There is no smoke in the fire.

"Gore greets my king!"

The person who spoke was wearing a red cloak, and he knelt on one knee with his head bowed, but his chest was straight and his back was straight.

"In accordance with the will of our king, the black-clothed priest has distributed the 'sons' to the villagers of Shishui Village. ”

Although the words have been spoken, the echo of the speaker is still in the air.

A dark blue flame burned in front of the speaker. Because this yin fire is very small, it is impossible to see the surroundings clearly.

"How's the shipment coming back this time?"

In the darkness, a woman's voice was heard. Although the woman's voice was delicate, there was a kind of sharpness that permeated it.

"Queen, there is no discrepancy in the quantity of this batch of goods, and the quality is also excellent, the minister has carefully inspected it, please rest assured that the queen. ”

"The red-clothed sacrifice has worked hard!"

The woman known as the "king" had just finished speaking, and the words suddenly changed: "Spread the king's will, and order the blue-clothed sacrifice to step up production!"

The queen with a gentle and sharp voice just now seemed to be a different person when she gave the order, and her words were not only neat and domineering, but also full of suspicion and slackness.

"Do my king's orders!" Gore was about to get up, but knelt down again, "Queen, the black-clothed sacrifice has returned, and a strange man has been found in Shishui Village. ”

"Oh, is there anything special?" asked the Queen.

"Queen, I haven't found anything special yet. Gore's mind turned, and he stopped talking.

"Hmm. That's the same as always. Stand down. ”

Gore got up, took three steps back, and disappeared into the darkness.

As soon as Gore exited, dozens of yin fires suddenly ignited, and the entire space was suddenly illuminated by firelight.

A palace and its gloom, exposed from the darkness.

This palace is about five zhang long, about three zhang wide, and four zhang high. There are eight large pillars in the hall from the entrance to the inside, all standing on the left and right, except for a yin fire in the center, there is nothing left. The innermost part is a high platform, and above the high platform is a stone seat.

The reason why this hall is gloomy is not only because it is too empty, but also because hundreds of stone bats and hundreds of stone snakes are surrounded and suspended above the eight pillars in the center of the hall and below the roof of the hall.

Some of these stone bats and stone snakes have their mouths wide open, some have wide open eyes, and some are used as lamps, spitting out eerie blue flames.

In the midst of the firelight, they opened their teeth and claws, and their fierceness and cruelty were evident, and they looked at the temple gate, as if they would rush out of the stone at any moment and pounce on the temple gate.

Below the throne, on the left and right, there was a stone python coiled on each side, and they opened their huge mouths, spitting thick flames at the yin fire in the center of the main hall, so that the stone seats above the back appeared and disappeared in their firelight.

On top of the stone seat sat a woman dressed in red.

I saw that under the flickering of the firelight, her right hand was slightly clenched in front of her mouth, and the two red lips flipped quickly, and then she opened her palm and blew gently, only to hear a scream, and a blood-red bat flew out of her palm to the temple door.

In a few moments, the blood bat returned to the main hall. But with it entered the main hall was an old woman with a hunched waist.

The old woman, dressed in a yellow cloak, holding a deer wood staff in her left hand and a roll of black paper in her right hand, walked to the opposite side of the lamp in the center of the hall, bent her right knee with the withered staff, and knelt: "Meet the Queen!

As soon as the old woman's voice fell, suddenly, on the pillar closest to the old woman, a stone bat turned into a living black bat.

The black bat flew to the old woman in yellow, grabbed the black roll of paper in the old woman's hand, and flew towards the throne.

Just as the black bat was about to fly to the queen's side, a stone snake suddenly sprang out on the top of the stone pedestal, bit the black paper end, and together with the black bat, opened the black paper in front of the queen sitting on the stone pedestal.

After reading the secret report, the queen blew lightly on the stone snake that appeared next to her, and the stone snake immediately retracted back to the top of the temple. The black bat also seemed to have received some order, and returned the black paper to the old woman.

The hall resounded with the neat and domineering voice, which did not allow a trace of doubt and slackness.

"The yellow-clothed priest orders you to hand over this secret report to the black-clothed priest, and let him go to Shuangshui Village to find the person depicted in the secret report! In addition, I order you to personally monitor the red-clothed priest in secret, and report his actions every day! If he violates the laws of our dynasty, you can get rid of him first in case of emergency!"

The yellow-clothed priest obviously didn't expect the matter to be so serious, and when he heard the queen's word "exclude", he was even more shocked. But at the same time, I know how important it is!

I saw the yellow-clothed priest put the deer wooden staff in his hand on the ground, and immediately disappeared into the main hall.

With the sudden disappearance of the yellow-clothed sacrifice in the main hall, except for the light in the center of the main hall, all the yin flames were also suddenly extinguished.

After Gore left the main hall, the uneasiness in his heart swelled again, and the turmoil became even more intense.

Today, after hearing the black-clothed priest say that a stranger came to Shishui Village, his heart "chuckled". For more than ten days, he had a sense of ominousness, but soon he convinced himself that he was too sensitive and too suspicious.

But when he saw the queen just now, the uneasiness in his heart began to roll again. This uneasy feeling scared him and regretted it.

He suddenly wanted to go back to the main hall and tell the queen what he had guessed. But he thought about it, if he told the queen his inner guess, then he would have to tell the whole thing. So......

The thought of the queen's face after knowing the whole thing sent chills down his back.

It's going to kill him!

He has followed the queen for so many years, and he is well aware of the queen's attitude and style of doing things. A sudden chill in his back brought him back to reality. Now that it's like this, it's useless to fear and regret.

After thinking about it for a while, he felt that he was right to say nothing in the main hall just now.

Gore felt that he should not speculate like that anymore, because so far he was completely scaring himself.

Since a stranger appeared in Shishui Village at this time, he had to investigate the matter clearly first, let the stone in his heart fall to the ground first, and then make plans.

Gore thought about it calmly, and the most important thing now was to know where the stranger who suddenly appeared in the village lived.

But it was not easy for him to find a stranger to live in Shui Village.

Although he has also been out with the villagers of Shuishui Village, due to his identity, he is not completely familiar with the villagers of Shuishui Village, and many villagers are strangers to him.

Gore thought, looking for it one by one, and if it was really as he had guessed, the queen would have found out before he could find it.

It seems that he can't do it completely on his own, to know who the stranger is, he has to go to the black-clothed sacrifice.

As soon as he thought of the black-clothed sacrifice, a thought suddenly appeared in his mind:

The queen asked him to deal with the stranger as before, and he only needed to ask him to draw a portrait of the stranger when he conveyed the queen's order to the black-clothed priest, wouldn't he have to do without looking for it?