Chapter 383: The Fierce Battle in Zhongzhou
The Dongyuan Kingdom has a radius of 2,000 miles and a population of about 200 million. Even for ordinary mortals, it is not a country that is unreachable from east to west or from south to north, and for ordinary people who can travel thousands of miles a day, the Dongyuan Kingdom and a state with a radius of only about 700 miles are probably just a county in the eyes of ordinary mortals. When this area has become a place where the entire Jianghu world has attracted attention, in a sense, it also means that this area has become a tiger's den in Longtan for Zhang Fan himself.
And as Zhang Fan expected, in a certain range of places outside the land of Zhongzhou, Zhang Fan felt a lot of suspicious groups, just because these people didn't expect that Zhang Fan still pretended to be an ordinary beggar who seemed to be bullied with his current identity and ability, and chose to travel during the day, so he did not expose the target for the time being.
However, when he was only about 100 miles away from Zhongzhou, Zhang Fan obviously felt that there were more and more suspicious spies from the open to the dark. In particular, some people who plan to enter Midstate at the close time will be checked. The small gangs that he followed were nominally beggars, but in fact they were stealing, kidnapping, and selling.
"Ah, I'll forget it. In the past, we thought that this was a lively place like a martial arts conference, and there must be many opportunities to make a living, but now it seems that this area has long become a place of right and wrong, and we can't stay for a long time!"
The middle-aged man who looked like an ordinary farmer weighed in for a moment and felt reasonable: "Then it's decided, turn around!
"I don't plan to leave, we all heard that Zhongzhou City has already set up a ring, it is said that there is a stunning woman in the ring, it is the Jianghu Road that seduces the legendary demon, maybe I have a chance... At this time, Zhang Fan suddenly said, his expected demeanor was very different from before.
"Hehe, what did you kid say? Didn't you make Ah Si crazy before?" Ah Di smiled at this time.
Ah Si walked over with a gloomy face: "You kid don't want to live anymore, do you?"
It's just that at this time, Ah Da realized something and felt a little weird. Then Ah Si's figure blocked him, and he quietly moved his body to slip away.
Now in his forties, Ah Da has rich experience in seeing people for more than 30 years. Ordinary people, if they are not crazy, rarely change their temperament, especially cowardly people suddenly seem to be a different person. Usually, nine times out of ten, there's something weird about it. If it was really the legendary demon at this time, then it really wouldn't be able to eat and walk around.
However, the truth seems to be as Ah Da imagined, almost in the blink of an eye. Ah Da and the other two people's bodies collapsed in a very short period of time almost like an electric shock. Ah Er and Ah Si never woke up after they fell. In front of Zhang Fan today, even hundreds of people who don't have much martial arts foundation can be killed in the blink of an eye.
Feeling that he was in a huge crisis, Ah Da seemed to feel that he might not be able to escape his bad luck this time, especially when he couldn't even speak at this moment. Zhang Fan waited patiently for a moment, and Ah Da seemed to be barely able to speak: "Immortal spare my life! I'm just an inconspicuous little character! It's not worth wasting the precious time of the immortals to destroy the corpses, how about this? I'm willing to sacrifice my voice and ears... ”
Zhang Fan smiled and said: "The voice and the ear are wasted? Is that the price? Some businesses are still capital, okay? This way: People like you are really not worthy of me to destroy the corpse, but you have to tell me something: I happened to hear you and Ah Er gossip when they said that they have a lot of so-called seedlings and clear seedlings in their hands." Where are the seedlings?"
"This... The immortal master is wronged, how dare the three of us, who can't get on the stage, do that kind of business?"
This Ah Da is very set when he lies, and it seems that people can't see the flaws at all, but in front of Zhang Fan, he obviously looks naïve. Suddenly, Ah Da felt a sharp and unique pain hit him, although it disappeared after only a moment, but at this time, Ah Da was also very familiar and no longer planned to hide it: "Immortal spare: I only have two seedlings in my hands, that is, young children, both of which are in an ordinary household in the countryside. Qingmiao, that is, the young woman who was abducted, was handed over to the Tibetan Laosan behind the Tanah Lot Temple in Nanyun County, Zhongzhou... ”
In fact, at the beginning, Zhang Fan didn't know what the so-called seedlings and green seedlings meant, but at this time, he was a little hesitant in his heart. Should you take care of this kind of idle matter? If you do, maybe it will make the potential power of the Xishan Jianghu Dao pay attention to this, and maybe it may bring trouble to yourself? It's just that when he thought of this, Zhang Fan quickly realized again: Actually, it's nothing, after all, these things are not at the same level as the real Jianghu Dao power. Zhang Fan then thought: Can he use this matter as a bait to allow more forces from Xishan, Jianghudao, to gather in this area, but it is convenient for him to come up with a heavy blow and weaken the territory outside Zhongzhou?
But in the end, somehow, Zhang Fan still didn't choose to do so. No one taught him, but Zhang Fan still felt that neither of these options seemed to be suitable, and he should take a look now, at least he should move these people to a proper place first...
Thinking of this, Zhang Fan first took advantage of the night to rush to Nanyun County. What makes Zhang Fan a little similar is that even places like the brothels of Qinglou, which are rarely frequented by people from the rivers and lakes who are a little bit on the table, seem to have deliberate people secretly deployed at this special time and even in special places, and even Zhang Fan felt suspicious creatures when he was about fifty steps away.
Of course, Zhang Fan trusted the ability to perceive mental power at this time. Suspicious and vicious are two different things, at least since I walked the rivers and lakes after possessing this special ability. In fact, feeling a lot of vicious atmosphere, such as ordinary thugs, murderers, or some conspiracy activities that have nothing to do with him, etc., will make Zhang Fan feel like this. However, with the slightest hint of "suspiciousness" that makes people feel troublesome and dangerous, it proves that there are people or things deployed here that are specifically aimed at themselves.
At this time, Zhang Fan seemed to be planning to leave the tenth-place in line with his natural habits, but in the end he decided to take the risk to investigate, and finally when he was only about twenty or thirty steps away from the target, he finally relied on the canopy to see some strange dark red marks on the ground, which seemed to be a trap but not a trap. In the key directions of these dark red imprints, there seem to be some people who are being held in captives, these people themselves are only dark red, but some unidentified objects on the walls seem to have brighter dark red sensory marks?
Zhang Fan closed his eyes and thought for a moment, feeling that this was obviously a game aimed at himself. Or: Although Xishan Jianghu Dao did not find out his ability, he had enough time and even manpower and material resources to make full preparations in many places near Zhongzhou. Probably every brothel, inn, casino, and temple has been prepared accordingly, and the scale of the pen is unimaginable.
I've actually seen this kind of game before, and if I roughly guess it based on my own experience, and arrange it from the other party's point of view, the truth may be like this: those who are innocent substitutes have just done some game-like training in advance, as long as they help trigger the necessary mechanisms, thinking that it is just to let some gentlemen change their ways to have fun, and there is no danger. Unaware that some of the contents of the container have been replaced with a possible poisonous bee, or a mechanism connected to the poisonous bee container projectile, it seems that this way can expose oneself to a certain degree of unexpected risk in the event of one's own action?
Moreover, Zhang Fan seemed to see that the entire brothel seemed to be the only danger in the turn of the investigation. At this time, Zhang Fan speculated: It is very likely that these prostitutes have contracted some kind of strange disease, and they will not hesitate to cause a large number of deaths to themselves.
Thinking of this, Zhang Fan no longer hesitated, closed his eyes and began to cast spells. Violent lightning flashed with precision, causing many dark red targets throughout the brothel to lose their vitality in a short period of time. Such a strange behavior also brought chaos in an instant.
"The demon is coming! Run!" Many people only hesitated for a moment before finally choosing to flee, and they didn't even want many of the family assets hiding here, and would rather suffer huge economic losses than leave a glimmer of name. At this time, Zhang Fan observed the targets gathered in a certain position from the outside, but the lighter dark red at this time disappeared at this moment.
Zhang Fan couldn't help but be embarrassed at this time. After all, he doesn't have the ability of top masters, and even many of his subordinates, in fact, he doesn't have the ability to ensure the safety of some people. All he could do was to distribute some of the belongings he found in the brothel to some of the people who had intended to leave and change into their outfits and then take the opportunity to leave. The ultimate fate of these people is not something they can fully take responsibility for.
However, at this time, of course, Zhang Fan also knew that after such an incident, his place might be exposed. If you want to avoid danger to those who leave, it is better to leave afterwards ...
In this way, before entering Zhongzhou, Zhang Fan exposed his body because of this incident, and had to re-choose the method of day and night, and rushed to the other direction of Zhongzhou at a very fast speed, ready to sneak in at night.
However, what made Zhang Fan finally feel a hint of crisis was that when Zhang Fan approached a distance of about ten miles from the border of Zhongzhou, he found that there seemed to be countless red lights as dim as clouds in a position about one mile away. With Zhang Fan's wisdom, Zhang Fan was able to realize that if his expectations were correct, I am afraid that some kind of poisonous insect would already be densely covered on the border that stretched for nearly three thousand miles on the outskirts of Zhongzhou. It still seems unthinkable, but it's not impossible.
Zhang Fan's rough estimate: At this time, he also has some means in terms of exterminating insects and beasts, but doing so will undoubtedly increase the probability of re-exposure, which is obviously unwise. In this case, Zhang Fan did not choose to move forward rashly, but waited until the sky seemed to be gradually increasing before choosing to quietly move towards the blockade line.
As I expected, in order to avoid exposing the hole cards of the night, it is obvious that a considerable part of the poisonous insects that come out of the day and night when it is about to dawn choose to rest again.
At this time, Zhang Fan was like an ordinary Jianghu person who launched the fastest speed, and when he crossed the poisonous insect area, there were still some poisonous insects that followed, and Zhang Fan accurately controlled his mental power and even the thunder and lightning technique at this time. Only when these poisonous insects are approaching within a foot of their body will they be hit by lightning strikes that gather like fire, reducing the possible traces to a minimum.
This kind of means, coupled with the fact that Zhang Fan at this time was also able to run like a second- or third-rate Jianghu person, after all, he could be regarded as breaking through the danger zone. Zhang Fan finally chose to lurk again when he had just crossed the blockade line, avoiding the patrol line of some people during the day, and finally broke through the blockade line in the Zhongzhou area in the evening when day and night alternated.
After experiencing these things, Zhang Fan's heart couldn't help but feel a little bored. My current ability is actually not what it used to be. At least shouldn't you be too afraid of the crowd tactical siege, and still use such a stealing chicken and dog-like behavior? Isn't it more advantageous to openly disclose your actions?
In the end, Zhang Fan still overwhelmed his arrogance, and in this case, he still used the method of sneaking based on day and night. It's just that Zhang Fan at this time is not particularly good at this area after all, and he was soon discovered by the secret sentinel, and soon Zhang Fan gradually found that there were more and more "tails" at a distance of about a mile from him. It seems that he has been secretly followed. In order not to expose the boundaries of his reconnaissance and attack capabilities, Zhang Fan could only choose to acquiesce in the existence of these tails. When Zhang Fan marched to the ring outside Zhongzhou City on the seventh night after entering Zhongzhou like an ordinary person, it seemed that it was also certain at this time that the time for the showdown had come. At a distance that is difficult for him to detect a mile away, he should have already ambushed enough troops and manpower at this moment, but the other party may not know that the ability he has at this time is not comparable to that of a few years ago.
Zhang Fan tried his best to perceive while opening the canopy, and gradually approached the direction of the ring. Instead of sweeping and acting at this night, they waited until there was still an hour or so before dawn before the showdown was finally decided. In this case, even if the final battle situation is unfavorable, he should have a certain amount of time to escape.