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Chapter 498 Song Jiang: Lin Chong, that beast! [3rd update, please vote!]

A person must rely on themselves... damn it!
Having exhausted all other options, Lin Chong finally decided to lower his standards once again:
"Wait!"
"To tell you the truth, I am sworn brothers with Lu Zhishen, the sworn brother of King Qi!"
"On the surface, I am Song Jiang's subordinate, but in reality, I am an undercover agent sent by Prince Qi to Song Jiang's ranks!"

"Is this true?"

Zheng Biao glanced at Shi Bao and Pang Wanchun, then sheathed his sword and questioned Lin Chong:

"Are you really a spy sent by King Qi to infiltrate Song Jiang's ranks?"

It really works to mention King Qi!
Lin Chong breathed a sigh of relief and said loudly and decisively:
"That's right, I am the spy sent by King Qi to serve under Song Jiang!"
"I am a man of the King of Qi!"

"boom--"

The door to the dilapidated temple was kicked open from the outside!
Lei Heng, nicknamed "Winged Tiger," led his men in, followed closely by Song Jiang, who was being closely protected by Kong Ming and Kong Liang!
Song Jiang glared at Lin Chong, both shocked and furious, his finger trembling as he pointed at him:
"So it was you!"
"No wonder I've been fighting with that guy surnamed Cai for so long, and he's always been the one suppressing me!"
"So it was you, the undercover agent, who was behind this!"

"You, Instructor Lin, I never thought you were this kind of person!"

"I really misjudged you!"

I'm crazy...

Lin Chong nearly coughed up a mouthful of blood:

Why the hell did you have to come at this time of year?!
It turns out that Qin Ming felt a sense of loss and sorrow for his own kind, a sentiment that Song Jiang had discerned.

Song Jiang only had Qin Ming as his trump card. If even Qin Ming turned against him, who else could he rely on?
Therefore, after much hesitation, Song Jiang decided to split his troops into two groups.

Wu Yong and Qin Ming led a large army to launch a surprise attack on Zhaode Prefecture.

He personally went out to search for Lin Chong near Gaizhou.

This dilapidated temple is located on the only route from Gaizhou to Shandong.

Du Xue and his group came from Shandong, and their passing by the dilapidated temple was purely by chance.

Song Jiang mobilized a large army to search the entire mountainous area before finally finding this dilapidated temple.

Thousands of soldiers from Gaizhou poured in, filling the dilapidated temple to the brim!

Upon seeing this, Zheng Mojun immediately decided to retire gracefully.

On his side, Li Tianrun, Shi Bao, and Pang Wanchun were all injured, and he was leading several prisoners, outnumbered by the enemy...

Although he knows magic, he doesn't have unlimited mana or no cooldowns, so it's better to retreat than to make a hasty retreat!
Song Jiang was so angry he cried, and he pointed at Lin Chong and cursed him:

"You beast! How could you do this to me!"

Lin Chong wished he could disappear into a crack in the ground, but he couldn't find one, and he wanted to retort but didn't know how...

He was saved thanks to Zheng Mojun.

"Bala bala bala... Hurry!"

Zheng Mojun muttered incantations, then waved his sleeve, and another cloud of black smoke obscured the sky and earth!

This cloud of black smoke was like a city wall, separating Song Jiang's men from Zheng Mojun and his group!
"Go back!"

Zheng Mojun turned and left, and Li Tianrun and Shi Bao hurriedly directed the Imperial Guards to take all the prisoners with them.

They hastily made a strategic retreat through the back door of the dilapidated temple...

"Go back!"

Seeing the black smoke coming again, Song Jiang retreated while reminding Lei Heng:
"This black smoke is his sorcery!"

Lei Heng withdrew without him saying anything, since he already knew that Lin Chong had been captured by the sorcerer's black smoke.

Several soldiers from Gaizhou, unaware of the danger, strayed into the black smoke and were immediately engulfed by it...

This made Song Jiang and his men even more hesitant to proceed, but Guo Sheng discovered the key point:
"Brother Song Gongming, this black smoke can't possibly separate heaven and earth. Why don't we go out of the temple and circle around to the back?"

"Yes!"

Song Jiang slapped his thigh: "Take some men and go around to check!"

Guo Sheng led over a hundred men out of the temple gate, while Song Jiang and Lei Heng waited there to ambush them.

Before Guo Sheng could return, Song Jiang noticed that the black fog was getting thinner and thinner...

Later, the blood became so thin that Song Jiang could see with his naked eye the several Gaizhou soldiers lying unconscious on the ground.

By the time Guo Sheng led his men around through the back door of the dilapidated temple, the black fog had completely dissipated.

Lei Heng went to check on the soldiers from Gaizhou:
"Brother, they're not dead, they've just fainted."

Song Jiang snorted and asked Guo Sheng, "Did you see the sorcerer?" Guo Sheng shook his head with a wry smile, "No. When I went around to the back door of the dilapidated temple, the door was wide open, and the sorcerer had already escaped..."

"The sorcerer must not have gone far!"

Upon hearing this, Lei Heng was about to give chase, but Song Jiang grabbed him.
"Brother, why are you still chasing after that demon?"

Lei Heng was stunned: "Save Instructor Lin..."

"Humph!"

Song Jiang said with a gloomy face, "Didn't you hear what he said?"

"He is a spy sent by the King of Qi to my side!"
"He is one of the King of Qi's men!"

"Ah this..."

Lei Heng didn't know what to say; he had heard these words outside the dilapidated temple.

"Lin Chong, that beast!"

Song Jiang gritted his teeth and said, "I treated him like a brother, and he dared to bully me like this!"
"If I see him again, I will teach him to be as if—"

In a fit of rage, Song Jiang suddenly drew his sword and slashed fiercely at a strange rock nearby:

"when!"

With a sharp crack, the strange rock was struck, sending sparks flying, but the sword broke in two!
Lei Heng, Guo Sheng, Kong Ming, and Kong Liang looked at the strange rock, the broken sword, and Song Jiang with puzzled expressions...

The scene was very embarrassing.

Song Jiang blinked his small eyes and said decisively:

"Such a sword exists!"

Oh--

Lei Heng and Guo Sheng suddenly realized:
We thought you meant to say 'there is such a stone'!

……

Two flowers bloom, one branch each.

Zheng Biao and his group escaped from the dilapidated temple through the back door and fled eastward in a panic.

Along the way, we were inevitably on edge, and we missed our lodging again. Fortunately, this time we found a roadside inn.

Before nightfall, Zheng Biao and his men checked into a roadside inn and tricked the innkeeper into believing that government troops had captured rebels.

The shopkeeper, a tall, fierce-looking man, warned:

"The government troops also have to pay!"

Is this guy an idiot?

Zheng Biao and his men looked at each other in dismay: If we were really government troops, we would kill innocent people and claim credit just because of what you said!
Not wanting to cause any further trouble, Pang Wanchun first took out a piece of loose silver and gave it to him:

"Aba Aba!"

“Great!”

The shopkeeper took the loose silver and glanced at Pang Wanchun:

"The only liquor we have is village-style fermented white wine, and the only meat we have is cooked beef!"

"most!"

Zheng Biao instructed the shopkeeper, "We have a lot of people, so bring us as much wine and meat as you like!"

Besides Zheng Biao, Li Tianrun, Shi Bao, and Pang Wanchun, there were also four prisoners: Du Xue, Wei He, Liu Yuan, and Lin Chong, as well as twelve or thirteen Southern Imperial Guards, totaling more than twenty people.

The shopkeeper glanced at them and went into the kitchen. Soon after, he came out carrying two full buckets of wine, one in each hand.

Shi Bao took a wine barrel, which felt to be at least twenty pounds, and couldn't help but praise him:
"Wow, that's strong!"

Any man could lift twenty jin (approximately 10 kg), but the challenge was that the shopkeeper made the two barrels of wine feel as light as if they were nothing.

The shopkeeper chuckled, looking rather dim-witted, and went back into the kitchen to cut beef.

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