Chapter 24: Trapping Ghosts
Although he was taken care of by Li Yuan and could have enough time to practice martial arts in the public housing, Wang Cheng did not forget his plan.
When he was practicing martial arts, he also found Liu Fei, so that when he had time to rest during the day, he rode his horse to help him observe the patrol rules of the imperial soldiers at the junction of Lijiaping Town and Dasang Township, as well as the map on the line.
Of course, Liu Fei had questions about this kind of thing, but when Wang Cheng was unwilling to say it, he could do nothing.
Who told him that he still owed Wang Cheng five silver coins!
Wang Cheng originally thought that the White Lotus Demonic Dao that caused hundreds of deaths in the village would cause sensation in the county government and would ask the yamen to send officials to come down to learn the details.
But the actual situation proves that he is completely overthinking.
After receiving the official documents from Duan Yanqing, the county yamen, he sent Chief Li to Lijiaping Town, and praised all the constables and yamen runners in person. Each of them gave a symbolic reward and then gave Wang Cheng and Li Yuan, who had made great contributions, each of them gave five silver coins, which was over.
Such hasty and deception made Wang Cheng have a new understanding of the dangers of this world and deeply disappointed the imperial government.
He understands the truth that life in troubled times is like grass.
But the Tang Dynasty court is not in chaos yet!
A court with order and a county with a total population of less than 100,000 can remain indifferent to the deaths of hundreds of villagers. This is terrible!
No matter what difficulties the county government has, in Wang Cheng's view, this cannot be a reason for them to remain indifferent.
If the county government treasury has no money and cannot compensate the villagers whose relatives have died, at least the county magistrate or county magistrate and other officials come to visit the villagers, it is no problem, right?
But I don’t want to do even such a show-like thing. Isn’t that scary?
In short, after seeing this situation, Wang Cheng had a stronger idea of practicing martial arts and improving his strength to protect himself.
In such a terrible world, no one can truly give him a sense of security. Only his own fists and his own force can make him feel at ease.
At least in this way, when he encounters things that villagers encounter, he will not lose the power of resistance, and will not be trampled and abandoned by the imperial government he expects as an abandoned son!
Days passed day by day, and it soon half a month passed before Wang Cheng and his friends arrested the White Lotus Demon Dao.
At this time, all the work of the temporary inspection town of Lijiaping Town was on track, and the various rights and responsibilities that should be clarified were also sorted out and divided. The daily lives of the constables were no longer as busy as before, and they were almost returning to their situation when they were in the county town.
Wang Cheng received special care from Li Yuan and was allowed to work in the public housing for half a month and practice martial arts for half a month, and he gained a lot.
After half a month of hard work, the bottle of [Tiger Oil Ointment] given by Master Li Tong had been consumed by him, and even three pieces of money in his pocket were missing, which was used by him to buy meat and add meals.
The result he has gained is that his "Tiger Boxing" progress has increased to 11.8%.
Well, the effect of half a month of hard practice is better than the merit value he gets from killing a little ghost!
In view of this, Wang Cheng knew that his plan to hunt ghosts must be carried out soon.
Fortunately, after half a month of preparation, Liu Fei had already found out what he wanted to know and had already drawn the map. He just waited for him to check out the site and get familiar with it, and then he could start the plan.
He still had to ask Liu Fei for help in the matter of scouting. Wang Cheng used the complete settlement of five silver coins as bait, and successfully made Liu Fei agree to take him to take him to scouting the site to learn about the terrain and environment.
After the two returned from the ground, Liu Fei called Wang Cheng aside and looked at him with a serious expression and said, "I said Brother Cheng, you are unwilling to tell me what you want to do, but as a friend who has been playing together since childhood, I need to remind you that trespassing into the forbidden area where the imperial soldiers were stationed, and after being caught, it would be useless to exile for three thousand miles. Even if you show your identity as a constable, it would be useless!"
When Wang Cheng heard this, his heart warmed up. He couldn't help but pat his shoulder and nodded hard and said, "Don't worry, Liu Fei, I understand what I am doing. You should be more careful when you go out patrolling the streets on weekdays. Don't take the revenge of the White Lotus Demon seriously!"
"I will."
Liu Fei responded, looked at him with a worried look, and finally shook his head and left.
Wang Cheng looked at Liu Fei's departure back, just said softly, "You don't understand", and turned around and returned to his yard.
Two days later, a month-long night, set off from Lijiaping Town in the evening, Wang Cheng, who had been on the road for more than two hours, quietly sneaked into the wilderness of Dasang Township, which was designated as a forbidden area.
The imperial soldiers also had patrols responsible for patroling in the field at night, but they were not frequent during the day. At the same time, the torches worn by the patrol were much more eye-catching than during the day and could be seen at a distance.
The area that Wang Cheng chose to sneak into was close to a forest, which was a place where patrol teams rarely came.
Not only are there many snakes, insects, rats and ants in the mountains and forests, but there are also many shrubs and thorns. It is difficult to walk through them during the day, let alone at night.
But in order to avoid attracting attention, Wang Cheng had no choice but to wear a thorn-proof "plate armor" made of wooden boards and bamboo pieces by himself, tied wooden boards to his hands and feet, and walked past the edge of the forest with many shrubs and thorns, and forcibly wade out a mountain road.
If it was daytime, the road he had set out would be very eye-catching.
But no one can notice this at night.
It took half an hour to pass through the forest area and appeared on Wang Cheng on the other side of the forest. It was less than ten miles away from Xiaochen Village, which had become a ghost village.
This place was carefully selected by him when he asked many villagers in Dasang Township.
This place is not only less than ten miles away from the ghost village of Xiaochen Village, but also only four or five miles away from the nearest garrison of the imperial soldiers, and there is a small hill that can block the view in the middle.
Although Wang Cheng really wants to kill ghosts and get merit value, he is not stupid. He knows that even if he has the evil-killing talisman in his hand, once he encounters a powerful ghost or the number of ghosts he attracts exceeds his range of dealing with, it will be easy to get rid of it.
So he still has a message fireworks on him.
Once the ghost exceeds his range of dealing with, he will immediately ignite fireworks to attract the garrison soldiers from the court there to come.
A distance of four or five miles, if you come by riding a horse, it will take a few minutes.
Wang Cheng was relieved when he arrived at the scheduled location successfully.
Then he calculated the time and found that it was still early. At this time, it should be less than half of the time passed, so he sat down and rested, removed the wooden board from his body, took out a small lambskin bag full of pork sauce from his arms and opened it, and started eating a midnight snack.
After eating and drinking enough and resting for almost half an hour, Wang Cheng thought that the time should be midnight, so he stood up and prepared to attract ghosts.
When Wei Bin taught him some tips for dealing with ghosts more than half a month ago, he also asked in particular how to lure and kill those little ghosts without intelligence.
At that time, Wei Bin praised him for having an idea, and then told him that although the little devil is not intelligent, he is also bullying the weak and afraid of the strong.
To lure and kill ghost-level ghosts, it is best to let those warriors whose qi and blood are boiling at one time be used as bait, and deliberately practice martial arts to stimulate blood and energy on the night when ghosts are active, attracting the attention of ghosts.
Although warriors of this level have the power of qi and blood, because the power of qi and blood is not strong, they cannot form an effective deterrent to ghost-level ghosts. Instead, they will cause their hunting instinct to attack and hunt.
At this time, as long as the warrior who serves as bait carries special bodyguards and is enough to resist the attack of ghost-level ghosts, he can wait until the master ambushed in the distance arrives to kill the ghosts.
When Wang Cheng heard Wei Bin say so well, he guessed that when their Demon Suppression Division and the imperial soldiers were guarding here, they would definitely use this trick to lure ghosts and kill ghosts.
Unfortunately, Wang Cheng was able to use this trick to lure ghosts, but he did not have the kind of comprehensive security protection that others had, so he had to be much more careful and alert than others.
At this time, he found a space that would not affect his performance, took off his upper body clothes, and practiced boxing with his shirtlessness.
When a warrior practices martial arts, his entire body's qi and blood will become active, and the ghosts can also find the blood light formed by the qi and blood power further away.
The terrain of Wang Cheng is higher, which makes it easier for ghosts wandering in low areas to discover him.
So after nearly a quarter of an hour of practice, he heard the familiar whimpering sound of ghosts.
Hearing this sound, he immediately stopped practicing and wiped his consecrated eyes with Fu Ye in advance and swept towards the direction of the sound.
Then I saw two faint human figures floating quickly towards me under the moonlight.
"Are there only two little ghosts?"
Wang Cheng frowned and muttered a little dissatisfied.
The evil-killing talisman is also time-consuming. Even if the power consumed after killing ghosts is not calculated, a evil-killing talisman can only last for a quarter of an hour after being used.
Therefore, Wang Cheng's ideal situation is to attract four or five little ghosts at once, and then use the effect of killing evil talisman to kill the little ghosts with one blow, and easily kill them all.
However, no matter how much complaining, he was reluctant to let go, Wang Cheng rationally took out the evil-killing talisman and placed it in his hand. When the two little ghosts were less than ten feet away from him, he directly applied his own blood to the general and inspired it, and blessed it to the long sword.
As the silver-white light shone on the long sword, the two little ghosts who rushed towards each other suddenly let out a tragic howl and immediately retreated away from the silver-white light.
Unfortunately, they had just had this idea, and Wang Cheng had already pounced on them with a long sword shining with silver-white light, and "swept" two swords on them, slashing them to death on the spot.
This is definitely the easiest time for Wang Cheng to kill ghosts since he came into contact with ghosts.
The two ghost-level ghosts were killed instantly with one knife. Even when Wang Cheng hit them, he did not feel eroded by the Yin Qi, because the Yin Qi was directly purified by the power of the evil-killing talisman.
After killing these two little ghosts, Wang Cheng focused his mind and summoned the merit book to take a look.
Haha, I have good luck. The two little ghosts contributed 35 points of merit together, which is much better than the little ghosts he killed before.
Chapter completed!