The city in the mountain is brightly lit, like a noisy night market.
And all the excitement and lights are covered by the formation. Even if you look down from the clouds, you can only see the quiet and dark mountains and forests.
There were guards on the city wall, and even though there was a large formation covering them outside, the bandits still did not take it lightly.
At this time, Chao Dabiao, who was supposed to be in the Suzhou Army barracks, appeared in the mountain city. The person who met him was the bandit leader, Yingchou.
Yingqiu, as his name suggests, has a body shape like a bamboo pole, the knuckles of his hands are like eagle claws, and the eyes in the narrow eye sockets are extremely sharp.
Yingqiu was originally a person who wandered around the world. From Cangzhou to Nanzhou, there were Yingqiu in this area. In the end, Yingqiu settled in the mountains and forests of Nanzhou Prefecture, occupied the land as king, and started a business of robbing families and homes.
Now this business is getting bigger and bigger, and someone gave him a better "cottage", which is this city in the mountain.
The plundering in the past six months has made Yingqiu very rich, including countless gold and silver treasures.
Ying Qiu knew that this year's smooth sailing was thanks to the cooperation of Su Cheng's army. Half of these gold and silver treasures must be given to You Yuanju and Chao Dabiao.
Yingqiu sat on a tiger-skin chair, drinking wine and eating meat.
"General Chao, do you have any new orders when you come here this time?"
Chao Dabiao looked at Yingqiu and said calmly: "The inspector censor from Kyoto has arrived in Suzhou. Please stop what you are doing. In addition, are the several fortresses you were asked to build before ready?"
When Yingqiu heard this, he immediately said: "It will take some time to build those cottages. But things can't stop now. Those beasts are almost becoming sperm, and one child is needed for daily rations. I'm planning to let them go again." Brothers go out into the mountains to capture some and bring them back.”
Chao Dabiao said in surprise: "There are at least more than 900 children kidnapped by you in Sucheng County. Even if these beasts eat one a day, it will be enough for several months..."
Suddenly, Chao Dabiao stared at Yingqiu with cold eyes and said, "You must have done other things behind my back, right?"
Yingqiu panicked and was speechless for a moment.
But under Chao Dabiao's questioning, Yingchou had no choice but to say: "A few days ago, the traffickers in Cangzhou found their brothers, and they asked for a very high price. One child is a piece of gold. I couldn't help it, so I gave away some of the children. sold."
Chao Dabiao was furious. He had long known that these bandits were unreliable.
"You know how many things would be missed if the secrets in the mountains were discovered!"
Yingchou said nonchalantly: "General Chao is overly worried. My brothers are very careful in their work. They took these children out of the mountain blindfolded. This city will never be discovered. Besides, Isn’t there a formation covering the outside of the city? Who can find this place?”
"This is the best!" At this point, Chao Dabiao could only give up.
He warned again: "In the past few days, please restrain yourself. If the new censor discovers the clues, you and I will both die!"
"Hurry up and fix those cottages. Then let Su Chengjun catch some bandits and imprison them. This matter will be over. How long can the remaining children survive?"
Yingqiu calculated it and said, "One month won't be a problem."
"Okay!" Chao Dabiao continued, "That's one month. In this month, there is only one thing. Set up those fortresses and wait for the Su City Army to come and suppress the bandits. We will supervise the censor. It’s a blessing for you and me to fool him, but if we can’t fool him, we’ll all be doomed!”
With that said, Chao Dabiao was about to turn around and leave.
"General Chao, it's already dark, why not rest for the night and leave tomorrow?" Yingchou said.
Chao Dabiao did not respond, and the figure had disappeared from Yingqiu's sight.
Immediately, Yingqiu's eyes dimmed. He took a sip of wine and started cursing.
"It's just a lieutenant who treats me like a dog. I still want to give you half of the money. Do you really think that I picked up the money on the ground?"
"What a bullshit censor. A young boy has scared you Su City Army. If you ask me, just give me some medicine and kill him with one knife. If you are afraid of a young boy, you won't be afraid of being laughed at if the news spreads." .”
Yingqiu Gulu Gulu drank a few more sips of wine and shouted: "Come here, ask the second master to take those children and sell them. What to eat for those beasts, it is better to make some money for me."
In the past few years, Yingqiu had robbed some caravans on weekdays, only taking money and rarely killing people. This day passed happily and comfortably.
At the beginning of this year, Chao Dabiao approached Yingqiu. At first, Yingqiu thought that the deputy general of the Su City Army was here to suppress bandits or recruit people. Unexpectedly, Chao Dabiao brought him a big business.
With the confidence given by Chao Dabiao, he could kill, set fire, and plunder the caravan more easily.
Later, Yingqiu and his party came to this mountain city.
Chao Dabiao also made some conditions, robbed children and raised wild beasts in the city.
Although Yingqiu also noticed the strangeness of these beasts, what did it have to do with him? He just wants money, who cares about these bad things?
Deeper in the city, there was a group of people who had already existed. These people were very mysterious and almost never showed up and never interacted with Yingqiu and the others. But Ying Qiu knew that these were things that bandits like them could not afford to offend.
In other words, they are just watchdogs guarding this mountain city.
"I'll make my money, and when I make another profit, the worst I can do is just slap my butt and leave." Yingqiu muttered, having already made up his mind.
...
Yu Zhi and Wuhua posted ten red fire talismans in the mountain forest, one red fire talisman every mile.
These ten red fire talismans are enough to flatten this mountain.
Wuhua looked at the talisman floating in the wind not far away and said, "Brother Yu, is this really necessary?"
Yu Zhi said with a sneer at the corner of his mouth: "I thought about it carefully. If I want to break the maze formation by normal means, I don't know how long it will take. Even if the children kidnapped by the bandits are still alive, I'm afraid they won't be able to wait for us to break the formation. That day. In that case, I will simply blow up this place. If I can break in, I might be able to save a few people."
"Amitabha." Wuhua was just worried about hurting innocent people, but he didn't know how to deal with such a situation.
"Little monk, find a place to hide." Yu Zhi said, "If someone really runs out of it, don't let anyone go."
"Little monk understands!"
Immediately, Yu Zhi activated his true energy, and one-third of the runes on the red fire talisman began to flow with light. In an instant, ten red fire talismans exploded almost simultaneously.
A burst of red flames instantly rose into the sky, covering the entire mountain forest. The sound was like thunder, landslides and ground cracked, and patches of trees were uprooted, turned into charcoal in the fire, and then shattered instantly. Even hard boulders could not escape the fate of being shattered. Scorched earth was everywhere, black smoke was everywhere, and the unpleasant smell filled the entire world.
For a moment, the earth began to tremble, as if a world-ending disaster was coming and would destroy this land.
Yu Zhi looked at the world-destroying flames with a smile on his face, his eyes full of energy, trying to discern some clues from the explosion flames. He was afraid that he would not be able to blow up the maze, so he wanted to get some clues from it.
Wuhua clasped his hands together and chanted: "Amitabha."
Brother Yu actually has such a powerful talisman. Fortunately, Brother Yu is not a villain, otherwise he would definitely be a murderer causing trouble!
Wuhua also activated his energy and watched the changes in the explosion. It would be a good thing if we could really break through the maze.
...
"What's wrong?"
"what happened?"
The bandits in the mountain city also felt the shaking of the earth and the mountains, and looked panicked. They were just a ragtag group of people. Ever since they entered the mountain city, they had been at peace and had not even seen the slightest disturbance.
This even bored these bandits.
However, this kind of vibration is not what they want to see.
Yingqiu rushed to the city wall and looked at the mountains and forests outside the city. I saw blazing flames burning in the mountain, and the entire mountain had been flattened to one hilltop. The three surrounding towering peaks were dropping boulders from time to time, and they were about to collapse at any time.
"What's going on?" Yingchou grabbed one of his men and asked.
But no one can figure out the reason behind the explosion.
"Boss, could it be that Su Chengjun is calling?" someone said.
The cooperation between Yingqiu and Chao Dabiao is very secretive, and few people know about it. The bandits under Yingqiu didn't know, they just thought it was Su Cheng's army attacking the city.
Yingchou didn't think so, and thought to himself: "Chao Dabiao just left, and he hasn't walked out of the mountains yet. This is definitely not the work of Su Chengjun. But damn, who caused such an explosion?"
"Why don't you let people go check it out quickly?" Yingchou roared.
The bandits looked at the massive explosion and did not dare to leave the city.
Even Yingqiu himself understood that if he had been caught in the explosion, he would have been wiped out in ashes, with not even his bones and dregs left.
The captive wild beasts in the mountain city were frightened and howled incessantly. Their eyes and fur have undergone different changes, and their body shape, claws and fangs are more powerful than ordinary beasts.
However, they are still wild beasts, and they do not have the wisdom and understanding of human language like black tigers.
The countless roars made the bandits on guard tremble with fear, fearing that these beasts would jump out and devour them.
.......
On the official road far away from Su City, a person raised his head slightly to look at the flames soaring into the sky. This place was far away from the explosion point, and the vibrations and sounds had become extremely weak when they reached this place.
His eyes shone slightly, and he whispered softly: "The breath of the red fire talisman."
He was extremely convinced that besides him, there was only one person in the world who could draw the red fire talisman, and that was Yu Zhi, who had turned Cangshan upside down and caused Cangshan heavy losses.
"Little bastard, I finally found you." This person is none other than Cang Huo.
Cang Huo kept chasing Yu Zhi, from Beiliang Mansion to Kyoto, and then to Nanzhou Mansion, but every time he was a step too late, allowing Yu Zhi to escape.
"This time, I will definitely kill you little bastard."
