Over there at the campfire, the bandits were still talking and laughing.
"Who told you that I want to bet the number of all the women?" Mountain Monkey chuckled, "I want to bet, but..."
Mountain Monkey's voice paused. The bandits around him thought he was deliberately trying to pass him off. They all looked dissatisfied, including the little leader. Everyone had been waiting eagerly for so long, and now you Mountain Monkey are still trying to pass him off. This is nothing.
What brother?
So when the bandits were about to make a fuss, the mountain monkey's voice was trembling, and he pointed forward: "Look at that... what is that?"
The bandits were startled for a moment, and subconsciously looked in the direction of the mountain monkey's finger. In an instant, everyone's pupils widened. In the cold mountain wind, in the endless darkness, a spark continued to fly.
, like red lotus petals floating from the sky, rising and falling, bright and dark, swaying left and right. The darkness it touches sometimes shrinks, sometimes becomes thicker. And the spark gradually changes.
The color changed. It was originally red, but now it turned faintly green under everyone's gaze, and it was getting closer and closer.
"Ghost, it's a will-o'-the-wisp! Everyone, run, it's a will-o'-the-wisp, it's deadly if you get it on your body!" I don't know who was the first to shout in panic, and the bandits around the bonfire were all confused. Everyone was eating in the mountains.
Yes, the talk of ghosts and gods is the most taboo.
After all, there are still many unknown things hidden in the mountains, and it is even possible to kill people without blinking an eye. Especially in this era, the tools and scientific ideas are in the primitive stage, so all kinds of accidents are often attributed to ghosts and gods, and many times
This will-o'-the-wisp is the punishment brought by the mountain god. All those touched by the will-o'-the-wisp will be reduced to ashes and die without a burial place.
Soon the bandits on the entire hillside were in chaos, because they discovered that not only this faint will-o'-the-wisp, but also green flames appeared in other directions, fluttering up and down.
"Everyone, run away, ghost, the mountain god is angry, it's a ghost!" There was another cry, and a bandit fell to the ground. Even the bandit leaders could not restrain their men. In front of ghosts and gods, their binding force was as weak as
Paper.
After all, these bandits have done a lot of bad things over the years. In the face of the wrath of ghosts and gods, it is impossible not to be afraid. Even the leaders turned pale. Although they knew to some extent that will-o'-the-wisps can't actually cause harm to people.
How much damage, but in front of this sudden flame in the darkness, who has the heart to calm down and think, after all, they are also human beings, and people always have things to be afraid of.
What's more important is that the general will-o'-the-wisps are not very big, and the few will-o'-the-wisps that appear in front of you are not only erratic, but also much larger than the will-o'-the-wisps in your impression - even if you travel all over the country, there are many bosses who walk at night.
I also asked myself that I had never seen such a big will-o'-the-wisp - not to mention that everyone could see it clearly during the day. There were no tombs around here, so where did the will-o'-the-wisp come from?
Then there is only one possibility left, which is the wrath of the mountain god!
The leaders no longer had the time to restrain their subordinates. They were just swept away by the crowd and ran towards the only direction where there were no will-o'-the-wisps. The farther away the better. Not to mention sending a few people over to check what was going on, these bandits even ran in the direction of the will-o'-the-wisps.
I don't even have the courage to take a step.
"I didn't expect this thing to be fake and come true." Li Qiu couldn't help sighing, looking at the several copper bars in his hand. In order to cut and polish these copper bars, it took a lot of effort from the women and children in the village.
If Li Xingchen hadn't insisted on polishing, no one would have done this kind of work of sharpening needles with an iron pestle when the war came.
Facts have proved that Li Xingchen's persistence was correct. No one expected that when these copper bars were thrown directly into the fire, the entire flame turned green. It really felt like a will-o'-the-wisp. If you hadn't been mentally prepared for it,
, I’m afraid Li Qiu and the others will have to run along.
Li Xingchen, who was hiding in the darkness, opened his mouth and said nothing. He did not expect that he could scare people like this with three fires, but when he thought about this era, there were frequent wars and the people were not enlightened, so he did not
What’s so surprising? Not to mention this era, even if it were done in the Sui and Tang Dynasties a hundred years later or even in the Ming and Qing Dynasties a thousand years later, it would still scare many people.
In fact, this is very simple. It relies on the flame color reaction. In the time and space before Li Xingchen traveled, this is knowledge that one would learn in high school. Copper will turn green when burned in fire, and it will naturally have the feeling of will-o'-the-wisp.
Of course, Li Xingchen also had some regrets. If the copper strips could be ground into copper powder or cut into smaller copper pieces, the effect should be better. However, the burning is still incomplete. But this is enough.
"Brother Chen, what should we do?" Li Qiu walked to Li Xinchen in a daze. It was obvious that he was completely shocked by the scene just now. If he hadn't created this will-o'-the-wisp with his own hands, I'm afraid Li Qiu would have run away like those bandits.
Without a trace.
"Let's follow. These bandits are going directly to the trap set by Zheng Qing and the others. I hope Zheng Qing won't disappoint me." Li Xingchen took a deep breath, and the cold mountain wind rolled down his throat and into his lungs.
, let Li Xingchen calm down as much as possible.
In the final analysis, before he traveled through time, he was at most a theoretical person who had read a few books. At this moment in this dark mountain forest, seeing the first step of his plan finally succeeding, Li Xingchen felt warm in his heart, so he
You must calm yourself down, even if it is forced.
At this moment, a scream came from the darkness in the distance, followed by panicked footsteps. A few green flames burned faintly in the darkness, like the fire of hell, driving people into the distance.
Escape to darker, deeper places.
It's just that they don't know that the darker place is the most dangerous place.
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Zhang Er stood there stupidly. A row of bamboos falling from the sky just stuck the two people in front of him to the ground. There was also a guy behind him who stepped into the trap and disappeared. Just now, he was still there.
Miserable shouts could be heard, but now there was no sound at all.
The mountain wind blew through Zhang Er's clothes, causing him to shiver subconsciously. Only then did he clearly realize that all the brothers before him, around him, and around him were dead. And in the darkness, the footsteps were chaotic, and he didn't know how many more there were.
People come in this direction rashly.
"Poof!" Before Zhang Er had time to speak, another unlucky guy fell directly into the trap. No one knew how many traps there were around, let alone what was in the traps, but Zhang Er knew after they fell in
Most of them were silent, and it could be judged that they had lost their lives. This also made Zhang Er have no courage to lift his feet and move forward.