In the last few days of the New Year, stepping on the snow all over the ground, the group finally walked to the front of Jinguan City.

After descending the lonely Shu Road that stretched for more than 200 miles, a rare plain finally appeared outside Jinguan City. Coming from the east, looking around, I saw that the majestic state city was lying in the distance like a behemoth, and the yellow grass was everywhere outside, wrapped in frost and snow, and the eyes were full of gloomy.

"It is said that the Jinguan in Shuzhong is a blessed land outside the sky, and from the outside, this Jinguan City really does not have the appearance of a blessed land. Dai Lou Duyun commented.

The rest of the people also entered Shu for the first time, and they didn't say much for a while, but An Guangmao, who was the oldest, pondered for a long time and said: "But where the blessed land is, there must be a cave in it, and the appearance is determined, so I can't help but be anxious." ”

"Having said that, we won't be able to enter the Jinguan City today. Zhao Wu'an unloaded the Luoshen sword box and leaned over to the ground to brush away a patch of snow.

He took out the dry wood he had gathered, pulled a few bundles of dry grass from under the snow, and built a fire.

On the way to come, everyone has inquired more than once, when the New Year is closed to wander the homeless, the beginning of spring will be the general election of the leader of the martial arts alliance, Jinguancheng, which does not close the door at night on weekdays, has also implemented a curfew recently, and the means are unprecedentedly strict, open the city gate every hour, and it will be closed immediately after the time passes, and it is forbidden to enter and exit.

However, because the city gate is open all day long on weekdays, since the Shiniu Road, the small inns on the roadside have been greatly reduced, and the proximity to Jinguan City has reached the point where there is no store in front of the village and no store. If they were to spend the night outside the city, they would inevitably have to sleep in the wilderness.

It was getting late, and several bonfires were already floating in the field, lined with small overlapping figures around the fire, all waiting for the travelers to enter the city tomorrow.

Sleeping in the wilderness, wild beasts have to be guarded against, but the most important thing to guard against is people. Those few campfires that seemed to be far away should have been carefully arranged for people to keep vigil. Towards the end of the journey, no one wants to have an accident at this time.

Although Dai Lou Duyun patted his chest and promised that he would lay a circle of poison to make everyone sleep peacefully, Zhao Wu'an still carefully arranged the order of the vigil before letting everyone lay out the futon and sleep on the ground.

When it comes to sleeping in the open, Zhao Wu'an is no stranger, such as Hu Buxi and Duan Taoli have long been used to it, and they quickly closed their eyes and fell asleep. Mrs. Ann had not traveled far for a long time, and after tossing for a long time, she fell asleep in the second half of the night.

Annan and Dailou Duyun were in the first half of the night, and Zhao Wuan and Hu Buxi were in the second half of the night. Duan Taoli also wanted to stay for a while, but was flatly rejected by Zhao Wu'an.

As the night deepened, and the starry sky overhead slowly turned, Annan sat expressionlessly by the campfire, picking up a piece of wood from time to time and throwing it into the fire in front of him.

The bonfire crackled, the bright flames leaped into the dark night, and the four fields were silent. Annan felt that King Miaojiang, who was separated from him by a fire, was almost asleep.

He sighed to himself, thinking that a second-grade master like Dai Lou Duyun was nothing more than that, and then thinking that he would soon enter the Jinguan City that was the world's most watchful person, his emotions inevitably became complicated, and he sighed lightly.

But he didn't want this sigh to be heard by the closed eyes of the building Duyun.

"What's there to worry about, boy?"

King Miao, who had lost one arm, didn't seem to be sleeping very well, and his left hand on his knee was raised to support his chin, looking at him through the bonfire.

Annan did not answer, and continued to bury his head in adding dry wood to the fire.

"If you add more, it will burn to the sky. Dai Lou Duyun said calmly.

Annan said angrily: "Then let it burn to the sky, it's better to burn all those troubled immortals in the sky to death, there won't be so many creations in the world." ”

The campfire rose like dust.

Dai Lou Duyun was speechless: "Do you really think so?"

"I don't have any great skills, the most I can do is this, my mother wants to come to Shu to find Qing'er, and I will accompany me, just as the second elder in this life......" Annan said, suddenly paused, and said after a while, "The last time I went out in this life, I can say that I have a son to accompany me." ”

Dai Lou Duyun didn't say anything, but slowly straightened his legs, lay down on his back, and put his hands behind his back.

"Don't fall asleep!" Annan warned him.

Dai Lou Duyun said leisurely: "I heard that in the desert of the Western Xia Kingdom, there was a kind of snow lotus. It is different from the ordinary snow lotus flowers that bloom on the top of snow-capped mountains, but grows in the barren white sand everywhere, just like the nutrients of the entire desert are gathered on the body of a flower. Take its flower stems into medicine, which can cure the lack of qi in the chest. ”

Annan was silent for a long time. "So you know it all. ”

"I figured it out slowly. Dai Lou Duyun said, "You entered the Greedy Demon Palace, and it was because of this in the first place. ”

It's not because I'm contaminated with a little bit of the atmosphere of the rivers and lakes that I forget my ancestors and rebel and be unscrupulous. Pull up the flag and be a Jiangyang thief, and he is involved in the Demon Sect far outside the dynasty.

On the contrary, in order to find a good medicine for his long-term sick mother, he did not hesitate to get infected with a fishy smell and be in the company of evil ways.

Dai Lou Duyun sneered: "I know now why Zhao Wu'an didn't let me kill you at that time. His instincts were terrifying. ”

Annan said silently: "Please do not tell your parents about this. They are not afraid that their children will not dare to go out all their lives, and they are afraid that we will go the wrong way. The Demon Greed Hall is a demon cult in the eyes of the world, and its essence is almost far away, and they never want me to be with it. ”

"Then you can save some snacks, I don't bother to sue. "But in exchange for my guess of your identity, you'll have to do something for me." ”

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When Zhao Wu'an woke up, Hu Buxi was still asleep.

Standing up from the cotton futon and shaking his drowsy head, Zhao Wuan sighed helplessly. Hu Buxi's bed is also expected by him.

Others don't know Dai Lou Duyun's ability, can he not know if he doesn't like it? A purple mist in Willow Leaf Villa can stop three hundred heavily armed righteous path knights, and will he care about one or two groups of little thieves wandering in the wild?

Obviously, he was sure that Dailou Duyun would definitely leave protection in the first half of the night, Hu Buxi slept peacefully, and he didn't mean to get up at all when the time came.

Zhao Wuan had no choice but to shake his head alone and go to the bonfire to take over.

There was only one figure sitting by the campfire. Zhao Wu'an looked closely, and found that Lou Duyun was carefully repairing his nails by the light of the fire.

He was a little annoyed for no reason: "What about Annan?"

"I asked you to confirm one thing. It's okay, right?" asked Twilight.

"What's the matter?" Zhao Wu'an was stunned.

Dailou Duyun raised his eyes, glanced at Zhao Wu'an, and moved away nonchalantly.

"One thing that matters whether I will follow you into the city next, or whether I will turn around and leave. "Dailou Duyun Road.

Zhao Wu'an frowned. "You've all come here, what's the point of turning around and leaving?"

"I don't really like to be taken advantage of. Dailou Twilight stretched out, "Not even you." ”

Zhao Wu'an sighed and didn't say anything.

Dai Lou Duyun suddenly pretended to be calm and said, "Those two people in White Horse Town were killed by you, right? You actually noticed Zhu Nanzhan's overnight visit, but you just pretended not to know. As for the roar of the sword we heard that night, the owner of the sword was actually just a witness to the murder. ”

"What did you say?"

Dai Lou Duyun sneered: "Zhao Wu'an, I have to say that you are indeed a genius in this area, whether you solve the case or commit the crime, you have done it so seamlessly. Even if Nie Baishuang witnessed you kill the two of the Black Cloud Guild in a panic with a flying sword in hand, he had no choice but to pretend that he didn't know anything and continued to move west. On the contrary, you can wipe out the spies of the Black Cloud Society, pretend to be innocent and turn over the two hundred miles of Shu Road under the nose of the Ten Wishes Monk of Shu, and go straight to the Jinguan City. ”

"Speak with evidence. Zhao Wu'an said unexpectedly, "Besides, my motives?"

"The proof is the car marks. "Dailou Duyun Road," it snowed overnight, and the carriage carrying Zhu Nanzhan and Qiao Xi drove through the half-mile mountain road in the second half of the night and arrived at White Horse Town. Everyone did see the car marks, but what about the horseshoe prints?"

Zhao Wuan didn't say a word.

Dai Lou Duyun sneered: "Although the car marks are eye-catching, several carriages have passed by, and you can see it at a glance, but the horseshoe prints are not quite the same. A carriage is pulled by several horses, leaving very different horseshoe prints, which are difficult to tell by other means. In other words, it wouldn't be surprising if there was only one horse pulling the cart that day, and people saw the hoof prints of two horses on the snow – because most people would have thought that there were only two horses pulling the cart in the first place.

"You stayed in White Horse Town for so long, not to judge who had the possibility of kidnapping An Qing from the many knights who entered Shu, but just to wait for the opportunity for the two of the Black Cloud Society to leave White Horse Town. Heiyun will dare to send invitations to invite heroes from all over the world to Shu, and there will be a backhand, and those two are the gifts prepared by Heiyun for the Nie family.

"You had already expected this layer, so you made up your mind to kill when you first met those two people, but because the Ten Wishes Monk of Shu Di was a guarantee from it, it has been difficult to start. And when the two of them left White Horse Town and went to ask Nie Baishuang for their lives, you finally had a chance to start.

"As long as you can kill Nie Baishuang before they meet them, the conditions arranged by Xie Hui for the Nie family cannot be conveyed, then at the Martial Arts Alliance Leader Conference, the Black Cloud Society's chances of victory will be one point less. Am I wrong?"

Zhao Wu'an narrowed his eyes.

Dai Lou Duyun lowered his head, and his voice was even more muffled, as if it came from the Yellow Spring Netherworld.

"On the night of the snow in White Horse Town, you expected that Qiao Xi was seriously ill, and Zhu Nanzhan would drive into the town for help, so after the two of them left the town, they boldly chased after them and killed the two with Luo Shenfu by the archway. Nie Baishuang witnessed you killing, and when even if Yu Huan came out of the sheath, but the sword recognized Luo Shen Fu - when the sword qi was entangled, and Yu Huan let out an unprecedented poignant sword roar - Nie Baishuang knew that he was not your opponent. The original intention of entering Shu was to go to the meeting, and he was burdened with the rise and fall of the family, so he naturally would not face each other with swords at the archway for you, so he collected his sword and left. ”

He stared at Zhao Wu'an. "That's what happened that night, outside of Whitehorse. Killing the Black Cloud Envoy and forcing the Nie family back, the real culprit behind these two things is none other than you Zhao Wu'an. ”

"Zhao Jushi, is what I said wrong?"

Zhao Wu'an was silent for a long time before he said.

"Not only is it good, it's just wonderful. ”