Ghost-catching bells are now being used by monsters for personal gain, and more often than not, they are in the hands of people from the Nanyuan Kingdom's Special Cases Department.
Compared with the cost of demon planting flowers, the Special Case Division received much preferential treatment from Zhang Yan. In just over a month, he had more than 70 ghost-catching bells in his hands. Some of them were delivered by Zhang Yan before, and some were recently delivered by the demon spirit clan.
It was urgently added after it appeared.
The vast majority of the ghost-catching bells were used to target those movable dead silences. The remaining ones, about seven or eight, were sent to Xiyuan County.
According to Wu Kui's arrangement, he did not completely follow Zhang Yan's plan, but made some trade-offs. For example, Wu Kui did not focus all his attention on the movable dead silence roads and did not completely seal them.
The idea of blocking. The choice is to block 6 to 7 achievements, and let the rest go. This way, even if it affects the people nearby, there will not be large-scale casualties. The freed ghost-catching bells can be sent to the front line of Xiyuan County.
As a guarantee for the final purpose of the entire plan.
If we do the math, for every three ghost-catching bells Zhang Yan provides to the Special Cases Division, one will be sent to Xiyuan County.
Zhou Cang, who is guarding a military camp southwest of Baishiqian, Xiyuan County, this morning received his second ghost-catching bell since he was stationed here.
"Sir, where do you think this bell is going?"
"The last one was given to Li Mangzi, and this one is given to Wu Kun. Let him make good use of the warning ability of this thing and stop running around when the bell rings."
Zhou Cang was sitting in a simple wooden shed with a pottery basin of plain noodles in front of him, his head lowered and he ate quickly.
"It's my lord, I'll be there right away."
As soon as the adjutant walked away with the bell, Zhou Cang raised his head and a flash of worry and fear flashed across his face.
Zhou Cang knew very clearly that the bell must have been written by Zhang Yan, because the patterns on the bell were very similar to the patterns on the "Zhanfeng" knife at his waist and the sleeved inner armor worn under the shirt.
We know that they come from the same method. This is why Zhou Cang attached great importance to this kind of bell from the beginning.
Zhou Cang's status was not high, and he didn't know anything about the Spirit Clan. The family behind him didn't have this level of news either. So after getting the bell, Zhou Cang carefully considered the words in the order.
The order was sent from the Yamen of the Ministry of War and the Special Cases Division to the Yamen in charge of the West Road Military Road Branch, and then transferred to the first-line military camps outside Baishi City.
The order requires the soldiers in each military camp to take the bell with them when patrolling. If they find that the bell is ringing innocently, they should immediately retreat to the military camp and no longer march outside. If there is one dispatched from the military, regardless of whether it is a military camp or a military camp.
When moving between places, or returning to White Rock City, any movement away from the station must also carry this bell as a warning. If there is no army to retreat when the bell rings, then form a tight formation and do not leave alone...
This was the first strange order Zhou Cang had seen in the decades since he joined the army. It had no clue and no explanation at all. This kind of thing had never been heard of in the usual military style on the battlefield.
Zhou Cang's adjutant is a veteran who has been on the front lines of Baishi City. Half a year ago, he was a gang leader, and now he is an adjutant of the military camp. The speed of promotion is comparable to that of a member of a big family in the military.
There is no such promotion method. But in Xiyuan County, on the front line of Baishi City, it is not uncommon for adjutants like Zhou Cang to be promoted at such a speed. Because too many people have died, the vacated positions need to be filled, and whoever is more lucky will be
You can move up level by level.
But even a soldier like Adjutant Zhou Cang, who has been on the front line of Baishi City all year round, heard this kind of order for the first time, and saw this weird bell for the first time.
So the only things Zhou Cang can use as messages are the contents of the order. It mentions "ring" and "warning" more than once. These two words are mentioned together. In other words, when this kind of bell rings,
When the time comes, it means there is danger, so you must either avoid the military camp or form a defensive formation.
But what is the danger? In these days, Zhou Cang has never heard the soldiers mention any dangers encountered when ringing the bell. Although they followed the order, no one knew why they had to avoid it.
Zhou Cang couldn't figure it out at first, but later he gradually discovered some rules. That is, under normal circumstances, the bell will not ring as long as you are not far away from the military camp. But once there are dead bodies outside the military camp, they will be confiscated.
The bell will ring, but it won't ring for too long. Generally, it will stop ringing after a cup of tea.
Is it because of the dead bodies that the bells ring? Not entirely. Because the bells around the wounded soldiers who died in the military camp will not ring. Even outside the military camp, fresh corpses will do, and the smelly ones will not cause the bells to ring.
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Being able to touch these doorways is already Zhou Cang's limit. There are more connections that he can't guess by just relying on his brain.
However, although he could not guess what was hidden in this order, Zhou Cang could feel that since the bells were sent from the rear, the impact of the demon clan on the military camp began to gradually weaken. It became weaker at the beginning.
It's not obvious, but the past few days have been enough to make the big soldiers in the military camp feel it clearly.
In the past, every day, the demon clan would attack the bunker fortifications of the military camps like crazy. Even if there were fortifications to support them, they would still be swaying like fallen leaves in the strong wind. In the end, they could barely stand and relied on the strength of the rivalry between the military camps, and
The secret passages between the military camps set up by the Bagua array were used to contain the enemy. However, the casualties were too great.
The fact that Zhou Cang could withstand this flesh and blood mill for so long was not because of his strength, but because the sleeved inner armor on his body saved his life several times. The most recent one was the day before yesterday. A demon clan member hit him with a heavy hammer,
Although the inner armor can miraculously offset most of the impact force, the remaining part still caused serious injuries to Zhoucang's inner palace. A mouthful of old blood spurted out. To this day, there is still a dull pain, and there is a burning sensation when inhaling.
The ferocity and power of the demon clan also left a deep impression on Zhou Cang.
However, the continuous fierce attacks had a pause a few days ago, and since then they have maintained a rhythm of fighting day by day and stopping day by day, which greatly eased the pressure on the military camp.
"Are the demon clan timid? Or are their troops unable to keep up?" This idea did not stay in Zhou Cang's mind for long before he rejected it. Because if it were for these two reasons, the demon clan could retreat, but
Now the demon clan's military stronghold is still standing less than twenty miles away, with no sign of retreat at all.
"That means the demon clan is in trouble. And this trouble should be related to the weird bell sent from behind."
After Zhou Cang synthesized all the information he could see and his own guesses, he finally came to the conclusion that in Xiyuan County, in addition to the soldiers of the Western Army and the demon clan on the opposite side, there seemed to be more people recently.