Seeing these footprints and horse hoof prints, everyone was completely uneasy.
The footprints are easy to explain. They were the marks left by them running around in a panic just now.
But what is the explanation for these horse hoof prints?
Even if the footprints from more than a thousand years ago could be preserved to this day, would they still be visible through a layer of salt?
"Damn it, I've been getting punched here for a long time. It turns out it's the fault of these 'shady soldiers'!"
"No wonder when we came in, there were realgars everywhere in the passage. It turns out that guy Yu Wenrui raised 'yin soldiers' here!"
Listening to the conversation between a few of them, it sounded like "a book from heaven" to others.
However, judging from the expressions on their faces, the panic and confusion before were completely gone.
It seems that we have found a way.
Lin Yi's barrier sword was lying in front of him, and all the "yin soldiers" on the opposite side had stopped, not daring to confront him head-on.
It seems that these guys are not stupid. They know how powerful this knife is, and they also know that Lin Yi is definitely not someone to be trifled with.
Wang Qiang and Bai Lu also calmed down now. They took out the white salt from their bags and sprinkled it evenly around them.
Covering the messy footprints just now.
However, new imprints appeared.
"They want to outflank them from both sides, give the realgar to Lao Wei and the others, and paint their weapons with cinnabar!"
"clear!"
Several packets of realgar powder were given to Lao Wei, Jin Pengfei, Wu Jingshan and Xiao Liu.
"How should we use Consultant Lin?"
"Look at the footprints on the ground. If the 'Yin soldiers' get close, sprinkle realgar powder on them."
"What about you?"
"We have this!"
With that said, Wang Qiang took out the cinnabar and smeared it on his tooth axe. The long sword in Qian Sheng's hand was also covered with bright red cinnabar.
Bai Lu directly inserted the crossbow arrows into the cinnabar bucket and shook it twice to ensure that each crossbow arrow was coated with cinnabar powder.
The footprints on the ground began to slowly circle back behind them.
The long-silent cry of killing suddenly burst out.
"Now! Kill!"
Lin Yi shouted loudly.
The realgar powder in the hands of Lao Wei and others was thrown towards the footprints in front of them.
I saw a burst of smoke immediately rising in the air, and the realgar powder did not fall directly to the ground, but actually landed on the void.
A looming figure, stained with realgar powder, made a sound like a ghost crying or a wolf howling.
"Damn it, you too have today, let me beat you up!"
Wang Qiang shouted, swung the tooth ax in his hand, and slashed towards the place where the smoke was rising.
Where the tooth ax landed, there was an obvious pause, and then it became extremely smooth. Then a black liquid splashed out, and the crying suddenly stopped.
The piece of realgar powder was also scattered on the ground.
When everyone saw that the "Yin soldiers" were dealt with in this way, their confidence suddenly increased.
Each one held realgar powder and kept throwing it around.
Countless smoke immediately rose in the area around him.
Wherever the smoke went, these "yin soldiers" were unable to hide. The elite crossbow in Bai Lu's hand fired one after another, and the figures in front of her fell down one after another.
Qian Sheng and Lin Yi also waved their weapons and started a desperate fight with these "yin soldiers".
The eight people on their side are working together more and more skillfully.
As soon as the realgar powder is sprinkled out, someone from the "Group of Four" will immediately follow and hit the target.
In an instant, the surrounding white salt ground was soaked in black liquid.
The shouts of death around him became smaller and smaller, and their momentum gradually dissipated.
I don’t know how long they had been fighting, but all the white salt on the ground had condensed into black salt blocks. When there was not much realgar powder distributed to them left, the sounds around them finally stopped.
The "casualties" on the other side are not clear at all.
They also suffered considerable losses.
Although these Yin soldiers cannot cause substantial trauma to them, they can cause damage to them through air currents.
Everyone has wounds to some extent, but fortunately they are not fatal.
However, if this situation continues, it will be difficult to say.
"Die! Die to me all! Die!"
Xiao Liu seemed to be greatly shocked, and he was still throwing handfuls of realgar powder outside.
After the powder was scattered, it all fell to the ground.
"Master Liu, Master Liu, it's okay, it's okay!"
Jin Peng flew up and grabbed his shoulders tightly, while Xiao Liu's body was still shaking uncontrollably.
Lao Wei took the bag containing realgar powder from his hand and handed it to Qian Shengran, who continued to keep it.
This crisis of "shadow soldiers taking advantage of the situation" has been resolved for the time being.
Out of caution, Lin Yi took out a bag of salt and threw it farther away. He was relieved when he didn't see any traces.
"You guys wait here, I'll go check on the situation."
After saying that, he held the barrier knife in his hand and walked into the black crematorium.
The four walls of the furnace are cast using the "steel pouring method", and then the four pieces are spliced together.
The upper level is where the body is burned, the middle is a compartment for filtering ash, and below there are four fire channels for ignition.
There are still some incompletely burned pine branches, charcoal and coal residues in the fire tunnel.
From the ashes under the stove, in addition to the burned out ignition objects and corpses, there were also some arrow clusters mixed in.
And there are two types of arrow cluster shapes.
One is a three-sided arrow cluster with a regular shape, and the other is a willow-leaf arrow cluster that is not very regular in shape.
This kind of triangular arrow cluster has been equipped with armies on a large scale in the Central Plains Dynasty since the Qin and Han Dynasties.
On the contrary, these border ethnic minorities cannot produce large quantities of triangular arrow clusters due to their backward casting technology, and can only produce flat arrow clusters.
It can be seen that these arrow clusters were shot into the bodies of these people at that time.
And these lingering Yin soldiers are the soldiers who died when Zhang Ji led Cao Wei soldiers to fight Lu Shuihu.
Due to some reasons, these people were not able to return to their hometown in the end. Instead, Yu Wenrui dug them out, including men and horses. Instead of repaying their souls and returning home, they were thrown into this crematorium. Their grievances were condensed and turned into Yin soldiers.
The origin of such insidious magic is unknown, but what is certain is that it completely disappeared after the Tang Dynasty.
However, considering that Yu Wenrui lived in an era that happened to be the junction between the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Sui Dynasty, his ability to learn such sinister magic must be related to his wide network of friends and extensive knowledge.
These Yin soldiers who were "raised" by him may have been put to great use at the beginning, but why they were still sealed in this cave later, there is no definite answer yet.
Nowadays, through the hands of a few of them, the "Yin Soldiers" with so much resentment are completely freed from death, which is actually a good thing. (End of chapter)
