Chapter 234 The Devil
Xia Qiu in the infinite heaven has ushered in the penultimate day on the eve of the war between the snowy night of Ouyang and the extraordinary. Although she always hopes that time can go slower and slower, because she is not confident enough about whether her training these days is enough to make her break through the boundary of the waterfall, no matter in which world, time is not waiting for people.
Ouyang Xueye has considered all kinds of situations that may happen in Xia Qiu, and has carried out a series of simulation training for her according to these situations. Because it was very close to the time of the war, he left her alone to practice near Ziyunju during the last few days, and he was busy running around Bauhinia Island to deploy the whole plan to fight against the extraordinary.
Since learning how to control spiritual power with Wuyou Shengtong and being able to complete twenty-four splits, Xia Qiu has used her own understanding to continuously consolidate this ability. Now she has been able to carry out splitting and combination smoothly at a very fast speed.
In Ouyang Xueye's view, her speed of completing the split and combination is almost as fast as that of Wuyou Shengtong. He just regretted that he did not have such ability. If he could split into twenty-four, even if he had only three heads and six arms, he would definitely be of greater help for this war. Of course, he can only think about this unrealistic assumption. There are still many problems waiting for him to solve.
Xiong Man received a secret letter from Ouyang Xueye again and replied to him as soon as possible. He pleaded to lead the dead souls on Chizhao Island as the vanguard of the Ouyang Snow Night Army. This was a decision he made after discussing with Ice Eyes and all the souls who participated in the operation.
This is a great help for Ouyang Xueye. Although he has been weighing on the question of who will be the vanguard army, he has never been able to get a perfect answer. The souls of the dead on Chizhao Island are the best choice in any way, because compared with those dead souls who have already been respected on other islands, the natural environment of Chizhao Island where they live is not only bad, but also the heavy physical labor they engage in every day also makes these dead souls still retain their former blood. Moreover, compared with those supporters scattered on various islands, the dead souls on Chizhao Island have been working and living in the same place for a long time, which must be more tacit. In addition, their absolute obedience to Xiong Man also reassured Ouyang Xueye.
In the past few days, the side of the extraordinary road is still calm. This situation makes Ouyang Xueye feel very unusual, but thinking of the purple pupil monster that Xia Qiu was seriously injured when the soul was separated, he was wondering if it was the monster and the extraordinary Tao who lost his bag.
If so, then Xia Qiu's injury to him that night was so serious that he had no intention of managing the infinite walker, which is a guess in their favor. But at the same time, he doubted whether it was the illusion he deliberately created to relax their vigilance, which was quickly confirmed.
The only gratitable thing is that they have gathered 100 more supporters than originally planned in the past few days. In this way, the total number of souls under their command has increased to 600. After determining the name of the operation, Ouyang Xueye assigned the 300 souls except Chizhao Island to Jinshan, Chang Mingzi and Wuyou Shengtong, and each of them was responsible for 100 souls. Therefore, regarding the overall deployment of the war, he only needs to discuss with these three people, and then they can convey it to their subordinates.
Today, Ouyang Xueye made an appointment with several other commanders as agreed, and the meeting place was arranged at Chang Mingzi's home. Naga Naruto's home is far away from the place similar to a shopping street. There is only one path that can lead there, so it is particularly quiet, which is exactly in line with his character.
This yard is clearly a green bamboo house by him. The shape of the yard and house is similar to that of others on Bauhinia Island. It is also square, but there is no water in his yard, but a few green bamboos are planted. The number of plantings is not much, and it is very unique to follow a corner of the yard.
The cobblestone path bends from the gate of the courtyard to the main door of the house. Just after noon, Chang Mingzi was standing with his hands behind his back. He looked up at the bamboo, but he seemed to be thinking about something else.
He, who was disturbed by the appearance of Ouyang Xueye, gasped unabashedly and said, "Well, it's the island lord. It scared me!"
"What? Am I bothering you to think about something? Ouyang Xueye asked with a smile.
"How can I talk about disturbing you? I'm just thinking about an unusual thing I noticed yesterday. Let's go in and talk about it!" Chang Mingzi said and greeted Ouyang Xueye into the house.
The layout of the house is also very elegant, all of which are yellow pear wood furniture. The number of furniture is small, which also makes it very simple. There was no porcelain on the shelf next to the whole wall, but a lot of empty flower pots were placed. Ouyang Xueye felt very puzzled when he saw them several times, but he never asked about the reason.
Chang Mingzi saw that Ouyang Xueye's eyes stayed on the shelf. Before others came, he talked about the origin of those flower pots.
"I built a simple kiln in the backyard, and these pots were made in that kiln. In fact, I always wanted to be a potters before I died, but unfortunately, I was born in Wang Jue's family, inherited the title, and then became a trusted person around the lord of the demon world, which is the way I must pursue. So I only learned a simple method of burning flower pots with a master when I was young, and then I had no chance to touch these things in my long life. As a result, I can only burn some flower pots until I die. Isn't that ironic? Nagatoko said the regret in his heart.
"But these flower pots look really good. Although I have seen a lot of pottists who are better than you, the flower pots you burn seem to have their own souls, but only half of them." Ouyang Xueye sold a barrier.
"Oh?" Chang Mingzi looked at the snowy night in Ouyang puzzledly.
"Because the flower pot is separated from the flower, it is like there is no painting in the frame. No matter how artistic it is, there is less finishing touch. If the war is over and we win, how about giving me one then? I've already figured out what flowers to plant in it!"
"No problem."
Ouyang Xueye suddenly remembered something more important, so he asked, "Yes, when I just entered the yard, what was the unusual thing you said yesterday?"
"In the past few days, aren't we all discussing that it's a little too calm over there?"
"Yes!"
"Have you ever thought that the reason for this calmness may be because he has put an eyeliner on our side, because he has completely mastered our actions, so he just needs to secretly plan a way to deal with us!"
"This is also possible, but is there any evidence?"
Coincidentally, I had insomnia in the middle of the night yesterday. I thought of ventilating in the yard, but I saw someone put out a Kongming lamp from me. I kept observing the Kongming lantern because I was curious, but it was shot down by a bow and arrow on the lake. At that time, I saw a small boat near there from afar. Presumably the people on the boat picked up its lamp.
"Do you suspect that someone is using this method to inform us?"
"Exact"
Ouyang Xueye thought for a moment and said, "I have an idea. When Jinshan and Wuyou come, I will ask them to send a fake message with you. Then, tonight, we will wait and see if the man will still send a letter to the extraordinary. I will ask someone to try to intercept the Kong Ming lamp as evidence.
"This is a good idea! Even if the interception is not successful, we will not lose anything.
"If you find that the mole really exists, then it will..." Ouyang Xueye paused for a moment, but continued to ask Chang Mingzi, "Do you know where the person who put the Kongming lantern is?"
"Of course, the place where he put the lamp should not be far from me."
"That's easy. We can use the elimination method to know who the mole is. As long as we find Kong Ming Lantern, we can find him out."
The two were talking about Jinshan and Wuyou Shengtong coming in from the outside. These days, the extraordinary has ordered to temporarily stop the work of the soul ship carrying the dead, so even the Wuyou Shengtong is very leisurely during the day. He almost took care of all the liaison work between the islands.
Ouyang Xueye guessed that after knowing the existence of Xia Qiu, he was afraid that the Wuyou Holy Child would help them take others into the infinite heaven, or use the Jihun Ship to help Xia Qiu leave. After they came, the four of them had a detailed consultation on how to find the mole, and finally decided to release the false news that they would surround the Xuanmiao Palace in advance.
At this moment, Xia Qiu, who is staying in Ziyunju, is practicing archery. The target with a track made by the elk fairy ordered by Ouyang Xueye has been completed. Even Xia Qiu has to praise that the elk deer fairy is really ingenious. There is a metal chain installed on this track. As long as one person rotates a manual shaft connecting these chains next to it, he can control the target on the track to move freely back and forth.
Elk deer fairy naturally became the person who controls this manual shaft. When watching Xia Qiu practice, he always smiled, which reminded Xia Qiu of his grandfather and grandmother who were far away in the world more than once. Every time she thought of them, she felt a faint pain in her heart.
Now she only shoots the four points that simulate the waterfall boundary on the target. She has hit a hundred shots, but she still occasionally made mistakes when she practiced riding and shooting with Xiao Libai at night. These mistakes are not only because when she rides on Xiao Li Bai's back, the bumps will lead to her physical instability, but most of the time because Xiao Li Bai's naughty or occasionally having a bad temper with her. Although it is a spirit beast, it is still small after all. Sometimes it does not listen to her command and only wants to play with her or the spirit horses on the grassland.
But in any case, Xia Qiu is reluctant to blame it, let alone give it any punishment. She also knew that it might not work to go on like this, so she thought that the way to deal with it was to ignore it once it was lazy. This trick is quite useful for it. If it sees her not looking at it, it will know that it has made a mistake again, and then it will approach her slowly and try to rub her hand with a big bag, and then it will be honest for a while.
Xia Qiu can't help but worry that when the two sides go to war, the situation on the lake must be quite complicated. If Xiao Libai makes a mistake because of fear, she will lose the opportunity to leave here, and this opportunity may be unique.
Even in the daytime, how optimistic and strong she is in front of Ouyang Xueye, but in the dead of night, the feeling of missing her family and friends will still come to her heart. Especially in order to send the letters of the dead who support Ouyang Xueye to their family or friends, she always takes a long time to recite their letters before going to bed, because she wants to do her best to remember more content and achieve their wishes.
But the thoughts, love, regret, loneliness, etc. that exist between those words, all kinds of complex feelings are a torture for her. She often tears while reading letters. Perhaps she has invested too much emotion because of touching the scene, so the content of these letters is also very firmly remembered.