Chapter 135 Chance encounter and uninhabited village A light drizzle.
Just looking from the grass, there are endless clouds splashing in the sky.
The horse's hooves splashed in the water, and the soft earth dug into the horse's hooves, bumping on the grass.
The wet vapor penetrates through the clothes and touches the skin, giving people a feeling of being enveloped in coldness.
Jiang Wen was wearing a raincoat, and drops of water were dripping from the brim of a hat woven with thin bamboo Gongli sat in front of him, also wearing a raincoat, lying in his arms and falling asleep.
The big horse under him had a bell hanging on it, jingling all the way as he walked ahead to clear the way.
The young man behind Jiang Wen circled the grass spike. He was in a very good mood at the moment, holding the horse rope with one hand and looking at the hazy scenery in the distance.
"We should be able to find a place to stay before it gets dark. There is a small village there. It was also a rainy day when I went there last time, and I stayed at the houses of those villagers."
The middle-aged man riding a white horse said loudly. He seemed to be familiar with the situation here.
"Why do you all want to go to Sioux City?"
This man's name is Chi Gong, and he is with the young man behind him.
I heard that he was an extremely famous ranger, and he traveled extensively when he was young.
The young man behind him is Xue Changming, a child of an aristocratic heard that my family was quite wealthy and wanted to hire a bodyguard for myself. I spent a lot of money to hire the old ranger to come out.
The two people beside the young man were his bodyguards, named Lu Huaimin and Wang Yong is said that those with extraordinary strength are innate masters.
No one knew how the old ranger agreed, but seeing that he lived in a simple place and had a several-month-old grandson, it was not difficult to are all just people who have a difficult life. Otherwise, who would be willing to do the job of killing others at any time.
Jiang Wen met these people by accident. After he and Yan Gongli took the spiritual spring, they planned to visit Su City matter of the copycat was not urgent for the time being, because it involved the Taishen Palace, so Yan Gongli told him to proceed with all, Taishen Palace is the orthodox Taoist sect of Daqian, and it has an overview of the affairs of the immortal sects in the world.
If he accidentally falls into the game of some big shot, he may not be able to control his own matter how rich his trump card is, how many times can he use it?
Jiang Wen was naturally not stupid when he heard this. Instead of confronting him head-on, it would be better to find Li Yunshang first and then make is a direct disciple of Taishen Palace, so she naturally has power behind her.
So the two of them joined together and headed for Su all, Su City is the largest in the state and the most well-informed.
However, there seemed to be some strange changes in the world recently, and Jiang Wen discovered that flying with a sword was easily struck by Gongli told him that it was the disaster in the North that affected this place, and it would be more serious in the two of them could only ride horses steadily and rush on their way.
On the way, I met a few people who were going to Yunze to explore and stopped by Sioux thinking about it, he joined the team so that he could be taken care of along the way.
Jiang Wen was still quite interested in the affairs of several people.
After all, I heard from Yan Gongli that Yunze was extremely dangerous, and there were some big monsters among them.
"Although there are treasures in Yunze, it is also extremely dangerous inside. There are quite a few people who want to do business in Yunze, and enough people have died. There is a poisonous insect deep in Yunze. It is only the size of a palm, but it is extremely poisonous. .”
The old ranger likes to talk a lot. He looked like a free and easy man when he was young, but time is not that's left is the joy of chatting, which amuses a few kids who don't understand.
"If this kind of thing sticks to your body, it will kill you, and a large piece of flesh will rot in a moment. Some businessmen who are not afraid of death use salt and iron to trade with the barbarians in Yunze, and bring a few bags of the meat of this poisonous insect. If you sell it on the black market, it will be multiplied by more than a thousand times. The meat of this poisonous insect is so delicious that you can live longer if you eat it."
"This is what the big merchants like best. Every time the poisonous insects arrive, they can ask people to buy them in advance. The deposit will pour out of the cloth belt like rain. Ordinary people can't catch them, so they have to rely on The barbarians use a secret technique to capture them. Every time in the spring rainy season when the miasma is at its weakest, they are waiting to trade with inland merchants. Some barbarians are so evil that when merchants bring things, they will poison them to death without even trading the goods. .”
"The barbarians are so evil, why don't the government beat them?" The speaker was Wang Yong, who was also the bodyguard invited by Xue Changming.
He disliked the dampness of his clothes, so he took off his shirt, revealing his dark, scarred muscles on his naked is rough skin on the wrist, which is rubbed by the handle of the sword due to years of practice.
After hearing Wang Yong's words, Chi Gong curled his lips and looked at him with a sarcastic smile: "What does Guawazi know? This Yunze land is filled with miasma all year round. Not to mention the thousands of defenders, not even the Qi Yun army in Yangzhou dared to You can come out safely. Those brats from the government will be buried as many as they go in. This barbarian has lived in the miasma all year round and has already adapted to this miasma. How many of the government's bear soldiers can bear it?"
"I heard that there is a demon in Yunze. I wonder if Senior Chi has seen it." Wang Yong wanted to say something else, but Lu Huaimin stopped him.
"Demon?" Chi Gong looked dumb.
He looked at the man in front of him and sighed.
"When you arrive in Yunze, don't talk about monsters with others." As if recalling something bad, the old ranger's wrinkled face showed fear.
"Senior Chi Gong has seen monsters?" Xue Changming raised his eyebrows. He didn't believe in these weird things.
However, I have also dabbled in some ancient and modern ghost stories and described monsters, but they are weird and frightening.
It is said that the demon feeds on people's hearts and haunts the wilderness of often threaten children, saying they will be kidnapped by 's just that I have seen demons, but there are no two. "Monster." The old ranger had some memories. "I never believed it when I was young. Later, I came to Yunze with the caravan. You should all know that the people who came to this caravan are the major case that shocked the court more than ten years ago, the Pingxi Prince's Mansion Headless Case."
The words "Prince Pingxi's Mansion" were like a thunderbolt that exploded in the back of everyone's head. The major case that shocked the entire court is still a mystery. Even more than ten years have passed and there is still no clue.
Now that the old ranger actually gave out such shocking information, several people could not help but look at the old ranger with dry Changming heard Prince Pingxi's expression change slightly, and then sighed secretly, listening to the old ranger's words.
"In Prince Pingxi's palace, 3000 or [-] people disappeared overnight, including Prince Pingxi's head. This case caused a stir in the city back then."
"When King Pingxi heard what the monks said, he wanted to go to Yunze Fantasy Land to find the demon elixir. This demon elixir is the essence of demons. It is rumored that absorbing the demon elixir can extend your life for hundreds of years. So he formed a caravan, but in fact it contained elites. There were more than 200 people guarding them. I was accompanying them and responsible for clearing the way, and half of the people in this swamp area were wiped out. Over there, we found the demon." The old ranger paused, swallowed, and continued.
"When I woke up that day, I wanted to make it easier, and then I saw the man facing me and tearing his face apart. It was bloody, so I put his face back on. I screamed to wake up other people, thinking that other people were I will be vigilant. They pulled their faces away and looked at me. I can't forget those slender eyes. They were monsters, human-faced monsters. I don't know how they came back later. When I woke up, they were already there. He was lying outside Yunze. Later I heard that the whole family of King Pingxi was not spared."
"Then why don't you report it to the official?" Xue Changming asked.
The old ranger looked at the sky, and the originally relaxed atmosphere seemed a bit solemn now: "What did my reporting officer say? I said I encountered a demon? Does anyone believe it? At that time, the whole village thought I was crazy, even my wife I felt like I was hopeless. I dreamed about those faces every day, tearing, laughing, looking at me."
"Go to Yunze and don't look for monsters. Those who look for monsters will not end well."
After the old ranger finished speaking, he said the side, Wang Yong stroked his arm with goosebumps and looked around in horror.
Lu Huaimin remained silent, while the others drove their horses forward without saying anything.
"There is a small border village ahead, let's go and sort it out."
Several people walked into this village on the border of Yunze on horseback, and the sound of horse hooves treading water echoed in their ears.
This small village seems to be extremely quiet, and even the most cheerful birdsong has not been occasionally there was a creaking sound from the wooden door, and there was a vague sound of a baby crying.
Intermittently, it makes people feel both virtual and , everyone was not mediocre. They noticed that something was wrong in this village. They stopped their horses softly and looked at the old ranger in front of them.
Chi Gong frowned slightly. Such a quiet place did not look like a place where people saw that there were still footprints on the ground, which had not been washed away by the rain. They might have been left not long ago.
"Senior Zhao, what should we do?" Lu Huaimin rode up to Chi Gong and looked around.
The short black-tiled house has some leaks, and the muddy path is covered with originally gloomy sky became even gloomier with the arrival of night. There were no lights around, and the whole small village seemed like black ink painted on gray paper.
"Split up and see if you can find someone else. Pay attention to your safety."
Several people discussed it and took a look village is not big and does not need to be too spread telling several people to pay attention to safety, Jiang Wen looked towards the village chief's residence.
He could feel a faint demonic aura somewhere.
"This village is probably in danger." Yan Gongli said calmly.
"It's really strange. Do people in this village go to bed so early?" Wang Yong asked curiously, looking at the short earthen house below there was no one around to answer him. He turned around and looked at Lu Huaimin and Xue Changming as if they had gone somewhere else.
"These two people just abandoned me."
He shook his head and stroked the restless horse beneath off it and walk into a mud room.
"Is there anyone there?" The wooden door is a little old and has become decayed by wind and you knock it with your hands, some black dirt will stick to it, like pot ash that hasn't been scrubbed for a long time.
No one opened the door for a long time, so Wang Yong was ready to push in and take a kind of rotten wooden door does not have much effect except to give myself some comfort.
"squeak--"
The door was opened, and the white-haired old woman stretched out her head and looked at him. Her thin face was covered with age eyes that were bulging due to the concave sockets were white and showed no movement at all.
"Hey, I thought there was no one. Old man, may I ask why there are no other people in the village?" Although he is reckless, Wang Yong still knows some etiquette.
"Everyone is asleep." The old man's voice was weak, and his voice was as hoarse as if it were being rubbed with gauze, which made people feel a little uncomfortable.
"I didn't expect people in this village to go to bed so early. No wonder there are not many people. Old man, can we stay here for one night?"
The old man looked at him, grinned, revealing a few yellow teeth, and opened the door tremblingly.
"Crack-squeak-"
(End of this chapter)