Ding Ning's face was calm and gentle, but in the eyes of these girls, it was extremely terrifying.
They looked at the daggers that fell around them, and felt the numbness and swelling of their arms. Two of the girls even cried out of fear.
"Are you afraid of me or your island owner?"
"If you are afraid of me, you don't have to be afraid at all, because I won't do anything to you at all. If you are afraid of your island owners, you don't have to be afraid, because I am stronger than your island owners."
Ding Ning looked at these girls and said a few words.
These two sentences are very simple, but they are extremely useful. Even the two terrified crying girls stopped crying immediately and only sobbed slightly.
"Are you really stronger than our island owner?"
The girl who spoke first looked at Ding Ning suspiciously and asked.
Ding Ning nodded, smiled, and said, "The entire Jiaodong County has been controlled by me, do you think I am more powerful than your island owner?"
In fact, the army of the Great Chu Dynasty commanded by Concubine Zhao Xiangfei has not yet entered Jiaodong County. He and Lin Zhujiu only controlled most of the lifelines of the Zheng clan, and did not achieve complete occupation and control, but this is only a matter of time, and He could see that these girls were very innocent, and they probably didn't have much experience. For these girls, Jiaodong County was probably the outside world in their subconscious. This simple and violent statement will be more effective than any persuasion.
Sure enough, the girls looked at Ding Ning completely differently after hearing these words.
"The island owner is in the city, I'll take you there." The girl who spoke at the beginning gritted her teeth and said immediately.
There is still a city in this place
This thought first came to Shouchen's mind, but then he was relieved.
Since the edge of the island is full of piers and is so prosperous, it makes sense that there is a city on the island. The subconscious consciousness of the barren land in the mind should be completely eliminated.
Following these girls, there are wooden plank roads along the way. The island is uneven, but walking on the plank road is extremely smooth. There are many pedestrians along the way with different clothes. In the eyes of Shouchen, some clothes are naturally very strange, but In the eyes of passers-by along the way, Ding Ning in cloth robes and Shouchen in Taoist robes were also different, and they looked at them strangely along the way.
After walking a few miles into the island, Shouchen saw what these girls called "in the city."
This is indeed a complete city, the city walls made of white rocks are higher than most of the city walls in various dynasties, but the city does not occupy a large area, and it seems that it can only accommodate tens of thousands of people.
But different from the cities of other dynasties, the buildings inside the city are also very strange, and the density is very high, crowded together, and on the east side is a palace that is particularly large compared with these buildings, which is directly equivalent to serving as a palace. The wall on that side.
I don't know what kind of paint was painted on the whole body of the palace. It is dark blue in the sun. Although in Shouchen's eyes, the appearance is still a bit weird, but the momentum is as magnificent as a mountain. You can guess that it must be the former General Guo Dong's. residence.
Entering this city, there are many men and women with clothes similar to those of the girls who lead the way, and their bodies have vitality fluctuations, and under the sunlight, they seem to be covered with a layer of fish scales.
From the fight with Ding Ning at the outer port until now, these girls who lead the way have not sent a message, but these practitioners in this city look at Ding Ning and Shouchen with a fearful expression, as if they already know the relationship between the two. identity.
Ding Ning ignored them, walked leisurely behind these girls, and soon arrived in front of the blue hall in the city.
Unlike those people in the whole city who timidly avoided him and Shouchen, on the steps in front of the blue hall, there were two practitioners standing respectfully, waiting for his arrival.
The person on the left is a gray-haired man with a tall figure and straight eyebrows, giving people an extraordinarily calm and solemn feeling.
It's just that he didn't belong here originally, because he was wearing the yellow robe with the logo of the Zheng family in Jiaodong County.
The robe of the person on the right is dark blue, very gorgeous, inlaid with many gems, and wearing a golden crown inlaid with gems on his head, just like an emperor.
When Ding Ning came to the road they were facing, there was still a distance of more than ten zhang away from them, the two of them packed their luggage at the same time.
The slightly younger man who looked like an emperor directly took off the golden crown he was wearing and said, "I am willing to surrender."
Shouchen was stunned.
The girls who didn't dare to lead the way when they arrived at the temple, as well as the practitioners who were hiding in the surrounding streets and alleys, suddenly heard these words, and they were also stunned.
Ding Ning frowned slightly.
He didn't respond, he just took a look at the gray-haired man on the left wearing a yellow robe from Jiaodong County, and asked, "Zheng Sha?"
The gray-haired man was a little surprised, but immediately replied solemnly: "Exactly."
"You are General Guo Dong's disciple, Wu Donglian?" Ding Ning then turned his head to look at the man dressed as an emperor and asked.
The man held the golden crown in his hand, still didn't get up, and said respectfully: "Exactly."
"He wants to surrender directly, what about you?" Ding Ning turned his head to look at Zheng Sha again, and laughed: "What do you mean?"
Zheng Sha said respectfully: "Since Mr. Wang is reborn, there is no chance to fight at all. I want to have a talk with Mr. If Mr. doesn't like it, I want to exchange some things for the lives of some people in Jiaodong County."
Ding Ning simply shook his head, "I hate it."
Zheng Sha froze for a moment.
"Don't you want to hear, sir, what do I have in Jiaodong County?" He paused for a moment, looked at Ding Ning in disbelief and said.
"I don't want to." Ding Ning shook his head again, then looked at him and laughed again.
Zheng Sha frowned, his complexion didn't change much, but there was some evil spirit between his brows, "Why?" He looked at Ding Ning seriously and asked.
"Zheng Xiu used to know me very well, but for a while, I also knew her very well, and I also learned a lot about Jiaodong County from her." Ding Ning said lightly: "I know how many people there are in Jiaodong County. One of those who are unwilling to make a deal is you. And I also learned later that you are also one of the teachers in charge of teaching her in Jiaodong County. "
Zheng Sha calmly listened to these words, then slowly put his hands behind his back, looked up at the sky above, and said, "I didn't expect you to know this from her, it seems that she does have some feelings for you."
"You played a good game of chess." Ding Ning didn't answer his words, but said with a slight sarcasm: "Both are people I want to kill, one trades with me, and the other surrenders directly."
"This chess is difficult to play. If we still kill you, what will our enemies think in the future?"
Ding Ning's eyes fell on the faces of Zheng Sha and Wu Donglian, looked at their trembling eyelashes, and then said: "Just like a general who does not accept surrender on the battlefield and slaughters cities every now and then, no one will want to surrender. If you meet him, you will fight to the death. But if you don't kill you for the sake of profit, what will the people of the world think?"
Zheng Sha's brows twitched slightly, he didn't hide it, and he didn't explain anything, because he knew that any words of explanation were superfluous in front of someone like Ding Ning.
"But you are wrong."
Ding Ning laughed, and then said: "Because the strength reaches a certain level, there is no need to think about the possibility of the enemy in the future. And the most important thing is that I do things very directly. If I think there is a possibility of accepting reconciliation, I will go directly to Jianling first and say, I will not let the enemy's thoughts waver."