The official ship docked at the shore.

Three or four anchor chains as thick as a man's arm were thrown from the deck and hooked on the wooden piles.

There was a trumpeter on the shore shouting loudly, "One, two, three, hi yo yo, hi yo yo."

There was the sound of whips lashing in the air, and the sound of people arguing and cursing.

One after another in the quiet Yongcheng City, they are like howls of wolves in the wilderness, piercing into the ears, harsh and uncomfortable.

The river breeze smells fishy.

Baitao and Zheng Guo had two circles of chains wrapped around their hands, and they were driven out together with the crying, numb and vain children like cattle and sheep.

"Hurry up, why are you dawdling?!"

"What are you looking at? There are other things in the village with ugly bones. I asked you to look at them."

Seeing that the tallest boy was still looking around, the officer went over and gave him a whip.

Blood overflowed from the corner of the boy's mouth, and the corners of his eyes lowered coldly, "I don't dare anymore, Master."

Bai Tao smelled the blood smell from his body, which was a little sweet.

She licked her mouth, and the boy looked sideways at him with blood in his mouth. When Baitao met his gaze, she realized that he looked quite delicate.

The boy glanced over after looking at it.

Baitao also withdrew his eyes, and Zheng Guo came up beside him and asked, "What should I do if I go in?"

"what to do?"

"I'm asking you."

"I'm asking you too."

Zheng Guo groaned: "But I don't know, your cultivation level is higher than mine now, so I will listen to you in everything."

"."

Baitao looked at him sideways and said, "You have lived for thousands of years. Can you stop being such a girl and act like a man?"

Zheng Guo now looked like a carrot with red lips and white teeth. Hearing this, he pressed his face, which was as white as a pancake, onto her shoulder and said, "Yes, I understand."

Baitao: "."

When she didn't say anything.

Baitao moved her two tied hands twice, feeling that these iron chains did not have any charm to restrain the monsters and could not restrain her at all, so she followed the officials obediently with downcast eyes.

It gets darker and darker as you walk inside, like a vast dark swamp with no end in sight, and even some desolate and dilapidated weeds grow under your feet.

Bai Taoer listens with six eyes and sees in all directions, and the wind from Yongcheng comes and goes without a trace, sending the scent to the tip of the little fox's nose.

Baitao sniffed and whispered: "The evil spirit here is a little lighter, but the smell of snakes is still very strong. I don't know if it's the red-haired snake demon's heavy body odor or other unenlightened snakes. In short,

You have to be careful."

Zheng Guo also smelled it. After sniffing it, he covered his nose and said, "The smell is too strong. It's so fishy. This monster doesn't even take a bath. He shouldn't bring this bad habit into the world. What should his colleagues do?"

Work with him.”

The generals were also quite exhausted, but they continued to move forward without changing their expressions.

The other children were still crying and getting more and more frightened.

Only the tall boy at the head had eyes shining brightly in the darkness, as if he was paying attention to some nook and cranny underground.

Baitao paid attention to him.

The officials took out their tokens, and the nine-layered palace gates opened one after another.

Logically speaking, it is just an abandoned ancient royal city. On weekdays, only the deacons of Yongcheng are taking care of it. Moreover, there is no king living here, so the specifications of the nine-layer gate cannot be used no matter what.

When walking into the last palace door, Baitao caught a glimpse of the tall boy hiding in the gap between the walls of the palace door and quickly breaking free from his shackles and then his anklets.

"Ding Dong—"

At this moment, the deacon in front who received the last token raised his voice and said: "This is different, who are you?!"

Everyone's attention was drawn to it. The boy took out a hook lock from the stone carving next to him, and threw it with a "swish" and hit the eaves of Yongcheng.

The boy's legs flew into the air and he used the recoil of the wall to leap up like a god. After stepping onto the eaves, all his clothes jumped away. His bones and muscles grew taller, and in the blink of an eye he became the figure of a strong young man.

He turned his head and glanced sideways at the dumbfounded Baitao, opened his arms, and jumped down lightly.

Baitao has never seen anyone capable of such a method, and he can grow bigger just as he wants.

Zheng Guo came over and bumped her arm lightly: "Why is he running naked?"

Baitao: "."

Baitao: "No."

What should be blocked should be blocked. Mortals are different from goblins. They have a strong sense of shame to hide their shame.

But that's not the point.

She said, "What kind of unique skill is he doing? Why did he suddenly become bigger?"

The general who was questioned earlier about the different tokens picked up the token and was arguing with the deacon, "Why is his grandma's token different?"

"I don't know what I have done for Marquis Chang Xin. I can know the authenticity of this token even if I dig out my eyes. It's a dog's thing that blinds you with a pair of donkey's eyes. If you look carefully, you're wrong.

I want you to look good!"

The deacon fumbled for a while, looked at it again, and seemed to have checked it well: "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, just a misunderstanding, please come in."

"snort!"

The last palace door opened with a bang.

While walking, Zheng Guo said to Baitao: "This is a bone-shrinking skill practiced by ordinary people."

"Bone shrinking skill?"

"Well, we fairies have demonic power, and they mortals have internal power. If they have internal power, they can use their internal power to squeeze their bones, narrow the gaps between the bones, and arrange the bones closer together to achieve the purpose of transforming into a child."

"...Hiss." Baitao couldn't help but gasp, "This kind of technique, let alone practicing it, is scary just listening to it."

"Mortals are no better than us fairies. They don't have special abilities. They can only work harder to temper themselves."

Baitao said: "Well, I just looked carefully and saw that this man still has scars on his shoulders."

"I can tell that it was Qin Jian's sword that cut it, but I don't know what his purpose is in coming to Yongcheng now." Zheng Guo murmured, "It must be a friendly force mixed in the official ship sending the son."

Baitao glanced at him appreciatively: "Okay, you didn't know anything about anything I asked you before, but now you can still speak clearly and clearly. It seems that you have spent thousands of years as a demon, and you have not just used it to gnaw on tree bark.

"

Zheng Guo Baozi's face turned red: "That's the unknown. I'm afraid of the unknown. I'm only sure of the known."

"it's the same."

Who can guarantee that they will yearn for the unknown?

But knowing the terrible unknown in advance is not a deeper fear.

Baitao knew that he was about to die, and in his heart he sighed like an adult: "Oh, I'm tired."

Zheng Guo: "?"

He almost said let's go back to sleep, we've arrived at our destination.

This is a palace filled with splendor and splendor, and the lights inside weave a long and beautiful dream.

The generals were even more cautious, keeping the front half of their feet close to the ground and not stepping down at all with their back heels.

They walked into the palace with a sigh of relief. There were two cribs inside. There were two swaddling clothes in the cribs. They kept making weird hissing sounds. As for whether there were babies inside, they couldn't spy on them.

Next to the cradle is a woman sitting like a flower, it is Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji looked at the two babies in the cradle with gentle, watery eyes. She raised her fingers and pointed, "Oh oh oh, Da Bu, Xiao Bu, Mom knows you are hungry, don't cry. Oh, yours."

Before he left, my father told my mother that the food would be here in the evening. Look, it's fresh."

When Baitao heard Zhao Ji calling her child's name, she was stunned for a moment.

Little cloth, big cloth?

Zhao Ji's eyes and eyebrows glowed softly, and she patted the baby twice.

She raised her head and glanced at the eleven children who were sent over. None of them were afraid. Perhaps it was the tender maternal love on Zhao Ji's body that aroused the children's longing for their mother. "Oh, oh, oh, mother, I

I want to go home, oh oh oh, mother, mother."

"Mom, I'm hungry."

"I'm obedient, I'm obedient, mother, I won't run around again next time, wuwuwu, mother, I was wrong."

Several children were crying and hiccupping. Baitao knew that Aunt Zhao remembered her appearance as a child, so she kept her head hanging down and hid behind Zheng Guo to avoid causing trouble.

In order not to make himself conspicuous, Zheng Guo also pretended to wipe away a few tears that were not in vain, "What should I do? Why is the child so crying? I almost can't catch up."

Baitao poked his back, looking around at the strange things and movements, and said, "You don't even know how to cry. Do you need me to pinch you?"
To be continued...