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The lights in the oasis were dim, and there was silence all around.

Qing Tan and Feng Ming circled above the oasis with their respective partners on their backs.The moon is shining brightly, casting heavy shadows behind the houses, making the scenery in front of you look like a print with special effects. The light and shadow are extremely vivid, and there is a strange feeling of swords and swords confronting each other.

There was a sound of pattering hooves not far away, and a moment later, a lonely Aoyin crossed the flat sidewalk between the houses, and ran towards the lake in a panic.

"There seems to be no one." Ming Xia spoke by sight.

"There are no human beings." Qing Tan spoke with the ability to sense the monster race, "but there is the breath of the monster race..."

Feng Ming flew forward, and the gorgeous tail feathers spread out under the moonlight, as beautiful as a special effect in a movie.He carried Li Youran across the air in a smooth arc, and turned back in the direction of Qingtan.

"Brother Qing, there is something ahead." Feng Ming said, "If I'm not mistaken, the demon power should not be weak."

Ming Xia was a little surprised, it seemed that Feng Ming's detection ability was more sensitive than Qing Tan.

Qingtan seemed to guess what he was thinking, and explained softly: "Fengming is a phoenix. When I was in the demon world, this race was hunted by big monsters because of its beauty, and it was almost extinct. So they Everyone has developed a dog's nose, which can smell danger from a long distance."

Ming Xia, "..."

It's a good ability, once Qing Tan mentions it...the grade immediately drops.

Feng Ming didn't seem to care about it, he flapped his wings contentedly, and led them to fly towards the depths of the oasis very smoothly.Qing Tan turned her head, and saw that the Dragon Tongue Bow in Ming Xia's hand had already attached an arrow.There was a little crimson on the tip of the arrow, as if a drop of blood happened to be dripping there, and it was smudged little by little.

Qingtan felt the ferocious and fierce arrogance unique to ancient beasts from the bow and arrow.

It’s weird.

Qingtan thought to himself, Ming Xia is such a gentle person, yet he has a chance with such a weapon.Or Suzaku also has an innate domineering arrogance in his bones, but it's just that he has been a human being for too long, so that arrogance has also sunk into his bones, and he refuses to show it easily.

In the depths of the oasis, in the gazebo beside the lake, a young man in white stands by the water.

Long hair like ink, white clothes like snow, elegant like a down-and-out nobleman in the old days.

Under the steps of the gazebo, there were several people lying in disorder.Ming Xia didn't need to look carefully to know that it was the rescue team they sent in to make a fuss.And Wu Tong, the team leader, fell limply at the feet of the young man in white.

This situation made Ming Xia unable to guess what he wanted to do.

The young man in white in the gazebo turned around, glanced at a few people in the air, and smiled lazily, "You must be thinking, what am I going to do... right?"

No one answered him.

Because this kid has a criminal record, Ming Xia is also very vigilant in his heart.

"They're all gone." Zhu Huai took two steps back and forth in the gazebo, and sighed somewhat dispiritedly, "I was abandoned by them, and I'm responsible for staying here to hold you back."

Li Youran asked him, "Where did they go?"

Zhu Huai glanced at her, but said nothing.

Ming Xia and Li Youran looked at each other, and decided to change the question, "Why were you kept?"

Ming Xia once followed the ghost beast's soul back to the oasis, and saw the core members of the big monsters get together for a meeting.In his opinion, Zhu Huai is already a figure at their leadership level, so what reason is there to push him out as cannon fodder?Furthermore, even if Wutong has snatched away part of the tribe, Zhu Huai still holds a force that cannot be underestimated.

Zhu Huai replied lightly: "Because I have a disagreement with them, I am extremely tired of this place, but they are not."

Ming Xia felt that she could not understand what he said.What does it mean to be so bored with this place?This place refers to... the West End?Xishan formation?Or old town?

Or... the entire human world?

Li Youran seemed to be wondering the same question.She tentatively said to Zhu Huai: "It's not just you, is it? Why do I feel that you all don't like this place?"

Zhu Huai glanced at her, "There are two kinds of dislikes, one is wanting to leave, the other is wanting to possess, and then...to transform into what you like."

There was an inexplicable chill behind Ming Xia's back.The transformation that Zhu Huai said...is that what he imagined? !

Zhu Huai glanced over, touched Ming Xia, and suddenly smiled, "I have always wanted to ask you a question. I have been sealed in the Xishan Great Formation for thousands of years. Apart from being imprisoned until I die, what else can I do?" A different ending?"

Ming Xia and Li Youran looked at each other, and said very cautiously: "Prisoners also have reward points during their detention. If the points reach a certain standard, they can apply for a commutation of sentence."

Li Youran added: "Reform through labor and assist the government work, you can get points for these things."

"Points?" Zhu Huai seemed to be taken aback for a moment, "...you can reduce your sentence if you have points?"

Ming Xia asked him back, "These policies will be popularized to you every once in a while, but you never seem to care. No one listens carefully, and no one has ever actively fought for points."

This point, Ming Xia only found out after checking the information of the sixth group.

Zhu Huai had an unexpected look on his face, both surprised and a little... lost.

Li Youran kind of guessed what he was thinking, "You are familiar with all the seals on the North Peak, right? The Tianma near Pine Tree Cliff, have you ever wondered why they left? Let me tell you, because of the seals of their clan It's untied."

Zhu Huai thought about it seriously. It seems that there really was such a group of Pegasus horses near the pine tree cliff, but for some reason, he hadn't seen them for a long time.

"So the seal has been broken?" Zhu Huai found it inconceivable.The whole group of them made a big mistake during the melee of the ten thousand monsters, and the culpability was almost the same as his own.

"The leader of Tianma is very smart. They have planned to rescue ordinary tourists who strayed into the West Mountain since more than 600 years ago." Li Youran chose his words carefully, "and cooperated with the government to dredge the underground water veins of Beifeng. In addition, several earthquakes, They are the ones who took the initiative to cooperate with the government's work in rescue."

Zhu Huai had never cared about the Tianma group.In his eyes, that is a very small, very inconspicuous ethnic group.During the melee of the Ten Thousand Monsters, the number of small clans involved in the war was unknown. Some clans were wiped out, and some, like the Tianma clan, were sentenced and sealed in the Western Mountain Formation.

Zhu Huai never imagined that one day he would envy such a small group that he had been neglecting.

"Where are they now?"

Li Youran said: "Living in the buffer zone near the Stone Forest to the north of Station No. [-], where there are forests and plains, it is very suitable for their group life. It is convenient for them to contact the human world, and it is also guaranteed that they will not be as close to the depths of the formation. You are such a provocative big demon contact..."

Li Youran paused, a little annoyed that she accidentally told the truth.

Zhu Huai laughed, "So that's how it is."

"Yes." Li Youran simply broke the jar, "Half of the Pegasus horses in their clan that can transform into forms have left the formation and obtained civilian certificates, and can live in the outside world like ordinary people. In the second half, as long as you pass the test period, you will also get a civilian certificate issued by the sixth group, and you will be able to leave the Western Mountain Formation smoothly and enter human society."

Zhu Huai was silent.

After a long time, he sighed softly, and said with some melancholy: "I never thought... I would ignore such an option."

Zhu Huai took a few steps slowly in the gazebo, and suddenly he couldn't understand what he was thinking during these thousands of years.Angry at being caught and imprisoned, he tried every means to contact the big monsters who were in the same situation as him, trying to build an alliance to fight against the town monsters, and it would be best to break through the big seal set by Yuan Tiangang and go back outside.

He never thought that the more he resisted, the more distant the day he would be free.

"Actually, I also thought about what it would be like to live in human society." Zhu Huai said, laughing a little out of composure, "I have followed Nuwa to this world for a long, long time, and I almost forgot What does my hometown look like... but I never had the chance to take a good look at it..."

Ming Xia's scalp was numb from the stimulation of his laughter, and he couldn't help persuading him, "Turn back and be right."

Zhu Huai shook his head with a smile, "There's nothing... Even if I put down the butcher knife at this moment, the town monster will give me a chance to start all over again, and I don't have the patience to wait any longer. In this square inch, let alone a hundred years, The time of a thousand years is only a few years and a few months, and I can't bear it any longer."

When Zhu Huai said this, deep regret welled up in his heart.If he had listened to these words in his heart when he was just sealed into the formation, or he could figure it out by himself at that time.Just like the Pegasus clan...

Perhaps today's him doesn't have to sit alone in the empty Yaoguang Oasis, listening to such regrettable words.

Unfortunately, he understood a little too late.

Zhu Huai looked at Ming Xia who was in mid-air, at Qing Tan and Feng Ming who made him jealous, who could walk freely in the human world.He walked out of the gazebo, and slowly drew a long whip from behind.

"Don't talk nonsense anymore, let's fight."