Chapter 86: Assuming I am a Profound Heaven Sect demon, Old Chen, how should you respond?

After hearing Chen Shijie finish, Zhao Xing couldn't help but feel some admiration.

Guiniang had no name or status with him, just a lover; the public security of Nanyang Commandery was not his responsibility, and the duty of an Agricultural Official was nothing more than encouraging farming and promoting agriculture.

He could have just left and been promoted back to the army to be his Military Agricultural Official.

But he was willing to risk himself to set up a trap to attract the Profound Heaven Sect to take action against him.

For Guiniang and the people, it was affection and responsibility; to eliminate thieves and kill enemies was courage and self-confidence!

Old Chen, a real man indeed!

Thinking for a while, Zhao Xing knew he should say something; Old Chen telling him so much was a sign of opening his heart.

"Actually, I came here this time, and there is also a reason for the Profound Heaven Sect."

"Oh?" Chen Shijie raised an eyebrow, "You mean..."

"Yes, since I got the Disaster-Avoiding Almanac, there have been three major disasters and several minor disasters, all after the Minor Heat, during the period when the Commandery and the Donghu Army joined forces to search." Zhao Xing said slowly.

"Then why didn't you say it earlier?"

"The reason is the same as yours." Zhao Xing said, "I am just a small clerk, distributing the Thousand-Mile Transmission Token and the Disaster-Avoiding Almanac, which is already considered a precaution. A small Third-Rank Gathering Essence clerk, can I be protected by a strong person who has entered the ranks?"

The Disaster-Avoiding Almanac is not omnipotent; the information displayed is very little, only telling you which moment, which direction you might have problems, note that it is possible, not certain.

Just like what ordinary people use, today is suitable for starting work, opening a business, building a house, avoiding logging, traveling, funerals. How is it suitable, to what extent? How is it avoided, who will it specifically involve? There are too many possibilities.

"I didn't report it, the reason is very simple."

"One is that it's useless to report it; the deployment above will be the same. It's impossible to make a big fuss because of a small clerk like me."

"The second is that if the above attaches importance to it, they want to know more intelligence and let me cooperate as bait. This is certainly beneficial to the government, but for me, it is full of danger."

Zhao Xing said very frankly and very straightforwardly.

He was afraid of being sacrificed.

Who can guarantee that the people above are all good and don't have this intention?

But what if someone is greedy for credit and takes risks?

Taking a ten-thousand-step back, everyone is doing nothing wrong in their position, and they are all selfless positive characters.

Doing this thing itself is also dangerous.

Based on Zhao Xing's understanding of the Profound Heaven Sect, he felt that he shouldn't have said it at the time to avoid trouble. Just be vigilant and avoid it.

The Profound Heaven Sect is not some small thief, mountain bandit, but a heretical sect that has been passed down for thousands of years and has not been destroyed.

"Then why are you saying it now?" Chen Shijie asked with interest, "Is it infected by this official's courage?"

"Not at all." Zhao Xing said mercilessly, "After the mountain opening, the harvest was too great, and I alone got 42 shares of spiritual elegance. If the Profound Heaven Sect is not blind, it must move my capture sequence forward."

Zhao Xing's reason was exactly the same as Chen Shijie's; he also guessed that his weight on the Profound Heaven Sect's list had become heavier.

In addition, he also had family and friends he valued, Zhao Ruide, Zhao Zheng, and even Madam Cai, Ziyu, Qian Dong; he didn't want them to be implicated because of himself.

"Hitting them hard once and destroying the nest in Gucheng is also the result I want." Zhao Xing said, "The Profound Heaven Sect is powerful, but such a big fish, to lurk down, is also more difficult than small fish and shrimp."

"Destroying a nest, it is estimated that it will be difficult to revive in ten or twenty years."

Chen Shijie nodded slightly: "You said your weight on the government side is light, if you were me, what would you do?"

Zhao Xing said slowly: "That depends on how much weight you have."

Chen Shijie thought for a while and said: "You count me as a Proper Seventh-Rank. Since you know that the original water book of Bixia Yuanjun is on Zixiao Island, you should know the energy of a Proper Seventh-Rank official."

Zhao Xing pushed it away: "Don't look up to me, I just like to read miscellaneous books, old county chronicles, commandery gazettes, ancient sect rumors, these are not difficult to buy."

Chen Shijie said: "Just chat casually, now we are chatting privately, don't have to avoid anything, right or wrong, only you and I know."

Zhao Xing pondered in his heart, then nodded and said: "Okay, if you have to let me say it, then I will chat casually, but I want to see the latest gazette first, as well as the general strength of the various armies and departments in Nanyang Commandery. In addition, as long as it is intelligence related to the Profound Heaven Sect, if I can see it, let me see it."

"After reading it, let's have a sand table drill. You have a sand table of Nanyang Commandery here, right?"

Chen Shijie raised an eyebrow. He just wanted to chat casually, but he didn't expect Zhao Xing to be serious.

Seeing Zhao Xing's appearance, he also became interested: "Yes, yes, yes, I am from the Military Agricultural Official background, follow me."

He took Zhao Xing through the drill ground to the back hall.

Chen Shijie was indeed a killer; he actually transformed the back hall into a small marching hall.

In the center is a graphic sand table, which is a Fourth-Rank treasure, which can simulate many types of terrain and landforms, and is scaled down.

As long as the map is placed on the base of the sand table, it can be restored.

There are even clouds floating on the sand table, and even the weather is recorded!

"Still Fourth-Rank Upper? Hmm? This map... is the Pingman Six Commanderies on the upper reaches of the Canglan River? No, where did Xier Commandery City go? Why did it become a scorched earth?!"

Chen Shijie said in surprise: "Your eyesight is good, you can recognize it at a glance... Now I really believe you have read a lot of things."

"As for Xier Commandery City, it has disappeared in my deduction. Of course, it is still there in reality."

Chen Shijie waved his hand, and a scorched earth on the sand table was restored immediately.

"Do you know how to use the sand table?"

"Not very well." Zhao Xing said against his will. He didn't dare to reveal too much. It's one thing to read a lot of books, but it's too strange to know how to use military heavy equipment.

"It's written in military strategy, you can flip through it yourself." Chen Shijie pointed to the pile of messy documents, "Almost forgot, Guiniang is still waiting for me in the side hall... You read first, I'll be back soon."

After saying that, Chen Shijie turned into a wind and left.

Zhao Xing looked at the marching hall by himself.

In addition to the graphic sand table, there are many straw men in the hall, but the straw men are made very small, miniature, only the size of a palm.

In addition, there are trap drums, forced march orders, and various military flags.

These things are emitting faint light, and the grades are not low.

"How big an official was Old Chen before? He wouldn't really be a Proper Seventh-Rank, would he?" Zhao Xing walked to the table and started flipping through the documents.

The content is very miscellaneous, everything is there.

"Detailed Explanation of Daji Warrior Training", "Fiery Battle Formation of the Five Elements Camp", "Hundred Solutions of Equipment Camp Mechanisms", "Military Strategy of Agricultural Officials", "Strange Beast: Bone Golden Toe", "Hundred Battles: Land-Benefit Chapter", "Seventh-Rank Grain and Grass"...

On and under Old Chen's big table, they are all books.

As a qualified Military Agricultural Official, Old Chen's reading volume and spells he is good at are several times that of a Civil Agricultural Official.

"Old Chen is okay." Zhao Xing evaluated in his heart.

He didn't flip through others, but looked for information related to the Profound Heaven Sect.

"In the winter of the 241st year of Chengkang, the Profound Heaven Sect demon people caused chaos in Daoyuan Commandery, the demon bandit 'Wan Hua True Monarch', used evil methods to erode and control 47 people including the garrison captain and commander of a garrison in Qinglong Prefecture, intending to create slaughter in the prefecture city, causing chaos in 14 commanderies, and was killed by Martial Marquis 'Zhou Jue' 15 days later..."

"In the spring of the 249th year of Chengkang, the Profound Heaven Sect demon people in Wanchuan Mountain, Dayuan Prefecture, snatched two dragon-headed buildings carrying cave material, trying to distribute them to the people of the seven commanderies of Dayuan Prefecture, spreading evil god belief... Three days later, the demon bandit 'Fa Zhen Shangren' and two evil gods were destroyed by the Night God Guard Commander 'An Dinghe' and Dayuan True Monarch."

"In the summer of the 257th year of Chengkang, the Profound Heaven Sect demon people attacked Minghu Academy, causing casualties of 420 students..."

"In the 261st year of Chengkang..."

Chengkang is a reign title before Jingxin.

Now it is the 15th year of Jingxin, and the distance is not far.

Chen Shijie searched for information about the activities of the Profound Heaven Sect in the past hundred years.

"Every time it was extinguished, and the demon bandits were killed very quickly, but they just jumped out to make trouble from time to time." Zhao Xing looked at this information.

The Profound Heaven Sect is annoying here. The people they sent to make trouble are all strong people who are about to reach their limit.

They were already about to die, so everything didn't matter, and they were very crazy when doing things.

Even if they were killed, it didn't hurt or itch.

In most cases, the Profound Heaven Sect does not aim to seize land or grab treasures, as long as it can disgust the Great Zhou and spread its existence, it has achieved its goal.

Leaving seeds of fear in the hearts of the people and knowing the existence of the Profound Heaven Sect is the goal.

Not necessarily belief, fear is also the nourishment of evil gods.

"Since the beginning of the Jingxin year, the strategy has changed, abducting people everywhere, this is a new round of planning." Zhao Xing compared the information with his past life memories.

At the same time, he was also thinking about how to grasp this degree while reminding Chen Shijie.

He couldn't make himself look too abnormal.

Chen Shijie didn't come back until more than an hour later.

After returning to the back hall, his mood seemed to be low, obviously Guiniang was the person he really cared about.

Zhao Xing didn't intend to know Chen Shijie's private affairs, because he felt that love was really troublesome. Such a hard man as Old Chen was affected by a woman. In the future, he should just follow his kidneys and not his heart.

"How did you read it?" Chen Shijie asked.

"It's okay." Zhao Xing put down the documents in his hand.

"Then let's start."

Zhao Xing came to the graphic sand table and replaced it with the map of Nanyang Commandery.

"Hum~"

The sand table trembled slightly, and the sand table, ten meters long and four meters wide, began to change.

New mountains and rivers grew on it, and soon, even the weather in various places was generated.

Zhao Xing found the location of Gu County on the sand table, and then injected vitality into it.

Gu County immediately enlarged, occupying the entire sand table.

"Assuming I am a person of the Profound Heaven Sect, hiding in any place in Gu County except Gucheng, now I want to abduct you, a Proper Ninth-Rank Agricultural Official in Gucheng, the first thing to consider is the timing."

Zhao Xing's opening remarks made Chen Shijie stunned, because he said he let Zhao Xing stand in his position to consider, but he didn't expect the other party to stand directly from the perspective of the Profound Heaven Sect.

"What kind of timing?" Chen Shijie asked.

"Yang month, Yang day, Yang hour is the best." Zhao Xing said.

Chen Shijie frowned: "To avoid the monitoring of the temple?"

"Hmm." Zhao Xing pointed at the location of the temple in Gucheng, "The first, third, fifth, seventh, ninth, and eleventh months are Yang months. I looked at the information, and whenever the Profound Heaven Sect dispatches Yin soul clones, it must be these months."

"And it is still Yang month and Yang day."

"In these special time periods, the monitoring ability of the Yin gods in the temple will be weakened."

"Although the Yin soul power hidden by the Profound Heaven Sect will also weaken, but in the same situation of decay, acting in such a time period is advantageous."

Chen Shijie nodded, this is indeed the truth.

When everyone has an advantage, for Xuan, it is equal to nothing, because their Yin souls can't beat the Great Zhou temple anyway.

But if everyone has a disadvantage, for Xuan, it is an advantage, because the monitoring intensity of the Yin gods in the temple will be weakened.

Can get a period of time without anyone knowing.

Of course, it will definitely be discovered in the end, and it will still be impossible to beat, but the time of this "action-discovery" is greatly extended.

And this period of time is the time for the Profound Heaven Sect to act.

Zhao Xing said, "If I intend to take action to abduct you, I will definitely wait until the eleventh month."

"Why, isn't there a few days left in the ninth month?"

"It's too late." Zhao Xing shook his head, "I want to abduct you, not kill you."

"The remaining few days are not enough for me to take you out of the Great Zhou territory."

"Nanyang Commandery is 108,000 miles away from the Great Zhou border. The Profound Heaven Sect is not a citizen of my Great Zhou. To take people out, they must be low-key and cannot use magic power, so they need a certain amount of time."

"Indeed." Chen Shijie nodded, "If I want to set up a trap, it should also be in the eleventh month, preferably at the beginning of the month, you continue."

"After determining the time, you have to look at the specific situation." Zhao Xing pointed to the map and said, "If you stay in the county town all the time, under the strong protection of the temple, I have no chance. The Profound Heaven Sect cannot take you away from the city."

It is impossible to forcibly attack the temple of a county town, at least not in the Great Zhou of this period.

"Then how can I give you a chance to abduct me?" Chen Shijie asked.

"In the eleventh month, you will definitely have a chance to leave the city, at least twice." Zhao Xing said, "One is the Beginning of Winter assessment, the other is the Minor Snow solar term. Although there is no assessment for the Minor Snow solar term, you will also go down to the towns to inspect and see if the solar terms in various parts of Gu County are normal."

"Not bad." Chen Shijie nodded, "Minor Snow solar term, it is very likely to cause a snow disaster, I must ensure it is normal. It is very reasonable to act at these two time points."

"After considering the timing, I have to consider the manpower problem." Zhao Xing said, "Gu County is a top-tier county, its various departments of the county government, the Kou Guard, the Martial Class Room, the Inspection Division. And the Donghu Army stationed by Donghu Lake, all must be considered."

"You are a Proper Ninth-Rank, I want to abduct you, at least I have to prepare seven Eighth-Ranks."

Chen Shijie shook his head and said: "Did you make a mistake? I let you count me as a Proper Seventh-Rank. The Profound Heaven Sect doesn't know my strength."

Zhao Xing said calmly: "Even if I don't know, I must prepare so many. And you are a Military Agricultural Official, this is not difficult to inquire about."

"It is certainly good to be able to take you away silently."

"If there is an accident, the few people here are to stay behind to break the rear and distract attention."

"After catching you, quickly cast transformation and disguise, seal the soul and lock the essence, and turn both of us into ordinary people."

"Next, rely on ordinary believers to respond, rely on cars, horses, water, and boats, and leave the Great Zhou territory."

Zhao Xing reduced the Gu County map and enlarged it to the entire Nanyang Commandery.

His fingers tapped lightly on the map: "Nanyang Commandery has many waterways. As long as you can get on a boat on the Canglan River, go down the river, and you can reach the frontier towns thousands of miles away in less than a day, and then turn over from the mountains, you can use magic power, and that is the sky is high and the birds fly."

Chen Shijie asked with a smile: "Too ideal, let's talk about where you think the best ambush location will be in Gu County."

Zhao Xing enlarged the Gu County map again, and then tapped lightly in several places: "Gu County is a top county, and it is also a major grain-producing county in Nanyang Commandery, and the concentrated areas of grain production in Gu County are in Shanggu Town, Old Granary Town, Bashui Bay, Sanpo Chong, Pingtang Town and other places."

"If you want to see, you must go to these places, right?"

Chen Shijie looked and nodded in acknowledgment: "Not bad, ensuring the harvest of the people is the main task of the Agricultural Official. These eight places are both major grain-producing towns, I might go, no, I must go!"

Zhao Xing said: "It's eight choose one here, because it's possible to take action in any place, and the location is not much different."

Chen Shijie nodded with a smile: "Not bad, your analysis is very reasonable."

Zhao Xing saw his appearance and knew that Chen Shijie had thought of these things, and even more comprehensively.

It's just that for Old Chen's safety, he still said a few more words: "The people used by the Profound Heaven Sect to act have always been regardless of life and death, and they don't talk about cost-effectiveness because the dead soldiers they sent to act are all about to reach their lifespan limit."

"So I said preparing seven Eighth-Ranks is still considered small, and it is even possible to have more."

Chen Shijie turned his head and asked: "You didn't mention the officials and clerks of other departments throughout the whole process, only calculated the power to catch me. If you really want to act, the number of people divided to deal with me will definitely be less, and the Profound Heaven Sect cannot have such sufficient manpower."

Zhao Xing looked at Chen Shijie's appearance and knew that he had made an empirical error.

Because the Profound Heaven Sect abducted people before, not only catching Agricultural Officials, but also other occupations, and there were small clerks and officials.

But Zhao Xing deduced from the result, knowing that the main target of the Profound Heaven Sect is the Agricultural Official profession, because they catch Agricultural Officials back to brainwash and cultivate, and then create natural disasters in the Great Zhou territory.

"Assuming I am the leader of the Profound Heaven Sect, I think it is enough to just catch you." Zhao Xing said a sentence that seemed to be arguing, "Chen official is from a Military Agricultural Official background, you have a big face, even the Proper Sixth-Rank officials come to support you, catch you one, isn't it worth catching ten or a hundred other professional officials and clerks?"

"The sensational effect caused, isn't it bigger?"

"Or, are Agricultural Officials their main target, and others are just incidental, dispensable?"

Chen Shijie's face became heavy. The previous analysis was within his expectations.

But now Zhao Xing's seemingly unintentional sentence reminded him that assuming such a possibility really exists, did he underestimate the Profound Heaven Sect?

But now, Zhao Xing’s seemingly casual remark had reminded him; assuming such a possibility could truly occur, had he underestimated the Profound Heaven Sect?