Lian Du pinched the crumpled paper ball in his sleeve, and was a little distracted, at this time, he only heard Master Helian laugh and groan: "That bamboo building is too simple to entertain you two distinguished guests, do you think there is any favorite residence along the way?" Or did the old man make arrangements for the two of them on his own initiative?"

Lian was shocked that the note had something to do with it, and Mr. Hase, like an unpredictable prophet, guessed that Master Helian was going to mention the residence.

Lian Zhizhong secretly thought: "Could it be that Mr. Hase-sensei gave me a secret note, is there another arrangement?"

After hesitating, facing the inquiring gaze of Lord Helian, Lian Du cleared his throat, pretending to recall the scenery he had seen all the way in Helian Manor, but in fact replied according to the meaning of the note: "The hut on the bank of the creek next to the arched bridge is still relatively quiet, so let's go there!

"Good!" Mingzhu smiled sweetly.

Although I don't know much about Mr. Hase, I feel that I am more reliable than Master Helian.

Master Helian nodded, ordered the servants to go and clean up, and chatted a few more words, Steward Ji walked in quickly and said something to Master Helian.

Master Helian's face changed, and he suddenly got up and said, "Helian Villa has many distinguished guests, I will miss it first!"

As soon as Lian Duan stood up and looked out, he saw several people in purple or blue gauze standing in the corridor, waiting for Master Helian with their faces facing inward, but the veil covered their faces, and they couldn't see clearly, and Lian Duel frowned: "Hubang?"

Chang Gu also stood up slowly, stretched his deformed back and glanced out hurriedly, and said in a dumb voice: "It's not from Fox Island, strange, why is it similar to Fox Bang?"

Lian Duel took advantage of the fact that there were no people from Helian Manor, and hurriedly asked, "Teacher Changgu, do you have any purpose in living in a hut by the stream?"

"If you enter Helian Manor, you can't help it, and you don't want to be trapped, right?" Changgu said quietly: "That stream leads directly to the Liuqiao River outside the manor, and also to the moat outside the city wall, if there is really something important, I can help you." ”

Mingzhu paused and asked, "Teacher, could it be that Helian Manor really uses living people to make pills?"

"Hey!" Mr. Hagatani let out a sigh of relief, and the sound of "rustling" air flow sounded in his chest, and after standing up, because his back was extremely rickety, it was actually not much higher than sitting, and Nagatani took a step and said, "Hearing is false, you can go with me to take a look!"

After leading Lian Duel and Mingzhu out of the long corridor and through a pine forest that was so green and blackened, Nagatani came to a barren hill like a mass grave!

Vultures hovering overhead for food, corpses of animals or whatever, emitting a foul stench!

The ground was lined with steeple-roofed huts, each with a high stack of wheat-like herbs, and not far away were seven or eight black-roofed wagons that had been seen in the medicine fields, and some servants walked back and forth between the wagons and the huts, carrying trays full of medicine bottles in their arms.

Lian Du and Mingzhu covered their noses, bypassed the rotten and blackened bones and approached the thatched hut, and saw that the thatched hut was casually covering the door with straw mats, and the house was dark, flashing with a little green light like fireflies, and the sound of "rustling" came into the ears.

As soon as he approached the door, a pale face suddenly appeared in front of Lian Duel's eyes, and Mingzhu took a step back in fright!

Immediately found that this was a colorless man, his eyes glanced at the two of them blankly, and retreated to a blazing medicine tripod in the center of the thatched hut, his palms were glowing with oily green palms, and he threw all kinds of medicinal materials into the tripod with an expressionless face.

"He... It turned out to be an alchemist, how could he be here?" Mingzhu covered his snort, pulled the corner of Lian Duel's clothes and pulled him out, Mingzhu's delicate eyebrows frowned, and said to Lian Duel: "Brother Lian Duel, let's go to other huts to have a look." ”

The two of them looked at a few thatched huts one by one, they were all in a similar situation, Mingzhu knew that alchemists had always had a high status, even if they were not highly cultivated, they had great use, but there was no one like this black laborer who was stuffy in a stinking thatched hut to refine medicine.

What's more, several alchemists blankly caught small beasts such as live roe deer and live raccoon dogs from the cage, and after draining the blood in the medicine pod, they casually threw the corpse outside the door and let it rot.

Mingzhu was surprised and whispered to Lian Duel: "Brother Lian Duel, look at their feet. ”

Lian Du looked over and saw that these alchemists were wearing iron-blue shackles on their ankles, and it seemed that they were grounded here.

Mingzhu stared at the pills that had been refined next to the medicine pod, and said to Lian Duel: "Judging from the internal force of the fire in the hands of these alchemists, although they are not superb, they are not mediocre, but these pills are just extremely ordinary, and they can only be said to be cheap healing and helpful pills. ”

Lian Du looked around at the hundreds of thatched huts covered with green smoke, and wondered, "Could it be that this is a processing place for mass production of pills?"

"That's good!" Chang Gu behind him came over, and said in a hoarse voice: "These people are all alchemists who were caught from all over the mainland, and because their cultivation is not high, there is no one to protect them, so they are caught." What Helian Manor asked them to do was all this kind of trick of mass-producing low-cost pills, these pills were not sold in Longdu, they all flowed into all parts of the mainland, and the target was also a high-quality and low-cost signboard, which was exclusively for the middle and low-level people to buy, in fact, the purchasing power of these people was not small, so it hit the mainland market. ”

Lian Du was puzzled: "Mr. Hase, why did you come to such a place where rats and wolves are mixed?"

Chang Gu sighed and said: "I came here after the Shenggu took a leave of absence, in the past half a year, it was okay at first, just refining some high-grade pills for Helian Mountain Villa to sell outside the mainland, although it affected the business of the mainland, but there was no harm, it has been different in the past few months, not only the demand for pills has increased dramatically, but the attributes of the pills have also become more and more darkened, refining all the unsightly blood pills, and doing unsightly business! I heard that it is all the meaning of the Longqiu family!"

"Longqiu Family..."Lian Du muttered a few times, his previous impression of the noble Qinghua of the Longqiu Family was swept away, and he wondered: "Could it be that the carriage I saw in the medicine field today was also sent to the ancient country of Longdu to be sold on the mainland?"

"Hmm!" Chang Gu said: "In fact, not only Helian Manor has undergone great changes in the past few months, but the other two states are all the same, and the business between the Huhu State and the outside world has become more and more frequent, and Zijiacheng has even eaten the bear's heart and leopard gall, and dares to provoke the head of the Hanging River, otherwise, Longdu has already been wiped out by several ancient clans, and it is not peaceful now!"

Lian Du wondered, where did he go, where did he come to the end of his life?

But remembering that when he was on the periphery of Hangchuan, Bai Yan said to himself that now there is a mysterious force to help the Yan Demon Clan work, and the chameleon helps the Yan Demon Clan to plunder the population of Hangchuan, and the prices of pills, weapons, raw materials and other materials in the Shenfan Continent have also taken the opportunity to soar, and there is a huge consortium that can compete with Feiyu Mountain as the mastermind behind all this, and the duel has entered the tiger's den, and it would be a pity not to pull out the tiger's whiskers!

Lian Duel looked through the fabric of his sleeves, reluctantly changed his breath of fresh air, and asked, "I'm afraid that Mr. Hase-sensei is here, and he looks like a guest of honor, and what he has to do is the same as them, right?"

"They are birds with legs, and I am just a bird in a golden cage. Teacher Nagatani said: "Usually, I keep concocting pills in Firethorn Ashta, and Firethorn Ashta is the real cornucopia of alchemy!"

Lian Jue hurriedly said, "Teacher Hase, can I go with you to Firethorn Ashtari to have a look?"

Chang Gu let out a "huh" in his throat, and said suspiciously: "I remember that you don't have any interest in refining medicine, what's the matter, you have changed sex?"

"No, I'm just looking for something. Lian Du said.

"What is it?" if I could bring it out for you?" asked Chang Gu as he stared at Lian Du faintly.

Lian Du thought about it, then said half of it, and said in a low voice: "What I'm looking for is a "ruin". ”

"Shhh

"What legend!" Lian Duel hurriedly asked.

Chang Gu's voice stopped abruptly, shook his head secretly, and said coldly: "I never provoke superfluous things, if you really want to find any relics, during the Fighting Medicine Conference, outsiders can also enter the tower, you can find a way to go to the top floor to find the answer!"

As he spoke, Chang Gu stretched out a dead wood-like finger from inside the black robe, pointing to the distance of Helian Manor, where Firethorn Ashta was like a sharp sword, shining like pig iron under the cloud-drifting dome.