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Shen Tingyun was beaten up by Sangzi before sitting safely in the room.

Under Sangzi's laughter and cursing, Shen Tingyun remembered that when he was in Julongdian, Sangzi was in charge of monitoring him. In his spare time, he talked about his past experiences and taught himself how to use a paintbrush. He was as gentle as March like the wind.

At this moment, the gentle sister in my memory was leaning on the chair with her feet crossed, shaking her hand holding the paintbrush, and pointing at the tip of the brush, she said, "Can that be the same? When working in the palace, you have to wrong yourself a bit." Now in her hand With power, not only do you not have to swallow your anger, but you will not be able to restrain the people under your hands if you don't have enough momentum.

Shen Tingyun smiled.He is the exact opposite of Sang Zi, when Sang Zi was subservient to others, he held back his temper and only dared to reveal his true appearance when no one restrained him.And the higher I climbed, the more cautious I became, for fear that others would find out what I was like, and my life in Mingjian Division was like walking on eggshells.

Shen Tingyun tidied up his hair that had been ravaged by Sangzi, and told his true intentions.

Sangzi sneered, saying that he would go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, and only remembered that there were people like them in Nanjiang when he asked for help.

"Nothing. Firstly, I have been busy working as a dog for the imperial court for the past two years. I am busy until the third watch every day, so I don't have time. Secondly, I am afraid of bumping into Qi Shiyu, so I dare not leave Beijing easily."

Qi Shiyu is not a good person, but when he was in Southern Xinjiang, he could see that he had some sincerity towards Shen Tingyun. Sang Zi didn't like to comment on his old master, so he just nodded, and finally talked about serious matters with Shen Tingyun.

After Shen Tingyun finished explaining the purpose of coming, he asked her how much she knew about the sacred objects.

Sang Zi glanced at Su Xin.She was not a native of Zhu Mingjiao, and the shortcomings of Zhu Mingjiao were fully exposed at this time.The sacred object has been lost for too long, and the documents and materials in the church are vague and incomplete. The real function of the sacred object is passed on by word of mouth from the upper echelons of the church, and most of the church members know little about it.

"Hey, thanks to the fact that I'm a priest, I know a little bit about it. Others, not to mention the pavilion masters, even brother Minggui probably don't know anything about it." The little girl enjoyed the feeling of being pinned on by others, facing Shen Tingyun and Sangzi's problems are even more intimate.

What Su Xin said was not too different from what Bai Xiu said, but it was more detailed than what he knew.

The holy object can indeed raise the Gu king, and the Gu king can manipulate the little Gu worms that are born.The small Gu worm parasitizing on the corpse can make the dead act as if they were alive, but they will not have the consciousness of life, and all behaviors will obey the command of the Gu king host.

"So the host of the Gu King has consciousness?" Shen Tingyun asked.

Su Xin rested his chin and thought for a while: "Theoretically, this is the case, but no one has ever seen a Gu king, let alone the host, so we can't be sure whether it's true or not."

"Then if these living corpses are built into an army, they must be invincible?" An army of living corpses that only obeys the command of the host of the Gu King, with one mind and one mind, is not afraid of death. How can a living person with self-awareness fight against it? How could it win?

Su Xin nodded, then remembered something, and shook his head again: "If this is the case, I don't believe that no one had any evil thoughts when the holy relics were in the church, and the world would have already belonged to living corpses. These living corpses actually have A very significant weakness."

Then Su Xin repeated what he said before.

"The living corpse only obeys the command of the host, and has no independent consciousness. In other words, without the command of the host, the living corpse cannot move."

Shen Tingyun suddenly became enlightened, and asked: "So once the host returns to death, the living corpse will turn back into an ordinary corpse?"

"Not necessarily. After all, the Gu king is not stupid. He knows how to run for his life, and he will not depend on the host who is no longer controllable." The Gu king will leave the host body at the moment the host returns to death, and quickly find the next boarding target, but he wants to completely The only way to eradicate the Gu King is to take advantage of this opportunity.

"But how can we find out the host?" Shen Tingyun pondered.According to what Su Xin said, as long as the host and the Gu king are eliminated, the trouble of Ying Yang should be solved easily.

Su Xin held his chin and shook his head: "I remember something that can identify the host, but I can't remember... If I remember it, I will find a way to tell you as soon as possible." After speaking, Su Xin gave Shen Ting Yun made a porcelain vase, saying that it contained Gu worms, as long as he carried it with him, the pigeons in the church could find him.

Shen Tingyun thanked him, rejected Su Xin's invitation to stay overnight in the teaching room, and planned to rush to Yingyang.

Sangzi stopped him and asked him if he was going to seek death.

Shen Tingyun realized later that he had killed Cang Ming. This face was likely to cause trouble, so it was not easy to fool it.

"So you still have to rely on me." Sang Zi said the words to Shen Tingyun, but his eyes were on Su Xin.

The little girl stuck out her tongue, feeling agitated, she dragged Shen Tingyun and asked him if the information she provided was more useful than a piece of skin painted by Sangzi?

Shen Tingyun had no good fruit for offending anyone on both sides, but he didn't think of anything suitable to say, so he didn't say anything.

"Okay, stop making trouble with Yun'er, I'm joking with you, why are you so excited?" Sangzi asked Su Xinxiao to stop, and took a pen to disguise Shen Tingyun.

She hasn't held a pen for a long time, but her skills have not become unfamiliar. After a while, Shen Tingyun completely changed her appearance.

"No one can repair it for ten days, is it enough?"

Shen Tingyun rubbed the makeup on his face, nodded and said, "It would be great if Mingjian could do this." It would be much easier for the secret guards to investigate cases and handle affairs.

"You can be a running dog alone. You can't even imagine how comfortable I am with the emperor today." Sangzi chuckled, "If you really want to learn, go to my junior brother to learn."

Shen Tingyun readily agreed, saying that this year when General Wei returned to Beijing to report on his duties, he would go to Sang Mao, but I was afraid that General Wei would not be willing to leave his wife in Beijing.

Sangzi put away the pen, and suddenly heard Shen Tingyun ask: "Have you seen him in these years..."

Although the two of them were talking about Sang Mao in the last sentence, Sang Zi would not naively think that Shen Tingyun would ask about Sang Mao, and Qi Shiyu must be the only person who can make the other party like him.

Sangzi shook her head.She thought that both of them were dead, but she really didn't expect that there would be a day of reunion.

"Actually, we can't completely blame him for what happened back then." Sang Zi said softly.Things were too complicated back then. At that time, from Qi Shiyu's perspective, the little guard he liked but dared not speak out killed the savior who could help him seize the throne, and his confidant who he thought he could trust was involved. Anyone can break down.

Shen Tingyun shook his head and said, "But I just blame him. I wanted to give him my life. I listened obediently to whatever he wanted to do, without even resisting, but in the end he didn't even listen to a word of my justification. , wanting me to die."

The more he knew that Qi Shiyu could not be completely blamed for those things, the more he resented him.

Obviously as long as there is more trust and more love, they will not go to that point.

Qi Shiyu was overcast and suspicious, and he deserved to be alone, and fell to the point where he had nothing.

Sangzi didn't say any more, and asked his servants to prepare some dry food for Shen Tingyun, and told him to be careful along the way.

It took Shen Tingyun half a day to reach the border of Yingyang.

The gates of the border city are closed and there are many guards, so there is no way to pass without a certificate.

Shen Tingyun sat in the inn outside the city gate and watched for a long time, but he didn't see anyone coming and going for a long time. In a huge country, there seemed to be no other residents except the guards.

Confused in his heart, the shopkeeper of the inn opened his mouth first: "My lord, you are thinking about how to get in?"

Shen Tingyun nodded and shook his head again: "More than that, I'm still wondering why I've been sitting here for so long, as if I haven't seen ordinary people at all."

The shopkeeper's face changed, and a strange smile hung on the corner of his lips. He lowered his voice and said, "How can there be any living people in Yingyang Country?"