Chen Baiqi glanced at him and indicated that he could let him go.

He tapped his cold and hard chin, released his palm, and took one step back to Chen Baiqi's side.

As soon as the "old man" was released, he grinned and caressed his shoulders and took several steps back, as if to stay as far away from the two demonic masters and servants as possible.

His dark eyes, which were not as clever as the old man Mu Ai, were widened, warily and suspiciously staring at the two people who didn't know the details, but found out his true identity.

Weren't you still asking him questions just now? Why did you let him go so quickly?

Chen Baiqi stopped communicating with him now. She looked away and said, "Ju, go and greet the leader of the private army."

The so-called "greetings" here cannot be verbal, but must be done physically.

Ju understood, but he was worried that Chen Baiqi would be left alone in this chaotic place, so he said apologetically, "Girl, I'm sorry," and then bowed down and carried Chen Baiqi, who was slightly confused, on his back.

Chen Bai stood up and swayed, subconsciously stretched out his arms to wrap around Ju's neck, and blinked his watery eyes.

She lowered her eyelashes and looked at his face, which was as solidified as the lava of eternity. His eyebrows were as sharp as stone, his nose was as straight as a mountain, and his lips were rigid and dull. His appearance was not handsome or conventionally good-looking.

, but when I saw it, I felt it was very interesting, like the turbulent Yellow River, the endless desert, and the rivers and mountains of Sichuan. If you are careful, you can see the different scenery and mood from this rough mine and Renshan Mountain.

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She put away the emotion in her eyes and didn't say anything.

He felt the softness and fragrance pressing against him. His back stiffened and his ears turned red. Although the girl's weight was not heavy for him, her weight in his heart was heavier than a thousand pounds. She was carrying her on his back.

From that moment on, he did not allow any slack or relaxation.

With his feet as strong as bells, he rowed and snaked through all the people who were blocking him. With one hand he supported the person and with the other he held a sandbag fist. With eyes like lightning, he stood up, aimed at the target and punched the person away.

I saw the bearded man still gesticulating angrily, cursing and kicking away the panicked people on the street, but he wanted to hit him with a fierce wind from the side. He didn't even see clearly who the murderer was, so he

After leaving the ground, he spat out a mouthful of blood mist in mid-air, and finally fell to the ground like a torn rag doll.

The sudden incident made the soldiers surrounding the bearded man unable to react for a moment. The bearded man's personal attendant immediately ran over to help him in panic, only to see that one side of the bearded man's face was red and swollen into a bun.

His eyes rolled, his hands and feet twitched, and he looked like he couldn't hold on any longer.

"Boss——"

They called anxiously several times but could not get a response from him, and they suddenly felt bad in their hearts.

"Boss, boss——"

They turned around, stared at Ju fiercely, and shouted: "You are a bitch, why don't you catch these two Wei thieves and chop them into pieces to avenge the leader!"

They were originally born as ruthless bandits in the mountains. Even though they were summoned and reduced to a private army, they still could not change their cruel and bad temper.

The others reacted and did not bother to pursue the "Wei scout" who escaped. Everyone had the same goal and went all out to pursue Qi Ju and Chen Baiqi.

"This person dares to make a mistake. He must be an accomplice of Wei Guoxi. You must not let him go!"

Seeing this wave of hatred, Chen Bai raised his eyebrows and curled up the corners of his mouth.

That's good, all the problems are solved at once.

At this time, the powerful sound of horse hooves played drums, like thunder and rain hitting people's eardrums. Everyone looked around. When Chen Baiqi turned around, he saw that the "old man" who was hiding aside immediately straightened up. The hunched and cowering figure before

His appearance suddenly became a little taller. He pulled off the wig and hood, stepped forward in a few steps, and was pulled by the man on the horse. He turned over and sat on the horse's back in a vigorous manner.

When Chen Baiqi and Ju were about to get together, the "old man" glanced at Chen Baiqi. The masked girl only revealed a pair of dark eyes that were as bright as stars. He gritted his teeth and seemed to hesitate for a moment, and finally took out something from his arms.

He threw it in the direction of Chen Baiqi.

Before Chen Baiqi reached out to take it, Ju took the first step and intercepted it. He found that the thing in his hand was not dangerous, so he spread it out and handed it to Chen Baiqi without taking a closer look.

Chen Baiqi narrowed his eyes and took a look, only to see that it was a palm-sized piece of dark brown bark. The inside of the bark was smooth and clean, and someone had drawn a picture on it with ink.

Ding--

System: Character Obtained - Unknown Message Fragments (1)

This is……

Chen Baiqi had a black man's question mark on his head. He couldn't figure it out, so he first swept the bark into his sleeve.

She secretly thought: It is useful to get special prompts from the system.

The whole process was very short, but everyone who should see it saw it.

Now they were all sure of the man who was riding a horse and making trouble, the suspect pretending to be an "old man", and the man who had cut the rope to escape before, plus the masked woman and the muscular brute, these people were clearly

It is a fine work of the Wei State.

"As expected, they are in a group. Hurry up and send someone to inform the city guards to stop them. The rest of them will come to me together. We must kill these Wei dogs today!"

Judao: "Girl..."

Chen Baiqi glanced at the front and was filled with indignation. He sharpened his knife and pointed it at their private soldiers. He curved his lips and smiled, hugged Ju's neck tightly and said, "Let's go!"

With the skills of their master and servant, it was easy to get rid of these tails. It didn't take much effort for them to sneak out of the city. And by making such a fuss, they also freed other innocent people in the teahouse from suspicion.

System: Congratulations to the character, the side mission - Help (1) has been successfully completed.

System: Side mission - Mystery Solving (2) A Wei scout left a piece of bark. The painting on the bark seems to hide something. You decide to look for clues along the way to see if you can decipher the purpose of this piece of bark.

,accept/reject?

System: Side mission - Re-exploration (2) Nowadays, several countries are at war, but a Wei scout appears in such a small border town. You feel that the situation is not simple, so you decide to enter the city again to find out, accept/reject

?

Note: Task (2) can be chosen from two options.

It was another choose-one task. Chen Baiqi considered the two tasks. The first task was obviously brain-burning at first glance. Finding clues was like solving a puzzle. The second task was relatively more adventurous.

, after all, they had just escaped from a commotion in the city, and the city must be on alert and searched, and it was full of spies. It was really difficult to find out anything useful when entering the city at this time.

Chen Baiqi was holding the piece of pine bark. Compared with each other, the two were naturally more inclined to the task of "solving the mystery".

As soon as the mission was received, five flashing dots appeared on the system's "area map" and disappeared in a flash. This was a mission prompt.

Chen Baiqi opened the map and checked, and saw that there were four mission points outside the city, prompting the characters to go there. These four locations were distributed differently, so they could only find them one by one.

Chen Baiqi said to Ju: "We have lost contact with Qi for a long time. It is not appropriate to act blindly. There are wars and riots everywhere now. It will be easier to return to Qi if we find allies first."

Ju heard that her words seemed to have other meanings, but he did not explore further and only said: "Everything depends on the girl."

Chen Baiqi saw that he had no doubts at all, as if she could do whatever she wanted without any explanation to him. Is he really not curious at all?

In fact, Ju knew in his heart that he knew a lot of girls' secrets, and girls who could tell him would naturally tell them. If he pursued her if he couldn't tell her, he would only push her further away, so he preferred to remain silent.

Although Ju didn't need her to explain the significance of what she was going to do next, she didn't hide it from him.

She took out the bark that the "old man" had thrown to her before and said to the giant: "He must have a deep meaning when he left this thing for you and me before he left. Behind the bark is a wounded bird. The painting is still there."

If you don’t know its meaning, you might as well look for it from the source. You see, the pine bark looks quite fresh. It must have been peeled off not long ago. I remember that there is a wild pine forest outside the city. We might as well go and check for any other clues."

In fact, this statement is somewhat unreasonable. Maybe people just peeled off a piece of bark for painting, and it does not necessarily have anything to do with the pine forest. However, Chen Baiqi found out that the nearest mission point was near the wild pine forest, so this statement naturally made sense.

Just turn in this direction.

Seeing Chen Baiqi talking to him seriously, Jucai said: "What if the Wei people just threw a piece of tree bark at random to fool us?"

They had just exposed his identity, but they still didn't know his nature, or maybe he was evil and deliberately diverted trouble to others, making them work in vain.

Chen Baiqi believed that he would not do this.

Because the official system has identified it, this piece of bark does have a meaning. If she deciphers the meaning, she doesn't believe that the Wei people will not come to her.

According to the prompts, Chen Baiqi first found a Dingdong flowing spring, and found a painting on a rock behind the spring, which was a child looking up.

Because the rock was too big to carry around, Chen Baiqi pulled out a piece of white silk and stretched out the painting.

Chen Baiqi was able to find such a hidden location so quickly only because of the system's mission point prompts.

Continuing to the next mission point, she found a banyan tree. After parting the thick banyan whiskers, she saw a leopard carved into the tree trunk.

She found another collapsed thatched house with earthen walls and found a stone statue inside. On the bottom of the stone statue was a painting of a woman holding a stone.

Finally, she came to a small creek path and found a flat black stone at the bottom of the water the size of an adult's fist. On it was carved with a sharp tool a bearded man with a severed arm and a fierce look.

By the time Chen Baiqi visited all five mission points and copied all the pictures he found on white silk, it was almost dark.

They gathered around the campfire and took out the white silk fabrics and placed them on the ground one by one for analysis.

Seeing that Chen Baiqi had divine help, she successfully found a hidden picture every time she stopped at a place. It wasn't until she found four pictures in the forest that she said she had enough and stopped wandering.

Judao: "Girl, what do these pictures mean?"

Chen Baiqi didn't know yet. She put them together and discovered something: "Look...it seems like a painting has been broken down into five parts."

Ju stared at the picture and noticed it.

The backgrounds of these paintings seem to fit together.

Chen Baiqi pointed to the first piece: "This is a child without clothes. His face is upward, as if he is looking up at the sky."

Big nod.

"What do you think he is looking at?" Chen Baiqi suddenly asked.

Ju Yi looked at the sky, thought for a moment, and said: "The sky, or a tree..."
To be continued...