The high-pitched male voice sang the mountain song in the mountains for a while, and then the voice gradually disappeared.

Song Jianqiu thought that the other party was leaving, but unexpectedly, he suddenly noticed that there was movement, turned around suddenly, and scolded: "Who?!" ”

"Hah! It's me! Don't be nervous! A familiar voice replied, and following the voice, I saw a middle-aged man standing not far away, looking at the three people gathered in front of the fire with a smile on his face.

"Huh? It's you! Seeing the person coming, Song Jianqiu sighed lightly, this person turned out to be a middle-aged man who was in the town before, accosted in a noodle restaurant, and invited them to eat a meal of noodles and meat after failure, remember his name, it seems to be Zhuge Xiuwen?

Because she has the same surname as her sworn sister Zhuge Aya, she remembers it so clearly, otherwise she would have forgotten this kind of unrelated stranger a long time ago.

"It's me!" Zhuge Xiuwen was full of smiles, and when he saw the snake man tied to the trunk, he didn't care, and said, "Can I come over and taste some?" ”

"You're following us?" Song Jianqiu narrowed his eyes and asked.

"What are you doing stalking?" Zhuge Xiuwen said in surprise: "It's no good to follow you!" ”

Song Jianqiu pursed his lips and didn't speak, just tilted his head to look at the other party, as if he was thinking about something, and after a while, he said, "Sit down!" ”

"Haha! Thank you so much! Zhuge Xiuwen laughed happily: "So, I have a fate with you!" I could meet it in a noodle restaurant before, but now I meet it in this mountain forest! It's not fate, what is it? ”

Regarding this sentence, Song Jianqiu was noncommittal, let Zhuge Xiuwen sit down cross-legged in front of the bonfire, then looked at the barbecue on the fire, and said, "Oops! Should I eat that skewer? It all looks good! ”

"Let's skewer it!" Hearing what the other party said, Song Jianqiu directly helped make a decision, took a string and handed it to him.

"Thank you!" Zhuge Xiuwen took the meat skewer and sniffed it: "Hmm! It smells so good! No wonder I could smell the fragrance from afar and come to it! ”

"You were singing?" Song Jianqiu heard this and asked.

"Did you hear that?" Zhuge Xiuwen asked, but said again: "It's normal to be able to hear it, and I wasn't far away before!" It's strange if you can't hear it! ”

"You're amazing! Dare to shout so loudly in the mountains and forests, and you are not afraid to attract ghosts and beasts! Song Jianqiu said.

"What is there to be afraid of!" Zhuge Xiuwen took a bite of the meat skewer, his eyes couldn't help but light up, and he stretched out his thumb and praised: "It tastes good!" Your technique is good! ”

When Song Jianqiu heard this, he couldn't help but pout and said: "Roasting this kind of meat, and you don't need technology, whoever will bake it will taste like this!" You don't have to slap me on the back! ”

"You'd be wrong!" Zhuge Xiuwen corrected seriously: "Any kind of meat, even if it is only superficial, if you want to roast it well, you still need technology!" There are too many breaths dispersed by the high temperature, not good, too little is not good, only when just a few kinds of qi and soul power are mixed together, is the time when the taste is the best! ”

Song Jianqiu turned his head and glanced at this person, feeling that what the middle-aged uncle said was the same as the truth, with a serious expression on his face, and he didn't know if it was true or not!

But forget it, she didn't bother to pursue it, she only ate the meat in small bites, and then said: "Stop talking nonsense!" Let's eat your meat! ”

Seeing this, Zhuge Xiuwen didn't care, but smiled silently, shook his head, and then ate the meat.

"Ghosts and beasts can't be attracted, but mountain ghosts, hearing mountain songs, it's still possible to attract them!"

After speaking, without waiting for Song Jianqiu to ask, he turned his head to look at the listless snake man who was tied to the tree, and asked, "You arrested this person, do you want to ask why these people are chasing her?" ”

She here naturally refers to Yuanli.

Hearing the middle-aged uncle on the other side talk about himself, Yuan Li, who was eating meat skewers, suddenly became nervous, and stopped eating the meat, so he opened a pair of snake eyes with golden vertical pupils and looked at the opposite side through the bonfire.

"You know so well that you didn't say you were following us!" Song Jianqiu said.

"Huh! Can't say that! Zhuge Xiuwen said: "I really didn't follow you!" The reason why I knew this was when I saw this girl in the noodle shop, and I knew about it! ”

"Oh? Looks like you know a lot of things! Hearing this, Song Jianqiu asked with some surprise.

"I know more than you know!" Zhuge Xiuwen smiled: "Do you want to know?" ”

"If you want to say it, then say it!" When Song Jianqiu heard this, he became vigilant, because when ordinary people said this, they wanted to put forward conditions.

"Alas! Why don't you believe me like that? That's all I said, if you want to know, I'll tell you! Zhuge Xiuwen saw Song Jianqiu's reaction and said with a sigh.

"Nonsense! We've only met twice in total, okay? How can I trust you? Song Jianqiu said angrily: "I can let you sit here and eat barbecue, and I already believe in you!" ”

"Hmmm! When you think about it, it's true! Zhuge Xiuwen thought about it, nodded, but agreed: "Since this is the case, then I'll say it briefly!" Actually, this thing is not complicated, for thousands of years, things like this are just a constant cycle of repetition! ”

After speaking, he looked at Yuanli on the opposite side and said, "If I'm not mistaken, this girl's name is Yuanli, right?" ”

"Hmm!" Song Jianqiu glanced at Yuanli, and when he saw the latter burying his head, he nodded and admitted.

"That's right!"

Zhuge Xiuwen said: "In this Qishan Mountain Range, there lives the main snake demon clan in the underworld! Far away from human cities, they live in the forest, and basically live a life that is unknown to outsiders. ……”

“…… The ruler of the snake clan is the four king snakes, which are the Red Refining King Snake, the Black Mamba King Snake, the Black Tree King Snake, and the Mangshan King Snake! Before, these four king snakes jointly ruled almost the entire snake clan in the underworld, and their power was extremely large, and there were few rebellions - of course, even if there was a rebellion, no human outside could know about it, after all, the mountains and forests were very dangerous for us, and these snake clans lived in the mountains......"

“…… Later, a few years ago, an old man who claimed to be the Eight Miscellaneous Snake came out of nowhere, saying that he would rule the entire snake clan and make him king. This old man is very powerful, and he used his cultivation realm to somehow convince the Black Mamba King Snake and forcibly put the rest of the Three King Snakes under the seat. What was the specific situation at that time, outsiders don't know, anyway, the four king snakes all worked for the snake king after that! Later, I don't know why the Red Refining King Snake suddenly rebelled, and as a result, all the Red Refining King Snake Clan was surrounded and suppressed, leaving only the patriarch's daughter, Yuanli escaped! ”

"It's not like that!"

Before Zhuge Xiuwen finished speaking, Song Jianqiu didn't have time to express his opinion, and Yuanli, who had been silent, suddenly stood up and retorted emotionally: "Our Red Refining King Snake is not a rebellion!" It's for the people to resist! They are traitors! Obey an outsider! They are!! ”

Yuanli looked excited, roaring and leaving tears in her eyes.

Seeing this, Song Jianqiu couldn't help but sigh in his heart, but Zhuge Xiuwen was eating meat slowly and logically, and only after Yuanli finished speaking, did he speak: "You don't think so yourself, but in the eyes of outsiders, it is true!" ”

After speaking, he smiled again: "Of course, I can understand your feelings of refining the king snake, obviously the four snake royal clans have ruled the entire snake clan for thousands of years, and suddenly an old man came, and he said that he wanted to become the snake king, I believe no one will be convinced, right?" ”

As he spoke, he added a piece of wood to the fire and continued: "I believe that the Red Refining King Snake wants to rebel against the Baqi Snake King, and it has been planned for a long time, and it is estimated that it was also united with the other two King Snake Clans before it started, right?" But in the end, it was the Red Refining King Snake who was wiped out, and the rest of the Snake Clan is now chasing you in turn! ”

“…… In the eyes of outsiders, you Red Refining King Snake are rebels! ”

"Whether it's a rebel or not! It's not good! I will avenge my people! Yuan Li calmed down, and after saying this, he sat down again, but he ate the meat skewer fiercely, as if he regarded the meat skewer as his enemy.

"Hehehe!"

At this time, there was a sudden sound of chuckling, and several people followed the sound and saw that it was the captive snake man laughing.

After attracting the attention of several people, the snake man spoke: "You dare to go against Yagi-sama!" All have to die! ”

After speaking, his eyes fell on Yuanli and said, "You also want to die!" What kind of bullshit refining king snake, if you dare to resist the rule of the snake king, you will kill them all! You don't know how powerful the Snake King is! Even if you cultivate for a few hundred or thousands of years, you will never be able to take revenge! Hahaha! ”

Do you want to be so fanatical? They have all become prisoners, and they dare to speak ruthlessly like this! I really don't know whether to say stupid or brave!

Song Jianqiu was a little unable to understand this kind of diehard, but after hearing these words, Yuanli hissed angrily, rushed forward, turned around, and the thick snake tail was like a whip, and it was pumped over.

The snake man was tied to the trunk of the tree, there was no way to avoid it, and he watched the snake's tail twitch on his body, and immediately let out a miserable scream, and the already weak soul body could no longer hold on and dissipated.

Song Jianqiu kept this mouth before, just to get the news about Yuanli from this snake man, but now that he got it from Zhuge Xiuwen's mouth, this snake man has no value to stay.

Yuan Li killed this snake man, she has nothing to say, after all, the hatred of the extermination of the clan is really a reason to persuade.

After seeing that the snake man was shot away, Song Jianqiu turned his head, looked at Zhuge Xiuwen, looked each other up and down, and asked with some curiosity: "Uncle, what are you doing?" ”

No matter what you do, it's not ordinary, right?

He himself said before that the Snake Clan lives in this Qishan Mountain Range, rarely goes out, and it is difficult for outsiders to get close, so he can't know the news of the Snake Clan at all, but this uncle seems to know the situation inside the Snake Clan very well, and he can say so clearly in several major rebellions, and it is strange to say that his identity is ordinary!

"Uncle?" Zhuge Xiuwen touched his face, and seemed to be a little mindful of this title.

"If you don't call you uncle, what else can you call it?" Song Jianqiu used a branch to stir the fire.

Although she knows that people in the underworld can live for hundreds of years, and if they change to the yang world, they will probably be called old ancestors or something, but can such a title really be called? It's better to call it directly according to the age of appearance, anyway, it's called uncle, and it's definitely called young!

"Alright! Uncle is uncle! Zhuge Xiuwen felt that it made sense, and said: "I'm just a wanderer!" What else could it be? ”

"Really?" Such an answer is too perfunctory, and Song Jianqiu naturally doesn't believe a hundred of them.

"Of course!" Zhuge Xiuwen swore and said: "I just like to drill into the mountains, and I happen to know some mountain ghosts or something, so I can know these things!" ”

Hey? That's pretty credible! After all, he sang a mountain song in the mountains before, and this kind of mountain song, if it wasn't a mountain ghost, he shouldn't know it, right?

But even so, the identity of Zhuge Xiuwen is still not simple! She's not gullible!

"Have you ever seen a mountain ghost?" Song Jianqiu asked.

"Of course I did!" Zhuge Xiuwen said proudly: "I still talk and laugh with them!" Otherwise, where did the song I sing come from? Mountain ghosts generally only teach people who are friendly to themselves to sing mountain songs! ”

"Really?" Song Jianqiu asked.

"Don't believe me? Ask this little girl! Zhuge Xiuwen gestured to Yuanli and said, "They also live in the mountains, and the mountain ghosts and snake clans belong to the people who deal with them the most!" I believe this little girl should know a lot of mountain ghosts! ”

Hearing this, Song Jianqiu looked at Yuanli, who didn't speak, just nodded, which was regarded as a response.

After receiving an affirmative answer, Song Jianqiu turned his head and asked with some surprise: "Listening to you, it seems that there is more than one mountain ghost?" There are a lot of them? ”

"Many!" Zhuge Xiuwen said: "There are several big families! In the mountains and forests everywhere in the underworld, there are mountain ghost families that live, only different from big or small, more or less! ”

"Then how did I hear that mountain ghosts like to be alone?" Song Jianqiu remembered Zhao Jun's words and asked.

"So you're told you that he must be a hunter, right?" Zhuge Xiuwen said with a smile.

Song Jianqiu nodded and admitted, isn't Zhao Jun a hunter?

"The mountains and forests are deep, but they are far more complicated and troublesome than the wilderness plains! And the deeper you go, the more powerful the ghost beast becomes! Hunters cut down trees all day to hunt, where will they go deeper? Most of them only occasionally see a lonely mountain ghost in the forest, and they say that the mountain ghost likes to walk alone! ”

Zhuge Xiuwen said: "In fact, mountain ghosts are all like the villages outside, living in groups and building cottages in the forest, except for the different places, in fact, there is no difference!" ”

And so it was!

Song Jianqiu nodded clearly.

"If you're curious, do you want to come with me to meet the mountain ghosts?" Zhuge Xiuwen suddenly made an invitation.

"You're going to see a mountain ghost?" When Song Jianqiu heard this, he was immediately curious.

"Of course! I went into the mountains to find mountain ghosts! Zhuge Xiuwen smiled: "Now you believe that I am not following you, right?" ”

Song Jianqiu pursed his lips and was noncommittal.

"The ghost village I'm going to this time, that little girl should be very familiar!" Zhuge Xiuwen mentioned Yuanli again.

"Am I familiar?" When Yuanli heard this, he didn't react for a while, but he quickly woke up and said, "Is it a ghost of Hayama?" ”

Sure enough, the snake clan is very familiar with the mountain ghosts!

(End of chapter)