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Chapter 149 Practice
Finally, as everyone was thinking about different things, the day was about to end and dusk was falling. Just as the soldiers finished a day's training and were preparing to have dinner, the camp suddenly became lively. After a while, a personal soldier came to the camp to report that Deputy Commander Zhou Kuang brought a dozen people from outside into the camp, causing quite a stir.

Situ Jing and Lu Qing looked at each other, stood up and walked out almost at the same time, and Zhu Yu hurriedly followed.

When I got outside, I saw a group of people gathered together from a distance, making a lot of noise and talking. They looked excited and eager.

All of them stretched their necks to look inside the circle, and did not even notice that their commander-in-chief had approached.

Until someone was pushed to the side and wanted to look back with some displeasure to see who was so arrogant. When he turned around, he saw that it was Situ Jing's personal guards, and the person walking behind the personal guards was Situ Jing himself!

No matter how upset they were in private, no one dared to do such a risky thing as throwing a tantrum in front of the commander-in-chief.

The soldier was so scared that he quickly dodged to the side, and at the same time reminded the brothers next to him to follow suit.

So more and more people finally saw Situ Jing, and quickly moved to the sides, forcing out a path for Situ Jing and others to pass through.

In the middle of this group of people, Zhou Kuang and a dozen strangers were surrounded. The dozen strangers were dressed very strangely. Although they were not tall, they all wore huge masks on their heads. The masks were brightly colored, but the patterns were very bizarre and hideous. The masks were also decorated with black feathers of some unknown bird, which made their heads look extremely huge when worn on their heads.

The clothes they wore were not ordinary clothes, but leather armor made of various animal skins. Unlike the shiny and light leather armor in the official military camp, their leather armor was covered with animal fur. It did not seem to be new, but gray, and seemed to be stained with some black dirt, I don't know if it was blood.

The leader stood in the front, following closely behind Zhou Kuang. His leather armor was different from that of the followers behind him. It was not made up of many different animal skins, but a whole tiger skin, with even the tiger's tail hanging behind him.

His ghost head mask looked even more ferocious. At first glance, you could see a pair of huge eyes painted on it. The white eyes had dark green pupils in the middle. There was a circle of bright red hair made of something unknown around the ghost head mask. Combined with the green pupils, it looked like an evil ghost.

Zhu Yu was secretly shocked in his heart.

If this was the expert Zhou Kuang had invited to perform rituals to exorcise evil spirits, then she really couldn't help but feel that this guy looked even more evil than any other evil spirit!

When Zhou Kuang saw Situ Jing coming, he hurriedly stepped forward and saluted Situ Jing. "General, I have invited a master who can perform rituals to exorcise evil spirits. I was planning to pay you a visit so that I can take the master around and prepare the things I will need for the ritual tonight."

The man wearing the red-haired, green-eyed ghost mask was standing behind Zhou Kuang. The eyes behind the two black holes on the mask seemed to be staring at Situ Jing, but he did not move, and had no intention of greeting Situ Jing.

Situ Jing looked at the man, but didn't mind his rudeness. He just waved his hand impatiently at Zhou Kuang and said, "Since I have already promised you this, then go ahead and do it.

Regardless of whether it is useful or not, completing this ritual can at least give the soldiers some peace of mind."

Zhou Kuang grinned flatteringly and hurriedly took those strangely dressed people away.

"Others, don't follow!" Situ Jing saw that the curious soldiers around him seemed to want to follow along and watch the fun, so he shouted, "Just do what you have to do.

If you have the ability to perform the ritual, then tell the deputy commander to send the outsider away and do it yourself. If you don't have the ability, what's the point of following them?"

The soldiers who were originally full of curiosity did not dare to follow him after being scolded by him, and dispersed reluctantly.

The hustle and bustle just now finally returned to calm.

Situ Jing glanced at Lu Qing again, with a hint of uneasiness in his eyes.

If he were to go into battle to kill the enemy, or fight against the enemy general alone, he might not even blink an eye. As a military general, open fighting with swords and guns would only make his blood boil.

But in the current situation, it is clear that both sides are playing dirty tricks, and Situ Jing is not so familiar with this trick.

He always felt a little uneasy in his heart.

It is said that it is easy to hide from a gun but difficult to guard against an arrow. Now the other party is really shooting an arrow from behind. No one is sure how it will be shot and where it will come from. Are they sure they can defend against it?

But he saw that Lu Qing was still calm, even more relaxed than before, without any tension at all.

Once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back. Situ Jing gritted his teeth and decided to trust them this time.

After that, Zhou Kuang stayed beside the dozen or so people while they were busy. The other imperial guards received Situ Jing's order not to join in the fun and cause trouble, so they didn't get close.

After it was completely dark, the dozen or so people built a very large bonfire in the center of the camp. Next to the bonfire, they placed a table with many things on it, including swords, nails, hammers, a jet-black incense burner, and thick stacks of things that looked like talismans. There were vermilion handwriting on them, and they were written in a flamboyant style, with things that were completely incomprehensible. They didn't look like words, but more like totems.

Everything was almost ready and the time had come. Zhou Kuang asked the commanders to call all the soldiers in the camp and have them stand in a circle around the huge bonfire. He announced that the master's exorcism ceremony was about to begin, and asked everyone to be pious and cooperate with the master. Whoever the master told them to do was to do it.

Situ Jing, Lu Qing and others also stood in the crowd, watching everything in the circle coldly.

The tall man with red hair and green eyes and a ghost mask walked to the table, pulled out a copper bell from his waist, held the bell in one hand, picked up the sword on the table with the other hand, and waved and shook the copper bell. The copper bell rang, and the tall man muttered something, but no one could understand what he was saying.

The master jumped, danced, and chanted for a long time. Suddenly, he shouted loudly, and the amplitude of his jumping became more and more vigorous. He circled around the bonfire, waving the sword in his hand, making chopping movements, and chanting something even louder.

When he returned to the table again, he threw the copper bell and sword aside, grabbed a handful of talisman paper, muttered something, lit the talisman paper and threw it into the incense burner. Before the talisman paper was burned out, he reached in and grabbed the paper ashes and incense ashes as if he was not afraid of the pain, and threw them into the bonfire.

With a loud bang, the blazing red flame suddenly turned into a flickering green.

(End of this chapter)