Why do you want me to be the sect leader?

Huo Jiulin patted Shen Yiqing's arm, Shen Yiqing recovered and got up first, Huo Jiulin followed suit, first checked the ground, and found that the corner of a stone brick seemed to be able to be pressed.

"There's actually a mechanism here..."

If it wasn't for the accidental fall just now, it might never be discovered, because there is a desk next to it, so it is very inconspicuous.

"This is the City Lord's Mansion, could it be that Chi Xuan made it?"

"Impossible. If Chi Xuan made a secret room here, how could he let you live here? He wouldn't be bored and build a secret room to store sundries."

Huo Jiulin felt that Shen Yiqing's analysis made sense, so he took the candle on the table and said to him, "You wait for me here, I'll go up and have a look."

"Be careful..."

"Um……"

In response, he stepped on the stool and jumped up. There was no light on it, and he couldn't see his fingers. He took out the fire folder in his arms and opened it, and then lit the candle in his hand.

The space inside is not big, it looks like a small study room, there are still candles on the surrounding pillars, Huo Jiulin walked over to one point, and the secret room instantly lit up.

"Ah Qing, come up."

Shen Yiqing also jumped up when she heard the words, and was also a little surprised when she saw the furnishings inside. The bookshelves on the desks and bookshelves on the ground were covered with thick dust, and it seemed that no one had come up there for many years.

"In March of the eighth year of Ruiheng, I first arrived in Gu'an City and took the post of city lord... Ruiheng's eighth year? That was 16 years ago, so this secret room was set up by the 16-year-old Gu'an City lord."

Huo Jiulin randomly picked out a few pieces of paper on the table and looked at them. Suddenly, a burst of dust rose up. He couldn't help coughing a few times, and said to Shen Yiqing with some lack of interest: "It seems that the city lord made a special paper in the past. The secret room, recording my own experience as a city lord, is quite boring."

Seeing that Shen Yiqing's expression seemed a little serious after finishing speaking, "Ah Qing, what are you looking at so stupid?"

"come here."

"what happened?"

"I think things here may not be as simple as you think."

Huo Jiulin walked up to Shen Yiqing, took a look at the paper in Shen Yiqing's hand, "At the beginning of the tenth year of Ruiheng, I received an order to destroy the Shao family and take the hidden treasure...the picture..."

Huo Jiulin's eyes were full of shock, and Shen Yiqing picked up the rest of them, looked at them briefly, and said: "At the beginning, the treasure map was divided into four and handed over to the four great families for protection, namely Shao, Du, and Ruan. , Zheng."

"So it says that the Shao family took the treasure map written on it, referring to the Shao family, one of the four great families that guarded the treasure map back then."

"That's right. At the beginning, the four great families were wiped out one after another within a month, and no one survived. Then it was rumored that it was the Devil's Cult. It was from then on that the White Dao and the Devil's Sect became officially enmity."

"This City Lord's Mansion belongs to the Demon Cult. Could it be that the Demon Cult really was the one who wiped out the top ten families and seized the treasure map?"

"There is another possibility, that is, they also knew that the original incident was related to the city lord here, so they sent Chi Xuan here to find a way to become the city lord in order to find evidence."

"Then let's find out if this person has written the instruction to whom the instruction refers."

Huo Jiulin nodded, and the two of them picked up the scattered papers on the table and looked at them carefully. It was half an hour (an hour) after they had read all of them.

"What I'm looking at here are all ordinary things. I didn't mention anything about the treasure map in the past. I just know that this person is called Sun Zehu. Ah Qing, where are you?"

"I think it seems that part of it is missing, because here is only the matter of exterminating the Shao, Ruan, and Zheng families, but the Du family was also exterminated at the beginning, and the title "Lord" has been used instead, so I don't know the so-called Who is the Lord referring to. "

"My lord? Could it be the same person as the lord Xue Yinhan said?"

"Xue Yinhan? Xue Yinhan went to the village to control Qinfeng Village for his own use. The first task was to capture a hundred children around five years old. What does this have to do with the treasure map?"

"I don't know yet, maybe it doesn't matter. Although I still don't know who gave the order in the end, but at least I know that Sun Zehu participated in this incident. Let's ask Chi Xuan first to see who the previous city lord is." It's not called Sun Zehu."

"Wait, have you ever thought about what if the so-called master really refers to He Lianxiong?"

"Then listen to what they have to say."

The two came down from the secret room and went out to look for Chi Xuan with the paper in their hands. Chi Xuan was still in Helian Wuye's room reporting some of the situation in the city today. Seeing the two people who had just slipped away, they came back on their own initiative. Everyone feels a little curious.

"A Lin, could it be that you have figured out that you are willing to be the leader?"

"Can you get over this heavy topic first?! I have something to ask you."

"what's up?"

"You ordered Chi Xuan to come here to be the city lord?"

The expression on Helian Wuye's face was a bit puzzled, he didn't expect him to ask such a far-fetched question, he nodded and replied: "Yeah, why did you ask this all of a sudden?"

"There are so many towns, why did you choose Gu'an City? Don't tell me it's because it's close to Yunyan City, because there are even closer ones."

A little clarity flashed in Helian Wuye's eyes, "A Lin, did you find anything?"

"There are indeed some discoveries, but it's not clear exactly how."

"Anyway, the two of you are not considered outsiders, so I'll just say it straight. The reason why Chi Xuan was appointed as the city lord of Gu'an City is because through investigations over the past few years, I have found some clues to what happened back then. The clues temporarily point to It's Gu'an City."

"What happened back then?"

"You also know that my father arrested you because they arrested my mother and threatened him to hand over the treasure map. I also begged my father to let him hand over the treasure map in exchange for my mother.

But he said that he had never seen the treasure map, and several elders in the church also said they didn't know about it. My father loves my mother very much. I don't think he would be so cruel and sacrifice my mother for the treasure map. "

"Yeah, I still remember this incident very deeply. It was too sudden at the beginning. In just one month, all the winds were pointing at us, but we never heard the old leader say that we would seize the treasure map. Since ancient times, black and white The two are not at odds, and we have a hard time arguing."

The second elder sighed, in fact, they were the seventh elders at the beginning, but three of them were sacrificed in that battle, and now there are only four left. Thinking about it, it still feels like a nightmare.

"The old leader founded the Devil's Cult at the beginning because he wanted to break out in the world and become the overlord of the martial arts, but since he met his wife, his temperament has gradually changed. Maybe it's because he has been in the world for too long and wants to be stable. I came down, so I didn’t intend to aspire to the top of the rivers and lakes later, I didn’t expect that I would not offend everyone but offend me, and it would be a tragedy in the end.”

"How many city owners have changed here?"

"It's not clear before, but I'm the third in these 14 years."

"Which one are you looking for?"

"The previous two have been checked, but the previous city lord died of illness, and there is nothing suspicious after checking his life and deeds. Moreover, when he was the city lord, the treasure map incident had already started, so we think the most suspicious should be It's his job."

"what is it call?"

"Sun Zehu."

"Sun Zehu? It really is him."

Shen Yiqing continued: "We just found a secret room above the guest room. It seems that no one has been there for many years. There are many papers in the secret room, which should be written by this Sun Zehu, that's all."

As he said, he put a few pieces of paper in his hand on the table, and Chi Xuan and the second elder hurried over to look through them. Although Helian Wuye wanted to know what was written on the paper, but his current physical condition was not good enough. Allow him to get up.

"What is written?"

"There were a lot of sheets scattered in the secret room. We only picked out a few useful ones and brought them out. They mainly recorded the event of destroying the Four Great Aristocratic Families. Although it described the plan, it did not point out who instigated it."

"I have been in the City Lord's Mansion for two years. I searched almost every corner and found no clues. How did you find the secret room?"

The expression on Shen Yiqing's face was a bit unnatural. He couldn't tell him that he found out because he hugged Huo Jiulin and squeezed the soft one over. He gave Huo Jiulin a warning look, signaling him not to talk nonsense. .

Huo Jiulin received the signal, touched his lower lip in embarrassment, and said with a smile, "I discovered this by accident. The mechanism is very secretive. Maybe it's the ghosts of the four great families who appeared, that's why we discovered it." This."

After speaking, she raised her eyebrows towards Shen Yiqing, her face was full of "Look at how good your husband is, you can clear up the matter between the two of you in a few words", Shen Yiqing didn't bother to look at him.

"But I haven't been able to find out where Sun Zehu is now. I asked some people who used to work in the City Lord's Mansion, and they only said that Sun City Lord disappeared suddenly, as if he had evaporated from the world."

"Will you be silenced after doing these things?"

"Probably."

"There is no guarantee that he is really dead if he is alive or dead. If he is still alive, as long as we find him, won't we know the truth of the year?"

"It's easy to say, there are so many people, and it's been 14 years. Where can I find it?"

"Anyway, our Demon Cult really doesn't have a treasure map. I only got the one in recent years, and the other three are not in my hands."

"I know, one is in Feimeng Villa, and the other is in my hands."

"Then there is another one."

"As for where the last copy is, we don't know yet, and we don't have any clues at all."

Shen Yiqing looked at the paper on the table and thought for a while, then guessed: "You said that since it was the treasure map that Sun Zehu was ordered to snatch, would the last copy be in his hands?"

"But even if it is on him, we have no way to start. Now we don't even know where he is. Besides, maybe he has been reincarnated long ago."

"Let's not talk about that, isn't the most important thing right now is the martial arts conference? Ah Lin, you just said you have an idea, what exactly is your idea?"

Huo Jiulin grinned when he heard the words, a gleam flashed in his eyes, and slowly uttered three words under the expectant eyes of everyone: "Xia, Zhan, Tie."