Chapter Eighty-Six: The Third Episode
Suddenly, two days passed, and the team traveled starry and night, and on this day they came to a post station.
While resting at the post station, Sheng Ash learned that there was less than a day's journey ahead, and he arrived at the county seat of Shengyan County, named Yanggu.
Yanggu City, in the center of Shengyan County, around it, there are a total of eight townships and six counties, this post station, in Qingping County, among the six counties.
This post station is not set up by Qingping County, but donated by a wealthy businessman in the county, here is like an ordinary post station at first, but later, it slowly became a place of half inn and half post station, for the people of the official family, accommodation and rest are free, but for ordinary Jianghu people, it is not.
However, despite this, the fees are not high.
The station is called Qualcomm, and it is located at a crossroads, with traffic extending in all directions, and there are countless people who stop here every day.
Qiushu's team is not all staying at the Qualcomm Station, but only Qiushu, Xuanyu Lord, Lou Yanxin, Huang Wanli and Sheng Gray five people, in addition to two female flame guards, and the rest, including Lou Yanxin's mastiff mount and Huang Wanli's Baixi mount, are all arranged in the camp outside Qingping County, which is a wood, very hidden and not easy to be detected.
When they came, on the order of Qiushu, they all dressed up carefully.
Qiushu pretended to be a noble son, and the Xuanyu lord did not change much, Lou Yanxin and Sheng Gray they, all dressed as Qiushu's domestic servants, except for Qiushu riding a tall horse, the rest of the people, etc., are all riding bantam horses, this kind of horse, generally for the servants to ride, although ugly, but the victory is in endurance lasting.
After entering the post station, Lou Yanxin asked for a few upper rooms, all of which were the third and highest floors of the Qualcomm Post Station, posing as if she was going to stay overnight, but in fact, everything still depended on Qiu Shu's orders.
In the past few days, they haven't slept well, but for them, no one seems to feel how tired, among these people, except for Sheng Shen and Xuan Yu Lord, they are all martial artists who have cultivated to enter the martial boy realm or above, and this fatigue is not worth mentioning for them at all.
The winter evening came early, and soon, it was time for dinner.
Downstairs, Sheng Shen saw that there were already a lot of people sitting in the hall on the first floor, and according to this, if it was more evening, he might not be able to find a seat in the hall.
Several people asked for two tables, one by the window, for Qiushu, Xuanyu and Lou Yanxin to sit, and the other next to them sat Sheng Shen and Huang Wanli.
As for the two female flame guards, they were serving beside Qiu Shu.
On the table of Qiushu, it is chatting while eating, although the voice is very low, but a noble son plus a little sister carved in pink, and a big girl with a delicate face, this combination is enough to attract many diners who eat here.
And on the table of Sheng Gray, he only eats and does not talk.
In fact, the two of them have nothing to say, how Huang Wanli looks at Sheng Gray and looks unaccustomed, although he has never said this explicitly, but his stinky face clearly shows his attitude.
In Sheng Wanli's eyes, there is no Huang Wanli at all, if Bai Xi is here, he may take a few more looks, but only when Huang Wanli is there, he really can't think of this person, as for Huang Wanli's identity as a general, Sheng Shen has not yet figured out which level he belongs to.
As he devoured the food on the table, he had been thinking about what had happened these days, especially the two things related to demonic energy, and he had thought about it over and over again in his mind.
In the battle against the demon lion, especially the last humanoid demonic qi, he was not without gains, he had previously run the Yuan Demon Sutra and "eaten" two very small parts, the fragments of demonic qi torn from the humanoid demonic qi.
Only these two small pieces of demonic qi fragments, the Demon Source Crystal brought to him, made his bone replacement process improve again, and the most direct change for him himself is that there have been some improvements in speed, strength, etc., these improvements are not obvious, but Sheng Shen knows that if it continues like this, then, in the first stage of the Yuan Demon Sutra, when the bone replacement is completed, his physical body will have a change that may not be called earth-shattering, but it is definitely a fundamental change.
What is the name of such a process in the book, oh yes, quantitative change causes qualitative change, that's it.
After a few days of careful recollection, for the demonic qi, the monster, and even the demon clan, Sheng Fu had his own judgment in his heart, and also formulated a series of plans for how to deal with it if he encountered it again next time.
It's just that these plans are very rough, just a framework, and the specific details and specific steps in them have to be further improved.
This perfection is not something that can be completed in a while, and it takes more experience in fighting monsters.
Sheng Shen thought about it, and his thoughts drifted a little far, and at this moment, outside the post station, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves, and at least five horses rode into the courtyard.
Outside began to be lively, there were small servants to lead the horses, there were small two to serve, and soon, a group of people with a gust of cold wind, strode into the hall.
Xiao Er next to him hurriedly found a table and waited for someone to sit down.
Sheng Shen glanced up, these five people were wearing soap clothes, carrying sabers at their waists, and hats on their backs.
Huang Wanli didn't roll his eyelids, just took a sip of wine there.
After Xiao Er sat down, he asked earnestly, "Master Ma, is it still the same today?"
The person who became the master of the horse by him did not insult the name, he had a horse face, extremely long, and his expression looked very cold.
Ma Ye took off the hat on his back, put it on the table, and said, "That's right, it's still the same, you have to hurry." ”
Xiao Er left in response, and soon after, with a few plates of corned beef and a few pots of wine, he trotted over, and poured them diligently, and when he left, Xiao Er said with a smile: "Master Ma, what time is this, why does it still look like he is still in a hurry?
Ma Ye seemed to be very familiar with this little two, and he was not angry, but nodded, and said in a rather solemn tone: "Well, this time it was Liuchuan County who temporarily called a few of our brothers to come over, saying that there was another murder over there." ”
"Murder?" Xiao Er's face changed.
"Yes, it is said that it is another monster with black gas all over his body, and he has killed a lot of people, it is hard to say whether it is true or not, and we will not know until we arrive, but if it is true, this is the third case in our Shengyan County. After Ma Ye said that, he kept silent and began to eat and drink with those few people, and the speed was extremely fast.
After eating, he didn't stop at all, settled the bill, and went out on the horse.
The speaker had no intention, but the listener had a heart, Sheng Shen glanced at the Lord of Xuanyu, but found that the Lord of Xuanyu also glanced at him.
Sheng Shen frowned slightly, as soon as he heard the man say that the monster was bubbling with black gas, his first reaction was to think of the demon lion, but listening to what the man said, this is the third incident, could it be that before, Shengyan County had already encountered two monsters?
Sheng Shen wants to go and see it, but if he leaves now, how should he tell Qiu Shu?
At this moment, Qiu Shu suddenly stood up and walked towards the door.
Lou Yanxin left a silver coin on the table and followed out, and Lord Xuanyu glanced back at Sheng Shen and followed.
Huang Wanli didn't stop, he also left a silver coin on the table, and followed quickly, without looking at Sheng Shen at all.
Sheng Shen had no choice but to follow, and could only look for a chance to investigate after resting from reading the autumn book in the evening.
Out of the door, a female flame guard brought horses, Qiu Shu went first, it was so late, and he didn't say where to go.
The rest of the people, but none of them asked, either they didn't dare, or they just didn't want to.
Sheng Shen wanted to ask, but Qiushu had already left the post station and galloped towards the west.
The crowd had to follow, and soon after, the sound of horses' hooves was heard in front of them.
Qiu Shu's speed did not decrease but increased, and he soon chased to the road in front of the people in front of him, and then turned his horse's head and stopped.
When Sheng Shen came up, he could see very clearly, these people were the people who were dressed up just now, and they were all wearing hats and were hurrying at full speed.
Qiu Shu and the others stood in the middle of the road, seven people, seven horses, almost blocked the entire road, and after those people caught up, they had to slow down their horses, and finally stopped in front of Qiu Shu.
A red-faced man behind Ma Ye had an angry face, and he wanted to reprimand angrily, but he raised his hand to stop Ma Ye.
Ma Ye looked Qiushu up and down, hugged his fists and said: "This son, he seems to be familiar at the Qualcomm Station, I don't know the name of the honorable person, is he stopping here to be an inferior person, or is there something else?"
Qiu Shu didn't answer, and raised his right hand slightly.
Lou Yanxin instantly understood, and said on the side: "My son-in-law's name is not something you can know, my son-in-law has a few questions to ask, if the answer is good, there will be another reward." ”
The red-faced man's face turned even redder, this time, he didn't care about Ma Ye's obstruction at all, and shouted loudly: "Who are you, do you know who we are, and if you delay our affairs, aren't you afraid that we will arrest you and send you to the official?"
Lou Yanxin's face did not change, she just looked at Ma Ye and continued: "Ma Ye, right, what do you say?"
Ma Ye's expression was a little worried, he said cautiously: "Don't dare to deceive you, I am waiting for the arrest of the county government of Qingping County, this time at the request of Linxian County, to deal with a murder case, I don't know what you have any problems, can you hurry up, as long as my old horse knows, you can know everything, if you don't know, then there is no way." ”