Zhou Huanhuan's face turned red when she heard this, and she said shyly: "The little girl is not talented. She has been in the Ice Valley for eight years and has not even learned the master's first success. She can only control a sword within a hundred steps, and can barely manage a distance of fifty steps." Tao Yu has two swords."
Chen Xiaomu smiled and complimented: "Miss Zhou, you are so humble. Mr. Cai Qing told me just now that you are a top master in martial arts!"
Zhou Huanhuan sighed and said: "I'm really over-praising you. With my current skills, this little girl is not even a top master in martial arts."
"Haha, I think Miss Zhou is being too modest, right?" Qingkui answered: "Just by being a disciple of the Snow Goddess, I am enough to impress all the martial arts practitioners in the Central Plains!"
Zhou Huan smiled and was about to answer, when suddenly there was the sound of footsteps in the fairy cave. Chen Xiaomu quickly put his index finger on his lips and made a silence gesture. Then he waved his hand and everyone immediately dispersed. , each found a place to hide near the entrance of the cave. After a while, I heard someone from the entrance of the cave saying: "Master Guan, this Qiu Guoshi said that he would go explore the way first. Why hasn't he come back for so long? Is there any accident?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a deep voice sounded: "Deputy Commander Yu, how many times have I warned you? You have to think through your words before you speak. Don't say that you can't say that you just pour it out!"
"Sir, did my subordinate say something wrong again?" The original voice accompanied Xing Xing and asked tremblingly.
"Hmph!" The rich voice snorted coldly: "Qiu Guoshi is the national master recently appointed by the emperor. His martial arts skills are unparalleled and his magic is unparalleled. How could something happen? If you let Qiu Guoshi hear what you said, you won't be able to participate in it before the emperor. You're so weird! I'm afraid you'll get into trouble by then!"
"Yes, yes, what the Lord Controller is teaching me is that my subordinate has a bad temper and speaks without restraint. I would like to ask you to cover it up for me."
"Well, don't make any mistakes in the future!"
"Yes, yes, I will definitely keep your master's lesson in mind."
Next, no one was talking in the cave, only the sounds of chaotic footsteps were getting thicker and closer. In a moment, the two soldiers who were exploring the way in front stepped out of the cave entrance and were immediately stopped by the people in front of them. I was shocked by the sight. I saw two Taoist boys in the open space in front of the entrance of the Immortal Cave. Their bodies were divided into two parts, and they died in a horrific manner. Two of the three black ostriches were lying on the ground motionless with their wings stretched out. The other one was lying motionless on the ground. Tragically, the body was cut in half by the sharp blade, and black blood and internal organs were scattered all over the floor.
The two soldiers glanced at each other, then immediately turned around and ran into the cave with a "boom boom", shouting as they ran, "Tong, Lord Tong, no, it's not good, Master Qiu, go out, something happened!"
"Ah! Qiu, Qiu Guoshizhen, something really happened?" The rich voice contained both panic and suspicion.
"Really, really! In the cave, in the open space in front of the cave entrance, the two little Taoist priests have lost their heads. Also, the three black dragons raised by Qiu Guoshi were also killed, and they were killed outside! If, if there is It's just a lie, I'm willing to guarantee it with my head on my neck!" the two soldiers said in panic.
''Sir, what should we do? "The deputy commander asked anxiously before the commander could speak again.
"Why are you panicking?" the commander scolded: "We don't know much about the situation outside the cave now, so we must not leave the cave rashly. Otherwise, if we are ambushed by the enemy outside the cave entrance, we may not be able to escape easily."
"But, sir, we can't go on like this endlessly, right?" the deputy commander said hurriedly.
The commander thought for a moment and said in a deep voice: "I think it's better to wait until Master Ding and the four brothers who went to buy wine come back, and we can discuss it together before making a plan!"
"But Mr. President, if..."
"Shut your slanderous mouth!" Before the deputy commander could finish his words, the commander interrupted him and said angrily: "You just said that Master Qiu had an accident, and Master Qiu really had an accident. What's wrong? You still said Do you think something will happen to Mr. Ding and the brothers again?"
"No, no, I don't even have the slightest thought!" Probably thinking of Ding Ru's usual methods of dealing with people, the deputy commander quickly defended himself: "My subordinate is just thinking that Master Ding and his brothers have been out for so long. Are you buying wine? After all, our Lord Ding cannot live without wine for a moment!"
"Well, that's true." It sounded like the commander's tone had obviously softened a lot, and he continued: "I guess they should be back just before this step. With Lord Ding's usual vigilance, it should be easy for them to come back. We will find the enemy's ambush outside the cave. If the enemy attacks Lord Ding and the others, we will fight our way out of the cave and cooperate inside and outside to ensure victory!"
"Yes, that's great, Lord Commander!" Deputy Commander Yu praised repeatedly: "My subordinates have heard long ago that Lord Ding and the four brothers join forces, and no one in the world can defeat them! Thinking about the monsters and monsters ambushing outside the cave, they must be even more so. Opponent!"
After hearing this, the commander couldn't help but said proudly: "Haha, it's good to know!" Then he changed the subject and said majestically: "Deputy Commander Yu, pass on the commander's military order to the commander, immediately extinguish all the torches in the cave, and the entire army will remain silent. , no one is allowed to talk, move around or make noise at will, otherwise military law will be imposed."
After hearing Deputy Commander Yu's promise of "obey", the Immortal Cave instantly became quiet.
Outside the cave, Chen Xiaomu, who was holding his body close to the cave entrance and keeping calm, listening to the sounds inside the cave, quietly looked around the cave entrance, but saw that the open space in front of the cave entrance was full of messes of various sizes. The stones were as big as millstones and as small as a child's fist. The only place where someone could hide was behind the tall larch. It was impossible to set up an ambush in front of the Immortal Cave.
After thinking quietly for a while, Chen Xiaomu raised his hand and made a retreat gesture to Wei Yuxin who was on the other side of the cave entrance. Then he tiptoed and cautiously left the side of the cave entrance.
Seeing Chen Xiaomu walking from the entrance of the cave, several people immediately gathered around him.
"Master Tongpan, what should we do next?" Qingkui asked anxiously as soon as he approached Chen Xiaomu.
Chen Xiaomu pondered and said: "According to what I heard from the Qi State Commander at the entrance of the cave, it is estimated that there are at least hundreds of Qi State soldiers hidden in this fairy cave. It seems that the Qi State Emperor wanted to get these millions Two pieces of silver, what a fight! But they don’t know that the four Ding brothers are dead at this time, and they are still waiting for them to come back in the cave before making plans, which just gives us an opportunity. "
Qingkui looked around at the people around him and said, "Master Tongpan, we all listen to you. We will do whatever you say!"
Chen Xiaomu casually picked up a stone from the ground, drew it on the ground, then pointed to the line drawing on the ground and said: "I just observed it, there is basically nothing outside this fairy cave that can cover people. If it is a cave The people inside were so anxious that they rushed out in a swarm, and there was no way we could stop him!"
Qingkui nodded when he heard this and interjected: "It's true, people in the world often say that a good hand is not as good as a pair of fists, and a pair of fists is not as good as four hands!"
"So, I plan to get a big stone to block the entrance of the cave, even if it can only block half of the entrance, so that they can rush out at most two or three people at a time. At that time, our people will be hidden on both sides of the entrance and be ready. , as long as they dare to rush out, we will come out to kill one, two will kill a pair, and trap them in the cave." Chen Xiaomu detailed his plan.
As soon as Chen Xiaomu stopped speaking, Mao Su spread his hands and said with a helpless smile: "Master Chen, please forgive me for speaking frankly. This plan you have in mind sounds really good, but the key is where we go to find this huge stone. ? Besides, even if we find this huge stone, how can we quietly transport it to the entrance of the Immortal Cave without being alarmed? And you just said that you can even hear the voices of the people in the cave, so these Qi people The distance between the cave entrance and the cave entrance must not be too far, so how could they not hear such a loud movement of moving boulders outside?"
As Mao Su questioned Chen Xiaomu's plan, several people also looked at Chen Xiaomu with doubtful eyes, yes! This plan can be said to be full of loopholes. Anyone with any sense of normalcy would have thought of the loopholes in it. I really don’t know what he was thinking!
Seeing several people looking at him as if they were fools, Chen Xiaomu didn't care. He pointed at a huge boulder about three to four feet high above the entrance of the Immortal Cave, which was connected to the mountain, and said humorously: "Look, the so-called We can't find it even after we wear iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it. We just need to push this stone down from above, and it will fall right in front of the entrance of the Immortal Cave, blocking the entrance."
When Qingkui heard the sound, he put his hand on his eyebrows and looked in the direction of Chen Xiaomu's finger. Sure enough, he saw a huge snow-covered boulder standing high above the Immortal Cave. Qingkui continued to observe for a while and then put down his hand. , and just as he was about to speak, Mao Su said first: "Mr. Chen, this is not a student's word of frustration. The stone you are interested in is too big. Besides, this stone is connected to the mountain. Don't talk about us. A few people, even thirty or fifty people, may not be able to push it down!"
Chen Xiaomu nodded slightly, turned to Qing Kui, and said with a smile: "Grandpa Qing, I just saw that you seemed to have something to say, and you can say it now."
Qingkui waved his hand and said: "No need, Lord Tongpan, what I want to say is almost the same as what Mao Xiucai said, so I won't waste any more time on this!"
Chen Xiaomu then glanced at Wei Yuxin, Zhou Huanhuan, Qing Wan'er and Tong Dabiao again, and asked, "Do you four have different opinions?" The four of them shook their heads together.
"Okay, let me show you something." Chen Xiaomu said, taking out a handful of white gravel fragments from his body, placing it in front of everyone, and asked: "Everyone, do you know what this is?"
Hearing the sound, Mao Su and Qingkui both reached out and turned over the rubble. Mao Su was the first to speak: "Master Chen, please forgive my student's blindness. I really can't see that there are rubbish all over the mountains and plains on Mangdang Mountain." What’s the use of gravel chips!”
Qingkui followed up and said, "That's right. I thought it was because I was too old to see the beauty of these gravel fragments at first. But now that I heard what Mao Xiucai said, I feel the same way!"
Picking up a piece of stone on the ground, Chen Xiaomu explained to several people: "This kind of stone is called Ji Rock. Due to being eroded and weathered by wind and rain all year round on the mountain, it has become extremely weak. When I was next to the hidden cave entrance just now, I noticed that there were two sides of the cave entrance. There were such fragments of gravel scattered all over. After observing the surroundings, I discovered that these fragments of gravel actually came from the huge boulder above the Immortal Cave. I concluded that as long as a few of us go up there and use crowbars, we can If you pry hard from behind a huge boulder, you will definitely pry the boulder off."
