Volume 1 Rise of Darkness Chapter 4 The Runemaster
Lianghu and Angelina exchanged a few polite words, and then asked, "Miss Angelina, do you know when the people from the Twin Holy Mountain Monastery will come?"
Angelina shook her head, "I don't know either. ”
Before he could finish speaking, the eagle that had been hovering in the sky suddenly flew towards the ground with slanted wings and landed on Angelina's shoulder.
This is a pure white snow eagle. Although the snow eagle is not the largest eagle, it is very spiritual. Not only can it help its owner find the way ahead, but it can also transmit letters like a pigeon, and it can be loyal to its owner and prey like a hunting dog. So many people on the mainland want to catch one to feed, but unfortunately the number of snow eagles is small, and it is the king of eagles, which is very difficult to catch and even more difficult to tame.
As soon as Liang Hu saw this snow eagle, he immediately showed an envious expression, he dreamed of having such a pure snow eagle.
"Miss Angelina, can I touch this snow eagle. Lianghu rubbed a pair of big hands, and looked at the snow eagle with straight eyes, like an old wolf about to starve to death, and suddenly saw a fat sheep running in front of him.
Angelina glanced at Lianghu, "I'll ask Xiaoxue." ”
Xiaoxue is the name of the snow eagle on Angelina's shoulder.
As he spoke, he turned his head sideways and cooed a few times at the snow eagle, as if he was communicating with the snow eagle in the language of birds.
Sure enough, Angelina's cooing just fell, and Snow Eagle cooed in response.
"I'm sorry, city lord, Xiaoxue doesn't want to. Angelina shook her head and said to Liang Hu with an apologetic face.
Lianghu was bored, his face was gloomy, and he hurriedly changed the topic and talked to Angelina about the operation.
After another two hours, the mage sent by the Twin Sacred Mountain Monastery had not yet arrived, and Lianghu really did not want to wait any longer, so he ordered the army to march towards the West Mountain.
When the army came to the foot of the western mountain, it was already noon. Lianghu ordered the army to rest on the spot, and everyone sat on the ground, took out the dry food of the army, and ate and drank with water.
After resting for half an hour, Lianghu saw that everyone was full of energy, so he ordered to continue to the top of the West Mountain.
Halfway up the mountain, the snow eagle suddenly appeared in the sky above them, spun around and flew away again.
Angelina put her hand on her forehead and looked at the sky, "City Lord, Snow Eagle brought news, there may be a demon ahead, you tell everyone to be careful." ”
Hearing Angelina's words, Lianghu hurriedly pulled out the sword at his waist and ordered everyone to show their weapons and be ready to kill the enemy at any time.
The mountain road is steep and there are many trees, which is very difficult to walk, and everyone is too tired to climb halfway up the mountain. Now it is necessary to guard against the surprise attack that the demon clan may launch at any time, which invisibly increases the psychological burden of the soldiers, and some recruits can't support it, so they fall to the ground and foam at the mouth.
Zhou Chang and the fat man walked in the middle of the army, the two were next to each other, the fat man was nervous, and his hand holding the shield was a little sore, and he simply discarded the spear.
"I said Zhou Chang, are we going to die here?" The fat man looked at the fallen recruits, like thieves who had entered the house to steal, and suddenly knocked over a porcelain bottle, not to mention how nervous he was.
Zhou Chang was also too tired, he threw away the heavier shield, put the spear across his chest, glanced at the nervous fat man covered in sweat, and snorted in the direction where Angelina was, "Don't worry, that Miss Angelina is a magic mage, and it is impossible for us to have an accident with her." ”
Looking at the childish Angelina, even Zhou Chang himself didn't believe it, let alone the fat man who was used to playing in the city.
The fat man pursed his lips, "Just this beautiful and innocent girl, it's not bad to talk about love with Lao Tzu, count on her, Lao Tzu might as well count on you." ”
As the two were talking, there were suddenly several terrible cries from behind them.
Looking back, at some point, several soldiers were hung from the trees in a blur of flesh and blood.
Some people shouted that the demon was coming, but all the people didn't even see the shadow of the demon.
Fear permeated the entire army, and the already untrained recruits began to disperse, and many people ran down the hill.
The fat man also pulled Zhou Chang to run, Zhou Changche dragged the fat man back with his backhand, and looked to the west, "You see that Young Master Taizhang didn't run, what we run, we are not afraid of people's jokes." ”
The fat man looked west along Zhou Chang's eyes, only to see that Taizhang had already thrown away the spear and shield in his hand, holding his hands empty-handed in front of his chest, and what was even more outrageous was that at this extremely critical moment, he even closed his eyes slightly.
The fat man spat and scolded: "This kid is really bold enough, why is he not afraid, Lao Tzu should be afraid." As soon as he said this, a sense of pride suddenly rose in his chest, and he no longer wanted to run for his life.
Zhou Chang discussed with the fat man and decided to move closer to Taizhang, after all, he was a person from the village, and he had some care in times of crisis.
Taizhang squinted at Zhou Chang and the fat man who ran over, and said coldly, "You didn't run away in fright, but you have a bit of guts." ”
The fat man saw Taizhang looking down on himself, and snorted his nose, "You delicate little master is not afraid, what is Lao Tzu afraid of." ”
I don't know if I can go down the mountain alive, the fat man is heartbroken, and he is not afraid of offending this young master.
As soon as the fat man's words fell, the screams of the soldiers who ran down the mountain came from all directions, as if they had been attacked by the demon clan.
For a while, the soldiers who wanted to escape did not dare to flee again, many people were so frightened that they cried, and some even wet their crotches.
Lianghu was also angry and scared at this time, and he didn't even find a ghost of the demon clan, so he lost his military spirit, how can he fight this battle?
"Miss Angelina, you have to think of a way, or we might all die here. Lianghu had no choice but to beg this little girl who didn't seem to be very reliable, and by the way, he scolded the ancestors of those people in Shuangsheng Mountain for eight generations.
Compared to Lianghu's restlessness, Angelina was a little calmer, she raised the staff in her hand and slowly moved from side to side, chanting inexplicable incantations from time to time in her mouth.
After a while, Angelina put down her staff and whispered to Liang Hu, "The demons of the demon clan are hiding in the crowd, and they may have already infiltrated the barracks and mixed in with the soldiers. Although ordinary demon clans are no different from people, they all have a tail behind them, and the city lord can let the soldiers check each other, so that the demon clan has nothing to hide. ”
Angelina paused for a moment, and said very cautiously, "If the city lord finds these demons, don't hurt them, and leave them to me to deal with."
Hearing Angelina's previous words, Lianghu's eyes lit up, and the latter words were automatically ignored. He asked his powerful servants to pass on the order, and whenever he found a soldier with a tail, he would arrest him and interrogate him.
Soon Lianghu's order reached the ears of every soldier, and the soldiers looked at each other with suspicious eyes, and even some soldiers wanted to take off each other's pants to check, this humiliation deeply stimulated many people, The demons of the demon clan did not check out, and their own people scuffled together.
The soldiers were like wolves enchanted and bit each other, and the demons hidden in the soldiers, they all quietly took out the dagger from their arms, and took advantage of no one to pay attention to it.
For a while, four or five hundred people fell, and they didn't even notice a demon of the demon clan.
Lianghu was anxious to redden, if this continued, his soldiers would not be killed by the demon clan, but would kill each other.
He glared at Angelina angrily, and he didn't care about any etiquette, and reprimanded: "What a bad idea you have."
Seeing this situation, Angelina couldn't calm down anymore, and was secretly regretting what she had just done, and now when she heard Lianghu put all the blame on her, tears filled her eyes for a while, and she almost flowed out.
At the same time, Taizhang suddenly jumped like a monkey to a boulder at a very fast speed.
Taizhang's actions were diametrically opposed to his usual lethargic appearance, which surprised both Zhou Chang and the fat man, they both thought that Taizhang was a person who had seen the world, and probably knew how to escape, so they glanced at each other, and ran after them, climbing onto the boulder.
Taizhang glanced at Zhou Chang and the fat man who were following him, just frowned, and ignored the two, shifting his gaze to the crowd, as if looking for something.
After a while, Taizhang's eyes suddenly shot out, and he saw him take out four half-meter-long pieces of yellow paper from the left and right pockets of his clothes, which were the standard color and length of the rune paper used by the talisman master. Then he bit the middle finger of his right hand, and while reciting silently, the middle finger of his right hand kept drawing something on the rune paper.
After all the four rune papers were drawn, Taizhang folded his hands, rotated half a circle to the left, and whispered, "The way to view the sky, the journey to the sky." ”
After reading it, Taizhang separated his closed hands, and suddenly there was a dark red seal in his hand. He didn't use the ink, so he directly stamped the seals on the four pieces of rune paper.
At first, there were no seals on the four runes. However, in the blink of an eye, a vermilion seal appeared on each of the four rune papers, and the three words 'rune seal' were written on it.
After stamping the seal, Taizhang pinched the dark red seal in his hand, and the seal suddenly disappeared magically.
Taizhang's series of actions were so bizarre that Zhou Chang and the fat man were stunned and stunned.
Taizhang ignored Zhou Chang and the fat man's surprised expressions, jumped off the boulder, and ran briskly towards the east.
Coming to a burly soldier, Taizhang steeply pasted a piece of talisman paper in his hand on his back, and then shouted, "Fire!"
As soon as the word 'fire' came out, the burly soldier, like a pile of dry wood that had been lit, suddenly burst into flames. The burly soldier threw himself to the ground with a heart-rending scream, rolling from side to side, as if trying to extinguish the fire on his body in this way.
After Taizhang recited a fire word formula, he did not stop at all, but ran quickly in another direction, and also pasted a talisman paper on the other thin soldier, and shouted "Fire!"
The thin soldier, like the burly soldier, suddenly burst into flames and rolled on the ground in pain.
All the soldiers were attracted by this strange light and stopped fighting.
The two soldiers, who were burned by the fire, let out a terrible scream, and were soon burned to char.
At the same time, a tail suddenly sticks out from behind the buttocks of the two soldiers, and the tail is like a big snake, squirming on the backs of the two soldiers for a while, emitting a foul smell.
All the soldiers were stunned by the sight at this moment, and there was no sound.
"Don't move, everyone, there are two demons hiding around the house. Taizhang took advantage of the soldier's stunned moment, and suddenly said loudly.
Before he could finish speaking, suddenly two sturdy soldiers jumped up the tree, jumped like monkeys, jumped into another tree, and quickly fled into the distance.
"When you meet me Taizhang, can you run!" Taizhang sneered, took a piece of rune paper in each hand, and shouted, "Wind send." ”
With Taizhang's clear voice, a gust of wind blew out of nowhere, blowing out the two rune papers in his hand. The two pieces of rune paper flew down on the shoulders of the two tree-climbing soldiers like two agile sparrows in the breeze.
Taizhang saw the opportunity, and as soon as the rune paper fell, he pinched a trick in his right hand, "Fire!"
As soon as the word 'fire' came out, the two soldiers burned on their bodies, fell to the ground, struggled for a while, and were charred like the first two soldiers who were burned to death, and had an extra tail on their backs.
"The demon hiding in the crowd has been killed by me, so don't be suspicious. ”
Taizhang put his hands behind his back, with the appearance that Lao Tzu is your savior, which made the fat man very unhappy, only to see him pouting and saying to Zhou Chang, "You see that kid's proud strength, he is just a little talisman master, and he thinks he is the Taoist Emperor." ”
Liang Hu saw that Taizhang cleaned up the demon hidden in the soldiers, and then looked at the goddess mage sent by the Shuangsheng Mountain around him, and scolded a group of people from the Shuangsheng Mountain in his heart.
At this time, Taizhang walked over to Lianghu.
Taizhang's father, Taihe, is the minister of the royal capital, although he has retired, his connections are still there, so when Taihe returned to his hometown, Lianghu visited Taihe's house and was no stranger to Taizhang.
"Thanks to Young Master Taizhang's action, otherwise we would all die here. Lianghu said gratefully
Taizhang saluted Lianghu with one hand, and said with a smile, "This is what I should do, I am a student of Lu Quan, the abbot of the Shuangsheng Mountain Monastery, Fu Master Taizhang, and the Dao Emperor asked me to assist the city lord in completing this mission." ”
After saying the above words as usual, Taizhang glanced at Angelina on the left, and said to Liang Hu, "I should have appeared earlier to meet the city lord." However, when I was practicing the art of looking at qi taught by my instructor, I accidentally noticed that there seemed to be an alien atmosphere in the military camp here, so I planned to hide among the soldiers for the time being, waiting for an opportunity to find these aliens. ”