At midnight, the night was quiet.
Chongming landed silently in a corner of a deep alley in the capital, dragging its long tail and slamming down to the ground.
The wall at the end of the alley collapsed and the stones shattered into flying dust.
Shi Yu walked out from the dust and coughed twice.
He Weiyou reached out and brushed away the dust in front of his eyes: "It's really exactly one second."
Shi Yu said nothing and left the alley before the surrounding residents were attracted by the noise and opened the windows to check.
He Weiyou asked: "The Chongming will not attack us for a while. Shall we go back to the hotel now?"
Shi Yu still said nothing and looked down at the road.
He Wei didn't hear a response for a while, so he waved his hand in front of his eyes and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
"Task."
He Weiyou finally remembered the main storyline of the abstract school: "If burning lives is not right, then the most direct way is to burn the sun and let Dajin regain the sunrise?"
Shi Yu: "So how do we burn it?"
He Weiyou pointed at himself and said in surprise: "You're asking me?"
Shi Yu: “What?”
"Do you have any misunderstanding about my IQ?"
“…”
He Weiyou looked at the raindrops falling from the edge of the parachute wing and said, "I thought about it and found that being independent is too demanding for my brain, too flexible and too challenging, so I decided to continue being a pendant."
Shi Yu held up the oil-paper umbrella with one hand: "When you told the innkeeper not to tell the officers and soldiers, weren't you very flexible?"
There was an angular stone standing on the road.
He Weiyou stepped on it directly, his feet slipped and he lost his balance, and his umbrella fell out.
Shi Yu reached out and pulled him back: "Watch the road when you walk."
He Weiyou wiped the rain off his head and asked, "When did you know?"
Shi Yu stopped and asked: "Know what?"
"Just," He Weiyou gestured hard, "I threatened the innkeeper."
Shi Yu glanced at him and said, "So you threatened him."
He Weiyou: “……?”
The heavy rain was pounding down, and He Wei had a hard time sorting out the meaning of the other person's words: "When did you figure it out?"
"Is there any need to think about this?" Shi Yu said without any emotion. "That morning, the shopkeeper was terrified of me. Later, when the soldiers questioned me and saw me walking out of the cellar, he was still vague and refused to tell the truth. Why should he treat two strangers who came to his shop to stay so fearfully?"
He Weiyou was depressed.
Shi Yu continued to walk forward holding the umbrella: "Either you did something to him, or someone else did something to him. Since you said he was born timid, then it must be you."
When he left the alley and walked to the door of the inn, he suddenly stopped.
He Weiyou was caught off guard and walked a little further, the front half of his head was gloriously wet again: "Why did you stop again?"
There was a patch of lush green ivy on the outer wall of the inn, which was reflected by the night rain and the lanterns under the eaves, making it look lush and green.
Shi Yu pulled one of the leaves: "Qing period."
He Weiyou: “What?”
"Qingqi God."
I don't know which word irritated the other person, but I saw the expression on his face change back and forth several times.
He Weiyou swallowed his saliva and spoke cautiously: "Then you," he paused and changed the subject, "Why did you suddenly mention Qingqi Shen?"
Shi Yu was silent for a while: "She knows I'm here."
He Weiyou was stunned for a moment: "Isn't this a good thing? Should we come and find someone next?"
Shi Yu let go of the leaf: "To silence you."
Just the two words "silence" took He Wei half a minute to understand.
Half a minute later, He Weiyou tried to speak: "They--no, aren't you their boss?"
Shi Yu: “Yes, it was before.”
"Then now..."
"Nothing."
He Wei thought to himself, if you are still nothing, then where do you put the racial categories of other people who are born as human beings? Fortunately, he held back before he spoke, and reluctantly asked a more nutritious question: "Then, why did he come to silence you?"
Shi Yu walked around the door of the inn: "I don't know."
He Weiyou always felt that the other party was perfunctory. Just as he was about to ask again, he first discovered that the route was wrong: "Where are you going?"
"The Imperial Palace." Shi Yu stopped in front of the fence in the backyard of the inn. "You can go back first. As long as you hide from the soldiers, there shouldn't be much danger in this game."
He Weiyou was quiet now.
Shi Yu waited for him to leave.
But no one spoke, and the air was inexplicably filled with anxiety.
After a while, He Weiyou was the first to break out: "Are you sure that I will run away? For the sake of my life, I am hiding in the inn and waiting for one of you to complete the task and go out directly?"
【Wow】
[Oh oh oh]
【Are we going to have a fight? 】
Shi Yu said, “No.”
His eyes and tone were calm, and he obviously didn't feel angry or embarrassed by the ambiguous words: "Because you used this method in the last game. If you want to continue using it, you'd better break up with me now."
[Don’t even think about it. Master Meiren’s personality doesn’t allow her to quarrel with others.]
He Weiyou glanced at him up and down and said, "Then why are you asking me this?"
Shi Yu said: "Seek the opinions of the parties involved."
He Weiyou said: "Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you. That's good."
After he said that, he ran towards the inn.
It was only a few steps away, and with the physical fitness of an experienced player, he could reach the destination quickly.
When he returned to the inn and turned around, he saw the other person standing there nodding at him, and then walking towards the palace with an umbrella.
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The guards on duty in Yuting Palace had just been replaced.
Shu Nian hid in the shade of branches and leaves, looking at the new guard standing motionless holding the gun with a red cherry on it.
She twisted the leaves and picked at them with her fingers.
The new guard, the one who was knocked unconscious by Jiang Jiaying and transferred here, was standing there just fine, but suddenly heard a slight noise from inside the palace.
He was already on high alert because of what happened yesterday, so he heard the noise almost immediately. He reported it to the guard on duty and headed towards Yuting Palace with his gun in hand.
Yuting Palace is an empty palace and no one lives there yet.
The guard carefully followed the sound step by step, and finally stopped in front of the green plant, grabbed the bushes and pulled them hard!
He pulled out all the branches, leaves and roots of the shrub at once.
The guard was stunned for a long while, and didn't even have time to think about why he suddenly had supernatural powers. He looked at the hole under the bushes and immediately screamed: "Your Majesty?!"
emperor.
The volume of these two words was so loud that it was deafening and floated directly out of the Yuting Palace.
Shu Nian sat in the shadows of the trees, looking at the sudden commotion below, her eyes narrowed with a smile.
She left Yuting Palace, and the branches and leaves on both sides of the road gathered towards her spontaneously as if they had life, blocking her head from being hit by the heavy rain.
Shu Nian walked to the gate of the palace, stroked the green vine hanging in front of her eyes, and said in surprise: "I'm afraid we don't need to go to the inn now."
Takusu glanced at her.
Shu Nian plucked another leaf and threw it in another direction like a dart: "He came over by himself."
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The emperor was dragged out of a hole under the bushes. Because of the rain, water soaked the soil and seeped down. His bright yellow dragon robe, which symbolized nobility, was covered in mud and water. His face was gray, his lips were purple, and his eyes were filled with tears due to the stimulation of the light.
The guards around him were making a lot of noise, but no one reached out to carry him back to the Yangxin Palace. The rain made him feel cold all over.
A shadow suddenly fell.
The upwind vent was blocked by someone, and the rain on my eyelids was wiped away bit by bit by the handkerchief.
The emperor finally felt the long-lost warmth and tried hard to open his eyes.
The other person was not holding a lantern. Only the light from the eaves superimposed the shadow of the person and the umbrella on his eyelids. His clothes were very thin, probably soaked by the rain or something else. When the wind blew, the water droplets were blown down and splashed on the ground.
Like a sexy ghost.
Shi Yu held an umbrella over his head but didn't look him in the eye: "Your Majesty."
The emperor's Adam's apple rolled, and he subconsciously wanted to ask "Who are you?", but when he opened his mouth he realized that he could not make any sound because he had been locked up for a long time without water or food.
But the other party seemed to know what he wanted to ask, and answered in a low voice with his head down: "Chongming Gongfeng."
"I am just a minor official under your command, Your Majesty."
The emperor remembered that there were twelve Chongming She in the imperial palace, and each of them was presided over by a priest.
He glanced at the other person's ID card hanging on his waist and gradually relaxed. His vision became clearer and he didn't see anyone else nearby. However, there were two guards standing on both sides of the Yuting Palace gate to prevent any concubines or servants from getting close and seeing the emperor's face.
He also wanted to ask the Royal Guards why they hadn't arrived for so long, not only because he had been attacked by an assassin in the palace before.
At least there was a sound this time.
The other party still did not raise his head, but just listened quietly. After he finished speaking, he replied, "I have sent someone to call them."
The guards were sent to call for help, but the chicken farmer stayed behind to protect the emperor. This arrangement was actually very strange no matter how you looked at it.
However, before he could even begin to suspect anything, the other party's next words were: "Your Majesty was found this time thanks to Chongming, so they kept me here."
When the emperor heard this, he was shocked: "Which one is it? Did you raise it? Why did it appear in the palace?"
Shi Yu quietly watched the emperor's reaction: "The one that was presented as tribute."
The emperor's eyes shook as he looked at him.
Shi Yu explained in a calm voice, "The twelve worshippers are required to pay tribute to you with a Chongming every month. Your Majesty, do you remember? When I was passing by with the Chongming I just raised this month, it suddenly flew into the Yuting Palace, crying non-stop."
The emperor murmured in despair, "So you really raised him? A pure-blooded Chongming?"
Shi Yu listened to the word "bloodline".
No wonder the group of Chongming birds taken care of by players in the palace have only a single pupil in their eyes, because the individual bloodlines are impure.
The real Chongming bird should have double pupils.
"Is the Great Jin finally saved?" The emperor breathed rapidly and grabbed his arm fiercely, "Where is the Chongming? Where is it?!"
"He was sent to the palace by the guards." Shi Yu replied slowly, "He should be in Taichu Palace now."
The moment the words fell, someone suddenly jumped down from the eaves.
He is the commander of the imperial guards.
It was late at night when he received the news that the emperor had been found.
The incident happened suddenly, and he forgot to remind all his subordinates to keep their mouths shut, so the guard didn't know that he intended to usurp the throne, and didn't kill him immediately after discovering the emperor's intention.
The emperor must not be allowed to stay.
Not only because he was only one step away from the throne, he couldn't let go; but also because in order to create a witness, he deliberately caught the old eunuch to witness the assassin's exposure of him cleaning up the fake thieves and the whole process of his lies afterwards. If the emperor knew that he had thought of usurping the throne, he would definitely die in the end.
As long as the emperor is killed, only the emperor is killed...
Only regicide.
He hurried all the way, using his lightness skills to fly directly onto the roof. When he landed in front of the two men, his hand had already reached the scabbard.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, a shrill voice suddenly came from outside: "The Queen Mother has arrived——"
The Queen Mother of the Jin Kingdom was usually low-key, but her words were as powerful as the Emperor's. The Emperor was a filial son and never restricted his mother's power, which meant that she was only one word away from interfering in the court.
The reason why the commander of the imperial guards was in such a hurry to kill and silence the witnesses was because he was afraid that the empress dowager would notice something unusual. As long as he executed the person first and reported to the empress dowager later to take the throne, it would be difficult to pull him down after the matter was settled.
In such a hurry, he had no time to think about why the empress dowager, who usually stayed at home, suddenly showed up. He could only kneel down quickly, not caring about the rough road and the cold rain soaking into his trouser legs: "I am late in protecting you, Your Majesty, please punish me!"
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