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Qingqiu woke up from a nap in his favorite fox cave, stretched his hands and feet softly.

The afternoon sun slanted in from the entrance of the cave, reflecting the fluffy clump of dry grass at the entrance of the cave.Qingqiu stretched out his hands to pull and pull, and scratched the ground with both hands and feet. Hearing the rustling sound of hay stalks, he suddenly realized that he ran to the original fox den to take a nap.

He poked his head out from the hole, and saw that the small yard down the slope was quiet, and the ferocious old hen came out for a routine patrol in the yard with her brood of chicks.

Qingqiu wrinkled his nose, feeling a little conflicted in his heart.He swore yesterday that he would eat the old hen that pecked at him before leaving, and now he feels... Isn't it pitiful for the little chick to lose its mother?

"I don't have a mother either." Qingqiu pulled the hay stalks at the entrance of the cave, and muttered to himself a little boringly, "But I have Ming Xia, my senior brother, and Grandpa Seven..."

In fact, before returning to Qingqiu Mountain, he didn't think of Grandpa Seven coming for a long time, but some people are so strange, he stays there, as long as he looks back, he is always there.

The same is true for Ming Xia.

Qingqiu got up quickly, and jumped out from the entrance of the cave. For the last part of the way, he jumped up from the middle of the hillside and landed in the yard, frightening the chickens all over the yard.

"Ming Xia!"

The little fox rolled chatteringly from the back yard to the front yard like a ball of wool, startled Ming Xia who was sitting under the eaves thinking about his thoughts, and rushed to catch him.

"What's the matter? Have a nightmare?"

Qingqiu rubbed against his arms, "No, I just missed you suddenly."

Ming Xia was amused by him, touched his hairy ears and rubbed, "I've always been here."

Qingqiu narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Mingxia, you will go back, right?"

Ming Xia didn't make a sound.

"I know you will go back." Qingqiu sighed old-fashionedly and said, "If you don't go back, you will feel that all your comrades have gone to the battlefield and are in danger, and you are the only one who ran away... You can't stand this .”

Ming Xia smiled, "You think so?"

"You think so." Qingqiu jumped off the ground, shook his shaggy hair, raised his head and said, "I'll go wherever you go, when shall we leave?"

Ming Xia has been sitting here for a long time, and he has an idea in his heart, "Since you want to go, let's go."

Qingqiu was stunned, "...that's fine."

Anyway, they didn't have much luggage, so they could leave after tidying up casually.The family's brood of hens was entrusted to Fairy Pigeon to take care of, and Fairy Pigeon was also asked to deliver a letter to Grandpa Seven, saying that there was something urgent at work and that he had to leave immediately, and come back to see him next time he was on vacation.At the end of the letter, Qingqiu also praised Grandpa Qi's salted duck eggs greatly.

When Grandpa Qi received this letter, the two of them had already left Qingqiu Mountain by car.

Grandpa Seven felt a little worried as he stroked his fat belly, "Are you leaving now? In such a hurry? I'm thinking of inviting them over for dinner in two days, and I'll tell the two of them what I found out by the way."

Fairy Pigeon hopped on the branch twice and gave him an idea, "Why don't you write him a letter. I'll leave it to Captain Li. Are they all from the Demon Suppressor? They must know where Qingqiu is."

Seventh Grandpa gestured his thumbs at the fairy pigeon, "Qionghua, you are so smart. You are indeed a pigeon from Qingqiu Mountain."

Fairy Pigeon corrected him unhappily, "I am Yaotai."

"The same beauty, the same beauty." Seventh Grandpa laughed dryly, "Then after I finish writing the letter, can you help me deliver the letter to Captain Li?"

Fairy Pigeon nodded reservedly, "Yes."

Seventh Grandpa hurried back to his room to write a letter.

Yaotai was thinking about something on the branch, and sighed softly, "I don't know what happened to the place called Nanbeifeng? Qingqiu has gone back, so there will be no danger, right?"

As soon as Mingxia and Qingqiu left the boundary of Qingqiu Mountain, they called Nanjiang, but no one answered.

Members of the action team are free to use electronic devices at ordinary times, and there is only one situation when they do not answer the phone, that is, they are performing tasks.

Ming Xia called Mr. Hu again, but no one answered.

Ming Xia felt a little uneasy, maybe Mr. Hu was also sent into the formation, right?

He started to dial down the phone book one by one, and even Wen Liang didn't answer the phone.Ming Xia's heart was pounding, he didn't expect that when he hit Lin Su, he would be picked up.Ming Xia was stunned, "Lin... Doctor Lin?"

Lin Su was a little surprised, "Mingxia, are you and Qingqiu okay? Have you encountered any danger?"

"We're fine, we're all fine." Ming Xia hurriedly said, "How are you doing? Mr. Hu also went into Xishan with you?"

"I'm still calling. I came back to get the medicine... Yes, Mr. Hu is also there." Lin Su's voice was full of exhaustion, and while calling him, he was still remotely controlling the staff around him, " ...Yes, put this in the left bag. Yes, yes, all of these..."

Ming Xia was ashamed to take up her time, but she still had the cheek to ask a question, "Can you tell me what happened? How are you all?"

"It's okay so far, there are no serious injuries." Lin Su said wearily: "Peak No. [-] is lost. Others...let's talk about it when you come back."

Ming Xia heard someone calling Lin Su on the other end of the phone, so she could only hang up the phone hastily and let her go to work.

Qingqiu muttered softly at the side, "What does it mean that the No. [-] peak is lost? The monsters in the big formation finally started to make trouble?"

Ming Xia knew a little more than him, and explained: "Peak No. [-] is the center of the formation, and this position is the most convenient for observing the movement of the entire formation. If we lose it, it means that our side has lost the advantage."

Qingqiu said "Oh", "Can't you take it back?"

"Probably," Ming Xia sighed softly, "I'm probably robbing."

"It's being snatched."

In the distant Xishan formation, Nanjiang said the same sentence.However, it was not the No. [-] peak that was robbed, but the pomegranate canyon to the south of the No. [-] peak.

Overlooking the Pomegranate Canyon from mid-air, it looks like a huge trench deliberately dug by someone on the south side of No. [-] Peak.There was still water at the bottom of the ditch a few years ago, but it has long since dried up.There are large and small weathered pebbles all over the riverbed. To the north of the riverbed is a gradually rising plain. At the end of the plain is the No. [-] Peak, which is very important to everyone.

To the south of the river bed is a rocky beach piled up with rocks, and to the south is an endless virgin forest.The forest extended to the southernmost tip of the Western Mountain Formation, covering nearly two-thirds of the area of ​​the southern peak of Leather Face Mountain.

The territory divided by Erfei and his tribe is at the southernmost end of the forest, the valley near the Yaojiang River, and the whole forest is separated from the place where Nanjiang and the others are ambush at the moment.All the big monsters in the forest have already divided their territories, and among them, there are not many who have a good impression of the town monster.

Nanjiang didn't dare to continue to retreat southward. Once they retreated into the forest, their situation would become more passive.

In the communicator, Mr. Hu's voice was a little low, "Your lives are more important than anything else. If you can't grab it, retreat, don't retreat to the south, try to go east. I will let the people from the sixth team meet you."

Their current position continues to the east, passing through the stone forest and crossing the thorny plain, which is the eastern border of the formation.Cross the border and continue to the east, which is Yaoxi District.There is the base compound of the Yaozhou branch, which is their own territory.

But can Nanjiang retreat?

Peak No. [-] has fallen, and there are three roads ahead of them: go west, step into the unknown area of ​​the Western Mountain Formation, and there may be dangers that no one can predict.Everyone knows that the great monster and his guardians are sealed in the eyes of the formation on the west side.

Not to mention the one in the eyes of the array, but only to these protectors, each of them is a ruthless character who kills without blinking an eye, not inferior to Yiya at all.

Go south, retreat into the forest, and confront countless monsters in the forest.

Excluding the third team that distracted some of the enemies before, they now have two teams with more than [-] members.Can these people persist until Erfei brings his people to help?What's more, many of Erfei's clan members are hostile to Zhenyaosi. Nanjiang has confidence in Erfei, but he dare not have too much expectation for the assistance he can provide.

The last way is to go east.

But this is also the path that everyone is least willing to choose.Once they withdrew from the Pomegranate Canyon, from the North Peak of Leather Mian Mountain to the No. [-] Peak, then passed through the Pomegranate Canyon and the forest and continued southward, including the entire South Peak. Take control.

With the North and South peaks echoing each other, and the No. [-] peak being in the middle of scheduling, it will not be so easy for outsiders to call back.

Nanjiang doesn't plan to retreat.But he cannot be the master of others.In particular, the fourth team has a relationship with them to assist in combat.He handed the communicator to Zeng Haoran, the captain of the fourth team.

Zeng Haoran was a few years older than Nan Jiang, and he was selected from the army by the "Sixth Group" in the early years.The only problem is that he doesn't come from a family of demon hunters that has been passed down for generations.

A demon hunter who is not an awakened talent is destined to be in an auxiliary position in the battle with the demon clan.Because the eyes of ordinary humans cannot see the energy fluctuations of the monster race, let alone the ability to fight it with bare hands.

For example, now, he and all the members of the second team can see the black smoke slowly spreading along the grass slope, but in the eyes of Zeng Haoran and others, there are only disturbances.

This is the most important gap, Zeng Haoran and others are naturally clear.So after hearing Nan Jiang say that they were ready to fight, all of them also took up arms.

"Damn it." Zeng Haoran lowered his voice and asked Nan Jiang, "Didn't it mean that the experiment has progressed? When will our eyes be opened?" He always went to the battlefield with his eyes smeared, he was too passive.Even as an assistant, you have to understand the situation on the battlefield.

Nan Jiang shook his head.He knew that the upper echelons of this experiment had been controversial.However, the number of demon hunter families handed down from ancient times is really not enough.

This is also a problem.

They were ambushed by these things once before they retreated to the south side of the river bed. They didn't get close, but surrounded them from a distance.And it was a group of skeleton soldiers who really launched the attack.

Skeletons are real skeletons, both human and animal.But what brought them together, directed them to fight, was the same substance as the black smoke that built the circle around them.

The black smoke they saw was not real smoke, but a very small flying insect.Mr. Hu said that this kind of insect has an ancient name in the records of the "Sixth Group" called "Guoyin Soldiers".