Time always flies, in a blink of an eye, it has been half a year since Archie went to Zhushan Sword Academy to practice, and after the spring, Archie is almost 17 years old, in the past six months of practice, Archie's cultivation has made rapid progress, and it has gradually become more and more popular among the new generation of disciples of Zhushan Sword Academy.

And Mu Chensi had already finished reading the book that Su Lao asked him to read, and then he was asked by Su Lao to go to the back mountain to cut down trees for a few months.

At noon on this day, Archie woke up from his practice, and then showed a satisfied smile on his face, Archie calculated the time, and thought of the time to complete the sect task, half a year after being admitted to the hospital, he and Mu Chensi have been busy with practice, and have not gone to receive the sect task, and the sect task is related to their assessment, and Archie because of the rapid progress of cultivation, there is a great demand for some pills to assist in cultivation, and the pills distributed by the academy for free are not enough, so he decided to call Mu Chensi, go to get some sect tasks to do, and use the points obtained after completing the task to exchange for the pills he needs for practice。

So after Archie washed his face, he went to the back mountain to call Mu Chensi, and Mu Chensi immediately agreed to go together as soon as he heard that Archie was going to do the sect's mission, and the reason why the two did not call Han Ziyu was because Han Ziyu had already set off to carry out the sect's mission three days ago.

The two of them came to Su Lao's dormitory, and after telling Su Lao about the situation, Su Lao also agreed with them to do the task of the sect, and before leaving, Su Lao told the two of them to be cautious when performing tasks outside, so as not to be told by some villains, and then told a lot, and Su Lao finished speaking when Mu Chenji was about to yawn.

The two walked out of Su Lao's dormitory, and Mu Chensi immediately muttered, "The teacher has become more and more verbose recently, and he doesn't look like a rumored person at all, just like an old man next door, and he is very amiable, without the slightest master's demeanor." Archie glanced at him, "Believe it or not, I told the teacher this, and promised that you would be fined for a month of confinement, and the teacher is also for our good, why do you complain about this." ”

Mu Chensi held his head in his hands, shook and said as he walked, don't don't, I'm just kidding, haha......

When they came to the Danyao Hall, the two of them first received a sect assessment task, and then chose two points tasks. Because the two are walking together, they take on tasks in one direction. (The sect tasks of Zhushan Sword Academy are divided into two kinds, one is the assessment task, the other is the integral task, the assessment task is generally not dangerous, most of them are some errand type tasks, and the integral task is different, as you complete the task, the more points you get, the higher the difficulty of the task, and the higher the degree of danger.) )

Archie's sect assessment task is to collect medicines, go to Yuegu Peak outside Xianyang City to take a kind of medicinal herbs called Yuegu Flowers, and you need to pick 500 plants, while Mu Chensi's task is to go to a sect called Agni Sect in Nanyang County to send a letter to the sect master of the Agni Sect.

At the same time, both of them took the same integral task, according to the prompt of the task, a strange thing happened in Tianshui County three months ago, that is, the population of Tianshui County began to disappear for no reason, and from the first person who disappeared to the present, Tianshui County has been missing nearly 100 people in the past three months, Tianshui County due to the remoteness of the place, there is no place to practice, so after receiving the news, Zhushan Sword Academy laid out such an integral task.

After the two received the task, they bought some food and two fast horses in the city, and then went out of the city, because the place where Archie's medicine collection task was very close, and the task had requirements for the freshness of the medicinal materials, so the two went to Yuegu Peak first, took the medicinal materials and sent them back to the sect to complete the task, and then went straight to Nanyang County.

Along the way, the two of them were in a hurry, and they rushed for three days, and the two finally came to the Agni Sect at noon on the third day, and came to the gate of the Agni Sect, and after informing the intention of coming, the disciples of the mountain gate who were in charge of guarding hurriedly took the two of them to see the sect master of the Agni Sect, as soon as they walked into the Agni Sect, Archie, smelled a smell of blood, but Archie didn't think much about it, and came to the lobby of the Agni Sect, waiting for the sect master of the Agni Sect, such a bloody smell became stronger, Archie couldn't help frowning, he didn't like this smell, and instinctively repelled a little。

He turned his head to look at Mu Chensi, and found that Mu Chensi didn't notice anything unusual, so he immediately paid attention to himself.

After a while, the sect master of the Agni Fire Sect came out, only to see that this person was wearing a red robe, with a pattern of fire on his chest, this person was burly, full of beard, and was about 40 years old, Archie looked at him, I don't know why, as soon as this sect master came out, Archie felt that the smell of blood was even more obvious, but he secretly observed for a long time and found no clues, so he gave up.

After Mu Chensi handed over the letter to the other party, he turned around directly and said goodbye. After walking out of the Agni Flame Sect, Ah Qi said to Mu Chensi, Ah Mu, I just smelled a smell of blood in the Agni Sect, I don't know if you have noticed?

When Mu Chensi heard this, he said, I didn't smell the smell of blood, but the sect master of this Flame Sect always gave me a sense of scheming, although he had been smiling very kindly just now, but I always felt that he was smiling and not smiling, this person is quite deep. But whatever, anyway, we just came to deliver a letter, and now that the letter has been delivered, the rest has nothing to do with us.

Archie thought about it, it was indeed this truth, so he didn't dwell on it, and went to Tianshui County according to the map, the two did not rest, and hurried overnight, and finally came to the county seat of Tianshui County at noon the next day, and found that there were a large number of city guards stationed at the city gate, but there were very few people entering the city. After inspection, the two entered the city, and found that the city was the same, although it was broad daylight, there were few pedestrians on the streets, not even the vendors.

Both of them saw a look of confusion in each other's eyes, and then they decided to go to a tavern to inquire about the news, and have a good meal by the way. Because no matter where you are, a place like a tavern is the most well-informed.

After they had not gone a few steps, they saw a tavern, and when they came to the door, a shopkeeper came to take their horses. Then he asked: "Two guest officers, I don't know if it's a tip or a hotel?"

Mu Chensi said: "I want two upper rooms, and by the way, give us a table of your signature dishes here, and a pot of wine." Then walked into the tavern. As soon as they entered the tavern, they found that the atmosphere inside the tavern was very different from that on the street outside, and the tavern was very lively.

Passerby A: "Do you know, the son of the old man's family in the west of the city also disappeared last night, hey"

Passerby B: "This is the first time we have disappeared in Tianshui County in the past three months?"

Passerby C: "How many? from the old Li family, these are more than 100, and I don't know which evil sect our Tianshui County has hit, but such a strange thing happened, this is such a good big living person, if you can't see it, you will disappear." ”

Passer-by: "Who said it wasn't? The old men in the government didn't find out why, if it goes on like this, I'm ready to move, and I feel like I'm not missing and I'm scared to death first."

Everyone said, yes, that's weird......

At this time, the shopkeeper brought food to the two, and Mu Chensi took out five taels of silver from his pocket and handed it to the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper took the money, and immediately smiled, looking at Mu Chensi's expression, don't mention don't be enthusiastic.

Then Mu Chensi said, "Little second brother, let me ask you something, what happened to the disappearance of the people they just said?"

The second brother hurriedly replied, " Guest officer, you don't know, from three months ago, our Tianshui County is beginning to have people mysteriously disappeared, these people have men, there are women, the missing are some young people, as of today, more than 100 people have disappeared, without exception, this more than 100 people have not seen anyone, dead and corpses, and they are all missing at night, this thing makes our Tianshui County is panicked, this is not, you should have seen it when you came before, now there are almost few people on the street, and when it comes to night, there is no figure on the street, everyone does not dare to go out, it is made by this thing。 ”

"The official master of the yamen has also checked, but there are no clues, and even one of the official masters of the yamen disappeared a few years ago, so everyone is even more panicked. Hey, I don't know when this is the head, by the way, two guest officers, don't come out at night. lest you encounter any evil nature. ”

After listening to the little second brother's narration, Mu Chensi said thank you, and after the little second brother left, he said to Archie, what do you think about this?

Archie thought for a moment and said, I feel that someone is doing it, because people can't disappear for no reason, wait a while and at night, let's quietly check.

Mu Chenji agreed, and then the two began to eat, after eating, the two returned to the room, Mu Chenji also walked into Archie's room with Archie, and then the two of them began to meditate, just wait for the night to get dark, so as to find out.

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