"We'll reach Night Python City in another ten miles!"
Night falls.
Of course it was the night of the second day.
Tsukimi pointed to the forest in front of him and said excitedly.
She and Chu Qingxiao had been riding for a whole day and night. Only at noon when the sun was the strongest, they rested for half an hour under the shade of a tree, and spent the rest of the time on horseback.
The bumpy mountain road made Chu Qingxiao secretly wonder if all the bones in his body would have been shaken to pieces during the day and night if he had not arrived at the second realm.
Seeing that the destination was about to arrive, Chu Qingxiao also became excited. He was a little curious about what the bizarre Night Python City in Yue Jian's mouth looked like.
He turned his head to look at Yue Mi, and saw that although the girl also looked happy, her face was a little pale.
He couldn't help but remember that Yue Jian had lightly mentioned the recurrence of an old injury between himself and Huang Quxiang.
"Miss Yue Jian, how are you injured?" he asked with concern.
"No problem, I was injured by the people from Guiyazhai in the Death Arena. The techniques they practiced were poisonous, so the hidden wounds left in the body are difficult to remove."
"In addition, in order to learn the Shura realm a few days ago, I was a little too hasty, which caused the injury that had improved to relapse. After returning home and taking good care of myself for a period of time, I should be able to recover." Yue Jian responded.
Hearing what she said, Chu Qingxiao naturally couldn't ask any more questions, so he suggested: "Why don't we rest here for a while, since we are almost arriving at Yemang City anyway, much earlier than we expected."
Yue Jian shook his head: "The martial soul seal is somewhat damaged, but the market price is more than three thousand taels. However, because the origin is unclear, the price will definitely be lowered by the buyer."
"The price difference offered by different buyers may be several hundred taels. With a little more time, we can find more buyers, and maybe a few hundred taels of silver can be saved."
"When this matter is done and there is enough time, it will not be too late to take a rest."
Hearing this, Chu Qingxiao could only nodded.
At this time, Yue Jian also took out a red blood worm from her arms and handed it to the horse's mouth. She stroked the black horse's head and said: "Thank you for your hard work, Xuan Yue. When we get to Night Python City, I
I’ll find the best stable for you and you can have a good rest.”
The black horse named Xuan Yue ate the red blood worms and immediately regained its strength. With a neigh, it threw off its hooves and galloped quickly on the mountain road.
…
Night Python City stands on a wilderness. The city wall is not high, and the word majestic cannot match it.
But it was completely pitch black, almost blending into the increasingly dense night.
Chu Qingxiao and Yue Jian got off their horses about ten feet away from the city gate. The yellow sand under their feet was soft, but there was a coolness. Even through cloth shoes, Chu Qingxiao could feel it clearly.
Click.
The man walking side by side with Yue Jian had only taken two steps when a crisp sound came from Chu Qingxiao's feet.
He subconsciously looked down and saw a long white object buried in the yellow sand, broken in two by his inadvertent kick.
It seems to be the bones of something...
Yue Jian also noticed this, her face turned a little pale, and she glanced sideways at Chu Qingxiao, only to see that the guy just lowered his head and glanced away, then withdrew his gaze expressionlessly.
The two of them continued to move forward and soon arrived outside the gate of Night Python City.
These things were hung on the city wall, swaying gently in the night wind.
Yue Jian looked around and saw that those things swinging around were actually corpses that had been hanged on the top of the city.
The number of corpses was probably forty or fifty, almost covering the entire city.
Some have exposed bones, while some wounds are still dripping with pus and blood.
From time to time, carrion crows would land on the corpses, tear off one or two pieces of carrion from them with their sharp beaks, and then flutter their wings and fly into the night, leaving only bursts of chilling cries echoing in the air. .
A gust of night wind blew by, raising waves of yellow sand.
The city is just like this in the wilderness, like a crawling giant beast, opening its smelly mouth, waiting for the lost to fall into its trap.
Gulu.
Seeing this scene, Yue Jian couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.
Her face became increasingly ugly.
In the past, Yue Jian had only heard about the horror of Night Python City from Huang Quxiang's mouth. Now that he was there, he understood what "a hundred hearings is worse than a single sight."
"Miss Yue Jian, let's go." At this moment, Chu Qingxiao's voice came.
Yue Jian was stunned, and saw that Chu Qingxiao's expression was as usual, as if he didn't feel anything strange about the city in front of him, and even had a gentle smile on his face, urging him to enter the city.
"You...don't you feel scared?" Yue Jian asked a little strangely.
Chu Qingxiao was a little confused: "Where are you so scared?"
Tsukimi pointed at the corpse on the city wall.
Chu Qingxiao looked up and reacted.
He said: "It's okay."
"I've probably seen a lot, so I don't feel anything special. If the girl feels unwell, we can wait for a while before entering the city."
Have you seen much?
Chu Qingxiao's words made Yue Jian a little stunned for a moment. She looked at the young man in front of her who was approachable most of the time, and suddenly remembered his method in the Shura world.
yes.
A person who can learn such a technique must have experienced countless situations of life and death, and has seen more terrifying and more tragic mountains of corpses and seas of blood. What does this scene in front of him mean to him?
However, this young man is usually so gentle that people would subconsciously forget that he should be carrying some heavy things.
Yue Jian suddenly felt a little dazed when he thought of this.
"Miss Yue Jian?!" But Chu Qingxiao thought that the other party was frightened and called her name in a low voice.
When Yue Jian came back to her senses, she took a deep look at Chu Qingxiao, then took a deep breath and said: "I'm fine, let's go to the city, do business first."
…
The night is already dark.
But compared with the desolation outside Yemang City, the scene in the city seems to be a completely different world.
At night, the lights in Python City are as bright as day.
Both sides of the street were lined with vendors selling food, and there was an endless stream of pedestrians.
You can see noble princes in brocade robes and bachelors in Confucian robes, as well as knights with swords on their backs and warriors in armor.
There are also gangsters full of violence, monks holding Zen staffs, and even some strangely dressed people from the Demon Sect who have a faint aura of death around them.
In other places, these people who might have fought with each other's cameras, but in this night python city, they acquiesced to each other's existence in a surprisingly harmonious manner. Chu Qingxiao even saw a monk and a man in scantily clad clothes with a green snake tattooed on his face. The pale-skinned woman was chatting happily, and the monk's hands roamed around the woman's waist unscrupulously, causing the woman to scold her for a while.
"Don't look, be careful. I'll tell your tigress about this when I go back. See how she deals with you!" Yue Jian, who was on the side, obviously misunderstood Chu Qingxiao and thought he was attracted by the weird woman's revealing clothes.
He said angrily.
Chu Qingxiao smiled bitterly, looked around again, and couldn't help but ask: "Where should we find a buyer?"
It's true that Mang City was lively that night, but even though the crowd was surging, you couldn't just find one person and pull him over and ask him if he wanted to buy the martial soul seal, right?
Yue Jian heard that she didn't know where to start. She thought for a moment and said, "I heard from Lao Huang that there are three black markets in Yemang City, and each black market has a specific consignee. Let's start here first."
"If you can give me a price of 1,200 yuan or more, you can sell it!"
"One thousand two hundred taels?" Chu Qingxiao was startled when he heard this. He looked at Yue Jian and asked: "Didn't the girl just say that this martial soul seal is worth more than three thousand taels? Why is it only one thousand two hundred taels?
Taking action?"
Yue Jian said with a bitter look: "Everyone knows the origin of something sold in Yemang City and it's half the price. It's pretty good."
"Half?" Chu Qingxiao blinked: "Shouldn't that be one thousand five hundred taels?"
"Huh?" Yue Jian also blinked, with confusion on his face: "Half of three thousand is one thousand and five?"
"Isn't this Miss Yue Jian? I said it looked familiar, and I thought it was because I was missing you so much. But when I got closer, I saw that it was really you, the girl!" At this moment, a gloomy voice suddenly came from the side.
Come.
Yue Jian and Chu Qingxiao were both startled and turned their heads to look there.
I saw a man in black walking towards here with a large group of people.
The man looked to be in his mid-twenties, with a hooked nose, dead fish eyes, and white lips. He looked a bit mean at first glance.
Behind him followed a large group of people, all dressed in similar attire to him.
After Chu Qingxiao saw their attire clearly, he frowned. He had seen such attire on the bandits in Guiya Village the day before yesterday.
These people are from Guiya Village!
After realizing this, Chu Qingxiao instinctively became vigilant.
"Li Guanshui!?" Yue Jian also frowned, looking at the man in front of him with a strange look on his face: "It seems that you are doing well in Ghost Crow Village."
"That must be thanks to Miss Yue Jian. If you hadn't driven us out of Goshawk Village back then, how would I have had the opportunity to join the command of Lord Luo Village?" A man named Li Guanshui said, mentioning the past.
, there was obviously a bit of anger surging between his brows. Obviously, that was not a pleasant experience for him.
"Li Guanshui, I have never chased you away. It's just that you can't stay any longer." Yue Jian said with a deep brow.
"Miss Yue Jian didn't chase me away, but how much did I, Li Guanshui, pay for Gosying Village? But what did I get?"
"Those old, weak, sick and disabled should have been left to fend for themselves a long time ago. Yue Jian, you want to be a Bodhisattva, but you have to drag your brothers to suffer together. We kindly suggested, but you don't appreciate it. What is this if you don't drive us away?
?”
Yue Jian responded coldly: "It's just different ways."
This indifferent attitude made Li Guanshui even more displeased. He looked at Chu Qingxiao behind Yue Jian, and there were bursts of jealousy in his brows and eyes: "So Miss Yue Jian likes such a guy?
Wenwen is weak, I'm afraid he won't be able to withstand any hardships."
When Chu Qingxiao heard what he said, he raised his eyebrows and heard something different.
They probably guessed that Li Guanshui was the group of people who defected from Cangying Village, and it was not difficult to hear from the tone of his words that he seemed not only resentful towards Yue Jian for being "forced away", but also had some pleading. Extremely angry.
At this moment, Yue Jian seemed to have lost interest in talking to Chu Qingxiao. She took Chu Qingxiao's hand and said: "If you don't want to talk about it, who I, Yue Jian, likes or doesn't like is not your business." , Qingxiao, let’s go!”
After saying this, she was about to pull Chu Qingxiao away.
But just as he took a step forward, he was stopped by Li Guanshui.
"What are you going to do?" Yue Jian asked with an unhappy expression.
Li Guanshui glanced at the hands held by Chu Qingxiao and Yue Jian, a stern look flashed across his gloomy face, but the next moment, he put a smile on his face and said: "The end of the month is coming, Yue Jian, you are not here You are trying to figure out how to deal with the Death Battle Arena in Gosying Village, so why do you want to hang out in Night Python City?"
"What does it have to do with you?" Yue Jian asked in a cold voice.
"Don't say that." The smile on Li Guanshui's face became brighter: "Anyway, we were friends back then. I know the difficulties in your Goshawk Village. You haven't caught any big fish this month."
"I'm afraid you and Huang Quxiang's injuries haven't healed yet, so we can't hope for a death battle. If you come to Night Python City at this juncture, you probably have some inventory on hand that you want to sell, right?"
Li Guanshui looked like a scoundrel, but his mind was surprisingly sharp, and he revealed the situation of Chu Qingxiao and Chu Qingxiao in just a few words.
Seeing the expressions of Chu Qingxiao and Yue Jian changing slightly, Li Guanshui knew that his guess was correct. He immediately continued: "The water in Mang City is very deep this night. Now that we have met, I still want to help Gogying Village. .”
"After all, there are still some old feelings..."
"Why don't you take out the goods and I'll give you a fair price, so that you won't be deceived by the profiteers in this city."
After he said this, the smile at the corner of his mouth gradually turned a little ferocious.
Yue Jian frowned and was about to refuse, but when he looked up, he saw that the group of bandits from Ghost Crow Village brought by Li Guanshui had already surrounded them.