As we mentioned in the previous article, "Zhuge Thief" Lan Shuoli's martial arts skills are outstanding among the "four thieves".
For such a person to be able to hang out with three other thieves who are not bad at martial arts all year round without being taken advantage of by them is undoubtedly due to the "tricks" he has studied.
Some of Lan Shuoli's inventions focused on lethality, but most of them were props that focused on concealment and functionality.
For example, the piece that Huang Donglai took out at the moment looks like a flat snail shell. It is a little bigger than a plate and is limited in size. Once you put it there, no one knows what it is used for... If I saw it, I might be suspicious. This is a small peripheral product of a certain manga by Junji Ito.
Of course, as long as you inject some poisonous powder that meets its usage specifications into this object, within ten minutes, everyone within ten meters around it will be poisoned without knowing it.
Huang Donglai stepped down just now because he was filled with poison. For him, the young master of the Huang Clan, it was not difficult to find a poison suitable for use in this scene.
Soon, he filled it with a poisonous powder called "Erjie Pour".
Why is it called "Second Street Down"?
This requires us to talk a little bit about a kind of wine called "pouring in front of the door" that appears from time to time in many martial arts, storytelling, or film and television works.
The so-called "pouring in front of the door" is neither a variety of wine nor a brewing technology, nor does it even refer to the same kind of wine.
This name is mostly a fancy name given to the miscellaneous village wine brewed by some country wine shops with poor brewing skills and no access to good wine. Its nature is similar to the "Sang Biao" in the local gangster world.
Since these off-brand village wines have poor taste and bad taste, and the restaurant’s cultural level is also limited, they can only add the obvious fact that "this wine can make people drunk" as a selling point in their names. Similar things are The words "pour half a step", "pour outside", "three bowls are not enough"... almost all mean the same thing.
So what about the "Second Street Downfall" caused by Huang Donglai?
In the field of poisons, the nature of this kind of name is different...
When it comes to wine, if someone says you "pour it in front of the door" after you finish drinking it, you may not be able to pour it out. If someone says you "can't get enough of it after three bowls", you may not be able to get through it. Tigers can also testify to this.
But if the poison is called "two streets down", then the effect of the medicine must be almost the same. In other words, if you walk about two streets after being poisoned, you will definitely be down.
At this moment, Huang Donglai chose this kind of poison with "delayed onset" but not long delay, after certain consideration; the buffer time not only facilitates the spread of the poison, but also increases the error tolerance rate of the action... In this way, he will He can safely give the antidote to Sun Yixie. If Chongzang and Xiaomei in the distance are accidentally poisoned, he can save them in time.
After being prepared, Huang Donglai returned to power.
Of course, he brought not only this one prop, but also several other miscellaneous small objects to "hide trees in the forest". After taking the stage, Huang Donglai placed these things "casually" at his feet , and then began to "play tricks" with Sun Yixie.
They say they are magic tricks, but in fact they are just clumsy tricks that test the edge of failure. They don't think about how good the performance is, the point is to delay time.
As for the monks in the audience... to be honest, they really enjoyed watching it.
Today, if I asked you to go watch this kind of grass-stage performance on the street, and the performers were still of this level, you would have turned away long ago. If you didn't leave, you would have lowered your head to check your phone, or you would have used your phone to take pictures of the performance. Posting a few comments on social media is more interesting than watching the performance itself.
Because for us modern people, there are so many cheap entertainment options to choose from, and performances of this level are not competitive at all.
But in that era when information dissemination was difficult and entertainment activities were scarce, as long as Sun Huang used the banner of "an artist from Dashu", let alone in the Zhenxingzong main altar, even on the streets of Kyoto , even in front of the emperor, their performances are marketable.
The few off-key modern pop songs that Sun Yixie sang before may sound funny to us, but to the monks like Zhuan Xingzong, this is an advanced art form that has never been seen before. Even if Brother Sun doesn't sing well and no one has heard the original song, as long as there is no comparison, he can get away with it no matter what.
In this way, Shuangxi played tricks on the stage for five or six minutes.
At this time, Sun Yixie felt faintly dizzy and his limbs were numb...
So Brother Sun quickly stopped the performance and said to Huang Donglai: "It's almost done."
"Yeah, okay." Huang Donglai understood what Sun Yixie meant. He took out a bottle of antidote that he had taken before going on stage and gave one to Sun Yixie to take.
Seeing this scene, everyone in the audience was a little confused, but soon... someone noticed something unusual.
"What's going on...Why am I...a little dizzy...dizzy..."
"Hey! Are you okay...you...uh..."
After the first two people fell down, the other monks realized that they seemed to be a little unwell, but it was obviously too late...
Although there is a delay in the time when the poison takes effect, once it starts to take effect, the effect comes very quickly.
The radius of ten meters is not very large, and the monks gathered on the same side of the wooden platform, so this wave did not poison all the monks.
In the end, the number of people who were directly poisoned was around sixty, including the left guardian of the Zhenxing Sect. As for this person's name, I thought about it and decided not to make it up, because he was poisoned and died as soon as he appeared. It's meaningless.
There were another dozen or so monks who were sitting a little further away. Their poisoning was not so severe and they could still stand up and move around. However, they also suffered from some symptoms of weakness and dizziness.
In the end, there were more than a dozen people, but because they were sitting in the last row, they were basically fine...and among them, there happened to be the remaining two of the "five cadres".
One was Achafang Yonggen, who had previously attacked Azhi and others with Xuangen; the other was named Acharfang Rengen.
These two people are both masters who can operate five corpse puppets, and their corpse puppets, from the beginning of the "performance", have been standing in a corner of the grotto with the seven corpse puppets of Guardian Zuo, hanging up... After all, corpse puppets don’t need to watch performances.
At this moment, the two of them saw that their fellow disciples in front of them had fallen one by one, and the seven corpse puppets of the Zuo Guardian also collapsed to the ground soon. Within a few seconds, they realized what was going on, and the two of them hurriedly He jumped up and covered his mouth and nose with his sleeves, and controlled the corpse puppet to kill towards the wooden platform.
But Sun Huang, as the one who struck first, was well prepared. When he saw the corpse puppet charging towards him, Sun Yixie immediately flashed his weapon to greet it; Huang Donglai picked up the weapon he had just "casually" placed. Several objects at his feet began to be thrown away as hidden weapons, and the people he aimed at were undoubtedly Yong Gen and Ren Gen, who were wearing the white monk robes unique to the cadres of the Zang Xing Sect. They could be distinguished from others at a glance. .
Whoosh whoosh——
It was too late, but it was too late, but several small rags made of wood or metal flew out from the wooden platform at the snap of a finger, heading towards the heads of Yong Gen and Ren Gen.
Huang Donglai's hidden weapon kung fu was originally one of his special skills, and it was by no means inferior to that of a Japanese Jōnin with rich experience like Ma Shanjuzo. Moreover, because his training method was based on internal kung fu, when necessary He doesn't need to stick to the form of the hidden weapon, and can use some small irregular objects to replace common hidden weapons such as shurikens and locust stones.
Of course, if you do this, you will lose some power and accuracy.
Yong Gen and Ren Gen also didn't expect that the people on the stage could pick up a few random things and launch a powerful long-range attack at them more than ten meters away. If they had known this, they should have sent a few zombies over first. They were protecting themselves, but now things were flying over, and the two of them were caught off guard and had to dodge in a hurry.
Fortunately, what Huang Donglai threw this time was not a serious hidden weapon, and these two guys were indeed stronger than ordinary fish in martial arts, so they were able to avoid them.
After passing through this wave, Yong Gen and Ren Gen both had lingering fears. The next second, they both went to recall the corpse puppets, wanting to protect their own safety first, but their corpse puppets had already arrived. At the edge of the wooden platform, they had to worry about gains and losses. As a result, their corpse puppets were chased and swept away by Sun Yixie when they returned. He knocked down four of them with one swing of his two halberds.
"Nah!" Ren Gen, like other disciples of the Zixing Sect who saw corpses being instantly killed by treasure weapons for the first time, were shocked when they saw this scene.
As for Yong Gen, because of his more calm and gloomy personality, although he was shocked, the expression on his face was still tense.
However, just a few seconds later, the fear in Yong Gen's heart quickly swelled, and the stamina was no less than what Ren Gen felt, because he soon realized... This seemed to be him becoming a monster. For the first time since becoming a Zong cadre, his life was threatened.
"Who are you? Who sent you here?" After a breath, Yong Gen suddenly spoke and shouted something to Shuang Xie.
Sun Huang knew exactly what he was planning: this Zhenxingzong had connections with many high-ranking officials and dignitaries. As long as he knew the enemy's camp, he could more or less give the names of several big figures to intimidate the opponent, such as "Your master's superiors all have friendships with us", "Someone in your organization is also our guest", etc., it may be possible to drag the battle into a negotiation or confrontation rhythm, or disrupt the enemy's mentality.
But Shuanghe had planned to destroy the Xingxing Sect today. They didn't even have the idea of playing tricks on these people. They just wanted to kill these demons in the world quickly, so they ignored Yonggen's screams at all. Without saying a word, he chased after him.
In the blink of an eye, Sun Huang used the coordination of a round of swords and halberds to kill three more corpse dolls.
"Damn it!" Yong Gen was also anxious now, because less than half a minute after the battle started, only two of his five corpse puppets were left.
Ren Gen beside him was even worse, with only a corpse puppet left to save his life.
Facing the serious and menacing Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai, even two first-class masters from the Central Plains would be hard-pressed to resist, let alone these two disciples of the Xingzong Sect.
At this moment, seeing the situation take a turn for the worse, both Yong Gen and Ren Gen thought of running away, but before they could turn around, bursts of screams came from behind them...
They were startled when they heard the sound. When they looked back, they saw Juzo and Xiaomei, who had been ambushing at the entrance of the grotto. They were harvesting the lives of other Zaixingzong miscellaneous fish that were escaping outside like Kai Wushuang.
Originally, the martial arts skills of the two ninjas were much higher than those of these miscellaneous fishes. In addition, more than half of the twenty or so monks who fled were slightly poisoned, so this scene was natural.
"Ah——" Finally, driven by the desire to survive, Ren Gen entered a semi-crazy state. He controlled his only remaining corpse puppet to block it in front of him, and then rushed towards the entrance of the cave with the corpse puppet. go.
Yong Gen took a look and saw that the consequences of Ren Gen's move were disastrous, but it seemed that he could take advantage of it, so he did not block the exit. Instead, he immediately controlled his two corpse puppets to protect his rear and followed Ren Gen. Charge together with their footsteps.
Chongzang and Xiaomei, who were killing the miscellaneous fish, saw a few tough ideas but did not dare to push them too far. They quickly changed their moves and attacked the enemies closest to them, and then retreated side by side to the entrance of the grotto. in the narrowest area.
At this moment, the two ninjas raised both swords at the same time, concentrating on each other, intending to make a killing move to meet the enemy, but unexpectedly...
Rumble…
Along with a dull sound, the scenery in front of the two people suddenly appeared as a double image.
Who would have thought that at this juncture, an earthquake would occur here!
