Chapter 40 Lightning Strike

Chapter 40 Lightning Strike

Chapter 40 Lightning Strike
Chen Shi's face flushed with embarrassment and he stammered. Just as he was about to answer, Xiao Wangsun coughed and reminded him, "Before you answer, pay attention to the place. This is Wuwang City, be careful not to have your tongue pulled out."

Chen Shi felt a chill in his heart and glanced at the woman in red with caution, classifying her as a dangerous person.

"If I had been reserved just now and answered that I didn't want to, I would definitely lose my tongue. I can't say one thing and mean another here!" he thought to himself.

Xiao Wangsun said, "Jin Hongying, why do you have to make things difficult for the younger generation?"

The woman in red rolled her eyes at him, pressed her elbows against the tea table, and leaned her chest against it, saying with a smile, "Xiao Wangsun, you are so brave to steal my Shenjiying's things. Bring me the things, and I will forgive you."

Chen Shi blinked his eyes. Shenjiying?

He had heard of the Shenji Camp. Yandang Village had once produced a juren who was very talented. It was said that he later joined the Shenji Camp and became a soldier of the Shenji Camp.

After this man returned to the village, matchmakers came to propose marriage to him.

I heard that the Shenjiying served the emperor, had high salary and status, and to become a soldier in the Shenjiying, one had to have very noble ancestors.

Xiao Wangsun ignored the beauty of the woman in red and said calmly, "You robbed it, so what? Do you think I should give it back to you?"

Jin Hongying dipped her finger in tea and drew circles on the table, smiling faintly, "Isn't this meeting to discuss how to return it? Otherwise, what's the point of the meeting? Xiao Wangsun, I'll give you two options. The first option is that you return it voluntarily, and the Shenjiying will forgive you. The second option is that we will kill you and then grab your body back."

She raised her eyes and smiled, "Your injuries from last time should not have healed yet, but this time it's more than just an injury. I can even send you on your way!"

"Is Xiao Wangsun injured?"

Chen Shi's heart was slightly moved, thinking of the time when he first met Xiao Wangsun.

At that time, Xiao Wangsun, like himself, also went to the coffin in the mountain manor to recuperate.

But isn’t that a very yin place where corpses are kept?

Xiao Wangsun is not a corpse, so why should he go there for recuperation?
What puzzled him even more was, "I'm not a corpse, so why did Grandpa send me there for recuperation?"

Xiao Wangsun looked calm and said, "My injury has healed."

Jin Hongying felt a chill in her heart. She leaned back, her chest trembling, and said with a smile, "So there's nothing to talk about?"

Xiao Wangsun nodded slightly.

Jin Hongying smiled and said leisurely, "I heard that Xiao Wangsun is extremely talented and has extraordinary style. I was born late and have not been able to see him in person. But tonight, maybe I can see him. If you can survive tonight, I will forgive you for stealing the treasures from my Shenjiying."

She stood up, glanced at Chen Shi, and said with a smile: "Little brother, don't follow him, you will die."

After saying that, he walked away with his butt twisted.

Chen Shi retracted his gaze, and Xiao Wangsun asked, "Does it look good?"

Chen Shi was about to answer, but quickly shut up and thought to himself, "Xiao Wangsun is also very dangerous. He almost made me pull out my tongue!"

Xiao Wangsun drank tea and watched Jin Hongying leave Wuwang City. After a while, he stood up and said, "You stay here, I will be back soon. If I don't come back, you leave Wuwang City before dawn and don't stay."

Chen Shi quickly asked, "What if we didn't leave Wuwang City?"

"You will disappear along with Wuwang City."

Xiao Wangsun walked downstairs, and a voice came, "Those who disappeared with Wuwang City have never appeared again. No one knows whether they are dead or alive."

Chen Shi shuddered.

Xiao Wangsun did not ride in a carriage, but walked out of the city and soon disappeared in the moonlight.

Chen Shi drank tea, ate dried fruits and meat, and waited quietly.

After a long moment, he blinked and laughed.

"What are you laughing at?" a voice asked nearby.

"I laughed at the bizarre experiences I had that night. I was seeking revenge and killing someone on the post road, and on my way home I suddenly fell ill, was chased by an evil spirit, and ran into Xiao Wangsun by chance."

Chen Shi laughed, "Then I ran to this strange city and met the people from the Shenji Camp. Now, I am drinking tea and eating preserved fruits in the ghost town, waiting for Xiao Wangsun to return from the battle with the Shenji Camp. This experience is really outrageous! It's so absurd that I want to laugh out loud..."

When he said this, he suddenly realized that Xiao Wangsun was not there, so who was talking to him?
He turned his head hurriedly, only to see that the waiter with four arms was nowhere to be seen, and instead there was a strange fellow with a toad head. His head was four or five times the size of an ordinary person's, with blue and white stripes on it, and a big mouth with a pipe in his mouth. There were three short and thick incense sticks in the pipe, and he was puffing on the smoke.

Its two slender legs supported its fat body, and it was holding an incredibly large teapot in its hands.

It should be the tea master of the teahouse, coming to refill Chen Shi's tea.

"What are you looking at?" the voice asked again.

Only then did Chen Shi notice that it was not the toad that was speaking, but the big teapot it was carrying.

The lid of the teapot opened and closed, questioning him, and there were two eyes underneath the lid.

"Do not talk."

The Toad Tea Doctor whispered to Chen Shi, "It likes to ask questions, so don't answer them. This guy caused several guests to have their tongues pulled out today."

Chen Shi became alert and immediately shut up without saying anything.

The big teapot asked him a few questions, but when he didn't answer, he lost interest in him.

Dr. Toad Tea refilled Chen Shi’s tea and carried the big teapot to other tea tables.

The big teapot asked the guests at that table, "Are you worried about something?"

"No--"

A scream was heard, and Chen Shi saw that the guests who were drinking tea at the table had their tongues pulled out by a strange force. They covered their mouths and murmured, unable to speak.

"Were you secretly glancing at the breasts of the woman in red just now?" asked the big teapot to the guests at another table.

"I didn't...ah——" A stream of blood flew out in the air, and another tongue flew out.

Chen Shi shuddered and classified the big teapot as dangerous as well.

"Yes, this Wuwang City should also be a realm of ghosts and gods!"

Chen Shi suddenly came to realize that there are many kinds of ghost and god realms. There are those like the kiln factories that can turn people into porcelain, those that turn tomb guardian beasts into gods and demons, those that distort time, and those like Wuwang City that cannot lie.

Anyone who tells a lie will suffer unexpected disaster and the pain of having his tongue pulled out, so it is called the City of No-Wrong.

"Wuwang means truth! The so-called Wuwang City is a city of truth that does not tolerate lies."

Chen Shi figured this out and felt delighted, and his fear of Wuwang City disappeared.

He is a man who lives in the mountains and understands the importance of following rules.

Whether it is the realm of ghosts and gods or evil spirits, as long as certain rules are followed, everything can live in peace.

Suddenly, there was lightning and thunder in the sky outside the city. Chen Shi looked hurriedly, only to see streaks of lightning rising from the ground, rapidly drawing a red arc in the air, and hitting a mountain under the moonlight!

Balls of fire exploded, illuminating the mountain as bright as day!
Chen Shi stood up hurriedly and looked towards the hill outside the city. He saw thunders coming one after another in a fan shape, rising from the ground, rising into the air, and bombarding the mountain. In just a short moment, hundreds of thunders hit the mountain.

With the help of lightning, Chen Shi looked more and more carefully, and saw that there seemed to be a human figure standing on the mountain. The figure looked very small, standing at the very top of the mountain.

A cold light as thin as a hair was spinning around him at an extremely fast speed!

Despite being so far away, its speed is still too fast to be captured by the naked eye!

"what is that?"

Chen Shi was stunned, he couldn't see the light clearly.

The cold light is extremely tiny, but it always arrives in an instant before the thunder hits the top of the mountain and pierces the thunder.

When the thunder is pierced, it will explode, with flashes of fire and lightning flying in all directions, and after a while there will be a deafening thunder.

Those lightning bolts didn't hit the mountain at all!

The thunder and lightning that he had just seen striking the mountain was just a visual illusion.

Chen Shi was horrified as he saw the lightning becoming more and more dense. The cold light seemed to be powerless. Gradually, thunder fell on the top of the mountain and exploded.

Every time this happens, the earth is shaking!
More and more thunders broke through the cold light's defense and bombarded the mountain top. Soon the mountain top seemed to be burning red, becoming more and more dazzling.

In Wuwang City, everyone, whether human or ghost, was terrified.

If those thunders fell on Wuwang City, this realm of ghosts and gods would turn into a sea of ​​fire in an instant, and all the people would be wiped out!

Everyone in the city stretched their necks to look. Some people held their heads with both hands, pulled their heads off their necks, and raised them up to look.

Chen Shi inadvertently noticed that the neck of a person in the crowd suddenly became longer and thin like a bamboo pole, raising his head to a height of ten or two meters, and he was watching intently.

"Do you want to take a pair of scissors and cut his neck?" The big teapot asked others again.

"In no mood……"

"puff!"

Chen Shi was alert and kept his mouth shut, determined not to speak if anyone asked him questions.

The lightning strike lasted for more than an hour, and the top of the mountain was lowering at a speed visible to the naked eye under the thunder and fire. It should be because the rocks were blown away and melted!
Suddenly, someone shouted, "It's almost dawn, hurry up, it will be too late if you don't leave now!"

Suddenly, the crowd in the city shook and rushed out of the city.

Chen Shi also hurried downstairs, and saw that the city was crowded with people, ghosts, and monsters everywhere.

"Sir, your carriage is ready." The waiter from the four-armed inn came out from somewhere and reminded Chen Shi.

Chen Shi followed him to the backyard, and sure enough, Xiao Wangsun's carriage was still there. This time, Xiao Wangsun was not there, and the coachman and four horses were not petrified.

Chen Shi got on the carriage, and the driver whipped the carriage lightly. Four horses immediately pulled the carriage and rushed out of the city!

The four horses ran faster and faster. There were more and more people, ghosts and monsters in front of them. It seemed that many people were about to be crushed to death. Suddenly, clouds appeared under the feet of the four horses. They stepped on the clouds and pulled the chariot past the heads of the people, ghosts and monsters and ran straight towards the city gate.

Chen Shi was surprised to see the horses pulling the carriage through the city gate, galloping past, and landing on the ground outside the city. There was the crisp sound of horse hooves, and the carriage was pulled into the night before dawn.

"The chariot is heading for that mountain!"

Chen Shi was shocked. He saw the driver cracking the whip, the carriage was speeding up, and the air was gradually filled with the smell of gunpowder.

Chen Shi was suspicious. He saw the carriage travel another two miles and then saw several corpses and a huge metal object appear on the roadside.

It was a cannon with a barrel more than ten feet long and weighing two to three thousand pounds.

"The legendary red cannon of the Shenjiying!" Chen Shi's eyes widened.

He had heard people in Yandang Village talk about this kind of firearm. It was said to be extremely powerful and could unleash the force of thunder. A single cannon shot was like a calamity from heaven!

However, the thick barrel of the Red Cannon was cut off, and the fracture was extremely sharp. Even the talisman patterns engraved in the barrel were cut off!
Chen Shi took a quick glance and saw that the barrel of the gun was red in color. It should be soaked with cinnabar ground with black dog blood. He just didn't know what method the Shenjiying used to carve the talisman into the barrel of the gun.

Next to the Red Cannon was a cart of projectiles that were larger than a child's head. The projectiles were made of black iron with talismans engraved on the surface and outlined with cinnabar and black dog blood to increase their power.

"Big Five Thunder Talisman!"

Chen Shi took a quick glance and recognized the talisman on the bullet, and was shocked.

The Big Five Thunder Talisman is an extremely powerful thunder talisman. When combined with black gunpowder, its power is increased several times!
He suddenly realized that the lightning strike they saw last night was not the magic of the Shenji Camp, but a cannon bombardment of the mountain!

The scene should have been that dozens or even hundreds of Red Barbarian cannons fired at the same time, bombarding Xiao Wangsun with the blessing of the Great Five Thunder Talisman!
(End of this chapter)