In the raging sea, the snow and ice, the endless wasteland, the mountains and rivers that stretch to the end of the earth, and the verdant forests that seem to never fail......

The town between the yellow sand, the ferry port for ships, and the majestic city.

In his deep sleep, Li Bai dreamed of a glimpse of a long journey.

And that one, which has been given the same answer countless times.

"The best view?"

The shepherd boy riding on the cow pondered seriously for a moment: "I think it should be in Chang'an, right?" Many uncles who passed by told me that it was the most beautiful place in the world. ”

"Fine wine? Chang'an, of course! ”

The tip of the glutton's nose in the restaurant was red, and he was drunk and shook his fingers: "Sanqiu Brew, Daughter Red, Amber, Loulan Honey, Azure ...... I can't finish drinking good things! ”

"The strongest swordsmanship? It must be in Chang'an. ”

The defeated swordsman regretfully put away the broken sword: "If it were you, you would definitely be able to find a strong enemy there worthy of a battle." ”

"Poetry? Then there must be Chang'an. The master in the shade of the tree held his long beard and was complacent: "I haven't written a poem about Chang'an, what kind of good poem is it?" ”

"Good things, all in Chang'an."

The merchant said: "The most gorgeous silk, the most luxurious carriage and horse, the sharpest sword, the most beautiful beauty, in addition to Chang'an, where else can there be?" ”

"The best place in the world? The Three Realms are uneasy, like a house of fire, where is the best place? ”

The wandering monk clasped his hands together and said coldly: "The so-called Chang'an is just a demon cave with rampant materialistic desires, go quickly, don't disturb my cultivation!" ”

"Chang'an?"

"Chang'an ......"

"Chang'an!"

In the long dream, countless broken memories flashed before my eyes.

Accompanied by the drowsiness of the hangover, those fragmented pictures and sounds drowned Li Bai little by little.

In the end, it turned into a hoarse voice.

"Then go to Chang'an, if you have a desire."

The clumsy old man looked back and smiled weirdly at him, "You can get everything you want there, but you have to remember ......"

"There's always a price, Li Bai." He whispered meaningfully, "There is always a price." ”

Endless shadows loom in front of you.

At that moment, Li Bai drew his sword, but his sword didn't know where it went, and he was stunned in place, engulfed in darkness.

When he opened his eyes, everything in his dream vanished.

Instead, there are closed rooms, dim lights, and bars in front of you......

Dali Temple.

He came back again.

Behind the familiar desk, Di Renjie silently sorted out the file in his hand, and when he noticed that the young man in the chair woke up, he looked up.

"You're the first person ever to be arrested twice by Dali Temple in six hours." He asked indifferently, "Should I say welcome?"

I reminded you, Li Bai! ”

"You should have been reminded in more detail, Master Di." Li Bai replied hoarsely: "I didn't expect that Chang'an would be so unwelcoming to me, an outsider."

I don't even know what I've done wrong, can I please give me an answer? ”

"The answer? Now everyone wants to know the answer, Li Bai. Now most of Chang'an City has been stirred into a pot of porridge. Di Renjie shook his head, "There is such a bad case in the city, Honglu Temple is going crazy." ”

"Any clues?" Li Bai asked.

"That's where the trouble is, no."

Di Renjie's expression was gloomy, and he knocked on the confessions of the assassins on the table: "They are all a group of rangers from other places, collecting money and selling their lives, and even the employer knows who the employer is." The only guy who knew the truth was poisoned.

It is certainly not easy to raise such a dead soldier in the city. ”

He said, "You should think about who you have offended. ”

"To be honest, I'd love to cooperate with you, but alas, I really don't know anything." Li Bai shook his head, "Last night, I already told you everything I knew. ”

Di Renjie did not speak.

But he also knew that it was unrealistic to find clues from Li Bai.

A traveler in the clouds came all the way to Chang'an, not even eight hours, and most of the time almost under the monitoring of Dali Temple.

Because of this, he tried his best to protect Li Bai's innocence in Honglu Temple, so that he would not be arrested and put in prison.

But now, the case has reached an impasse.

Do you want him to intimidate the victim in front of him, and find two more unlucky ghosts to bend and deal with the pressure above?

He sighed and signed his name under the record that Li Bai recounted, stamping it with a seal to ensure that the contents were conclusive and proved his innocence.

Di Renjie pushed the document over: "You should have been locked up for two months, but this kind of superficial work is not necessary." Once signed, you're good to go. However, during this period of time, you must pay attention to the summons of Dali Temple, and you are not allowed to leave Chang'an at will. ”

“……”

After a long silence, Li Bai lowered his head and said softly, "Thank you." ”

"I mean it sincerely."

Di Renjie waved his hand and motioned for Yuan Fang to unshackle him.

It's just that before leaving, Li Bai stood at the door but couldn't help but look back, "That child, what's your name?" ”

"Who?" Di Renjie asked without looking back.

"You know who I'm asking, the dead kid." Li Bai asked, "What's his name?" ”

"Who knows, the name of the beggar, no one cares." Di Renjie sighed silently, and suddenly said: "Someone called him 'an official'." ”

"Being an official?"

"That's right." Di Renjie stopped writing and said softly, "It is said that a cheap name is easy to support, but if you can't live anymore, you will want to give yourself a good name, and you will be rich and rich in the future."

The beggars in Chang'an City are like this, calling the most noble names and carrying the most bitter and poor lives...... Like weeds, no one knows how to die, and no one remembers. ”

“……”

After a long silence, Li Bai suddenly said, "Someone will remember." ”

He turned to leave, and the door shut.

“…… Let's go. ”

Yuan Fang looked at Li Baiyuan's back outside the window, and couldn't help but turn around and ask, "Why did you specially snatch their case from Honglu Temple?" Don't you hate overstepping your authority the most, my lord? ”

"Isn't this kind of case of assassin ranger murder within the jurisdiction of Dali Temple?"

Di Renjie sneered gloomily: "Besides, I'm also very curious, who kind of person dares to use so many killers in Chang'an City to kill a person who has been in Chang'an for less than four hours?" ”

"Then why did you let them go again?" Yuan Fang reacted in disbelief as soon as he finished speaking, "No, you want him to find it himself...... You just believe that guy? ”

Di Renjie did not speak.

just lowered his head, looked at the file in front of him, and compared the emblem on the hilt of Li Bai's sword.

The two patterns, one dusty in the old files of Chang'an, and the other from the traveler in the clouds, are the same, without the slightest difference.

Such a coincidence.

It was a symbol of the strongest swordsman in the clouds......

"I don't believe him, Yuan Fang."

Di Renjie replied softly, "But I believe that the 'heavenly people' in the clouds, those fools, probably don't know what they have provoked." ”

He closed the confidential file and report in his hand, stamped it with mud seals and wax seals, and put it in an iron box again, and handed it to the young man.

"Yu Hengsi, the B word application number is filed."

He got up, put on his robe, put on the Jinxian crown again, and hurriedly ordered: "I will enter the palace." ”

When he came to Dali Temple again, it was still evening, and Li Bai only felt in a trance, as if everything that happened before was an illusion.

It has only been less than a day since I arrived in Chang'an, and I was drunk for six hours, but everything has become completely different.

The city in front of him has also changed from glory to cold, and the lights mockingly look down at the outsiders in front of him, as if he sneered silently.

Li Bai sighed and heard the sound of the door opening behind him.

It's Xun Qing.

The embarrassed young man walked out unkempt, and when he saw Li Bai waiting for him, he was stunned for a moment, and for a long time, he tried to squeeze out an embarrassing smile, wanting to say hello: "That...... You okay? ”

Li Bai bowed: "I'm fine, they didn't do anything to you, right?" ”

"It's just squatting for two hours."

Xun Qing shook his head, trying hard to pose as if he had nothing to do, but he stumbled and fell.

Li Bai stretched out his hand and held him, but found that his hands were shaking.

"I'm sorry, my legs are a little weak." Xun Qing propped up his body in embarrassment, but he couldn't hold it up, squatting on the ground and panting, suppressing the urge to choke: "I, I ......"

"Let's go rest first, don't think about it so much." Li Bai patted him on the shoulder: "Sleep, everything is fine." ”

"We look for the most exclusive inn, the softest bed." Li Bai shook the silver in his hand.

Xun Qing was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "It's very troublesome to have a chapter of Dali Temple on the road, and there is no good place to live." I'm afraid you won't be able to spend this money. ”

He hesitated for a moment and said, "Go to my house...... The place is small, you don't want to be too bad. ”

"Just have a bed." Li Bai smiled back.

It doesn't go well with the gorgeous Chang'an, and it's hard to imagine that such a city would have such a dark and cramped corner. In the gaps between the high-rise buildings, sewage flows sideways.

Some of the dilapidated buildings on either side of the alley still shimmered with a dim light, and the cries of babies and the barking of dogs, and when the noise faded away, the dead silence returned.

Even the patrolling watchmen don't want to come to this kind of place.

It's hard to imagine that there is a workshop here.

"Why do you live here?" Li Bai looked around: "Isn't the mechanic very profitable?" Besides, the house outside is not expensive, right? ”

"I haven't been a mechanic for a long time, and I still owe a lot of money, besides, the location of each fang market is limited, and I don't have enough people to live in, so we homeless remnants can only live in this kind of corner, or we can only go to Huaiyuanfang to sleep in Datongpu...... This workshop was left to me by my teacher before he died, and if I hadn't been lucky enough to be admitted to the Organ Master, I might have been taken away. ”

Xun Qing rummaged for a long time, and finally found the key, and after opening the door, there was a puff of musty dust rushing to his face.

Li Bai lit the candle and saw several pieces of mechanism equipment covered with dust felt cloth, as well as mountains of mechanism parts, semi-finished products, and even a huge mechanism arm as thick as a beam......

He watched curiously, and found a huge machine man that had been dismantled, as if it was a dead giant, the chest of the machine man was wide open, but there were no internal organs inside, but one after another steel organs.

But many of them are incomplete and clearly semi-finished.

"What is this?"

“…… Something left by the teacher. ”

Xun Qing sighed, "He had been studying this before he died, and once he saw the scene of the legendary Heavenly Master catching ghosts during his night trip, and he never forgot to copy that kind of mechanism.

But after spending so much effort, he refused to put a nucleus on it. In the end, all the efforts were in vain, and before he died, he still remembered this half-finished product that couldn't move...... As a result, a lifetime's hard work has become a joke in the circle. ”

"What's ridiculous?" Li Bai shook his head and asked seriously: "The places I've been to along the way are not small, and this thing definitely looks a little powerful...... Just say it's so tall, it must be strong to move, right? ”

"Then you have to be able to move, without the organ core, how can the agency people be active? There is no such thing as a strange talk like a Heavenly Master...... At the end of the day, it's impossible to create such a dynamic work without relying on the core. ”

Xun Qing said half of it, and couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head: "I'm sorry, I said a lot of things that you don't understand." ”

"No, it's obviously very powerful."

Li Bai asked puzzledly: "Why are you so yourself, Xun Qing?" It's great to be able to be admitted to the mechanic at your age. ”

"It's all the teacher's Yu Yin and the blessing of Dao Xuangong, where do I have any skills."

Xun Qing shook his head, pulled for a long time, and finally pulled the ladder upstairs. There was a sound of collision, and countless dust fell like rain, making him gray and choking.

"Come with me, the place where you live is upstairs, I'll help you clean up first...... You can go take a shower first, I just checked, the stove still works. ”

"Hey, Xun Qing."

Li Bai suddenly called out to him.

Upstairs, Xun Qing turned around blankly and saw Li Bai's serious expression: "Don't be sad, it's not your fault." ”

Xun Qing was stunned for a moment, reluctantly squeezed out a smile, and nodded.

The narrow room was cleaned very clean, obviously not prepared for the guests to stay overnight, the sheets and bedding were a bit old, but it could be seen that the slurry was very clean, and it was well preserved, and there was no mold.

Xun Qing cleaned up quickly, it was hard to imagine that a man could handle the housework so quickly. The water stove he made was also very useful, and it was not troublesome to take a bath and drink water.

But Li Bai still couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning.

I finally slept vaguely for a while, but I still woke up in the middle of the night and heard the faint sound of the wind.

When he got up and pushed the door open, he saw the narrow corridor with the windows wide open. Xun Qing's room was empty, and there was no one.

That guy doesn't know where to go.

When Li Bai peeked through the window, he saw the young man sitting on the roof, staring blankly into the distance, as if sleepwalking.

The brilliant lights of the distant city fell far away, illuminating his empty pupils.

Hearing the sound of Li Bai turning over, he turned his head suspiciously, and saw the young man's smile. Li Bai stretched out his hand into his arms, took out a wine jug like magic, shook it twice, and the sound of water came from inside.

"Can't sleep? Do you want to drink? I still have a little bit here, cheap for you. ”

Xun Qing was stunned and subconsciously wanted to shake his head.

But after Li Bai raised his head and took a big sip, he handed over the wine jug, and the soft aroma of wine came to his nose, with a drunken intoxication that dissolved the pain.

Can't refuse.

But it was obviously such a soft fragrance, but the entrance was so sharp and strong, scraping his throat, as if swallowing a piece of red-hot charcoal, which made Xun Qing choke violently.

"Oh, this is the burning iron in the clouds, and the cow can be poured in such a bite, I didn't expect you to be so bold?"

Li Bai pretended to sigh, but there was a prank smile on his face.

Childish overreach.

How old are you?

Xun Qing sighed helplessly, but soon, he felt in a trance.

The distant lights blurred, and the heavy blocks that had been trapped in the lungs seemed to disappear. It was as if the cold world had suddenly abandoned him in place and rushed forward, and the pain and sadness were also far away.

But for some reason, again, I couldn't help but want to cry.

Just like seeing the innocent dead beggar again, Xun Qing covered his face and repented from the bottom of his heart for his 'proud act'.

"They're coming for me...... It must have been for me, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have stolen, if I ...... If I ......"

"If you don't take it, there will be more victims." Li Bai shook his head: "You can't reason with the wicked, and you shouldn't attribute that child's death to your responsibility."

Besides, he's trying to save us......"

"Why?"

Xun Qing covered her face and choked and wailed, "That kid is so cold, but he doesn't have wine...... I was just...... I just want that kid to have some hot soup......"

"I originally wanted to help him, I obviously ......"

"I know."

He heard a voice beside him.

When Xun Qing turned around, he saw the young man in the moonlight looking at him and told him, "Because I'm the same." ”

He froze.

"If it's wrong to help others, it's not just you, it's me." Li Bai said softly, "But I have never made a mistake, so it must be someone else who is wrong." ”

"Someone must have made a mistake, Xun Qing."

The boy gazed at the city in the distance, pressed the hilt of his sword as if looking at his own enemy, and whispered, "We're going to find him." ”

Such calm words, but so resolute, like a sword blade cutting down, tearing those confusion and pain apart.

All that remains is a crisp and crisp result.

Xun Qing raised his head, drank all the bad wine in the pot, and held the wine pot high above his head for the first time in his life.

"We're all in this together!"