Chapter 8 Collecting Intelligence

Under my intimidation, the old man immediately nodded obediently and said he would do as I asked. After confirming that this guy understood what I meant, I said, "Now tell me where this is."

After all, the old man is very old and has rich life experience. I just asked a question and he discovered something was wrong. But this guy is smarter. After taking a look at me, he did not reveal my identity, but said seriously : "Ahead is Shanxia Village, and the direction we just came from is Huangshi Village. This area is under the rule of General Qiman."

"What kind of person is General Qiman? How is he a person? How is his personal combat effectiveness?"

The old man hesitated for a moment and then said: "General Qiman is a pretty good soldier, and he is quite generous to the people, but he is a little timid and can be easily threatened. As for his personal strength... In fact, General Qiman has not gone through any formal procedures. I have no training and no art training, so..."

I nodded and stopped the old man from continuing. This General Qiman is obviously a civilian general. Such people are not uncommon. Even in ancient history, there were generals with average combat effectiveness.

"Your general himself basically has no combat effectiveness, so he must have his own army or samurai or other armed forces? Tell me the composition and approximate combat effectiveness of these armed forces."

"this……"

"What? Do you think your General Qiman will kill you, but I won't?"

Upon hearing this, the old man immediately shook his head desperately and said: "No, no. I just don't know how to answer. Well, the people under the general who can fight are divided into four categories. One is the guard. In fact, they are just some trained servants. Their fighting power is better than that of the poor, but not much. The second one is the samurai, and there are about thirty or so of them. The third one is the ninjas, I don’t know how few there are, I only know that General Shichiman has ninjas. . The last one is Ke Qing, there are three of them in total, each of them has their own unique leader. However, apart from the guards, I really don’t know the combat effectiveness of the others among these people!"

I don't doubt what the old man said. Because under normal circumstances it would be abnormal for him to know. Just like he said. Guards are armed servants. They are slightly larger in number and are not always in combat. They usually do some ordinary servants' work. So the old man has access to these people. Learn about their fighting prowess. This is not surprising. However, samurai are a privileged class and their status is much higher than this old man. It is impossible for the old man to have any friendship with them, so he naturally has no way of understanding their strength. As for ninjas... they are completely personal bodyguards hiding in the dark, plus death warriors who perform suicide missions when necessary. They are the kind that are very hidden anyway. If this old man knew their strength, I guess he would not live to be caught by me. Stop asking. As for those guest guests... I can ask this again.

"You should know something about the abilities of the three guest ministers, right?"

"Return to your lord. I only know some simple information about these three guests. I don't know what's right or wrong, and I don't necessarily know everything."

"It doesn't matter, just tell me as much as you know."

"Okay then!" The old man nodded and said, "Two of these three guests are warriors, and one is a mage."

"Mage?"

"I'm not sure what type of mage it is." When the old man heard me repeat the word "mage", he knew that I wanted to know the specific details, so he said: "I also heard that there are many types of mage, but I grew up in the same village. Poor people, with limited knowledge, don’t know how to distinguish them. Anyway, I know that this guest will use powerful magic to make dead people crawl out of the ground to help him. Of course, these dead people awakened by the Master Mage can also be used in battle. .”

"Then do you know what color this mage's costume is?"

"Yellow. There's a gossip on the chest."

I nodded and let it continue. Apart from necromancers, the only ones who can control the dead are onmyojis. The old man said that the mage wore yellow clothes and had gossip, so he could only be onmyojis. Although there are no specific rules for the clothing of necromancers, most of them are black and rarely come in other colors. Even if there is, the color must be very dark, and it cannot be such a garish color as yellow. As for gossip, this stuff is something that can only be found in the more standard branches of the Taoist system, and Onmyoji happens to be this way.

The old man looked at my signal to continue and immediately continued: "The remaining two guests are a man and a woman, both warriors. They have experienced a lot more harm than the warriors raised by our General Qiman, but I don't know how powerful they are. Now. I'm not a samurai, so I can't tell who is stronger or weaker."

"Very good. I'm very satisfied with your previous answer. As long as you maintain this cooperative approach, I will let you go after I know the information I want to know. Any questions?"

The old man nodded quickly and said, "No problem, I promise I know what to say."

I nodded and continued to ask: "You obviously recognized the wrong person before, tell me who do you think we are?" Since this old man has discovered that we are not the people they are afraid of and need to send relatives there, then I don't need to Avoided. Anyway, as long as he can maintain an oppressive posture with force, he can guarantee that he will not dare to play any tricks with me. After all, the strength is not equal, and the results of playing tricks will be unbearable for him.

The old man had revealed all the information about his own people before, so there was no need to hide the information about outsiders, so he answered very quickly: "I thought you were the Demon King's people before."

"Demon King?"

"Actually, it's a big demon in this mountain. I don't know why it ran out and occupied Huangshi Village over there, and then brought out many dead people to attack the nearby villages. It came to our side, if it went to the other side When you go there, you can see several villages that were all killed. Those villages all belong to another general on the other side of the mountain, but their general does not love the people as much as our General Qiman, so he does not care about the people in those villages. As a result, they were all killed.”

"So you fought monsters?"

"That's not true." The old man said with some embarrassment: "General Qiman sent his guests and reached an agreement with the other party, that is, four brides will be sent every six months, and the monsters will promise not to attack General Qiman's territory again. any village.”

"Do you know what turned this monster king into a monster? How strong is it?" I finally asked the most critical question, but the old man's answer surprised me. (To be continued...)