The Tianmu Theater in the night sky of Bianliang finished showing cartoons. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 After the ending song of info, a line of Chinese pinyin is typed on the projection film: "Kong Sanforget, Fang Bai wants to talk to you, if you accept, please let go of a path." ”

Ten minutes later, on the royal street outside the Suzaku Gate, vines and newborn zombies retreated to both sides of the road, and a wide passage was revealed.

Kong Sanwang thoughtfully asked the zombies on the side of the road to carefully raise torches and light up the road.

Fang Bai jumped down the Vermilion Bird Gate and walked along the straight royal street to the Nanxun Gate Tower, which was occupied by vines. Kong Sanfu was waiting for him in the building.

Fang Bai turned on the video broadcast, and the two had a tacit understanding that they did not talk about the war during the day and the earth-shattering reversal at night, and completed the data exchange and signed the electronic contract in a business-like manner.

It's still a billion, and the conditions haven't changed.

Fang Bai put the data storage device close to his body, and finally asked a question that everyone was concerned about.

"Outer City, how many are you going to kill?"

"Xiao Hei has eaten 100,000, and there are 300,000 zombies under his control, including all the Song soldiers, and the remaining 600,000 are my hostages. I'm not stupid, how can I threaten the emperor to send money when I'm all dead? ”

Kong Sanwang handed Fang Bai a palm-sized hollow crystal ball. The space inside the sphere contained a twisted and twisted pale green tentacle.

"What is this?"

"Blackmail letter, help me hand it over to Qinzong."

Fang Bai said he understood, put the crystal ball in his pocket, and asked, "How long do they have?" ”

"Five days."

"Can't you extend it longer?"

"Impossible."

"Got it!" Fang Bai turned around and left.

"Wait a minute," Fang Bai was about to cross the threshold, but Kong Sanwang suddenly stopped, "Tell the meteorite that Lin Bu's death is revenge for the incendiary bomb, and I hope he will think twice about it later." ”

Fang Bai didn't turn around, only nodded, and continued to leave.

Kong San let out a strange chuckle behind him.

Fang Bai returned to the inner city and handed over the electronic file to the meteorite. Meteorite asks him to go with Ice Mania to meet the Emperor.

Knocking on the door of the palace at night was a big taboo, but the two gods appeared together, and the forbidden army guarding knew the severity and immediately passed it.

At this time, it had been night for a long time, and Qinzong still had no intention of sleeping. He called the god stick Guo Jing and walked around the palace, accompanied by more than 100 guards.

There are no celestial phenomena in the plane, and Guo Xianren's explanation for this is that "demons are haunting and blinding the heavens", and Qin Zong thought so.

The two sighed at each other. Qin Zong flickered and said, "Guo Qing, if you agree to that, how about it?" ”

Of course, Guo Jing understood the meaning of Qinzong's covert expression, and the emperor wanted to lend Gen Yue to the demon, hoping that the demon would retreat by himself after digging up the treasure.

But Guo Jing also understood that the gods of the mortal world would never tolerate Qinzong's betrayal, which was a dilemma.

He was so hesitant that he could not answer. At this time, an attendant told God that he would ask for an audience.

Guo Jing immediately shook the pot and said, "Official, there must be something important for the gods to come late at night, why not see it?" ”

"Okay, let's summon Yu Wende Hall."

The palace city of the Northern Song Dynasty is not big, and the Wende Hall is located between the Zichen Hall of the ceremonial court meeting and the vertical arch hall of the daily listening to the government, which is the place where the emperor stays and rests after going to the court and retreating from the court. Qinzong's choice to summon the divine general here naturally implies a deep meaning.

But Fang Bai and Bing Crazy didn't understand these things at all. They did not salute when they entered the hall, and they were even more disdainful of the embroidered pier brought by the inner servant, and walked straight to Qinzong, who was sitting in danger.

The shrinkage of height caused by the amputation of the ice man's calf attracted the attention of the emperor, and he was surprised: "Why is this god ......?"

Fang Bai's official speech was not smooth, so he could only rely on the "laryngeal sounder" of Bing Crazy to speak.

Bing Mad's lips were tightly closed, as if he was performing ventriloquism, and he waved his hand and said, "Fighting with demons has damaged your body." Anyway! ”

When Qin Zong and Guo Jing heard this, they couldn't help but be shocked in their hearts, and their assessment of the demon's strength went to a higher level.

Ignoring the thoughts of the emperor and the god stick, Bing Madness took it upon himself to introduce how the attack of the demon vine had achieved tactical suddenness, and the defenders and people of the outer city had no chance of escaping at all; The gods retreated to the inner city not because they couldn't win the other party, but it was impossible to save everyone, so it was better to suppress the inner city and keep the last base.

The central idea is just one sentence, it's not that God can't fight, it's you mortals who are dragging their feet!

And Lin Bu's death happened too quickly, and the emperor didn't pay attention to it on the surveillance video, so he naturally didn't mention it.

A flicker dispelled the idea of Qinzong's surrender, but the emperor still lacked confidence in holding on to the true monarch. He expressed concern to the Ice Maniac about the defense strategy of the inner city.

Fang Bai silently took out the crystal ball from his sleeve at this time, and it lit up in front of everyone. Chin Zong immediately fell silent.

"What is this?" Guo Jing asked questions for the emperor.

Fang Bai was silent. Bing Crazy explained: "This is a letter from the demon......"

"The demon actually sent a letter? Do you want to make peace? Qin Zong couldn't help but interject.

Bing Mad shook his head, "...... If you want to know what the other party means, you have to break the ball. ”

Guo Jing looked at the creepy tentacles in the ball, his scalp was numb, and he couldn't help but worry about the safety of himself and the emperor, "This, is it ......?"

"With my second general here, the demon vine can't hurt anyone!" Ice Crazy is confident.

"That ......" Guo Jing was still hesitating, Fang Bai fell with his backhand, and the crystal ball shattered!

Slender vine snakes generally snake on the ground, forming a row of traditional Chinese characters in italics.

The candles in the main hall are bright, and these "movable words" are very clear.

"To Zhao Guan's family: I have taken the outer city, leaving 600,000 people. If they live, I can not kill. ”

The line paused for twenty seconds, and the tentacles twisted again, and the pattern shifted to create a new line.

"My condition is that there are 160,000 taels of gold. Just gold, not silver, copper, or cloth! ”

The glyphs change one after another.

"600,000 lives in your hands! Loot the treasury, private treasury, and rich people's gold jewelry and hand it over to me! ”

"Send a few more ministers out, and the outer city will also collect gold, and by the way, maintain order, I won't hurt them."

"The gold should be melted into bricks, each one hundred taels heavy, and each set full of a hundred, and then sent to the tower of Nanxun Gate!"

"If you agree to the conditions, send someone out of the city tomorrow morning. Give you five days! ”

"Remember, 160,000 taels! One or two less, kill five! ”

"If no one leaves the city, 600,000 people will be killed! I'll keep on the offensive! 300,000 people in the inner city are going to die! ”

After the last sentence was displayed, the curved tentacles instantly straightened and oozed pink juice, turning into a long, dry and hard strip.

Qin Zong was not surprised by the strange form of the extortion letter, but shook his head at the rudeness and uncivility displayed by the demon.

Guo Jing frowned after reading the letter, and asked, "Lord God, why don't the demons want silver and copper cloth, only gold?" ”

Bing Crazy had expected this question, and replied: "Gold is the money of the monsters, and the silver and copper cloth is the money of mortals, what is the use of the monsters asking for the money of mortals?" ”

"If you only need gold, it's not impossible to ......," Guo Jing said tentatively.

Bing Crazy pretended to be disgusted, "How can you trust what the monster says!" ”

Fang Bai shook his head at him with a serious expression, as if he had a deep meaning.

Bing Crazy pretended to say: "You said to wait for change? ”

Fang Bai nodded.

"That's right!" Bing Mad said to Qin Zong: "It will take nine days for the True Monarch to descend to earth, and if you can drag that demon for five days with gold, it will be a wonderful strategy!" ”

Qin Zong took the case and said righteously: "If you can save 600,000 people in my Great Song Dynasty, what is the pity of just gold!" ”

Guo Jing bowed deeply to the emperor and praised: "Your Majesty can be described as a great benevolence and wisdom!" ”

In the early morning of the next day, Qinzong borrowed the loudspeaker of the contractor to summon the ministers of the inner city to come to the palace to participate in the grand court meeting.

Although the outer city fell and there was a period of turmoil, the night passed, and the bureaucrats and people calmed down a lot. The emperor's appeal was restored, and the ministers who were eligible to participate in the court meeting came.

But Chin Jong did not invite the minister for the purpose of a meeting at all.

After explaining to his ministers the plan to delay time with gold and save 600,000 people, Qiangang arbitrarily appointed the dismissed lord and traitorous ministers Tang Ke and Geng Nanzhong to be in charge of the gold collection and gold bar casting in the inner city.

The two ordered an inventory of all the gold in the Hubu warehouse and the emperor's inner treasury, and while re-smelting, they also seized hundreds of civil and military officials and prevented them from returning home, and ordered their relatives to ransom them with gold.

The magnates, wealthy families, and businessmen who are not qualified to participate in the court meeting are not spared, and the forbidden army directly raids their homes and kidnaps people, and they are ransomed with gold in the same way! If there is no gold, let them exchange it for money and cloth.

The two traitors did their best to collect gold, and treated the people equally, even the royal relatives such as Empress Zheng's mother's family were not spared!

The outer city was a tragic and peculiar scene, full of collapsed and dilapidated buildings, and the surviving people hid in dilapidated houses, shivering, afraid to go out. The streets were full of vertical and horizontal vines and fluttering tentacles, and the controlled zombies formed a hollow phalanx of thousands of people, surrounded by hundreds of vine pillars, silently guarding.

It was in this situation that Shi Yong, the king of Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials, and Yin Xu Bingzhe of Kaifeng Mansion opened the Suzaku Gate of the inner city and entered the outer city by holy decree. In order to be safe, when the door is opened, the meteorite and other gods will always guard the castle tower.

The two ministers who were thrown out by the emperor to die were like facing the abyss, and led more than 100 forbidden troops who were also trembling to rectify the order of the outer city.

At first, they crowded at the gate and didn't dare to move.

But when they found that the zombies and demon vines showed no signs of attack, they gradually became bolder.

They broke into the house, forced the strong Ding, first expanded the team to several thousand people, and then divided into groups and continued to capture the Ding. This model was quite successful, and within a day, the out-of-town task force expanded to tens of thousands of people and more than a dozen detachments.

The outer city was divided into more than a dozen districts, and the "task force" not only excavated the ruins to make money from the dead, but also carried out the robbery of the lump sum system, hollowing out the last vestige of the citizens who survived the robbery!

The devil vine was indifferent to this, and the zombies did not move, allowing them to loot on a large scale. Unless someone actively attacks a zombie or injures a vine, they will carry out a swift and powerful counterattack, and they will always remain harmless to humans and animals.

Wang Shiyong and Xu Bingzhe set a simple rule for the task force, except for the gold to be handed over, all other looted property can be distributed internally.

They encourage each other to denounce each other, and anyone who hides gold will end up with only one dead word! The whistleblower will receive all of the defendant's property.

In this organized massacre, there will inevitably be a large number of excesses, and torture, killing, and rape are not uncommon; The roles of the looter and the looted are often reversed; In the streets and alleys that have been reduced to ruins, ambushes and counter-killings are endless......

When the bureaucracy is given unlimited means to extract money, there is no bottom line in their minds.

In five days, countless tragedies occurred in Bianliang. Even in the inner city, many people were forced to die in their homes, and some committed suicide because they could not hand over the gold.

On the first day, the Great Song Dynasty sent 30,000 taels of gold to the Nanxun Gate Tower, because the efficiency of smelting and casting was too low.

The next day, the efficiency improved, and 60,000 taels of gold were immediately delivered.

On the third day, 40,000 taels!

On the fourth day, 20,000 taels!

On the fifth day, 10,000 taels!

Before the deadline arrived, 160,000 taels of gold were neatly placed in front of Kong Sanwang.

As a result, the inner city of Bianliang was given five days of peace, and the residents of the outer city were fortunate to live for five more days.

But the ransom has been obtained, will the demon tear up the ticket next?

In the headquarters of the contractor, Qin Jing reported to the meteorite that the chemical drug that induced the vine to "self-cut" had been successfully prepared.