Chapter 30: Rescuing the People (4) (Revised)
When Zhang Baisheng walked through the third fork, he muttered a little in his heart: "How do I feel a little wrong, I have been to this abandoned mine many times, I remember that it seems that after walking through two forked holes, you can see a very big cave." Now I've walked through three forks, why haven't I seen it yet? And why does this road give me the feeling that it is so long, between the two forks, it takes a long, long time to complete, and I always feel a little bit like I can't walk to the end. Could it be that this is a newly dug branch hole by those peers? There are a lot of detours on purpose? But it doesn't look like it has been newly opened in recent years......
Although he was full of doubts, but he was still very cautious in his actions, and when he reached the fourth fork in the road, he found that there were two large and one small three holes on the opposite side, he suddenly stopped, and then some strange emotions suddenly appeared in his heart, and he couldn't help but think: "The hole in front makes me feel a little unreal, how to say, it's... It's like... I am very familiar with the four-way intersection in front of me, the big hole on the left leads to the other side of the mountain, the big hole in the middle leads to the cave in my memory, and the small hole on the right is a dead end. I came in through a small hole in the mountain, so I shouldn't have been able to get here. ”
"Huh!" he thought with some suspicion in his heart, and when he turned his head to look around, he suddenly found that there was a broken array disk on the ground in front of the big hole in the middle, and he was so surprised that he almost couldn't help but scream, he took out three spirit talismans, and hit them around the bad array disk respectively, and after no reaction for a long time, he walked over and squatted down to check it.
"This is an early warning array, apparently it was broken by force not long ago, and I can guess that the circle must have been set up by those fellow Daoists to warn people. But who broke it? Could it be the nerds? Can they be so fast? Ran ahead of me first? It's incredible, but... But... It seems that this is not bad, I am worried about how to get the two of them to fight, if those sour people do run ahead of me, it will be much easier, at least without exposing me, to provoke their fight. Zhang Baisheng pondered in his heart, he carefully checked the entrance of the cave again, and found that there were many footprints on the ground, at this time, he didn't want to waste time, and then went to check the situation of the other two holes, and walked directly into the middle of the hole.
In addition to running the breath decision with all his might, Zhang Baisheng was afraid that there would be spiritual power fluctuations, attracting the attention of the monks in front, and even the charm was useless, at this time he walked forward very carefully and slowly, and before he went far, there was a very subtle sound of speech, and after he moved closer again, the whole person's body was attached to the cave wall, and he listened carefully to the voice in front of him.
"Senior Brother Qi, the cave in front of you is the place where children are injected, but the situation inside is a bit abnormal. Zhang Qinglin frowned and said,
"What's out of the ordinary?"
"There are four people in the cave who look like demon cultivators, three of them are sitting cross-legged on the ground, as if they are meditating to recover their mana, the other is standing on the edge of the stone platform, and there are six children near the exit of this road, lying there motionless, and some of them have black gas coming out of their bodies, I think they should have been successfully infused with demonic energy......"
"There's nothing strange about this, the six children's demonic qi infusion has been successful, and those few demon cultivators have consumed a lot of mana to preside over the formation, and it is normal to recover from meditating in place. Shi Zhaoqiang interjected and asked,
"When I first saw the situation in the cave, I didn't think there was anything suspicious, and I thought the same thing as you said at the time, but when I connected with the situation I saw later, it didn't feel right......
"Senior brother, you quickly tell me what you saw in the back. Shi Zhaoqiang was a little anxious and urged by the words 'not normal'.
"Senior Brother Shi, don't interrupt again, it's not too late to ask after listening to Senior Brother Zhang. Qi Qingquan couldn't stand it a little and said,
"The stone platform in the middle of the cave is blurred with flesh and blood, and it is thought that it is a place where the demonic qi infusion formation is placed, but the strange thing is that there are seven children, but they are either lying or sitting next to the stone platform, instead of being placed on the stone platform, and they look unconscious, this is one of them. The second thing that makes people feel incredible is that I heard from those who were rescued that some mortals would be hired by the demon cultivator as accomplices, and these secular people/dealers/children would talk to each other about the process of infusion after the child's demonic qi was completed, but when I passed, there were a dozen or so mortals standing next to the three demon cultivators, and I guessed that they were the people/dealers hired by the demon cultivators/ But when I saw them, they all stood stupidly, with no expression on their faces, and no one spoke between them, as if they had been hit by a spell and were set to the ground, and the silence of the whole cave was terrible. ”
"According to you, it's not normal, but it's convenient for us to stand stupidly from there, and it's just right to take them in the house. Shi Zhaoqiang said,
"But let's be careful, maybe it's a trap waiting for us to drill. But if something happens to them that makes them unable to act for the time being, it will indeed be cheaper for us. Zhang Qinglin continued,
"Hearing what Senior Brother Zhang said, I still don't understand. Qi Qingquan asked,
"Senior Brother Qi, don't you understand?"
"Are there only four of them in that cave?
"Senior Brother Qi, you may not know very well, every time this Tongjiang occurs once in a thousand years or when a large or small flood breaks out in a hundred years or so, in this case, the demon cultivators who should kill a thousand knives will be broken into zero, and they will be divided into groups one by one, and there will be about four to seven people in each group, if there are only four demon cultivators in it, it is really normal. Unlike usual, they often loot entire villages and towns in a dozen or dozens of them. Shi Zhaoqiang first explained,
"It's... This..."Zhang Qinglin frowned and tried to remember something, and after Shi Zhaoqiang finished speaking, he continued: "Although there are torches in the cave, the place where three of them sit is relatively dim, I can't see clearly what they are dressed in, I can't be sure that the demon cultivator we chased before must be among them, and the other one, although his back is facing me, he is dressed differently from the demon cultivator we chased, it should not be the person before." ”
"It is said that he arrived before us, and he should have already sent a message to the rest of the demon cultivators, why are these people still meditating at this time, but they don't escape with the child who has successfully infused the demonic qi?" Qi Qingquan still had some doubts,
"Could it be that the Demon Dao Monk who was chased by us, he didn't join the Demon Cultivator in the cave in front of him, but hid in a hole that we didn't search, meditating in it to recover his mana?" Shi Zhaoqiang guessed,
"It's also possible that if the four of them are all foundation building monks like the one being chased, we will be in a bit of trouble, and we can only surprise and attack the few people in the cave by surprise, and end this battle quickly. Otherwise, the battle is not over, and it will be difficult to find the one who was chased before. Zhang Qinglin said,
"Senior Brother Zhang, we don't even know their cultivation realm, can we rush in?"
"I have a way to try here, that is, first send a nephew back to the fork in the road, where a formation to trap the enemy is arranged, and the other part of the nephew is ambushed here, the three of us take a nephew with a high cultivation into the hole to raid them, see what kind of cultivation they are, if they are all in the foundation building period, let's let the nephew notify the rest of the people to withdraw from this mountain as soon as possible, let's fight with them for a while and then guide the demon cultivator to the fork in the road, trap them with the formation, and then let's meet the nephews and nephews and then talk about what to do." If they are not all foundation building monks, it will be decided whether to notify the teachers and nephews to come in for reinforcements or retreat, depending on the situation. Do you think that's going to work?"
"That's a good idea, so let's do it. Qi Qingquan agreed,
"The solution is very good, but I'm still worried about the cultivation of a few of them. Although Shi Zhaoqiang agreed, he still had some doubts,
"Let's go over and see, if we think about it here, we won't know what's going on there, what the situation is. Qi Qingquan finally said.