To the north of the Misty Forest, there was a desolate white, and the snow in the depths of winter crushed all life. Above the white, there is a winding path, like a long snake, with the snake's head pointing straight south. Splashing muddy water all the way, there is a group of people, stepping on the muddy water and speeding past, and it is difficult to catch its traces in the field of vision. But the leader was dressed in light armor, with a silver helmet, and a black iron double-sided axe on his back, and his expression was solemn and bowed his head and was silent. Before the leather whip fell, only the sound of "Drive!" was heard, and then a crisp whip sounded, accompanied by the sound of tearing horses and whirring wind, and went straight to the head of the snake.

The team has a total of 12 people, all of whom are wearing standard armor, which is the armor style of the recruiting division directly under the management of the military department of Daxingguo three years ago! The recruitment department is mainly responsible for leading the county government offices to recruit local adult men to supplement the army.

It is said to be recruitment, in fact, with the continuous invasion of the Daxing army to the north, almost all adult men in the country have been forced to put on armor to go into battle, and there has been a proverb to describe this situation:

"Daxing thousands of villages, villages catch people at night. ”

Even after the Daxing Kingdom fully occupied the Lingyin Kingdom, this method of conscription, which only emerged in the past two years, also copied it exactly in the Lingyin Kingdom.

Clear-eyed people know that this is to continue to send the only remaining living force of this Lingyin country that has just been bagged to the front line, as the first batch of cannon fodder for the invasion of the Great Xingguo.

This batch of cannon fodder was given a new name: the Expeditionary Force.

After the expeditionary force officially took possession of the establishment, those who did not care about the perennial war between the neighboring countries finally focused their attention on the expeditionary force.

Doesn't the iron hooves of Daxingguo have the meaning of stopping?

Some people began to speculate about how much foundation Daxing still has to support the money-burning army to fight, isn't this brewing a huge conspiracy?

In the end, all the speculation points to a special time to come.

Batches of well-trained intelligence masters began to pour into Daxingguo.

Today's recruitment target is the remote Heishi Village in Lingnan County, the southernmost part of Lingyin Country.

Located on the edge of the Misty Forest, Blackstone Village thrives on hunting and farming. Due to its geographical location, the village has been dealing with wild beasts and newly conscious monsters all year round, either turning prey into food or food for prey, and the village has always maintained a relative balance with the monsters on the edge of the forest.

This morning, captive Sky Raiders near the village recorded an unbelievable incident. In the picture brought back by the Sky Sweeping Eagle, the hibernating monsters were awakened by something and howled wildly, and an inexplicable attraction gathered them around the village, gradually forming a tide of beasts. In the end, he couldn't resist the attraction, rushed into the village with red eyes, slaughtering the villagers in the village who had no power to resist the beast tide, until this mysterious attraction disappeared, and the beast tide returned to the snowy misty forest in twos and threes.

The emergency shocked the county government of Lingnan County, which was aware of it later, and reported Qingyang County, which had just been destroyed and barely rebuilt by the war, and quickly organized the government officials to go to the village to investigate the truth.

At the same time, the first team of the Recruitment Division, which was tasked with recruiting troops, could rush to Heishi Village without stopping after learning the news.

The rare sun in the depths of winter shyly shone on the snow on the ground, so that the cold that had just been raging was no longer excessively arrogant, and the heaven and earth quietly regained a trace of warmth. 12. After passing through the stone head of the village of Black Rock on a cloak and wearing a moon, there was a neighing sound of hand-tied horse ropes. "Woo ..." The horses raised their front feet, leaned back, and vigorously stopped the inertia of running, splashing a burst of snow.

In the middle of the road in front of the team that urgently stopped advancing, there were more than a dozen incomplete corpses thrown by the demonic beasts, some of their chests were vigorously trampled on, and they were sunken into a large pit, and the squeezed out of their internal organs were torn apart, and some simply had broken skulls and brains all over the ground. A real purgatory on earth!

"Yo! When all the people are dead, you come here. Are you here to collect the corpse?" Standing next to the pile of bloody corpses, a slender young man stood up, dressed in a pure black suit without any waist ornaments, withdrew his right hand that had just probed the dead corpse and sucked it, took the long sheathed knife in his left hand, shook the back of his head and carried it on his shoulder, and had a pair of hateful eyes on his angular face.

The first team of the Recruiting Division in shock suddenly tensed, and the tense air pressure filled the world in an instant.

The team leader's eyes flashed on the black-clothed young man, and his heart was rolling, what kind of character the black-clothed young man in front of him was, he was naturally clear in his heart. Especially in the current situation, the horseshoe of the Great Xingguo Expeditionary Force has just arrived at the border line of Lingyin Country and stays in front of the border defense of the Green Kite Country, and the person in front of him is the Three Emperors of the Green Kite Kingdom who practiced in the Lingyun Sect.

The people of the Daxing army have already identified the portraits of the royal family of the green kite one by one, and Huangfu Junjie is one of them.

The team leader could only forcibly suppress the nervousness, pretending to be calm and ignoring the young man in black, and walked to the corpse by himself, I don't know if it was the pressure of recruitment, or the threat from Huangfu Junjie, or a little grief for the deceased, he changed his face and wailed:

"Poor villagers of Blackstone Village, why is the whole village destroyed, if you live to wait for me to come, and follow me into the army, you will definitely be able to make great achievements. ”

The young man in black smiled, his eyes were mocking, and he said, "Great achievements? Is the so-called great achievement just to send you to the death for the invasion of your great prosperity?"

Seeing that Huangfu Junjie had no intention of leaving, the already nervous team leader took off the double-sided axe and held it in his hand, and couldn't help but weigh whether his people could beat this black-clothed young man and the shocking knife that the black-clothed young man was resisting on his shoulder.

As soon as this idea arose, it was quickly dispelled. It was obvious that these 12 horsemen were no opponent in the face of this black-clothed young man, and the great feats of the prince of the green kite did not dazzle him.

A young man in black with a face full of hatred hesitated whether to make a move, and a team of tense recruits in armor and armor made the atmosphere of this world extremely tense and depressing, but the corpses on the ground seemed to be superfluous.

What broke this atmosphere was the arrival of a white-bearded monk and the childish little monk he was leading.

The old monk had a snow-white beard, wore a three-color robe of green, mud and akane, and had two big bags under his eyes, but he was not haggard, and his eyes were bright. Holding a Zen staff with faint runes in his right hand, the body of the staff looks decayed, only the head of the staff is still a little vibrant, and several brass-colored rings make a crisp metal impact sound with the shaking of the Zen staff. A half-human-tall little monk held in his left hand, his cheeks were slightly red, and he was quiet.

The team leader saw the arrival of the two monks, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and naturally let the team get out of the way and let the two of them walk slowly to the front.

"Old monk with sin, if you show up a little later, you may have to surpass a few more undead. The young man in black plucked his ears, squinted at the two people who were expected to appear, and said casually.

The team leader, who was ridiculed again, blushed, and held the double-sided axe in his hand tightly, but he didn't dare to move half a minute, and suddenly froze in place, very embarrassed.

The old monk clasped his hands together and said softly: "Amitabha! The poor monk has no intention of participating in the cause and effect of the benefactor, but this undead soul is great, and the unjust soul is obsessed with the torture of the world. Please forgive me! The undead have not crossed, do not add new killings. ”

"Although you talk a lot, and I can't beat you, I still don't want to hear your big truths. Let me ask you, do you, a high-ranking monk, know why these demonic beasts are like taking aphrodisiacs and start going crazy?"

The old monk still replied calmly: "I don't know." ”

The young man in black seemed to hear a joke, and immediately laughed: "I don't know anything and talk about cause and effect." I think what you should do is to wake up the demonic beasts, and also reason with them, tell them the great reason not to add to the killing, and it is best to also tell the same truth to the group of demonic beasts who like to invade this great rejuvenation country. ”

The old monk ignored Huangfu Junjie's ridicule and anger. The little monk saw that the old monk looked calm and light, and he stood behind without saying a word.

"Let's get started!"

After hearing the old monk's words, the little monk took out the futon and put it under the old monk's buttocks, and stretched out his hand to stretch the old monk's robe. After the old monk sat down, he took out the wooden fish from his sleeve and handed it to the old monk.

The team leader on the side couldn't bear it anymore, his face was full of anger, and he raised his double-sided axe and pointed at the black-clothed young man: "Huangfu Junjie, don't take an inch." ”

Huangfu Junjie didn't have an angry leader, anyway, with this old monk here, he definitely couldn't fight.

After the old monk sat down cross-legged, he didn't pay attention to the movement on this side, and began to beat the wooden fish at a uniform speed, reciting scriptures in his mouth. Bursts of Buddhist scriptures resounded throughout the village, and an invisible energy instantly swept through the village, and everyone present unconsciously felt that their hearts were slowly calming down and no longer impetuous.

The sound of Buddhist scriptures and the sound of wooden fish are washing away the resentment of the entire village.

The little monk's eyes were clear, with two big eyes, and he was constantly looking around, and he didn't feel any discomfort at the bloody scene in front of him. The look in his eyes was attracted by a place in an instant, he gently pulled the old monk's robe, and the old monk who felt the strength of the little monk stopped chanting, slowly opened his eyes, and looked into the eyes of the little monk.

A dilapidated hut with a slight rattle from the wooden door.

Someone noticed the movement and pointed to the wooden door and shouted, "There are living people!"

All eyes turned to stare at the wooden door.

The wooden door creaked, knocking off the new snowflakes that had been loosely added to the eaves. Then the wooden door slowly pushed outward, and out came a weak young man in sackcloth and straw shoes, with mottled blood on his body, claw marks and flesh turned out, and his facial features were delicate, but a coagulated blood scab with the thickness of a big finger on his face slanted through his eyes and extended to the corners of his mouth, making him look a little hideous.

Seeing the young man walking out, the team leader jumped over the corpses in a row with great strides, grabbed the young man's collar, and asked rudely: "Child, how did you provoke the demonic beasts in the mountains in Blackstone Village?"

The young man's eyes were dazed, and his expression was in a trance, and the leader shook his body, like a walking corpse whose soul had not yet returned.

At this time, Huangfu Junjie, who had already walked to the head of the village, suddenly looked solemn.

"The soul search sticker didn't even find out that there were still living people here. ”