Chapter VIII The Ancient Temple Encountered a Corpse
Half a year later, on a remote mountain road in the barren mountains outside Fengcheng.
There was heavy rain in the sky, and water droplets the size of peas crashed to the ground. From time to time, there were muffled thunders in the half-dark clouds, and streaks of lightning flashed out.
A figure actually ran like a leopard in the heavy rain. Every step he took was five or six steps ahead of a normal person. In the blink of an eye, he climbed over a nearby hill and disappeared directly into a dense forest next to the hill.
After a moment, a cold light suddenly circulated around the figure.
There was a loud rumbling sound, and more than a dozen big trees fell down one after another, cut from the middle, after the figure flashed past.
At this moment, a huge lightning bolt appeared in the sky nearby, clearly reflecting the figure. It turned out to be a man wearing a straw hat and a raincoat.
The man suddenly disappeared into the darkness as the trees swayed.
An hour later.
The door of a seemingly shabby mountain temple opened with a loud "bang", followed by the sound of heavy footsteps, and a figure carrying a huge object on his shoulders walked in with a heavy blow.
The two people who were originally sitting around a bonfire in the main hall of the mountain temple were dumbfounded when they saw the visitor.
"Hey, we have guests! Did you use my firewood?"
The visitor threw the things he was carrying on his shoulders heavily on the ground, shook the rainwater off his raincoat, and asked calmly.
The first two people to arrive in the hall were a man and a woman.
The man is in his forties, and although he has an elegant appearance, his face is full of weathered skin. The woman is only fourteen or fifteen years old. Although she is fair and fair, and extremely delicate, she has a large blue birthmark on her forehead, which ruins her appearance.
What a pretty face.
"Ah, it turns out that all the firewood in the temple belongs to my little brother. I didn't know it before, so I thought it was ownerless. Besides, my clothes got wet earlier, so I and my daughter used them first. But, little brother, you
Don't worry, I will compensate for the firewood." The middle-aged man stood up and apologized, but he glanced at the giant object that was thrown on the ground, and there was still a trace of fear on his face.
It turned out to be a brown wild boar weighing a hundred kilograms. Its eyes were white, the corners of its mouth were bloody, and its two exposed giant teeth were broken open. It seemed that it had been dead for some time.
"Since these firewood have been cut down, they are for use, so why talk about money!" The figure stepped forward, and in the light of the campfire, a young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, carrying a single sword on his back, was revealed. It was Shi Mu.
"I don't know what to say, Zhong. Thank you so much, brother." Hearing this, the middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief and thanked him with a smile on his face. Then he sat back down by the bonfire and comforted the girl next to him in a low voice.
The girl was wearing a blue dress. She also glanced at Shi Mu secretly, but said nothing and seemed quite quiet.
At this time, Shi Mu took off the single knife on his back, and then took off his raincoat, revealing a thick black iron armor that tightly wrapped the upper half of his body, leaving only his neck and a pair of
arm.
"Hey, is this a black armor?" After the middle-aged man finished talking to his daughter, he was surprised when he saw the half-length black armor on Shi Mu.
"Do you know this person?" Shi Mu was a little surprised when he heard this.
"Haha, to be honest, little brother, I have seen a master blacksmith make this armor before. I was so impressed that I recognized it at a glance. I wonder how many kilograms of armor this armor is? Zhong heard the blacksmith say that this armor is
Although the black armor can be worn on the body, it is extremely fragile and has almost no defensive power. Its only purpose is to use its heavy weight to strengthen the physical body of warriors." The middle-aged man replied with a smile.
"My black armor doesn't weigh more than a few kilograms. It's too heavy and I can't even wear it." Shi Mu said vaguely, then he clasped his fingers on one side of the black armor and exerted force.
With a "click", the black armor split into two pieces out of thin air, and was thrown to the ground by Shi Mu.
"Boom" and "boom" were heard twice, and the ground trembled slightly. When the middle-aged man saw this, his eyelids jumped twice.
This kind of weight should probably weigh more than five or six hundred kilograms. Could it be that this young man is a ferocious beast in human form? Otherwise, how could he still move freely while wearing this thing? It seems that the other person is not very old, but his physical body is very powerful, and his body tempering skills
It will definitely not go any lower.
Shi Mu untied the shackles of the black armor and seemed to relax. He turned around and picked up one hand. With a few swipes, he cut off the two front legs of the wild boar. Then he flicked his wrist again, and suddenly there was a chaos.
The cold light swirled around a pig leg, and in the blink of an eye its fur was shaved off.
Then, the young man took out a small bottle from his arms, poured some white powder on the pig legs, then walked a few steps to the bonfire and began to barbecue by himself.
After a while, a strong aroma of meat wafted over the entire temple.
The father and daughter on the opposite side of the bonfire had already taken out a bag of dry food and started sharing it with each other. But after smelling the aroma of barbecue, the girl looked at the oily pig legs and couldn't help but swallow her saliva, but immediately
When he realized something was wrong, his face turned red and he lowered his head.
Seeing this, Shi Mu smiled slightly and suddenly handed the nearly half-roasted pig leg to the other side.
"How embarrassing is this? We have already used brother's firewood, and if we share this barbecue..." The middle-aged man was overjoyed when he saw this. He spoke modestly, but took the barbecue with both hands unceremoniously.
"Father..." When the girl next to her saw this, she felt a little embarrassed and let out a somewhat coquettish cry.
"Didn't you see there are more barbecues over there? This guy is so good at it, I don't think he would care about this little meat." The middle-aged man replied to the girl with a smile.
"Father, you are so great. Master, thank you very much." The girl still couldn't help complaining about her father. After hesitating for a moment, she blushed and thanked Shi Mu.
"It doesn't matter. The wild boar I hunted this time was very heavy, and I couldn't finish it." Shi Mu had already peeled off the skin from another pig leg, and after walking back a few steps, he replied with a smile.
"By the way, little brother. This should be not far from Fengcheng. My father and daughter came from Yingcheng to visit relatives. Unexpectedly, they encountered heavy rain on the way and got lost in the mountains, so they came here by mistake."
The middle-aged man hurriedly tore off a piece of barbecue, handed it to his daughter, and asked Shi Mu about it.
"That's it. I said this temple is so desolate. How could there be anyone there at such a late hour? Don't worry, Uncle Zhong, it's not far from Fengcheng. You can see it if you go eastward from Menmenshan Road for more than ten miles.
It's the west gate of Fengcheng." Shi Mu was suddenly enlightened and replied without thinking.
"Great. Xiu'er, did you hear that? We can go to Fengcheng tomorrow, and you can become the daughter-in-law of the Wu family right away." After hearing this, the middle-aged man said to the girl with great joy.
"Father, what are you talking about? We are in this situation and I am so ugly. Whether people will admit this marriage is a matter of debate." When the girl heard her father mention her marriage, she was immediately ashamed.
"Why is my daughter so ugly? In the eyes of her father, she has always been ice-snow and smart! Huh, as for our family's situation, it has something to do with the Wu family. Xiu'er, you don't have to ask, she will do her own thing when the time comes.
My father and the Wu family came to mention this matter." The middle-aged man listened to the girl's words, but he didn't take it seriously.
When Shi Mu heard this, his heart moved.
Wu family? Could it be the "Wu family" in Fengcheng that is only under the influence of the Jin family. However, the father and daughter are thin and weak, so they should not be warriors.
Just as the middle-aged man and his daughter were talking in low voices, and Shi Mu continued to grill the meat in silence, a shrill howl suddenly came from a distance, followed by a rumble, and in the blink of an eye it came from far to near, as if
Something huge was heading straight for this ruined temple.
"What is this? Is it a beast on the mountain?" The middle-aged man was shocked. He immediately stood up and took out a dagger with a cold light from his body. He blocked it in front of the girl with a look of panic on his face.
But judging from his trembling legs, he probably was powerless.
"Be careful, it's definitely not a wild beast, at least not a wild beast in this mountain. Otherwise, I would never have heard such a howling."
Shi Mu jumped on the single sword beside the campfire with one foot, grabbed the handle of the sword, stared at the door, and said with an evil spirit all over his body.
You know, he has come here often to hunt various wild beasts in the past six months, not just for fun, but to practice body tempering skills on the one hand, and to gain practical experience in sword and boxing skills on the other.
Although there are not many powerful beasts in this mountain, there are no less than a hundred wild wolves and wild boars that have died in Shi Mu's hands during this period. He is already experienced in actual combat and is definitely not an ordinary warrior who has never seen blood.
comparable.
Although the middle-aged man was not proficient in martial arts, he still had some eyesight. When he saw Shi Mu acting so calmly and calmly, he couldn't help but feel relieved, but he still firmly protected the girl behind him.
There was a loud "boom" sound.
The originally dilapidated temple door suddenly exploded from the outside inward. Amid countless pieces of wood flying, a dark humanoid monster suddenly rushed into the hall.
"This... this is a zombie! Oh my god, how could this ghost thing appear here? What do Fengcheng's troops do for food? It's over, we are dead." As soon as the middle-aged man saw the humanoid monster clearly, he almost stopped on the spot.
Passed out.
Zombies?
Shi Mu stared at the humanoid monster opposite, his scalp also felt numb!
The monster in front of him was two feet tall, with all its facial features a blur of flesh and blood, leaving only two huge blood holes at its eyes. It had a layer of thick black bristles all over its body, and drops of green liquid fell from its body from time to time.
, emitting an unpleasant smell that makes people want to vomit.