Chapter 12 Chapter 12 Zhongtian Wind and Thunder Invade Bicheng

Zhuo Wangsun and others looked up and saw a pair of men and horses standing on the rock wall above the waterfall, swords drawn and crossbows drawn.The leader had a face like red sandalwood, a nose as straight as a shave, gloomy and haughty eyes, and a red dress with a black belt on his body, which was the attire of a ninth-rank military officer of the current dynasty. Qianli Zishi said in a low voice: "Young master, there are court officials here... Could it be that we have already walked out of the mandala formation?" Xiaoyan shook her head lightly, motioning for her not to make a sound.

On the top of the waterfall, Yang Yizhi walked out from behind the pair of officers and soldiers, and said to everyone at the bottom of the pool: "Mr. Zhuo, we are already in the middle of Xumo County, Yunnan Province. Please come up and talk." Zhuo Wangsun's robe sleeve area, like white clouds coming out of Xiu, and Bu Xiaoluan landed steadily on the bank of the top of the pool. A strong young man took a few steps forward, stood in front of Zhuo Wangsun, and shouted: "You killed the Jiaoshen?" Although he didn't have any internal strength, his voice was naturally so loud that it made his scalp numb.It was the young Orion just now.

Bu Xiaoluan covered her ears and said angrily, "It's so noisy, can't you speak in a low voice?" Zhuo Wangsun didn't even look at the man, picked up Bu Xiaoluan and turned to leave. Orion was stunned for a moment, his face suddenly flushed with embarrassment, he suddenly raised the steel fork, and said, "Turn around and catch me three moves!" Zhuo Wangsun didn't seem to hear. Orion gritted his teeth, and as soon as he gathered strength in his palm, the hunting fork was about to make a move. Suddenly his hands were empty, and in shock, he turned his head and saw that the hunting fork was already in Yang Yi's hands.This Orion had already fought against Yang Yizhi just now, and after being defeated, he admired his martial arts very much.This Orion was born in the mountains and forests since he was a child, and all he saw was that the strong preyed on the weak and the strong survived. He had neither seen superb martial arts nor read half-character poems.Seeing Yang Yizhi such a master all of a sudden, of course he respects him as a heavenly man and regards his every word and deed as right.Seeing him making a move to stop him, he didn't know what to do.

Yang Yizhi said: "These are the companions mentioned below." The middle-aged Orion also came out from the side, he saw Zhuo Wangsun fighting the Jiaoshen with his bare hands, he knew that this man's martial arts were as high as he had never seen in his life, and it was definitely not something these people could deal with, not to mention that everyone in the company was not easy with his generation.The only expedient way is to hide this group of people temporarily, report to the county, gather the county people, and discuss a perfect plan to trap this person and avenge the God of Jiao.With this in mind, he pulled Mang'er away, turned around and said to everyone: "Since you have come together, you have already taken care of each other, and you don't need my father and son to lead the way. Mang'er and I will take our leave first. If we meet again someday, You must be invited to have a drink." The middle-aged Orion said as he folded his hands and stepped back.

"Wait!" The leading military officer galloped out, gouged out the Orion's eyes, and said coldly: "Beheading the Flood God is a heinous crime, and none of the people present can get away with it, come and take them down with me. " For a while, people on the mountain road were noisy and aggressive, but the group of officers and soldiers were also quite cautious. Although they shouted loudly, they didn't really come forward for a while. Xiao Yan floated up and came to the crowd, clasping his hands and asked: "All of you claim to be deacons in Xumo County, Yunnan Province, but you don't know what you have to do with this monster snake?"

The chief military officer took a look at Xiaoyan, and a sneer appeared on his extremely thin lips: "This dragon god was conquered five hundred years ago by Mr. Wu Qingfeng, the current national teacher, and was raised here, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and only waiting for the sage to ascend to heaven." At that time, it was used to guide the emperor. For decades, the dragon god lived in this Shenlongtan, making clouds to make rain, guarding one side, worshiped by the local people, and sacrificed every year. It is very miraculous. Now it is this person—” He exclaimed The whip pointed at Zhuo Wangsun: "Ignorant killing! Blasphemy and killing gods, the crime is heinous, and punishes the nine clans. If you have nothing to do with this person, please go back with us obediently. After we find out the truth and deal with the real culprit, we will naturally give you gifts Get out of the city, or you will be guilty of the same crime as the murderer!"

After the man finished speaking, he looked around and saw that the group of people did not move. He thought that the intimidation had worked, so he winked at his subordinates. When the nine good horses in the first row gave a long neigh, the officials immediately pulled them out. With a sword and a crossbow, you will jump out of the team. Zhuo Wangsun suddenly said: "No need to bother, I just want to go to Xumo County with a few of you." The military officer sneered and said, "Of course you can't run away, but other people must go back and give personal witnesses."

Zhuo Wangsun smiled calmly, looked at the mountain road in the distance, and said: "That's better, please help us guide the way." Even though they were escorting the murderer, the group of officers and soldiers never served them with shackles, ropes and sticks, they were only allowed to walk in front, and he and his party followed on horseback from a distance.Although Zhuo Wangsun and his party committed serious crimes, they didn't take it seriously at all, pointing out scenery along the way, very leisurely. The scenery here is very different from when we came here. The vast ancient forest seems to have come to an end, and the mountains and forests are winding into an interesting place. It is more like the ordinary scenery of Yunnan and Guangxi. Although it is quiet and strange, it is more crowded after all.There are towering old trees and vines hanging down the roadside. Not far away, someone built a pergola next to the vine wall to sell some tea and fruits.Fields in some villages are also scattered in the depths of the forest. The villages are all built of ordinary materials such as bamboo and stone, and most of the fields are planted with rice and melons.Recalling the strange people and strange things I saw in the mandala formation in the past few days, I really feel like a world away.

After walking for another half an hour, they came to a city wall, the gate was closed tightly, and several officers and soldiers stood guard on the wall. A bamboo plaque was hung in the middle, although it was simple but not dilapidated, there were three big characters on it, "Xu Yao County".The city walls and plaques here are of course much smaller compared to the cities of the Central Plains, but it was the first time in many days that I saw the counties and counties of my country, and I felt quite cordial. The chief military officer rode his horse and came to the city. He reined in his horse and shouted: "When will the city gate be closed? We have caught important criminals today, open the gate and let me in!"

There was no movement in the city gate for a long time. After a long time, a person poked his head out and said with a smile: "So it's all about your lord. Don't you know that a plague suddenly broke out in the city. Hundreds of residents in the city and nearby villagers outside the city have died." People, Mr. County Yin has ordered the city to be closed at noon today. Whether people in the city want to leave the city or people outside the city want to enter the city, they must have a warrant from Mr. County Yin, otherwise they will all be killed. Therefore, I dare not give you this gate. opened."

Na Dushi snorted coldly and said, "How could Mr. Xian Yin be so unconscious? It's obvious that you have confuse the public with rumors. When I set off this morning, everything was safe. Where did the plague come from?" He whipped his horsewhip With a wave of his hand, he said in a deep voice, "I'm currently detaining a serious offender who offended Yufeng Jiaoshen. If there is an accident, don't talk about you, even the county Yin can't afford it. Quickly open the city gate and let me in!" The man said with a smile: "It's all a lesson from my lord, even my little nine heads don't dare to create such rumors. The epidemic is indeed dangerous, sir, you should take the criminals to the nearby villages to avoid the limelight, and wait for the plague to pass. Then go to town to handle the case." His face darkened, and he was about to have an attack when suddenly the city gate opened a crack, and several people covered in black cloth were pushing a cart, and there were five or six people lying on it, all in ragged clothes, stained with blood, A thick white cloth was wrapped around his head, revealing large scarlet bloodstains.Some of them were already stiff, but some were still moaning and wriggling, their nails scraping hard on the board, which sounded quite terrifying.The masked man didn't say a word, just pushed the car to a deep pit dug under the city wall, two people in groups, lifted the people up, and threw them into the pit one by one. Then he pointed at these people and said: "You said you can't go in and out, what's the matter with these people?" The man said: "These are the corpses that were sent out of the city to be burned and buried under the order of Lord Yin of the County. It is all about the Lord, and you have seen it. The epidemic situation is urgent, and it is not a small rumor. What's more, Lord Yin of the County is also responsible for not allowing you to enter the city." Your sympathy." That all stared at those people like a torch, and shouted in a deep voice: "The people are clearly still moving, how can you say they are corpses?" The humane said: "To be honest, this plague is coming very urgently. The infected people will soon become afraid of light and water, lose control of their minds, and devour blood fiercely. There is no cure. What's more frightening is that after a few hours, the The six relatives refused to recognize each other, and they bit anyone they saw. And those who were bitten were immediately infected. In desperation, Lord Yin had to order that all infected people be dug and burned to prevent the disease from spreading." A puff of thick smoke rose from under the city wall, as if the corpse was being set on fire, and a foul smell came, and everyone couldn't help but cover their mouths and noses.After the group of masked men in black set fire to the corpses, they hurried into the city. The remaining "corpses" screamed in the pit, digging up the earth and rocks, which sounded thrilling. Na Dushi waved his sleeves, swept away the turbid air in front of him, and said contemptuously: "Lord Xian Yin's idea is really brilliant. It doesn't matter if some mad dogs are burned, I am safe and sound, but he ordered me to be locked up outside the city , Living with a mad person, such compassion is really strange." The man laughed twice: "Whether you are sick or not, it's not up to the young ones. When you first got the disease, everything was the same as ordinary people, but after six hours, there will be a touch of blue on the forehead, like... ..." The man stretched out his hand and pointed, but the gesture suddenly froze in mid-air, trembling: "This, this..." That all said: "What is this, could it be that your tongue was also bitten by a mad dog?" Looking along his finger, he couldn't help but also changed his face - the green and ferocious line on Qianli Zishi's forehead The claw marks protrude from the skin by an inch. "That's it!" The man shouted loudly: "It's like a sharp claw... Since this woman is already sick, if you walk with her, you may be infected. You are now ordered to kill and burn this woman immediately, and to kill her." Living outside the city, our daily activities are monitored by us, and if there is no claw mark on the forehead in the future, you can enter the city. If you want to leave here or rush into the city, you will be killed!" Dushi's sergeants were already in a commotion, and they were about to rush up and smash the city gate open.All of them raised their hands to stop the noise, and said, "Didn't you say that you can get infected by biting people?" The man said: "That's the reason, but human life is at stake. To be on the safe side, there are only a few wronged people." Nadushi let out a heavy cold snort in his nose, and said: "A man with eagle claws and canine teeth, dare to imprison this official?" After saying that, he waved his hand, and all his subordinates rode their horses and rushed towards the city gate together. The man on the wall didn't answer, and waved the flag in his hand, only to hear the sound of piercing through the air, countless feather arrows, like an impenetrable rainstorm, hooded the place where several people stood.These feathered arrows are numerous and accurate, obviously they have been prepared long ago. Horses neighed in the surrounding night, and screams could be heard endlessly.Although Na Dushi was agile, he blocked many feather arrows, and many of his subordinates had already been injured by feather arrows.Even though he was extremely angry, he didn't dare to step forward rashly. Qianli Zishi slowly withdrew her right hand placed on her forehead, her expression was extremely dignified, she was silent for a moment, walked up to Xiaoyan, knelt down and said, "Young master..." Xiaoyan shook his head, sighed slightly, and stretched out his hand to her. Qianli Zishi didn't get up, took a deep breath, and said softly: "Zishi is indeed poisonous, there is no cure. Before losing his sanity, he should kill himself, so as not to hurt others. Zishi's life is not his own. , express this situation to the young master, and hope that the young master will grant Zishi to commit suicide here immediately." Xiaoyan stared at the green claw marks on Qianli's forehead, and said: "I heard this kind of plague from my mother on Nether Island. The poison travels with the blood, reaches the brain, and turns the patient's mind upside down. There is a precedent that can be saved by manpower, but—" Xiao Yan was silent for a moment, then said: "It does not mean that the precedent does not start with us." Qianli Zishi clenched the sand on the ground with both fists, and said: "Zishi has already felt that his heart is in a frenzy, and he is struggling to hold on. I am afraid that he will lose his sanity after a while, and if he hurts the young master at that time..." Xiaoyan took a step forward, forcibly lifted her up, and said in a deep voice, "Since you know that life is not yours, as long as I don't give up for a day, you have to endure it for a day." Qianli Zishi stared at him, his shoulders were trembling, what else would she say, Zhuo Wangsun said: "Since this is the case, we don't have to forcefully enter the city, just stay outside the city for a while and wait and see what happens." Xiao Yan said: "Thank you Mr. Zhuo for your understanding." At this moment, there was another commotion inside the city gate, mixed with faint crying. The side door was opened with a "squeak", and a group of officials escorted a hundred villagers out of the side door.There were men, women and children among them, most of them were dressed in rags and looked tired, and many of them kept wiping away their tears with their sleeves up. The man on the city wall poked his head out again, but he had changed his smiling face, and shouted to the people below: "My lord... Your chance to make meritorious service has come. These people are the family members of the patients, and they were expelled by the county lord Yin." Those who go out of the city must temporarily live outside the city until the epidemic subsides before entering the city. Lord Yin just ordered that these people be under the care of the Lord Capital during this period, and those who show signs of illness or refuse to obey the discipline will be killed immediately. As for drinking water, every day At noon, we will send it down from the top of the city with a bucket. Lord Yin of the county loves the people like his own son, and will never treat you badly." There was a gloomy glint like a falcon in Na Dushi's eyes, and he said slowly: "Master Xian Yin really wants us to live here, so he also has to send some bricks, stones and iron frames to build tents, so we won't let us sleep in the wild, right?" ?” The man said: "Master Xian Yin said that in this critical period, everything should be kept simple. Seeing that there are a lot of bamboo forests nearby, Mr. Du Shi can completely force the villagers under his command to cut some bamboo and wood and build tents." That's all he said: "He is afraid that I will have a masonry and iron frame, transform weapons, and counterattack the city?" The man in the city let out a haha ​​and didn't answer any more. Du Shi sneered and said, "If there are really sick people among these villagers, wouldn't we all be in danger? Mr. Xian Yin's move can really kill two birds with one stone, extremely vicious." The man smiled and said: "The danger is indeed dangerous, but Mr. Xian Yin said that with Mr. Dushi's wisdom, he can always find a solution." That's all, his eyes were like lightning, he swept that person's face, and said with a smile: "One day, I will definitely let you live with a certain family in a different place, and see what you can think of." He said these words extremely viciously, listening It looks creepy. The face of the man on the wall changed, and then forced a smile: "If such a small mediocrity can handle this matter, Mr. Xian Yin will not specially appoint Mr. Dushi to you?" Naqian didn't answer any more, turned around on his horse, and immediately assigned his subordinates to escort the villagers to cut trees and build tents. The sun was hot, and the soil was shrouded in a layer of swaying heat.Let alone bamboo and wood here, even the wild vines have not been exploited by humans for hundreds of years, and their stems are thick and their skins are thick, making them extremely difficult to cut.But under the urging of long knives and whips, the group of villagers finally built a bamboo building for officers and soldiers to rest before sunset.After that, the villagers were exhausted, so they had to pick up some remaining broken wood and grass, and spread some simple grass beds under the nearby big trees. They should be organized into three pairs by the officials, guarding and patrolling respectively. During the period, the gates of the city were opened several times, and dozens of corpses and hundreds of villagers were escorted out one after another.More and more refugees gathered outside the city, and the sound of moaning and crying was endless. The red sun gradually falls into the cloud shadows of the western mountains, where the slanting light shines, the sunset glow gradually grows, and the shape changes.The azure blue sky gradually turned purple-gold, and there was a crescent moon in the east, hanging low at the edge of the twilight sky, faintly confronting the red sun that had not yet set. However, just for a moment, a gust of evil wind swept several dark clouds and mountains, advancing from the southern sky to this side. It was silent at first, but it was flying like stars and lightning.In a blink of an eye, they arrived at the sky above where everyone was.Yunshan is majestic and majestic, with a width of about acre and a height of tens of feet. The center is like a whirlpool, convex upwards, and there is a little red fire in the dark black, which is dazzling.The fire light came to the top of everyone's heads, and gradually brought out the sound of rumbling wind and thunder. After a while, it was more like the sun rising from the hibiscus, and the phantom of the sea waves, emitting countless golden lights, dancing up and down from time to time.Everyone was about to be amazed, the countless golden lights suddenly converged, reflecting back a mass of enveloping thick purple air, falling straight down.Before everyone could dodge in the future, they only heard a loud noise like an earthquake cracking, and the purple light turned into a bolt of lightning, piercing the sky and penetrating the earth! Everyone exclaimed loudly and fled in all directions, only to feel the earthquake several times, and there was a loud noise behind them, a towering ancient tree was split open by the lightning, and the raging fire climbed up the vine, burning blazingly.The same sound was heard everywhere, the mountains roared, and the trees wailed.In an instant, a biting cold wind rolled up the sky and swirled through the earth. The weaker plants and trees on the ground were uprooted and thrown into the air. A bloody black rainstorm rushed towards the earth like the sky and the sea. The villagers scattered to avoid the rain, but screamed and fell to the ground. It turned out that the rain was mixed with hail.The hailstones are as small as a wine cup, and as big as a bowl, if you are not careful, your head will bleed, and your brain will burst if you hit it.The shattered crystals were like snow, falling down from the black clouds of the torrential rain. There were thunderous sounds, strong winds, and sand and stones flying all over the sky. The momentum was very frightening.Those villagers were already panicking, holding their heads, desperately burying their bodies in the mud on the ground, crying and shouting.And the hailstorm is so fierce, is it possible for the villagers to cover their heads and grab the land to hide?In a moment, most people were injured, and the ground was overflowing with reddish blood, like small rivers. "Come here!" Through the sound of wind and thunder, a clear voice sounded in the ears of the villagers.The group of villagers looked up and saw Zhuo Wangsun and his party leaning against a stone wall. An invisible wall of air opened up around them like a barrier, blocking all wind, rain and hail from the wall of air. , I saw that the black wind rolled countless bowl-sized ice cubes and slammed into the air wall, but only the debris flew, and there was no drop of water that could get close to it after a few meters of bounce. In desperation, those villagers saw the life, so they didn't care much, they all rushed towards the air wall with their heads in their hands. It's strange to say that the air wall, which can't be damaged by ice cubes and can bounce off water drops, is against them. There was nothing blocking it.Everyone walked in ignorantly, not only did not feel unnatural at all, but they were refreshed.Some people are eager to run for their lives, their momentum is too strong, they can't hold back for a while, and they go straight to the stone wall behind the air wall.Around the sleeves of Xiaoyan's robe, he stood them upright, and then arranged some more comfortable positions for women, children, old and weak. The villagers regained their breath and thanked them one after another. Xiaoyan smiled and answered a few words, but Zhuo Wangsun's face was frosty and he ignored them. When there were too many people, he gently turned the semicircle in his palm, As if being urged, the air wall immediately expanded to several feet square. The hail outside the air wall gradually became smaller, and the sky became slightly brighter, but the torrential rain and strong winds still raged endlessly.Xiangsi suddenly pointed to a rock outside the wall of air, and said in surprise: "Sir, there are still people there!"