Chapter 195: Planning and Action
It turned out that the group of scouts in the Zhiyi Inn judged Kong Rui to be just a gentleman who came out to spend money indiscriminately, although he had contact with Duan Zhi, an intelligence dealer, before, and just asked Duan Zhi to run errands for himself, it was not worth continuing to spend more effort on him, so they passed the same judgment to the spies of the Linhu Inn, and asked them not to waste manpower on such a person, so the two spies of the Linhu Inn were extremely contemptuous of Kong Rui, but because they didn't need to spend effort on this person, the two of them also felt a lot easierγ
Kong Rui knew that he couldn't exert any magic power in this capital city, and if he couldn't get rid of the tracking of these schemers, it would be difficult for him to do anything, so he had to change to the Linhu Inn first, and then think of other ways to keep himself away from being here for a few days, and see how he could not attract the attention of these spies.
As soon as he entered the room, Kong Rui put the contents of the cage into his storage bag, and also brought the empty cage with him, checked his things again, and sat in the chair to think carefully about his plan. As soon as he remembered that day, he heard that there was a deep well near the pavilion in the Lingxi Zen Monastery in Dongling Mountain, and he couldn't help but think that he had also hid in the well for several days in order to exorcise the demons in his heart.
In the evening, Kong Rui walked to the shopkeeper and asked the shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper, what is the fun near here, this young master wants to go out and have fun." β
The shopkeeper has Kong Rui's appearance, but he changed places because he was tired of playing in the Zhiyi Inn, anyway, Kong Rui has also left a big ingot of silver as a deposit, and he doesn't care about what Kong Rui can do, so he introduced the delicious and fun places near the Linhu Inn, and especially said to Kong Rui: "Guest officer, near our Linhu Inn, the best place is the Tianxiang Building by the lake, which is quite known as Longzangpu in the north, and the guest officer may wish to go there to see." β
Kong Rui laughed, and was about to go out, but the shopkeeper hurriedly asked, "Does the guest officer need a sedan chair?"
"Not this time, just take a walk around. Kong Rui hurriedly refused.
Kong Rui originally wanted to go straight to Tianxianglou, go around there first, and then try to get rid of the people who were following him, but he didn't expect to go out this time, but he didn't find anyone with him, so he changed his mind immediately and turned around and went to the east of the city.
After walking out of the city for a while, it was already completely dark, Kong Rui found a place where no one was around, changed into a black night suit, and left the road and dived towards Dongling Mountain.
Before he reached the foot of the mountain, Kong Rui found that there were several sentry posts, but the number of people at each checkpoint was not large, only four or five people were on duty. Kong Rui didn't dare to use mana, so he had to bypass it and sneak into the mountains.
By night, Kong Rui slowly found the Lingxi Zen Temple, and also followed the stream to find the location of the pavilion. However, what made Kong Rui strange was that the closer he got to this Zen temple, the fewer people on duty, and Kong Rui didn't dare to release his divine sense to sense the people here, so he hid behind a mountain rock and waited quietly.
After another meal, Kong Rui saw that the scheming had just walked away, so he quickly walked to the well and jumped down. The well on this half-mountain is much deeper than the well on the flat ground, and Kong Rui knew that he could not fall too deep, otherwise he would not be able to hear the sound above, so he immediately drove the clouds under his feet, and chose a suitable height with the chirping of autumn insects, and planned to dig a horizontal side hole in the wall of the well.
Who knows that as soon as he touched the wall of the well, Kong Rui secretly complained, it turned out that when the Lingxi Zen Temple built this deep well, bluestone was used to build this well wall for a week, and for many years, this stone wall is full of moss, if you want to excavate, not only will it take more effort, but it is also possible to leave traces, it is easy to be seen.
Just when Kong Rui was at a loss, he suddenly thought of the two beads that could transmit sound from Makino, and he was immediately overjoyed, so he drove the clouds up a little more, dug a small hole with his long sword near the mouth of the well, and put the big bead in the hole, and covered it up outside, but he himself slowly descended to the bottom of the well near the surface of the water and examined it carefully.
The light at the bottom of the well was already very dim, and he couldn't see anything clearly at night, Kong Rui just felt that the space at the bottom of the well seemed to be much larger, so he quickly touched the wall of the well with his hand, and found that it was just dirt, and secretly called luck in his heart, but he didn't dare to delay, and quickly started digging.
The sword given by Xu Tao was unusually sharp, and Kong Rui also saved a lot of effort. Kong Rui also deliberately dug the hole into a square, and the excavated soil was put into a storage bag seized from the scrubbers, but fortunately, the well was quite deep, and Kong Rui was also cautious, so he finally did not alarm the scrubbers who patrolled from time to time.
When the day was almost dawn, Kong Rui finally dug a small hole, he could get into it, Kong Rui first found out the set of hidden body formation flags and inserted a few near the entrance of the cave, and then took out the empty cage from the storage bag, and pasted the mud on the outside just to block the entrance of the cave, Kong Rui touched it, and felt that it was still good, so he got into the hole, blocked the hole with a cage, inserted the remaining array flags in it, and sat quietly in it to rest after they were activated.
After a while, Kong Rui heard the sound of someone talking on the ground through the small bead, but it seemed that these people were just patrolling, and they walked away while talking, Kong Rui knew that this method was feasible, so he just waited for Mei Chaojian and Ning Gang to come here.
In the past two days in the cave, Kong Rui has spent some effort to enlarge the cave, and he can stretch his arms and kick his legs, and he suffers in the dark every day; fortunately, although the place is small, Kong Rui can practice here, and he can also hear the morning bell and dusk drums in the Zen courtyard, and vaguely hear the chanting sound of those monks.
Kong Rui is most pleased that there is an inexplicable coolness in the deep well next to this spiritual stream, he has not continued to practice during this time, his mind is not very stable, and the heart demon seems to have a faint attack, practicing in this cave, although there is no special benefit to the growth of mana, but the stability of the mind and the suppression of the heart demon have twice the benefit with half the effort.
After some experimentation, Kong Rui just put the small bead in his ear several times a day to listen to the movement outside, and most of the time he put it aside, if there was a loud enough sound, the brilliance of the small bead was enough to attract his attention.
In the dark, Kong Rui heard the bell of the Zen temple for the third time in the cave, and couldn't help but be a little anxious, he hid in this underground all day, maybe Ning Gang had left and didn't know, but fortunately, he could always hear someone passing by during the day every day in the past two days, and there seemed to be a glimmer of hope, so he had to practice in the cave honestly and wait.
Suddenly, Kong Rui saw the brilliance of the small bead flickering, so he hurriedly stuffed him into his ears, and heard a lot of people on the ground, and then someone ordered: "This well should also be carefully inspected." β
Kong Rui was waiting for this time, and he couldn't help but be surprised and happy in his heart, so he quietly touched out the fifth-order mantis puppet ball with his left hand, and channeled with the psychic crystal, and the long sword in his right hand was also held in his hand, just in case.
Sure enough, Kong Rui heard the sound of someone flying down from the well, even if he didn't rely on that bead, Kong Rui also heard someone outside the cave carefully inspecting, and at the same time, that person also released his divine sense to explore around, fortunately, the set of array flags given by Uncle Sun can isolate the spirit master's detection, and it is naturally more than enough to deal with the spirit disciples.
Naturally, the man didn't notice anything, and soon returned to the ground, and someone else ordered: "This place must be strictly guarded, and the general may have to stay here a little longer." Kong Rui breathed a sigh of relief and began to close his eyes again.