Chapter 586: Ghost Faith
Seeing Chen An's "hesitation", Dongsheng said with a playful expression: "What's the matter, the young man has traveled south and north, and he hasn't seen this life and death warrant?"
Seeing this life and death situation, Chen An could already confirm that this group of people was definitely not going to fork the badgers, thinking that he had encountered those three demons on the way, could it be that these people wanted to hunt demons?
But no, those three are all disaster level, no, it should be two disaster level, one ruin level, although these people have kung fu, but ten times more is not enough for those demons to stuff their teeth. Could it be that there are some fierce or general-level little monsters? The so-called ruckles actually refer to these?
But this style of painting, how to look at it, how to get away from the impression of the world of the Great Zhou, maybe this is really not the Great Zhou, but other places that can make the Tianji seal letter react. Hey, let's go with them this time, and then take a look in the direction indicated by the Tianji Seal Letter when it's over.
The plan has been decided, and Chen An pressed the handprint without hesitation.
Glancing at Chen An meaninglessly, Dongsheng turned to the next person.
After everyone had signed, Dongsheng put it away and said to the group of eight: "Let's get familiar with each other first, we will set off at night, take a rest when we get to the place, and start when the signal is at dawn." It's all the same old rule anyway, so I won't bother with it. ”
Speaking of the last sentence, he glanced at Chen An, didn't add anything, and turned around and left directly. After he and a few other stewards left, the tent broke into small circles and talked.
The five men and two women naturally formed a small group, but they did not deliberately exclude Chen An and the others, mainly because most of the people in the tent seemed to know each other. For example, Kuang Zhong directly greeted the woman who seemed to be the leader: "Hong Erniang, why didn't your Jia boss come this time?"
Hong Erniang looks like she is in her early thirties, with only a bandeau on her upper body, and a pair of straight snow-white thighs around her lower body around a short skirt of animal skin, and her body is hot, and when she heard this, Chong Kuang smiled and said: "My eldest took over other jobs two days ago and went to work first, they are all hard-working people, there is no way, but how can you Kuang Sixth Master also be interested in the business convened by this trading house?"
Kuang Zhong shook his head and said: "What kind of oil and water can we have, not like your Miao Zhai family, it is better to drink some soup with the business house." ”
After speaking, he turned to the four behind Hong Erniang: "What?
"Liang Gan, you know. Hong Erniang casually pointed to the man in the shorts and shorts who looked like twenty-six or seventeen beside her, then hooked her fingers, and then swept over the other three people in turn: "Nengxiang, Lao Fei, Lan Qin, the young people in the village, bring them out and see blood." ”
Kuang Chong nodded at them, which was a simple salute, and then Hong Erniang's eyes turned to see Chen An next to him, and asked Kuang Chong: "This little brother is tight, together?"
"Lu Yu," Kuang Zhong replied, then turned to Chen An and said, "I haven't asked for advice yet......"
"Chen An, go out and see for a long time. ”
Chen An originally wanted to say that he was a single gang, but looking at the people in this tent talking happily, eighty percent of them knew each other, so he didn't pretend to be a veteran when he thought about it. Directly acting like a newcomer, maybe you can ask more things.
Long insight?
Kuang Zhong and Hong Erniang frowned when they heard this, but they didn't look like they were in front of Dongsheng, and even Hong Erniang answered: "It's not good to see here, when we hunt tomorrow, the little brother is still behind us." ”
Without waiting for Chen An to reply, she directly turned to Kuang Chong and chatted, occasionally bringing Liang Gan, as for the other three newcomers, they couldn't interject like Chen An.
The three newcomers all had some envy in their eyes, listening attentively to the exchange of experiences between the two veterans, and so did Chen An, who could learn more about this world from their words.
According to them, the large area in the south is called the barren ancient mountain forest, which contains all kinds of natural treasures, exotic flowers and plants, and can be said to contain endless treasures. It's just that there are some monsters and beasts walking in it all year round, so that people don't dare to go deep into it at all.
Seven years ago, led by the hero Zhang Zhibei, an alliance of squire sect giants from all over the Nanjun Plain formed an alliance to jointly develop the barren ancient mountains and forests, swept away all the demons above the level of enlightenment, and opened up a safe area with a radius of hundreds of miles, which is now the Linjiang cemetery. Of course, it can also be seen from this name that although the demons were swept away at that time, the human side also suffered heavy losses, and for seven years, the Nanjun Plain was unable to organize the second development activity for the barren ancient mountain forest.
However, fortunately, since the entire Linjiang cemetery was cleaned up seven years ago, there has been no trace of demons for so many years, which gives the people of the Nanjun Plain a great opportunity to make a fortune overnight by digging deep into the treasures.
Therefore, there are often adventurers who come all the way from the South Plains to try their luck in it, and of course, the biggest benefit is the locals who live here. For example, Miao Village, Feilu Village and other villages, they jointly built such a stronghold town here, and they made a lot of money just by doing transit business.
As time passed, not only in the Nanjun Plains, but also in other places, large trading houses joined in, buying the treasures produced here and selling them elsewhere, making this place called a cemetery more and more lively.
Of course, there are so many transit merchants here, and there are relatively few adventurers who dare to risk their lives to fight for wealth, and some adventurers disdain to cooperate with caravans, and only like to work alone, so there are often things like just now, when the guys of the trading houses go to the street to recruit people.
Chen An still had the heart to inquire about the affairs of the Central Plains in the north, but these two people were inseparable from the barren ancient mountains and forests and the Nanjun Plain, obviously they were natives, and they were not very clear about the affairs of other places, so Chen An could only give up, and planned to wait for this operation to take the line of this Hongxin firm and go to the Central Plains.
According to them, this Hongxin firm is from the Central Plains, and its strength background is not bad, but after two or three years in Nanjun, it has opened a big stall, and it will be a good springboard.
It didn't take long for it to get late, and Dongsheng and the other stewards reappeared, as liaisons, each and two men from the Horizon Trading House led everyone through the adventurer town and towards the Linjiang cemetery.
The Linjiang cemetery at night is naturally more dangerous than during the day, and although there are no demons, the beasts are not easy to deal with.
Therefore, even if the safe route planned by Horizon Commercial Bank, everyone still walked very carefully. In the queue, each half a mile apart, slowly advancing, for fear of disturbing some unknown fierce things.
After walking like this all night, close to dawn, Chen An and the others finally came to the designated location without any danger.
Dongsheng turned his head to Chen An and the others: "Let's rest for a while, wait until the sky is bright and the signal is obtained, and then everyone will start to be on guard." ”
Kuang Zhong sat down and closed his eyes to recuperate, Hong Erniang took out a small bottle of grease out of nowhere, and carefully applied it to a three-foot-long waist knife, and the other three newcomers seemed to be a little excited and pulled Liang Gan to the side and asked questions.
Chen An listened attentively, all of which were some hunting trivia from the past.
Only the one-eyed old man is strange, still far away from everyone and staying alone.
In fact, judging from the expressions of Hong Erniang and Kuang Chong, they knew this one-eyed old man, but they didn't know why they didn't say anything to greet him from beginning to end, nor did they say a word of greeting, as if they completely regarded him as a transparent person.
This made Chen An very curious, and he couldn't help but look at the old man twice, only to see him carefully take out a half-foot-high wooden statue from his dirty black robe, put it on a stone, bow down, and chant words in his mouth, not knowing what he was saying.
Chen An's gaze then turned to the statue, and found that it was actually a fierce face and an eight-armed demon.
Goblin beliefs?
Chen An is not a stranger to this thing, the Eastern Wilderness that has been poisoned by demons for thousands of years, there are not too many ghost believers in this kind, the collusion demons exiled by the Great Glacier, except for the filial sons who are reluctant to give up their relatives, most of them are ghost believers, their minds are distorted because of the darkness that has not seen the light of day all year round, and they have begun to worship and believe in their old enemies, and there are even some neuropathies who feed demons in exchange for spiritual pleasure and satisfaction.
When Chen An unified the Eastern Wilderness, the biggest resistance or the greatest help came from them. If it weren't for the clans of the Twelve Cities who were experienced in these things, and the timely suppression and investigation, maybe it would have brought unpredictable hidden dangers to the rule of Great Qi.
When he understands this, Chen An naturally knows why Hong Erniang and Kuang Zhong over there are transparent when they are Lao Suo, this kind of ghost believer is crazy and does not recognize his relatives, and no one needs to be full to provoke them, and in the same way, naturally no one will want to make friends with neuropathy, so it is the most appropriate way to treat it as not seeing.
It's just that I don't know how Dongsheng recruited him in the first place.
Thinking of this, Chen An couldn't help but pay attention to the situation of Dongsheng and the others, compared with the leisureliness of Chen An and the others, Dongsheng and the two guys began to get busy.
They were looking around for animal traces, then setting traps such as beast traps such as thistles, and then sprinkling unknown powder to cover up the traces of abnormal smells, and finally hiding in three directions, secretly guarding the surroundings, and doing everything a qualified auxiliary officer should do.
"Pretty professional. ”
Chen An muttered in a low voice, but was heard by Hong Erniang, who was sitting not far from him, temporarily put down the work in his hand and looked up and smiled: "This is why we want to work with a big commercial house, in fact, we can indeed gain more by doing it alone, but it is not cost-effective, with them, we just need to concentrate on fighting, and we don't need to be distracted to care about other things." ”
Chen An nodded thoughtfully, and wanted to ask something more about this, but he felt that the ground under him shook for a while, and then the sky in the distance lit up with bright firelight, which could be seen from such a distance, I am afraid that it would not be ten zhang high.
In my ears, I remembered Dongsheng's voice at the right time: "The hunt has begun, everyone be careful!"