Chapter 97: Fat Man and Thin Old Man
Military Machine Pavilion!
The sunlight outside the house poured into the marching square on the wooden door. The bluestone floor was divided into countless pieces, like a huge chessboard.
The military machine cabinet was extremely busy, with officials of all sizes shuttled back and forth, as if countless chess pieces were running between the chessboards.
A stream of light suddenly rushed in from outside, and then circled anxiously in the military cabinet.
A very inconspicuous monk waved his hand, and the streamer rushed into his hand.
Then the monk walked into the chamber behind the military pavilion.
Compared with the busyness outside, the meeting hall was extremely deserted. The two of them were looking at the huge sand table map in front of them, and the atmosphere was solemn.
It was the current Grand Tutor Hong Xizhao and the civil and military general Zheng Zeshi who were concentrating on the sand tables of several feet large and undulating mountains.
These two natural enemies can only sit together at this urgent moment. However, although they were rare to sit together, they had never communicated from beginning to end, as if they were thinking about their own affairs.
After entering the hall, the monk said, "There is news coming from the front that there are three monster savages, each with tens of thousands. When the message is delivered, these three monster savages are only two days away from the General's headquarters."
Hong Xizhao browed and said, "It seems that these monsters have a good appetite. They are indeed determined to eat the General's headquarters."
Zheng Zeshi asked: "Have there been a large number of monsters and savages appearing again near the 100,000 mountains?"
The monk shook his head and said, "There is no news in this regard."
When the monk retreated, Hong Xizhao said to himself: "It is difficult to find a large number of monsters. These monsters and savages can gather at the general's headquarters and form a sea of sand. I am afraid that a large team will be formed overnight. The appearance of this monster team must be when the three monsters pierce the military camps of our border."
As he said that, Hong Xizhao frowned and said, "This is something I had expected long ago. It is not considered a profound military strategy. Our army has a way to crack it, so it is not afraid of it. But... what are the ideas of these monster beasts and savages? When these monster beasts invaded our realm, they were just hungry and wanted to find food and flesh. When they met a large army, they fled far away. But this time they rushed to the headquarters of the general with the strongest military force. It was obviously not for food. If these monster beasts and savages didn't want food, what exactly did they want?"
Zheng Zeshi paced back and forth in the conference hall for several steps, and suddenly stopped and said, "Don't they want this kind of genius?" Although there was a hint of mockery in his tone, it was extremely solemn. If this was the case, the disaster of monsters and wild beasts this time could not be dealt with by the previous tactics. The hundreds of thousands of people on the frontier were likely to be wiped out in an instant. After all, there is no way to understand how many wild monsters there are in the 100,000 mountains, let alone the unknown places in the depths of the 100,000 mountains that can speak and transform human forms.
The meeting room calmed down again. The two enemies looked at the map and their eyes were flashing, and the sadness on their faces became stronger...
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On an unknown peak on the edge of the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
The two old men sat leisurely in front of the top of the peak and were divided into two pieces, and the chessboard was carved. One of them had a handful of stones. They squeezed one in their hands and weighed it slightly and then became a round chess piece. The black and white on the chessboard was clearly distinguished.
The two old men were fat and thin, with a fat red face full of kind eyebrows, wide forehead, big ears and blessed face, all with white beards, wide robe and big sleeves, and full of fairy spirit floating in the wind.
The thin one has a withered face, like a rotten wood, and its nose and eyes seem to be completely uneven. The whole face gives people a smooth feeling. The head is bare and there is no hair, and the silver beard is as sparse as a goat. The clothes are even more strange. It is a colorful animal skin with five-color halos flashing one after another. Although the five-color halos are beautiful, they make the old man look weird. What's even more strange is that the old man is carrying a black pot behind him, which is ridiculous but hard to laugh at. He always thinks that the pot is a terrifying thing.
"Old turtle, I haven't seen you for three hundred years, your chess skills are getting worse and worse." The fat old man smiled and ate the entire big dragon of the thin man with a slight smile.
The thin man smiled and said in a dry voice: "I have never been good at human things! But you, a mouse, have been studying these strange and lewd things all day long, aren't you afraid of delaying your practice? When your life is over, will you be able to return to the dust and the earth?"
As the thin man said, he stretched out his thin palm and whipped it slightly on the chessboard. The chessboard evaporated like smoke and clouds in the strong wind, and was blown clean in an instant.
The old man laughed and threw away a stone indifferently, saying, "You and I are not the divine bodies of ancient beasts, with shallow spiritual roots. It is already a great fortune to have today. Even if I die at this moment, I will not feel regretful at all."
The thin man smiled and said with a little clever heart: "I really want to send you Gui Chen after hearing what you said, so I really want to send you Gui Chen to see if you are so free and easy. Hehe, if you really look so open, why did the holy beast come over you as soon as you call you? Don't say you are watching the fun, others may not know, but I have been in love with you for hundreds of years. You, a mouse, have transformed into a good skin, look generous but are the most cunning..."
At this moment, a stream of light suddenly escaped from the foot of the mountain.
The two old men closed their mouths at the same time, narrowing their eyes slightly toward the flowing light.
The flowing light flashed and a figure appeared in front of the two old men.
I saw this man wearing a dark blue old robe, with three points of ruthlessness and two points of evil spirit in his face. A bun on his head was worn by a green bamboo, and a string of brown round beads on his wrist. He was dressed as a disciple of Nanshandao.
The thin man smiled and said, "The people from Nanshan Road are so big that they actually made us two old people wait for so long. If it weren't for your rough and old meat, I would have thrown you into the pot and stewed and eaten meat."
The fat old man who claimed to be a smoke-fishing man in the fog sea still smiled and seemed to have no mind about this person being late.
This disciple of Nanshan Dao only has the late stage of foundation building cultivation, but does not seem to take these two monsters that can speak humans and transform into human forms.
"Hanshan old turtle, the smoke fishing man in the sea of fog, you two old monsters should not rely on your seniority in front of me. You should be the most clear about my Taoist priest." The disciple of Nanshan Taoism was full of resentment, without any politeness.
The Hanshan Old Turtle and the Wuhai Yuyan Weng narrowed their eyes at the same time, but when they remembered the Nanshan Dao Qiu Nanshan's vindictive and frustrated nature, they couldn't help but suppress the fire in their hearts.
They had just lost their animal skin and transformed into human body, and their cultivation was similar to that of human elixir monks, while Qiu Nanshan was a great monk in the late stage of the Nascent Soul.
If the two of them offended the giant Taoist master like Qiu Nanshan, they would be afraid that they would not be able to find a place to bury the corpse. This is also the root cause of the arrogant and domineering disciples of Nanshan.
The smoke fishing man in the fog sea smiled and said, "This little friend's words are really interesting. The monster beasts and savages in the mountains have already set up a situation to catch the army of Shang and the country. I wonder how the people from Nanshan Road are preparing?"
The disciple of Nanshan Dao said, "A disciple of Nanshan Dao was swallowed by a wild monster not long ago. Do you want to give me an explanation about this matter first?"
Wuhai Yanyan and Hanshan Old Turtle were stunned when they heard this, and then Wuhai Yanyan said, "This is also impossible. After all, the cooperation between us is a top secret matter. It is impossible for all the monsters and savages to know about it, so there are some mistakes to avoid the disciples of your sect. Therefore, some accidental injuries are inevitable."
The disciple of Nanshan Dao suddenly sneered and said, "What does it mean to be difficult to avoid being ignored by Nanshan Dao, but the disciples in my Dao must not die in vain."
The smoke fishing man in the sea of fog and the old turtle of Hanshan looked at each other, and then the old turtle of Hanshan sneered: "Does that little friend want to pay his life?"
"By life, you can't afford it? Those foolish monsters and wild beasts are worthy of being compared with my disciples of Nanshan Dao?"
Weng Baiyue frowned and said, "What do you want to do if you guys?"
The disciple of Nanshan Dao said coldly: "My family Taoist master learned that the foundation-building disciple was burying the beast in his heart. He originally wanted to kill all the monsters and wild animals directly, but the major matter is important at present, so he endured it. Killing people according to the Taoist master's intention is a geography of heaven and earth. However, a monster wild animal will never offset the life of my Nanshan Dao disciple. Therefore, one thousand monsters, one thousand wild animals, as long as the head is not trunk, you can only wait for two days to raise it for the time being to bury my Nanshan Dao disciple. After the big battle, we will talk about the death of my Nanshan Dao disciple."
The smoke fishing man in the sea of fog and the old turtle in Hanshan couldn't help but breathe in the air. It is said that Nanshan respects Qiu Nanshan the most protects his shortcomings, and his temperament is surly and elusive. Now it seems that Qiu Nanshan's temperament is still above the rumors. He asked two thousand monsters and savages to bury the heads of a mere foundation-building disciple, and the meaning of the words was just to bury him. The disciple's life still has to be settled after the war.
The smoke fishing man frowned and wanted to speak. The disciple of Nanshan Dao said first: "If you are embarrassed and unable to raise the problem, I, Nanshan Dao, will slaughter the tens of thousands of wild monsters for burial purposes. This time, only asking for two thousand heads is already a blessing from the Taoist master." dd
Chapter completed!