Chapter 824

Cui Cui Tike walked on the streets of Bozhou, checking the remaining population of this city.

Bozhou is not Chaoge. There are many fewer restrictions and obstructions here, and Cui Cui Tike can perform his duties as an Imperial Envoy more smoothly.

Yu Zhuo once established a New Cabinet in Bozhou. According to the laws of the Great Shang, many people here have already committed the serious crime of treason, which created more convenient conditions for Cui Cui Tike to perform his duties as an Imperial Envoy.

Having been here for so many days, besides the Mengqian Building that gave a promise at the time, are there any living people in Bozhou?

Yes.

Those responsible for carrying the corpses.

These corpse carriers are enslaved people. They have developed an astonishing resistance to the disease, which may be related to their harsh living environment, or it may be related to their relatively primitive body structure.

Cui Cui Tike let go of most of the corpse carriers. Bozhou is very clean now, and he doesn't want this beautiful city to be piled up with rotting corpses.

But if the corpse carriers have any situation, Cui Cui Tike will not show mercy to them.

Just yesterday, a few corpse carriers picked up whips and hit other corpse carriers. Cui Cui Tike sent them away with a smile.

In Bozhou, Cui Cui Tike's dream has basically been realized, and there seems to be no need to continue staying here.

Cui Cui Tike prepared to take a ship transporting corpses to leave Bozhou, but he waited at the port for a long time without finding any ships docking.

In the entire Bozhou, there was not a single ship.

Cui Cui Tike realized that the situation was wrong. He left the port, entered the first city, took out a pocket watch from the inner pocket of his tuxedo, pressed the watch cover, rotated the watch ear, and adjusted the minute hand and hour hand to 6:25.

He was contacting Lady Zuo Anna.

The second hand of the pocket watch ticked, and the rhythm did not change at all.

He couldn't contact Lady Zuo Anna.

Is it because of interference at his location?

Cui Cui Tike changed several locations, but the pocket watch had no response. Could it be that the communication in the entire Bozhou was blocked?

At a street corner in the second city, the pocket watch had a response. Cui Cui Tike was sending location information, but felt that the response of the pocket watch was abnormal.

The second hand trembled too slowly, not the frequency Cui Cui Tike was familiar with. The one responding to the pocket watch was not Lady Zuo Anna!

Cui Cui Tike sent a false location information, then threw away the pocket watch and headed to a ceramic workshop by the street.

This ceramic workshop is where the Mengqian Building is located. The front yard was still empty. Cui Cui Tike walked directly to the back yard. Walking into the courtyard gate, Cui Cui Tike didn't hear Meng Xiao Qian's voice.

Meng Xiao Qian didn't issue a warning to Cui Cui Tike, nor did she stop Cui Cui Tike from entering the door. Did she abandon this Mengqian Building?

What about the agreement between the two? Is it still valid?

Cui Cui Tike walked into the depths of the back yard. He saw the kiln, the workshop, and the houses where the workers lived.

This courtyard was very large. Most of the land was used to build houses for workers. Three-story buildings were next to each other. Each building had more than a hundred rooms. Each room lived one person. All in all, this ceramic workshop should be able to accommodate more than seven thousand people.

But this was just Cui Cui Tike's guess. He only saw one bed in each room, but there was no one on the bed.

There was no one in the entire ceramic workshop. Meng Xiao Qian moved this Mengqian Building to another place.

"Building owner of the Mengqian Building, what about your credibility?" Cui Cui Tike gritted his teeth and left the ceramic workshop. Walking on the street for a moment, a group of pedestrians appeared in front.

They were wearing green official robes. Judging from the color and pattern, the official position of this group of people was not too high.

They maintained the basic form of human beings. They were human beings Cui Cui Tike was familiar with, not the body shape and size of Inner Continent people, and they didn't have three heads.

A young man headed by them bowed to Cui Cui Tike: "Your subordinate Cheng Cheng Wuzu, see the Imperial Envoy."

Cui Cui Tike returned the salute.

Cheng Cheng Wuzu continued: "We have prepared ships at the port, specifically to escort you to Chaoge."

"Your efficiency is really high. I just happened to want to return to Chaoge, and you came to pick me up. Cough, cough, cough—" Cui Cui Tike coughed a few times at the crowd.

These people didn't avoid it. They saw Cui Cui Tike coughing, but actually had no fear at all.

Cheng Cheng Wuzu waved his hand behind him. A few people carried a sedan chair to the front: "Imperial Envoy, please get on the sedan chair, we will take you to the pier."

"Good!" Cui Cui Tike walked toward the sedan chair. More than five meters away from the sedan chair, his nose twitched, and he suddenly sneezed.

This sneeze was crisp and loud, and the sedan curtain and sedan top were overturned. Only a bare seat remained on the sedan pole, and an arm stretched out from the seat, grabbing toward Cui Cui Tike's face.

This arm was extremely fast, and Cui Cui Tike was surrounded by the crowd, seemingly unable to dodge.

"Achoo!" He sneezed again.

The arm that came to grab Cui Cui Tike had two fingers sprayed off by this sneeze and grabbed nothing.

Relying on the recoil of this sneeze, Cui Cui Tike retreated more than ten meters and turned to flee.

Cheng Cheng Wuzu led people to chase closely behind. They were very familiar with Bozhou. Judging from the pursuit route, they would soon be able to form an encirclement.

Cui Cui Tike fled for two streets, and Cheng Cheng Wuzu suddenly appeared in front of him. Judging from the speed, this person was a traveling cultivator.

Hiss!

The sweat on Cui Cui Tike's body evaporated instantly, and he slammed into Cheng Cheng Wuzu with a full body of smoke.

Cheng Cheng Wuzu's skills were very good. He wanted to capture Cui Cui Tike alive, but the moment he touched Cui Cui Tike, his left hand was severely scalded and he couldn't exert any strength.

To avoid worsening the injury, Cheng Cheng Wuzu cleared the road and let Cui Cui Tike rush out of the street.

To prevent Cheng Cheng Wuzu from continuing the pursuit, Cui Cui Tike turned back and spat a mouthful of bloody phlegm.

The bloody phlegm evaporated rapidly under high temperature, turning into a bloody mist, covering Cui Cui Tike's figure.

This is a disease cultivation technique created by Cui Cui Tike, "Phthisis Miasma Cloud". This technique can not only achieve the effect of concealment but also constitute an effective counterattack against pursuers.

But Cui Cui Tike knew clearly in his heart that the disease focus of "Phthisis Miasma Cloud" might not be effective against these people, because as early as when they met,

Cui Cui Tike had already planted a disease focus when he coughed, but these few people didn't react.

When he sneezed twice in a row, he planted the disease focus again. The arm on the sedan pole reacted because the fingers were sprayed off.

The reaction to the disease focus was very small, or even almost no reaction, but the reaction to physical damage was there. This sign indicated that these people who came to welcome Cui Cui Tike were first-class blades.

Lan Qiao Yi sent so many first-class blades, definitely not wanting to expel Cui Cui Tike. He didn't intend to leave Cui Cui Tike a way to live.

Cui Cui Tike didn't intend to be captured without a fight either. He ran all the way into the third city.

Bozhou was once the capital of the Shang Kingdom. This city is very large. Cui Cui Tike is confident that he can deal with them for a long time.

This long time doesn't mean a few hours, nor a day or two. Cui Cui Tike is confident that he can deal with them for half a month, or even longer.

Bozhou has a total of nine cities, and outside the nine cities, there are large fields.

There are large amounts of food reserves inside and outside the city. For Cui Cui Tike, there are too many routes to avoid pursuit.

The key question now is, what method can be used to contact the outside world during the avoidance of pursuit.

If you really can't find support, you can only take a risk and go to the port to seize the ship.

Chasing into the third city, Cheng Cheng Wuzu didn't rush to continue the pursuit. He took out a bell, hung it on his index finger, and kept shaking it.

After waiting for ten minutes, more than 180 first-class blades arrived one after another.

Cheng Cheng Wuzu put away the bell, took out a bamboo slip, and wrote a line of words on it: "We have chased to the third city."

On the warship outside Bozhou, Nian Nian Shangyou was eating an orange while looking at the words on the bamboo slip.

He didn't want to go ashore. He didn't want to get close to Cui Cui Tike. Just because the words on the bamboo slip were related to Cui Cui Tike, Nian Nian Shangyou didn't even want to eat the orange.

He put down the orange and wiped the words on the bamboo slip. His bamboo slip and the bamboo slip in Cheng Cheng Wuzu's hand both became blank.

Nian Nian Shangyou didn't rush to reply. He let the messenger blow the horn.

The horn sound was extremely loud, and the entire Bozhou could hear it clearly.

Cheng Cheng Wuzu stood still. This horn was not blown for him to hear.

In the center of the nine cities, a newly placed stone had a response.

Cui Cui Tike had no memory of this stone because a large amount of stone was transported to Bozhou to repair the Great Altar,

especially the nine cities, where all kinds of stones were piled up like mountains.

But this stone was very special. After hearing the horn sound, he released the technique and formed a boundary line outside the third city.

After the boundary line was formed, Cheng Cheng Wuzu received Nian Nian Shangyou's order: "Continue the pursuit!"

Cheng Cheng Wuzu replied: "Still want to capture alive?"

According to Lan Qiao Yi's previous instructions, Nian Nian Shangyou made a judgment on the current situation.

Lan Qiao Yi didn't say he must be captured alive. Nian Nian Shangyou then issued an order to Cheng Cheng Wuzu: "Still resisting arrest, then kill him, just leave the soul."

Cheng Cheng Wuzu showed a slight smile, conveyed the order to all the first-class blades, and he himself continued to search for Cui Cui Tike's trail relying on "Seeking Good Fortune and Avoiding Calamity".

Not long after, he found Cui Cui Tike in a coal yard in the third city.

Cheng Cheng Wuzu didn't rush to attack. He shook the bell in his hand while trying hard to persuade Cui Cui Tike: "Imperial Envoy, Lan Qiao has no malice. He sincerely invites you to discuss government affairs.

But if you insist on not boarding the ship, your subordinate can only act according to official business. I hope the Imperial Envoy will forgive me for any offense."

Cui Cui Tike shook his head: "I am a foreigner, I don't understand what official business is. Can you be more specific?"

Cheng Cheng Wuzu frowned slightly, his expression looking a bit ferocious: "Then I will speak more bluntly.

If you don't follow me onto the ship, I will kill you."

Cui Cui Tike nodded: "Good, come and kill me."

Cheng Cheng Wuzu's expression returned to calm, even with a joyful smile: "Since you are willing to give up this life, things will be much easier for us today."

Late at night, Bozhou seventh city.

Cui Cui Tike, covered in bruises, carried Cheng Cheng Wuzu into a pavilion.

Putting down Cheng Cheng Wuzu, Cui Cui Tike leaned against the wall and gasped for a long time.

He underestimated Lan Qiao Yi's tactical arrangement and also underestimated the ability of the first-class blades to cooperate in battle.

According to the escape route Cui Cui Tike had formulated for himself, he planned to rush into the fifth city first, then escape out of the city, and then go to the port to take a look to see if he had the conditions to seize the ship.

If he had the conditions, Cui Cui Tike would seize the ship and escape the Shang Kingdom immediately.

If there was no possibility of seizing the ship, Cui Cui Tike would run into the village outside the city and continue to deal with them.

But he didn't expect that after entering the fifth city, he would never be able to come out again.

Outside the fifth city, there was a residential cultivation boundary line. Cui Cui Tike touched it and almost lost a layer of skin.

Rushing out would definitely mean death. Cui Cui Tike couldn't run out, he could only walk in.

Escaping all the way to the seventh city, Cui Cui Tike's physical strength was almost exhausted. He not only had to escape, but he also experienced many battles.

He put Cheng Cheng Wuzu on the table, smiled at him: "Originally I thought I could deal with you for at least half a month, but I didn't expect that in less than a day, I would have no way to go."

Cheng Cheng Wuzu's body couldn't move, but he could still speak: "Lan Qiao is a person who loves talent, and now it is also a time for the imperial court to employ people. Imperial Envoy, as long as you turn back from the wrong path, Lan Qiao can let bygones be bygones for the past."

Cui Cui Tike didn't believe the other party was so tolerant: "I killed several first-class blades, and now I want to kill you too. Do you think this can also be let bygones be bygones?"

Cheng Cheng Wuzu said calmly: "Compared with the important mission Lan Qiao entrusted to us, our own lives are not worth mentioning.."

"Please wait a moment," Cui Cui Tike interrupted Cheng Cheng Wuzu, "Your mission is to capture me. Is this mission very important?

"

Cheng Cheng Wuzu said: "Lan Qiao told us that you can make a major contribution to the imperial court. This mission is very important, much more important than our lives."

Cui Cui Tike still couldn't understand: "You are a Puluo Continent person. The Shang Kingdom's imperial court is not your imperial court. You were transformed into a weapon by the Shang Kingdom's imperial court, and now you are still so loyal to the Shang Kingdom?"

Cheng Cheng Wuzu shook his head: "Loyal to the imperial court for a day, loyal to the imperial court for a lifetime. We are originally like ants, like dust. Being able to serve the imperial court is the luck of my life. No matter how the imperial court treats me, I have no complaints—"

Before Cheng Cheng Wuzu finished speaking, Cui Cui Tike covered his mouth: "Sorry, I respect everyone's choice and try my best to listen to everyone's opinions, but what you said really makes me vomit."

Cui Cui Tike's palm kept rising in temperature. The air Cheng Cheng Wuzu inhaled became very hot, rapidly burning Cheng Cheng Wuzu's body.

After Cheng Cheng Wuzu stopped breathing, Cui Cui Tike carefully checked the structure of this first-class blade.

There are too many types of first-class blades. Some are close to human form like Cheng Cheng Wuzu, some are close to animals in appearance, some are closer to robots in factories, some are more abstract, and look very much like daily necessities in life.

Because there are too many types of these blades and the differences between individuals are too large, Cui Cui Tike has been unable to find their commonalities, nor can he find a suitable disease that can spread among first-class blades.

Just like this human-shaped blade, Cui Cui Tike has been wanting to use traditional disease focuses to deal with them, but later found that traditional disease focuses are almost ineffective against them, because they have no cell structure at all.

Their bodies are only similar to humans on the outside, but in fact, they are more like robots with organic tissues. These organic tissues are very different from the life tissues Cui Cui Tike is familiar with.

"Can you use a virus that infects the soul on them?" Cui Cui Tike carefully checked Cheng Cheng Wuzu's soul that hadn't dissipated yet, and the result disappointed him again.

Cheng Cheng Wuzu's soul is not complete. To be precise, what he carries is not a soul at all, but a soul fragment adhesive.

Cheng Cheng Wuzu's soul only retained twenty percent, which is equivalent to cutting Cheng Cheng Wuzu's soul into one hundred pieces and selecting twenty of them.

These twenty soul pieces seem to be randomly selected, because the soul structure of Cheng Cheng Wuzu is different from the soul structure of other first-class blades.

"Defeating order with disorder? Why can the Great Melting Pot make such a magical structure?" Cui Cui Tike smiled helplessly. "If you gave me a little more time, I should be able to crack the secret of the first-class blades, I should be able to find the disease focus that infects first-class blades, unfortunately—"

Footsteps came from outside the pavilion. Cui Cui Tike should go.

He ate a piece of cake, tightened his bandages, and walked out the door.

After a few minutes, Cui Cui Tike retreated into the pavilion.

There were more than ninety first-class blades outside.

Cui Cui Tike looked at Cheng Cheng Wuzu lying on the table, shook his head and said: "If you are transformed into a weapon like you, how sad that must be."

He went to the second floor of the pavilion, blocked the door with a spiritual object, and sat quietly in a corner of the room.

He took out his water bottle and took a light sip.

The footsteps got closer and closer, and several first-class blades had already walked up the stairs.

Cui Cui Tike took a canned box from his bosom. The wild flowers in the box were about to bloom. Xiao De, sitting on the flower leaves, was looking up at Cui Cui Tike.

Cui Cui Tike poured all the water in the bottle into the box.

He smiled at the wild flowers.

Between the flower buds and flower leaves, he saw De De Songya, saw the cave, saw the firewood pile and the iron pot, and saw Xiao De who was eating noodle soup.

"Give you noodle soup." Xiao De under the wild flowers held up a dewdrop high.

Cui Cui Tike nodded forcefully and took the noodle soup.

Ding!

The door on the second floor was pushed open.

The two first-class blades that rushed into the room first saw a strong light, which made all of them unable to open their eyes.

After the strong light, a piece of gray embers fell slowly.

Where is Cui Cui Tike?

His figure could not be found in the room.

The first-class blades ambushed outside the room also didn't see Cui Cui Tike's trail.

Several blades with the characteristics of "Peeping Cultivation" used their techniques to the limit, but still didn't find Cui Cui Tike.

"He committed suicide—" a first-class blade shouted, "Quick, find the Demon Cultivators to collect his soul."

Not long after, several Demon Cultivator blades rushed over. They collected the soul for a long time, but received nothing.

A Demon Cultivator blade checked the ashes on the ground and shook his head, "This is the dust left by the soul. He has already vanished into thin air."

The remaining first-class blades had solemn expressions. This result, I'm afraid, is not easy to report.

Nian Nian Shangyou entered Lan Qiao Yi's study with full heart: "My Lord, I went to Bozhou to arrest Cui Cui Tike. Cui Cui Tike resisted arrest and committed suicide."

"Did you bring the soul back?"

Nian Nian Shangyou replied: "When he committed suicide, he used methods, and the soul turned into ashes."

Lan Qiao Yi looked down at the document and made annotations with a brush.

Nian Nian Shangyou stood in place, feeling that every breath was a torment.

After approving the document, Lan Qiao Yi looked up at Nian Nian Shangyou.

Nian Nian Shangyou just wanted to kowtow and plead guilty when he suddenly heard Lan Qiao Yi say: "Nian Shangyou, you've worked hard."

Hearing this, Nian Nian Shangyou didn't know whether to be happy or sad, and didn't know what Lan Qiao Yi would do next.

Lan Qiao Yi sighed: "In all parts of the Great Shang, there are spies from all sides hiding. The leakage of military intelligence has become common. The Great Shang has suffered heavy losses because of this, and I hate it deeply!

Nian Shangyou, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Personnel, and the Ministry of Justice each submitted a list of spies. All three lists have your name, and all of them listed your crimes, saying that you have many connections with the White Falcon Alliance."

Plop!

Nian Nian Shangyou knelt on the ground: "My Lord! Your subordinate is wronged! Your subordinate has never had any acts of colluding with the enemy! All the dealings between your subordinate and the Baiji Alliance were with your permission, and from beginning to end, there was absolutely no violation of rules!

Your subordinate is willing to be questioned, your subordinate is willing to be investigated, your subordinate is sincere, heaven can testify, your subordinate is loyal and has no two hearts."

Nian Nian Shangyou kept kowtowing, and his forehead bled.

Lan Qiao Yi sighed: "Nian Shangyou, should I believe you or not?"

Nian Nian Shangyou lay on the ground and said: "My Lord, your subordinate is incompetent and has achieved nothing, but has been through fire and water for you. When have I ever had half a word of complaint? My Lord, please see clearly!"

Saying this, Nian Nian Shangyou burst into tears!

Lan Qiao Yi was silent for a long time, raised his palm, and signaled Nian Nian Shangyou to get up.

Nian Nian Shangyou got up carefully and waited for the disposal.

Lan Qiao Yi stared at Nian Nian Shangyou for a long time, nodded slightly and said: "Nian Shangyou, I will believe you one more time. You go back and pack your luggage,

and follow me on a trip immediately."

Nian Nian Shangyou didn't dare to ask more, immediately went home to pack his things, and followed Lan Qiao Yi onto the ship.

This is not the ship Lan Qiao Yi usually takes. This is a fishing boat. The boat is not big, and the furnishings are very simple.

Before arriving at the port, Lan Qiao Yi first let Nian Nian Shangyou change his clothes. Both of them wore coir raincoats and bamboo hats, looking like ordinary fishermen.

Before the ship set sail, the guards first activated the magic treasure to check if there were any hooks on the ship.

After confirming that there were no hooks on the ship, the guards activated the magic treasure again to block all communication equipment.

Nian Nian Shangyou was a bit nervous. It is very dangerous to turn off communication equipment on the high seas, but his current situation is not good, so he didn't dare to ask more.

After walking on the sea for a day and a night, Lan Qiao Yi suddenly asked Nian Nian Shangyou: "Do you know where we are going this time?"

Nian Nian Shangyou shook his head: "Your subordinate doesn't know."

Lan Qiao Yi stood on the deck: "Have you heard of Zhen'e?"

"Zhen'e?" Nian Nian Shangyou thought for a moment, "Is the Lord talking about the capital of the previous dynasty?"

Lan Qiao Yi nodded. Zhen is one of the capitals of the Xia Dynasty.

Nian Nian Shangyou said: "My Lord, according to your subordinate's knowledge, Zhen'e has long sunk to the bottom of the sea and hasn't seen the light of day for more than a thousand years."

Lan Qiao Yi shook his head and smiled: "Zhen is not at the bottom of the sea, but in a place that cannot be named. That fake king also has some good fortune. The only right thing he did in his life was to find Zhen'e."

The fake king refers to the Saint. What does this have to do with the Saint?

Lan Qiao Yi suddenly asked: "Nian Shangyou, do you think Cui Cui Tike should be killed?"

This is a life-and-death question and must be answered correctly. Nian Nian Shangyou said: "Should be killed, this thief should have been killed long ago!"

Lan Qiao Yi smiled: "Do you mean that I killed him late?"

Nian Nian Shangyou lowered his head and said: "Your subordinate thinks it is indeed a bit late."

This is not that Nian Nian Shangyou doesn't know how to speak. Choosing to tell the truth at this time will instead reduce Lan Qiao Yi's suspicion.

Lan Qiao Yi sighed: "Nian Shangyou, we are going on an expedition today. When we arrive at Zhen'e, you will know my painstaking efforts in this."

Expedition today?

So urgent?

Nian Nian Shangyou was stunned: "My Lord, where are we going to conquer?"

Lan Qiao Yi looked into the distance: "Conquer the most dangerous place in Puluo Continent."