beg for chivalry

It's autumn.The vegetation on the side of the mountain station in Bingzhou is drooping, and the dead leaves are everywhere, like a thick golden velvet blanket.Cattle and sheep drink water by the river, clustered in clusters, wandering slowly behind the withered and yellow reeds like clouds.There was deathly silence in the mountain post, only the sound of clappers in Yinshi and Xushi, wandering among the posthouses like water waves, and there was very little space.

When the assassins of the Ministry of Fire were not out to kill people, they rammed medicine in the room, put Shiliuhuang and Huonitrate in an iron mortar, poured it with shochu, and pounded it with a wooden pestle.The sound of "tuk-duk" in the whole room, like the chirping of a chizhi, came one after another.

Yu Yi did not pound gunpowder until after a whole day, his fingers were red and swollen like radishes.He likes to sneak around on the tiles, and silently writes down the location of the mountain post in his heart, where is the station shop, and where is the path leading to it. After a few days, he finally figured it out clearly.

He hadn't seen Shui Shijiu for several days.The assassin pestered him to drink whenever he had free time, and when he was drunk, he loved to hug him and talk nonsense, but no matter what nonsense he said, it couldn't compare to what Shui Nineteen said that day, "Hou Tianlou will make a big move recently".

Now it seems that this is indeed the case. Several warehouses were piled up with the black fire that was robbed from Lei's family, which was enough to blow up half of Bingzhou City.Yu Yiwei was a little uneasy, what would he do with so much black fire powder?And he heard that Hou Tianlou had been trying to capture the Lei family and get the Fire Snake Sutra since several years ago.

While the rest of the Fire Department were pounding the powder, Yu Yiwei picked up the impermanent bird mask tied around his waist, covered his face, and sneaked away along the roof.

Pulling grass and leaves all the way, he touched the side of the tunnel.The pothole is hidden in the shadow of green trees, and the green brocade hangs down like a curtain.Yu Yiwei crawled into the pothole with his waist down. It was pitch black inside, and there was a pungent yellow smell of stone flow.

During the time he came to wait for Tianlou, he figured it out. Most of the time, there would be a shrine in the mountain post, and behind the curtain there would be a god named "Yi Qing", and there must be tunnels, where black fire powder and some Embarrassment.This was used as a temporary shelter for the assassins. On the one hand, it was to prevent surprise attacks, and on the other hand, it was to prevent someone from burning down the foundation of the mountain post.

It's a pity that many tunnels are now buried by earth and rocks, and the assassins no longer guard the pit entrances.Yu Yi didn't jump down the loose and decayed rope ladder. The cave was dark, like the mouth of a ferocious beast. The cool wind was blowing on his face, and he let out eerie sobs beside his ears.

Holding the glazed lamp, he cautiously walked into the pit room.There is not much black fire powder piled up here, they are all wrapped into square buns, piled up like tofu cubes.Many of them were damp and unusable.Yu Yiwei walked through the tunnel for a while, remembering the direction of the tunnel in his mind, but after walking a few steps, he found that the road ahead was blocked by clods of soil, which he couldn't even dig with a shovel.

Yu Yiwei was extremely distressed.One day he had to take Yu Bingzi away and escape from Houtianlou.Now with the help of Shui Nineteen, he can escape by himself, but Yu Bingzi is the main person in the left building, and he is under heavy guard, and there are no less than five or six assassins around him every day, so how can he go smoothly? Run away with yourself?

I thought of using this abandoned tunnel to hide for a while, but it seems that there is no way to go here. If all the assassins from the mountain station come to surround and kill them, they will be trapped here and can't get out. They will only teach their opponents to catch a turtle.

All of a sudden, he began to wonder why Houtianlou had prepared so much fire powder recently, was it because he wanted to blow up some place?Yu Yiwei thought of the raging fire, the fire snake meandering brightly and seductively, jumping up to the sky, devouring all the houses.The pages of the book were burned to ashes in the fire, flying like butterflies.

Fire... If it is used, it can burn the paper, leaving only black ashes.

Shui Shijiu said that to Zuo Buzheng, everything in this world is like a play of lanterns and shadows under a white curtain, that is, like a storybook.If you use a sword or scissors, you can only cut it in pieces, and there will still be fragments left, but if you use fire, there will be no trace left.

Zuozhuzhu, she...does she want to completely destroy something like throwing the pages of a book into the fire?

Just as Yu Yiwei was thinking about it, suddenly, a bright light hit him behind him.

A few beams of light suddenly appeared at the mouth of the pit, and someone pushed aside the brocade to let the pale sunlight fall in, leaving a frost-like mark on the ground.An unprovoked ghost suddenly appeared at the mouth of the pit, its dark eye sockets were like black holes, and its gaze was directed at his back.

"Huo Nineteen. What are you... doing here?"

Yu Yiwei's heart seemed to skip a beat.He turned his head slowly, like a little rabbit getting into a sling, looking at the assassin at the mouth of the pit in bewilderment and horror.

His throat suddenly became extremely dry, and when he spoke, it seemed as if dirt would fall from his throat, "I... come here..."

"...Let's take a look." After saying these words, his mouth seemed to be sewn shut, and he could no longer utter a word.

The Unprovoked Ghost looked at him faintly, casting a narrow and thick shadow in the tunnel: "What's there to see?"

The assassin became suspicious and wanted to trouble him.Yu Yi didn't think about it.He kind of regretted slipping out of the Fire Department barn.Maybe someone has been looking at him more, and everything is watching him.

Yu Yiwei scratched his head, tried to calm down his voice, and showed him the red and swollen fingers holding the wooden pestle, "I thought...the black fire here might still work, so I came to look for it." .Because my hands were swollen from pounding medicine during the day, I wanted to be lazy..."

This rhetoric did not impress Wu Yuangui, his gaze was just like a sharpened sword, piercing through Yu Yi without any explanation.The assassin said aggressively:

"Everyone knows that the black fire in the tunnel has been damp, so there is no need for it. What is the purpose of you coming here?"

The Unprovoked Ghost spoke indifferently, probing him step by step as if he was interrogating him.Yu Yiwei seemed to be forced to the edge of the cliff, precarious, waved his hands in a panic and said: "Actually... I'm here... to find something to eat!"

"...Looking for something to eat?"

"Isn't there some food in the pit room? I'm hungry and I'm not full, so I came here to find if there's anything I can do." Yu Yiwei was in a cold sweat, talking nonsense.

The assassin stared at him silently, like a rock blocking the mouth of a pit.When Yu Yiwei's nonsense words fell on him, there seemed to be no echo, and his whole body seemed to be covered with a dark curtain, hiding his sorrow and joy.

After a long time, the ghost said for no reason: "Come with me."

The figure left from the mouth of the pit, and a pale light like frost and snow appeared on the ground again.Yu Yiwei was covered in cold sweat, standing alone in the pitch-black tunnel, the cold wind blew from the other side of the secluded tunnel, blowing on his body like needles.He staggered a few steps and climbed up the rope ladder slowly and heavily.

The Unprovoked Ghost waited for him outside the tunnel, standing in the knee-high weeds, watching him silently like a half-dead log.Seeing that Yu Yi hadn't climbed up the tunnel, he took a step quietly.

This person walked very fast, three steps in parallel, his figure shuttled between the green grass like a ghost.Yu Yiwei was able to keep up with fast steps before, but later he could only run with all his strength and was so tired that he was out of breath.As he ran, he yelled, "Hey! Wait!"

"What do you want me to do? Hey! Slow... slow down..."

After zigzagging all the way and finally standing in front of the posthouse, Yu Yiwei couldn't even stand up straight, and was panting like a dog in the water with his knees propped up.

The Unprovoked Ghost said coldly to him: "From now on, you are not allowed to leave the warehouse of the fire department alone."

"Hmm...um." Yu Yiwei replied falteringly, wiping away his sweat.

"Recently, the Ministry of Fire is shortest in manpower. The Martial League Conference is coming up. If you slow down, the last one will be unlucky." The Unprovoked Ghost suddenly approached him, and the ghost's face suddenly approached, and the shadow fell on his face like a big basin of ice water. "Do you know the reason why you recently traveled with the Water Ministry assassin?"

Does it mean Shui Nineteen as his partner?Yu Yiwei shook his head in bewilderment.

"The Ministry of Water is a group of treacherous and cunning people! They are suspicious by nature, but they can act as if nothing has happened." The eyes of the unprovoked ghost suddenly narrowed, and they gritted their teeth, "They are the eyes of Shui Jiu and Zuo Louzhu. Suspicious details are the most closely watched..." He muttered for a while, then suddenly clamped Yu Yiwei's shoulder tightly, and said coldly on his cheek.

"... Huo Shiqi, aren't you a secret worker?"

Yu Yiwei's cheeks were a little hairy, and the breath of the unprovoked ghost was sprayed in his ears, making his hair stand on end.He was silent for a long time, carefully considered his words, and finally said.

"...I will prove my innocence to Mizube."

The unprovoked ghost didn't speak, and after glancing at him, he let go of him abruptly, patted him on the shoulder, and pushed towards the post house.

"For the time being, I don't need you to troubleshoot the fire. Didn't you change the job of looking after the girl from the Mu family last time? You should be familiar with it?"

Yu Yiwei was pushed and shoved by him in a daze, and when he looked up, the two of them had already stood in front of the post house.Several assassins in pitch-black military uniforms stood in front of the door with their swords pressed, like fierce door gods, their ghost faces immersed in the cold shadow of the eaves.The firewood door of the wooden house was half open, and the sound of pounding medicine could be heard from inside.

This is Yu Bingzi's residence. She is being guarded by assassins, and she is researching medicinal herbs inside.

The ghost said for no reason: "Huo Ba, who was watching the girl from the Mu family, was taken away by the left floor master, you come to the top. Didn't you let her be quiet when she was crying last time? I think you are suitable for this job. "

For some reason, Yu Yiwei's eyes suddenly felt a little wet, and a stream of heat rushed into his limbs - he could finally see his junior sister!But when he impatiently took a step, his whole body seemed to be thrown into the ice cave.

All the assassins are staring at him.Unprovoked ghosts, hungry ghosts, gold and silver ghosts, dozens of eyes were like arrowheads, piercing him from all directions.The surroundings seemed to be extremely cold, the grass leaves rustled, and the wind poured in from the clothes hole, caressing the skin with goosebumps.

He was watched.Yu Yiwei was startled suddenly, slowed down his pace, and swallowed his saliva with difficulty.A few days ago, he seemed to have gotten carried away with complacency, forgetting that this place was originally a blood river hell, and if he made a wrong step, he would fall into a sea of ​​flames and a mountain of knives.

"Go, Huo Shiqi." Wuyuan Gui's eyes shone coldly, with a half-smile, "Go and take good care of her, we will watch you."