Chapter 293: Gift-giving
His voice was not loud, but the fire was not lively in the first place, so everyone listened.
The first thought that came to Li Bochen's heart was to be indignant-Sui Wuyi's tone was not good, it could be seen that he was not hospitable, could it be that he really misplaced him?
With Sui Wuyi's cultivation, it is not uncommon for people to be aware of it at the entrance of the secret realm.
Li Bochen was about to ask again, but saw a person riding a horse in the distance, it was Zhao Bo, a hundred generals who were on duty at the gate. This man's heart is also small, he came along the river on horseback, and the white sand beach by the river is shorter than the meadow, and now the grass is green, and the villagers are eating meat again, but it has not attracted too many people's attention.
Zhao Bo jumped off the horse, and trotted straight towards Li Bochen, and when he got to his side, he seemed to want to whisper, but everyone around the fire listened, and Li Bochen said: "General Zhao, what's going on outside?"
Only then did Zhao Bo straighten up and gasp, his face palpitating: "Junhou, it's here...... A few things, said to be a gift, want to see you!"
Zhao Bo is not afraid of heaven and earth, but he is not afraid of the sky, but he is not small, and he has no fear of fighting with the demon ** before, but looking at his face now, it seems that the "few things" at the door really shocked him.
Li Bochen's heart was relieved at first—at least not in response. Another sinking - was that sent by the demon beast to declare war? What kind of "gift" was sent?
He said in a deep voice: "To put it bluntly, what is it?
Zhao Bo gasped twice: "It's really hard to say, it's a monster...... It's like a demon beast and a dead man, and it's not a demon beast to attack, there are only three of them—those demon beasts outside are still far away!"
Sui Wuyi sneered: "Wu Weihou, it's better to go and meet guests." ”
Li Bochen thought for a while, and said to the people by the fire: "You stay here, and I will meet them with Duke Sui." If someone asks, just say that the two of us are going to discuss it. ”
Everyone had different expressions, but Li Bochen couldn't care about anything else, got up and said, "General Zhao, take me there." ”
Zhao Bo took the horse and led the two people along the river.
When Zhao Bo came before, some people watched, and when they saw Li Bochen and Sui Wuyi leaving their seats, they looked straight to this side. Li Bochen changed his face to a relaxed look, and said to Sui Wuyi: "Duke Sui, what kind of gift did you say they gave?"
Sui Wuji glanced at him, and then looked at the villagers over there, but he didn't answer his words, and only said, "Wuwei Hou, Ci is not in charge of the army." ”
Li Bochen knew what he said, so he said: "These people are not soldiers. ”
Sui Wuyi smiled, and he didn't know if he was sarcastic: "You don't want to make people worry about this, but you can't make them never see demon beasts for the rest of their lives." The way of the emperor needs to be relaxed, and the benefits are too much, so I can't guarantee that there will be resentment in the future. One day, these people complain that you didn't tell them to live well, what are you going to do?"
Li Bochen was silent for a moment and said, "I have already formed an army that can be used, what can I do with the rest of these old and young women and children." ”
Sui Wuyi paused and said, "At such a juncture, don't you know in your heart?"
Zhao Bo turned his face slightly and glanced over here. Li Bochen sighed lowly: "It's not that step yet." ”
Sui Wuyi smiled and stopped talking. 678
After a while, I saw the entrance to the secret realm from afar. Originally, there were three teams of ten people on duty here, and at this time, they were all unsheathed like facing a great enemy, confronting someone outside the secret realm.
Li Bochen strode over, and Zhao Bo said, "Junhou, they are at the door!"
Needless to say, Li Bochen had already seen it - the sergeant in front of the door saw him coming and parted the road, and Li Bochen saw that there were three things outside the door bathing in the moonlight.
When Zhao Bo called them "things" before, Li Bochen still felt that he was unclear and a little dissatisfied. But now that I see it, I don't know how to describe it.
The three were five or six steps away from the entrance, and the one in the center was quite large, two people tall, but it was not humanoid - the lower body was a mess of rotten meat, with more than a dozen legs of all sizes, looking at the armored beasts, the fire monkeys, and the long right, it seemed to be a piece of dead demon beasts piecemeal fused together, barely having the function of walking and running, and it looked very much like a stiff puppet that had shrunk many times.
The upper body is humanoid, but it doesn't look like a human - there is a head at the top, but half of the brains covered in black blood are turned out, and on the other side there is a hairy scalp growing in. It was clearly a man's scalp, and half a hairpin was hooked in the unfully unbroken bun. Slightly crookedly downward, he squeezed three eyeballs of different sizes and attached them to another piece of skin. A bloody hole was made in the skin, which served as a mouth.
The torso is just a long spine with gnawing marks and fragments of internal organs.
In fact, the middle one is okay, at least he can barely make out the face, and the two next to him can only see what they are moving around, and they don't know where their heads are at all, like a pile of corpses.
Rao has seen a lot of demon beasts, and Li Bochen also gasped, but he felt a little familiar - the first one's distorted and weird appearance was not very similar to Zhu Yi who used the flesh and blood of the demon clan that he met outside the city!
He was so shocked that the thing opened his mouth and said, "Is this the hospitality of the Six Kingdoms? I came to congratulate you on the orders of King Xishan, but why did you stay closed?"
As soon as Li Bochen heard this voice, he felt his scalp tingle, and then felt a surge of anger - not because such a monster spoke in an orderly manner, but because it was actually a boy's voice. Since this monster can melt many people, it should not be difficult to speak and speak, but it is biased to use such a voice, which should be just to make people afraid and frightened, and it is really vicious.
But when it mentioned "Daohe", Li Bochen saw through the moonlight that there were two bloody claws at the junction of its upper and lower bodies, and it was holding something black and painty, which should be gold and stone, and there was still a dull luster at the edges and corners. This should be what they call "etiquette".
Li Bochen wanted to jump out immediately and kill these three monsters, but although this thing was hateful, it should really be on behalf of the "King of Joy and Kindness" as it said. The demon spirit who kidnapped Sui Bu Endless before was "Princess Zhenluo", and the "King of Joy" in the monster's mouth should refer to the demon spirit who led the army this time.
The other party has an overwhelming advantage, but it has sent such a thing, I don't know what the idea is, and now is not the time to be rash. As he was thinking of this, Sui Wuyi said, "Wuwei Hou, what are you going to do?"
Li Bochen had gradually discovered that Sui Wuji had always had some intention of taking the school [Note 1], although he didn't know what his purpose was, but at this time he only gritted his teeth and smiled, and said: "Since the gift has been sent, wouldn't it be contemptuous if you don't accept it?" ”
Drink again: "Wake up, welcome guests!"
Then he turned the earth qi around, and opened a gap at the entrance.
Everyone was holding their breath to prevent the three monsters from rushing in. But the door really opened, but the three didn't move, but they grinned one by one, and I don't know if they were laughing. He made a gesture with the paw holding the black thing, and said, "Which one is Li Bochen?"
Li Bochen held down the hilt of the knife and took two steps forward and shouted: "Don't talk nonsense, what kind of courtesy!?"
The monster handed its claws forward: "General Li, you should be planning to gather Yin Spirits and fight with the king of my family." The king told me to tell the general, and he waited on the top of the mountain, ten miles away. I was also worried that it would be inconvenient for the general to take our clan's Yin Spirits in our army's array, so he sealed a thousand Yin Spirits in this muddy iron and sent me to present them!"
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Note 1: Teacher Meng pointed out that the title of Chapter 44 "Examination of Teaching" should be "Examination of School".