Chapter 26: Uprooted
"Oh no!
"State of emergency, someone is invading!"
Yuanhua's two apprentices, Yongyao and Zheng Jiu, ran wildly in the village at a very fast speed, shouting loudly as they ran. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The villagers, you look at me, I look at you, they are all stunned.
In the first few years of Dashang's death, they were still a little worried, afraid that Ying Hao would kill them all and kill them. But in the years that followed, no one else discovered the existence of Shigu Village, and the villagers gradually became more and more at ease.
After so many years, the villagers suddenly encountered an emergency, and the villagers seemed helpless for a while.
Yongyao and Zheng Jiu quickly ran to Ziyun's residence and reported the situation breathlessly.
Ziyun pondered for a while, and solemnly ordered the two of them to inform all the villagers to return to their respective homes, mobilize all young and middle-aged people to patrol in teams, and strengthen the defense of the village.
As soon as they arrived in Jiangying, they saw Yuanhua and his two apprentices escorting an injured woman back.
Ziyun and the others hurriedly greeted them and asked, "What's the matter?
Yuanhua said: "We're fine, although they have good strength, they are not our opponents yet. ”
Then they walked back, and Yuan Hua talked about the details: "The person they led was a late-stage master of the Sevenfold Realm of Qi Refining, and the other two men were the Triple Realm of Qi Refining and the Quadruple Realm of Qi Refining. ”
Then he pointed to the struggling woman outside the door and said, "She is the weakest, only in the middle stage of the Qi Refining Dual Realm, and she was captured by us. The other two Triple Realm and Quadruple Realm were killed by me, but ...... The leader of the Sevenfold Realm was too cunning, although I was injured, but I was not good at fighting, and I didn't have poison on me, they saw that the situation was not good, and the Fourfold Realm of Qi Refining desperately stopped me and let the leader escape. ”
"Alright, I'll send someone after him! Let's go back and discuss what to do with this. Ziyun patted Yuanhua on the shoulder and said.
"Zili, Zilong, you two go after that outlaw, you must be fast!"
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Next, the whole village entered a state of emergency, and young and middle-aged people formed patrols to patrol the village in turn, and set up secret posts in twenty or thirty hidden places around the village, standing guard 24 hours a day.
Ziyun and others interrogated the woman, and in the end, the woman couldn't stand the torture and told them their actions and tasks.
It turned out that more than half a year ago, Wu Xian, who was dressed in a black robe, suddenly appeared in Ying Hao's bedroom, sent an oracle bone and turned away.
The emperor of Dahao, Ying Hao, also failed to keep Wu Xian, so he summoned five palace masters to study the texture of the divination and came up with four words:
"Heavenly Sin Dahao!"
Ying Hao was shocked, immediately blocked the news, killed all the eunuchs and palace maids present at the time, and issued a ban on the five palace masters.
The next day, he sent all the scouts of the Dark and Dark Department to monitor the Jibu in the western Qiyuan, the Northern Ming Dynasty, the Dayi Shang region, and even the Southeast Jiuyi.
At the same time, the remnants of the stubborn forces of the Shang Dynasty who escaped that year were particularly "tracked down".
So according to the clues, some people trekked through mountains and rivers, climbed rocks and climbed heights, walked in the deep mountains and old forests, and wandered on the dangerous shoals and swamps according to the clues, and finally discovered Shigu Village by their group.
There were a total of sixty people in their team, including fifteen people from the high-level Qi Refining Realm, and they assigned areas in the town fifty miles away, and then searched in groups.
According to the agreement, we returned to the town in six days to meet, and now four days have passed.
Knowing the strength of the other party, Ziyun fell into thought, according to the current situation, if the leader fled back to the town, those people would be able to reach here in less than three days. The best case scenario is that Zili and Zilong killed those two, so that they could last two or three more days.
Although there were more than thirty people in the high-level Qi Refining Realm in Shigu Village, and six people in the Nine Realms of Qi Refining, even if this wave was defeated, it would definitely attract more enemies.
Ziyun pondered for a while, and secretly thought in his heart, "In this way, I can only ......" He frowned deeply, hesitated, and made a decision: "Zili and Zilong must kill those two as soon as possible, and then ......"
"Shigu Village, collective relocation!"
As soon as this decision came out, everyone present was silent for a while, although there was a little controversy after that, but soon everyone reached a consensus.
An hour later, Zili and Zilong also rushed back, and although they managed to kill the scout, they were discovered by other scouts from the Dark Department in the process of killing, and the two sides began to fight him.
They seemed to be a "coalition army" where two groups of scouts converged, and there were actually two mid-level and low-level Qi Refining Realm martial artists in the late stage of the Qi Refining Sevenfold Realm, Zili and Zilong forcibly killed one of the Seven Realm masters, as well as two low-level Qi Refining Realms, and quickly slipped away.
In other words, the worst-case scenario happened, leaving less than three days for the people of Shigu Village.
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In the evening, the remnant sun is like blood, gradually setting in the western mountains, and the sunset is like fire, and it is like a red line from east to west, across the sky.
More than 1,000 people in Shigu Village hastily ate their last dinner in Shigu Village, and hurriedly packed up their food and some valuables.
At the beginning of the moon, the villagers came to the entrance of the village with large bags and small bags, and men, women and children were ready to go.
Ziyun was not in the mood to make any declarations, he looked back at the village where he had lived for thirty years with a solemn face, and the villagers also looked back, and finally took a look at the village, and infinite emotion poured into everyone's hearts.
Thirty years ago, when they came here like lost dogs, it was just an overgrown wasteland, and in the past thirty years, they have built a beautiful village with their hands, and thousands of acres of fertile land and beautiful ponds.
I thought that they would be able to live and work here in peace and contentment, and they lived for decades and hundreds of years, until a peerless Tianjiao appeared, leading the remnants of the already strong Shang to revive the Great Shang.
But......
"Let's go!" After looking at the village in silence for a while, Ziyun desolate led everyone to start another round of "escape" process.
The procession walked south from Dustpan Bay, southeast of the village, through the 20-mile-long dry river valley.
Three years ago, there was a strange Heihe incident here, but only Zishang and Yuanhua knew about it......
The group ran briskly through the valley and woods, and although they carried some luggage, men, women, and children, they still maintained a speed of one hundred and forty miles a day.
It's the fourth day.
"Big brother, let's take a break, the line is getting longer and longer, and many people can't hold on!" Ziling ran over panting and said a little anxiously.
"Well, let's take a break. Ziyun looked at the two-mile-long team and reluctantly agreed.
"Okay, everyone, hurry up and take a break, hurry up and follow up, don't fall behind!" Ziling commanded loudly, and then Yuanhua led thirty or forty pharmacists to distribute nutrient solutions to the elderly and children.
In order to save time and speed up the journey, Ziyun decided that everyone would only eat one meal a day, and they could only be eight points full, and the elderly and children with poor physique would be given nutrient solution twice a day, of course, these groups were very few, less than seventy people, after all, most of them were martial artists above the fourth level of the body refining realm, and they could hold on.
At the resting place of the people, about thirty strong men came to the end of the procession, and walked the way they came, and processed the obvious traces left on the road.
Zishang put down the small sack in his hand, wiped his sweat, and then walked up to Ziyun and said, "Dad! It's not a way to go on like this, although we have cleared the traces, but after all, there are more than a thousand people on the road, and the traces are still easy to find." I don't think in two days, someone will chase after me, so it's going to be troublesome!"
Ziyun sighed and said, "Alas, I've thought about this question too, but what else can we do now besides hurry up and run?"
Zishang said: "But we are the people of the whole village in a hurry, after all, the speed is limited, the gang of the Dark Department can chase at least two hundred miles, or even three hundred miles a day! If they suddenly sneak attack, we will inevitably kill and injure a lot of people! The most important thing is that if they find out that they are not defeated by us, but only follow in the shadows, after the large army gathers, we will still be unable to escape the killing!"
As soon as Zishang finished speaking, Ziyun's brows furrowed even deeper, and he was silent for a while, and asked, "Shang'er, what are your plans?"
"That's what the child thinks, and it's imperative that we get time to escape. Then instead of getting rid of them, it's better to kill them!"
"In my opinion, it is impossible for them to be led by a God Refining Realm powerhouse, so as long as you take all the middle and high-level Qi Refining Realm martial artists with you, and cooperate with your uncle and grandfather's poison, you should be able to kill them quickly!"
Ziyun lowered his head and thought for a while, then clapped his hands and said, "Okay! ”
Immediately, Ziyun called several high-level executives to discuss the matter. This plan was soon decided, and seventy martial artists above the prime-aged Qi Refining Quadruple Realm set up an ambush to carry out an operation to suppress the enemy.
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Early the next morning, about fifty middle-aged men dressed as civilians were sneakily on the road, their hands as agile as leopards, their eyes as sharp as falcons, and they looked around from time to time.
Although they were dressed plainly, their neat and standardized pace made Zili and Zilong who were in ambush immediately recognize that they were the scouts of the Dark Bureau.
Everyone hid in the bushes and the canopy of trees, staring at them without blinking, judging from the size, movements, and appearance, the one who walked in the front should be a martial artist at the peak of qi refining, and it seemed that he was the only one.
A hundred feet ahead of them, a mist shrouded the forest.
In order to ambush this group of scouts with good strength, Yuanhua also made a bloody investment, and burned 800 catties of "soft and soft incense" to create this "fog" with a radius of more than one mile.
With a wave of the leader's hand, everyone stopped, and the man frowned and looked at the mist, then pointed to the three scouts to explore the way.
Yuan Hua secretly scolded and scowled, but they were not without a backhand, the three scouts had just entered the mist for a short while, and the forty middle-level Qi Refining Realms who were ambushed in the mist immediately threw out balls the size of watermelons.
The rest of the people who were lying in ambush near the scouts immediately took out their improvised bows and arrows, quickly lit the arrows, and shot them at the "round ball".
In the blink of an eye, dozens of clouds of yellow smoke exploded, enveloping them.
At this time, three screams rang out at the same time in the fog.
The "scouts" of the Dark Shadow Agency were not slow to react, and the moment the big ball landed, they did not hesitate and acted decisively, flashed to the side, and drew their weapons.
However, the ball was like a bomb, and the poisonous gas quickly enveloped more than 30 people, and everyone in Shigu Village quickly shot and killed 12 people instantly.
The true qi was agitated, the qi waves were rolling, and the ten-year-old trees around them were shaken, and occasionally two of them broke off after a few punches.
Although the strength of the scouts is not bad, but there are many people in Shigu Village, and their strength is also not bad, in twenty breaths, ten more people were smashed in the head, including two peak martial artists of the Qi Refining Sixfold Realm.
The remaining scouts saw that the momentum was not right, and immediately fought and retreated, but they were resisted to the death by more than 30 people who were responsible for the encirclement, and finally only nine people broke out of the encirclement with injuries.
As for the leader of the peak of qi refining and the other deputy of the Nine Realms, because he was particularly "cared for", he couldn't escape the end of death!
After that, it was another dozens of miles of pursuit, and finally annihilated them all in the edge of the "Forty-mile Long Mountain".
Some of the injured mid-level Qi Refining Realms came back first to report after the team battle, but the results of the pursuit had not yet come, and everyone had to wait anxiously for more than two hours.
Fortunately, in the evening, I finally saw everyone returning.
"How's it going?" Seeing them come back, everyone quickly gathered around and asked eagerly.
"Fortunately, after chasing for dozens of miles, we still killed them, we didn't suffer any serious injuries, the injuries were suppressed, don't worry!" Ziyun soothed.
The crowd returned triumphantly, and although many were wounded, at least no one was seriously injured or crippled, and no one was killed.
Because the pursuers had been wiped out, they finally didn't have to travel overnight tonight, they buried their pots to cook, ate stewed to their heart's content, and slept peacefully.