Liaozhai: I just want salted fish with invincible magical powers

Chapter 212

Under the crack, Hu Qian, Xing Ziming and others looked carefully.

Sure enough, there were many holes of different sizes on the cross section, which were obviously caused by things like earthworms crawling.

Hu Qian suddenly realized that these seven-star leeches swallowed the silver in their stomachs, then burrowed into the ground and took the silver away from below.

But Hu Qian knew that the seven-star leeches could not resist the cold, so they could only act during the day. When the temperature dropped sharply at night, they would hibernate in place.

Thinking of this, he hurriedly sent people to scatter, and dug up the soil layer every ten meters to see if there were any traces of seven-star leeches below.

If so, in which direction are they moving.

However, it was too difficult to dig by manpower alone. After half a day, we could only find less than five li.

Hu Qian said: "You keep looking, I'll look in from ten miles away, and see if I can come across it."

However, even if it is known that it is a seven-star leech, even if it is known that it escaped from the ground, the actual situation is not so optimistic.

Because the seven-star leech does not move at night, the range of ten miles should be correct.

But everyone kept looking for Tian Hei, and they only found traces of the seven-star leech moving, but did not see a live one.

Seeing that the range of ten miles was about to be exhausted, even Hu Qian felt a little discouraged.

At this moment, following his sword light going down, something screamed "Woo" from the ground.

He regained his energy immediately, and hurriedly ordered people to dig down from the sword mark.

After digging to a depth of two feet, I saw something as thick as an arm, and when I took it out, it turned out to be the corpse of a seven-star leech.

He broke it open immediately, and immediately there was a strong stench, and when it was broken open, there was really a silver ingot in it.

When Xing Ziming saw it, he was overjoyed and shouted, "Come on! Dig down!"

Hu Qian said: "Wait a minute! This area is really too big, and our manpower is limited, so we may not be able to finish digging until the day after tomorrow."

As he said that, he checked the direction of the seven-star leech with his eyes, jumped ten feet away, and the sword light swept away, opening a gap in front of him.

I looked carefully and smelled it again, but there was nothing underneath.

So he withdrew another ten feet and cut the ground again.

After searching like this for a while, I finally settled on a plot of eight feet square.

"Those things should all be under this field."

"Won't they escape?"

"This thing is afraid of the cold and won't move at night."

Because he was afraid that the sword light would go down and chop the seven-star leech into a mess, Hu Qian didn't do it again, but asked all the soldiers present to dig the soil with all their strength.

And it must be dug before dawn, otherwise when the sun comes out, the thing will move, and it will be difficult to catch it.

Xing Ziming saw that there was not enough manpower, so he quickly divided his troops into three groups, one to inform Zhang Shengyang to come back quickly;

Eight zhang square, and then digging down two zhang deep, this amount of work is not insignificant, if there is no reinforcements, with the current number of people, it is impossible to do it.

At the second watch, everyone had just dug a shallow layer of ground, and they couldn't help feeling a little discouraged.

Xing Ziming hurriedly said: "Everyone, don't stop. When the tax money is recovered, I and Mr. Zhang will definitely be rewarded heavily. In addition, I will play a memorial to the court to ask for credit for you."

After a while, the person sent to look for Zhang Shengyang came back, saying that Zhang Shengyang had chased after Liang Jing, and he didn't know where he was now.

Hu Qian laughed, without commenting.

Xing Ziming was so angry that he blew his beard and stared, and at the same time felt a little embarrassed.

At three o'clock, the servants of the city's government and the soldiers of the guard arrived.

Everyone worked together and dug until dawn, and finally caught all the seven-star leeches below.

I don't know how many of these seven-star leeches are there, densely packed like sesame seeds on the ground.

Each one is about the length of an arm, with a bulging belly.

Hu Qian jumped down into the pit and inspected it carefully, and there were indeed no other traces.

Just when people were about to break open all the seven-star leeches to take the silver, suddenly a gust of wind blew up, and then a strange fragrance came to the nostrils.

Hu Qian shouted: "No! It's a drug!"

When everyone heard this, they immediately covered their mouths and noses, but it was too late, and they all fainted to the ground.

Xing Ziming was the closest to the mouth of the pit. Seeing that the situation was not good, he immediately jumped into the mouth. Seeing some wet mud in it, he ignored it and immediately scratched it and smeared it on his face.

There's no way, my life is more important than this little dirt.

This drug had no effect on Hu Qian, but after thinking about it, he still lay on the ground like everyone else.

After a while, the drug was gone.

Two men in black robes stepped out of the darkness.

"Master, what should I do now?"

"Kill them all! The dog emperor killed so many of us! This time, it is considered revenge for them!"

"Where's Hu Qian?"

"Give him the poisonous Gu, this person is a genius, it's best for me to use it.

And the one in the pit was also killed. "

"But what about the seven-star leech?"

"I can't help it, use fire scale powder."

"This……

Once the fire scale powder is used, these seven-star leeches will become restless, and although they can move at night, their lifespan will be halved...,

This is what Master managed to raise..."

The two were about to talk again when Hu Qian suddenly sat up from the ground and said with a smile: "Don't bother, leave everything to me."

The man in black was startled, "What about you?"

Hu Qian didn't give them a chance to talk nonsense at all, he drew his sword in an instant, knocked them unconscious, and found a rope nearby. a bug.

He didn't dare to be careless, and immediately threw a magic talisman on it, but it had no effect.

When the golden talisman is used again, it has no effect.

Seeing that the insect was about to open up to bite, he immediately cut it with the blade of his sword.

But hearing a "ding", the invincible Longyuan Sword couldn't break through the bug's shell.

"With your broken sword, you can't do anything to the gold-eating worm."

Hu Qian was taken aback for a moment, and when he looked back, he saw that one of the men in black had woken up.

But seeing his sudden move, countless insects flew out of his sleeves, and rushed to Hu Qian in the blink of an eye.

"No matter how good your sword skills are, it's not me..."

However, before he could finish his words, Hu Qian came up behind him, and with a sweep of Longyuan Sword, he chopped off his head with one blow.

The bugs all over the sky seemed to have lost their souls, and they scattered in all directions after a while, disappearing without a trace.

Hu Qian jumped next to another man in black, tied him tightly, and searched out all his belongings, so he was a little relieved.

Seeing that there was no movement outside, Xing Ziming in the pit struggled to climb up. Seeing that Hu Qian was in control of the situation, he came over and asked, "Master Hu, are you okay?"

Hu Qian nodded, "Wake them up quickly, or it will be too late."

As he was talking, he saw the head that fell on the ground move suddenly in the darkness.

(End of this chapter)