"Wake up!"

……

"I ...... Am I still alive......"

……

"These herbs are quite useful, and sure enough, they have a reaction! Old stone, old stone! Can you hear me? ”

Shi Cheng nodded subconsciously.

"Muta Segra Heia Sputui ......" Wu Neng's voice sounded again, and he said a string of languages that were not official dialects, but Shi Cheng could still tell that this should be Chu Ze, and it seemed that Wu Neng was thanking someone.

"Denada, Aystabirian." A little girl replied with a smile, as if to make Wu Neng not have to be polite.

A ray of light shone into Shi Cheng's eyes, and Shi Cheng struggled to open his eyes, finally seeing his surroundings clearly.

What caught my eye was Wu Neng's anxious and happy face. On Wu Neng's left hand side, there was also a short, thin girl with light brown skin and big black eyes.

Shi Cheng's eyes looked elsewhere, and he found himself lying on a wooden bed made of rattan and wood, and where Shi, Wu and the little girl were, there was a wooden hut with wind on all sides, topped with thatch and branches.

There was a small clay pot next to Shi Cheng's head, which seemed to have lit herbs inside, and it was emitting bursts of medicinal incense.

"Great! Lao Shi, how are you feeling now? Seeing that Shi Cheng had woken up, Wu Neng hurriedly asked.

Shi Cheng was slightly lucky, although his body recovered a little, his chest was still painful and sluggish. Shi Cheng coughed violently a few times, and the blood he coughed up stained a small piece of the linen cloth on his body red.

Wu Neng hurriedly brought a bowl of water over and sent it to Shi Cheng, "Old Shi, your injuries are still very serious, don't move yet." ”

Shi Cheng nodded, drank the water sent by Wu Neng, he glanced at the little girl beside him who had been looking at him with curious eyes, and asked Wu Neng in an extremely weak voice, "Old Wu...... We...... Where is it now? What about the Iron Mask...... Who is this child? ”

"Lao Shi, don't worry, Lao Tie is resting on the bed outside, and the injuries on his body are not light. When we floated to the shore, it was this family who helped us, and the child's family originally planned to give us their big bed and the bed you were lying on, but Lao Tie resolutely refused. He saw that you were so badly wounded, so he gave you this bed, and we made him a bed out of wood under the big tree outside, and he is lying there now. The little girl next to me is the youngest daughter of this family, and her name is Diya. ”

After saying this, Wu Neng thought for a moment and continued: "As for where this is...... Belch...... I see that many people in this village speak Chu Ze. Lao Shi, do you think we will float to Rainforest Island? ”

Shi Cheng already had a faint judgment in his heart when he heard the little girl speak, after all, he knew a little Chu Ze language, and at this time, he had similar thoughts in his heart to Wu Neng, and his group might have really drifted to the Dazhou Rainforest Continent on the southeast salient of Dongdong Lu.

"That's how it should be...... Lao Wu, you ...... Have you ever inquired...... We are now ...... In which country? ”

Wu Neng scratched his head and replied embarrassedly: "I don't know about this, this child's parents don't seem to be able to tell one, two, three, I only know that there are four fishing villages on this coast, one in the mountains in the northwest, and two on the river bank in the east." According to the owner of this family, that is, there is a big city in the north, and the locals seem to call it a peeling city, in short, they all listen to the peeling city, and every once in a while, officials will come out of the city and collect taxes in the village, but the people in the village cannot enter the city casually, if they have to enter the city, they have to pay a large sum of money to the gatekeeper, which is enough to bankrupt any household in the village, so Diya and her family have never been to the peeling city. ”

"It's really picky." Shi Cheng thought to himself, it was the first time he had heard of such a strange decree.

When the two were chatting, the little girl named Diya blinked with big eyes, she didn't understand the official language, so she couldn't understand what Shi Cheng and Wu Neng were saying.

The curtain of the branches hanging from the door of the hut was opened, and a man dressed in animal skins entered, holding a steaming bowl of fish soup. Seeing that Shi Cheng had woken up, he smiled and said to Wu Neng in Chu Ze: "Young man, this is a fish that was just caught from the sea today, give it to your friends to try it." ”

Wu Neng took the fish soup gratefully and said, "Uncle Aguer, thank you so much. ”

Although Shi Cheng didn't fully understand Aguer's words, he could vaguely see that this rather cheerful and kind uncle had come to bring him fish soup.

Shi Cheng also thanked him gratefully, and stumbled in an unfamiliar Chu Ze language, "I'm sorry for your trouble." ”

Aguer smiled and said: "Helping others for pleasure is the virtue that the people of the Holy Venerable should have, and fishermen who go out to sea to fish should help each other, so you can rest in peace with me." ”

After saying this, Aguer looked at his youngest daughter Diya and said, "Diya, go and clean up the fish with Abba." ”

Diya nodded sensibly and jumped out with Agul.

There were only two people left in the room, Wu Neng and Shi Cheng, Shi Cheng raised his head and said to Wu Neng sincerely: "Old Wu...... Thank you. ”

"We are companions, what is there to thank you for." Wu Neng hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Actually, Lao Tie and I should thank you, if it weren't for Lao Shi's successful blow, we would have been feeding the fish in the sea by now." ”

"By the way, Lao Shi, you were obviously pierced through the heart by that crow with a flying knife at that time, why can you still use your magical powers?" Wu Neng asked curiously.

Shi Cheng was silent for a moment, then felt inside his left breast pocket, and soon, he pulled out a broken jade talisman from the already broken pocket.

"This is ......" Wu Neng's eyes widened, "This seems to be the one I gave you before!" ”

"So...... I just said that I want to thank you, Lao Wu, although this talisman ...... I can't block the Grandmaster's blow, but ...... Or did you succeed in getting the throwing knife ...... Out of position. ”

"Huh......" Wu Neng patted his chest gently, and he couldn't help but say at this time, "It's really a holy blessing......"

……

On the same day, on the outskirts of an unknown town in the world.

A medium-sized man wearing a hat and a cloak walked into a dilapidated old mansion and, after opening the mechanism, entered a square secret door next to the clutter pile.

After walking through the dimly lit tunnels for a while, the man stopped in front of the purple flames.

Purple flames faintly illuminated the space of the underground altar, and the man in the hat looked around, in addition to the purple flames, there was also a dimly colored blue figure standing in the center of the altar.

"Black Underworld...... You've already arrived,......" said the man in the hat as he looked at the blue figure, and then, after looking at the purple flames, he bowed respectfully, and said, "A thousand faces have seen the Venerable." ”

"Okay, we're done." A voice came from the purple flames.

"Your Excellency, is it just the two of us? What we want to discuss today is quite important. The Black Styx asked.

"It's enough to have people who can spare their hands to do things." Purple Flame said: "Let's talk about the tail of the Southern Wilderness operation first, how are things going on the crow's side?" ”

Hei Ying frowned and said: "It's strange, there has been no news from the blood crow, but now it has been five days since the normal arrival of the Fengping in Hong Kong, and there is no shadow of the Fengping in Lingnan Port, I don't know what happened." I heard that the Lingnan Prefecture Patrol Yamen has sent a ship out to look for it, and the subordinate manpower is now paying close attention to the movements in the Wei State Mansion. ”

"Okay, it's up to your men to follow up." Purple Flame said unhurriedly: "What follows is a summary of the Southern Wilderness's actions. I've read the report you submitted to me, do you have anything to say? ”

Hei Ying bowed and replied solemnly: "My subordinates have failed to live up to the expectations of my superiors, and I ask my superiors to surrender their crimes." ”

"Don't ask me for guilt, what I want to know is, you don't know what your faults are in the Southern Wilderness?"

"Yes." Hei meditated for a moment and continued to answer: "One is that there is a miscommunication, and some of the surveillance forces that are still staying in the Southern Wilderness have roughly ascertained the inside story of Zhu Mingtao's disappearance, and we believe that this is very likely to be done by Shi Cheng, and Zhu Mingtao may have encountered an accident." Looking at the entire royal city, he is one of the few masters who has both the motivation and the ability to defeat Zhu Mingtao. It's just that I don't know, how did he find out that Zhu Mingtao is from our side? ”

"Why are you sure that Shi Cheng did it? What does this have to do with poor communication? Thousand Faces asked, confused.

Hei Ming replied: "Because according to our inside line in the Zhu family, Zhu Mingtao was asked out by our people before he disappeared. ”

"But apparently that's not the case." Thousand Faces said.

"Yes, the person who asked him out was not one of ours, but he imitated us vividly, except for that Shi Cheng, I can't think of anyone who has the ability and motivation to do such a thing."

"Zhu Mingtao is cautious, how could he be asked out so easily?"

"It's not clear, but I have a guess in my heart, judging from the description of the inside line, Shi Cheng should have lured Zhu Mingtao out with Sun Jinyong's lost Ziyan Order."

"No wonder." Thousand Faces muttered, and he now understood what the poor communication of the Black Dead meant.

"So, Zhu Mingtao doesn't know that Shi Cheng may have the news of the Ziyan Order in his hand?" The voice from the purple flames finally took on some anger.

"Yes, Your Excellency. An order has been issued to severely punish the relevant members responsible for liaising with Zhujia Villa. Hei Ying hurriedly said: "In the final analysis, many members of our race, including me, treat the human race as an unevolved monkey from the bottom of their hearts, this mentality is understandable, but if this mentality affects the cooperation with the human chess pieces, then it will be more than worth the loss for us." ”

"What is Zhu Mingtao doing now? If he falls into the hands of Shi Cheng, will he leak our affairs? Senmian asked worriedly.

Hei Ming replied: "Judging from the fact that Shi Cheng left the West Desert in a hurry the next day, Zhu Mingtao is probably dead. He is a wealthy family in the Western Desert, even if he is captured by Shi Chengsheng, Shi Cheng, a Chita person, has no way to take him. Not to mention that Zhu Mingtao is still a peak half-step grandmaster, but he is not a soft persimmon that can be manipulated by others if he falls into the hands of the enemy. ”

"Well, it makes sense, but we still can't relax on this matter, and we have to continue to investigate in the dark. Hei Ming, you can continue first, are there any other faults? Purple Flame said.

"Yes. Another mistake is that there is a general idea of underestimating the enemy within the Southern Wilderness Branch, which may have been caused by our previous actions in the Southern Wilderness being too smooth, and finally caused us to suffer huge losses in Yunqiu City. The subordinates have already punished and reprimanded the relevant officials, but now is the time for our clan to employ people, and I hope that the Venerable Lord will open up to them and let them make meritorious contributions. ”

"As you say." Purple Flame said.

"Thank you, Your Excellency." The dark bow deeply.

"However, Your Honor, the Black Darkness and they still succeeded in stirring up the situation in the Southern Wilderness." "That's one of our key goals, and we're going to wait and see," he said. A difficult point at the moment is the attitude of the Chitas, the response of the Alliance Khanate to the poisoning of the Western Desert King City and the shelling of Xilanzhou have come out, although they have refuted the accusations of the Western Desert State, but the wording is still extremely restrained and determined, and they have expressed their condolences and condolences to the monkeys who died in the poisoning case. It can be seen that although the Chita people have indulged in Dongdan, they do not want the situation to escalate. ”

"It doesn't matter." Purple Flame sneered: "You have to have enough confidence in Wei Ren and the Cold Moon Continent, in this world, there are people who don't think it's a big deal to see the excitement." Don't forget, if it weren't for the enlightened world led by the Wei people trying their best to encircle and persecute the Chitas, the outbreak of the Battle of Nanyang Island would have to wait at least another five more years. Today's Great Wei Empire has not only not calmed down, but in a sense, it is even crazier than it was back then. Therefore, all we have to do is to gently add a little force in the middle, and where the wheel of history will turn depends on what choices each country will make. For this seat, this seat has always been very confident in the ability of human beings to toss themselves. When the world is in turmoil in the future, it will be the day when our people will return to the world! ”

"The Holy Clan will be a thousand years old, and the great cause will be accomplished!" Both Thousand Faces and Black Styx responded respectfully.

"Okay, this is a matter for the future, what we have to think about now is how to remedy the mistakes in the Southern Wilderness operation, in view of the fact that the key has been completely lost, the specific plan to let the prince out of the customs must also be changed. In addition, the route of transporting corpses in the Southern Wilderness should still be restored in the next year, so as not to delay the construction of the Nine Yin Great Animal Array. ”

"Your Excellency, my subordinates have begun to prepare for the resumption of the Southern Wilderness route, but recently due to the impact of the poisoning case and the spy case, the wind in the Western Desert Country is very tight, and for the sake of safety, it is still not appropriate to send back the members who have been withdrawn in the near future."

"This seat naturally knows that you are the supreme person in charge of the affairs of the Southern Wilderness, and the matter of restoring the route will be left to you with full authority."

"Yes." The dark underworld answered, and then asked, "As for the key...... Do you need your subordinates to send someone to search for it again? ”

"We must have both hands to prepare, and the return of the prince, who is in retreat in the seal, is extremely important for our future plans. After all, it is no longer possible to pin all hope on retrieving the key, so it is necessary to formulate a new plan as soon as possible, and as for the new plan, I already have a plan in mind. ”

Just as Lu Zun and his two subordinates were about to discuss the details of the new plan, the purple flame order on the waist of the black underworld suddenly lit up, and it seemed that there was an urgent message.

"Please forgive your sins."

"It's okay, is there any new urgent news?"

Hei Ying picked up the Purple Flame Order, and after carefully reading the information on it for a while, his face changed slightly, "Your Excellency, the spy in front of me has sent a letter, and there is a vision in Rainforest Continent, it seems that the spiritual object we are paying attention to is about to be born." ”

"Oh?" Thousand Faces asked, "But what is the item that the wooden golem desperately needs?" ”

Hei Ying nodded and said, "Exactly." ”