Jun Xie Chenxin

It's summer, and the weather is cloudy and cloudy. Maybe the sun is shining one second, and the next second is cloudy.

Zhong Zilan took several skilled servants, and finally arrived near Changshui day and night. Seeing that he would be able to reach Junshan in half a day, but the weather was not good, and a large dark cloud weighed down.

"My lord, it looks like the weather is going to rain soon. How about we find a place to rest and wait for the rain to pass before we go on our way?"

Zhong Zilan looked at the sky, nodded, and said, "OK."

They had seen many deserted villages along the way, so it was not difficult to find a place to rest. They hurried back and found a dilapidated house before the rain fell.

The house is not big, divided into the main room and two side rooms on the left and right, but it should be considered a residence of a large family here.

The main room can still be settled, but the two side rooms have traces of being burned, and they are dilapidated, leaving only ruins and walls.

Zhong Ionlan followed the servant to confirm that there was no problem in the main room before the servant let him in.

Before stepping into the house, the pungent musty smell made people flustered, Zhong Ionlan frowned, and felt better when the servants lit the fire and lit up the room.

Gradually, Zhong Ionlan got used to the smell, and looked around the main house. The walls of the main house were also blackened, probably because of a fire. Either the fire was not strong enough or it happened to be extinguished by the rain. Otherwise, the main house should not have survived. down.

Walking inside, Zhong Ionlan saw a wooden bed behind the screen. The bed curtain was broken and slanted to one side. Zhong Ionlan took a few steps forward. There are several piles of white cloth, and there is a strange outline under the white cloth.

He picked up the white cloth with his sword, and the scene in front of him made him cry out in shock. He stepped back a few steps, and the servants rushed over when they heard the sound.

"My lord! Are you okay!" Several people gathered around, seeing the thing covered under the white cloth, all of them looked flustered.

"This...is this...the corpse?"

The body and head of that thing were separated, and the scalp was lifted, revealing that there were countless maggots wriggling inside the head, most of the flesh on the face was rotten, only a thin piece of flesh hung from the cheek to support the face, and the pupils of the eyes disappeared. Only a pair of eye sockets were left, and the maggots were still crawling out of the eye sockets. Most of the nose seemed to be bitten off by something unknown, and the mouth was wide open, revealing yellow teeth with blood stains.

Looking at the body of the corpse, it is simply horrible. One leg has disappeared from the root, and the only remaining leg is missing the part below the knee. There is almost no intact part on the body, and all of them have been bitten by unknown things. of.

One of the servants couldn't keep watching, and rushed outside the house and started vomiting.

Zhong Ionlan frowned and raised the white cloth with her sword to cover the corpse.

"My lord... this man seems to have been bitten to death by something!"

"Yes, yes, there is nothing that can bite a person into a good place... and this head was chopped off, is it some kind of monster?"

"Boom!!!"

While the servants were discussing about the corpse, a flash of lightning illuminated the sky outside, followed by loud thunder.The sky has completely darkened, and even though it is afternoon, it is as dark as night... The rain is accompanied by lightning, thunder and thunder, and the sound of "Sa Sa Sa Sa" is endless.

Zhong Ionlan left the wooden bed, walked to the door and looked outside the house, the wind was blowing and the rain was blowing, and the dilapidated scene was rendered a bit more miserable.

Occasionally, when the rain became lighter, Zhong Zilan vaguely felt that she heard some movement, but before she could listen carefully, the movement was covered by the sudden increase in rain.

Taking advantage of the time when the rain was big and small, he heard that the movement seemed to be getting closer to them.

Something is wrong!

"Everyone is on alert, there seems to be something wrong!"

The sound is getting closer.

There was a sound of "噗!", which was very abrupt among the thunder and rain, and it was the sound of weapons colliding!

The sky was too dark, and the rain was too dense, causing mist to form in the sky. Zhong Zilan couldn't see who was coming, but suddenly a lightning bolt struck, and the whole sky suddenly brightened. He saw that person by this light...

Standing proudly above the treetops was a man holding a sword in one hand and an umbrella in the other. He was slender and danced wildly in his clothes. Suddenly, the man looked back and met Zhong Ionlan's eyes.

Zhong Zilan's heart was knocked immediately.

This……

This... really does not belong to the appearance of this world...

The sky was dark, and the light was completely robbed by the blackness, but the man was still shining.

"Master! Son!!! Look!"

The servant standing beside Zhong Ionlan pointed in the direction in front of him and exclaimed, Zhong Ionlan looked back, and with the help of the torch in the servant's hand, he could see the situation in front of him clearly...

About dozens of "people" ran towards them with their heads downcast.

Some servants who were more courageous took a few steps forward and yelled at the group of "people". Seeing that those "people" didn't respond, the servant just pulled out his sword, and was thrown to the ground by a "person" rushing up. The "man" grabbed the servant and began to bite.

"Ah! Ah! Ah! What is this! Help me!"

Before other people could make a move to drag the servant out, the "people" behind rushed up one after another.

The miserable cries were endless, the rest of the servants waved their swords to resist, and Zhong Ionlan also joined them, seeing a servant being dragged into the pile of "people", he stretched out his hand to pull it, but when he couldn't, a ray of light flashed However, I saw a severed hand flying into the sky, and then fell to the ground with a "slap", splashing blood all over the ground.

"Your...Young master! Help me!"

"male……"

The servant's voice gradually disappeared, and Zhong Ionlan stood there in fear.

What the hell is going on here!

At this time, one hand held Zhong Ionlan's wrist, and he turned his head to look, but before he could see clearly, he was taken up to the roof by that person, and that person flew to the group of "people" in a split second , In the blink of an eye, those "people" are all in the end, completely lifeless...

The man was like a blood-stained white lotus, standing in the pool of blood with an umbrella, looking up at Zhong Zilan on the roof.

This is... the man standing on the treetop just now...

The man put the sword behind his waist, Zhong Zilan saw clearly that the man still had a sword behind his waist.

He turned out to be a master of double swords.

Seeing that the man turned around to leave, Zhong Ionlan used his lightness skills to catch up to the man and block his way.

Looking closer, I could see the childishness on the man's face. He was about fourteen or fifteen years old. He raised his eyes slightly. Although the eyes were beautiful, they were empty and devoid of emotion.

"Thank you knights for your rescue." Zhong Zilan bowed to thank him.

The man looked directly at Zhong Ionlan for a moment, and then said lightly, "No, those monsters chased me all the way, and I brought them here. I never thought there were people here."

Zhong Ionlan heard the meaning in the man's words more or less alluded to!It was revealed that the death of the servant was related to him, so there was no need to thank him, but he said it lightly, as if he didn't feel guilty at all.Zhong Ionlan looked at the dead body of the domestic servant on the ground. There were more than a dozen people when they came, but now he is the only one left... He does not resent the man in front of him. If they want to move forward, they will definitely encounter these things... Let alone a house servant, it is unknown whether they can survive...

"Xiaoshi, it's raining heavily now, why don't you go inside and take shelter before you go on your way?"

The man looked up at the pitch black sky, turned around and walked into the room without giving Zhong Ionlan any response.

Entering the house, the man closed the umbrella and leaned it against the wall. He saw that the fire was not burning enough, so he added some more firewood to it. In this way, the man sat on the edge of the fire numbly, and the fire shone brightly. His face flushed slightly.

Zhong Ionlan looked at the corpses outside, they were all decapitated, including those servants who followed her, and after lamenting, she asked curiously, "Why did the chivalrous behead these people?"

The man stared at the fire in a daze, "Only in this way can we kill them completely. They are the people who died of the plague in the vicinity and came back to life to become this kind of monster that is neither human nor ghost. And if this monster bites people, then People will become like this."

Zhong Ionlan nodded understandingly: No wonder I wanted to save someone just now, but he wanted to cut off that person's hand...

"There are quite a lot of large towns and villages near Changshui, isn't there a lot of monsters like this?"

The man was still dazed, "This thing seems to be looking for the breath of the living. When I came here, those monsters rushed towards me. As many as I killed, they would catch up with them. Killing and killing all the way, it should be It's almost dead." After that, the man had some reactions, he raised his eyes to look at Zhong Ionlan, then lowered his eyes and continued to look at the fire, "Perhaps kill all these things, and this plague will be solved .”

It is not unreasonable to say that as long as the last monster is killed, the culprit of the infection will be cut off, and the plague will not break out in a short time. Afterwards, the government will be notified to investigate the real source of the plague.

"My surname is Zhongli, and my name is Zilan. Thank you for saving me today. I don't know the name of the knight?"

The man was still staring at the fire, uttering three words expressionlessly.

"Feng Ninghan."

Zhong Zilan nodded, and said in her heart: The surname Feng is rare in Jin country, and I don't know why this knight appeared here. If I can ask him to help me find my uncle and them together, it will be better than looking for them alone. many.

"Feng Xiashi, I wonder where you are going?"

Feng Ninghan didn't have the slightest sense of guard, he answered whatever he asked, "Go to the martial arts conference."

"The martial arts conference is held at Wuya Mountain in Mocheng, which is quite far from here. A knight-errant will go alone?"

Feng Ninghan raised her head, and asked back as it should be, "Why can't you be alone?"

Zhong Zilan was a little embarrassed, smiled, and said, "Zi Lan has no other intentions, to tell the knights, in fact, Zi Lan came here to find her uncle, and Zi Lan's uncle is the organizer of the martial arts conference. He lost the news in Junshan in order to find the silver needle used in the meeting, and I came here this time to find his whereabouts." Zhong Zilan said while paying attention to Feng Ninghan's expression, but his expression showed no sign of anything. The change was as dull as a glass of white water, so naturally he couldn't see his thoughts.

"I said so much, but I actually wanted to ask Feng Xiashi to accompany me all the way and help me find my uncle's whereabouts together?"

Feng Ninghan refused without thinking, "No, I have to hurry."

The smile on Zhong Ionlan's face froze immediately, this person was too straightforward...

"But it's a long way for the knight to go to Mocheng, do you have enough money on your body? I can give you a large sum of money as a reward for you to accompany me to find my uncle."

"Troubleshooting? What's that?"

"Uh..." Zhong Ionlan frowned, looked at Feng Ninghan suspiciously, and said, "A chivalrous man doesn't know what money means? It's money..."

"I haven't used this thing before."

"..." Zhong Ionlan was speechless for a moment. He looked at the umbrella by the wall and asked, "Then where did you get this umbrella from?"

"I met someone on the road before and asked him to get it."

"...Then...then you didn't eat or drink all the way? How did you fill your stomach?"

"Leave after eating, and those people didn't stop me."

"Uh...heh, hehe...Xia...Xiashi, are you sure they didn't stop you, not because you are too good at lightness kung fu and run too fast, they can't stop you..."

Feng Ninghan, "..."

After that, Zhong Ionlan spent half a cup of tea briefly explaining to Feng Ninghan the function of silver, and showing him what silver looks like, including how today's society works. After listening to such a bunch, Feng Ninghan kept Mumu's expression finally became brighter, and he suddenly realized: it turns out that everything you do in the world requires money, and it is bound by laws...

Zhong Ionlan sighed and couldn't help but wonder what kind of life experience this person had, and how he didn't even know these things when he grew up so old.

"Then I will accompany you to find your uncle."

When Zhong Zilan heard this, she was surprised at first, and then said happily, "Really?"

Feng Ninghan nodded, and replied, "Well, but you have to pay enough."

Zhong Ionlan smiled and said, "It's only natural."