Chapter 107 Act Thirteen Star Flow Transforms into Seven
That night, Qi Ziyin slowly woke up, only to find that the person standing in front of him was Mo Chen. With the help of the other party, he sat up, but he had a splitting headache and was so groggy that he didn't know what happened.
Looking around, the young man saw that the place he was staying in seemed to be a private house that had been abandoned for a long time. The house was very big. It should have been a wealthy family in the past, but now it was already dilapidated. There were several large holes in the roof.
, the chalk painted on the wall also peeled off in pieces, revealing an earthy yellow base.
In his hazy vision, the young man suddenly saw two figures leaning in a corner not far away. They were the assassins who had assassinated Hai Qiuyang on top of the city! This made him immediately nervous again, and shouted sharply:
"Mo Chen! You are Brother Zeming's most trusted person, but I didn't expect that you would actually liaise with foreign enemies and lure assassins into the city?! Where is Sister Jia? Where did you get Sister Jia to?!"
"Hush - please, Master Ziyin, please lower your voice, we are not out of danger yet!" Mo Chen's expression changed and he immediately signaled the other party not to speak loudly, but how could Qi Ziyin, who was as frightened as a bird, listen.
When the two assassins saw that the young man in white clothes did not listen to Mo Chen's advice, they stepped forward to restrain him. But before they could take action, they saw a man in purple clothes flash out from the inner room and walked quickly.
Beside the couch, three or five unfamiliar people from the Kingdom of Fu also followed the Dongli woman and cautiously poked their heads out, wanting to know why this young man, who had been unconscious for a long time, was making such a fuss.
The woman reached out and covered Qi Ziyin's mouth, then looked at the man beside her:
"Don't be impatient. If these two righteous men hadn't come to our rescue earlier, I'm afraid we would both be dead by now."
"Sister Kejia, didn't you say that these two people are assassins sent by Ye State?"
As a result, the young man became more and more confused. He blinked suspiciously, his golden pupils filled with distrust, but he still lowered his voice as the other party said.
"Well - I really misunderstood." Leng Jiayun smiled awkwardly, and then turned his attention to Mo Chen. The man immediately understood and apologized to the young man on the bed:
"Young Master Ziyin, please forgive me. The situation above the city was really urgent just now, and the two of them acted a little too harshly. However, these two are my confidants who were specially arranged to lurk in Liyue Palace, and they are not from Ye Kingdom.
Assassin!"
"Not an assassin? How do you explain the conversation that Sister Naga heard on the top of the city that night?" Qi Ziyin seemed to be slightly relieved, but he continued to ask.
"Miss Leng heard it right that day. Two assassins from the Liusha Camp of Ye State did sneak into the city and sneaked into the palace. However, the young master of the house had ordered me to set up an ambush, and he had already killed them before they could take action.
Eradicated.”
"So, you sent these two martyrs into the palace to take over your current identity, so as not to arouse suspicion in the Ye Kingdom camp outside the city?"
The boy in white was very talented and could understand a few words. Mo Chen also nodded immediately:
"That's right. Ever since the two assassins were eliminated, they have been imitating each other's handwriting and tone to communicate with the Ye Kingdom's camp. Only then did they learn in advance that Ye Kingdom would launch a massive attack on the city tonight. Because of this
In this way, we can make arrangements in advance and rescue you from the city."
"So where are we now? And where do we plan to go?"
"Now we have approached Hanguang Gate in the south of the city. However, there are Ye Guo soldiers attacking everywhere in the city, so we have to hide here temporarily and wait for the opportunity."
"The city was destroyed? How could it happen so quickly!"
Hearing this, Qi Ziyin couldn't help but be shocked. It was only then that he noticed the faint fire reflected from outside the paper. It was also mixed with the bursts of horse hooves coming from the distance, as well as the heart-rending screams of the people in the city.
Yunzhi is an important town in Wanzhou. It has been famous since ancient times for its high cliffs and deep valleys, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack. Although the national power has been empty in recent years and the military strength is not as good as before, the generals in the Jinlin Army are still top-notch. The young man in white
I thought they could last at least ten and a half days.
"If you use an ordinary stone crossbow, it will take a lot of effort to open the Yunzhi City Gate. But I don't know where the other party got some weird weapons that can make thunderous noises and shoot bullets as big as a man's head.
Iron bullets! Therefore, with just a few volleys, Ye Guojun opened a gap several feet wide in the stone city wall, and then formed a formation to pour in, which was impossible to stop!"
The two people behind Mo Chen seemed to be still frightened by the scene they saw on the top of the city.
"Could it be that the Ye State Army used the artillery we saw on Hailing Island? Zhenlan was sunk, but Uncle Wang's firearms were still made so quickly that they were even distributed to the camps stationed in Fu State.
?!" Qi Ziyin's worry was all written on his face.
Mo Chen, who was on the side, reached out and patted his shoulder: "Don't worry, everyone. I have arranged an escape route according to the instructions of the little family master. As long as we bypass the pursuers and avoid direct confrontation, we can escape before dawn.
Let's go out of the city. Someone will meet us at the city gate to board the boat and leave the shore."
"This is said too easily. Ye Guo Zhoushi must have brought firebolts this time. Don't underestimate their power! Besides, even if we successfully escape from the city, in the boundless
Where can I hide at sea?"
As if the more details he knew, the more he would feel at ease. The young man in white just asked questions. However, before he finished speaking, he saw Mo Chen's eyes stern, as if he noticed something was wrong, and then pressed his palm to silence him:
"It's time!"
Everyone in the room immediately fell silent with a tacit understanding, holding their breath and paying attention to the movements outside. After a while, they heard a series of scattered footsteps approaching from far to near, and there were also pieces of armor among them.
There was a rustling sound caused by rubbing against each other. Immediately afterwards, the jagged figures reflected by several torches were also cast on the thin paper.
"Which room did you say you heard the noise?"
The footsteps stopped not far away, and one person asked in a deliberately lowered voice. The soldiers also pulled out their respective weapons and made a soft "clang" sound - those were the soldiers who had entered the city.
The Ye Kingdom soldiers sounded like they should be a team of ten.
"This is it, this big house!"
There was another person in the team who spoke with a local accent from Fugu and seemed to be a commoner.
"You should know the consequences of lying about military information, right?"
The soldier from Ye State drank lowly again, as if he had some suspicion that the dilapidated house in front of him might be a trap set by the Fu State Army.
"How dare a villain deceive an official? How dare one deceive an official!"
The other party seemed to have bumped into the enemy soldiers on the way and was forced to lead the way. After hearing his curse, the group of Ye soldiers also put out their torches and walked lightly, slowly approaching the main entrance of the house.
For a moment, everyone in the house was so frightened that they didn't even dare to breathe. They just stared at the thin wooden door that was close at hand but had no chain. If the other party kicked in the door and came in, they would be able to catch them all in one fell swoop!
One step, two steps, the soldiers of the Ye Kingdom outside the door were getting closer and closer. At the critical moment, they suddenly heard a scuffle and hissing of cats from the eaves, and then several black shadows rushed out one after another, but they came.
People were shocked.
"Mom, is the noise you are talking about just a fight between these wild cats? Cats all over the city are getting ready for spring after the Chinese New Year. Could it be that they are leading us all to search for them?"
Soldier Ye Guo stopped and cursed impatiently, as if he was frightened by those wild cats.
"Your Majesty is aware that the common people are sure that what they just heard was not a cat meowing." Upon seeing this, the man leading the way immediately fell to his knees on the ground with a plop and kept kowtowing.
"Then did you hear what those people were saying?"
"No, no. The villain just wanted to find a place to hide. When he heard some movement in the house, he thought, he thought -"
His tone became more and more frightened, and he could not form a single sentence. However, before he could continue to explain, the soldiers of the State of Ye, who had completely lost their patience, had already waved their sharp blades and chopped him to the ground with just one blow, saying something in his mouth.
He cursed and said:
"Damn it, after the brothers entered the city, they didn't even encounter a group of Jinlin troops. How can they ask for rewards when they just kill some civilians?! The Fuguo army is really a coward, and they are not vulnerable at all. I'm afraid it will be long ago by this time.
I ran away from the city and wasted a lot of my time. Let’s go back to the camp and have a drink!”
Hearing that the other party seemed to have no intention of continuing to search the house, Qi Ziyin just rubbed the sweat from his palms on his front. Unexpectedly, at this moment, a baby's cry suddenly came from the house!
It was a newborn who was not yet one month old. He had been sleeping soundly in the arms of his mother who had taken refuge here together. At this time, perhaps because the woman hugged him too tightly, he woke up and cried for milk. Although the mother immediately reached out to cover the baby.
How could it be stopped? The cry was extremely clear in the silence, and it immediately attracted the team of soldiers from Ye State to turn back!
The face of the young man in white instantly turned pale. He knew the disparity in strength between the two sides. Even if he, Sister Jia, Mo Chen and his five men were all killed, there was no chance of victory. The footsteps outside the door were getting louder and louder.
So close, it seems as if the God of Death has sounded the death knell for the people hiding in the house.
Just when Qi Ziyin was at a loss of consciousness, Mo Chen suddenly pressed his shoulders from behind. The young man turned around and saw that the other party was actually signaling him to leave quickly, and then he realized that the room was full of people earlier.
In the blink of an eye, no one was left.
The young man could only feel his heart beating violently in his chest, but he could not utter a single word. He could only follow Mo Chen in a muffled voice and hurried into the back room, only to find that there was an inconspicuous thing hidden behind the room.
Secret door!
He looked back at Mo Chen in surprise, and his eyes seemed to be asking him why he didn't tell him earlier since he knew this way out. But Mo Chen didn't explain much, just pulled the young man and rushed out of the door, following him.
The rest of the group waited behind them and started running wildly in the narrow alley!
They did not deliberately hide the traces they left along the way, but just allowed Mo Chen to take the lead and walk through the city. The streets and alleys of Yunzhi City were as dense as a spider web, and now they were as familiar to the man as his own backyard, and he even looked at them a little. Wherever there is no way to go, he can find a way out of desperate situations.
What Qi Ziyin couldn't imagine was that they didn't even see the shadow of Ye Kingdom soldiers along the way. Mo Chen seemed to always know in advance where to wait and where to avoid the enemy's ambush.
Fortunately, the Ye State army did not plan to massacre the city, nor did they send troops to block the city gates. Everyone finally arrived at Hanguang Gate in the south of the city before sunrise without any danger, and blended in with the large number of fleeing people. The refugees left the city, mounted the horses that had been prepared for them in the forest, and galloped towards the southern coast.
When the first ray of sunlight shone on his face, Qi Ziyin looked back at Yunzhi City, which had been left far behind but was still shrouded in the night. The raging fire burning behind the tall city wall was almost as big as The morning sun was shining brightly. And this thousand-year-old city, which had stood in the south of Wanzhou since the beginning of the Great Ascension, was completely reduced to a ruin that could never be restored in the fire that burned for three days and three nights.
The young man in white rode his horse straight to the port. As soon as he boarded the flat-bottomed sea boat to pick him up, he saw the little head of the Mo family who had been waiting on the boat for a long time.
Mo Zeming stood on the bow of the ship, his brocade robe and silver hair flying in the sea breeze, as if he had understood all the things in the world. Qi Ziyin immediately stepped forward and solemnly saluted and thanked him:
"Brother Zeming's life-saving grace will never be forgotten. During this period, you, Mo Fei, have been calculating your star destiny for today? But how could-"
"Brother Qi wants to ask why I can calculate so accurately, right?"
Before he could finish asking the question, the silver-haired young man had already guessed the young master's question. However, he did not answer immediately. Instead, he ordered the sail to set sail, and then, with the help of Mo Chen, he sat down on a futon. Ding. Qi Ziyin was so appetized that he immediately sat down opposite him with his legs crossed.
Until this moment, Mo Zeming took out a picture from his pocket. After unfolding the picture, the young man in white was surprised to find that what was drawn on it was a detailed map of Yunzhi City. In the picture, you can clearly see everything from the streets to the rockeries and porches in the city. And among the criss-crossing alleys like a spider web, there is also a zigzag red line drawn with cinnabar. Needless to say, that was last night Mo Chen led everyone to successfully break out of the encirclement.
"After being reminded by Young Master Ziyin, I finally realized that all living beings in the world are variables that exist in the stars. It's a pity that my father did not teach me the secret method of fortune-telling, so every time I tell the fortune of the stars, my The results will eventually deviate and cannot be perfect. Therefore, I did not just predict this until the night when Hai Qiuyang took you and Miss Leng into custody."
Halfway through, Mo Zeming suddenly coughed violently. He looked tired, and there was an obvious circle of black and blue around his eyes, as if he had not slept for several nights.
"Little Master, you have worked too hard, why don't you go into the cabin and take a rest first?" Mo Chen on the side saw this and couldn't help but worry about the other person's health.
But the silver-haired boy just shook his head: "It's okay, I still have something to say, so it doesn't matter if it's later."
Mo Chen wanted to give some more advice, but Mo Zeming had already turned his face to Qi Ziyin again, squeezed out a smile and continued:
"Fortunately, today's Yunzhi City was built and expanded with funds raised by my ancestors, and my family happened to have such a map of the city. So I calculated all the possible situations and extracted them from them.
I chose the safest route and told Mo Chen to keep it in mind."
Qi Ziyin simply could not imagine what a huge and complicated task it would be to calculate all the routes for safe escape. At this time, any words of thanks became pale and feeble. He could only hold the other person's hand tightly and raise his head again.
His eyes were already full of tears.
The silver-haired boy still smiled faintly, then changed the topic and got to the point:
"Now, I have become homeless. Does Young Master Ziyin still know where to go to avoid disaster in this world? After all, we can't just drift on the sea like this forever, right?"
Qi Ziyin could not have imagined that after everything that had happened, the frail young man in front of him would still have the heart to joke. The other party's questions also cheered him up again, but after many searches, he could only come up with one
Not-so-reliable shelter:
"I do know a place. It's just that it's far away in the depths of the black water in the northwest of the Chanying Sea, which is rarely visited by people. Along the way, we have to pass through the sea area defended by the Ye Guo Zhou Division. I'm afraid..."
"Is it possible that Ziyin wants to go to Qingwan?" After hearing what the young man said, Leng Jiayun, who had never spoken a word, suddenly interrupted and asked.
"Is the Qingwan you two are talking about related to the legend of pirates?"
Mo Zeming couldn't help but frown slightly - after all, the Wanzhou Chamber of Commerce suffered heavy losses in the Chanying Sea every year. It is said that a large part of this was due to plunder by pirates.
Leng Jiayun sighed softly when he saw this, and explained to the other party the past of Qingwan and everything he had experienced and witnessed. After listening to the woman's story, Mo Zeming showed a little relief, embarrassed but uncomfortable.
He smiled impolitely and then nodded at Mo Chen:
"Now that the direction has been decided, give me the order to go down. Let Miss Leng take the lead and set sail towards Qingwan!"
The rising sun suddenly became a bit dazzling, indicating that the next few days will be one of the few sunny days in Chanyinghai in a year. The salty smell brought by the sea breeze filled everyone's nostrils, making the boat
People gradually relaxed their mood.
But the silver-haired boy got into the dark cabin with the help of Mo Chen, and once again started playing with his ivory chips that were spread all over the table.
"Young master, aren't you going to go to bed yet?" Mo Chen asked with concern.
"The depths of the Chanying Sea are places that even my father cannot predict. If it were you, would you be able to sleep?" Mo Zeming shook his head, his face looking even more tired.
"If that's the case, why do we still want to go? Can't we find another place to stay?" The man opposite seemed a little confused.
"Right now, it seems that we can still go east to Yizhou. But this time I want to see with my own eyes what kind of people those pirates in Qingwan are who make even the sailors of the Chamber of Commerce take notice."
All this was seen by Qi Ziyin who was not far away. Although he couldn't hear clearly what was said in the cabin, he could already guess a rough idea from the look on the silver-haired boy's face. He also understood.
For the other party to fully accept Leng Jiayun's explanation will not happen overnight. What's more, now even he himself is not sure whether the group of people hiding in Qingwan are good and evil, and how many companies are hidden in them.
A secret that you don’t even know yet.
However, the young man made no further plans to explain to the little head of the Mo family, nor did he think of chatting with Sister Jia. He just lay down on the deck casually, letting the wind on the sea carry away all the complicated thoughts.
Going to the beyond - after all, this may be a rare and relaxing time that he can enjoy before arriving at Qingwan.
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