It didn't take long for Liu Ruyan to pack up and prepare to set off.
The system came over again with shame: "If the host forms an alliance with me, it can now provide a full range of high-end services. It is a must-have system for you to travel."
Liu Ruyan glanced at the young man and curled her lips: "Haha——"
What does hehe mean?
He was so anxious that he wanted to scratch the wall.
Didn't we agree that all the hosts in the world are idiots who are easily brainwashed?
Wasn't it agreed that if you act cute and giggle, you can get a golden thigh?
However, Liu Ruyan faced a certain system that was messy in the wind and looked desperate. She just stepped on the horse with a graceful posture and patted the horse's head: "Yebai, thank you for the hard work on this trip."
The young man caught up with a "ouch", "Host, if you treat me like this, your conscience won't hurt!"
In the forest, a fast horse sped away.
Liu Ruyan was wearing a squirrel gray lapel Hu suit. Under the clothes was her specially made soft armor, which could disguise the figure of a man.
The system returned to sleep mode and returned to the sea of consciousness. Since both parties could not reach a consensus, they simply turned a blind eye.
Liu Ruyan rode the post road quickly, and after traveling day and night, she finally arrived at the border between Han and Liao in the evening of the next day.
——Youzhou.
The winter rain has been lingering recently, making it especially cold in the cold and windy evenings.
In the post house, there were many messengers who were changing horses to deliver messages, as well as officers and soldiers who were cooking wine to keep warm.
Liu Ruyan took out a lotus-colored purse embroidered with willow leaves and showed the general's order inside. Seeing this, the postmaster quickly bowed to greet him and personally sent the person upstairs.
Guesthouse on the second floor.
She took off the dripping bamboo hat and placed it outside the door. She raised her hand to knock on the door, and a man's voice came from inside.
"who?"
"Liu Ruyan is here with orders." She lowered her voice.
There was silence for a moment, no one in the room answered, the door was closed and unlocked.
"I'm coming in." She pushed open the door and entered.
Hearing a golden sound, a scimitar suddenly appeared across his neck.
Tsk, this temper that is always ready to go to the knife if you don't agree with me is exactly the same as it was in my previous life.
Taking out a token from her arms, Liu Ruyan said with a smile: "The envoy is very elegant and is used to drinking rice wine from the Han people. Although this wine is fragrant and not greasy, it will not irritate the throat when swallowed, but it has enough stamina."
After seeing the general's order, the envoy signaled to the guards. The scimitar on the side of her neck was put down.
"Are you sent by Wu Guang?" the envoy said in an unauthentic accent, "I heard from the general about you, and I leave it to you for this trip. Come, drink some hot wine to warm yourself up."
"You're welcome." Liu Ruyan smiled in her eyes and crossed her hands as a salute, "I have to ride a horse later, and I'll get drunk after drinking this wine."
The envoy laughed loudly: "How can you still get drunk with a wine as light as water? We prairie men can still ride horses even if we drink heavily!"
Hearing this, Liu Ruyan also took advantage of the situation and patted her horse: "That is, in terms of bravery, the Khitan is beyond our reach, especially the few warriors here, how brave and majestic they are!"
The system shrunk in the sea of consciousness happened to hear it.
Hiss, the host's virtue of adapting to the wind is really a gift for making witty remarks like a rainbow.
"May I ask the envoy, what kind of treasure is being escorted this time?" Liu Ruyan asked casually without changing his expression.
The other party did not mince words and told her the truth: "This treasure, you Han people call it Danfang."
Liu Ruyan looked surprised, but she was also expecting it.
"So did the envoy encounter any accidents along the way?" she asked.
The envoy smiled and took off the wooden box on his back: "My box is surrounded by iron chains, and the only key is in the hands of my subordinates."
As he spoke, he winked at the guard next to him, and his subordinate took out a key.
"You see, this is not foolproof." The envoy untied the iron chain and opened the wooden box.
Liu Ruyan raised her eyes and saw that there was nothing inside the black wooden box with gold edges.
"So, where is Danfang?"
The envoy was shocked.
He held the wooden box and turned it over and over: "It's impossible. I have never opened the box from beginning to end. How could Danfang disappear?"
His expression changed several times, and he suddenly punched the table with his fist, knocking the wine bottle over and spilling rice wine all over the floor.
"Tell me, was it you who took it?" The envoy pointed to several people in the room one by one, "It was you!"
Liu Ruyan remained silent, just holding the wooden box in her hands and rubbing it carefully. No, I had the impression that the envoy was not stolen, so something went wrong.
She looked at the soles of her feet, squatted down, and traced the path of the wine on the ground with her fingers. Finally, it stopped at one place. She looked up and saw that it was the chair where the envoy had sat.
"Is the elixir you are talking about as thin as silk but tough in texture?" she suddenly asked.
The envoy came to his senses and nodded in agreement.
"This can explain why the objects in the box flew out of thin air."
Liu Ruyan turned the wooden box upside down so that the bottom side of the box was facing the candlelight.
A ray of golden candlelight penetrated the bottom of the box.
She murmured in a low voice: "There is a gap in the bottom of the box. It seems that someone has tampered with it."
Liu Ruyan motioned for everyone to sit back down and demonstrated the stealing process: "The other party was very skilled in martial arts. He used a long needle with a barb on the top to drill through the bottom of the box from bottom to top and stole the prescription. So brave.
He is careful and he is indeed a good thief."
"You guys are still standing there, why don't you hurry up and give chase!" the envoy shouted in Khitan.
The guard ran out in a hurry.
"I'll go take a look too." She said nothing and followed.
In the lobby of the post house, several officers and soldiers were drinking and chatting about recent events.
Liu Ruyan stood in a corner and looked above her head. It corresponded to the envoy's guest house, which was two people tall from the ground to the top. What's more, there were many officers and soldiers below.
How could he pierce a long needle into a wooden board in public?
Could it be that he is still invisible?
No traces were left in the hall. If she had been present at the time, she might have been able to catch some clues based on her reconnaissance experience.
"System Lord?"
"Yes!" The young man appeared out of thin air and smiled flatteringly at her, "Why did you suddenly think of me? Did you change your mind temporarily?"
Liu Ruyan sighed: "If you want me to form an alliance, I have to see what you are capable of."
"I know that the host is greedy for life and afraid of death. Oh no, I want to say that it is better to live than to die, right?"
"..." What the hell.
Liu Ruyan rubbed her forehead. This young man whose identity was a mystery not only spoke strangely, but was also unreliable.
He simply asked: "Do you know what is going on in the lobby?"
As she spoke, she held her fingers together like a painting scroll.
"Host, this is not a painting, it is a recording." The young man corrected, with a rather proud look on his face.
"This system uses the storyboard shooting method and comes with three high-definition cameras. One follows the host and captures the characters' movements clearly without blind spots. The other records the plot and picks up the sound on the spot, presenting a movie quality. In addition, the drone has a wide field of view and can reproduce
Real scenes.”
"In that case, I want to check the scene that was recorded just now." She pointed to the lobby, "The scene when you came in."
The young man was a little surprised. Could it be that she wanted to accept the results?
The boy raised his hand, and three bright white screens appeared in the air, which were exactly the images captured by the three cameras.
"Does the host want to see this?" he looked back and asked.
Seeing this scene, Liu Ruyan rarely showed a trace of daze. She stretched out her hand to explore the screen, and the picture was enlarged under her finger.
"Wait a minute -" she pointed to somewhere in the screen, "that's it."
The video was paused and then played again.
In order to restore the scene at that time, the boy set the screen to live mode.
Liu Ruyan felt a lightness all over her body, and she was suddenly placed in the middle of the scene. The aroma of wine floating in the air, and the bustle of people in the lobby were all so real that she could touch them.
At this time, Liu Ruyan was only staring at one place.
Top of head.
There seems to be a pool of thick ink there, blending in with the dull wooden board. If you don't look more carefully, it will be difficult to detect it for a while.
Thick ink slowly sneaked above the head, and suddenly, the shape of a hand stretched out, like a ghost in the strange atmosphere.
She was suddenly startled.
Such a cunning trick reminded her of her old enemy in her previous life - Shen Yanchu.