Zhao Tianzhu and others were filled with sighs and envy.
After all, the Peach Blossom Banquet is a feast for hundreds of famous families. Extraordinary people like them who come from a heretical background have no chance to go. Even if they have, they will not be willing to participate, become the basis for others to judge, and have a meal with Su Wen.
, in fact, just casually speaking, Su Wen really has the ability to bring them in, but he will not really go in the end.
It's okay to join in the fun, but they are not righteous extraordinary beings. It would be bad if they went to a gathering of extraordinary beings who claimed to be righteous people and were treated as the excitement itself.
It's embarrassing to say that Qinghe County is not far from Wuning City, but Su Wen doesn't know much about it. He only knows that Qinghe County has many mountains and little land, and the terrain is steep. There are several rivers running through the territory, and the population distribution is polarized.
There are almost no large-scale population settlements in the county seat and several towns, and it is often necessary to walk more than ten miles to see a village.
It is also true that most craftsmen and small traders in Qinghe County make a living in Wuning City and various places in the south of the Yangtze River. There are even many large merchants who are from Qinghe County, but they have often been operating in Wuning City for several generations.
Ancestor, it is almost impossible to go back to that remote hometown.
The black knight Shenjun from the inner factory arrived in Qinghe County in half a day, but there were no inns or villages along the way. Seeing the sun setting in the west, Yan Duo asked everyone to stop after seeing a mountain temple.
Come down.
Yan Duo was already very familiar with this area and said: "In the Black Tiger Mountain ahead, the road is steep, there are cliffs and rivers. It is dangerous to walk at night, and the horses are tired. We will stay at the mountain temple for one night and start our journey tomorrow morning.
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Su Wen and others nodded in agreement.
Along the way, he had heard Yan Duo introduce this mountain temple, which is one of the footholds of the inner factory. Although Miao Zhu is not a formal member of the inner factory, he still receives a salary from the inner factory and is responsible for arranging contacts with the inner factory.
In addition to the issue of accommodation for factory members, if any abnormal event occurs within a ten-mile radius, Miao Zhu must report it to the internal factory in time.
"Miss Yan, you are here..."
When Miao Zhu heard the sound of horse hooves at the door, he hurried out and when he saw Yan Duo, his old face burst into laughter.
This place is out of the ordinary, and the mountain gods naturally don’t believe in men and women worshiping them. If it weren’t for the poor money given by the factory, Lao Miao Zhu would not necessarily starve to death, but he would definitely not be as rosy-cheeked and strong as he is now.
Strong body.
"Yes, Uncle Han, long time no see. We are going to Qinghe County for rotation. Let's cook some food. The brothers are all hungry!"
Yan Duo greeted Han Miaozhu, while Luo Bai unloaded grain, oil, vegetables and meat from the horse and carried it to the kitchen skillfully.
Han Miaozhu looked at Su Wen, then at Zhao Tianzhu and Hu Tianxing, and said with a smile: "These adults... they are strangers."
"I've met...Uncle Han."
Su Wen followed suit and greeted Han Miao Zhu.
"That's not possible, just call me Little Old Han!"
Han Miao Zhu didn't dare to trust him. Yan Duo had always been kind to him, but not all factory guards were like that. Factory guards outside were not as kind as inside the factory. Especially some extraordinary people had their nostrils turned upward. Although
They are not bullying men and dominating women, but they still have an attitude of pointing their noses in the sky and always feeling that they are superior to others. No matter how strict Liu Sandao is, these guys are as honest as quails in Wuning City. When they leave Wuning City,
The arrogance started to rise, and many people unknowingly took the stance and kept their eyes above their heads.
"This is Su Wen, who was recruited by our stall manager Liu, and is a scholar from the academy... These two are Hu Tianzhu and Zhao Tianxing, old men in the inner factory, but they have just become full-time employees and are doing rotation for the first time."
Yan Duo was cheerful and introduced Su Wen and Zhao Hu.
Zhao Tianzhu and Hu Tianxing had been in prison for decades. Even when they became factory guards, they kept their tails between their legs and behaved honestly. They quickly put a smile on Han Miaozhu's face and called him Uncle Han honestly. But in detail,
The two of them are probably much older than Han Miao Zhu.
"It's a shame old man..."
Zhu Cheng of the Han Temple was frightened and hurriedly greeted the group of people to enter the temple and said: Just come here... Something seems unusual in the mountains recently... The old man is preparing to write a letter and ask passers-by to Wuning City to deliver it to you!
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"What happened?"
As soon as Yan Duo heard this, he put down the tea cup he picked up.
"I have been patrolling the mountains in the past few days... and found that many wild beasts have died around me..."
Bu Ming raised his head and drank half a pot of tea. He licked his lips and said, "What's so strange about this? Maybe it's a ferocious beast. Tigers, leopards, and wild boars are also very powerful. If you anger it, the tiger may not be the best."
It's his opponent." He was originally a hunter in the mountains, so he had a certain say in this matter.
Han Miaozhu said in embarrassment: "Uh... among the dead beasts, there was a tiger, three black bears, and two leopards..."
Bu Ming was immediately speechless.
"When did it start?"
Yan Duo took a sip of tea, frowned and asked.
"It was almost half a month ago when I first found a dead animal... It was a wild boar, with only half of it left, and its internal organs. I didn't think it was a big deal at the time... After all, in the mountains, leftover animals are not eaten by wild beasts.
Not uncommon..."
Han Miaozhu's face was solemn, as if he had a lot of gloom in his heart.
Ever since he discovered the first wild boar with a mutilated body half a month ago, he had actually become wary.
He patrols the nearby mountains and forests every day, and he knows better than anyone whether there are any wild beasts around.
When he found the mutilated carcass of a wild boar, he realized that a wild beast might have appeared near the mountain temple.
So when he patrolled the mountains the next day, he not only brought knives, but also a bow and arrow, and even wore a piece of leather armor next to his body.
However, he did not encounter a ferocious beast, but he found its corpse, a black bear that was two times bigger than him. The body disappeared, leaving only a head with eyes wide open as it died.
The black bear's wound was not smooth, and it was obviously bitten by some ferocious beast.
Then every day, Han Miaozhu would find dead beasts nearby. From tigers to wild boars, venomous snakes, carnivorous beasts to grazing rabbits, they could all be found.
This discovery made Han Miaozhu very uneasy. He had lived here for many years and was very familiar with the mountains and forests within a radius of ten miles. There were no wild animals at all.
This also means that these beasts were driven out of the mountains and then killed.
But from beginning to end, he only found traces of the killed beasts at the scene, but the guys who killed them didn't leave any traces.
What made Han Miaozhu even more uneasy was that the place where the beast died was getting closer and closer to the mountain temple.
At first, the beast only died in the mountain forest where he was patrolling, but after half a month, the fragmented body of the beast was getting closer and closer to the mountain temple, and it was less than two miles away.
It was precisely because of this that he finally couldn't hold himself back and prepared to report the matter to the internal factory.
Su Wen recently followed Lao Liu in dissecting a corpse. He was confident that he could get some information from the corpse, so he asked: "Have you brought back the corpse of the beast?"
"How dare you... The old man always buried them on the spot... In the past two days, he didn't even dare to touch the dead animal carcasses..."
Han Miao Zhu was still frightened, saying that maybe it was because he had buried the food of the unknown beast, which aroused its dissatisfaction, so he approached the mountain temple step by step.
"According to this trend, it may come here to cause trouble for the old man in a few days!"
Speaking of this, Han Miao Zhu gave a bitter smile: "If I hadn't expected the adults from the inner factory to pass by, I would have run away today!"
"No wonder..."
Su Wen felt keenly from the beginning that Han Miaozhu looked sad, but when he saw Yan Duo, his heart felt as if a big stone had fallen to the ground, and he felt relaxed.
Apparently, Han Miaozhu knew Yan Duo's abilities.
Yan Duo looked at Su Wen: "What do you think?"
"Hard to say……"
Su Wen pondered for a moment, shook his head and said: "From what Uncle Han said, it should be a violent beast... But I didn't see the body, but it's hard to tell what kind of beast it was... and... what kind of beast it was,
Only then can we hunt behemoths like tigers and wild bears as prey?”
"Could it be...a demon clan?!"
Hu Tianxing and Zhao Tianzhu looked at each other and said carefully: "Maybe it is a monster that has encountered an opportunity but has not yet fully awakened its wisdom?"
When the two of them smell a risk, they will always consciously magnify the danger they may encounter, and then find reasons to run away. This is a flaw caused by their extraordinary ways, not that they are naturally timid.
"It's possible...it's impossible to say."
Yan Duo agreed with their conjecture. The fate of monsters... This is completely unpredictable. If you accidentally eat something with extraordinary power or properties, you may awaken extraordinary power and live for a long time.
You will awaken your spiritual wisdom, then slowly become smarter, and begin to consciously search for more herbs with extraordinary power based on the knowledge brought by the extraordinary power, and finally move towards the path of extraordinary step by step.
"It's a pity that Gugu was not brought out..."
Gugu is also a Sequence 2 monster. If you let it go in the forest, you might be able to find this brutal beast, so you don't have to think about it here.
"Where is the body found today?"
Su Wen wanted to see the animal carcass first before making a judgment.
"it's getting dark……"
Han Miaozhu licked his lips, feeling a little embarrassed.
Normally, he wouldn't go to the back mountain easily after dark, let alone the presence of ferocious beasts now. Big bears and tigers are the prey of these ferocious beasts. No matter how powerful the factory guard is, if he encounters this guy in the dark, it will be a dead end. He is not willing to follow him.
adventure.
"That's right..."
Su Wen is a good person. Well, it's not that he's afraid of death, it's just that he's afraid of uncontrollable accidents at night.
"Isn't it just a few miles away? Can I go there on horseback?"
However, Yan Duo believed that it was still almost half an hour before dark. If they moved more quickly, they could still return to the mountain temple before it completely darkened. After all, they were going to Qinghe County to change the guard, and there was not much
The time is delayed here. We have to hurry up early tomorrow morning to confirm the identity of the beast, and then let the factory guards from Qinghe County come to kill it.