Chapter 13 Hearing

It was late at night, Er Niu and Sun Xiucai slept together in their clothes. Ying Yi couldn't sleep, so he blew out the oil lamp and sat still, thinking endlessly in the darkness.

Since coming to this time and space, everything I have experienced in the past half a year has flowed before my eyes. The embarrassment and hunger when I first arrived, the gratitude and joy when I was rescued by Brother Zhang, the kindness of Zhang's sister-in-law, the cuteness and intelligence of Xiaoya, the tranquility in the poverty of Xiaowangzhuang and the trivialities among the villagers, finally settled on Xiaoya's face. The bloody young face.

His heart tugged and he let out a long breath.

A light screen suddenly appeared in the corner of his eye, and his physical fitness points had been increased to 6. When I came down from the mountain before the bad news, I was only 3, and my true spiritual number was 129. Adding points twice in a row cost 120, and the physical strength increased to 5, leaving a true spirit number of 9. Later, a tiger attacked at night, killed many people, and took away many true spirit points. I came down from the mountain with Erniu and spent the rest of the night at Xiaowangzhuang adding more points, increasing my health to 6. The balance of the true spiritual number is still 265.

In other words, that night, Ying Yi took away 424 true spirit points from Liu Tie.

He didn't know exactly how many bandits died that night. The number of bandits he killed alone should be close to a hundred. The thieves who broke into chaos and blew up the camp were the ones who trampled and killed each other and were burned to death. There are more than 1,500 thieves, but no more than 500 will escape.

Killing a person, the average number of true souls captured is 1. Many half-cooked people who have been burned by fire have no way to absorb the true spirit, otherwise it will not only be 424. It should be close to thousands.

The first prerequisite for ingesting the true spirit is within one hour. The second one needs to be fresh. Cooked food will probably not be counted.

The physique is 6, and Ying Yi's physique is doubled again. Now he is considered a little superman. He has seven or eight tons of strength in his movements, fast speed, strong endurance, quick recuperation, extremely sensitive reactions, and extremely coordinated body. The skin, flesh, muscles and bones are also stronger. Although it cannot completely resist swords, guns, swords and halberds, it is not easy for these cold weapons to cause serious damage to him. Furthermore, the ability of self-healing has also begun to emerge.

With his physique, it is not difficult to decapitate an enemy in a military formation with cold weapons. If you are strong and persistent, you can probably be considered invincible.

However, in this era, firearms have begun to show their prowess.

When he attacked and killed a tiger before, he had seen the power of the fire gun. There was also a sting on the arm. Although he only penetrated a little bit of the meat and easily picked off the marbles, it still made Ying Yi feel a little cold in his heart. Ying Yi, who came hundreds of years later, had a natural fear of thermal weapons.

In the army of this era, firearms have been used on a large scale. Perhaps ordinary firecrackers and muskets would be hard-pressed to cause damage to Ying Yi, who has a physical strength of 6, but there are cannons!

In the chaotic army, artillery shells were fired randomly, and thousands of people were besieging him. Ying Yi felt uncertain.

This was the main reason why he changed his mind and was willing to seek help from officers and soldiers.

"If you add a few more points to your physique, you won't be afraid if you reach 10." From 6 to 10, if you quadruple it again, you will really be a superman. You will not be afraid of cannonballs. However, the number of true souls required to increase the physical strength to 10 is daunting.

From 5 to 6, 160 true spiritual numbers were used. Continuing it is 320, 640, 1280, 2560. It does not seem like a lot, just killing more than 4,000 people is enough, but Ying Yi also has scruples.

Killing a stray thief is nothing, it brings me joy. However, it would be too weird to kill people and seize the true soul, and the body will instantly fly into ashes and be revealed to others.

This is what worries Ying Yi.

He was afraid of being seen using such almost demonic methods.

"Night attack is the way to go..." He whispered to himself: "Just like the night before yesterday..."

He thought: "Perhaps I can do this kind of business a few times before I go to Guanzhong. It will definitely take several months for Sun Chuanting to gather troops in Guanzhong. Going to Guanzhong is not far away for a few hundred miles, and it won't take much time. There is no delay. . It is better to enter Kaifeng first. Although there are many bandits, it is impossible for hundreds of thousands of them to gather together. I will kill some on the periphery, one of them will get the true spirit, and the other two will breathe out first."

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Early the next morning, Sun Xiucai asked his second brother for some steamed buns, and the three of them had breakfast with a pot of water.

It's all a matter of having nothing to do.

Sun Xiucai was not a wealthy person to begin with, so Xiaowangzhuang was ransacked again by thieves, and all his money was confiscated. When he came to Ye County, even staying in the inn was funded by his classmates, so he had no money to eat and drink.

After eating a steamed bun without even putting it on the bottom, Ying Yi said: "The county seems stable, but no one knows when the bandits will attack. I will leave later, you two go back early, don't Hang around here.”

Sun Xiucai nodded: "Brother Ying is right. Almost all the big families in Ye County have fled, and my classmates have also fled south one after another. After all, Ye County is under the nose of Kaifeng Mansion. Down there. But..." He then said, "Brother Ying, won't you bring Er Niu with you?"

Ying Yi shook his head in response to Er Niu's babbling eyes: "I don't know where to go from here, so what are you going to do with Er Niu?"

Erniu's eyes suddenly dimmed a lot.

Ying Yi said again: "The gate of Ye County is closed. I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to get out. Why don't you go out with me first."

He suddenly thought of Ye County's closed city gates and said these words.

Sun Xiucai smiled after hearing this and said: "Brother Ying, don't worry about this. It is difficult to enter the city, but it is not difficult to get out of the city. Although Zheng County Zun wants to live and die with the city, he will not force the people in the city to follow him. Let's die together. Otherwise, how could those wealthy families escape? Every day at noon, if there is no accident, the city gate will be opened for half an hour, and I will go out of the city with my classmate, just for these two days."

Ying Yi nodded after hearing this.

"It would be nice to be able to get out of the city."

Then he asked curiously: "Who is County Zheng?"

Sun Xiucai said: "Zheng County Zun is Zheng Yunzhi, the magistrate of Ye County."

"Oh." Ying Yi's expression changed slightly and he said, "He is still a man of character."

Sun Xiucai sighed: "Zheng County Zun was a first-class Jinshi in the twelfth year of Chongzhen. Although he was young, he was very talented. He had resisted the enemy several times. He had seen through the tricks of the bandits, otherwise Ye County would have fallen long ago. He I swear to live and die with the city, but I am alone, what can I do..."

Ying Yi was silent.

People say that time is a time of poverty. Although many scholars in this era have no moral integrity, and the bigger the official position, the less moral integrity they have. But there are always a few who have hard bones.

Of course, the county magistrate has the responsibility to defend the land. This seems to be included in the Ming Dynasty law. If a county magistrate loses the county seat but escapes, he will be executed.

However, the Ming Dynasty has collapsed, and even if he escapes, the court may not have the strength to pursue him. But he can still persevere and still has his backbone.

"That's it." Ying Yi stood up: "You two leave early, don't delay."

After saying this, Ying Yi pushed the door open and walked out.

Xishan Tower may have been prosperous in the past, but now it is deserted. When Ying Yi passed by the lobby, there was only one table of people eating. Nothing else. He shook his head and walked towards the door. But suddenly stopped.

Ying Yi has sharp ears and eyes, and heard something interesting: "...military pay shipped from western Gansu...ran into the king...robbed..."

His eyes lit up, he glanced at the people at the table without any trace, and slowly walked out of Xishan Tower.