The sea of stars is like a dream, forming an extreme contrast with the dark earth.

The croaking of frogs and cicadas echoes in the ears, and the cycle repeats.

Gui Qinchen was dressed in coarse linen clothes and wore a brown scarf, which was no different from black in the night. His burly figure was now leaning over the weeds and flowers, almost touching the ground. There was a faint buzz of mosquitoes in his ears, and their mouthparts could not pierce the skin of a Dacheng Realm master who had transported internal force, and even after getting close to his body, he would be affected by a qi machine and be greatly oppressed.

His thick knuckles cut into the ground, and the whole person was like a cheetah, his head was slightly raised, his eyes looked through the gaps between the grasses, looking at the sparkling fires in the distance, and gradually approached.

Thinking of more than ten years ago, he was coerced by a group of Dacheng Realm warriors, for his life, in order to survive, and entered the imperial city. He will still be angry in his heart, but all along, he is just incompetent and angry, until this year, he successfully opened up the second vein of Ren Du, completed the Great Zhou Tian with internal strength, transformed his physique, and improved his strength gave him the confidence to truly hate the city.

He did not suffer physical castration, the day he entered the imperial city, he drank a viscous and pungent decoction, and then his lower body began to degenerate, and now it is almost like a baby, this is the shame of his life, he has no heirs!

He could have escaped from the Imperial City, from what he considered a prison. But he didn't leave, because he had to maintain enough chaos in the imperial city for a long time, which was the price he paid for helping him escape from the imperial capital after he escaped from the imperial city.

Being able to escape from the imperial city does not mean that he can escape from the imperial capital, even if he escapes from the imperial capital, the whole world belongs to the Son of Heaven in the imperial city, where can he escape to?

Therefore, in order to be truly free, he had to take this risk.

Thoughts drifted in the long river of more than ten years, the fire in the distance had unconsciously approached, Gui Qinchen gathered his thoughts, concentrated, and his knuckles became more and more forceful.

Zhang Jinxiang, the head of the East Factory, became the head of the class at a young age, which is related to his own outstanding martial arts talent. After Mi Yusong's training, the East Factory eliminated the waste lying on the merit book waiting for death and the foolish people, and promoted a group of capable and self-motivated young people.

Therefore, Zhang Jinxiang has great ambitions, he hopes that he will reach the peak of Xiaocheng Realm in the year of his establishment, so that he can apply for a martial arts cheats, he is the best at swordsmanship. I heard that in the arsenal of Dongchang, there is a secret book of the town faction of the former Sword King faction, if you can get that secret book, practice hard for a few years, and successfully get started, you should have the combat power comparable to Dacheng Realm. At that time, if you apply for expatriation, you may be able to get a hundred households.

The 100 households in Dongchang are equivalent to 1,000 pro-army households, and they can also talk to each other on an equal footing with the 1,000 households of Jinyiwei.

The thought was retracted, and Zhang Jinxiang found that he had led the team, and he had come to the vicinity of the Imperial Horse Prison again. It is only a few hundred meters from the main gate of the Imperial Horse Warden, with a forest in front and a small river behind the forest. The opposite side of the small river channel is guarded by the Warrior Battalion.

Looking at the woods not far ahead, Zhang Jinxiang faintly had palpitations, the prisoner he searched for had the cultivation of Dacheng Realm, if the other party hid in the woods, it would be extremely dangerous for him. But where the prisoners might be hidden, he couldn't go unchecked.

So Zhang Jinxiang came to the woods, there is a large range of weeds, because of the remote location, it will only be cleaned up once for a long time. Looking at the weeds that were almost half a person high, Zhang Jinxiang decided to turn around and report to Yuan Qianhu, and asked him to talk to his superiors that these corners in the imperial city should be repaired.

"Ji Jiming, Wu Kaiming, you two go to the front to take a look, if there is anything abnormal, warn as soon as possible!"

Zhang Jinxiang let his subordinates open the way, and the two Dongchang fans did not dare to disobey, so they had to draw their sabers to strengthen their courage, and the two of them went deep into the grass, and kept chopping in their hands, cutting those weeds in half.

After the two of them cleared out an open area, Zhang Jinxiang rubbed the handle of the knife with his palm, snorted, and walked forward, followed closely behind him.

The Dongchang fans raised the torches high, and they were full of flammable weeds, and if they were accidentally lit, they would become roast chickens.

Zhang Jinxiang pressed the handle of the knife with his hand, his steps were not slow, his nerves were tense, and he always paid attention to the surrounding environment.

There was the sound of rustling footsteps under their feet, and Ji Jiming and Wu Kaiming were still opening the way in front, and they were already very close to the woods. Zhang Jinxiang gradually relaxed his mind, and the palm of the hand that pressed the handle of the knife also loosened.

But suddenly, Zhang Jinxiang stopped, the rustling footsteps suddenly stopped, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead, as if he sensed that something was wrong.

I don't know when it started, and the footsteps were only his own. There should have been eight more people behind him, but no footsteps could be heard.

What a spooky scene!

There was still the light of the torch behind him, proving that someone was holding the torch at this time, Zhang Jinxiang held the handle of the knife hard, he didn't believe that there were any ghosts and gods in this world.

So the next moment, Zhang Jinxiang turned around and drew the knife, in one go, Zhang Jinxiang's knife drawing skills are very clever, the body just turned halfway, the knife has already left the scabbard, the blade reflects the firelight, and it flashes away in the night.

Zhang Jinxiang snorted, and a strong muddy smell rushed to his mouth and nose, it was a strong big hand, pinching his mouth, making him unable to speak. The knife in his hand had been snatched away, and he didn't even see how the other party did it, but his wrist was numb, and the knife disappeared, and his eyes only saw the light of the torch and a figure hidden behind the fire.

What a speed this is! Zhang Jinxiang thought that even if he was a Dacheng Realm martial artist, he could compete with one or two, at least he would not be without the power to resist.

But the person in front of him must be what they are searching for, although he is a martial artist in the Dacheng Realm, is the speed of the Dacheng Realm so terrifying?

Boom!

There was a muffled sound in his chest, as if he had been hit hard, his heart and intestines were hit hard in an instant, and the look in Zhang Jinxiang's eyes quickly faded.

Gui Qinchen pinched Zhang Jinxiang's face and slowly leaned over. Zhang Jinxiang's body was paralyzed in the grass, Gui Qinchen was half-squatting on the ground, his eyes fell on the two Dongchang Fanzi who had come to the edge of the woods, although there was a strong murderous intent in his eyes, but he endured it, his body slowly retreated, passing by the eight Dongchang Fanzi who were also lying on the ground, and finally abandoned the torch in his hand, turned around and disappeared into the darkness, holding Zhang Jinxiang's saber in his hand.

The change of firelight behind him made the two fans who opened the way turn around suddenly, but they could only see the fire slowly burning in the grass, and in the night, there was no figure of Zhang Zhangban, let alone the shadow of other soldiers.

After a cup of tea, Yuan Dongxiang and Ma Wei came to this grassland with a large number of Dongchang soldiers. The fire in the grass had been extinguished, and the bodies of Zhang Jinxiang, the head of the East Factory, and the eight servants were neatly placed together.

Yuan Dongxiang frowned and looked at the nine corpses.

"Ma Qianhu, let's take a look at the cause of death!"

Ma Wei turned his head, his eyes were a little incredulous, you have been calling me all night, and now let me go to the autopsy, I am a pro-army thousand!

Yuan Dongxiang looked at Ma Wei, Ma Wei's heart tightened, coughed lightly, squatted down, and began to inspect the nine corpses.

After a while, Ma Wei got up and said to Yuan Dongxiang:

"The cause of death is the same, the internal force shatters the heart and lungs, and he dies on the spot."

After a pause, Ma Wei added: "This is the third batch, that Gui Qinchen's cultivation is not an ordinary Dacheng realm, it may be a medium-grade Dacheng, it is not easy to deal with, report it to the Admiral, or I will report to Yanshan Zuowei and send more people!" ”

Yuan Dongxiang shook his head and denied: "It can't be a medium-grade Dacheng, if there is that kind of cultivation, he will find us directly!" And I don't understand, what is he going to do, with his skills, he can break out of the imperial city by breaking through, and he has been staying here to kill people, why? ”

Ma Wei couldn't help but look at the nine corpses and said, "This guy is a madman, maybe, just for revenge?" ”

In order to better drive Ma Wei, Yuan Dongxiang has already informed Ma Wei of some unimportant contents of this case.

"I don't think so. Everything is very strange today, suddenly killed the head of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and stayed in the imperial city, if it was for revenge, it could have been done earlier, why does it have to be today! ”

Yuan Dongxiang muttered to himself suspiciously, but in the distance, a fan and a soldier from the left guard of Yanshan ran quickly. The two reported to Yuan Dongxiang and Ma Wei respectively, but the matter was the same.

Gui Qinchen appeared, right in the corner tower, and was killing at this time!

Yuan Dongxiang felt that Gui Qinchen might really be crazy as Ma Wei said, otherwise he shouldn't have done things so absurdly.

Yuan Dongxiang and Ma Wei immediately rushed to the corner tower, and the two Dacheng Realm martial artists directly threw off the people behind them, and they wanted to rush there as fast as they could.

Soon, Yuan Dongxiang and Ma Wei came to the corner tower, and there was still a faint sound of fighting on the corner tower, and under the corner tower, there were corpses everywhere, and the smell of blood was extremely strong.

Yuan Dongxiang's face changed sharply, his speed was faster, and his figure pulled out a phantom and flashed into the corner tower.

Ma Wei took a step slower, but saw a figure on the corner tower swept out of the sky, ethereal, like a void crossing, across more than ten meters, on the side of the corner tower more than ten meters on the top of a big tree again borrowed strength, the figure flashed again, again on the top of a big tree. He just moved sideways at the top of the tree, extremely fast, and his figure was ethereal.

The corner tower is not far from the imperial city wall, Ma Wei saw through the moonlight that Gui Qinchen's figure landed on the imperial city wall after a few rises, the city wall did not seem to expect that someone could come to the sky, when counterattacking, the figure had already climbed over the city wall and hid into the darkness.

Ma Wei was fascinated by it, he had never seen such a way of being like this.

"Chase!" Yuan Dongxiang's words were like a thunderbolt, waking up Ma Wei, and when he came back to his senses, Ma Wei saw that Yuan Dongxiang had jumped off the corner tower and chased after the city wall. The lieutenant immediately followed.

In front of the martial artists of the Dacheng Realm, the twenty-seven-meter-high outer wall of the imperial city is not a big trouble, but no one will definitely do this on weekdays, because this is trespassing.

But today I can't care about this, Yuan Dongxiang directly threw out the Dongchang token, and shouted in his mouth: "Dongchang arrests the murderer!" ”

Yuan Dongxiang and the two borrowed their strength to climb the city wall, and then crossed the ten-meter city wall and jumped down on the other side. Ma Wei followed closely, and the soldiers on the city wall were stunned, and one of the leaders was Ma Wei's subordinate, and Ma Wei did not forget to tell the man when he jumped off the city wall:

"Inform the Commander!"

Yuan Dongxiang thought that he was not too far behind, and when he jumped off the city wall, he could vaguely see a black shadow speeding on the roof in the distance, but it quickly fell into the street.

The houses in the inner city are all high-ranking officials and dignitaries, at least high-ranking nobles, and there are indispensable masters in the family who take care of the house. Some mansions, Dacheng realm warriors break in, and there are also in but not out, so Gui Qinchen will not choose to walk on the rooftops of these mansions.

And the streets of the inner city are patrolled at night, and it is impossible not to alarm anyone. Jinyiwei is responsible for the security of the inner city, and the masters of Jinyiwei have compiled a large net in the inner city, and ordinary people cannot easily act at will in this big net. And this part of the masters, directly under the command of Wang Zhongjie, the commander of Jinyiwei, is an extremely powerful force, and even Dongchang is afraid of this force.

It is also for this reason that Yuan Dongxiang is not afraid that Gui Qinchen will escape from the imperial city, he is even more worried that Gui Qinchen has been hiding in the imperial city. Now he is basically sure that Gui Qinchen has the best body method, and this body method should not be something that Gui Qinchen, who was born in a small sect like the Imperial Horse Sect, can have. In this way, it is confirmed that there are high-level figures behind Gui Qinchen.

Coming to the streets of the inner city, Yuan Dongxiang slowed down, the surrounding environment was very quiet, the big people in the courtyard of the deep house had already rested, and it was now past noon, the most quiet moment in the dead of night.

When he walked around the corner of a street, there was a sound of hurried footsteps behind him, Ma Wei came, his face was full of anxiety, and before he could speak, Yuan Dongxiang suddenly stopped, and then raised his head and arched his hand in one direction:

"Dongchang Yuan Dongxiang!"

Ma Wei seemed to have thought of something, and looked up in that direction, where there was a building covered in bright moonlight, which was supposed to be a money bank. On the roof of Qian Village, a figure slowly got up, and the moonlight rendered his figure a little mysterious, and the man arched his hand towards here.

"Someone just passed by here, and he is a key criminal wanted by Dongchang?"

The man on the roof asked.

Yuan Dongxiang responded: "Yes! ”

The man on the roof pointed in one direction and said:

"Where to go, there are Lu Qianhu watching, people can't escape, you go quickly."

"More!"

Yuan Dongxiang simply returned the salute, and then walked briskly in that direction, Ma Wei followed closely, but his eyes glanced at the roof of the Qian Village, where only a bright moonlight was left, and no one was seen.

"That's the land of a thousand households in the inner middle city?" Ma Wei asked softly.

Yuan Dongxiang didn't answer, and Ma Wei didn't ask anymore.

Passing through the three streets, Yuan Dongxiang's footsteps slowed down, and in the middle of the street, there was a person standing, and there seemed to be one lying under the feet of that person.

Yuan Dongxiang stepped forward, and under the moonlight, the person standing was wearing the flying fish suit of the brocade guard.

The brocade guard turned his head and looked at Yuan Dongxiang, the former wearing a black mask on his face, as if he was unwilling to show his true face. The people of the thousands of households in the inner city are all dressed up like this.

"Inner City Jinyi Guard, who are you?" The black-masked brocade guard asked coldly, pointing diagonally at the embroidered spring knife in his hand.

Yuan Dongxiang stepped forward and touched his arms, but remembered that the token of Dongchang had been thrown to the guards on the walls of the imperial city. He turned his head to look at the captain, who immediately understood, took out his token, and threw it away.

"Dongchang Yuan Dongxiang, as well as Yanshan Left Guard Ma Wei, chase the murderer!"

The black-masked brocade guard took the token, threw it back without looking at it, his tone softened slightly, he looked at the person at his feet, and said with a hint of doubt: "This person ran out of the imperial city?" ”

Yuan Dongxiang nodded, looked at the figure who fell to the ground and did not move, and asked, "That's right." How is he now? ”

The black-masked Jinyi Wei took two steps back, looked up at Yuan Dongxiang, and said, "I am Lu Bangning, the deputy of the Jinyi Guard, this person is already dead, and he will be dead when I arrive." ”

"What!" Ma Wei was shocked, they chased Gui Qinchen out, and the difference in time was only one stick of incense, how could he die!

Yuan Dongxiang was silent, stepped forward slowly, squatted down, and personally inspected.

Gui Qinchen's face was pale and he was no longer breathing, but his body still had residual warmth, indicating that he had just died. The cause of death was very simple, the sternum was completely shattered and dented, and the internal organs and organs had burst.

The cause of death was not much different from what he had created in the Imperial City, could it be that the murderer was from the same source as what he had learned?

Yuan Dongxiang got up, looked at Lu Bangning, the deputy of the brocade guard wearing a black mask, and said, "Lu Qianhu, when you came, did you find anyone else?" ”

Lu Bangning shook his head and said, "I was on duty on the street next door, and when I heard the movement here, I rushed here, and it took no more than three breaths. But when I arrived, I didn't find anyone else, and this person still had the most breath, but without saying anything, he died. ”

Yuan Dongxiang nodded, he didn't question Lu Bangning's words, because Gui Qinchen's chest injury also included the throat bone. Such an injury made him unable to speak, and judging from the severity of the injury on his chest, even if it was the vitality of a Dacheng Realm martial artist, under such an injury, he would still die in a short time.

Gui Qinchen's body lay quietly on the street, shrouded in moonlight, Yuan Dongxiang felt a little chill in his heart. With Gui Qinchen's skills, death is only in an instant, and the master who can kill him should be terrifying.

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At the same time, Liufu

Liu Xin, who had already fallen asleep, suddenly opened his eyes, turned over and sat up, without making the slightest sound.

He looked out the window, and by the moonlight, a figure was reflected in the window.

Liu Xin got up and got out of bed, there was still no movement under his feet, and his breathing was still soothing and heavy.

When he came to the window, the figure outside the window suddenly shook and then disappeared. Liu Xin frowned, rolled up his robe from the side, quietly opened the window, threw the robe out, and then he himself opened the door in a short moment and flashed out of the room.

Liu Xin came to the courtyard one by one, and at this time, the robe thrown by Liu Xin slowly fell to the ground.

Liu Xin turned around suddenly, looked up, and found a figure over the courtyard wall, Liu Xin hooked his toes, grabbed the robe on the ground and chased him.

Climbing over the courtyard wall, a figure just disappeared into the far corner.

Liu Xin stopped, and the other party seemed to be seducing him.

After hesitating for a moment, Liu Xin did not hesitate any longer, determined to follow and see the situation.

The speed of the other party's body did not exceed the range of Xiaochengjing, and what Liu Xin showed was also within the range of Xiaochengjing.

The figure in front was really tempting Liu Xin, because no matter what speed Liu Xin used, the other party would always disappear on a certain street corner the next moment Liu Xin appeared.

Liu Xin had already draped his robe on his body, he touched the brocade guard token on the hem of the robe, and chased after him with confidence.

From Senior Brother Cheng, he knew that Jinyiwei also had a special department, which was directly under the commander of Jinyiwei. It is called the Thousand Households of the Inner Middle City, there are one Thousand Households, two Deputy Thousand Households, and five hundred Households, and they are the spirits of the night, responsible for guarding the safety of the Inner City at night.

It was the existence of a group of people whose per capita quality far exceeded that of other thousands. Senior Brother Cheng guessed that the four Jinyi Wei Thousand Households in the Imperial Capital, and even other pro-army Thousand Households would serve in the Thousand Households in the Inner Middle City, because the Thousand Households in the Inner Middle City would wear masks up and down to hide their identities.

This is Liu Xin's first time traveling late at night in the imperial capital, if he doesn't have a waist card, he won't follow the person in front of him, if he meets the people in the Qianhu Office in the inner middle city, according to what Senior Brother Cheng said, after the curfew, they can shoot at will against people who don't have identification.

Thinking of this, Liu Xin became curious about the identity of the person who seduced him earlier.

Soon, after crossing several streets, Liu Xin had come to the edge of the bargain. In the past, it was a fence in the street, and there were pro-army guards there, and even if he was a brocade guard, he couldn't cross it during the curfew.

Of course, the man who brought him in shouldn't be able to.

After chasing another street, Liu Xin slowed down, and the man who lured him did not disappear around the corner again, but stood in the middle of the street, dressed in a straitjacket and covering his face with a black cloth.

Liu Xin looked thoughtfully at the person opposite, and his gaze fell on the position of the latter's right hand.

The tights suddenly raised their right arm, and the sound of breaking the air suddenly sounded, Liu Xin's body dodged to the side, directly dodging the attacking hidden weapon, but when he came back to his senses, the tights had disappeared in place and appeared on the roof of the house on one side.

The man glanced back at Liu Xin, waved his hand, then pointed behind Liu Xin, and then rolled down the roof.

Liu Xin felt that this person was a little inexplicable, but he suddenly reacted and turned to look at the location where the person's secret weapon fell before.

Those two hidden weapons were fired at my feet, and no one would shoot them at the enemy's shins.

Thinking so, Liu Xin began to look for the two hidden weapons, and soon he picked out two hidden weapons on the door panel of a closed shop next to the street:

Two solid copper dice.

"The dice?" Liu Xin looked at the two dice in his palm, and with his knowledge, he could confirm that these were ordinary dice, but they were made of pure copper, and there was no poison on them, and it was unlikely that they would be poisoned. There is nothing strange about it, except that there is some weight in the hand.

Why did the man bring himself here and throw two dice, and what did he mean?

Thinking like this, Liu Xin suddenly looked up, and then fixed his gaze on the plaque of a shop somewhere on the street.

"Suncheon Casino!"

In the upper right corner of the plaque, there is a dice pattern painted with copper paint, which is exactly the same as the two copper dice in the heart of Liu Xinju.