Big Moon Ballad

Ying Baoyue left the cloud forest and walked towards Afang Palace.

The cloud forest eight years ago went from night to dawn and from dawn to night.

In the farther north, there is also a group of people walking in the night.

"arrive."

Ji Jiashu took off the cloak on his head and stared at the small town shrouded in wild sand in the distance.

This originally inconspicuous city has become different from what he remembered.

A lot of simple fortifications made of dead branches, barbed wire, and caltrops were built outside the originally empty city. There were many tents outside the city, and soldiers in leather armor shuttled among them.

Although they were dressed as soldiers, Ji Jiashu guessed that they were all slaves from their thin bodies and rough hands and feet covered with welts.

"It's really like Chu Yan said, was taken over by these horse slaves?"

Chen Zichu, who was standing beside Ji Jiashu, also took off his cloak, and looked at Shacheng not far away in surprise, "It's only been a few days since we left."

This small city called Shacheng was the place where they parted from Li Ji and others before.

The three of them followed Ying Baoyue to the Buddhist monastery to save people. Li Ji said that he wanted to stay in retreat because of a demon attack, while Ji Qingyuan, Yeluhua and Meng Shi chose to stay and take care of Li Ji.

After that, they and Ying Baoyue never heard from Li Ji and the others who stayed behind, and they didn't know if they were still in Shacheng.

After returning to Langbei Mountain and finding neither the whereabouts of Soaring Snake's Wings nor Zhao Guang and the others who were supposed to be waiting at the foot of the mountain, Ji Jiashu made the decision, and the four of them returned to Shacheng on foot.

It is not accurate to say that they are on foot. If they really rely on walking, they will not be able to get here so quickly.

The strange transfer ability of Soaring Snake Wings still remained on them. When they were hesitating on Langbei Mountain before, they closed their eyes and opened them during the lunch break. The four of them found that they were standing in the middle of the vast sand middle.

Just when Chen Zichu and others turned pale with shock, Ji Jiashu recognized that the place where they were transferred was not far from Shacheng, so they walked for a day and a night on foot, and they arrived near Shacheng.

In the dark, the wings of the flying snake god seemed to be guiding them in this direction.

But that being the case, why not just transfer them to Shacheng?

After walking all day, Chen Zichu couldn't help complaining in his heart.

"Don't forget, we squatted in that underground secret room for almost a month," Ji Jiashu said softly, without the slightest complaint on his face, "It's been more than a month since we left here."

They have been moving at high speed before, so they ignore the passage of time.

"I don't know how Mr. Zhaohua is doing in seclusion, and Mr. Ji and Mr. Guanghua don't know if they are still in this city."

Xu Yishan looked at the city that had changed owners with a complicated expression, "How do we get in now? Are we going to call the door?"

Although Ying Baoyue had rescued the leaders of this group of rebels before, it is not known whether the person who is in charge of the city is the same person who rose up in Suiye City.

If not, the three of them are all practitioners from outside the Great Wall, and if they don't make a good move, they can easily be regarded as spies from other countries and detained and killed.

Ji Jiashu stared at the patrolling guards outside the city, and remained silent.

"How about we sneak in?"

Chen Zichu couldn't help but suggest, "Those guards look like ordinary people, with no realm."

"Even if we are discovered, we are not invincible."

He didn't talk to Xu Yishan, with Ji Jiashu's ability, even if he forcibly punched the card and killed all the guards outside, it was more than enough.

Ji Jiashu shook his head, "Let's call the door."

They might be able to sneak in, but that's not a big deal.

Ji Jiashu pulled up his sleeves and glanced at the blood line on his arm that was approaching his heart. He felt that the flying snake's wings threw them near Shacheng probably because of the god's own intention.

"Well, if I'm caught as a spy, it's not my fault."

Chen Zichu shrugged, and the three of them put on their cloaks again and approached the city gate on foot.

"who?"

Although the guards at the city gate were all yellow-faced and thin slaves, they were all very vigilant. When they saw Ji Jiashu and his party coming, they immediately surrounded them with their weapons tightly grasped.

"Everyone, it's convenient."

Ji Jiashu took off his hood, revealed his true face, and cupped his hands and said, "I'm just a passerby, and I want to go to the city to stay overnight."

Bing Yong, who guarded the city, saw his face and was taken aback.

A middle-aged man who hadn't gathered around but was sitting by the fire in the tent raised his head, stared at Ji Jiashu's face, and squinted his eyes.

"Central Plains?"

Ji Jiashu was a little surprised. Although the appearance of the three of them was indeed different from that of the Xirong people, it was not easy to immediately determine that they came from outside the Great Wall.

After all, few Central Plains people would go to Xirong.

The middle-aged man who was warming by the fire stood up, picked up the leather armor on the ground and put it on his body.

Ji Jiashu sensed some aura belonging to a practitioner from him, and became alert.

As the middle-aged man walked all the way, the soldiers around him dispersed one after another.

Ji Jiashu realized that this person's status in the rebel army should not be low, so he took a step back and looked at this person with his hands folded.

The man's hair was disheveled, his clothes were ragged, and most of his face was hidden under his hair. If you didn't look carefully, you would think that he was a prisoner exiled from the border.

But just touching the eyes hidden under the messy hair of this person, Ji Jiashu's heart skipped a beat.

Those were a pair of extremely sharp and deep eyes, completely different from the numb and dazed eyes of ordinary slaves.

"Well," the visitor sized him up, and by the way, glanced at Chen Zichu and Xu Yishan beside him, "from Southern Chu?"

Ji Jiashu's heart beat faster, and he was hesitating whether to reveal his identity.A barefoot child suddenly ran from the direction of the city gate and ran all the way to the middle-aged man.

"Uncle Liu, a letter from the military advisor to you!"

military adviser?

Hearing this Central Plains-style appellation, Ji Jiashu was taken aback for a moment.

The middle-aged man took the note from the child, opened it and glanced at it twice, and then looked at Ji Jiashu and his party meaningfully.

"I didn't expect that our Shacheng actually has a distinguished guest tonight."

Ji Jiashu looked at the note in the man's hand, feeling strange. Did someone in the city already recognize them?

"Please, nobleman of Nanchu."

The middle-aged man put away the note, turned sideways to make way, "Our boss wants to see you."

Boss?

Ji Jiashu thought, could it be Ding San who was the first to rebel in Suiye City?
"Chunhua, what should I do?"

Chen Zichu asked anxiously in a low voice.

Up to now, we can only play by ear.

Ji Jiashu took a deep breath, "Go to the city."

……

……

The side door of Shacheng opened slowly in the night, and Ji Jiashu walked in with Chen Zichu and Xu Yishan.

"My lord, come here!"

The child who delivered the letter to the middle-aged man led the way, running fast with bare feet.

Ji Jiashu and others followed him to the largest tent.