no soul

Lin Hong looked at the warm pomegranate walnut chicken in his hand and fell into deep thought.

He suspected that Wan Guchuan was not human.

Of course, not scolding him.But which ordinary person can buy a chicken across half of the city within a stick of incense!The guy sent by Mu Jingyu hasn't bought it back for half an hour...

"Is it hot?" Wan Guchuan walked beside him, looked at him, and stretched out his hand to take the chicken, "I'll hold it for you."

Lin Hong felt his fingertips touch the back of his hand, his heart trembled suddenly, and he avoided his hand, "It's not hot! I'll hold it by myself."

"What? It's not delicious?" Wan Guchuan raised his eyebrows, looking like he was going to stare at the chicken out of a hole.

"Do you want me to feed you?" Wan Guchuan asked.

"?????" Lin Hong looked at him in shock, suspecting that he had heard wrong.

Wan Guchuan continued expressionlessly, "You still have to dance for you before you eat?"

"?????????" Lin Hong was dumbfounded, and even began to imagine Wan Guchuan dancing in his mind... Tsk... Tsk...

Thoughts were running wild, and he couldn't hold back his posture. Lin Hong suddenly realized that this seemed to be the content of the conversation between himself and Mu Jingyu? ?

"..."

"How much have you overheard?" Lin Hong squinted at Wan Guchuan.

Wan Guchuan looked away, "I didn't eavesdrop, your voices are too loud."

Lin Hong: "..."

The night is still strong, when the cock crows.The wind carried the heat of the fire, mixed with the smell of scorching. (Note 1)

The two were walking on the street.

There were no pedestrians along the way, and Lin Hong was surprised that these people were not awakened by the movement.

A bustling three-story wine shop in the center of the city caught fire, and many people fled screaming-the movement was not small.

Lin Hong looked at the dark windows of the surrounding rooms, didn't this wake them up?

strangeness……

Lin Hong took a bite of the pomegranate walnut chicken.

The sweetness of the pomegranate combined with the aroma of meat melted in his mouth, and he even bit into a walnut.

It's delicious - I didn't expect to be able to eat the delicacy of the Western Regions thousands of years ago.Lin Hong glanced at Wan Guchuan, feeling a little moved, "Didn't you say you were going to Kata Restaurant? Why did you go to buy pomegranate walnut chicken?"

The Kata Restaurant in the distance is still bathed in more and more intense flames.

The fire was loud, and many beams collapsed in the sound of "crackling".

It was too dangerous, and Lin Hong was relieved that Wan Guchuan didn't go in to save people.

"I can't get in—" Walking through the intersection, Wan Guchuan motioned him to look over.

——The outside of Kata Restaurant was surrounded by officers and soldiers.

"Prince Zhen's people? Are they there all the time? Why didn't they go in to save people when the fire was not raging just now? And they didn't catch Mengnu?" Lin Hong frowned.

Prince Zhen was unmoved?

Wan Guchuan looked at him without speaking.

Lin Hong looked at him strangely, but was taken aback suddenly, "Prince Zhen has betrayed!"

Only in this way can all this be reasonably explained.

The city of Kavantia is the domain of Prince Zhen, but the men of Mengnu easily entered the city.

Mu Jingyu and his party disguised themselves to avoid people's eyes and ears, but the men from Mengnuo were able to enter the Kata Restaurant without any mistakes.

Mu Jingyu also said that the Kata Restaurant was arranged by Prince Zhen and was secretly protected by the army.However, the guarding army did not stop the Mengni people in time or enter the wine shop to rescue them later.

Only Prince Zhen knows the identity, purpose and where they live of Mu Jingyu and his party, and only Prince Zhen can make the meng children so arrogant.

"But why?" Lin Hong didn't understand, "Didn't Prince Zhen have meritorious service in rehabilitating? Why are you here to rebel now?"

"Perhaps, his original intention was not to rehabilitate him?" Wan Guchuan said.

"You mean, he wanted to conspire with the regent, but when the regent was defeated, he turned against him and rehabilitated him?" Lin Hong couldn't figure it out, "However, he and the regent can really hide his conspiracy ?”

"It's not necessary to join the Regent in rebellion," Wan Guchuan said, "It's not impossible to unite with the Xiongnu to rebel if you are entrusted to such a remote place for meritorious service in protecting the lord."

"Is there a record in the history books?" Lin Hong racked his brains and didn't think there was such a record.

"No." Wan Guchuan said.

"Then how did Prince Zhen cover up this matter?" Lin Hong couldn't figure it out, "The ones who died were the prince and the envoys. The army escorting them will come later. How can we cover it up?"

Many unreasonable things... This will definitely be labeled as a rebellion, but there is no such record in the history books.

"What if..." Wan Guchuan said, "The Kata Restaurant is not in the city of Kavandia?"

Lin Hong was stunned, a terrifying thought popped out, his whole body was numb, "Then... where is it..."

Wan Guchuan didn't directly answer his question, "No matter what agreement the Mengnu people reached with Prince Zhen, since the Mengnu people have already entered the city, are they really willing to only commit murder in this Kata wine shop? It is easy to capture the city. Lord Zhen There is no need to do such a thing that will cause the upper body to get angry, collaborating with the enemy and condemning the country to punish the nine clans, it is impossible to be so hasty."

"But if this restaurant is outside the city, Prince Zhen will not be affected if the envoy's death is caused by the mengren." Wan Guchuan said, "Everything makes sense."

"Where is it..." Lin Hong felt that even if he was holding the warm pomegranate walnut chicken, his fingertips were getting cold.

He went to a place where he shouldn't be here, and faced life and death.

"Thousands of miles away." Wan Guchuan said.

"But why did it appear here?" Lin Hong pinched the bridge of his nose with his cool fingertips, "But I went in, and you went in too... Zhang Ye... Zhang Ye was also standing in front of me really ..."

All this is just a phantom from afar?

Wan Guchuan frowned when he heard the name, "This is 'Ghost Fang', anything can happen."

It seems that this can also explain why such a big movement did not wake up the residents of the city - because this wine shop is really not in the city.

Lin Hong began to recall what Mu Jingyu said...he said...on his uncle's territory...

Lin Hong took it for granted that he was talking about Kavantia, but if it was arranged by Prince Zhen, would it be considered his territory?

Moreover, if they could hear the voices of Mu Jingyu and his party, did they also imply that they were not from the city?

Perhaps Mu Jingyu and his party passed by here, arrived at a restaurant far away, and then died there...

People far away in the imperial city didn't know that Prince Zhen was "escorting" this group of people, and history would not condemn this failed rebel.

It really seems like that's the only way to make sense.

But why did a wine shop thousands of miles away appear in the city?

Lin Hong calmed down, he had seen a lot of weird legends, and it was another feeling to experience them personally.

Lin Hong looked at Wan Guchuan—"You know a lot, and you were eavesdropping even after entering the house."

Wan Guchuan:.

"You are finally back!" Cheng Jinjiu breathed a sigh of relief, "We saw a fire over there, and we were terribly worried. We said that you would not come here again, so we went to find you—Brother Lin, is everything okay?"

"It's very good." Lin Hong smiled.

"What is so delicious?" Cheng Jinjiu looked at the pomegranate walnut chicken in Lin Hong's hand, "Give me some, I'm going to starve to death."

Ning Xiuyun seemed to want to make up for Cheng Jinjiu who only asked Lin Hong and not Wan Guchuan: "Brother Wan, are you alright?"

"nothing."

"It's fine." Ning Xiuyun looked at Wan Guchuan and smiled.

Lin Hong rubbed his nose beside him.

Everyone gathered near the city gate, and there were still a few missing. The companions said that they went to watch the burning building.

Lin Hong looked around but didn't see Yu Tianyi.

"What happened?" Cheng Jinjiu asked Lin Hong with a chicken leg in his mouth.

Lin Hong briefly talked to them.

Everyone was silent after listening.

"Have you heard the story of the Mirage Wonderland?" Ning Xiuyun interrupted the silence, looking back and forth at everyone with a pair of beautiful eyes. (Note 2)

Everyone also looked at her.

"Miss Ning, explain in detail," Lin Hong said.

"There was a ranger who was wandering around, and it was easy to write down his travel notes. Once, he was lost in the desert. He had no food and water for three days and three nights, and was on the verge of death. But he suddenly saw an oasis with dense vegetation and sparkling water—he His travel notes described it as a fairyland. He thought he was saved, and he kept approaching that direction, but found that he could never reach it. He died on the road. Later, everyone found his body and travel notes, and learned about it. "Ning Xiuyun said.

Lin Hong knew about this, "Is it the fairyland that the emperor of the Chen Dynasty sent people to look for?"

According to historical records, in order to seek immortality, the first emperor of the Chen Dynasty sent many magicians (Note 3) to find this fairyland.

"Yes." Ning Xiuyun said, "I don't think there is any connection?"

"But...but that fairyland doesn't know if it's true or not, but the story about the wine shop is real." Dai Qingqing said.

"I've also heard about it." Cheng Jinjiu said.He was also a ranger before, but he heard a lot of weird things.

"A businessman passed by the desert, but he saw his house thousands of miles away in the desert. He saw his neighbor climb over the wall and enter his house, raped and killed his wife. He was shocked, and immediately turned back and found that his wife really If someone killed someone at home and reported it to the government, the murderer was indeed a neighbor."

The crowd was horrified by his story.

That pretty much explains what happened to the Kata wine shop.

True and False... False and False...

"I can't figure it out...it's profound." Cheng Jinjiu stroked his chin and concluded by himself, "But at the root of it, what exactly does this ghost party want us to do? Who is the grieving ghost?——Is that the prince?"

This Lin Hong didn't expect that the connection between the events of these two days seemed to be the Regent's rebellion?

There are too many characters, things are too complicated, and the time span is too large, so there is no entry point.

"I think we may have to wait another night before we can see any signs of it," Lin Hong said.

"Hurry up and eat, it's getting cold." Cheng Jinjiu pointed to the pomegranate walnut chicken in Lin Hong's hand.

The people who went to watch the Kata wine shop also came back, and told their allies what they saw and heard.

The desert dawned late, but the sky is still very dark, the moon is sparse, and the breeze is bitingly cold.

"The time of Yin has arrived." Wan Guchuan said. (Note 4)

The city of Kavantia slowly turned into light sand and dissipated in the wind...

In the vast desert, a group of lonely travelers stood.

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Note 1: Rooster Crowing: Chou time, 1:3-[-]:[-].

Note 2: It is a mirage, which is an optical phenomenon. The ancient people could not explain it clearly, thinking it was a fairyland.

Note 3: Fang warlocks: Fang warlocks refer to people who specialize in astrology, immortals, housework, witch doctors, and divination.From "Historical Records".

Note 4: Yin time: Pingdan, 3:5-[-]:[-].