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When Ming Xia left, he exchanged contact information with Dong Xin, and Dong Xin also wanted to know if Ming Xia would get rid of this trouble one day.On this point, their slightly distant cousins ​​have the same opinion: happiness is only when they can live their own lives in peace, and the idea of ​​fighting and conquering the world... is purely full Supported.

Ming Xia returned to the car with the document bag in his arms, and asked Nan Jiang embarrassedly, "Are you in a hurry?"

Nan Jiang said indifferently: "You are also considered relatives. Without outsiders around, you will be more comfortable talking. Anyway, you will not hide things from me if you need to know."

Ming Xia glanced at him unhappily, feeling that he had been seen through.

Nan Jiang reached out and touched his head, "This means I trust you, don't you understand?"

Ming Xia shook off his hand awkwardly, "Let's go quickly, it's going to be dark later."

Nan Jiang pursed his lips and smiled, started the car and went back to the town.They hurried on, and when they got back to the inn, it was dark.The two found a small restaurant and ordered a few signature dishes.While waiting for the meal, Ming Xia habitually took out her mobile phone to call Grandpa Ming and Ming Jie, but to her surprise, Ming Jie got through.

The moment the phone was picked up, Ming Xia was a little dumbfounded, "Mingjie?"

Mingjie's voice sounded smooth, "Mingxia, come and find me. The northwest corner of Crane Farm, Sanxing Lake."

He was so close that Nanjiang could hear the voice on the phone, and when he heard the word Sanxinghu, his expression immediately changed.

Ming Xia was so anxious that she didn't notice Nan Jiang's expression, "Where's Grandpa?"

Mingjie laughed very strangely, "You mean that old man at home? Don't worry, I'm doing this for your own good, and of course it won't hurt your grandfather."

Ming Xia's heart was in a mess, Nan Jiang pressed his hand, and mouthed each word for him to see.

Ming Xia's mind was numb, and she said in a cat-and-mouth manner: "Not now, it's getting dark, and I don't even know where you mentioned. I'll go there tomorrow morning."

Mingjie was not very happy, "You have the magic circle left by your ancestors on you, so you don't have to be afraid of anything."

Ming Xia regained consciousness a little bit, knowing that Nan Jiang's arrangement must have his reasons, "The magic circle doesn't come out to save me in every situation. It doesn't care if I get lost, and it won't care if I freeze to death."

Mingjie said angrily: "Then tomorrow. However, I don't have that much patience to wait for you. If it is later, I can't guarantee the consequences. Besides, you are also anxious to see your grandpa, right?"

As soon as the phone hung up, Ming Xia became restless, "Can the phone be traced? Do you think this is really my Mingjie?"

Nan Jiang fiddled with his mobile phone, and sent the phone numbers of Ming Xia and Ming Jie to his colleagues, "If you can track them down, you must try to check."

He is thinking about another thing now, "Samsung Lake is the place where the demon townspeople exiled prisoners many years ago. There is a seal by the townspeople, and no one else can get in. Why does Mingjie know about this place?"

Ming Xia couldn't answer.In fact, Mingjie is also returning to his hometown for the first time, so it stands to reason that Jiatun is just a name to him.

"He said it's for your own good, what kind of good does he mean?" Nanjiang pondered, "Why do I feel that he and your grandfather are not of the same mind, your grandfather wants to tear you off Jiuxiao's protective cover, I see Mingjie's Meaning... Could it be to help you strengthen Jiuxiao's power?"

Ming Xia came to his senses, "You mean Jiu Xiao swallowed the water scorpion? Mingjie didn't want Jiu Xiao to swallow all the monsters in Sanxing Lake, did he? But how did he know this?"

Naturally, Nanjiang couldn't answer this question.

Ming Xia said sullenly: "Jiuxiao really has supernatural powers. But it is so capable, how could it not discover Dong Xin?"

"Think about it," Nanjiang reminded him, "Dong Xin's great-grandfather passed away, and their family moved out of Mingjiatun. At this time, Jiuxiao should have fallen into a deep sleep. I think the blood is the most obvious that Jiuxiao left for himself. As a clue, it can only follow the bloodline to find the next host."

"The Dong family moved away and changed their surnames. From the perspective of ancient etiquette, their family is indeed no longer a member of the Ming family." Nan Jiang said: "Perhaps Jiu Xiao was able to spare the energy to look at these other people at first." The children of the Ming family, but they were very honest within one or two generations, neither did anything against the family precepts, nor revealed the secrets of the Ming family to the outside world. After a long time, maybe Jiuxiao himself ignored them .”

Ming Xia thought, "Population reproduction is a very complicated matter. After a few generations, the distribution of the population will change a lot, so Jiuxiao only focuses on the direct branch of the Ming family? Why does it have to be the direct branch of the Ming family? branch?"

Nan Jiang thought for a while and said, "I suspect it has something to do with physical fitness, or only the descendants of the direct branch of the Ming family, the physical conditions in all aspects are the most suitable for Jiuxiao."

The door of the box was knocked open, and the waiter came in with big plates and big names to serve.Northeast cuisine sometimes gives people a feeling that the appearance is not refined enough, but I have to say that when such hot sauerkraut stewed ribs and chicken stewed mushrooms are served, they will immediately give people an extremely warm feeling.

Ming Xia's anxious heart was also comforted by the delicious food.

"Don't worry," Nan Jiang comforted him, "Even if Mingjie is remotely controlled, he is still the grandson of the Ming family, and he won't be so inhumane to attack his grandfather. Besides, he still expects to use your grandfather to catch you there." , will not lose your grandfather."

Qingqiu was guarding a big plate, pecking at the soft stewed meat on the big bones, and nodded again and again, "I heard his voice, it doesn't look like he has lost his mind completely, but it seems that his thinking has been overwhelmed by the power of a monster. Interference. Nothing serious."

"Besides, the power of monsters is usually stronger at night." Nan Jiang said, "I don't agree to drive there at night. It's not all because of unfamiliar roads."

Qingqiu also comforted him, "Eat well, sleep well, and fight tomorrow. Look, there are still us."

Ming Xia looked at Nanjiang, then looked at Qingqiu, and then thought of those "sixth group" partners he had never met before. He also felt that he had so many helpers. What's so scary about a mere mischievous Mingjie?

The reason why Samsung Lake got its name is because it is connected by three water bubbles of different sizes.At this time, the surface of the lake was already frozen, and there were only handfuls of dry grass stalks left in the dense reeds beside the lake. The scenery was open and desolate.

The members of the "sixth group" who accompanied them were two young men. According to them, the cranes in the wetlands used to fly to the south for the winter, and later they were artificially domesticated. The domesticated cranes stopped flying south and stayed in the local area for the winter. .

The team member named Zhang Hao pointed to the sightseeing cars in the distance and showed them, "Those are tourists who came out to watch crane release in winter."

Ming Xia was dressed like a ball, and she couldn't stretch her rustling hands and feet, "I'm really not afraid of the cold."

Zhang Hao looked at him and smiled, "You are just here, just get used to it."

Ming Xia rubbed against Qingqiu who was squeezed into his scarf, thinking bitterly, how to adapt to the cold.

The car drove farther and farther, and gradually no traces of tourists and scenic spots could be seen.There are endless grasslands all around, the withered yellow grass is dotted with white snow, and even the sky seems to be extraordinarily high.

"It's here." Nan Jiang reminded Ming Xia in a low voice.

Ming Xia saw the sparkling water in the distance, and the blurred crane shed built further away.He didn't see Mingjie, but first saw a black shadow entrenched by the lake.

Ming Xia thought she was dazzled at first, but the closer the car was approached, the outline of the black shadow became clearer, and it looked like a black bear.

Ming Xia is still thinking that mirages can appear by the lake?I heard Qingqiu whisper: "If Tang Xun is here, his machine will beep again."

Ming Xia came to his senses immediately, "Demon?"

He looked up at the sky, it was broad daylight, and he just came out like this?What kind of demon is this?

The faces of Zhang Hao and his companions all changed.Zhang Hao murmured: "Just listening to the siren, I didn't find out which joint was wrong. It turned out to be this grandson."

Nan Jiang hurriedly asked, "You guys knew this early on?"

Zhang Hao explained: "Last month, the seal was inspected routinely, and the technical team submitted a report saying that due to the partial solar eclipse in spring, the gravitational force changed, and the seal also had a slight deviation. At first, the deviation did not cause anything. impact, but now, it may reveal a gap in the seal at a specific time."

Ming Xia and Nan Jiang looked at each other, and now this is... The gap was discovered by the monster?

Qingqiu asked Zhang Hao in a low voice, "Is it recorded? Or did it come here? Why do I feel...there is blood?"

Zhang Hao trembled, and the car turned a corner on the big grassy beach and stopped.He turned his head to look at Ming Xia on the back seat...Qing Qiu in the scarf with a horrified face, "It really smells like blood?"

Qingqiu nodded affirmatively, "Is it still fresh?"

Zhang Hao asked again, "Smell again, what else?"

Qingqiu simply got out from the scarf, Ming Xia knew what it meant, opened the car window to let it go out, and told it to be careful.Qingqiu flapped his wings and flew out, flying back and forth a few times around the black shadow, far and near.

Ming Xia stared at Qingqiu worriedly, stretched out his hand and pulled out his own box under the car seat, opened it to take out the contents, and started to make adjustments very quickly.

Zhang Hao and his companions were slightly surprised.They also thought that the two colleagues brought some new super powerful weapons, but they didn't expect it to be a crossbow.

The black shadow became alert almost the moment Qingqiu appeared, it stood upright, and raised its huge palm to pat Qingqiu.After being dodged by Qingqiu twice in a row, it suddenly became irritable, and its palm suddenly doubled in size.

Qingqiu deftly dodged its attack and tested it back and forth.

The palm of the bear-shaped monster suddenly opened. From a distance, it looked like a big net was suddenly opened, and it covered Qingqiu with its head.

However, Ming Xia kept reminding herself in her heart: what this monster shows is only phantom, which is useless, just like those phantoms released by the water sparrow before... To attack it, you must find the entity it is attached to.