The King of Jiujiang is indeed very poor, although his words are tough. But Yun Xiao looked at the barracks that were about to collapse, and still chose to let his soldiers live in tents. Don't fight yet, it will be unlucky to kill a few people if the barracks collapse in the next rain.

Changsha Wang Wu Shu is the only remaining prince with a different surname in the Han Dynasty, and he is nearly fifty years old and did not come to Jiujiang in person this time. He just sent his own captain, Sima Shang, to lead the fleet to Yueyang to gather.

The king of Changsha surnamed Wu is actually very tragic, and the Xiang County and Guilin County that Liu Bang gave them are still in the hands of Zhao Tuo's descendants. The only county actually controlled by the king of Changsha was Changsha. The financial resources are not comparable to those big princes and kings in the north, and the so-called fleet is actually thirty or fifty broken wooden ships in Yun Xiao's opinion.

Yueyang is really as the King of Jiujiang said, it is almost an empty city. The streets are lined with abandoned houses, and the county government is in ruins. Not to mention the errand service, even the county master has disappeared. The banners of the Han Dynasty on the flagpole turned into strips, and the people who came and went sporadically were like ghosts.

Cowering in the corners and looking at Yun Xiao and his party sneakily, if there were no spies from the lake bandits among these people, Yun Xiao would not believe it.

After whispering a few words to Huantian and Dai Yu, Yun Xiao swaggered into the yamen.

Although the yamen is a little broken, the house is still quite strong. Yun Xiao tried to push, at least there was no danger of being buried alive. He ordered a few buildings to be used as his resting and office places.

There are all kinds of strange things in the house, snakes, insects, rats, ants, weasels, everything. There are even dead people, looking at what this skeleton brother is wearing, it must be the county master who has been missing for a long time.

I have the heart to change a yard to live in. I had no choice but to find that only this courtyard was still intact, and the other courtyards were comparable to the Old Summer Palace.

The wind blows in the night. After passing through the crack in the door, he whistled and poured into the house. Thinking that the skeleton brother had lived in the next room for more than half a year, Yun Xiao couldn't sleep. The more you can't sleep, the more energetic the wind blows. The whining sound is like a ghost screaming and keeps burrowing into the ears.

"Bang" as if something had hit the wooden door, followed by a few more bangs.

Yun Xiao was very frightened, and the frightened cries of the guards came from outside the door. The iron guards are all guys from the killing field, and they have seen the corpse mountain and blood river a few times, what kind of scene can actually scare them.

Yun Xiao opened the door, and a black thing slammed into his face, and it felt like it was fluffy. Looking down, it was actually a bat, and this guy probably fainted. He was shaking unconsciously on the ground, fluttering and trying to fly.

"Vomit" Yun Xiao's stomach immediately began to churn. Don't worry about wiping the nosebleeds left behind. Lying on the railing began to vomit, thinking of being kissed by the guy who looked like a mouse, Yun Xiao had the urge to peel off his face.

Hearing the sound of vomiting in the clouds, the villagers who were patrolling the night around and the iron guards guarding all gathered around. Watching Hou Ye hug the pillar and vomit according to the railing. Looking at Hou Ye's face again, everyone was shocked, only to see Hou Ye's head covered with blood on his face, and he was still saying something in his mouth.

Thinking of the county lord who had just entered the soil today, everyone doubted whether the Hou Ye had fallen into evil.

Dai Yu was more realistic, and took a bucket of well water that had just been drawn and poured it on Yun Xiao's body. The night is deep and heavy. In addition, the well water is cold. Yun Xiao suddenly hit a spirit, grabbed Dai Yu and kicked him a few times, but he didn't expect this to confirm Hou Ye's evil thoughts. Dai Yu fell a big heel as soon as he mixed with Yun Xiao under his feet, and the iron guards rushed up and tied Yun Xiao up.

"Bastard let go of me. You're going to rebel. ”

Yun Xiao was immediately angry, and everyone saw that Hou Ye was still speaking clearly. Afraid of Yun Xiao's usual majesty, he trembled and untied the rope on Yun Xiao's body.

As soon as he untied Yun Xiao, he kicked Dai Yu and his friends a few times to get angry. Mother, dare to tie up Lao Tzu, tired of being crooked

"Ahh

The crowd looked in the direction of his finger. I can't help but have my hairs blowing up. I saw a series of blood-red footprints from the direction of Yunxiao's door to the well just now. Even the murderous guards were frightened when they saw such a scene. The timid Xiang Yong had already retreated to the corner, trembling and huddled together.

Yun Xiao also had a big head. However, as a staunch atheist, Yun Xiao does not believe that there are ghosts in this world. I looked carefully at the bloody footprints, and the water traces had not dried yet, and I checked them and found that there was flocculent sediment.

Isn't this his damn alum, it seems to have cinnabar added. At first glance, it looks like blood, but when the sun shines in the morning, it will turn into water and disappear, and at most the ground is a little dirty. It seems that this trick scared a lot of people to death before, and it is estimated that the skeleton brother has also had such an encounter.

Yun Xiao followed the footprints to the mouth of the well, and found that the well was very deep, and it was dark inside, and the cold air was bubbling out. Looking at the surroundings, only the iron guards and Dai Yu are still loyal. The rest of the people hid far away, for fear that some monsters would suddenly appear in the well.

The water at the bottom of the well reflected the light of the torches, and Yun Xiao asked the guards to enter the house and take out the candles. Light it with a torch and put it in a barrel and go down. When the barrel was halfway down, the flame suddenly deflected to the side. Yun Xiao has a bottom in his heart, this is a fucking authenticity.

It seems that these bandits are still a bit of a brain, and on the first night of stationing, they found some trouble for themselves to break the morale of the army. If the haunted thing makes people panic, where will the combat power come from tomorrow to fight.

Instructed Dai Yu to go down with a rope, and sure enough, there was a pitch-black tunnel dug into the vertical shaft wall.

"Master Hou, there is a hole here. But I don't know where it leads, so I'll go in and check it out. ”

"You give me back. The situation inside is unknown, you don't want to die. ”

He also asked the guards to fetch a lot of gunpowder and gave it to Dai Yu with a rope.

"Twist the gunpowder into a twist, and we'll pull you up when you light it, don't you hear me?"

The fuse of the gunpowder was left very long, and the fire twist was flashing with sparks. Yun Xiao hurriedly asked the iron guards to pull Dai Yu up, and pulled Dai Yu up with all hands and feet. And they scattered in all directions, and they had all seen the power of gunpowder. With so much gunpowder at once, the guards wanted to see what it would be like.

The huge roar of "boom" shook people's ears and made people's ears hurt, and the thick smoke rushing out of the well was more than a foot high. There was a choking smell of sulfur in the air, and a large chunk of the ground near the well had collapsed, making it look like a tunnel.

Ling Xiangyong found tools and began to dig, and more than a dozen strong young men worked together. It took half an hour to dig up the collapsed tunnel, and there was no other exit to the tunnel. It's just that there is a small space around the corner that can accommodate a few people.

It took the villagers to dig for a night to clear the entire space, and the two guys in night clothes inside had been suffocated to death. However, Yun Xiao thought that it might also be shocked to death, after all, more than a hundred catties of black powder should be able to cause such an effect.

The corpse was dragged up from the pit, and Yun Xiao pointed at the two guys and said, "They were the ghost last night, and the so-called bloody footprints are actually alum with a little cinnabar." After speaking, Yun Xiao took the mixture of alum and cinnabar and smeared it on his shoes, then took a sip of water and raised his head and sprayed. The water droplets were finely sprinkled on the ground, and soon there was a blood-red footprint on the ground.

"See, it's these two people pretending to be ghosts."

Yun Xiao pointed to the bloody footprints on the ground, and then to a guy whose soles obviously still had traces of cinnabar.

The villagers talked a lot, and they all admired Hou Ye.

Damn, it's really not good to mix without a little knowledge of chemistry in BC. However, Yun Xiao still didn't understand why the bats would automatically hit the gate I put on. Neither biologically nor physically, Yun Xiao has no way to explain this problem.

The townsfolk dispersed, and the haunted trick was debunked. Yun Xiao was still studying why bats slammed on the door, and Dai Yu was studying the two corpses.

The corner of the clothes is embroidered with the logo of the five-petal bauhinia flower, this logo Dai Yu is too familiar, Tianji Pavilion. Unexpectedly, they followed all the way. folded a rain of fire, and actually dared to provoke.

Yun Xiao's research has yielded some results, although the nose hurts. Yun Xiao still approached the wooden door with his nose and smelled it, it smelled very strong. In the middle of the stubble hung a small piece of animal skin and scraps.

I looked at the small piece of skin very familiarly, and after thinking about it for a long time, I remembered that this is the skin of an eel. Smearing the eel's blood on his door, the bat will naturally pounce on him when he smells the eel's blood. Thinking about his painful nose, Yun Xiao felt the urge to whip the corpse.

"Master Hou, it seems to be someone from Tianji Pavilion. The ornaments on the corners of their clothes show that they are from the Tianji Pavilion, but they should not be high-level characters. I haven't seen it before, so I guess it's an ordinary disciple. ”

Yun Xiao tore off the corner of Dai Yu's clothes and found that it was indeed embroidered with a five-petal redbud. Dai Yu said that this is the sign of Tianji Pavilion. Damn, I chased all the way from Pengcheng to here. It's really hard to bully Lao Tzu, and if you play with the fire rain, you can't kill the two little minions.

The oblique sunlight shone into a thatched hut, and the fire rain opened his eyes with difficulty. It was the first time he had opened his eyes in nearly a month of being in a coma. The furnishings around are very unfamiliar, and the vision is very blurry. The buzzing in my ears sounded like a thousand crickets chirping.

I want to talk, but my throat is dry. His chapped lips squirmed up and down, but he couldn't open them.

The ears of "Gadagada" finally recovered a little, as if it was the sound of weaving. The figure in the distance was also clearer, and Huoyu tried to move his body, but he didn't have any strength at all.

"Let's go" The fire rain seemed to have touched something, and the person in the distance stood up as if he had walked over by himself, and the hair was very long and it was a woman. (To be continued......)