chivalrous cat and righteous mouse

The so-called cat and mouse title, or is it just because there is a case and he has no leisure to take care of it?

He was thinking wildly in his heart, and walked forward instinctively. As he walked, he suddenly heard a "click", Zhan Zhao subconsciously tapped the ground, and jumped up with lightness kung fu. Unfortunately, he forgot that he was in the dark passage Among them, the space is narrow and he can't let him use it at will.He yelled inwardly that he was not good, and wanted to turn his body to use the force of the wall to fall down. When Bai Yutang turned around, he happened to see him leaning against the wall, his heart tightened, and he quickly drew his knife and threw him out.Hanyue flew out with a "swish" following his strength, and plunged into the wall with a "ding".

Zhan Zhao touched Hanyue's knife handle with one foot, turned over and landed.The moment he landed on the ground, he suddenly thought of the blackened silver needle that had just been inserted into the wall. He raised his head and glanced at Bai Yutang, then hurriedly turned around and stabbed Hanyue who was tightly inserted into the wall. It didn't turn black like the silver needle just now, but glowed a faint blue.

He looked at Bai Yutang in bewilderment, seeing him walking over in a leisurely pace, stretching out his jade-like hand to take the knife back from his hand, and put it back into the scabbard without even looking.

"Brother Bai! Your knife!"

Bai Yutang glanced at him and chuckled, "Mao'er, did you hear that there was a Mrs. Xu in Zhao State at the end of the Warring States Period?" Zhan Zhao stared at him, not knowing what he wanted to say.I only heard him go on to say, "The knife in my hand was originally made by Mrs. Xu. According to rumors, this knife was made by a meteorite that fell from the sky. He is a native of China, so it is called Hanyue. Afterwards, this knife was bought by the royal family of Yan State with a lot of money, and was handed over to the court craftsmen for repeated tempering, and finally became a precious knife that sealed the throat with blood. Because of this, Bai did not pull it out easily. Knife out of sheath."

Zhan Zhao's eyes were as big as two copper bells. He didn't know much about knives. At first, he just saw that the knives in Bai Yutang's hands were quite hostile. A famous ancient sword, comparable to the Juque in his hand.He thought of the smear of blue on the knife when he pulled it out of the wall just now, and then he realized that the toxin in the wall saw Hanyue, it was nothing short of a big deal.

He stepped forward and patted Bai Yutang on the shoulder, and said to him, "Brother Bai's knife is too dangerous and domineering, it's better not to pull it out casually from now on. If you simply turn around and walk away from you, it is better to be poisoned by the wall than to have your throat blocked by blood."

Bai Yutang smiled and pushed Zhang Zhao's cat's claw on his shoulder with the handle of the knife, but felt strange in his heart.Just now Zhan Zhao did accidentally step on a mechanism, but the strange thing is that no attack was launched against them.He took a deep look towards the unknown road, wondering what would be waiting there.

Don't have holes

Zhan and Bai walked slowly in the dark and secret passage.

Zhan Zhao stepped on the mechanism because he was absent-minded before, which made him pay more attention to this secret passage. Although he didn't know why the mechanism didn't launch an attack just now, maybe it was just a slowing down setting, waiting for them to relax their vigilance. If it breaks out from time to time, maybe it's just an empty mechanism setting, just to scare people who break in, but no matter what it is, the two of them maintain a 12-percent sobriety to prevent accidents.

The two groped forward without saying a word to each other. After walking for a while, the first fork in the road finally appeared in front of them.They stopped and stood facing the fork in the road.

Bai Yutang held Hanyue in his arms, turned his head away and asked Zhan Zhao, "How about the cat, where are you going?" Zhan Zhao rested his chin in thought, but didn't answer.Seeing that he was silent, Bai Yutang said again, "Why don't we go alone!"

This time Zhan Zhao finally spoke up, "This is inappropriate." Bai Yutang smiled and waited for his next words, only to hear him continue, "Brother Bai just said that there are many obstacles in institutions here, but you and I walked in It's been a while, but I haven't encountered half of the organs, don't you think it's strange, Brother Bai?"

Bai Yutang shrugged nonchalantly, "Wouldn't it be better if there were no obstacles! It saves Grandpa Bai from using his brain to deal with them."

Zhan Zhao smiled helplessly, and said, "Brother Bai's words are wrong. Zhan thought that everything seemed to be going too smoothly. Maybe this was a trap set by the enemy for us. They let us in on purpose. Probably to trap us somewhere."

"What you said is not impossible. Maybe this is a plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain. Their purpose is just to drive you and me away."

Bai Yutang's words shocked Zhan Zhao, "If that's the case, wouldn't my lord and sir be in danger!"

"Don't worry, those just now are just our speculations, none of us know the real situation." Bai Yutang put his hand on Zhan Zhao's shoulder, and when he squeezed it hard, Zhan Zhao felt a slight pain from his shoulder blade from everywhere.Taking this opportunity, Bai Yutang leaned into his ear and whispered to him, "Cat, hold your breath."

Before Zhan Zhao could understand the meaning of Bai Yutang's words, he suddenly smelled a strange sweet fragrance, he quickly held his breath, and at the same time looked at Bai Yutang beside him.He wanted to ask him what it smelled like, but right now, in order not to inhale this strange gas, he was struggling to hold his breath and couldn't speak at all.

Bai Yutang saw what he was going to say, so he extinguished the torch in his hand, grabbed Zhan Zhao's wrist with his non-knife hand, and dragged him towards a direction in the dark.

Zhan Zhao didn't get used to the darkness around him for a while, so he had to let him pull him forward. After walking about ten steps, Zhan Zhao suddenly felt him stop, so he pulled him back, and was about to ask him what happened Suddenly, he suddenly felt that there seemed to be someone not far away - it was the person who suddenly disappeared in the ruined temple just now.

Obviously, Bai Yutang also noticed it.

Zhan Zhao subconsciously touched the arrow box in his sleeve in the dark. He judged from the opponent's breath that this person should still be within the attack range of the sleeve arrow. It's just that he was just ready to release the arrow, but someone rushed him One step, the first shot.He only heard a "whoosh", and then, the force on his wrist suddenly increased, and he followed the trend.

"My flying locust stone should have hit him." Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang followed the breath all the way, but the secret passage was too narrow, they couldn't use lightness kung fu, otherwise the other party must have been captured by them already.

Seeing that Bai Yutang had already opened his mouth to speak, Zhan Zhao could hold back his breath and said, "What is the gas you got just now?"

"I once heard from my sister-in-law that there is a plant in the Western Regions that emits a strange sweet smell. If you inhale too much, it will paralyze your mind and cause hallucinations."

Zhan Zhao frowned suddenly when he heard it, "Brother Bai, don't you think it's very strange?"

Bai Yutang snorted softly, and asked, "If you're not weird, what's investigation? All cases are investigated because they're weird."

Zhan Zhao rolled his eyes helplessly, "Brother Bai's words are wrong. In fact, most cases have logic to follow, but any weird cases are strange cases. But Zhan's so-called weirdness is not Talk about the case itself."

Bai Yutang was confused by him, "What is that?"

"Zhan is just wondering why there are so many murder cases in such a small county, but so many other clues are involved, and there seems to be some connection with the Western Regions."

Bai Yutang held his chin and thought about Zhan Zhao's words for a long time, but he didn't find anything wrong. "The Central Plains and the Western Regions have always had trade relations. It's not surprising that there are some connections in the case."

Zhan Zhao chuckled, "Zhan doesn't mean that. He just thinks that the world seems a little impetuous recently."

Bai Yutang snorted disdainfully, and said, "You cat, you are really greedy to think about affairs in the Jianghu even though you have entered the court and become an official."

When Zhan Zhao heard this, he immediately wanted to defend himself, "Brother Bai! Zhan..."

Before he could finish speaking, Bai Yutang immediately interrupted him, "Wait! Look!"

While the two of them were chatting with each other, they had already followed the man's breath and walked out of the secret passage.It turns out that there is a dense forest connecting the exit of the secret passage.

Bai Yutang blew on the fire folder again, and he used one hand to protect the front end of the fire folder in a semi-curved shape to prevent the fire from being blown out by the wind.Zhan Zhao stood in place and looked around, then turned to Bai Yutang and said, "This place looks like the forest where Yin Hua and Yang Di met."

Only then did Bai Yutang raise his head and take a rough look at the place he was in, "Bai followed Yang Di to the east of the forest, and this is probably the other side. I didn't expect that the entire forest was occupied by them. One place It is connected to Zhaojiazhuang, and the other is connected to the ruined temple, which is more greedy than a cat like you."

Zhan Zhao was not in the mood to tease him, so he tugged at Bai Yutang's sleeve and said, "That man's aura has disappeared again! Let's search separately to see if Xiaotian is hidden here by them."

Bai Yutang pulled his sleeve from Zhan Zhao's hand, then curled up his fingers, and tapped him on the head. "You don't really think that kid was kidnapped, do you?"

Zhan Zhao frowned and asked him, "Brother Bai, what does this mean?"

Bai Yutang dragged his voice lazily, and said, "You are such a forgetful cat! Didn't you suspect him yourself? That baby boy was suspected by his father and was frightened, why don't you take the opportunity to run away? Do you want to wait to be taken to see Master Bao?"

Zhan Zhao felt his heart tense, and after a long time he murmured, "Yang Di once said that Xiao Tian had a map hidden on his body, and what he said was true or false, which made people suspicious. Although I was suspicious of him, I didn't Didn't mean to force him away. I just think Xiaotian