Chapter 34 Gongs and Drums
From that day on, the whole city of Macheng was in chaos.
It can be seen that after the announcement of the coming monsters was issued, the first reaction of the merchants in the city was to withdraw. After all, these merchants had no capital. Compared with monsters, they were more afraid of the robbers hiding in secret and waiting for opportunities, because taking advantage of the situation was their strength. Compared to the demons, they would be better to withdraw immediately, and the caravans could still take care of them.
Compared to these caravans who come here to do business, the people in the city react much more calmly, because they also understand that in this world, if they leave Macheng, they have nowhere to go and can only be refugees, and that tastes better than staying at home. And they believe in "Ma Shang Money", because the reason is very simple, it is because they have money.
Yes, it seems that money is enough. Since the notice was posted, almost all the demon hunters in the entire Ma City gathered at the gate of the Qian Mansion. There were more than 70 people of all sizes. They all came for bounty, and no matter how big or small they were, they wanted to make some money in this battle.
It’s not all that we’re going to leave these people alone. Since last night, Ma Shangqian sent several teams of servants out of the city to hire demon hunters in nearby cities. If nothing unexpected happens, a large number of idle demon hunters will come to Macheng within two days.
Although these monster hunters are not fools, they have naturally heard of the name of the old man withered vine. But it is said that the old guy Potian is just an old guy who practices evil magic in the mountains. Although he has some monsters and some apprentices, how many people can Potian have? Can they compare to the more than 70 monster hunters who relied on bounty to make a living by Ma Shang's money so quickly, plus hundreds of martial arts servants?
Obviously not. Although they possess evil deeds, these monster hunters are not vegetarians. They usually live a life of licking blood at the edge of a knife and killing monsters for dinner. Moreover, the announcement of Ma Shangqian clearly states: No matter who it is, as long as you kill a monster, you will be rewarded with a war horse with your body. If you catch monsters alive, you will be rewarded with twenty.
The reward is too generous, so many monster hunters either choose to cooperate with others or start to think about how to steal monster corpses from others when they are done.
And the four of Shisheng are hiding among these demon hunters.
Xiaobai went to the market in the morning to buy them a few pieces of ragged linen clothes. Except for Shisheng, the other three were covered in faces because they were afraid of being recognized. Fortunately, in order to show their personal abilities, many of these monster hunters who were bounty were strange in shape. Those who wore masks and those who wore animal skins and animal skins were all dressed up in various ways, for fear that they would become citizen armor if they accidentally became ordinary.
So the four of them seemed very ordinary.
Shisheng could smell it with his nose. Many of these guys came to cheat food. Among the more than 70 people, only about fifty people were fighting.
In the past two days, Mr. Qian Wenru and Mr. Qian did not show up. The butler of the Qian Mansion came forward to send tasks to everyone. Among the seventy people, some were assigned to find a case in the city, while others guarded the door of the Qian Mansion. The rest were all joined with servants and more than 30 demon hunters originally hired by the Qian Mansion to guard the backyard.
The people in the Qian Mansion were obviously not stupid, and they were afraid that there would be ghosts in the crowd, so they arranged a monster hunter who was said to have the ability to "look at the air" to investigate the crowd. This man was blind, with two blue eyes without pupils.
In fact, this is also true in the world, but he smells it by his nose, although this nose can tell the demons and cannot tell the evil people.
Many monster hunters choose to guard the door or patrol. In their opinion, this position can kill monsters and make money as soon as possible. Only some smart people understand that when the group of monsters attack, these two positions may become abandoned children at any time.
After all, those monsters are not carrots and cabbages, how could they stand there waiting for you to cut them?
Therefore, the main focus of defense is in the Qian Mansion, especially in the backyard. This is not difficult to find out from the butler. The butler said that there are important people in the Qian Mansion living in the backyard building, so they must not be lost.
But Shisheng and the others understood that the people living in the back building must not be the ones living in it.
Before the four of them came, they let the real Lu Daquan outside the city go away. Liu Bolun apologized to him and asked him to run away quickly. Then several people arranged Xiaobai to a family not far from Qian's mansion. If the monsters enter the city, the closer the residents are to Qian's mansion, the safer they are, because all those monsters will be attracted to Qian's mansion.
After everything was done, the four of them sneaked into the Qian Mansion with the demon hunters. The back building was still surrounded by demon hunters Zhou Tian, and they could not openly sneak in. But the things in the building were not something the four of them could have distracted from thinking about at that time. In the past two days, there were constant gatherings from other places in Macheng. In a short period of time, they changed from seventy people to more than one hundred people.
The Qian family is in charge of the meal. Everyone has lived outside in the past two days. Some are tidying up magic weapons and wiping weapons, while others are yelling in a vain and yelling.
Shisheng could no longer tell how much water there was in this number, but seeing the atmosphere in the city becoming more and more serious, even the God of Heaven responded to the scenery. The depressing sky was covered with dark clouds. Shisheng smelled the faint water vapor in the air, and in a blink of an eye, the storm was about to come.
Sure enough, just in the early morning of the third day, when the long-simmering dark clouds dripped off the first drop of rain, Shisheng, who was sleeping, suddenly smelled something. He hurriedly stood up and kept smelling it towards the sky in the northeast direction.
The morning wind blew a disturbing breath, and the faint smell of fishy smell became stronger and stronger. Shisheng thought to himself that something was wrong, so Chen Tunan, who was standing by, nodded, then woke Liu Bolun and Li Hanshan up, and the four of them tacitly made the final preparations.
Sure enough, at this moment, the demon hunter who was watching on the roof of Qian Mansion suddenly shouted in a loud voice: "Smoke up! The idea has arrived!"
This man used to be obviously a robber. After he shouted out the slander, he saw more than ten servants of the Qian Mansion pick up the gongs and drums in his hands and started beating them hard!
The sound of gongs and drums broke through the silence of the morning, and everyone woke up. At this moment, something strange happened in the northeast sky. The people in the yard looked up and couldn't help but exclaim: "God! Why is this happening?!"
Shisheng looked up and saw under the dark clouds, several huge child-faced centipedes that he saw that day were swaying, swinging their disgusting long tentacles towards Qianfu Youge. These big centipedes, or crickets, were covered with people or monsters.
These big crickets swim quickly in the air, and there are some flying monsters around them. When you look far away, you will fly around the huge crickets like flies.
I believe that many of the demon hunters present at that time all regretted it. While they had cold sweat on their faces, they all said this in their hearts:
God, why are there so many?
The number is evenly matched, no, obviously there are more monsters!
Although Shisheng and the other four had already been prepared, they couldn't help but think in their hearts when they saw the monsters that were attacking: What a big formation.
Shisheng was sharp-eyed. He was looking for the person he was looking for among the monsters getting closer and closer. Sure enough, the weird guy with a tattoo on his neck stood on the front cricket.
At this time, the man smiled evilly and looked down at Ma Cheng beneath him, while Shisheng and the other two nodded to each other.
The sound of gongs and drums in the Qian Mansion became more and more harsh. The crowd was noisy, and the raindrops fell. A mutual massacre between people and demons began.
(Continue to the night after the first update is over.)
Chapter completed!