This is not because Lin Cong wants to be grateful to Mo Zhai, nor is it because he wants to repay evil with kindness. It is because he is carrying out the secret mission given to him by Xiao Shizhu.
Since the last time Lin Cong secretly reported Mo Zhai's plan to Xiao Shizhu, the two souls have been exchanging letters, and Lin Cong has become Xiao Shizhu's spy in Mo Zhai's house. Just to repay what Xiao Shizhu said to him that day. Sentence: "Be careful on the road.".
As early as two days before the ghost mother sent Xiao Shizhu's secret letter, Xiao Shizhu quietly wrote a secret letter and passed it to Lin Cong. The letter stated that he requested Lin Cong to encircle and suppress the Mo family after receiving the order from Emperor Fengdu. Report the disappearance to Mo Zhai as quickly as possible, and help him and Qin Huali escape.
Xiao Shizhu believed that Mo Zhai would not be easily killed by Emperor Fengdu, but to be on the safe side, he still made two preparations.
Once Mo Zhai escapes, Emperor Fengdu will chase him, so that the war between Emperor Fengdu and the Mo family will last longer, so that Emperor Fengdu will have no time to take care of other princes and Xiao Shizhu. Taking this opportunity, Xiao Shizhu Then you can do what you want to do with peace of mind; such as strengthening the Ghost Mother Kingdom and so on.
Therefore, there was a scene where Lin Cong left behind his colleagues, arrived at the Mo family's stronghold first, and reported the news to Mo Zhai.
"Escape?" Mo Zhai was surprised and sneered: "Are you asking me to give up the ten thousand disciples lurking in Fengdu City?" He looked at Lin Cong with a look of contempt.
When Lin Cong saw this, he still kept an anxious look on his face, but he cursed secretly in his heart: "Damn it, are you such a loyal human soul? I have never seen you so affectionate and righteous in the past. I'm afraid you won't be able to let go. Those industries you have in Fengdu City?"
He had just cursed in his heart when a series of noises came from outside the front building. A trace of nervousness flashed in Lin Cong's eyes. He immediately listened and heard a lot from the noise: "Go in and dig." Even if the ground is three feet high, we will catch Mo Zhai." and "Kill all the souls who dare to block the road." and other cruel words.
"Master Juzi." Hearing what he said was not good, Lin Cong hurriedly scolded Mo Di in a deep voice: "You can leave the green hills without worrying about having firewood. As long as you are still alive, you can make a comeback at any time." After saying this, regardless of everything, he pulled up. Mo Zhai walked quickly towards the woodshed.
He, Mo Zhai and Qin Huali rushed into the woodshed and closed the door. The back of the courtyard and the front building were breached. The ghost soldiers and ghost soldiers killed the Mohists in the restaurant and rushed into the courtyard.
Without further ado, Lin Cong walked to the east wall of the room and pressed lightly on the palm-sized wooden board in front of him that was the same body as the wall. He pressed the wooden board into the wall, and the wooden board next to him followed. Then it turned over gently, and a dark passage appeared behind the wall.
Lin Cong took Mo Zhai and Qin Huali and entered the secret passage in sequence. Then he stretched out his hand and twisted a round stone embedded in the stone wall of the secret passage. Then the reversible wooden board at the entrance of the secret passage rotated again, and the wall immediately Recovered as before.
Just after the entrance to the secret passage was sealed, three or five ghost soldiers broke through the door and entered the woodshed. It was a critical moment. If Mo Zhai and the others had been a step later, they would have been blocked in the woodshed and caught.
When the ghost soldiers saw that there was no one in the firewood room, they all looked at each other with suspicion. Then the sharp gazes in their eyes fell on the messy firewood piled in the room. They They stepped forward in unison and stabbed the firewood with their swords and guns.
After working for a long time, I saw no ghosts in the firewood pile, so I left in frustration.
In the narrow secret passage, Lin Cong held a fire stick in front of the team to light the way for Mo Zhai, while Qin Huali stood behind. The three human souls bowed their heads and bent over, and shuttled through the short and winding secret passage.
These secret passages are densely covered in the soil ten feet below Fengdu City. They are paved with stone slabs on the top, bottom and left and right. They are hundreds of miles long. They were dug out bit by bit during the hundreds of years that Mo Zhai had been lurking in Fengdu City. The secret passages are crisscrossed. They are intertwined and extend in all directions like a spider web, connecting every Mohist stronghold in the city, and also leading to the wilderness outside the city in all directions.
Since this is a secret passage built by the Mohists who are good at craftsmanship and making mechanisms, it is natural that there are mechanisms such as the hidden fire crossbow and the falling stone chain board. There are even magical and powerful crossbows, giant battlements and wooden armored guards, etc. This kind of thing is staggeringly exaggerated; in addition, movable stone gates are installed at every intersection. When necessary, the stone gates can be lowered to cut off the way in and out.
In terms of workmanship, this secret passage can be called a masterpiece in the history of architecture, and if the soul of the ink entered this secret passage with thousands of opportunities, it would either be lost and trapped in it, or be injured by the mechanism, and it would definitely die.
When it was first built, Mo Zhai wanted to use it to sneak troops into the city when the rebellion started. But he never thought that this secret passage would become his life-saving straw today; but it would also become his lifeline in the near future. The place to die.
"Lin Cong, how did the old ghost from Fengdu discover us?" After walking a short distance away, Mo Zhai couldn't help but asked curiously. The echoes echoed in the secret passage for a long time.
"It happened suddenly, how do I know?" Lin Cong replied coldly, and said: "Earlier, he suddenly summoned the ten kings of hell to the Zhongtian Palace. After the ten old ghosts came back, he summoned Let us, let us catch you quickly.”.
While they were talking, they had arrived at a crossroads in a secret passage. Lin Cong stopped, looked left and right, then turned to ask Mo Zhai who was following him: "Where are we going?".
After Mo Zhai thought for a moment, he pointed in the darkness directly ahead and said: "Go east, the road out of the city."
Lin Cong said no more and followed his wishes and headed east.
The three human souls walked for another hour and finally arrived at the end of the dark passage. A beam of light shone in from the hole not far away, making the dark and boundless dark passage a little brighter.
Lin Cong made a gesture to Mo Zhai and the others to stop. He would go out and take a look first. He walked slowly and cautiously towards the entrance of the cave. After a while, his figure disappeared from Mo Zhai's sight.
After a while, he poked his head in from the entrance of the cave and said to Mo Zhai: "It's safe outside." After that, Mo Zhai and Qin Huali headed towards the entrance of the cave.
They climbed out of the secret passage and saw that they had arrived at a large mountain with tall trees and lush forests to the east of Fengdu; and the exit of the secret passage was a tree hole covered by bushes on the trunk of an old tree in the mountain.
But after seeing that the surroundings were quiet and there were no pursuers or dangers, Mo Zhai and Qin Huali breathed a sigh of relief. They leaned against the trunk of the old tree and sat down slowly, looking at the mottled silhouettes illuminated from among the leaves in silence. stand up.
In an instant, he became a polished commander. Loss and despair appeared in Mo Zhai's eyes involuntarily, and a rather decadent look appeared on his face.
Lin Cong climbed to the top of the tree without saying a word and looked up at Fengdu City to the west. After looking at it for a long time, he shook his head slightly towards the tree and sighed: "Master Juzi, I saw birds flying high in the city, it was very noisy. It seems; I am afraid that the comprehensive arrest of our companions has already begun, and Fengdu City will not be able to return."
"Where to go from now on?" When Mo Zhai heard this, he also sighed, with a look of distress in his eyes, he turned to Qin Huali, and asked very disappointedly: "What suggestions do you have?".
After Qin Huali pondered for a while, he did not rush to talk, but stood up and climbed to the top of the tree, looking up at Fengdu City to the west. He was cautious, but he was not willing to listen to Lin Cong's words, and had to verify for himself whether there was a city in the city. Birds flying high?
"You still don't believe me?" When Lin Cong saw this, he snorted coldly and complained angrily: "If I had known I wouldn't have saved you, I would have left you in Fengdu City."
Seeing that birds were flying high in the city and dust was flying everywhere, Qin Huali was a little embarrassed. He didn't know what to say, so he could only say in a stiff tone: "I just wanted to see if any pursuers were coming this way. ?”.
Lin Cong ignored him and climbed down from the tree, sat opposite Mo Zhai, and stared at the green grass on the ground in silence.
"The most dangerous place is the safest place." Qin Huali also climbed down from the tree and said thoughtfully to Mo Zhai: "Let's follow the secret passage and return to Fengdu City." .
"Yeah." Mo Zhai thought for a moment and nodded: "It is indeed feasible. When we go back, the ghosts who searched the restaurant should be gone."
"You have to go on your own." Lin Cong stood up, patted the dirt on his body, and said resolutely: "I'm not going to die!" After saying that, he walked deeper into the forest to the east.
"Lin Cong, where are you going?" Mo Zhai also stood up and asked.
"I would rather hide in the mountains and sleep in the open air than go back." Lin Cong stopped, turned his head slightly and glanced at Mo Zhai behind him, and said: "The Emperor Fengdu even knows about Yunshui Restaurant, and other strongholds in the city must be It has already fallen. Moreover, many of our companions do not seem to be tough guys. If we torture them casually, sooner or later, this secret passage and that I am a Mohist will be known."
When he said this, Mo Zhai also felt that it was reasonable, so he lowered his head and thought about it. The place was now filled with the eagles and dogs of Emperor Fengdu, and they were all trying to hunt them down. It was too dangerous to stay for a long time.
It is the best policy to flee to other Mohist branch halls to temporarily avoid danger. However, many Mohist branch halls are scattered in various vassal states in the underworld. Moreover, many branch halls are newly built and have not deep foundations; it is not necessarily safe to go there rashly. cannot be established, so it will not be considered.
Although there are few branches with deep foundations, it is not impossible. You have to go to these branches; it is just that they are too far away, so you have to find a way to get out first, which is the first priority.
"We are facing a formidable enemy, so we should work together." After thinking for a moment, Mo Zhai came up with a plan. He looked at Qin Huali, quietly gave him a wink, walked to Lin Cong who was about to leave, and said with In a slightly gentler tone than before, he said to the other party: "At present, the three of us are weak, so we should not separate any more to avoid further mistakes.".
Lin Cong deliberately put on a bad face, turned around and glared at Qin Huali, and said: "I just can't see how he pretends to be smart when he has no brains." He snorted angrily and turned his head back again.
"Lin Cong, Qin Huali has no ill intentions towards you." Mo Zhai smiled slightly, bowed slowly and saluted, and said: "You are a great hero of the Mo family, and he will not have any ill intentions towards you either emotionally or rationally. "We were indeed a bit harsh on you before, but now that this has happened, don't argue with us. I think it's not a problem for us to hide in the mountains and forests. Why don't we go south together first, and after climbing over two mountains, Isn't there a Yantao Bridge there?"
"Are you trying to say that when the garrison on the bridge saw us breaking through, they would definitely think that we were going south?" Lin Cong, who had been lurking in Emperor Fengdu's government agencies for many years, naturally had a high IQ. He knew where the place was. An important road leading to the south. On the Baili Canyon, there is only a suspension bridge tens of feet long connecting the north and south cliffs, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack. After Emperor Fengdu came to power, he arranged for thirty garrison troops to guard it.
Mo Zhai just mentioned the bridge, and he wondered if Mo Zhai wanted to point east and west to escape pursuit. He immediately expressed his doubts, and when Mo Zhai nodded, he asked again: "What next?" .
"A few days ago, I received a secret report that Yin Lingzi from Dongyizhou's Escape Kingdom planned to rebel. How about we go there?" Mo Zhai said slowly.
"I can't go back anyway." Lin Cong heard this, and after thinking about it for a moment, he felt that only by following Mo Zhai could he better monitor Xiao Shizhu, so he pretended to be helpless in his appointment. He sighed and shook his head with a bitter smile. Then he said: "Okay, Mr. Juzi, I will just accompany you to the end of the world."