Only the leader, Mrs. Gao, listened to him without saying a word before saying: "The military situation is urgent. We are on our way to the front line for support. You know, military orders are not a joke. If you are late, you will be beheaded." She He didn't say whether he believed it or not, and he didn't say whether he agreed or not. He just blinked and observed Zhu Yan.
"This Yaksha is very ferocious. If you go through this forest, you might encounter it." Zhu Yan said, "The mountains and forests are difficult and dangerous. If you are willing to lend us weapons, we will definitely repay you..."
A man ran out and choked: "You keep saying we are us, but I only see you alone here. Who is your we?"
Zhu Yan sighed and said, "Please show up."
Many insects and beasts slowly emerged from the forests on both sides. Lizards, frogs, toads and the like crawled out of the ground. Many bats flew in the air, surrounding them. There were also several human-shaped monsters mixed in, which looked half-human and half-human. A beast with a strange appearance.
The men escorting the weapons were dumbfounded, but Aunt Gao showed no fear at all. She looked around at the monsters coldly, and then asked Zhu Yan: "What about you? Are you a human or a monster?"
"Pindao is a human being," Zhu Yan cupped his hands and said, "It was the demons who trusted Pindao and asked me for help."
"How much time do you need?"
"I want to see what kind of weapons you have first and see what plans can be drawn up?" Zhu Yan was born into a military strategist. He learned martial arts at an early age. He also listened to his father's explanation of the art of war and trained soldiers with his father. He was no stranger to war.
The woman walked to the side of the bullock cart and reached out to lift the tung oil cloth. The man next to her quickly stopped her and said, "Ms. Gao..."
Aunt Gao spoke firmly and forcefully: "My house is a bow and arrow workshop, nothing else, and there are many arrow clusters." She opened the tung oil cloth, revealing bundles of arrow branches, and then quickly covered it with the tung oil cloth: "Let's make a condition. What’s the benefit of helping you?”
"After the work is completed, I will ask them to escort you all the way," Zhu Yan waved to the monsters around him. "Not only will you arrive at your destination safely, but you will also be allowed to complete the mission within a day and not miss the time agreed upon by the military order."
"Okay." Aunt Gao ordered her men to lift all the tung oil cloths on the two oxcarts and let Zhu Yan inspect them.
Zhu Yan stepped off the tiger's back, borrowed a torch to inspect, and asked Aunt Gao: "Do you have any special arrows? For example, arrows with hooks or arrows that can penetrate armor?"
Aunt Gao stroked the arrows on the top of the bullock cart: "These are arrows with wooden feathers. They are not as easy to deform as bird feathers. They fly in a stable direction and have better accuracy." Then stroked another batch of arrows, "These are arrows without feathers, which can be used by other workshops." If you can't do it, the speed is not slower than ordinary feathered arrows, but it is particularly stable in strong winds." His tone was quite proud.
A man next to him interjected: "These are Gao Auntie's inventions."
Seeing Aunt Gao's lonely eyes, Zhu Yan felt a hint of sadness. Aunt Gao smiled sadly: "We are in the killing industry and we make killing tools. If we can make arrows without bird feathers, at least a few birds will be killed."
Zhu Yan sighed: "Mother Gao, we live in troubled times. Killing is the norm. Sometimes we have to kill to stop killing."
Aunt Gao looked at him coldly: "Do you believe this?"
Zhu Yan was stunned.
No, he doesn't believe it. This is what his father taught him. Zhu Quanzhong told his father. He once believed it firmly, but he has grown up for a long time and knows that this is just an excuse to be greedy for power.
However, the situation at hand is an exception, and we should really stop killing with killing!
Zhu Yan shook his head: "But if killing one person can bring peace to the world, why not do it?"
Aunt Gao didn't answer silently.
"I just want a quick fix."
Aunt Gao bent down and took out a bunch of arrows from the lower level of the oxcart: "This is an armor-piercing arrow. The cluster head is made of fine steel into a triangular cone shape. The arrow feathers are shaped into a willow leaf shape. The arrow body is coated with five layers of tung oil to strengthen it. Therefore, the arrow speed is twice as fast as usual, and the penetration power is also twice as strong.”
He also took a bunch of arrows from another bullock cart and said, "These are eagle claw arrows. The arrow clusters have a mechanism. After being shot into the body, they will bounce out into eagle claws and hook them tightly. If you want to pull them out, they must be connected to the muscles or All the internal organs were pulled out together.”
Aunt Gao's cold tone made Zhu Yan turn pale.
"These were invented by the workshop owner," Aunt Gao handed the arrow to Zhu Yan, "that is, my husband."
When the men next to them heard what Aunt Gao said, some showed displeasure, as if they were dissatisfied with her, while others showed reluctance, as if they felt aggrieved for her.
Aunt Gao pulled out a big bow from under the bullock cart again: "Can you pull such a big bow?"
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When Zhu Yan was instructing the demons to set up formations, the bat spirit came to report: "Yaksha is here."
"how far?"
"There are five of them at different distances, each coming from a different direction." After that, he flew away and continued to investigate with other members of his clan.
Zhu Yan asked the people in the workshop to prepare. Whether they were humans or monsters, everyone prepared their bows, arrows or swords, and surrounded the ox cart facing outward. The people in the workshop couldn't help but stare outside with suspicion. Zhu Yan inserted several torches into the surrounding woods, so that when Yaksha entered the range, he would be illuminated by the fire. The enemy would be in the light and we would be in the dark, while they themselves would hide in the shadows.
"It smells good." The rat spirit whispered in Zhu Yan's ear.
Zhu Yan asked confused: "What do you mean?"
"Those in our generation who can become demons and spirits are all outstanding ones in their own clan who are successful in their cultivation," the rat spirit said. "At this moment, there are so many of our generation who are successful in cultivation gathered together in one place at the same time. Yaksha smells the smell, and he is also outstanding." Don’t you salivate?”
Zhu Yan was shocked: "Then they will arrive soon?"
The bat spirit came to report again: "Northeast! Yaksha is running towards me!"
All the men in the bow and arrow workshop heard what the bat spirit said, and they all pointed their arrows to the northeast.
Just hearing the rustling in the dark forest, I could tell that something was really running towards me like crazy. Even the cattle felt that life and death were at stake, and they were restless.
Aunt Gao finally felt nervous. She held her breath and held a straight knife tightly, her wide eyes unwilling to close for a moment.
With a crash, Yasha rushed out of the forest and threw his whole body into the firelight, which illuminated his ferocious face, slender body, and sharp long claws. The men in the workshop were so frightened that they temporarily forgot about the weapons in their hands. Bow and arrow.
"Fire the arrows!" Gao Auntie shouted, and they suddenly woke up. They hurriedly drew their bows and shot arrows. Because they were too hasty, the bows were not fully drawn, and the arrows they shot looked like fallen leaves in the autumn wind.
When Yasha saw that the front was full of humans and beasts, he was stunned for a moment, but in a blink of an eye he rushed towards the bullock cart. With a wave of his sharp claw, he first broke a man's long bow, and then waved his other claw and knocked out one of the man's eyes. , he screamed and rolled to the ground, Yaksha immediately pounced on him! The men ran away in fear, and the situation fell into chaos.
Zhu Yan hurriedly drew his big bow and aimed the talon arrow at Yaksha. He had not used an arrow for many years. He first calmed down and concentrated to not let his emotions panic him, then he let go and shot the arrow. Immediately, he shot through Yaksha's head!
"The King is mighty!" Just as the demons were screaming excitedly, Yasha stood up high, glared at Zhu Yan with a pair of big red copper bell eyes, and touched the arrow stuck in his head in disbelief.
"Cum again!" Gao Auntie shouted.
A workshop boy bravely pulled out another eagle-claw arrow and added another arrow to the back of Yaksha's head. However, the force was not strong, and the arrow cluster only penetrated into the head. But this was just right, the eagle-claw of the arrow cluster was in The shot popped out of Yaksha's head. Yaksha's head suddenly shook and he fell to the ground.
Seeing this, Aunt Gao hurriedly ran forward and stabbed Yasha a few times. After making sure that he was dead, she looked at her companion whose eyes had been swept away. She saw that he was dead in a miserable state, and a large piece of his neck had been bitten off. He was also bitten tightly in Yasha's mouth.
"Coming from the east, there are two of them!" The bat spirit flew over again and shouted.
This was a life-and-death moment. No one dared to relax anymore. They tightened their bows and prepared for battle. Unexpectedly, a yaksha jumped up high and fell from the sky. When everyone noticed, he had already made a bang. Standing high on the roof of the bullock cart.
When they heard the voice and turned their heads, Yaksha had already raised his sharp claws, grabbed the young man's Tianling Cap, and lifted him up. The young man in desperation pulled out the straight knife from his waist, stretched out his hand and stabbed back randomly, and Yaksha was stabbed once. , angrily grabbed the man's shoulder with his other hand, twisted his arms, and the man's head was immediately broken off.
In panic, another Yaksha rushed into the demon group from the forest and directly attacked the larger deer spirit. Although the deer was herbivorous, it was also aggressive. The deer spirit lowered its head, and the antlers on its head immediately grew three times in size. Yaksha grabbed it. While holding the antlers, several rat spirits held featherless arrows and inserted them into Yaksha's back at close range.
