After a few days like this, Yushuying said that this town is located at the junction of Xi and Tianshu, and the two countries have always had friendly relations, so it is relatively safe, but Chaolu and they provoke the big people of Tianshu Kingdom, just in case, it is better to leave here and return to the territory of Xi Kingdom.

Therefore, after Yu Fengxian's injury improved a little, several people set off for Xi Kingdom.

On the road, Chaolu has been thinking about one thing, that is, she shouldn't have let Chen Yao and Yu Fengxian accompany her to find the beads from beginning to end, obviously it is none of their business, but they both were injured because of their own danger......

"Shadow of the Imperial Books."

"What's wrong, Master Chaolu?" Mishukage was explaining the route of the return trip to the coachman, and when he heard Chaolu telling him to turn around immediately.

took a deep breath and said with determination: "Yu Fengxian's injury has stabilized, I won't go back with you, if he wakes up and asks, you will say that I went to do something and let him not worry." ”

"What? Where are you going—" Goshokage's eyes widened in surprise.

"Don't worry about it," Chaolu got up and jumped out of the carriage after speaking, "Remember to tell me, please!" ”

Yushuying wanted to stop it, but he didn't know where to catch up with martial arts, so he saw Chaolu's figure disappear into the depths of the dense forest in a flash......

"Hey, you're just leaving, how can I explain when the young master of the wind string wakes up!"

I had no choice but to sigh and go back to the carriage.

……

After saying goodbye to Goshokage, Asaka bought dry food for horses in the nearest town and headed north.

She didn't want to drag down these people who cared about her anymore, whether it was Chen Yao or Yu Fengxian, they shouldn't waste time and be hurt for these irrelevant things.

After walking in the direction marked on the map for a few days, she couldn't tell where she had been, so she could only ask for directions while walking, and soon entered Linzhou in the north of Xi Kingdom.

It was getting late, and a small village appeared at the end of the road ahead.

It's just that from the entrance of the village, both sides of the road are dark, and the doors of every house are closed, and the atmosphere is a little weird, which makes Chaolu instantly raise his vigilance.

When he came to a house where the lights had not been turned off, Chaolu stepped forward and knocked on the door.

"Who?"

There was a jumble of sounds from inside the room, and then a man's vigilant voice was heard coming from through the crack in the door.

"If it's getting late today, can I spend the night?" Tentatively stepped forward and asked.

The people in the room hesitated for a moment, and finally opened the door a crack, and the middle-aged man inside poked his head out: "Girl, I advise you to leave as soon as possible......

There was a deep helplessness in the man's expression.

"Is there something going on here?" Chaolu noticed that the man seemed to be about to speak and stopped, and immediately asked.

"Daddy, let this girl come in and talk first, in case ......"

At this moment, a good-faced woman came out from behind the man, and said to her husband with a sad look in her eyes.

Maybe a teenage girl who saw Chaolu alone couldn't bear it, and the couple finally let her into the house.

The woman put the sleeping child she was holding in her hand on the bed, wrapped it in the quilt, and then made tea for Chaolu.

It can be seen that the couple are very kind and simple people, and Chaolu guesses that they must have encountered some unsolvable difficulties to show such vigilance and worry.

"To tell you the truth, this village has been cursed by monsters......"

"Cursed?" Chaolu repeated in surprise, "What do you say?" ”

"Since half a month ago, animals have been missing every night in our village," the man explained with a pale face, "Someone once heard the movement at night and secretly opened the window to check, saying that they saw that the missing cattle and sheep were dragged away by a strange black shadow—"

"It's definitely a youkai, it's terrifying......" the woman added in a trembling voice.

Monster......

Nima's world has begun to be mysterious again?

I don't know why.,Chaolu immediately smelled the smell of the side quest.,According to her experience in playing RPG games,Generally, when this kind of thing happens, it's the protagonist's turn to show his might to help the poor and helpless villagers.,Kill the little boss in the way.,And then get the side reward~ It's just that she doesn't lack silver now.,Do you want to take this branch line? In other words, her martial arts are not high, but not low, three or five robbers and bandits can still be easily defeated, but in case the level of the little boss is relatively high......

After hesitating for a moment, he saw that the kind and simple faces of the villager couple really couldn't ignore it, so he tightened the long sword on his waist and said stubbornly: "Hmm, I know a little bit about martial arts, and I can't drink your tea for nothing, so let's help investigate where the black shadow monster is sacred~"

"The girl actually knows martial arts!" The eyes of the villagers and his wife lit up, "It turned out to be a female knight, rude, rude......"

This "woman" is really refreshing! You know, since she crossed over, she has been determined to become a heroic and smiling heroine, but it's a pity that a few guys with explosive force value steal her limelight every time, so that she can only be a weak chicken with no sense of zài, and the spirit of heroine is completely gone~ Now it's okay, she can finally show the courage of the protagonist to take charge of herself, and she can do it even if there is no reward for this branch!

"Then there is Lady Lao, be merciful and save us—" The woman folded her hands and bowed to Chaolu.

"Don't do that...... I, I'll do my best......" Quickly stop the two of them from worshipping themselves as bodhisattvas, and Chaolu stood up with the hilt of his sword.

At this moment, there was a sound of "rustling" outside the window, which frightened everyone in the house into a cold sweat.

Chao Lu was heartbroken, and asked the couple to find a place to hide and ran out with their swords......

I saw that under the miserable white moonlight, a black image that could not see the outline but was quite tall like an ambush beast ambushing its prey quietly approached the fence wall of the captive livestock in the yard, the whole picture was terrifying and weird, and the scalp tingled for a while.

I don't know if the black shadow found out that he was nearby, so Chaolu decided to hide first to see the situation, so he held his breath and stuck to the corner of the wall and watched motionless to see what the guy wanted to do......

"Roar...... Roar ......"

Unexpectedly, after the black clothes let out two beast-like low cries, they quickly rushed into the livestock pen, and for a while the chickens flew and the dogs jumped, and several sheep were so frightened that they ran around.

It's just that the black shadow moved faster, like a bolt of lightning, jumped to a sheep and didn't know what to do, but saw the sheep raise its head and scream, and immediately fell to the ground and twitched a few times, and then stopped moving.

Chao Lu boldly poked out his head to take a look, only to see that there was an extra bloody wound on the neck of the sheep that fell to the ground, and bright red blood flowed all over the ground, and the scene was not miserable......

The black shadow carried the carcass of the sheep and jumped out of the livestock pen to escape, but Chaolu hurriedly drew his sword and chased after him.

No, this shadow isn't a monster at all......

It's personal!

"Don't run—" she shouted, and she lifted into the air.

The black shadow was stunned, and Chaolu took the opportunity to stop in front of him, but what caught his eye was a sharp brother who was so unkempt that he couldn't see his appearance clearly......

"Uh, this brother, you are dressed up with personality~" A certain woman smiled unconsciously.

"Roaring ......"

Obviously it was a person, but for some reason the sound it made was like a hungry beast, and when he saw Chaolu blocking the front, a pair of eagle-like eyes on Brother Sharp's dirty face looked at him vigilantly.

Chaolu looked at it with fear, and found that the sharp brother in front of her was extremely tall, not like the wind strings and their shapely and slender type, but with a strong muscle, she was afraid that she would provoke the other party, so she directly pounced and killed herself like the other party's poor sheep.

"That, that, I don't have malicious intentions......" Chaolu lowered her voice as much as possible to try to comfort the other party, "Let's have something to say, okay?" When he was finished, he deliberately put down the long sword in his hand slightly, indicating that he would not use force.

Who knew that before she could raise her feet and get closer, the sharp brother flew into the woods behind him with the sheep corpse.

"Hey! Wait—"

Chasing this sharp brother all the way into the forest, the mountain road was already rugged, and it was now dark everywhere at night, so Chaolu stumbled a little.

However, she did not dare to relax in the slightest, even if her clothes were scratched by thorns in many places, she did not delay a step.

The sharp brother jumped up and down in the forest like a wild man, and she had a hard time catching up with her lame skills, and finally saw a deep cave in the distance.

Nima dares to be a cave man on the top of the mountain......

I don't know if Brother Sharp was injured or what, he staggered a few steps before walking to the cave and fell to the ground, convulsing all over his body as if he was in pain.

"What's wrong with you?" Chaolu hurriedly ran over to check, but before she could get close to the sharp brother, she let out a roar that frightened her in place.

"Let me show you, I really don't have any malicious ......"

Cautiously approaching step by step, only to see Brother Sharp covering his chest and spitting out a mouthful of blood.

Uh, what's wrong with him?

The current situation is really critical, and Chaolu can't be afraid, so he takes three steps and two steps forward to help Brother Sharp up.

I saw that his robe was so dirty that he couldn't see that the original color robe was full of cuts that had been cut by sharp weapons, and there were many large and small wounds on the exposed skin, and some of them even rotted and suppurated because they had not been treated for a long time......

"It's so badly injured......" Looking at the other party's criss-crossing scars, Chaolu couldn't help frowning.

Moreover, this sharp brother seems to be not only injured on the surface, but also seems to have suffered from Yan Zhanng's internal injuries, although she is not very sure, it can be inferred from the other party's disordered internal breath that it is still almost inseparable.

"Huhu ......" Brother Sharp gasped heavily, obviously he was still alive just now, but at this moment, he was so weak that he didn't even have the strength to raise his hand.

I didn't know that he was injured just now, and chased him all the way with light skills, he must have run very hard......