Chu Qingxiao squatted in the dense forest, flipping through the topographic map of Xiyuan Peak that Guan Zijin gave him before leaving.
Cangying Village began to evacuate after noon today. After the villagers left, Chu Qingxiao and the other three came to the foot of Xiyuan Peak where Ghost Crow Village is located, and began to look for the rescuers of Yue Jian and Huang Quxiang.
Chance.
"Stop looking, what's the use of that thing!" Ziyu said angrily.
It was already dark, and the three of them had already tried to go to Xiyuan Peak relying on this topographic map.
Ghost Crow Village is located on it.
However, although the terrain is clear, the defense of Guiya Village is extremely rigorous. Every distance you go up, there are people guarding it, and the further you go to the top of the mountain, the more densely the people are stationed.
The plan to sneak into Ghost Crow Village in the dark almost went bankrupt.
At this moment, Chu Qingxiao was studying the terrain, trying to find a possible way to the top, but obviously, this was very difficult.
Chu Qingxiao turned a deaf ear to Ziyu's ridicule, and still lowered his head and looked at the topographic map in his hand intently.
"Say, who is that Yue Jian? Are you so nervous?" Ziyu couldn't help curling her lips when she didn't get a response, and asked curiously.
Chu Qingxiao remained silent, still looking at the map with a frown on his face.
Ziyu was not willing to accept the trouble. She reached out and touched Chu Zhaozhao with her elbow, teasingly saying: "He cares so much about that girl, aren't you jealous?"
Chu Zhaozhao's face turned slightly red and he said angrily: "It's none of your business!"
"I don't want to interfere. Don't you have to come here? Do you think this girl likes to meddle in other people's business?" Ziyu said angrily, then looked at the extra sword on her back and said
: "Besides, that old man had to give me the sword. He's soft-spoken and short-handed, so not helping is not an option."
"But I have to know who to save after all, right?"
When Ziyu first met, she seemed to be a somewhat dashing and heroic girl. However, after getting along with her for a long time and getting acquainted with Chu Qingxiao and others, she turned out to be a bit talkative.
Chu Zhaozhao was also a little helpless, not knowing how to explain Yue Jian's identity, so he remained silent.
The more she acted like this, the weirder Ziyu felt. But when she saw that the two ignored her, she had no choice. Out of boredom, she simply pulled out the sword from behind, looked at it carefully through the moonlight shining outside the forest.
The blade of the sword is wide, almost three inches, and about four feet long. It is completely white, with a thin blood-colored line in the middle of the blade, as if it is embedded with a crystal.
"This old man's craftsmanship is not bad." Although Ziyu didn't like Xu Dangren, she couldn't help but praise him after looking at him.
Although she obtained the Earth Demon King Sword, she did not practice the Sword Observation and Mental Strengthening Art like Chu Zhaozhao, so she could use this sword when the time comes. However, although the sword is good, it has no spirituality. Compared with the silver light falling snow behind her, this is still
Quite a difference.
"Cinnabar." Ziyu muttered the name, but she felt it was good. After looking at it for a while, she glanced at Chu Zhaozhao beside her, couldn't help but stare at the extra sword on his back and asked:
"How's that for you?"
Chu Zhaozhao responded: "Senior Xu is a master swordsmith, so he will naturally be good at handling the things in his hands."
Seeing that Chu Zhaozhao had no intention of drawing out the sword, Ziyu didn't want to force it. He turned his eyes and looked at Chu Qingxiao again, and said: "I have the Earth Evil King Sword, and you have practiced sword watching to cultivate your mind."
Jue, this sword is good, but it is of little use in our hands, but what he got, I think it is good."
After saying this, Ziyu's eyes fell on the black sword box on Chu Qingxiao's back.
The sword box is three feet and three inches long and made of black iron. On the front is engraved the image of the sun and the moon, named Qian Kun.
This is something Xu Dangren gave to Chu Qingxiao. It doesn't look like anything special, but it looks really good.
In his words, it was inconvenient for Chu Qingxiao to carry so many broken swords on his back, so he was given a sword box like this as a gift. However, Ziyu always felt that compared to the swords she and Chu Zhaozhao got, this sword box seemed more extraordinary.
"Hey, I said, how about we switch?" Ziyu blinked and said enthusiastically.
After hearing this, Chu Qingxiao withdrew his gaze from the map for the first time and turned to look at Ziyu.
"Shh." Immediately, he made a silencing gesture toward her.
Ziyu was stunned, thinking that Chu Qingxiao disliked her for being noisy.
He was about to get angry, but then he heard footsteps coming from ahead.
She reacted and quickly put away her thoughts of joking. At the same time, she lay down and looked outside the forest in the direction of the sound.
There were about a dozen people who came, and they looked like they were villagers from Guiya Village. Most of them had swords in their hands.
There was also a prison cart next to it, pulled by three war horses. There were more than ten people squatting inside, most of them were in ragged clothes and had many wounds and blood stains on their bodies.
Obviously, that should be the crow slave kidnapped by the Ghost Crow Village!
"Come and have a rest. Alas, if the official opens his mouth, the rest of us will lose our legs!" At this time, the leader of the bandits in Guiya Village walked to the side of the big tree and leaned on his back.
The big tree sat down.
After hearing this, the surrounding companions naturally stopped and came to sit down next to the leader. The bandit who was responsible for guarding the prison car was about to rush the horses pulling the prison car to the resting place, but the leader frowned.
He said displeasedly: "Don't pull me over here, it stinks to death."
"Damn it, I don't know how many people died in this broken cage. It's very unlucky, so just put it over there."
To the bandits, the words of the leader were naturally an order. The bandit who was responsible for guarding the prison car laughed repeatedly when he heard the words. He just tied the reins of several horses to the big trees nearby and ran away.
To resting place for companions.
"Bring some wine." The leader waved his hand when he saw the crowd gathered around him.
One of the bandits quickly took out a wine bag from his arms and handed it over with a smile on his face. The leader who took it opened the wine bag and took a big sip. Then he sighed, feeling a little unhappy.
He muttered: "When will this day end?"
"We are asked to arrest people every day. If we continue to arrest people like this, I'm afraid there will be no one alive in the entire Taixuan Mountain. If we can't arrest anyone by then, will it be our turn!?"
"Boss, you can't say this." Hearing this, the bandit on the side said quickly.
The leader obviously had deep resentment in his heart. He glared at the other party and said, "They are afraid of birds. Could it be that they have clairvoyance and ears that can hear things so far away?"
After hearing this, the companions around him felt that it was reasonable. Someone immediately sighed and said: "We are pretty good. We are led by the boss, and the quota of thirty people per day is basically no problem. I heard
Yesterday, Lao Gu's team was forced to pull three people from their team to fill in the numbers in the ghost cage just because they arrested three less people!"
"Lao Gu was so angry that after a few arguments, his legs were broken and he was sent to the crow's prison!"
"After all, Lao Gu has been working in this village for five or six years. But in the end, he showed no mercy at all!"
"Boss is right. If we continue like this, it will be our turn at some point if we can't protect everything!"
This person's words obviously also spoke to the concerns of most of the bandits present. They all looked gloomy. At this time, they took the wine bags handed by their companions, and drank them all with the tightness in their chests.
A swig of strong drink.
"You can't escape even if you run away. If you stay here, you will be in fear every day. We brothers are just hoping that the boss can take the position of Crow God General, so that we can have a way to survive."
When the bandit leader heard this, a burning look emerged from his brows.
"Becoming a Crow God General will allow you to receive the Crow God's blessing. With the boss's talent, you may be able to cross the four realms and directly enter the fifth realm. In this way, we can also enjoy the blessings." The bandit next to him obviously also understood that this was his family.
The leader realized what he wanted most and kept flattering him at that time.
"Yes, I heard that by becoming a Crow God General, you can plant the Crow Slave Seal in the body of the Crow slaves just like the village master. Not only can you make those Crow slaves obey your words, but you can even absorb their cultivation longevity to make yourself
Eternal youth!"
"Haha, if I really take that position this time, you guys will just wait and enjoy the spicy food!" the leader said with a red face.
Everyone saw this and hurriedly complimented him. Suddenly, the haze of talent in the scene was swept away, and the atmosphere became lively.
…
"These guys..." Ziyu, who was hiding in the dark, couldn't help but show contempt as she listened to the words of the bandits.
These bastards were worried about their situation one moment, but when they suddenly thought that they could become the kind of person who preys on others, they began to get carried away and filled with longing.
This kind of guy is often the most pathetic and hateful.
Ziyu muttered like this, turning her head to look at Chu Qingxiao, about to say something to laugh at these bandits.
But before the words were spoken, Chu Qingxiao's eyes suddenly lit up and he said, "Maybe we can sneak into Ghost Crow Village!"
"Huh? What can I do?" Chu Zhaozhao also looked surprised when he heard this, and asked at that time.
Chu Qingxiao said nothing, but stretched out his hand to tear up his clothes, then grabbed a handful of dirt from the ground, and smeared it on his face without saying a word.
After doing this, he felt it was not enough, so he grabbed a few more handfuls of soil, smeared a handful on his hair, and smeared a handful on his torn clothes.
Chu Zhaozhao and Ziyu on the side were stunned for a moment when they saw Chu Qingxiao's behavior, but they looked at the group of drunken gangsters, and then at the ragged crow slaves in the prison car beside them, and they soon realized
What is Chu Qingxiao going to do?
At that moment, they all followed suit, tearing their clothes into messy pieces, grabbing the mud on the ground, and wiping it all over themselves.
Then the three of them looked at each other, and at this moment, they hunched over and slowly walked towards the prison car that the bandits had placed far away.