The spring breeze turns into rain, and the chill has not gone away, but the season is still coming quietly.
"Spring has begun."
The Yuezhou Inspector stood on the city tower, raised his eyes to the north, and saw only a deep green patch of green in the distance, submerged in the color of the rain, and nothing else could be seen.
The attendant held an umbrella for him, and the rainwater slipped from the umbrella, dripped on his feet, and splashed on his military boots, forming the shape of a flower. The moisture hit his face, making his beard and hair become heavy.
The attendant did not dare to speak, and there was silence on the tower.
There is an altar made of mulberry wood on the tower, and a large peach puppet carved from peach wood is enshrined on the altar. The peach puppet has a peach bow and peach arrows in its hands, which are drawn like a bow, as if they are shooting at the sky.
The Yuezhou Inspector asked: "Master Chen, is there no news yet?"
Master Chen wore a tall hat and a feather coat made of golden pheasant feathers, and held a peach stick in his hand. The rain wet his hat and his feather coat, and dripped down from the ravine on his face.
His eyes were calm and his tone was calm, and he said: "There is no news. The outside of Yuezhou City has been imprisoned by ghosts and gods. I am a warlock who drives ghosts and gods. My ghosts and gods are no match for the ghosts and gods outside. No news can be sent out. No news at all." Can’t take it back.”
The Yuezhou Inspector's beard trembled slightly and said: "Mr. Zhang, spring has begun. Do you think the imperial court will send troops to suppress the rebellious parties?"
The staff member named Zhang looked at the Gusu army camped outside Yuezhou City, his eyes showed fear, and his voice trembled slightly: "It will definitely happen."
It's just that he didn't have enough confidence and his voice was weak and erratic in the rain, like gibbering.
The Yuezhou Inspector still heard it, but he had no other choice but to follow up and say: "It's good rain from heaven, I'll give it to you."
Warlock Chen lowered his head and did not respond.
This is a desperate waiting. The warlock is good at divination. He has already seen a corner of fate and welcomes his fate calmly.
But the inspector couldn't be calm. Over the past few months, his hair had turned gray and he had aged by more than ten years. He wanted to appease the morale of the army and the people, and also find ways to deal with the shortage of water and food during King Wu's siege.
The deputy general hurriedly ran up from the tower and whispered a few words in the ear of the envoy, who immediately followed him down the tower.
The attendants and staff followed closely, leaving Warlock Chen standing on the tower, his cloudy eyes looking outside the city, watching the ghosts and gods in King Wu's camp.
"Heaven has lost its place."
The two young apprentices behind him didn't understand what he meant, so they stepped forward and asked, "Master, what are you talking about?"
Warlock Chen reached out and touched the heads of his two young apprentices and asked, "How long have you been following me?"
The older disciple said: "I have been following Master since I was four years old. It has been twelve years."
The younger disciple said: "I grew up beside Master, and I am fourteen this year."
"It's been so long." A rare smile appeared on Warlock Chen's face. He led his two young apprentices slowly down the tower, showing the tenderness of a father that he had not seen for a long time.
The little apprentice felt happy and walked happily.
The eldest disciple took on more and thought more. He held Warlock Chen's hand tightly, but he showed a worried expression.
The spring rain has passed, the warm sun is shining, the vitality of the earth has begun to sprout, and the restlessness in people's hearts has also begun to sprout.
I don’t know which evening started, but the smoke from King Wu’s camp began to drift toward Yuezhou City, bringing with it the aroma of food and meat.
For several days in a row, people in Yuezhou City were moved.
The inspector could not sleep at night and arranged for soldiers to patrol day and night. Every day they caught a large number of people who wanted to escape from the city and killed them all.
There was also restlessness and uneasiness among those soldiers, which made the Yuezhou inspectors feel frightened.
Another evening, accompanied by the smoke from the cooking pots, King Wu's army began to sing outside the city.
It is a Yuezhou ballad, a ditty that farmers in the fields will sing during the spring plowing season. It is a tune that everyone here can sing and that everyone has heard since childhood.
The wind brings in the smoke and the songs. The flying arrows brought the news that King Wu had persuaded him to surrender, treated the prisoners kindly, and never forgotten the past, and brought King Wu's good reputation for being benevolent, diligent, and caring for the people into the city.
The arrows flying into the city can be collected, but the wind flying into the city cannot be collected, nor can the restless hearts.
People are in panic and uneasy all the time.
Finally one night, Warlock Chen suddenly woke up. Without even lighting a lamp, he pushed his two apprentices awake with his bare feet.
He tied two strips of nettle cloth around the disciples' eyes, tied their hands together with a red rope, stretched out his hand and pushed behind them, saying: "Run! Run!"
The eldest disciple wanted to turn around, but he held his head down and said: "Don't pick it, don't turn around, don't stop, hold your junior brother, don't stop until dawn!"
"run!"
The eyes were blind, and the shouts of death and the sound of the huge city gate being broken had made them tremble all over. The smell of burning kerosene smoke and the smell of blood were nauseating.
Unable to think, they instinctively followed their master's instructions and ran forward, forward, and forward.
As he started running, the shouts of killing gradually became blurred in the wind, and the smell trailed behind him. They seemed to be enveloped in a breath of wood, leaving all fearful things behind.
Warlock Chen watched his two young apprentices disappear into the city. He turned back, put on his high crown and feather coat, picked up his peach stick, and went barefoot to see the inspector.
In his early years, he received life-saving grace from the Yuezhou Inspector. Later, it was predicted that he was destined to suffer a great disaster, so he defected to him. Unfortunately, his manpower was exhausted and he never found a chance to survive.
The Yuezhou inspector had no rest and struggled to summon his deputy general to take charge of the overall situation.
Two men wearing Wu Army armor suddenly burst in. The two men were as tall as iron towers. Their eyes were green and their bodies were covered in blood. They exuded an evil aura that was not like strangers, as if they were evil ghosts seducing people from the underworld. .
"Protect the Inspector!"
The guards shouted, and dozens of people rushed out, firing arrows at the two assassins from a distance.
A skilled arrow shot through the gap in the armor and passed through the bodies of the two assassins, but they did not retreat at all, as if they could not feel the pain.
He only waved the steel knife to knock away the arrows that were approaching his vital points, and then moved closer and closer to the Yuezhou Inspector.
The bodyguard stepped forward to stop him, but he was cut into two pieces with a single sword.
This is the power to tear apart tigers and leopards alive!
Dozens of personal guards could not stop the two assassins, who kept approaching the Yuezhou Inspector.
The personal guard was already frightened and desperate, feeling that the opponent in front of him was not a living person, but an evil spirit.
But the Yuezhou Inspector clenched the sword in his hand, his face turned pale, his eyes were resolute, and he was not willing to die easily.
"middle!"
Suddenly, a loud shout came from outside the door.
The warlock with a high crown and feathers held a peach bow and a peach arrow, and shot two arrows at the two assassins.
The peach arrow could not penetrate the armor and fell to the ground with a collision sound. However, the two assassins suddenly paused, let out a tragic roar, light emerged from the seven orifices, turned into two ghosts and gods, and glanced at the warlock with hatred. , just want to escape.
The warlock raised the mahogany token and shouted: "Thunder is coming!"
With a roar, two thunderbolts appeared in the void, hitting the two monsters and turning them into flying ash.
The Yuezhou Inspector showed surprise and shouted: "Master Chen arrived just in time!"
Warlock Chen didn't look happy at all. He glanced at the two corpses on the ground and said, "Possession is causing trouble. King Wu has evil ghosts to help him."
His expression was still calm and he said: "According to the inspector, we are in big trouble."
(End of chapter)
