Perhaps it was because of Ivan Joe's elixir that he was indescribably energetic.
The sleepy and powerless feeling at noon has completely disappeared, and even my thinking and feeling are obviously much clearer.
During the meal, all the information about the ancient Miao Village floated through my mind over and over again. I always felt that there was some information that I had missed, but I couldn't remember it for the moment.
After dinner, the three of us sat at the dining table, preparing to listen to Chujiu's plan.
The door of the room was pushed open again, and two men in Miao uniform came in to clean up the dishes and chopsticks as before. The two sentries behind them pointed their guns at the room.
I stepped on Chujiu from under the table and motioned him to look out the door.
One of the sentries, who looked about thirty years old and had dark skin and long braids, was blinking crazily at us. He dragged his left hand with the rifle and made several quick movements with his fingers.
Just behind our confused faces, the sentry fingers repeated the previous action again.
This time I made sure I wasn't dazzled, Chujiu nodded calmly, and the dark-skinned sentry with long braids stopped blinking.
We returned to the room, and the attentive Xiaoyu stared at us with doubts on her face. She also noticed the little movements of the sentry.
"This is the department's secret code. Wan Li specially taught it to us."
I glanced at Chujiu, who continued to explain to Xiaoyu that the sentry asked us to meet him at 2:30 in the evening and jump out of the side window.
"Tell me about the plan you mentioned before."
I lay on the floor, having no clue again, wondering if I could get some inspiration from Chujiu's plan. After all, as the old saying goes, three cobblers are worth one Zhuge Liang.
"I'm going to make a big move."
Chujiu's face showed excitement. Among the Taoist techniques he has mastered so far, the most powerful one is the Hundred Ghosts Soul Array. He has never tried a real Hundred Ghosts in his whole life. This time he finally has a chance.
Before dinner, I was still thinking about how to get out of this door and set up formation bases at key locations outside. It seemed that the most worrying thing had been solved.
"What is the function of this Hundred Ghost Wounded Souls Array?"
Xiaoyu's two dimples appeared again, and she sounded very powerful.
Chujiu raised his head proudly. Of course he was very powerful. This formation could trap people and attack. If he could really gather a hundred ghosts, he could have a fight with that Jie He.
"Jiehe?"
I was confused as to why I named Jie He. Chujiu rolled his eyes. I was afraid that I couldn't trap the other three immortals. After all, you have to pick the weak ones and scatter them.
While Xiaoyu and I laughed, Chujiu curled his lips. Even the white-haired Jiehu might be able to stay sleepy.
Seeing that Chujiu was getting angry with us, I quickly put away my smile and let Chujiu continue to tell us about his Hundred Ghost Formation.
"I found a few places with particularly strong Yin Qi along the way."
Chujiu guessed that with the brutal methods of the ancient Miao village, the number of people killed in the past hundreds of years must be quite large.
What the ancient Miao village studied was Gu magic, which was at most somewhat involved in magic techniques such as ghosts. It was impossible to be as proficient as a Taoist priest. This was a very good resource.
On the ninth day of the lunar month, he took out a bunch of copper coins wrapped in red thread from the cloth bag around his waist. I recognized at a glance that he had removed the copper coins and sword.
"Remember when I said I had to go to the toilet on the way?"
Chujiu told us that he did not actually go to the toilet, but set up formation bases in two places with very strong yin energy. He judged that there would be ghosts gathering in that place at night.
At the end of the day, Chujiu observed that not far from where we lived, two formation bases could also be set up.
If the formation eye is set up in our room, the most critical formation base must be set up near the inner city.
"I've been thinking about how to sneak out. Now it seems it shouldn't be too difficult."
If the sentry was really from the department, he could help Chujiu set up the formation base at a certain location, but the effect might be worse than what Chujiu had set up himself, but it would not affect the trapped man's function and attack.
It would be much weaker.
Xiaoyu lay on the bed and stared at the roof. If he had arranged it in advance, he should be able to recruit some practicing animals from the nearby mountains to help.
Once again, I deeply felt that I was nothing but useless.
We thought we could still see the sentry before going to bed, but it turned out that the sentry who brought us boiling water was not the two before.
Apparently the sentry posts are rotated every few hours.
"Guo Guo, I'll go out alone in the middle of the night to see what's going on."
Chujiu asked me to stay and take care of Xiaoyu under the pretext that I would be holding him back.
But this is a fact. The probability of being discovered if two people sneak out is far greater than if one person sneaks out.
We all went to bed very early. When the generator in the village did not make any sound, we were already asleep.
When the alarm clock on the pager rang for the first time, I turned it off and set the time to 1:50.
Chujiu and Xiaoyu woke up almost at the same time.
Chujiu and I climbed to the window and stared outside through the gap, not sure whether it was safe to go out at this time.
"Observe for a while first, there is still some time until half past two."
Xiaoyu warned aloud, then sat cross-legged on the bed and began to close her eyes.
"It shouldn't be time to change shifts yet."
Xiaoyu told us that she didn't sense any extra people outside.
Chujiu and I just squatted in the gap next to the window and stared outside.
"Someone!"
Xiaoyu and Chujiu spoke softly at the same time. Through the gap in the window, I saw two men walking on the bluestone road at the other end of the open space with guns on their backs. Due to the light problem, I couldn't tell whether they were the ones from before.
sentry post.
There were two people, one on the left and one on the right, one walking towards the sentry tower on the wall, and the other walking towards our house.
There were chirping sounds outside the door, and then a man carrying a rifle left yawning.
As for the other side of the wall, no one was seen leaving.
About ten minutes later, there were footsteps outside our room and a clicking sound outside the window of our room.
I knew in my heart that the latch that originally locked the window outside had been opened.
"Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo~"
Three cuckoo calls sounded from the direction of the wall. Xiao Yu chuckled and imitated them. Chujiu immediately opened the window and disappeared from the room in an instant.
"Hey, I didn't hear that bird's call was fake."
I returned to the floor and lay back by the window, smiling sheepishly.
Xiaoyu said softly that it was indeed difficult for ordinary people to distinguish it. If she was not a Gu girl, she would not be able to tell any difference from the bird calls she heard before.
"Let's wait for the news on the ninth day of the lunar month."
Xiao Yu sighed softly, hoping that this time the ninth day of the Lunar New Year would bring back great news.
"Xiao Yu, what is the greatest ability of the Gu King Insect?"