[Weird inn thing, black clothes don't work]

April 23, night.

A string of bright moon hangs high in the sky, exuding bursts of soft brilliance, the surrounding stars are sparse, and three or two stars hug the moon, adding a bit of poetic rhyme.

Indeed, it is a last quarter moon.

Li Qinglian once wrote three poems about drinking under the moon, and the third of them is quite in line with the atmosphere of tonight.

Spend a pot of wine and drink two generals alone.

Raise the bottle with the quarter moon, and pay tribute to the people in the cup.

Will Ji Shan dismount, Qingfeng is still warm.

Kill the enemy and kill the generals, and cut off the armor of two Kunlun.

I'm scared, I'm laughing messy.

When he woke up, he drank and slaughtered three thousand when he was drunk.

Forever stationed in Customs Mountain, who dares to offend Yunhan.

At this moment, in Lin'an South City, the Cyclamen Inn in the west of the city, the surroundings are quiet, and the air is filled with a faint Xiao killing.

A big war is on the verge of breaking out.

The breeze gusted, and the sound of the watchman came from afar, accompanied by the sound of gongs.

"The weather is dry, be careful of the candle~"

The beating of the watchman, also known as the exorcism of ghosts, the soul is afraid of the gong and the ghost is afraid of the double, is to beat the more (jīng) people usually appear in pairs, with the sound of the gong to open the way, originally originated from the Taoist exorcism of ghosts, and later was widely spread by the people, and was appointed by the government to report the time at night, but also to report peace.

Although the watchman does not earn much, it is a profession that is respected by everyone.

The husband usually works in groups of two, one person holds a gong in his hand, and one person holds a wooden stick in his hand, and the two of them take a gear when they play the watch, knocking while walking, and the watchman must knock five times a night, knocking once every other hour, and the number of strikes each time is from one to five, and the number of strokes is increased in turn. When the fifth time is struck, it is also called the fifth watch, and it needs to be five consecutive rings each time, and then it will be the time when the day is about to break, and there will be a rooster crowing.

In today's terms, the time of beating the gong is one watch, that is, seven to nine o'clock in the evening, nine to eleven o'clock in the second watch, eleven o'clock in the third watch, one to three o'clock in the ugly time, and three to five o'clock in the fifth watch.

There are many rumors about encountering evil ghosts on the rivers and lakes, and most of them happen in the middle of the night, that is, on the third watch. At this time, the heaven and earth turn from yang to yin, and it is also the moment when yin energy is the heaviest.

If you don't hear the sound of the gong, there will be a vicious ghost in the courtyard.

It is the ordinary people who have not slept late at night, if they can hear the sound of the gong, they can sleep peacefully.

"Bang Bang~!"

Three crisp and long sounds came in a row, and the gong rang three times, which meant that it was time for the hour.

The two watchmen, one tall and one short, gradually drifted away, and the sound of gongs and shouts gradually became silent, and the whole world suddenly returned to calm.

In the dark corner of the wall, the figure is longing, look carefully, it is Hua Jieyu and his party, several people are divided into north and south, Hua Jieyu and Li San led thirty hidden guards to lurk at the front door, Nie Yuanba and Wan Zhang took ten hidden guards to guard the other street, blocking the back road of the inn.

There are a total of forty hidden guards, all of whom are first-class masters.

On the periphery, Xiao Huangqi led five thousand black armor to pull a large encirclement, quietly surrounding the entire western area of the city.

Du Yunlou carried a pot of wine, sat straight on a roof, drank two sips from time to time, and touched a handful of peanuts from his arms, eating them one by one.

After a while, a hidden guard stepped forward to report, saying that all the people were ready.

The moon is dark and kills the night, when the wind is high and the fire is set on fire.

Hua Xie Yu gestured to Li San, signaling him to light the fire and fire the arrow.

As the name suggests, this arrow arrow is wrapped in a thick layer of flannel, the flannel is soaked with tung oil, and it burns when it encounters fire, and the wind cannot extinguish it. Three whistles were tied to the shaft of the arrow, which sounded in the wind and could be heard for miles.

Seeing this, Li San picked up an arrow with his right hand, lit the arrow with a fire breaker, and then opened the bow with his left hand and took the arrow with his right hand, aiming straight at the void above his head, and the back of the bow was pulled out by him in an arc.

"Bang Bang Bang~"

"The weather is dry, be careful of the candle~"

A loud gong and shouting came again, interrupting the movement in Li San's hand.

Didn't you fight more?

How can there be a change!

Hua Jieyu and Li San glanced at each other, and they both saw the surprise in each other's eyes.

In fact, each watchman has his own fixed street, otherwise Nuo Da Lin'an City will not be able to run back and forth at all, in addition to taking errands, the same street, how can there be two waves of watching?

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon!

Looking at the two watchmen again, I saw that both of them were tall and slightly thin, and they were not the two who had just passed.

Hua Xie Yu glanced at Li San, Li San nodded suddenly, put down the belongings in his hand, and with a movement of his footsteps, the whole person turned into a green shadow, and went straight to the two watchmen.

didn't wait for the two to react, but they were hit in the back of the neck by Li San twice, and then Li San flew with a swallow, one in one hand, and directly dragged the two people with gongs.

When he got to the place, Li San rummaged through the clothes of the two, and finally turned out a few taels of silver, a rattle, and a rag doll.

Hua Xie Yu frowned, and his eyes were uncertain.

"Wake them up. ”

Li San woke up the two, and after some inquiry, it was finally determined that these two were the real people in this area, and when asked about their hometown, the two old men said that they were the locals of Lin'an, and the people around them knew the names of the two of them, and one of them picked up the rattle and rag doll in his arms, and said that he bought it for his grandson.

Hua Jieyu and Li San glanced at each other, let the two of them go, Li San's expression was a little solemn, and said:

"Since these two are real, then the two before ......"

"This matter is strange, while the other party has not gone far, you quickly catch up and take a look. ”

Li San didn't say a word when he heard this, his body moved, and he disappeared into the night.

Hua Xie Yu stretched out two white hands and rubbed his temples, his frowning brows spread, and his eyes looked at the inn fixedly, but there was a touch of uncertainty in his expression.

After Shaoqing, Li San returned again, looking at his appearance, his expression was slightly weird, and he let out a long breath and said to Hua:

"Childe, those two people, are dead. ”

"Huh?"

Hua Xie Yu looked at Li San suspiciously.

"I can't figure it out either, when I arrived, the two of them had already lost their breath, I think it might have been done by the Underground Pavilion, and then it was the City Lord's Mansion. ”

Hua Jieyu pondered for a moment when she heard this, then nodded, did not continue to ask, but looked at the moonlight, and said softly:

"It's time, let's do it. ”

Li San stretched out his bow and arrows again, shot an arrow, and went straight to the sky.

A bright fire suddenly rose from the dark night sky, accompanied by a loud and sharp sound.

"Squeak~"

"Whoosh!

Dozens of figures tossed and turned, and in the blink of an eye, they rushed into the inn.

According to the pre-plan, the first wave of people entered directly from the hidden guards, found out the situation in advance, solved the opponent's hidden masters on the surface by the way, and finally found the opponent's hidden mechanism. And Hua Jieyu Li Sanwanzhang and Nie Yuanba gathered in front of the inn, ready to support at any time.

To the surprise of a few people, soon a hidden guard came with the news that all the people in the inn had been killed!

There are more than 20 people in the back kitchen of the restaurant who live in the store, one is counted as one, and one did not run, and all of them died tragically in the inn.

The four people who heard the news couldn't stay any longer, and hurriedly moved into the inn together.

Du Yunlou in the distance narrowed his eyes, looked at the few people who hurriedly walked into the inn, threw the wine jar, and followed a few dodges.

The Cyclamen Inn is divided into two floors, covering an area of 200 meters, with more than 10 private rooms on the first floor in addition to a hall, and the second floor for accommodation, most of which are rooms.

It is worth mentioning that, different from the blue bricks and green tiles carved beams and paintings of other restaurants and tea shops in Lin'an City, the rooms here are all made of cypress.

It's just that at this moment, there is a bit of blood mixed in with the taste.

Hua Jieyu and the others followed the hidden guards all the way through the rooms of the inn, and checked the entire inn inside and out, but did not find a single living person.

The more than 20 deceased people in the restaurant, all of them were separated from the corpses, and a few people analyzed that almost all of these dead people were beheaded in an instant, and they didn't even have time to scream.

And most importantly, the blood of these people is still hot!

That is, they just died.

What's going on?

Looking at this method of death, it is a bit like someone's usual method.

Hua Jieyu looked at Du Yunlou, who followed later, and several other people also turned their eyes to Du Yunlou when they saw this.

Du Yunlou shook his head, and also showed a confused look.

"I like to cut people's throats to play, but I don't have the habit of cutting off people's entire heads, and I've always been behind you, how can I come here to kill people. ”

Hearing this, everyone pondered again, and the current situation was a little weird.

Who is it?

Is it Yun Xuan?

Judging by his temper and actions, it is absolutely impossible.

"Did the other people in your Pavilion?"

Wan Zhang stared at Du Yunlou and asked with a little speculation.

Du Yunlou paused for a moment, his expression was also full of uncertainty and said:

"We don't know who each other is, let alone the mission, but it's possible. ”

Hua Jieyu glanced at Du Yunlou when she heard this, and deliberately said lightly:

"But I don't know that with your strength, you can't even know the information of other people?"

Du Yunlou surprisingly collected the prodigal look on his face, revealing a look of awe.

"We just care about the boss, we don't care about anything else, we don't care, we don't care, even if one day the boss asks us to kill each other, I won't frown. ”

Li San was amused and laughed:

"What if your boss wants your wife?"

Du Yunlou didn't care and pouted.

"What's this, mine, it's his. ”

“......”

Li San gave a thumbs up, showed admiration, and continued to ask:

"As an assassination force, you came out to show your face, aren't you afraid of being hunted down by the enemy?"

Du Yunlou he, wiped his round belly and said:

"Someone has to come out and give a name to the pavilion and take over a task, isn't it? I'm actually an errand runner, so how can I have any enemies. ”

Li San was about to speak, when suddenly a hidden guard walked straight down from the second floor, and then walked directly to Hua Jieyu, and whispered a few words to Hua Jieyu.

After listening to Hua Jieyu, his expression suddenly changed, he looked at the east side of the second floor, and said in a condensed voice:

"Lead the way!"

With that, he followed the guard to the second floor.

Everyone didn't know why, so they followed the footsteps of the two and went up to the second floor.

Turning right on the second floor, the group followed the hidden guard directly to the innermost Ichimi house.

Along the way, everyone had a little guess, probably guessing what kind of secret path the hidden guard had discovered.

Sure enough, I saw the hidden guard lift the scroll that had been unfolded in front of the room, and a six-sided disc appeared under it. Then the guard spun the disc with one hand, and suddenly a creaking sound pierced.

Looking at the floor on one side, it suddenly drooped down, and a staircase appeared in everyone's eyes.

"It's a secret way!"

Everyone exclaimed in unison and came closer to take a look.

But when I saw that the staircase was pitch black, deep and gloomy, I didn't know where it led. In particular, the faint bloody aura that came from it was simply disgusting, and under the dark stairs, it was as if there was a bloodthirsty demon, who was quietly waiting for his prey to walk into the entrance by itself.

Hua Xie Yu looked around and commanded:

"Yuan Ba, Third Master, let's take thirty hidden guards to investigate the situation first, and Lao Wan will lead the remaining hidden guards and this senior Du to guard here, just in case. ”

Wan Zhang said solemnly:

"Childe, it's better for me to ......"

Before he finished speaking, Hua Xie Yu looked for a torch and directly interrupted Wan Zhang.

"I know what Wan Lao means, there is no need to say more, once there is a situation, there is still Yuanba, rest assured. ”

After speaking, he led the group down the stairs and went all the way down.

Du Yunlou touched his nose and sat on the Taishi chair on one side with a big grin, knowing that Hua Jieyu was wary of himself, so he would leave Wanzhang and a group of hidden guards behind.

It's human nature.

What the two didn't expect was that after Hua Jieyu and the others went down, more than half an hour passed, and there was still no news coming up!

It's about to be the fourth watch, and in the distance, you can already faintly hear the sound of gongs.

Can't wait!

A bad premonition came.

Wan Zhang and Du Yunlou glanced at each other, picked up the torch in unison, and left the hidden guard to continue to control the wind, and the two of them cautiously went down the stairs.

I didn't know what I didn't know, and I was startled.

......

"Boom~"

The voice of the watchman came from afar, and the night was approaching the fourth watch, and everything was quiet.

Xiao Huangqi carried seven stars and the moon on his waist, looking at a light in the darkness from afar, in his sight, two figures, one tall and one short, gradually approached, and then gradually moved away, until they completely disappeared from sight.

It had been an hour since the fire and arrows rang out, but there was no news ahead.

Xiao Huangqi's brows furrowed, and he faintly felt a trace of abnormality.

It is said that Hua Jieyu and the others have been in for so long, it is impossible that there has been no movement for so long, even if you throw a small pebble in the water, you can make a splash, right? But they seem to have disappeared, which makes people wonder.

While thinking about it, Xiao Huangqi vaguely saw a faint shadow flashing away in a corner under the moonlight, and when he looked carefully again, the shadow had disappeared without a trace, and he couldn't help but move his footsteps and run over.

"What people!"

Xiao Huangqi walked to the corner of the alley, and saw a black mirror curled up in the corner, as if he had a strange disease, he couldn't stop shaking, and the sound of "drink and drink" came out of his throat from time to time, which was extremely weird.

If this is an ordinary person, I'm afraid I will be at least half scared to death.

Xiao Huangqi looked around and found nothing else, so he put the handle of the knife in his hand and slowly walked towards the man. As he got closer, a chill gradually hit, and Xiao Huangqi could even see a cloud of white gas between his breaths.

When the black shadow heard Xiao Huangqi's voice, he suddenly stopped trembling, then slowly stood up and turned around, his black hair scattered, covering his face.

Through the hazy moonlight, Xiao Huangqi could see it clearly, and with him, there was a giant sword more than one foot wide and seven feet long, which was standing diagonally in the right hand of the black shadow at the moment. The two silver-white blades on it flashed with a cold cold light, and the two red and blackened blood troughs were hideously visible.

A cold and majestic killing machine rushed to his face, and the straight blowing Xiao Huangqi's clothes were hunting, and the moment the other party turned around, Xiao Huangqi inexplicably began to rush from the tip of his toes and went straight to the top beam door.

The black shadow's long hair was windless, and Xiao Huangqi finally saw his appearance clearly.

A miserable white face, without a trace of life, like a demon coming out of hell, and ———

A pair of eyes glowing red.

Dangerous!

"Cangchangchang!"

The right eyelid was beating rapidly, and Xiao Huangqi almost subconsciously pulled out the Seven Star Moon Piercing Knife on his waist, and made a move to welcome the guest. This is a move to brake quietly, and all swordsmen who practice knives on the rivers and lakes will basically do this, which is one of the few moves for self-defense.

But I didn't expect that this trick was just half lit up, and the black shadow moved!

In the ear chakra, I only heard a loud sound of "boring and long~", and then the treasure knife in his palm was knocked away, Xiao Huangqi was shocked instantly, only to feel that his right arm holding the knife was sore, and he couldn't exert any strength for a while.

So fast!

Between the lightning and flint, Xiao Huangqi instinctively rolled on the spot, and he could dodge the sudden blow of the black shadow, and the giant sword almost touched his head, directly cutting off the purple gold orchid jade crown on his head, and suddenly his long hair fell, and Xiao Huangqi's only remaining hair drooped down, embarrassed.

"Bang!"

The giant sword continued to castrate, and smashed a huge crack in the ground, and the rubble splattered, cutting several bloody cuts on Xiao Huangqi's face.

Who is this!?

Xiao Huangqi couldn't care about the shock in his heart, he reacted instantly, his footsteps moved, and his body technique was used to the extreme, and he withdrew far away in a few dodges, and along the way, he didn't dare to turn back!

The strength of the other party is not something that you can deal with.

To his gratification, the other party didn't chase him for some reason.

Xiao Huang Qicha returned to his original station, a solemnity flashed in his eyes, and after thinking about it, he directly summoned a thousand black armors and surrounded the past again.

Since one person can't beat it, then use the number of people to win.

These black-armored soldiers are all qualified people who have jumped out of the Xiao family's daily city defense army, and after special training in the martial arts arena, most of them have the strength of second-rate masters.

Among them, there are 900 heavy-armored swords and spearmen, and 100 lightly armored and heavy-weight crossbowmen, each of which has no less than eight stones.

One stone (dàn) is thirty catties, and eight stones is two hundred and forty catties!

No matter what kind of swordsman you are, in front of these hundred heavy crossbows, you have to bow your eyebrows. Even if it is a top master, of course, if the other party is a master of the transformation realm, Xiao Huangqi has no chance to escape at all, and there is no need to mention the rest of the matter.

The other party can't be a Transformation Realm, or a half-step Transformation Realm master.

The reason why Xiao Huangqi thought of this was because almost all the masters of the Transformation Realm had advanced internal cultivation, and the blow of the black shadow just now obviously relied on brute force, and the other party was likely to not have a high cultivation, or was seriously injured.

Linked to the performance of the black shadow just now, Xiao Huangqi confirmed this.

But even if it is brute force, it can beat him, a top-notch master, without the power to fight back, and its strength is so great that it can be seen from the leopard in the tube.

If it weren't for the small place, Xiao Huangqi almost wanted to mobilize all the black armor to ensure that nothing went wrong.

After dispatching a thousand black armor heavy troops to block this area again, Xiao Huangqi led a group of black armor back to the scene of the incident, and was surprised to find that the black shadow was still here.

The black shadow surrounded by a group of armor soldiers seemed to be unaware, and was sitting in a corner at the moment, his whole body twitching from time to time, accompanied by a burst of eerie cheers.

Xiao Huangqi stood behind the black armor and asked:

"Who is Your Excellency, why did you appear here for no reason, and why did you attack me for no reason?!"

“......”

"What is your relationship with those Penglai people?"

“......”

It's good that Xiao Huangqi didn't ask, but this question was a big trouble.

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(YQF: Here's an explanation of all the cyan colors in this book - blue is blue to the extreme, which is different from jet black, and cyan is inky blue.)

As for the pronunciation of more, there is no such pronunciation of jīng in the dictionary anymore, so this book defines it as such, just to pay tribute to tradition. ）