Idle game leads to another world.

Chapter 377 Explosive Barrel

When we talk about the heroines in martial arts novels, they are either gentle and graceful or elegant and generous. They can also be quirky and clever. In short, they are all likable in any way.

But no matter what, there is no female hero who is more powerful than any other man. It is no problem for Yang Yiyi to put on armor and play Mulan now.

Yang Yiyi is obviously a cute character, no matter her name or appearance, but she has become like this now. I don’t know if it’s her nature or if there was something wrong with Li Chengxi’s training...

Let's not talk about this for now. Li Chengxi asked Yang Yiyi to chase after them, but also asked her not to chase so closely. It seemed like he wanted to let the members of the Sirius Cult go, but this was contradictory to what he had said before.

In fact, there is no contradiction. The purpose of giving one's full strength is to let Yang Yiyi show her deterrent power, and using the Tiger Roaring Technique is also to scare away the people of the Tianlang Sect.

As long as they run away, Yang Yiyi will have a legitimate reason to chase them. Don't forget that there are many chivalrous men watching around. If Yang Yiyi abandons them for no reason, the gossip that Yang Yiyi is afraid of fighting and flees will inevitably spread in the martial arts world.

But Li Chengxi's purpose in asking Yang Yiyi to come was not to fight these miscellaneous soldiers. He had to have a reasonable reason to get away.

The natural thing is to chase, but not too closely.

Yang Yiyi followed the lead very obediently, and even learned it on her own, picking up a stone or something to throw at him from time to time. This made the members of the Tianlang Sect who were leading the way run even more happily. Look, they were so happy, they were even yelling...

After passing a bend blocked by vegetation and confirming that the people behind could no longer see Yang Yiyi, Li Chengxi said:
"Don't chase us. Let's go through the woods. There's a cliff over there that we can climb up."

Yang Yiyi immediately braked and turned. The members of the Sirius Cult who were leading the race in front didn't know that Yang Yiyi was gone and continued to run happily.

It didn't matter what happened to them. Yang Yiyi went into the grove and quickly found a rock wall according to Li Chengxi's instructions. She took out the climbing rope again and continued to climb up while tying the rope.

The reason why they didn't take the mountain road was also because the people from the Sirius Cult would rush down from time to time to stop these chivalrous men. If Yang Yiyi kept entangled with them, even if she was a superman, she would eventually run out of strength, and then she would not be able to take the Sky-lifting Stone.

Because it was a straight up and down cliff, no one passed by nearby. When the bundle of ropes was almost used up, Yang Yiyi had climbed to about two-thirds of the mountain. Going up further was the top of the mountain.

In fact, there is no need to go to the top of the mountain. After all, the target is the base of the Sirius Cult, not to climb the mountain.

At this time, Yang Yiyi could already see the light emitted by a large number of torches, and the light source of the torches was stable. They did not look like they were held by people. They should be torches inserted near the stronghold.

This also means that we are almost there.

Yang Yiyi, who had just come up, was about to cover up the traces of the rope when Li Chengxi said:
"A few steps to the left. Yes, behind the bushes."

Yang Yiyi walked forward as she was told. Not long after, her toes kicked something wooden. She reached out to feel around in the bushes and found a large wooden barrel half a person's height.

"Throw it down."

"what is this?"

"Throw it down first."

The wooden barrel was quite heavy and no one knew what was inside it. Yang Yiyi threw the barrel off the cliff with both hands.

Almost at the same time, Yang Yiyi, who was in the dim grove, saw a string of bright flames burning down from above as quickly as if it could move.

"Back off! Go back to that rocky depression where you came up from!"

When Yang Yiyi heard Li Chengxi's urgent voice, she didn't dare to ask more questions and hurried back.

As soon as I squatted down, I heard a loud "boom" from afar, followed by a loud bang like an endless spring thunder, and I could even feel the vibration under my feet.

Following the loud noise, there was a vague rumbling sound, as if a dragon rose from the mountain and rolled over. It was too dark to see clearly, but it was vaguely visible that the trees and rocks in the distance seemed to be moving and rolling down the steep slope. After a while, the loud noise stopped, and Yang Yiyi finally let go of her ears.

"Brother Li, what happened?"

"It was a barrel of explosives that exploded. It must have been set up in advance by the Sirius Cult."

Defending in the mountains is inherently advantageous, as the mountain roads are difficult to navigate and the terrain is complex, like a natural city wall.

But with the Liuzhou army attacking fiercely in the front and the Central Plains knights coming to kill them from the back, the people of the Tianlang Sect had to think of other ways to repel them.

For example, mudslides.

This operation is similar to what they did in Leishan Zang, both using explosives to destroy the rock structure.

As for our own people down there?
Then we can only hope for the best. Anyway, the Sirius Cult has a large number of members, so a few missing members won’t matter at all.

When Yang Yiyi heard that it was a barrel of explosives, she immediately understood what Li Chengxi had asked her to throw down, and suddenly she felt a little scared.

"There is no time to stay here. Since the Sirius Cult's people detonated the barrel of explosives, it is very likely that someone has already gone up to kill them. Now is a good time to act."

Detonating a barrel of explosives is equivalent to hurting the enemy by a thousand and hurting one's own people by eight hundred. Since the Sirius Cult used this trick, it was obvious that they intended to take more people with them to be buried with them before they died.

But then again, the placement of the explosive barrels by the Sirius Cult was too clever.

There was no remote control detonation at that time. The Sirius Cult's method of detonation was to use gunpowder to pull a line all the way up the mountain. The gunpowder would be ignited to act like a fuse to detonate the barrels of explosives hidden in the woods.

But this thing is greatly affected by the environment. It cannot be used when it is too humid or when it is too windy. In other words, this thing must have been set up recently.

The Liuzhou army only set out from Liangcheng in the afternoon and launched a siege overnight. This group of martial artists decided to take action immediately after hearing that the Liuzhou army had set out.

So, how did the Sirius Cult know the exact time and place the explosive barrels in advance?

As I said just now, this thing is time-sensitive and cannot be set up in advance, but the Sirius Cult seemed to know that they would come.

Either there are members of the Tianlang Cult in the Liuzhou army, or someone among these chivalrous knights tipped off the enemy.

However, no matter which situation it was, Li Chengxi had no way to confirm it, nor could he narrow down the scope of suspects. He could only ask Yang Yiyi to be more careful and try to avoid showing up in front of outsiders.

Li Chengxi was in charge of the mental part, and Yang Yiyi was in charge of the action. At this time, they were not too far from the stronghold of the Sirius Cult, so there was no need to tie a rope and continue climbing up.

Yang Yiyi walked through the woods and came to a small path leading to the stronghold. The ground was littered with corpses of members of the Sirius Cult. It was likely that a fierce battle had just taken place there.

It seems that Yang Yiyi finally caught up with the disciple from the big sect who was leading the way, and finally arrived at the stronghold of the Sirius Cult.

She took two steps at a time, quickly bypassed the corpse and ran up the path. Soon, a large gate that looked like a bandit camp appeared in front of her. Torches were stuck on the surrounding wooden walls, and screams and the sound of weapons colliding could be faintly heard in the village.

"Don't rush in, check the situation first."

Li Chengxi's reminder was very timely. Yang Yiyi wanted to rush in to help just now.

(End of this chapter)