Chapter 781 A narrow escape from death and a lifetime of crossing Zhifeng
Hong Zhenkang left Shenlin City in a sedan chair and walked all the way towards Yanzhou.
He asked the guards to avoid being seen and heard as much as possible, and he was worried about encountering strong men on the road, so he did not allow the guards to disperse.
Just thirty miles out of Shenlin City, he met the magistrate of Yangong County and led the people to greet him.
Since he was recognized by the magistrate, King Lu couldn't help but eat a light meal with the magistrate, which lasted from noon to dusk. He set out on the road at dawn the next day. After walking only twenty miles, he met the magistrate of Anyu County again.
Unable to refuse the hospitality, King Lu stayed for another light meal, this time until late at night.
At dawn the next day, King Lu set out again, and after walking for more than thirty miles, he encountered a group of people in Quguang County...
Hong Zhenkang knew that the journey was urgent, but he could not let go of this kindness. The tears at the corner of his mouth and the longing in his heart made him stay again and again.
We can't blame King Lu for being hopeless. He was imprisoned for twenty years and suffered too much. After he was released, he lived in Hong Zhenji's house. The food and drink were good, but after all he was living under someone else's roof.
After finally regaining his identity, he only had eighty taels of silver in hand, and he had to look at Hong Zhenji's face to spend money. Even the expenses for this trip were borrowed from here and there, and he was really living on a tight budget.
Now there is finally such a group of people, with delicious food on the table, good words spoken in their ears, good girls warmed in bed, and good money given away before leaving.
Angry, Hong Zhenkang rushed into the yard, ordered everyone to light torches, and searched everywhere.
Yuezhi Peak is the second highest peak of Muhua Mountain, but the mountain is far steeper than the main peak. Since ancient times, few people have visited Yuezhi Peak. Especially in recent years, it is rumored that there are monsters on the mountain. Even long-time hunters and woodcutters dare not go up to Yuezhi Peak.
peak.
Who is this person? Why is he so fat?
Wang Junwu, the eighth-grade Mohist, was an honest man. He stepped forward and said to Hong Zhenkang: "Your Majesty, this business trip is too dangerous. The price you gave me is not appropriate."
Gong Yinde took out the charm and looked around carefully. There was a sound of footsteps in the distance. The sound was noisy and messy, and the source could not be distinguished.
The spell instantly turned into a fireball and flew towards the living corpse.
The Killing Dao has the strongest fighting power among its peers. This Killing Dao has an eighth-grade cultivation level, but in front of the living corpse, he can't come up with any means to defeat the enemy.
The living corpse seemed unresponsive and continued to move towards the camp with its body covered in flames.
Gong Yinde snorted coldly: "My lord, what do you mean by capturing? This manor does not belong to your family? We have entered the yard, is it possible that we have to help you steal money?"
The movement in this compartment attracted many wandering swordsmen. Everyone was shocked when they saw the living corpse approaching.
Muhua County is named after Muhua Mountain. Muhua Mountain covers a vast area, resulting in most parts of Muhua County being barren mountains.
A wandering swordsman was worried that the living corpses would come again, and he really didn't want to wait, so he jumped from the courtyard wall into the courtyard.
Yinde, the seventh-grade Yin-Yang Traveling Swordsman, said: "Why does this place smell so weird?"
"I've seen him several times." Ling Zheng touched the sword on his waist, but he didn't take it out of its sheath. He seemed a little worried, "Brother, please set a fire to burn him. This living corpse may be poisonous. If I get close,
I'm afraid I'll suffer a loss."
It's already this time, are you still thinking about those two hundred taels of silver?
That night, everyone camped on the mountainside. Ling Zhengze, Wang Junwu, and Gong Yinde shared a tent.
Although Wang Junwu hated Gong Yinde, he had great trust in Ling Zhengze. Upon hearing this, he picked up his weapons and said, "I'll lay some traps around the camp."
Gong Yinde shouted: "I've seen a ghost!"
The journey that originally took three days ended up taking nearly ten days because of the warm hospitality received by the magistrates and counties along the way.
Yanzhou is a relatively prosperous place in Qiancheng, but Muhua County is a special case in Yanzhou.
Calculating the time, around the third watch, the yin energy became stronger and stronger, and Gong Yinde coughed because of the rotten air!
Many people in the camp were awake, but Hong Zhenkang slept soundly in the tent. He was used to sleeping in the dungeon and was used to all the smells.
Ling Zhengze looked around and said, "There is Yin Qi and decaying Qi. There seems to be something strange nearby."
The fireball exploded, igniting the sticky grease all over the living corpse.
Gong Yinde saw that Ling Zhengze was a capable person, so he stepped forward and lowered his voice and said: "There is a lot of money in this village. We brothers should just take what we can and leave overnight!"
Wang Junwu was very familiar with the structure of this type of house, and it didn't take long before he found a cellar in the main courtyard.
"Your nose is choked with sawdust, how can you still smell it?" Gong Yinde mocked Wang Junwu, then looked at Ling Zhengze, "Your nose is better, can you smell it?"
Ling Zhengze shouted: "Everyone, protect the yin and yang. The living corpse is not afraid of being chopped with knives and axes, it can only be burned!"
His sedan chair was torn into pieces, his luggage was also torn into pieces, and he didn't even have a change of clothes.
Before he could wipe off the oil on his face, another living corpse came forward, grabbed his hair, and bit into his face.
Ling Zhengze walked up to him, shook his head and said: "This is not a ghost, it is a living corpse."
Since there is a lot of money and weapons stored here, how could it be unguarded?
Could it be that everything was taken away by Hong Zhenji?
Gong Yinde nodded and said: "In this way, when it is dawn tomorrow, let's leave this house first. If we encounter a living corpse, the two of us will clean it up. When it gets daybreak, I will use the magic circle to rush down. Without these burdens, one day
It should be able to go down."
The strange man's two legs were still intact, and he continued to move towards Gong Yinde with half of his body.
"Everyone, follow me and capture this manor. I will be rewarded heavily!"
The housekeeper did not dare to disobey, so he walked to the door cautiously and slapped the door several times.
Hong Zhenkang heard this and said: "As long as we take this village, I will reward you two hundred taels more each!"
Gong Yinde resisted vomiting and stared at the weird man for a long time.
The housekeeper turned around and asked Hong Zhenkang: "Master, is this the place you are talking about?"
still got more?
Gong Yinde's heart tightened and he followed Ling Zhengze's gaze.
They formed a group, killing Taoists, Mohists, and Confucians outside, blocking the living corpses and protecting the Yin and Yang cultivators.
Ling Zhengze whispered: "I also have this plan, but I will definitely not be able to leave tonight, and I will definitely encounter a living corpse."
Before the man could break free, another living corpse came again, and he stabbed the living corpse's chest with a knife. The chest was full of grease, and the blade was stuck in it and could not be pulled out.
Hong Zhenkang shouted: "Everyone, break down the gate first!"
He used a spell to summon a gust of wind to disperse the thick fog a little, but he saw a bloated man staggering towards the camp.
But the severed living corpse was not dead. The half living corpse on the ground crawled all the way and hugged the wandering knife's legs.
Ling Zheng lowered his eyes, looked around, and sighed softly: "This is a good deal, but the others are hard to say."
Gong Yinde looked at Hong Zhenkang and said: "Your Majesty, at least go up and ask a question. We are short of men and horses. If we can avoid fighting, then don't fight!"
Gong Yin pulled Wang Junwu, shook his head and said: "Don't worry about the surroundings of the camp. I know your skills. You can't defend the entire camp, so you should set up traps around the three of us."
The prefect did not dare to see him. The matter of increasing the tax was not completed. The prefect of Yanzhou thought that Hong Zhenkang was demanding a debt, so he was too frightened to go out.
Gong Yinde threw out a talisman again. Despite his low level of cultivation, the talismans were all excellent. This talisman summoned a bolt of thunder and lightning, which hit the weirdo just in time, burning his head to ashes and blowing up his body.
Half of it.
Seeing that many wandering swordsmen had already run out of the camp, Gong Yinde said to Ling Zhengze: "Brother Ling, let's go too."
I wanted to just go down the mountain, but after spending so much money and losing so many servants, Hong Zhenkang was really unwilling to do so. He ordered everyone to continue walking into the mountain until his trousers were full of filth and dried.
Some of the wandering swordsmen fled directly for their lives, while some of the wandering swordsmen were more diligent and woke up Hong Zhenkang from the tent first.
Even so, Hong Zhenkang was not particularly satisfied. When he passed by Yanzhou Prefecture, the prefect refused to see him because he was sick.
After walking through the front and back yards, the wandering sword squatted on the wall and shouted: "Your Majesty, there is no one here, come in!"
Hong Zhenkang saw that the commander was not moving, so he turned to the housekeeper and said, "Go up and take a look first."
The man struggled to pull the long knife, and suddenly felt a sharp pain in his calf. The half-living corpse on the ground tore off a large piece of meat from his leg.
How could King Lu reject this friendship?
Wang Junwu thought it was reasonable and planted traps around the three people's tents.
Hong Zhenkang was overjoyed and rushed to the cellar to see fifty taels of silver ingots, neatly stacked and filling the entire cellar.
Wang Junwu, the eighth-grade Mohist swordsman, sniffed: "Why don't I smell anything?"
Hong Zhenkang is unknown.
Gong Yinde said in shock: "When did you wake up? Have you seen a living corpse?"
The burning living corpse became the source of light in the thick fog. Against the backdrop of the firelight, Gong Yinde saw many bloated and slow figures, staggering towards the camp.
While the two were discussing, they had already arrived in front of the house.
When he heard that no one was there, Hong Zhenkang became suspicious.
Two Yin-Yang cultivators lit fires around the camp and observed the movement, only to see hundreds of bloated living corpses surrounding the camp.
They agreed with Ling Zhengzhen's statement that if they were left alone at this time, they would die.
The housekeeper cautiously counted the number of people, and found that there were still thirteen people left in Youdao, six servants left, and the rest had gone into the belly of the living corpse.
He cut a living corpse in half with one knife.
Gong Yinde pulled out another talisman, threw it into the air, mobilized the yin and yang energy, and accurately hit the talisman.
Where do these living corpses come from?
When Wang Junwu heard this, he felt relieved. Gong Yinde sneered in his heart, otherwise a fool like Wang Junwu would not be able to make a fortune in his life.
Ling Zhengze shook his head and said: "Brother Gong, you must not run away. There are so many living corpses suddenly appearing. There must be a corpse demon on this mountain. If you are left alone, you will definitely die!"
That Youdao screamed heartbreakingly for a long time, and then was eaten alive by the zombies!
Hong Zhenkang did not dare to say anything.
"Thirty? Fifty? This, this must be a hundred!"
Lingzheng wiped the oil on the knife, looked at the dim sky, and murmured to himself: "These living corpses are afraid of the sky. It seems that the zombie demons have not yet developed."
A group of servants howled louder than King Lu and made more noises than him.
Hong Zhenkang led a hundred and ten people to the foot of Yuezhi Peak according to the location in the letter, and followed a mountain road full of thorns towards the mountain.
We walked on the mountain for another whole day, and at nightfall, the living corpses came again, all the servants were dead, and there were only five You Dao left. Hong Zhenkang and the housekeeper were lucky, and they followed You Dao all the way and climbed to the top of the mountain.
Saw a manor.
Strange, why did King Lu go to Muhua County?
Gong Yinde panicked: "This, how to deal with this?"
Gong Yinde saw a huge meat ball and slowly walked towards him.
But we shouldn't waste so much time on the road.
What Hong Zhenkang was going to was Yuezhi Peak, the second peak of Muhua Mountain.
The man lowered his head and glanced at his calf. Behind him, a tall living corpse spat a mouthful of grease on the back of his head. The foul-smelling sticky substance hung on his face, blocking his sight.
After hearing the news, Hong Zhenkang took a detour to Muhua County, and the prefect just felt relieved.
No one agreed in the house for a long time, and everyone could only wait in front of the door.
The air was filled with the smell of burnt grease, and a large piece of blown butter fell at Gong Yinde's feet.
"Quick, move out!"
Hong Zhenkang said angrily: "Why did I call you here? Do you need me to step forward for this kind of thing?"
Hong Zhenkang recalled the contents of the letter and found that this was what he was talking about.
Yuezhi Peak is steep and the mountain road is difficult to walk. I started from early in the morning and walked until dusk before barely reaching the halfway up the mountain.
Because his body was too huge, his head looked like an egg placed on a jar, and there seemed to be four firewood stuck around the jar, which were his short and thin limbs.
Before he finished speaking, a scream came from the east. He followed the sound and saw that as soon as a killing swordsman rushed out of the camp, he was surrounded by four living corpses.
Seeing the surroundings, Hong Zhenkang wailed and sat on the ground. The thick yellow substance flowed out from his trousers.
Seeing such a scene, there were only a dozen or so wanderers left in the camp who refused to escape.
Ling Zhengze let Wang Junwu go to sleep first, and he and Gong Yinde took turns on duty.
"help me……"
At dawn, 20% of the living corpses were killed, 30% of the living corpses were fed and drunk and left, and the remaining half retreated without a fight.
Hong Zhenkang looked excited, but saw a group of wandering swordsmen with pale faces.
Opening the cellar and looking inside, Wang Junwu shouted: "Your Majesty, there is money here!"
A group of wandering swordsmen were waiting in place, they were really unable to attack.
The yin and yang cultivators stayed in the middle, setting fire and adding wind, all relying on them to kill the enemy.
Everyone began to move the money out, counting them as they moved.
After more than two hours of moving, all the silver was moved to the yard. The housekeeper said to Hong Zhenkang: "Your Majesty, there are more than three million taels of silver in total!"
"Only more than three million taels?" Hong Zhenkang was very disappointed and couldn't help but murmured, "Didn't the letter say there were more than seven million taels?"
"More than three million taels is a lot!" Xu Zhiqiong comforted him, "I wrote that letter blindly."