Southwest of the outer city, in an attic near Qingyun Street.
Chen Zhuo sat slumped on the bench in front of the window without any image, squinting at the Qingxi River not far away from the window. The sun gradually went to the west, and the river gradually produced golden waves in the gradually rising wind. On both sides of the river, Everything would still be so tranquil and comfortable, if there weren't those ruins visible in the distance.
Suddenly, a wave of black spots appeared on the street in the distance. Chen Zhuo sat up straight, squinted his eyes, waved to the side, and said with an indifferent expression: "Have you given them all the news?"
Li Fu, who had been standing in the corner, nodded and walked to the window. With all his eyesight, he spotted the figures of Murong Xiu Ming and his party. He hesitated to speak: "It's just..."
Chen Zhuo's eyes that were always drooping opened slightly, he turned his head and said with a half-smile: "What do you want to say?"
As Li Fu was involved in Chen Zhuo's major and minor affairs, he was an absolute confidant, but at this time, there was still a chill on his spine. He lowered his head and said in a low voice: "It's just that things may be a little strange. So, does Geshan not want to take advantage of this?" The golden cicada sheds its shell.”
In fact, as early as when Ge Shan established contact with Wang Yeqing, Ge Shan also had contact with Chen Zhuo, and one of the middlemen was Li Fu.
After Li Fu expressed his doubts, his voice became much calmer, and his eyes turned to somewhere outside the window, "If Geshan really wants the golden cicada to escape from its shell, then why does it need to ambush such a group of elite soldiers? And..."
"Besides, I didn't say this in public, right?" Chen Zhuo continued.
Li Fu glanced at him cautiously and said softly: "I thought the shopkeeper wanted to take advantage of his scheme and get rid of this person, but now it seems that if we don't remind Murong Xiuming, they are likely to be ambushed. ,By the time……"
Chen Zhuo stood up, nodded and said, "You don't have to worry about this. Even if I get to the head officer, everyone can testify for me yesterday. I have always been against Murong Xiuming's behavior, at least on the surface, isn't it?"
Li Fu looked at Chen Zhuo and narrowed his eyes as he looked over. His face instantly turned pale, and he said, "But today, I am a subordinate..."
"Yes." Chen Zhuo's figure flashed in front of Li Negative. Just when Li Negative thought that he was certain to die, Chen Zhuo asked with a somewhat ugly expression: "Do you think I want to kill people and silence them?"
Li Fu opened his mouth and wanted to explain something, but he swallowed hard.
Chen Zhuo patted Li Fu's shoulder and said with a chuckle: "When things conflict, they will be divided into priorities. Now it's Hidden Valley and the City Lord's Mansion. Later it may be Ten Thousand Flowers Valley and Hidden Valley. Your weight is not enough to cause trouble." Zhang Lu’s attention, so don’t worry.”
"However, if Murong Xiu Ming is lucky enough to survive, you will indeed be recorded."
Li Fu's mood has followed Chen Zhuo's words several times. Chen Zhuo saw that his figure was a little unstable, and finally stopped teasing him and said: "That Nine Blades is the person who instigated Geshan's rebellion. From now on, this person He probably won’t survive more than a quarter of an hour.”
A few gleams of light flashed in Li Fu's eyes, and his heart was filled with helplessness. He immediately knelt down on one knee and said in a deep voice: "This subordinate is only loyal to the shopkeeper. Please give me a clear path!"
Chen Zhuo raised his head and pondered for a moment, then smiled and said: "You know that I am actually a businessman, right? And businessmen actually like to hedge their bets when the outcome is unclear."
He lowered his eyes slightly, looked at the back of Li Fu's head and said calmly: "No one in this group of people this afternoon will die immediately. Murong Xiu Ming, and what I want you to do is to rescue him, and then be captured alive by Ge Shan." city."
"This is..." Li Fujiu was working under Chen Zhuo. An idea flashed in his mind, but he denied himself first. He couldn't bear the curiosity in his heart, so he raised his head and asked, "What will Murong Xiu Ming do to your lord in the future?" Why save him if it will become an obstacle?”
Chen Zhuo turned around with his hands behind his back and looked out the window. His eyes drifted and he said with an inexplicable emotion: "The other side of the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers... has come in front of us. The City Lord's Mansion will take the lead in fighting everyone. It has already vaguely explained something. Those five places , if it can really connect a large formation, Suzaku's guess may come true."
Li Negative said solemnly: "The shopkeeper is saying that Bai Hao will capture Murong Xiuming this time and force us to fight back. If all the masters come out by then, we will fall directly into the formation?"
But Li Fu was also puzzled, because no matter what, what Chen Zhuo did today was adding fuel to the fire to help Bai Hao achieve this matter.
Chen Zhuo's face regained his composure, and he chuckled: "If only Murong Xiu Ming was arrested, we can still sit still, but wouldn't something happen over there in Wanhua Valley? What will happen to people like Mu Qing? Bai Hao is indeed not simple, he did not use any sophisticated strategy at all, he just made the situation more chaotic and achieved his goal."
"Since things are destined to become chaotic, why not let everything settle as soon as possible under the circumstances that we have some expectations. I am afraid that even Dugu Wei has never thought that if we really want to control such a big city, we can't let him Bai Hao will continue to prepare."
Li Fu was still a little unbelievable: "Even if Bai Hao is no longer weaker than Master Suzaku, but there are so many people in Hidden Valley, can he resist?"
Chen Zhuo showed appreciation and nodded: "This is why I want you to rescue Murong Xiu Ming. When you are captured into the inner city, as expected, there will be a very safe period. The first thing you have to do is The thing is very simple, learn all the information about this formation as soon as you get the chance. If you have important information, you can give it directly to Geshan, he will know what to do."
Li Fu opened his mouth but did not dare to interrupt.
Chen Zhuo narrowed his eyes and said: "As for the second thing, if an unexpected situation occurs, try to protect the people who are arrested in Wanhua Valley."
As soon as Chen Zhuo finished speaking, the sound of formations' footsteps suddenly appeared not far away. Li Fu's face tightened and he raised his head to look at Chen Zhuo.
Chen Zhuo nodded: "Go ahead. If this happens, you will always be my most caring subordinate."
In front of Li Negative, Chen Zhuo didn't even bother to verbally agree on a reward. But the more this happened, the more peaceful Li Negative became, understanding that Chen Zhuo did not unknowingly regard him as an abandoned son, and that he was still useful. !
Just when Li Fu was filled with complicated thoughts and rushed towards the place where the battle was about to break out, someone who was surrounded in the middle of the street was at a loss. He grabbed the person next to him tightly and hissed with hatred on his face: " This must be a conspiracy! That fat guy Chen Zhuo must be colluding with them."
Heng Yu took a lot of effort to take Murong Xiu Ming's hand away, and he and Zheng Shi ignored each other. They both spoke solemnly at the same time: "Run separately!"
Seeing the soldiers who were about to form a siege after barely taking half a breath, the two of them did not hesitate at all. Without explaining another word to Murong Xiu Ming, they dispersed left and right.
Murong Xiu Ming was stunned on the spot for a moment.
There were four people gathered around him. These people were all third-level cultivators. They were not weak at ordinary times, but feeling the momentum of the elite guards of the city lord's palace, they had already lost their will to fight.
They raised their ears and noticed from the corner of their eyes that Hengyu and the two men had already swept away more than a foot away. They were confused and had to rely on their feelings to follow one of them. Murong Xiuming saw the chaos in front of him, and then saw the situation that had already become a trend. In the blink of an eye, hundreds of people rushed towards the military formation, their whole body was shaking, and they shouted: "Come with me!"
The four people were also in a panic, but at this time they also gathered around Murong Xiu Ming, planning to work together to break out of the encirclement.
Heng Yu had already run out of the encirclement, and when he turned around to search for Murong Xiu Ming, he happened to notice this scene, his expression changed drastically, and he cursed him for being stupid.
In front of the military formation, if you work together to break out, you must be the first to be discovered and focus the fire.
Sure enough, it was just a pause for Murong Xiu Ming's hesitation, and he lost the opportunity to rush out of the encirclement immediately. Fighting broke out instantly, and then he was instantly drowned out by the shouts of killing from the military formation.
Hengyu looked struggling, and when he was about to rush into the military formation, he caught a figure rushing toward the encirclement from the corner of his eye, so he no longer hesitated and rushed forward together.
Geshan, who was wearing the same uniform as the soldiers and stood at the back of the military formation, remained expressionless for a long time even though he recognized that one of the people rushing towards the center of the encirclement was Li Fu.
This time the ambush and siege made him occasionally sigh in his heart, but he just felt that in the Hidden Valley, people like Murong Xiu Ming had neither the strength nor the resourcefulness to adapt to the situation. Talents like Mu Qing were an absolute minority.
Poor Murong Xiuming, who was still looking down on Geshan with contemptuous remarks yesterday. If he knew that Geshan, whom he looked down on both strength and intelligence, actually looked at him in the same way, he would probably become furious in an instant.
But now he felt cold and pale, just thinking about how to survive.
"careful!"
With a soft cry, Murong Xiuming passed through the heavy siege. His heart suddenly became cold, and the hair on his body stood on end, and he suddenly rushed towards the military formation that was getting closer and closer in front of him.
The sword roared behind him, and a broad-backed sword slashed down on his back with the force of Mount Tai. At this critical moment, Murong Xiu Ming finally burst out with the strength that a second-grade cultivation level should have. With the sword on his back, he could withstand the sword, and then stepped on it with both feet, and finally did not really hit the sword of the military formation. Bump away.
But when he suffered this sudden attack, he was not only devastated, but also the shattered sword that shattered Murong Xiu Ming's back to pieces.
"Could it be that I will die here today?" Murong Xiu Ming's heart was extremely bleak, and he raised his head with grief and indignation, about to welcome the power of the overthrown military formation.
But the expected life and death crisis did not come.
In Murong Xiuming's eyes, the soldiers who clearly saw what was happening behind him seemed to have a trace of ridicule on their faces, but they suddenly stopped advancing and did not take the initiative to take action.
"Asshole!"
This change happened in the blink of an eye. After Murong Xiuming reacted, his chest heaved violently, and he was filled with anger and exploded like a blockade. He thought these people just wanted to see him and the little mermaid sneak up on him and break the net.
At this moment, his mind was completely gone. When he turned around, he mobilized most of the true energy in his body and swung it out without even looking.
boom--
Qi energy rippled, and Murong Xiu Ming, who subconsciously squinted his eyes, became increasingly cold in his heart. When the broad-backed broadsword struck, he guessed that the attacker was none other than the Nine Swordsman who knelt in front of him yesterday.
But why is this person so powerful?
