Because of the speculation, the speed of the team's advance slowed down even further, and it was not until they entered the village that there was still no figure in sight. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info At this time, even the most dull person should realize that the situation is not good, not to mention that those present are considered human elites in a sense.

Xinghuang Village used to be a cargo distribution center for the east of the neutral zone, and the shape of the village and town was different from most villages. After passing by the archway at the entrance of the village, there are still no houses in sight, and both sides of the road are flat and wide paddocks, during which some broken sundries and boxes are scattered and piled up. In the past, this place should have been a place similar to a logistics distribution center, where goods were sorted and loaded, but at this time, all that came into view was a dilapidated and depressed scene, especially when combined with the dense fog in the distance.

After passing through the freight yard, I can finally see the buildings, but unlike the buildings that live in people, this row of huge buildings looks like steel structure factories on the earth, the outline of the huge building is extremely simple, the entrance door is extremely wide, and the side sliding door that can rarely be seen in the Shenzhou Continent is used.

Seeing that Tianyou's gaze had stayed on the building for a long time, the senior brother who had been here immediately reminded: "This is a car dealership, a place that specializes in leasing and replacing carriages and horses, and also operates some low-end spirit horse trading, but it mainly provides services for caravans' carriages and horses. ”

The mules and horses that pull the cart are not as good as the cars on the earth, and the tolerance of animals on long journeys is even worse than that of humans, and the situation of water and soil adaptation can easily make the livestock fall ill, and in this extremely backward continent of the Divine Continent, any livestock that can pull the cart is an extremely valuable resource, and no one wants to waste it at will. Therefore, in order to preserve the physical strength of these mules and horses, the best thing to do is to replace the animals they used everywhere they go. The new animals are so strong that they can go straight to the road without resting, and the convoy can rest here and replace them when they return. In this way, the area that each mule and horse walks is only the range of its regular activities, and there is no need to move long distances, which naturally eliminates problems such as water and soil adaptation.

Of course, this service is not free. The cattle and horses brought by the convoy are deposited at the carriage and horse dealership, and the carriage and horses used by the carriage and horse dealer are subject to additional rent. Although this cost is a lot for the caravan, it cannot be saved, because the cost of losing mules and horses will only be higher.

"Let's go over and take a look, and the others are on guard. Tianyou reminded the others, and then cautiously approached the big house with the senior brother who had been here.

The huge wooden building is fairly neat, with no obvious damage, and the surface paint is intact, so it doesn't look like it's deserted. However, at this time, the carriage and horse shop gave people an eerie feeling, and the half-open door was pitch black, and no sound could be heard, but a foul smell could be heard.

No matter how much you clean the place where the cattle are raised, it will not smell at all, but the smell here is extraordinarily pungent, even more terrible than a garbage heap under the scorching sun.

Tianyou and Senior Brother glanced at each other, and both realized what the smell represented. Along the way, they'd seen quite a few things that smelled of it, and if nothing else, there must have been those in the carriage and horse shops.

Approaching the door carefully, the senior brother didn't dare to go in directly, and Tianyou didn't urge, gently pushed him into the door, and then grabbed him who still wanted to continue walking, and signaled to wait for a while. The senior brother didn't quite understand why Tianyou pushed him in and didn't let him go inside, but Tianyou knew that he was helping him adapt to the dim environment.

Although there was fog outside, the sun was actually good today, so there were patches of white light everywhere in the fog, but the room was different. There's no sun here, it's much darker than outside.

After standing at the door for a while, and after getting used to the dim light in the room, Tianyou began to move on, and the senior brother behind him also followed carefully. He was not stupid, he understood Tianyou's intentions after standing for a while, patted Tianyou's shoulder and whispered: "You are quite experienced." ”

Tianyou didn't answer, but smiled back, then pointed upstairs, and motioned for the two to explore separately.

The shape of this carriage really resembles a modern steel structure workshop, the only difference is that the material is wood. As soon as you enter the sliding door that opens horizontally, and against the left wall is an inner staircase that leads directly to the corridor outside a row of rooms on the second floor. The row of rooms all hung like a bird's grid on the second floor, and the lower row was all enclosures, with thick wooden supports and enclosures underneath, but no signs of livestock were visible.

The senior brother nodded, and pushed forward along the ground himself. Tianyou didn't use the Emperor Sword, but replaced it with the bear claw he liked. This kind of narrow steps and corridors are really not suitable for the Emperor Dao Sword that is more than one person long, and as for Taiyi, it will be even more unwieldy.

Tianyou didn't want to make a sound, but the wooden steps really didn't have much room to play, as long as they weren't really as light as a swallow, they would inevitably make a creaking sound when they stepped on it. Tianyou simply stopped slowing down, and rushed to the corridor on the second floor. The senior brother below looked up at Tianyou suspiciously, only to find that he had kicked open the door of the first room in the front.

The room was fairly neat, with a row of wooden tables with pen and ink on them, which looked like an office. However, Tianyou turned his head and found that this row of rooms was actually open, and the rooms behind the doors in that row were actually one room, all the way from this end to that end, without any separation in between, and most of them were bookcases and cabinets, and there was nothing special.

Walking all the way to the end of the room, Tianyou finally confirmed that there was nothing of interest in it, but just as he was about to go out, he suddenly heard the shouts of his senior brother.

I didn't have time to go back to the door that was kicked open at the beginning, Tianyou directly kicked the wooden door in front of him, stood in the corridor and looked at the sound. The senior brother at the bottom of the slope was inspecting a fence, and it didn't look like there was any danger. Tianyou glanced at his feet, and simply turned over the railing and jumped down. In the past, when he was in Qingyuan Mountain, he also flew up and down the big trees that were two or three feet high, and this height was naturally not a problem.

After landing on the ground, he ran behind his senior brother, and Tianyou finally understood the reason why he called himself.

There are two water rhinos lying in the fence, one large and one small, although this thing is a demon beast, but it is also quite docile, as long as the method is appropriate, it is not troublesome to use it as a cow and horse. The important thing is that the vitality of this thing is extremely tenacious, there is no situation such as fatigue and illness of cattle and horses, and the strength is much greater than that of cattle and horses, and the endurance is much better. Although there are two or three cows on the top of the diet, the strength is equal to that of the three strongest buffaloes. In addition, this thing is not much slower than a galloping horse when sprinting at full strength, and it is also extremely adaptable to rough terrain, so it is very popular with transport teams. After all, when encountering bandits and road bandits, the water rhino that unloads the rope can be regarded as combat effectiveness.

It's not strange that there are water rhinos here, but the dead water rhinos are more abnormal. All that was left of this thing was now the head and some bones, and the body protection had been gnawed away. The smaller one is about the same, only half of the body is left, and the back half is missing.

There are a number of light-transmitting holes in the walls around this fence, which coincide with the long horns of the water rhinoceros. In addition to the corpse of the water rhino, a human leg can also be seen on the ground, and the degree of decay should be left by zombies rather than living people.

Tianyou stood up and looked around, and soon found the broken wooden railing outside the beast pen opposite, so he rushed over, and sure enough, he found a badly deformed zombie behind the wooden fence. The zombie was missing a leg, its body had basically turned into a pancake, and its head was cracked like an exploding watermelon. Not surprisingly, this is the owner of the leg in the pen over there, but looking at it this way, it shouldn't need the leg either.

The senior brother followed over from there and saw the zombies above, and looked back at the beast pen over there. "This was picked up by the water rhino, right?"

Tianyou nodded. "It must have been the result of an all-out collision, otherwise it wouldn't have flown so far. Let's look separately, there should be still around. Water rhinos are not so easy to deal with, a zombie can't handle it. ”

Sure enough, the two soon found seven or eight zombies that were not humanoid in many horns, but they were all completely inactive, and in addition, they also found some skeletons here, which should be resurrected skeletons, but they were all the same as zombies, broken and only slag remained.

may be because the two of them have been in for too long, and Zhao Lingyun's voice suddenly sounded at the door. "Godless, are you all right?"

"Let everyone in, there's nothing dangerous here, it's just that something has been found. ”

Hearing the greeting, Zhao Lingyun turned around and shouted to the others, and then walked in first. After everyone gathered at the animal pen to see the situation and listened to Tianyou's analysis, everyone couldn't help but start beating drums in their hearts.

Obviously, the last thing they want to happen happens. The skeletons and zombies on the periphery of the White Bone Cave roamed into Xinghuang Village, and even the strong water rhinos were bitten to death, so you can imagine what will happen to the ordinary people here.

"Are we going to withdraw like this?" Lu Meng asked everyone.

Everyone's eyes invariably converged on Tianyou's body, obviously everyone wanted him to come and get an idea.

"No, let's continue to investigate and at least make sure there are any survivors in the village. We can't die without help. ”

The proposal was immediately well received. The Xianmen monks have always regarded themselves as righteous paths, so naturally they will not be ambiguous about saving people.

The carriage and horse shop could not provide any more information, and after the group left, they began to explore the nearby buildings in turn. Except for the carriages and horses at the entrance of the village, there are still no houses on both sides of the road, all of which are tall post stations, restaurants and inns. The entire Xinghuang village has been commercialized, and all the houses are retreated to the hillsides on both sides of the main road. To get in, you have to walk through the alleys on both sides of the main road, then climb the moss-covered stone steps and then through the winding paths to reach the house.

To be honest, this layout is simply the standard of a mid-level villa on earth, with long stone streets that have been polished smooth and shiny and accompanied by turquoise stone steps, plus the scattered buildings on the hillside, the dense forests above, and even the Yellow River looming in the clouds and mist in the distance.

However, at this moment, if this is still a resort, it must also be a supernatural theme resort. The buildings in the clouds and mountains and the villagers who disappeared without a trace are all strange.

There were too many houses, but Tianyou didn't dare to let everyone disperse, so he first explored the inns and inns along the street, and after confirming that there was no one inside, the team began to walk towards the mountain house on the side of the Tianshan Mountain. Although this place is closer to the birthplace of danger, and the possibility of survivors is unlikely, it does not mean that God forbids them to abandon this place.

A row of houses on the lower level inspected and found nothing, and the team advanced up the stone steps. When I reached the door of the first room in the second row, there was a clang, and it seemed that something was doing the opposite.

This sudden commotion of course immediately alerted everyone, and a crowd dispersed to surround the house.

Tianyou gestured with his eyes, then raised his palm and stretched out three fingers, and then began to retract them one by one, and finally when he withdrew the last finger and struggled to make a fist, Tianyou himself, Zhao Lingyun, Bai Bingyu, and the three melee senior brothers burst into the room from the doors, windows, and walls of this room at the same time.

Of course, this method was brought into the team by Tianyou, and it was a very common CQC tactical move on Earth, but it was something that no one had ever studied in the Shenzhou Continent. First, because the army here has never been professional, and secondly, because of the difference in weapons and fighting methods. However, this does not prevent Tianyou from teaching such tactics to everyone.

The loud noise caused by the simultaneous entry of multiple points instantly confused the audio-visual perception of the people hiding in the room, and they stood up in a hurry and tried to escape, but found that they didn't know where to run at all. The six entry points were specially studied, and no matter which direction the occupants broke through, they were bound to be intercepted by at least two people, but the only flaw left was in the direction of the main entrance, where was the sniper line of long-range teams. If the people who rushed out of this place had any bad intentions, they would be instantly hit by a fire from multiple directions, and the houses behind them would be blocked by people who broke in from other directions, which meant that it was impossible to go back after rushing out.

Sure enough, the noise in multiple directions forced the people in the room to rush to the only door where there was no sound in horror, and then rushed out of the black hole of the house.

Without the shelter of the house, the target was instantly replenished by everyone's sight. Tianyou raised his hand to signal, and several senior brothers in charge of long-range attacks put down their weapons one after another, while the two melee senior brothers stepped forward and stopped the two small figures who fled in a hurry.

It wasn't some monster running out of the room, it was two children. The older girl looked like she was about seven or eight years old, covered in white ash, and I don't know how she got it. The younger boy looked no more than five years old, covered in mud like the girl, and looked like two little beggars. However, if you look closely, you can see that their clothes are actually very new, just dirty.

The two children were still desperately struggling to escape after being blocked, and the older girl even opened her mouth to bite the brother who stopped him. It's a pity that the monk's physical strength is really exaggerated, although it hurts to be bitten, but it only makes the senior brother a little angry, and it doesn't get her out of trouble.

Tianyou and several people who rushed into the house also walked out at this time, and Lu Meng and Bai Bingyu stepped forward and began to comfort the two children. Probably women are born with a knack for coaxing children, and the two children quickly quieted down in their comfort.

Looking at the two dirty little guys, Tianyou used the water bladder he brought with him to wet two cloth towels and handed them to Bai Bingyu and Lu Meng. Zhao Lingyun, who was next to him, also came over at this time, took out the water bladder and food from his body and handed them over.

The two children looked hungry, and when they got the food, they began to bite it in large gulps, and Lu Meng and Bai Bingyu took advantage of this time to help them simply wipe the white ash on their faces.

Tianyou knew that he would not be questioned until the child was completely stabilized, so he went back to the room alone to check it again. Nothing too important was found, but I did find the place where the two children were hiding. It was under the stove, in the hearth where the fire was burning.

I don't know what's going on in this earthen stove, and there is an iron plate in the hearth of the fire, and when it is opened, there is a shallow pit that is not too big. Unless you have learned jiu-jitsu, adults generally can't get into it, but two children are just right. As long as the iron plate is covered, ordinary people really can't imagine that there will be people hiding in the stove. This also made Tianyou understand where the white ash on the two children came from.

Tianyou, who did not find anything further, retreated again, and the two children finally told some information intermittently under Lu Meng's reassurance and questioning.

Heaven blessed their previous guess was correct, the undead on the periphery of the White Bone Cave walked out of the valley, but it was not the undead who attacked the village first, but the demon clan. Just after sending a request to Zixiao Palace to investigate the poisoning incident, Xinghuang Village was covered in a thick fog. The little girl, who was eight or nine years old, spoke in a fairly coherent manner, and according to her description, the fog was flowing down the hill behind them, like a flood. She also said that the adults in the village said that it was a ghost fog, which was consistent with Tianyou's judgment.

After the ghost fog covered the village, the villagers began to prepare for the evacuation under the organization of the village chief. I didn't want to leave because the poisoning incident only affected the frail and sickly, and although the incidence was very high, it was not to the point of certain death, anyway, after leaving the village for a while after getting sick, it would recover naturally, so everyone was not particularly worried.

But the harm of this ghost fog is too obvious. With their backs to the White Bone Cave of the Tianshan Mountain, these villagers certainly knew what the ghost fog meant, so everyone finally decided to evacuate the whole village.

Unfortunately, just as the team was about to hit the road, a lot of monsters suddenly rushed out of the mountain. The villagers were naturally panicked when they saw the monsters, and because of the fog, the villagers couldn't organize an effective defense at all. The whole team was in chaos in an instant, and the two children ran away with the group under the leadership of their parents, and finally simply fumbled and hid back in their own homes.

Hiding in the interior of the house, the family of four listened to the roar of the monsters under the mountain and the cries of the villagers gradually drifted away, and then survived the night in fear and worry.

Originally, they planned to leave with the family the next day, but it turned out to be a step too late. Before dawn the next day, a group of zombies and skeletons wandered down the hillside, blocking the family in their home again.

When those monsters came, there were many villagers, and not everyone could take care of them, but these undead were all over the mountains, and they could smell people, so it was difficult to hide. Eventually, the child's parents hid them in a pit beneath the ondol, and they themselves rushed out of the house to distract the nearby undead. As for whether they ran away or were killed, the two children do not know.

Of course, the chances of the two adults surviving are not slim. Zombies and skeletons don't move very fast, at least no one runs fast, as long as they don't crash headlong into the encirclement, they can basically run away with their dexterity. To put it bluntly, these are just low-level undead who have been eroded and transformed by Yin Qi into the future, and there is still a big gap between them and those real ghosts in the White Bone Cave. At that time, if the villagers' team was not dispersed by the monsters, they could have been killed even if they were surrounded.

After understanding what happened, Tianyou interjected and asked where the undead had gone, but both children shook their heads and said they didn't know. Tianyou can also understand this, and did not ask any further.

Now it seems that Tianyou and their previous speculation has basically been confirmed, and these fogs around them are ghost fog, and the undead left the valley where they were originally entrenched in the ghost fog and entered the range of Xinghuang Village. As for the monsters mentioned by the two children, God bless them can't tell if they are the two they encountered yesterday, but they can basically be sure that those monsters are also bad for the pond fish. It should be that the sudden spread of the ghost fog caused the undead to move outward, and then invaded the area where the monster originally lived. Most of those monsters were also forced down the mountain to escape the undead.

Although I know a lot of things, there are still many things that I can't be sure of. One is where the undead and monsters have gone, the second is what happened to the undead who were killed in the village, and the third is whether there are survivors nearby.

About the first and second Tianyou don't plan to explore, but the third one must be confirmed, if he can learn the clues of one or two by the way in the process of completing the third one, forget it, if not, he doesn't plan to dig deeper.

Having figured out the situation, they did not enter the house after that, but only shouted a few times outside each room, and if no one answered, they immediately evacuated. Since the villagers were scattered by the monsters and encountered a wave of undead, once they heard the rescue information, they would inevitably rush out as soon as possible, so there was no need to search room by room. After all, God bless them, and they can't afford to delay their time. It's past noon now, and it's very stressful to inspect the whole village in the afternoon, and God doesn't want to put it off until the evening. Everyone knows that the undead after dark and daytime are completely different concepts. By night, these guys have almost collectively risen to ten levels, and even the lowest-level skeletons can become quite difficult.

Only shouting outside the house, the search speed was indeed a lot faster, and their efforts were not in vain. After the villagers' ranks were dispersed, many people's first reaction was to run home, and some of these people did not escape the wave of undead, but it was not without lucky people like the siblings.

After two hours of intense searching, God blessed them and finally succeeded in gathering more than 30 villagers. Don't look at this number, but compared to the number of villagers who fled at the beginning, it can only be said to be extremely tragic. God bless them, they can only pray that the others have just fled into the surrounding mountains and forests, and it is obviously impossible for them to search and rescue. They don't have the ability or the time right now.

The crowd that was gathered began to move quickly towards Zhao Village under the escort of God Bless them, in order to search the entire village they had already delayed too much time, such as today the color has been slightly yellow, and the ghost fog is even more gloomy, according to this state in less than half an hour the sky will be completely dark. So Tianyou began to urge them to run. Let the infirm people ride on everyone's spirit rides, and the rest of the people who have no physical strength will be supported by God to run, in short, run as far as they can before dark. No one knows whether the undead who passed through the village will turn back, and they also don't know if the undead in the Heavenly Mountains will continue to flee one after another. In short, it is right to leave Xinghuang Village, which everyone fully agrees with, so no one has any complaints at all, even if they are tired, they have to grit their teeth and run.

Unfortunately, in the end they were one step slower. As the sky gradually darkened, Tianyou suddenly found that a large number of figures had faintly appeared in the Ghost Mist Seed in front of them. Looking at the awkward posture and the strange rhythm of the pace, the identity of the owner of these figures is self-evident.

"Ah...... "It's not good to take civilians with you." The first reaction of an untrained personnel is to scream, which in a dangerous encounter is almost as suicidal as suicidal.

Sure enough, as several villagers in the team let out panicked screams, the undead who were still just wandering suddenly turned around and rushed towards them in unison, and the speed was obviously increasing.

Although the zombies are slow, the skeletons can run, and the speed is not too slow, at least for the villagers who are not physically exhausted.

Under normal conditions, the villagers should have run a little faster than the skeletons, but these people are all survivors who have been hiding in their homes for two days, and their physical strength has dropped to a very dangerous level, so they can't outrun the nimble skeletons at all. What's even worse is that these people can't even play their previous speed when they are nervous, and many people who are supported by God bless them directly begin to paralyze their legs to the ground with weakness, and God bless them can't run at all when they drag a person.

Seeing that he couldn't run away, Zhao Lingyun simply shook off the village woman who was supporting him before, and pulled out his Chiyan sword and said, "Fight with them." It's just some low-level undead, and I'll take you out. ”

Lu Meng stretched out his hand and pressed Zhao Lingyun and said, "Senior sister, don't be impulsive. Individual undead aren't scary, but there are too many of them, and it's hard to really kill without a corresponding weapon. When you run out of energy, we will be more dangerous. ”

"So what do you say?"

Seeing the army of undead getting closer and closer in front of them, God bless them can even see the rotten teeth in the mouths of the skeletons in the front row. However, at this time, everyone really couldn't think of any way. It was not difficult for them to break through on their own, but with the group of ...... behind them Burdensome, burdensome, it's okay to say anything, in short, it is obvious that you can't run out with this group of people. And once they are surrounded by a large group of undead, I am afraid that even God bless them themselves will be in danger.

Just when everyone was in a dilemma, a sharp roar suddenly came from the mountain forest on the oblique side. The voice is sharp and harsh, making people feel pain in their eardrums. And as the shrill roar ended, everyone suddenly noticed a fireball flying out of the mist, and the zombie in the middle of it was completely igniting it.

As the fireball descended, a rumbling of footsteps followed. Yesterday, the pig demon who made them suffer so much was actually killed from the side, and instantly passed through the skeleton army horizontally, instantly reducing the skeleton in front to the state of bones, and it was in the form of fragments.

"Raging Spider Spirit. Aren't these the two monsters we met yesterday?

Tianyou reacted the fastest, and pulled Bai Bingyu beside him: "It doesn't matter why they fight, it's true to run quickly." ”