Chapter 14: Night Exploration of the City Lord's Mansion
Wang Yicheng nodded, looking at the gray mist like a high mountain, imagining in his heart what the ruins inside looked like, is it a ruin?
Sha Zheng could see Wang Yicheng's thoughts, and said with a smile: "We have set up some observation formations outside the big array, so you can peek into the situation inside. ”
With that, he walked over to a nearby pile of rocks and fiddled with it. In a few moments, a ray of light shot out from the stone.
The light shone onto the white mist, which slowly parted in all directions, thinning out, and finally revealing a one-foot-wide window. The most amazing thing is that there is a light shooting out of the window. It's like in the dark, the light in the room shines through the window.
Wang Yicheng was very surprised, looking inside in the small fog window, and was completely stunned for a moment. The fog-shrouded space is a bright place. Under the bright sun, the green meadow forest seems to have birds and creatures running in the forest. In the distance, a verdant mountain points to the sky, and you can clearly see the pavilions and palaces scattered on the peaks, there are as many as hundreds, exuding a prosperous atmosphere. If it weren't for the fact that he already knew that this was an empty ruin, Wang Yicheng almost thought that he had suddenly come to a prosperous sect.
When the time came to spy on the formation, the fog window gradually closed, and finally turned into a gray fog, and the light also changed from bright to dim, and finally completely dark, Wang Yicheng almost thought that he had just experienced a vision.
"Is this true?" Wang Yicheng knew it was true, but he couldn't help but ask.
"It's true, the first time I've seen it, and I'm as surprised as you are. The patriarch said that this mountain protection array could automatically absorb the aura in the leylines and use it to maintain the energy needs of the entire formation. Gravel said.
Wang Yicheng nodded, in his understanding, there can be no green plants in the underground without sunlight. However, the monks of this world used the formation to change this common sense.
"Is there really something in it to improve the strength of the formation?" Wang Yicheng asked.
"Yes. Gravel affirmed that all the formations his people had learned had come from the ruins.
"Okay, I'll help you rescue your patriarch, Sha Jingjing, but I want her to take me into this ruin. ”
"Yes. "Gravel is very happy, it would be great if he could get the patriarch out.
So Sha Gravel and Wang Yicheng returned to their residence in the city together. At this time, the sky was already dark, and Hou San and Jiang Lan, who came back first, were looking out anxiously, and they were overjoyed to see the two of them coming back.
Hou San said in a low voice: "The news of the prison has spread, and many guards are searching everywhere! ”
Wang Yicheng smiled and nodded, he had a way to hide the gravel.
In the early morning, the sun rose, and there was a sharp knock on the door. Hou San opened the door and saw several guards from the City Lord's Mansion standing outside with serious expressions.
"Someone knocked out the prison guards yesterday and rescued the rat killers, and now the whole city is searching. The guard said.
"Yawn!" Wang Yicheng walked out with sleepy eyes and stretched his waist, "I was drunk last night, and this sleep is really good." Oh, what are you searching for?" Wang Yicheng's acting skills made Jiang Lan and Hou San secretly admire, which was too similar.
The guard repeated what he had just said to Hou San.
"I didn't hear any sound last night anyway. Wang Yicheng spread his hands out and made a gesture of indifference.
Several guards walked into the courtyard and searched around. The guard at the head took out a compass and searched it carefully. This compass, Wang Yicheng has seen it many times, and it is used to search for demonic energy. Several guards were busy for a while, but they didn't notice it, and then they retired.
Hou San closed the door, waited until the guards were far away, and then walked to the dry pond, brushed away the dirt, and below was a stone slab, lifting the stone slab. All I saw was a dirt pit. The sand and gravel huddled in a pit of dirt on a formation.
It was an idea that Wang Yicheng came up with, and Gravel is good at digging a hole in a dry pond. And Wang Yicheng is portraying the array. found a first-level formation on the formation book-the Gathering Formation Formation, the effect of Wang Yicheng's Gathering Formation is almost the same, and he can really deceive the guards.
In the middle of the night, the moonlight is obscured by a veil-like cloud. It's dark, but it's not completely dark, just right for a stalker.
Wang Yicheng was preparing in the room, and he planned to explore Ma Zhongxin's City Lord's Mansion. According to Sha Li, Ma Zhongxin imprisoned Sha Jingjing under the City Lord's Mansion, but the exact location was unknown. However, Sha Gravel said that there was a secret room underneath the City Lord's Mansion, and there might be a powerful formation.
Wang Yicheng looked at the sky and could act. He put on a black one-piece night walking suit specially prepared for night walking, and the black hat with a cloth towel to cover his face was connected to the clothes, and even if he pulled hard, he would not fall off and be exposed. With black gloves and black shoes, the whole person seems to melt into the night.
Wang Yicheng took out the tools he usually used when he acted, and many of them were eliminated. Flying grabbing is no longer necessary, and now the levitation technique can effortlessly enter anywhere in the air. The dagger blades are not very useful, and now there are flying swords and death rings, which are fast and lethal enough. However, Wang Yicheng also added a few new items of night travel equipment.
A small piece of iron in the shape of a willow leaf, which can be pasted on the eyebrows, is used to see in the dark, much like the night vision device on the earth, this is a magic weapon, on which the sound spell is depicted, the principle is similar to the ultrasound of bats, and the world is also black and white.
There is also a talisman with an image of a beautiful woman painted on it, and this talisman is sealed with a shadow spell that can form an image of a woman, which will disappear after a few breaths, and have the effect of confusing the enemy.
These two things Wang Yicheng bought in the market of Jinshan City, and they were not expensive, and the talisman was still second-level, and it was only a few hundred spirit stones. This is because the monks of this world only value the power of the cultivation items, how strong the attack is, and how strong the defense is, and they despise some auxiliary attribute items. Who would spend spirit stones to buy a figure that can only exist for a few breaths!
Wang Yicheng, who came from the modern society of the earth, had a much more advanced vision than the people here, especially his identity as an agent, and he could see the wonderful use of these talismans at a glance.
The night deepened, and it was like a huge black curtain hanging over the city.
"Wind, hurry!" Wang Yicheng then recited the magic of the levitation technique, and his body floated out of the window lightly. Under the cover of the building, it was like a shadow, and like a ghost, it flew silently in the direction of the City Lord's Mansion.
Flying over the courtyard wall of the City Lord's Mansion, Wang Yicheng immediately fell, lying motionless in the shadow of a dwarf tree. It was already late at night, and there was still light in the Lord's Mansion, and there were guards walking around, and all kinds of voices could be heard, there were voices of talking, there were the neighing of horses in the stables, and the sound of the wind blowing the leaves......
Wang Yicheng put his ear to the ground, listening to the subtle sounds that he didn't want to be heard, such as the secret whistle hiding in the shadows.
Soon, the dark whistle in the courtyard was found by him, and Wang Yicheng looked at the direction and threw the shadow talisman out.
"Giggle!" A few crisp laughs as a woman in white appeared in the bushes.
"Who is it?"
"Come out?"
Several secret sentinels pounced on the woman in white at the same time. But in the bushes, the white shadow flashed, and then there was no human figure.
"What's wrong?" someone in the room asked, and Ma Zhongxin walked out with a slow frown. Several guards hurriedly bowed and saluted, saying that they saw a woman in white. However, after some searching, I found nothing, so I had to give up.
At this time, Wang Yicheng had already infiltrated Ma Zhongxin's house, and he curled up in a ball on the beams, motionless. This is a second-level array mage's room, and I don't know how many prohibitions or traps have been set up in it, and if you are not careful, it will be exposed. Fortunately, Wang Yicheng learned wind spells, floating in the air and not touching anything, which saved a lot of trouble.
Wang Yicheng was on the beam of the room, peeking at Ma Zhongxin, only to see him sitting at the table calculating something, and he still needed to draw a diagram, which should be calculating the formation.
The furnishings in the house are very simple, just like the homes of ordinary people, very poor. Jiang Lan and Hou San admired Ma Zhongxin very much, in this world, a city lord has a very great power, he is the emperor of the soil, and he holds the power of life and death of all the people in a city. It's like the ancient fiefdom lords. Because of the great power, the depravity is also very powerful, and the three wives and four concubines are already few.
And Ma Zhongxin's reputation in this regard is very good, and there have always been rumors in Ruiguang City that the lord of Ma City is not close to women and is dedicated to the people. If Wang Yicheng hadn't heard what Sha Gravel had said, he might have really believed these rumors. At least look at the moment, Ma Zhongxin's room is simple enough, with a table, a chair, a bed and a cabinet, and no other decorations.
Ma Zhongxin seemed to be tired of writing, stood up and paced around the room, walked to the wardrobe, stretched out his hand to draw symbols on the surface of the wardrobe, and the surface of the wardrobe floated from time to time with shiny filaments.
Wang Yicheng narrowed his eyes, there is a set of formations on the surface of this wardrobe, does it work...... Hearing only the sound of "crunch, crunch!" , the wardrobe slowly moved to the side, revealing a passageway. The stone steps in the passage sloped downwards and disappeared into the darkness, which was obviously Ma Zhongxin's underground chamber.
Ma Zhongxin walked in slowly, and after a while, the wardrobe automatically closed, and at the moment of closing, a black shadow flashed in and disappeared into the dark passage.
Wang Yicheng entered the passage, his heart began to beat gradually, and the passage was very quiet, and the footsteps of Ma Zhongxin in front of him could be heard. Wang Yicheng didn't dare to follow too closely, so he could only stay far behind.
At the end of the stone stairs is a corridor with polished stones of polished stone and walls that reflect human faces. There were several rooms on either side of the hallway, but the heavy iron doors were tightly closed. Wang Yicheng sniffled and vaguely smelled the fragrance of fat powder.