Chapter 466: Dark Night, High Flames of Food and Grass (Part 3)



Xia Xiao took Ju Mang and turned sideways onto the main road, heading straight towards Fujikawa. This was the road he had taken before, but it was on the ground before and now it was in the sky.

Flying over a wide, frosty plain, there were countless sentries hidden, but Xia Xiao and Ju Mang didn't need to worry about it. After reaching the top of Fujikawa, Xia Xiao and Ju Mang began to descend. Ah Zhu looked around, her heart in her throat, about to jump out. She held her breath to avoid being discovered, and didn't dare to look at the soldiers, for fear that they would discover her and come looking for her.

Xia Xiao and Ju Mang were descending very fast, like black stars falling in the dark night. In an instant, they left the sky and fell into the dark alleys in the ruined city. During the descent, Ah Zhu saw many patrolling soldiers and many people packing up their things. It was obviously not as good as the second half of the night. Ah Zhu had not thought about it before, so he asked:

"Why are you here at this time?"

“It’s exciting!”

Xia Xiao laughed evilly, causing Ah Zhu to slap him and even say he was sick. But since we are here now, we should hurry up and take action, and not wait until we are discovered before we have done anything.

Ah Zhu seemed a little anxious, because he was a little afraid. He had only read about going deep into the enemy's territory in books. But what she was doing now was more exciting than what was written in many books.

"return."

Xia Xiao pulled Ah Zhu back to the corner of the alley, and patrol soldiers walked by. Their footsteps and the sound of armor gave Ah Zhu goose bumps and frightened him. If he was discovered, a city of millions of people would chase him and kill him. It was terrifying to think about it, so he had to leave quickly. But looking at Xia Xiao, he was leaning against the wall, looking like he wanted to take a nap.

"What are you doing?"

"Don't worry, wait."

"What are we waiting for? Waiting for someone to come and kill us?"

"Pig? If you rush into the forage area now, isn't that courting death? This is the lifeblood of an army. The black cavalry horses that Nan Shang is so proud of also need food, and all that food is stored here. There are many practitioners around waiting for us to stick our heads out, and they become more cautious as the night goes on. If we want to get in, it's not enough to just hide, we also have to hide from their eyes."

Ah Zhu listened very carefully. The eyes of practitioners can see many things in the dark. She felt that Xia Xiao circled in the sky several times before, not only to find the location of the food storage, but also to avoid the eyes of practitioners. The fact is, if you want to go in now, you have to wait, wait for the right time!

On one side of the place where food and grass were stored was a ruined high-rise building. A cultivator on top of it was staring at the food and grass. Although he was a little absent-minded, he still did his duty and didn't dare to let even a fly get in. But at this moment, who would be there?

The cultivator had the strength of a young man, and he didn't need to take care of the food and grass himself, after all, there were ordinary soldiers watching over it. But the prince was a little nervous, and always thought that Xia Xiao would come, so he added a cultivator of the Venerable Realm to the original guard team. But this watch lasted for several hours, but he was about to change shifts, and by now, it had already exceeded the hours he was responsible for.

"It's shift change, go back and rest!"

"Finally here, thank you for your hard work."

"Go ahead."

The cultivator holding a pot of wine was extremely dissatisfied. Why should he be on duty? It was useless. Even though he complained thousands of times in his heart and greeted Wang Ling several times, he still sat on the chair, drooping his eyelids, looking at the place where food and grass were stored.

"Um?"

The practitioner who was about to open the wine pot saw a panicked soldier running by on the ground. Just as he was feeling strange, a gust of wind had already rolled up behind him. There was no breath in the wind, nor much vitality, but two hard branches pierced his flesh, and countless branches grew out of his body in an instant, piercing his blood vessels, tendons and bones, and his heart and brain did not escape the branches that did not stop. The branches drilled out of his eyes, taking away all his vitality.

When the wine jug fell, Xia Xiao raised his foot and hooked it. He broke the branch in his palm and placed it on the chair, then unscrewed the cork and smelled the good aroma of wine after a pop. Xia Xiao raised his head and took two gulps, then grabbed the wine jug, turned the bottle down, and poured it all over the floor, a lot of it splashed on his leg armor.

Xia Xiao placed the wine jug on the ground, and then it blended into the night again, as if it had never been there.

Ah Zhu on the ground was carrying two barrels of kerosene, exerting his vitality, rushing into the huge grain and fodder, and sprinkling it on it. After running only 400 meters, less than one-fifth of the total, the barrels of kerosene in Ah Zhu's hands were empty. Xia Xiao came to her side and couldn't help but scold her as a prodigal.

"let's go."

The pile of hay was higher than Ah Zhu's. She stood under it and threw the oil barrel, pretending to leave. But Xia Xiao would not leave. He lit a nearly 100-meter-long flame, but did not light the hay soaked in kerosene.

"Why not?"

"Foolish! You poured so densely that they would notice it immediately. How much can be burned? It is better to light it in other places and wait for the flames to spread. If the fire is big, even if they want to put it out, they will lose more food and grass due to the burning of kerosene. We can only burn a week's worth of grass this time. As long as the horses can't run, they will not attack."

"Where is the food for that person to eat?"

"I've already ordered it."

Xia Xiao raised his chin to one side, and asked Ah Zhu to look at the wooden shed not far away. It was already emitting black smoke, but it was not obvious at night. Xia Xiao touched the ground with his palms, felt the flames, and determined their general burning direction before returning to the dark alley. This place was hidden enough, and there was no light anywhere. Xia Xiao formed seals with his hands in it and then took off.

Xia Xiao and Ju Mang used a lot of effort when they ascended into the air, but they circled a few times and did not leave immediately. When the flames grew from dots to pieces, they headed to another place, but that direction was not where they came from, but Zishan, one of the three major cities in the western part of Daxia. Since Xia Xiao had taken action, it would not be limited to Fujikawa. Although it could not reach Heitai, Zishan would definitely suffer.

Only two minutes after Xia Xiao left, Fujikawa was in chaos. They all thought that nothing would happen as long as there was a cultivator watching over them, but that cultivator had died tragically without any preparation, and their food and supplies were burned to ashes in the flames with billowing black smoke.

The flames only burned a small area, and the people who were trying to put out the fire were feeling lucky. But when the flames reached the kerosene, they shot up into the sky with a bang, alarming more people in the city and also Wang Ling.

Xia Xiao could roughly guess Wang Ling's expression, which must be as ugly as eating shit, but he wanted to do something more extreme. Burning most of Fujikawa's food and grass was not enough for him, he also wanted to destroy Zishan's food and grass. Compared with Fujikawa, Zishan was the real granary. The food here was enough to support a million troops for a month, but soon, the rice would turn black and the flour would explode.

When Xia Xiao thought of that scene, he couldn't help but get excited. He was still flying slowly. But when he reached Yew Shan, he said:

"Wait for me here, I'll be back soon."

"You want to go alone?"


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