Early morning, Maicheng.

"The corpse has changed—!" Someone panicked, rushed over and shouted, "In the government, the corpse of the dead has changed!"

"Don't make rumors!" The officers and soldiers stopped at the gate of Maicheng City, and shouted loudly to deal with the surging people, "Go back! It's nothing! It's all rumors! Rumors!"

In the official mansion, the county magistrate, a group of clerical orders, and local generals watched the living corpse of the Jin military officer detained in the cage.

The living corpse was dragging its chains with cloudy eyes, struggling in a large iron cage.

"You must quickly take this monster..." The county magistrate tried his best to calm down, "Go to Jiankang and report back to the court..."

Maicheng County Gong Cao said: "My lord, I think..."

"This matter is absolutely unstoppable!" The Xiancheng returned to his senses and shouted, "If Xiangyang is defeated, hundreds of thousands of people will die in battle. If all the corpses are turned into corpses, how many people can you fight with the dead?! As soon as possible. Escorted to the road! Please ask the court to make a decision!"

Northwest of Longzhong Mountain, at the exit of the mountain.

The dog waited in place for a night, ran all the way, and kept wagging its tail at Chen Xing. The three stopped temporarily and found a place to sit at the end of the plank road. Feng Qianjun went to find the horse that had escaped earlier, but luckily he did not run far. , Xiang Shu leads his own horse. Standing on the plank road and looking at the mountain view silently.

Feng Qianjun exchanged news with the two. It turned out that the Jin army had known about the situation in Longzhongshan. After all, there were people who escaped from the mountainside villages not long ago and wanted to go to Xiangyang City to report officials. However, Xiangyang was surrounded and had to turn to Maicheng. Due to rumors that the Qin army was going to attack the city on a large scale, the Maicheng government had already tightened a string. For fear that it would be another plan by the enemy to attack the east and the west, and the people could not explain it clearly, they suppressed the matter for the time being.

"To be precise," Feng Qianjun said, "up to last night, it was exactly forty-nine days."

Xiang Shu turned his back to the two and never interrupted.

"Have something to eat?" Chen Xing greeted Xiang Shu actively.

Xiang Shu just ignored it, Chen Xing thought for a long time and replied, "There is indeed a reason for the number of 'seven'. But you shouldn't take them there!"

Feng Qianjun replied: "I stopped it, it was useless."

When the horses carried the dead body of the Jin soldier back to Maicheng, the people finally panicked. The county magistrate saw that the officers and soldiers who had been sent to inquire about the news had not returned for two days. The team members entered Longzhong Mountain overnight. The head captain knew the location of the mausoleum from previous news. Feng Qianjun wanted to come alone to assist Chen Xing, but his persuasion failed, so he had to follow behind.

As a result, all the soldiers of the Jin army were killed in the line of duty. After getting rid of the mysterious man in black, Xiang Shu set a fire and burned the corpses all over the ground.

The only thing Chen Xing is worried about now is that Sima Wei, who is dressed in black armor, turns into a black flaming star and flies away at the last moment. The inside story must be quite complicated, somewhere in the land of China, someone must be plotting something. And they have no clue about it.

Nearly a hundred years ago, the successor of the Dajin Dynasty was incompetent. Eight princes and kings raised their troops to fight for the throne, which plunged the Central Plains into war. During the civil war, the Han people attacked each other, causing serious internal friction, resulting in the emptiness of defenses outside the five gates and years of famine. There were only a few tens of thousands of people who could fight, so the Xiongnu took advantage of the situation to go south, and Guanzhong fell.

According to historical records, King Sima Wei of Chu was only twenty-one years old when he died. In the fief Jingchulong Zhongshan, this Fengshui treasure.

"Xiang Shu, do you know something?" Chen Xing now felt that this series of bizarre incidents was second, and Xiang Shu's identity and motives were what concerned him the most.

Xiang Shu glanced at Chen Xing, but his attention was not on him, and replied: "I just want to take the road to Chang'an, and I'm just busy with my own business."

Chen Xing asked curiously, "What are you doing in Chang'an?"

Perhaps it was because the three of them lived and died together last night, and the estrangement was a little removed; or perhaps it was Chen Xing's heart lamp that proved that he was indeed a fake exorcist, and Xiang Shu's attitude had improved significantly.

Xiang Shu was looking over and over at the mask in his hand. As soon as he turned to Chen Xing, Chen Xing subconsciously leaned on Feng Qianjun's side.

"Don't bully me all the time!" Chen Xing was a little afraid of Xiang Shu, and said bravely.

"Hey!" Feng Qianjun was also a little afraid of Xiang Shu. After all, he couldn't beat him, so he said bravely, "Don't bully Brother Chen Xing, others didn't recruit you or offend you."

"Didn't you provoke me? You Han people, indiscriminately, tricked me into deceiving me from Jinzhou to Jiangdong, and now I'm locked up." Xiang Shu wrote lightly, "If it wasn't for the broken city of Xiangyang, I would have become a corpse in prison now, holding me in my arms. For the sake of my heartfelt gratitude to you, it's better to save it."

When Chen Xing heard this, he got angry and said, "I don't know what happened to you! And didn't I rescue you? Why did I make you so grateful to me? I ask you, are you right? Don't believe what I said earlier? Do you believe it now?"

"Are you a Hu?" Feng Qianjun saw Xiang Shu's expression, and immediately suppressed the second half of the sentence "it's not like that". Guessing that Xiang Shu didn't like being questioned about his identity, he hurriedly said, "If you have something to say, don't do it!" He hurriedly made a round and said, "Okay, since we're all going to Chang'an, let's go together."

Xiang Shu didn't say any more, he got on his horse, got on the horse's belly, and had already gone far. Chen Xing ate half of the dry food, and hurriedly said, "Wait! You haven't told me what you are going to do in Chang'an..." He had to put the dog next to the saddle bag, Feng Qianjun packed his things and drove on the road.

Xiang Shu kept a distance from them, with the horse ahead, Chen Xing and Feng Qianjun were more than ten feet behind, and when the horses were parallel, the two were still discussing in a low voice.

"Your guardian doesn't look like a bad person," Feng Qianjun said. "Trust me, he won't stab you with a sword if you disagree."

"Yes, he will only throw money at me." Chen Xing said.

"The gold ingot was tested on my skill." Feng Qianjun said, "At that time, he had already found out that I was behind you. Even if you didn't hide, it wouldn't really hit you."

"Thank you so much for his mercy." Chen Xing disagreed, thinking that this person is a bastard and robbed me of things.

Chen Xing frowned deeply, observed Xiang Shu not far ahead, and said to Feng Qianjun, "What is he doing in Chang'an?"

"Looking for the clan." Feng Qianjun said, "Isn't this obvious? The Hu people are all in the north, and Chang'an is the territory of Qin Emperor Fujian..."

Chen Xing suddenly remembered the phrase "guessed to be a military attache" on the roster presented by Zhu Xu. Perhaps it was the inference of what valuables were confiscated when Xiang Shu was caught? Who is he? Hundred lengths? Colonel? The position that a twenty-year-old can sit in must not be too high, and it cannot be a general.

Feng Qianjun: "However, I don't think he wants to be your Dharma protector at all."

Chen Xing was dull: "I felt it a long time ago."

Chen Xing thought about it, and then remembered the body of Sima Wei who turned into a black fire and flew away. At that time, the direction of flight was the northwest. It happens to be the location of Chang'an, but farther northwest, there are places such as Liangzhou. There must be a huge force behind the masked man in black. don't know where they are hiding at this time, what are they planning... They resurrected a corpse nearly a hundred years ago that has been turned into bones, what are they going to use it for? ?

The power of the heart lamp has disappeared for more than 300 years with the return of all dharmas. At this moment, is it also because of this hidden power that is conspiring? Chen Xing frowned all the way, and then raised his eyes to look at Xiang Shu in front of him. Xiang Shu's explanation for this was just nosy, but Chen Xing always felt that he knew something.

But now that you know it, shouldn't you be more serious about it with yourself? Chen Xing was completely at a loss, but fortunately, Xiang Shu was indeed as Feng Qianjun guessed, and he did not trouble them along the way. During the journey to the northwest, there are shops and hotels, and when they are in the wilderness, they sleep in the wild.

Years of war, Jingbei to Hanzhong were looted many times, and there were already ten rooms and nine empty. When they couldn't find a shop, the three had to spend the night in an abandoned house without a roof. Chen Xing looked at the stars in the sky and pulled his hands. Counting the days with my fingers, my birthday is in the late autumn of October. There are less than three years and eight months left. Next, we have to find the ruins of the General Office of the Exorcism Department in Chang'an as soon as possible, hoping to find the reason for the death of all methods.

The best result is to do what you can and use the remaining years of your life to retrieve the lost human mana, and then pass down the line of exorcists, so that you can deal with the appearance of demons in Japan. Unexpectedly, one wave after another, the twists and turns of the man in black were born out of thin air. And he had no clue. The more he thought about this, the more irritable Chen Xing became. He tossed and turned, and had to get up and go out for a walk.

Under the moonlight, he saw Xiang Shu in a creek behind the dilapidated village, wearing trousers and wiping his body with cold water, Chen Xing glanced at it, and when he walked to the creek, Xiang Shu did not avoid him and just stood there.

When he was rescued from prison, Xiang Shu was too thin to be human. Now, it has only been ten days, and he has almost recovered. The moonlight shone on his wet shoulders, as if gilding him with a layer of sparkling silver light.

"You are much better than before," Chen Xing said.

Xiang Shu's skin is fair, and after his muscles are well-raised, he is thin but not exaggerated, showing flowing lines. When he stands naked, he doesn't look like a barbarian warrior at all, but has a kind of refined air. If you don't wear clothes, this is the standard figure of scribes, and Chen Xing just thinks it is very strange.

Along the way, Xiang Shu would occasionally take the dry food that Chen Xing gave him, but never eat the food that Feng Qianjun handed him. When he was resting and camping, Xiang Shu would go out hunting from time to time. Sometimes he came back with deer and sometimes wild goats. He had to eat a lot of meat for a meal, and it was because of this that his body recovered quickly.

"What are you doing in Chang'an?" When the two were facing each other, Xiang Shu finally took the initiative to say something to Chen Xing.

"Work." Chen Xing sat on the stone beside the stream and replied, "I am an exorcist, and I have my responsibilities."

Xiang Shu walked to the shore, put on a single coat, pulled the laces with both hands, and tightened them. The white clothes lined the broad shoulders and back lines, with a vague sense of restrained threat.

"Ask for an explanation," Chen Xing said, "you made up your mind to be wrong about this Dharma protector, right?"

Xiang Shu frowned.

Chen Xing explained to him that the exorcist has always set up a "guardian" position around the exorcist, in order to protect the exorcist from collecting demons and eliminating demons without interference. And the great exorcist who sits in the General Administration, the guardian law around him has a resounding name "Martial God".

Now there is only one exorcist in the world, Chen Xing. Naturally, he is also the "Great Exorcist". As for the god of war, Xin Deng pointed out Xiang Shu as the protector, and Chen Xing himself had no choice. Quan, I want to explain another spell, Shenzhou...

"Look for someone else." Xiang Shu said casually, "You save my life, I save your life, even."

Xiang Shu rescued Chen Xing more than once, especially Chen Xing was reckless in front of the Mausoleum of Chu King. Although it is not certain that the black fire will burn him to death, isn't that what a Dharma protector should do?

Chen Xing didn't get angry after hearing this. In fact, for a person who only had three years and eight months to live, many things would not stimulate him, at most a little unpleasant.

"Okay." Chen Xing saw Xiang Shu's back, and said, "I didn't have much hope, but I have to respect your ideas. Since we refused, after we arrive in Chang'an, we will return to the bridge and return to the road."

Xiang Shu left, leaving Chen Xing facing the stream, very melancholy. There are many things he has not had time to explain to Xiangshu, including the relationship between the exorcist and the protector. It also includes more than 300 years ago, when exorcists were at their peak, Dharma protectors were people who lived and died with exorcists.

On the way from the Huashan Mountain, Chen Xing had more than once imagined the appearance and temper of this Dharma protector, and how to explain to him after the meeting. During the remaining four years, there were at least someone by his side, not many. Dare to think, at least not seem lonely.

Suixing's luck has solved all the problems for him, but it has no effect on Xiangshu. Perhaps even Suixing can't do anything about this problem related to the heart lamp and the luck of Shenzhou.

Chen Xing was full of expectations at first and planned to entrust him with the remaining four years, but his expectations gradually turned into disappointment. Xiang Shu didn't care at all, didn't care, and didn't bother to pay attention to him.

What's next? change? Will the heart lamp be replaced for me? This is not a love affair, it is a matter of exchange. Chen Xing originally wanted to relax his mind and distract his worries, but it became even more troublesome, so he had to go back to his room to sleep, and he couldn't sleep for a while. After thinking about it, there was only one thought:

It's all this bastard's fault.

A few days later, Chen Xing simply stopped talking to Xiang Shu. That night Feng Qianjun knew that he was out in the middle of the night, so he didn't ask much. There are also more and more popular villages along the way. In spring, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, making it easier to stay there, and there are places where silver taels and copper coins are circulated. The three of them passed through Wuguan like this, and with the documents issued by Maicheng, Chen Xing took them both through the customs. After a few more days of traveling, we arrived at Chang'an City.

After more than a hundred years of war, Chang'an was looted and burned every time the owner changed. However, this city, named Haojing since the Zhou Dynasty, has stood in the west of Shenzhou, surrounded by eight waters. The ancient city is actually like a giant tree that nourishes the earth. It has shown amazing vitality in the burning and destruction again and again. It is lush, singing and dancing, and the eyes are full of prosperous scenery.

Guanzhong and even the front line of the fierce battle with the south were in flames, but Chang'an was a group of peace. Even if the people of the Central Plains came to flee and died of starvation and illness on the roadside and in the wilderness, Chang'an's high city walls blocked the plague. , blocking hunger, blocking disasters and wars.

Also prevents death.

Like an oasis full of vitality in the desert, it is a world of its own.

The Jinbi mansion has eaves and tile roofs adjacent to it. The splendid Weiyang Palace has purple air coming from the east, but the palace has already changed its owner. The flowers in Shanglin Garden are in spring, and they are very bright.

"Above the Sky"

The Hu people are fighting cocks and horses, the people are laughing, and the Chinese and Hu people live together. Incessantly. The market is full of dazzling goods, scholars and blue scarves are in an endless stream, and the crowns and covers are like clouds.

The last time came to Chang'an, was five years old, and the memory of Chang'an was already blurred. Now, when he saw this scene, Chen Xing suddenly had an indescribable feeling.

"Even though Fu Jian is a famous Hu emperor, he manages Chang'an very well." Chen Xing said sourly.

He and Feng Qianjun and Xiang Shu had been on the road for nearly half a month, and they were all in the dust, and they entered Chang'an like a bun. Xiang Shu was still in the hunter suit, but he didn't pay much attention to it. He looked at a group of Hu people on the street not far to the side, as if he heard the local accent and was aroused.

Feng Qianjun said: "Yes, I think we should spare his life for the time being."

The three of them each ordered a bowl of noodles at a noodle stand in Chang'an City Street, serving as a meal for their temporary travel companions. After dinner, Chen Xing asked Xiao Er, and Feng Qianjun went to pay and said, "Since I'm in Chang'an, I think it's better..."

After speaking, Feng Qianjun hesitated again, looked at Chen Xing, and asked, "Or you can stay at the eldest brother's place for two days?"

Chen Xing knew that Feng Qianjun's words were polite. Although they took care of each other on the road, they only met by chance, and said hurriedly: "Don't bother Brother Feng, I have a place to go. I just found out that he is indeed in Chang'an, and just came to Chang'an to join an old man. Friend. You help me take the puppy with me for a while, I can't take good care of it for the time being."

"That's okay." Feng Qianjun took the dog and said cheerfully, "I have something to send to Songbaiju in the west of the city. It seems that most of them have to live in Chang'an for a while."

As for Xiang Shu, Feng Qianjun didn't ask him, just whistled at him and said, "Tianchi will be taken care of by you."

Chen Xing thought about what to do with him, so Feng Qianjun put on a bamboo hat, walked into the city street with his sleeves folded, and disappeared into the crowd.

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