Fear is an emotion that is most easily contagious. At first, it was just Bimo's fear, and then it spread to a small group of people. Then, the entire Puding Fort was shrouded in the fear of doomsday.
Men, women, old and young all panicked and ran eastward with the crowd until they were stopped by the closed fort gate.
They shouted and asked the guards to quickly lower the suspension bridge and let everyone escape.
The ceremony just now was held on the west side. The guards on the east side of the gate didn't know what was going on, so naturally they wouldn't cooperate.
But they were all from the same clan, and there were their own uncles and uncles in the crowd. They didn't dare to mess around. They just shouted over and over again: "Ji Mu has an order, no one is allowed to leave the fort tonight!"
"Return to Ju Mu, she is the one who harmed us!" The crowd was extremely excited. More and more people were running for their lives, and their behavior became more and more bold.
A group of young people climbed up the fort wall, pushed away the soldiers guarding the winch, and then used a sledgehammer to smash off the pin on top. The tight winch began to rotate rapidly, and the suspension bridge also fell.
With a bang, the suspension bridge hit the other side of the trench, and the Puding tribe members rushed out in droves and escaped from the fort...
At this time, Shi'er also rushed over along the fort wall. Seeing that she was unable to stop the tribesmen from escaping, she sighed dejectedly and murmured: "It's more dangerous if you leave the fort..."
She repeated this sentence repeatedly, her tone getting lower and lower, which made the maid behind her feel horrified and couldn't help but persuade:
"Ju Mu, everyone in the fortress is about to run away. Let's go back to the old village to take shelter."
"I won't leave. Leaving the fort will be more dangerous..." Shi'er shook his head and said the same thing.
"..." The maid was immediately speechless and muttered, "Can't you say something else?"
She thought that Shi'er was mentally disturbed by being frightened, but that was not the case.
Although Shi'er was indeed in fear, she could still think normally. It was just that she believed that if her tribe members left the fort, they would be eaten by hungry ghosts. If she escaped, she would either be eaten too, or she would be lucky enough to survive.
He must be responsible for this catastrophe and never dare to face the surviving tribesmen again.
For this proud female Ju Mu, it would be better to kill her if she was collectively despised by her tribe.
"You all go, I'll stay alone." She said to the maid and guard who were following her:
"The hungry ghosts are here to find me. Maybe if they eat me, they won't trouble you anymore..."
"Ju Mu..." Everyone said with tears in their eyes: "We will stay with you."
"Let's go!" Shi Er pulled out the knife and waved it fiercely. Then they left in tears and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
When there was no one around, Shi'er slowly sat down leaning on the arrow stack, looking up at the hungry ghost that had floated above her head, preparing to wait for the final arrival. Suddenly her pupils shrank, and she froze there——
A group of will-o'-the-wisps gradually extinguished, and the 'hungry ghost' slowly fell down. Coincidentally, it happened to fall not far from her eyes. It shrank into a puddle in an instant.
"..." Shi'er stared fearfully at the pool of colorful flowers on the ground. After a long while, he didn't see any movement. Then he plucked up the courage to crawl over and took a closer look. His eyes almost dropped.
"What the hell is this?!" She angrily picked up the 'body' of the hungry ghost, and now she could see it clearly - this so-called 'hungry ghost' was just a corpse with a bamboo silk frame and a paper covering.
A shoddy handicraft with paint graffiti on the skin.
At this time, the other sky lanterns also ran out of fuel one after another, and several more fell down one after another. As expected, they were all the same.
"It's a lie..." Shi'er was relieved at first, it turned out that it was not a hungry ghost causing trouble.
Immediately, I fell into panic again. Either it was a ghost, or someone was causing trouble!
She suddenly jumped up and shouted in the direction where the tribesmen were fleeing for their lives: "Come back, we have been tricked, there is no ghost at all..."
It's a pity that all the clan members have fled and no one can hear her.
This sound also revealed her position, and someone was heard shouting excitedly: "Shi'er is here, don't let her escape!"
Shi'er suddenly looked up and saw a group of Shuixi warriors appearing in the city at some unknown time and running towards him.
There was no time to think about it, so he had to run for his life. Shi Er panicked and jumped up, holding on to the arrow stack, and jumped out of the fort...
Those Shuixi warriors were all shocked. They climbed up on a two-foot-high ladder. This girl actually dared to jump directly down. Isn't this too brave?
They rushed to the arrow stack and looked down one after another, only to see the woman holding her legs and doing sit-ups there...
She still didn't stand up from the ground until the Shuixi warriors came down to surround her.
"Oh, my leg was broken." Aaron, who was leading the team, gloated: "You deserve it if you dare to jump from such a high place."
"..." Shi'er said nothing. What could she say? 'Yes, I did break my leg?' That makes people laugh to death.
"Tie her up and bring her to Noha!" Aron didn't want to talk nonsense. He caught the big fish and quickly claimed the credit.
~~
After dark, Shexiang personally led Shuixi Jumu's army into the canyon and quietly approached Puding Fort.
When the King of Chu started lighting up lights, attracting all the attention in the fort, Ju Mu's army took the opportunity to go up to Pingding Mountain. He put the ladder he brought on the south wall of Puding Fort, and the soldiers followed him one by one.
Climb up quickly.
The warriors of the Shuixi tribe who went up first were determined to die and prepared to fight the defenders on the fort wall. Unexpectedly, after they went up, they discovered that not even one of the defenders was left.
Everyone was overjoyed when they saw this, and quickly opened the gate of the fort, put a large number of troops into the fort, and occupied Puding Fort without any effort.
What made them even more surprised was that the Communist Party did not capture many prisoners, and among them was the murderer of Ju Mu, Shi'er, the female leader of the Puding tribe.
When she heard the report, Shexiang was standing on the top of Puding Fort, looking at the remaining Kongming Lanterns in the night sky in a daze.
It all happened too fast, and the happiness came too suddenly, like a sweet dream, which made her feel unrealistic.
This is Puding Fort, which occupies a natural barrier and cannot be attacked by water east and west. How can it be captured without a single soldier?
And he also caught Shi Er? What kind of magical operation is this?
Even though she, who knew the inside story well, was like this, the soldiers of Ju Mu's army were naturally in a dream, feeling that Noye had divine help.
The way they looked at Mrs. Shexiang changed, and they were full of awe...
"Do you believe it now? Noye is protected by the Ghost King!" Upon seeing this, Old Bimo gave an official certification and took the lead in bowing after saying this. "She is the Ghost King's messenger in the human world!"
The tribesmen hurriedly knelt down to worship Mrs. Shexiang devoutly, believing in Old Bimo's statement. Because only in this way can it be explained...
She Xiang felt ashamed in her heart. In fact, she knew that this was all because of the ingenious plan of His Royal Highness the King of Chu and the Marquis of Xiping. But His Highness had already said it before, and everything was her credit and had nothing to do with them, so she could only accept it with a shy face.
The west wind blew away the dark clouds, and a full moon reappeared in the sky. The bright moonlight fell on her body, making Shexiang look divine.
