Chapter 107: Suspicion
For three days, following the marching pattern of hiding in the day and leaving at night, the troops led by monkey finally left the actual control of the Lion Camel Kingdom army.
In the first three days, everything was calm and they could hardly see the chariots patrolling the Tianfu patrol. The team encountered no other difficulties except for the rugged and difficult mountain roads. However, at dawn on the third day, when the monkeys hid in a bush on the hillside with their large troops, things seemed to change suddenly.
Taking advantage of the rest of the troops, the monkey took Qijiao, the highest cultivation level in the team, and sneaked to explore the way. In less than ten miles, they had seen three chariots of the Heavenly Mansion passing by overhead. Each chariot was filled with at least two celestial generals with the cultivation level of the God Refining Realm.
This patrol frequency...
"If we march during the day, we may not be able to hide, right?"
"It's not much better to march at night."
"What should I do?"
After turning his back, the monkey leaned against the stone for a long time, but couldn't come up with a solution.
Soon, the chariot of the patrol mansion hovering in the distance had disappeared from the horizon.
Looking at the direction where the chariot disappeared, Qijiao whispered: "I have a way."
"Speak and listen."
"We divide the troops into small groups of ten people, groups of ten people, and keep in touch with each other, and gather together when we reach the destination. In this way, the target will not be too big and will not be easily discovered. Moreover, even if the ten little demons are discovered, the other party will not think that this is the demon army approaching."
Upon hearing this, the monkey glanced at Qijiao indifferently and said, "It's a very good idea, but it's not feasible."
"What do you mean?" Qijiao asked softly.
Taking a deep breath, the monkey frowned and sighed, "Dividing into a team of ten people means that each team must have a head. The entire army needs more than 200 people who can lead the team alone, and this manpower... I'm afraid I can't take it out? Besides, what connection does it depend on to each other? Do you have scouts? I don't have so many scouts. Such troops should fall apart before they can reach their destination."
"And this is only part of the problem. Another problem is that although it is difficult for the other party to detect us, the price is that once the other party notices and attacks us, our troops are in a dispersed state and have no power to fight back at all. They can only be defeated by each one."
"In addition, the so-called discovery team will not think that we are the army of demons, it is based on our lack of rescue. The patrol general will attack the found demons. If we fight back, they will naturally know where the rest of us are. If we don't fight back, it means that we will not save the discovered small troops."
As he said that, the monkey shook his head and said, "So, this plan won't work."
"I just mentioned it casually, there is no other meaning." Qijiao smiled awkwardly and said, "Then... do you have any other way?"
"Not yet, be careful." After stretching, the monkey stood up and started walking back.
Seeing this, Qijiao had to follow him.
One trip back and forth, ten miles away, even if you sneak in the hands of two monsters in the God Refining Realm, it will only take half a day.
Back to the temporarily hidden bushes, Qijiao went to comfort the deer demons who had been tired for days, while the monkey lay lazily on the high ground alone, resting while looking around and whistling.
Soon, Dahong sneaked to the monkey and said mysteriously: "Brother Monkey, I think those deer monsters are a little wrong."
The monkey stretched his neck and glanced at the hidden bushes.
From afar, the monkey saw a circle of deer demons surrounding Qijiao and saying something. To be precise, Qijiao was saying something, and the deer demons were listening.
"What are you talking about wrong, what do you mean?"
Dahong stammered and replied, "I can't explain this, it's just that they feel like they are hiding something from us. Today I found two deer demons to mess with each other, but they can't get anything out. I murmured, that's those two."
As he said that, Dahong pointed in the direction where the Miyako was.
To be honest, the monkey didn't know which two deer monsters Dahong was referring to. After all, there was a circle of deer monsters sitting around Qijiao.
However, at this moment, Qijiao just turned his face and saw the monkey looking towards him from afar, and the big red pointing at him.
At that moment, the monkey clearly saw the flashing in Qijiao's eyes. Of course, it was only a moment. The next moment, Qijiao had quickly turned his face away.
"I think they have problems, especially that Qijiao. You see, they often ask the deer demons to say something privately. Every time I touch them quietly, they shut up. They must be saying something that they don't want us to know." As he said that, Dahong looked at the monkey nervously.
After a while of silence, the monkey just said casually: "I know what's going on in my heart."
The next day, the monkey looked at Qijiao from time to time and found that he was looking at him intentionally or unintentionally. After his eyes were in contact, he would instantly avoid it. That way, it seemed like he was guilty of being a thief.
Night fell again, and after a little rectification, the team had to start marching in the dark again.
Generally speaking, in order to ensure the speed of the march, they will adopt a long snake formation, that is, one person follows one person and march in a row. In addition to the scouts sent and keeping alert around, the two teams, Monkey and Qijiao, who have the highest cultivation level, will generally press the formation head-to-head and tail.
However, today the monkey chose to let Qijiao follow him.
When the decision was made, all the monsters seemed to be a little surprised, especially those deer monsters. However, Qijiao seemed to have a premonition and did not raise any objections.
The team set out like this, Monkey and Qijiao walked in the front to explore the way, and in the troops behind him, the monkey's original troops were completely dispersed and mixed into the deer demon.
Along the way, chariots from the sky patrol the sky mansion passed by from time to time, and the scout accurately sent the hidden secret code, and everything was still stable. The monkey and Qijiao walked together, but didn't say a word.
Time passed by bit by bit until midnight, when passing through a canyon, the monkey suddenly asked, "Do you have anything to say to me?"
"I want to tell you?" Qijiao seemed shocked and hesitated.
"Yes, don't you want to tell me anything?"
"No." Qijiao shook his head.
The first conversation ended in a hurry, and the two continued to lead the team forward in the dark.
After being asked by the monkey, Qijiao seemed to be even more silent, and it was no longer like before. He would have looked back at how the team behind him was walking. After the monkey asked, he simply buried his head in his head, thinking about something absent-mindedly, as if nothing else had to do with him.
After walking for another hour, Qijiao seemed to be unable to help it and said, "I... have something I want to discuss with you."
"What's the matter?" With the moonlight, the monkey's eyes quietly glanced at him.
I saw Qijiao blinking his eyes blankly, as if trying to calm down his mood. After a long time, he continued, "I think you should have seen it too, but it just didn't say it out loud. This time, the matter was a bit weird."
After jumping gently onto a rock, the monkey turned around and stretched out a hand towards him: "What do you mean?"
Holding the monkey's hand on the rocks, Qijiao said carefully: "The Lion Camel King... may want to clean up all of us once and for all. Just as we considered when we set off, the Lion Camel King really has no reason to send us such a task. The only explanation is that they want us to take off our armor by ourselves. Do you understand what I mean?"
When saying this, the sound was very light, but the breath was very rapid. Under the moonlight, the monkey could clearly see Qijiao's solemn gaze, and even hear the rapid heartbeat.
The two of them stood on the rocks and looked at each other silently.
Soon, the troops behind him had already followed. The monkey jumped off the mountain rock and Qijiao hurriedly followed and gave way out of the aisle to the people behind him.
"I know." The monkey said softly: "I'm a little suspicious, but it's not as clear as you think."
After receiving the monkey's affirmation, Qijiao seemed a little excited and hurriedly said, "When I was in the Lion Camel Kingdom, I didn't say it because it was useless. He wanted to do this, no matter whether you accept the task or not, he could do this. Even if we disobey, we would be executed for another reason. Now we can at least think of other ways. If the Lion Camel Kingdom says it out, there will be no other way."
"So, what are the other ways you call it?" The monkey's eyes slowly slanted towards him.
Taking a deep breath, Qijiao said in an almost imperceptible voice: "Go... Guanjiangkou. The Lion Camel Kingdom can no longer go back, and it will be dead when you go back. There are monsters in Yang Jian's army. Now we can only survive only by surrendering to Yang Jian. This is the only way."
After saying that, he looked carefully at the monkey, trying to find something from the monkey's face. However, it was not.
The monkey's expression was as calm as before, and he did not answer him. He just kept rushing the road silently.
After a little silence, Qijiao continued, "I'm sorry, we have implicated you. Actually, I knew that the Lion Camel King might not let us go. After all, he had just suppressed the deer clan and could not allow such an army to exist. But I had no choice, so... This is not far from the territory of the Guanjiangkou Army, so you can go with us."
"What you said now is just a guess, and it's something that has not been confirmed yet."
"I can't wait for sure. I carry the lives of more than a thousand tribesmen on my shoulders. I have the responsibility to take them to live. When it's confirmed, it will be too late if it's not what we want."
The monkey walked step by step, silent all the way. Behind him, Qijiao followed closely.
After a long time, the monkey asked softly: "Do I have to give an answer now?"
Chapter completed!