"Xiao Liu, don't get entangled with them." As soon as Huan Yu finished speaking, he swung the soft whip in his hand at the same time, pointing the tip of the whip directly at a guard in yellow behind him.
But Huan Yu's surprise attack failed to hit him. When the soft whip was about to reach the door of the yellow-clothed guard, a figure with a black scarf and a mask came first and blocked the soft whip impartially.
The originally swift whip actually hung down softly. Huan Yu felt a biting chill pass through the whip body into her limbs. The cold eyes of the man in black made her unable to move for a moment.
"Sister Yu, be careful!" Xiaoliu's feet passed over Huan Yu's head, and the tip of the stick pointed at the palm of the masked man's attack.
"Your opponent is me!" Another figure with a mask in black scarf passed through the gap between the two yellow-clothed guards, and his iron palm was like a knife, heading towards Xiao Liu's bamboo stick.
Although Xiao Liu was young, he had been on the battlefield for a long time. How could he not realize the power of this palm? He forcefully moved the pointed bamboo stick half an inch away in mid-air.
"Hey! This kid is interesting." The man in black didn't forget to tease, but his hands didn't stop, and he struck Xiao Liu with one palm as fast as the other.
Huan Yu came back to his senses in time when Xiao Liu shouted. Although his body was much stiffer than before, he finally moved and avoided the palm of the man in black.
"These two are so strong, they are not comparable to the guards in yellow." Xiao Liu was slightly distracted, and the left rib of his waist was swept by the palm wind of the man in black, and he took several steps back.
"Xiao Liu, don't worry." Huan Yu felt that the man in black opposite him had a sense of familiarity from the moment of the fight, but seeing that Xiao Liu was injured, he didn't care so much, and forced the opponent away with a flying whip.
Xiaoliu understood the idea and thrust the wooden stick into the ground. With himself as the center, the green wind wall spread out in all directions.
"Susu!" The two men in black also realized the power of this move and quickly dodged to the left and right. The four guards in yellow were not so lucky and were swept directly into the air by the wind wall.
In two breaths, the wind wall gradually dispersed and returned to calm. Xiao Liu and Huan Yu had disappeared, leaving only a few guards in yellow lying on the ground.
"Falling Leaf Stick Technique! It's a pity that the winner is not decided." The man in black who attacked Xiao Liu landed lightly behind Zhang Botian, patting away some dust that was not stained on his clothes: "Steward, shall we chase him?"
"Since you want to decide the outcome, of course you have to chase." Zhang Botian walked to one of the yellow-clothed guards who fell to the ground and touched his body with his toes: "Why don't you get up and call the door of Zhizhuang?"
"Yes! Let's go now." As if his body was electrocuted, the guard in yellow stood up and ran towards the gate of Zhizhuang.
In the deepest secret room of Zhizhuang, a dozen men in brown cloth came and went; some placed bamboos trimmed with knives in a large pool, while others kept adding bark to the pool. There were old fishing nets and other items, and two people took turns guarding a large stove, constantly pulling the bellows to make the fire burn brighter and brighter.
"Brother Xiangyun, this seems to be a paper-making workshop down here?" Tong and Liu lurked at the end of the secret passage, lifted a corner of the ceiling cover, and peeped at every move below: "But paper-making in a paper workshop is not ordinary. What's the matter? Why do you have to do it in such a secret place?"
"Since there are guards in the secret passage, this place must be unusual!" Tong Bo knelt on one knee, holding the ceiling cover with one hand, but his eyes were fixed on these people in brown clothes: "Miss Liu, you Do you think there’s anything wrong with these people?”
"There is something wrong." Liu Ningshi nodded: "These people have dull eyes and slow movements. They don't look like normal people at all."
"Also, this workshop has obviously not existed for a day or two. It should be expected that there will be many finished products?" Tong Bo looked through the secret room from top to bottom, but only saw uncooled pulp placed in the sieve.
"Brother Xiangyun, why don't we go down and investigate." Liu Ningshi felt that the internal energy in her body was pouring into her dantian, and she couldn't hold it any longer.
"Wait a minute." Tong Bo was very calm, as if waiting for an opportunity: "If we go down now, there is a danger of being attacked by the people in brown clothes."
"But it's not an option for us to hide here all the time!" Liu Ningshi expressed her thoughts: "It's better for Ningshi to go down and create chaos, and Brother Xiangyun will wait for an opportunity to come down again."
"Miss Liu, how long have we been in the secret passage?" Tong Bo did not respond to Liu Ningshi, but asked an inexplicable question.
"About a quarter of an hour." Liu Ningshi said smoothly, but she felt it was wrong and said coquettishly: "Brother Xiangyun, don't change the subject."
"It's almost that time." Tong Bo showed a mysterious smile: "Listen, there are footsteps coming towards the secret room."
"Hong Xi! Hong Xi! Where is this? Why didn't the leader mention it to me?" As soon as Tong Bo finished speaking, Xu Houfei's honest voice came.
"To be honest, I only came here once or twice with the leader." Li Hongxi and the woman in black had already entered the eyes of Tong and Liu: "I only know that this is a place where high-quality paper products are made."
"Brother Xiangyun, these two are the people who fought with Ningshi in the sea of flowers!" Liu Ningshi recognized them as soon as she saw them: "His skills should not be underestimated."
"Oh? Does Miss Liu know these two people?" After listening to Liu Ningshi's words, Tong Bo suddenly became interested in the two people in front of him: "Why did they attack the girl?"
"Ning Shi has never seen them before!" Although Liu Ningshi answered Tong Bo's question, her eyes kept staring at the woman masked in black scarf.
"That's easy to explain. These two people must have been instructed to do this." Tong Bo smiled and thought: "It seems that Xiao Liu and Huan Yu have succeeded in causing chaos in the periphery."
"Brother Xiangyun, where have you seen Ningshi, the man in black?" Liu Ningshi tried hard to recall in her mind.
"Really? That's really interesting. It seems that there are unexpected gains this time." Tong Bo was also thinking about countermeasures in his mind.
"Hong Xi! Why do these people look so stupid and they don't respond?" Xu Houfei shouted several times to the man in brown clothes, but no one paid him any attention. He continued to do what he was doing.
"Hou Fei! The leader asked us to come here to find a brown box, which contains his instructions. Don't ask anything else that shouldn't be asked." Li Hongxi shouted dissatisfied, but secretly murmured in his heart: "I don't know if it is right to bring him here. It’s wrong!”
"Brother Li, did the leader say where the box is?" The woman in black who had been silently looking around suddenly asked.
"Boom!" Just as several people were talking, there was another violent vibration outside, and even Tong and Liu who were hiding on the ceiling felt a slight tremor.
"Time is running out!" Li Hongxi calmed down and said, "The leader said that the box is where water and fire blend!"
"Where water and fire blend? Can water and fire blend?" Xu Houfei was confused and asked: "The leader is really, if you have something to say directly, do you need to play riddles?"
"Where water and fire blend?" The woman in black ignored Xu Houfei and walked straight to the pool: "The water here seems a little abnormal?"
"The girl seems to have noticed something!" Li Hongxi also walked over and looked in the direction where the woman in black was looking.
"The water in this area is actually slightly hot." The woman in black dipped her green fingers into the pool water: "Is this water heated?"
"But the temperature from the fire alone is not enough to make the pool water so hot." Li Hongxi also followed the example of the woman in black and stretched out her hand to test the water temperature.
"Brother Li is really good at pretending. Are you still asking questions knowingly at this time?" The woman in black put her palm on the wall of the pool and chuckled: "Although the bamboo pipe at the end of the stove leads to the ground, it can't be reached from the direction. It seems that we have arrived here.”
"Girl, don't make fun of me. If I could understand this sentence, I would have taken out the box a long time ago." Li Hongxi understood the words 'water and fire blend' carefully.
"This woman in black is really smart as ice and snow. It seems that she has found a place." Li Hongxi still didn't know what he meant, but Tong Bo had already understood the meaning of the words.
"Brother Xiangyun, there must be something important in that box." Liu Ningshi's right hand had already grasped the dragon-shaped dagger at her waist, ready to go.
"If Miss Liu wants to see what's in the box, she has to wait for the people below to take it out." Tong Bo felt Liu Ningshi's breath was quick, and he said teasingly.
"Come out!" The woman in black below moved her inner strength, and a dark iron box broke out of the water. Li Hongxi saw the opportunity very quickly, and without waiting for others to react, he stretched out one palm and took the iron box.
"I really found the place the leader said!" Xu Houfei looked around for a long time. When he saw water coming out of the iron box, he immediately came over: "Hongxi, open it quickly and see what's inside?"
"Girl, how did you know this thing is here?" Li Hongxi did not open the box immediately, but stared at the woman in black vigilantly.
"The bamboo tube of the stove's temperature channel was sent into a corner of the pool, and it became a place where water and fire blended together." The woman in black glanced at Li Hongxi contemptuously, pretending to be calm and said: "Brother Li, don't you want to open the box? What if? This girl wants it, but I’m afraid you didn’t have the chance to connect to the box just now.”
"Hey! This woman likes to be tough-tongued!" Tong Bo looked at the woman in black's unwilling eyes and smiled inwardly: "She obviously didn't grab the box, but she still said it so nicely."
Li Hongxi was robbed by the woman in black but believed it was true. His face turned red and white for a while, and he slowly opened the box.
"What is this?" Li and Xu were both slightly stunned when they saw that there was nothing in the box except a folded half piece of paper.
The woman in black was extremely excited when she saw it. She swept her right palm towards the paper with lightning speed. Perhaps it was because of her spiritual blessing that when her palm reached halfway, she quickly retreated, avoiding the broken dragon-shaped dagger. A hollow blow.
"Dang!" Seeing that the dragon-shaped dagger was less than a foot away from him, Li Hongxi subconsciously raised the iron box to block it, and the dragon-shaped dagger spun and flew into the air.
Liu Ningshi jumped down without hesitation, holding the dragon-shaped dagger in her hand in mid-air, and waved a fierce force towards the woman in black who stepped forward to snatch the paper again.
