Ghost-catching bells are now being used by monsters for personal gain, and more often than not, they are in the hands of people from the Nanyuan Kingdom's Special Division.
Compared with the cost of planting flowers, Zhang Yan will receive much preferential treatment from Special Eucalyptus Company. In just over a month, I had more than seventy ghost-catching bells in my hands. Some of them were delivered by Zhang Yan before, and some were urgently added after the emergence of the Demon Spirit Clan recently.
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
Most of the ghost-catching bells are used to target those movable positions of the Dead Silence. The rest, probably the remaining seven or eight, were sent to Xiyuan County.
According to Wu Kui's arrangement, he did not completely follow Zhang Yan's plan, but there were some trade-offs in it. For example, Wu Kui did not focus all his attention on those movable paths of death, and did not have the idea of completely blocking them. The choice is to block six to seven achievements, and let the rest go, so that even if it affects the people nearby, there will be no large-scale casualties. The freed ghost-catching bells can be sent to the front line of Xiyuan County as a guarantee for the final goal of the entire plan.
If we do the math, for every three ghost-catching bells that Zhang Yan provides to the special department now, one will be sent to Xiyuan County.
Zhou Cang, who is guarding a military camp southwest of Baishiqian, Xiyuan County, received his second ghost-catching bell this morning since he was stationed here.
"Sir, where do you think this bell is going?"
"The last one was given to Li Mangzi, and this one is given to Wu Kun. Let him make good use of the warning ability of this thing and don't run around when the bell rings."
Zhou Cang was sitting in a simple wooden shed with a pottery basin of plain noodles in front of him, his head lowered and he ate quickly.
"It's my lord, I'll be there right away."
As soon as the adjutant left with the bell, Zhou Cang raised his head, with a flash of worry and fear on his face.
Zhou Cang knew very clearly that the bell must have been written by Zhang Yan, because the patterns on the bell were very similar to the patterns on the "Zhanfeng" knife at his waist and the sleeved inner armor worn under the shirt. I know it comes from the same way. This is why Zhou Cang attached great importance to this kind of bell from the beginning.
Zhou Cang's status is not high, and he doesn't know anything about the Spiritual Clan. The aristocratic family behind him has not yet received news of this level. So after getting the bell, Zhou Cang carefully considered the words in the order.
The order was sent from the Yamen of the Ministry of War and the Special Operations Department to the Yamen of the General Manager of the West Road Military Road, and then transferred to the first-line military camps outside Baishi City.
The order requires the soldiers in each military camp to carry the bell when patrolling. If they find the bell ringing innocently, they should immediately retreat to the military camp and no longer go outside. If there is a deployment in the army, whether it is moving between military camps or returning to Baishi City, any movement away from the station must also wear this kind of bell as a warning. If there is no army to retreat when the bell rings, then form a tight formation and do not leave alone...
This was the first strange order Zhou Cang had seen in the decades since he had been in the army. It was confusing and had no explanation at all. This kind of thing had never been heard of in the usual military style on the battlefield.
Zhou Cang's adjutant is a veteran who has been on the front lines of Baishi City. He was a gang leader half a year ago, and now he is an adjutant of the military camp. The speed of promotion is not comparable to other places, even for the children of big families in the military. But in Xiyuan County, on the front line of Baishi City, it is not uncommon for adjutant Zhou Cang to be promoted at such a speed. Because too many people have died, the vacant positions need to be filled, and whoever is more lucky can be promoted step by step.
But even a soldier like Adjutant Zhou Cang, who has been on the front line of Baishi City all year round, heard this kind of order for the first time, and saw this weird bell for the first time.
Therefore, the only things Zhou Cang could use as messages were the contents of the order. There are more than one mention of "bells" and "warnings." These two words are mentioned together. In other words, when this kind of bell rings, it means there is danger, and you must either avoid the military camp or form a defensive formation.
But what is the danger? In these days, Zhou Cang has never heard the soldiers mention any dangers encountered when ringing the bell. Although they obeyed the order, no one knew why they had to avoid it.
Zhou Cang couldn't understand it at first, but later he gradually discovered some patterns. That is, under normal circumstances, the bell will not ring as long as you are not far away from the military camp. But once there is a dead body outside the military camp and the bell is confiscated, the bell will ring, but it will not ring for too long. Generally, it will stop ringing after a cup of tea.
Is it because of dead bodies? Not entirely. Because the bells around the wounded soldiers who died in the military camps would not ring. Even outside the military camp, only fresh corpses will do, and those that are smelly will not cause the bells to ring.
Being able to touch these doorways is Zhou Cang's limit. There are more connections that he can't guess by just relying on his brain.
But I can't guess what's hidden in this order. But Zhou Cang could feel that since the bells were sent from the rear, the impact of the demon clan on the military camp began to gradually weaken. The weakening was not obvious at first, but in the past few days it has been enough to make the big soldiers in the camp feel it clearly.
In the past, every day the monster clan would attack the bunker fortifications of the military camps like crazy. Even if there were fortifications to support them, they would still be swaying like fallen leaves in the strong wind. In the end, they could barely stand still relying on the strength of the rivalry between the military camps, and The secret passage between the military camps was restrained by the Bagua array. But the casualties were too great.
The fact that Zhou Cang could withstand this flesh and blood mill for so long was not because of his strength, but because the sleeved inner armor he wore saved his life several times. The most recent one was the day before yesterday. A monster clan member hit with a heavy hammer. Although the inner armor could miraculously offset most of the impact force, the remaining part still caused serious injuries to Zhoucang's inner palace. A mouthful of old blood spurted out, and it still hurts to this day. There is a burning sensation when you inhale.
The ferocity and power of the demon clan also left a deep impression on Zhou Cang.
However, the continuous fierce attacks came to a halt a few days ago, and then they continued to fight one day at a time, which greatly eased the pressure on the military camp.
"Are the monsters timid? Or are their troops unable to keep up?" This idea did not stay in Zhou Cang's mind for long before he rejected it. Because if it were for these two reasons, the Monster Clan could retreat, but now the Monster Clan's military stronghold is still standing less than twenty miles away, with no sign of retreat at all.
"That means the demon clan is in trouble. And this trouble should be related to the weird bell sent from behind."
After Zhou Cang synthesized all the information he could see and his own guesses, he finally came to the conclusion that in Xiyuan County, in addition to the soldiers of the Western Army and the demon clan on the opposite side, there seemed to be more people recently. Something else.
