Chapter 80: The Round-up I
81_81671There is no main road to the east of Kapok Town, only a forest path leading to the Cangmu Mountains. A large wooded area separates the town from the mountains. Since it is winter and the end of the year, most of the trees in the woods are bare trunks and dry branches. As far as the eye can see, there are dark brown and brownish black everywhere. There weren't many spirit beasts in this forest, most of them were just ordinary spirit beasts. Occasionally, a faint cry or two would come from the whirring wind.
Ye Hengyuan, Xue Mengyi, and Lei Xi stood behind the three largest bare tree trunks, standing in a triangle.
"Xiaoyuan, Mengyi," Lei Xi raised his head, "The time is almost up." General Bai said that they had the best chance of escaping on our side. It is even possible that they will come here from our direction, that is, through the Cangmu Mountains. We must not let up. ”
"Okay, Sister Lei Xi. ”
Xue Mengyi nodded, facing the direction of Kapok Town, releasing her own colorful bright stone. Seven diamond-shaped gemstones enclose a regular heptagon. Colorful lights flicker alternately.
"Brother Hengyuan, can you give me some spiritual power?"
"Hmm. ”
Ye Hengyuan nodded, stood behind Xue Mengyi, and pressed his palms against her back. Spiritual power flowed into her petite body like a murmuring stream.
Xue Mengyi gently closed her eyes and folded her hands in front of her chest. The Colorful Bright Stone instantly rose into the air, releasing seven pillars of light in seven directions. Seven pillars of light split in the air, splitting into countless tiny pillars of light like branches like tree trunks. Countless tiny pillars of light connected in the air, forming a huge web of colorful light that looked like a spider's web. The web was long, covering almost the entire grove in front of her.
"Hmm. Very good. ”
Lei Xi nodded in satisfaction. A layer of light purple spiritual power fluctuations was released from her body, divided into dozens of radio waves only the thickness of a finger, spreading along the surface of the land under her feet, turning into a power grid as thin as a cicada's wings, covering the ground below the colorful light web.
"Not only do we have to detect the enemy's movements, but we also have to pay attention to the messages that General Bai has delivered to us at all times. The Lingzhi group is very cunning, and if the density and intensity of the detection are not enough, they may be missed. ”
"Hmm. ”
Ye Hengyuan nodded, shook his head slightly, and didn't make a sound. He knew that there was still a big gap between himself and Lei Xi in terms of energy control. Without using the Micro Spirit Core, Lei Xi's energy manipulation ability is still much stronger than him.
Just when Ye Hengyuan and the three of them had just laid down the detection spirit power net, three strangely dressed people appeared at the northwest entrance of Kapok Town.
All three men were dressed in black robes, each with a red moon on it, and a white dagger on the right side of each moon. The two men on the left and right are tall and skinny. The tall man barely had much hair, only a short layer of hair that clinged to his scalp, and two large bull's eyes bulging outward. The short man had long, unkempt hair that was scattered over his shoulders, and the bangs in front of his head almost covered his eyes. The middle-aged woman in the middle has no characteristics, and looks like an ordinary peasant woman. They didn't ride any mounts, and they looked like they were coming on foot.
The security forces of Kapok Town, which were guarding the northwest entrance, divided into two teams and surrounded the three people who were about to enter the city. The spirit master team did not immediately step forward, but just observed the fluctuations in the spiritual power of the three people. They detected that these three people were all spirit masters with martial spirits, but none of them had very strong spiritual power levels. The woman in the middle was slightly stronger, and the two men weren't that strong.
"Who are you? Please show me your papers. The captain who took the lead licked his chapped lips.
The tall man took three papers from the pocket of his robe and handed them to the captain. The captain reached out and took the papers, quickly flipped through them several times, and looked back into the window of the small house at the intersection.
The leader of the Spirit Squad sitting in the window didn't say anything, just nodded. The captain nodded knowingly and motioned for the vigilantes to let them go. The vigilantes dispersed in an instant, making way for the three of them.
The tall man bowed slowly to the captain, retrieved his papers, stuffed them back into his robe, and walked briskly forward. The middle-aged woman followed him. The short man followed the middle-aged woman again.
"Notify the other groups and find a suspicious person," the leader of the spirit squad in the hut whispered to the people around him, "sneak up and follow you." Can't be discovered by them. ”
After less than half a minute, the backs of the three people gradually disappeared from the sight of the defenders at the northwest entrance.
"Huh?"
Director Yang, who was sitting in the tavern, sensed two strange fluctuations in spiritual power. He involuntarily put down the wine glass in his hand and stood up from his chair. These two spiritual power fluctuations came from the north and the west respectively, not strong, but they gave him a very low and depressed feeling. He was a fourth-order seventh-level combat spirit master, and he could feel that these two spiritual power fluctuations had entered the range of Kapok Town, and were approaching the two locations where the bait was sown.
Two Guardian Spirit Masters in cotton robes walked in briskly from Mei Wai, stood to his left and right, leaned down, and leaned into his ear.
"Sir, a group of suspicious people have been spotted at each of the west and northwest entrances," said the Guardian Spirit Master on the left, "There are two people at the west entrance, one man and one woman, and three people, two men and one woman at the northwest entrance. They are now rushing to the location of the two baits, respectively. ”
"Have you found a target?" asked Director Yang in a low voice.
"No," the guardian spirit master on the right shook his head, "none of the spiritual power fluctuations on these people are strong, and none of them exceed the third order level, which is not in line with the target." But the fluctuations in their spiritual power are all weird, not like normal people. They are now all heading towards the bait site, taking only the alleys, not the main roads. ”
"There are no anomalies on the north side," said the spirit master on the left, "and no suspicious people have been found." ”
"Uh......" Director Yang frowned, raised his hand, and rubbed his temples, "Immediately send a signal to the teams on the West Road and the Northwest Road, and follow these two groups of suspicious elements closely." The goal could be in it. The squads on the North Road did not move. The other squads are on standby. Keep an eye out for messages from the general. ”
"Yes. The two spirit masters nodded in agreement and walked quickly out of the tavern.
"Poof!" a cloud of ice rolled off the eaves and fell to the ground, shattering with a clatter.
Xie Bao leaned against the red-painted wooden wall, his arms folded in front of his chest, his eyes closed, and he looked like he was asleep. His body became as if it had been emptied, and he couldn't detect it at all. The entire team of Cangling Academy cadets all surrounded him, surrounding him from all directions. Each student either hid between the walls of the two houses, lay on the roof, or temporarily covered himself with invisibility.
Trainee instructor Pang Wei took Ji Chengdong to stand on the top of a three-story building. The two of them hid behind the two spires on the roof of the small building, holding their breath and relying only on the spiritual power in their bodies to maintain their balance. Ji Chengdong still looks like a hanger, with no shape on his face, as if he is here to hunt. Pang Wei stared coldly at the alley below him, like an eagle about to swoop down from a high mountain to hunt.
"Instructor Pang," Ji Chengdong asked in a low voice, "No news yet?"
Pang Wei shook his head and didn't say anything. A shower of snow blew in the wind, automatically slicing across his sides, not touching him at all.
"Hasn't the target appeared yet?" Ji Chengdong asked in a low voice again.
"It's almost there," Pang Wei was a little impatient, "I'm rushing here." Don't worry. ”
"Understood, I'm not in a hurry," Ji Chengdong smiled, "Senior, don't be too anxious." ”
Pang Wei gave him a blank look, and raised his hand to brush his pointed chin. The cold wind continued to blow in the direction of the eaves, brushing his thin face. His appearance is not as handsome as Leng Han, but he is a little more heroic, and his slightly darker face looks more energetic. He turned his head and looked at the end of the alley, and there seemed to be a little more helplessness in his eyes.
In fact, what Ji Chengdong said was not wrong at all. Pang Wei does like Lei Xi, and he doesn't like it in general. He and Lei Xi enrolled at the same time, and were promoted to intermediate and senior students at the same time, graduated at the same time, and stayed at the school as an intern instructor at the same time. Both of them were among the best of their peers and were often compared by several directors and instructors. But whether it is in theoretical knowledge, or in martial arts and spiritual power cultivation, this beautiful, elegant, mature and sexy girl has always been slightly ahead of herself. Many male students privately call her the national goddess of the academy. The reason for this in private is because no one dares to pursue her publicly. It's not just because Cangling Academy doesn't allow students to fall in love, but also because she is so good that almost every male student standing next to her has to be ashamed of himself.
He believes that he is different from ordinary students, and he believes that he can catch up with Lei Xi in the future and win her heart. However, now it seems that the gap between him and her is getting wider. After she became a trainee faculty member, she was always directly assigned secret tasks by the dean that ordinary faculty members were not authorized to participate in, and she often went away for a long time. And I can only do some auxiliary teaching work. Her own spiritual cultivation has never been able to catch up with her, let alone martial arts. On top of that, she comes from a family of spirit masters, while she herself comes from a commoner family. Even if she looks up to herself, will her family appreciate her......
Pang Wei's train of thought gradually became confused. Naturally, it was impossible for him to think that Lei Xi was the descendant disciple of Hou Renze, the general of the Angry Thunder Spirit, so the more he thought about it, the more chaotic he became. He shook his head vigorously, grabbed a handful of snow out of thin air, and wiped it on his forehead. When he opened his eyes again, three strange spiritual power fluctuations had already entered his perceptual range.
It was the middle-aged woman and the two men beside her who entered the scope of his perception. The three of them were coming from three separate alleys. Pang Wei immediately judged that the destination of the three of them was the alley where Xie Bao was