The prosperous capital, the ancient mansion.

This place is located in the prosperous area of ​​the capital, and the imperial palace is not far away. Logically, there should be cars coming and going and people talking, just like the houses located here.

However, this is the only exception.

The door is so clean and tidy that not even a fallen leaf can be found. The doors around are always closed, as if they have never been opened.

Almost no outsiders come here. Of course, if there are outsiders, they often have no mood to appreciate the beautiful scenery around them at the moment before they come in.

Because there is a name here that is very familiar to everyone.

Xichang.

"We two finally came to the capital, but we are hiding here to drink soybean milk?" In a breakfast shop about two streets away from here, a very gentle-looking man was drinking soybean milk and said to the person in front of him, "And why did you come to this place?"

"To find some acquaintances." The person opposite him smiled, holding a letter in his hands that were whiter than a woman's.

Every time he saw the face of the person opposite him, Ji Yihan would vaguely feel that the other party might be a woman disguised as a man. Speaking of which, because of this problem, he still tested the other party and wanted to find out some truth.

Then he was pinned to the ground and hammered. The most popular hero in the world was hammered like a fool under the hands of the person opposite him.

"But didn't you say that it's dangerous for you to go out now, and there are a group of people watching you?" Ji Yihan put down the bowl and spoke in a low voice.

He didn't know the origin of the person opposite him, but based on the experience of the two of them getting along during this period of time, he guessed that the person opposite him, who was more beautiful than a girl, might be a desperate bandit, a murderer, a member of a cult... well, anyway, something like that.

If one day the other party suddenly revealed his identity and said that he was the leader of a cult. He thought he would not be too surprised.

And with the other party's identity, it stands to reason that he should stay away from places like the capital, especially Xichang.

This place can basically be regarded as one of the lairs of the Jinyiwei. Their current behavior is probably like a thief running to the gate of the government office to steal things, which is pure provocation.

Although Ji Yihan has experienced some things for so long, his courage has increased a lot, but playing this kind of tightrope-walking game, Ji Yihan still feels a little scalp tingling.

But the man opposite him, who is as mysterious as the leader of the demon cult, and may even be more cruel, just smiled and said: "Indeed, it seems a bit early to come here now. This is a little different from the previous plan, but this letter says something interesting, so I have to come back early."

Ji Yihan didn't know the content of the letter in the man's hand, but he only knew that about every week, there would be such a letter delivered to the hands of the man opposite.

He was also very curious about what was written in the letter, but he couldn't guess it for so long, so he just gave up.

He drank the soy milk in the bowl in one gulp, and then sighed, "Really, why am I still so thin after so long?"

Hua Chaodu, who was opposite him, looked up at the man in front of him.

To be honest, this surprise brought to him by the shopkeeper was indeed very outstanding, almost the same as he had imagined.

His personality was very gentle, which was rare among all the martial artists. He had almost never been seen to get angry. If he hadn't been always mumbling about why he didn't gain weight, he would be even more perfect.

Hua Chaodu looked at the man in front of him with a strange look. No one in the world wants to gain weight, but it is obvious that the guy in front of him is an exception.

Does he have some weird obsession with this matter?

"I'm going out to meet some acquaintances. You stay here for a while." Hua Chaodu said as he folded the letter and put it in his pocket. He jumped out of the window and disappeared without a trace.

Ji Yihan looked at his back and seemed to want to say something, but he didn't say anything in the end.

He shook his head and thought that this guy must have been arrogant all along. He was so arrogant even in the capital. The security here was very strict. Who knows when he will meet some terrible masters.

If the man on the other side accidentally encounters some scary person, with his arrogant temper, he might be beaten half to death by the other side and finally carried back by him.

There are a lot of letters received here every day. Most of the letters are placed in front of the people who need to deal with them in different categories. Only a small number of letters will be delivered to Hua Chaodu.

However, there was a Jinyiwei who was punished for doing something wrong not long ago. Every letter he wrote was sent directly to Hua Chaodu without any hesitation.

If outsiders knew about this, they would probably be shocked.

Hua Chaodu came back this time to see someone.

At this moment, the sun was shining brightly outside.

When he landed steadily at the old house in Xichang, the surroundings were quiet without any movement. The sunlight shone down from the gaps between the treetops of the old trees, casting mottled spots on the ground. He walked forward calmly in an ordinary white cloth. Everything around him was quiet, and even the sound of birds could be heard.

However, if it were another person like him, he would probably have become a bloody man with holes all over his body before he could get here.

Hua Chaodu walked quietly along the front of the house. In the silence and deserted surroundings, the heavy door suddenly opened to the surroundings, as if to welcome the owner.

"Is this the person?"

The moment he landed, he saw a person tied up in the middle of the house.

The man sat quietly on a chair, his hands and feet were all tied up, his eyes were sealed, and he seemed to be unable to sense any movement around him.

He was tied up quietly like that, as if he was waiting for Hua Chaodu to come to see him. He was well decorated, and his subordinates knew that he liked to be clean, so they would never do such things too much, at least they would not let him see anything too bloody.

The gray hair rose and fell with the man's breathing. This man was already quite old, and it seemed that even his ears were getting less and less useful as he aged.

But at the moment Hua Chaodu landed, he still slowly raised his head.

"You are indeed in good shape." Hua Chaodu walked over slowly. "At least for a guy over 200 years old, your martial arts skills haven't deteriorated too much, right?"

"I've said it many times, I don't know what you're talking about." The old man opposite should be very old, but the next second he heard the person opposite move a chair and sit down opposite him.

"The left protector under the former Wulin leader, Xie Ku, has been under the command of Yun, and has been Yun's capable subordinate and close friend for decades." Hua Chaodu opposite drank a sip of tea on the small table next to him. It was neither hot nor cold, but just the right temperature.

The old man opposite seemed to be startled.

"However, several decades later, one year before Yun was about to retire, you suddenly chose to defect from her and joined the moment when the power was not very strong at that time, which indirectly caused a commotion in the martial arts world at that time. What I said was right, right?" Hua Chaodu looked at the person opposite coldly.

During the time when this man was captured, no one in the West Factory directly named the identity of this man. Hua Chao was the first to say it clearly.

And this sentence also lifted the veil of some dusty past events from two hundred years ago. These veils should have been hidden under the sun, but were covered up more or less by people. Some people didn't want them to be lifted.

"I..." Xie Ku, who was sitting opposite, suddenly had a ferocious expression. He opened his mouth and seemed to want to say something, but in the end he swallowed it and couldn't say it.

"Does it feel good to be a betrayer?" Hua Chaodu on the opposite side looked at Xie Ku and said with a smile, "If our information is correct, a few years after you defected, you were thrown out by that group of people, like a tool whose value has been exhausted, right?"

"No, it's not like that!" After a few seconds of silence, Xie Ku on the opposite side suddenly showed an uncontrollable anger on his face. He seemed to want to say something, but he couldn't say it for a while.

Hua Chaodu still looked very calm on the surface, but his eyes were fixed on the other party.

Suddenly, there seemed to be a sound in the air. Hua Chaodu's heart tightened. He turned his head suddenly and wanted to stop in front of Xie Ku. But in the end, he was still a step too late.

An extremely sharp weapon pierced Xie Xie's dry throat, making him completely unable to speak. Only a sound like coughing up blood remained in his throat.

Hua Chaodu was suddenly startled. He turned around to see who had shot the cold arrow, but the surroundings were still silent and empty as if no one had been there.

There was no one around.

...

"Hahaha..." An Huoshaxi laughed so hard on the chair that she fell backwards. She looked at Wu Chuan across from her, clapping her hands and laughing, "It turns out that the capital is so interesting. I have never been there. They said it is very troublesome to enter the capital."

"Actually, you can go anytime if you want." Wu Chuan glanced at An Huoshaxi and muttered softly.

"I'm not going there. No matter how interesting it is, it's not as fun as the inn." Anhuo Shaxi said.

"That's right..." Wu Chuan thought that the scary shopkeeper had armed this inn to the teeth. There were all kinds of scary mechanisms in it. In the eyes of this girl who knew nothing, it might be more fun here.

He took another sip of water. He didn't know why he always felt that his mouth was particularly dry, as if something was desperately absorbing his water.

The girl asked him to hold the food in his mouth and not swallow it, and Wu Chuan did it obediently. He has always been an honest and ordinary child.

"You, don't laugh, it's your turn to tell a story." Wu Chuan said, looking at the girl in front of him. He whispered, "It's better to tell a story inside the inn."

He had just established a pretty good relationship with the girl in front of him, and then the two of them started playing a game called "telling each other stories."

Wu Chuan had always wanted to know some information about the inn, but unfortunately he had no idea where to start. Who knew that today he would seize the opportunity because of his greed, and he would definitely make good use of it.

The laughter of the boys and girls downstairs reached Feng Qing's ears upstairs. She had just sent the beautiful girl away, so she sighed and prepared to put on a facial mask to relax herself.

Then she suddenly remembered that she had taken her facial mask to An Huo Sha Xi's room yesterday. She originally wanted to put a facial mask on the girl so that she could have a good date, but she was interrupted by something and forgot to take it back.

"What's the matter? Forget it, just open the box and get a new one." Feng Qing said as he closed his eyes.

An Huo Sha Xi below thought about it and suddenly thought of a story.

Her voice suddenly slowed down.

"Have you heard that our inn is haunted?"