Chapter 53 Donst Kill Us. Wesre On The Same Side! (2/2)
*SHUA*
Tong's left hand dropped on the ground and blood splashed from the severed hand. The crowd wasflabbergasted.
”My lord, you …” Zhang He was panic.
”Don't speak. Just watch.”
Tong activated his regeneration skill. He had to spend five hundred years of lifespans just to regenerate his lost hand. But if he could make the prisoners believing in him, then it was worth it.
A light flashed from Tong's wound and a new hand appeared, replacing the lost part of Tong's body.
Everyone in the tent were stunned. Some of them rubbed their eyes, and Zhang He pinched his friend's cheek to check if he was dreaming.
”Ouch! Why the hell are you pinching my cheek!?”
”Because I don't want to hurt myself?”
”Screw you! Pinch your own cheek you @#$%.”
Seeing the atmosphere and the astonished crowd. Tong coughed to get their attention.
”Ahem. As you can see, I'm not a human but an immortal, a child of heaven, a heavenly messenger or whatever you want to call me. I was sent here from the Neither World to reform the land and the people.”
The crowd stared at Tong in wide eyes. They had heard the rumor about the Immortal Zhang Tong before. However, seeing was believing, the real miracle had just happened in front of them. Furthermore, the hand that was cut off was still wiggling on the ground with blood flowing out of it, so it could not be fake. Thus, they could not find a reason to refute Tong, but to believe in the absurd story that Tong made up.
”Right now, this body is still young and helpless. So I need all of your help. I swear by the heaven that I will keep my promise as long as you have faith in me and do what I just asked all of you.”
Tong smiled at them as if he was a prophet of a religion in an ancient time. The crowd rubbed their eyes because they hallucinated that there were halo light behind the back of Tong. One by one, they knelt down and kowtowed to Tong as if he were a deity.
'Now, the first phase is over. Then second and the third is going to be problematic but it's still doable.'
After Tong handled the prisoners, he went back to tell his plans to his uncles and Hua Shi.
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The day passed peacefully without a siege because of the shock of the night raid. However, in the middle of the night, two thousand men dressed in Pan Feng Army clothes slipped out of fortress.
After they slipped out and ran away for a certain distance, a loud explosion sound came from inside the fortress. An oil pot was lit on fire and exploded.
*BOOM*
Within a few seconds, loud bells and shouts echoed with in the fortress, which caused an uproar among the men inside.
Meanwhile, Zhang He and two thousand men ran toward the east without bothering hiding themselves. Instead, they tried their best to get Xin Ping and his men to notice them.
Afterwards, a patrol scouts from Xin Ping camp spotted the men. They stopped Zhang He and his crews.
”Stop! Who goes there!?”
Zhang He immediately stepped forward and appeased them.
”Please don't kill us! We are from the same side. We were Pan Feng's men!”
”Pan Feng's men!? Where did you come from? I thought most of you were either captured or ran away.”
”We were indeed captured. But we manage to escape with most of our friends. We want to return home.”
The scouts stared at them in suspicious. However, one of the scout recognized his friend among the escaped prisoners.
”Little Long!? Is that you?”
”Brother Zhou? Brother Zhou!!”
The scout leader stared at the two and then glanced back at Zhang He.
”What were your rank when you served Pan Feng?” The scout asked.
”I was a hundred men commander. My name is Zhang He. My family runs a tavern in Ye!”
”… I remember it now. There is a tavern ran by someone with Zhang surname. What is your family's specialty?”
”Rice wines and pork steamed buns!”
The scout leader nodded. Then he ordered.
”They are our guys! Lead them back to the camp!”
With that, the two thousand ex-prisoners managed to return to Xin Ping Army camp. However, the scout team was unaware that there was an extra person who mixed within the crowd.