Chapter 720 Preparations
The Wanhua courtyard was also very lively at this time. A large group of palace maids, guards, and several eunuchs were circulating around the seven or eight strange four-wheeled carriages parked in the courtyard. They were attracted by the noise and excitement in the courtyard. Concubine Rong, Concubine Duan, Concubine Rui, Concubine Yi, Princess Anping, King Min and Elder Liu and others all walked out of their residences and were also watching the several four-wheeled carriages that had just been led into the yard...
"The identities of all the empresses in the palace are so noble. The people in the Luyuan are too disgusting. These carriages are so ugly, they look like prison carriages, and they don't look like people sitting there. Those who sent the carriages said that Yan Liqiang wanted the empress princess to leave in such a carriage. What's the point of feeling like? When our family sees him, we must ask him carefully whether he kept the good carriage himself and deliberately brought these messy things, hoping to disgust people..."
"Hahaha, I've never seen such a carriage in the palace. It's fun and fun, fun and I'll sit there for a while..."
As soon as Yan Liqiang arrived in Luyuan, he heard the voice of the dead eunuch talking to King Min from afar. The surrounding palace maids and guards were also talking.
"Sir Yan is here..." The guards guarding outside Wanhua Courtyard called out, and the people inside realized that Yan Liqiang was here. Many people turned their heads, and those who were blocking the road quickly made way out, and then they looked at the walking corpse in the iron cage behind Yan Liqiang in surprise.
The walking corpse was still intact until now. Seeing so many people in the yard, he started to go crazy and pulled the iron gate suddenly, making a hissing sound from his throat. Coupled with the blood-stained eyes and scarlet mucus and blood dripping from the corners of his mouth, many palace maids were frightened and screamed, and they avoided it. The originally noisy and noisy sound in the yard suddenly calmed down. Yan Liqiang walked straight to the carriage with the iron cage behind him, and then stopped.
"Yan Liqiang has met Concubine Rong, His Highness King Min, and His Highness Princess Anping!" Yan Liqiang saluted to the top few.
Concubine Rong and several concubines saw that the walking corpse in the cage behind Yan Liqiang changed slightly. King Min was so scared that he hid behind Elder Liu. On the contrary, Princess Anping's face had not changed, but just looked at the walking corpse in the cage behind Yan Liqiang calmly.
"Sir Yan, what is in the iron cage behind you? Why is it so scary?" Concubine Rong was quite calm and asked.
"Empress Qibing, this is a mob I just caught from outside Luyuan. I guess everyone should not know much about this thing, and we are leaving tonight, so before leaving, I caught a mob and came back to let you understand what the biggest danger we will encounter on the road so that we can deal with it!"
"This... are the mobs like walking corpses outside?" Concubine Rong's voice was a bit abnormal. Last night, Concubine Rong only heard that two eunuchs and guards in his Ningxiu Palace were biting people crazy, and then they were killed. From beginning to end, until she left the palace from the secret passage, she had never met the two eunuchs who were killed with the guards, and she had never seen the mobs outside. Although she later heard that those mobs were like crazy walking corpses and could eat and bite people, she always thought that the so-called "walking corpses" was just an exaggerated description. Unexpectedly, those so-called mobs were so terrifying. Even if there was an iron cage in front of her, Concubine Rong was a little afraid that the mob inside would run out at any time...
"Yes, these are the mobs outside. Now there are millions of people like this outside the entire inner city of the Imperial Capital. We will definitely meet them on the road after leaving Luyuan tonight!" Yan Liqiang said, turned around, looked at the group of guards in the surrounding palace, and asked, "Do you know how to kill these walking mobs as soon as possible?"
A group of guards looked at him blankly, and only one of the guards standing beside Yan Liqiang spoke loudly, "No matter what walking corpse he is, if I come to me, I will give him a sword to his heart. If he doesn't believe he can survive?"
Yan Liqiang smiled softly and didn't say anything. He just pulled out the long sword from the guard's waist like lightning with one hand, and then stabbed the long sword into the chest of the walking corpse in the iron cage. The long sword passed through his heart and penetrated the back of the walking corpse.
Yan Liqiang floated and gently stepped back.
The long sword was still stuck in his chest, but the walking corpse in the cage became even more manic. The sound from his throat became more urgent, and he pulled the iron cage even more crazily, pulling the iron door of the iron cage into a crackling sound. Everyone around was startled and took two steps back at the same time.
"If you just knocked on it, you probably are dead or wailing!" Yan Liqiang looked at the pale guard who was just talking, and gestured in front of his neck with his hands. His voice was cold, "The thing in the cage was killed by you, but just rushed to you. At the moment when you were stunned why he was not dead, he would bite your neck in one bite, tear off the blood vessels in your neck, and throw you to the ground. Then more walking corpses around him rushed up, and in the blink of an eye, chewing your neck and face to pieces, and some would take out your intestines. When you were still alive and could see it with your eyes open, you would start eating the intestines in your stomach..."
"Mr. Yan, can't this mob be killed?" Concubine Rong had already taken two steps back and asked in a trembling voice.
"It's not that I can't kill, but that ordinary fatal injuries are useless to them. Just like this one in the cage, look at his neck. When he was caught by me, his trachea and throat were crushed, so I couldn't scream. Once he made a sound, he would attract more walking corpses. Ordinary people would have died long ago when they encountered such injuries, but he was still alive in the cage. Now that he had a sword in his heart, he was still alive and could still kill people. The Night Walking Ghost Army of the White Lotus Sect is also difficult to deal with, but these mobs have stronger vitality than the Night Walking Ghost Army. If you don't pay attention during a fight, you may take advantage of it!"
"How can I kill this kind of thing quickly?" Elder Liu asked with a frown. When he left Luyuan to check the situation outside, he had encountered several such walking zombies and killed several of them. However, with his cultivation level, he smashed the bodies of those walking zombies to pieces as soon as he took action, so he didn't expect this thing to be so difficult.
"It's very simple to kill such things. Just cut off their heads or smash them into pieces, and they will die naturally!" Yan Liqiang looked at the guards in Wanhuayuan, "If you meet them on the road, don't get entangled with them. The fastest way to solve the battle is to cut off their heads. No matter how seriously injured the torso below the neck of this thing is, it will not be fatal at once. Only the head above the neck is his weakness. Remember?"
All the guards in Wanhua Courtyard nodded.
These palace guards are basically much stronger in cultivation than the soldiers in Luyuan, and they are smart in their heads, so Yan Liqiang doesn't need to demonstrate too much, just let these guards know how to quickly resolve the battle.
"It seems that Lord Yan did fight bloody battles with these walking corpses last night, so they found their weakness so quickly!" Princess Anping looked at Yan Liqiang and said, "I was a little rude to Lord Yan earlier, please don't blame Lord Yan!" After that, Princess Anping even gave Yan Li a generous gift.
"Your Highness the Princess does not need to blame himself. When the princess heard the bad news, she lost her relatives. You can understand that her princess was sad in her heart!" Yan Liqiang also said calmly, "In fact, in my opinion, His prince was dead before leaving the palace. The situation of His prince who left the palace from the secret passage of the East Palace was exactly the same as the walking corpse in the cage. Although she was from His prince, she was no longer the prince!"
"Why did Lord Yan say this?"
"I also doubted whether His Highness the Crown Prince was possessed by evil spirits before, but later I found out that His Highness the Crown Prince was not possessed by evil spirits!" Yan Liqiang pointed to the walking corpse in the cage. "I just discovered that there was a strange bug in the head of these walking corpse, pink, like an octopus. At this moment, the one who controls this person's body is no longer this person. I suspect it is the bug in his head!"
"What, there are bugs in this person's head?" Everyone around was shocked. Just thinking about it made people get goose bumps all over their bodies.
"At this moment, the Queen, King Min and His Highness of the Princess are here, so don't be too scary. If you don't believe it, you can take the walking corpse inside the cage outside and chop off his head to see!" After saying this, Yan Liqiang looked at the dead eunuch who was already trembling and looking ugly. He walked to the two weird-looking carriages and gently knocked on the iron plate outside the carriage, "Dongdongdongdong..."
"My father-in-law just blamed me for finding such a carriage for the Empress and the others. I will tell you now that the carriages here are the best carriages in Luyuan. These two of them are from the Northwest Manufacturing Bureau. I specially asked the craftsmen in Luyuan to remove the original glazed parquet window of the carriage, nailed iron plates on the carriage outside the carriage, and strengthened the carriage doors in order to make the walking corpses like the cage unable to tear open the carriage and doors of the carriage easily. Even if we are surrounded by those walking corpses, the people in the carriage do not open the carriage doors, it is safe and they can survive. Do you understand?"
The dead eunuch just now laughed twice, "This... our family really didn't expect..."
"I naturally understand the loyalty of my father-in-law!" Yan Liqiang smiled, "By the way, the carriages over there have never been reinforced, there are no iron plates outside, and they look beautiful. If my father-in-law doesn't believe it, he can hide in a random ordinary carriage over there. I will release the walking corpse in the iron cage and let him try it, and see if it is safer to hide in the ordinary carriage than to hide in the carriage over here!"
The dead eunuch's face changed suddenly, his head shook like a rattle, and he quickly retreated, "No need, no need!"
At this time, Concubine Rong didn't want the eunuch to be too embarrassed, so she coughed gently, gave a wink, and let the dead eunuch retreat, and then spoke to Yan Liqiang, "It's rare that Lord Yan is so thoughtful. I will represent King Min, Princess Anping and a few sisters, thank you Lord Yan. If everyone can leave safely this time, Lord Yan will be the first to be successful!"
"The Empress has gone too far, and I have done what I should do. Today is not enough time, and we cannot stay in Luyuan. If there is a little more time, I can ask the craftsmen in Luyuan to strengthen all the carriages so that all the people who ride the carriages can feel at ease!"
"Well, I wonder how well Lu Yuan is preparing?"
"It's basically ready!"
"When will you leave?"
"As soon as the hour of Hai arrives, we will leave!"
"I wonder why Lord Yan chose Hai Shi?" Elder Liu listened and couldn't help but speak.
"Because the walking corpses outside have only two ways to discover us, either by their eyes or by their ears. The sky was completely dark at the time of Hai, so that the walking corpses in the distance could not see us completely. There were fewer obstacles on the road. We all got on the car and got on horseback and could leave the imperial capital in one go!"
"Then I don't know which route to take?" Elder Liu continued to ask.
"Just walk the official road outside Luyuan, head westward towards Huizhou City. In front of you, this road is the safest. We have too many people and the goal is too big. If you don't take this road, you have to go east and you have to bypass the Imperial Capital to find other directions. Now there are millions of walking corpses in the Imperial Capital. The closer you get to the Imperial Capital, the more dangerous it is. Every time you get to the Imperial Capital, the more you encounter, the more you encounter, the more you will be wiped out. So we can only go west and leave on the road to the Imperial Capital..."
"Then I wonder how the convoy was arranged?" Elder Liu chased after him in detail.
"Don't worry, Elder Liu, the convoy in the palace is in the middle of the team. I will take the elite Lu Yuan to open the road in front of the palace. Elder Liu and the guards in the palace will be in the middle of the team to protect them!"
Hearing Yan Liqiang's arrangements and considerations were made, everyone in Wanhua Courtyard had nothing to say, and they just felt at ease. Not only a few noble people, but even the ordinary palace maids breathed a sigh of relief...
"It's a great blessing to meet Lord Yan in Luyuan this time!" Concubine Rong spoke, and her beautiful eyes were circling on Yan Liqiang's face, flashing with a different kind of brilliance...
Yan Liqiang glanced at Concubine Rong and others in a well-dressed costume and thought of something at once. "I wonder if you can change your clothes. Your palace outfit is too gorgeous. The risks along the way are unpredictable. In addition to those mobs, you may also encounter White Lotus Sect and other figures in the martial arts world. If they are asked to find the Empress, your Highness will probably regard the Empress and others as targets in the team!"
After hearing Yan Liqiang's words, the beauties in the palace were shocked and knew that their outfit was indeed too ostentatious. It was easy to get into such ostentatiousness when they fled. However, Concubine Rong looked at Yan Liqiang with a little embarrassedly, "This time we came out of the palace and did not carry too many clothes with us. I think there are not many women in the Luyuan, so there is probably no suitable one for us. Why don't we leave here first and wait on the road, and there is a suitable place to find clothes, and we will change it!"
Chapter completed!