Chen Qiubai said: "No matter what you do so much, anyway, the difficulty of this main quest is not too big now, but the reward is quite high, and every person rescued will have 100,000 points, ten merit points, and ten merit points, no matter what, our goal at this stage is to rescue all three people!" Get all these rewards in your hands, and everyone has no problem with that. ”

Mu Sicheng said weakly: "Of course there is no opinion, but ...... I weakly want to ask a question, where are we now? ”

This Mu Sicheng is really a real person, and he actually knows how to ask where their group of people are now. As for the other four people, I am afraid that they have already been fascinated by the four exciting world tasks given by the sect master, and they have no idea their current situation and situation at all.

Mu Sicheng's question can be regarded as a disguised reminder to everyone that the most important thing now is to pay attention to the situation in front of you. As for completing the world-class mission in the horror film world of the Condor Heroes, this long-term goal will be talked about slowly when there is an opportunity in the future.

In this way, Chen Qiubai and the others turned their heads, looked around, and found that the five of them were in a dilapidated village at this time, this village was in the depths of the mountains, but they thought that this place should be in the vicinity of Xiangyang City, at least not too far from Xiangyang City.

The ancestors of the village built a village on the mountain, which seems to have completely preserved the ancient traditions and folk customs of the mountain. The whole village is built on a stone slope, with rafters and eaves, scattered houses, and one or two dark square windows on each outer wall, which seem to be a pair of children's eyes looking into the distance. Probably because the place is too remote, and the villages as a whole are still intact, unlike those villages on the official road, which have been uprooted by the Mongols one by one, and there are no tiles left.

Before the arrival of the Mongols, this village should have been regarded as a land of abundant fish and rice! But now, the young and middle-aged people in the village have migrated in large numbers, leaving only some old, weak, sick and disabled people in this dilapidated and deserted mountain village. It must be due to the outflow of a large number of people in recent years, fleeing to the south to avoid chaos! It's just that these people who fled to the south may not understand, they do this just to survive, and in the end they will find that they can't escape the iron hooves of the Mongols at all, and after the Mongols broke the city of Xiangyang, the Mongol army broke through Lin'an in less than two years, and the Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed.

Chen Qiubai said to everyone: "Let's just take a rest in this village now, and ask about the specific situation here, and how the war between Mongolia and Song is going on outside!" ”

Everyone nodded yes, so Chen Qiubai and his entourage stayed in this unknown small mountain village for a while. The big guys began to separate for a while, walking around the village. See if you can get any valuable leads.

Such a small mountain village should be not far from Xiangyang City, and according to the modern region, it belongs to Hubei. Therefore, the folk customs here are also very characteristic of Hubei, but Chen Qiubai has found that although the land here is fertile and the products are abundant, many places have long been abandoned, and many lands have been uncultivated, probably due to the war. Even if the peasant uncle can grow a few grains of grain, when the time comes, the army will cross the border and loot everywhere, and a small mountain village like this can only be emptied of all the grain and valuable goods here, and nothing will be left for the common people. The army's snatching of the people's food is probably the most feared and destructive thing for the people in times of war!

Chen Qiubai began to wander around aimlessly in this mountain village, but unconsciously met an old woman, Chen Qiubai saw the old woman's thin face, dark complexion, and a pair of charitable eyes under the faint eyebrows. Chen Qiubai followed the sound to meet him, and when he arrived in front of him, he saw that it was a thin old man. Dressed in a faded suit and a pair of brown cloth shoes, he was sweeping the road in front of his house with a bamboo broom. Probably because in recent years, years of war, her children have fled to the south, and there is no one to take care of her, this old woman's life may be relatively hard, so this old woman's people seem to be skinny and abnormal, according to this, Chen Qiubai speculated that this old woman probably won't live for a few years, and she will have to die.

Originally, Chen Qiubai was used to seeing life and death in the Divine Sect, and Chen Qiubai didn't care much about the life or death of an ordinary person, but at the moment when the old woman and Chen Qiubai staggered by each other, the eyes of Chen Qiubai and the old woman glanced at each other......

It was precisely this glance at each other, but Chen Qiubai was surprised, what kind of eyes is this?! From the eyes of this old woman, Chen Qiubai saw the dead silence, emptiness, and deep despair of this world. This despair is different from the despair of the average person, it is a despair that goes deep into the bone marrow, perhaps...... Only years of war and years of conquest can have such despair.

The old lady's eyes actually made Chen Qiubai, who had strong mental power, feel like he had lost his mind for a moment...... Then when Chen Qiubai came back to his senses, he found that he had staggered with the old lady, and the distance between them was gradually widened.

At this moment, all Chen Qiubai thought of was to follow his heart. As for the various rules and regulations of the Divine Sect, they had been left far behind by Chen Qiubai at this time. So, Chen Qiubai hurriedly turned around, and caught up with the old woman in a few steps.

Then he looked at the old woman's ugly, weather-beaten, and slightly angry face. Chen Qiubai said with some confusion: "Old lady...... You...... Pretty good! ”

This ugly old woman, after listening to Chen Qiubai's not affectionate greeting, the whole person was obviously stunned, and then gradually came back to her senses and said to Chen Qiubai: "Who are you, now that the war is in chaos, what are you doing here, are you here to find death?" Listen to my advice, young man, go quickly, and get out of this unfortunate place! Otherwise...... Maybe at any time, you will also become a pile of white bones around this Xiangyang City. ”

Chen Qiubai listened to the old lady actually persuading him to leave at this time, and knew that although the old lady had an ugly appearance, her heart was excellent. So he followed the old lady and said, "Old woman, a few of the other people I have actually come from the southern region, including me and a few of my friends. A few of us have just arrived at the border of Xiangyang, and we only know that the Mongols have besieged Xiangyang City for five years, but we don't know the specific situation here. ”