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Chapter 52: Peeling off the Painted Skin

"Tianshi!" A palace man shouted outside the house, "Tianshi, look, there is another... strange phenomenon!"

"Don't panic." Du Huanfeng stood outside the door in his cloak. He also looked up at the sudden beam of light coming from the night sky. "This is not a strange phenomenon, it is a beacon tower that Sitiantai sent messages to various places."

The red beam is like a meteor, and before it falls, it often drew a dark red light tail in the night sky.

Du Huanfeng looked at it for a while, and he seldom counted the amount of light he could see. Although the scene he saw was not complete, judging from the only density, this message from Sitiantai probably covered all the prefectures in the east, west, south, and north of the Great Zhou.

"I'll go out." Du Huanfeng pulled his feet and was about to leave.

Several monks immediately followed from the darkness, "Is the Heavenly Master going to Sitiantai?"

"No, go back to Tianji Palace." Du Huanfeng frowned and replied, "Let's see what Yin Shiyun has spread..."

Under such high-density transmission, Tianji Palace must be the first place in the world to receive the message - after all, both sides are not far away.

...

Outside the gate of the Ping Yao Office, Feng Yishu sent Ji Ran to the gate.

"Thank you for your hard work, Lord Ji, I'll come here to do it so late."

"Where," Ji Ran shook his head, "It's a pity that I didn't help... I have sent someone to check the previous files of Dali Temple in the past two days. If there is any similar case, I will come again."

"Then please, if something is urgent, I can only come to you first and have a look. I will make up the order tomorrow morning." Feng Yishu sighed, "These strange cases that suddenly appeared on the border look more like some kind of temptation. If you don't find a solution as soon as possible, you don't know what will happen next-"

Ji Ran was about to answer the conversation, but suddenly he was stunned.

In the night sky above their heads, countless long red lines suddenly appeared.

Before Feng Ji and the others could react, more than a dozen lines suddenly landed and dived towards different government offices in Luoyang City. One of them rushed directly towards the Ping Yao Office.

Feng Yishu turned around almost immediately and ran towards the place where the red light fell, with Ji Ran following closely behind.

While running, Ji Ran jumped onto the wall in a few steps, and then jumped to the eaves of the highest building beside him.

His eyes swept through the four fields quickly, and soon recognized the location where the dozen red lines fell - one of them fell in Dali Temple. In addition, Jingzhao Yin Yamen and Fengge... were all favored by the red lines.

However, this is just a drop in the ocean.

More red light paths quickly extend toward a more distant horizon.

"Fifth Master!" When several minor officials in the inner court of the Ping Yao Office saw Feng Yishu coming, they all seemed to have seen reinforcements.

They pointed to a stone claw stretching towards the sky in the middle of the courtyard. The messaging platform that had not been used for more than a decade had long been covered with spider webs, and was now covered with heavy snow.

The documents falling in it were still covered with red light, like tiny flames burning.

In the light, a scroll looked like a slowly stretched sponge, which gradually grew from a wrinkle until the flames went out.

"There are...there are secret letters!"

"I saw the entire Luoyang City, what a secret letter..." Feng Yishu stepped forward and took off the scroll, "Hmm? Is it from Sitiantai?"

Ji Ran had jumped back to Feng Yishu from a high place, and the two read the contents on the scroll together.

After only a few lines of stoop, Ji Ran and Feng Yishu's eyes widened at the same time. The latter's hand holding the scroll suddenly became unstable, and the document fell to the ground. Ji Ran immediately picked it up and continued to read it.

Feng Yishu didn't look at the details anymore. He stood there, gritted his teeth, and didn't know what to do for a moment.

On the other hand, the more Ji Ran reads, the paler his face becomes.

After seeing it, Ji Ran raised his head and looked at his friend nearby in disbelief.

In the article, I wrote a thousand words, and only one thing I said—

"Wei Xingzhen... Wei Xingzhen is really a demon?"

...

In the deep and quiet corridor of Sitiantai, Yin Shiyun walked forward slowly.

Suddenly, there was a loud sound of footsteps behind him. More than a dozen officials who were watching the night came over sweat. When they saw Yin Shiyun, they knelt on the ground and said that they didn't know what was going on tonight. They didn't know who ignited the beacon tower without a sage. They had failed to observe this and deserved to be killed.

Yin Shiyun glanced at them lightly, "It's me."

The dozen people kneeling on the ground didn't understand.

"I am the one who ignited the beacon tower tonight." Yin Shiyun whispered, "Get back."

In the breath of all the kneeling people holding their breath because of panic and confusion, Yin Shiyun walked forward without any haste and left these people far behind.

At the end of this stone corridor is a gentle grassland. When he was a young man, Lin Anmin would pass by here every time he took him to the mountains and forests to watch stars.

He is much more familiar with every tree and grass in Sitiantai than with the courtyard at home.

Compared with the Grand Master Yin Xun who always drinks and has fun in his own house, Lin Anmin is obviously more like a father.

Since he was taken to Daizong Mountain by his mother at the age of 11, he has formed an indissoluble bond with him.

Now this area has been vacant. On weekdays, no one will pass by here except him. In addition to the frost formed by the cold, there is also a little dust under your feet.

Yin Shiyun stopped in front of a certain wooden door.

When he was fifteen years old, he once brought twelve-year-old Feng Yan to visit Sitiantai.

He did not ask his master for this matter in advance for shyness and half out of fear of being rejected, but led Feng Yan all the way into the grass at the end.

Normally, the master should have gone to the other house to rest, but it happened that day.

In a panic, he hid Feng Yan behind this wooden door and said something to his master in the corridor for a long time.

Later, he suspected that his master must have discovered Feng Yan that day, but he did not point it out. After all, Lin Anmin's smile that day seemed more intriguing than before.

"Squeak--"

Yin Shiyun pushed open the door again.

A gust of dust fell from the top of my head.

As time goes by, of course, no more girl will poke her head out from behind the door with a blushing face, patting her heart and asking him, "I... can I come out?"

Since Lin Anmin's death, no one has come to this area.

Yin Shiyun didn't dare to come either.

He closed the door again and headed to Lin Anmin's pay room diagonally.

It is like other places, with dust everywhere, and the windows near the west are not closed. The ground has long been filled with fallen leaves of autumn and the mud and dust blowing from the forest.

Yin Shiyun closed the window, lit the candlelight in the house, and then sat down at the place where Lin Anmin worked at his desk.

"Master." He murmured in the dim lights, "Did you see it?"
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