Tang Yun noticed that this special mountain peak was not native, but more like it fell out of thin air. A big hole was made around it, and gravel and broken vegetation were everywhere at the foot of the mountain.
"This is already the third mountain. What's going on?"
"I don't know, it's definitely not a good thing if the devil's energy demands mercy."
"How is it possible? I think there should be a chance, otherwise the city lord and the others would have taken action long ago."
"City Lord? They are just a few losers hiding here with their tails between their legs, and they can dominate here."
"Aren't you the same? Even worse than them~"
Think about it, what common language can a group of scum gather together? Everyone is a master with a sweet mouth, and they have to start doing it within three words.
Tang Yun squinted his eyes and stared at the mountain peak, lost in thought.
Three peaks have appeared, and neither the three sects nor the people from Demon City have any intention of cleaning up. This attitude is a bit ambiguous.
There's something fishy here.
Tang Yun blinked, calmly glanced at the figures looming in the clouds, and quietly retreated.
He has to figure out what conspiracy these forces have. Only by figuring this out can we fish in troubled waters, right?
The next day.
Tang Yun looked up at the towering city gate and entered the city silently.
After years of development, this place is no longer what it used to be. Most of them are ordinary people. They were born here, grew up here, and then... died here.
At this moment, a guy with a sinister look came over and said with a smile: "Your Excellency, are you new to Dongcheng?"
Tang Yun raised his eyebrows and stared at him, feeling a little surprised. You must know that he had indeed disguised himself before entering the city. Normally, it would be impossible to see through it if someone saw him face to face.
The four eyes looked at each other. When Tang Yun's indifferent eyes touched, the man chuckled a few times: "I admit my mistake. I bother you, but I also want to see Haihan."
He really didn't see through Tang Yun, he just came here to try his luck.
Every time he saw someone, he would test them out. If someone was deceived by him due to lack of skills, he would then pretend to be sophisticated and deceive the other person.
It's a pity that when he met a veteran driver who had experienced many battles, Tang Yun's dead face really put a lot of pressure on him. This guy couldn't resist the pressure given by Tang Yun, and he couldn't hold it back and exposed his secrets.
His mind was racing, and Tang Yun figured out the intention of this guy's actions in a flash. Before he left, he suddenly said, "I heard that there is also a mountain peak in Dongcheng?"
The man's body trembled, and he nodded quickly and said: "Uh... yes, you came from the other three cities, right? Just a few days ago, outside Dongcheng..."
Halfway through, he suddenly stopped and said in a low voice, pretending to be mysterious: "We still have top-secret information. If you are interested, you have to...hehe~"
Coupled with the action of rubbing his hands, the meaning is self-evident.
"How much?" Tang Yun asked.
He smiled: "Not much, one black coin."
The money here is a special thing that is similar to gems. It is divided into black coins and gray coins. Ten gray coins are worth one black coin.
Tang Yun threw out a black coin. Don't ask where it came from. Do you still need to ask?
After accepting the money, the man took Tang Yun to a nearby alley and whispered: "A friend of mine who is in the City Lord's Guard revealed the news that this matter should be related to the Demon City inside.
It’s not that the city lord didn’t take action, but that the people in Demon City didn’t let them take action. Otherwise, the mountains would have been leveled as soon as they appeared. How could it have been delayed to this point?”
Tang Yun said calmly: "People from the three sects will not just sit around."
"Your Excellency has a keen eye." He raised his thumb and said in agreement: "So we suspect that those beasts in Demon City are probably up to something.
The city lord has already planned to unite with several other city lords to find the people in Demon City to find out. If those beasts really treat us as cannon fodder, then we don’t mind joining forces with the three factions to kill them."
Having said this, he glanced at Tang Yun cryptically, and asked in a nonchalant manner: "You are here for the Demon Peak. Do you, the city lord, also have this intention?"
Tang Yun directly filtered out his nonsense and asked: "Is there more?"
"No, no." He shook his head quickly.
When Tang Yun shook his head, he had already turned around and left the alley.
"Chirp~~"
After Tang Yun had left for a long time, the young man's chest suddenly moved, and a hair ball emerged from the skirt of his clothes. It tugged at the clothes and crawled to his shoulders.
The young man listened attentively and seemed to be communicating with it. After a while, his eyes suddenly widened and he whispered: "Jiujiu, are you saying that he is not a careless person?"
"Chirp!" The little head poked out from the fur ball and nodded repeatedly in response to the young man's gaze.
The young man sat cross-legged and leaned against the wall, leaning his chin and muttering: "Then tell me, could it be from the three sects?"
Mao Tuan shook his head seriously and danced on his lap, gesturing: "Chirp ~ Chirp￥"
"Do you feel the same as dad?" The young man's mouth twitched, his expression became serious, and he held up the hair ball: "Do you know who dad is? How is that possible!!"
"Chirp, chirp, chirp~" Mao Tuan struggled, his expression extremely serious.
"Zhenwu Pavilion!" The young man shrank his pupils, stuffed the hair ball into his arms, and quickly left here.
Damn it.
In the end what happened?
Why are even the people from Zhenwu Pavilion here? Aren’t they always watching the fire from afar?
Could it be...
The young man knew very well what it meant if Tang Yun was from Zhenwu Pavilion!
On behalf of the Zhenwu Pavilion, perhaps he already knew about his father? On behalf of the imperial court, it is likely that he has already made arrangements? Next...
the other side.
Tang Yun really regarded himself as a person here, and booked a room in the inn to stay. Like most people in the city, he wore a black robe every day and acted mysteriously, living in seclusion and not knowing what he was doing.
Taking advantage of the night, Tang Yun changed his clothes and quietly left the inn.
The things he wants to inquire about are definitely not something that the waiter in the store can know. Do you really think this is a middle-class TV series, and any random passerby is Bai Xiaosheng level?
He had already found out what he should know at the Zhenwu Pavilion. If the Zhenwu Pavilion didn't know about it, not many people in the world would know about it. Never doubt the terrifying power of the imperial intelligence network.
Arriving at the city lord's palace, he quickly crossed the wall like a ghost in the dark night.
bright?
Is he cultivating immortality? He's still awake even in the middle of the night?
Tang Yun's eyelids twitched, and he hid silently in the dark, staring at the study room not far away with a bright yellow light, and frowned unconsciously.
Sure enough, as he expected, the grandson didn't sleep all night again.
But that’ll be fine next time.
When Tang Yun was lurking in the past few days, he heard an exchange between servants. It seemed that the city lord would go out soon to discuss the Demon Peak with several other city lords. He might even have to go to the Demon City, and he would have enough time by then.
Search.
Back at the inn, Tang Yun took off his disguise and put on serious clothes. He closed his eyes and rested for a moment. When the door knocked, he put on his black robe and opened the door. The waiter brought the food respectfully.
The waiter closed the door and left. Before Tang Yun could sit down, the door was suddenly knocked again.
"Come in." Tang Yun narrowed his eyes and reached out to move Ming Ya in.
Squeak~
The door opened, and two figures suddenly broke in. When he saw the person clearly, Tang Yun couldn't help but have a dangerous smile on his face: "Is it you?"
Bang!
A familiar token fell on the table.
The man behind the young man faced Tang Yun's gaze and lifted the hood that covered his face. His yellow eyes were full of fear: "Your Excellency..."
"The traitor of Zhenwu Pavilion, Nie Kui." Tang Yun's eyes flashed with surprise. He didn't expect that this guy was not dead yet, hiding in San Guan.
He knew that this guy had a lot of potential in Yunqi Realm, but unfortunately his wife was attacked by a demon and his foundation was damaged.
In order to keep his wife alive, he had evil thoughts and actually found an evil method similar to the Divine Source Sutra, and sacrificed blood to living beings to force his wife to live longer.
Later, of course, no need to say anything more, the matter was revealed.
The court was furious, and the governor personally took action. The guy fled in panic all the way into the mountains. In order to kill him, the governor reportedly smashed seventeen peaks in total and completely razed the place to the ground.
Now it seems that this guy is really lucky, and he managed to survive in that situation.
Nie Kui stretched out his hand, took off the weapon from his waist, and said with a wry smile: "I used to be the chief of the county, and I know the methods of Zhenwu Pavilion's operations. I am willing to plead guilty and go back with you... I just ask you, Your Excellency.
Let him go and take him out of here."
???
Tang Yun didn't speak, didn't express his position, and his expression didn't even waver at all. This reaction made Nie Qu extremely nervous, and at the same time made the young man next to him feel numb and weak.
He felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar. The air in the room seemed to be frozen, and the temperature instantly dropped to freezing point. He could even hear his own heartbeat clearly.
What operation?
Tang Yun thought about this guy's series of words, coupled with Nie Qu's reaction, and subconsciously narrowed his eyes: "Coincidence? This guy thinks that Zhenwu Pavilion has found out his whereabouts, so he sent people to arrest him?"
This is very smooth logic.
Because Zhenwuge always seeks stability when doing things.
Only with solid intelligence can we base on these well-planned action plans. Once we take action, we will be thunderous, and we will never give the enemy the slightest chance of maneuvering.
Similarly, it was precisely because Nie Qu knew that when he was doing those shady operations, he was already prepared to be exposed and run away, so he was able to escape.
He was thinking, but he didn't know that this gesture made Nie Qu even more nervous.
until……
Tang Yun raised his head, picked up his chopsticks, took a bite of food, and spit out one word: "Sit."
Phew~
It seemed that the seal had been lifted, and the young man was breathing heavily as if he had been granted amnesty. He looked at Tang Yun in shock, his face full of awe. But Nie Kui, after hesitating for a moment, pulled him to sit down obediently.
Tang Yun said calmly: "I'm not here to arrest you, it's a personal matter."
"..." Nie Kui's expression froze. Wasn't it because of himself? What is this? Throw yourself into a trap?
"I'll just pretend I've never seen you, let's go." Tang Yun raised his chin towards the door: "Remember to close the door."
"..."
Nie Kui held down the young man who was eager to get up and run away through the door. He hesitated for a moment and then said: "I wonder what you are here for? I have been here for more than ten years, so I may be able to help."
Tang Yun poured a cup of tea and took a sip, staring at him quietly, and suddenly uttered an irrelevant word: "Tuogu?"
He stopped the young man from speaking with his eyes. Nie Qun was told off by Tang Yun, but he calmed down, nodded and said, "Yes, I won't live much longer."
Tang Yun tilted his head and looked at him with a half-smile: "Are you blackmailing me?"
From the young man's point of view, this guy, who was not much older than him, had some abnormal brain circuits, and his speech was inconsistent and out of tune.
But in Nie Kuang's opinion, Tang Yun was a little too scary. His two seemingly meaningless sentences directly shattered all his thoughts.
That's right.
Just as Tang Yun said, Nie Kuan could come and confess his guilt so neatly because he had Tuogu in mind. But at the same time, he also metaphorically told Tang Yun that if he didn't agree, it would be a big deal to take action.
Although he is now exhausted, a desperate fight will at least give Tang Yun a headache. And if things get serious, his identity in the Zhenwu Pavilion will be exposed, and he will be in this three-pronged zone, and the consequences can be imagined.
"Maybe." Nie Qu looked at the man in front of him and no longer took any chances.
Tang Yun glanced at the young man with a smile: "Aren't you afraid that I will regret it?"
Nie Kui took a deep breath and said: "He has a secret. If he trades that secret for his life, you should not go back on your word."
It seemed that the oil in his body was exhausted. Nie Kui's face turned a sickly sallow color, and his eyes were filled with thick bloodshot eyes. Although he hid it well, Tang Yun still glanced at the other party's wrist, and several of them were obviously black.
of blood vessels.
As Nie Kui said himself, he really couldn't hold on much longer. It seemed that the price he paid for escaping from the governor was higher than he imagined.
"Why should I trust you?" Tang Yun withdrew his gaze and quietly ate vegetables and porridge.
Nie Yu pointed to the token on the table and said angrily: "Isn't this enough?"
Tang Yun sneered: "If the brand is true, people's hearts will change."
"I..." Nie Kui trembled his lips, seeming to be hesitating.
Tang Yun was not in a hurry and continued to drink porridge and eat vegetables.
Suddenly, as if he had made up his mind, Nie Qu suddenly looked at Nie Yu: "Let him stay."
"good."
Tang Yun paused and wiped his mouth slowly: "It's interesting, I agree to this deal. Your life will be mine, and in return I will let him live and live outside.
As for the secret, he can choose not to tell it. The transaction is about equal exchange, and exchanging your life for his is enough."
trust?
nonexistent.
There is no basis of trust between the two. Whether they cooperate sincerely or form an alliance with their own agendas depends on whose method is superior.
When Nie Kui heard this, he couldn't help being stunned and looked at Tang Yun again. After a long time, he seemed to have remembered something, and his expression suddenly changed: "You are Tang Yun!"
"Oh? You know me?" Tang Yun was really surprised this time. He thought that his reputation wouldn't be so great, right?
Nie Kui was a little stunned: "You don't know? The proposal of the Warrior Academy has completely attracted the attention of the martial arts sect. They never expected that you were not just taking revenge under the banner of revenge for Zhao Yi.
By the time they reacted, it was already too late, because you didn't give up afterwards and forcibly established the Warrior Academy under the guise of carrying out Zhao Yi's last wish.
They wanted to intervene, but they had no chance at all. Longyang County was monolithic and could not tolerate the intervention of any force. The two gates, three temples and six factions were too far away from Longyang County, so they could only put pressure on the imperial court directly.
Unfortunately, they went too far, and this move forced the imperial court to directly deploy its troops and send many strong men to the locations where the major forces were located.
The sect alliance seemed to be in a state of despair, clamoring for fish to die and the net to fall apart. In fact, there was an order of death for fish to die. No one wanted to die first, so things calmed down strangely.
In the end, the sectarian alliance only reached one opinion, which was to cease all activities, involve the Zhenwu Pavilion's combat power, and wait and see how long the court can last after the catastrophe breaks out."
Having said this, he took a deep breath and sighed: "It can be said that you have shaken the world with your own strength."
Tang Yun asked calmly: "What does this have to do with you, or what does it have to do with you three managers?"
Nie Kuang pursed his lips and replied in a low voice: "Because the people here, most of the warriors who were forced to come here, committed many crimes for robbing heaven and earth treasures, robbing martial arts skills and causing massacres."
"..." Tang Yun was silent. He really didn't expect this at the time.