Chapter 136: Chapter 110: Bandit Lair

The Deceit Dynasty, Purple Cloud Mountain.

“Boss, just the three of us, I’m afraid we can’t take down this bandit lair, right?”

At dusk, only a sliver of sunset remained on the horizon. In the dense woods, He Buning, accompanied by Xiao Wu and Xiao Liu, hid their tracks and looked from a high point at the bandit lair nestled in a mountain hollow opposite.

The bandit lair is surrounded by mountains on three sides, with a wall of giant stones three people high on the remaining side. The mountain hollow never sees sunlight and is a place that attracts yin.

On the high stone wall, ten white zombies jumped back and forth, guarding the mountain village.

The young and small Xiao Liu kept making exaggerated facial expressions at the brawny and robust Xiao Wu beside him, but Xiao Wu remained unfazed, looking loyal and protective.

The three of them were not wearing the Night Traveler masks at the moment and were in plain clothes.

They had just returned to Wangshan City a few days ago when they received a request for help from the Day Traveling Envoy. They rushed to Zhengyang County near Wangshan City to handle a bizarre case.

After three grueling days, they finally resolved the tricky case. Without catching a breath, they hurried back.

As they passed by Purple Cloud Mountain, it happened to be overcast. They saw a robbed convoy and traces of zombies, prompting He Buning to decide to investigate Purple Cloud Mountain.

The terrain of Purple Cloud Mountain is special, easy to defend and hard to attack, often becoming a gathering place for mountain bandits. Wangshan City sends a garrison every year to eliminate these bandits, but the problem persists.

Purple Cloud Mountain is a necessary passage from the southwest of Qinzhou to Wangshan City, frequently witnessing merchants and convoys being robbed.

In the past, they only looted money and wouldn’t kill without intense resistance.

However, starting last year, whether the bandit leader changed or for some other reason, every time merchants and convoys were robbed, both people and goods were wholly taken away.

Initially, no one reported to the authorities in Wangshan City, so no one paid attention to the matter. It wasn’t until the beginning of this year that someone managed to escape from the bandit lair and rushed to the Evil Suppression Bureau, saying that the bandit lair in Purple Cloud Mountain was raising corpses.

The merchants captured were all turned into zombies by the mountain bandits. In just a year, the Purple Cloud Mountain bandit lair amassed over a hundred low-level white zombies alone.

White zombies fear fire and sunlight, and glutinous rice and black dog blood can repel them, but their strength is immense, and regular weapons can harm but not stop them, making them somewhat troublesome to deal with.

Besides that, there were five more powerful black zombies, with incredible strength, impervious to weapons, fearing only sunlight. Fire, glutinous rice, and black dog blood had limited effects on them.

Reportedly, there was one more advanced jumping zombie, unafraid of sunlight, glutinous rice, and black dog blood, needing targeted Magic Artifacts and talisman from the Taoist Sect to confront them.

Xiao Liu looked at Xiao Wu, pondering that even if they put on their Night Traveler masks, they’d only be at a third-layer strength, enough to deal with three to five black zombies.

He Buning possesses fourth-level Ghost strength, and his yin fire is robust, but confronting the jumping zombie, Xiao Liu feels it’s challenging, considering He Buning’s yin fire burns his blood.

Moreover, with over a hundred white zombies and an unknown number of bandits, someone capable must be in Purple Cloud Mountain bandit lair to raise so many zombies.

Just the three of them, rescuing people would be difficult, not to mention the entry to the lair.

Last year, Wangshan City’s garrison attempted to clean it up and failed miserably. The Evil Suppression Bureau already sent documents to the Taoist Sect, requesting disciples to handle the zombies here.

He Buning carefully observed, his two sword-like eyebrows knitted together, hesitating whether to take the risk to explore.

Considering all factors, they indeed lack the strength to attack now. It’s best to wait for the Taoist Sect’s disciples to arrive, organize the garrison to prepare kerosene, glutinous rice, and black dog blood, and then attack together for safety.

“Record the surrounding terrain and leave.”

Upon hearing He Buning abandon the idea, Xiao Liu looked pleased and quickly said, “Alright, I’ll draw the terrain map immediately.”

Xiao Wu, carrying a bamboo box on his back, turned around to let Xiao Liu take the paper and pen.

The sky was getting darker, and as Xiao Liu was recording the southeastern woods’ terrain, he suddenly let out a soft exclamation, “When did it become foggy over there?”

Xiao Wu looked over at the sound, “That’s not ordinary fog, it’s Evil Mist, heading towards the bandit lair.”

He Buning, also squinting at the gray mist like a massive wave, surged quickly towards the bandit lair.

“Evil Spirits don’t act with such purpose; it’s a Yin Walker. Let’s go down and check.”

“Ah?”

Xiao Liu was shocked, eyes widened, as He Buning had already put on his mask and swiftly descended the mountain.

Xiao Wu patted Xiao Liu and followed closely behind.

*

In the woods down the mountain.

Sang Que, carrying two buckets of gasoline bought from the modern world, quickly approached the bandit lair, utilizing the Instant Teleportation ability of the Evil Mist.

Little Chan once again abandoned her body, leaving only a head and a full head of black hair, wrapping around Sang Que.

Ever since her head was chopped off once, Little Chan found that nothing happened, so she often took her head off to play.

Additionally, with Sang Que’s targeted training and verification, they discovered that as long as Little Chan’s head returned to her body within 24 hours, it could be perfectly reattached.

Her limbs could also be connected and detached using her hair; her internal organs were not normal human organs, but hair wrapped in human skin.

Seeing a suicide rope on a roadside tree, Sang Que stopped and used the Evil Mist to wrap the rope, pulling it into the copper mirror.

Sure enough, the suicide rope was an Evil Spirit that could be seen everywhere; along the way, she had caught more than twenty of them.

For such low-level Evil Spirits, the copper mirror’s storage had yet to feel a limit.

“Found it!”

The edge of Sang Que’s Evil Mist touched an ominous aura, and she immediately shrank the mist to a five-meter range around her, hiding her presence and slowing down.

Within the Evil Mist, she could ’perceive’ the surroundings.

Walking forward a bit more, the surrounding trees gradually became sparse. Sticking to the mountain wall, she saw ahead between two mountains, a high wall built of huge stones.

Three steps apart on the high wall were torches, and between the torches were what seemed like blood-red lines, like a fence, encircling ten zombies covered in white fur on the high wall.

On both sides of the high wall, there were two high towers with two guards standing, who were bandits.

If the Evil Mist spread over, it would definitely alert the zombies. Once the zombies started to move, the bandits on the towers would surely sound the alarm, so they had to silently eliminate both sides of the bandits simultaneously.

Sang Que retracted the Evil Mist, placed the gasoline canister aside, took down the hunting bow from her back, and said to Little Chan, “Little Chan, the nearby bandit is yours, okay?”

Little Chan thought for a moment, nodded, “Little Chan can do it!”

Sang Que had taught Little Chan how to assassinate, and Little Chan had often reviewed and practiced along the way.

“Get ready first.”

Little Chan frowned, serious, hiding her head in knee-high weeds, her hair crawling along the ground, slowly approaching the high wall.

The zombies on the high wall seemed to sense something, twitching their noses towards the direction where Xia Chan was hiding. Xia Chan quickly stopped, using her hair to cover her nose and mouth.

After sniffing for a while, the zombies continued to jump back and forth, and only then did Xia Chan proceed forward.

Once at a suitable distance, Xia Chan concentrated all her strength on a strand of hair, which rapidly extended as the other hair strands shortened, flying along the gaps of the high wall.

Sang Que took out an arrow, glanced at the bandit dozing on the distant tower, and nocked the arrow onto the bowstring.

She turned to look at the nearby tower, where Xia Chan’s hair curled up from behind the bandit, quickly wrapping around the bandit’s neck and strangling him with force.

Crack!

The bandit’s head tilted, dead.

The bandit on the opposite tower yawned, glanced over, sensing something wrong, and just as he stood up straight, an arrow shot through the air, piercing his forehead.

The bandit shuddered, his eyes widening in shock, and he slumped to the ground.

On the other side, three people with excellent eyesight were stunned by the scene.

“What a shot!” Xiao Liu couldn’t help but praise.

After scanning left and right, Xiao Wu said to He Buning, “Chief, it was two people striking at the same time.”

After one of the bandits on the tower fell, a hint of blood appeared, and the zombies on the high wall immediately sniffed around towards the source of the smell.

A large gray mist surged up from below the high wall, engulfing the entire high wall in an instant.

The last hint of light in the sky disappeared, night fell, and the three only blinked before the mist vanished, and the high wall reappeared.

The light of the torches swayed in the wind, the two bandits on the towers yawned, and the ten zombies jumped back and forth as if nothing had happened.

“This!” Xiao Wu and Xiao Liu both showed expressions of shock.

He Buning nodded slightly, a look of admiration in his eyes, “It’s an illusion created by a special Evil Mist; the Yin Walker below is an expert, let’s go!”

He Buning withdrew his gaze, suddenly a bit excited, and led Xiao Wu and Xiao Liu to accelerate towards that side.

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