Chapter 22: The Devil Is Coming

The last time Uncle Zhang found the soul grass, it seemed to be in the valley. It was just a hurried passing, and I can't remember the exact location.

Ah Jian and Shi followed Uncle Jin in the middle of the team, watching Uncle Zhang and a few mercenaries struggling to cut through thorns and thorns in front. It had been less than half a year since Uncle Zhang last came in, and the path leading to the valley was overgrown with poisonous thorns full of small thorns, and if anyone let it puncture its skin, it would gradually fall into a coma.

Fortunately, there are hundreds of thousands of gold coins given to him by A Jian as the base, this time Uncle Zhang is well prepared and well-equipped, and there have been no accidents along the way.

The group walked for about fifteen or sixteen miles, and finally came to a relatively open flat land in the middle of the valley.

It looked like a normal valley, but it was a dead silence, except for the occasional sound of wind blowing and falling leaves, as if you had walked into an ancient tomb that had sunk for thousands of years.

Uncle Zhang and the others obviously sensed the abnormality as well, and drew their weapons and entered a state of alert. Seeing this, Ah Jian and the others also took out their staff and weapons.

"Little one, there's something underground! I smell the smell of the same kind, it seems to be very powerful, I want to hide for a while!"

The old monster flashed in Ah Jian's sea of knowledge, and then fled back to the meteorite he had kept close to him very unjustly.

Suddenly, a young mercenary swung his waist knife and slashed into the air, only to hear a "porphyry" and something fall to the ground.

Everyone looked at it, but it was a piece of dead wood, and they looked at the mercenary in surprise.

"I know ...... Seeing that it was a giant python scurrying down from the tree, how did it become a ...... Wood?"

The mercenary blushed, and it took him a while to tell the truth.

"This is the strange thing about this valley, the last time we came, there were mercenaries who were enchanted and screamed, and it took a long time to go back and heal before they were fine. Everyone, cheer up, if you get lost, no one will be able to save you!"

Uncle Zhang specially turned back from the front of the team and solemnly admonished.

As he spoke, a trance suddenly appeared in Ah Jian's consciousness, and then there seemed to be some memories in his head that didn't belong to him, which made him stunned and inexplicable.

"Ah Jian, what's wrong with you?"

Uncle Jin and Shi noticed Ah Jian's somewhat dull gaze at the same time, and asked in unison.

"It's okay! Maybe I was out of my mind just now, but now it's all right!"

Ah Jian quickly got out of his trance, but he was pretty sure it was an evil thing. So, he recited the incantation and cast another light magic on the crowd, the Light of Purification.

As the light fell, as if they had just been soaked in the cool water, the dizzy and restless mercenaries immediately fell silent.

"Guys follow closely! Ahead, it should be the place I was here last time, I saw the soul grass. ”

Uncle Zhang, who was exploring the way ahead, finally came with good news, which made everyone who was originally a little sluggish suddenly high in spirit and full of morale. Finding the Soul Grass so quickly not only means that a large amount of gold coins are beckoning to them, but also means that the day of triumphant return is just around the corner.

"Then I'll go first!"

Lao Liang greeted Ah Jian and them kindly, and then rushed over. He had transformed into a tattered king along the way, and even the broken beast bones had to be stuffed into rag bags, not to mention those worthless herbal elixirs.

Ah Jian followed everyone and walked forward for more than a hundred meters, and soon a meadow appeared in front of him, empty and flat.

This meadow is not small, about 80 acres, divided into many small pieces by soil ridges, similar to the farmland outside Blackstone City, but lacking irrigation canals, it looks like an abandoned medicine field.

The most striking thing is the scattered boulders in the middle of the valley, like a giant sword pointing straight into the sky, or like the ruins of a building that has collapsed.

Among them, the largest stone is also engraved with words and symbols, and it seems to be the symbol of a certain magic circle, which looks very strange.

"Ahh......h Wow, we've made a fortune, we've made a fortune! Ha... Ha... Zihao... Woo... Woo... Woo..."

It's Lao Liang's voice!

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound source, and saw Lao Liang Zheng dancing on the grass in front of him like crazy, crying and laughing, and his expression was very wrong.

Uncle Zhang and Lao Yang had already passed, and one person firmly grabbed Lao Liang's arm with one hand, and put him down on the grass stiffly.

"Ah Jian, come over and see, is he evil?"

Ah Jian, who was a guest priest, was naturally pulled into the strong man again, but he already had some experience in dealing with this kind of thing, and a purifying light restored Lao Liang to his senses.

To everyone's delight, although Lao Liang was hit with a demon barrier, what he said was not wrong at all, there were indeed a lot of soul grasses on the grass in the center, as well as various other herbs and even elixirs.

"Wait, everyone, there seems to be some evil here, let's test it first!"

Just when everyone was enthusiastic and was about to rush forward, Uncle Zhang and Uncle Jin seemed to have discussed, and they spoke out together to stop everyone.

I saw Uncle Jin use his usual enchantment gun to pick at the grass, and the decaying soil and grass clippings flew everywhere, and a small piece of rotten white bones was exposed.

Seeing this, everyone also drew their blades and picked up the grass, and sure enough, they found many seriously rotten white bones, not to mention several years.

"Why are there so many bones? Could this have been a battlefield?"

"How is that possible? There has been no war between these two river basins for more than 100 years, and can the bones of more than 100 years ago be preserved until now?"

Someone said it softly, and it immediately made people scream.

"That'...... Could it be that someone murdered these people and dumped their bodies here?"

Someone else made a new assumption, and this time no one scolded him.

"If it was murder, who would have killed so many people, and what would you want to do with your bones here?"

It's Ah Jian's childish nature, so he didn't think too much about it, so he took it.

"Ah Jian, there are some things that can't be investigated, just like who you said, in fact, everyone knows who it can be, but what's the use of knowing? Black Rock City is not a pure city-state ruled by law, and it is easier for noble lords to kill a person than a chicken, so don't ask. ”

Lao Yang obviously also has good intentions, afraid that Ah Jian's nosy nature will offend the nobles in the city, which will affect his future future.

"But, Uncle Yang, you said that it was easy for them to kill people, so why do you have to walk so many ways, you have to throw them here?"

Ah Jian didn't mean to screw with Uncle Yang, but he really wanted to find out the real reason why these white bones appeared here.

"These bones, even corpses, may have been used as fertilizer at the time. ”

Uncle Zhang sighed and didn't say any more.

But just this sentence is enough to make Ah Jian and the stone brothers creepy, in their still immature hearts, it is far from imagining that there will be such a vicious incident behind the peaceful life.

Seeing that Ah Jian and the others still seemed to believe it or not, Uncle Jin made up for it again:

"That's right, the use of corpses as fertilizer was exposed three years ago, but in the end, it was gone, I heard that the elixir cultivated from human bones has a special curative effect, and the old men in the temple also turned a blind eye. Okay, don't bother thinking about this, let's hurry up and collect the elixir and go home!"

As soon as his words fell, a cold and biting wind blew from nowhere, making everyone immediately shiver a few times.

"Quick! Ah Jian, cast that abominable magic of yours, that... I'm coming!"

Before Ah Jian could stop trembling, the old monster's hurried and anxious voice suddenly came from his mind, and his voice was full of fear.