C10

Different from the Li Kingdom, the ancestors of the Northern Army were nomadic people. They carried the rough nature of the Great Prairie in their bones. However, the most moving part was always the soft feelings of a man of iron. The most famous part of the Northern Tribes didn't even match the word "Forthright".

"The drunken slumbering of the Dreamy Cloud Pavilion died, Lin Xiang has never lived up to his expectations."

"No matter how rare it is, it's still a steamed bun. Can a bun shop make a flower?"

Luo Yi, Xu Heng, "..."

"Now that you put it that way, I'm suddenly interested …" Not long after, Luo Yi also followed Liu Yin's line of sight, and even nodded as he looked. "I'm also quite curious about whether your face is good enough to eat an overlord meal or not!"

Thus, early in the morning the next day, the two of them waited in front of Lin Xiang's bun house.

The sky was not bright yet, so Luo Yi yawned and leaned on Xu Heng. She asked lazily, "How long do we have to wait?"

"Soon." Xu Heng replied as he looked at the sky.

He first glanced at Xu Heng, then turned to look at Luo Yi. He could tell that he was seriously observing the two, but the strange thing was that he did not seem to be flippant about it.

After a long while, he said, "Oh, they are all not bad."

Only then did he fully open the door, revealing himself.

According to the rumors that she had heard, Luo Yi had thought that someone who had such a strange personality would be an old man who was over 60 years old. No matter how bad he looked, he would at least be a rough and rough man.

Lin Xiang opened the door and let the two in.

He was pacing in the direction of the kitchen, looking lazy, as if the two men in front of him didn't exist.

Luo Yi quietly pinched the flesh on Xu Heng's arm: "Weirdo."

"Yes."

Xu Heng was surprised, he turned and looked around the courtyard that was so big that no one else was around, he thought for a moment, then instructed: "You wait here, don't run around, I'll go take a look."

He unconsciously frowned.

Although Lin Xiang's bun house had this name, it was different from the common shops outside. He replaced the signboard on the door, saying that any official of the imperial court who set up a private property would believe it. The courtyard was no different from a large ordinary family's backyard, the scenery was good, but why does it not look like a steamed bun maker, especially...

Such a big house, other than Lin Xiang, there seemed to be no one else.

Luo Yi was bored to death as she grabbed a flower from the ground. When she raised his head, he was so scared that he threw the flower in her hand away.

"Only you?"

Lin Xiang's gaze turned a few times, and finally stopped on Luo Yi's body. He narrowed his eyes, and coldly asked: "Where is that person?"

"Ah, he, he went to the toilet," Luo Yi grinned and laughed dryly: "I'm afraid the food we ate last night was not clean, and hurt my stomach."

"However, it is about time to return …" Seeing that Lin Xiang was still cold, Luo Yi tiptoed and looked in the direction Xu Heng had left a few times, and muttered: "Did you get lost?"

"After all, your courtyard is too big." Her half-truths.

Lin Xiang's face was still expressionless, as if he had already seen that she was lying. However, for some reason, he did not expose her, and only curled his lips: "Then I'll go find him."

"No need."

As soon as he said those words, the person who was being discussed suddenly appeared in front of the duo. He unhurriedly straightened his collar and then smiled apologetically, "Sorry for disturbing you."

He had a dignified expression on his face.

Lin Xiang was unexpectedly easy to talk to, after looking at Xu Heng for a while he started to smile even more happily, seemingly not caring about the person who walked around his courtyard without permission: "A good-looking person's privilege here is always a little more than the others."

After saying that, he returned to the kitchen and gave the buns that were already wrapped to the two of them. He smiled leisurely and said, "Take care, farewell."

On the surface, Luo Yi looked calm as she received it. Just as she stepped out of the Lin Family mansion, her other foot kicked towards Xu Heng: "Look at you, you've been caught red-handed."

She kicked cleanly, but forgot that her feet were not fully healed yet, thus she took a deep breath the moment she got close to Xu Heng, and anxiously retracted her leg.

Xu Heng smiled as he glanced at her. After seeing that her legs were fine, he started to silently count how long Luo Yi would have to wait before he could resist.

After a moment, Luo Yi bit her bun and walked over: "Then have you noticed anything strange?"

"Yes." Xu Heng replied: "This Lin Xiang is not like what Liu Liangyun said. He's just a simple bun maker."

Luo Yi blinked her eyes and asked.

Lin Xiang's bun house was a three-way house, but in terms of design, it was a bit unique. The first thing that came out was a courtyard and kitchen with flowers and plants, while the real rooms were at the back. There was only one proper room, while the rest of the rooms were all …

"Human skin mask?!"

Luo Yi subconsciously raised her voice to repeat herself, as her eyes widened.

Xu Heng nodded.

There were no lights on in the houses, and because no one had ever lived there, they were lacking in humanity, so even in broad daylight, they felt eerie and creepy, especially when you pushed open the door and saw the walls full of lifelike human faces.

All three.

At first glance, these masks looked like human faces that grew on the walls, but their eyes were empty and expressionless as they stared at the people who came in, as if countless people were staring at them at the same time. Such a strange scene caused Xu Heng to jump in fright at first glance, but he quickly calmed down. Borrowing the sunlight from the gap in the door, he was able to see that these things were not human faces, but human skin masks.

It was just that the material was a bit special, and the workmanship was also very fine, so it looked no different from a real person.

Xu Heng looked around the rooms one by one, and noticed that these people's masks were all hanging in the other rooms. It was likely that these masks had very exquisite facial features.

He even saw Liu Yin's face in a certain room.

If nothing unexpected happened, his and Luo Yi's face would appear in a particular room in two days.

So is that the real reason for the customer's appearance...

Xu Heng thought.

"No …" Luo Yi shook the goosebumps all over her body, she unintentionally lowered her head and saw the bun in her hands, which was immediately thrown into Xu Heng's arms like a potato: "Isn't this too abnormal!"

She looked at Xu Heng with a sullen face: "I didn't want my face to appear there at all."

Xu Heng tilted his head slightly: "Then what do we do? Could it be that you want to find the faces one by one and then take yours? "

"…"

I don't want to.

Just thinking about it, Luo Yi got goosebumps all over his body, and quickly rubbed her arms on the sides of his body while bouncing on the spot, hoping that she would be able to shake off the automatically generated image in her mind. Even Xu Heng was affected by it, and looked at himself in shock as he curled his lips, then took a few steps to the side.

Xu Heng felt wronged, but Xu Heng did not say anything.

"However …" Luo Yi walked a few steps away before asking again, "Why do you think he needs so many human faces? "All of them have to have pretty faces …"

After saying that, Luo Yi seemed to have thought of something. "The face he used to open the door today isn't bad either, could it be fake?"

"Not really."

As Luo Yi spoke, shesheubconsciously turned her body to look at Xu Heng who was behind him, she did not notice that there was a rock protruding in the middle of the road, causing him to stumble over it, but when she leaned back, he quickly grabbed her waist, preventing her from making any close contact with the ground.

Until the two of them stood steadily, Xu Heng then continued: "I specifically observed his face when I came back from the backyard, it doesn't look fake."

"Then that's strange," Luo Yi originally wanted to thank him, but when he saw that he seemed to be just casually taking it to heart, she did not take it to heart and just followed his own words, "If you say that he is ugly, then that's fine, but I see that he is not bad. Why do you want to collect all these faces?"

"Personally."

Xu Heng was not in a good mood, after he finished speaking, he changed the topic, pointing at the two sides of the street: "It's rare to have time today, where do you want to go to play?"

"Touch your conscience and tell me," Seeing that he did not want to talk more about himself, Luo Yi decided to stay. Just as he was about to walk further, he heard Xu Heng's question and after a moment of silence, he said sincerely, "When are we not free?"

"However, since you've brought it up, I really want to ask you."

She did not want to bring this up, since it was a secret, and although she had been hanging out with Xu Heng all day, she knew her own limits. Thus, she had always kept this distance, and never asked more than necessary questions she should not have asked. But now, this was Xu Heng's first time speaking, so it could not be considered as her acting arrogantly, so she beckoned for Xu Heng to come over and whisper: "How many days has it been since then? Are you still going to save them? After a few more days, even if you have the key, it won't be of any use! "

"It was useless a long time ago."

Xu Heng disapproved, "As early as the day the key was lost, His Majesty was moved."

No wonder you weren't in a hurry when I said a few days ago that I forgot where the key was.

Luo Yi's head was filled with black lines.

"Then why did we spend so much effort to steal this key?"

"To alert the snake."

Xu Heng said in a bland voice, "The General's Residence is heavily guarded, and its soldiers are elites personally trained by the Incorruptible Medical Hall. Ordinary experts would not be able to easily think of this door, not to mention that I have to snatch people from the General's Estate."

This was also the reason why the Emperor of the Northern Tribes was able to keep people in the Residence of the Incorruptible Doctor.

Xu Heng was silent for a moment.

Before him, it was not as if Li Kingdom had never tried to snatch people from the infirmary, whether it was fighting or using wits, they had all tried various methods, but without exception, they all failed. Therefore, Xu Heng knew in his heart that he absolutely could not save people in the General's Residence.

Thus, from the very beginning, what he wanted was not this key.

Fine! You're the boss, you have the final say.

Luo Yi rolled her eyes, trying to figure out the curves of it.

Once the key was stolen from the infirmary, the inmate would definitely be moved immediately. However, as a general, he was naturally combative and would not be satisfied with just guarding an emperor who had already become a prisoner. Thus, while transferring the prisoners behind his back, he also transferred more soldiers to be responsible for guarding the manor, in an attempt to create a "illusion that your emperor is still locked in my manor" for the thieves. On the surface, he was trying to scare them off with more troops, but in reality, he was waiting for them to fall into his trap.

Although the prison guards who had been moved would not loosen up much compared to before, compared to the General's Residence that was the focus of more attention, this new prison would have many flaws, and these were the flaws that Xu Heng was waiting for.

As for how to find out where His Majesty was imprisoned …

"Liu Liangyun?" Luo Yi asked quietly for confirmation.

"Right." Xu Heng nodded his head, seeing that there was a Chai Zi who was selling on the side of the street, he casually took one and placed it on top of Luo Yi's head: "This Chai Zi looks pretty good."

Luo Yi's attention was easily diverted, "Uuu …"

She looked at herself in the mirror and shook her head from side to side.

With that, he glared at Xu Heng through the mirror and said with disdain, "What kind of strange aesthetic beauty is this!"

It was rare to see Xu Heng being dumbstruck, Luo Yi felt it was strange, looking through the mirror a few more times before raising his head to ridicule. Who would have thought that the second before he raised his eyes, a light would suddenly flash past him?

She focused and saw a flash of a dagger in the hands of a figure approaching them from behind.

"Be careful!"