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The sky is gloomy, the air is humid and hot, and the thunder is getting louder, it is obvious that there will be heavy rain soon.

Qi Su crossed the trestle bridge and walked into the Qingmo Pavilion, he saw the man in black sitting in front of the stone table, staring at the chess game on the table with fixed eyebrows.

"came back?"

Xie Miao didn't raise his eyes when he heard the voice, but just said this lightly.

Qi Su saluted and said, "Yes."

"How, have you caught that person?" Xie Miao's eyes still stayed on the chess game, but he was already half-focused on listening to his reply.

"Yes," Qi Su replied, and then explained: "I ordered the subordinates in the ghost building to secretly follow the people sent by the leader, and I found out that some of them took this opportunity to send news to the Yinshan faction branch."

"Who?"

"Fu Jin."

Xie Miao was silent for a moment, picked up a chess piece from the chessboard, and said calmly: "Did he say why he did such a betrayal?"

Qi Su lowered his eyes slightly, but didn't reply for a while.

"What?" Xie Miao threw the chess piece in his hand back into the box, and looked at him with a hint of a half-smile in his eyes.

Qi Su lowered his head and did not meet his gaze, but replied: "Yes, Fu Jin has already said it. He was drugged and threatened, and he couldn't help himself."

Xie Miao looked at him sharply, and his voice was low: "Where did Guardian Zuo get this hesitant habit, why do I have to ask each sentence?"

Under the dark clouds, the lightning was particularly dazzling, and the thunder was rumbling. Even so, Qi Su still heard the words clearly, and immediately knelt down on one knee, saying, "It's Liu Zhongqing and Mr. Jian."

Xie Man's expression did not change when he heard the word Liu Zhongqing, but he frowned slightly when he heard the address of the person behind him, and after a while, he said: "So that's how it is."

Since it was Jian Moyan who helped, many things made sense.

The thunder rang for a few more rounds, Xie Miao seemed to laugh, Qi Su couldn't hear clearly, and didn't raise his head, with mixed feelings in his heart, he just heard the man say: "I don't know who Zuo Hufa is more worried about?"

"Subordinate..." Qi Su answered in bewilderment, and when he opened his mouth, he realized that no matter what he chose was wrong, he stopped.

Xie Miao laughed softly, "With such an opportunity, Guardian Zuo is not weak, why don't you kill me now? That way...you don't have to worry about it anymore."

"I don't dare." Qi Su glanced at the man suddenly, but saw that he got up at some point, and stood with his back to himself by the green ink pavilion, as if he was looking at the scenery of dark clouds and lightning in his free time, and there was an empty door behind him Open it, and it looks defenseless.

"Don't dare?" Xie Miao asked with a half-smile.

"Yes, if the master hadn't been willing to let his subordinate stay in Mingsha to teach martial arts, his subordinate would probably have died when he was young. The master's will will never be violated by this subordinate. In this life, he will be loyal to Mingsha. teach."

Xie Miao turned to look at him, and after a while, said: "Yes, I almost forgot, maybe I should call you...Senior brother?"

"Master..." Qi Su couldn't help being surprised. Even when their master was still there more than ten or twenty years ago, he still called Xie Miao "Young Master". "Brother".Speaking of which, he was still a few years older. He was already a teenager when the leader passed away, and that person was just a child.

He was lost in thought, but he heard Xie Min say: "Leaving aside this, when the master went, he vowed to pay back the blood debt, and even gave the order to destroy the family... the senior brother was the first one to disobey it?"

Qi Su remained silent without answering, just listening to him continue as if waiting for a judgment.

Xie Miao didn't seem to care about this matter anymore, but said indifferently: "Compared to me, senior brother has always been a lot more benevolent. Although he will not betray the master's intentions, he will not break his own limit. You You don’t want to do betrayal, you don’t want to implicate innocent people, you can get a glimpse of it from the ghost building’s “three don’t kill” rules. Presumably Master’s orders have always made you very contradictory.”

Qi Su didn't expect him to say such a thing, and couldn't figure out what he meant for a while, so he remained silent.

However, Xie Miao didn't speak immediately, only heard a muffled thunder in the air, and then there was a pattering sound.

The wind passed over the lotus pond, bringing with it a stream of cool water vapor, Xie Miao sighed and said, "It's raining."

After the summer, the rain is no longer as lingering and fine as the spring day. The raindrops between the sky and the earth are like strings of pearl curtains, and they are boundless. When they fall on the lake, they splash large and small ripples, and some are blown into the pavilion with the wind. , wet the ground.

Xie Mu glanced at him and said, "Get up."

"Yes." Qi Su got up, stood still, and waited for his arrangement.

"Sit." Xie Miao gave a slight signal, and sat down on the stone bench herself, looking at the chessboard again.

Qi Su was slightly surprised in his heart, but he still sat down as he said.

"In the past, I only knew how to take revenge according to my master's last order, and I never hesitated until... five years ago. But even so, I still didn't stop." Xie Mu started to collect the chess piece on the table, a black piece, A white stone, the speed is not fast, and sometimes it even stops slightly.

Qi Su looked at it for a while, and then he realized that he was going backwards step by step according to the original chess move. He was a little distracted, and vaguely felt that something was wrong, so he listened to Xie Min and said, "What do you see?"

"The person holding the white piece doesn't seem to want to win." Qi Su said: "The two places just now clearly have a chance, but he just blindly defends."

"That's right, I also find it strange, what does he mean by that?" Xie Mian slowly withdrew all the chess pieces with a half-smile, and said, "Did Fu Jin ever say that anyone in the sect is controlled?" ?”

"Never, they didn't know each other."

"Love really won't let me down." Xie Miao couldn't help but smile when he heard this, and put the last chess piece into the box.

Qi Su was silent for a while, and said, "What is the leader's plan?"

Xie Mu said indifferently: "Where do you think they will attack?"

Qi Su replied: "Our established routes are mostly official roads, they will definitely not choose the official roads, so there are only four places left: Baimuling, Chiyue Lake, Wangran Mountain and Luoyiwan."

Xie Min smiled slightly: "If I remember correctly, there is another stronghold in the ghost building, which is near Chiyue Lake and Wangran Mountain."

"Exactly."

"Very good. Where do you think Chiyue Lake and Wangran Mountain are more suitable for ambush?"

Qi Su frowned and thought for a while, and said: "Wangran Mountain. Chiyue Lake is densely covered with swamps, and it is really dangerous."

"In that case, you should leave immediately and take the members of the Mingsha Sect in that stronghold to Wangran Mountain, the maze or something else, you can decide for yourself." Xie Mo raised his eyebrows slightly: "Just one point, that is, quick."

Qi Su said: "If those people from Yinshan Sect make an early move, what should we do?"

"I will order to change the route and bypass Cypress Ridge. If they ambushed at Cypress Ridge and we bypassed it, it would be too late for them to know that the route was wrong, so they could only follow them, while we ambush at Wangran Mountain, that is, waiting for them As for Chiyue Lake, they probably won’t be able to choose. As for Luoyi Bay..." Xie Miao paused for a moment, then said, "If they really choose Luoyi Bay, we will take another detour , go directly to the hidden mountain. But I think it is unlikely, after all, after passing Luoyi Bay, there will be no more barriers."

Qi Su thought for a moment, and replied: "Yes."

At this time, the rain was already falling heavily, and the sky was as gloomy as a dark night, except for the lightning that illuminated everything in white.

Xie Miao looked at the sky outside the pavilion, and said: "In addition, only twenty dead soldiers are left by my side, and for the rest, order them to change their attire, leave immediately, go directly to the main altar, and kill all the traitors. "

The wind became stronger and stronger, most of the green ink pavilion was wet, and the water splashed all the way to the feet.Xie Man's voice seemed a little erratic in the wind, but Qi Su was shocked when he heard it, and said: "Master, don't..."

Xie Miao glanced at him, with a cold gleam in his eyes: "Now you are just my subordinate, this is an order, how dare you disobey it?"

"..."

"The foundation of the Mingsha Sect is in Yunchuan after all, and Zhongzhou's power is weak, and there is really no advantage for a head-on confrontation." Xie Miao signaled that he did not need to say any more, "The main altar is bound to be taken back, and the first one to kill after returning is the The intelligence envoy in the altar dared to hide such a big matter, and he must have been controlled. Afterwards, he sent a message to each sub-altar, and transferred some people back as appropriate. The part of the Mingsha sect in the ghost building, this time Afterwards, you will also bring them all back to Yunchuan, as for the future of the ghost building, or who will hand over the position of landlord, it is up to you to decide."

Qi Su said: "Even if we want to take back the main altar, it won't be too late to finish it after the leader returns from Zhongzhou..."

Xie Miao snorted lightly with a half-smile: "What if you don't go back?"

"If you are not fully sure, you can do it next time."

"Well, after you become the master of the Mingsha sect, you can do whatever you want." Xie Miao said lightly, then waved his hand and said: "Go down, go down as I said."

Having said that, how could Qi Su not understand what he meant, but he didn't know what kind of thoughts that person was thinking, so he stood where he was, without moving for a while.

Xie Miao glanced at him and said, "Why, do you want to overstep now?"

"That's not the case." Qi Su heard that the words seemed to be mocking or just a joke, he cupped his fists and said, "I'm afraid it's inappropriate for the leader to only bring so few people."

Xie Miao shook his head slightly, and said with a low smile, "I told you so much before, but you still haven't understood what I mean?"

Qi Su frowned and remained silent.

Xie Miao sighed, stood up, walked to his side, patted his shoulder, and said lightly: "This time, I just want to settle the grudge."

The wind swept into the pavilion, and the cold water droplets fell on the skin, bringing a little chill.

He whispered: "It's been 20 years, and I want to pay with blood, but I don't want to add any more senseless killings. And... there should be a break between me and Liu Zhongqing."

Qi Su listened, but there was nothing to refute for a moment.

Xie Man raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Brother, who are you more worried about?"

Qi Su paused, and said: "...the leader must stop joking."

As expected, Xie Miao suppressed her smile, walked past him, stood behind him, and paused slightly: "There are many things that I feel I have done before, but it is impossible to have the opportunity to do it all over again."

"..."

"You said, if you do it all over again, what will happen..."

When he said this, he had already walked out of the Qingmo Pavilion, Qi Su turned to look, but saw that he just walked into the pouring rain without holding an umbrella, but did not stop at all.

What is the benefit of being wrong at this time?

Do it again, if you don't know the future, will you still make the same decision at that time?

No one will ever know these things.