Volume 1: Spring in Wulong Town Chapter 197 Doomsday Before Dawn
The bright moon hangs high in the sky, and the stars are dim.
It has been a long time since Yeyu has been so silent...
Tang Xiaotang had already gathered all the people and followed Tang Zheng, riding his horse and galloping out from the side door of Tangjiabao.
"Remember, we must accurately lead the blood power back to our formation and not let it leak to old man Lan." Tang Xiaotang rode a maroon pony and followed closely behind Tang Zheng.
Each of them had a small flute hanging on their waist.
All you need to do is cut the enemy's throat, then immediately blow the flute towards the wound, and a blood ant will drill into the wound!
Tang Xiaotang didn't bring many people with him.
Including her and Tang Zheng, there were only sixteen in total.
Three of them are the managers of Tangjiabao, two coaches, eight brothers and sisters who have reached the two-star level, plus Tang Zheng, her and Tang Zixie.
Halfway through, a snow-colored horse with four black hooves came galloping from the side.
"Mr. Xu." When Tang Xiaotang and the others saw the horse, they all greeted Xu Qingyan.
Xu Qingyan nodded slightly and rode his horse to join the team.
None of the people in the group rose to stardom.
Seventeen people and seventeen horses walked in the dark night towards the Hidden Blue Villa.
"Which door did you go through last time?" Tang Zheng pulled the reins slightly, "I'll follow you."
Tang Xiaotang frowned slightly: "The bridge, gate, and several main roads of Yinlan Villa have been directly destroyed. Only two side doors are left..."
Xu Qingyan shook his head: "We won't go through the doors. The last time I went in, I checked every door - the three-star guest officials, elders, and stewards of Yinlan Villa all took turns guarding the door, and the same was true at night. Their obstruction will affect the efficiency of our use of Gu."
" Then what should we do?" Tang Zixie asked, "There is no way to get through the main gate, and the side gate is heavily guarded. Are we supposed to fly in?"
"Well, fly in." Xu Qingyan nodded lightly.
Xu Qingyan had his own way of entering Yinlan Villa, but he was a three-star warrior and could come and go freely in Yinlan Villa.
Apart from him, the highest rank on this trip was only at the peak of two stars.
In order to travel back and forth efficiently, they cannot be subjected to any counterattack that is too concentrated or too organized!
In other words, tonight must be a one-sided crushing victory.
However, it is easy to say that less than twenty people can crush hundreds of people, but it is much more difficult to do.
"Tonight, you are the main force." Tang Zheng threw one of the two jade flutes in his hand towards Xu Qingyan.
"Oh." Xu Qingyan took the reins and hung them around his waist, shook them, and led the way forward.
Seventeen people galloped for a long time under the moonlight. Winding mountain roads appeared in front of them one by one, and were left behind by them one by one.
It would only take an hour to get from Tangjiabao to Yinlan Villa by galloping.
But it took Xu Qingyan more than two hours to lead them all the way up the mountain.
In the distant night sky, Luo Fei's signal fire has risen!
The rising of the signal fire indicated that the formation in Tang Family Castle had been successfully activated.
Next, it would depend on how much bloodline power they could snatch from the old man of the Lan family!
A waterfall was rushing down from above; the sound of their horses' hooves gradually blended into the sound of the waterfall and could no longer be heard clearly.
Right by the waterfall, Xu Qingyan got off the horse and tied it to a nearby tree trunk.
"Where is this?" Tang Xiaotang and the others asked, "It's deep in the mountains, right?"
"This is the mountain behind Yinlan Villa." Xu Qingyan pointed with his hand, "Yinlan Villa has two water diversion channels. One has been destroyed by you. The other one is here."
As he spoke, Xu Qingyan handed each of them an oilcloth bag: "Swallow the flying fish balls. Go in through the water diversion channel. There are dry night clothes in the bag. Change into them immediately after you get ashore."
More than a dozen people took the equipment and said in amazement: "It really flew in!"
…
Half a quarter of an hour later.
Seventeen people stood silently in the heart of Yinlan Villa - Fulan Courtyard.
In addition to Tang Zheng and Xu Qingyan, even the manager of Tangjiabao was quite nervous.
Because when Hua Yingxiu gave them the blood ant Gu, she repeatedly said that the Gu must be planted quickly, otherwise there would be no guarantee as to which formation the power of the deceased Yue Rugou would fall into.
Just as they appeared in Fu Lan Courtyard, the voices of two young men came from the wall...
"Did you take the twenty taels of purple gold your father hid?"
"Of course I brought it with me! Once I escape from Hidden Blue Villa, I won't come back. How can I not bring enough money?"
"Today I saw that Uncle Seven seemed to be a bit older... That old man was doing a blood sacrifice. He was already half buried in the ground, but he insisted on dragging us to be buried with him."
"In fact, I have already seen it. The old man only regards Lan Shaoze as his grandson. We are all shits."
The two young men were talking as they climbed out along an ancient tree.
However, because they did not dare to turn on the stars, they could not see the branches of the tree clearly and fell down several times.
Just when they finally saw outside the high wall under the moonlight, one of them felt a chill on his neck: "Hey, wait a minute, I seem to be entangled by something..."
He turned around, only to see that his companion was no longer around.
"Uh, face..." He felt a warm liquid splashing on his face. When he touched it, it smelled fishy.
When the word "blood" just reacted to his mind, he felt an indescribable pain in his neck. Then, he felt himself falling rapidly. While falling, he saw a headless body hanging on the tree, but why did the clothes on that body look so much like his own?
"Two, done." Tang Zheng hung one hand on the branch, and with the other hand he took out the jade flute and put it to his mouth, blowing it gently, sending the blood ant Gu into the body of the disciple from Yinlan Villa.
Xu Qingyan also planted another blood ant insect.
Needless to say, Tang Xiaotang and the others had already formed groups of two and kicked open every door in the Fu Lan Courtyard!
…
The waning moon is like a hook.
The children of Yinlan Villa were awakened from their sleep.
Tang Zheng, Xu Qingyan, Tang Xiaotang...
Everyone endured the disgusting smell of blood and moved forward quickly.
"You are... Tang Xiaotang? How is that possible!"
"The Tang Family Fort is here to attack us? Where do they get the courage to do so... Where is the ancestor?"
"Wow, wow, where is the ancestor? Ancestor, help me."
They died before they could even figure out whether this was reality or just a nightmare.
Bloody footprints were left in the darkness before dawn.
And the blood ant insects gradually lit up, like fireflies, emitting a soft and long-lasting light.
In the blood formation in the distance, as each poisonous insect lit up, a ray of light would be lit up in the formation, and then a wisp of gray smoke would flow into the formation from afar!
The little wooden man in the formation, like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon, continued to expand in size and turned into the appearance of old man Lan. Then, suddenly, his eyes began to move as if they were lit up.
"The formation should have started to absorb their power, right?" Tang Xuan said.
"Well, but... faster, faster!" Tang Xiaotang's breathing became a little heavier.
As the heads of the owners of the Moon-like Hook constellation in Hidden Blue Villa fell to the ground one by one, the signal fires also rose one by one!
They had just finished clearing out two courtyards when lights were already lit up everywhere in Yinlan Villa.
The three-star guest officials, elders, and stewards had also been alarmed.
Soon, they will face enemies that are multiplied...
"Yes, we can do it. We can do even better..." Although the children of Tangjiabao were very tired, they encouraged each other and tried to calm their breathing.
"It's not that we can do better, it's that we must do better!" Tang Zheng did not comfort them, but emphasized it mercilessly.
He had been counting them all the time. Not counting the servants and chores, there were only more than twenty blood ant poisons planted in the two courtyards.
There aren’t enough of them!
It's not like he didn't know that Tang Xiaotang and the others were all injured to some extent...
However, tonight's situation was different from what they did when they set fire to the grain trucks and cut off the water supply. This was not something that could be considered "almost good enough".
Setting fire to the grain trucks could only be considered as practice for Tang Xiaotang and his team, but tonight's action was directly related to their own survival.
If you can accomplish it, you are alive.
If you can’t finish it, you will die!
In the past, Yinlan Villa had always been manned by a four-star expert, and Tangjiabao had never thought of directly challenging Yinlan Villa. The mentality of Tangjiabao, including the managers, is now easily confused.
Therefore, Tang Zheng’s reminder is very timely and very necessary!
"Yes, it's not that we 'could' do better, but..."
"If we don't do better, we will die. Not only us, but also our family and friends will die!"
Tang Zheng didn't say anything more. All his energy was focused on the operation of his star power.
The surging star power of the high-level two-star level was flowing rapidly in his star veins. He retracted the fan dagger in his left hand with a "swish", and his eyes had already seen the two two-star peak warriors rushing towards them, with a three-star warrior following behind them.
Judging from the configuration, they should be the two elders of Yinlan Villa and a guest official.
"Oh, Second Elder, Fourth Elder." Xu Qingyan looked at the elders who came over and pointed to a yard next to them. "That's right. Living in there are the Second Elder's three sons, one daughter, and two grandsons, and the Fourth Elder's one son and two daughters..."
"Got it. Xiaotang, you guys go into the yard. Xu Qingyan, let's go!" Tang Zheng quickly divided the group of seventeen people into two groups, and he and Xu Qingyan ran towards the two elders and a guest official who had arrived.