dejected fairy

Chapter 26

For three days in a row, Zeng Rouniang and others lived in Jincheng without much movement.

Fourth day.

Chen Mian suddenly sent someone to invite Zeng Rouniang, saying that he had something important to discuss.

"After waiting for a few days, Chen Mian still couldn't hold his breath." Zeng Rouniang said to Lu Lu, and then asked, "Where is General Zhenwu? What's going on?"

Someone reported: "I have never seen him leave the barracks. The rest of Dingxi is like an iron bucket run by him. I don't know how to buy people's hearts. I can't find out specific information. I just heard that he often goes to the open space behind the camp."

Zeng Rouniang frowned in thought, and without further words, she led the people to find Chen Mian, but when she arrived, Chen Mian was serving tea and chatting, talking about other things, as if testing Zeng Rouniang's attitude.

After a while, Zeng Rouniang simply said: "Uncle Chen has any plans, you can tell me, my father and I are on the side of the northwest cities, as long as it is beneficial to the northwest, we can talk about it."

Chen Mian was overjoyed when he heard the words, he knew this woman, so he said without any doubts, "Uncle, I got a piece of information about a barren stronghold."

"Huh?" Zeng Rouniang asked carefully.

"This is also my foresight. I thought that the barren people would not be reconciled after suffering a bit of a loss, so I used spies and scouts to investigate, and I found a stronghold of the barren people, which has a large amount of food and armor stored in it!"

"There is such a thing?" Zeng Rouniang stood up suddenly, "Where is it?"

"Niece, follow me, I'll mark it for you on the map."

Soon, Chen Mian marked the exact location on the map of the conference hall.

It is a dense forest called Xilin more than 50 miles away from Jincheng. It occupies a large area. There are many hills in the forest, and three rivers run through the north and south.

"This brook forest is located at the junction of two families. Because there are no mountains and rivers, there are no gods in charge. There are not many monsters inside, ferocious beasts are rampant, and there is no road connection outside the forest. It is not under the jurisdiction of Jincheng, so only hunters come in and out on weekdays." Pointing at it, Mian said, "The barren people probably valued this, so they hid their strongholds inside. Roughly, the food, grass, and armor inside are enough for [-] soldiers and horses for three months!"

Zeng Rouniang came closer to observe, and the more she looked, the more frightened she became.

"The few rivers in the brook forest are the upper reaches of the big rivers. The barbarians use waterways to transport them. During the advance and retreat, several big cities along the water are within the deterrent range of this stronghold!"

After thinking about it, she raised her head and said, "Uncle Chen, this information is too important! No matter what, it's a great achievement!"

Chen Mian said with a smile: "Niece, you can see the fatality here. Uncle, I want to lead an army to attack this place by surprise. If we can, we will grab it. If we can't, we will burn it! Before the desolate people can react, get rid of this hidden danger first!"

"Soldiers are a big deal, don't act rashly," Zeng Rouniang shook her head, "Send spies to investigate again, be sure to find experienced and strong men to find out the facts and details. I will report this matter to my father. Once confirmed, it is not Regarding the Jincheng family’s affairs, the coalition forces should send troops together to destroy this place!”

"Okay! I'll make arrangements now!"

Chen Mian left in a hurry, while Zeng Rouniang looked at the map, deduced calculations, and considered many situations.

the other side.

"These living corpses are full of dead energy, similar to rotting blood, showing signs of being formed by blood refinement! Among them, the central axis of blood lines runs through the whole body, intertwined into formations, obviously the traces of some kind of sacrificial training method..."

Chen Yuan was studying a few living dead—after repelling the desolate people, he ordered the rest of the living dead to be suppressed with gold and iron and buried in the soil. When necessary, one would be dug up and explored. After a few days, the harvest was quite fruitful. .

At this moment, on his left was a slightly trembling living dead man, and on his right was an iron ball obtained from the mountain god's cave.

Inside the iron ball, the piece of living corpse was also trembling, echoing and resonating with the living dead.

This proved Chen Yuan's guess.

"Both are written by the same person! Therefore, the person who refines the living corpse is also the person who visited Lushou Mountain. It is the desolate man who enshrined, the Taoist!"

Putting away the iron ball and calming down the living corpse, he pondered.

"Using the method of blood refining to revive the living corpse means a mature and systematic method of sacrificial corpses! However, there are unfinished meanings in these living corpses, which shows that the blood refining method is not perfect. Not finished yet? I need more information!"

He stretched out his left hand and pressed it, absorbing the essence of dead energy from the body of the living dead, and stored it in the gap of the divine way in his left arm. There is already a lot of essence of dead energy stored in it. Every replenishment of the body can restore him to Qi The peak state of full blood.

At this moment.

"General!"

Zhang Que's voice came.Then, he ran over panting.

"what happened?"

"Then Chen Mian suddenly ordered me to wait for the Dingxi soldiers to form scouts and go to a place to investigate, saying that they found the barren people's secret stronghold!" Zhang Que asked for instructions: "But all barren people's strongholds are extremely dangerous and require skilled hands. There is no way to count on the Northwest soldiers!" He said with a little pride, "General, how do you think about the arrangement? Otherwise, the subordinates will lead people over?"

"The barren man's hidden stronghold?"

Chen Yuan's heart skipped a beat, and all kinds of information passed through his mind——

Blood sacrifices, living dead, skeletons, desolate people, desolate strongholds...

He caught a thread.

"Very well, at the right time, I happened to find out. Speaking of which, I spent too much time in Jincheng."

"What? Chen Shiji went to collect information himself?!"

In the hall of the barracks, Chen Mian stared with surprise when he got the news.

Zeng Rouniang, who was sitting at the bottom, changed her expression, showing surprise.

"That's right," Zhang Que, who came to report the news, had a bitter expression on his face. "When the general got the news, he said he would go there to inquire in person, and he also said that other people don't need to get involved..."

He was full of remorse, thinking that his own general was sympathetic to the soldiers, and he didn't want to put himself and others in danger, so he replaced him with his own body!

In the final analysis, it was me and these people who were not successful and dragged down the general!
Chen Mian quickly digested the shocking news, and pretended to say: "General Chen is confused! Zhang Que, why didn't you stop him? Let him be self-willed! If you are young, you will inevitably act recklessly, but Zhang Que, you You're a veteran, don't you know how serious it is?"

"I can't persuade the general! He read the content of the military order, knew the location, and left immediately, and there was no chance to stop him!" Zhang Que's face became even more bitter.

Chen Mian has yet to say more.

But Zeng Rouniang interrupted him and said: "This matter involves the safety of the Northwest, so we can't mess up the situation because of a momentary grievance! Find out the situation before we talk about it!"

"My niece is right!" Chen Mian quickly nodded in agreement.

Zeng Rouniang said again: "However, General Zhenwu's move is really too childish. As a general, he is also the soul of an army, and involves the safety of the cities. He should sit in the center and line up troops. How can he be personally involved?" She shook her head. Shaking his head, "He doesn't have the consciousness to be a general at all! Uncle Chen, quickly arrange people to stop him! Bring him back quickly!"

"Okay, let's make arrangements."

"With masculinity and blood, the study of living corpses is almost done. If you carry the mustard kit with you, there is no need to be bound to the army. However, it is no small cause and effect that so many people entrust their thoughts to me. Before going, it is also necessary to explore for them."

Chen Yuan walked through the forest like lightning.

"As soon as the desolate people retreated, there was information about the secret base, and then contacted with the unfinished intention of refining the living corpses, it can't help but make people suspect that someone is deliberately spreading the news. Just take this opportunity to test the other party's reality, No matter what the plan is, we must collect as much information as possible.”

Following the route mentioned in the military order, he quickly came to the border of Xilin, stopped at a place more than 30 miles away from the target, found a tall tree and jumped up, with a golden light flashing in his eyes.

The evil spirit surged in the field of vision, and there were many auras gathering and dispersing.

"It's strange, it's full of aura, it can be said to be a treasure land of cultivation, but it also has a fierce appearance, showing signs of desperation! This place is really weird, it's not just a barren stronghold, it may be a trap, but it needs to be searched carefully. In this situation, if you are not careful, you will step into a trap."

Withdrawing his gaze, Chen Yuan pondered for a moment, and then revealed the Fuqiu sword.

"Although the golden eyes can look at Qi, they can't sense it in a large area. Fortunately, there is a compromise."

After thinking about it, he squeezed a sword formula with his left hand, and the power of the divine way was poured into the Fuqiu sword.

hum!
The blade of the sword burst into brilliance, then flew into the sky, turned into a ray of cold light, left in an instant, lingered around, imprinted the surrounding scene with the power of the divine way, and returned after a few breaths.

The divine power in Chen Yuan's sword was absorbed, and the scene with a radius of a hundred miles was immediately reflected in his mind, allowing him to discover many details, and there were many hidden teams of barren people, including a familiar figure.

"When the desolate people attacked Jincheng, there was this woman. She seemed to be enshrined by the desolate people and ran back. She is considered a high-level person, so she should know a lot of inside information, and you are the only one!"

In the past few days, Hua Jinu's mood has gradually calmed down, gradually freed from the panic of attacking Jincheng, and he is leading a team of people to patrol the forest.

"As long as I don't take the initiative to take risks, the dangers won't find me."

She has made up her mind to stay away from Jincheng for the past six months.

"It's not just Jincheng," she thought as she walked, "it's hard to guarantee that that person won't go to support other cities, so in the recent siege, you have to stay away, and even if you go, you have to hide behind. Of course, the ideal is like this Inspection mission."

Looking at the lush jungle, Hua Jinu praised his wit.

"Although this is a trap prepared for the Northwest Allied Forces, it is safe until the Ning people come to attack!"

She feels that she is quite capable of planning now.

"In this kind of hidden place, at most a few scouts will come, and the murderous man can be seen as the commander, the commander. He will not come here to investigate instead of the good-looking Chinese army, right? Huh?"

Just thinking about it, Hua Jinu's back felt a shudder, and for some reason, he felt a little ominous.

"what happened?"

Before thinking about it, I heard an exclamation behind me!
"Enemy attack!"

When Hua Jinu turned around, the dozen or so barren soldiers behind him had all fallen down.

In the distance, a young man in Taoist robes was walking slowly.

Hua Jinu's eyes widened, as if seeing a ghost in daylight.

　The time to change has timed out, ashamed——

　　
　
(End of this chapter)