"Brothers, in front of you is a group of rebels who are preparing to rebel under the pretext of the epidemic, for the stability of the foundation of the imperial court, for the great cause of the emperor, as long as they dare to take another step forward to kill, the infantry is ready to fight, and the archers are ready to open their bows!"

"Order"

I saw that the soldiers led by Zhou Tianba had all set up a formation ready to fight, the pikemen had already moved forward with their guns, the blades in their hands clenched by the axemen followed closely, and the archers behind them had already drawn their bows and were ready to fire at any time.

Seeing the posture of the officers and soldiers, the clansmen led by the patriarch also panicked, although they also raised their weapons, how could their strength compete with these well-trained officers and soldiers? Isn't this hitting a stone with an egg? Moreover, there is still a thin layer of black mist between the two sides, although the black mist is not moving for the time being, but who knows when it will suddenly move? The clansmen kept throwing inquiring glances at the patriarch.

The patriarch looked back at the clansmen, only to see that everyone's faces had already shown a panicked look, just now the high-spirited, generous expression of death has long been gone, maybe sometimes the real scary is not the demons and monsters but people, who knows how bad people can do in their hearts?

"Let's go, let's go back!" After speaking, the patriarch led the clansmen to turn around and walk in the direction of the Land Temple.

After walking out of more than ten meters, the patriarch looked back at Zhou Tianba, who was smiling evilly outside the black fog, spat a mouthful of saliva, and muttered to himself: "Lao Tzu took the lives of the whole clan today, and you Zhou Tianba gambled his life, it depends on whether God has long eyes, whether he accepts bad people or good people!"

After returning to the Land Temple, the patriarch was busy arranging his plans for the evening, he selected a few older clansmen from among the more siblings, told them that he needed them to do something that might be life-threatening at night, and when he was sure that several people had agreed to give it a try, he told them his plan. Then the patriarch divided the rest of the people into two groups, and told everyone that no matter what happened at night, as long as they heard the screams, they would run, one in the direction of the entrance of the village, and the other in the direction of the back mountain—

When everything was arranged, the patriarch opened the door, went to the porch, sat down on the steps, and waited quietly for the night to come.

According to the patriarch's plan, this black fog will definitely come out at night to plague the people in the village, of course, its main purpose may be to eat people, so since it is cannibalism, what people eat is different, his clan is people, and those officers and soldiers are also people. If the black mist went to the officers and soldiers, he might not be able to take care of his people, and there were so many people in his tribe that someone would always be able to run out, as long as someone ran out, his clan would not die. This time, the patriarch really gambled with Zhou Tianba. Of course, the patriarch also made second-hand preparations, in case the black fog was not directed at the officers and soldiers, but at his clansmen, the dozen or so people he had just selected would need to sacrifice themselves to lead the black fog in the direction of the officers and soldiers, so as to buy everyone time to escape.

Thinking of this, the patriarch looked back at the people he had just chosen, and saw that they were either snuggling up with their wives, or with their children, or with their mothers, and whispering softly.

The patriarch turned his head and wiped away his tears, staring blankly at the slowly setting sun, the night was coming soon—

At midnight, a fire rose outside the land temple, more than a dozen people sat around the fire, while drinking and singing the folk song of this hometown, the general meaning of the folk song is that as a son, husband, father's man is about to go to the battlefield, I don't know when I will be able to see my relatives at home again, constantly expressing his memory of home, but at the same time telling his family that he went this time to protect his family from foreign enemies, even if he died in battle, he will bless his family in heaven for peace. The singing echoed over the village.

In the spacious lobby of the Land Temple, everyone was quietly lying by the door looking at the scene outside, and everyone's faces were full of tears.

Suddenly, there was a scream from the direction of the entrance of the village, followed by a series of screams.

"Run!"

Hearing the patriarch's order, everyone rushed out of the temple gate and rushed in two groups in the direction according to the day's arrangement.

The patriarch led the people to rush in the direction of the entrance of the village, and when they were about to rush to the entrance of the village, they suddenly found that the screaming stopped, and all that was left was the shouting of officers and soldiers, and the black fog was gone.

Could it be that the black fog of kung fu for such a while was solved by those officers and soldiers?

When the patriarch rushed to the entrance of the village with his clansmen, he saw that the black fog and the officers and soldiers were gone, leaving the corpses of dozens of officers and soldiers on the ground.

What the hell is going on?

The patriarch took a few young men and tried to walk out of the village, but there was no black fog appearing, could it be that the black fog chased the remaining officers and soldiers? If it really chased the officers and soldiers, then now he took the people out with him, in case the black fog turned back again, wouldn't they suffer? After thinking about it, the patriarch decided not to leave the village, he took the people to turn around and run towards the mountain behind the village, no matter what the situation, first go to the mountain to hide for one night.

Of course, the patriarch also kept a heart, leaving a few people to handle in the village.

The night passed in a trembling manner, and everyone barely slept, but nothing happened, and the black fog had not appeared since that night.

After almost a week, the villagers dared to return to the village one after another, and when the villagers returned to the village, people from the government and Taoist priests came one after another.

The official government checked all the corpses, and counted the corpses, and finally counted the dead clansmen and officers and soldiers together exactly 99 people, and the final result was that all the people lost their brains without any external injuries. He crawled out of his nose and ears and ran away, but he couldn't tell why the insects hadn't appeared again after that night, and he said that maybe they had encountered some natural predator so that all the insects died, and the people were skeptical of what he said.

On the contrary, the statement given by the Taoist priest was recognized by the villagers. After the Taoist priest took a turn around the sword lake where the black fog first appeared, he said that the bottom of the sword lake was sealed by a master a long, long time ago, and the earthquake that day broke the seal, so the dragon ran out, but the master set up a second layer of seals so the dragon could not run out of the position of the boulder platform, but the dragon was very smart, and it used illusion to attract Wang Lao Wu and others to go into the water to destroy the seal and release it. The Taoist priest also took everyone to see the big stones that Wang Lao Wu and others lifted out of the water. I saw that the big stone was indeed densely engraved with a lot of words that they couldn't understand. Later, after the patriarch gathered the tribesmen to give out some money, the Taoist priest performed a ritual by the lake for 7749 days and put the big stone back into the lake.

The black fog has not appeared since then.