Chapter 222: Bloodthirsty Bones
Bai Zishan also secretly sent a message to me, he felt that the words of the little head were not credible, if the two clans were at war, they would not need to get the human heavenly spirit bones to pass.
I nodded secretly, interrupting the conversation with a drink. As the cultivation progressed, and we didn't get used to the sunshine all day, we didn't sleep much, just to avoid suspicion, and we didn't walk around. The next day, Qian Gui came over, looked around our goods a few times, smiled crookedly, and didn't say anything.
After the team started, we also followed peacefully, and on the way, Zhou Tong asked if he wanted to arrest someone and ask. I don't think it's appropriate, even if we do, we have to wait until we enter the Spirit Clan residence. On the way, we kept in contact with the people of the mercenary group, learned about some taboos of the spirit clan, and had a general understanding in our hearts.
In the future, as Qian Gui said, there was no rest for several days, in order not to expose our cultivation, we could only pretend to be tired, and on the second day after entering the territory of the Spirit Clan, we were ready to act alone after leaving, and before leaving, we wanted to arrest Qian Gui and ask for specific details.
Unexpectedly, as soon as we were ready to start, the team entered a city of the Spirit Clan. The Demon Gate is a vast land, and most of the buildings are stone subjects, but compared to the human race, the architectural style of the spirit race is slightly different, and whether it is a street or a room, it is much larger, and it is estimated that it is related to their size.
Seeing that I was going to enter the city, I had to cancel the plan, and first look at what I was saying, I didn't think about it before I arrived in the city, Zhou Tong and the small mercenary group we hired were all surrounded by the spirit army. In the distance, the leader of the army was talking to Rowling. Zhou Tong guessed that Rowling had sold us.
The leader of the small mercenary group was sweating profusely, shrinking to the side and not daring to squeak. When I asked, he wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead and said inarticulately, "We have been sold into slavery." You must not resist, then there is still a chance to survive, if you resist, you will be executed. ”
Hearing this, Xia Ji said angrily: "Didn't you say that with you, there will be no conflict?" The little head of the regiment is also unable to protect himself now, the beads of sweat on his forehead are like rain, and the expression on his face is completely loveless, and he does not squeak when he hears the words.
I stopped Xia Ji and told him not to be embarrassed, and at the same time signaled them not to mess around.
The small mercenary group eats this bowl of rice on the border, it is impossible that they have not been to the territory of the Spirit Clan, there should have been no similar situation in the past, and now it is suddenly like this, is it that we have been exposed?
When I was thinking about it, Qian Gui came over and said: "A few brothers, don't blame my brother, I don't care about you, if you want to blame it, it can only be blamed for a coincidence, in the past few days, they have found some things, and they need a large number of slaves to help them work." ”
The leader of Qian Gui's mercenary group is a spirit clan, obviously escaped, wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead and said: "Don't say that I don't care about my compatriots, so let's do you have any relatives in the human race?" I'll bring you a letter, and if I can give you enough money, I might be able to get you out and save your life. ”
While Rowling was still talking to the general who led the troops, I hurriedly lowered my voice and asked, "Brother Qian, do you know what they want us to do?" ”
Qian Gui shook his head and urged: "Hurry up, if you have something to bring back." ”
I knew I couldn't ask anything, so I shook my head and said no. The members of the small mercenary group hung their heads, and the head of the regiment had bruises on his forehead, and he wanted to speak several times, but finally held back.
The ransom that Qian Gui said is probably an astronomical amount, and there is a way to repay the money, they are living a life of licking blood from the knife edge, and they can't afford to spend this price.
"Well, that's it, you all pray!" Seeing this, Qian Gui spread his hands helplessly, turned around and left.
"Dog thing!" Zhou Tong scolded secretly: "I took a thousand coins from us, but now I don't care about it." ”
I don't have any concept of money, but as long as there's a ghost daughter-in-law, that bit of coinage is really nothing.
Qian Gui was leaving, and the soldiers immediately came up to collect our goods and began to search our bodies. I watched the Starlight Sword and Li Erniu's giant axe being taken away, and I already had killing thoughts in my heart. Just as he was about to make a move, the leading general came over and scolded: "Leave the weapons for them, and they will be useful later." ”
Slaves with weapons are obviously out of order, could it be that they want us to help in the war?
The Starlight Sword and the giant axe were returned, and I was also relieved, and Zhou Tong said: "The Spirit Clan people have so much strength that they can actually hold Li Erniu's giant axe. ”
"I'm afraid it has nothing to do with strength, otherwise they would know from our weapons that we are monks." As soon as I had finished speaking, the soldiers pressed us out of the city, and not far from the outside of the city a large open space was enclosed with wood, and many humans were seized in it.
It can be said that when human beings don't clean themselves, when they get together, they are not much cleaner than pigs, and from another aspect, most of the people in it are civilians who are not highly cultivated, or have no cultivation at all.
Zhou Tong couldn't stand such an environment, so when they entered, they said: "Door master, we have a map in our hands, just leave directly when the time comes, there is no need to waste time here." ”
I said, "If something goes wrong, there must be a demon, since you are here, stay and see, and the people who are imprisoned here are our compatriots, do you still have to watch death and not save you?" ”
Bai Zishan was more rational, and immediately analyzed when he heard the words: "I see that there are tens of thousands of Spirit Clan soldiers in the city, even if we rescue them, we can't take them away, the risk is too great." ”
I glared at him speechlessly, Bai Zishan shut up with interest, and Zhou Tong and they didn't talk much. Half a day after we entered, hundreds of people were driven in one after another, and after a while, another burly spirit general came, and after making the handover, he took more than 500 people to drink and let everyone stand up, and then tied them one by one with ropes, and began to walk towards the mountains in the distance.
At first I didn't understand their intentions, but now that I'm gone, my brow furrows. On the map that Ao gave me, it was marked exactly in this direction, I didn't worry, and the divine consciousness also entered the sea of knowledge and asked, and he was sure that it was this direction.
Could it be that they want us to go to the place where the bones were found? Sure enough, there were soldiers talking on the way, mentioning the word fog, as well as death. There were so many people that I couldn't concentrate and couldn't hear clearly, so I heard a few words intermittently, organized them, and roughly guessed that there was an anomaly in the fog, and a large number of slaves were needed to go in to explore the way.
Zhou Tong and the others also heard the soldiers next to them talking, and they all looked at me. I pressed my hand and motioned to follow.
Because there are many ordinary people, the speed is particularly slow, even if it is a constant spur, a day is only seventy or eighty kilometers, the escort soldiers are afraid of exhausting people to death, let them rest for half a day halfway, on the fifth day, the mountains here seem to suddenly disappear, look carefully only to find that there is a large fog in front of it, but it is too thick, from a distance it looks like to the sky, is covered by a white cloth behind the world.
Two or three kilometers away from the mist, there are still a large number of Spirit Clan soldiers stationed, here, we are divided into several groups, a group of civilians who don't know anything, and those with a little bit of cultivation are divided into a group, although we have weapons on our bodies, we are still divided into the civilian group.
After a while, people from the spirit clan brought food, and after a few days of hunger, everyone forgot to be afraid, and rushed up to grab the food, and after eating, a person dressed as a general stood up and said loudly: "Now give you a way to live, enter the fog, as long as you can come out alive, I will give you a free body." ”
Before his words fell, the faces of the civilians who had just been sent showed joy, but some of them had been waiting here for a few days, and when they heard this, they immediately cried, and some people still wanted to stir up everyone's emotions, and shouted loudly: "They are lying, we have been here for a few days, and we have seen thousands of people go in with our own eyes, but none of them will come out alive." ”
It's a pity that before he finished speaking, there was a bloody hole in his throat, and everyone suddenly quieted down, hugged helplessly, crying for his father and mother.
In the face of death, everyone will be afraid, but ordinary people will collapse more easily than monks, but they are powerless to resist, and the army surrounding them can easily kill everyone. Under the expulsion, people began to enter the fog.
Zhou Tong, we were mixed in the crowd, and our faces were not very good-looking, because there were strong people in the Spirit Clan's army, and if they could deal with the things in the mist, they would definitely not waste time with civilians.
It's just that what is the purpose of letting these people go in and send them to death?
Soon, we were about to move forward, but we found that there were fifty or sixty Spirit Clan warriors behind us, and although they looked nervous, they had a fearless look in their eyes, which showed that they were selected dead soldiers.
I let out a long breath, and my heart was bottomless, and I went to ask the proud divine sense, and he just told me that there is a force in the fog, which likes bloodthirsty, and as long as he sucks enough blood, it will settle down, and he lost tens of thousands of soldiers when he went inside, so he can come out of it.
Pride means that in addition to feeding, he was powerless to resist at the beginning. Hearing this, I let out a long sigh and secretly told Zhou Tong and them about the situation, and at the same time asked Xia Ji to prepare, after all, the only one with the strongest defense among us was his quadrangle.
The people in front quickly went into the fog and disappeared. Soon we also stepped in, and when we really got into the fog, the visibility was much higher, and we could see a figure about ten meters away.
More than 1,000 people lined up in a long line, walked forward cautiously, and after going deep for seven or eight hundred meters, there was a sudden commotion in front, and before we could react, the crowd fell to the ground. Fortunately, Xia Ji had already prepared and quickly opened the quadrangular array, but the people who could protect it were limited after all, and almost at the same time, Zhou Tong and Li Erniu made a move and rushed straight to the Spirit Clan soldiers behind.
The moment the square array opened, countless black shadows suddenly appeared in the mist, they floated, like ghosts, shadowless and invisible, as long as the people who were touched by them fell to the ground. Moreover, several black shadows rushed straight into the square array, the golden wall of light shook, and Xia Ji spurted out a large mouthful of blood from his mouth, unable to support it.
And I stared at the wall of light of the formation, and saw clearly that what was rushing was a black bone horror.