Chapter 407 - 405: Twelve Bronze Men Array
"Huh? Where’s the person? I just glanced back at him, and now he’s gone?" Zhang Yufei asked curiously.
Chen Tianlong immediately felt something was wrong, remembering the expression of the young man before opening the door, and became more determined.
"This is bad, we’ve fallen into a trap."
Chen Tianlong didn’t continue forward. Instead, he held Zhang Yufei’s hand and started to walk back.
But after walking for a while, they found themselves back at the original place.
"Chen Tianlong, I think we’re lost!" Zhang Yufei pointed to the road beneath their feet, in front of them was the fork in the road they had just discovered and a small rock garden.
"In my view, it’s not lost but we’ve fallen into an array!" Chen Tianlong said casually, with his previous experience at Tianshu Manor, Chen Tianlong had gained a new understanding of such things as arrays.
It turns out that besides mechanical traps, there’s a scholarly technique to puzzle people, Qimen Dunjia and array sorcery, which is profound and made Chen Tianlong a bit headache.
"Array?"
Zhang Yufei was obviously stunned, she had only seen these things on television, never encountered them in reality. If not for arriving at such an ancient manor, she would not have seen them.
Beiji Medical Manor was not built by Zhang Ju, it had existed long ago, he just transformed it later.
This is an ancient site, modified by later generations, but many things inside are still well-preserved, like the ritual platform.
It’s unknown why, but all these old manors related to the Beidou Seven Stars and Polaris, had a ritual platform, maybe in some dynasty, some amazing astronomer discovered a certain secret, then separately sampled these places, built manors, and specifically built a ritual platform.
"Mm, array, so we must be careful, everything around here is both real and fake, very dangerous." Chen Tianlong urgently reminded.
Zhang Yufei also began to be vigilant, the two slowly turned back to back, observing everything around.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..." Suddenly, hidden weapons flew in from all directions, these hidden weapons were evidently some daggers. They quickly separated and rolled on the ground.
Fortunately, Zhang Yufei knew there would be a long journey this time and didn’t wear a skirt, but wore a pair of black leather pants, looking very energetic.
After the two swiftly got up from the ground, another wave of hidden weapons came, this time the speed was faster and they were sharp swords.
Chen Tianlong was shocked, thinking, is this manor set up for killing people? It’s so terrifying, if it weren’t for the fact that the two of them knew some martial arts and reacted quickly, wouldn’t they have died sooner?
Zhang Yufei also felt a lingering fear, luckily there weren’t many hidden weapons, only about a dozen, this place was also relatively wide, so they barely dodged them.
But just as the two were feeling lucky, the next moment, what they saw widened their eyes and left them dumbfounded.
Because at this moment, countless arrows flew in from all directions, it was not just ten or eight, but countless.
Chen Tianlong slipped through the gaps, dodging quickly, moving like lightning, with steady, orderly steps. At this moment, even he couldn’t protect himself, let alone care for Zhang Yufei behind him.
Obviously, Zhang Yufei wasn’t as skilled. She tried her best to dodge, but in the end, she couldn’t withstand it and was hit by several arrows. She fearfully closed her eyes tight but found she felt no pain.
After a while, Zhang Yufei opened her eyes, only to find there were no arrows on her body. It turned out that everything just now was only an illusion.
When the hidden weapons stopped, Chen Tianlong walked over, pulled Zhang Yufei up with a bitter smile and said, "The person who designed this array is really boring!"
Zhang Yufei, still feeling scared, could only nod with a bitter smile, stood up, and patted the dust off her body.
"Chen Tianlong, what should we do? We’re still trapped in the array and can’t get out." Zhang Yufei said worriedly, this was the strangest thing she had ever encountered in her life.
"Don’t worry, all arrays in the world have their flaws, not seeing the flaw now means the array hasn’t run its full course yet." Chen Tianlong explained.
"Then what should we do?"
"Wait!"
Chen Tianlong remained as calm as ever, looking at the rows of tall small stone hills around them, given the situation, they were surrounded in a stone array.
Sure enough, two minutes later, twelve people suddenly flew in from all directions.
These twelve people were obviously bald, with gray-black skin, very smooth, looking extremely like the Eighteen Bronze Men of the Shaolin Temple, only there were twelve now, what were they up to?
"Hey, big brothers, we’re lost, can you take us out? We’re here to find Mr. Zhang Ju." Chen Tianlong didn’t know who these twelve were, just felt they were weird, their eyes were dull, a bit like the resurrected dead.
In that moment, Chen Tianlong seemed to see the eyes of these twelve people suddenly brighten, as if they received some command.
"Yufei, be careful, these people aren’t normal." Chen Tianlong urgently said.
Zhang Yufei nodded, preparing for combat.
Sure enough, as soon as Chen Tianlong finished speaking, he saw two bronze men sway and appear right in front of him, startling him.
But before he could continue to be astonished, he saw the two bronze men punch at the same time, their speed extremely fast and force fierce. He had no choice, Chen Tianlong could only punch back, both fists striking out, just in time to collide with the fists of the opponents.
"Boom..."
Under the joint pressure of the two, Chen Tianlong retreated three or four steps before he barely managed to stabilize his footing. His fists also felt as if they hit an iron plate.
Usually when facing others, it’s others who have such a feeling, today’s confrontation with these two replaced it with himself, it was very strange.
If he guessed correctly, the martial arts of these two bronze men were indeed practiced with their fists.
Zhang Yufei on the side felt strange, after the twelve people surrounded Chen Tianlong, no matter how she tried to ambush, they completely ignored her. But after she kicked twice, she found it seemed like kicking an iron wall, so she had to hold her foot in pain and watched, not daring to move again.
Seeing them bare-chested with jet-black shiny muscles, Chen Tianlong seemed to notice something fishy.
Since this is a medical manor, it must be related to medical skills.
After thinking about it, Chen Tianlong closed his eyes, rapidly operating the Heart Method. Only, he wasn’t waiting to die, but his lips curled slightly, spitting out, "Heh, aren’t your fists hard? Come on."
The two bronze men didn’t delay, directly rushing over and once again punched out powerfully at Chen Tianlong. Zhang Yufei seemed to hear the whistling of the punch wind.
At this moment, Chen Tianlong moved, he suddenly dashed forward with a dive, turning his palms into two fingers, striking at the front midline of the two’s body, an inch and a half below the navel at the Qi Sea Acupoint.
The double fingers struck, impacting the abdominal wall, dynamic vessels, and intercostals, breaking the stagnation of qi and blood, instantly making the two bronze men lose control. Their fists became incredibly soft.
Taking the opportunity, Chen Tianlong raised his fist and punched one person’s chin, then leaped into the air and swiftly kicked the other bronze man hard.