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The villagers in the thatched shed greeted them with smiles, but both Ye Mu and Jiang Wang could see the fear he was trying to hide.The villagers graciously pulled over the stool at the side, wiped it again and again with their sleeves, and then took a few steps back, asking, "You two young heroes, do you want some water?"

Jiang Wang sat down at the table and said with a smile, "I don't need it, just give my companion a bowl."

Ye Mu sat down opposite him, didn't speak, and planned to see what kind of medicine was sold in Jiang Wang's gourd.After all, it is impossible to deliberately intimidate an ordinary villager in idleness.

The villagers found a large blue and white bowl, scooped up a bowl full of sweet water, carefully put it down in front of Ye Mu, and smiled at Ye Mu, revealing a mouthful of ragged teeth.Then he squatted down in the corner of the grass shed as if nothing had happened, and pretended to fix the farm tools.

Ye Mu looked at him, then looked at the bowl of sweet water.

The water looks very clear, shiny and clear, with a few leaf-like things sinking in it, with a light yellow color.

Seems to be okay?

He raised his head, and Jiang Wang looked over with great interest, and said, "What's the matter? I heard from friends that the sweet water tastes pretty good."

Ye Mu pondered for a moment, picked up the bowl and drank it down in one gulp.

The clear water flowed from the throat into the stomach, making people shiver, and the pores all over the body seemed to be relaxed.The taste is slightly sweet, refreshing, and the heat is all gone.If it is not a warm morning but a hot noon at this time, it will inevitably make people unable to resist having another bowl.

After careful recollection, Ye Mu said: "The taste is really good." Thinking in his heart, he should like to drink this Ye Ming, and next time he has time to take him here to relax, and the scenery nearby is also good.

Jiang Wang nodded, and after calling the villager over, he took out an ingot of silver and put it on the table.

The villagers apologized with a somewhat apprehensive smile and said, "Young man, this...is too much, and I can't make up for it." He carefully pushed the money back and said, "Today's first order, young man likes to drink, so let's treat it as a small one." It's a gift from someone. It's not worth a lot of money, it's just a gift from a villain."

Jiang Wang smiled gently and said, "You don't need to shirk, and you don't need to ask for compensation. Apart from water money, I have one more thing to ask you. During these days you have been at the field, apart from the villagers in this area, what else have you seen? Has anyone ever entered this farmland?"

He didn't have time for the villagers to answer, so he continued: "This matter is very important, you must think it over before answering. To tell you the truth, our trip is to hunt down a rebellious disciple in the sect. He is bloodthirsty by nature, and he is good at Yi You can even pretend to be another person completely. The trace of this person has been interrupted around here, and we speculate that he may be hiding in this area. If someone looks suspicious, even the smallest sign can tell me, but Don't hide it, lest you regret it later."

Ye Mu silently watched Jiang Wang play tricks on the villagers, making him stunned for a while.

This kind of Jiang Wang... It was also the first time he had seen it.

Of course he knew that the original He Liang was not as gentle and harmless as he showed, but even if He Liang was scheming at that time, he must be linked to each other, so that people can't catch him.Have you ever used such a simple, rude and direct...cough, lie.

Moreover, for some reason, he always felt that Jiang Wang seemed to be... quite enjoying it.Look, those eyes are shining.Is it too obvious?

Sitting here, he was feeling emotional, but the villagers on the other side were so frightened that they believed them to half an extent, and told them all about the rather eye-catching guests in their impressions, for fear that any fish would slip through the net.

The narration about a person caught Ye Mu's attention.

"...Looks like a young hero from Baicaotang, very thin... doesn't talk much... eyes are very sharp... I have seen it several times, and I haven't been here for a long time..."

Jiang Wang also seemed very interested in this person and asked many detailed questions.With the addition of the conversation between the two, Ye Mu was slightly taken aback, and felt reasonable.

That description really made him think of a person.

Gu Xingyan.

After hearing all the news from the villagers, Ye Mu and Jiang Wang walked out of the hut without getting on their horses, and led their horses for a walk on the official road, talking while talking.

Jiang Wang said casually, "You should already have a clue, right?"

Ye Mu said: "The candidate is not surprising, but we still need to know how he did it and why he did it."

If you don't know the method, you can't prescribe the right medicine.If you don't know the reason, you can't kill the grass.

Even so, Ye Mu didn't mean to ask Jiang Wang.He was already very satisfied that he could progress to this point, and the next thing he had to consider was—after all, this was his next task.

[Order in danger] Jing An entrusts you to investigate the source of the recent epidemic in the city.

【Task progress】30/100

[Current Status] You found that a large number of insects in the farmland died strangely, but the bees and butterflies seemed to be safe?I heard that there is a disciple of Baicao Hall acting suspiciously. I wonder if the change here has anything to do with that person?

kindness?What is this situation?

It was the first time for Ye Mu to encounter such a task situation.Generally speaking, each clue collected during the mission progress corresponds to a route.During the mission process, different routes may have clues overlapping, but they only change into the same status prompt, and there has never been a situation where two clues are listed side by side.

He made up his mind quickly.In this case, let's take a look at the two clues at the same time.

Putting these aside for now, Ye Mu asked, "However, how did you find out that there is a problem here?"

Jiang Wang said, "It's quite obvious..."

He let go of the rein in his hand, and the black horse-like beast immediately ran happily to the field beside it, burying its head in eating.

Watching the movements of the beasts, Jiang Wang said: "This kind of low-level monsters only eat land that has been invaded by demonic energy, and are quite sensitive to demonic energy. Even if I can't detect such a large area when the distance is too far, I will definitely escape." But its range of perception. It brought me here."

"If you can 'feel' the devilish energy, then the scene in front of you must be a hundred times more spectacular than what you see now." Jiang Wang sighed, looking at the gorgeous sea of ​​flowers in front of him.

"I'm really surprised that the people here haven't turned into corpses for some reason. The devilish energy here is enough to turn a strong adult into a corpse soldier. The land in this area is completely surrounded by devilish energy. It looks like it was invaded."

"Really, it's quite spectacular..." Saying this, in Jiang Wang's sense, the boundless wilderness stretches into the distance, and the dense green buckwheat grows vigorously, but what's even more robust is the protruding from the piece of buckwheat , trembling and jumping like a flame, it looks almost as if it is about to materialize, representing the dark gray flames of demonic energy.It is densely covered like an extremely low haze, rolling and surging, constantly changing into various shapes.There are tiny scattered white flowers flashing away between the turbulence and fluctuations, so fast that it is almost suspected to be an illusion.

It was a strange scene that neither humans nor monsters could see.Jiang Wang shifted his gaze to Ye Mu.Among the spreading chaotic gray, the gray around him is the most intense and deep.However, when the gray approached Ye Mu's side, it stopped abruptly, and moved a foot away as if in fear.

That person stood there, as if he didn't fit in with this gray world, but it made him feel... damn delicious.

It feels delicious, tastes delicious, looks delicious.Just looking at it like this made his hunger blaze, and he almost couldn't bear it and rushed over, biting and gnawing, devouring nothing left.

With a flash in his eyes, he dispelled his sense of magic energy.The world was dyed back to color in Jiang Wang's eyes, but it didn't make his expression lessen.

He is hungry.

The last meal was almost equivalent to having spoiled, except that it was not sour and smelly.There is too little edible food in this area, and almost all of them are on the verge of destruction.Don't say you are full, just eat a good meal, it was a long time ago.

The accumulated hunger burst out like a switch in the induction state just now, which caught him off guard.He was almost in a trance, and turned into the state when he first woke up, completely dominated by hunger, and completely devoid of consciousness.

Thinking like this, he calmly pulled his eyes away from Ye Mu, and looked at the official road in the distance as if diverting his attention.

The thatched hut looked like a small place now, but he still seemed to be able to smell the aroma of the food.He couldn't help but swallowed, and wanted to go away to find something to fill his stomach, but his feet stood there motionless as if they had taken root.

It seems that there is a voice saying something, so hungry, eat it.

Oops, no, not now.

Why don't you eat the living?Obviously those foods are at your fingertips.There are countless people who have obviously been killed.

No particular reason.He can kill for protection, for profit, for deception, and even for fun, but he just can't accept it, he wants to kill for cannibalism.

So, no, you can't eat it.

why not.It's ridiculous when you think about it, isn't it.Eating is for survival.If you can kill for survival, why not kill for cannibalism.Isn't human eating killing?Why can't cannibalism.Haven't you already eaten a lot?Weren't those foods also human beings when they were alive?Is there any difference between the food obtained by being killed by others or by accident, and the food obtained by killing yourself?Couldn't it be that if you hunt it yourself, you will feel more at ease eating it?

No, only this will not work.

But if you don't eat it, you will die. Death is so terrible.Didn't it take a lot of hardships to escape from there?Is it really okay to die like this?Do you remember how much you paid for it?If you die, everything is meaningless, just for this ridiculous insistence.

No, he has reason to insist.

Reason... reason... what is it?

The vision in front of me is distorted and changing, the touch of fresh food is right in front of my eyes, within a short distance, as long as I bite down...

no... no...

why not?

That's the divide...

What boundary?

He Liang...and, Jiang Wang...

If you don't eat it, you will die.Is it okay if you die?Isn't there a goal that must be achieved?

Target……

Yes, goals are more important.

aims.

Eat it.

He opened his mouth wide and bit down fiercely, with the greed of a complete demon.

The bones creaked under the sharp teeth and then broke, bright red blood splashed, and then the flesh and bones were chewed and swallowed whole, like a leech that finally caught the target, and the head of the tarsus was plundered without lifting its head.

A gluttonous feast.

As the blood and flesh entered the throat, the burning hunger slowly faded away, and the rationality that was suppressed to the depths was connected and converged one by one, creaking and starting the machine called thinking.

The speed of chewing gradually slowed down, the strength of the bite weakened, and finally disappeared completely.

The vision that was dyed bright red slowly returned to clarity.

In the mouth, it is extremely delicious food.The already full stomach was still hungry for more.

In front of him was the magnified horrified face of the villagers.The head was turned upside down and the dead white eyes were turned, the blood and flesh on the front of the neck were blurred, and the white broken bones could be seen.

die……?

I... killed him?

I... ate... him?

The so-called principle, in fact, is as easy to destroy as glass.

Beautiful, dreamy, unrealistic, easily broken.

With a "snap", it disappeared.

It's so simple, it makes the previous persistence seem ridiculous.

In fact, there is no difference.

Yeah, it doesn't make a difference.

As long as you remember that, you can do anything else.

Yes, as long as you remember that, you can be anything but the target.

How ridiculous.

How ridiculous.

With a vague whimper, Jiang Wang coughed and trembled all over.Amidst the piercing cough, the curve of the blood-stained red lips rose little by little.The swaying light in the eyes flickered on and off, and was chaotic and clear for a while, shining a frightening cold light.He arched his back, coughing so hard it almost seemed like he was going to cough up his guts all at once.

An arm stretched out from the side, pulled him out of the fuzzy pile of flesh and blood without tenderness, and fell back heavily on his back.Immediately afterwards, a foot wearing black leather boots kicked the corpse that fell on the ground vigorously.

Ye Mu looked at Jiang Wang condescendingly, stomped on his chest and pinned him firmly, knelt down to get closer, and stretched out his hand to open his eyelids to check the condition of his pupils, but Jiang Wang didn't do anything when he fell there. The movement is just coughing and laughing all the way.The laughter was sandwiched between the coughing, showing some embarrassment, but it was also shockingly sharp.

But then another voice that was a thousand times more piercing and miserable screamed!It completely overshadowed the creepy laughter.

The corpse that fell on the ground sat up abruptly, seeing a large puddle of flesh and bones on its body, it let out another scream at a higher decibel level, it was almost unimaginable that an adult male would make such a shrill voice .Immediately, his movements were quite nimble, and while screaming, he rushed out of the thatched shed and fled.

As the screams faded away, there was a strange silence in the thatched shed.

Jiang Wang blinked his eyes, his eyelashes brushed over the fingers near his eyes, his gaze finally regained focus, and his gaze slowly moved upwards.

Ye Mu looked at him with a dark face, one hand had just let go of his eyelids, the other hand... the other arm where it should have been, was empty with some pieces of meat hanging down, half a white bone with a straight edge It poked out sharply, and there seemed to be tooth marks on it.

After pausing for a while, Jiang Wang hesitated to speak, and called:

"Ye Mu?"

The voice sounded a little timid.

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The author has something to say:

I originally wanted to give Jiang Wang's mount race a mighty and domineering name.

But the only word that came to my mind after thinking about it for 5 minutes was - Remy Martin.

So let's call it a low-level demon! -_-###