Chapter 42 Full Moon Night
Chapter 42 Full Moon Night
"Boss Zhan, something is wrong?"
"stop!"
On the fifteenth day, night fell and the full moon was in the sky.
Zhan Laoshi looked around and saw silence everywhere. He clenched the spear in his hand with a serious expression.
"Did you notice it too?"
Under the cover of the black pines, only sparse moonlight fell into the forest. A strong wind blew, causing the shadows of the trees to sway, making a whistling sound.
This place is less than five miles away from the camp beside the official road.
The little leader trembled and said, "We agreed to return to the camp at dark, how come we didn't meet anyone?"
Someone in the gang asked, "Will they go back early?"
The little leader said, "Absolutely not! Forty or fifty people, all returned to the camp early without any prior arrangement?"
"Maybe he took another route, or he hasn't returned yet..." the man said, his voice lowered. He also felt that these reasons were untenable.
Zhan Laoshi twitched his nose twice. There seemed to be a familiar smell in the wind. When he was working alone on the grassland, he learned some skills of smelling the wind and identifying it by observation.
He frowned and asked, "Did you smell it?"
"Smell what?"
Another gust of wind blew from the woods.
His expression changed drastically: "What a strong smell of blood! Let's go."
Zhan Laoshi ran away without pulling the trigger.
He felt that he was not far from the camp, so he retreated to discuss with Peng Canghu before making any plans. Although pulling the flare could alert the camp, it also exposed his position to the Wild Wolf Gang.
The six people ran thirty or forty steps south, and suddenly several of them fell to the ground, as if they were tripped by something at the same time.
When they stood up, they saw the pale faces hidden under the ice and snow in the moonlight, and were immediately horrified.
"dead!"
"It's them!"
"All dead..."
Everyone stopped and looked back, and saw that they were all the teams that had dispersed.
More than twenty brothers from the Dragon Scale Society were lying here in a row, stripped of their cotton-padded jackets. Strangely enough, their bodies were covered with a thin layer of snow.
"Four teams, they must have been attacked when they were returning to the camp..."
The little leader trembled and said, "Is it... is it a snow demon? It is said that when a snow demon kills someone, it will strip them of their clothes..."
Every place has a few horrifying legends, and Pingyang Prefecture is no exception.
The snow demon appears on snowy nights and specifically borrows clothes from travelers returning home late, then returns them. Those who wear the clothes and return them will freeze to death, with a layer of white snow covering their bodies.
Most people in Pingyang City have heard of this legend.
Everyone became even more frightened. Some even felt their legs go weak and they couldn't walk. Their hands holding the swords kept shaking.
Zhan Laoshi slapped him in the face and cursed, "Wake up! Snow demon, they are just the cubs of the Wild Wolf Gang! They don't dare to fight head-on, so they use this despicable method to launch a sneak attack--"
The words trailed off.
The black pines were shaking all around, and many dark shadows appeared, rushing forward with knives in hand.
"Enemy attack, fight back!"
Zhan Laoshi fired a flare.
A spark of fire, trailing white smoke, rushed up into the air, and then exploded.
There was a smell of gunpowder in the air.
"Brothers, our chance to wipe out the remnants of the Wild Wolf Gang and make a great contribution has come!"
"Young Master will come to support us soon, hold on!"
Zhan Laoshi held his spear and shouted to encourage the morale. The five Dragon Scale disciples around him set up a simple formation as they usually did.
The Wild Wolf Gang had a deep blood feud, and everyone was at the forefront, with hatred in every blow. Needless to say. "Kill!"
Liu Dachui's two short legs kicked very fast, and his iron ring knife danced like a wheel. He was the first to crash into the opponent's camp and went straight for the man who gave the orders.
"Liu Dachui, the Seventh Evil of the Wild Wolf Gang?"
Zhan Laoshi suddenly felt timid, because "Iron Head Wolf" was a well-known master in the underworld of Pingyang Prefecture.
He was particularly known for his tenacious life. Once in a battle, his enemy smashed his skull with an iron bone, and his brains splattered. Everyone thought he was dead, but he got up from the ground and stabbed his opponent in the kidney from behind.
Now there are ambushes on all sides and I have nowhere to escape. I can only fight with my back against the wall.
Zhan Laoshi shook his spear and stabbed it into his opponent's heart like a poisonous snake spitting out its tongue.
"You bastard from the Dragon Scale Society, take my sword!"
Liu Dachui chopped the spear with his knife and moved closer to him, and the two men fought together.
The spear is the king of all weapons and can be used for both attack and defense.
Zhan Laoshi's marksmanship has some of the shadow of the border army. It is not exquisite, but it is quite practical. He often has unexpected and risky moves, forcing Liu Dachui to draw his sword to defend and dare not attack blindly.
Zhang Yujian did not draw his sword, he just stood outside the battle circle and watched.
Zhao Xia, Liu Dachui, and thirty other gang members outnumbered the weaker group, and they also had experts on their side. The five Dragon Scale Society disciples fell down one by one in just three minutes after the close combat.
"They need a morale-boosting battle!"
On the field, only the man with the spear was left, still fighting against Liu Dachui.
After all, Liu Dachui is a master in the Armor-Breaking Realm, with abundant internal strength and tricky swordsmanship. Every time Zhan Laoshi responds to his moves, he has to use all his strength.
The two fought for thirty moves, which took a long time. Facing Liu Dachui's sword skills that were like a violent storm, Zhan Laoshi began to lose strength and gradually showed his flaws.
"Wild wolf guts!"
Liu Dachui seized the opportunity, rolled on the ground, dodged three stabs in succession, and got in front of him. At this time, Zhan Laoshi was unable to draw his gun to defend, and the door was wide open.
"not good."
That's too late!
Liu Dachui suddenly stood up and chopped horizontally with the iron ring knife, cutting into the opponent's entire abdomen, and colorful things flowed out.
Zhan Laoshi fell on the snow, took one last look in the direction of the camp, and then died.
Liu Dachui was covered in blood. He had solved the most difficult idea and felt happy and satisfied.
Zhang Yu saw that some gang members wanted to clean up the battlefield, strip off clothes, and loot money.
He quickly ordered: "The pursuers are approaching, evacuate immediately!"
When everyone heard this, they all looked at Zhao Xia and Liu Dachui.
They had suffered from severe cold before. In the cold winter, who wouldn't want to put on an extra cotton jacket, especially when they were fleeing in a situation where they had no place to live and no food to eat.
"The master has ordered that anyone who disobeys will be punished according to the gang rules."
Zhao Xia said in a cold voice that she supported the messenger of the Divine Religion without hesitation, not entirely because of the life-saving grace in the Temple of the Martial Saint.
Rather, it was Zhang Yu who formulated and arranged the 'defeat them one by one and wait for the rabbit' plan based on the information extracted from the Dragon Scale Society disciples.
She already had some initial confidence in this man's abilities.
"As ordered!"
Everyone evacuated immediately, moving quickly through the woods and heading north towards Wolf Head Mountain.
Then a voice came.
"After killing our Dragon Scale Society members, you just want to walk away like this?"
The man stood in front of the crowd, holding a wolf-tooth iron rod, about five feet long, made of solid iron, weighing sixty to seventy kilograms. The head was thick and bulging, like a date pit, covered with iron nails, and gleaming with cold light.
"Peng Canghu!"
When Liu Dachui saw who was coming, fear appeared in his eyes.
(End of this chapter)