The dark blue night is spread in the sky, the moon is in the sky, and the stars are dotted. The bonfire glowed orange-red, reflecting a reddish glow in the middle of the night.

The bonfire in the center of the square is surrounded by a one-man tall log fence on all sides, and the inside is filled with forage. The orange-red bonfire was blazing, and the flames were three people high. Around the square and in the middle of the square are evenly distributed stone pedestals, with black braziers on the pediments, and the torch-like light in the braziers flickered and danced, adding light to the bonfire square at night.

The whole square covers an area of more than 1,000 square meters, and countless villagers dressed in gorgeous clothes are singing and dancing around the bonfire, surrounded by drums, flutes and other rhythms, sometimes tight and sometimes relaxed, constantly rendering the atmosphere.

On the south side of the square, there are tables for fine wine and barbecue, and you can smell the rich aroma of wine flowing through the main road, the aroma of roasted meat with golden oil, and other various food and drinks from a few hundred meters away.

The east and west sides of the square are divided by small traders in textile workshops and handicraft workshops, and many villagers are attracted by beautiful new cloth and fresh clothes and various gadgets with bells and whistles. The north side is occupied by the men of the hunters' team, and an open space is laid out for the villagers to shoot and compete.

Rows of bright lanterns hanging between the eaves can be seen everywhere nearby.

The range of lanterns is the scope of the party, and almost all of the more than 600 people in the entire cottage came tonight, making this area with a festive atmosphere so lively.

The three of Wu Qi, who were dressed like the villagers, strolled to the bonfire square. The bonfire in the center has been surrounded by singing and dancing villagers, and when the song is finished, another group of people will come on the stage. A 1-meter-high wooden platform was erected in the hunter's field in the north, and Xu Haoqing, the richly dressed owner of the village, sat on the chair of the owner of the village, and at this moment had finished the preaching process before the annual bonfire party.

Wu Qi greeted Gao Yuan and Guo Baibai, and walked straight to the north. It just so happened that there were also villagers who were familiar with Guo Baibai and Gao Yuan, and when they saw them coming, they pulled them to sing and dance, or drink and brag.

Wu Qi crossed the crowded and hot square, came to the front of the wooden platform, and met the owner of the village who took them in again after two months.

Xu Haoqing has thick eyebrows and big eyes, outstanding facial features, and a kind face without losing majesty; His skin was a healthy wheat color, and he was seen to have a large, muscular skeleton and a graceful black robe. The clothes are embroidered with pale gold and bright red lines, the pattern is delicate and ingenious, from the best embroidered women in Xujiazhai, and the silkworm silk used is the best in the quarter; A collar around the neck was sewn with a strip of pure black mink, adding to the nobility of the superior.

Xu Haoqing sat on the main chair of the village with exquisite workmanship and full of momentum, and his long-sleeved hands were placed on the armrests of the chair. On the right side of his body was a coffee table of the same style, with a bamboo basket filled with fresh fruit, a pot of tea, and a set of pottery cups.

Xu Haoqing recognized Wu Qi, raised his hand to the seat on the other side of the coffee table, and said with a smile:

"Long time no see, sit."

Wu Qi thanked Xu Haoqing and was not polite.

"Lord Zhai, the Divine Dragon, has seen the beginning but not the end, Wu Qi has wanted to visit the Zhai's Mansion many times in the past two months, but he can't see you."

"Haha, you don't need to call me the owner of the village," Xu Hao smiled heartily, took the initiative to pour a cup of tea for Wu Qi, and handed it to Wu Qi, "I travel in the mountains on weekdays, and I rarely sit in the house to work." But I know what you've been doing for the past two months. I am very pleased to see that you and my villagers have a good relationship, and that many neighbors help each other. ”

Wu Qi thanked Xu Haoqing again: "This is as it should be, without the help of the original master of Xu Zhai, maybe the three of us would be lost in the mountains and become the belly of a beast that I don't know." ”

Xu Haoqing said: "Brother Wu is joking, you are strong, you hunt the iron split brown bear alone and are unscathed, presumably hunting in the mountains is enough to make a living." ”

He raised his slender sleeves and pointed to the lively bonfire square: "But this stable and prosperous Xujiazhai is a rare good place to live in the mountains." I love my village, what do you think? ”

Wu Qi agreed. Xujiazhai is the most comfortable place where Wu Qi has lived in his life. A few rooms, a yard, the owner is himself, the neighbors communicate harmoniously, there is a kind of "human touch" that has never been tasted.

After a few words of foreshadowing, Wu Qi pointed out the meaning straight to the point.

"Lord Xuzhai, in order to express my gratitude to you, I have a gift for you."

Wu Qi took out a long gray box from the inside of Huayi, put it on the coffee table and pushed it towards Xu Haoqing.

Xu Haoqing opened the box curiously, and what caught his eye was a transparent needle and a bottle of pale green elixir.

"What is this?" Xu Haoqing asked, the look in his eyes was focused and honest, and he was all taken into Wu Qi's eyes.

"It's something from the outside, it's called a genetically enhanced potion," Wu Qi explained, "it's a method that can be used by ordinary people to improve their physical fitness, and after injection, it may be infinitely powerful, or it may be hard and thick, or it can improve the body's coordination and sensitivity." In the era of continuous evolution of mutant animals, humans also need ways to improve their strength, otherwise one day they will not be able to defeat their former prey. ”

Xu Haoqing's eyes suddenly brightened, and he picked up the box and looked carefully at the pale green liquid in the potion.

"Is it really that amazing?"

"Of course." Wu Qi said.

The main significance of Wu Qi's gift is to test Xu Haoqing's reaction, and at present, Xu Haoqing does not seem to recognize the gene enhancement potion.

Xujiazhai is isolated from the world, few outsiders enter, and even the owner of the village has never been out of the mountain. It is normal not to recognize genetic enhancement drugs. But Wu Qi didn't believe it.

Because he had heard from Gao Yuan, who had returned from hunting in the hunter team, the men of the hunter team were all strong ordinary people, but they were able to use wooden bows and stone arrows as weapons to hunt all kinds of first-order mutant animals, and there were few casualties.

A whole team of hunters, with mature hunters with strong command and strong command, eyes with excellent ears and eyes as observers, hunters with strong arms and thick skin to raise contradictions in close combat, archery archers with long-range combat, and auxiliary hunters who are good at medicine and poison cloth traps.

The hunter team is a team and is very good at selecting prey, so after observing from afar for two months, there is rarely a chance to find that a person's physical ability is exceptionally strong. However, he still seized the opportunity, and during an encounter with the Cracked Brown Bear, he saw the melee hunter who usually stood in front of him raise his shield to resist the Ironcrack Brown Bear's charge. Although the melee hunter flew out, the ranged archers and support hunters' jamming attacks worked, allowing them to retreat.

Afterwards, they went to visit the wounded melee hunter, only to be healed a week later and rejoin the hunt.

Therefore, Wu Qi became suspicious, suspecting that these hunters were not ordinary pure humans.

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