"Let me see!"

Jiang Chen's mind moved, and his body teleported.

In a blink of an eye, he settled next to the Yumen Pass, the top of Wanqian Mountain, about 200 zhang high, which is the remaining vein of Qilian Mountain.

Climb high and look far!

Jiang Chen instinctively stood on tiptoe and looked around, but he never saw a trace of Liu Chuanzhi, and couldn't help frowning secretly:

"In Yumen Pass, there are only more than 1,000 foot soldiers, 100 cavalry, and one captain, and there is no trace of any martial marquis-level powerhouse, is it not yet ......?"

The sound stopped abruptly.

Jiang Chen's eyes flickered slightly, staring at the western city wall.

Several halberd-wielding soldiers gathered near the urn city, paddling and chatting, and from the change in the shape of their lips, there seemed to be the word rain.

"Isn't it ......"

Jiang Chen jumped forward, quickly approached the city wall, and then secretly urged his blood qi to quickly hide his own breath.

Soon.

He quietly climbed the old city wall and eavesdropped on the conversations of many soldiers.

"Did you hear that? When Lao Ba was patrolling the south of the city, he found another family, and the way of death was exactly the same as the eucalyptus a few days ago. ”

"Yes, it's miserable, it's like being dragged into the water and soaked for three days and three nights, and my whole body is swollen, like a floating corpse."

"This year, the water ghosts can go ashore to pull people?"

In the gossip of many soldiers, Jiang Chen gradually got a glimpse of the whole picture of the incident.

This matter still has to start from the "twenty-ninth day of the first month", or the "rain" in the twenty-four solar terms.

In this remote and barren border city, the spring rain should be as expensive as oil, but on the contrary, from the twenty-ninth day of the first month, the rain came a little too much, too abnormal.

One drop, two drops, three or four drops, five or six seven eight or ninety drops, thousands of drops and countless drops, almost raised the waterline of the nearby Shule River by more than half a foot.

At first, the defenders of Yumen Pass were quite happy, and with more water, the farmers could grow more grain and brew more wine in the local area.

There is a reason why the Han Dynasty chose this place to establish the Yumen Pass, which has sufficient precipitation, suitable fields for cultivation, and even a Shule River to feed it.

But outside the Guan, the precipitation is becoming scarce, and the Shule River is cut off, which is not suitable for the survival of agricultural people.

"200 mm annual precipitation line!"

Therefore, in the eyes of the people here, spring rain is as expensive as oil, and the more the better.

But soon—

Something scary happened!

At night, in the western area of the city, the watchman shouted "The weather is dry, be careful of the candles", while walking leisurely with a face full of eyes.

As a result, he stumbled under his feet, and fell into a dog eating, and when he lifted the lantern to look at it, he was horrified to find that it was actually a swollen dead body.

"Ahh

There was a scream, and the whole city was shocked.

If it is an ordinary way of death, it may not make much noise, after all, in this world, only military soldiers and officials have human rights.

But—

The death status of the owner of this corpse is extremely bizarre, it seems to be the corpse that surfaced due to its internal decomposition and inflation after being drowned in the water for many days.

After noon identification, this is a floating corpse, with the breath of a water ghost lingering on its body, and it is very likely that it was a substitute ghost after falling into the water.

Water ghosts are a kind of underwater ghosts, which refer to those harmful ghosts who accidentally die in the water, or commit suicide in rivers, lakes and seas, and cannot be reincarnated.

They wander underwater, luring or directly pulling living people into the water to drown, acting as their substitutes, and then they can be reincarnated.

But—

It's in town!

How terrible would it be if the water ghosts could come ashore?

Neighbors all said that this person had never left the city, had been doing small business in Guansai, and had never been to the nearby lakes and rivers.

The government failed to find out the real culprit for a while, and after hastily perfunctory family members, there was no follow-up, and the next morning, Wu Da and Wu San, who were selling cooking cakes on the street, also died mysteriously and became two swollen corpses.

Then four, eight, sixteen......

Today, it has been six days, and a total of 31 people have been killed, and if there is no accident, the total number of deaths will increase dramatically to 63 tonight.

Therefore, the whole city was panicked, more and more people fled, and the defenders of Yumen Pass were also forced to go out and patrol everywhere, trying to find out the source of the "water ghost".

"Multiply, ......"

Jiang Chen squinted his eyes and calculated slightly in his heart that in about five or six days, the Qingzhou Army would arrive in the Shule River Valley.

So—

The total number of deaths will increase dramatically to two thousand and forty-seven!

"Is this a water ghost?"

"How does it look like a development downline?"

The corners of Jiang Chen's mouth twitched, and he immediately stared at the entire Guancheng and the waters outside the Guancheng with the eyes of heaven, and his face couldn't help but show a trace of weirdness.

Not even half a water ghost!

Neither the wells nor the watersheds within a radius of twenty miles have seen any traces of ghosts, where have they gone?

"I always feel that this matter may be inseparable from Liu Chuanzhi......"

Jiang Chen frowned and pondered, and said secretly:

"He has the source of the flood in his hands, it is difficult to do it, every late at night, he secretly releases those water ghosts, drags more people into the water, and then, when the day dawns, all of them are included in the source of the flood, so that there is no trace of ghosts, and it is reasonable."

Think of it.

Jiang Chen changed his clothes, strode into the Yumen Pass, found an inn, and waited for the water ghost to appear while eating some food.

Xiao Er scratched his head and said:

"There is only one table left in this inn, if you don't mind, you can share a table with the two guest officers who just arrived over there, how about it?" In addition, if you need to stay at the hotel, you can also contact the villain. ”

"Okay."

Jiang Chen had no intention of staying, patted the dust on his body, sat down casually, and chatted with each other before he was surprised to find that the two guests at this table were actually relatives of "Wang Fengzai", the official of the 18th Battalion Grain Station, and also had a hobby of "polemics".

Called: Wang Shi, Wang Qi.

Jiang Chen had the heart to inquire about the "water ghost killing eucalyptus", so he asked the two casually: "There is such chaos in the city, I heard that it is a water ghost?" ”

However.

The two are obviously ordinary people, but they habitually substitute themselves as strong people, completely forgetting those innocent dead people, and happily said:

"Chaos is the ladder to the ascendant!"

In their opinion, the appearance of water ghosts and murderous eucalyptus in Yumen Pass is a good thing for them who are eager to enlist in the army.

If the defenders suffered heavy losses, it would most likely make it easier to levy soldiers, and then their chance for the brothers would come.

The corners of Jiang Chen's mouth rose slightly, and when he saw that the two of them belonged to the stunned young people who were not deeply involved in the world, he gave up asking questions and worked silently.

He casually picked up a quick "little green dragon with broken bones", that is, patted the cucumber, and after tasting it carefully, he sighed in his heart:

"It's not necessarily a good thing to lower your requirements."

Take the Qingzhou Army as an example.

In the battle to conquer Loulan, six or seven thousand people were killed before and after, so when the troops were recruited in the later period, the requirements of the Qingyang ceremony were greatly reduced.

Many of them, like Xiao Wu, took life-burning drugs in advance and burned their lives for six to nine years before they barely knocked down the dead.

Rao is like this, there are also some crooked melons and cracked dates, their strength is too low, even if they take medicine, they are still eaten and killed by those dead soldiers, and their death is desolate.

The strict recruitment criteria were originally to select good seedlings who "can knock down two dead soldiers without taking life-burning drugs".

Wang Shi learned a lot of martial arts knowledge from the old grain platform, such as several treasures:

"The soldier level is the cornerstone of martial arts, which can make the muscles of the whole body strong and full, responsive, can shoot a strong bow of one hundred and eighty catties, and is not easy to get sick, if the body has not been secretly injured, it can often live to old death."

"But to put it bluntly, it is to multiply the strength and physique before promotion, so when selecting soldiers, always choose the best of the best, after all, the better the foundation, the stronger the strength!"

Wang Qi added:

"Rank and blood, the qi and blood are further multiplied, and the best of them can even have the strength of a thousand catties, and can defeat four or five martial soldiers with their bare hands."

"The most important thing is that although it can't prolong life, but after death, it's not ordinary, I heard that when ordinary people die, if their souls can't be reincarnated, they will be dispersed not long after."

"But the strong people of the rank of scholars, [scholars can't be Hongyi, there is a long way to go], and their spiritual beliefs are firm, and they can often live out the second life in the underworld!"

"If there can be sacrificed to the living, it will not be a problem for the soul to live for a hundred years."

In the stage of Qingzhou soldiers, they often fixed and awakened the three major abilities of "regeneration of plants and trees", "planting", and "flying leaves and slashing";

Qingzhou fighters only increase the ability of fighters' beliefs, and most of the spiritual power is used to transform the soul and increase the spiritual life after death.

Of course, the power of the fighter's belief is also very exaggerated, if the person with firm belief can even increase the blood of a thousand catties when the fighting spirit is high.

Power can carry the tripod!

Folk storytellers are also very fond of telling stories at this level.

There is no other reason, it is convenient to explode and become stronger in the battle, so that the audience's blood can boil and applaud.

Erwang boasted very highly, and they both thought that he was a martial arts genius, and he only needed to enlist in the army for a few months, and he could quickly shine, from Qingzhou soldiers to Qingzhou fighting generals, just like the general of Minfu...... Ginger dust in general.

"Huh?"

The tips of Jiang Chen's ears moved slightly, and he found that these two were stunned, and they actually mentioned themselves, and couldn't help but put down the bowl.

Wang Shi exclaimed, and said in an exaggerated tone:

"I listened to Hu Shang who returned from the Western Regions, that Qingzhou fighting general called Jiang Chen, with the power of one person, destroyed the country of Loulan, and the general rank, is it really that powerful?"

"The total number of generals in Kyushu's various martial arts is about four or five hundred, doesn't it mean that five hundred small countries can be destroyed?"

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Wang Qi smiled:

"What's the matter, it's just that captain surnamed Jiang, although he is a general, he is comparable to Wuhou."

"I heard that he once faced the eight generals of Loulan and beat those Xiyi generals to the ground!"

said.

The two of them had envy in their eyes, and they also had the idea of defecting to the Qingzhou Army, and they both aspired to become heroes like Jiang Chen, "don't move, if you move, you will destroy the country".

The sun set on the horizon, and night fell, and the two young people surnamed Wang looked panicked and hurriedly prepared to enter the guest room on the second floor.

Jiang Chen raised the corners of his mouth and quipped:

"Chaos is a ladder to the ascent, two brothers, how do you go up the stairs?"

The two young men blushed and argued:

"Didn't you come to the inn to hide from the water ghosts?"

Xiao Er in the distance hurriedly ran over, showed a flattering smile, and strongly recommended:

"Guest officer, there are several warriors living in this store, just a water ghost, it is impossible to invade, an upper room, only fifty taels is enough."

Fifty taels?

Can you buy three acres of good water to irrigate the land?

Jiang Chen was amazed in his heart, pressed the knife and smiled:

"It's too expensive."

Wang Shi and Wang Qi couldn't help but smile contemptuously, and when they were about to say a few words, they were surprised to find that Jiang Chen looked up to the sky and laughed and went out, submerged in the deep night......