Chapter 283 Punished
Xu Zhenfeng listened to Lou Qianjiang's words with an expressionless face.
"Your brothers don't have this ability, but your General's Mansion does."
Lou Qianjiang waved his hands quickly and said in defense:
“Brother Xu, please don’t misunderstand. Not only our Shahai City, but also our Qinyue Country has always lived in harmony with the Demon Mountain, as you know.
My father and I are irreconcilable with the demons, and we will never collude with the demons to trap and kill the monsters."
Xu Zhenfeng did not respond and asked again: "If there is such a tunnel, why didn't you tell me earlier?
Even if you don't tell me, it's better to come down earlier than when I'm on my last breath, right?"
Lou Qianjiang hurriedly explained, "When the demons appeared, you, Brother Xu, started to flash around, so I had no chance to pull you down the tunnel.
Besides, this pit is a hidden formation with no opening, only a formation entrance.
Even the little time I brought Brother Xu down here was created for us by the guards at the cost of their lives."
After saying this, his face was full of bitterness and sadness.
"They had to cover us as we entered the formation, and also delay the time for me to close the formation. Now... they are all dead."
After hearing this, Xu Zhenfeng also fell silent.
It is true that any careful plan cannot withstand the slightest unexpected event.
They had expected that someone would come to assassinate Xu Zhenfeng, and they had also expected that someone would lead away the main fighting force of the General's Mansion.
The only thing he didn't expect was that two demons close to the middle level of Heaven Rank could come to assassinate him, a first-level Earth Rank demon?
(If the one who led Uncle Lu and the general to the group was also a demon.)
After a long time, the sounds of howling and begging for mercy coming from the ground disappeared from the tunnel.
Lou Qianjiang listened carefully for a while, and the ground suddenly became quiet.
"That demon should have left. He can't afford to delay any longer. My father and Uncle Lu will be back at any time."
When Xu Zhenfeng was about to ask him to be patient and wait for a while, the anxious voice of General Lou Wan'an suddenly came from the ground.
"Qianjiang, where have you been? And where is Xu Zhenfeng? Where are the people from the General's Mansion? Where have they all gone?"
Hearing General Lou's call, Lou Qianjiang was about to get up but was stopped by Xu Zhenfeng.
"Doesn't your father know about this concealment formation?"
"I secretly asked my master to build this formation for me. My father doesn't know about it."
Xu Zhenfeng thought about it and shook his head, "Your father must know that this is his general's mansion.
If he doesn't know there is a hidden formation in his mansion, then he is not worthy of being the General of Fenwei."
Lou Qianjiang was stunned upon hearing this.
"But this... this is indeed my father's voice."
Although he had just said this, he reacted immediately. In just a moment, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
The inquiring voice of General Lou coming from the ground was imitated or transformed by the black fog man.
Sure enough, after the general's voice shouted for a while, the monster's voice came again.
“If you don’t come out, I will kill all the people in the General’s Mansion, and their deaths will be blamed on you.
Lou Qianjiang, do you really want to let everyone in your general's mansion die for a demon clan?"
Lou Qianjiang gritted his teeth and said nothing.
Xu Zhenfeng just lowered his head and looked at the golden doll.
Not long after, the sound of killing was heard again.
Screams, pleas for mercy, the sounds of people running for their lives...
Lou Qianjiang bit his lips until they bled, and a trickle of blood flowed down the corner of his mouth.
Xu Zhenfeng glanced at him and said, "With the cultivation level of that monster, if he kills people, will those people still have a chance to scream for mercy and escape?"
Lou Qianjiang said in a hoarse voice: "Even if he was bluffing, he killed quite a few people in my General's Mansion."
Xu Zhenfeng lowered his head and continued to look at Huang Jingwa, "This is something that you brothers should be held responsible for."
After a while, the noisy sounds on the ground finally disappeared.
Not long after, Uncle Lu's voice was heard again.
"Qianjiang, come out, everything is fine now."
After experiencing the temptation of the demon just now, Lou Qianjiang did not dare to answer Uncle Lu's words for a while.
Until Lou Wanan's voice sounded.
"Qianjiang, come out of your master's magic circle, everything is fine."
Lou Qianjiang finally breathed a sigh of relief. He reached out and felt around on the earthen wall of the pit for a while.
Xu Zhenfeng hugged the Huangjing doll tightly, and suddenly his eyes blurred. The three of them appeared in the Shura hell-like yard again.
Lou Wanan was looking at the remains of the guards in the yard with an angry expression.
Lou Qianjiang also saw the tragic scene in the yard. After just one look, he walked up to the general with heavy steps.
"Father, this is all my fault. I deliberately exposed my weakness and distracted most of the guards in the mansion. This is why so many guards died. Please punish me, father."
Lou Wanan paced in the yard step by step, looking at every piece of corpse, and finally came to Lou Qianjiang.
"You should have anticipated that insufficient guards would result in casualties that you cannot afford."
After saying that, he waved his hand backwards, and guards kept coming in from outside carrying the corpses of humans who were killed by the monster in other places in the General's Mansion.
"You wanted to lure the snake out of its hole, but what you lured out was not a snake, but a python that you had no control over.
You should be punished, not for your plan, but for the fact that you came up with such a plan without having perfect foresight. "
Lou Qianjiang lowered his head, feeling extremely regretful. It was he who sent away the two heavenly-rank priests in the mansion, creating an opportunity for his brothers to take action as soon as possible.
He thought that with his father and Uncle Lu around, plus a dozen or so earth-level cultivators or above as guards, they would be able to hold out for a while.
If all else fails, he could still escape into the concealment magic array. However, with such a plan, once he encountered a truly powerful enemy, he wouldn't even have the chance to escape into the array.
If these guards had not used their lives to buy time for him, he and Xu Zhenfeng would probably have been killed by now.
Lou Wanan glanced at Xu Zhenfeng again and said, "You two planned this together. If you want to punish him, you can't just punish him. You have to be punished too."
Xu Zhenfeng saw corpses all over the yard, and the guards were constantly carrying in the miserable corpses of men, women, young and old, who had died in miserable conditions, into the yard.
The words to defend himself reached his throat, but he suppressed them.
"The junior is willing to be punished."
Only then did Lou Wanan nod with satisfaction.
He turned around and walked out of the yard, saying three words, "Follow me."
Lou Qianjiang and Xu Zhenfeng, who was holding the Huangjing doll, followed him out of the yard.