Do you have the strength to force me to join the Liangshan bandits?

Chapter 573 Why Did Great Fortune Turn into Great Misfortune? [2 Updates]

"My name is Niu Gao!"

Niu Gao generously tore off a rabbit leg and handed it to the boy who was about to grow up:

"what's your name?"

The boy, his face blackened by cooking smoke, took the rabbit leg and took a bite.
"Meng Bangjie!"

While gnawing on a rabbit leg, Niu Gao asked, "How old are you?"

Meng Bangjie: "Fourteen years old."

Niu Gao's big eyes darted around:
"I'm sixteen years old, so you can just call me Brother Niu!"

"Let's team up, brothers, and snatch those twenty-odd waist tokens from him. That'll be enough for us to make it to the finals!"

Meng Bangjie thought Niu Gao's words made sense. Just then, someone else arrived, drawn by the scent:

"It's so fragrant!"

"We've got work to do!"

Niu Gao quickly called to Meng Bangjie, who had just taken two bites of the rabbit leg and, unwilling to throw it away, shoved it into his mouth.

Picking up a pair of four-sided iron maces, Niu Gao jumped up and took a closer look:
Good heavens! So many people?

Meng Bangjie also shoved a rabbit leg into his mouth, picked up a pair of iron axes, and jumped up:
"Waist! I want a waist!"

Although he had a rabbit leg in his mouth and his speech was unclear, the visitors still understood him and burst into laughter.
"We didn't steal his rabbit, but these two big, burly men are trying to steal our waist tokens instead!"

"This is absolutely outrageous!"

Four heroes arrived: one wielding an iron crutch, one wielding two swords, one wielding two octagonal, water-polished bronze maces, and one wielding two bamboo whips.

The leader, who wielded an iron crutch, wore a turban and a crane-feather cloak. He had a full moon-like face and held a feather fan.

If it weren't for his youthful appearance and the iron crutch he was carrying, he would easily be mistaken for Zhuge Liang.

The man laughed and said, "If you know what's good for you, hand over your waist tokens!"

"We will spare your lives; now you can shoot your whistling arrows and head down the mountain!"

"Chest grab, move like a shot!"

With a rabbit leg in his mouth, Niu Gao greeted Meng Bangjie, and the two brothers charged towards the four heroes.

Although the enemy outnumbered them, Niu Gao was not worried.

He had studied martial arts with Lu Zhishen for two years and was no longer the naive man he once was.

Furthermore, Meng Bangjie's martial arts skills were similar to his, so how could he not defeat four wild heroes?
However, to his surprise, after forty or fifty rounds of clanging and banging, he and Meng Bangjie gradually found themselves at a disadvantage...

Niu Gao, with a heavy heart, spat out the rabbit leg with a "plop" and cried out:

"Stop it, everyone! I have something to say!"

The four heroes stopped fighting, and the one who looked like Zhuge Liang asked him:
What do you have to say?

"We brothers don't want to give up our tokens. Even if you defeat us, we'll fight you to the death!"

Niu Gao snorted coldly: "When we brothers come down the mountain, you won't get away with it either!"

"After you're injured, let's see how you handle other heroes when you encounter them!"

The four heroes exchanged glances and all agreed that what he said made sense.

They needed two against one to suppress Niu Gao and Meng Bangjie.

If Niu Gao and Meng Bangjie are really pushed to their limits, even if they win, it will be a Pyrrhic victory.

Seeing that they were interested, Niu Gao seized the opportunity and said:

"The four of you are quite skilled in martial arts. How about we form an alliance?"

"There are over three hundred heroes on this mountain. Let's six of us join forces and rob them!"

"Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could grab sixty or seventy waist tokens, split ten among ourselves, and all make it to the finals together?"

"good idea!"

The one who looked like Zhuge Liang agreed.

After all, the four of them couldn't defeat Niu Gao and Meng Bangjie, so who knows how many more powerful opponents they would encounter later?
So the two exchanged names. The one who looked like Zhuge Liang was named Zhuge Ying, and was a descendant of Zhuge Liang.

His three brothers were named Gongsun Lang, Liu Guoshen, and Chen Junyou. The four of them were together and originally lived as outlaws on Yuanhe Mountain.

Hearing that Cai Fu was holding a tournament to determine the greatest heroes in the land, they came together, hoping to make a name for themselves.

After forming the alliance, Niu Gao laughed heartily: "Who can defeat the six of us?"

The brothers all said it was great, and then Niu Gao asked them:
How did the four of you come together?

It turned out that Zhuge Ying and Gongsun Lang were skilled at using spirit writing to summon immortals, and through spirit writing, they found out where their other brothers were.

"Your ability is truly a godsend!"

Niu Gao beamed with joy: "Perfect! Brother Zhuge, Brother Gongsun, now you two should use the spirit writing tool to see if our preliminary selection will be auspicious or inauspicious!"

Zhuge Ying and Gongsun Lang carried a full set of tools, and they took them out to perform divination and invite the spirits.

Niu Gao and Meng Bangjie watched helplessly as they uttered two words on the divination tablet:
Bad luck!

"hiss--"

Zhuge Ying and Gongsun Lang's expressions changed drastically: "The one we helped out before we set off was 'Great Fortune'!"
"What exactly happened that turned good fortune into bad luck?"

Meng Bangjie subconsciously looked at Niu Gao: Could it be because there are two of us here?

Niu Gao decisively muddied the waters: "I understand!"
"Others must have formed alliances as well; we must form alliances with more heroes!"

"Think about it, what if we allied with a hundred heroes and robbed another two hundred heroes!"

"So everyone advanced now?"

All the brothers said it was wonderful.

Zhuge Ying and Gongsun Lang didn't think it was particularly brilliant, but since they had no better idea, they could only say it was brilliant.

We can't just disband the alliance right after forming it, can we? Are we kidding?

"I have two junior brothers who are also on the mountain!"

Niu Gao thought of He Yuanqing and Dong Xian. Although He Yuanqing had rejected him, he could form an alliance with Dong Xian.
"Please help me with the spirit medium again!"

Zhuge Ying and Gongsun Lang quickly helped Niu Gao out:
Five hundred paces due north, the sun shines deep into the mountains.

"go!"

Niu Gao said excitedly, "My junior brother here is as brave as ten thousand men. With him around, what great calamity could we possibly fear?"

So the six heroes first shared the wild rabbit, then walked five hundred paces due north, and sure enough, they saw an open space.

Because the area is surrounded by deep mountains and forests, this is the only open space where sunlight shines directly in.

"puff--"

A nine-foot-tall boy with a face as dark as the bottom of a pot, yellow eyebrows, and a red beard coughed up a mouthful of blood!

Another giant, ten feet tall with a bushy beard and red eyes, stepped forward and slashed fiercely at his face with his sword!

The yellow-browed, red-bearded youth hurriedly raised his tiger-head crescent shovel to block the fan-shaped knife, but he couldn't block it at all!

With a loud thud, the tiger-head crescent shovel slammed into his own chest, and the fan-shaped knife pressed down on his shoulder as well!
Even with the tiger-head crescent shovel blocking his way, the blade still cleaved into his shoulder, instantly staining half his body red with blood...

"You win!"

The yellow-browed, red-bearded youth was very unwilling, but could only helplessly cry out:

"Take my badge!"

"Confused!"

The burly man with a thick beard and red eyes sneered: "Kill you, and the waist token will be mine!"

The yellow-browed, red-bearded youth's expression changed drastically: "You, aren't you afraid that the King of Qi will cut you into a thousand pieces?"

"King Qi?"

The giant, with a thick beard and red eyes, grinned maliciously.
"If you're dead, who will know I killed you?"

Ok?
The yellow-browed, red-bearded youth felt something was off, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it...

Just as the burly, red-eyed giant was about to kill him, a furious roar suddenly came from the side:

"we know!"

(End of this chapter)