To the north of Qingxi City, about ten kilometers away, in a deep mountain, Halleyson and his subordinates were resting in it. The atmosphere of the whole team seemed very depressing, when they set off, there were fifty-two people in the team, but now, only forty-one people remained. Since they have joined the army, life and death are normal, they are used to it, but they have to die in a place, like in the daytime, they are inexplicably smashed into flesh by a stump of a tree, and they die in a daze, as long as they are normal, they are unwilling.

Because of the hidden assassination mission, they did not dare to make a fire in the forest, for fear of attracting enemies.

Although it is already early spring and the temperature has warmed up, the night fog in the forest is thick, and it is easy to catch a cold. Halleyson ordered a few of his men to keep vigil, while others picked thick leaves and laid them on the dead leaf floor, then huddled together to warm each other and fall asleep.

In the second half of the night, Helaison, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly felt that his body was shaken, and he was shocked, and his long military career made him wake up immediately, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that it was a soldier he had sent to the neighborhood to watch the night.

"What's wrong?" Halleyson stood up, and from the branches and leaves above his head, the dew that had been condensed by the fog of the night came down, and then wiped it on his face, and the cold feeling pierced his head, and he suddenly sobered up a lot.

"Boss, something isn't right." The soldier on duty at night lowered his voice: "There are a lot of torches under the mountain, and it seems that I want to patrol the mountain." ”

Hearing this, Halleyson immediately ran to the observation point, looked at the foot of the mountain, and his face immediately became a little difficult to see, but in such a night, no one could notice.

At the foot of the mountain, more than a dozen 'fire dragons' stretched, swimming from the direction of Qingxi City, and several scattered to other places. Halleyson counted the number of torches, at least about five hundred, it is impossible for everyone to have torches, so make sure that there are at least more than a thousand people. With so many people dispatched at the same time, it was not an ordinary trivial matter at all, he didn't have to think about it, these people definitely came to find his team.

"Could it be that the Soul Thinkers Association sent all the people from Qingxi City to find us?" The soldier in charge of the night watch asked suspiciously.

"No, torches move fast, not ordinary people." Hulaison can be the leader, and his strength is naturally much stronger than his subordinates: "It should be a mercenary in Qingxi City......"

"That's a bit too many."

Helleson looked at the several teams that were moving quickly down the mountain, his face seemed to be integrated with the dark night, his tone was a little unwilling, and at the same time there was a trace of fear, but others couldn't hear it: "I have long heard that there are not many other things in the Soul Ponderers Association, that is, there is a lot of money and a lot of people, but now it seems that it is true...... For the sake of more than 40 of us, so many mercenaries were dispatched, which is really a big deal. ”

"Go and wake them all up, we're going to retreat."

The soldiers on the night vigil led the way, and Hheaton looked at Qingxi City in the distance, and in the darkness of the night, he could only barely see the outline of the city. The shadow is haunting, giving the illusion that it is about to move in the dark night, as if it is a monster coiled in its own territory, eyeing him.

It seems that things are not as smooth as he imagined, the poisoning that Halleyson was very confident in has also failed, and now that the other party has taken precautions, and has sent mercenaries against them, the situation is not optimistic. Because of the relationship of discipline, under the same number of people, the combat effectiveness of mercenaries is worse than that of soldiers, but now the gap in numbers is too large, and there is no possibility of head-to-head confrontation at all.

Now the only way for Halleyson to retreat to the Tachibana Thorn country, but ...... Before leaving, he gave his own military order, and if he didn't succeed, he went back with his head. Anyway, it's all death, it's better to fight harder, at least for now, it's not to the point of exhaustion, and he still has a killer weapon that he hasn't used.

Chen Xiansong returned to the mercenary union after posting the mission. He slept quietly all night, and when he got up the next day, while he was eating breakfast, Balff came up to report that someone was outside, saying that there was a clue that three women had been killed, and he wanted to see Chen Xiansong in person.

"Ask him to come in." Chen Xiansong interrupted his meal.

Bai Min was on the side, with some dissatisfaction on his face. The body of a natural person is not as good as that of a new human and a cyborg, and an irregular diet will bring some subtle damage to the physical condition of the natural person. For new humans and cyborgs who are pampered like natural people, such things can be avoided as much as possible. …,

It's just that Bai Min also understands that now that Xiao Song is doing business, she shouldn't interfere. But after all, she understood that she had some disgust in her heart for the whistleblower who came at an inopportune time, and she must know that biochemical beings are rarely subjectively disgusted with a person or a business.

A man came in from outside, with an average appearance, the whole person was very scarred, wearing a light gray linen coat, with a few patches, and the cuffs were polished to a shiny finish, he should be an ordinary civilian who had been living on the poverty line. The Guild in Qingxi City is very rich and magnificent, and it is very stressful for ordinary people who enter this kind of place for the first time.

"Dalit Charles, it's a pleasure to meet your lord." Although he seemed nervous, he was able to speak fluently.

Chen Xiansong looked at him: "I heard that you know the clues of the bloody case. ”

"Yes, sir." Charles's face was both sneering and nervous.

Chen Xiansong was a little excited in his heart, he didn't expect his heavy money strategy to succeed so quickly: "Can you talk to me now?" ”。

Charles hurriedly explained: "My lord, I don't know how to describe that clue, but now that it's in my home, I think you should go and see it for yourself, it's really inconvenient for me to take it out." ”

It sounded like a big thing, Chen Xiansong nodded, and when he was about to get up, Bai Min suddenly pressed his shoulder: "I'll go after breakfast." ”

There was a hint of pleading in the girl's firm eyes, Chen Xiansong's originally anxious mood suddenly calmed down, he began to gobble down the food in front of him, but he didn't eat a few bites, he suddenly remembered something, and then said to Charles who was standing in front of him quite embarrassed: "I'm sorry, I'm in a hurry, I forgot all the etiquette, have you eaten breakfast, let's eat some together?" Quite a few words"

Charles shook his head vigorously, the Dark Ages, the concept of hierarchy was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and he gave him ten dares, and he did not dare to sit with a soul thinker.

Looking at the other party's face that looked a little pale because of panic, Chen Xiansong didn't force it anymore.

The northeastern part of Qingxi City is the most crowded and the poorest area. Chen Xiansong and Bai Min walked on the dirty streets, at this time the city did not have the concept of sewers, and the poorer the place, the less people were exquisite...... Therefore, there are not only potholes on the speed street, but also people and animals are everywhere.

Looking at Chen Xiansong and Bai Min, who tried their best to avoid the unclean things on the street, kept covering their noses, and were out of place here, Charles sighed in his heart, a little uneasy, of course he knew that he should not bring the two nobles to a filthy area, but what he wanted to show the other party was really inconvenient to bring directly to the association, and he didn't even dare to bring it to the door of the association.

There were many poor people around, but when they saw Bai Min, most of them lowered their heads and didn't dare to take another look, the reason was very simple, the untouchables were beaten to death because they looked at the beautiful women of the nobility one more time, and they could hear it every one or two months, and it was not new.

Although Chen Xiansong looked mild, the six 'fierce and vicious' guards of Balf behind him naturally exuded an aura of 'don't approach the living', at this time, where did ordinary people dare to look at that girl who was too beautiful to speak.

Not long after they left, several people came to Charles's house.

It was a low adobe house, the thatch on the roof was mossy, and the wooden door at the door was old and rotten, and you could smell a rotten smell when you got close. On the low, missing wooden sill in the doorway, there was a little guy with a yellow face and thin muscles, and a head bigger than his body, sitting with his chin propped up.

"Daddy" The little boy jumped up and threw himself into Charles's arms.

Charles happily touched his son's head, and then said to Chen Xiansong: "It's very dirty and messy inside, Your Excellency, please wait here for a while, and I'll go and push that thing out." ”

Chen Xiansong nodded, he really had no intention of going in, because from the small house in front of him, there was a foul smell, like an unknown substance that had accumulated in the gutter for several months, and the smell was generated. Not to mention him, even Balf and the others covered their noses, with an expression of extreme disgust.

The only one who was not affected was Bai Min. She didn't cover her nose and didn't have any expression on her face. It's not that she's used to such unpleasant smells; The real reason was that she was holding her breath. Cyborgs are very physical, they can fight at high intensity in an oxygen-free environment for more than half an hour, and if they just stay quietly, they can survive in an oxygen-free environment for about six hours, and they can also maintain a clear consciousness. …,

Xia Er entered the room, the little boy stood outside the door a little timidly, he looked at Chen Xiansong for a while, and then looked at Bai Min, and then looked at Bai Min, the most obvious thing seemed to be frightened by Bai Min's cold expression, and ran home to hide behind the door, revealing a small eye, staring at Bai Min quietly, seemingly interested, but a little scared. Little boys always like beautiful big sisters, which is common to all children.

Bai Min ignored him, and all her thoughts were on Chen Xiansong.

It wasn't long before Charles came out with a flatbed cart filled with several dirty barrels, and the stench became even stronger. Chen Xiansong finally knew why this place stinked so much, and Charles should be a 'cleaner' who was responsible for recycling swill and feeding it to livestock.

Chen Xiansong didn't mean to look down on the cleaners, but he couldn't help but take a few steps back, the smell was too bad. In the twenty-second century, in terms of urban cleaning, the new human beings have almost achieved the extreme, and since he was a child, Chen Xiansong couldn't stand such a smell at all, he felt that his stomach began to turn over the river and the sea, and he wanted to vomit something out.

"I'm sorry, Your Excellency, but I really bothered you." Of course, Charles saw Chen Xiansong's face, he knew that his thing tasted bad, and his heart became more and more worried, it would be bad if he annoyed this young nobleman, but when he thought of the thousand bounty, he suppressed the uneasiness in his heart and explained: "Your Excellency, the clue I said is here. ”

Balf stood in front of Chen Xiansong, he covered his nose and said angrily: "Don't say so much, your place is really too bad, hurry up and get the clue out, if it is sure to be useful, we will naturally give you a thousand gold coins." ”

"Please wait a moment." Charles wiped a handful of cold sweat from his head, ordinary people generally feel great pressure when facing fighters. He picked up a long wooden spoon from the carriage and stirred it in one of the barrels for a while, and finally scooped up a milky white elemental crystal from it, which was vaguely like something flashing.

When Balf saw this thing, his eyes lit up: "Oh, it's an exorcism stone?" You go and wash it clean. ”

Caught with the crystal stones, as well as the leftovers of cold rice in the swill, these things that have been left for a few days have become quite strange in color and shape, which makes people lose their appetite when they look at it. Charles answered, ignoring the dirty swill, grabbed the small milky elemental stone, and returned home.

"Exorcism Stone, what is it?" Taking advantage of this gap, Chen Xiansong asked Balf.

Balf immediately explained. It turns out that the exorcism stone is a special pearl element crystal dug from around the root of the elemental crystal stone, when there are fighters and sorcerers nearby who use elemental energy, it will have some reactions, absorb the elemental energy emitted by nearby fighters and sorcerers, record some clips at that time, and then repeat it until the energy is exhausted.

Chen Xiansong was surprised: "There is such a thing, so why is it called an exorcism stone, isn't it better to call it an image stone?" ”

"The images it records disappear when the elemental energy is exhausted." Balf explains: "People who often live in dirty areas will get some strange diseases for some reason, but one soul thinker found that if you were in the company of these exorcism stones from time to time, the chances of getting sick would be very small, hence the name of this stone." ”

"Oh? Does it have a bactericidal effect? ”

Bai Min said on the side: "There should be no sterilization effect, otherwise these swill food will not deteriorate, and it will not smell so bad, I feel that the stone just now has a special energy field, which is very penetrating, and can have the effect of enhancing human immunity." ”

Chen Xiansong nodded, indicating that he understood: "It sounds very useful, so I don't seem to have seen this kind of thing before, it stands to reason that everyone carries a small piece of this kind of thing with them is the best choice." ”

Balf smiled bitterly: "The exorcism stone is generally used by those who dig dung, or other lowly trades, and the nobles disdain to use the same items with them, thinking that they will lose face, and ordinary civilians also think that thing is very dirty." ”

Chen Xiansong secretly scolded stupidly, the medical level in the dark era was not very good, it is rare to have such a good thing, but because of the so-called dignity and nobility issues, it is not used. He smiled and said, "Balf, are there many such exorcism stones, can you help me get a few back later." ”

"It's a lot, but the master ......," Balf hesitated for a moment, and finally persuaded seriously: "If you carry this thing on you, you may be laughed at by the other nobles." ”

"Hehe, I have my own ideas. You can get it for me. Chen Xiansong smiled.

"But," Balf tried to persuade again, but at this moment Charles came out of the room, and he had to step aside......