The sentinels on the border of Shiguo brought back bad news, and the Xiaoyaohai Four-Nation Alliance, led by Kang Guo, was marching towards the capital, with a strength of more than 2,000 troops.

The people of Shiguo had not yet recovered from the coup d'état, and they fell into the fear of destroying the country, and the residents outside the city moved to the city one after another, and the capital, which was not too large, immediately became crowded.

The situation was very grim, the standing army of the Shi Kingdom was no more than 500 people, some of whom were hired from Jinpeng Castle, and on the day it was announced that the Dragon King had become a concubine, all of them ran out, and there were less than 400 people left.

Gu Shenwei and the robbers who were subdued in the desert with the lotus girl, plus some people who rushed to hear the news later, the total number was less than two hundred.

Counting the swordsmen of the Great Snow Mountain and the palace guards, the available strength of the Shi Kingdom barely reached six hundred.

The king, who was even more frightened than his own people, completely lost the will to resist, knelt in front of the tablets of his ancestors and fathers from morning till night to repent, complained about his bad luck, and put all the blame on others.

Zhong Heng personally snatched the imperial seal from the king's arms and began to give orders to prepare for defense.

Gu Shenwei summoned the three sons of the Shangguan family and told them what he thought, "I want to return to Biyu City to save the army of the Great Snow Mountain, and at the same time prove to everyone that the children of King Dubu did not die at my hands." ”

The three of them were all expressionless, Gu Shenwei paused for a moment, and continued, "You have two choices, first, stay in Shiguo, sit and wait for the news to leak out, and the killer will come to the door, and second, come with me." ”

Shangguan Ru was the first to speak, since she saw the Dragon King again, she had been lukewarm, and at this time she spoke in a more businesslike tone, as if this was a formal negotiation, "You want to use us to make the Dubu King make a fool of himself, so that Jinpeng Castle will lose its moral assistance." ”

She didn't say "father", but called "Dubu King", Gu Shenwei felt that this was a good sign, so he admitted the truth very calmly, "That's right, that's why I don't kill you, you still have a use for me." ”

Shangguan Ru didn't speak, his eyes lowered, as if he didn't care about anything.

Shangguan Fei secretly breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he still has a use, his safety is guaranteed, "I'll go with you, but you have to protect me...... Guys. ”

He thought very clearly, the capital of Shiguo was in danger, and it was better to stay here than to follow the Dragon King.

Shangguan Hong didn't think so much, and only one thing was alert in his mind, "I can go with you, but ...... They both had to promise not to assassinate me. ”

"No, it won't. Shangguan Fei said through gritted teeth.

Shangguan Hong immediately discovered the loophole in his words, "It's not okay to kill openly, in short, you have to promise that you won't use any way to kill me." ”

"I promise. Shangguan Fei squeezed out these three words from his throat, but there was no tolerance in his eyes at all.

Shangguan Hong couldn't be clearer about how much credibility the promise of the children of his family was, but he could only ask for this step, and he made up his mind that he would not leave the Dragon King for half a step in the future.

Everyone's eyes fell on Shangguan Ru, and she didn't make a clear statement.

"If I leave the Stone Kingdom with you, I may not necessarily return to Biyu City. ”

She didn't know where she really wanted to go, Shibao was no longer her home, Biyu City disgusted her, but Shiguo was a strange foreign land, and she had nowhere to go.

And so it was settled.

Gu Shenwei decided to set off that night, he left Lin Xiaoshan and the more than 20 swordsmen of the Great Snow Mountain in Shi Kingdom, as the personal guards of the new Prime Minister Zhong Heng, and most of the nearly 200 robbers who were subdued were also handed over to Zhong Heng, so that he had an independent force in his hands and could drive the Shi ** team to fight.

Xu Yanwei, Guan Shang, and Jiang still stayed in the palace and lived with the princess.

Gu Shenwei took away five robbers, including the lotus girl, the three brothers and sisters of the Shangguan family, and the dwarf He Sancai, and made up ten people and prepared twenty horses.

Xu Yanwei came to see her off, she was very happy to see Miss Ru staying with the Dragon King again, and at the same time she did not forget the princess in the palace, in her opinion, it is normal for the Dragon King to have three wives and four concubines.

"Dragon King, you should visit the princess before you leave, you are all a colt, but you have never met once. ”

"I'll talk about it when I get back. Gu Shenwei was not in the mood to see the princess, in fact, he almost forgot about her.

Xu Yanwei sighed silently, thinking that the women who were involved with the Dragon King would not be happy, but fortunately she didn't sleep with him back then.

At dusk, Gu Shenwei and the lotus girl were invited to visit Zen Master Fayan in Nengjue Temple.

The monks of the Four Noble Truths had already packed their bags and were ready to leave the stone country early the next morning, so they would return the way they came, so they would not have to worry about traps.

Fayan assured that he would explain the truth to the person in charge of the Four Noble Truths, "The Dragon King did not go on a killing spree in the Stone Kingdom, and the old man is grateful, so please accept it with a small courtesy." ”

Gu Shenwei and the lotus girl each got a small cotton cloth package, left the Nengjue Temple, and after the two opened it, they found that they each contained a booklet.

The text in the booklet is still very fresh, apparently not long after it was written, and the title page reads: Sumeru mustard seed mantra.

Fa Yan refused to make a deal with the Dragon King, in fact, he had already decided to give the two of them the precious internal strength secret.

The old monk is a strange person, Gu Shenwei can guess his thoughts, but he can't understand that this set of internal skills must be a very important skill of the Four Noble Truths, but he casually gives it away, especially these two people are the devils in the eyes of the world.

Their confusion and gratitude did not take long to dissipate, first, the text was extremely profound, mixed with a large number of transliterated Sanskrit, the two of them could hardly understand, and suspected that this might be a variant of "The Theory of Judgment", the old monk wanted to trick them into removing the murderous intention, second, the two of them each got half, Gu Shenwei got the upper volume in his hand, and the lotus girl got the second volume.

What is the purpose of the monk's move? Is it to take the opportunity to sow discord? The two of them didn't understand, and they didn't plan to think about it much, so the Dutch girl handed over half of her book to Gu Shenwei, "Put it all there, anyway, you won't have time to practice it for a while and a half." ”

The Lotus Girl was likely to be sincere, but Gu Shenwei also knew that she was very interested in this set of divine skills, so he didn't take the half of the book, but put forward another idea, "Let's go and hide it together, and when we return to the Stone Kingdom, we will take it out together." ”

The lotus girl said lightly: "Okay." ”

is such a small thing, so that the two suddenly found that they were too polite to each other, and each other was careful not to let the other be suspicious.

Perhaps this is the purpose of Fayan.

On the third watch that night, when the night was at its deepest, a group of ten people quietly left the capital of Shiguo.

Among the team, there is a thief called "Sand Devil" Zheng Tai, the Five Kingdoms of the Sea are his territory, he is very familiar with the terrain, leading the way in the front, not taking the main road, but driving several miles south, clinging to the shore of the lake and speeding westward.

Xiaoyao Sea is a large lake covering an extremely large area, and the dark mountains can be seen faintly on the opposite shore, and the waves crash on the shore, in tune with the sound of horses' hooves.

The ten men drove all night, rested a little in the early morning, and continued on their way, approaching darkness, looking at the Kangguo army from afar.

Gu Shenwei could have sneaked into the military camp at night and assassinated several leading generals, but he didn't want to waste any time, so he detoured and entered the territory of Kang in the middle of the night that day.

Further west are the Sand Country and the Huiguo, the Five Kingdoms of Xiaoyaohai, only the Anguo is located on the south coast, and the group does not have to pass there.

Zheng Tai chose the remote path to walk, and only a robber like him, who had lived in the wild for many years, could recognize so many desolate paths.

The route was very hidden, but it was not easy to walk, and everyone traveled day and night, and when they arrived at Huiguo, it still took ten days, and seven horses were exhausted, and they had to abandon some of the water and dry food.

After passing through Huiguo, they will enter the Gobi Desert, during which they will not be able to get supplies, so they will have to stop and repair and buy horses, water, food and other supplies.

The water and food were okay, but the horses were almost impossible to buy, and they were basically requisitioned to go to the stone country to fight.

They were just in time for the first messengers returning from the front line, bringing news that the capital of Shiguo had been surrounded by regiments and would be conquered in a few days.

There is also a lot of news that is unfavorable to the Great Snow Mountain, it is said that the Dubu King has hidden tens of thousands of troops, and now it is divided into two routes, and is attacking the Great Snow Mountain camp in the west and the "rebel son" Shangguan Nu in the east.

Gu Shenwei deduced that things were going in the best direction as much as possible: Jinpeng Fort was fighting in the east and west, and it was difficult to divide the forces to go south, so that only the alliance army of the four countries of Xiaoyaohai was besieging the capital of Shiguo, and Zhong Heng's pressure was not so great, and he might be able to hold on for a while.

Before Gu Shenwei left, he had agreed with Zhong Heng that he would return to the Stone Country with the Great Snow Mountain swordsman in two months, and the time was extremely urgent.

After a whole day of delay, He San finally bought all the supplies and horses he needed, and the others took this opportunity to rest for a while, everyone knew that after entering the Gobi, there would be no soft beds and casual water for a long time.

Gu Shenwei only slept for a short while, and then came out on duty.

With the resumption of the war, he cannot afford to make another mistake and must remain vigilant at all times.

Shangguan Hong didn't sleep long, he had been waiting for the opportunity to talk to the Dragon King alone, so he sneaked to the Dragon King's side and whispered straight to the point: "Actually, I am very useful, although I am not a young master or something, but I know many secrets, even the twins have never heard of it." ”

"Turns out you still have a 'secret'. ”

Seeing that the Dragon King didn't believe it, Shangguan Hong was a little anxious, he was like everyone in Jinpeng Castle, he was very realistic, unless he held something worth exchanging in his hand, he wouldn't have a sense of security, "Really, I didn't say it at the beginning, because I didn't think it was important, but I've been thinking about it for the past two days, there is something that the Dragon King might be interested in, and I remembered this." ”

Say. ”

"Well, that's right, there is a secret passage that can lead from the bottom of the mountain to the stone castle, in fact, it is not strictly speaking, it is not a secret passage, but it does lead to the top. ”

Jinpeng Castle was located on top of the top, surrounded by abysses on all sides, Gu Shenwei couldn't figure out how it was possible to hide a secret passage, "You'd better not lie." ”

"Never. Shangguan Hong's eyes flashed with excitement, "As soon as I arrived in Biyu City, I pointed out the secret path to the Dragon King, this is my use, more than anyone else's." ”

Shangguan Hong retreated to the makeshift camp and slept peacefully.

Gu Shenwei kept this incident in mind and sneaked around the camp quietly, He Sancai came back with the purchased supplies, and behind him, Gu Shenwei discovered the stalker.

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