Ring of Power

After coming out of Hualou, it was already daylight, Sheng Mingyi couldn't hold on any longer, and slept until night when he got home.

When he woke up, he saw the box given by Dilongying on the table, so he asked the servant to bring it, and he wanted to open it to have a look.

Opening the box, there were five black fruits inside, which seemed to have a gloomy atmosphere. He picked up a small book next to the fruits. There were only a few pages on it. It was an introduction to this kind of fruit. Sheng Mingyi was stunned. No, he doesn't believe that this is really the seventh-order light of the undead. It is conceivable how precious this kind of priceless thing is. How could Emperor Dragon Eagle and the others give him this so generously?

The commission he paid to them couldn't even buy one-tenth of a fruit in it. Are they really ordinary mercenaries?

At this time, Sheng Mingyi didn't believe that it was really the light of the dead, but those two people didn't need to play tricks on him. He was so emotional that he coughed up blood, and hurriedly asked Lin Bo to take him to find Master Sheng. If it was true, then His body will be saved.

When he recovers physically, he will definitely let Wei Xinzhe fall into the abyss!

The two people who had left Yixian City a long way away were heading south. Their mission was to hunt a sixth-level monster. Originally, Dilongying didn't plan to take it because it was too difficult for him. No matter how powerful it is, it's impossible to deal with the sixth level, but if the knife says it's difficult to pick it up, it's not a big problem with him in everything.

So Dilongying was persuaded by the knife.

They had to go through the deep mountains to get to their destination, and there were obviously people living here. No, they saw a village in the mountains three days later. It was noon at this time. Every household in the village was filled with smoke, and the green hills and blue sky in the distance were peaceful. .

The two of them were on the top of the mountain and went down the rugged mountain road. Fortunately, the mounts were both second-tier, and their speed was not slow on such a mountain road.

"Go and have a look, see if there is anything interesting." Daozi said, people in the deep mountains don't know goods, maybe there is something valuable for them to pick up.

"Don't bully these simple and honest villagers, and don't bully them when you meet good things." Di Longying now said that the villagers were kind, and it didn't take long for him to be slapped in the face, very loudly.

"Don't worry, I won't, I'm not that kind of person."

"You are." Emperor Dragon Eagle was very sure.

"I was before I had no money, but am I rich now? How could I still do this kind of thing? Can't you trust me more? I really misjudged you."

"Did you realize that you were wrong?"

There is a very big tree at the entrance of the village, with intertwined roots, thick and tall, the crown is very low, and it stretches around. What is even more strange is that the leaves of this tree are black.

The pitch-black leaves, the dark gray-brown trunk, no matter how you look at it, it looks like something from the land of the dead, revealing a strong sense of gloom

A sense of uncertainty.

"What kind of tree is this? I've never seen it before." Sitting on the tall beast, the knife raised a hand and grabbed a leaf. The shape of the leaf was also very strange, vaguely resembling the shape of a skull.

"I haven't seen it either, maybe it's a unique species here." Dilongying has no interest in this tree, and has seen a lot of rare treasures. A tree with black leaves is really nothing.

Only Dao Zi paid attention secretly, and his keen beast instinct told him that this was not a good thing.

The village is quite quiet. It seems that no one has a dog. This is a bit strange. Generally, farmers have dogs because dogs can guard the house, but there are no dogs in this village. Looking at the yard from the wall, there are basically dog ​​kennels, but there are no dogs.

Could it be that some natural or man-made disaster happened to the village and there was no food, so the dog was eaten?But they see that there are livestock such as chickens, ducks, geese, sheep, cattle, and pigs here, and all kinds of vegetables are grown here, so it doesn't look like there is a famine.

So where are the dogs?Daozi asked this question, although Dilongying found it strange but didn't care, isn't it just that there is no dog?It's not a big deal.

"This village looks weird." Knife believes in his intuition. Beasts rely on intuition to avoid danger, and their intuition is much more accurate than that of humans. There is a faint sense of danger that has been entangled with Knife. From what he saw The tree with black leaves begins.

"If you don't feel well, let's get out of here quickly, and we won't rest here." Di Longying saw that the knife's face was not very good, and he probably felt that something was wrong here because of the knife's influence.

It's just a passing village, so there's really no need to care about it, Dilongying didn't take it to heart.They left here quickly, and then stopped on a mountain to take a rest. From here, they could see the whole village. Because they were looking down, their eyesight was good, so they could clearly see the courtyards of every household in the village. .

Biting the barbecue that Emperor Dragon Eagle handed over, the knife glanced at one yard after another. Every household has a kennel, which is a simple and simple den built with a few pieces of wood or stones, usually where dogs live.

Every household has a kennel, but there are no dogs.

"What's so interesting?" Di Longying didn't know what the knife was so focused on, and he couldn't see anything wrong even when he looked down. "No dog may be canine distemper, so the dogs have been dealt with." Knife persuaded himself not to think too much, there are not so many bad things, how could they run into them so casually?

After eating, the two of them didn't leave. They traveled all night and had to rest their horses to eat some grass. In addition, they also needed to rest for a while.

rest.

After noon, the villagers were about to go out to work in the middle of the afternoon. They went out, walked together in twos and threes, chatted and walked out of the village.Daozi woke up Dilongying who was dozing over there, and showed him those people and the village.

"What's the matter? You're a little strange today. Are you so accurate in your bad premonition? I can't see anything wrong. It's normal for them to go out to work at this time." Sure, but they don't plan to live here, so what's wrong with them in the village?

"There are no women. From the time I started looking at the village until now, I haven't seen a woman. After eating, all the people who come out to wash the dishes in the kitchen are men or little boys. There is no woman. This is all women's work, isn't it? Now they go out to work, and no woman comes out to deliver it, which is too strange." The more Daozi looked at it, the more suspicious it became, and he really wanted to find out.

"Who knows what's going on? We should go, don't think about it, some villages in the deep mountains always have some weird customs, maybe women here are not allowed to come out and show their faces. Let's go." Dilongying pulled the knife, telling the knife not to be blind pondering.

On their way, they passed another village, which was not far from the previous one.

At night, the two found a place to spend the night. Before the tent was set up, there was a sound. Knife turned his head and saw a thin figure stealing their barbecue by the fire. It was the thief who made a sound when he took the stick. .

"Stop!" The thief saw that he was found, and ran away with his things, but the knife caught him a few steps away and lifted him up.The thief struggled and shouted: "Let me go!"

"What's the matter with this kid?" Di Longying got out of the tent, and saw that a knife outside was holding a kid by the back collar.

"The thief who stole, I caught him." The knife threw him to the ground, and the child let out an ouch, and instead of running away, he started to gobble up the meat. It seemed that he was starving.

"Isn't it just a piece of meat? Are you going to throw him? Hey kid, why don't you go home?" Di Longying blamed Dao Zi for not being sympathetic, Dao Zi was too lazy to talk to him, so there was no dispute.

While eating, the child mumbled, "Jiao Ren is dead (all family members are dead)."

"Don't you have any relatives? It's dangerous to be alone on the mountain at night." What a pity, it turned out to be a young man whose family was ruined.

child.

"I can't look for it. (I can't look for it)" The child choked while eating, and Di Longying hurriedly passed the water bottle over.

The child drank a few sips of water, and then he stopped wolfing down, but looked at Dilongying, and said very gratefully: "Thank you, you are very good.

people. "

"Which village are you from? We'll send you back. You can't stay here at night." Di Longying was issued a good person card, feeling happy

zizi.

"If you don't go back, you can't go back!" The child showed fear on his face, and he was very frightened. It was a frightened expression. The two of them were very surprised. What's so scary in the village?

"You eat first, eat and tell us what's going on." Knife felt that the child might know something, so he just helped him to solve his doubts.

The two waited for the child to eat and drink enough to lean against the tree and hiccup, waiting for the child to speak.

"Who are you, why are you here at night?" Seeing that the two of them did not have any malicious intentions, the child gave him something to eat, so he relaxed his vigilance. The accent and clothes of the two were not from their place, but from other places. , as long as he is not from here, then he will not be harmed.

"We are mercenaries. We passed by here and spent the night here. Tell me why you don't want to go home here?" Knife said. "I can't go back." There was fear in the child's eyes. "The people in the village are all evil spirits. If I go back, I will be caught and eaten."

"What?" Dilongying was startled, and he and Daozi exchanged glances, both seeing the other's surprise.

"Speak clearly." Knife said.

"You are foreigners, you should leave quickly, otherwise it will be very dangerous." The child said kindly.

"We want to know what happened here. If we can help, we will help." Dilongying said, although he is not a person who likes to meddle in other people's business, but he has to take care of the evil behavior of cannibalism, which is beyond the limit. His bottom line.

"You can't help, many people have been captured, they are evil spirits from hell, they come out to confuse people, and then let the bewitched people

It's terrible to arrest people and feed them. "The child trembled, and he was terrified when he mentioned this matter.

"Don't be afraid, tell us what's going on. If we can't do anything, we will take you to the city and settle down before you leave. If we can manage, we will rescue the people who were deceived by evil spirits." Emperor Longying comforted .

The child hesitated for a moment, and then told Dilongying and Daozi everything he knew.