In the lobby of Danyangfang, there are many mercenaries as usual. Most of them come to the elixir shop and elixir pavilion to buy spiritual elixirs. Only a few of them go to the elixir shop to treat serious injuries. However, there is something different today.
The business of the gymnasium was surprisingly booming. One after another, the mercenaries were decorated and walked in with pale faces. They exuded a strong smell of blood. It was obvious that none of them suffered minor injuries.
In the rest area, the atmosphere was not as cheerful as usual, and was a bit depressed.
Suddenly, a middle-aged mercenary with a haggard face and a bandage said: "I don't know what happened to the central area of Qingling Mountains in the past two days. Some powerful monsters appear very frequently. Sometimes they appear when they appear.
A large group, our mercenary group lost more than a dozen brothers inexplicably."
"Brother, not to mention the central area, even the outer areas of the mountains are not safe. Yesterday, our mercenary group took on a level three mission to find elixirs. We thought it would not be difficult, but we unexpectedly encountered it.
A red flame leopard, the mission was not completed, and many people died." Another mercenary with a sad face said.
"Alas," an older mercenary seemed to know something about this and sighed: "I have encountered this kind of situation before, and it is usually caused by some powerful monsters."
"Powerful monster? Could it be that the Qingling Mountains became like this because the Golden Winged Jade Lin Beast was injured more than ten days ago?"
"It's very possible. After all, this golden-winged jade beast is a dominant presence in the core area!" the older mercenary said again.
Hearing this, some mercenaries became more and more sad.
"What should I do? I still have a family with more than a dozen mouths waiting for me to eat. If I can't accept the mission, where will I get the money to support the family?" Suddenly a mercenary spoke. Immediately, it aroused everyone's resonance.
For those of them who are licking their swords and devoting their lives to making money to support their families, not being able to take on tasks is tantamount to cutting off their livelihood.
"What are you afraid of! I'll go pick up a mission in the afternoon. I still don't believe this is evil? Could it be that the outskirts of the Qingling Mountains have become a forbidden area?" A burly mercenary said radically.
"Brother, you don't want to die? It will only take a few days." Someone kindly advised me.
"Hold on for a while! The worst that can happen is that you will die!"
When everyone heard this, they could only shake their heads and sigh.
What these people never thought was that instead of the disaster in the Qingling Mountains passing, it began to spread to Yuexi City.
…
Xiao Che went to the Mingling Hall and learned that Shi Cheng was already a core disciple. The strange thing was that he had never reported to the Mingling Lord Hall, so the guards of the Mingshi Mansion did not know that Shi Cheng existed.
"Is he still staying in Wushengyuan?" Xiao Che wondered doubtfully. As a last resort, he returned to Wushengyuan in the civilian area and asked some disciples who had been good friends with Shi Cheng in the past. After repeated inquiries, he learned from their mouths
I know that Shi Cheng has been away for two days, and no one knows where he went.
Shi Cheng has not been seen for two days, and Xiao Che has already felt uneasy in his heart. Could it be that he is going to retreat to practice? It is unlikely. The training environment of the core disciples of the Master's Mansion is quite good. There is no need for Shi Cheng to find a place to practice by himself. Besides,
Even if he wanted to practice in seclusion, he should first go to the Mingling Lord Hall to report. He did things carefully and would not be indifferent to priorities. Judging from Wang Jingtao's sudden visit today, Xiao Che felt vaguely uneasy.
"There is another place." Xiao Che's thoughts changed and he looked in one direction.
Soon, he came to an old house deep in an ancient alley in a civilian area. This was Shi Cheng's home.
Shi Cheng's life experience was even more miserable than Xiao Che's. He was an orphan. He lost his parents when he was young. He lived alone in a civilian area and was not treated well by others. When Shi Cheng was six years old, he was once attacked by a group of bad boys.
Bullied and covered with bruises, he happened to encounter Xiao Che who drew his sword to help. Not only did he save him, but he also bandaged his wounds. So since then, Shi Cheng has always treated Xiao Che like an elder brother, and Xiao Che often took care of him.
People naturally become good friends.
But now, the old house in front of him is Xiao Che's last hope.
"I hope he is at home." Xiao Che prayed in his heart, walked to the somewhat damaged wooden door, raised his hand and knocked lightly a few times.
"Dong dong dong!" The sound of Xiao Che's slender fingers hitting the wooden door echoed clearly in the ancient alley, far and wide, but hearing it in Xiao Che's ears gradually made him feel heavier.
"Dong dong dong!" The knock on the door rang again, but there was still no reply.
"Huh!" Xiao Che took a deep breath, and with a flash of purple light on his fist, he opened the wooden door in front of him and walked in.
What came into view were some simple furniture, old wooden tables, and simple wooden beds. The interior was relatively neat. Xiao Che's fingers brushed the wooden seat and gently twisted it, but he saw some light dust. It was obvious that Shi Cheng had
not for a long time
I've been back here before.
"Did something really happen to the stone?" Xiao Che frowned. At this time, if he still thought that Shi Cheng was safe, he would be too naive.
Xiao Che thought for a moment, then left the place and decided to go to the Mingling Palace to ask Lin Qianshan, maybe he could know something.
…
The outer edge of Qingling Mountains.
The jungle is deep and the trees are lush. There are more than a dozen human mercenaries holding weapons and walking in the wild grass with full body vigilance. They all have serious expressions and their cautious eyes are constantly scanning the surroundings, for fear that some monsters will attack.
As they went deeper and deeper, they entered a jungle. There were more monsters hidden in the jungle, and the level of danger was greatly increased, so they became more and more vigilant.
"Brothers, we are about to reach our destination. We cannot relax and hold on." The leading mercenary spoke in an extremely soft voice because some monsters are particularly sensitive to sounds.
"Brother Zhou, don't worry, we are not newbies in this business."
"After completing this mission, the money I got will be enough for my whole family to eat for a few days, and I can rest for a few days. The Qingling Mountains are really unstable these days." A mercenary kept looking around as he spoke.
"That's right. If my mother-in-law hadn't just given birth to a big fat boy for me, and she was beaten to death in order to earn some milk money to keep her healthy, I wouldn't have chosen to take on the mission on a day like this." A young servant said.
Bing grinned, as if he was thinking of his son. Even in this dangerous place, he couldn't help but have a happy smile on his face.
"Alas, every family has its own scriptures that are difficult to recite. The world really doesn't allow poor people like us to live."
"Okay, stop talking and focus on looking around." The leading mercenary Zhou Yun said softly again.
The cultivation levels of these mercenaries are almost all at the Body Forging Realm. Only the leader, Zhou Yun, is at the First Line of Destiny Realm. Most of them come from poor families. They either have several children to eat at home, or their wives or mothers are sick and in urgent need of money.
.So in order to earn some living expenses, these mercenaries had no choice but to take risks and enter the outskirts of the Qingling Mountains.
Although it is only the outer part of the Qingling Mountains, the danger level in the outer parts of the Qingling Mountains these days is no less than that in the middle part of the Qingling Mountains.
A dozen mercenaries continued to walk forward in silence. After a while, they saw a clear stream. The water was clear and trickling. There were some small fish in it, playing and playing, so happy.
"Stay for a while, fill up some clean water, rest for a while and then leave." The leading mercenary, Zhou Yun, kept carefully looking at the grass and woods around the stream with his vigilant eyes. He didn't find anything unusual before he said.
The leading mercenary Zhou Yun spoke, and of course all the mercenaries had no objections. They had been traveling non-stop since early in the morning, and they were indeed a little tired.
At this time, most of the mercenaries were washing their faces and drinking water, while three or four mercenaries were looking around cautiously without relaxing their guard. In a place like Qingling Mountains, only by being cautious can one survive.
"Brother Zhou, go wash your face and drink some water. I'll look after you first." A mercenary walked up to him and said with a smile.
When Zhou Yun heard this, he did not go to drink water immediately. Instead, he carefully observed the surrounding bushes, tree trunks and other places. There was definitely no trace of monsters. He just nodded and walked to the stream, lowered his head and started to wash his face.
, drink water.
The stream was very clear and clean, as if it were a mirror, reflecting the white clouds in the distant sky, the occasional flying birds, and the lush tree trunks and leaves above. Seeing these scenes, Zhou Yun's heart seemed to relax.
Some, he took a handful of water and patted it on his dry face, and he immediately felt refreshed.
In the stream in front of him, tiny fish were playing happily, seemingly unafraid of people. They swam along the ripples of the stream, chasing each other, sinking to the bottom, or spitting bubbles toward the surface.
, what a freedom.
"Alas!" Zhou Yun sighed softly, looking at these cheerful fish with envy. At this moment, this middle-aged man who was burdened with the burden of the family longed to become a small fish.
Playing in the stream is fun and relaxing.
Zhou Yun shook his head, throwing away these unrealistic thoughts in his mind, with a hint of bitterness at the corner of his mouth. At this moment, just as he was about to get up and leave, he caught a glimpse of two faint green stars in the round stream.
There was a shadow around the bead of light. As the water rippled, a sharp silver light suddenly flashed through.
"What is this?" Zhou Yun looked at the faint green bead in confusion. After thinking for a moment, his face suddenly turned pale in an instant, as if he had changed his face. At the same time, his body suddenly retreated backwards.
"Brothers, be on the highest alert!" Zhou Yun shouted immediately. At that moment, he saw clearly the green beads in the stream. Oh, they were not beads or stones, but a pair of eyes, a pair of glowing eyes.
Terrifying green eyes!
At this time, he looked up and saw a blue-grey demon wolf lurking on the tree trunk above the stream. Its fangs were sharp and flashed with silver light. The saliva flowed to his chin and dripped on the stream. The pair of flashing eyes
The fierce green eyes were staring at him fiercely at this moment.
"Boss Zhou, what's wrong with you -" Several mercenaries noticed Zhou Yun's abnormality and were about to speak, but they also saw the blue-gray demon wolf on the tree trunk, and they were startled.
"Wind Wolf!!" The eyes of these mercenaries were frightened. They did not feel lucky because they just saw a wind wolf. Instead, they all had sad faces and trembling bodies, because as mercenaries, they knew clearly that the wind wolf was
Monsters live in groups and it is almost impossible to move alone.
Sure enough, almost in the blink of an eye, in the surrounding bushes and deep in the dense forest, pairs of terrifying eyes with green light were revealed, drooling, baring their fangs, staring at Zhou Yun and his group as if they were the last ones.
delicious food.
The moment Zhou Yun saw those eyes, his heart was filled with despair. According to his experience and eyesight, there were at least fifty wind wolves here. He shouted loudly: "Brothers, separate and run away immediately."
, only one can escape!"
When he just finished speaking and turned to look at his brothers, he saw an even more terrifying scene.
All the mercenaries were trembling at the moment and their legs and feet were weak. Because in the dense forest not far in front of them, countless dense green lights were burning like will-o'-wisps from the depths of hell, burning in the jungle and even more so in their hearts.
It takes a lot of courage to make them unable to move or even blink their eyes.
"That's -" Zhou Yun's eyes were about to burst, and he was staring at the raging crimson among the countless green lights. Whoa! A huge and mighty silver body suddenly jumped into the sky, riding on a cyan whirlwind.
, like a divine beast coming from the wind, it defeated all his soul will in an instant!!!
…
In Yuexi City, the sky is getting dark, and the blood-stained sunset hangs slanting in the west, dyeing the entire sky crimson, like a piece of beautiful and dazzling blood-colored amber, deep and moving.
In the Feng family, Feng Yunluan, dressed in white, stood quietly in the highest attic of the Feng family. He leaned on the railing and looked into the distance. Whether it was the Qingling Mountains or the Yuexi Coast, everything seemed to be reflected in his eyes as dark as the abyss. His handsome eyes were as dark as the abyss.
A faint smile appeared on his face, not strong or ostentatious, but it seemed to have a soul-stirring power.
The breeze blows, the clothes are swaying slightly, and the chaotic wind and clouds seem to fly away with the wind and transform into immortals.
He suddenly raised his head and looked at the enchanting blood-colored sky, and then at the thick mist of evil spirit above the Qingling Mountains. He raised the corners of his mouth lightly, making an evil arc, and chuckled: "It seems that a good show is about to begin.
…”
At this moment, at the west gate of Yuexi City, a dozen guarding soldiers on the gate were joking with each other and bragging. Four soldiers at the gate were checking the civilians, mercenaries, or merchants entering the city one by one. Since it was getting late,
Everyone had a hint of fatigue on their faces, and their eyes were filled with a sense of urgency to get home as soon as possible and have a hot meal.
At this moment, on the official road in the distance, I saw a figure staggering towards the west city gate. For a moment, his steps were unsteady and he fell to the ground, but he insisted on crawling slowly towards the city gate using his hands and feet.
After about a while, he approached the city gate, only to see that he was covered in blood, his clothes were ragged, and one of his arms was broken. However, he still crawled with his head down until a guard soldier helped him up in panic.
, just now I saw his face that was so blurry that I couldn't distinguish his appearance.
"Quickly...quickly...report...the city lord, the monsters...are...attacking..." Before he could finish his words, the middle-aged man covered in blood finally couldn't hold on any longer, and fell down and lost his breath. In fact,
His injuries should have been that of a corpse, but there was an unknown force that supported him until this moment. After saying these words, Fang finally breathed his last.
No one knows the specific identity of this middle-aged man, but it can be seen from his clothes that he should be a mercenary.
"Brother, brother!" The cry of the young soldier obviously could not wake up the sleeping man.
"Quickly, go and report to the garrison!" Although the young soldier was a little panicked, he immediately realized that this matter was not simple, and immediately asked his brothers around him to report the news.
ps: I don’t know if the writing is good or not. Book friends who have suggestions can leave a message in the book review area. Friends who like historical hegemony can read my friend’s book "Tianyue Shengzun": Diaosi travels through time, controls the way of heaven, and pulls Gou Jian to worship.
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