Chapter 18: The Night Attack on the Water
The gibbous moon is gradually rising, the cool breeze blows the night, and the city of Lishui County is silent. After all, the people who had been terrified all day could not resist the invasion of sleepiness and fell asleep one after another.
It's a hazy and bleak night, but there is a light that is always on.
Shi Jian hadn't slept yet, he sat cross-legged on the futon, and placed an incense case in front of him, on which incense was used to enshrine Wanyang copper coin sword, a talisman pen and a ball of ink fountain line.
There was a knock on the door suddenly, Shi Jian slowly opened his eyes, got up to open the door, and invited Xiang Sheng, who was dressed in a coat, into the house.
"Master Xiang, you haven't slept yet?"
"Go up to the hut, see the light on in your house, come in and have a look." Xiang Sheng glanced at the incense case, motioned for Shi Jian to sit down, and said earnestly: "Yan'er, the straw on the rainy day is getting heavier and heavier, don't take this matter too seriously, with me, Lao Wang, and Lao Zheng in front, it's not your turn to play as a striker, don't think too much, go to bed early." ”
Shi Jian's heart warmed, and he said with a smile: "Master Xiang, you may have misunderstood, my realm is not enough, and I have not yet reached the point of sacrificing my life to eliminate demons. ”
"That's right." Xiang Sheng patted Shi Jian's shoulder and said in a low voice: "On a rainy day, just put your heart into the cow water." When the manpower is exhausted, nothing can be done, and don't be stubborn and brutal. Where there is life, there is hope. To put it mildly, the survival of Lishui has little to do with you, at a critical juncture, you can leave as long as you can, and don't care about anything else. ”
Shi Jian looked at him in surprise, although Xiang Sheng had such and such problems, he was by no means an indifferent and ruthless person, on the contrary, he was warm-hearted and anxious for justice and righteousness. Seventeen years ago, the Dao Chief was actually hunted down and killed by the Five Immortal Sect Warlocks, and Xiang Sheng learned the identity of the Dao Chief, so he did not hesitate to help.
It's hard to imagine that those words just came out of his mouth.
Xiang Sheng glared and said, "What do you see, I've never seen such a selfish person as me, right?" ”
Shi Jian shook his head, "Master Xiang is not selfish at all, I know that you are for my good and for my safety." ”
"Seventeen years ago, I didn't protect my apprentice, and seventeen years later, if I can be selfish and make my apprentice safe, I'd rather be a selfish person." Xiang Sheng smiled freely, got up and walked out, "A few steps, don't send it, hurry up and go to sleep." ”
"Hmm."
Out of the door, Xiang Sheng looked at Shi Jian and said, "Son, remember what I just said." ”
"I will."
"Sleep."
Looking at Xiang Sheng's departing back, Shi Jian's nose was sour, and his whole body was as if he had practiced the Twelve Guidance Techniques dozens of times, hot, and inexhaustible.
"No matter what demons and monsters you are, if you dare to provoke Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will fight hard to make your soul scattered, and you will never be able to live forever!"
Close the door and turn off the lights and go to bed.
As soon as the lights of the Xiang family went out, there was no light in the county town of Lishui. There is only moonlight like water between heaven and earth, silently sprinkling silver frost on the ground.
At some time, a dark cloud suddenly drifted in the night sky, blocking the moon. Suddenly, the city wall was dark, and I couldn't see my fingers.
The patrol soldiers were transferred from the Thousand General Administration, all of them were in Qing Dynasty uniforms, wearing cool hats, they were all sent from elsewhere to suppress the elite of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Rebellion, and a few years of peace had worn out their sharpness, let them patrol, and then they slept against the wall after the end of the day. As for guarding against zombies, forget it, Shili Town is far away from the county seat, and it will definitely not come.
In his sleep, Liu Xiaowu faintly heard a strange noise, as if something was poking at the city gate, he was about to get up to check, the sound suddenly stopped, and now he even saved the effort to get up, and continued to sleep in a comfortable position.
After a while, Liu Xiaowu felt that someone poked his arm with his fingers, and he took it away as soon as he poked it, just like joking.
"Trouble, sleep well."
"Mother Li! It's also addictive! Liu Xiaowu scolded, and when he opened his eyes, he wanted to give this bastard who disturbed his sleep a good look.
However, what he saw was a very terrifying face, pale without a trace of blood, a mouth bright red as if stained with blood, and two sharp zombie teeth broke through the lips and bit down on his neck.
Liu Xiaowu was full of excitement and screamed: "Zombies! ”
"Bang ......"
The rapid sound of gongs spread throughout the streets and alleys, waking up the sleeping people and making the quiet county town lively.
"Zombies are in town!"
"Zombies are coming......"
In the right single room of Xiang Sheng's house, Shi Jian opened his eyes, listened attentively for a while, quickly got up from the bed, put the talisman under the pillow into his satchel, and picked up the Wanyang copper coin sword and went out.
"Knock knock."
"Who?"
"Xu Daoyou, zombies have entered the city."
"What?"
There was an exclamation of surprise from inside the room, followed by a rush and a shouting voice.
woke up Xu Zhenren and Zhang Daring, and Shi Jian went to call Xiang Sheng again. The four of them were neatly dressed, and as soon as they went out, they met Master Wang and them who came in a hurry.
"Lao Xiang, Shi Daochang, Xu Daochang, Zhang Daochang, zombies have come in." Master Wang, who was slightly fat, said urgently.
"Lao Wang, we all know it."
"What now?"
"Don't worry, the sky won't fall, let's go over and see the situation first." Shi Jian calmly calmed everyone and asked, "Have you brought all the corpse talismans?" ”
"Brought it."
"Alright, let's go."
Nine Foot Gentlemen and three monks gathered together, and this was already a force that was not weak. Master Wang and the others looked at Shi Jian, who was in the lead, as if they had a backbone, and their original restless mood quickly calmed down.
Walking into the bluestone street, I saw that the street was chaotic, panicked people ran around like headless flies, and the glutinous rice and eggs prepared at home were useless, and the zombies were stunned as soon as they came.
Three small jumping corpses chased the crowd behind, like three hungry wolves surrounding a herd of tame sheep, biting people when they saw them, and they were extremely rampant.
"They all opened their eyes?" Shi Jian snorted coldly and shouted, "Do it!" ”
Twelve people flew out and easily subdued the three jumping corpses.
"Go!"
Shi Jian casually threw out three medium-grade 'Small Fireball Talismans' and burned the three jumping corpses to charcoal. At this time, it is no longer possible to take care of the preservation of the remains of the villagers, and the shouts of killing at the gate of the city are loud, and there must be a lot of zombies that have entered the city, and one can be destroyed at the moment.
"Bold, Master Xiang, you stay to appease the villagers, organize them to take out the glutinous rice, eggs, and lamp oil at home, and bring them to Fuqian Street to join us."
"Okay."
Rushing to Fuqian Street, Shi Jian found that the situation was not too bad. Zombies from the south gate, the east gate to kill in, mainly concentrated in the east gate, and the county office, the thousand general office just gathered near the east gate, hundreds of soldiers, under the command of a burly thousand commanders, sprinkled glutinous rice, threw eggs, poured black dog blood, pulled the ink bucket line, while retreating while blocking the zombie's attack, fighting very orderly.
It was the South Gate that collapsed, because there was no backbone, even if the soldiers and yacha had talismans, they also lost their will to fight in the face of the terrifying zombies, and they ran away one by one, allowing twenty zombies to drive straight in, and the three zombies that they met on the street just now came in from the South Gate.
"Shi Dao Chief, there are too many zombies, should we go up?"
Looking at the two or three hundred jumping corpses on the street in front of the house, Master Wang, Master Wu and others were heartbroken, and they immediately retreated. Don't talk about them, Shi Jian was also panicked, he had never seen such a big battle.
"It's definitely going to be on, it's going to be on, it's a good opportunity to catch them all." Shi Jian glanced at the lone jumping corpse in other places, and ran over first, "I have a way, follow me." ”