Chapter 70: Stagnant Water
Continent of Kuzsia.
Carman City.
"Lord Fasher, this is about building the Great Wall. The merit is in the contemporary, the benefit is in the future, and it must not be a child's play! Bai Qi looked at the pomp of thousands of sappers wielding hammers on the pile of sand and gravel that stretched for more than ten miles, and couldn't help but admire.
"Hurry! Pull back the rest of the rubble and fortify the city. Don't be slow! Hugh Jack rolled up his sleeves on the construction site, and he was obviously darker as he ate, lived and worked with the sappers.
"In the past two months, has there been any news from the Metropolitan Governor?" Fasher asked worriedly, staring at the high post in the distance.
"No news!" Lu Bu said four words lightly.
"The Metropolitan Governor won't..." What Farsher wanted to say was whether something would happen, but he looked at the resolute faces of the generals around him and held back the words that followed.
"How is that possible? Most of the governors are witty and favored by gods, and he will definitely turn evil into good fortune and achieve success. Ellavera stroked Xiaosha's head and said firmly. The four-headed dog did not dare to jump the ladder, but followed the trail back to Storm Catcher City, and joined the army to come to Kaman.
"Hattori Hanzo and Yeka were behind enemy lines, and this time it made a big difference. He killed three enemy chiefs one after another, so that the army of the earth king did not dare to jump half a step into this thunder pool. Most of the governors are like gods, and they are unfathomable! Zhang Xianzhong added.
Everyone stood on top of the tower, and the scorching sun scorched the continent of Kuzsia, swallowing the past glory of Stormcatcher, the vicissitudes of Kaman City, and the confusion of the entire continent. They lack a guide on where the future lies.
"I said, Old Xue. I think you've almost trained this soldier, these immortals are like calves. Shouldn't we be thinking about rushing forward? Zhou Yu looked at the soldiers of the red and blue teams simulating actual combat on the square and said quietly.
"That's exactly what I mean. Since the three reinforcements came from the hinterland of the grassland, this king deliberately pulled out the three cities and sacrificed my scimitar. With that, Xerxes pulled out his newly-punched full moon scimitar from his waist and stroked it lovingly.
"Well, that's right. It's better to choose a day than to hit the day, and set off today? ā
"Are you in such a hurry?"
"I'm in a hurry, I'm in a hurry to find something."
"Oh? Looking for something? ā
"You don't understand, I'm looking for... A walking armor. Zhou Yu's eyes lit up, and the quirky girl appeared in his mind. I don't know where she and Borada are now, whether they have also been imprisoned and lost their freedom.
In the afternoon of that day, under the pouring rain, Zhou Yu and Xerxes set off with the Immortal Army. He wore a mask at all times, and appeared as Xerxes's personal guard, never leaving the commander. If it weren't for the fact that both of them were five big and three coarse, and Kong Wu was powerful, it would be really easy to make people reverie.
"Report to the Commander, there is a wetland ahead, ahead. The Sharp Knife Company reminded the follow-up troops to be cautious in case they stumbled. "The Sharp Knife Company is a mobile unit established by Xerxes under the strong recommendation of Zhou Yu, and it is composed of carefully selected backbones to carry out key tasks.
"Let's go, let's go!" Xerxes clamped his legs and galloped to the front of the team with Zhou Yu.
On the endless grassland, the breeze is light and cloudless, and what catches your eye is a pool of shallow water, like sprinkling a handful of soybeans on the floor, dotted and countless. The horizontal knife was immediately on a high ground, and Xerxes looked at the weeds that were growing tall and growing in clusters.
"This is? This grass is also too dense, if there is some mystery hidden in it, it may be difficult to deal with. ā
"Afraid of swamps? Be extra careful! Zhou Yu frowned. He rolled over and dismounted, and walked to the nearest puddle of water. Strangely, there is something unusual about this water. The fluidity is not as good as ordinary water. To put it bluntly, it is a little sticky and yellowish in color. It looks familiar.
"All the cavalry dismounted and walked, took care of their subdued horses, and marched steadily around the swamp!" Xerxes gave an order, and Bamble, Marsha, and Kazik quickly dispersed to rule their subordinates.
After a while, all the Immortals slowly entered the wetland. In order to prevent them from falling into the water, each slave soldier clamped his wooden spear under his armpit, and the other end was held in the hand by the soldier behind him, so that he could quickly rescue him in case of an accident.
There was a rapid sound of flapping wings, everyone was out of the body, and the archers were aiming at the air, ready to attack. It turned out that it was just a flock of waterfowl that flew forward. The slave soldiers looked at each other and smiled, and they all breathed a sigh of relief.
With a "whoosh", just in front of Zhou Yu's right, a spear pierced the chest of the soldier who walked in front, piercing half through the chest, and the tip of the spear was still dripping with gurgling blood. The soldier turned his head, his movements slow, and slowly fell to the ground amid everyone's stunned expressions, like a puddle of mud, lifeless.
"Enemy attack, enemy attack!" Bamble shouted, and all the soldiers quickly formed a battle formation, groups of three, groups of five, spears raised, facing the dense weeds that were a man tall beside him. Zhou Yu and Xerxes also unsheathed their swords with a sonorous sound, holding them in their hands, vigilantly looking around.
The sound of rustling kept ringing, and the inexplicable fear came from not knowing anything about the opponent. Just when all attention was focused on the dense grass, some huge tentacles stretched out from the water, dripping slime with slime, raised two or three meters high, the person standing in front squinted at the grass, and the person behind saw the huge tentacles raised high, unable to speak, and kept poking the person behind him with his elbow.
Astonishment, fear, and silence spread. Seeing the scene in front of them, Zhou Yu and Xerxes also didn't dare to breathe. What is this? The huge yellow tentacles that protruded from the swamp were like the claws of an octopus, and Zhou Yu fixed his eyes on the suckers covered with black and brown, which must be the feet of some kind of mollusk.
"Don't, don't move, don't move!" The Grand Governor whispered to those behind him, and the order was passed on in an undetectable voice.
There was a sound of breaking wind, four or five tentacles slapped at the same time, and four or five slave soldiers were rolled up in the air, and the captured soldiers could no longer hold back, and they screamed, and everyone's eyes turned from staring at the grass to the air. Those pairs of kicking legs and weapons and equipment scattered all over the ground.
"Knock knock!" The giant foot swept its prey and sank to the bottom, disappearing without a trace, so fast that the captured person did not have time to cry out for help, and then he sank into the rippling water, leaving a piece of fear.
"Retreat, retreat to the hillside!" Xerxes raised the moon scimitar in his hand, pointing in the direction he had come. At this time, there are ambushes in the dense forest and water, and the enemy is dark and clear, so we must retreat as soon as possible and then make plans. However, it was too late.
Heads emerged from the dense grass, gathering more and more and more numerous, staring at the surrounded prey with pairs of scarlet eyes. Not good, surrounded, still encircled in a swamp. There were no giant creatures in the swamp, and they didn't show up. Zhou Yu was shocked.
Brushing, brushing, the dense barley is peeled away. The enemy appeared, and looking at this strange enemy, all the slave soldiers were stunned, and stood on their feet as if they had painted 502, and they could not move an inch.
What surrounds them is a group of people and a group of horses, it can be said that it is a person or a horse, at least Zhou Yu thinks so. Brown, white, and black, these people were no different from ordinary people above the waist, with the body of a horse below the waist, with four hooves, a horse's belly and a tail, and in their hands they held spears sharpened from wooden poles, vigilantly facing the immortals, narrowing the encirclement little by little.
Pressed by the spears tighter and tighter, the Immortals were clinging to each other, and some of their feet had already stepped on the edge of the water, standing in the mud, and kept looking back and down, for fear that another giant foot would poke out and involve themselves in the swamp.
"Stop, who are you?" Xerxes shouted, at this moment the commander must stand up and control the situation, otherwise the casualties will be doubled.
The enemy army automatically splits into two halves and gets out of the way. A man wearing a garland on his head and holding a bell came up from behind. Zhou Yu couldn't call them human, because they weren't human at all, they were monsters.
"Who? Hahaha! The leader of the centaurs laughed wildly, and then lowered his head and looked at Xerxes grimly.
"You don't even know who we are, so you dare to trespass into this elven grassland?"
Elven grassland, it turned out that this place was called elven grassland, Zhou Yu muttered in his heart.
"We were passing by, and we didn't intend to offend you. If you disturb you, you will be offended. I hope to raise my noble hand and let me pass. Xerxes replied to him without humility or arrogance, and there was no fear on his face. The emperor is the emperor.
"Pass? To put it lightly, do you think this elven grassland is where you can come and go as you want? If I don't leave anything behind, where will I put Fiskel's old face? The centaur said quietly.
"Stay? What to leave behind? ā
"It's better for you, just stay for your life!" After Fiskel finished speaking, the spears in the hands of all the centaurs pushed forward another half a meter. Several unsteady soldiers were pushed by their own people in front of them, fell into the water, and lost their necks in an instant, leaving only bubbles bubbling up, startling the rest of the people's hairs to stand on end.
"IāI said His Highness Fiskel. You see, you see that we are ignorant juniors, we have eyes and do not know Mount Tai, and it is really an unintentional move to disturb you for your lunch break. Why don't we make a deal, okay? Zhou Yu saw that Xerxes had lost the upper hand, worried that he would have further losses, so he hurriedly stepped forward, stood in front of the leader of the centaurs, and said like a cannon.
"Deal? What is the deal? Fiskel leaned down, his scarlet eyes pressed against him, and he looked closely at the Governor's silver mask just a few inches away, and said curiously.
"We buy our lives, we buy our lives. Your Highness speaks, and says, "What do you want?" As long as you can get absolutely both hands to offer, if you don't have it in your hands now, you will try your best to steal, rob and then make offerings. Zhou Yu said flowerily, there are no businessmen and no traitors in the whole world, thinking about this problem with the brain circuits of profiteers, this group of people surrounded them here but did not set up a killer, it seems that they do not want to kill them. Even so, it is still a big face for wealth.
"Oh, ignorant junior, not a small tone. Who are you, by name? Fiskel looked up and rebuked condescendingly.
"Under is the deputy commander-in-chief of the Immortal Army, the honorary commander-in-chief of the Preparatory Headquarters of the Metropolitan Governor Soracia, and the interim head of the Women's Working Committee of Qili Eight Villages, Vladimir St. Vasily Rice, Special Soup, and Porridge. It's just a small name, and it's not enough to worry about it. "This is a long list of things that have been moved out, and even Xerxes looked at him in disbelief, you kid made up the name of the god horse?
"Ugh!" Fiskel, confused, was visibly bewildered by his barrage of titles and surnames, not knowing what to say.
"Well, I said that the porridge is thinner, so let's call you the porridge thinner. What the hell is your name. Say, "What do you want to intrude into my centaur territory?" "It turns out that this group of things that are not human and not horses are called centaurs.
"That's right. Your Highness Fiskel, I was ordered by Lord Li of the Water King to transport this group of slave soldiers to Drunken Flower City. Lost on the way, accidentally stumbled into the territory of the honorable driver, really, really unintentionally. Zhou Yu couldn't tell whether the other party was in power or opposition, and now he was ready to answer and had to answer, so he could only make up a reason and observe his micro-expression before making a decision.
Fiskel's eyes flashed with a cold glint.
"Oh, but, but, my two distant aunts and sisters-in-law, brother-in-law, brother-in-law, brother-in-law, and eldest sister all died tragically in the city of drunken flowers. In the next and the water Wang Li has a common hatred. This time, I was going to use a stratagem to kill the water king after getting close to him, so as to avenge the hatred of the family and the country. Zhou Yu saw that his expression was wrong, so he hurriedly changed his words and turned around. As he spoke, he pretended that the weather was a little hot and wiped the cold sweat with his sleeve.
"Just you triangular cats? Kill the Water King? Hahaha! Fiskel laughed again, and the centaurs behind him all burst into laughter, and some even fell to the ground with their wooden spears.
"I said, Your Highness Fiskel, don't look at me ugly, but I want to be beautiful! People have to have ideals, what if they accidentally achieve it? Right, besides, we're not useless and unprepared, and I'm going to collect a few things this time. If you get it together, the odds of success will double! ā
"Oh, let's hear it. I haven't heard such a ridiculous joke in decades, and you alone took on my laughter for the second half of the year. Fiskel laughed as soon as he burst into thin air.
"I will gather the seeds of pain, the source of sorrow, the tears of hatred, the lies of betrayal, and the howls of anger. I don't know if His Highness Fiskel has ever heard of these things? Zhou Yu said that later, there was a look of concern on his face.
"W-What? You repeat? Fiskel suddenly stopped laughing, his eyes were bloodshot, and he stretched out his left hand and grabbed Zhou Yu by the collar and lifted him over.
Hey, there's a door. Zhou Yu was secretly happy in his heart.
"Your Highness has already heard it clearly, why do you want to say it again next time?" Zhou Yu whetted his appetite, and he didn't say much about killing him. Since they are all people who understand, why bother talking nonsense?
"Escort them back!" Fiskel gave the order, and the centaurs behind began to retreat, clearing an empty road.