Chapter Seventy-Six: The Experiment on Living
On the official road due east of the crossroads, Uncle He Jiu, who was already running out of breath, suddenly stopped, he did not make any slowing down and buffering movements, but let his body fall forward with the inertia of rushing forward, and then came to a spiral turn before he was about to end, and fell to the ground.
"Uncle Jiu, what's wrong with you?" Hao Erhu, who followed closely, hurriedly walked slowly, as a seven-bag disciple, he naturally had to care about Uncle He Jiu, who was a disciple of eight bags.
"Don't run away. Uncle He Jiu pointed to the sparse trees beside the road, through which he could see that the three waves of deserters from the southwest, due south, and southeast had been wiped out, and the white horse was galloping towards them. "Do you think we can outrun this horse?"
Not only Bai Sheng, I am afraid that all those who have seen the performance of the Jade Lion in the Night today will classify this horse as a divine horse, and Uncle He Jiu is certainly no exception.
Hao Erhu was unwilling to slaughter, and said anxiously: "Ninth Uncle, we can intersperse and detour through the forest next to the road, and escape with the help of the woods!"
Uncle He Jiu sneered and shook his head: "Are you dreaming? Don't you see the agility of that horse? It can even do somersaults, and it is almost flying through the clouds, do you think there is a way to survive in the forest? Then you can escape by yourself!"
"This ...... Let's call back to our disciples to fight with him!" Hao Erhu still wanted to die and struggle.
Uncle He Jiu glanced at Hao Erhu complainingly, sighed and said: "It's right to gather disciples, but it's not necessary to work hard, this Bai Sheng has both ancient divine soldiers and divine horses riding, let's fight?"
"Begging for mercy?" Hao Erhu's eyes widened, puzzled.
This beggar gang seven bags of disciples' martial arts is not weak, but he has always been a person who doesn't talk and do things very carefully, otherwise he wouldn't have dared to stop Bai Sheng's convoy with only more than thirty beggar gang disciples.
At that time, he didn't think about it, if Bai Sheng really had twenty-four sleeve crossbows, wouldn't the thirty-odd disciples he brought with him only survive less than ten people? With the strength of less than ten people, what chance of victory could he have in fighting with Bai Sheng, Guo Sheng, and the six or seven men from western Sichuan under them? This had to be considered whether he himself would be shot to death by Bai Sheng's sleeve crossbow, and the nine bags of elders were all shot to death by Bai Sheng, so how could he be able to dodge? He did not consider these factors related to victory or defeat at all.
Uncle He Jiu blamed Hao Erhu for this. If he had known that Bai Sheng was so powerful, he would not have agreed to Hao Erhu's revenge proposal at all, and if he couldn't get the divine soldiers, he wouldn't be able to get it, so why bother to make trouble in the predicament of the dragons in the gang without a leader?
Uncle He Jiu no longer wanted to save face for this stubborn man, so he glared at the latter and said: "If it sounds good, it is to talk about peace, and if you leave the green mountains without firewood, you are not afraid of no firewood! If you say that it is ugly, you are begging for mercy! It is better to die than to live! Do you think that if all of our disciples die here today, will someone tell the brothers in the gang that we were killed by Bai Sheng?"
"That'...... So what if he doesn't spare us?" Hao Erhu still didn't agree with Uncle He Jiu's proposal.
Uncle He Jiu stood up suddenly, and said angrily: "Then it's better than Ni Lin and the two waves of people, they are the ghosts who died unjustly!"
The internal strength of the eight bags of disciples of the beggar gang is quite good, although it can't catch up with Lu Zhishen's earth-shattering roar before, but it can also be heard for several miles, and the disciples of the beggar gang who heard the order stopped one after another and turned to the east to hurry.
At the same time, the Jade Lion was already only a hundred steps away from Uncle He Jiu and the others, and Bai Sheng immediately made a decision, as if issuing an order to the Jade Lion, and as if he was saying to himself: "Let's kill those who are still running first!" ”
Since Uncle He Jiu and these people don't run, then even if they want to kill, they don't have to rush for a while. The jade lion really understood Bai Sheng's meaning, and as soon as the horse's head turned, he ran to the northeast to chase and kill the last few Wang Qing's sword and axe men.
Counting these three waves of enemies, the number of disciples of the Beggar Gang was the largest, and the combined manpower of the other two groups of forces was only sixty people, and these sixty people had died more than fifty before and after, some were killed by Lu Zhishen, and more were killed by Bai Sheng riding a jade lion, and there were less than ten people left, who escaped three or four miles away in the north and northwest directions respectively.
The distance of three or four miles is not called distance at all for the jade lion, so it is not too easy for Bai Sheng to collect the lives of these seven or eight people in the end, and when he turned back to Uncle He Jiu in the east, the disciples of the beggar gang gathered here had already knelt down under the leadership of Uncle He Jiu.
"Bai Gongzi, I think, there must be some kind of misunderstanding between our beggar gang and you......" Uncle He Jiu's voice was extremely dry.
Bai Sheng sneered and said in his heart that if the side that is at an absolute disadvantage is me, you will definitely not say anything misunderstood.
However, he didn't want to kill these beggar disciples who begged for mercy, because at this moment he suddenly thought of an idea that he needed to keep these beggar disciples for the time being. So he waited for Uncle He Jiu to finish speaking before nodding and said, "Of course there is a misunderstanding, to tell you the truth, it was not me Bai Sheng who killed people on the northern slope." ”
He could only explain this misunderstanding to this extent, and he didn't want to roll up his sleeves to prove to the other party that there was no so-called sleeve crossbow on his arms. Because, this non-existent sleeve crossbow may be one of his big killers to deter this group of beggars.
Who can guarantee that these called Hanako are not fake surrenders?
So he said, "I hope you didn't play tricks with me, or I might as well kill you all now!"
Of course, Uncle He Jiu and the others didn't believe Bai Sheng's statement, and the people who killed people on the northern slope looked exactly like you, so it's not your fault! But now they are already people who rely on people's alms to survive, where do they dare to question it? Just as they were about to express their sincerity in surrendering, they heard that Master Zhishen coming from behind, and before they reached Bai Sheng's back, they had already spoken: "Yes! If you cut the grass, you should eradicate the roots! Bai Gongzi should not be merciful, if you don't kill at this time, you will leave trouble!"
Hearing this, Uncle He Jiu and other beggar disciples couldn't wait to bite Lu Zhishen to death now, and greeted the eighteen generations of the monk's ancestors in their hearts.
Bai Sheng turned back with a smile and asked, "Master Zhishen, your injury is not in the way, right?" Lu Zhishen's injury is not serious, but it is really not light, I don't know when he has pulled out the eyebrow knife inserted in his back and the feather arrow on his shoulder, both of which are still bleeding at the moment, especially the injury caused by the eyebrow knife on the right side of the back of the heart is more serious.
Seeing Bai Sheng turn around, Lu Zhishen thrust his Zen staff into the ground, and he reached the ground, "Little monk Zhishen thank Bai Gongzi for remembering, a little flesh injury is not enough to worry about his teeth, thank you Bai Gongzi for saving his life!
Bai Sheng nodded with a smile and said, "Bai Sheng." The matter just now is a trivial matter, Master Zhishen does not have to be polite. In his vision, this Lu Zhishen is also useful, and his purpose is to guard these surrendered beggar disciples.
Lu Zhishen shook his head and said: "Zhishen's life is a trivial matter in the eyes of Bai Gongzi, but in my eyes, it is a big thing, such a great favor must be repaid by sacrificing his life, in the future, Bai Gongzi will have a life, Zhishen will never give up his death!"
Bai Sheng laughed, "Since you say so, then I'm not welcome, Master Zhishen, you first watch these beggar disciples for me, I want to invite them to a drink, I want to see if their summons are true or false." ”
Under the escort of Bai Sheng and Lu Zhishen, the beggar gang did not dare to disobey, and was forced to return to the inn dining room.
"He Jiu, you have set up the table and chairs and sat down. Move the corpses and the sleeping people aside. Bai Sheng did not dismount, but stopped his horse and arranged work at the door of the dining room. He didn't want to get into the middle of the captives, in case someone rebelled, he had to be careful, for he always believed that his prowess came entirely from the Jade Lion and the Plantagenet Axe.
The beggar gang disciples didn't know how the unconscious and dead bodies in this room came from, but no one dared to ask, they had already lost their fighting spirit, and they only let Bai Sheng arrange it, and they all behaved quite obediently, looking hard-working, without the slightest stubbornness.
Lu Zhishen had just applied some golden medicine to his wounds, and guarded Bai Sheng's side waiting for orders, like a fierce god, just waiting for any beggar disciple to slow down, he would be punished.
Bai Sheng immediately arranged for Lu Zhishen, pointed to the Liao man who was slapped to death by Wanyan Zongwang and said, "Master Zhishen, you go and search the body of that corpse and take out all the things in his arms for me." ”
Lu Zhishen touched it for a while, and when he came back, he was holding a few taels of broken silver and a medicine bottle in his hand, "Bai Gongzi, that's all." ”
Bai Sheng didn't take the broken silver, only picked up the medicine bottle and looked at it, but saw that there were three small characters engraved on the medicine bottle, and only vaguely identified that the first one was a "dry" word, the second word was like "show" but there was a missing horizontal on it, and the left half of the third word was like a "dream" but the right half had an extra radical. He pointed the bottle engraved with words at Lu Zhishen and said, "Do you know these three words?"
Lu Zhishen stared at the bronze bell-like eyes for a long time, shook his head and said, "I don't know." ”
Bai Sheng smiled bitterly, and said in his heart that this buddy's culture is not good, and he is not as good as me, so he pointed to the unbroken wine jars on the table and said: "You go, fill these beggar disciples with wine, each of them has a bowl, and each bowl of wine must be poured with some, everyone must drink a bowl, who dares not drink it and kill it on the spot! You can't drink it yourself, understand?"
Lu Zhishen was puzzled, and said in his heart that there is no reason for a prisoner to drink alcohol and discipline him to drink alcohol? And he does not allow discipline to drink himself, which is simply unreasonable. But since Bai Sheng ordered like this, he didn't dare to ask more, so he had to agree first and do it stupidly.
Bai Sheng saw that Lu Zhishen was serious and responsible, so he controlled the horse and went to the third inner courtyard. When I returned to the guest room, I saw that Li Qingzhao and Pan Jinlian were all fine, and the two were still conscientiously putting sweat towels on Wanyan Wulu, but Wanyan Wulu still hadn't woken up.
"Ah, why are you back? Can't you rush out?" Li Qingzhao's face was gloomy, and he got up to greet him. Pan Jinlian never knew what was going on outside, and only roughly guessed that Bai Sheng wanted to leave just now but didn't succeed.
Bai Sheng didn't answer, and presented the three words on the bottle in his hand to Li Qingzhao for a look, "Sister, how do you pronounce these three words?"
"Dry blood?" Li Qingzhao of course knew the seal characters, and immediately read it out, and asked again: "What is this medicine for?"
Bai Sheng shook his head with a wry smile, pointed at Pan Jinlian and said: "I don't know, I only know that there is this medicine in the wine they drink, and now Jinlian has woken up, but Po Xi is still in a coma, although the jade lion in the night has also drunk, but I don't know why it has also woken up, I really can't figure out what the reason is!"
Li Qingzhao pondered for a moment and said, "Then what about the owner of this drug, or where is the person who gave the drug?"
Bai Sheng shook his head: "The drugged one died." The Lord has nowhere to look for it, sister, please go to the kitchen and boil some boiling water, I have to go to the front to have a look. ”
The reason why he kept those beggar disciples from killing them was to let them drink this poisonous wine, to put it bluntly, he was to use these people as guinea pigs to conduct a living experiment, in order to find a way to detoxify, if he failed, then let these beggar disciples accompany those poisoned people to die, there is no pity.
It's just that as soon as his voice fell, he heard Lu Zhishen shouting in front of him: "Drink! The sprinkler family has drunk, do you dare not drink? If you don't drink, I will kill you!"
Bai Sheng was taken aback suddenly, and said in his heart, how could this person die when he saw wine? Hurriedly walked back to the dining room in the front yard, but saw that most of the beggar gang disciples led by Uncle He Jiu had fallen asleep, and only one beggar disciple was drinking with Lu Zhishen with a sad face, and Lu Zhishen was elated, holding a wine jar and pouring it into his mouth.