After bidding farewell to everyone, Zhao Ting hurriedly walked down the stairs of the restaurant and asked Zhao Si, "Where is my father?"

Zhao Si followed closely behind him and replied, "As soon as the master heard the news, he rushed over, and he should be already in the dart game now." ”

The two walked out of the restaurant quickly.

"Si'er, I heard you say that this business was only received this afternoon, and then there was an accident in the evening! That means that the place where the accident happened is not far from the city. Zhao Ting lowered his head and got into the carriage and analyzed.

Zhao Si took the reins of the horse from the little guy guarding the carriage, sat on the wheel, and said in a deep voice, "The villain also thinks so, the convoy of our dart bureau came out of the north gate of Yanxia City with so much gold and silver baggage, and it only took less than half a day to walk, and it must not have even gone out of the Beiding Plateau." ”

So the villain calculated that the convoy should have happened in the mountains outside the North City. ”

Zhao Ting glanced at him approvingly and said, "Not bad." ”

"Let's go, let's go to Beicheng first. ”

"Yes. ”

Just as Zhao Si turned his horse's head and was about to leave, a person hurriedly ran out of the restaurant.

"Cousin, cousin. ”

Hearing this voice, Zhao Ting's face suddenly darkened.

I saw Wang Junwei trotting all the way to the carriage, and said with a smile, "Cousin, you just said that there is something, are you going to subdue demons and eliminate demons?"

"No, no, don't guess," Zhao Ting waved his hand again and again, paused for a moment, and he asked, "Why did you run out?"

Wang Junwei replied with a smile, "I see that your cousin doesn't look right, and I know that something is wrong, so I want to come out and see if there is anything that can help you." ”

"No, no, I don't need your help," Zhao Tingbu refused him without thinking, "You go back and eat quickly, we're leaving." ”

"Really, no?" Wang Junwei asked unwillingly.

Zhao Ting nodded seriously and repeated again, "Really no, goodbye." ”

"Si'er, let's go. ”

"Yes. ”

The carriage galloped all the way and gradually disappeared into Anding Street.

Only Wang Junwei, who was left with an injured face, stood in place, silently staring at the direction where the carriage was going, and secretly said in his heart, "Am I so terrible?"

......

......

The pitch-black canopy of heaven is like an invisible net, enveloping all living beings.

Outside the North City Gate of Yanxia County.

Zhao Si walked over with a tall red horse and handed the reins to Zhao Ting.

"Okay, that's it," Zhao Ting waved his hand, "You go back first." ”

Zhao Si watched Zhao Ting get on the horse and turn his head to leave, his mouth opened, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't speak, just silently watched Zhao Ting ride away and gradually walk away.

......

The northern suburbs of Yanxia County.

At the foot of Huaiyin Mountain.

A big red horse galloped forward, and the sound of the horse's hooves sounded like a drum, resounding in the deep and quiet mountain forest.

Galloping all the way along the mountain road of this Huaiyin Mountain, two forks suddenly appeared in front of Zhao Ting's eyes.

He frowned slightly, grabbed the reins, jumped off his horse, and crouched on the ground to take a closer look.

"Well, it should be this," he muttered after a moment, standing up and muttering, "there are obvious signs of wheels running over this road. ”

Saying that, Zhao Ting led the horse behind him and walked two steps forward, walked to a pine tree that was about ten years old, tied the sweaty horse to the tree, and then strode along the mountain road towards the other side of the mountain.

In the middle of the night, on the other side of Huaiyin Mountain, on the north slope.

A slightly thin figure walked out of a large fir forest on the mountainside on the northern slope, and it was Zhao Ting.

Now it is the tail of May, between the alternation of spring and summer, most of the flowers and trees in the mountains are growing very well, densely surrounded by a dense circle, the forest shadow is lush, and from time to time there are the sound of beasts roaring and insects echoing.

With the cold moonlight projected from the sky, Zhao Ting clearly saw at this time that there was a faint line of blood left on the mountain road not far away, and the blood stains were mottled reddish-brown, obviously having dried up for a long time.

Zhao Ting's expression was slightly abrupt, and he looked up to the front, only to see that this line of reddish-brown blood had been spreading along the mountain road, pointing farther away.

Seeing this, he no longer hesitated, and strode forward along the point of the bloodstain.

After a while, the bloodstains finally came to an end, and the direction pointed to a cave covered with gray-white rocks at the bottom of the low slope of the mountain.

At the entrance of the cave, the strange rocks were craggy and terrifying, like a giant beast crouching here, opening its terrible mouth wide and waiting for the arrival of food.

Seeing this, Zhao Ting couldn't help but mention a strong sense of vigilance in his heart, slowed down his steps, held all his breath, and slowly approached the entrance of this cave step by step.

Suddenly!

A man's voice came from the cave, and it was so strong and powerful that the owner of the voice should have been quite happy at this time.

"After sucking these two blood food 'spirits', you should be able to break through to the second order, right?"

"Gah!"

Another shrill cry like a crow's cry sounded in the cave, a high-pitched voice that seemed to respond to the man's question.

"Okay, good," the man said "yes" three times in a row, obviously very happy, "These two-legged sheep who have practiced martial arts really have enough essence and blood, but they are much stronger than those ordinary blood food. ”

"Well, after a while, I'll help you find more blood food, so that you can eat enough at one time. You, too, grow up quickly......"

In a moment, there was a sudden tooth-aching chewing sound in the cave, as if a beast was gnawing at the bones of its prey, and those who listened to it shuddered.

"Alright, eat these two two-legged sheep, we should go. The man's voice was gentle and soft, as if he was speaking to his lover, but the words he said were extremely bloody and terrifying, which made people feel creepy.

The two monsters in the cave were so engrossed in eating that no one noticed that a solid, lifelike black figure had slipped quietly down the mountain wall into the cave, lurking in the shadow of a raised rock.

......

In the cave, on a simple stone bed, a middle-aged man in rags, with his eyes closed, was unconscious.

On the gray rock wall near the stone bed, there is a night pearl the size of a fist, which is constantly emitting a white light outward, shining like day in the originally dark cave.

On the side of the stone bed where the middle-aged man was lying, there was a nine-headed strange bird the size of a buffalo standing at this time, there were nine strange birds, eight of which had a human face on their heads, all of them were old, young, women and children, and only the remaining bird's head was broken, as if it had been eaten by something in half, and only half of the bird's head was left, which was extremely weird.

What was even more frightening was that this huge strange bird was now using the human face of an old man with a white beard to press the chest of a gray-robed young man at his feet.

As the mouth of the white-bearded old man on its head opened and closed, a stream of white essence that ordinary people could not detect with the naked eye suddenly overflowed from the gray-robed young man's body, and flowed into the mouth of the white-bearded old man.

Gradually, gradually.

The strange white-bearded old man's bird head turned young at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally completely changed into the image of a middle-aged man.

The face of the gray-robed young man lying unconscious on the ground was getting older and older, and more and more wrinkles climbed up his cheeks, which originally did not contain the slightest wrinkles, and finally, the wrinkles on his face were so dense that they were too many to count, and even dark yellow corpse spots appeared on some of his skin, which looked like candles in the wind, and had reached the twilight of his life.

"Quack~"

After doing all this, the nine bird capitals of the nine-headed monster bird screamed excitedly, and the sound was extremely harsh and ugly.

Its other woman's head jerked out, opening its jaw, revealing its jagged teeth glowing with cold light, and biting off most of the old man's body lying on the ground in one gulp.

"Boom...... Boom"

The tooth-aching chewing sound rang out again.

At the same time, standing in the shadow corner of the cave, the young man in a black brocade robe also smiled and spoke, his voice was gentle, and his eyes were full of anticipation, "Well, it's almost there, there is only one head left." ”

The young man was born with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and his face was like a knife and an axe, with sharp edges and corners.

His long black hair, like ink, was tied up by a delicate purple and gold crown on his head, and the black brocade robe on his body was obviously woven with a needle and thread of heavenly silk.

He wore a carved lifelike dragon-shaped Hetian topaz around his waist and a pair of moire black boots embroidered with gold thread on his feet.

The whole body is a rare treasure in the world.

This is not the most terrifying, the most terrifying thing is that this young man does not have a trace of killing force on his body at all!

Obviously, he is human.