Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 356 The mantis stalks the cicada
On the other side of the bamboo sea, Xiao Zong was also in great crisis.

Yu Tianmin and Song Jingxiu led the other half of the pursuit team and found his hiding place.

In fact, Ren Yuan did not dream about where Xiao Zong was. After all, he only dreamed about scenes related to his own crisis.

However, in Ren Yuan's dream, Xiao Zong was not seen. This is easy to understand, as "a son of a wealthy family should not sit in the hall."

But it can be easily inferred that Xiao Zong is nearby - because this "ambush in the bamboo forest" is clearly a revenge for his previous "raid on the fortress".

With Xiao Zong's strong desire for revenge, he will definitely stay nearby and wait to see what happens to him.

So he ordered Yu Song and the other two to take away most of the main forces and wait for an opportunity to find Xiao Zong's whereabouts.

Xiao Zong used himself as bait to lure Ren Yuan into the game, and wasn't Ren Yuan doing the same?
As a result, Yu Tianmin, with his magical sense of smell, really found Xiao Zong and his group waiting to watch the excitement at the other end of the bamboo forest.

Taking advantage of the earth-shaking explosion, Yu Tianmin and Song Jingxiu launched a surprise attack, catching Xiao Zong off guard and killing several of his guards right away.

Fortunately, Xiao Zong was surrounded by skilled fighters sent by Xiao Baoyin, otherwise he would have been killed instantly.

But the people from Gou Chen Si were also good players - Yu Song and others were both highly skilled, with a lot of great magical powers, well-trained, well-coordinated, and equipped with top-notch equipment. Without Jiao Xiao Nu and Meng Huai, how could Xiao Zong and his group resist?

After a desperate resistance for a while, they were still surrounded by the Gou Chen Si and the situation was precarious.

Xiao Zong was so regretful that his intestines turned green. Why did he have to watch this excitement? Fortunately, he still had a life-saving move. He hurriedly shouted, "Zu Geng, start the formation quickly!"

"..." Before her death, Jiao Xiaonu had already left a mental mark on Zu Geng, and Xiao Zong's words were like an imperial decree to him.

He then stepped into the formation and began to chant, channeling magic power through both hands at the same time, preparing to activate the formation.

Unexpectedly, before the magic circle lit up, an icy arrow suddenly shot towards him.

Although Zu Geng's mind was controlled, his reaction was not slow at all. He quickly raised his left arm, and a misty green arm shield suddenly opened, blocking the incoming arrow.

But in this way, the formation will be reset to zero...

He chanted the spell again, then input magical power into his hands, and another arrow shot towards him.

Zu Geng had no choice but to raise his arm to block again, but the result was zero again...

This repeated several times, but he still couldn't activate the teleportation array.

Apparently, after suffering several losses in a row, the opponent had specially studied a method to target the teleportation array... that is, to interrupt the casting of spells. They specially arranged a sharpshooter to watch, and no matter who stood in the array, they would be hit with precision, and there would be no way to chant the spell to activate it.

Zu Geng only regretted that why he didn't design a one-handed start-up in the first place?

As a result, until the last guard was knocked down and the knife was at Xiao Zong's neck, he was unable to activate the formation.

"Okay, don't waste your time." Yu Tianmin knew that he was Zu An's father, and Ren Yuan had specially taken care of him, saying that he was a rare talent and should try to keep his life, so he didn't do anything cruel to Zu Geng. He just took off his arm shield and tied him up with a demon rope.

At this time, the only person left in the field was Jiang Ge, who had no magical powers and was not controlled by the demon-binding rope.

Yu Tianmin and Song Jingxiu then breathed a sigh of relief. The former contacted Chen Lingzhi and asked her to tell Ren Yuan that the person had been caught.

The latter immediately searched Xiao Zong, but after searching his entire body, he still couldn't find the jade seal.

"Stop scratching. How can I hide such a big jade seal there?" Xiao Zong said speechlessly. Yu Tianmin then withdrew the finger that was poking into Xiao Zong's nostrils.

"Tell me quickly, where did you hide the thing?!" He picked up Xiao Zong and asked sternly.

"That's not something you should worry about." Xiao Zong said calmly.

"You are about to die, and you are still making a fuss." Song Jingxiu grabbed Xiao Zong's head fiercely and said, "Do you think you are still the emperor's second son, Prince Yuzhang? Let me tell you, the emperor has expelled you from the clan and changed your surname to Bei!"

"Bei Zong, I advise you to tell the truth. There is nothing that Gou Chen Si cannot pry open your mouth!" Yu Tianmin injected a sharp true Qi into Xiao Zong's body. He immediately trembled as if he had been electrocuted and looked extremely painful.

But Xiao Zong was also a ruthless man, and he gritted his teeth and said nothing.

“Damn it…” Yu Tianmin was about to increase his strength when his expression suddenly changed and he whispered, “Someone is here!”

The ghostwriters, who had just been a little lax, immediately became fully alert.

After a while, I saw shadowy figures all around. They were all rebel soldiers holding weapons, wearing yellow cloth uniforms and various types of armor.

"What should we do?" Song Jingxiu looked at Yu Tianmin.

"Don't act rashly." Yu Tianmin whispered, "Let me ask for instructions first."

“……”Then the two sides fell into a silent standoff.

Until more than ten riders came out and arrived in front of them.

The officer in the lead had a dark face and a burly figure. He wore an expensive tiger-head armor with sleeves painted in vermilion and decorated with honeysuckle patterns on the edges. His helmet had a gilded tiger-head tassel. It was obvious that it was taken from a high-ranking officer of the Northern Dynasty.

He looked disdainfully at the corpse-strewn field and asked in a shrill voice that didn't match his appearance, "Which gang are you guys from? You came to our territory to hold a wedding ceremony. Have you paid your respects at the pier?"

"Our general is asking you questions!" A personal soldier translated, "Where are you from? How dare you come to our territory and kill people? Who gave you permission?"

"..." Yu Tianmin and Song Jingxiu looked at each other, and wanted to delay time, so they looked around and said, "This person must be General Feng, the general under His Majesty the True King, right?"

"You are really good at judging people." Feng Tietou said in a thin voice, "Yes, I am Feng Tietou. What group are you from?"

"Well..." Song Jingxiu whispered, "A nobody is not worth mentioning."

"Do you think I won't know if you don't tell me?" Feng Tietou sneered, looking at the people in the Gou Chen Division and said, "Although you are all wearing ordinary people's clothes, the smell of the court's lackeys on you is really off-putting."

"..." Everyone in the Gou Chen Division was silent, but they knew in their hearts that this rebel leader was not easy to fool.

Moreover, Feng Tietou has extraordinary supernatural powers, and his subordinates are elite soldiers who defend the Hulao Pass and the army's advance to the east. It would be a waste to deal with such a small number of people like them.

"But you don't have that foul smell, so you shouldn't be the lackeys of the Northern Dynasty," Feng Tietou continued to speculate, "So you should be from the Southern Dynasty, so you are the famous ghostwriters, right?"

"That's right." At this time, Yu Tianmin finally received the order conveyed by Chen Lingzhi, crossed his hands and said in a deep voice:

"We were ordered by the Emperor to capture the fugitive, and accidentally entered the General's defense zone. I hope you will forgive me and be lenient. The Gou Chen Division will never forget the General's kindness."

(End of this chapter)