Volume 1: Born to be a Hero Chapter 27: A Fire in the City
After arranging things together, He Yi had nothing to do.
He continued to make his rounds around the city walls, and when he was sure that there would be no hidden dangers, he headed in the direction of the armory.
Pingyuan County is a small county, although the armament is not excellent, but it is complete, he revealed his identity, said hello to the guards of the armory, took a longbow from the armory, two pots of feather arrows, and then went straight out of the city, found a secluded and uninhabited place, and pondered his own affairs with peace of mind.
He wanted to continue his research on the characters in Xia Yu's book.
Boom!
He Yi drew his bow and arrows and shot them at a dead tree.
He didn't use much force, and the longbow wasn't drawn into a full circle, so the feathered arrow only sank into the wood before it stopped.
After recalling the angle at which the bowstring had just been opened, He Yi took out a feather arrow again and began to use a dagger to carve the first character recorded in the Book of Xia Yu on the arrow.
Broken characters.
Since Yuan Yi was able to burn these characters on the Demon Slaying Sword, and use the Demon Slaying Sword as an attraction to exert the power of the characters, He Yi felt that he would definitely be able to burn the broken characters on other weapons.
Considering the characteristics of the "penetration" of the broken character, the feather arrow as a long-range attack is naturally the best choice.
After the carving was finished, He Yi drew his bow and arrows again, shooting at another location of the dead tree with the same force and the same angle.
"Broken!"
Boom!
After a soft sound, the arrow sank into the wood, and like the previous one, it was still half a point.
In other words, this feathered arrow did not play the effect that it should have broken the character.
"Doesn't it work?" He Yi walked over and pulled out the feather arrow, looking at the broken characters engraved on the arrow, and frowned slightly.
He has been studying the characters on this Xia Yu book for many days, but there is no progress, although the Demon Slaying Sword can exert the power of the characters, but he only has one after all, and the texture of the Demon Slaying Sword is special, it is made of a good spiritual iron, this material, is in the magic weapons used by cultivators, are extremely rare and rare.
Therefore, He Yi didn't dare to expose the Demon Slaying Sword to others on weekdays, in case it was discovered by the cultivators, it would inevitably be coveted and cause trouble.
Therefore, He Yi thought about trying to see if he could use the broken characters on other weapons.
"It shouldn't be...... What went wrong? Is it necessary to use the same or similar material as the Demon Slaying Sword in order to fully bring out the effect of the characters?" He Yi stared at the place where the characters were engraved.
But he immediately dismissed the idea.
Xia Yushu was created by Dayu, and the ancient era in which Dayu lived was basically based on bone tools and stone tools. Not to mention things like gold and iron, even bronze has not yet appeared, where will there be any materials for forging magic weapons?
Moreover, the word "magic weapon" was a word that gradually appeared after He Yi and others discovered the Xiuzhen Continent, and the method of distinguishing between mortal iron and spiritual iron was also introduced to the secular world by cultivators.
This happened only ten years ago, and in the era when King Yu lived, there was no such thing as a magic weapon.
Therefore, He Yi can almost conclude that the characters recorded in this book must have little to do with the material, and must be used on mortal things.
He continued to carve a dozen feathered arrows, but still no results were tested.
"Perhaps, is there a mistake in the way you carve your seal?" He Yi sat cross-legged, placing the feather arrows in front of him, staring downward.
"Character, character..... Xia Yushu ......"
He whispered a few times, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he clapped his hands and shouted: "That's right! Xia Yushu Xia Yushu, since it is a character written in the book, then this book should be a kind of text, otherwise how to make a book? Since it is a kind of text, the way of writing, the order of strokes, is very important, perhaps, this is the key point!"
Thinking of this, He Yi hurriedly took out several feather arrows from the quiver and began repeated experiments.
An hour later, dozens of feather arrows engraved in different ways were lined up by He Yi on the ground, and he began to try one by one.
One.
Boom!
Two.
Boom!
Three.
Boom!
......
Seventeen.
Just as He Yi shot the seventeenth feather arrow, the broken character at the arrow suddenly lit up with a faint golden glow.
With the same force, he let go of the bowstring, and the feather arrows shot out, turning into a golden streamer in the gallop, which was very dazzling.
When the tip of the arrow touched the stump, it pierced the trunk with an arrow!
Not only that, but after the feather arrow pierced the stump, the speed did not decrease at all, and it sank into the distant mountain forest, and after a long time, it was stopped by a rock and fell to the ground.
"It's done!" He Yi was overjoyed when he saw this.
The feather arrows engraved with broken characters are far more powerful than ordinary weapons.
If this kind of feathered arrow could be mass-produced into tens of thousands, and fully distributed to a team of hundreds, or even thousands, archers, what kind of strong team would it be?
And that's just the first character.
There are seven characters engraved on the Demon Slaying Sword. With only seven characters, Yuan Yi's predecessors were able to use the power of this sword to fiercely fight dozens of cultivators, which He Yi saw with his own eyes.
And the characters recorded in the whole book of "Xia Yu" are as many as 12, if you can understand all of them thoroughly, what kind of power will it be?
Of course, that's an afterthought.
They are about to go out of the city to suppress the bandits, and what He Yi has to do now is to carve out a batch of feather arrows with broken characters first, and try the effect through the next battle against the bandits.
Back in Pingyuan County, He Yizheng wanted to go to the armory to get some more feather arrows to burn broken characters, but as soon as he entered the city gate, he saw Jia Shao running over in a hurry.
"General He, it turns out that you went outside the city, no wonder I can't find you anywhere!"
Jia Shao bent over, his arms propped on his knees, gasping for air. There seemed to be some smoky and scorched marks on his face, as if he had been burned by something.
"Panic, what's wrong?" He Yi asked.
He originally wanted Jia Shao to try the power of this "Demon Breaking Arrow" first, but when he saw Jia Shao's panicked face, he didn't mention this matter first.
Jia Shao said urgently: "General, it's not good. The armory, our armory on the plain is on fire! General Pei asked me to come to you quickly and assist all the departments to put out the fire together!"
"What!?"
He Yi raised his head suddenly, looking in the direction of the armory in the distance, a cloud of black smoke rose into the college entrance examination, like the beacon smoke of the Great Wall.
He had just successfully transferred the broken characters to the feather arrows, and originally thought that he would go to the armory again and get more feather arrows out, so that he could make more broken arrows in the past few days to assemble the archers of these fifty people.
Is it a coincidence that the armory actually caught fire at this juncture?
If the flames become powerful, the first ones to be burned will be wooden longbows and arrows.
"The armory is an important place in the barracks, how can there be a fire? Go! Go and put out the fire!!"
............
In Pingyuan County, black smoke billowed and became a mess.
On the west side of the barracks, the monstrous flames rose and fell like a tidal wave.
Luckily, because the armory was a separate area, the fire didn't spread around.
"General Pei!" He Yi found Pei Dong in the billowing smoke who was carrying a wooden bucket to water and extinguish the fire.
"What's the matter with you, let you train the recruits, don't stay in the martial arts arena, what are you running around? Today, the soldiers in the battalion have all gone to work in the fields, and there is a serious shortage of manpower, so you should quickly lead people to extinguish the fire!" Pei Dong pointed at He Yi's nose and roared angrily.
Pingyuan County has not had any fighting for a long time, so it has always been based on the tuntian system, except for daily training, the sergeants usually work in the fields and do not stay in the camp, and the armor and weapons are naturally stored in the armory.
There are still a few days to go out to suppress the bandits, but at this juncture, the armory is on fire, and if all the ordnance is burned by this flame, what will they do to suppress the bandits?
"Extinguish the fire!"
He Yi also knew the power of it, and hurriedly beckoned a group of recruits, each went to the bucket, and began to desperately extinguish the flames.
But there is only one nearby well, and even if there are many people, the water in the well can only be lifted out bucket by bucket, which is tantamount to a drop in the bucket for the fierce flame.
Wow!
The fire had already become a rage, and the bucket of water was poured down, and it was quickly evaporated, and it did not work at all.
"Fan Wu, you hurry up and take someone to the nearby people's houses to get water!" Seeing that the situation was not good, He Yi immediately gave an order.
"Yes, I'll go. Fan Wu answered the order, took dozens of soldiers, carried buckets and ran outside the camp.
"Jia Shao, did those people I asked you to keep an eye on any unusual behavior today?" He Yi asked Jia Shao again.
In a military powerhouse, there will never be an unprovoked fire, if no one is behind the scenes, he will not believe it.
"General Hui, there is nothing abnormal, according to your orders, in order to avoid startling the snakes, I will only let people watch near the residences of those people. They haven't been out since they went in early in the morning!" Jia Shao replied truthfully.
"Haven't you come out?" He Yi frowned, and said in a low voice: "The fire in the armory this time is definitely not accidental, if you guess correctly, there must be a group of thieves who have mixed into Pingyuan County earlier." ”
"General, do you mean that those people are the thieves we are about to exterminate?" Jia Shao said in a lost voice, "How dare they?"
"What's not to dare? No matter who it is, after knowing the news that he is about to be suppressed, he will not sit idly by! Including those people I asked you to keep an eye on, they are also thieves outside the city, maybe not the same wave of people, but there must be a connection between the two. He Yi wandered left and right for a few steps and said in a cold voice.
He thought to himself, the person who ordered the recruitment of troops was the county governor of Pingyuan County, right? Before the troops were dispatched, the news had already leaked, and as the head of a county, it was rare in the world to be so stupid.
How did this kind of person become a county magistrate?
"I'm going to take my brothers over now and arrest them all! The armory has been burned, but the torture chamber hasn't burned yet! I'm going to force out their tricks if I say anything!" Jia Shao stomped his feet and said viciously.