Zhao Laosan said to the demon: "I saw a bounty mission, in the mountains 80 miles away from Yangcheng, there are three Jiangyang thieves who often rob the surrounding households and intercept and kill tourists. The government offered a reward of 200 taels of silver, and the local wealthy raised 600 taels, and the total bounty was 800 taels, which is worth us. ”

The demon has too little social experience, so he asked, "Why doesn't the government arrest it? What are those officials doing?"

Zhao Laosan said: "These fast catchers are all messing around, and they will fly wherever there is oil and water." Fighting with Jiangyang thieves like this, there are things that can cost your life at any time, so you won't take the initiative to do it and hide far away. Unless their immediate superiors consider the future of their careers and take into account the anger of the people, and give death orders to these fast arresters, these quick arresters will do it; Those officials in the government also know about these situations, and it is impossible to ask these masters to do things seriously; it is better to directly issue a reward announcement to be quick and efficient. ”

The demon asked, "Where are you going to find these three thieves?"

Zhao Laosan said: "I have eaten and drunk flowers and wine with those catchers many times, and I learned that someone knows where these thieves live, and I also found this insider." The insider said that as long as he was given 100 taels, he could show us the way. Let's go to the thieves' den and get rid of this thieves' den. “

The demon said, "Is this insider reliable? Don't you be a bait that deliberately lured us there?"

Zhao Laosan replied: "You treat me as a fool! I have already investigated the situation of this insider, and he usually knows very well about his personality and family situation. This insider lives in the mountains, is a woodcutter, has a father and a son, and his wife can't stand the poor life in the mountains and runs away. If the woodcutter wants to get the 100 taels, he can move out of the mountains, buy a few acres of thin fields on the edge of the city, and usually do odd jobs to feed three people, and maybe marry a daughter-in-law. We can take his father and son over and control him for the sake of safety, so that he doesn't dare to play tricks on us. ”

The demon said, "Yes." But we still have to be prepared. ”

Zhao Laosan said: "I will first take this woodcutter's father and son to the inn to live for a few days, and we will give out the money for eating, drinking, and sleeping, at most 5 taels of silver." They can't be brought to where we live, and we can't bring them to our place until we've solved them. I'll let you know when I'm done. ”

The demon nodded.

The demon, Zhao Laosan and the woodcutter set off, and went to the woodcutter's place in the afternoon, rested until the evening, and headed to the residence of the three thieves under the guidance of the woodcutter. At 4 a.m. on the second day, the woodcutter said: "There is a cave in the cliff 10 meters high 200 meters ahead, and the thieves live in it, there may be more than three. ”

The demon said, "It's not yet dawn, and I can't see that far." Let's choose a place with a good view and easy to hide, and wait until dawn to observe before deciding how to do it. ”

The woodcutter replied, "This is the place where the cave has the best view and the easiest place to hide." Descending 80 meters down this slope is the only way for people living in caves to get out of the mountain. ”

Zhao Laosan said: "Then let's all rest." Take turns waiting for dawn. ”

When the day dawned, as the woodcutter said, there was a cave on a 10-meter-high cliff 200 meters away, and outside the cave was a 60-degree oblique wave, full of stones, only a few knee-high grasses. The entrance to the cave is 3 meters wide and 4 meters high, and there are no trees or shrubs within 100 meters of the entrance, almost all of which are stones of various sizes. The location of the demon 3 is indeed the best place to look out and hide.

The demon thought to himself: "Without the locals to lead the way, it would be impossible for me and Zhao Laosan to find this cave entrance, and it would be impossible for me to find such a good hiding place." The book says: The time and place are favorable. In order to do everything, you must find a local person who is familiar with the local geography and terrain to lead the way, so as to obtain the geographical advantage. ”

Zhao Laosan asked the woodcutter: "How deep is this hole?"

The woodcutter replied: "Not deep, 20 meters at most." ”

Zhao Laosan asked, "Is there a branch hole?"

The woodcutter replied, "No." “

Zhao Laosan asked: "You say: What do you mean by more than 3 people?"

The woodcutter replied, "Three times, I saw three people entering and exiting the cave at the same time, and once I saw four people entering and exiting the hole at the same time." ”

Zhao Laosan said, "You haven't been in?"

The woodcutter replied, "I've been in before." I haven't been in this cave since the robbers came to the cave, and these robbers are murderous. ”

Zhao Laosan said: "Demon, it's up to you." ”

The demon knew what Zhao Laosan meant.

Due to the distance of 200 meters, the demon and Rhubarb couldn't open telepathy, so they said to Rhubarb: "You go into that cave to investigate, how many people are there?"

Five minutes later, Rhubarb came back and said to the demon, "There are 5 people." ”

The demon stretched out 5 fingers to Zhao Laosan, and Zhao Laosan immediately understood in seconds, because he didn't want others to know that he had 2 spirit birds, which Zhao Laosan repeatedly emphasized.

Zhao Laosan said: "We can't attack, so we take turns to observe, and the rest continue to rest." Until the robbers come out of the cave, we will decide what to do. ”

At 10 o'clock, five men came out of the cave one after another, and then went down the slope made of stones to the bottom of the cliff, and walked far along the foot of the mountain.

Zhao Laosan asked the woodcutter: "These robbers must have gone out of the mountains to find work again." When do you think these robbers will return?"

The woodcutter replied, "I don't know." I can only estimate that it will take 1 hour for the robbers to return here from where they are now. ”

Zhao Laosan said to the woodcutter: "Time is enough. You just wait and see, and if the robbers return, or if something unusual happens, send a signal to me standing at the entrance of the cave. Demon, go into the cave and investigate, pay attention to the traps, traps, etc., and I will meet you at the entrance of the cave. After you have checked, you can install traps and traps in the hole, remember the location, and don't step on it yourself.

The demon entered the cave and found that this hole was a very wide single hole, and the sunlight could shine all the way to the bottom of the hole, and he could basically see the situation in the cave clearly. The demon still carefully checked whether there were traps or traps in the cave, and spent an hour, but did not find a trap or trap, and finally found a locked chest in a recess in the stone wall.

The demon saw from the eyes of his second-level forger that this box was an ordinary alloy box, and it was easy to open.

The demon did not touch the box, but placed a trap in each of the five haystacks on the ground. "These 5 haystacks must be where these 5 robbers sleep. As long as these robbers lie on the haystack, hehe. The demon thought to himself.

The demon came out of the cave and told Zhao Laosan what he saw and did.

Zhao Laosan followed the demon into the cave to check.

Zhao Laosan said: "This is too troublesome. These 5 robbers, there are at most 3 quasi-strong people, there are no strong people, there are no weapons that carry heavy and long weapons, they don't dare to knock your spirit hammer hard, you can press them to fight, you can resist 3 at will. We can ambush these 5 robbers with crossbow arrows and hidden weapons on their path, and as long as we wound 2 of them first, we can easily neutralize them. “

The demon thought for a moment: "It's too." Then I'll go into the cave and remove the trap and take the box away?"

Zhao Laosan nodded and entered the cave with the demon and took the box.

Zhao Laosan said: "Even if we don't exterminate these robbers, it's not bad to have the proceeds in the box, and we won't be wronged for walking all night." You have taken all the traps, and we will find an ambush spot to put traps and traps on the way of these robbers. ”

Under the guidance of the woodcutter, the demon and Zhao Laosan found a good place to ambush, put the traps and traps, loaded the crossbow arrows, and laid them flat on the ground with 4 each.

Zhao Laosan said to the woodcutter: "You retreat to the hillside 500 meters away, lest these robbers find you and besiege you." You'd better bring 2 crossbow arrows for self-defense. ”

The demon and Zhao Laosan took turns to watch and take turns to rest.

At around 15 o'clock in the afternoon, the robber appeared in Zhao Laosan's field of vision. Zhao Laosan immediately sent a signal to inform the woodcutter to hide himself, and at the same time woke up the sleeping demon.

Zhao Laosan and the demon immediately got busy and checked the preparations again.

Seeing the 5th robber pass under his nose, the demon and Zhao Laosan immediately changed from lying on their stomachs to a half-squatting type, firing the crossbow arrows in their hands at the backs of the 5 robbers, firing one and throwing it aside, and picking up another one until the crossbow arrows on the 4 crossbows were fired.

The demon picked up the spirit hammer placed on the ground with his right hand, and with his left hand pinched three flying cones, he rushed towards the robber first.

Of the 5 robbers, 2 have been wounded by crossbow arrows, but they are not fatal. The five robbers had already drawn their weapons, and they were lined up in front and back in a long snake formation and rushed towards the demons, which was a fatal mistake made by these five robbers.

The first robber was still 3 meters away from the demon, the demon saw that the robber had crossbow arrows inserted in his body, and knew that the robber had been injured, the demon's left hand sent out 3 flying cones, and then turned around, dodging the robber's attack, and continued to pounce on the second robber without looking back, and the demon knew that Zhao Laosan would make up the knife in the back. The distance was too close, the first robber had already been injured by the crossbow arrow, and his dodge ability was reduced, although this robber saw the demon's hand raised, and knew that it was a hand throwing hidden weapon, and made a dodge action, but the distance was too close, the robber dodged 1 flying cone, and 2 flying cones hit the robber in the face, and one hit the robber's neck. Two holes suddenly appeared on the robber's body, blood splattered out, blood overflowed from the corner of the robber's mouth, and his body slowly sank without obeying the call. The robber braced himself with the knife in his hand and tried to stand, but finally collapsed with a bang.

The demon's left hand took out three flying cones from his waist, and unleashed his violent power to rush towards the nearest robber facing him. The demon saw that the robber was rushing towards him with his knife held high, and judged that the direction of the knife's attack was either forward or oblique, and he squatted down at a distance of 5 meters from the robber. The demon spirit hammer is 88 centimeters long, plus the length of the arm, and the attack range is about 1.5 meters. Because the two sides are hedging, they must calculate the amount in advance, and twist their waists and turn their bodies in advance when the two sides have not yet met. The demon's hammer smashed the robber's thigh, and the bandit's knife slashed 20 centimeters above the demon's head. The robber flew more than 3 meters to the left, fell to the ground and couldn't stand up, his thigh bone was shattered and fractured, and the knife in his hand didn't know where it flew.

The demon didn't bother to check his results, stood up and continued to rush towards the nearest bandit facing him, because he had to take advantage of the defect that it took time for the Long Snake Formation to support his teammates, and he couldn't let these bandits react and form a formation to deal with himself and Zhao Laosan, after all, there were still 3 robbers, and they had an advantage in numbers. The third robber saw his companion flying, and after a moment's pause, he slowed down his sprint, wanting to wait for his companion to come up and deal with the demon together. With such a hesitation, the demon had already rushed to a distance of 8 meters from the robber, and three flying cones were sent out in succession. The robber dodged the first cone sideways, then knocked the second cone with his sword and jumped diagonally to dodge the third.

The demon seized the opportunity of the robber jumping diagonally, unable to relay again, and his dodging ability was reduced, the spirit hammer in his right hand smashed diagonally into the robber's body, and his left hand felt out 3 flying cones from his waist.

The robber couldn't dodge the attack of the spirit hammer, so he had no choice but to use the short sword in his hand to knock the demon demon's spirit hammer, there was no suspense, the short sword flew, and the robber's arm was broken, but the robber used the power of the bump to lower his body and roll, dodging the attack of the spirit hammer in the demon hand.

The mobility and dodging ability of a person rolling on the ground is certainly not comparable to that of a standing person, and the demon seized this opportunity and shot a flying cone with his left hand at the tumbling bandit. The luck of this tumbling robber is really bad, and he triggered the trap placed by the demon again, and his body was dragged by the trap, almost no ability to move, and even the two flying cones of the demon demon couldn't be pulled alive.