That night, the school grounds in the city were filled with torches, and the three war-dead ghouls were locked in an iron cage, struggling towards the outside of the city.
Li Jinglong, Zhang Hao and a lieutenant named Wu Shuang inspected the dead ghosts in the school grounds. Many soldiers went out of the city overnight, picked up some weapons, and threw them on the ground.
"How is the situation of the old general?" Li Jinglong asked as he buried his head in checking the weapon.
"Very bad." Zhang Hao replied, "I'm getting sicker, Chang Shi, you have to get the soldier talisman, otherwise we won't be able to mobilize the troops in Liangzhou City."
Li Jinglong asked: "Under the general's command, is there no one who holds the military talisman?"
"General Wang also fell ill." Wu Shuang said, "He was sent back to his residence to rest."
"What about the next level?" Li Jinglong asked again.
Wu Shuang and Zhang Hao stopped talking.
Li Jinglong understood that Ge Shuhan should be extremely cautious on weekdays. Except for a confidant named Wang, no one else can hold the military amulet.
"But you can." Zhang Hao said, "You have the prince's handbook, and you can temporarily borrow a military talisman."
"In the current situation, it is advisable to stand still, unless the dead ghouls attack the city." Li Jinglong said casually, "Believe me, once you go out of the city to fight, you will die faster."
Wu Shuang and Zhang Hao looked at each other, and they stopped insisting.
"Look at this weapon." Li Jinglong raised the knife, pointed it at the flames, and motioned Zhang Hao to see that there was an obvious black mark on it, which seemed to have been poisoned.
Zhang Hao was silent, and Li Jinglong said: "Look at these three monsters again. The skin on the left is intact, but the color is scorched, like a mummy. The middle one is more severely damaged, with a hole in the abdomen and internal organs. A lot came out."
"The one on the right is the worst." Li Jinglong raised its arm with a long knife, and there was almost no flesh left on that hand, revealing the gray-black hand bones.
Wu Shuang said, "There are also differences in the armor you wear."
Li Jinglong nodded and said: "The armor worn in good condition is heavy and complicated, and the worst armor has almost no armor to cover the body. Therefore, in the army of dead ghosts in battle, there are also three or six grades, with hundreds of leaders down, ten leaders, and corps leaders. Ordinary cavalry."
Everyone was silent. At this time, the city guards salvaged the ghouls covered in ice from the glacier. Li Jinglong said: "The weapons of the ghouls are poisonous. If you fight again, take good precautions. It is one. Finding its weakness is the second."
Zhang Hao glanced at the frozen ghoul and said, "Ice?"
"That's right." Li Jinglong replied, "After the cold water is poured, the freezing can make the bones stiff and affect their actions. Another trick is fire."
Wu Shuang nodded, poured kerosene into the cage, and ignited the dead ghost, the flames shot up into the sky, without howling or struggling, it was just quietly burned to death. Hong Jun couldn't bear it, but Li Jinglong said to him: "You have to think about it this way, even if they enter the ground, they will not be at peace, and now they can finally be freed."
Hong Jun thought so too. These soldiers were fighting to defend their homes and the country during their lifetime, but they would become so cruel killers who killed their own people after death.
"What about the third one?" Zhang Hao pondered.
"Be prepared for defense." Li Jinglong said, "For those who have been poisoned, I will find another way to deal with it."
Zhang Hao and Wu Shuang left in a hurry and sent people to set up defenses, while Li Jinglong and Hong Jun stood in the school grounds and observed the remaining two war dead ghosts.
Hong Jun looked at the dead ghost in battle, and then at Li Jinglong. Li Jinglong frowned slightly, showing a thoughtful look. This is what Hong Jun admires most about him. He simply doesn't understand how Li Jinglong thinks about things. From one piece to another, every time he analyzed it carefully and his emotions and anger were not displayed, Hong Jun felt that he was extremely powerful, a kind of introverted strength, a kind of courage that was not afraid of swords and fire.
Hong Jun now fully believes that Li Jinglong can save Mo Zhigen and others—it should be the moment Ge Shuhan fell, Li Jinglong realized the problem, and verified it step by step, followed by a case like the fox demon case. , and finally come up with a one-stroke comeback.
Hong Jun didn't urge him, nor did he walk away, but just stayed with Li Jinglong. After a long time, Li Jinglong suddenly said, "How do you think they recognize their companions?"
Hongjun: "..."
Hong Jun thought for a while, and said, "The ghouls are dead a long time ago, they shouldn't be able to smell."
"Hmm." Li Jinglong said, "Maybe it's visible."
Most of the ghouls have no pupils, only cloudy white eyes, but the eyes are moving all the time, and most of them can see.
"Can you hear me?" Hong Jun said.
Li Jinglong took an iron basin, and slammed it on the ear of the ghoul in the cage. The sound was deafening, but the ghoul didn't turn its head, and just focused on hitting the iron cage.
Obviously they couldn't hear them, so Li Jinglong took another torch and danced a few times in front of the ghoul. The ghoul raised his hand vigilantly and made a chopping motion.
"I can see it." Li Jinglong finally said, "I can feel the light."
Hong Jun said: "I'm very surprised, what do you think they are thinking?"
"I can't speak." Li Jinglong replied, "Only God knows... Let's try again."
Li Jinglong took off his robe, Hong Jun said, "What are you doing?"
Li Jinglong signaled Hong Jun to come over to help, and he put on the armor of the ghoul who died in battle, which actually fit him well. Hong Jun had seen a lot of Tang Kai, and saw that Li Jinglong was wearing a Han armor. Although it was a rusty iron armor, he still looked heroic and handsome.
Li Jinglong bowed slightly, and when he came to the cage, the ghoul became alert immediately, and opened its rotten mouth, revealing its gums.
"Recognized." Hong Jun said, "Try me instead?"
"What about smearing your face?" Li Jinglong said again.
Hongjun: "..."
Hong Jun went to find charcoal sticks, smeared Li Jinglong's skin black, and then removed the surrounding braziers. The sky was already dark, so Li Jinglong really looked like a ghoul.
"I'll go in and have a look." Li Jinglong said.
Hong Jun was very nervous, Li Jinglong gently opened the cage door and got in.
The ghoul immediately found him, and with a roar, it stretched out its hand and grabbed Li Jinglong's head. Li Jinglong hurriedly said, "Calm down!" Then he rolled and crawled out again.
"Are you going to roll your eyes?" Hong Jun said.
"Is that so?" Li Jinglong rolled his eyes hard and said, "But in this way, I won't be able to see."
Hong Jun said: "It's hard to say, what if they can smell it?"
Li Jinglong peeled off another ghoul's nearly rotten, smelly clothes, put them on outside, rolled his eyes hard, and got into the cage again.
The ghoul was still pedaling in the iron cage fence, trying to leave this place. Li Jinglong imitated him, tilted his head, stretched out a hand, rolled his eyes, and hung on the fence half climbing and half kicking.
"It seems!" Hong Jun expressed his sincere admiration.
The ghoul turned to look at Li Jinglong, and Li Jinglong also rolled his eyes, turning his head towards the ghoul.
One person and one ghoul looked at each other, but for a short moment, the ghoul stopped looking at Li Jinglong.
It worked!
Li Jinglong tried not to roll his eyes anymore, but the ghoul didn't notice, so the two could confirm that the ghoul could see and smell, but couldn't hear.
"Depart late at night." Li Jinglong smelled his arm, and there was a foul smell.
"I must be with you." Hong Jun said.
"Of course." Li Jinglong smiled.
At night, Hong Jun first went to visit Mo Rigen. The medicinal soup prescribed was helpful, at least it made his body warmer, but Mo Rigen was almost completely unconscious. As soon as Lu Xu saw Hong Jun coming, he dragged him tightly and refused to let him leave.
"Hush." Hong Jun said, "Chang Shi will save him, don't worry, don't worry."
Hong Jun went to see Ge Shuhan after watching Mo Rigen, and saw that Ge Shuhan was unconscious after taking the medicine, but the old lady was already well, holding his hand, sitting by the couch, talking softly with the carp The demon speaks.
Hong Jun: "!!"
Hong Jun was taken aback, and was about to argue, but the old lady smiled and nodded to him.
The carp demon said beside him: "...if I leave Hongjun, I don't know what he should do, I don't understand anything."
Hong Jun hurriedly said: "Zhao Zilong didn't scare you, did he?"
The old lady smiled and said: "How could it be? I am over half a hundred years old, and I have seen everything I should see. There are monsters outside, right? This time I have to rely on you, no matter what, Just have to be more careful.”
"That's it." The carp demon said, "Our family Hongjun even got rid of the demon king, so I'm afraid that Li Jinglong will hold back..."
Hong Jun: "Be careful that Chang Shi stews you."
Hong Jun stepped forward to take Ge Shuhan's pulse. After taking the medicine, his pulse became a little more stable, which shows that the medicine is effective. Although it cannot be cured, but due to the medicinal power of promoting blood circulation, the patient can be slightly warmed up.
At that time, Li Jinglong and Zhang Hao were talking in the courtyard, and there seemed to be a dispute. In the end, Li Jinglong frowned and walked in quickly, signaling with his eyes that Hongjun should leave.
Zhang Hao said worriedly: "The old general didn't show up for a day and a night, and the rumors in the city are everywhere, and it's almost unstoppable."
"General Zhang." Li Jinglong said in a deep voice, "It must be suppressed."
"I'll go with you," said the old lady.
Zhang Hao waved his hand and asked Li Jinglong, "Where are you going?"
Li Jinglong just waved his hands without saying anything, signaling Hongjun to act as soon as possible, and pointed at the carp demon to make him follow.
At midnight, there was silence outside the city.
The carp demon wailed as soon as it came out of the snow: "It's so cold!"
"Quick." Hong Jun said, "It's all up to you, Zhao Zilong, don't you want to save lives and accumulate merit? There are 400,000 lives in this city!"
The carp demon stepped on the snow and said, "Is there an easier way?"
Li Jinglong: "I'll give you a pair of boots." Speaking of taking out the boots bought at the market a few days ago, the carp demon put on the boots and said, "It's much warmer, but it's still so cold."
Li Jinglong took out the padded sheepskin bag again, and put the carp monster on. There were a few holes in the side, just to stretch out his hands and feet, and his eyes could still see the outside of the two sides, and then tied the mouth of the bag.
Hongjun: "..."
"Wear sleeves as trousers." Li Jinglong armed the carp monster, and now the carp monster has no excuses.
"Find the dead ghost king." Li Jinglong said, "After you find it, note down the location, come back and tell me, go."
The carp demon had no choice but to run out of the snow obediently, to find the dead ghost king described by Li Jinglong.
Li Jinglong sat and waited patiently under the city wall. When the wind blew again, Hong Jun leaned against him. Both of them were wearing Han armor with a pungent corpse smell. It was extremely cold at night, so Li Jinglong opened the blanket, wrapping himself and Hongjun together.
Hong Jun looked at him with a smile, remembering that the first time he saw Li Jinglong, he was also wearing a full suit of battle armor, why didn't he feel as good-looking as he is now.
"What are you laughing at?" Li Jinglong noticed Hong Jun.
Hong Jun said: "It's nothing, you look good in iron armor, although it is rusty."
"That's right." Li Jinglong said casually, "Back then Chang'an didn't know how many girls were obsessed with your brother and my military uniform."
"It's becoming more and more shameless." Hong Jun said.
Li Jinglong laughed.
Hong Jun remembered what the old lady said, when she met Ge Shuhan in military uniform, she fell in love at first sight. Maybe Ge Shuhan and Li Jinglong were similar when they were young.
"What about me?" Hong Jun said.
"You..." Li Jinglong sized him up and said, "Just force it, and be my lieutenant general."
Hong Jun stretched out a hand from the blanket and said, "Let's fight to see who is the lieutenant general."
"Cold, don't mess around." Li Jinglong hurriedly pressed his hand down.
In the general's mansion, nearly eight hours had passed since Ge Shuhan and Mo Rigen passed out. This night, Liangzhou was brightly lit, but it was deadly silent. In the barracks, the groans of the soldiers became smaller and smaller.
When Mo Zhigen arrived in the middle of the night, his chest became like a bellows, rising and falling, making nonstop noises. Lu Xu couldn't help becoming nervous, and ran out of the room, subconsciously wanting to ask Hong Jun for help.
"Hongjun!" Lu Xu shouted.
He searched the entire corridor, hurriedly ran into the main hall, but slowed down while running, and stopped.
His face was full of doubts, and he saw a figure in the main hall.
"What happened?" The old lady was sitting in front of the couch, holding Ge Shuhan's hand, and said turning her head.
Standing in the hall, Zhang Hao said, "The army of dead ghosts is about to attack the city. I want to take a soldier talisman to use."
"The general is not awake, so I can't give you a military talisman." The old lady frowned deeply, "Before Li Jinglong left, he promised to find the antidote tonight."
Zhang Hao replied: "Li Jinglong and Kong Hongjun have already run away, and the guards saw him leaving the city at night."
Lu Xu hid behind the shelf and looked at Zhang Hao suspiciously.
The old lady said: "The general is not awake, I am not going anywhere. Zhang Hao, where is Wu Shuang?"
Zhang Hao took a deep breath and said in a low voice: "Old Madam, Wu Shuang is also ill and is in a critical condition. I must mobilize troops and go out of the city as soon as possible to fight the enemy."
There was a moment of silence in the hall, and at the end, the old lady said: "No."
Zhang Hao frowned deeply, and the old lady said again: "I believe Li Jinglong and that child. I just heard about their extermination of the demon king in Chang'an. It is an extraordinary situation. There are extraordinary people to deal with it. You just need to be careful." Your city, you have the right to guard the city, as long as you don't send troops, the army can be mobilized as you like. Don't think about fighting monsters with your mortal body."
Zhang Hao suddenly sneered.
The old lady suddenly became alert, raised her eyes and glanced at Zhang Hao, her voice trembling, said: "Zhang Hao, what are you thinking? Do you still want to grab it by force?"
Zhang Hao said in a deep voice, "Madam, I am a monster."
Zhang Hao roared in an instant, his body was making strange noises like mud, melting continuously. A lingering black and green breath spewed out of her mouth, entangled her, and at that moment, she heard a shrill cry—the old lady was caught off guard, and before she could yell "Come on", she was wrapped up heavily and choked her breath.
"what-"
Before it was too late, Lu Xu rushed out from behind the shelf, picked up a vase in his hand, and rushed towards Zhang Hao, who was slowly melting like mud.