Book 35 - Chapter 2 – The Study of Psychological Warfare (1/2)
The sun finally disappeared behind the westernthe sky was thickening, the sunny and cloudless weather wascactus shows once [idio sat in a corner of the restaurant; they ordered so of filling their tu the well on the treasure hunt adventure
Today was the second day of the lunar New Year, there were not too many shops open for business, and since this was one of those, it was crowded to bursting point with diners
Diagonally opposite was precisely the rear wall of the Dugu Fa restaurants were concentrated in East and West, two Markets, responding to demand, these kinds of restaurants were spread out within the neighborhood and blocks within the city, whilestreets like Ver looked at the rapped Moon in the Well laying on the side, along with a sack filled up with tools for their treasure hunt exploration; he laughed and said, “The letter I left behind, I put it under the pillow This kind of pleasant and uncoreatly beneficial without any harm for both the Sha Family and me In addition, I also wrote two letters; one is addressed to Li Yuan, the other to Li Jiancheng, so that Chang He would not have to waste his lips and tongue to explain Writing three letters in one sitting, it tooka mouthful of mantou [steamed bun], he said, “Zhu Yuyan, shi+ Zhixuan and Zhao Deyan are definitely not benevolent people [orig lay practitioners of Buddhism], on the surface their style of work is very close to each other, they always love to use trick, and the way they handle their affairs is very ruthless and without reat differences between the said, “I a at his move in suddenly kidnapped Lei LaoGe to black the ‘Seven Needles to Control the Mind’ on hihtforward, yet there is a two-ar-his-ut It is thus clear that this uts and the drive to take risks, to stake-it-all When we fight with him, we must pay particular attention to this kind of style and character”
“How’s Zhu Yuyan co to hi replied, “Zhu Yuyan appears to be not as ruthless she is showing on the outside; in fact, she is a person rich in affection, at least toward Yue Shan and shi+ Zhixuan she became too irrational It’s just that for someone in her position, she simply has to hide her real emotion well, and has to assu about cold-heartedness, shi+ Zhixuan is the one However, even shi+ Zhixuan still cannot cross over the barrier of the affection between a father and his daughter”
Kou Zhong nodded and said, “I co at how Zhu Yuyan putting his heart and soul to cultivate Wanhile shi+ Zhixuan guards against his two disciples left and right, but also ht until you die, I live, for the sake of ‘Ie Scroll’, it is clear that shi+ Zhixuan is a person who only care about himself As for Zhao Deyan, he is another kind of person; treacherous and cunning, more than Zhu and shi+, two persons In no ill he lose self-control due to er For the sake of his anores other people’s life or death; otherwise, he could not possibly help cruel and tyrannical Xieli to invade the Central Plains”
Xu Ziling poured sohed and said, “Why are you suddenly so interested in discussing the differences of their characters?”
Kou Zhong’s eyes flickered, he lowered his voice and replied, “I a for any weak point in their characters to see if there is anything that can be exploited shi+ Zhixuan is the ht hiht to be a bit clearer thansaid, “My intuition is that he sees hih, proud and aloof above the crowd, despises everybody else As a matter of fact, those with qualifications to be his opponent are really not h we know the differences in their character, but in planning a meticulous operation, we still cannot use it toonodded to express his understanding; because when one was ht do his utmost not to be held back by emotion and his own character, plus he must have the open mind to consider someone else’s opinion, and thus would have suppress individual subjectivity to its lowest degree”
Having a card up his sleeve, Kou Zhong said, “However, by the tiinally prepared plans are not going to be applicable, the situation will be another ether Therefore, I specifically want to create such situation, so that when sudden change happens, the eneh careful deliberations before they will have to spring into action, and thus ill have an opportunity to be seized”
Xu Ziling laughed and said, “Let’s talk less nonsense; we go down first to see the situation and then we’ll decide e are going to do”
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One after another the two boys jurowth About two zhang beyond that was their target, the north well
Kou Zhong spoke in low voice, “I am really worried that there is no entrance down there, then what are we going to do?”
Xu Ziling understood his fraains and losses Trying to comfort hi I am sure: it will be a real test whether you really have the skill as a scholar in mechanics and mechanis distance and dove into the well
The water in the well is bone-chillingly icy cold They stopped up their breathing and sank down to the bottoht did not penetrate, not to ht, their vision was totally useless and thus they could only proceed by relying on their feeling
The bottom of the well suddenly opened up; it was indeed as expected, the bottoround river
If it were thesent, this moment they would not have any clear idea which side they had to grope about along the underground river; however, the two boys were positive that the treasure-trove ought to be under the Wu Lou Si The direction was clear, thereupon they dove toward that direction
After swi in the narrow, rugged, and pitch-dark [orig stretching a hand and cannot see five fingers] river course, Xu Ziling lightly pulled Kou Zhong, indicating that so understood immediately, because not everybody could be like the period of ti to the ability to breathe inwardly; therefore, it did not make sense if the entrance was too far froround river was continuously slanting down and penetrating deeply, wouldn’t it be farther and farther away froround?
A moment later the two resurfaced fro said, “Definitely not at the bottoe due to the changes in the soil That is also the reason why soht suddenly dry up The entrance must be somewhere on the wall of the botto said, “Froer rely on your pain-in-the-butt e, because the place that Xiaodi’s left foot kicked was certainly the hted, Kou Zhong said, “Don’tover, he bored back into the botto to Xu Ziling, was the proble about a cun from the all Just noere it not for their attention was coround river, it should not be easilycried, ‘Heavens bless th to push the rock, which was about half a chi square
Under the two boys’ expectant gaze, ‘Creak!’ the sound ofand narrow space at the botto-above-the-water-surface Xu Ziling’s head, the all slowly caved in, revealing an entrance that could barely acco up to the surface, Kou Zhong happily said, “My Niang, we finally succeed!”
Xu Ziling sighed and said, “I have no confidence”
Stunned, Kou Zhong asked, “Why do you need confidence? The entrance is right before your eyes, as long as you do not lack any hands and feet, you can always crawl in”
Sneering, Xu Ziling said, “It’s not that I don’t have confidence in the treasure-trove, but I don’t have confidence in your knowledge about ood ; he laughed and said, “The Heaven helps the worthy; just now I only did not have the opportunity to show it Ling Shaoye, let Xiaodi take the lead”
Taking the lead, he crawled up the wall and squeezed into the s upward at an angle for about five zhang first, before slanting rather steeply doard Quite surprisingly, all four walls of the passageere clean of any etation that thrives in the dark and moist area The air was stuffy and turbid to the extent of suffocating; luckily the two boys had already turned the external breathing into internal breathing, their consu, so that it was as if they were traveling under water
After crawling on their knees like this forsuddenly stopped Immensely proud of hidi! This ti knew that he had learned from experience, and thus did not dare to , he nodded and said, “You are the expert, everything is up to you, no need to consultcal started his lecture, “Merely the use of granite in the construction of this secret passage is already de the heaven] I don’t kno much manpower and physical resources were used that year The hardest thing to come by was that it involved, as well as utilized – that many people, unexpectedly they were able to conceal it fro Su must have power that could overturn the land under heaven”
While speaking, he exerted his strength to push the button protruding on the left wall, while controlling his force carefully to react accordingly
With another ‘Creak!’ the passage where the two boys were suddenlydown the line
This change was greatly beyond the two boys’ expectation While inwardly they cried, ‘Not good!’, the botto noise like grinding wheel on ehich was barely enough for thereatly restricted their ability toof retreating, while they were shocked, this section of the passageway suddenlythe tithout-the-freedo further down, faster and faster
The two cried inwardly, ‘Hereby my life thus endeth!’
‘Boo, the ainst some sort of hard stop and came to a halt
Unfortunately for the two boys, they did not have anything to stop their fall; carried by the strong momentum of the fall, they fell into another boundless and dark space Falling down froed inside so that felt like fishnet
They bounced up and fell down again, jolting the two great youngand felt numb, they were confused and disoriented, and did not know either the huht swiftly for nearly a zhang, following the momentum of the fall, the net closed up, so that the ht the two boys inside so that they were unable to le step, your head stuck close to my head
Since their debut, they had never been in such sorry state as this one
The sound of floater could be heard fro noise
The net aying, turning to the left and spinning to the right, seehed and said, “Now I understand what Lu Dashi+ wrote in his book about ‘the science of ical warfare, with rando down froic, the first button was safe, so that people would never think that the second button was unexpectedly son that this underground cave was quite wide
“Don’t breathe,” Xu Ziling spoke heavily, “This place is full of ive you trouble”
The net was on its end of travel and inging to the other direction, and was picking up speed