"Mr. Su, I can only send you here. The next thing depends on you. But don't worry, we have contacted the black disciples. According to our understanding of the black disciples, as long as we can confirm Izumo Feng's identity, they will definitely fight to protect you. I wish you success!"

On the vast snowy field, Song Li and several guards were saying goodbye to Su Yan and Izumo Feng.

This place is already on the other side of Hanshan Pass, which is actually within the Izumo Empire.

Normally, soldiers from Xu rarely come here because it is meaningless.

The Hanshan Mountains stretch for hundreds of miles, with a wide depth and a vast snow above the peak, without any strategic significance.

As long as you guard the gate of Hanshan Pass, you will be a situation where one man is the pass and ten thousand men cannot open it.

For this reason, the Izumo Empire's defense of this mountain range was only at the periphery of the mountain range to set up several camps, waiting for an opportunity to attack the Hanshan Pass Pass, and at the same time to prevent Xu Guowan's cross-border invasion.

When Su Yan heard the young general say this, he would not feel comfortable in his heart no matter what, and naturally he would not have any good face.

However, Izumo Feng couldn't help but shouted angrily: "You know that I will face huge dangers here, but you still have to force me, a child to face these things. Don't you think it's cruel? Is this Xu Guo I know and familiar with?"

Song Li was stunned and looked at Izumo Feng, and the expression on his face changed from relaxed to seriousness.

"Izuyunfeng, your name is your responsibility and your destiny. If you want to blame, blame your parents, or blame this Lord Su for fantasizing about taking you back to the Izuyun Empire. If he hadn't had such fantasies, he chose to completely hide his name and live in Xu Country with An Anxin, how can we find you?"

Izumo Feng knew in his heart what the other party said made sense, but he naturally would not blame his grandfather.

If it weren't for grandpa, he wouldn't have lived so old, let alone he kept in mind everything that grandpa taught him, and grandpa was hesitating whether to tell him the truth, but before he made a decision, he was discovered first, and this was what he had now.

"Okay, in short, you can do it yourself. If I continue to stay and be discovered by the black disciples, it doesn't matter. At worst, we can kill them all and go back. If you don't have these black disciples' help, it will be troublesome."

Song Li smiled and waved his hand to take the people away.

"Let's go." Su Yan reached out and grabbed Izumo Feng's little hand and slowly moved forward in the direction of the Izumo Empire.

He didn't have to go far, he just used this method to sort out his thoughts and avoided being frozen in place.

After all, it's quite cold on the snow field.

"Grandpa, are we really going to the imperial capital of Izumo Kingdom?" Izumo Feng raised his little face slightly and looked at Su Yan.

Su Yan sighed and pulled his hand tightly, "Xiaofeng, the situation is no longer possible. There is no turning back when we shoot the bow. The news that we return to Izumo will soon be known by those people, and then we will face various dangers. So we must contact the black disciple first, and as for the future, let's take a step by step!"

At this time, Su Yan no longer had the spirit of assisting Zuo Izui Yunfeng ascended the throne. All the secrets were exposed in just one contact. Although there were reasons for the strength of the Xuguo Intelligence Organization, after all, it was because he was just an ordinary official and could not do such a thing as hiding anonymity and waiting for an opportunity.

He had already recognized his ability limits, and now he was only worried about whether Izumo Feng would be implicated by him.

To be honest, he is indeed regretting now. Just as the general said just now, it would be better to choose a city to settle down and be a subject of Xu State at the beginning.

With the wealth he brought with him at that time, even if he did not contact the black disciples, it was enough for his grandfather and grandson to be a rich man in any city, and to survive simply but safely.

The reason why he came to the border was that he was unwilling to spend his life as a rich man, because he was obsessed with returning to his hometown, and also because the surname on Izumo Feng reminded him every day.

However, nothing is useless to say now. There are already rustling footsteps in the distance, which sounds like a group of people, and there are still quite a few.

Soon, a group of more than a dozen people in the sparse dead woods, wearing white cloaks, were hiding and hiding in the snow forest, surrounding them and grandchildren in the middle.

"Who is coming?"

The leader of the Black Pupils team was a tall and thin figure with his face wrapped in black cloth. He could not tell his age, but the sound was the voice of a middle-aged man.

Su Yan took a deep breath and had reached this point, and it was meaningless to hide. Whether to die or live.

"In the 172nd year of Izumo, the Ministry of Rites, Su Yan!"

Izumo 172 years refers to eight years ago, and this year is Izumo 180 years.

"Su Yan... Lord Su? It's really you? Then this..." The black disciple's voice was obviously trembling, which was the trembling after being excited and forced to hold back with his strong willpower.

"This is the only prince of the late emperor, Izumo Feng!"

Su Yan finished this sentence gently, and at the same time, he used force to bring Izumo Feng to him, allowing him to accept the other party's scrutiny at the forefront.

"Izuyunfeng...yes, indeed, there is the resources of the late emperor between us... Your Highness, the Crown Prince, you are so miserable!"

The black disciple carefully identified it for a moment and finally confirmed that the child was really very similar to the emperor's eyebrows and eyes. He couldn't help but admire him. See the great gift.

As the leader of this team of black disciples, since he had bowed down, the black disciples behind him naturally bowed down, calling him His Royal Highness the Prince.

Izumo Feng was nervous and stood there a little while stunned. Su Yan signaled behind him for a few times and was still at a loss. There was no way. Su Yan had to whisper and reminded: "I'll say you don't want to give me a gift."

When Izumoto heard the reminder, he came back to his senses and quickly said, "No gift, please get up!"

Although the voice was too tense and the sound was too sharp, it still made all the black disciples excited. They got up from the snow, dressed and dressed, and then said: "Your Highness, please allow me to invite you to stay at my place for the time being, so that I can wait and see you sooner or later to protect you!"

"Okay!" Izumo Feng replied solemnly at Su Yan's reminder. The group quickly passed through the forest in the snow and soon came outside the camp at the foot of Hanshan Mountain.

"Your Highness, please go here!"

The leader of the team leader signaled everyone to walk past the side and bypassed the three camps in the middle.

The military appearance of the Izumo Empire is somewhat different from that of Xu State, but in general, it is very similar in both deployment and camping methods.

These three camps are obviously the core camps that have been stationed for a long time. According to normal circumstances, when the prince visits the border camp, he naturally has to go straight to the central army's tent, and everything he does is unobstructed.

However, at this time they had to deliberately bypass these three camps and come to a remote camp with a low and narrow area.

"We are all our own people here, and we are more convenient to act, but the conditions are a bit simple. Please don't be surprised by His Royal Highness!"

"It's okay. General Lin, don't be polite. Now I am a down-and-out person. I can follow the general's arrangements!" Izumo Feng did not wait for Su Yan's prompt this time, and he said it according to his thoughts.

He heard from his grandfather that the black disciples of the Izumo Empire, both the captains of all and the big and small, have their surnames. This is a rule passed down by the black disciples.

It was initially because before the founding of the Izumo Empire, the Lin family was the most loyal vassal race of the Izumo family. The Izumo family's habit was to choose brave and war-friendly people from the Lin family to form black disciples and use them as personal soldiers. Until the founding of the country, this habit continued.

However, something happened in the middle, so that the Lin family declined and the population gradually became scarce. However, the Black disciples still maintained this tradition. No matter what their original surname was, once they became the captain, they would automatically change to the Lin family to show their loyalty to the empire and the Izumo family.

It is precisely because of this that although Izumo Feng was just an eight-year-old child at this time, all the black disciples will be his most loyal soldiers, and he will never struggle alone.

Of course, the reason why Su Yan has been hesitating whether to return to the Izumo Empire is because of the great help from the Black Puppet to Izumo Feng.

If he really had no hope, he would have lost his mind long ago, and would not have gone back to the border without knowing that he had not had enough time, and finally lost the details and was discovered by Xu Guo.

Several people entered the camp, walked quietly all the way, and entered an inconspicuous camp.

The black disciple behind Captain Lin was guarding outside the camp, staring vigilantly at the grass and trees around him. The black disciples scattered in the camp had already heard the news, and they all paid attention to everything around them intentionally or unintentionally.

"Your Highness, Lord Su, to be honest, you are back... it's not the time!"

At this moment, Captain Lin finally relaxed and said the truth with a wry smile.

"Why did General Lin say this?" Su Yan took over the topic. At this time, it was no longer time for Izumo Feng to come forward. After all, Izumo Feng is just an eight-year-old child, and many things still need to be handled by Su Yan.

"Do you know the current situation of the Izumo Empire?" General Lin asked.

Su Yan frowned and said, "I am trapped in Xu Kingdom and do not know much about domestic news. I only know that after the evil woman poisoned the late emperor, she claimed that the late emperor had a sudden illness and did not see anyone. When the ministers were unable to ask for a meeting and began to protest, she asked her brother to lead troops into the imperial capital and slaughtered the mansions of several important officials."

"After that, the Izumo Empire completely fell into the hands of this evil woman, and she has always exercised imperial power as a self-proclaimed queen."

Su Yan told him what he knew, which was also the basic situation Xu Guo learned.

After all, the imperial capital of the Izumo Empire is still too far away from Xu State, and even if there is any news, it is very difficult to get through Shanhaiguan.

"Oh! There is a major change in this matter, I'm afraid that Lord Su will never guess it no matter what!" General Lin sighed, picked up the teacup on the table and drank it all.

"We cannot get the details of what happened to the imperial capital, but there are two of them worth noting."

"First, poisoning and killing the late emperor in the palace was actually not a common poison. Because the palace was heavily guarded, it was impossible for poisons to enter the palace without arousing the late emperor's alertness."

"Second, the one who created the blood cage of the imperial capital was not ordinary soldiers. It is reported that at that time, the roar of filial piety came from General Dingxi's mansion, and someone saw huge figures hundreds of feet high appearing in the thick fog."

General Lin's voice was extremely low, and Izumo Feng felt furrowed when he heard it, but these two news made Su Yan frown tightly.

"General Lin... I am bluntly speaking, as the personal soldiers of the late emperor, the black disciples in the empire were in charge of military affairs in the world, how could they not even have specific information? There are only two such news about Mohu that captures the wind and shadow?"

General Lin smiled bitterly and sighed again, and continued: "Mr. Su, you also said that the black disciple is the personal soldier of the late emperor. Since that is the case, since the evil woman poisoned the late emperor, how could she reuse us black disciples?"

"For the past eight years, the black disciples have been sent to carry out hugely risky tasks. Now there are only seven black disciples who still survive!"

"Seven branches!" Su Yan was shocked and angry, "The sixteen black disciples of the empire, and Xu State lost three branches. I know. Where are the other six branches?"

General Lin shook his head silently, "No one knows! In short, we were sent to perform various tasks. Gradually, only seven of us can be confirmed now. No one knows whether the other black disciples are dead or alive, nor who will be the next turn."

"Just like you are stationed on the outskirts of Hanshan now, you have also seen that the three camps are all their people, and the black disciples are only us, and they are also broken up into two camps on both sides of the camp, one on the left and one on the right, which are very far apart, and they are strictly ordered not to gather and talk!"

Su Yan's brows became tighter and tighter.

The situation on Izumo is serious. He has been mentally prepared for a long time, but he did not expect it to be so serious!

The most critical question is why the Black Puppet, as a special team with a long history and strong combat power in the Izumo Empire, completely abandoned it?

"And..." General Lin's words were not finished yet, "What I just said was the changes in the imperial capital. In fact, especially in recent years, the strange situation has become more and more obvious. Not only are it limited to us black disciples, but even ordinary soldiers in the imperial army are in panic."

"Why? What happened?" Su Yan asked.

General Lin frowned and shook his head slightly, "No one knows what happened, but everyone is speculating that the entire empire is changing, as if something bad happened in the dark. The most obvious change among them is that the arms and weapons we use are constantly changing!"

"What changes?" Su Yan was shocked, knowing that this was the key.

He didn't know Xu's judgment on the soldiers of the Izumo Empire, that is, the shields and guns they used were from the demon insects.

It is even less clear that the information that Xu Guo has confirmed is that the Izumo Empire cooperates with the demon insects.

Of course, even if Xiao He told him, he would not believe it, because the news was too outrageous. Anyone's first reaction must be that Xiao He was deliberately vilifying the Izumo Empire.

"The soldiers were asked to train and fight with a... obviously from something... living things, flesh and blood shells from some kind of living things, various equipment and weapons made!"

General Lin tried hard to choose the right words and finished speaking the news. Then he reached out and grabbed the black shield leaning against the wall, turned it over and placed it on the table.
Chapter completed!