treacherous world

Bai Yutang shook his head and looked around helplessly, "I actually came down with you."

Zhan Zhao stood beside him, smiling like a contented cat.

At this time, the surrounding area was pitch black, and the two were in the sewer of Kaifeng Mansion.

It happened an hour ago.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang left Huxin Pavilion and returned to Kaifeng Mansion. Before entering, Bao Zheng asked them to take rock scissors to investigate how many such hidden institutions there are in Kaifeng City.Keeping these organs will cause endless troubles, so Zhao Zhen asked Bao Zheng to investigate and eliminate them as soon as possible.At this moment, Zhao Pu couldn't get away, so he asked Zheying Ziying to bring five hundred digging troops to help.

The most important thing is that Bai Yutang has the most experience in dismantling various organs, but the organs are all installed below the ground. The most difficult thing is not how to dismantle it, but how to trick Bai Yutang into the dirty sewer.

Sure enough, after Zhao Zhen's imperial edict, Bao Zheng entrusted Zhan Zhao with full authority, and asked Lu Sheng about the secret treasure of Taizu himself. Gongsun went for an autopsy, and Zhao Pu and others ran away without a trace.Zhan Zhao sat alone in the yard and sighed, it was simply an impossible task!

At this time, Xiao Sizi and Xiao Liang were wearing two pairs of big jiao fish skin boots, tied up their trouser legs, and ran into the yard with stones and scissors.A child is a child after all, and he thinks going to the ground is very interesting, and he didn't notice the pimple on Zhan Zhao's eyebrows at all.

What is Zhanwei worrying about?His family's dirty mouse ran away!As soon as Bao Zheng finished talking about wanting to thoroughly investigate the sewer, Zhan Zhao turned around and found that Bai Yutang had slipped away.

"Alas..." Zhan Zhao could only scratch his head when he saw that the hundreds of diggers were all ready, waiting at the door with their shovels down.

"Meow, where's Baibai?" The fourth son held two pairs of rubber boots for Zhan Zhao, and the other pair seemed to be for Bai Yutang.

Zhan Zhao took the shoe and smelled it, and frowned—it smelled like fish, and let his expensive mouse wear this shoe, it would be better to just give him three knives... What should I do?

"Meow~" The fourth son reached out and poked Zhan Zhao's cheek twice, "What's the matter? Daddy said that we should go to the fields before it's dark."

Zhan Zhao sighed, "But I have to take Yutang with me."

"What about in vain?"

"Run away!" Zhan Zhao narrowed his eyes, "This person is most afraid of getting dirty."

"Miaomiao told him to go, and he would go of course."

Zhan Zhao slightly raised his eyebrows, maybe not?

"Where's Baibai?" The fourth son stood up and looked around.

"I don't know. I just heard about the sewer and disappeared." Zhan Zhao looked around, and Bai Yutang must have not gone far, maybe he was squinting somewhere to eavesdrop.

"Hmm." The fourth son nodded and patted Zhan Zhao, "It's the rice, let's go down first, if Miaomiao accidentally steps on the mechanism, it's over!"

Zhan Zhao looked at the fourth son speechlessly, it seemed that the little guy was quite happy when he stepped on the mechanism.

It was getting late, Zhan Zhao led the people to the entrance of the sewer, and just as he was about to go down, he saw the fourth son smiling and waving not far away.

When Zhan Zhao looked back, a smile appeared on his face immediately - he saw Bai Yutang walking over unwillingly, his expression was really unbearable.Zhan Zhao covered his mouth, that rat!

Of course Bai Yutang didn't want to go down, but just as the fourth son said just now, if Zhan Zhao went down alone and accidentally stepped on the mechanism, he would have no place to cry. After much deliberation, hide and hide, the cat is more important.

When he went down to the sewer, Bai Yutang regretted it, but he couldn't go up, so he bit the bullet and followed Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao took his hand and tried to pick a dry place to let Bai Yutang go. Seeing Bai Yutang's patience, he didn't know why, but he was in a great mood.

Xiao Sizi and Xiao Liang followed behind them, and they felt as if they saw a black and fluffy cat tail behind Zhan Zhao, shaking it frighteningly.

In fact, apart from being cold and damp, this sewer is really not too dirty. I didn't even see a mouse along the way, and there was only a slight musty smell. It couldn't be more clean.

After walking for a while, the fourth son felt bored, so he sat on the back of the stone and asked Xiao Liang, "Little Liang, Jiujiu said that there will be many little mice in the sewer, but there are none!"

Xiao Liang was also puzzled by this at first, but when the fourth son said this, he frowned and looked around - it's strange!Not only are there no rats, there aren't even any bugs, isn't that normal?

"Ah ah!"

While everyone was wondering, there was a sudden burst of horrific screams from the sewer ahead.

The sound was at least [-] meters away, and the cry was muffled but hoarse, and it would not be heard until the moment of life and death.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang walked in front, followed by rock-paper-scissors and several big dogs.Ziying and the others followed behind with a small group of people, that is to say, people who were not in front were shouting?

"Is there someone in the sewer?" Ziying felt strange and wanted to chase.

But Bai Yutang stopped him.

Zhan Zhao lightly grabbed Shi Shi's tail, making him and the scissors retreat to the back, protecting Xiao Si and Xiao Liang.But looking at the state of the stone and the scissors at this time, the two paw civets seemed to suddenly become nervous, with their backs standing upright and staring at the front, pretending to let go, and the stone threw the little four to Xiao Liang behind him, using The furry body blocked him, the scissors blocked the stone, and the two clawed civets showed their fierce faces.

At the same time, the big dogs barked wildly.

"What's going on?" Zhe Ying was puzzled.

Bai Yutang held the knife and pointed forward, "Something is coming."

All the generals became nervous. In this pitch-black sewer, people suddenly screamed... Could it be some kind of beast?

Just as everyone was concentrating and holding their breath to prepare, suddenly, a black mass in front of them rushed over quickly.

Then Zhan Zhao yelled, "Low your head!"

Everyone hurriedly lowered their bodies, and heard a "squeaking" noise passing by... It turned out that a large group of bats flew out.

Little Sizi was hugged by Xiao Liang and stuffed his head against the hairy belly of the stone. He saw the bat above from the gap, "There are so many big bats! Aren't bats hiding in caves, and there are also sewers?"

Everyone knew in their hearts that if you don't startle things like bats, they won't fly away together like this. In addition to the scream just now, what is there in front?

When everyone thought of this, they subconsciously raised their heads and looked into the distance...

At the dark corner ahead, two dim lights appeared.

The position of the two light spots should be just at the height of the human eyes, but these two are not human eyes no matter how you look at them. The feeling of fluorescent light flickering makes people unconsciously think of a pair of terrifying eyes in the dark night. A green-eyed beast.

"Who is it?" Zhan Zhao asked, the man was watching them from a distance, Zhan Zhao and the others were in the light, but the man was in the dark, so he couldn't see clearly.

Just at the moment when everyone met each other and saw the outline clearly, the man flashed away... and escaped without a trace.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang immediately chased after it, and Stone, Scissors, and the dogs also chased it out, following the smell all the way to find a bright spot.

Everyone looked up and saw a hole above.No dead bodies or injured people were found below, so who was screaming just now?Will it go out along the exit?

Zhan Zhao was about to go up to look, when Bai Yutang suddenly reached out to grab him, and with a snap of his fingers, a black jade locust rock hit the exit.

Hearing a "click", two sharp spears poked out from both sides of the originally empty cave. If someone had really passed by just now, it would probably be cut into two before leaving the cave.

Zhan Zhao touched his neck in surprise...it's so dangerous, what kind of mechanism is this?

Bai Yutang flipped lightly with the handle of the knife, and the whole mechanism fell off. The design was quite exquisite.Afterwards, Bai Yutang went up first, followed by Zhan Zhao.

After reaching the ground and looking around, Zhan Zhao frowned slightly, and patted Bai Yutang lightly, "Oh, Yutang, does this place look familiar?"

Bai Yutang also found out, indeed!But he is only familiar with the densely populated urban areas around Kaifeng, so here...

Just as I was thinking about it, I saw the little four climbed up on the back of the scissors, and looked around, "Huh? Is this near the Jiujiu Army Camp?"

"What?" Zhe Ying hurried up to look at it, and saw that it was only a short distance away from the Zhao Family Army's temporary barracks.

Bai Yutang held Zhe Ying who was about to move forward, raised his hand and threw a few black jade migratory rocks... He threw them randomly towards the ground.I saw that when the stone fell to the ground, it triggered many traps, all of which were the ones that Zhan Zhao almost touched by mistake just now, round pits with double knives.

"What is this?" Zhan Zhao reached into Bai Yutang's pocket and grabbed a handful of locust rocks, and threw them into the distance, and the ground was densely packed with such holes.

"Is it a trap near the barracks?" Zhan Zhao didn't quite believe it. Zhao Pu didn't bother to set up traps. Even if he really wanted to do it, the most difficult thing would be pulling and tripping ropes.And this kind of organ is vicious and vicious, not like Zhao Pu's style.But if it wasn't him, who set up so many organs to ambush near the barracks?

"This is a trap for ambushing a large number of people and horses, and it is used to cut off the legs of horses." Bai Yutang reminded Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao suddenly understood, and asked Zhe Ying, "The Zhao family army has been stationed here for so long, why didn't they find it?"

"This is not the only way to get in and out, but if something happens to the palace and reinforcements are needed, then this shortcut will be used.

Reminiscent of the previous dark wall, it seems that the connection between the imperial city and the outside world is also cut off... Zhan Zhao asked Bai Yutang in a low voice, and he realized that the target was locked in the imperial palace, or...someone wanted the throne in the imperial palace .

Afterwards, Zhe Ying left some people behind to dismantle the mechanism bit by bit according to the method taught by Bai Yutang. Zhan Zhao and the others continued to return to the sewer to find other mechanisms and the mysterious person just now.

Going all the way along the sewer, the more you walk, the more puzzled you are - it's so clean!Not a single mouse, or indeed anything alive, was ever found.

The fourth son was sitting on the back of the scissors, with Xiao Liang behind him, he turned his head and asked in a low voice, "Little Liang, this place is so scary."

Everyone understood what Xiao Sizi meant, it was indeed weird, except for them, there was no living creature in this sewer.

Along the way, Bai Yutang dismantled quite a few organs, all of which were very vicious and sinister, but extremely complicated, so they should be done by experts at first sight.

It was already midnight when everyone cleared the traps around the palace and got to the ground.

The fourth son fell asleep long ago, and the soldiers who stayed at the spot to dismantle the mechanism also cleaned up their troops and returned to the barracks.

Zhan Zhao was hungry, tired, and a little annoyed, but he still couldn't find that spooky guy, who was he?Come and go without a trace!Could it be some kind of death trap?Could it be the mysterious person who works as an organ...Of course, what Zhan Zhao cares most about is his pair of different eyes. What Zhan Hao has to do is obviously not finished yet.

Back in Kaifeng Mansion, Zhan Zhao wanted to talk to Lord Bao about the situation and asked Lu Sheng if he had said anything, but Bao Zheng went back to the palace.

But after sneaking around to the backyard, they found that Gongsun and Zhao Pu were not there either. It was said that Zhao Pu had just returned and Gongsun's autopsy had just finished, and the two went to Taibaiju for dinner.

Zhan Zhao asked the sleepy little four who was lying on the back of the stone if he was hungry, and the little four immediately woke up, starving to death!

But everyone wanted to find Bai Yutang again—there was no trace.

Zhan Zhao hurriedly searched all the way. When Bai Yutang dismantled the mechanism just now, he didn't know whether he was too focused or had something on his mind. Anyway, he felt that he was very serious.

"Where's Bai Yutang?" Zhan Zhao asked Zi Ying and Zhe Ying who were about to go to Zhao Pu's place for dinner.

Both shook their heads.

"Hmm~" The fourth son raised his face and yawned, "Bai Bai must have gone to take a bath!"

Everyone was stunned, and lowered their heads to smell themselves... There was a musty smell of sewers on their clothes.Immediately, I felt that eating was unappetizing, and each went back to the house to take a shower and change clothes.

Zhan Zhao walked back to the room, opened the door, and sure enough, there was a candle burning behind the screen, but there was no sound of water.

Probe to look behind the screen, Zhan Zhao narrowed his eyes—the picture of a mouse coming out of the water!

Bai Yutang was leaning in the bathtub in a daze, his face seemed to be puzzled.Zhan Zhao's playfulness came up, and while Bai Yutang wasn't noticing behind him, he stretched out his hand and lightly put his shoulder on his shoulder, "Beauty, take a look!"

Bai Yutang came back to his senses and smiled helplessly, looked up at Zhan Zhao, "What kind of catastrophe do you want?"

Zhan Zhao reached out and grabbed his black wet hair, "There are ways!"

Bai Yutang reached out, grabbed his collar and dragged the whole cat into the water.

When Zhan Zhao got into the water, he was so startled that he almost jumped up, "It's so hot, are you getting rid of your skin? Did you put cold water in?!"

Bai Yutang looked at him, and shrugged indifferently, "I've been practicing pure cold inner strength, is it hot? I'll freeze it!"

"Oh, don't mess around, I just have a cold!" Zhan Zhao peeled off his wet clothes, and immersed himself in the hot water comfortably, "Huh... soaking in it will make you feel comfortable."

Bai Yutang approached, "Are you tired?"

"Well... I'm used to it, it's not bad." Zhan Zhao squeezed his legs, "I even tried to sneak around Kaifeng in one day."

Bai Yutang looked at him, "It's been so hard." As he spoke, he asked with a smile, "Have you ever thought about..."

Zhan Zhao reached out and pinched Bai Yutang's pretty nose, "What have you thought about?"

Bai Yutang knew that it would be difficult for him to persuade Zhan Zhao to leave everyone in Kaifeng Mansion and leave with him, so he simply shook his head and gave up.

"It's you." Zhan Zhao asked curiously, "Why are you so absent-minded?"

"Oh...some things feel very strange, but I'm not sure yet." Bai Yutang reached for his robe, "Are you hungry, hurry up and have a meal."

"Not sure what?" Zhan Zhao grabbed him, "Let's hear it."

Bai Yutang turned around, "I don't know."

"How can I be clear if I don't say it!"

"No."

"Alright!"

Outside the door, Ziying Zheying, who wanted to go to Taibaiju with Zhan Zhaobai Yutang after taking a bath, heard something "OK, no", the corners of her mouth twitched, she hugged the fourth son, covered her ears, and took him away up.I still admire it in my heart, I really deserve to be a hero!Right now I still have Yaxing, I am so full of energy that I don't even know I'm tired.

In the room, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang tossed the room full of water, but in the end Bai Yutang couldn't wring the cat, so he had to answer him, "I know one person in the world who can make so many tricks in a short period of time."

"Who?"

"Fifth Aunt."

Frustrated, Zhan Zhao reached for his clothes, "You are perfunctory."

"I'm serious!" Bai Yutang said earnestly, "I know all these institutions. Fifth Aunt taught me before. Except for her, I don't think anyone in the world knows how to do it."

"But isn't Aunt Wu passed away?" Zhan Zhao put on his underwear and stretched out his hands to wipe his hair. "Speaking of which, Aunt Wu had a son, but she got separated or died, right? That's why he hurt so much. you."

"Hmm..." Bai Yutang nodded lightly, and put on his clothes, "She said that she had other sisters back then. I haven't inquired about this before."

Zhan Zhao thought for a long time, "Is it really the same mechanism?"

Bai Yutang nodded, "There are tens of thousands of institutions in the world. Although someone has classified them in detail, and the same institutions do the same thing, different people can produce different effects. I don't know why, when I dismantle institutions, there is always a Very familiar feeling."

"Are you too tired lately?" Zhan Zhao grabbed Bai Yutang and came over to comb his hair.

"You are a weird cat." Bai Yutang looked at him dumbfounded, "Other cats like to be brushed, but you like to brush other people's hair."

"What other people, you are a wife, family..." Zhan Zhao didn't finish taking advantage of his mouth, Bai Yutang grabbed his collar and pulled it down, pressing it on the table, "You're just playing lip service."

"Aren't you willing to get serious with you?" Zhan Zhao replied, suddenly feeling a little strange in his tone.

Bai Yutang also looked at Zhan Zhao with a puzzled expression, and finally reached out to touch his mouth, "Cat...open your mouth."

"what?"

"There is oil on my mouth, let me see if my tongue is slippery."

Zhan Zhao understood that Bai Yutang said he was glib, and it was the first time he was said to be glib at such a big age, so he thought it was quite interesting.

Bai Yutang saw that although Zhan Zhao said he was tired, but there was no tired look on his face, he still smiled happily.Inexplicably, I remembered when I first met Zhan Zhao. Compared with the smile at that time, Zhan Zhao’s smile was always there. Although there were many troubles and dangers, Zhan Zhao was indeed happy every day. Is it also my own credit? !

"Hello." Zhan Zhao helped Bai Yutang comb his hair, then poked his cheek, "What are you thinking? So proud."

Bai Yutang smiled, stood up feeling refreshed all over, stretched out his hand and pulled Zhan Zhao's wrist, "Let's go, eat, think about it after you're full."

The two left Kaifeng and rushed to Taibaiju. Gongsun and the others finished eating.

Zhao Pu signaled to Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao—it's a long story, tomorrow morning, if you don't sleep for a while, it will be dawn, and there are many things to do tomorrow!

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang had deep internal strength and didn't care, but Gongsun couldn't afford it, and Zhao Pu was going to die of heartache, so they had to wait until tomorrow morning.

Zhao Pu and the others went back first, leaving Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang to eat while blowing the night breeze.

After eating two chopsticks of food, Zhan Zhao felt a little annoyed when he saw Bai Yutang holding the wine glass in a daze.

"You are a god!" Zhan Zhao snatched his job bowl and piled a lot of vegetables in it, "Eat obediently!"

Bai Yutang rubbed the space between his brows, and reached out to take the rice bowl.

But after taking the bowl, Zhan Zhao didn't let go, Bai Yutang laughed, "Cat, you want to feed me?"

He teased, but Zhan Zhao didn't reply.Only then did Bai Yutang realize that Zhan Zhao was watching... Following his gaze, Bai Yutang frowned.

In an alley not far away, there was a person hidden at the entrance of the alley.If it wasn't for Zhan Zhao's sharp eyes, he wouldn't have been able to find out.

Bai Yutang could also understand why Zhan Zhao noticed it - because those green eyes were too eye-catching!

"It's the one just now..."

Zhan Zhao suddenly narrowed his eyes, stretched out his hand to gently pull Bai Yutang, "Yutang, she is a woman!"

Bai Yutang thought he had good eyesight, but since he was so far away, and the person was deliberately hidden in the darkness, he couldn't tell it was a woman.But Zhan Zhao's eyesight has improved a lot since his eyes changed color, so he shouldn't be mistaken.

Just as the two were about to get up, the figure flickered again and disappeared.

"She was looking at it just now, isn't that right?" Zhan Zhao rested his chin in a daze, saw that Bai Yutang was going to chase him, and knocked on the bowl in front of him with his chopsticks, "Rat, don't try to escape, jump out of the window after eating!"

Bai Yutang looked powerless.

"If you can't catch up, eat obediently." Zhan Zhao continued to add food to Bai Yutang's bowl.

Bai Yutang wanted to reach out for a sip of wine, but Zhan Zhao glared at him, "Drink after eating!"

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao with admiration, "Cat, I've been eating this bowl of rice for a long time, and you keep adding more to it. When will I have to eat it?"

Zhan Zhao raised his eyebrows, "Try it."

Bai Yutang rubbed his forehead and thought about why he was so subdued by this cat, and he scalded Chinchilla Bai Yutang, what's wrong? !

"Eat another scallion fried egg!" Zhan Zhao poked an egg and sent it to Bai Yutang's bowl.

Bai Yutang picked up the scallion fried egg with a desperate determination, and heard Zhan Zhao muttering to himself while chewing a Sixi ball, "That girl is not bad, why does she have such weird eyes?" ?”

"How old are you?" Bai Yutang asked, "When I saw it in the sewer, I thought he was quite tall."

"I can't estimate the height from top to bottom, maybe it's not necessarily a person. Age, over 30, very pretty. Oh!" As he spoke, Zhan Zhao stretched out his fingers and pointed at the cheekbones on both sides, "There are two tear moles here. Big but obvious...”

Before he finished speaking, he heard a "click", and the onion fried egg that Bai Yutang was holding to his mouth and was hesitating to eat fell on the table.

"Yutang?" Zhan Zhao wondered, "What's wrong with you?"

"On both sides... two tear moles?"

"Yeah." Zhan Zhao nodded, seeing Bai Yutang's face turned pale with surprise, "You look like you've seen a ghost."

Bai Yutang raised his head, frowning and looking directly into Zhan Zhao's eyes.

Zhan Zhao is so smart, "Did you really go to hell? Fifth Aunt also has tear moles?"

"She only has the left side of her face." Bai Yutang said in a low voice.

"Oh..." Zhan Zhao patted his chest, "It might be a coincidence."

Bai Yutang touched his face, "What I loved most when I was young was to draw one on her other side while she was asleep."

Zhan Zhao opened his mouth in surprise.

"I ordered one for her when she was buried."

Zhan Zhao was silent for a while, "That...big eyes and double eyelids?"

Bai Yutang nodded.

"People are similar... Isn't the nose particularly high?"

Bai Yutang then nodded.

"Most people look like this, with a thin mouth and a pointed chin?"

Bai Yutang kept nodding his head.

Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand to touch his neck, "Isn't that creepy?!"

Bai Yutang thought for a long time, but finally shook his head, puzzled, "Impossible, Fifth Aunt is indeed dead, and we brothers buried her with our own hands, there can be no fault."

"I should have read it right." Zhan Zhao thought for a while, and his expression became a little more serious, "The only explanation is, either simple people are similar, or...someone is playing tricks!"