Chapter 7: The Ghost Courtyard
While walking towards the city in front, Duan Mo took out a silk mask from the rustic bracelet on his hand. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
This bracelet is called a storage bracelet, which can store objects, and the larger the space, the more precious it is, such as Duan Mo, which is dozens of square meters and worth millions of gold coins, even the ordinary Spirit Infant Realm Ninefold powerhouses will be red-eyed.
Putting the silk mask on his face, the edges and corners of Duan Mo's face changed slightly, his eyebrows and nose were a little thicker and straighter, but this little change made Duan Mo change greatly, if he wasn't familiar with Duan Mo, he would definitely not recognize it.
The two of them soon entered the city, the streets were full of people, lively and lively, Duan Mo chose an ordinary stall nearby to sit down, the little two who were still squinting at them saw Duan Mo take out a handful of gold coins from his arms and put them on the table, his eyes suddenly lit up, the towel was thrown over his shoulder, and he trotted over, and said with a smile: "Two guest officers, what to eat and drink?"
Duan Mo rested his chin on the table, and said weakly: "Two portions of cooked beef, two jars of wine." ”
"Okay, the two guest officers wait a moment."
Xiao Er drank and ran back to the stall, and soon came over with two bowls of cooked beef and wine, Duan Mo grabbed a handful of cooked beef and put it in his mouth to chew, and shouted vaguely: "Don't go yet, I have something to ask you." ”
A smile bloomed on Xiao Er's face, he rubbed his hands, patted his chest and said: "Guest officer, don't say anything else, there is really nothing that I Liu Xiaoer doesn't know about the acres and thirds of land in Qingshui City, but it's ......?"
Duan Mo put dozens of gold coins in front of him and pushed one over with his fingers, and Xiao Er suddenly smiled and said earnestly: "Guest officer, what do you want to know?" ”
"First of all, who are the men who rode into the city on big horses just now?"
Hearing this, Liu Xiaoer was stunned for a moment, and then he was a little twisted and pinched, and after hesitating for a long time, Duan Mo pushed over the two gold coins again, and Liu Xiaoer gritted his teeth and said: "Guest officer, that is a group of bullies and bandits around our Qingshui City, known as the Black Wind Bandit Group, led by a spirit core realm bandit named Old Scar, several people under his command are all strong, all of them are masters who are only one step away from entering the spirit core realm, they are all misbehaving on weekdays, robbing houses and houses, and today it is estimated that they have earned a sum of ill-gotten wealth to come to the city to spend all their days drinking, they are not easy to mess with, Kill people at every turn. ”
Duan Mo nodded lightly, took a sip of wine, straightened up, and looked at the lively street in front of him, with a hint of complexity in his eyes: "Let me ask you, what is the current situation of the Li family in Qingshui City?" ”
Liu Xiaoer frowned, meditated for a long time before looking at Duan Mo and said, "Guest officer, are you mistaken?" There is no Li family in Qingshui City. ”
Tapping his fingers on the tabletop, Duan Mo pushed out all the dozen or so gold coins in front of him with his other hand, and said lightly: "Tell me, where the Li family is now, these gold coins will all belong to you." ”
Xiao Er's eyes were very hot when he looked at those gold coins, racking his brains, but he couldn't remember what the Li family was in Qingshui City, so he could only say with a bitter face: "This guest officer, I really don't know when there was a Li family in Qingshui City, I'm afraid you really remember wrong, right?" ”
Duan Mo's eyes narrowed slightly, more than ten years have passed, and no one in Qingshui City knows that there is a Li family?
Suddenly, a dry palm fell on the table, put away the dozen or so gold coins, and an old man with snow-white hair coughed, looked at Duan Mo, and said slowly: "Qingshui City has never had a Li family, but there is a Li tribe. ”
Duan Mo's eyes lit up slightly, and he looked at the old man.
The old man looked at Duan Mo for a moment, and said unhurriedly: "The Li tribe has been wiped out, and the broken courtyard in the west of the city is the old site of the desert. ”
Duan Mo was like being struck by lightning, and looked at the old man with wide eyes, extermination?
Liu Xiaoer, who was on the side, heard that the courtyard in the west of the city was broken, his body trembled involuntarily, his eyes were full of horror, and his excited words were vague: "Ghost courtyard...... So you're looking for a ghost house! ”
The old man sighed and walked away slowly, Duan Mo gathered his mind and stared at Liu Xiaoer, who was slightly pale, shaking his head desperately, and was extremely frightened: "Guest officer, you can't go to that place." ”
He looked around, lowered his voice, and said in horror: "There used to be a family living there, but five years ago, it rained blood, and all the family members in that courtyard were ...... Eaten! Some people say that it was a humanoid monster with red hair and green fangs, and he didn't let go of any of them, but you didn't see that miserable state, not a single intact corpse, and there were bloody bite marks all over his body. ”
Duan Mo pressed his fingers on his eyebrows, squinted, and his face was a little cold.
Liu Xiaoer gritted his teeth and continued: "Since then, that courtyard has become a ghost courtyard, and people often hear strange noises coming from inside, as if they are gnawing on something, there is no shortage of people who are brave and brave to enter, but none of them have come out alive!" The strongest of them has already reached the sixfold spirit core realm! ”
"The people of the City Lord's Mansion personally led a hundred soldiers into two years ago to find out, but do you know what happened?"
The horror in Liu Xiaoer's eyes became more and more intense, and the hands on the table were trembling, and he said in a trembling voice: "More than a hundred people, all of them are missing!" Not even the bones remained, and since then, no one has even dared to live around the haunted courtyard, and the area west of the city has been reduced to a slum, where only some beggars and homeless people who really have nowhere to go will go, but no one dares to enter. ”
Duan Mo stood up, looked at the west of the city from afar, a cold glow appeared in his dark eyes, and then he groaned for a while, and walked slowly towards the Fengyue Tower in the distance, the old beggar followed him with the wine jar, Liu Xiaoer gasped, and quickly cleaned up the things on the table and silently recited Amitabha Buddha in his heart.
Fengyue Tower is a first-class gold selling place in Qingshui City, which is what the world calls the Green Building, Duan Mo with a ragged old beggar was stopped outside by a group of women with rouge on their faces, until Duan Mo took out a handful of gold coins and threw them on the ground, and the fireworks women smiled and let the two of them in.
Duan Mo ignored the fireworks women who came up, swept the room with a sharp gaze, and finally stopped at the second floor, where seven or eight men full of gangsterism sat there eating and drinking, each holding a slightly revealing woman in his arms, laughing insolently, his palms wandering all over those plump women.
Duan Mo walked up the stairs, getting closer and closer to the people of the Black Wind Bandit Group, and several of them also spotted this young man who came over, and they waved their hands drunk, and grinned: "Little rabbit, get away." ”
"Mao hasn't grown up and still come to Qinglou, go back and drink milk."
Indeed, there were few people sitting around them, they were all afraid of snakes and scorpions, and they wished to be far away, and no one dared to come over.
The woman who looked like an old bustard downstairs hurriedly ran up, in a hurry, this kid couldn't find death, and dared to go to the Black Wind Bandits, it was really too long, she didn't want to make a bloody incident in her shop.
Duan Mo walked to the table, put his palm on the table, his eyes swept over the red-faced, drunken gangster men, and finally stopped at the scarred man opposite and the man next to him, one was the head, and the other was the one who whipped people.
"I'll go to the ghost house and have one less person to chat and talk to kill time, so I can't let you two idiots accompany me on a trip, how about it?"
A bright smile slowly appeared on Duan Mo's face, and the palm placed on the table spit out, and the entire table split apart and burst, the wine and delicacies on the table flew everywhere, and the sound of porcelain plates breaking sounded one after another.
The eyes of many people in Fengyue Tower widened, looking at that scene in disbelief, this is a living slap in the face, where did this kid get the confidence to dare to argue with the Black Wind bandits?
Sure enough, the scarred man's face slowly became gloomy, he pushed away the woman in his arms, stood up, looked at Duan Mo with his eyes, and said coldly: "Copy guy!" Slaughtered! ”
Eight big knives were unsheathed, and for a while, the cold light flickered, and the killing opportunities were everywhere.
Duan Mo looked around at the eight people who quickly surrounded him, flipped his palm, and took out a Qingfeng long sword, his fingers wiped over the sword body, his left foot drew a semicircle, and the spirit core in his body spun up drippingly, and his spiritual power was ready to move.
"Die, little ghost!"
A gangster man in front of him sneered, the big knife slashed down immediately, before the knife arrived, the knife wind had already hit his face, making Duan Mo's cheeks hurt slightly, he stared at the gangster man without blinking, and the corners of his mouth lifted a trace of sarcasm.
The next moment, Duan Mo's body was slightly to the side, dodging the big knife that slashed down immediately, the long sword seemed to stab out at random, but it went straight into the throat of the gangster man, who still had shock in his eyes, and his pupils dilated.
Why, so fast?
It's outrageous!
Duan Mo withdrew his long sword, the blade of the sword dripped blood, and the gangster man's body fell straight down, gurgling blood flowing out of the bloody hole in his throat.
"Spirit Core Realm!"
Old Scar clenched the big knife, his face became solemn, this seemingly young kid actually had the same strength as him in the Spirit Core Realm, and his body and speed were far beyond ordinary people.
This time it's on the iron plate.
"Old Five!"
The rest of the people roared angrily, their eyes were bloodshot, and they slashed with their knives, and the old scar walked around the battlefield on the side, like a poisonous snake staring at Duan Mo in the center.
The six of them attacked together, Duan Mo didn't choose to touch hard, but just dodged in a roundabout way, always paying attention to the old scar lurking on the side, there was a huge gap between the spirit core realm and the spiritual power ninefold, and the six people couldn't do much damage to Duan Mo when they attacked together, this scene made the old scar slightly anxious.
Duan Mo burst through the crowd, turned over from upstairs and jumped on the table downstairs, startling away a group of spectators who watched with relish, and the rest of the people chased after him, three big knives split the table where Duan Mo was standing, Duan Mo had no choice but to jump into the air, the old scar's heart was shocked, and his eyes burst into light, it's now!
You can't borrow power in the air, it's a good opportunity to start!
A wisp of strong spiritual power was wrapped around the old scar's hand, he jumped out, and the big knife directly slashed at Duan Mo's waist, and the six gangsters below also jumped high and stabbed Duan Mo in mid-air.
For a while, there was a lot of danger.
Duan Mo's face was calm, and the spiritual power in the spirit core poured out, all covering the Qingfeng sword, a bright light bloomed from the sword, Duan Mo shouted in a low voice: "Whirlwind technique!" The Qingfeng sword swung a full moon, and a circle of sharp swords came out of the sword.
Old Scar's face suddenly turned pale, and he shouted in horror: "Spiritual skills?!" ”
For spiritual power cultivators, the most precious thing is a spiritual skill, as the name suggests, the skill that can make the spiritual power exert the greatest power, the spiritual skill level can be divided into four types: human, earth, heaven, and god, but even the worst human-level spiritual skill is out of reach for these ordinary bandits, and this kid in front of him can actually show a spiritual skill!
Six blood flowers bloomed, five figures fell to the ground, blood foam overflowed from the corners of their mouths, there was already a shallow blood mark on their chests, and the vitality dissipated, and the only ones who barely carried this whirlwind technique were the old scar and the gangster who threw Duan Mo with the horse whip, the former was hard to resist, and the latter was Duan Mo who deliberately let him go.
There are only two of the eight members of the Black Wind Bandit Group left at the moment.
"Run! Escape! ”
Old Scar was frightened by the spirit skills, he didn't dare to stay any longer, and fled desperately, whether there was a spirit skill or not was completely two concepts, although he and Duan Mo were both in the same spirit core realm, but if they fought, it would definitely be Duan Mo who could use the spirit skills to win.
This is like two peers, one holding a murder weapon and the other unarmed, and the ending is self-evident.
The gangster who was lucky enough to survive also fled out in a panic, where did this kid come from, not only is he strong, but he has also mastered a spiritual skill.
Duan Mo stepped on the asynchronous step, the speed was amazing, and he crossed to the door in a few steps, blocking the way, his long sword was horizontal on his chest, and his two fingers were raised and lightly wiped the sword body.
The old scar and the man stopped and slowly retreated, the man's gaze stopped on Duan Mo's sword's hand, and he caught a glimpse of the two whip marks, his face turned white in an instant, and he trembled: "You...... Are you the two on the road? ”
Old Scar's face also changed in an instant, and he remembered the two beggars he met outside the city gate not long ago, when they rushed by, where would they pay attention to the side.
"This senior, the little one who has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, collided with the senior, and I hope to spare my life!"
The man immediately knelt on the ground, tears streaming down his face, terrified, his voice trembled, the old scar was stunned, and then immediately knelt down, begging Duan Mo to let them go.
Seeing that Duan Mo did not react, the two knelt on the ground and walked forward, and came to Duan Mo's feet and kowtowed and begged for mercy.
The Hongchen woman and the guests in the Fengyue Building were dumbfounded, only this gang of bandits had ever bullied others, when had they seen this kind of scene.
Duan Mo raised his eyebrows, as if he smiled, and the next moment, the man jumped up suddenly, his face was hideous, and a small knife with a cold light stabbed at Duan Mo's chest.
"Peng ......"
Duan Mo kicked the man away, the latter slammed on a table, smashed the table in half, lay on the ground and groaned, there was a wisp of sword on the Qingfeng sword, and it was on the neck of the old scar who was just about to make a move, the latter's face was stiff, and the dagger in his hand fell to the ground, making a crisp sound.
"Remember, don't be careful, go pick up that idiot and come with me, and remind you that there will be no next time."
Duan Mo Qingfeng Sword patted the face of the old scar, the sharp sword left a faint blood mark on his face, and the old scar didn't dare to move under the fear of death, until Duan Mo withdrew his hand and walked forward, he sat down on the ground, covered in cold sweat.
Duan Mo walked to the old beggar's side, and the old scar and the man hurriedly followed, for fear that Duan Mo would be impatient and cut down with a sword, and the group walked out of the door.
"Bustard, come out and sweep the floor."
Duan Mo hung a cloth bag at the tip of his sword, laughed, the cloth bag fell on the table behind him, and from the exposed corner, it was full of golden coins, hiding aside and cursing in a low voice The old bustard's eyes were shining, and he hurriedly ran out to pick up the cloth bag, and said in a greasy voice: "Ouch, guest officer, you can come again when you are free, the small shop is waiting for you at any time." ”
The guests of Fengyue Tower widened their eyes, glanced at the five bloody corpses on the ground and shrunk their necks, and the Black Wind bandits that were rampant around this Clear Water City were more than half dead? What is the origin of that seemingly young boy, who can't even help the old scar?
Looking at the few people who left and the old bustard who nodded his head, many people could only sigh how big this world is, and there are countless capable people.
The old scar and the two cowered behind Duan Mo, Duan Mo's breath kept locking them, so that they didn't dare to move at all, and the group soon came to the west of the city, which was desolate, with few complete buildings, all of which were thatched houses and dilapidated yards, and many ragged people were crowded together, some old and some young.
Duan Mo swept over the men, women, and children who were pitifully looking at him, and then continued to stride forward, he couldn't be that kind of good person, scattering money to the people, there were so many poor people in the world, did he want to help them one by one.
Old Scar looked at the deserted surroundings, and then remembered what Duan Mo said when he just started smashing the table, his feet couldn't help but tremble, this guy, shouldn't he want to die there.
That's a real desperate situation, and you're going to die!
Sure enough, the young man in front of him kept walking, and there were fewer and fewer people around him, until he disappeared, and there was no one on the street that had been abandoned for a long time, and there was a big dilapidated courtyard in front of him, and there was a half-plaque hanging on the courtyard - the Li family.
"Haunted Courtyard ......"
The old scar pointed to the courtyard with trembling fingers, and said in horror: "I can't go, I really can't go!" ”
Duan Mo pursed his lips, this courtyard that was still vaguely familiar was already desolate at the moment, the closer he got there, the heavier the yin qi became, I am afraid that the haunted statement was not a lie, the Li family, or the Li tribe, really had a big problem.
"As the saying goes, people are afraid of ghosts, and ghosts are afraid of wicked people, and you big wicked people are still afraid of a ghost courtyard?"
Duan Mo glanced at the two people behind him, sneered, and then rubbed the bronze ring in his hand, and slowly walked forward, the two old scars were like vegetables, and they couldn't move their feet in fear.
"Either follow me, or I'll send you first."
Duan Mo's voice became much colder, wisps of spiritual power wrapped around his fingertips, the old scar gritted his teeth and dragged forward as if he had been filled with lead, this kid's strength was really strong, although he was at the same level, but the two of them were not of the same grade at all, regardless of their foundation or spiritual skills.
Duan Mo walked all the way to the gate of the compound, and just as he stood firm, a yin wind suddenly hit his face, faintly there seemed to be a strong smell of blood, the surroundings were silent, and the autumn wind swept the fallen leaves.
"What the hell is going on?"
Duan Mo pursed his lips like a blade, his face was solemn, the old beggar beside him put down the wine jar for the first time, a pair of cloudy eyes came out of his scattered hair, and his gaze stared straight into the courtyard.
Suddenly, a low moan like a cry sounded from the depths of the gloomy courtyard, and the next moment, the low moan stopped abruptly, turning into a screaming and wailing sound of a ghost, the sound was strange and terrifying, as if it suddenly exploded in Duan Mo's ears, Duan Mo was so frightened that his heart shrank suddenly, his pupils dilated, and he took two steps back.
A hideous arm covered with red hair was placed on his shoulder, and a violent stench and fishy smell came from behind him, Duan Mo's body became stiff, cold sweat dripped down his forehead, and his face turned slightly pale, as if he had fallen into a sea of corpses and blood.