The smell of blood permeated the dungeon with a gentle wind, the dead silence was broken by the clanging of the iron pestle falling to the ground, and the iron pestle thrown by the Queen of Yellow Springs hit the ground and bounced up and fell again.

Under the light of the cyan fire, the shape of the iron pestle was exactly the same as the one that the Heavenly King used to deal with Xiao Shizhu, except that the seal carved on the pestle was very different from the one used by the Heavenly King.

The talisman seal on the iron pestle thrown by the Queen of Huangquan is connected without interruption, and the pattern is just like a human soul with no hands or feet, no beads in the eyes, no nose and no ears, and only two human souls with blurred flesh and blood are gathered together.

And the lifelike pattern can be more three-dimensional than the pattern on the four iron pestles that Xiao Shizhu saw in the Jiuquan Valley.

"According to the drawings and spell samples you gave me, if there is no difference, I will start making the remaining five. As she spoke, the Queen of Yellow Springs raised her hand and grabbed the lantern in her hand at the hook that had grown on the wall next to the door.

Lin Wan, who couldn't walk in the prison, slowly crawled out of the darkness, lay down under the light of the dark fire, and looked at it carefully with an iron pestle in his hand.

The three-foot iron pestle started, and a burst of cold poured from the pestle's body, freezing Lin Yun's palms and ten fingers soon became numb and numb, with pain, and every joint between the fingers instantly turned red.

There was also a faint sound of ghosts crying and whimpering in the cold emanating from the iron pestle, which also made Lin Yun, who was holding the iron pestle, hear it harshly.

The rich soul ghost qi was suppressed in the iron pestle and was difficult to break free, whether it was the ghost crying or the cold, it was the ghost qi that came from these souls.

"No more, no less, just right. Lin Wan swept the iron pestle in his hand, closed his eyes slightly and listened attentively to the cry coming from the pestle's body, and said: "It's exactly nine hundred and ninety-nine, so let's continue to make it according to this specification." ”。

With that, she handed the iron pestle in her hand through the gap between the bars of the cell door covered with yellow charms.

"You have mastered the mantra and the formula, and waited for the Son of God to come and absorb his ghostly life, and your Yellow Spring will be a patch of green mountains and green waters in the future. After Lin Wan smiled slightly, he continued to lie on the wet and cold ground, motionless.

Queen Huangquan, who took over the iron pestle, nodded, and the coldness in her eyes never decreased, but increased.

"You rest, I'll decide what I'm going to do the rest, and I don't need you to direct it. Queen Huangquan, who had put the iron pestle in her sleeve and hid it, took off the lantern and turned to leave, not wanting to say another word to Lin Wan.

Darkness came again, filling every corner of the dungeon. Lin Wan, who was immersed in darkness, looked at the direction of Queen Huangquan's departure, pursed his lips and sneered.

The smile was as cold as the damp corners of this dungeon, oozing and devoid......

After nightfall in the Netherworld, the sky over Shuoyue Island has been shrouded in low-hanging thick dark clouds. The cold wind swept through the heavens and the earth, rolling up patches of black snow like carbon ink, whirling and turning between the heavens and the earth.

The first snow fell on Shuoyue Island in winter, bringing with it a cold wind that cooled down and screamed, sweeping through every anxiety on Shuoyue Island, where the vegetation withered and scorched earth craters were everywhere.

The black snowflakes were flying in the sky, small and sparse at first, but after an hour they grew larger. Snowflakes were like goose feathers, falling to the ground with the cold and wind, lying quietly on the scorched earth island.

The ghost soldiers of the Xudu Army outside Xiaoyu Mountain City were shivering with cold. The sudden change in the sky caught them off guard, who were still wearing single clothes.

In addition, the materials sent by Emperor Xudu were all unable to reach Shuoyue Island due to the blockade of the sea area, or they were robbed by the Nine Shadows Water Division led by Gonggong. This made the ghost soldiers of the island cold and hungry.

Two or three days ago, the ghost soldiers of the Zhurong Ghost Clan of the Nine Shadows Country rode the condescending control of Xiancha to make a fire, controlled the flames in the granary and ammunition depot, and burned the grain, grass and ammunition of the Xudu Army on the island. The army had to dig wild vegetables on the spot, dig up rat nests in the mountains and hunt to feed themselves. As for heating, I can only see if there is any grass and trees nearby, and I cut it down to make a fire to keep warm.

There is plenty of food, grass and clothing in Xiaoyu Mountain City, but it is strictly guarded by the Nine Shadows Army and guards the entire mountain city. So much so that Gong Mingyi ordered the sergeants to attack dozens of times, but they also returned in vain.

On Shuoyue Island, which was freezing in the cold, the Xudu army, which was short of food and clothing, was in a desperate situation. The Nine Shadows Army in the city did not fight, but only attacked and disturbed from time to time. In addition, their supplies could be transported by air by Xiancha and Flying Thunder Carts, and they did not take land transportation at all, so that although the Xudu army on the island besieged Xiaoyu Mountain City and Yuren Village, they did not even have the opportunity to rob the grain.

In just a few days, the Xudu army on the island fell into a desperate situation with no chance of survival. At this moment, the ghost soldiers on the island have more surrender than when Ying Zhao tied the reward for Gong Mingyi to the feather arrow and shot it at the ghost soldiers.

Especially the bad Yingzhao, every day he found a few big horns made of iron sheets, and shouted tirelessly outside the city: "There is plenty of wine, meat, and clothing in the city, and those who surrender can get wine, meat, and cotton clothes and quilts when they put down their weapons and come over." "Wait. Not only did he get more and more energetic as he spoke, but he also asked the military cooks to put the barbecue outside the house all day long, and opened all the wine jars from time to time to overflow the fragrance. For a time, the fragrance around the mountain city was overflowing, and the delicacy was tempting. Let the ghost soldiers in the wind and snow outside the city, in this cold and cold night, every time they shiver in the cold and cold wind, they will recall the words shouted by those heroic moves, and immediately have no heart to fight again, and the idea of surrendering is even heavier.

At this point, the 'shamelessness' that Ying Zhao learned from Xiao Shizhu has been brought into full play.

It's okay if the ghost soldiers are only hungry for a day or two, but they have been eating for about half a month, and they have not eaten the last meal, and they can't eat enough when they eat.

It's not a big problem to be hungry, the key is that the body is still single, which makes it difficult for the Xudu army to bear it.

The weather is getting colder and colder, and there are no reinforcements and backups, and there is no escape from the vast sea around the island. Therefore, the ghost soldiers on this island have lost the courage and confidence to fight.

Gong Mingyi in the big tent of the Chinese army, but he was still wearing a thick cloak to keep out the cold. It made the ghost soldiers under him even more nameless fire in their chests when they saw it.

It's just that he cares about his means and rights and withholds it.

At this time, it is the dead of night, and the wind and snow are heavier. The sky was covered with clouds, and the wind was howling on the Shuoyue Island, and the heavy snow was rolling up. Gong Mingyi, who was sitting by the stove in the tent, also knew that most of the ghost soldiers under his command were already disgusted with him, but he didn't care. At this time, he was calmly picking up his pen and writing something on the white paper on the table.

After a while, Gong Mingyi put down the long pen in his hand. I picked up the slip of paper full of fly's heads, blew the ink on the paper, and then put it down, slowly rolled it up, wrapped it into a small roll, and put it in the small bamboo tube at hand.

After going to the small bamboo tube that was one inch long, he took a lit candle, tilted the candle lightly on the bamboo tube, and slowly dripped a few drops of wax to plug the open mouth of the bamboo tube.

He only had one arm left, and these simple things were also time-consuming and laborious to do, and after it took a whole cup of tea to do all the work, Gong Mingyi blew out the candle and leaned back against the back of the chair and took a long breath.

After a moment of silence, he picked up the bamboo tube with the sealing wax that had cooled, got up and walked outside the tent, handed it to the guards guarding the door, and said, "Use the last nine-headed bird to send it out immediately, 100,000 urgent." ”。

The wind and snow poured into the tent along the curtain that had been lifted, and sparks flew up in the brazier in the tent.

The sergeant answered, and when he took the bamboo tube, Gong Mingyi had already turned around and returned to his warm tent.

The ghost soldier holding the bamboo tube gritted his teeth, eager to rush up and beat Gong Mingyi angrily. But after thinking about it, he held back and left the Chinese army's tent with a bamboo tube in his hand. Cloth shoes stepped on the broken snow on the ground, and walked with the north wind on their backs.

Angry, the ghost soldier did not go to the army to spread the message of the nine-headed bird, but deliberately avoided the guards and walked to his military tent.

And at this moment, they are in a desperate situation, and Gong Mingyi actually has to send a hundred thousand urgent messages, which also makes this ghost soldier very curious.

It just so happened that there were no other ghosts in his tent, so the ghost soldier who had just entered it took out a bamboo tube, quickly picked out the sealed white wax, shook out the note, and unfolded it with the faint light of the lit candle.

It's okay not to look at it, but at first glance, this ghost soldier was so angry that the green tendons on his forehead burst out, and his chest was full of anger.

The note said that the last four ships of Guanyuecha would hurry to Shuoyue Island to pick up Gong Mingyi and Kui Wood Wolf, as well as most of the main forces of the Xudu Army here.

The note clearly stated that Gong Mingyi was going to retreat quietly, although the four Guanyuecha ships must come quietly. It's best to come back in the dead of night, and you can quietly take away the ghosts that Gong Mingyi wants to take away.

There is no need for Gong Mingyi to write in more detail, this ghost soldier also knows what Gong Mingyi has in mind. It is nothing more than leaving most of the ghost soldiers to continue the fierce battle with the Nine Shadows Kingdom on the island, and drag the army of the Nine Shadows Kingdom so that Gong Mingyi and them can escape.

This is where this ghost soldier is angry.

Although he was Gong Mingyi's personal guard and must be on the list of retreats, he still hated Gong Mingyi. This kind of thing that requires him to sacrifice his ghost in exchange for his own way of life, if he says it directly, it may not really make him so angry.

The key is that Gong Mingyi's every move shows that Gong Mingyi wants to hide from the ghost soldiers who are about to die and let them die.

After the ghost soldier with his eyebrows upturned was angry for a long time, he suddenly had a plan.

He rolled up the note in his hand and slowly put it into the bamboo tube, then took the candle and dripped white wax on the mouth of the bamboo tube, and after sealing the mouth tightly, he walked out of his military tent with the bamboo tube and walked towards the camp of the herald.

This secret letter still has to be sent, but the ghost soldiers must not stop there. The ghost soldiers who were about to be deceived and were forced to stay and sacrifice were all comrades-in-arms who lived and died with him, not sacrifices used to give Gong Mingyi a smooth retreat.

Since Gong Mingyi is so unkind and unjust, then this ghost soldier will not be able to escape if he wants him. He had already made up his mind that Gong Mingyi would never be able to retreat, and then he would lose the four Guanyuecha used in the retreat.

To die together, this is the strongest thought in the heart of this ghost soldier at this time.

Thinking about the plan he had come up with, the ghost soldier unconsciously carried the cold wind and walked to a small camp in the depths of the barracks. He didn't enter, but just stood at the door and handed the bamboo tube in his hand to the ghost soldier guarding the door, and said, "The commander wants you to send it out immediately, and use the last nine-headed bird to send a message." The address was engraved on the bamboo tube, and after showing it to the nine-headed bird, let it send a message to it. ”。

Although the nine-headed bird is a fierce bird, it has spirituality, and they can understand the ghost characters.

So the ghost soldier didn't ask much, nodded and left, took the bamboo tube, and sent a letter.

Seeing that the bamboo tube mouth seal wax knew that it was a secret letter, naturally he didn't ask what the content was, and he didn't know that it was a signal to retreat.