The guards of the Jin Kingdom Palace are all selected from the soldiers who have experienced a hundred battles and have been on the battlefield, and each of them has the combat power of one enemy and ten, and they are loyal.

Although the combat power of these guards is quite high, after all, they have not learned the advanced martial arts of the Central Plains, and they may be brave and powerful on the battlefield, but compared with the martial arts masters of Middle Earth, they are just some slightly more powerful scum. Feeling this, the royal family of the Jin State spent a huge price, promised to be a high-ranking official, and gave beautiful treasures, and only then recruited a few martial arts experts from the Song State to be the head of the palace guards, and Fang Zhibai was one of the three Central Plains leaders.

Among the three, Fang Zhibai was born in Shaolin, and he is also very good at hard work, but ordinary characters in the rivers and lakes are not taken seriously. Although he is a little worse than Sha Tongtian, Liang Ziweng and other martial arts giants, in the eyes of ordinary Jianghu people, he is already a great master.

The royal family of the Jin Kingdom also wanted to recruit martial arts giants like Sha Tongtian and Peng Lianhu, but with the martial arts status of Sha Tongtian and Peng Lianhu, they simply looked down on the so-called imperial guards in the palace, and they didn't care much about Emperor Laozi. Therefore, if you want this kind of master to be a guard, you don't have to think about it. Only people like Fang Zhibai, who are less than the top and more than the bottom, are likely to be tempted by Jin Ting and be willing to be a guard dog.

Among the three leaders of the guards, Fang Zhibai was responsible for defending the west direction of the palace, and tonight, as usual, he rode a tall horse and led a group of soldiers from the Jin Kingdom to slowly patrol the streets of the palace.

The white horse under the crotch clicked on the ground and moved its four hooves briskly, Fang Zhibai's body straddled the horse's back and shook gently, his head looked left and right, his eyes swept around, and he looked brave and loyal, and he looked responsible.

When Kankan arrived at the north gate, Fang Zhibai shouted at the battlement: "Han Laosan, Liu Datou, how many of you are still here, right? You won't be killed by the assassins, ahhahaha......"

Several guards at the north gate were old brothers who followed him in the Central Plains in the past, and now he is the palace guard commander of the Jin Kingdom, and he felt that he was weak, so he invited a few brothers from the past.

At normal times, Fang Zhibai jokingly shouted a few times, and a few brothers at the battlement would shout and curse, and after laughing with Fang Zhibai for a while, he returned to the battlement to stand guard.

But tonight, after Fang Zhibai shouted a few words, there was no echo at all. After shouting a few more times, Fang Zhibai's face began to change.

He knew very well that although his old brothers had done a lot of evil, they were extremely concerned about the duty of guarding, and they were absolutely not at the sentry post.

Fang Zhibai turned over and dismounted, stretched out his right hand and waved, and the group of soldiers who followed behind his horse suddenly fell silent after seeing his gesture. Fang Zhibai took a deep breath and pointed to the guards behind him: "You, you, and you, you go into the battlement to see what's going on?

Several guards went out of the group, carefully clinging to the root of the wall, bending down to the battlement, and suddenly, one of the guards close to the base of the wall trembled, snorted, bent down and rolled on the ground, stretched out his hand and grabbed at the neck, and a slender and long thing was grabbed by him. At this time, there were clear oil lamps on the walls on both sides of the palace street, and the moonlight was bright tonight, Fang Zhibai and the guards around him could already see clearly that the thing in the hands of this guard was a snake, and the snake was still writhing in his hands at this time.

The snake guard scolded: "His grandmother, why is there a snake suddenly on the wall! Lord Fang, this snake is thin and long, it doesn't look like a snake in the north." Damn it!" The guard scolded in his mouth, grabbed the two ends of the snake with both hands and pulled it hard, and had already pulled off the snake's head, scolding: "You bite Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will divide you into ......" He didn't finish a word, suddenly his body shook, he fell to the sky, and hissed: "Poisonous ......" After his body fell to the ground, after a few convulsions, there was no sound.

A group of guards behind Fang Zhibai were in an uproar when they saw this.

A guard walked up to the dead guard, probed his nose, shook his head and said, "It's hopeless!" handed the poisonous snake torn into two to Fang Zhibai: "Lord Fang, the little one has lived in the south for a long time, and he has seen a lot of poisonous snakes and poisonous insects, but the small one with such a slender black snake has never been seen before." ”

Fang Zhibai looked down at the poisonous snake in the guard's hand, only to see that this snake was slender and long, but its body was extremely flat, thinking that it was just pasted on the crack in the wall just now that he could bite the guard unexpectedly.

Fang Zhibai wondered in his heart: "In the bitter cold land of the north, there are few snakes and insects, and even if there are, most of them are just ordinary scorpions, centipedes, and long worms, and they are not very toxic. The inner courtyard of the palace is cleaned by palace people every day, and there are few poisonous insects such as snakes and insects, where did this strange-looking poisonous snake come from?"

He thought for a while, didn't know the point, and ordered a few guards around him: "Be careful, pay attention to the movement ahead." At this time, the first few guards who were exploring the way, except for one who was bitten to death by a poisonous snake, the rest had already entered the secret door in the battlement in front of them.

Fang Zhibai urged him to step forward, and a group of guards behind him also scattered forward.

After walking a few steps, the group did not hear any noise in front of them, but heard the melodious sound of flutes coming from the east of the palace. Fang Zhibai knew that the direction of the East Palace was the resting place of the Lord of the Jin Kingdom, and he didn't understand that it was early in the morning, why did the Lord of the Kingdom still summon people to play musical instruments? It's just that the emperor has always acted differently from ordinary people, even if he is strange, he doesn't think much about it.

But after the sound of the flute in the East Palace in the distance, a few terrible and short screams suddenly sounded from the battlements of the wall, which had not moved, and then there was no movement. Fang Zhibai's body trembled, and he pulled out his sword from the sheath with a "choking" sound, and shouted: "What's the matter?

He shouted a few times, but there was silence in front of him, and no one answered.

Fang Zhibai's forehead was sweating, and he scolded: ", who is pretending to be a ghost...... Before he finished speaking, he suddenly found that there were things swimming on the walls on both sides, making a hissing and low sound. With the light of the oil-clear wall lamp lit on the wall, Fang Zhibai took a closer look, and couldn't help but feel creepy, and goosebumps broke out all over his body.

I saw that the walls on both sides were crawling with long snakes at some point, and in the cracks of the walls, the cores were spitting and swimming meanderingly, these snakes were long, thin and black, and they were the kind of poisonous snakes that had bitten the guards to death just now. These snakes swam extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, they were already covered with walls on both sides, and their heads were raised in the light, and their small green eyes flashed with a cold and poisonous light.

How could Fang Zhibai have ever seen such a scene?

The group of snakes in front of me are like waves, winding and undulating on the wall, and the slightest fishy smell faintly comes, which makes people dizzy and disgusting. Just stunned for a moment, some of these poisonous snakes had already crawled to the ground, forming a snake wave to approach everyone.

"Retreat!"

Fang Zhibai was frightened, turned his horse around, "Retreat! Avoid these poisonous snakes!"

But after turning around, they found that even behind them, at this time it was already crawling with this strange snake and worm, everyone sweated their hands and feet, and looked around, only to see that the walls on both sides, the streets before and after, there were poisonous snakes surging, and they had surrounded them.

These poisonous snakes spewed out a faint poisonous gas between opening their mouths and spitting out their cores, and the fishy smell permeated the entire street, just after a few smells, Fang Zhibai felt dizzy, and he was shaking on the horse, and several guards had already bent down and vomited.

Fang Zhibai was horrified in his heart, "What's going on? Who is driving snakes and making trouble? What a powerful snake repellent technique!" He couldn't care about these guards anymore, and stabbed his sword into the hind buttocks of the mount, and the white horse was in pain, and ran forward with a neigh, wading through the underground snakes and running into the distance.

The white horse ran out of the snakes, and he couldn't support it anymore and fell to the ground. After Fang Zhibai jumped off the horse, he found that there were several poisonous snakes hanging on the belly and legs of the white horse, which had fallen to the ground and scattered at this time. Fang Zhibai stretched out his feet and had already trampled their heads.

Looking back at the place where they came, I saw a group of guards screaming wildly, waving knives and guns in their hands, and fighting with poisonous snakes all over the ground.

Suddenly, a kite sounded, and the poisonous snakes on the walls and the ground raised their heads in unison, their bows bouncing, and flew towards the guards, forming a shower of snake rain in the moonlight, which made people shudder.

There are so many poisonous snakes, and these guards are dizzy from the mist of poisonous snakes, how can they dodge? Some of the guards have poisonous snakes all over their faces and necks, and their hands are fluttering and tearing, and they are howling in horror.

But after a few moments, the guards didn't even have the strength to scream, and they all died, leaving only the hissing of snakes swimming through the alley.

Seeing this tragic situation, Fang Zhibai's body trembled, sweating like pulp, his legs were soft and his feet were weak, he squatted on the ground and panted, and he didn't even have the strength to stand.

At this time, the sound of the zither just now began to sound again, the sound of the zither was terrible and abnormal, like a broken silk cracked brocade, like a cold wind roaring, just a few plays, Fang Zhibai's heart began to beat endlessly with the sound of the zither, even if he wanted to stop, he couldn't stop, full, his eyes, ears, mouth and nose began to ooze blood.

Fang Zhibai's mind was dizzy, he only felt that the sound of the zither was getting closer and closer, and he barely opened his eyes to look, only to see the poisonous snake in the alley in front of him dancing with his head raised in the sound of the zither, slowly parting a road, a tall old man holding an iron zither in his arms, slowly pacing from far and near.