Chapter 62: House Arrest
Xiang Junhao and the others didn't move and continued to bow their heads to eat, because the next thing had nothing to do with them. The four of them were passing by and then encountered this situation, so they had to get involved in this turmoil. During the meal, a few people chatted and learned that Li Yifeng went out of the city directly after leaving Guangxuan Building that night, because if the fake game in the arena was found out, the consequences would be very serious. Although there are often dealers in the arena who manipulate the game, it is at least a black-box operation with the tacit consent of the arena and the proper sharing of the interests of all parties, and the competition between him and Xiang Junhao is completely private.
It turned out that Li Yifeng arrived here six days ago, and it was a coincidence that he met a few mountain demons who broke in on the night of the night, and only learned that the mountain demons almost never came out of the mountains in the deep mountains in their lives, and only hunters and prospectors who went deep into the mountains and forests could occasionally encounter them, and there were only a handful of mountain demons who went down the mountain to hurt people in the past hundred years. In the past two months, the village has been frequently harassed by mountain demons, resulting in the mines behind the village being forced to stop quarrying, and the villagers can only hide back in the village. Wu Lingwei had been here before, and he had also searched the mountains but found nothing, so he could only send a patrol here.
On the second day of Li Yifeng's arrival, a patrol of more than 50 Wulingwei routinely came to camp here overnight, and also encountered the infestation of more than a dozen mountain demons that night. On the third day, because of the heavy rain, Li Yifeng and the patrol team could not leave, so they had to continue to stay, who would have thought that since that night, there were mountain demons attacking every night, and there were more and more of them, and the armed villagers and patrols suffered huge casualties, thanks to the joint efforts of Li Yifeng and the leader of the team led by Wu Lingwei to resist the invasion of the mountain demons, and the people who went out to ask for help were gone. As a result, the day before Xiang Junhao's nephew and his party came, the commander of Wu Lingwei died in battle, leaving only some frightened villagers and remnants of Wu Lingwei.
Sanshi Village is far away from the official road, and there are no outsiders passing by here on weekdays. For six days, Sanshi Village became an isolated island, and there was no trust or help for help, and it was not until Xiang Junhao and them came that the situation of last night came. Li Yifeng said that if it weren't for their help last night, he might not have been able to escape according to the situation last night, and it is estimated that he would be a corpse now. The four of them were chatting, and the commander of the Shenwu Army, who had brought reinforcements, entered the house under the leadership of the village chief.
The commander of the Shenwu Army looked at the four people in the room, gave a military salute very politely, and said softly and slowly: I am Yan Zhiyue, a thousand households of the Shenwu Army stationed here, Your Excellency looks like a cultivator, may I ask which immortal master is it from?
Xiang Junhao and the four of them didn't expect that a thousand households of the Shenwu Army actually looked like a weak scholar, very gentle, and spoke softly and slowly. Mo Qing stood up and saluted, and replied: The poor surname is Mo, and the four of us are all people who are scattered cultivators in the rivers and lakes.
Mo Qingzhi didn't intend to reveal his true identity, but used the identity of a person who was a loose cultivator in the rivers and lakes to cover up everyone. Yan Zhiyue frowned when he heard this, but he didn't ask in detail, and it seemed that he didn't care much about the origin of the few of them, and he said to Mo Qingzhi: Mo Dao Chang can tell me about the situation last night, I will let the military clerk record it.
Mo Qingzhi agreed to invite Yan Zhiyue to take a seat, and then told him about the story of the three of them coming to Sanshi Village yesterday and the general battle situation last night. But he still deliberately concealed some content, the first was that he did not talk about their relationship with Li Yifeng in detail, but casually said that they met in the Plum Blossom Arena, and several children knew each other with affection. The second is that he did not talk about Helan Xuanji's forbidden arts and his own killing techniques, but said that the cold flame fire was that they set up an ambush with spirit runes and flammable materials, and the mountain demon overturned the fire used for lighting to create a fire, causing signs of the houses in the village being burned and collapsing. Yan Zhiyue listened very carefully, and did not interrupt Mo Qingzhi from beginning to end, and did not ask any questions after listening. Instead, he couldn't stop praising the skills of several immortal masters, and they made great contributions to protecting the villagers and killing demons.
After the politeness, Yan Zhiyue said to the four people: The county lieutenant has learned about the situation in this morning's request for help, and before I came, the county lieutenant asked me to ask the four immortal masters to return to the city with me, and the county lieutenant will thank several immortal masters on behalf of the local people. Don't worry about a few people here in Sanshi Village, this time I brought five hundred people from the Martial Spirit Guard and the Shenwu Army, which is enough to protect the local security. Thousands of Shenwu troops will come from other places, and then they will meet here, and then go up the mountain to search for the mountain demon and kill it.
Seeing that Yan Zhiyue said this, a few people couldn't shirk it, and the goal of several people was to go to the imperial capital Shengjing and they had to pass through this county, so they had to agree and then pack up their things and go with Yan Zhiyue. Along the way, Xiang Junhao and a few people rode horses and galloped on the military and civilians brought by Yan Zhiyue, and arrived at the destination county seat - Yun County in less than two hours. After coming to the county seat, Yan Zhiyue led everyone not to enter from the east gate, which was close to the official road, but led everyone to the south gate on the grounds that the roads in the city were being repaired unchanged and the county government was closer to the south gate. Yun County is not a small county seat, and there is an urn city in the four city gates.
Xiang Junhao and the four entered the urn city under the leadership of Yan Zhiyue, and before entering the city, Xiang Junhao found that there was no one at the south gate except for the guards guarding the city, and the defenders were different from the defenders seen at the east gate. The defenders here are not only all heavily armored Shenwu troops, but also numerous. The defenders of the east gate are Wu Lingwei wearing cloth armor, and there are only a dozen of them above and below the city. This scene made Xiang Junhao alert, and he felt a little uneasy from the bottom of his heart. As soon as everyone entered the city, they saw that the two gates in front and back of the urn city were quickly closed with a bang, and then hundreds of heavily armored Shenwu soldiers surrounded them, and there were many Shenwu army archers at the head of the city who were ready to shoot arrows.
Xiang Junhao, Helan Xuanji, and Li Yifeng were not ambiguous when they saw this, and directly showed that they were ready to do it at any time. And Mo Qingzhi, who was at the front, looked at Yan Zhiyue with a smile and said: Lord Qianhu, is this the unique hospitality etiquette here?
Yan Zhiyue was behind the gods and martial forces, and Chong Mo Qingzhi said: Mo Daochang, the people of Yunxian County really want to thank a few people for their great help. However, judging from the eyewitness account of Wu Lingwei's return for help and my investigation at the scene, it seems that several immortal masters have hidden secrets that have not yet been explained.
Then Yan Zhiyue pointed to Helan Xuanji and said: Especially this girl, it seems that she uses exercises similar to those of the demon clan. Since the immortal master was reluctant to say it explicitly in Sanshi Village, we had to make this decision for the safety of my Yun County. So first, ask a few immortal masters to be wronged and cooperate with us to find out the truth. If it was really a misunderstanding, Yan would personally plead guilty and beat gongs and drums to send several immortal masters out of the city.
At this time, Helan Xuanji said angrily to Yan Zhiyue: Just rely on you people, you want to trap us?
After Yan Zhiyue heard this, the white and tender scholarly face instantly became extremely sinister and hateful. He said viciously to Helan Xuanji: There are five hundred heavily armored Shenwu troops in the urn city, and there are two hundred martial guards in the city, and I have already passed the surrounding Shenwu army garrisons, if you can't trap a few here, then the tens of thousands of Shenwu troops around you will pour out to encircle and suppress a few. At that time, even if a few immortal masters have great ability, if they want to escape from this place, I'm afraid it won't be so easy, right?
Helan Xuanji was furious, and she was just about to scold back when she was held down by Xiang Junhao beside her. Xiang Junhao said to Mo Qingzhi: "Uncle Shi, since this Lord of Qianhu wants to investigate, then we will delay for a few days to accompany him to investigate, and ask Uncle Shi to decide."
Mo Qingzhi still had a smile on his face, rushed to Jun Hao and nodded, and then said to Yan Zhiyue: Since Lord Qianhu is so sincere, then we will cooperate. We have a clear conscience and are innocent, so why not be afraid of interrogation.
Then Mo Qing said to the three juniors: Xuanji, Junhao, we will delay for a few days, as for the little brother Yifeng, I don't know what you think?
Li Yifeng smiled bitterly and waved his hand and replied: We are already grasshoppers on a rope, and I may not be able to let me go if I want to go.
Then Mo Qingzhi said to Yan Zhiyue: The thousand households are tired, lead us to the place where we should go.
Yan Zhiyue clasped his fists and saluted, and said: Mo Daochang and a few little immortal masters are really chivalrous, so please ask a few immortal masters to hand over their weapons to us for temporary safekeeping, and then dismount and follow us to the station.
After saying that, Yan Zhiyue waved his hand, and more than a dozen Shenwu soldiers came out of the surrounding army and came out in front of the four people. Helan Xuanji's little temper was about to explode, but Xiang Junhao held it down. Everyone took the initiative to disarm their weapons and dismounted, and then came to a small mansion under the "escort" of hundreds of heavily armored Shenwu soldiers. This is an ordinary two-entry house, there are no people around, and this house looks very dilapidated, as if it was temporarily cleaned by someone, and it is estimated that no one has lived in it for many years.
Xiang Junhao and the four of them followed Yan Zhiyue into the courtyard, and in the courtyard, Yan Zhiyue said to the four of Mo Qingzhi: Mo Dao Chang and the three little immortal masters, they have wronged a few people to stay here for a while. Although the courtyard has been idle for many years, it is still intact and clean, and the guards will provide three meals a day and daily necessities for several people. In addition, for the sake of safety and the convenience of investigation, several people need to be isolated and live alone, and the guards will take a few immortals to their rooms for a while.
After that, several Shenwu soldiers stepped forward and arrogantly wanted to take Xiang Junhao and the others away. Helan Xuanji was already holding her breath, and as soon as the Shenwu Army got started, she threw the Shenwu Army aside with a backhand grab. She immediately made the Shenwu army who was on guard around immediately surround her, and hundreds of spears, horizontal knives, bows and arrows on the roof and courtyard rushed towards them in unison. Helan Xuanji was about to cast a spell to counterattack, but Xiang Junhao stopped her in front of her.
Yan Zhiyue walked up to Helan Xuanji and said with a smile: This girl, her subordinates were rude just now, so I will change someone to accompany the girl back to the room.
Then he turned around and beckoned a few goddesses to join the army, turned his head back and said with a grim face: But please also ask the girl to get acquainted!