Final Chapter. 30. Intercept the sea
In fact, Shen Gui didn't turn this corner, he just couldn't believe this bold inference in his heart. If all the possibilities are strung into a line, it is not difficult to come up with a terrible result: after his group left the Youbei Third Road, all their every move may be the result of listening to the situation; Even this untimely storm is a demon spell performed by Guan Beidou!
Guan Beidou's arrangements are also to trap himself, an outlier; It also enables the Youbei Third Road to follow the route arranged by Di Ting to move forward steadily, not to be swayed by any accidents, and to go straight to the end of the country.
However, this inference is only an inference, without any direct evidence, and even if there is, if Shen Gui wants to change the result, he doesn't know where to start for a while.
Now that he listened to Sheng Beichuan's words, he scratched his scalp with some confusion:
"So what does Old Man Sheng mean?"
Sheng Beichuan snorted coldly, and continued to smoke his cigarette pouch; And the immeasurable real person took out a wooden token from the robe and threw it in Shen Gui's hand:
"Since Di Ting has already designed to lure you into Dengzhou City, of course it will not be arranged in advance. They bought two hundred top water ghosts from Yunmeng Lake in Nankang in advance, and each of them paid fifteen thousand taels of silver for settling in; Today, these 200 people have been stationed on Sea Eagle Island for more than half a year......"
"Di Ting also underestimated me Shen someone, right? There are only 200 "Wang Bajing" (water thieves are contemptuously called...... Old man Sheng, don't be careful, I didn't mean to piggyback on you! ”
"Of course, if it comes to frontal fighting, even if the number of water ghosts is ten times higher, it may not be able to help you Shen Gui! But according to Brother Sheng's guess, these two hundred water ghosts will not meet the three of you at all, and they won't even bring more daggers! They will only swarm you at all costs, like sharks that smell blood, and scuttle the bottom of your ship with all their might! Shen Gui, Shen Gui, you still have the strength to fight head-on, but if you fight to the death with the cold and biting sea water of Dongyouwan, I don't know how much you think you will win or lose? ”
After Shen Gui listened, he just made up this possibility in his brain, and he broke out in a cold sweat. Once the speculation of the immeasurable real person and Sheng Beichuan is established; Then, when the three of them were halfway through the boat and were quickly scuttled by more than 200 water ghosts, the three of them would definitely fall into the icy seawater. Even Sheng Beichuan, who is the top of the water nature, wants to swim to any shore under the combined siege of two hundred water ghosts, it is impossible to accomplish it! Even if Shen Gui has the Dragon King's body in the water, if he can really strangle all the top 200 water ghosts after falling into the water, I am afraid that it will take until the next morning; Until then, the storm that had been resting overnight will come back again, and the sea will once again set off strong winds and waves, and the life and death of the three of them will have nothing to do with water and martial arts.
After thinking of this, Shen Gui turned his head to look at the wooden plaque in his hand, which looked quite old, and the word "Yunmeng" with a slightly rough pen body was embossed on it, which was obviously the handicraft of a certain Yunmeng Water Village.
"...... this?"
"Of the relics of the two hundred water ghosts, Poor Dao just took one casually, and the rest remained on Sea Eagle Island."
"So what you just said was so lively? Feelings are scaring me to play? Wrong! Zhang Qingniu, Zhang Qingniu, you and Guan Beidou are from the same school, and they have been learning art in the same class since childhood, so they should stand on the same front. Even if your brothers and sisters are not in harmony, you and I can't talk about any friendship; can not help each other, which is already biased towards Shen; Why do you have to do it so thoroughly and sabotage your brother's overall plan? It doesn't make sense at all! ”
After listening to this, the immeasurable real person continued to fiddle with the extremely luxurious jasper mortar, but did not answer any more questions from Shen Gui.
Three days later, in the dragon vein underground palace under the Xianyang Palace in Chang'an, Guan Beidou, who had no crane number, was dressed in a Taoist robe, with a cloak and a peachwood magic sword, and a yellow mounted paper was obliquely inserted at the tip of the sword. He stepped barefoot on the Seven Stars Gangbu, with words in his mouth, a gilded mark at the center of his eyebrows, occasionally flashing with a faint light, and he looked very bewitching.
On the way to the dragon vein circle, the black dog held a long sword in his arms and blocked the entrance with his body; At this time, he also looked at the mortal incarnation of great sage, great virtue, great wisdom and benevolence in his mind with bright eyes.
The ritual began in the early hours of the morning and lasted until nightfall. The only people who are qualified to come to enter the underground palace to watch the ceremony are Zhou Changfeng, the king of Qin, and Zongjing, the great monk of Nanquan Zen Buddhism.
Zhou Changfeng, the king of Qin, was essentially a realist who was good at playing with power. Therefore, he was not interested in this kind of mysterious religious ritual in the first place; However, after all, Guan Beidou represents the two families of Di Ting and Xuanyue Dao Palace, and he is also the protector of Beiyan, and his identity can be described as extremely complicated. For such a person, don't say that he wants to open the altar, even if he wants to tear down the entire Xianyang Palace and rebuild it, as long as Di Ting is willing to give out the money, he has nothing to say about the wind around him!
As for Zongjing, the great monk of Nanquan Zen Buddhism, he was originally a disciple of Shakti Zen Buddhism, although he studied the hammer forging method of physical body meditation; But for the sincere and firm belief of the Buddha, it will not be inferior to the disciples of Nanlin Zen Buddhism; However, this first arhat of the Dharma Hall is not a fanatical Shakti extremist. Through years of physical penance, his perception and understanding have also increased tremendously. If you have reached the top of the peak, you will be able to see thousands of miles away; Today's Zongjing can already accept the metaphysical theories of other sects in the earthly world; Even if it is Guan Beidou, the old opponent of the Shimen disciples, he can retain the attitude of respecting and staying away and living in peace.
Therefore, today's ritual that lasted for a time, and the two of them, the spectators, were just regarded as a Xuanmen song and dance performance. Zhou Changfeng has been in a high position since he was a child, and he has long seen bizarre witchcraft and demon methods; Those Jianghu warlocks who want to get close to him by pretending to be gods and ghosts to grab benefits are as many as carp crossing the river, and everyone's tricks are not inferior to Guan Beidou's, so what can be the novelty?
However, just when the two of them had already retreated, they wanted to explain to the black dog in charge of the gatekeeper and left the dungeon; The nine stone carved dragons on the altar of the underground palace suddenly had a strange vision!
One of the stone carvings looks like one of the dragons, the dragon head and fish tail, the name is the kiss of the owl, which is a common stone carving at both ends of the temple ridge, meaning to prevent fire.
At this time, it was also this stone sculpture of the owl's kiss, but suddenly it opened its mouth and spewed out a clear spring, and it fell exactly into a hole in the altar!
Even though Xin'an Hou Zhou Changfeng was well-informed, he never thought that the feng shui dragon veins that were abandoned by his own family would be rejuvenated under his nose! Even if he was an unwavering realist, he was equally bewildered by the whimsical spectacle.
Looking back at Zen Master Zongjing, he still closed his eyes and recuperated with his eyes closed, looking like an old god was there; It seems that none of these top-notch magic sticks are fuel-efficient lamps......
"Poof!"
Before Zhou Changfeng could come up with a reasonable explanation, Guan Beidou, who was still dancing with a sword and holding a spell and chattering, seemed to be hit by an invisible big hand, a palm hit the lower abdomen, and the whole person flew backwards in an instant, and the blood spurting out of his mouth and nose outlined a high red arc, and he was about to crash into the stone wall of the underground palace!
At the same time, Zongxian Arhat's eyes suddenly widened with anger; With a wave of his right arm, half of his sturdy arms and chest were exposed to the foul air of the dungeon; Who knew that the old black dog jumped directly into the dragon gate with a carp and rescued Guan Beidou, who was flying backwards; Before jumping, he also left a hard sentence for the angry-eyed King Kong:
"This is a private matter that we listen to, and we don't need Nanquan Zen Buddhism to interfere!"
At this moment, the sky was already dark. The great storm in Dengzhou City has lasted for three days and three nights. But since the sun set today, it is really as magical as Sheng Beichuan predicted, and the weather that has been raining continuously just now has really come to an abrupt end!
On the pier of the sea crossing in the northwest corner of Dengzhou City, a sand imitation boat that has been reduced and improved was quietly untied by an old man, and he left the dock of Dengzhou City unconsciously and went straight to the northeast.
In addition to helping the two wounded and sick, he is also good at the Feng Shui compass of the Wudao Gate, as well as the Guanyan technique of the Xuandao of the Gate, which can help the sand boat guide the correct course!
At the helm of an experienced old pirate, the improved and shrunken sand ship soon approached Sea Eagle Island, where two hundred water ghosts were originally stationed. This was originally a killer move by Guan Beidou, but because Zhang Qingniu, the inner ghost of the nest fight, made a hindrance, it has completely disintegrated and disappeared.
Shen Gui is notoriously cautious and suspicious, if his physical condition is as usual, he will definitely ask Sheng Beichuan to dock here, and he must go up to see the two hundred carrion corpses with his own eyes to rest assured. But now, although his injuries are improving, his body is still very weak; Even when Fang just boarded the boat, he relied on Qi Yan to carry him on his back.
Moreover, if they docked at Sea Eagle Island, it didn't matter if they delayed their trip or upset Zhang Qingniu; Once the storm reverses in advance, then they will not be able to see even a reef for the remaining 50 nautical miles, and they will still not be able to avoid the fate of being buried at the bottom of the sea!
Helpless, Shen Gui could only hide this anxiety in his heart, listen to the sound of the sea breeze outside the cabin with peace of mind, and carefully recoil the messy thoughts in his mind.
Shen Gui has always been relieved of the next question: if everything Zhang Qingniu said is true, then even if Di Ting can really trap himself for seven days, how can he easily destroy the Youbei Third Road? Could it be that they are really stupid enough to pin all their hopes on their own defeated Guo Xing?
At least judging from Shen Gui's experience, Di Ting would never hand over such an important key step to a defeated general!