After returning to Liuzhuang in a hurry, Zhao Ting immediately released the pigeon left by Zhao Tai to communicate with him.

Before leaving, Zhao Tai had instructed that if he found that the snake demon appeared near Linshan City, let Zhao Ting inform him as soon as possible, and he had his own way to deal with it, so Zhao Ting did not dare to be careless.

After the pigeon is released, it spreads its wings and flies all the way to the depths of the Qilian Mountains.

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......

At the same time, the big families in Linshan City received a message from the county magistrate, Lord Xu, and the old men and ladies of various prefectures hurriedly drove the carriage or took the boat with their close servants to take refuge outside the city.

Linshan City suddenly became chaotic.

"What day is today? Why are the old men in the city going out of the city in a hurry? In just a moment, I saw the convoy of the Zhao family and the Li family going out from the south gate, and the convoy of the Wang family was also behind. ”

"I don't know, maybe it's ancestor worship, big families value this. ”

"But it's not Qingming yet!"

The vendors in the market began to discuss it word by word.

At this time, another fish seller also interjected and said, "I see, it is not like worshipping ancestors, but like fleeing." I don't know if you've heard, the Zhao Jiang family has already hastily dismissed most of the family members and servants in the mansion, and the Zhao family is even already selling their property!"

"You say, what is this not a refugee?"

"Fleeing?" everyone was a little surprised, "Now that we are in a peaceful and prosperous era, life is good, and there is no war, why is it difficult to escape?"

"I don't know," said the fish vendor, who had already gathered up his stalls, "and I'm going to go out of the city for a while, and wait and see what is going on in the city." ”

In a few moments, the fish vendor had already packed up his stall and was ready to leave.

"Hey, Lao Li, then I'll occupy your stall first?"

"Use it, use it. The fish seller never looked back, and gradually walked away.

The rest of the crowd didn't take what he said seriously at all, and were still laughing.

"Whatever, even if the sky falls, won't the business still have to be done?

"That's it, Lao Li, listening to the wind and rain, even cares about his livelihood, it's really unbelievable......"

At the same time, no one noticed that outside the north gate of Linshan City, an old man in a black robe wearing a hat had quietly walked into the city, and there were many soldiers guarding the door, but no one noticed.

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Yanagiso.

Zhao Tai, who received Zhao Ting's message, had already hurried back from the Qilian Mountains, and after Zhao Ting told him what he had seen and heard last night, he couldn't help but pinch a cold sweat for Zhao Ting.

Although Zhao Ting's tone was understated, how could Zhao Tai not know the danger?

"Then ...... dad and aunt?"

Zhao Ting knew what he was worried about, and comforted: "I have all settled in, and they will stay in Nanshan Temple outside the city for a while." ”

"It's just that most of the people are still in the city now, if the snake demon appears, these people are afraid that they will be in a catastrophe!"

Zhao Tai sighed, and said a little helplessly: "When I came back, I had already crushed the beads and informed the Lin family's God Refining Realm senior, even if he couldn't pull away, he would contact other seniors to come here to eliminate demons, all we can do now is wait." ”

"I hope that snake demon will appear later, and I hope that the predecessors of the demon demon will come soon. ”

Zhao Ting clenched his fists when he heard this, he didn't like the feeling of resignation to fate now, he was angry, but he didn't have the slightest way.

"Is it really just a matter of waiting?" he asked softly.

Zhao Tai smiled bitterly: "You can still pray while waiting!"

"Brother, I know what you want to do, but that snake demon is about to enter the fourth order, do you know what this means? It means, if it wants to, it can kill you and me in an instant, we don't even have the slightest room for resistance, the gap is too big!"

"And we don't know anything about it, its natural powers, its attacks, we don't know anything about it. ”

"In this case, when you go up to save someone, you are completely giving it food! If it knows what you think, I'm afraid it will smile crookedly. ”

“......”

After a pause, Zhao Tai continued to advise: "Also, you'd better settle down these days and don't go out." Otherwise, if the spirit clan senior who came to the mountain city to eliminate the demon found you, treated you as "ominous", and beheaded you easily, who would you talk to at that time?"

"I ......"

After thinking about it, Zhao Ting felt that this was really possible, and he was silent for a moment.

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The sun is setting.

Little by little, the sunlight on the walls moved, and the sky gradually darkened.

Inside the north gate of Linshan City, a thick-eyed defender looked at the gloomy sky, and couldn't help but hide his face and yawn.

After standing guard at the city gate for a day, several soldiers defending the city had a little tiredness on their faces. Fortunately, it's almost time for the shift, and I will soon be able to go home and sleep beautifully.

Thinking of this, the expressions of several people were a little relaxed, and even leaned the iron halberd in their hands against the wall, stretching comfortably.

However, no one noticed that a thin crack quietly appeared on the bluestone paved pavement under the city wall, and from the crack, a trace of extremely light-colored black mist was slowly seeping out.

Soon, the black mist at the city gate accumulated more and more, condensed but did not disperse, and enveloped the entire city gate.

A black-armored sergeant with the nearest five-short stature was the first to notice the abnormality, pointing to the crack and the black mist and said, "Hey, why is this cracking?"

As he spoke, the black-armored sergeant walked over and waved his hand to dispel the black mist at the city gate.

While waving his hand, he turned his head to look at the horse-faced black-armored sergeant behind him, and said a little impatiently: "Old Song, do you want to go to the class room to see what's going on? It's all this time, why haven't the people on duty come yet? I've been hungry for a day, and I'm still waiting to go home for dinner." ”

As he spoke, the originally nonchaliant expression on the face of the horse-faced black-armored sergeant behind him suddenly changed, and he became frightened, as if he had seen some terrible sight.

"Lao Liu, you ...... Your hand ......" The horse-faced black-armored sergeant raised his hand in horror and pointed ahead, his voice trembling.

"My hand?" the black-armored sergeant from before looked at the strange look on the horse-faced black-armored sergeant's face, and couldn't help but ask in surprise.

Then he turned his head: "Hey, where's my hand?"

I saw that the small half of his right arm that had penetrated into the black mist had long since disappeared, and the whole arm was broken from the edge of the black mist, and the wound was in a mess, as if it had been eaten by this black mist.

What's even more bizarre is that half of the black-armored sergeant's arm has been swallowed, and there is not a trace of blood in the wound of the severed arm, and he himself doesn't seem to notice a trace of pain at all.

"My hands, where's my hands?" the black-armored sergeant looked at his severed arm in disbelief, and kept repeating, "Where's my hand?"

After a while, his body suddenly felt pain.

The sharp pain that suddenly hit his arm made him instantly pale, and beads of sweat the size of beans slipped down his forehead, and the whole person was a little unsteady in an instant.

"Ah!!h

He let out a beast-like roar of pain, and his body fell to the ground with a bang, falling to the strange black mist that had enveloped the city gates, and the area had grown larger and larger.

As he fell to the ground, the rest of the city defenders could see clearly, and the half of his body that he entered in the black mist was gone in an instant, leaving only a small half of his legs and feet.

The missing part, like ...... Dissolved by these black fogs!

"Run, the black mist eats people!"

The horse-faced black-armored sergeant was the first to react, and he threw away the halberd in his hand tremblingly, and ran towards the city in a panic.

The remaining garrisons also abandoned their armor and fled.