Torrential rain continued to fall, and endless raindrops formed a rain mist that enveloped the earth, and muddy water splashed on the muddy underworld.

An army of 50,000 followed, following the goddess and the Rakshasa ghost who led the way, all the way north on the muddy underworld.

The stagnant water and mud made their march a little slow, even if they were desperately fast.

"General, according to the map, if we continue to march rapidly, we will be able to reach the mountain of Qiyi in a day at most. Hu Hui stepped forward and walked side by side with the goddess who was still vigilant, and then looked up at the raindrops flying overhead, and said: "But it seems that this rain will not stop for a while and a half, and maybe we need a longer time." ”。

Speaking of this, Hu Hui looked back at the soldiers who were following closely behind him, not leaving a single step.

Through the rain curtain, you can vaguely see the fatigue of the sergeants.

From this morning to now, noon has passed, they have been marching for several hours, and it is raining again, and the sergeants need to rest.

Naturally, the goddess also knew, so she called the Rakshasa ghost, who had been in front, and said, "Lord Commander, my sergeant needs a place to rest. Is there a place around here where I can fetch water, replenish it, and make a fire for cooking?"

Since there were her own people to greet her, and the torrential rain continued, she felt that it was better to let the sergeants rest and recuperate, and then invite them in.

"Not far ahead, there is a mountain. There is a pass at the mouth of the valley, and there is a well in the barracks of the pass. The county lieutenant had already made arrangements, and when he came to the side of the goddess, he said, "If the general wants to take a short rest, he can follow me to that pass." ”。

After that, he continued to walk side by side with the goddess of Gu Shot, waiting for the other party's reply.

After Hu Hui thought about it, he remembered that the map did mark that the other party had a pass, and nodded to the goddess.

It is better for a large army to be stationed in the pass than to go to the town and disturb the people.

What's more, the actions of their army are temporarily secret, and the reason for this is that the military facilities under construction in the destinations they are going to are also temporarily secret.

In such a situation, it is better not to swagger through the town, let alone stay in it. So as not to attract the attention of his ghost, but also to reveal the purpose of the trip.

And if the army only enters the pass or the barracks, it seems that in the eyes of the ghosts who don't know the truth, it seems that it is just a change of defense.

The goddess didn't think much about it, nodded her head in response, and said to the county lieutenant, "Okay, then there will be Lord Lao County Lieutenant to guide the way." ”。

The torrential rain continued, the wind tightened, the yin air around was overflowing, and the chill was increasing.

The nodding Rakshasa ghost rushed forward, sent two more cavalrymen to take the first step, and after informing the guards of the pass, he asked the entourage to send a message to the king of Yama, and at the same time led the army towards the nearby pass.

And Hu Hui in the back had already said to the fungus man who was hiding under his collar and sitting on his shoulder: "Spread the word to King Yama that the army will be stationed in Taishan Pass." At the same time, he sent a message to the lord or Lord Chunyun, telling them that we were about to enter Taishan, and because of the rain, we asked for a few hours to rest. ”。

The fungus man probed out of it, and after listening to Hu Hui's words, he concentrated his breath and spread the news......

The heavy rain in Dongyingzhou continued, and the sky was clear near Shizhu City.

There was not the slightest dampness in the air, but it was full of heat and dryness.

The warm overcast light shone on the surface of the lake outside the city, and the surface of the lake sparkled.

There is also a lake breeze by the lake, but it is still a little cool.

Xiao Shizhu's car is now parked under the official road on the shore of the lake in the south, next to the lake.

Xiao Shizhu in the car ate some dry food and got out of the car, stood by the lake, faced the sparkling lake, and weighed the stones in his hand.

After sitting in the car for a long time, he has a back ache.

And at this moment, he was staring at the north, the north shore of this lake, where he almost lost his life. For this reason, the angry Xiao Shizhu was still here, slaughtering the Water Tiger Clan, and killing them directly to the extinction of the clan.

Now whether it is the Nine Ghost Country, when other historians of the Ghost Kingdom record and evaluate this matter, their evaluation of Xiao Shizhu is nothing more than derogatory terms such as tyrant and murder.

However, Xiao Shizhu didn't care, he knew that leading a ghost country could be close to the people and kind, but he would definitely be fierce to the enemy.

It is better to have blood on your hands than to protect your people.

A tyrant is a tyrant, and Xiao Shizhu doesn't matter.

Now he simply stopped to rest for a while, and his eyes were only the beautiful scenery in the lake.

At the same time, staying again can also allow the sergeant and Qinglan, who are responsible for driving the car for him, to rest and rest.

The edge of the blue wave is dripping with green seas. The deep reeds are deep, the cranes are dancing and the gulls are singing, and the birds are gathering.

From time to time, a few fishermen singing softly on their rows sailed between the reeds and threw their nets onto the lake among the reeds.

Xiao Shizhu took the stone in his hand, turned his head to look at the black monkey who had already picked the stone from the ground, and asked, "Are you ready?"

The black monkey nodded, stood up, hurriedly raised his arm, and shot the stone in his hand out of the open water among the reeds in front of him.

The pebbles swirled continuously, and the wind was born again and again, and at the same time they rose and fell, sometimes dotting the water and sometimes jumping, and after a blink of an eye, the pebbles clicked five or six times on the water surface, and after flying out of two or three zhang, they finally fell into the water with a plopping sound.

Pebbles fall into the water, and splashes rise. On the surface of the lake where the stones passed, there were ripples echoing.

After Xiao Shizhu taught him the black monkey to play in the water, the black monkey had a strong interest in it.

"There is progress. Xiao Shizhu looked at the ripples of the road where the black monkey stone fell into the water, praised it, and stopped the action of breaking the stone, pinched the stone in his hand with his thumb and middle finger, and pressed his index finger against the edge of the stone behind him.

Then he raised his hand and threw the stone out.

Unlike the black monkey's stones, which were thrown out by brute force, Xiao Shizhu's stones rotated more rapidly, and the wind was fierce everywhere he passed, so that the water surface of the place where he passed was suddenly wrinkled, and the reeds on both sides were crooked.

And the more it turned, the more it turned, the strong wind it brought up was like a blade, and it was easy to cut off some small reed branches and leaves one by one.

The stones were thrown again and again, although they were also ups and downs, but the span was not small.

The pebbles flew eight or nine times on the surface of the lake, and flew straight out of a distance of four or five zhang before falling into the water under the lake, sinking and not helping up.

The black monkey was stunned in place, and after a while, he was so angry that he stomped his foot and turned his head, and snorted unconvinced.

His black monkey's mind is only the mind of a three- or four-year-old ghost, and naturally he can't get rid of the temper of a child's ghost.

Xiao Shizhu still didn't let him, which made the black monkey angry for a while.

If there is no accident, he may not be willing to deal with Xiao Shizhu for an hour or two, and he will be angry.

"Let's go, get in the car. ”

After playing and playing, Xiao Shizhu saw that the sergeant and Qinglan, as well as the beast soul pulling the cart, had also eaten and drunk, rubbed the black monkey's long-haired and black-haired head, and walked towards the car.

The black monkey was still unconvinced in his eyes, but he still kept following with his feet.

"My lord. Seeing that there were no outsiders around at this time, the forbidden army who was driving the car did not deliberately hide Xiao Shizhu's identity. He greeted Xiao Shizhu and said, "We have been walking the underworld, so the speed will be faster." By this time tomorrow, we'll be able to rush to the edge of Yankong County and Fengdui County. ”。

Xiao Shizhu stood on the side of the car, and after roughly calculating the speed and distance, he nodded.

Qinglan said that there is a construction of Xiancha Port in Yankong County, which has been completed. The same is true in Danshui County. You see if you should transfer to Xiancha from there to Danshui County after arriving in Yankong County. The janissary then asked.

He also thought about Xiao Shizhu, if he was in a hurry, Xiancha was indeed faster than the car he was driving.

Now the Nine Shadows Kingdom has seized a lot of empty mulberry wood, and has begun to build a lot of civilian Xiancha, that is, small Xiancha that is not equipped with artillery and Jiuxiao Mirror.

These small fairy chakras are used to scatter among the people, carrying ghosts to and from various places. It also speeded up the transportation of materials in various places in the Nine Shadows Country.

The priority is to build the Xiancha Port area, which is specially used to dock at Xiancha, which is naturally the area of Chutian County, where the national capital Yuque City is located, as well as the surrounding areas.

Most of these counties have already completed the construction of the Sencha Port and have been put into use after the official opening of the Sencha shipping route.

In this case, Xiao Shizhu can indeed take Xiancha to Danshui County.

However, after thinking about it, he still rejected the proposal of the forbidden army, and said: "Forget it, it's hard to come out of it, let's go on a tour of the mountains and rivers." As for Xiancha, now that the ghost people are experiencing novelties, we won't take a chance with them. ”。

After that, Xiao Shizhu jumped into the car without hesitation, lifted the curtain and got into the carriage. Qinglan and the black monkey also followed.

Xiao Shizhu was just sitting down, and a fungus man in the car said to him: "Lord, I just received the news that Lieutenant Luo has received General Gu and them. However, it was raining continuously, and the army was tired and tired after walking for half a day, so General Gu also asked for the army to go to the nearby Taishan Pass to rest for a few hours. ”。

While the fungus man spoke, the forbidden army disguised as a coachman, also drove the beast soul, pulled the cart out of the lake and came to the underworld again, and continued to drive east.

Xiao Shizhu in the car also took out a rolled-up map from the pile of books in his hand and unfolded it to take a look.

It was a map of Dongyingzhou, and Xiao Shizhu unfolded it on his lap, and after a closer look, he found Mount Tai on the map, and then found Mount Qiyi.

Then he looked at the scale mark in the lower right corner of the map, then measured the distance between the two places with two fingers, and after silently calculating the real distance in his heart, he rolled up the map again, and said to the fungus man: "Let her and the sergeant have a good rest, and if the rain is too heavy, you can go forward again tomorrow." ”。

Xiao Shizhu put away the map and added: "I also told Chunyun that I approved this matter." ”。

The fungus man nodded in response and began to send the message.

"One more thing. Another fungus man opened his mouth and said to Xiao Shizhu: "It's news from Lord Changqin. ”。

After a pause, the fungus man continued to tell Xiao Shizhu the news from Changqin.

It is nothing more than the situation that Changqin encountered in the last few hours of the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom, and before leaving, Hu Qingping handed Changqin a letter to Hu Lan.

Although there were not many things, the fungus man still talked for a while before he finished speaking.

After finishing speaking, the fungus man paused again, and then conveyed Changqin's words: "Lord Changqin, please ask for instructions, do you want to open the letter privately to see what is written in it?"

Xiao Shizhu didn't say anything when he heard this, but leaned forward and backward slightly, reached out and picked up the curtains on the car window, and looked out of the car.

The underworld path they are walking on now is the underworld path that has been paved with slag and stone powder refined from fierce fire oil in the Nine Shadows Kingdom.

It is straight and flat, and it will not be muddy when it rains, it is resistant to high temperatures, and it is durable, and the load-bearing is also good.

Therefore, Xiao Shizhu's carriage ran much faster.

The beautiful scenery on the side of the road flew by before his eyes.

In addition to the ghosting of the Dao, Xiao Shizhu couldn't see some of the scenery outside.

However, he continued to lift the curtains and gaze at the scenery outside the window, but fell into deep thought.

In fact, when he heard the news, Xiao Shizhu had a sense of vigilance, and he couldn't help but cage his heart.

To tell the truth, he didn't believe it from the bottom of his heart, he had always betrayed the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom of the Nine Shadows Country in a cunning and secret way, and giving Changqin a letter would be as simple as it seemed on the surface.

After all, these fox ghosts are not only cunning, but also suspicious, and it is not difficult to see their suspicious fox ghosts from the fact that they tirelessly test Changqin and show that they want to win over Changqin.

Judging from this situation, Xiao Shizhu was also unsure for a while, could this letter be another tireless temptation of the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom?

If it is really the Qingqiu Fox Country, and it is another tireless temptation, then it is better not to open the letter.

If it is a temptation, it can be seen that the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom is waiting for Changqin to spy on the content of the letter privately.

Qingqiu Fox Country must have taken a series of measures, and you can see whether the letter has been opened from the clues on the letter.

Once it is disassembled, Changqin cannot be trusted, and his previous performance will be burned and no longer useful, and it will make the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom wary of the Nine Shadows Kingdom.

In this way, Xiao Shizhu's previous secret arrangement with great effort will fall short after all, and it will not be able to achieve the expected effect.

Thinking about it like this, Xiao Shizhu suddenly felt that opening a letter was an absolutely loss-making business. No matter if the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom was once again tireless in this matter, the Nine Shadows Kingdom could not take any risks because of this.

Xiao Shizhu felt that it was better not to open this letter, and as for the content of it, if you must be curious, there are many other channels to obtain it.

However, it was not easy for Changqin to come to this point, and he had not been given up by the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom to win him over, and Xiao Shizhu could not give the wrong order at this time and make everything fall short.

Xiao Shizhu, who had made up his mind, turned his head to look at the fungus man who was quietly waiting for his order, and said slowly: "Herald Changqin, don't be curious about the content of the letter, and don't open the letter. ”。

The fungus man answered, began to concentrate, and passed on Xiao Shizhu's order.

And Xiao Shizhu immediately removed his gaze from this fungus man, looked at the fungus man named Shenchi, and said: "Pass the order to Lin Cong, so that he can give the order to my country's spies lurking in the Qingqiu Fox Country." All the idle chess Leng Zi who are still dormant in the Qingqiu Fox Country, except for the spies lurking around the Qingqiu Fox King and Hu Qingping, the others can already start to act. The goal is to collect all the intelligence of the Qingqiu Fox Country. And give the front-line general King Yama permission to read and view this information. ”。

Not opening letters is just the beginning, Xiao Shizhu has never been short of continuity, behind a purpose, there are always a variety of more purposes.

Now that the Qingqiu Fox King has shown obvious antipathy, Xiao Shizhu will prepare endless means and start dealing with the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom.

"In addition, tell Lin Cong that the matter over there of the giant ghost should also be hurried, and in addition, he also told Julong, who is still in Dongyingzhou, to let him hurry up and build fortifications. After a pause, Xiao Shizhu ordered again: "Tell Chunhan, who is in charge of recruiting troops in Dongyingzhou, to ask her to pay close attention to the training of recruits." ”。