"I know this kind of youkai."

Zhang Yushi looked behind him coldly, and said to the military attache attendants and Taoists around him: "This kind of monster has rough skin and thick meat, it can't be beaten, it can't be killed, it's difficult to deal with, but in fact, it doesn't have much ability." It likes to attack in the middle of the night when people are asleep, if people don't sleep, just wait for people to fall asleep next to them, don't look at it now harmless to humans and animals, sometimes people take a nap, it will come to you. ”

Hearing this, the two military attachés asked, "Do you want us to drive it away?" ”

"I'm afraid you won't be able to deal with it now." Zhang Yushi shook his head and said, "Night is the time when its mana is the strongest, don't worry, as long as you don't sleep." Naturally, I have a way to deal with it. ”

When the two attendants heard this, they relaxed a little, but they did not let down their vigilance, nor did they leave their swords and bows and arrows, and they still tensed their minds and stared at the fire in silence.

The three-flowered cat beside the Taoist turned his head and glanced at Song You, then at a few people beside the fire, and finally at the monster on the periphery of the fire, and when he was about to stand up, the Taoist's hand pressed her back again, gently stroked her back and pressed her back into place, and then stroked her back without saying a word.

"Meow?"

The cat couldn't help but be a little puzzled, and turned her head to look at him, her swollen face was very funny.

The Taoist just smiled and didn't speak.

He was eager to see how this imperial historian got rid of demons.

Zhang Yushi didn't speak again.

Several people did not sleep.

The monster looked up at them from time to time, and seemed to gradually become a little restless, and straightened up its upper body from the ground several times, looking at them, as if its patience had reached the limit, but when it saw the two military attachés and Zhang Yushi, who were full of blood and righteousness, and the weapons on their waists, they lay down again.

The night slowly deepened.

A few people still didn't sleep.

On the contrary, the cat sat on the spot and began to doze, its swollen head lowered deeply, little by little, from time to time it was unstable, almost fell, and sat upright again, and the monster lying on the periphery of the fire was already sleepy, and its eyes began to narrow continuously.

I guess I'm running out of patience with youkai.

At this moment, Zhang Yushi picked up a pine cone in the fire with a wooden branch and flicked it in the direction of the monster.

"Brush ......"

The pine cone flew out suddenly.

The youkai was squinting and napping, and it didn't seem to be a clever and clever monster, and without noticing, the pine cone fell straight into its arms, just in its pocket.

It was really a monster with rough skin and thick flesh, and the red-hot pine cone fell into its arms, and it didn't even notice it at all for a while, but it noticed some movement, and felt a little strange, opened its eyes, and looked at a few people sitting by the fire, and saw that a few people were still not sleeping, scratched their heads, and closed their eyes again.

The pine cone burned slowly in its arms, gradually emitting smoke.

Everyone and the three-flowered cat all turned their heads to look at the monster.

Zhang Yushi had an unexpected expression, the two military attachés and attendants widened their eyes, and Song You also smiled, as if he thought it was funny.

After a while, a dull roar appeared in the mountains.

"Whew!"

The monster jumped up suddenly, flapped wildly on its chest, and dropped an unknown number of sparks like rain.

At this time, its chest was already full of green smoke, emitting a strange woody fragrance.

Zhang Yushi spoke: "We won't sleep anymore, with your ability, there is no way to take us, let's leave quickly, don't ask for yourself!" ”

The youkai jumped and left.

Zhang Yushi looked at it coldly, until its figure disappeared, and finally withdrew his gaze, snorted coldly, and continued to add firewood to the fire.

The smile on Song You's face was a little more.

Seeing the other party's origin at a glance, knowing the other party's character and intentions, slowly wearing out its patience, picking the best time, a pine cone, in a word, will drive it away.

It is worthy of being an embroidered general.

At this time, it was about five o'clock.

The fog in the mountains is very heavy.

Zhang Yushi and the two military attache attendants still didn't dare to sleep, but Song You had already leaned his back back, leaned on his bag, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he only said: "Yushi is really good, since the monsters have been driven away, I see that there will be no more monsters in the future, so I will sleep first, and I have to hurry tomorrow." ”

"Sir, please sleep, I'll keep a good vigil later."

Although everyone said this, they couldn't help but look at him.

There are not many people who can still fall asleep in this place, I thought that this Taoist said that he wanted to sleep, that is, to take a nap for a while, or wanted to sleep but couldn't sleep, but after a while, they heard the sound of the Taoist's even breathing, and the rise and fall of his chest also showed that he had fallen asleep.

It's really about sleeping.

On the contrary, the cat beside him kept her eyes open, sometimes looking at Zhang Yushi, sometimes looking at the two military attachés, and sometimes looking at the deep night on all sides-obviously she was still drowsy just now, but after the Taoist lay down and fell asleep, she became energetic, as if she wanted to stand guard for the Taoist.

The east side slowly began to light up.

When the sky was dark, a swallow fluttered its wings and landed on the horse's back, and the cat turned its head to look at each other for a moment, and then the cat fell asleep, but the swallow stood on the horse's back, combing its feathers from time to time, and turned its head to look around with a pair of small black eyes.

It's like a rotation.

Zhang Yushi looked strange, and also beckoned the two military attachés to make up for sleep at dawn.

When the day dawned, the Taoists woke up, and they woke up too.

I saw Zhang Yushi draw out his sword, hold a torch, and walk into the mountains and forests with two military attaché attendants, as if searching for something.

Finally, under the leadership of the cat, they found an ancient tree about a mile away from the camping place last night, there were several holes in the top of the ancient tree, which looked like human facial features, and there was a charred black mark below that seemed to have been burned by fire, and the trace was still very new, faintly revealing a strange woody fragrance.

At this time, the swelling on the cat's face had subsided, revealing its true face, and they were amazed that this cat was so beautiful.

Immediately, Zhang Yushi did not hesitate, and ordered his two subordinates to collect pine cones, light them on the spot, and when they burned red, they all stuffed them into the big hole like a mouth in the ancient tree.

For a moment, the branches of the ancient trees swayed, and there was a deafening howl.

"Humph......"

Zhang Yushi still snorted coldly, watching the tree being burned by the fire, and only turned around for a long time before he saluted Song You: "It made Mr. smile......

It seemed that he had seen that with the skills of the person in front of him, these monsters should not be worth mentioning.

"Where, where." Song You also returned the salute, "Yushi uses the power of mortals to easily eliminate demons and evils, and it is almost effortless, so that I can grow up to have knowledge." ”

"Sir, do you want to go on?"

"Nature."

So he went back to pack his things, and went into the mountains along the old road, taking the same path that had been walked by 40,000 expeditionary troops.

The further you go into the mountains, the cooler it gets.

The horses also walked more and more slowly.

When I walked deep into the mountains, it was the height of summer, and the height was far from the snow line of the mountain, but it was strangely snowing in the air, and the ground was covered with hoarfrost to a thick layer of snow.

"It's just ahead."

Zhang Yushi said to Song You.

Song You didn't answer, and walked forward with a cane.

Climbing over a small hill, a world of ice and snow suddenly became in front of you.

The summer snow and dark clouds overhead made the sky extremely cloudy, and what should have been a lake in front of it turned into a Xiaoice river, with thick ice on the ground and icicles growing. There is also a long marching procession next to the glacier, some on horseback, some on foot, some driving carriages, or escorting heavy grain and grass, or carrying rare treasures, but all of them have turned into ice sculptures, frozen in the last moment of life, lifelike, and even the expression has been retained.

40,000 troops, buried here.

Some looked puzzled, completely unaware of what was happening, and their lives were frozen, while others sensed something, with a frightened face, and 40,000 corpses constituted the ice sculpture purgatory in this mountain.

No wonder the envoys sent by the palace were scared half to death.

"Mr. ......"

Zhang Yushi turned his head to look at the Taoist.

But seeing that the Taoist was not afraid at all, he only walked forward with a bamboo cane.

Walking into this ice sculpture purgatory, I found that it was not only the soldiers who were frozen here, but also some people from the Western Regions. It can be seen from their frozen movements that most of them came later, and they should have heard that this army had looted the treasures of the entire country of Weilan, and they were frozen here by the monsters, so they became greedy and wanted to search, but as soon as their hands touched those treasure chests, they also turned into ice sculptures and stayed here, merging with this army and the treasures they carried.

Song You raised his bamboo cane and pointed to a treasure chest.

"Sir!"

Zhang Yushi, who was behind him, immediately shouted.

"It doesn't matter."

Song You stopped his movements and said a word to him, then he continued to stretch out his bamboo cane, opened the lock of a treasure chest, and opened the treasure chest again.

Zhang Yushi's heart has already risen to his throat.

Yet nothing happened.

Song You opened several treasure chests in a row and checked the treasures inside-

Sure enough, there were many gold, silver, pearls, and jade.

But there are only gold, silver, pearls, and jade.

As for the rare treasures in Zhang Yushi's mouth, Song You didn't see them either, but there were some small boxes that were packed in large boxes, and it seemed that the things in them were higher than the treatment of gold, silver, pearls and jade, but these small boxes were already empty, as if they had been taken away by someone.

"The demon must have taken it!" Zhang Yushi said in a deep voice, "This demon is quite picky!" ”

"Maybe."

Song You's expression was very calm, and he continued to walk forward, turning his head as he went, and looking at these faces from more than a hundred years ago one by one.

The three-flowered cat kept jumping on the board, looking at the gold, silver, pearls and jade in these boxes, his eyes were almost unable to move, and because of the presence of outsiders, he had to turn his head and meow at the Taoist, but the Taoist did not listen.

"Although this army is quite brutal, even if it is a capital crime of killing the head, it should be dealt with by my Dayan court after returning to the court, how can you allow the monsters to be slaughtered wantonly?" Zhang Yushi shook his head behind him and said, "If the punishment is lowered because of the atrocities of the army slaughtering the city, it will be enough to kill it, but people can't die on the ground, so many soldiers died here, but this demon refused to give them rest, but froze them to this point, exposing their corpses for hundreds of years, but it was a little excessive." ”

Zhang Yushi's tone was more helpless and sighing: "The official doesn't think about how to take revenge on this demon, he just thinks about when these soldiers will be able to rest in peace......"

Song You pursed his lips.

That's it.

(End of chapter)