Chapter 35: The Assassin

The death of One-Eyed Zhang immersed the original Zhai Rebels in a strange atmosphere. On the one hand, various evidences show that One-Eyed Zhang did collaborate with the enemy, and Wang Zumao's death was also indirectly caused by him; On the other hand, no one can figure out the motives of the one-eyed Zhang who collaborated with the enemy. How could such a person who had sacrificed his life for his people and made great contributions to the republic surrender to the republic in such a short time? What kind of charm does the republic have that can turn the cronies of the owner of the village into their lackeys? Are there still some traitors in your own ranks who have not been eliminated? If there really are traitors, wouldn't the battle be even more dangerous after that? You must know that a warrior can die on the battlefield, but no one wants to be betrayed by his own brother. For a while, all kinds of speculation and uneasiness shrouded this team that had just left the division. Even if everyone won the White City, no one showed a smile of victory on their faces, let alone any celebrations and other activities. Now everyone seems to have lost their souls, wandering listlessly around this empty city all day long.

This state made Xiao Wanlong very dissatisfied, but there was no way to do it. There are some details about the death of One-Eyed Zhang that cannot be said, especially the part that mentions the gods, and no second person can know about it. However, according to the situation at this time, if you don't give an explanation to the army, I'm afraid that the next battle will not be easy to fight.

In the past few days, the marshal Xiao Wanlong has been worried about this matter, and he even forgot intentionally or unintentionally that the purpose of taking Baicheng was to open up a waterway so that he could attack the republic from the sea.

However, some people have not forgotten this incident, and he just does not violate the sky. Now the situation is urgent, and the Seventh Department will send a large army to encircle and suppress this team again at any time, if the construction of the port and the required ships cannot be completed in a very short time, then the soldiers of the original village are afraid that they will have to suffer the catastrophe.

Because of this, Mo Bantian has been busy with his subordinates. They adapt to local conditions. Transform the large wood you brought over into a keel, and then bring more wood from the Fox Fairy Mountain to build a ship.

Weishenme wants to transport wood from Huxian Mountain, which is dozens of miles away? Because now there are no building materials in the White City. Not only building materials, but also food, clothing, and medicines are gone. These things were taken away by Li Haowen when he brought the troops over. They lied to the residents that the government was going to start a renovation campaign and moved them out. Then destroy the strategically valuable things in the city on the spot, just in case.

Their wishful thinking was right, and at this time, what Xiao Wanlong lacked most was supplies. Equipment and materials were necessary to build ships, but now there was nothing left in the city, so Mo had to bring people from a little farther away.

Mo Yantian's action was tacitly approved by Xiao Wanlong. This is also something he wants to do but has no time to care about for a while. Finding a way to stabilize the morale of the military is just as important as building a navy. Since Mo Zhitian has taken over the latter, he has to immediately think of a perfect countermeasure to solve the former.

How can we boost the morale of the army? Xiao Wanlong would think quietly for a while by himself after a military meeting every day. Today is no exception, after arranging tomorrow's tasks in the evening, Xiao Wanlong lay down early. He didn't sleep. Instead, he half-squinted and thought about the problem, which he had been thinking about for days.

Originally, I wanted to talk about this matter with the generals at today's meeting, but as soon as I saw the eyes of those people, I understood that they did not believe that Lao Zhang would collaborate with the enemy. It seems that it is useless to explain to the generals, but if you don't explain, everyone seems to be holding their breath all the time. This will only lead to further demoralization. Now that the enemy is currently in the background, if it continues to drag on, his team will soon be wiped out. Alas. What to do? If One-Eyed Zhang wasn't lying. Then the heavenly punishment he said should also come, right? The Republic is already its most difficult enemy to deal with, and it will be even more troublesome if there is a god or something to intervene again.

Xiao Wanlong thought in his heart, the more he thought about it, the more complicated he became, the more upset he became, and after struggling like this for a long time, he suddenly felt that his eyelids couldn't open open. Unconsciously, a trace of sleepiness gradually hit him, and in less than a minute, Xiao Wanlong actually fell asleep with his eyes squinted like this.

In a few moments, the door of the room was gently opened.

A pair of purple eyes quietly peeked into the room.

The owner of these eyes is named the Witch Doctor, and he is a subordinate of the mysterious man. A sinister and cunning assassin. The purpose of his coming here is very clear - to take Xiao Wanlong's life!

Hehe, I fell asleep after smoking my cigarette. Well, it's not just you, but even your guards are sleeping like dead pigs, but the fun is yet to come, and today I have brought my new invention - Ice and Snow, and I will use it to send you on your way today! The witch doctor lay behind the door, pondering as he pulled out a tubular object from his sleeve.

This pipe-like thing is very similar to a flute, but when you look closely, it is very different from it. There are no holes in the body of the tube, the inside is hollow, and the outside is wound with gold wire. At one end of it is a small mouth made of jade, like the spout of a pipe.

In the old days, people called it the blowgun (or blowgun), and it was the most common hunting tool used by Native Americans in the Amazon River basin and the rainforests of Central and South America. This weapon is not powerful, but it is very accurate. Blowguns can hunt small animals, birds, and small mammals, even without the aid of poison. Normally, the bullets used in blow arrows are smeared with curare, which is usually made by extracting the roots, shoots, and bark of several plants. Poison blowguns relax the muscles, which can be fatal once the muscles that control breathing are relaxed. Some poisons can kill small animals in seconds, larger animals take minutes, and humans take more than an hour to die. The muscle relaxation caused by the poison blow arrow is only temporary, and as long as artificial respiration is continued during the onset of poisoning, the poisoned person has a chance of survival. Brightly coloured poison dart frogs are also a source of deadly venom, and in the distant past, hunters would collect their venom by roasting them. Not all poison frogs are lethal and can actually come from insects that eat poisonous plants, so sometimes hunters will look for some poison frog food as a source of curare.

However, the blow arrow carried by the witch doctor is not an ordinary product, this is the latest secret weapon he has invented after painstaking research. He called it Ice Blowing Snow. What is the name of Weishenme? That's because the ammunition used in this blowpipe is not ordinary arrow poison, but ice.

He uses low-pressure cooling jishu, condensing the water into ice, and then grinding the ice cubes into tiny ice picks with a laser. This is the ammunition that blows snow and ice.

Inside the ice-blown pipes is a cryogenic storage device, in which all the ice picks are placed. Not only that, the tube is also equipped with a crosshair and locking guidance system, as long as the user shoots an ice pick at the target, the blow barrel will control the direction and strength of the ice pick through remote sensing at a certain distance, so as to eliminate the target at one time. If you think that's a great deal, then I'll tell you it's nothing, and what's even more amazing is that because the ammunition used is an ordinary ice pick, it melts immediately when it pierces the human body to cause fatal damage, and no one else can tell how the victim died from the autopsy. This is one of the witch doctors' most proud secret weapons - ice and snow!

"Hmph, Xiao Wanlong, you are lucky enough to die at the hands of my secret weapon master witch doctor, not to mention that you can taste the power of my greatest masterpiece, you have made a lot of money." The witch doctor laughed dryly twice and said, "Without further ado, I'll send you on your way now!" ”

As he spoke, he aimed his mouth at the blowgun pipe, only to hear a small blowing sound, and an ice pick the size of a steel needle shot towards Xiao Wanlong's face. (To be continued......)