"What's wrong?"
Wei Yao led the way in the dark road ahead, and could not hear Zheng Quchi following her. He turned around and saw her stopping in front of a cell, contemplating.
Zheng Quchi pointed at the person inside: "I seem to have seen this person somewhere?"
"Have you seen it?" Wei Yao looked into her eyes and thought about it together. He said: "He is an assassin. The general brought him back from Wujue Temple in Yongfeng Mountain, Julu Kingdom. The assassin generals in the past have always been They were all solved on the spot and no one was left alive, but this time the person was left behind and brought back."
After he said this, Zheng Quchi suddenly remembered something, and she exclaimed, "I remembered, it turned out to be him."
"Madam, do you know this assassin?" Now it was Wei Yao's turn to be curious.
know?
Not to mention.
Only when she called out to Yu Wensheng in the bamboo forest of Wujue Temple, the assassin was able to survive to this day.
She shook her head: "I don't know him, but you brought him back, you can't keep him here forever, right?"
Wei Yao glanced at the assassin: "The origin of this assassin is not simple. He should be a member of the Nine Autonomous Regions of the Beiyuan Kingdom. It would be troublesome to kill us, but it is impossible to release him, so we can only lock him up like this for now."
Nine autonomy?
Why does this name sound so weird? Is it the name of a place or the name of an organization?
Her curiosity about this matter was not strong, so she did not continue the topic. She stepped forward and said, "Then let's go."
They walked through a section of corridors with alternating light and dark, and then arrived at the place where road bandits were imprisoned. Basically, there were seven or eight people in each of these cells. Although it was not crowded, it was definitely not spacious. She walked without looking away. As she passed the cell, she felt a word - like a light on her back.
When these road thugs saw her again, their eyes were vicious and angry.
But Zheng Quchi didn't have any eye contact with them. She pretended that she didn't see anything. Then she saw Xiaosan and Xiaoqi being locked in a cell alone.
The two little ones seemed to be asleep now, curled up in a ball on the straw, and the two brothers cuddled together to keep each other warm.
However, the others were all detained together, so why were they alone in a separate room?
Wei Yao saw the confusion in her eyes and replied, "Seeing that Madam seemed to treat them differently, she separated the two of them from the others."
Zheng Quchi did not refute Wei Yao's temptation. She nodded: "Well, where is Xing'an?"
"Last night he was interrogated alone, so he was still in the torture chamber."
As soon as Zheng Quchi approached the torture room, she keenly smelled a faint smell of blood. She walked through the aisle filled with various cold torture instruments and saw a slender, dark figure being hung up.
"Xing'an?"
As she approached, Wei Yao took the oil lamp from the niche next to her and illuminated it.
He raised his slightly moist eyelids and saw it was her. He stared at her for a moment and then said in a hoarse voice: "Zheng Quchi."
Zheng Quchi couldn't help but shudder when he suddenly called out his full name. It's all caused by the low temperature underground here.
"It seems that people are not confused yet and still remember my name."...
He smiled emotionlessly: "I will never forget your name."
Why does this sentence sound like a lingering resentment?
She stopped talking to him and said directly: "I came here this time just to ask you something. If you are willing to answer honestly, I will stop them from torturing you, and I will also help you." Heal the injury."
She felt that her conditions were generous enough. For a condemned prisoner like him, who would waste medicine to heal his injuries? How many people were tortured to death after being exposed to harsh conditions, with their wounds rotting and festering.
Xing'an did not refuse as expected: "Okay, what do you want to ask?"
She asked Wei Yao to give her the lamp, and then gave the other party a look. Wei Yao understood that Madam wanted to chat with Xing'an alone for a while, so she stepped away and walked away, leaving them enough space and time.
Zheng Quchi saw Xing'an drooping down
Her lazy eyebrows relaxed unconsciously at this moment, and she asked: "Xing'an, I have been feeling strange since I came back. Your martial arts must be very high. I don't know how high exactly, but why do you From the beginning to the end, it seems that you have not resisted? Did you know that you were cornered and were willing to surrender, or were you actually planning something?"
Her hostage was actually a delaying policy. She had thought about being captured by Xing'an, but she never expected that he would be threatened by her all the time. However, things went unexpectedly smoothly. He didn't even think about it until he was caught. What a special mood swing.
This is obviously not normal.
Hearing this, he nodded bluntly: "Yes, I am indeed planning something."
really.
Zheng Quchi's eyes were clear: "What's the matter?"
She asked smoothly, and he answered even more neatly: "Guess."
Zheng Quchi: "..."
Guess your sister. Guess.
"You said you would only ask one question, and I already answered it, didn't I?"
As for her asking again, that was the second question, and it was not within the scope of their transaction.
Zheng Quchi knew that he would not tell her so easily, but at least she guessed correctly that this guy was actually planning something.
"I only count you as answering half of this matter. I won't force you to answer the remaining half, but you have to answer one more question from me." She said.
Xing'an made it clear what she was thinking: "You want to ask about Xiaosan and Xiaoqi?"
This man's reflexes were really terrifying. Zheng Quchi felt that he might not be able to handle him. It would be great if Yu Wensheng was here. Only others were afraid of him. He had never been afraid of anyone.
Since she couldn't hide it, she simply confessed: "Yes."
Xing'an did not beat around the bush on this matter, and directly told her what she wanted to know: "Xiaosan and Xiaoqi are not road bandits, oh, maybe I should say, they are not the former queen's sword-carrying guards, they are Gu people. .”
In this way, Xiao San and Xiao Qi are indeed not the same people as them, but what are Gu people?
Zheng Quchi was shocked.
It wasn't that she understood what "gu man" meant, but that she felt that this "gu man" was unusual upon hearing it, and it definitely had some shocking origin.
But he agreed that it was just a question. If she asked again, he probably wouldn't be kind enough to answer her questions again.
Seeing that her face immediately dropped, and she looked aggrieved that she wanted to ask but couldn't, he said in a persuasive way: "If you come back tomorrow, I will answer your question again, how about that?"
"..."
Damn it, I was completely carried away by him.
"I don't have any more questions for you."
After Zheng Quchi finished speaking, he called Wei Yao, and the two returned the same way. On the way, she asked Wei Yao: "Brother Wei, have you ever heard of Gu people?"
"Gu people?" Wei Yao looked surprised.
"You know?" she was surprised.
"No." Wei Yao shook his head, and then muttered: "I just seem to have heard it somewhere, but I can't remember it for the moment."
Isn’t this just nonsense literature?
Zheng Quchi used his imagination to guess: "Could a voodoo person be someone who has been poisoned by a voodoo? I know some people who keep poisonous voodoos. They put poisonous living creatures together and bite each other, and the last one alive is the voodoo. .”
"So this is Gu. Madam is really knowledgeable." Wei Yao praised.
Zheng Quchi said modestly: "Where is it?"
If Xiao San and Xiao Qi were Gu people, would it be too risky for her to release them rashly? She still has to wait until she understands what Gu people are.
Otherwise, ask them both directly?
But she worries they won't tell her easily.
The Gu people thing might be some big secret. The relationship between her and them has been bad for a long time. So, does it mean that we have to come again tomorrow?
Just come, no one is afraid of whom.
Second-rate
On the same day, Zheng Quchi came to the dungeon early. This time she didn't call Wei Yao. After all, Wei Yao was busier than her, and she didn't want to bother him with everything.
She called her four "killing teams" and the five of them went to the dungeon together.
"You came?"
Although Xing'an's look that he had anticipated everything was a bit unpleasant, Zheng Quchi had never cared much about face and wanted to save face and suffer the consequences.
She pays more attention to a clear purpose in doing things.
She opened her mouth and asked: "What is a Gu man?"
"Before talking about Gu people, do you know what Gu is? It's not something that can be made by just putting poisonous things together and biting them."
"...Is it okay for you to eavesdrop on other people's conversations?"
Is this dungeon so soundproof?
"The first step in making voodoo is to catch twelve kinds of voodoo insects. The time of catching the voodoo bugs is also important. It doesn't mean that you can't grow the voodoo bugs if you catch them on the day of Dragon Boat Festival."
Zheng Quchi thought he was not interested in such creepy things, but he was fascinated by what he was talking about.
"After catching the worms, put them together in the tank and close the lid. Usually the worms are poisonous snakes, eels, centipedes, toads, scorpions, red nematodes, silver sickle mantises... in short, they are all poisonous. The poisonous insects. During the year, those poisonous insects will eat each other in the tank, until one of the powerful poisonous insects eats the other eleven, forming something called a poisonous insect. "
"Is the poison already established by now?"
"Of course not. The voodoo has been developed, but it is not yet mature. At this time, the person who raises the voodoo will dig out the tank and hide it in a secret room with no air and no light. The voodoo likes to eat The food is lard scrambled eggs, rice, etc., and after raising them for three or four years, the young Gu can grow up and become mature, and then they can be released."
After listening to what he said, Zheng Quchi realized that it was so troublesome to raise Gu after such a long cycle.
After she heard the correct way to raise voodoo, she still had to return to the original question: "What about the voodoo people? Is it the same way as raising voodoo insects?"
However, like fishing, Xing'an asked: "Will you come back tomorrow?"
What's the meaning? What's his purpose in leaving this talk? It ended abruptly at the climax, and there was another sentence to be continued?
She was reserved and said, "I'm very busy on weekdays."
"Then you can ask others, if others know." Xing'an said calmly.
Good guy, he is really the emperor's daughter who has no worries about getting married.
Zheng Quchi forced out a smile and said, "I'll come back tomorrow."
The third day.
"What is a Gu?" she asked straight to the point as soon as she saw Xing'an.
Xing'an sat against the wall, knowing that she was anxious, and did not go around in circles: "It's actually similar to raising voodoos. Gu people are a group of poisonous people who have been poisoned since they were young. They are all locked together and raised. They have been given to them since they were very young. The group of people who are fed poisonous juice until they grow up successfully and are not poisoned to death will be imprisoned in a dark and damp place without food or drink. After a year, they will be devoured when the door is opened again. The poisonous people were released, but in the past there was only one poisonous person, but this time, two appeared, namely the brothers Xiaosan and Xiaoqi."
No wonder they have no names, only numbers, three and seven.
No food, no drink... How did they survive within a year?
Zheng Quchi didn't dare to think deeply about it because it was too cruel and disgusting.
"Then if they... become Gu people, will there be any special changes in them?" she asked.
"It's particularly poisonous, does it count?"
Zheng Quchi's mouth twitched: "But, they don't look very poisonous, or do they actually hide their strength all the time?"
"this problem……"
"I know, I'll answer it tomorrow, right?" she said angrily.
He was happy but smiled and said nothing.
——
But on the fourth day, before Zheng Quchi had time to go to the dungeon to see Xing'an, he received a shocking message
News - Road bandits have escaped from prison.
Just when the soldiers in their camp relaxed their vigilance, they, the road bandits whose hands and feet were tied, quietly opened the dungeon door and rushed out of the camp at night.
Moreover, they also took away an unexpected person - the assassin of Nine Autonomy.
When Zheng Quchi heard the news, he was stunned for a long time.
But soon, she took action directly.
"I finally took action! But I'm waiting to die!"
Wang Zebang and Wei Yao were both in the camp. Seeing her excitement, they couldn't help laughing and said, "Madam, you must be too excited."
"We spent such a long time with them because we wanted to know what these bandits wanted to do. Now we know that they really tried their best to sneak into our camp...but I can't figure it out. , why did they want to rescue the assassin?"
"They can't run far. It will be clear when they are caught." Wei Yao said.
"Then Xing'an thought he had me under his control, but he didn't expect that I was just acting with him." The most important thing is that she also gained a lot of knowledge from him.
"My lady is wise."
"Follow the clues and capture the person who provided them with wooden tools. I'm curious as to who is supporting them behind the scenes."
"Don't worry, Madam, we have already laid out the plan. They can't fly without wings, and this time we also found out who King Ye planted in our camp." Wang Zebang said.
"Don't alert the snake yet, just keep it, otherwise it will cause trouble."
Anyway, if you make this thing carefully, it is like spring grass. After mowing one crop after another, it is better to leave this "old grass" jumping around under your nose.
"Well, I will transfer them to the horse camp, so that the information they inquire about will be delayed, and they will not know things they are not supposed to know."
