Chapter 78: The County Lord's Martyrdom (2)
After Yin Tiancheng simply cleaned up, he and Ding Ming rode fast horses and galloped towards Fengcheng.
Halfway through, Yin Tiancheng heard Ding Ming say that there were only five thieves kidnapping the county lord Lin Chengen, and he felt a little relieved, thinking that it was not difficult for him to deal with those guys.
In the early morning of the fifth day agreed by the thieves, Yin Tiancheng and Ding Ming returned to Fengcheng, at this time the mounts under their crotches were so tired that they could no longer run, so they had to abandon their horses and take a shortcut to the yamen.
Before they entered the door, the two of them sensed that something was wrong, because they saw that the county government that had been open in the past was now closed, and there was no official on duty outside.
"Brothers, I've brought Brother Yin back!" Ding Ming shouted inside.
There was no response, and no one came to open the door, and the noisy county government in the past was now dead silent, as if the people inside had gone out to do errands.
"The brothers are too impatient, even if we don't wait for us to come back and go to save the adults, at least we have to leave a few people in the yamen to take care of the daily affairs, right?" Ding Ming couldn't help but be surprised.
Yin Tiancheng was already frowning, and said in a deep voice: "You're right, I have a sense of foreboding. ”
"Let's go in and see what's going on. ”
"Don't be reckless!" Yin Tiancheng pulled Ding Ming back, he observed the movement around him, and said a little uneasily: "I suspect that there is an ambush inside." ”
"Is there an ambush? Brother Yin is joking, which thief has the ability to set up an ambush in the yali, he doesn't want to live......" Suddenly, Ding Ming's face turned pale, and at this moment, he had the same ominous premonition in his heart as Yin Tiancheng.
Since those five daring thieves can swagger into the yakou and kidnap the county master, they naturally have the ability to take down all their colleagues......
Ding Ming didn't dare to think about it anymore, and looked at Yin Tiancheng with a frightened expression.
"It seems that things are worse than we thought. Yin Tiancheng sensed that there was a dangerous aura wafting in the air around him.
It's an oppressive feeling, and the premonition that has been formed over the past few years is like a natural reaction, and it is rare for mistakes to occur.
So he said to Ding Ming with a stern expression: "Brother Ding, you go in first to see the movement, and I will answer you later." ”
"Huh, what if the gang of thieves who kidnapped Lord Lin is hiding inside?" Ding Ming also understood, and his legs were trembling.
He is usually as timid as a mouse when handling cases, but now he has a premonition of danger like Yin Tiancheng, how dare he rush in and send him to death.
"With me here, what are you afraid of!" Yin Tiancheng snorted lightly and pulled out the dragon scale sword.
"Well, brother must follow closely behind, don't let the thief hurt me. ”
Having said that, Ding Ming was still timid in his heart, and when he came to the closed door, he did not rush in, but first put his ear to the door and listened for a long time, until he was sure that there was no one ambush behind the door, and then took out the key to open the door.
The moment Ding Ming inserted the key into the lock hole, a strange scene happened right under their noses.
An invisible force suddenly came out of the door, shaking Ding Ming away on the spot!
"Brother Yin, save me!" Ding Ming exclaimed.
Yin Tiancheng immediately flew up and brought Ding Ming back to the ground safely.
"Brother, am I alive?" Ding Ming's face was full of contempt.
"Ghosts are yin things, how can they appear in broad daylight!" After Yin Tiancheng replied coldly, he motioned to Ding Ming to stand aside with his eyes, he wanted to come and see what was going on in person.
After taking a deep breath, Yin Tiancheng aimed at the door with a sharp sword.
This sword slashed out, and suddenly a brilliant sword roared out and slashed hard at the gate!
With a deafening roar, the gate disappeared as if it had never existed.
"Ghosts, there are really ghosts, even the gate has become a spirit!" Ding Ming panicked, trembling with fright.
Yin Tiancheng was also surprised, such a strange scene in front of him reminded him of that mirage Sun Wangye.
After all, the current situation is very much like an illusion, but when Yin Tiancheng settled down and looked inside the door, his mood calmed down.
There was no movement in the ya, and there was no figure in sight, but he heard the sound of people drifting in the wind nearby.
It was the sound of early risers greeting each other as they walked, which was enough to show that they were still in the territory of Fengcheng, the real county government gate.
After all, no matter how powerful that Sun Wang Ye is, it is impossible to perfectly simulate such details into a false illusion.
After figuring this out, Yin Tiancheng said to Ding Ming: "Don't be afraid, someone has set up a formation in it that I can't identify." ”
"Formation?" Ding Ming looked at Yin Tiancheng with a confused expression, and he didn't seem to have come back to his senses.
It's no wonder that Ding Ming, if it was a few days ago, Yin Tiancheng wouldn't have the ability to see that this was a formation set up by thieves.
This was all due to the fact that when he was sorting out the ancient books left by the ancestors of the Flying Feather Gate a few days ago, he saw some records about the formation in the books.
Yin Tiancheng is a smart person, although he can't comprehend the subtleties contained in the formation recorded in the book, but he also memorizes a lot of relevant content, so he can confidently say that someone is arranging a formation in the county office.
Although he couldn't name the formation, Yin Tiancheng felt that it was not lethal, which was probably because the guy who set up the formation just wanted to trap the people who entered the formation.
"It seems that someone has set up the entire county government into a formation, and now he is waiting inside for us to fall into this trap. Yin Tiancheng reminded Ding Ming.
"Since it's a trap, let's not go in. Ding Ming was frightened, he wouldn't be stupid enough to throw himself into the net.
At this moment, a gloomy male voice came from the ya: "Hehe, the poor road has been waiting for you for a long time. ”
At the same time, a strong wind blew out from the ya, and with a strong pressure, an old man in a gray robe suddenly appeared on the courtyard wall.
He looked at Yin Tiancheng and Ding Ming gloomily, and said in a treacherous voice: "The dog official surnamed Lin is in my hands, if you want to save him, come in quickly, otherwise don't blame the poor and you're welcome!"
As soon as he saw this person appear, Ding Ming immediately scolded: "Shameless thief, obviously said that it was good to use five thousand taels of gold to ransom Lord Lin, why did you come here again?"
"Hahahaha!" the old Taoist laughed wildly, and said, "For those of us who are outsiders, money is just a passing thing, do you really think that the poor Taoist will be interested in those mundane things?"
Yin Tiancheng asked coldly, "What do you want?"
The old Dao Yin smiled and said: "Sure enough, as expected by the poor Dao, this stupid head catcher called a helper." ”
Hearing this, Yin Tiancheng and Ding Ming's hearts sank, and they felt that they seemed to have fallen for the tricks of thieves.
Yin Tiancheng immediately held his sword and shouted: "If you know each other, let Master Lin go quickly, otherwise don't blame me for being ruthless under the sword!"
"Hehe, there's really no one in sight. The old Dao smiled and said gloomily: "If the poor Dao is not mistaken, you are the old immortal dead wood?"
"Do you know me?" Yin Tiancheng was suddenly surprised, looking at this old man's age and Cang Songzi, he was only afraid that he was an underage child fifty years ago, could it be that he had a holiday with him at that time?
As the old man raised his hand back, another figure appeared on the courtyard wall, standing side by side with him.
As soon as he saw the appearance of this guy, Yin Tiancheng suddenly came to his senses, his face turned pale, this hideous-looking old man turned out to be Elder Li who escaped during the bloodbath of the Sword Feather Gate last time!
I only heard him shout at Yin Tiancheng in a sharp voice: "Old thing, I can't imagine that it's me, right? You are really capable, even the leader of the Liu League can't help you, in this case, I can only use my own strength to complete the revenge plan." ”
Yin Tiancheng said angrily: "Where are Lord Lin and my colleagues?"
Elder Li smiled and said, "Where else can I be, of course I am locked inside, just waiting for you to go to the Netherworld Mansion together after reuniting with them." ”
Yin Tiancheng was furious, it turned out that all this was a trap carefully planned by this gang of thieves!
After escaping from the mirage's illusion, Tianxin Pavilion's vitality was greatly damaged, and he was no longer able to stand up for Elder Li, so this old guy pulled this group of people to take revenge on Yin Tiancheng.
Yin Tiancheng had already understood at this time, the thief must have figured out his details in advance, so he dared to kidnap the county master.
The so-called ransom is just a pretense, they had expected that those incompetent colleagues in the yali would go to Feiyumen to ask them to come back, so as soon as Ding Ming left, they broke into the county government again and took everyone hostage in order to blackmail themselves!
Now that they have succeeded in their scheme, they dare to be so unscrupulous and not take Yin Tiancheng in their eyes.
"Old immortal, don't rely on yourself to cultivate for decades more than the poor Dao, just think that no one can control you!" Seeing Yin Tiancheng's helpless expression, the gray-robed old Taoist became proud.
"Hehe, I'm going to be a dead man soon, do you dare to be arrogant in front of me?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Yin Tiancheng raised his sword and slashed at the two guys on the wall with a red crescent-shaped sword.
As soon as the move came out, the smile on the gray-robed old man's face immediately froze, and Elder Li was even more frightened and didn't even have the courage to fight back, they all felt the powerful power contained in it from the angry sword, and their faces changed on the spot.
But the gray-robed old man reacted immediately, and quickly waved his palm, and the surging coercion suddenly roared out.
He had already heard Elder Li talk about Yin Tiancheng's tyrannical behavior, so as soon as he made a move, he used ninety percent of his strength to withstand the fierce blow that came head-on.
But before he could breathe a sigh of relief, Yin Tiancheng swung another sword below, this upcoming attack was very different from the last time, and the burst shot out of the glittering dragon scale sword turned out to be a huge lightsaber!
The gray-robed old Taoist didn't know that this was a spell that Yin Tiancheng copied from the dead Shi Hall Master of Tianxin Pavilion, and thought in horror: "This old immortal's previous move was the fire spell of the Flying Feather Gate, how could it have become a gold spell in a blink of an eye?"
This is a little too terrifying, isn't it?Not to mention that he can't use two spells with different attributes in such a short period of time, even Liu Rulong, the strongest sect master of Tianxin Pavilion in Cangzhou today, can't do it!
But the facts were in front of him, and the Deadwood Daoist showed it easily and easily directly in front of him, how could this not make the gray-robed old Dao frightened, and it was only then that he realized that he had provoked a person who did not dare to provoke.
The gray-robed old man didn't dare to take it lightly anymore, and when his big hand fell, the majestic vitality rushed into the sky, turning into countless sharp swords, and stormed towards the lightsaber.
The lightsaber instantly slammed up, and before the sword momentum arrived, those sharp swords flying all over the sky were scattered by an invisible wave of qi.
In the blink of an eye, all the sharp swords unleashed by the gray-robed old Dao disintegrated, and then turned into air currents and scattered and floated away.
Seeing that the other party easily defeated his own unique spell, the gray-robed old Taoist could no longer pretend to be calm on his face!
He immediately screamed at Elder Li: "Danger, hide!"
Just as the lightsabers were about to hit their heads, the two guys turned over and descended the courtyard wall in time and disappeared into the county office.
Yin Tiancheng missed the blow and immediately flew into the county government like a sharp arrow.
Ding Ming was completely frightened, and after hesitating for a long time, he came back to his senses, he wiped the cold sweat on his face, and stepped into the gate with trembling legs.
As soon as Yin Tiancheng and Ding Ming entered the county office, they no longer saw the familiar scene in front of them, only to see the white mist swarming from all directions, making them instantly fall into a world of blurred vision.
"Brother, what's going on, are we in another world?" Ding Ming was already panicked when he encountered such a strange thing for the first time.
Yin Tiancheng said in a calm tone: "Don't be nervous, didn't I tell you, this is the formation set up by those thieves, they just want to use the mist to confuse us." ”
"Do you think they will hide in the fog and suddenly jump out and kill us later?" Ding Ming became even more nervous, holding Yin Tiancheng's hand tightly, for fear that the other party would be separated from him in the fog.
"It's possible, so you have to be careful. ”
Although Yin Tiancheng fell into the same situation, there was no panicked expression on his face, he shook his hand suddenly, grabbed Ding Ming's shoulder, and almost pulled him forward.
From time to time, there were noisy sounds around, which were the footsteps and conversations of passers-by outside the county office.
Under the cover of this strange formation, the county government in the eyes of those kind people was no different from usual, so they didn't expect that it had been occupied by thieves, let alone that a thrilling battle was about to take place inside.
Elder Li's group didn't know if they were overconfident in the formation they had set up, or if they were enjoying this game of cat and mouse, they let Yin Tiancheng explore the road in the fog for a long time, and they didn't use the fog as a cover to launch a sneak attack.
Yin Tiancheng was a little uneasy, knowing that it was not a way to consume it like this, he opened his mouth and shouted: "Lord Lin, brothers, I am Yin Tiancheng, where are you?"
Ding Ming, who was behind him, also came over and shouted with Yin Tiancheng.
Although the fog interfered with their vision and made it difficult for them to discern the direction, as long as Lin Chengen and the officials responded, Yin Tiancheng would naturally be able to find the exact point where they were imprisoned, so as to rescue everyone.
At this moment, Lin Chengen and the others were locked in a big room by the thieves, and there were two gray-robed veteran disciples guarding them in the house, as soon as these two guys heard the shouts of Yin Tiancheng and Ding Ming, they immediately became vigilant, and immediately raised their swords and whispered to Lin Chengen and the others: "Don't make a sound, otherwise Lao Tzu will let him go to see the king of Hades!"
Under the threat of the two Taoist priests, Lin Chengen and the others had to stay where they were, and no one dared to squeak in response to Yin Tiancheng.
This made Yin Tiancheng realize that if he couldn't come up with a way to get out of the predicament in front of him as soon as possible, Lord Lin and their lives would probably be in danger.
But before Yin Tiancheng could come up with a countermeasure, the gray-robed old man was already murderous, and a vicious idea arose.