The Shenzhou continent was constantly in turmoil, and there was no government in this neutral zone that could preside over the construction of infrastructure, so there were only dense forests left in the villages and towns. Almost all www.biquge.info roads are dirt roads that merchants step on little by little, not to mention narrow and rugged, and various accidents often occur that make them impassable.

Qi Xiaomei's caravan encountered this unfortunate thing today. I don't know what kind of monster was fighting here, and it actually broke a few big trees that the three of them were hugging. The fallen trunks of trees blocked the trade routes, and although people could pass through without hindrance, the carriages could not pass. The caravan had no choice but to move the trunk of the tree that stood in the way. However, the trunk of the tree was too thick, and everyone couldn't shake it with their concerted efforts, so they had to use a stupid method to split the trunk first, and then remove it little by little.

After a delay of half a day, five of the seven big trees on the road were removed, and the remaining two had to continue tomorrow.

Although he knew that it was not safe to spend the night in the wilderness, there was nothing he could do about the caravan being blocked here, and the leader could only make the caravan go back more than a mile, where there happened to be a campsite opened by the merchants. An open flat area of ground with trees cut down and lime powder and realgar sprinkled on the ground to repel insects and kill weeds on the ground, ensuring that the area will not be re-covered by the forest soon.

Circle the wagons in the caravan around the outskirts of the camp, untie all the horses and replace them with saddles, so that they can be used as war horses in case of emergency.

Because of long-term malnutrition, Qi Xiaomei, who had just turned golden hairpin, looked very thin, but now she was like everyone else in the caravan, carrying a wide saddle, standing on the carriage next to her, laboriously putting the saddle on the horse's back. Only in this position could she get the back of the horse, which was not very tall.

"Go and help your third aunt cook, leave this to me. Qi Xiaomei, who was struggling, suddenly felt that a light saddle in her hand was taken by a pair of big hands, and then placed on the horse's back.

The little girl, who was not yet on horseback, did not appreciate it, but stubbornly grabbed the lock on the saddle and said, "Third uncle." I am a guard, not a handyman. That's what I'm supposed to do. ”

The middle-aged man who helped was not angry, and said with a smile: "You said that you are a guard, not a miscellaneous servant, and it is your turn to be on the enemy when there is an enemy, of course this kind of miscellaneous work is still done by others." ”

"This horse is prepared for night fighting, and of course it is the work of the guards. The little girl deliberately said strongly, and then ignored the man, and quickly put on the strap and tied it tightly, the movement was a little jerky, but it looked quite sharp.

The middle-aged man shook his head, scolded with a smile, "This stubborn girl", and no longer persuaded him, turned around and walked away.

Looking at the man who left, Qi Xiaomei silently lowered her head and whispered: "I'm sorry third uncle, I promised grandma!"

It's not that she doesn't know that someone else is taking care of her, it's just that she can't accept it, because it makes her weak, and she doesn't have the right to be weak - at least not yet.

Although camping in the wilderness is a dangerous thing, the road conditions in the neutral zone are well known, and delays are common, so caravans often have the opportunity to sleep in the open, even if they know they shouldn't. Thanks to the fact that this situation is very common, everyone is also very skilled, and the construction of the camp was completed in a short time.

It's been a hard day and everyone is very tired. Life is often not as beautiful as it is depicted in literary and artistic works, there are no bonfires, no singing and dancing. After hastily having eaten dinner, everyone found a suitable place, dressed in clothes, covered with animal skins, and holding swords in their arms, and fell asleep.

There were only two large tents in the caravan, which were used by the laid-off guards. The best place to do this is the two caravans in the convoy, which are full of cargo, but you can barely sleep in the gap between the roof and the cargo, at least much better than sleeping outside. After all, more people sleep on the ground, and some even sleep directly on the carriage. In contrast, having a roof is already a rare treatment.

Qi Xiaomei is one of the more special ones in this team. Although she is still a little girl no matter how you look at it, she is not a family member in the team, not even a handyman, but a guard. Yes, she's a guard, and even a member of this team who can rank in the top three in terms of combat effectiveness.

Although her small arms and legs look like bamboo poles, everyone in the team knows that in a head-to-head duel, it is just that the captain of the guard can rely on his height and strength to fight her tiringly, as for the others...... Don't mention it.

Thanks to this extra-long force value, the young Qi Xiaomei can become the guard in this caravan. And as a favor or as a care for her age, she was also the only guard who could sleep in the caravan, and her night work never required her to take shifts.

As usual, this night Qi Xiaomei is also in the caravan. However, out of a sense of responsibility, this girl did not sleep in the car, but slept at the door of the caravan with her clothes, and her head was attached to the tarpaulin, as long as there was any blowing grass outside, she could get out as soon as she lifted the curtain.

I don't know why Qi Xiaomei always feels that it is very cold tonight, obviously there is no movement in the door curtain of the caravan, but she feels bursts of cold air swishing in.

Qi Xiaomei, who was so cold that she couldn't sleep, simply opened the curtain and drilled out.

Descending lightly to the ground, she stepped over the men who were sleeping on the ground, and came to the fire on the outskirts of the camp.

The real big camp is not a fire in the middle of the camp, but on the periphery and arranged in a circle. The flame can be used for heating and lighting, and it can also expel snakes, insects, rats and ants, and it also has a certain deterrent effect on ordinary beasts, of course, it is not good if you encounter monsters. But at least there is a fire, and it is true that the danger of approaching can be detected in advance.

After getting close to the flame, Qi Xiaomei finally felt warmer, but before she could fall asleep again, the fire in front of her tended to get smaller and smaller, as if something invisible was suppressing the flames.

This strange phenomenon certainly caught the attention of the night watchmen, and a peculiar birdsong came from the treetops, and the guards in the camp immediately woke up, and one by one they came out of the tent and looked around nervously.

"You're up too?" The man who had helped at night appeared behind Qi Xiaomei, and began to inquire about the situation after a brief word. "Did you find anything?"

"I don't know. Qi Xiaomei looked nervously at the surrounding jungle through the bonfire. Knowing that the third uncle behind her must also be confused, she explained again. "The flame that was just right suddenly started to get smaller, and the temperature dropped a lot, probably because I thought the situation was weird, and the sentry post in the tree sounded the alarm. ”

The man in the back nodded, knowing that Qi Xiaomei didn't know much, so he explained that she should be careful, and then touched the tree where the sentry post was hiding. However, before he could reach the bottom of the tree, the situation around him suddenly changed. The bonfire, which was about to be extinguished, suddenly burst into flames, and the orange-red flames, which were only a few inches high, suddenly rose a few feet high, and the color instantly turned blue-green.

"Yin Fire?" The middle-aged man's pupils shrank suddenly, and he stepped back and whispered to the guards around him: "Be careful, there are ghouls approaching." ”

Ghouls are zombies, walking corpses, and all sorts of ghosts, all of which come back from the dead anyway. All these ghost things must carry a large amount of yin and evil qi, and as long as the yin qi is strong enough, it will cause the flame to change color, which is not a small life experience in the Shenzhou Continent. At least most of the merchants and guards who are away from home know this.

After the flame changed color, it became much more vigorous, and it lit up a lot of surroundings for a while, but the blue-green fire made the surroundings even more terrifying.

One of the guards in charge of reconnaissance suddenly clung to the ground, and after listening for a while, he suddenly raised his head and reminded everyone: "Here we are, there are a lot of footsteps." ”

"Do you know if it's coming or jumping?" asked the leader of the guards in the ranks.

The flame changes color, indicating that it must be a large group of ghosts that are not super powerful, and the sound of footsteps indicates that it should be corpses and not souls, because ghosts walk without sound. Now the leader of the guards asked if it was the sound of footsteps or the sound of jumping, and he wanted to know if it was the walking corpse or the zombies.

Low-level zombies have stiff bodies and can't walk, they can only jump, so the footsteps are very different from those of the walking dead. But don't look at the stiffness of the body, the combat power of zombies is much higher than that of walking corpses. And if it is in the later stage, the zombie's joints will regain their elasticity, and when the time comes, not only can they recover their walking ability, but their combat effectiveness will be more exaggerated.

In contrast, the walking corpse is nothing more than a rotting corpse that can walk, as long as you don't dare to resist, ordinary people can kill a few by picking up a stick.

"It's both. There was a big crowd coming. The guard who listened to the sound of the wayfinder had an ugly face, and he was actually sweating on such a cold night.

"Wake everyone up, fire weapons, and get ready for battle. ”

With the order of the captain of the guard, the whole camp immediately became lively, but these people were not ordinary civilians, and they were lively, but there was no sign of panic. Those who dare to come out to run merchants in this era are all men with courage, even if they don't have any guts and can survive a few transactions, then they will be trained. So although these people are nervous, they are still calm.

The sound of noisy footsteps was getting closer and closer, and soon it could be heard directly. There was another commotion in the crowd around them, but there was no movement. Everyone hid behind the car, staring at the trade route not far away. Listen to the sounds, those ghosts are actually coming from the main road.

As the distance approached, a vague figure soon appeared at the edge of the darkness. The figure did not move forward like an ordinary person, but suddenly rose up, jumped diagonally upward, and then slammed on the ground with a thud, much more than the movement of ordinary people jumping up and landing.

"Zombie ...... It's a zombie!" Facing the corpses in the middle of the night, normal people will of course be afraid.

With the appearance of the first zombie, figures appeared one after another on the road behind, and even in the surrounding dense forest, there were also two large black shadows.

The crowd, who had been quite calm, was completely panicked and shrank back desperately. "For ...... Why so many?"

"Because I'm moving. ”

"Who. The sudden answer was not loud, but the effect was like a thunderbolt ringing in the ears, instantly making the surrounding circle of guards jump out more than a foot away as if they were burned.

A little farther away, those ordinary caravan guys also retreated a lot, and everyone looked at this strange boy who had somehow fallen from the sky in horror, and their hearts beat like drums.

Of course, God blesses the person who comes. However, the way he suddenly appeared from the sky was not because he had an epiphany about flying, but because he had a demon pet called Mocking Wind.

Tianyou was actually thrown down from above by the mocking wind, but the strength was well controlled, and Tianyou was very good at this kind of cushioning action of jumping from a height, so he could land on the ground so lightly.

Speaking of which, things are actually not complicated, that is, God bless them plan to make some extra money, so let Zhou Zheng pack up all his little brothers and take them away. Of course, there are so many zombies, walking corpses, and some unjust souls, and it is obviously impossible to find tools to pull them away. It just so happens that these guys can move on their own, so let's just let them walk on their own.

Originally, God blessed them with this method to transfer the corpses just to save money, but they didn't expect that there would be new gains on the way. Because of the collective action of the corpses, a large amount of Yin Qi moved as they moved, which in turn attracted all the ghosts scattered nearby.

The neutral zone has never been a peaceful place, and there are countless people who have died in the wilderness, many of whom have been recycled by nature, but many of them have been transformed into ghosts. On weekdays, these ghosts wander around near the place where they died, walking around aimlessly, but now they happen to meet the corpses moving, these guys are attracted by the yin qi, and naturally gather here.

God bless them, of course, welcome. After all, these ghost things have to be sold to senior brothers or immortal elders when they go back, and the more they are, the more contribution points they will sell.

Originally, Zhou Zheng had a lot of subordinates, and it was initially estimated that it was at least a thousand, but hundreds of them gathered one after another along the way, and there were almost 2,000 people with one piece. After Zhao Gongming saw that there were so many ghosts nearby, he moved his mind again, and specially inquired about where there were mass graves around, so he deliberately went around again, and when he returned to the main road, the team became more than 3,000 people.

Originally, when Zhou Zheng was less than two thousand, he could still command freely, but after going around this circle, they found that Zhou Zheng also had a limit. Although more than 3,000 ghost creatures were still gathered, the control was obviously not good. So much so that many ghosts have gone into the jungle, and there are even some who have fallen behind halfway because of their broken bodies.

Of course, God bless them will not slow down for the rotten bones that fall behind, so in the end, the team will be more and more scattered, and when they get to Qi Xiaomei, they will become the current virtue.

Fortunately, God blessed them to find the camp in front of them in advance, so they came over to say hello, lest these people suddenly go berserk and cut off their corpses. It's all a contribution point! It's very distressing to lose it, right?