Chapter 138: Latent
In the darkness, Lusan and more than twenty others advanced in silence, until they could hear the chaotic sound of horses' hooves and the panting of hot breath from their noses.
After a moment of scurrying forward, Lussan stopped again.
Xiao Yunhe made preparations this time, stopped in time, and did not make any more appearances.
Lusan stood at the front of the line, looking ahead, his body stiff and silent.
Xiao Yunhe urged his crotch to dismount and took a few steps forward and walked to Lu Sang's side.
Standing in the same position as Lussan, he understood why Lusan was silent.
Ahead, in the darkness, the sporadic firelight jumped far away, which was particularly eye-catching.
"We're surrounded......" Lu San slowly turned his head to look at Xiao Yunhe, and his deep voice sounded slowly.
The front and back sides have already seen the fire of the barbarians, and although the other side has not yet been seen, it is estimated that it is the same according to the shape in front of him.
Unable to move forward, the route of retreat was also cut off, and it was a dilemma, no wonder Lusanne's voice became so low.
"It's not necessarily that bad, although our retreat was cut off by the barbarians, they shouldn't be coming for us! This should just be a coincidence!" Xiao Yunhe stared at the fire in front of him for a long time, then turned to Lu San and shook his head.
"How?" Lusan asked, as if seeing a glimmer of hope.
"We only have these twenty or so people in total, and the barbarians have thousands of troops, if they are coming at us, where is it necessary to engage in such a big battle? Encircling us on all sides and mobilizing tens of thousands of troops, just to encircle our twenty or so people? Moreover, it is still night, no matter how strong the barbarians are, they will not choose to fight us in the desert at night, right? If we wanted to do it, we would have been solved long before dark, and we, the twenty or so people, the barbarians, could wipe us out with a single charge, so it wouldn't take so much trouble!" Xiao Yunhe analyzed.
"What do you mean...... Makes sense...... They...... I shouldn't have noticed our ......," Lusan nodded, his face softening slightly.
"But even so, we may not be much better!" As soon as he comforted Lu Sang, Xiao Yunhe began to pour cold water again, "Even if it wasn't intentional, in fact, we were surrounded by an army of barbarians. It's good to say that once it's dawn, the barbarians will definitely have to do something. We weren't very far apart, and there was no shelter to hide in, so they could easily spot us after dawn. Once they found out, we ......"
Xiao Yunhe didn't finish his words, but anyone could understand what was next.
The two sides were originally an undying feud, once Lu San and the others were discovered, where would the barbarians be polite to them?
Isolated behind enemy lines, and the strength is very different, after dawn, waiting for Lu San and Xiao Yunhe, there is only one ending.
"We must take advantage of the darkness to break out! This is our only way to live! Moreover, we must also report the information we have obtained to the general! It doesn't matter if we die, but the information must be sent!" Thinking about his situation, Lusan made a decision.
"But even at night, the barbarians are very vigilant. Although there are not many of us in the twenty or so, it is not easy for them to penetrate through the middle of their tents and not be discovered by them......" Seeing the fires in front of him, Lusan made another difficulty.
"Yunhe, do you have any ideas?" Lu San turned to Xiao Yunhe for help.
"We have to go and see the specific situation of the barbarians first, so we can figure out a way!" Xiao Yunhe didn't have any good ideas, so he could only say so.
"Well, we'll just have to take the risk and give it a try!" Lusan also knew that this was the truth, and dismounted with a wry smile.
"Yunhe, big cow, you two come down!" Lusan shouted.
Xiao Yunhe and Da Niu jumped down one after another, Xiao Yunhe already knew what Lu San was going to do, only Da Niu still looked ignorant, and walked over with a foolish look, looking at Lu San at a loss.
"Yunhe, Da Niu, we are going to go to the barbarian camp in front of us to have a closer look, you two, would you like to go with me?" asked Lussan.
Of course, Xiao Yunhe had no objections, and Da Niu was also a master who didn't know what he was afraid of, so he nodded heavily.
"All right, just take off everything and bring a short knife!" Lusan commanded, untying a rucksack from his back.
The three of them moved quickly, and after cleaning up, Lusan gave a few more commands to the remaining people, and then bent his waist and walked lightly to the front.
"Brother Lu, don't you ride over?" Da Niu asked.
The fire in the distance looks very eye-catching, but the distance in between is not short, and if there is a horse that does not ride, it has to walk, and the big bull is a little confused.
"The horseback is too loud for us to risk it!" Lusan shook his head and walked in front.
Xiao Yunhe walked behind and briefly told him the truth by sticking to Da Niu's ear.
After hearing this, Da Niu glared: "Then what else is there to check? I will take two brothers to the front and put two fires, and when the barbarians are in chaos, Brother Lu, you will ride away from the other side, won't that be the end?
"Nonsense! If things are as simple as you say, will we still use them here for ten years?, and honestly shut your mouth, and stay with me honestly!" said Lusan angrily.
If it weren't for the fact that Da Niu's strength was second only to himself and Xiao Yunhe among the soldiers, Lu Sang would not have brought this stunned guy here.
Now, Lusan began to regret his decision to hire people.
Xiao Yunhe started a round on the side: "Brother Lu, don't be angry, what Brother Da Niu said is actually not a good way! It's just that we don't know the situation of the barbarians yet, after the investigation, discuss the specific steps, maybe we really want to follow Brother Da Niu's idea!"
"Silence! We're getting closer!" Lusan let out a soft "shh
Xiao Yunhe and Da Niu behind him also followed to the ground, and in front, they could already feel the heat transmitted by the firelight.
Hidden in a pile of dead bushes, Lusan cautiously poked his head out and carefully observed the situation ahead.
Xiao Yunhe and Da Niu poked their heads out from both sides of Lu Sang's body, one left and one right, and also looked ahead.
The fire in front was blazing, and a bonfire was burning right in front, and there were still forty or fifty meters away, but the night wind had already blown the air flow and temperature of the flames, and it was blowing on the faces of Xiao Yunhe and the three of them along the direction of the wind.
"There are guarded sentinels patrolling back and forth on the perimeter, and it is not easy to ...... if you want to enter," Xiao Yunhe said in a low voice.
"Let's go, let's go in a different direction!" Lusan waved his hand and sneaked to the right.
The two of them still followed behind, but this time the posture was a little indecent, the distance was too close, and there was no too high shelter to hide, Xiao Yunhe and the three of them could only crawl on the ground, like lizards, crawling parallel on the ground.
They crawled along the perimeter of the barbarian camp for a long time, and none of the three of them found a flaw in the loose defense to enter it.
"These barbarians are not too tired! We have all climbed so far that it is as if we have not moved! These barbarian sentinels are distributed at the same distance, and if you want to go in, you can't get around at all!" Da Niu said indignantly.
"Actually...... I have a way to get in......" Stopped, Xiao Yunhe hesitated.
"What way?" asked Lusan urgently.
"This way, I can only go in alone......" Xiao Yunhe continued.
"No! It's been less than a month since you joined, and you haven't received any training, aren't you looking for death when you go in?" Lusan flatly vetoed.
"Brother Lu, although I have not received special training, but with my ability, I am confident that I will not be discovered by those barbarians! It is almost midnight now, and if we delay for one more minute, we will have one less chance to escape! There is no time to delay any longer, believe me, I can do it!" Xiao Yunhe said.
"That's not going to work! I can't let you, a new soldier, just send you to death! You say you can do it, do you really do it? The barbarians are very vigilant, and they are trained by grazing and guarding against wild wolves every day! Even if you don't alarm these sentinels, you won't be able to hide your whereabouts when you go inside! Isn't it for nothing to send you in?" Lusan still did not waver.
"That's it, Brother Yunhe, it's too dangerous for you to go alone! Let's climb forward again, I don't believe that these barbarians are so loyal to their duties, and they can always find one or two lazy and slippery! When the time comes, the three of us will go in together, and we will take care of you, then it will be safe!" Da Niu also said on the side.
"Brother Da Niu, let me ask you, can you guarantee that there must be this kind of lax sentinel you said in front?" Xiao Yunhe's gaze turned to Da Niu.
"I ......" Da Niu was speechless, this kind of thing, I didn't see it, how could I make a guarantee?
"Brother Lu, what time is it now? We really don't have time to delay! We not only have to investigate the enemy's situation, but also formulate a strategy for breaking through the siege based on intelligence, and we also have to carry out the breakthrough before dawn! Time is pressing, where can we think about so much? I am also a member of the Left Guard, I know very well what I am doing! Please believe me, I will not let you down!" Xiao Yunhe looked at Lu Sang face to face, pursed his lips and said.
Looking at Xiao Yunhe's determined eyes steadily, Lu San was silent.
"What's your method?" asked Lusan after a moment.
"That's related to a technique I practiced, I can't explain it clearly now, but don't worry, I don't dare to say it when I go inside, but sneaking in from here, I can guarantee that it won't alarm anyone!" Xiao Yunhe said confidently.
"How sure are you?" asked Lussan.
"I'm not sure! None of us can grasp the development of things until it happens! But I promise, I will do my best to do it! This is my own life, I will not joke about this!" Xiao Yunhe said categorically.
Lusan lowered his head, hesitating.
"Brother Lu, we don't have time!" Xiao Yunhe urged anxiously.
"Okay! I promise you!" Lusan looked up and nodded.
"Brother Lu, don't worry! I will definitely work hard to complete the task!" Xiao Yunhe said this, and turned around to act.
"You wait a minute!" Lu Sang grabbed Xiao Yunhe, looked into his eyes and said to Xiao Yunhe, "Be careful! If something happens, send a signal immediately! We will rush in to save you immediately! Remember, in the Left Guard, no one will abandon their brothers!"
"I understand!Brother Lu, Da Niu, take care!" Xiao Yunhe nodded, turned around, and crawled forward.
Xiao Yunhe climbed to the front, and behind him, Lu Sang and Da Niu were lying in the grass and looking at him nervously.
Xiao Yunhe climbed more and more, and when he was less than twenty meters away from the barbarian sentry, Xiao Yunhe stopped.
Then, under the unblinking gaze of Da Niu and Lu Sang's eyes, Xiao Yunhe's prostrate figure suddenly disappeared.
Da Niu rubbed his eyes vigorously, and then looked ahead, but Xiao Yunhe was still missing.
"This kid...... Why is it all of a sudden? Could it be that he went underground? I didn't expect the Yunhe brothers to have this ability. No wonder he said that he could only let him go in alone, my Da Niu doesn't have the magical powers of the land lord......" Da Niu's eyes widened, but he couldn't believe what he saw just now.
"The body of the crane is ...... Sure enough, there are a lot of secrets......" Lussan muttered.
In the eyes of Da Niu and Lu Sang, an incomparably magical scene is actually a very simple and ordinary thing for Xiao Yunhe.
In addition to the Regency Technique, Xiao Yunhe also cultivated the Dragon Divine Fire Transformation that Xu Ruigu had passed on to him.
The Regency technique improved his physical strength and gave Xiao Yunhe a lot of unexpected benefits, but in actual combat, Xiao Yunhe used more of the Dragon Divine Fire Transformation from his mother Xu Jinyao.
Regency is just like its name, Regency is not like other exercises, pure martial arts, with the purpose of enhancing one's own strength and killing enemies. Instead, as Su Liusha said, cultivating oneself, realizing the Great Dao, and improving Xiao Yunhe's physical strength are just by-products of it.
And the Dragon Divine Fire Transformation that Xu Jinyao left to Xiao Yunhe is a pure martial arts technique. In the cultivation of Yuan Li and the use of power, it is more practical.
The dragon god fire change, just like its name, is the fire, is the fire element in the body, but the most important thing is the word "change".
All things are born, except for water and some other things, most objects can be incinerated. In other words, they can all be turned into flames.
"Divine Fire Change", that is, if you cultivate to a high depth, you can become fire, and fire can also become you, coming and going freely and unpredictable in the fire, then it can be regarded as practicing at home.
Xiao Yunhe is still only in the initial stage, and what he can do is to simply hide his whereabouts under conditions similar to the current one. He was not yet able to turn himself into fire, and what he was able to achieve now was limited to hiding his tracks for a short time with the help of external conditions such as the surrounding light and the characteristics of the terrain.
At this level, a martial arts master can see through it at a glance, but with these ordinary barbarian soldiers in front of him, Xiao Yunhe is still very confident that he can hide it.
Sure enough, Xiao Yunhe smoothly cleared the barbarian cordon, until he appeared inside the barbarian barracks, and the Shao soldiers behind him were still patrolling back and forth as if nothing had happened, not noticing that Xiao Yunhe had slipped in from their side.
With a little peace of mind, Xiao Yunhe carefully looked at the barbarian barracks in front of him, but was surprised to find that he did not see the imaginary scene of groups of barbarian soldiers patrolling back and forth.
"Could it be that you are so lucky? Just choose a place and go to the weakest place of the barbarians' defense? Or are the barbarians just imaginary, and there are not many troops inside?"
It was a good thing that the enemy's vigilance force was small, but looking at the seemingly calm scene in front of him, Xiao Yunhe felt a little uneasy.
It's too quiet, and often, inside, it's more likely to hide a more sinister undercurrent.
But since he had already sneaked in, Xiao Yunhe knew that he didn't have much time, so he glanced around again, and then cautiously moved forward.
As soon as he had advanced less than ten meters, Xiao Yunhe stopped again.
He suddenly felt as if a gaze was about to sweep over him.
Xiao Yunhe immediately held his breath and concentrated on it, hiding his figure, not daring to move.
When he felt that the gaze had left, Xiao Yunhe slowly poked his head out.
It was already far away from the bonfire, and in the faint light of the fire, I could already see the surrounding qiē clearly.
Xiao Yunhe carefully released his spiritual sense, and probed the surroundings radioactively.
There are masters!
Suddenly feeling a powerful aura in front of him, Xiao Yunhe immediately retracted his perception, and all his body gathered all his breath, while quietly changing positions.
Soon, Xiao Yunhe felt that the gaze just now swept from his original position again.
"It's dangerous, it's dangerous......" waited until that gaze disappeared, Xiao Yunhe came out and rejoiced for himself in his heart.
Although it was only a momentary perception just now, Xiao Yunhe could clearly feel that the powerful aura he sensed was a real master.
Xiao Yunhe is not sure how profound the strength of the other party is, but roughly judging that it is at least several grades higher than Xiao Yunhe, at least it is close to Martial Sect's Cunzài.
Although Xiao Yunhe is not afraid of surpassing his own masters in this way, on the enemy's territory, once his whereabouts are exposed, he will definitely die.
Therefore, Xiao Yunhe can only hide himself better and must not be discovered by the other party.
Fortunately, the Dragon Divine Fire Transformation was really magical, and that gaze did not appear around Xiao Yunhe again.
But Xiao Yunhe didn't dare to move anymore now, the other party's perception seemed to be very keen, as soon as Xiao Yunhe moved, that gaze immediately followed. Although Xiao Yunhe reacted quickly enough not to be discovered by the other party, Xiao Yunhe really didn't dare to try that kind of dangerous experience.