it's not contradictory." ”

is a plain word, but it is like stirring up a thousand waves.