Chapter 6. The beginning of the autumn hunt
"What! Huang Sima is not there? ”
Although Ding You didn't see the face, he could imagine what the face of the young man of the same age as himself was, he was quite surprised, and said that the world is retributing, but the retribution should really come so fast?
The young man looked at the sundial standing on the ground, only to see that the shadow in the center had almost shrunk into a black dot, at noon, he gritted his teeth, and calmed his breathing, he thought that with his own identity, the deadline at noon was just right, but the person who issued the tiger talisman was still behind him, which made him a little boring, as if he threw a flattering eye to the blind man, and was disgusted by the blind man, and finally he was dismounted.
He said to the soldiers at the door of the tent: "Okay, I'll wait!" I don't know when Huang Sima will come back? ”
The pro-soldier was not a good-tempered person, and said loudly: "The whereabouts of the commander are military secrets, how can I and other pawns know about it?" ”
Touching a nail that is neither hard nor soft, the rich young man in the tiger stripe shirt with a purple background is not angry but laughs, and he will not bother to deal with the soldiers guarding the door, but the strength of his shaking clothes and turning around is not small, obviously, he is not as ignorant as his face.
Ding You shook his head slightly, he didn't laugh like everyone else, because of his background, he didn't laugh at the young man like his comrades around him, on the contrary, he had lived in the army for almost a month, and he had a little understanding of this.
After touching a cup of tea, the sun was in full swing, and a middle-aged man with a dark complexion, wearing a copper coin robe, and a not narrow body finally walked slowly, and seemed very surprised to see that the room was already crowded with nearly 100 people.
"Yo, it's all so early, but Ben Sima is flattered, eh, isn't this the famous second son of the Ruo Ao clan? Why did you come so early today, I heard that His Royal Highness the Prince of the World rode the first-class war horse of the Zhao family and made a special trip, the nephew, you don't have to be in such a hurry, isn't it just past noon. ”
Dou Ao clenched his fists tightly under his sleeves, but he was worthy of being from a big family, his appearance was not bad at all, and he respectfully saluted Huang Sima, who called himself Uncle Shi.
"Huang Sima, you can send me the tiger talisman!"
Huang Sima's fat face stretched out, patted Dou Ao's shoulder, and said with a smile:
"Don't be in a hurry, it's rare that there is a decent son in this broken place in the wilderness, my account is full of luxury, let's walk and quickly enter the account, so that my handsome tent is a little more extravagant."
Ding You was still silent in the shock of the identity of this son, and did not notice that the last two words of Huang Sima were read very deeply, and after a while, Ding You, who was originally a little sure of the task of the sect, was worried about the task for the first time.
"Alas, why is my life so bitter, others are accompanying the prince to study, but I am accompanying the prince to death!"
Finally, when the prince of Ruo Ao came out of the tent, he was holding a rough embryo jade material in his right hand, which was the tiger talisman that dispatched hundreds of scouts, but the sharp-eyed people found at a glance that the treasure jade that Dou Ao had originally hung on his waist had disappeared, and as for where it fell, everyone knew it.
"Ladies and gentlemen, from today onwards, I Dou Ao is your hundred chiefs, and they are your captains, two or three sons and their own combination into a team, and then two and a team, everything is only the captain is followed, and the violator is on the top, and the captain is not better than asking me to deal with it by military law."
Hearing this, many people frowned, all the soldiers present were elite soldiers, and a considerable number of them were living people who got up from the pile of corpses, although military law could restrain them, but it was only a constraint, at this time, many soldiers looked at Huang Ren together.
But Huang Ren hugged his arms and didn't say a word, and no one dared to speak in the audience.
It was night, 100 horsemen out of the camp lightly, after a mile of the teams parted ways, Dou Ao personally led a team to advance, straight north.
Ding You, the three of them, got together, and not far in front of the three of them were a few black-clothed people, if Ding You's guess was right, those people were all monks like himself.
He looked up at the sky, tonight was the day of the moon and a half full moon, and the silver light was constantly sprinkled, if it was placed in the past, it was already the time to go to bed in the army, but the moon was dark and the wind was high, which was undoubtedly an excellent time for scouts.
Dou Ao took the lead, accompanied by the sound of horses' hooves, and had to say loudly:
"If the information is correct, the new scouts of the Jin Kingdom this year will be dispatched tomorrow, and the scouts on the Jin State side tonight are only the original ones, the border line is too long, so they are very scattered, and the area we are responsible for will not be very dangerous even if it is very close to that side, so everyone will break it into pieces, and familiarize yourself with the terrain first in combination with the map, and gather in Huaishuling after dawn.
"Scatter!"
Everyone dispersed, Ding You glanced at the two of them, nodded, tightened the reins, chose a direction to gallop, only a short time later, it was already away from the deep rutted business road, there was no road on the ground, except for the chirping of insects and birds, only the sound of his own horses' hooves remained, looking around, even if he borrowed the moonlight, he couldn't see far, it seemed that he had completely dispersed with the team.
Ding You looked at the stars in the sky again, he remembered that when he was a child, his grandfather taught the simple art of stargazing and pointing north in the villa, at this time the sky was clear and cloudless, Ding You quickly found the Big Dipper, and then looked along the seven stars, which is where the crape myrtle in the north is, according to the map he saw during the day, there is a hill in the northeast corner of five miles ahead, called Lao Turtle Mountain, this is his goal tonight.
Scout scouts, even if they are autumn hunting, the first task is to find out information, and within a radius of ten miles, the old turtle mountain is the tallest, and there are no auxiliary mountains around it, so the field of vision is extremely broad, and it is a good place for reconnaissance.
Ding You plans to take the opportunity to go up the mountain tonight, and wait until daytime to observe the movements around him, if he finds the movement of a large number of enemy troops, then tonight's mission will be over, and he must immediately rush to the assembly point to report the situation, of course, if there are only one or two people, it is the battle merit that takes the initiative to send it to the door, even if the assembly is delayed, the young man will not let go.
Tethered the war horse to a relatively hidden place at the foot of the mountain, the young man glanced at it, and found a small temple, went in to see, smiled, and went straight to a straight cliff that he had seen for a long time, he looked up, although he couldn't see it really, but just looking at the mountain from afar, it was the steepest here, and it was also one of the few roads that could climb to the top of the mountain, but it was extremely dangerous for ordinary people.
Dante is a qi practitioner, although he stops at gathering qi, but his legs, feet and five senses are very comparable, I saw him close his eyes and breathe, silently recite the mantra, under the pinch of his hands, there was a slight leakage of spiritual power on the surface of his body, but it just seeped out of the body, and it became frost.
After about ten breaths, a ray of moonlight was drawn.
At first, it was made into a ribbon, and then gradually shrunk until it turned into a thin fluorescent line, which came straight towards the boy.
Ding by the hand transient, and finally fixed in the palm, holding this ray of moonlight, when the mantra is finished, the thinner the string, the more radiant its light is, his five fingers are slightly bent, and the moonlight is finally kneaded into a ball in his palm.
A click exploded, Ding You sprinkled the object in his palm from the top of his head, and the originally formless and textureless moonlight was wrapped in frost, and was crushed into a point of luminous light together, attached to Ding You's body, reflecting the young man's handsome face.
At that moment, the young man in armor who had been in the army for nearly a month finally had a trace of the dust of the people on the mountain.
It's just that the young man didn't know it, and what he smelled at the tip of his nose at this time was earthy.
He stepped out in one step, and the next foot stepped on a rock eight or nine feet above the ground, and with the help of his strength, he grabbed the green vine hanging straight down, climbed to the end of the vine, looked around and saw a protruding mountain rock in the height, jumped over, and when he was exhausted, the short knife pierced straight into the rock wall, hard as granite thick rock, and was also pierced into most of it like poking wood.
At this moment, Ding You's body was radiant, as if he had given birth to a force out of thin air, and his limbs borrowed strength at the same time, like an antelope hanging on his horns, and his body was as light as a swallow in the wind.
It's no wonder that Ding You took a lot of pains, and even used the sect's palm spirit array, he was really helpless, since he was able to think of the good place of Lao Turtle Mountain, then the others, especially the scout on the other side, naturally knew it.
And the cliff here is an exception, not that the Jin State scouts are not clear, you must know that the military and political affairs of the Chu State over the years, especially the law of governing the army, many of them have followed the neighbor of the Jin State, and it is really due to the terrain, don't look at just this section of the cliff, if it weren't for Ding You's use of the formation to attract the Yuehua possession, even if he is a monk, there is nothing he can do about it, the monk is like this, the ordinary scout has three heads and six arms, and it is difficult to do it.
Ding You didn't know that his concerns were actually reality, and he didn't know that there were already three groups of people on the top of the cliff.
"Ah Song, you don't see that person who looks like a scout from the Chu State."
The armored young man called Ah Song patted the shoulder of the elder beside him, and said in his ear: "Old cat, I'm afraid you're not old and confused, who will stand next to that small waterhole for more than an hour, there must be a ghost in it, I think it looks like a secret room of the Chu State, why don't we go up and cut off his head and go back to receive the reward?" The military judge didn't know that there were people in this realm except for the barbarians of the Chu State, right? ”
The old cat twisted the white goat's whiskers, and his eyes glowed slightly in the night, which is why he was called the old cat, and there were few ordinary scouts of his age, but his eyesight was far better than ordinary people, even at night, he could see, he was born for scouts, and he was always regarded as a baby bump by their captain.
"You calf, you know how to fight and kill, do you know that the boy's outfit is a monk?"
Asonnunu mouthed, and said: "It's true that the older a person is, the less timid he is, and when he sees that it is a monk's courage, he is frightened, you just said that person is younger than me, and I don't believe that it is already the True Yuan Realm when I am killed, and we have killed a lot of such monks!" ”
The old cat simply stopped paying attention to this kid, and was not afraid of his staggering, he knew that although this kid was a little frizzy, he was still very obedient, and because of this, when he first divided his apprentices, he would be willing to be Ah Song's master.
On the other side, the young man next to the waterhole looked up at the sky, and in his eyes, he clearly saw that Yuehua was captured and dragged under the cliff.
"It seems that the guests are here, looking at the refinement level of this Yuehua, is it Ji Mang of the Frost Descending Sect? But this Yuehua is more than condensed, but he is too stingy, is he a disciple of the Frost Descending Sect's Downhill Qingshuang Sect?
"Well, it looks like I'm going to have to hurry up too."
One last time he checked the flags by the waterhole, and if it was daylight, he would have found that the small flags were as black as ink.
"Old turtle, I know you can hear me, my yin and yang formation has been laid down, you better go with me obediently, lest you break this place when the time comes, it can be regarded as a place where the three qi converge."
After a while, there was a bubble on the water surface in the middle of the pool, and an oval object appeared faintly, and when the water surface was calm, it was found to be a large old turtle like a water tank.
"The young man of the Yin and Yang family, I have watched you lay down this formation with my own eyes, these array flags are all Yin flags, lonely Yin is not born, even if the Yang Flag is still in your hands, but this realm has been impregnated by the three qi, with me, you can no longer lay the Yang Flag, so your Yin and Yang Formation is a dead formation from the beginning of your formation, even if you are prepared, know my bottom line, what can you do to me?"
The young man chuckled lightly, took out a stack of array flags from his sleeve that emitted yellow light even in the dark night, but threw them behind him.
"Your three qi are the water qi of this ancient pool, and the wood qi accumulated in this mountain for hundreds of years, and the earth qi that you have collected for hundreds of miles, devouring countless blood and human lives, the three qi are born together, the first two are peaceful, and the latter is violent and abnormal, although they are born when the first two air circulates, they also fight with each other, and the yang qi gradually grows in a hundred years, and you hide it in this place where the water qi is the most abundant, my yang array, it comes from here!"
As soon as the words fell, the young man of the Yin and Yang family took out a talisman sword, quickly cut his fingertips to take blood, and began to sketch on the shore.
"Old cat...... You said we wouldn't be living hell, would Wang Ba stand up and beat people when he spoke? ”
The elder rolled his eyes and said casually, "I don't have a long experience, that's a turtle demon." ”
"Isn't the demon clan on the side of South Vietnam, why did they run to the Central Plains?"
"Why did I pick such a stupid apprentice as you, do you think about it, is there a demon clan on the other side of the 100,000 mountains, there are more exiles over there, so why is there no demon clan in the Central Plains?"
Ah Song nodded, feeling that what the old cat said made sense, and continued to ask, "Then what should we do?" ”
The elder laughed, his eyes shining like a night owl.
"Wait and see what happens, and reap the benefits of the fisherman."