after the villain

04.

Ji Wuming brought Huozhezi closer, took a closer look at the big rock, bent his fingers and tapped it around, calculated it in his heart, nodded and said, "It should be here."

"Really?" The old man poked his head out from behind and whispered, "Don't make a mistake again. Let's use another mechanism. The old man has to fold here before he can get out."

"Then who is to blame?" Ji Wuming looked at the gloomy arc on the corner of his lips, squinted his eyes and gritted his teeth and smiled, "You set up this formation technique, but you don't remember it at all. Why don't you come here, senior?" , teach me one or two more?"

They were trapped in this dark place for three days, and the candles they brought in had already burned to the brim. Fortunately, Yan Jingyu brought a fire pocket with him, so they didn't lose their eyesight.

The old man is hopeless, Ji Wuming can only dig out the knowledge from the books he has read, try his best, anyway, it is better than sitting and waiting to die.Ji Wuming calculated twice based on the Qimen algorithm recorded in the book, and made mistakes both times. Fortunately, he didn't step on the dead door. After eating the trap, the three were pushed back to the original place.

Although the calculation was wrong twice, it also gave Ji Wuming a lot of information. The third time he calculated it much faster, with [-]% certainty.

The old man was stabbed by his eyes, and immediately changed his words with understanding, "No, no, it's okay to be wrong, it's just one life, and the old man has lived enough."

"Senior, don't talk nonsense, Man is 24 years old, and he still doesn't want to go into the ground with senior." Ji Wuming got up and stepped aside, shouting into the darkness, "Jingyu, come here and push this rock away."

Yan Jingyu stepped forward.

He had done it twice before, he raised his hand and pressed it on the rock with ease, felt the hard touch in his palm, pursed his lips, and felt something in his heart.

He sank into his dantian, mobilized his inner strength, and the big rock that was firmly stuck at the entrance of the cave suddenly loosened.

"Oh! There's light! It's here!" The old man clapped his hands and shouted happily as he saw the light leaking in from the gap.

With Yan Jingyu's sudden force, the round rock, which was taller than others, was directly blasted away by the surging internal force.

The finely broken stones and dust were flying in the dim yellow sunset, Ji Wuming squinted his eyes uncomfortably, and finally showed a heartfelt smile.

……

In addition to the official road from Qingzhou to Yanzhou, there are two other roads. One leads from Anyang City to Huaiyang City, where merchants and people from the rivers and lakes often walk; Huaiyang.

That road is close to the desert, and it is very remote. There may not be many people walking in one month. Yuelai Inn is the only inn on this road, and there are only three members of the owner's family in the store.

This evening, three guests came to this remote inn.

An ugly lame old man, a tall and thin boy dressed plainly, and a tall and beautiful woman.

The three of them were all disheveled, if it wasn't for the clothes on the woman's body that didn't look like ordinary people's, one would think that it was a beggar who got out of some corner.

The proprietress only thought that the two were the woman's servants, so she smiled at the woman and asked, "Do you want to be a guest officer or stay in the shop?"

"Of course I'm staying in the store!" Unexpectedly, it was the ugly and amazing old man who spoke. Meals—oh, yes, and a suit of clothes we can wear."

The old man added, and dropped another two taels of silver.

The inn is located in a remote place, and there are not ten guests a year. It looks dilapidated from the outside, and the inside is even more dilapidated than the outside. Naturally, there are not many people going in and out of the room.

But money is the uncle, the proprietress gathered up the money quickly, seeing the eyes of the three of them as if looking at a slaughtered lamb, smiling all over her face, "Okay! Guest upstairs, please!"

"Xiaochun, hurry up and take the guests to the 'upper room'!" The proprietress shouted loudly.

A girl with big braids came out upstairs. The girl had a round face and was slightly fat. She first glanced at the proprietress suspiciously, and then Ji Wuming attracted her attention.

Her eyes fell firmly on Ji Wuming's face, greedily tracing every inch, but she smiled very shyly on her face, and whispered, "Sister, are you a fairy in the sky? You look so good-looking, I love you I like you, especially your eyes, which are as bright as stars, I really like it!"

Ji Wuming frowned, inexplicably feeling uncomfortable with her excessive enthusiasm, and didn't respond coldly.

Xiaochun didn't care about his attitude, and was the first to bring him hot water and a piece of well-made clothes for him.

She whispered, "This is the clothes my mother kept under the box. I got it from a woman from the Central Plains last year. She is a rich lady. She is covered in soft gold and silver. She is also pretty. I like her eyes. But her eyes are not as good-looking as yours, and I like your eyes the most now."

"After my mother got it, she liked this dress very much, and she was reluctant to wear it." Xiaochun stuck out her tongue, blushing and said playfully, "But clothes are for wearing, so I brought them for my sister to wear. .”

"...Thank you." Ji Wuming took the clothes and closed the door, blocking the girl's overly hot eyes from the door.

The hot water in the bathtub was steaming with mist, and Ji Wuming felt itchy all over after three days of groping in the formation, and wanted to go in and take a good wash, but Xiaochun still stood at his door and did not leave.

Just when he was bored, the voice of the proprietress sounded from downstairs, "Xiaochun, I asked you to bring some hot water and clothes, why didn't you come down for a long time? What are you doing squatting at the guest's door? Don't look, be careful to scare people away, there are you Looks good! Hurry up and get down to work!"

"I know mother, I'll come here now." The girl replied depressedly, and the figure at the door gradually disappeared with the sound of "creaking" from the stairs.

Ji Wuming heaved a sigh of relief, took off his clothes and stepped into the tub, he leaned his head up against the side of the tub, listening to the movement below, couldn't help frowning.

Maybe it was because of Xiaochun's unusual attention to him, he also felt inexplicably uncomfortable about this inn, and the words of those two people... can't help but think about it.

The clothes Xiaochun brought were worn by ladies, as she said. The skirts were very long and divided into three layers. They swayed like water waves when walking, which was inconvenient for martial arts practitioners.

But something is better than nothing.

It was already dark after Ji Wuming took a shower. He went out of the room and planned to go downstairs, but happened to bump into the proprietress head-on.

Xiaochun bounced out of the back kitchen with his job bowl in his hands, saw Ji Wuming was happy at first, but before he could speak, he was glared at by the proprietress, and immediately shrunk his neck guiltily.

Ji Wuming was blocked at the stairs on the second floor. He wanted to climb down directly from the handrail, but when he put his hands on it, he suddenly remembered that there was only a little internal energy left in his body. It is a waste.

The old man definitely drugged him.Ji Wuming made a conclusion with a cold face.

He was upset, but he didn't have the habit of blaming others, so he said kindly, "Excuse me, please."

"Hey, please, guest officer, please, guest officer." The proprietress immediately stepped aside.

Ji Wuming was already hungry, and he was waiting for the food when he came down. When he saw Xiaochun serving the meal, he asked, "Is the food ready?"

"Not yet, our family is late for dinner, and the guests eat first before we eat. It's just a child's greed, let her eat something to fill her stomach first, and the guest officer will wait, my husband is in the back kitchen." The proprietress said.

Ji Wuming frowned.

Yan Jingyu happened to come down from upstairs, and when she heard the conversation, she rolled up her sleeves and went to the back kitchen silently amidst the lady boss's exclamation.

Ji Wuming glanced at her, and the proprietress immediately restrained her expression and smiled awkwardly, and said, "The gentleman is far away from the kitchen..."

"Don't worry about it." Ji Wuming's tone was neither cold nor indifferent, and the proprietress said "hey" twice and buried her head in her plans.

After a while, Yan Jingyu brought out two bowls of freshly made noodle soup, and pushed one of them in front of him.

"Thank you." Ji Wuming said sincerely.

Yan Jingyu didn't make a sound, just took out a pill from his waist and handed it to him, said in a muffled voice, "The old man gave it to you."

Ji Wuming had some guesses, but he still asked, "What?"

"The antidote." Yan Jingyu spit out two words, buried her head and started eating noodles.

Sure enough, he was drugged!Ji Wuming gritted his teeth and swallowed the antidote.

The two ate noodles, Xiaochun made hot tea and brought it up, Yan Jingyu took the empty bowl back to the back kitchen, Ji Wuming heard the proprietress say, "Oh, what a good day today? There are still guests here. "

The horse neighed outside, and a clear and clear voice shouted, "Hurry up and prepare the food, we have to hurry, eat and leave!"

As he spoke, a knight in white with a sword on his back and a young man in blue with a fan walked in one after the other.

A dark light flashed across Ji Wuming's eyes, and he clenched the teacup tightly in his hand: It was actually Yan Guitian and Nangong Sheng!

Besieging the evil palace, apart from the Eight Schools and Eleven Factions, there are also some scattered people, the most outstanding ones are Yan Guitian, Lord of Heaven's Will who sits as the leader of the martial arts alliance, and Nan Gongcheng, his best friend, Zhaixing Sanren.

Ji Wuming only experienced Yan Guitian's sword a month ago, and at the same time saw Nangong Cheng's outstanding lightness kung fu, so he naturally forgot that no one would forget these two.

With a cold expression, he mobilized the few internal forces in his body, thinking: the antidote was only taken half a quarter of an hour ago, and it didn't take effect so quickly. When the three of them meet face to face and start fighting, maybe he should take advantage of it beforehand. Killed Nangong Sheng, and then dealt with Yan Guitian.

However, the meeting of enemies that Ji Wuming expected didn't happen, and the two hurried past him, looking full of thoughts and not paying attention to their surroundings.

Ji Wuming paused with his fingertips.

The girl's soft voice came in from the side, "Sister, what's wrong with you? Are you unhappy?"

Ji Wuming glanced at Xiaochun, and suddenly remembered that he used to wear a mask, and now he was wearing a woman's attire...

"..." Ji Wuming took a sip of tea to hide his embarrassment.

The two sat down at the empty table behind him, Nangong Cheng poured a cup of tea for Yan Guitian, looked at his tense expression, and said in relief, "Brother Yan, don't worry, the Guzhong mechanism is completely destroyed, and it has not been recovered from the ruins." Find the body, brother Ling must be fine."

"I know that although my younger brother is only nineteen, his master is Bai... a senior whose martial arts are not weak, and his father sent him into the valley just to wear off his hostility. Although the scene was messy, there were two There are three corpses, but there is no trace of battle. Obviously there is a secret passage, or they have left the valley in advance."

Yan Guitian put the teacup on the table, and said in a deep voice, "I just don't know why those people invaded the valley with great fanfare?"

"I can't figure it out either." Nangong Cheng said, "But I think the clothes those people are wearing should belong to the sect of Mobei. When I enter Anyang City tomorrow, I will find someone to go to the Weiyu Tower to inquire. To do information business, the news must be well-informed.”

Yan Guitian sighed, "That's the only way to go."

The conversation between the two was suspended for the time being.

Ji Wuming lowered his eyes: the organ, being besieged, the Mobei sect... such a coincidence, the two of them didn't think of anything other than Tianji Valley.

Yan Jingyu is Yan Guitian's younger brother?Ji Wuming raised his eyes, looking thoughtfully at Yan Jingyu who came out of the back kitchen.

Yan Jingyu also saw the two extra people in the hall, but he just glanced over, and sat down opposite Ji Wuming, holding his tea eyes and looking at his nose and heart.

Did you guess wrong?Ji Wuming's eyes were full of doubts.

At this time, the old man finally came down from the stairs, and suddenly he let out an "ouch", patted the handrail and said, "Isn't this Big Queer? I haven't seen you for three years, so you were sent out by Old Queer too?"

"—Senior?!" Yan Guitian made a "chuckle" and stood up in shock.