Butterfly Dream of Longevity Tribulation

The icy sword brushed past Rumeng, and it was about to stab Simaluo City, but at the very moment, the air was filled with a sweet and greasy fragrance of flowers, and the house suddenly rained flowers, and the thumb-sized petals seemed to have spirituality Generally, they rushed towards the black shadow one after another.

He only heard a few muffled groans in the darkness, and took the opportunity to drag Sima Luocheng to push the door and leap out. When he got out of the room, he found the corpses of several guards lying here and there in the yard, and the few rooms next door The doors were all wide open.

It seems that the other party has long been prepared, and the previous two assassins were just a temptation.

Now the shadow guards in Simaluo City suffered heavy casualties, but they didn't know how many people there were on the other side, and Simeng's already restless heart became even more chaotic at this moment.

Originally, it was not a last resort, and she shouldn't have cast spells in front of Sima Luo City, especially since she was not very good at learning skills. If she made a mistake, not only would she not be able to save them, but it might cause unnecessary trouble.

But the situation was really urgent just now, so she had to take the risk of condensing her energy and cast an illusion to confuse the black shadow, so that she could have a chance to escape.

Simeng used her weak spiritual power to lead Simaluo city to barely resist the wind. After walking for about half an hour, she was really exhausted, so she had to rest temporarily by a small river where there was no one there.

Along the way, Sima Luocheng never said a word, she knew that he had many questions in his mind, so why didn't she?

Sima Luocheng finally spoke first, "I thought she was trustworthy, but I didn't expect it to be her."

Like Meng was surprised, "How do you know? Isn't she your bodyguard?"

A gloomy look flashed in Sima Luocheng's eyes, and he said slowly: "When Meng'er told her to detour to Qingyang County, I already had doubts. But when she went to bed tonight, she offered to pretend to be me so that Unexpectedly, I almost dispelled my original doubts at that time. Until the two assassins who suddenly appeared before, I had already heard the sound of fighting outside in the inner room. Raise your sword and kill yourself."

He paused while talking, looked like a dream, and said again: "With Ye'er's skill and the distance she was away from the two of them at that time, she can completely prevent them from committing suicide. But I think she hesitated for a while, but fortunately she gave up. gone."

Xiang Meng nodded, and took his words, "So you purposely asked her to knock on my door, deliberately pushed the others away, and let her see you staying in my room, so that you could take advantage of it?"

Sima Luocheng looked at the clear flowing water under his feet, and there was a bitter chill in his eyes, "Yes, she is the person I sent to Xizhou to investigate the news, she was the one who submitted to me the evidence of collusion between Tianci and Xia Guo, At that time, like Meng'er, I doubted the authenticity of the criminal evidence. But when the news of Xia's army approaching the border came last night, I almost believed the criminal evidence, so I hurried to Xizhou to supervise the army in person, in case of accidents at Yuguan It wasn't until Meng'er noticed something was wrong and proposed to detour to Qingyang, that I realized that all this seemed to happen too suddenly..."

Simeng is sitting cross-legged by the river to adjust her breath at this moment, thinking that without the support of Mu Zili and Yifeng, this is the first time for her to face a strong enemy alone.

It was not easy for her to be lucky enough to rescue Sima Luo City tonight.

That Ye'er was tripped by the illusion, it should be difficult to escape for a while, no matter how high her lightness kung fu is, it can't match her wind speed.

At this moment, the riverside should be safe, with the jingle of running water in his ears, only the low and inaudible sighs of Sima Luocheng, he must feel bad to be betrayed by someone close to him again.

Like Meng was silent for a moment, then said in a low voice: "Perhaps the detour to Qingyang angered her master, so she suddenly changed her mind. In fact, when I proposed the detour, I didn't know that she was doing it carefully, and it was purely for the safety of my brother. For your sake. Now that I think about it, this move almost hurt my brother..."

Sima Luocheng took a look at Limeng, shook his head slightly, and said: "Meng'er's words are wrong, since Ye'er has murderous intentions towards me, no matter whether we go to Xizhou or Qingyang, the result will be the same. On the contrary , thanks to Menger being here tonight, I was able to escape by luck."

He is safe and sound now, and Simeng has not been entangled in this matter anymore, but in retrospect, the person behind Ye'er is their real opponent.

But now that the enemy is in the dark and we are in the light, there are still many things hidden in the clouds and mist, which cannot be seen clearly.

I heard Sima Luocheng mention before that the selection of shadow guards in the palace has to go through very strict procedures. Many people are selected into the palace since childhood, and they are guarded by special personnel. They are like machines, only obeying their own masters. Order, there should never be such an assassination tonight.

As if dreaming, he blurted out and asked: "Is Ye Er the shadow guard you re-selected after you ascended the throne?"

The reason why she asked this question was actually because he once said that there were great changes in the palace, when he was hunted down, if his close figure, Wei Zhu, hadn't sacrificed his life to help him escape, he might not have been able to leave Xuanyang alive.

Later when they came back from Bingzhou, he brought the surviving shadow guards to Longhai's other courtyard and met her and Mu Zili.

But on this trip to the west, according to her observation, the people who followed him were all unfamiliar faces. It may not be certain that after he ascended the throne, he would re-select the candidates for his bodyguard.

Sima Luocheng nodded, frowned and said: "Yes, after the demon concubine incident subsided, I personally selected twenty new recruits from the Shadow Guard Department. Ye'er is the best of these people. She He is especially good at disguising, and his lightness skills are also top-notch. But the most important reason is..." His expression darkened suddenly, he paused for a moment, and then said: "I have known her since childhood. Strictly speaking, she and I are from the same school. When practicing martial arts, they all worshiped the late General Jin, the Shangshu of the Ministry of War, as their teacher. Meng'er may be curious, but all the shadow guards in the palace were born as orphans, so how can she take the same division as me with her identity?"

"Could it be that she is the Queen of Loyalty?" Simeng speculated that maybe she was the orphan of a certain general, and the minister of the Ministry of War was entrusted by someone.

Sima Luocheng's face was startled, and then he smiled lightly, "As Meng'er said, her father was originally a fourth-rank captain of the Ministry of War. He was young and promising, and he won the heart of my father, and he fought with him several times. , but unfortunately died young due to illness. Her mother died of dystocia as early as when she was born. Not a few years later, his father also died of illness. Ye Er has no one to rely on since then. Then she was admitted to the mansion. Seeing that she was quiet but sensitive, I wanted to teach her martial arts, and we got acquainted."

The more Simeng listened, the more confused he became. According to what he said, Ye'er and his childhood sweetheart are also brothers and sisters. How could they offend the assassin?unless……