It's almost dawn.

Luan Yi yawned and stretched, he looked at the sky, thinking that this mission should be over.

Although this mission is boring and a little inexplicable, after all, it is an order given by the hall master himself. The sound of roosters crowing could be faintly heard in the distance, and Luan Yi made a retreat gesture to several other companions, brushing his sleeves and leaving.

Luan Yi is the helmsman of the first rudder of Mingfeng Hall, he and the other eleven rudder masters have been guarding the city gate all night, it stands to reason that the general size of the rivers and lakes, the twelve of them are enough to calm down.

This time, the twelve helmsmen gathered in Diyun City, originally to participate in the annual New Year's gathering. Mingfeng Hall, as the Jianghu sect in the southern Xinjiang of the megatron, has to hold the assembly for half a month every year, but who knows that halfway through the meeting, the hall master suddenly ordered a pause, and let the twelve helmsmen of the hall personally go to the city gate to guard the night, and also claimed that the matter was top secret and important.

Since it is top secret, it is naturally inconvenient to ask more about the reason, and the assembly has been held for a few days, everyone is a little tired, go out to breathe, and do not need to do anything, and also help solve a major matter, everyone naturally has no complaints.

It's just that the guards on the tower of the city are pitiful, and they have been fighting in fear all night, if they really fight against these people, they will definitely only be cannon fodder.

And those forbidden soldiers and killers who were in ambush, seeing that the people they had been staring at all night had thrown their hands and left, they were stunned in place, neither to go, nor to stay, they all looked at each other, not knowing how to deal with themselves, and could only wait for new orders from the palace.

In the palace, the Guogong Mansion, Zhu Ning, Zhu Long, Zhu Lan and his son sat in the hall, Zhu Ning took a seat, and Zhu Long and Zhu Lan sat side by side under the hall.

"Tell me what you think. Zhu Ning squinted his eyes slightly and sat on the chair half-reclining.

Zhu Long spoke first: "Father, according to what the child saw, Gao Fei invited so many masters to help, presumably he made a bloody investment, and originally planned to make a desperate bet, but Gao Fei is cautious and cunning, and may have discovered our ambush, so he didn't dare to start, maybe he will make a comeback in a few days." ”

"I found out that those twelve people are the helmsmen of Mingfeng Hall. Zhu Lan added.

"Mingfengtang?" Zhu Ning suddenly opened his eyes, his long yellow and white eyebrows furrowed, and said slowly: "The twelve helmsmen of Mingfengtang, all of them are heroes who dominate one side and call for wind and rain, except for Luan Yi who is the first rudder, everyone else should be in other rudder places in Southern Xinjiang, why did they suddenly gather in my Southern Chu National Capital, and help Gao Fei get out?"

Zhu Lan shook his head: "The palace is in charge of the affairs of the palace, and then there are the affairs of the local newspapers, as well as the people and the army, few people deal with the rivers and lakes, and the palace's understanding of the gangs in the rivers and lakes may not be as good as that of the people in the market." Moreover, according to the current information, it is not possible to prove that Mingfengtang is related to Gao Fei this time, after all, Gao Fei has not shown up from beginning to end. ”

After speaking, Zhu Lan walked down the hall and knelt down: "The child was in a hurry this time, and he failed to handle the matter properly, so he was willing to be punished." ”

Zhu Ning regained his calm expression, he waved his hand, signaling not to pursue it: "How are the other two things going?"

Zhu Lan didn't get up, leaned over and bowed his head and continued: "The Yan family, I am sending people to closely monitor, and the black-armored warriors in charge of the Yan family have recently shown signs of transferring, and they are heading towards the north of the city. ”

"As for the situation on the day of the thief Gao Fei's disappearance, we are still trying our best to investigate, and there were also our people secretly monitoring him at that time, but this matter is strange and there is no conclusion yet. ”

Zhu Ning glanced up at him slightly, "Go on." ”

Zhu Lan continued: "That day was the birthday banquet of the first king, Gao Fei went out in a carriage to the banquet, and on the way, a family member from the palace who came out of the palace told him something, Gao Fei ordered to go to the embroidery workshop to buy some embroidery first, and said that he was in a hurry to go out, and forgot to bring a birthday gift, so he sent the family back to the house to bring the birthday gift. ”

Zhu Ning raised his eyebrows, "This is obviously someone who is reporting to him, but the news in the palace is so well blocked, even if a family member of the Yuanfei Mansion enters the palace, where did he hear the rumors?"

Seeing Zhu Lan's dazed look, Zhu Ning waved his hand a little helplessly, "That's it, you go on, what happened next?"

Zhu Lan lowered his head a little ashamedly, and continued: "Then the carriage stopped at the door of the embroidery workshop, and the family who came to ventilate the news before sent a gift box and went home, Gao Fei stayed in the car and did not get out of the sedan chair, and the embroideries were presented to Gao Fei by the guards, and they chose several things, and finally picked two copies. When he arrived at the palace and the guards asked him to get off the carriage, he suddenly found that there was no one in the carriage. ”

Zhu Ning heard something wrong, "Have we been monitored during this process?"

Zhu Lan replied: "Yes, the child also thinks that this matter is strange, if Gao Fei secretly leaves from the carriage, he will definitely be discovered by our people, but since he got into the carriage in the mansion, he has not come out, and no one has left the convoy." ”

Zhu Lan shook his head in disappointment, and said helplessly: "He seems to have disappeared into this carriage out of thin air." ”

The further the Demon Forest farther east, the denser and taller the trees became, and the more sparsely populated they became, until they reached the eastern corner of Lingqiu Mountain, where the ancient trees covered the sky and the sun, the branches were knotted, and the lush leaves were verdant.

In such an environment, there should not be a human figure, but there is a low grass hut beside a dense bush. Out of the grass house came a slender woman dressed in green, her face was covered with a white veil, there was a small mole on the left corner of her eyebrows, and she held a fan made of spirit ruin leaves in her hand, which was gently swaying under the medicine stove outside the grass house, and the medicine stove was bubbling with a faint white gas.

About half an hour later, the woman in Tsing Yi scooped up a bowl of soup and medicine and brought it into the room, where lay a young man covered in blood, his facial lines were hard and resolute, his eyelashes were slightly longer than normal, his nose was straight, he looked heroic, he was wearing the brocade robe of the guards of Nanchu Da Nei, and there was a huge ancient sword carved with a mysterious pattern that was six feet long next to the bed.

The woman sat down on the edge of the bed with the medicine and said with a smile: "Is the young man awake, get up and drink some medicine." ”

Gao Cheng opened his eyes, but did not get up immediately, he vaguely remembered what happened before he fell unconscious, and asked, "Who are you?

The girl in green smiled and said: "My name is Qing'er, I have studied medicine with my father since I was a child, and I have been living in seclusion here since my father passed away. A few days ago, when I was collecting medicine, I happened to see Shaoxia seriously injured and unconscious in the forest, so I took the liberty to bring Shaoxia here for treatment, but Shaoxia was too seriously injured, and I am afraid it will take some time to completely recover. ”

Gao Cheng sat up on the bed and saluted Qing'er, "Thank you, girl." ”

"Childe is serious, as doctors, it is our duty to save lives and help the wounded, and Childe can turn the corner this time, mainly because Childe himself is blessed and has a great life, if ordinary people are injured like this, I will not live no matter how powerful I am. ”

Qing'er smiled, her big watery eyes bent into a crescent moon, "When I first found you, I thought you were dead, but I didn't expect that your recovery ability far exceeded that of ordinary people." ”

Gao Cheng smiled, feeling that this girl was gentle and amiable, and couldn't help but add a lot of good feelings to her in his heart, seeing that she was veiled, he asked: "The Demon Forest is sparsely populated, why do girls come here to collect medicine, why do you have to wear a veil?"

Hearing this, Qing'er's eyes that were still smiling immediately dimmed: "Qing'er had a serious illness when she was a child, her face was ulcerated, and even if she recovered later, she left a scar, and her appearance was very ugly. ”

When Gao Cheng heard this, he thought that a girl was so broken, it was really pitiful, and he quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, the girl is reckless, I never want to offend the girl, I'm really sorry......"

Qing'er smiled again: "Childe doesn't have to blame himself, you are still injured, drink the medicine first." As he spoke, he sat on the bed and wanted to feed Gao Cheng medicine.

Gao Cheng was a little embarrassed: "This ...... I'll do it myself. ”

Qing'er's beautiful eyes flowed, as if a charming aura emanated from these big eyes, slowly melting Gao Cheng's resistance: "Childe's internal injuries are very serious, so it is not appropriate to move more, or Qing'er will help you." ”

Gao Cheng couldn't refute for a while, so he had to open his mouth obediently and let this strange and mysterious little girl feed himself medicine, looking at Qing'er's big flickering eyes, Gao Cheng thought to himself that if this girl was not disfigured, he was afraid that she would be a stunning beauty again.

In the past few days since he escaped from the palace, he has encountered so many strange people with unique skills, Gao Cheng felt that it was really an eye-opener, thinking of this, the beautiful white-clothed figure appeared in his mind.

I don't know what happened to her.

Gao Cheng couldn't help but think of the amazing appearance of the woman in white in his mind, what a perfect face it was, only once, Gao Cheng felt that he would never forget it in his life, although it was just a sleeping face, but it still had a breathtaking magic.

With that group of people in black to save her, I don't think there should be any danger, but it's a pity that the guy wearing the wolf's head mask was slashed in the neck by that sword qi, and it is estimated that he would have died a long time ago, who told him to be so impulsive, and he would be a killer without asking about it, if it weren't for his luck, he was afraid that he would be split in half by that knife.

Thinking of the incomparably powerful aura of the wolf-headed masked man, Gao Cheng was also a little scared for a while.

The next day, Gao Cheng felt that his body was much better, and he couldn't help but sigh that this Qing'er had excellent medical skills, so after three days of recuperation, Gao Cheng's body, which was originally hanging by a thread, was almost unhindered.

Gao Cheng was an orphan who was adopted by Gao Qiang, who was still the Duke of Dingguo at the time, when he was very young. He has been interested in martial arts since he was a child, and he does have an extraordinary talent in this area.

In the Southern Chu Kingdom, people only know that the third prince Gao Fei is a martial arts genius, because Gao Fei defeated Yin Donglie, people call him the first martial arts person of the younger generation, but no one knows that the strongest among the young generation of Southern Chu is actually Gao Cheng, who is two years younger than Gao Fei.

Because Gao Cheng is only a righteous son, and his identity is not as good as that of the prince, Gao Qiang has always put him next to the third prince and named him the chief of the inner chamberlain, the intention is obvious, it is to cultivate the feelings and tacit understanding between their brothers, and Gao Fei will succeed to the throne in the future.

And the martial arts cultivation of the third prince, in addition to learning from the martial arts master of the royal family, was basically improved in the training and competition with this righteous brother.

For a long time, Gao Cheng, as the strongest secret weapon hidden in the Wang family, has been concentrating on cultivation and acting very low-key, until this palace coup occurred, Gao Fei was accused of rebellion, and he was naturally implicated because he usually went closest to Gao Fei.

When the seven great grandmasters of Southern Chu came to arrest them with the forbidden army, Gao Fei disappeared mysteriously, and this usually inconspicuous adopted son Gao Cheng unexpectedly burst out with amazing strength, fighting against the seven great grandmasters of the royal family with the strength of one person without falling behind, breaking through the siege of the forbidden army and retreating.

At this time, Gao Chengjianqing, who was exercising his pranayama in the grass house, hurriedly ran in and whispered to him: "There is a team of officers and soldiers outside, could it be that they are looking for you?"

"Officers and soldiers?" Gao Cheng was secretly frightened, thinking that he was not necessarily an important person, and the other party should not have to put him to death, why did he want to chase and kill him in this deserted demon forest?

He hid behind the door and looked into the woods, but saw about a hundred people pouring out of the woods wearing the armor of the Southern Chu Dark Lin Army.

Gao Cheng couldn't help but be shocked, this Gloom Lin Army is an elite unit in the palace that specializes in assassination, how could so many people come to chase them to this Demon Realm Forest?

Qing'er urged in his ear: "Do you see clearly? Is it coming at you? If so, run quickly, it's still too late to run!"

"It doesn't make sense, how could they run here to chase me......"

Before Gao Cheng finished speaking, he was pulled back by Qing'er's sleeve: "Don't be, aren't people already chasing after you?"

Gao Cheng smiled bitterly: "Then don't ask." ”

Qing'er opened a small window behind the grass hut and said, "You quickly jump out of here and keep running towards the east, you can get to Qingqiu Country, and when you get to Qingqiu Country, they won't dare to cross the border to chase you." ”

There seemed to be no other way now, Gao Cheng had no choice but to jump out of the window and hesitate: "What about you?"

Qing'er's eyes widened: "Me?"

"Judging by the way they look, they must know that I am hiding here, what will you do if they force you?"

Qing'er hurriedly said: "Don't worry, of course I won't tell them where you are, you were saved by me, how can I let them kill you again?

Gao Cheng shook his head: "The girl misunderstood, I'm afraid of affecting you." ”

Qing'er interrupted him impatiently: "How can you be a big man, mother-in-law, if you want to leave, hurry up, I will pretend to be confused when they ask me, they will not treat me like this, everyone is almost at the door, you hurry up!"

Gao Cheng was still a little worried, but there was no other way, as soon as he gritted his teeth, he jumped down from the window, and as soon as he jumped down, he heard someone break into the grass house behind him, and then a hoarse and fierce roar came out through the window: "Search for me!"

Gao Cheng didn't dare to slack off, and ran towards the east.