When Kong Rui heard this, he thought that since the two of them had already opened their mouths to ask for each other, he would not be able to refuse, so he asked, "Please speak, two of you." ”

I only heard Zheng Ping say: "This time the Qianren attacked our front-line headquarters, our losses were very heavy, and there are still many non-combatants here who need to be transferred to the rear, so I also asked Brother Kong to help escort them." ”

When Kong Rui heard this, he couldn't help but hesitate, after all, escorting a group of non-combatants was a troublesome matter. For Kong Rui, he is not afraid of trouble, but if he encounters an ordinary Qiqian soldier, will he do it or not?

Zheng Ping seemed to see Kong Rui's thoughts, and hurriedly said: "Brother Kong, don't worry, we asked you to escort them just to help protect them from being attacked by the demon cultivators, and you don't have to worry about other things." ”

When Kong Rui heard this, he was relieved and said, "There is no problem with this, where do you need to escort them?"

Liu Baisheng said: "Go to Pagoda County." ”

As soon as Kong Rui heard about Baota County, he couldn't help but move in his heart, so he agreed and said, "Okay, the little brother originally wanted to go to Baota County to have a look, and now it's good to be able to go there." ”

Zheng Ping said again: "Brother Kong, if you go to Baota County, you can hand over the communication array disk used to communicate with Suishan Mining Valley to a gentleman from Wu Bijie over there, he is in charge of this matter, and someone will naturally take you there when you get there." ”

Kong Rui said: "No problem, then when will we leave?"

Liu Baisheng said: "We will leave early tomorrow morning, and we still need to prepare here." ”

Kong Rui nodded, arched his hand at the two of them, and said, "Two brothers, then we will have a meeting later." Then he took his leave and left.

Kong Rui originally planned to find a secluded place to meditate and rest for a while, but walked all the way, only to see that all the soldiers of the Shancha Army were sleeping on the side of the road and in the corner of the wall, obviously the military discipline was strict, and there were no soldiers to harass the villagers, he couldn't help but think to himself: It's spring now, but if it's winter, what should they do with these ordinary soldiers? Kong Rui couldn't help but admire the military discipline of the Shancha Army and the daily training of the soldiers.

Not long after Kong Rui sat down, he was about to breathe, when he suddenly faintly heard someone crying, his ear power was far beyond ordinary people, and he could hear that it was Xu De's voice, only to hear Xu De being there crying and scolding for a while with his suppressed voice, vaguely missing You Zheng and scolding the strange people, obviously sad for You Zheng's martyrdom. Kong Rui thought of that Xu Dezheng Iron Man, but now he was crying bitterly for the sacrifice of his adjutant, and he couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Before dawn the next day, Kong Rui set off early with a large number of personnel, Liu Baisheng also came to see him off, and introduced him to the captain of the guard who escorted this group of people, a high-level qi refiner named Zhou Qiao, this Zhou Qiao seemed to know some about Kong Rui, and was very polite to him, and the group left the station and went directly to the west.

Kong Rui saw that many of these people who needed to be escorted were scholars, and there were also many young girls, and he learned that most of these people were administrative clerks, who did some ideological motivation work for soldiers in the army on weekdays, and also needed to write many morale-boosting articles to stimulate the morale of the soldiers and ordinary people of the Great Yan Country, and they really had no combat effectiveness. And now, this front-line command has suffered heavy losses, Xu De and others decided to retreat these non-combatants to the rear, so as to travel lightly, increase their mobility, and fight to the death against the Qijian.

These civilians were all from different departments, and although they all had their own leaders, they were all required to strictly obey Zhou Qiao's arrangements during the march, and Zhou Qiao seemed to be very experienced and arranged everyone properly.

Along the way, the girls who were responsible for boosting morale kept singing or slogans, which gradually lifted everyone's low mood, and Kong Rui's mood was slowly mobilized by them, and they couldn't help but pay more attention to them.

At dawn, Zhou Qiao asked everyone to stop marching, because he was worried that it would be easy to be discovered by the demon cultivators patrolling the sky in broad daylight, and Kong Rui saw that there were only a few dozen people in this guard, and it was indeed not easy to cover the non-combatants of more than 2,000 people, so he also remained silent and obeyed his arrangement.

Sure enough, as soon as they were hidden, they saw two late-stage demon cultivators appear in the air, and the two of them flew very high, and it was difficult to find these people hiding in the mountains and forests. But at this moment, she suddenly heard a girl's dull sneezing, it must be that this girl was too tired these days and had fallen ill, and suddenly hid in the shade of a tree from under the sun, and her body was cold and she sneezed, although she tried her best to hide it, but it was still heard by two late-stage demon cultivators in the air.

The two late-stage demon cultivators were also extremely alert, and as soon as they heard a strange noise, they immediately lowered their cloud heads, and they had to take a closer look; before they could fall to the ground, they suddenly saw a praying mantis puppet flying on the ground, attacking them with lightning speed, although the two demon cultivators were a little prepared, but they couldn't resist it, and they were instantly cut into four pieces by the mantis puppet and fell to the ground. It was Kong Rui who suddenly made a move, and the psychic manipulated the mantis puppet to kill the two demon cultivators.

Everyone was very nervous and didn't know what to do, but they suddenly saw that the two demon cultivators were killed by a praying mantis puppet in an instant, and then they were relieved, but they didn't know who did it, but they were worried that there were other demon cultivators, so they didn't cheer.

Zhou Qiao naturally knew that it was Kong Rui who did it, and immediately arranged for a few soldiers to come forward and search the things on the two demon cultivators, and dispose of their corpses, so that everyone could rest in place.

Zhou Qiao took the things handed over by the soldiers, and gave them to Kong Ruidao: "This is the spoils of the immortals, please take it away." ”

Kong Rui was not polite, so he stretched out his hand to take it, he knew that Zhou Qiao was also a qi refiner, so he asked, "May I ask which sect Brother Zhou used to cultivate in?"

Zhou Qiao hurriedly said: "Immortal disciples don't call themselves like this, even in the sect, they are only outer disciples, and they can't be compared with inner disciples." ”

Kong Rui has never been divided into inner and outer doors in Lingji Mountain, and his peers are all called by age, so he said: "Now that we are not in the sect, Brother Zhou doesn't have to be so restrained." ”

Zhou Qiao said: "It's okay, seeing that the virtuous brother is also a cheerful person, then I'm welcome." The foolish brother is from the Myok Kong sect. ”

Kong Rui was stunned for a moment, and said with some skepticism: "Miaokong Sect?"

"Yes, Brother Yu used to be a monk, but now that the Foolish people have invaded, we have to fight back. ”

"The Buddhist precepts are not to kill, and Brother Zhou seems to be vulgar. ”

"The world is too chaotic, and we monks are not at peace, and if foreign enemies do not drive them, our disciples are even more ashamed of the Buddha. ”

Kong Rui nodded, and also introduced himself: "Junior brother Kong Rui, right now in Wuxuanzong, but the current situation of the younger brother is special, Brother Zhou must not say the name of the younger brother." Now they are called Little Brother Lin Rui. ”

Zhou Qiao naturally knew about this situation, so he didn't ask much, so he said: "It's good to say, just now I saw the virtuous brother using a puppet, and I thought it was under the Tiangong Gate." Unexpectedly, some people in Wuxuanzong also used puppets to reach such a realm. ”

Kong Rui smiled and asked Zhou Qiaodao, "Brother Zhou, how long will it take us to get to Pagoda County?"

Zhou Qiao said: "Our current march is too slow, and it may take at least ten days to arrive. ”

Kong Rui calculated, even if he got there, there would still be more than ten days before the expiration of his exile, anyway, there was nothing to do now, so he simply went to Pagoda County to have a look, after all, many people said that there was the future and hope of the Great Yan Country, and it was best to go to the field for a visit.

Along the way, Zhou Qiao was very cautious, and there were no problems with the march for several days, but everyone seemed to be physically exhausted, and they were walking more and more slowly. Zhou Qiao was also very anxious, but it was impossible for these civilian personnel to be the same as his soldiers, so he could only encourage everyone to step up.

On this day, Kong Rui was walking and talking with Zhou Qiao, when he saw a young girl walking over and saying to Zhou Qiao: "Captain Zhou, Xiao Lin on our team is sick, I'm afraid I can't go any further." ”

As he was talking, I saw another girl come and say, "Captain Zhou, I'm fine, it's just that I carried a little too much stuff just now, and I'll be fine if they help me carry it." ”