A.D. 12653, Shenlong calendar 2188, early spring. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Xia Huaguo, Qinnan County, Yujiang City.

The alleys behind Refining Street are usually used to temporarily pile up some refining garbage, slag from refining metal, leftovers from various animal skins, broken jade bottles, internal organs and dirty blood of demonic beasts or demon beasts, these things are piled up in the alley indiscriminately, and all kinds of smells are mixed together, even rats do not want to visit.

At 5 o'clock in the morning, the sky was slightly red, and Liu Tao walked in the alley, focusing all his attention on the piles of garbage in the alley.

The bamboo stick in his hand occasionally played twice in the garbage, occasionally dotting or picking, and one or two things in the garbage always jumped into the black leather bag full of patches around his waist like elves.

Liu Tao is a waste picker who makes a living by picking up garbage.

Emaciated, slightly dark, 173 tall, very ordinary appearance, the only bright spot is the pair of dark and bright eyes, which makes him look very divine.

But the centipede-like scar on his face ruined this look, and he looked extremely hideous, even if he smiled, it could make people retreat.

Because of this scar, he couldn't find a job and had to scavenge for a living.

Every morning at 3 a.m., I get out of my house in the sewers, spend two hours scooping through the garbage for a day, and leave before the cleaning team arrives to sell the garbage to Yao Qiao'er's refining workshop.

Looking up at the sky, Liu Tao put away the wooden stick, withdrew his gaze from the garbage heap, and limped out of Cangzi.

There are more spiritual materials in the garbage today, and there are still more than a dozen garbage heaps behind the shops that have not been cleaned up, but they must be abandoned, and when the time comes, the cleaning team will arrive soon.

The cleaning team is responsible for throwing garbage from the city into the Blackwater Canyon, 30 kilometers outside the city, every day, and they not only clean up the garbage, but also the people they see as garbage.

Liu Tao belongs to the garbage in their eyes.

Entering an alley in the slum, the sky was already bright, and from a distance, I saw a shadow clinging to the door at the end of the alley.

Seeing her, the corners of Liu Tao's mouth smiled unconsciously, and the centipede-like scar on his face became particularly soft, that was Yao Qiaoer.

"Go wash and wash, I've already washed and dried your clothes for you yesterday." Yao Qiao'er took Liu Tao's black leather bag and classified the spiritual materials in it.

Washing away the chaotic smell of garbage on his body, Liu Tao sat quietly at the stone table, watching Yao Qiaoer clean up these spiritual materials every day, Liu Tao relaxed from the bottom of his heart.

These spiritual materials are very messy, the largest is only the size of a palm, and the small ones are like beans, it is difficult for Liu Tao to find them before dawn, and it is difficult for Yao Qiaoer to have such patience to distinguish and classify them one by one.

"Nineteen copper coins in total." Yao Qiao'er had calluses on her slender fingers, and gently put the copper coin into Liu Tao's hand, "I haven't eaten breakfast yet, I have prepared broken bone porridge, which is good for your legs." ”

"Two bowls." Liu Tao was smiling at the corners of her eyes, her heart was also smiling, and when Yao Qiaoer turned around and stood up, she flicked three copper coins into her apron pocket.

"Don't," Yao Qiao'er wrinkled her nose and glared at Liu Tao, and threw the copper coin back, "When you and the mouse go out of the city, help me inquire, my father and Uncle Xiong went to pick red dragon grass, and they should come back last night." ”

Liu Tao nodded, and if he insisted on paying for the porridge, Yao Qiaoer would be angry.

Leaving the Yao family's refining workshop, Liu Tao stood in front of the south city gate, at this time the flow of people gradually increased, a thin and dexterous figure was swaying in the crowd, when he got into a certain alley, there would always be people shouting to catch the thief, but where is the thief?

This is the mouse, the brother of life and death who lives in the sewer with Liu Tao.

Lingnan Demon Forest, that forest full of opportunities and horrors, even if the peak martial artist of the Moon Swallowing Peak, did not dare to go fifty kilometers into it.

Five years ago, Liu Tao and the mouse woke up from the iron box hidden deep in the ground, at that time, they were only thirteen years old, and they had experienced countless lives and deaths, and walked out alive from the depths of more than 500 kilometers in Lingnan Mosen.

What kind of hardships and tribulations have they experienced, and how many death-defying crises they have encountered, the two of them can't count at all, they only know how to give each other's backs, and they desperately block their brothers' backs.

The rat got closer and closer, and more than ten meters away from Liu Tao, he threw a bulging money bag to a strong man, and then ran to Liu Tao with a grin on a piece of thick bread, "In such a good mood?" Hooked up with sister-in-law again? ”

The sister-in-law in the mouse's mouth is Yao Qiaoer, and Liu Tao's previous affection with her is actually only a piece of paper that has not been pierced.

But this layer of paper Liu Tao didn't want to poke, he was just a scavenger, not only broke his appearance, but also had countless dark wounds on his body, he knew that he couldn't give Yao Qiaoer anything, not even the most basic living security.

didn't mention this matter to the mouse, Liu Tao snorted twice, "Is the protection fee of the black hand enough?" ”

Living at the bottom of Yujiang City, if you don't want to be bullied every day, you must pay protection money to protect yourself from being chased by the mafia.

"That's enough." The mouse stretched out his slender five fingers and shook them, five fingers, and completed five completely different actions at the same time, and then grabbed Liu Tao's shoulder, "Let's go, eat snake meat." ”

Every week, Liu Tao and the rat spend an afternoon laying a trap in a depression 40 kilometers from Dongcheng to trap the shadow snake with the green poison dart frog.

The Shadow Snake is a low-level magical beast that hides in the shadows and spits poisonous sand, which will not kill people, but it is not pleasant to be stained, and where the poisonous sand sticks, it will definitely produce sores and pus.

This poisonous sand is worthless, and no one wants it, but it is a lifesaver for Liu Tao.

"Yesterday afternoon, someone saw Uncle Yao and Uncle Xiong walking back along the Blackwater Canyon," mentioning Uncle Yao, the mouse was well-informed, "What? He didn't get home last night? ”

Liu Tao nodded, with a hint of worry in his eyes.

There are only thirty kilometers left from Yujiang City, and with Yao Boxiaolin's early steps, you can enter the city in half an hour.

"There's not much to detour, so let's stop by." The mouse knew Liu Tao's intentions, and the two turned to the Blackwater Canyon.

Heishui Canyon, also known as the Garbage Valley, is the dumping ground for all the garbage of tens of millions of people in Yujiang City, no one knows how deep this canyon is, for thousands of years, countless garbage has been thrown down, never filled up.

This canyon is very special, it stretches from the depths of thousands of kilometers of Lingnan Mosen, and it is thirty kilometers away from Yujiang City.

But the Black Water Canyon doesn't stink, I heard some martial artists with particularly heavy curiosity say that there have been warriors in the late stage of Xiaolin and the peak of the martial arts, and about a thousand meters below, there is a layer of miasma, rotting muscles and bones, even if you use thousand-year-old purple silk to hang stones to measure the depth below the miasma, it is also eroded in an instant.

In the long run, slowly, people's curiosity about the Heishui Canyon faded, it is the garbage dump of Yujiang City, and there is no point in exploring it at all.

Liu Tao and the rat walked on the edge of the canyon, there are a lot of cars and footprints here, which are trampled by the garbage trucks and people of the cleaning team, which looks very chaotic, the two talk and laugh at random, from time to time, Liu Tao's eyes will sweep a glance or two on the ground, from the footprints, looking for Yao Bo's footprints.

"Here we are." After walking more than 40 kilometers, Liu Tao stopped and squatted on the ground.

The footprints here are not obvious, they are much shallower than the footprints left by the previous cleaning team, and after a few careful glances, Liu Tao frowned, "There are more than twenty martial artists, six of them are Xiaolin level, and these two footprints are those of Uncle Yao and Uncle Xiong." ”

The mouse was silent, and his eyes flashed with a fierce light.

The two footprints, one deeper than the other, kept going backwards, and finally disappeared by the edge of the Blackwater Canyon.

Uncle Yao and Uncle Xiong were knocked down in the Blackwater Canyon.

"Who did it?" The five fingers of the mouse swayed, and the ten blades of the two hands reflected the sunlight and flashed out quickly.

"Find Uncle Xiong and Uncle Yao first." Liu Tao's eyes were gloomy, and the wooden stick lightly hit the vines on the edge of the cliff, and jumped directly into the canyon.

The rocks of the cliffs of Heishui Canyon are quite hard, and climbing is much easier than the damp cliffs in the Lingnan Mosen.

Five years have not climbed again, Liu Tao and the mouse are not unfamiliar, the original speed climbing skills between life and death have already been seared into their bones, even with their eyes closed, this canyon can be like a flat ground.

Quickly sliding, from time to time the wooden stick was inserted into the rock crevice to borrow strength, and the two quickly slid to a depth of more than 600 meters from the ground.

"It's Uncle Xiong." Liu Tao's eyesight is amazing, every day before dawn in the back alley of the refining street to find spiritual materials, he has long been refining the secret vision, following his fingers, the mouse saw Uncle Xiong hanging half of his body on a raised cliff.

Uncle Xiong's injuries were not serious, and he was huddled on the cliff rocks and shivering at this time.

This made Liu Tao and the rat very speechless, and the martial artists in the late stage of swallowing the moon were afraid of heights.

"It's Qi Wei, the eldest young master of the Qi family." With Liu Tao and the mouse by his side, Uncle Xiong finally made up his mind, "At the beginning, it was for the hundred bitter roots, but now that I think about it, the hundred bitter roots are not spiritual materials, but they can make the wine mellow and rich, although it is a bit expensive, it is nothing to the eldest young master of his family." ”

"So, he actually has another reason, and then he made an excuse to beat you and Uncle Yao?" The mouse keenly grasped the key point, "Uncle Yao is also Xiaolin's initial strength, although the refining method is good, it is not as good as those full-time refiners, if he wants money or not, what is he trying to do?" ”

"Don't worry about what he's up to." Liu Tao stared at the bottom of the canyon that was pitch black as if it could devour everything, "What about Uncle Yao?" ”

Speaking of Uncle Yao, Uncle Xiong was silent, his eyes flickered, and then he cried bitterly, "He was hurt more than me, and when he fell, he pushed me here and fell." ”

Uncle Xiong was vague, and Liu Tao and the mouse didn't ask much.

He has long come to his senses, and he has stayed here and has not returned to the ground, he is afraid of heights for sure, as for whether Yao Bo pushed him to the cliff rock, or he used Yao Bo to jump on the cliff with his strength, it doesn't matter, the most important thing is to find Yao Bo.

The two continued to slide, and when they were eight hundred meters deep, colorful lights began to appear below the valley, and the colored lights were very gorgeous, colorful and sometimes bright and dark, rolling and surging like a storm.

Liu Tao and the mouse glanced at each other, the breath on his body changed rapidly, Liu Tao became lifeless, like a dried corpse hanging lightly on the rock, and the mouse was like a cold stone, shrunk into a ball, mixed with the surrounding rocks.

Bang bang.

The rainbow miasma surged and rolled, and gradually, the sound of continuous critting was faintly heard, and then it surged violently, and two figures rose into the sky.

These two people didn't need to borrow strength on the rock wall at all, and stepped directly into the air, just in an instant, they faced each other hundreds of times, every punch, every palm, with a strange rhythm, and the yuan force spit out from the palm was even more like a sword.

The strength of the two people is believed that the sword palm fist is facing each other, and the strong and domineering Yuan Force annihilates each other, and the aftermath blows onto the rock wall, and a large part of the rock wall where it passes crumbles and falls below.

Walking in the air, the Yuan Force condenses but does not disperse, and the imitation is all kinds, which can only be done by a Nahai-level master.

Collapse.

The two Nahai masters fought against each other again, and under the fluctuation of Yuan Li, the rock where Liu Tao and the mouse were located suddenly trembled, and fell down with a bang.

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