Chapter 19: Someone Makes a Ghost
"Taibai really wants to leave Chang'an?" Zhang Jiuling took Li Bai's hand with a reluctant expression.
"My lord, Taibai will come back, and when he comes back, he will be Tian Shelang and ascend to Tianzi Hall at dusk. "This time, I just want to take a walk more, appreciate the great rivers and mountains of my Tang Dynasty, and add more experience to myself." ”
"Or, I'll send you again?" Zhang Jiuling was still reluctant.
"Hey, the adult is not a little lady, don't send ten miles, it's better to sing a poem and send it to Li Bai. ”
"Good. ”
Li Bai held a sword in one hand and a bag in the other, and in the ethereal singing, "Li Bai will want to go by song..." Li Zhi, Zhang Jiuling, Chen Ye and others were left to see him.
The dashing Li Bai is gone, but the people who stay are not having a good time.
Zhang Jiuling didn't go to Chen Huaizhi's trouble, but he took a bite first. united a group of close ministers to attack Zhang Jiuling in the court, saying that he exceeded his authority to transfer troops and instructed the army to make trouble in the streets, disturb the people, and endanger the people.
The existence of the Zhen'an Division was not exposed, and Zhang Jiuling couldn't say it, so he had to collect some corner evidence, saying that Chen Huai had violated the law by setting up a brothel privately and running a business with officials.
But for this matter, the emperor also had a lot of complaints, and privately found Zhang Jiuling for a long talk.
Originally, he had obviously obtained a lot of clues this time, but now he could only investigate carefully, not only Zhang Jiuling. The entire Zhen'an Division felt aggrieved.
Sometimes, people are more difficult to deal with than ghosts.
After the battle with the masked woman, Chen Ye realized that his strength was insufficient, as the strongest sword of Zhen'an Division, he must have unparalleled strength to cut off all evil and protect the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, after discussing with Zhang Jiuling, Chen Ye decided to retreat and cultivate alone to further improve his strength.
At the same time, because a part of the manpower is to be divided, the investigation will continue because clues have been obtained about this war.
As a result, Li Zhi, who experienced major battles one after another, was entrusted with a heavy task by Zhang Jiuling and shared more of the work that Chen Ye was originally responsible for.
And Li Zhi did live up to expectations, after witnessing Li Bai's peak battle, and listening to him tell about the understanding of "the heart of the ghost", just by integrating the comprehension he felt when observing the battle into his actual combat, as well as the change in his mentality, Li Zhi's strength has significantly improved a lot. In addition, after Chen Ye's retreat, Li Zhi faced a large number of combat tasks that were almost several times that of ordinary ghost slaying, and in the almost sleepless actual combat, Li Zhi's strength continued to grow by leaps and bounds.
But tricky things are quietly happening.
If the first few incidents were accidents, more and more similar incidents proved an extremely terrible fact. Someone is hunting for ghosts!
And almost certainly, it was a human doing. The wound was smooth and intact, and there were no signs of the body being gnawed.
It is impossible for a single force to attack different ghost slabs at the same time in different locations on the same night. So this is a man-made, organized, hunt for the ghosts of the Zhen'an Division.
So now, Li Zhi has received the task of finding out this team of people! The more rampant the forces behind the scenes, the more it shows that the Zhen'an Division is approaching the ultimate truth that it has been exploring for hundreds of years. At the same time, it is more important to return a tooth for a tooth and blood for a blood.
Before Li Zhi specified the battle plan, he carefully considered a lot of things in combination with intelligence. First of all, one thing that is certain is that the opponent obviously has a certain degree of understanding of the Zhen'an Division, so he can always find the weaker ghost slayer team to start, rather than choosing the stronger ghost slaying captain.
Secondly, there is the analysis of the opponent's capabilities. One possibility is that the opponent should be extremely stealthy, or very good at stealth, so that they can attack and succeed if the ghost slayer team is unsuspecting. Another possibility is that the opponent's strength is strong, far surpassing the Zhen'an Division's demons, so it can be easily won. There is a third, and worst-case scenario, where the opponent has both. Not only is he good at lurking, but he also has superior strength.
According to Li Zhi's reasoning, it is likely that the situation is the third case. Because judging from the only information, that is, the corpses of the demon slayers, the battle was completed almost instantaneously, so the corpses were so intact. This shows that the battle broke out suddenly and ended in a very short time. If it is an encounter, then no matter how disparity in strength is, there should be at least traces of resistance on the ghosts, but there are very few that can be found on the ghosts now, which shows that the ghosts are all attacked by the enemy without defense. And almost all of the ghost slayers are fatally wounded, and there are few places where there are secondary wounds, indicating that the opponent is strong enough and can often kill with one hit.
But even if the opponent is so cunning, powerful, and good at concealment, "it" is despicable! According to the intelligence of the Xuanwu guards, every place where the corpse of the slaying ghost is found is accompanied by the corpse of the demon killed by the slaying ghost. These people were killed at the moment of exhaustion after the demon slayer fought the demons.
There are even cases where the corpse of the ghost has disappeared. Not only did they kill the ghosts, but they also took away the corpses of the ghosts, and it was even more difficult to imagine what they would do to the corpses when they fell into the hands of the enemy, and it would be a blasphemy to use them for any purpose! Every time he thought of this, Li Zhi's lungs almost exploded in anger. But they also revealed a little bit about themselves, which is that the number is very small. Therefore, when they encountered several ghost slaying squads operating together, they were unable to take all the corpses with them.
After thinking about all the above clues, Li Zhi gradually had a plan in his heart.
When the last ghost slowly fell in front of his eyes. Li Zhi suddenly had a premonition that it was time for them to show up.
This is the fifth day that Li Zhi and the other two ghost slaying captains have disguised themselves as a ghost slayer team and hunted ghosts with the rest of the team. Li Zhi carefully instructed the other two ghost slaying captains not to show their strength too much, if there were no flaws, no matter how patient the hunter was, he should have made a move.
Sure enough, almost a sneaking slash, the fangs hidden in the night, appeared at such a close distance. If he hadn't guessed the enemy's combat method in advance, if he had encountered it suddenly, even Li Zhi wouldn't dare to say that he would be able to retreat with his whole body.
The swords quickly touched and separated. Fortunately, with advance notice, no one was injured.
But to Li Zhi's surprise, the three who came to attack not only did not flee after the first blow, but stood still in peace, and they looked like they would not give up if they didn't do it. That's fine, it's right in your own arms.
By the moonlight, Li Zhi observed the three people who came to attack, all of them were dressed in the same clothes as the masked woman last time, "Sure enough, they are in a group." ”
This is quite a tragic battle, in the case of Li Zhi's finale, three ghost slaying captains and three ordinary ghost slayers, of course, have an advantage in strength, but I didn't expect the enemy to be so tenacious that he almost fought to the death, even if there was only one breath left, only the mouth could move, and he would come over and bite you with his teeth. If the tenacity of the ghosts that the demons have fought with them depends on their mutated bodies, then these people rely on extraordinary mental power. When Li Zhi unveiled their covered faces, there were ordinary faces underneath, not the imaginary fierce gods.
What is it that can make people crazy to such an extent that it's like turning people into ghosts.
When the three of them took their last breath, all of them were almost inhuman, and the ghosts had a deep hatred with them, and they could hardly bear to look at them, and finally they only hoped that they would be able to breathe as soon as possible and not continue to struggle.
Just when everyone was thinking about how to deal with the corpse, Li Zhi suddenly backhanded and shot a short knife hidden in his sleeve in a certain direction, poof, it was the sound of someone being stabbed, and because Li Zhi was so strong, he was also nailed to the wall. The next person to do things is simply beyond common sense, in order to pursue the speed of getting out fast enough. His first reaction was not to pull out the short knife and run away, but to step directly, allowing the short knife to pass through his body, and when the handle of the short knife penetrated his body, the ghosts standing in the distance could hear the sound of bones clicking in his body, which was so terrifying that it made people's teeth ache.
Such an unimaginable severe pain for ordinary people did not slow down the speed of this person at all, and it was too late for the ghosts to chase after him.
A ghost slaying captain mentioned to Li Zhi, "Why don't we ask the ghost hound to ask about his blood, we can definitely find his traces!"
Li Zhi waved his hand, "No need, he can't survive." ”