His voice was not loud, but it was not busy around the fire, so everyone listened.
The first thought that came to Li Bochen's mind was to respond - Sui Wujiu's tone was not kind, which showed that he was not hospitable. Could it be that he really put him in the wrong place? Did he come back with the monster again?
With Sui Wujiu's cultivation level, it was not unusual for him to be able to detect people at the entrance to the secret realm.
Li Bochen was about to ask again when he saw a man riding a horse from a distance. It was Zhao Bo, the general who was leading his troops on guard at the door. This person is also kind-hearted. He came along the river on horseback. The white sand beach by the river is shorter than the grass. Now the grass is luxuriant and the villagers are eating meat and getting lively. It doesn't cause any trouble. Too many people pay attention.
Zhao Bo jumped off his horse and trotted straight towards Li Bochen. When he was next to him, he seemed to want to whisper, but everyone around the fire was listening, so Li Bochen said: "General Zhao, what's going on outside?"
Zhao Bo then straightened up and took a breath, with a particularly frightened look on his face: "Junhou, here are some things coming from outside. They say they are here to give gifts and want to see you!"
Zhao Bo is not a man who is not afraid of heaven and earth, but he is also very courageous. He had no fear of fighting monsters before, but looking at his face now, it seems that the "few things" at the door really frightened him. light.
Li Bochen's heart relaxed at first - at least not in response. Another sinking sound - was that sent by the monster to declare war? What "gift" was given?
He said in a deep voice: "Let me be clear, what is it? Is the monster attacking?"
Zhao Bo gasped twice more: "I can't really say, they are monsters... they look like monsters and dead people. They are not attacking monsters. There are only three of them - the monsters outside are still far away." !”
Sui Wujiu sneered: "Marquis Wuwei, why don't you go meet the guests."
Li Bochen thought for a while and said to the people around the fire: "You stay here, Duke Sui and I will go meet them. If anyone asks, just say that we two are going to discuss things."
Everyone had different expressions, but Li Boxen couldn't care about anything else. He stood up and said, "General Zhao, take me there."
Zhao Bo took the horse and led the two men along the river.
Some people watched when Zhao Bo came before, and when they saw Li Bochen and Sui Wujiu leaving their seats, they looked straight this way. Li Bochen put on a relaxed look on his face and said to Sui Wujiu: "Mr. Sui, what gift do you think they gave me?"
Sui Wu Jiu glanced at him and then at the villagers over there, but did not answer his words and only said: "Marquis Wuwei, you are kind but don't control the army."
Li Bochen knew what he was talking about and said, "These people are not soldiers either."
Sui Wujiu smiled, not sure if he was sarcastically saying: "You don't want to make people worry like this, but you can't prevent them from seeing monsters for the rest of their lives. The way to govern people needs to be relaxed, and there are many benefits. Don't allow resentment to arise in the future. If one day these people blame you for not telling them to live well, what will you do?"
Li Bochen was silent for a moment and said: "I have organized all those who can be used into an army. What can we do with the remaining old, young, women and children?"
Sui Wu Jiu paused and said, "At such a critical moment, don't you have a clear mind?"
Zhao Bo turned slightly and glanced this way. Li Bochen sighed: "We haven't reached that point yet."
Sui Wu Jiu smiled and stopped talking. 678
After a while, I saw the entrance to the secret realm from a distance. There were originally three ten-man teams taking turns here, but now they all unsheathed their swords and guns as if they were facing a formidable enemy, confronting someone outside the secret realm.
Li Bochen strode over, and Zhao Bo said: "Junhou, they are at the door!"
He didn't need to say anything, Li Bochen had already seen it - the sergeant in front of the door separated the road when he saw him coming, and Li Bochen saw three things bathing in the moonlight outside the door.
When Zhao Bo called them "things" before, Li Bochen felt that he was not clear about it and was a little dissatisfied. But now that I have seen it, I don’t know how to describe it.
The three of them were five or six steps away from the entrance. The one in the middle was quite large, as tall as two people, but it was not humanoid - the lower body was a ball of rotten flesh, with more than a dozen legs, large and small, and looked muddy. There are armored beasts, fire monkeys, and long right ones. They seem to be pieced together and fused together from dead monsters. They barely have the function of walking and running. They look very much like zombies that have been shrunk many times. puppet.
The upper body is human-shaped, but it doesn't look like it's the same person - there is something that can be regarded as a head at the top, but half of the brain covered with black blood is turned out, and a hairy scalp is growing in on the other side. It was obviously a piece of human scalp, and there was still half a hairpin hanging on the bun that was not completely unraveled. Slightly downward, three eyeballs of different sizes were squeezed out and fixed on another piece of skin. There was a bloody gash in the skin, which served as a mouth.
The torso is just a long spine with gnawing marks and fragments of internal organs hanging on it.
In fact, the one in the middle is okay, at least I can barely make out his face. The two next to him can only see what they are using to move around, and they have no idea where their heads are. They are like a pile of corpses.
Even though he had seen so many monsters, Li Bochen also took a deep breath, but felt a little familiar - the twisted and weird appearance of the first one was very similar to the monster he encountered outside Sanguan City. Zhu Yi, the flesh and blood of his clan!
When he was surprised, the thing in front of him actually opened his mouth and said: "Is this the way of hospitality in the six countries? I came here to congratulate you on the order of King Heishan, but why do you keep the door closed?"
When Li Bochen heard this voice, he felt his scalp numb at first, and then felt a surge of anger - not because such a monster could speak clearly and coherently, but because the voice it made was actually the voice of a boy. Since this monster can melt into many people, it shouldn't be difficult to speak and make a sound, but it chose to use such a voice. It should just be to make people fearful and frightened. It is really vicious.
But it mentioned "congratulations", and Li Boxen used the moonlight to see two bloody claws at the junction of its upper body and lower body, holding something dark, which should be gold or stone, with some dimness at the edges. gloss. This should be what they call "ritual".
Li Boxen wanted to jump out and kill these three monsters immediately, but although this thing was hateful, it really represented the "King Xishan" as it said. The demon spirit that kidnapped Sui Buqiu before was "Princess Zhenluo", and the "King Xishan" the monster said must refer to the demon spirit who led the army this time.
The other party had an overwhelming advantage, but yet they sent such a thing. I don't know what they had in mind. This moment was not the time to act impulsively. Just as he was thinking about this, Sui Wujiu said, "Marquis Wuwei, what are you going to do?"
Li Bochen had gradually discovered that Sui Wu Jiu had always had some intention of taking a test [Note 1]. Although he didn't know what his purpose was, he just gritted his teeth and smiled and said: "Since the gift has been sent, wouldn't it be a shame if you don't accept it?" People look down upon you.”
He shouted again: "Wake up and welcome the guests!"
Then he changed the atmosphere of the earth and opened a gap at the entrance.
Everyone was holding their breath and concentrating in case three monsters suddenly rushed in. But when the door was really opened, the three of them didn't move. Instead, they opened their mouths with blood, and they didn't know whether they were laughing or not. Then he bowed with the paw holding the black thing and said, "Who is Li Boxen?"
Li Boxen pressed the handle of the knife and took two steps forward and shouted: "Stop talking nonsense, what kind of etiquette!?"
The monster extended its claws forward: "General Li, you should be planning to gather the Yin spirits and fight with my king. The king asked me to tell the general, and he was waiting on the top of the mountain ten miles away. I was worried again. The general found it very inconvenient to capture our Yin spirits in our army formation, so he sealed a thousand Yin spirits in this iron and sent me to deliver them!"
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Note 1: Teacher Meng pointedly pointed out that the title of Chapter 44 "Teaching Examination" should be "Teaching Examination".
