Black clouds overwhelmed the city, and the north wind swept the ground.

It was not yet evening, and it was dark. Seeing that lightning was hiding in the dark clouds, the number of pedestrians on the streets of Yicheng quickly decreased. The flag planted in the liquor shop was blown down to the ground by the strong wind, and it slipped a few feet away, and the little yellow dog on the side of the road chased and barked all the way, and suddenly looked up at the sky again, whimpered twice, turned his head and ran away with his tail between his legs.

It only took half an hour for this small city in the northern part of the Liang Kingdom to be as dark as midnight. Every household lights up, there are voices, and there is the smell of food, which is the taste of the world.

In a dark alley, there are people running for their lives.

He panted like a cow, and as he galloped, he still didn't forget to look back, pressing between his fingers on his abdomen, and a drop of liquid fell and exploded on the ground.

The longer you run, the faster your stamina will be lost. His steps staggered, his face had changed from pale to iron-blue, and his breath was full of iron, but fortunately at this time a garden was faintly visible in front of him, and a large hole in the dark brown wall had collapsed that could accommodate several people in and out, and it was overgrown with weeds, taller than a person.

This is a deserted garden, covering a large area, but it has not been inhabited for a long, long time, and even more than half of the buildings have collapsed. What was once a well-tended garden is now a wasteland infested with weeds and vines.

The wind blew, and everywhere it seemed like a ghostly shadow.

Without thinking, the man stepped into the garden, pulled the grass and walked forward, and after walking about forty steps, his eyes suddenly opened up.

In front of it is a pond, and the corner of the pavilion is exposed behind the high rockery, which seems to be well preserved.

He looked at the pavilion and then at the buildings on the side, as if he was about to jump over the top of the pavilion. However, after only taking two steps, a slight buzz was suddenly heard not far away.

There was a living creature walking through the grass and it was very close to him!

The man's face changed greatly, and he was about to pull out the long knife at his waist, but he found that the voice was moving away from near and far, and the speed was still very fast.

Not a chaser?

He strode after him, slashing through the grass with his sword, just in time to see a gray shadow leap by, pounced on the dog's hole in the wall.

The man didn't think about it, so he picked it up—

It turned out to be a child, about seven or eight years old, with a thin body, and he could easily lift even if the man was seriously injured.

"Beggar?" the man's eyes widened, not believing his good luck.

This little devil is in rags, his hands and face are covered with mud, and he only has a pair of broken straw shoes with holes on his feet, and he lives in this deserted garden, what else can he be if he is not a beggar?

The little beggar was lifted by him by the collar, and his eyes suddenly showed ruthlessness, and he stretched out his hand to scratch him, and when he turned his head, he showed two rows of thin teeth, and bit at his wrist.

This kid's teeth are actually very white.

The man actually had such an irrelevant thought in his mind. Seeing that the other party was scratching and biting like a little wolf cub, he simply pinched the little beggar's chin and said in a suppressed voice: "Don't move, I'll give you money!"

The little beggar suddenly stopped his movements and blinked twice.

He can still understand human speech.

Yicheng was not a city of abundance, and the poor who lived here could not live a good life, let alone a beggar? He was as thin as a little monkey, with a narrow and thin face, and his cheeks were not as full and bulging as those of ordinary boys, but his eyes were larger and black and white.

The man was seriously injured, and he felt that the sky was spinning for a while, and his heartbeat was about to stop, but he heard the sound of long grass being pulled away from outside the deserted garden.

The pursuers are coming.

The little beggar also turned his head in that direction, and seemed to hear a noise. He didn't squeak, his eyes flashed.

Time was pressing, and the man couldn't care about anything else, so he took out a black box from his arms, stuffed it into the palm of the little beggar along with two ingots of silver, and hurriedly said: "Send it to the land temple in the western suburbs of the city immediately, where someone will give you another ten taels of silver!" Speaking of this, he added a sentence after realizing it, "Do you know that place?"

He didn't know anything about the character of this little ghost, and he shouldn't have taken any chances. But he was at the end of his rope.

That thing must not fall into the hands of the pursuers!

The little beggar nodded. As soon as the man let go, he immediately burrowed into the dog hole, and in an instant there was no trace, only the sound of small feet tapping.

The man could feel the accelerated loss of vitality from his vitality, but he still managed to hold it up and moved to the edge of the water pavilion.

The sound of movement alarmed the pursuers, who rushed straight at him.

He took a long breath, clenched the heavy knife in his hand, and stepped forward.

Hope and mission have shifted, and he wants to buy more time for that little beggar!

......

The little beggar is familiar with the way and runs out of the deserted garden, as nimble as a little mouse in the grass.

When he ran to the other side of the alley, there was a scream from the garden behind him, like a roar.

He turned a deaf ear, slipped faster, and plunged into the darkness as soon as he could.

......

Deserted Garden.

Two men in black found a black box from the corpse in the long grass, and if the little beggar was still here, he would find that it was exactly the same as the one that the man had given him.

"It's here, go back. ”

The other man in black said, "Wait." The trail of blood had come from that time, and he had just circled the garden. ”

What are the people who are in danger doing in this garden if they don't rush to run for their lives?

Soon, they found the answer.

"There's a dog hole here! His accomplice escaped. "Otherwise, why would he stay and break off?

"Chase!"

......

The little beggar ran a dozen steps, and suddenly a lightning bolt struck between the heavens and the earth, followed by a rumbling thunder.

It's going to rain.

At that moment, the box he was holding in his hand lit up.

The light was like lightning in the sky, white with a pale blue. The tingling sensation of the electricity made his palms tremble, and he shook his hand and threw the box out.

The silver-glowing box rolled twice on the ground, illuminating the surroundings.

This is the back alley of the two restaurants, except for the early morning when there is a car to transport swill, no one usually passes by.

The little beggar was in trouble.

If this thing keeps glowing, how can he take it out of the city? The city guards will decide that he has stolen the treasure from the nobleman's house.

Naturally, he also saw that it was not the box itself that was glowing, but a piece of yellow paper pasted on the outside of the box.

I don't know why, this yellow paper has a metallic color, and it is covered with red patterns, like words and paintings, and he can't read it - with his experience and knowledge, how do he know that there is such a thing as a "talisman" in the world?

But in a blink of an eye, he thought of a solution, reached out and touched a branch from the ground, and went to pick this talisman. Whatever the glowing object was, just uncover it and he'll be able to walk away with the box.

The object had been roughly tightly wrapped, but now half of it had fallen off, with a yellowish face, curly edges, and a few blurred runes on it, making it look worn and old.

The little beggar only tried twice, and the talisman was picked open.

Once on the ground, it loses its light, like an ordinary piece of yellow paper. Immediately after that, there was a "horn click", and the lid popped up on its own.

The box opened, revealing its contents.

The treasure that the man was desperately trying to give away should be very valuable, how could it be this? The little beggar turned his head sideways, stepped forward cautiously, and picked up something from the box.

It was a necklace.

To be precise, it was just a red rope, and the pendant tied to it was actually a small woodcarved bell, only the size of the finger of the tail finger.

But there was something strange about the bell body, or maybe it was a text?

The little boy subconsciously touched the bell, it was very smooth, as if someone had rubbed it for a long time, and the surface was even wrapped in a layer of dull pulp, and I don't know how these patterns were printed. When I felt the gap at the top, my fingertips suddenly stabbed!

He quickly withdrew his hand, and saw blood beads coming out of his fingers, a little annoyed - is there still a needle hidden in this bell?

It is not advisable to stay here for a long time, and the little beggar suddenly came back to his senses. But before he could take two steps from his necklace, two black shadows suddenly fell from the wall and stopped in front of him.

Two men in black arrived.

"Where's the thing, hand it over!"

The little beggar threw out the red rope without the slightest hesitation. His life mattered, and he didn't have the determination to save his life. It's not his thing, and it's none of his business.

He was about to turn around and run, but he saw a puff of red smoke escaping from the wooden bell.

Immediately after, the bell disappeared inexplicably, but the red smoke was spreading rapidly.

What's going on? How many mechanisms are hidden in a small bell?

Seeing this, the two men in black only thought that he was plotting to release poison, and were about to bypass the red smoke to chase him to settle accounts, but the smoke was collected out of thin air, and they turned into a person, blocking their way.

From the perspective of the little beggar, I saw only a slender back in a red robe, with a waist as thin as a willow branch, and the exposed skin was so white that it seemed to glow.

The two men in black stopped.

A woman in front of them was smiling at them.

They should be vigilant and vigilant, but the person in front of them is so beautiful, and the person who is lucky enough to see her is like an intruder with peerless beauty, and all that is left in their minds is joy and admiration, where can there be the slightest hostility and murderous intent?

She has hair like a waterfall, red lips like blood, but there is endless spring water in her phoenix eyes.

As soon as she stopped here, the cold and cold autumn night seemed to have turned into a night when the spring breeze was intoxicating, and even the strong wind in her face was gentle and gentle, not daring to disturb her.

The two men in black stared at each other stupidly, and they were reluctant to even look away, but they didn't know that there were still a few wisps of red smoke wafting in the air, which penetrated into their mouths and noses one after another under the cover of night.

They took off their guards.

The woman lightly lifted her lips and said in a harmonious voice, "You are tired, don't you want to rest?"

The voice was low and gentle, with a gentle and comforting meaning, as if he really thought about them.

When these two people heard the word "tired", they immediately felt a sour feeling in their hearts, their heads were heavy, and their bodies were sinking, and they really wanted to sit down and sleep well.

One of them was still strong-willed, and he struggled for a while and remembered: "The task has not been completed, and it is necessary to chase and recover ......."

"Who are you chasing?" the woman blinked, "Where's anyone here?"

There was only an empty alley behind her, not to mention people, not even a wild cat.

The two of them became more and more dizzy, and when they saw that there was no one in the alley, they didn't know what to do, and the woman's beautiful voice came into their ears again, echoing in their minds one after another: "Look at your companions." ”

From "you" to "you", neither of them noticed, just rolled their eyes and looked at each other.

Her voice was seductive, and every word sounded like a golden rule: "He stole the treasure, and he will rob you of your merits and kill you." ”

She smiled, reached out and flicked her sideburns, revealing a golden bracelet on her wrist: "What are you going to do?"

In the eyes of the two looking at each other, anger slowly accumulated: "What should I do?"

"Kill him!" the woman's voice suddenly turned sharp, as if it were bending to a high place. There seemed to be a string in the minds of the two of them that "snapped" and broke in response, "Take back the treasure!"

"Qiang", the blade is out of the sheath, piercing and cold.

It was the sound of murder.

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The two men slashed at each other tirelessly and painfully, and as they pierced through each other's vital points, another thunderclap fell from the sky, and the rumble shook them from their stupor, only to find that they were dying.

Then the rain poured down.

Yicheng, which has been dry for more than a year, finally ushered in a timely rain.

The woman looked up, letting the cold rain lap on her face. She took a deep breath in obsession, not minding the strange smells in the alley at all: "It's been so long, and it's finally come out." ”

With that, she turned and walked down the alley. It walked leisurely, but it ran faster than ordinary people, and then turned a corner, and then another ......

It took her to catch up with the slender figure in front of her.

Even she had to admit that the little beggar looked malnourished, but his body was more flexible than a monkey, and he probably couldn't run with an ordinary adult. And he is familiar with the terrain and often changes to fork in the road. In the case of other pursuers, eighty percent of them will be thrown off by him with the help of cobweb-like alleys.

Not including her, of course.

Seeing that the boy was running more and more down the street, and the lights around him were getting more and more, she coughed at the right time to make sure that her voice could get into his ears:

"Stop. ”

He was deaf and unfazed, but walked faster on both legs.

Her voice was even more sinister: "Otherwise I will eat you." "Little white-eyed wolf, she only made a move to save him.

He stopped.

The movement in the back alley of the restaurant had disappeared, but he could hear the screams, scolding, and slashing of blades before. He didn't know the details of this woman, but since she could easily clean up the two men in black, then she could really eat him if she ate him.

He always knew that there were monsters in this world.

"Looks like you can understand people. She snorted, "Do you know who those two are?"

The little beggar shook his head.

"Do you know what this thing is?" she pointed to his chest.

The little beggar lowered his head, and his pupils shrank suddenly:

The wooden bell necklace that he threw out just now was still hanging around his neck!

He didn't even notice when this thing had returned.

He shook his head.

Sure enough, the woman in red reached out and brushed her sideburns. She was born extremely beautiful, and even a casual action was beautiful.

"It's a scourge, it can kill you in minutes, just like the two of them. As she spoke, she stared at the imp, trying to see the fear on his face. However, his expression did not change, as if he was a little sluggish. "Want to get rid of it?"

The little beggar finally nodded.

"I can help you. ”