When Zhou Ziheng heard the sound, he paused, then sped up and ran out.
Chang An and Wan Chaoyang looked at each other.
"Brother Chang An, why don't you go take a look."
Wan Chaoyang looked worriedly at the direction Zhou Ziheng was leaving.
"Whoosh!"
Before he could finish his words, Chang An's figure had already rushed out of the room.
"Uncle Zhang, what's wrong with Qingqing?"
As soon as Chang An arrived in the front yard, he heard Zhou Ziheng talking to someone.
Just listen to what Uncle Zhang said
"Qingqing was taken away by people in the building."
"What!"
Zhou Ziheng's voice became anxious.
"Which building made the arrest?"
"It should be from the Snake Tower."
In Chang An's mind, the man from outside the Great Wall named Chen Buyi suddenly appeared.
"Don't worry."
He appeared next to Zhou Ziheng and put his palm on Zhou Ziheng's back.
Zhou Ziheng felt a cool breath flowing through his body, and his anxious mood was soothed.
He turned around and saw Chang An standing behind him.
Somehow, Zhou Ziheng felt at ease with this young master standing behind him.
"Tell me the specific situation."
Chang An looked at Uncle Zhang with a calm tone.
Uncle Zhang was demonstrating and explaining at the same time
"Just now, a group of people from the building came to our street. Our place is under the jurisdiction of Shenglou. The group of people seemed to be holding portraits in their hands, and they were looking for people from house to house. When they arrived at Zi Heng's shop, that group As soon as several people saw Qingqing, they said that Qingqing was the person they were looking for, and then took Qingqing away."
Chang An thought for a moment and asked
"Did they arrest anyone else?"
Uncle Zhang recalled it and shook his head.
"No, they seem to have more than one picture in their hands, but they only captured Qingqing."
"Which direction did they go?"
"Toward the Snake Tower."
"Boom!"
Before Zhou Ziheng could pursue him, Chang An gently tapped Zhou Ziheng's acupuncture points.
"Brother Wan, take care of him!"
After saying that, the shadow disappeared.
Wan Chaoyang limped out, covered in bandages.
"Do not worry."
When Uncle Zhang saw it, he was immediately frightened out of his wits.
"Oh my god, what a ghost!"
Run faster than a rabbit.
"Si She, the Snake Tower should be in the northwest area."
Chang An calculated the location of the Snake Tower and chased towards the northwest of the city.
About a quarter of an hour later, Chang An saw a fork in the road ahead. A group of men in black were grabbing a child and heading towards the Snake Tower.
Chang An leaped high over the heads of these people, and the men in black felt darkness, and a figure stopped in front of them.
They were about to draw their weapons, but Chang An's speed was far faster than their reaction.
In the blink of an eye, each of them almost felt someone tapping on their chests. Then, they were horrified to find that they could no longer move.
"who……"
It wasn't until this moment that they really saw Chang An's appearance.
The person's martial arts skills were so high that they were frightened.
Chang An walked among them and took out the tied child. To Chang An's surprise, it turned out to be a boy, obviously not Zhou Ziheng's sister.
Chang An gently opened the leader's acupuncture points and said coldly
"Have you ever caught a girl?"
The leader had long since lost his temper and said respectfully
"No, our team only captured this kid today."
"This team? How many teams do you have in total?"
The leader said
"There may be more than a dozen teams, but not all can find people. Our team is lucky..."
The leader stopped mid-sentence and glanced at Chang An.
"It's not lucky..."
Chang An searched the man's body and found five portraits in his arms.
It was a portrait of five children.
"Is this your mission?"
he asked.
The leading man nodded hurriedly
"Yes, the original poster ordered us to search the whole city for these children."
"Why?"
The man shook his head desperately, his eyes were very sincere
"This is not something we little people can know."
Chang An saw the Shelou badge hanging on the man's waist and asked again.
"That is to say, this task was assigned by your building owner, not the Twelfth Floor searching for these five children."
The man was stunned, obviously not thinking about this issue, and nodded dully.
"That should be the case. Each of the twelfth floors has its own tasks. Under normal circumstances, one's own tasks will not be notified to other buildings."
"By the way, do you know the new school and the old school?"
Chang An suddenly remembered the dispute between Chen Buyi and the housekeeper yesterday.
The leader shook his head blankly
"I don't know..."
Chang An waved his hand
"I'm keeping the child, you go away."
Those people seemed to have received amnesty, and the leader unblocked the acupuncture points of the others one by one, and then ran back to the building.
"May I have your name."
Chang An looked at the boy and asked with a smile.
The boy said timidly
"My name is Chenchen."
"How about going home with uncle Chenchen?"
Chang An glanced at the Snake Tower not far away. It was really inconvenient to take the child home at the moment. However, if he sent the child home, there was no guarantee that those people would not go back to catch him. For the current plan, he could only take the child back first. residence.
Chenchen hesitated for a moment, stretched out his hand, and held Chang An's hand.
Wait for Chang An to take Chenchen back to the compound.
"How about it?"
Zhou Ziheng ran over and saw the boy next to Chang An, his face full of disappointment.
"They arrested more than one child. I have to go explore the snake building. You stay here and don't run around. Brother Wan is here and nothing will happen to you."
After Zhou Ziheng, Wan Chaoyang came out. Although he was still covered in bandages, he seemed to be in better spirits.
"Brother Chang An, what did you find?"
Chang An said
"The people from Shelou want to find five children in the city, but they don't know what they want to do."
Wan Chaoyang said
"Is it related to the Youzhou Competition next month?"
Chang An said in surprise
"Youzhou Competition?"
Wan Chaoyang nodded.
"Although I have been hanging in the sky these days, I have also heard a lot of news. There is a competition held on the twelfth floor every year."
"The owner of the twelfth floor is a martial man. He believes that the owner of the twelfth floor needs to be constantly replaced. Therefore, starting from three years ago, a competition is held every year. The most capable person will come out on top."
Chang On Road
"No wonder the Twelfth Floor can rise so quickly in such a short period of time, but this time the owners of the building are dead, then..."
Zhou Ziheng interjected
"So, this competition is different from previous years. The Twelfth Floor will definitely elect a new building owner in this competition."
"In fact, even after learning about the death of the building owner, there have been rumors in Youzhou that the Twelfth Floor was divided into two factions, the old and the new."
Chang An's eyes lit up
"Tell me more specifically."
"The so-called old and new factions are the old faction headed by the chief steward. They insist on abiding by the building owner's will and resolutely implement the five-city and twelve-story plan."
"They believe that even if Penglai is dead, it is possible to rejuvenate this ancient city with the help of the Five Cities and Twelve Floors. After Penglai appears, the emergence of the stone man army is the best proof."
"The new faction is headed by Chen Buyi, the owner of the Snake Tower. Now, most of the owners of the twelfth floor have died in the mission. Chen Buyi took the opportunity to rule the other six buildings and compete with the chief steward."
"The new school believes that the late building owner's plan has completely failed, and the Twelfth Floor should enter a new period, that is, start the reincarnation plan."
"Reincarnation plan?"
Chang An said in surprise.
Zhou Ziheng rolled his eyes at Chang An
"Don't look at me. I can't possibly know what the reincarnation plan is, but I think it has something to do with immortality."
Chang An asked again
"The whole city should be aware of this dispute between the old and new factions."
Zhou Ziheng was stunned and immediately said
"That's not necessarily true. I only overheard it when I was treating the injuries of those on the twelfth floor."
Chang An lowered his head and thought for a moment, then said
"Even you know about the dispute between the old and new factions, but those people in the Snake House have no idea."
Wan Chaoyang smiled and said
"Isn't this strange? It's normal for people on the twelfth floor to tell lies. They may not be willing to tell outsiders about this kind of thing."
Chang An nodded. What Wan Chaoyang said made sense, but he still felt a little uneasy.
"By the way, even if it's the Youzhou Competition, what does it have to do with those children?"
Wan Chaoyang said
"I think it may be related to the reincarnation plan of the Snake Tower, and the premise of the reincarnation plan is the Youzhou Competition."
Chang An suddenly realized
"I finally understand why the butler is not in a hurry to make a deal. It seems that I have to stay here for a month."
Wan Chaoyang seemed to smell something about it.
"Now that the owner of the building is dead, there is no master above the Grandmaster level in the entire Youzhou. Could it be that the chief steward wants to use Brother Chang An's power to ascend to the position of the owner of the building."
Chang An didn't find it strange, and it was understandable for the housekeeper to think so, but Chen Buyi in the Snake House always made him uneasy.
"I still have to go to the Snake Tower."
Wan Chaoyang nodded and said
"Go and come back quickly."
"We must save my sister!"
Zhou Ziheng shouted from behind.
Immediately, Chang An left the compound and rushed all the way to the Snake Tower.
A quarter of an hour later, he stood in front of the main door of the Snake Tower.
If the Dragon Tower has the kind of majestic aura that swallows up the world, then the Snake Tower has an unpleasant and sinister atmosphere everywhere.
A giant snake with a whole body made of marble is entangled within a ten-foot radius of the Snake Tower. Its cold breath comes out from its body, clearly giving people the feeling that strangers should not approach it.
Walking into the first floor, the cold and smooth floor makes people feel a chill on the soles of their feet.
There are no guards in sight, not even a single person.
Walk a few steps inside and you'll see the stairs going up on the right.
Chang An was about to walk up.
"Whoosh!"
It seemed that a mechanism had been triggered unknowingly, and a cold arrow hit the door facing him.
Chang An didn't even want to look at it, and walked straight up the stairs.
"clang!"
The cold arrow fell to the ground and could not break the wall of energy outside Chang An's body.
On the second floor, there are still some institutions that Chang An thinks are boring.
The third floor, the fourth floor, the fifth floor... On the seventh floor, Chang An finally saw a living person.
"ah!"
As soon as he climbed to the seventh floor, the screams one after another reached Chang An's ears.
This place is like a dark prison, and those people are like prisoners, tied to the torture rack, with scars all over their bodies.
"It's so noisy."
The men in black with whips in their hands looked impatient. The harder the men screamed, the harder they beat them.
"Who are you!"
Someone discovered Chang An.
What greeted him was a long sword.
"Stab it!"
Four streaks of blood spattered, and the speaker's hand tendons and hamstrings were severed. Then, the sword flew back to Chang An's hand in front of everyone's horrified eyes.
"I ask questions and you answer them. If you don't answer well, you will die or be disabled. Take your pick."
