Twilight Boundary

"Blame me!"

In the small county in the south of Huzhou, Houerjiu and Sweet Potato Shao are not very good at interpersonal relationships, but they can also see that the bald old Zhang is suspicious and does not want to go to war.

Now is the time to grab time. If you delay for a while, you don't know how many changes will happen outside. Therefore, Sweet Potato Shao was a little angry and said: "This bald donkey doesn't know what is good and what is good!"

"When I find someone to find out where his wife and children live, I can give him some advice..."

"..."

Houerjiu gently stopped the sweet potatoes from burning and advised: "It is impossible for people to place their hopes on things they have never seen. He does not believe that just the two of us can solve his current predicament, so he is a little suspicious. , understandable.”

"We can only blame ourselves for not being able to convince him, but we can't blame him for not coaxing us out directly. He already has a good temper."

"..."

Diguashao looked at Houerjiu who was so patient with some surprise, and said: "You are quite a nice person..."

I remembered that when we were in the meeting, everyone refused to come and join him, thinking that this person was unlikable, but now he seems to be gentle and polite, but he is a little cold towards others, and he doesn't seem to be very good at getting along with others. Like communicating.

Sweet Potato Shao intended to help this little brother who looked a little honest, and found an opportunity to enlighten him. This kind of character is not easy to get along with in this world, so he smiled and said: "Then he doesn't believe it, what are you going to do?"

Houerjiu said softly: "Asking him to send troops directly would easily lead to misunderstandings, so of course, we must choose a way to persuade him that will not cause misunderstandings."

Diguashao was immediately curious to see if he had any way to prevent people from misunderstanding, so he followed Houerjiu, who had figured out the matter, and entered the military tent again.

Then Houerjiu looked at the people in the tent, raised his head and asked the bald old man: "Snakes, scorpions, centipedes, toads, geckos..."

"Which one do you like best?"

These words have no beginning or end. The bald old Zhang is very worried at the moment, and he doesn’t want to leave this place and retreat. His reputation in a lifetime will be ruined, and his future under the hands of King Ming will also be ruined. However, he knows very well how terrifying King Hunshi is. Don't worry about anything else.

He really disliked these two "outsiders" who said they wanted to come over to help but offered no advice and had no soldiers, but he did not dare to offend them.

Faced with this sudden inquiry, he was just stunned for a moment and subconsciously said: "Toad?"

Toads can be roasted and eaten, and Lao Zhang often ate them when he was poor.

Houerjiu received the answer and nodded: "Easy to handle."

He gently waved the flute in his hand in the air, and heard a loud cry suddenly rang out from a shriveled cloth bag on the cattle carriage outside.

"Quack!"

The movement was so sudden that neither the bald old Zhang nor the guards around him reacted.

Immediately afterwards, his eyes changed. His pupils turned yellow-brown for a moment, like a toad, and there were a few bumps on his forehead, but they calmed down immediately, and he looked no different from before. .

But there was a look of enlightenment on his face, and he even felt a bit of self-blame in his heart. He slapped himself apologetically and said to Houerjiu: "Sir, you risked your life to save me, but we are still hesitant. It really shouldn’t be!”

"Now, although my brothers under Lao Zhang have suffered heavy casualties, they can still carry the sword. Let us go up the knife mountain or down the volcano, sir, just give us orders."

"Anyone who frowns is not a good man!"

"..."

Houerjiu nodded and said: "There is no need to go up to the Mountain of Swords or the Sea of ​​Fire. Pack your bags and head south with me. Don't waste your time!"

"Earlier, I promised the Zhu family to visit within three months, but now I'm almost late!"

Bald-headed Lao Zhang immediately blamed himself and said repeatedly: "The older you get in the world, the less courageous you become. It's because I, Lao Zhang, was frightened out of his wits by the Hunshiwang, and I almost delayed my husband's important event!"

"quick!"

He ordered his men to pack up immediately and leave the city.

Not only was he anxious, but inside the tent, his subordinate bodyguards and two apprentices were also anxious. They were deeply ashamed of their hesitation and wished they could go get a hundred military sticks first.

On the other hand, Diguashao, who was standing next to him and felt that Houerjiu's treatment was too pedantic, changed his expression.

First, he quietly looked at his eyes in the water tank, then patted his small chest, and said with some fear: "According to the precise method you said, this is it?"

All is said and done, the soldiers and horses under Bald Lao Zhang were killed and they could not escape. Only about 800 people were left, which was the last of his family fortune.

With these 800 people, there is hope for another 10,000 or even tens of thousands of troops.

Killing these 800 people would mean annihilating the whole army. It was extremely difficult for him to decide at first, but now he actually waved his hand and organized the remaining soldiers and horses to fight with the 500 hemp-clad troops brought by Digua Shao. , left the county together.

Looking at the 100,000 mountains that were once like nightmares and never dared to step into them again, I moved forward mightily.

Earlier, they were still cautious and cautious, but now they even threw away the word caution. After seven or eight hours of rushing, day and night, they had already penetrated deep into the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

But such a blatant entry into the mountain had already disturbed every plant and tree in the mountain. Soon, a willow whistle suddenly sounded all around.

It started with one sound and became one after another, everywhere, as if surrounded by the sound of willow whistle.

"No, it's...it's the bamboo raft army..."

When the soldiers and horses under his command heard this movement, their faces turned pale with fear.

Even the bald old man who had been poisoned suddenly picked up the knife and stood at the front, but his palms were trembling.

The bamboo platoon troops under King Hunshi are almost like a nightmare to the bald old man. These bamboo platoon troops wear blue skirts, like to wear silver jewelry, and carry bamboo tubes on their backs, interspersing among the mountains, appearing and disappearing like ghosts.

Previously, Lao Guang had 10,000 soldiers and horses, plus tens of thousands of peasants who could copy and follow them into the battle formation. I don't know how many of them died in the hands of the bamboo platoon soldiers.

The opponent's fighting skills are not very good, but the bamboo tube he is carrying is extremely evil.

In a fight with the opponent, once the opponent knocks on the bamboo tube, no matter how fierce the man is, he will hold his head and roll on the ground in pain.

Not only did they die miserably at their hands, but those who were rescued were also covered in strange insects that were difficult to cure.

The sound of the willow whistle was a sign that they had discovered the enemy. To Lao Zhang's men, it was equivalent to a roll call from the King of Hell.

"First...sir..."

Although he is also a master of the discipline and has a tough knife in his hand, the bald old Zhang is really timid at the moment. He is guarding the front with the knife, but he is already timid.

He kept turning back and looking at Wu Song, his face full of pleading.

"I know!"

At this moment, Houerjiu, who was sitting on the cattle carriage, just nodded slightly.

Then he tilted his ears slightly and said to himself: "Is this the bamboo platoon soldier?"

"How many have come?"

"..."

Upon hearing his question, Bald Lao Zhang immediately replied in a trembling voice: "The Bamboo Pavilion Army hides in the mountains and never shows up easily, but I have fought with them several times and know that they have at least two or three thousand people. Although it is not a lot, it is too Even ten thousand people can’t defeat Xie Yi!”

"Not so much..."

Next to her, Diguashao suddenly raised her head, as if she heard someone reporting to her, and said, "There are only seven or eight hundred people."

Houerjiu also withdrew his gaze at this time and said: "Eight hundred and thirty-two people."

Everyone was stunned for a moment, wondering why he was so sure, but Houerjiu didn't explain, but slowly took out a cigarette rod from the car.

While stuffing tobacco inside, he said: "This bamboo platoon army can be said to be the stupidest soldier trained by the Zhu family."

The bald old Zhang trembled when he heard this: What happened to his own soldiers and horses after being tortured by this bamboo raft army? But you call them stupid?

Three of the eight disciples under him died on their weird bamboo tubes...

Houerjiu continued: "Among the shamans, it is easy to find eight hundred people who know how to use voodoo, but it is impossible for them to make the same voodoo and enforce the same orders and prohibitions as the army."

"This is determined by the characteristics of the voodoo insects and the people who refine the voodoos. Therefore, these eight hundred bamboo platoon troops were originally soldiers, and the voodoos on them were all refined by other people."

"You have to use someone else's poison, and you also need to prevent the poison from backfire on yourself, so you need a unified method for the poison to identify you."

"As long as they see through this method, they can reap the consequences."

"..."

Although the bald old man was bewitched by a poison, the poison was so clever that apart from listening to Houerjiu's words, his other thinking abilities were still there.

When I heard this, I couldn't help but feel overjoyed. If I knew how the Bamboo Pai Army prevented the poison from backlash, wouldn't I be able to use it on my own soldiers and horses? Wouldn't this be equivalent to breaking the opponent's poison? Of course, this method must be a secret of the Bamboo Pai Army, and I'm afraid it's hard to find out.

Others were also listening to Houerjiu's story and thinking about it. But when they saw what he said, they took a flint and lit a cigarette, and smoked slowly. They didn't listen to the rest for a long time, but they felt strange in their hearts. .

Someone had the courage to say: "First... sir, since you have guessed the ability of this bamboo raft army, then... is there any way to defeat the enemy?"

Houerjiu slowly smoked the bag of cigarettes in his hand. It was not until someone asked at this moment that he slowly knocked the pot of the cigarette bag and said, "The killing is over."

"What?"

Everyone was shocked, hearing it was like a fantasy.

But soon someone got brave enough and rushed into the forest. They saw corpses one by one, all lying behind the grass. Judging from the appearance of the clothes, they were exactly what the Bamboo Platoon Army was wearing.

At this moment, everyone's face turned black, they were frothing at the mouth, and there were strange worms on their bodies, crawling in and out of their seven orifices, but they were already dead and could no longer die.

And it's not just the ones close here that are dead.

When the bag of cigarettes started to be smoked, the faint smoke drifted into the forest. It seemed to be mixed with the mist in the forest, making it difficult to distinguish it.

Bald Lao Zhang and the soldiers and horses under his men were not aware of it at all, but deep in the forest, it was like a cauldron exploded. I don’t know how many people, groups and teams, were ordered to attack Bald Lao Zhang and others. The approaching bamboo raft army.

Some people have already held the bamboo tubes they carried behind their backs, while others are blowing willow whistles to convey messages.

But when the smoke dispersed, their expressions suddenly changed. In the bamboo tube behind them, the Gu insects became inexplicably restless, disobedient, and crawled around in the bamboo tube.

In the forest, from all directions, only rustling sounds could be heard. Countless insects crawled out of the trees, on the ground, among the dead leaves, and in the grass.

These bamboo raft soldiers and horses wanted to shout, but they couldn't even make a sound because their bodies were covered with poisonous insects.

He wanted to escape, but the more he fled, the more he saw that he was surrounded by snakes and insects.

Behind the bamboo raft army, on a low slope in the distance, there were three men, one tall, one short, and one thin, sitting cross-legged, with a Gu basin in front of them.

"not good……"

After realizing that there was something strange about the Gu insect, the three of them all looked shocked and jumped up.

Around the voodoo basin, they danced weird dances, recited obscure incantations quickly, and even cut their palms and sprinkled blood into the voodoo basin.

But the female insect in the Gu basin was still restless and screamed, causing the Gu basin to make a clanging sound.

The three of them tried their best to hold on for a long time... Or maybe, it didn't take long, and they didn't even last through a pack of cigarettes. There were already cracks on the Gu basin. Two of the three people The individual's face turned blue and he slowly fell to his knees on the ground.

Only the last one gritted his teeth, picked up the machete, cut off his own arm, and then fled into the deep forest desperately, screaming as if he had seen a ghost.

…

…

"With one bag of cigarettes, eight hundred Gu soldiers were killed?"

On the other side, even the bald old Zhang who had been poisoned looked at Houerjiu who was sitting on the bullock cart and slowly put away his pipe, and his voice was already trembling.

The people under his command had dispersed, and found corpses of bamboo raft soldiers one after another. Some people moved forward to look for them, and already saw the corpses of two Gu masters on the hillside, as well as a broken Gu basin. .

He didn't understand. This was beyond his understanding of the world. Because of the unknown, he even gave birth to fear.

"Their Gu is too old-fashioned."

Houerjiu explained politely, but a little confusion could be heard in his voice: "I only know how to refine Gu with the skills passed down from my ancestors, but I don't understand that many strange things in this world are caused by Tai Sui. Only part of the skills passed down from our ancestors can be used.”

"They have been learning over and over again, but they don't know how to adapt and stick to the rules. Doesn't this mean that they have put their lives in the hands of their opponents?"

Everyone listened with question marks on their foreheads.

Although this gentleman in white robe seems to be very polite, he does not act like a charlatan and answers all questions.

But I couldn't understand it even if I asked.

But the more plain and polite he behaves, the more frightening he becomes.

Only the sweet potatoes were burned, so I became more courageous. Now I have discovered that the white-robed guy seems to be different from what I thought, but Sister Gua is also arrogant and will not accept anyone except Hu Ma.

At this moment, it was she who led the people to patrol around the forest, checked a few times, and after a while, they came out of the forest.

Several soldiers wearing white linen around her helped her drag the bodies of the two "Gu Gongs" and said, "Brother Wu, you still haven't done your job well. I saw the footprints of three old men on the slope, but there were only Two died, and one ran back..."

"Leave him back to report the news."

Houerjiu slowly raised his head, looked at the direction in which the Gu master was escaping, and said, "So that others can be prepared."

Sweet Potato Shao was startled for a moment: "Eh?"

The soldiers and horses beside him, as well as a few courageous counselors, were completely confused at this moment.

In war, one must be unexpected, and soldiers must be quick.

Catch them off guard before the other party can react, and you win. Are there any who say hello in advance?

If both sides have equal numbers of troops, that would be fine. Now it is clear that there are few people on our side...

As for their surprise, Houerjiu noticed it and politely explained: "The Hundred Thousand Mountains is too big to go through one by one. It would be troublesome, so I need them to get together first."

…

…

The facts turned out to be as Houerjiu had expected. The Gu Master lost one of his hands, escaped back to the Hunshi King's army, and reported to the superiors.

King Hunshi was so frightened that he got up in the middle of the night to ask. After learning about the situation in the mountains, he was so angry that he dropped the tea cup in his hand to the ground. He cried out sadly: "The eight hundred bamboo platoon army, that's the grandpa of the Zhu family. He gave me the most powerful soldiers and horses to use in fighting for the world..."

"You said they didn't even see each other's shadow clearly, so they both died in the forest."

"..."

"Someone broke their self-defense method, causing the Gu insects to bite back..."

The Gu Lord who had escaped not only had one of his arms broken, but his face was pale and stars were shining in his eyes. He also felt that all the bones in his body were falling apart, and all the Gu bugs in his body were burrowing into his internal organs as if they were out of control.

With all his strength, he could only scream loudly: "It's Xie Sui... Xie Sui... They have already brought Huzhou soldiers and horses into the mountains..."

He wanted to remind the Hunshi King that the evil spirit that entered the forest was powerful and to make him careful, but when he finished these last words, he felt that his internal organs were torn apart, and his body refused to obey and went limp.

"They are looking for death!"

When King Hunshi saw Duke Gu die in front of him, he was so furious that he started clapping the case.

It is not difficult for him to feed the eight hundred bamboo platoon soldiers, and they have repeatedly performed extraordinary feats in battles. Only eight hundred people have caused people in Huzhou to panic, and the army has collapsed. How can you not be angry when you are in the mountains?

And when he heard that the other party actually dared to enter the mountains, he gritted his teeth and shouted: "Gather your troops and horses, set off at dawn and go into the mountains!"

"Grandpa, please teach me the technique of awakening mountains, and one hundred thousand mountains can be used by me!"

"We were about to see how they would seek death!"

"..."

After the strict order was issued, the firemen immediately got up, buried the stove and cooked. When it was dawn, the whole army had filled their stomachs, and they immediately raised the flag. The generals led the troops and entered the mountains. He personally cast a spell in front of the mountain and beat the drum.

This drum was given by Grandpa Zhu himself. It is one of the three drums of Guanshan, the evil heart drum.

Inside the drum, there is a living heart, beating from time to time.

The leg bones of a living person are made into drumsticks. Once it is struck, the sound shakes the mountains and forests, and can wake up the mountains to eat people.

It can be said that where there are mountains, the army of King Hunshi can be invincible.

"Dong!" "Dong!" "Dong!"

The evil heart drum was struck, and the sound spread thousands of miles. The drum sound echoed between the peaks of the dark, endless, deep and huge 100,000 mountains.

As if awakening this ancient forest, some shocking, huge, yet strange changes are happening in the mountains.

The first time I looked at the mountain, it was continuous. The second time I looked at it, I felt that the mountain had changed, like a chess piece, which was just here, and the second time I looked at it, it had moved to another position.

…

…

"Here, here..."

And near the bald old Zhang and his group, the bamboo raft army was killed by a bag of cigarettes, and their courage seemed to be stronger.

But there were more than a thousand people in total, and they could not see a shadow when thrown into the mountains. While walking, facing this dark and invisible mountain, they always had lingering awe and did not dare to speak loudly.

While walking, suddenly heard the sound of drums coming from the deep mountains.

The drum sound was like the beating of the heart, deep, heavy, with a certain shrill and gloomy atmosphere.

The whole army looked up suddenly and saw that the mountains of Jiamian seemed to have changed. The lush pines and cypresses in the mountains seemed to have turned into people, and the withered vines and weeds seemed to have turned into human hair, undulating and swaying like waves.

The mountaintops that had just been crossed not long ago now appeared in front of them. The strange cliffs and valleys seemed to have opened their eyes and looked at them.

"The mountain... the mountain is alive again..."

When someone shouted in a low voice, everyone seemed to have lost their souls, and their voices were trembling uncontrollably.

Some people even wanted to throw away their weapons and run away.

The bamboo raft army was terrifying enough, but the bamboo raft army was still human after all. No matter how terrifying people were, there was always a limit. What scared the soldiers and horses under Bald Old Zhang the most was these 100,000 mountains.

Earlier, no one knew how many soldiers and horses there were, and they were deployed in this mountain. With the mountain terrain, there were indeed many places where one man could block the pass and ten thousand men could not pass. But what happened later broke the defense of the whole army.

The soldiers and horses of King Hunshi were not the strongest in the world, and their swords and armor were not the strongest.

Only this skill of awakening the mountain could awaken the mountain to eat people, and inexplicably let the enemy soldiers hang in the mountains one by one.

This kind of thing is hard to explain, and it can't be blocked or avoided. It is the easiest to lose morale.

Now that the drum sounded again, the fear in my heart could no longer be suppressed. I just stared with wide eyes, watching the fog in the mountain getting thicker and deeper. In the mist, I could only see ropes hanging down from the hillsides and under the ancient trees.

Some of the corpses hanging on them were fresh, and some were mostly rotten.

Now, they slowly turned their heads and showed their former comrades a strange green smile, as if inviting them to stay on the hillside together.

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"It's a bit serious..."

Dian Gua Shao didn't care about guessing the ability of Hou Er Jiu at this moment. He kept looking here and there furtively, and said carefully: "How could this mountain become so evil?"

"Even more evil than my brothers..."

Others didn't know, but Di Gua Shao knew it very well. It seemed that he only brought 500 soldiers, but in fact, he brought thousands of troops, but living people couldn't see these soldiers.

But now that she entered the mountain, she actually felt that those soldiers were looming in her perception, and a group of little ghosts were wandering around in the mountain, as if they were lost.

She naturally knew that she had encountered a ghost wall.

But the brothers she brought were ghosts. Is it fair for ghosts to encounter a ghost wall?

There were some things that were beyond his understanding, so he suddenly became humble and looked at Hou'erjiu cautiously, with a tentative tone: "Brother, do you have any other ideas?"

Hou'erjiu also slowly jumped off the ox-horse cart and said slowly: "It's really a bit tricky."

When Digua Shao heard this, he thought, is this difficult?

He felt a little happy in his heart, and he straightened his chest and was about to speak out the good idea he had thought of in his mind.

Then, Houerjiu looked at the eerie mountains and said slowly, "How could they be so stupid as to awaken the 100,000 mountains and send 100,000 of their own soldiers into the mountains to perform this awakening technique?"

"We agreed to fight with the ten families to save lives."

"Now, if all the 100,000 soldiers died here in the blink of an eye, wouldn't it seem a bit..."

"..."

After pondering for a while, he thought of a suitable word: "waste?"

After saying this, the surroundings suddenly became much quieter, and everyone was stunned, thinking that they had heard it wrong.

Digua Shao opened his mouth wide at once: "Fuck, are you serious?"

"I don't like killing people."

Hou'er Jiu didn't explain much, just shook his head slowly, then asked Bald Old Zhang to take down a bamboo basket from his ox cart, and stood in front of the bamboo basket with a flute in his hand, and exhaled softly.

He looked up at Digua Shao and said gently, "But I am here to fight the Zhu family. The Zhu family is a good opponent, so I also need to do my best."

"Since you have to do your best, you can't hold back. I can't consider the lives of these people while breaking the Zhu family's magic."

"Fortunately, you are here."

He seemed to have thought of something, turned his head and looked at Digua Shao, smiling, "I also know that your army is just a cover, and there are some powerful means hidden. Then you can disperse those soldiers of the King of Chaos!"

"If we can let one more of them escape from this mountain, it can be regarded as saving one more life for this new world."

"..."

After saying these words, he had already raised his head gently. There was silence in the mountains and forests, and even the drum sound deep in the mountains seemed to become light at this time.

Digua Shao, who was standing next to him, was also confused at this moment: "Me? Save people?"

"Yes!"

Hou'erjiu looked at her, smiled gently, and said: "It can be seen that you are a very warm-hearted girl."

"Since I can't consider these things, then, these soldiers who came into the mountains with us, and those driven by the Zhu family, will rely on you to protect them!"

"I believe you will be fine!"