Under a huge multicolored mushroom, blood flowed, staining a patch of pale green moss red.

Knight Philon was afraid that the tribute would be late, so he sent his henchmen to escort the tribute forward in advance. There are not many escorts, but most of them are not weak, and there are no less than three of them who are quasi-first-class.

It's a pity that they met Sig.

A brutal battle has come to an end at this moment, and Sieg and the others have wasted some effort and successfully won the other party's tribute.

"What is this?" Sigur stood next to a large cage, a wooden cart pulled by several nightmare beasts.

Inside the cage was a strange creature that looked like an upside-down man.

The man's head grew underneath, four slender legs grew above, four slender hands supported the body like tentacles, and the central body bulged like a leather ball.

It feels ...... It's like a fat man with four hands and four feet, standing upside down on the ground.

“#￥%............ & amp; amp; amp; amp; amp;%##@; & amp; amp; amp; amp; amp;%￥￥#; ¥#@......" The creature suddenly leaned over to the cage and said a lot of words in an excited tone.

However, Seeger couldn't understand what he was saying.

"But it looks like this monster is a first-class creature...... And it seems to be injured. Sieg noticed that on the left side of the monster's ball-like body, a patch of red blood was exposed.

“￥%#%...... & amp; amp; amp; amp; amp;%##@; & amp; amp; amp; amp; amp;%;” The upside-down fat man shook the cage railing desperately, as if trying to express something. His eyes were full of excitement, and he seemed to feel that Sieg belonged to the side of justice, defeated these evil spirits, and came to save him.

However, Siggy's next sentence plunged him into an ice cave.

"Lock this monster up with the other Blood Food Tribute, and get ready to go. Sieg commanded simply.

“%%￥##%...... & amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp;” The monster shook the cage desperately, and the action was fierce.

It's just that Sieg has already turned away.

"Speed up, the other party gets the news and will chase after him soon. Sigur commanded left and right.

Although he can't fight alone, he can run away, but in this gluttonous world, Sigurt doesn't want to expose too much, and he doesn't want to give up his power.

......

In the next two days, Sig's team moved forward without any further trouble, and they were getting closer and closer to the Fire Demon Capital.

Soon, everyone came out of the vast mushroom forest and reappeared in an open field.

The vast field is dotted with swampy pools, which are full of poisonous miasma, and the lake water is also black and has a pungent stench. If a mortal accidentally strays into it, I'm afraid it won't be long before he becomes a pile of bones.

In the middle of the swamp, a large yellow river crosses it, and the waves in the river are tumbling, swallowing up the sediment that has been drained in all directions.

At the top of the river, a stone bridge spans it, and the bluestone slabs have now turned dark black because of their age.

The team of Sig and the others stopped not far from this bridge at this moment.

Because the front ...... Something seems unusual.

Sigur jumped off the Nightmare Beast and looked ahead with a frown.

He was the one who had just stopped the team.

At this moment, a thin layer of mist seemed to fill the sky and the earth, and the humidity of the air rose sharply. I don't know if it's a miasma or something else, this fog surrounds the bridge, always giving people a sense of mystery.

At the misty bridge, a black figure seemed to be standing there, hazy, disappearing from time to time.

"Someone seems to be there. Sig looked at the stone bridge in front of him.

The breeze blew slowly, the fog dispersed a little, and everyone finally saw the situation ahead.

At the moment stood a strange man wearing a peaked wizard's hat.

The man was not tall, with his head bowed, and his face was obscured by a wide pointed hat. Except for his pale hair, the rest of the place was wrapped in a black robe.

The strange man was now holding a sleeping baby, carefully shaking, patting, and humming a lullaby.

He just stood at the head of the misty stone bridge, pacing back and forth, as if waiting for something.

"Get someone to come and have a look. Sigurt commanded left and right, cautiously not going over by himself.

There was a hint of weirdness all over the strange man's body, and the sudden fog made Sieg feel a little uneasy.

Soon, several sturdy spirits came out of the group with spears in their hands and came to the strange man.

"Hey, go away, get out of the way. "The spirits apparently didn't realize anything, just thought it was ordinary clearing work.

As they spoke, they stabbed their spears in front of them.

The black-robed strange man froze suddenly, then raised his head slightly, revealing a face covered in yellow hair and eyes as cold as knives.

The child in the stranger's arms seemed to be frightened by something, and he burst into tears.

The next moment, a sudden change occurred.

"Get out of here!" cried the strange man in a hoarse voice, slapping the child carefully, as if thinking they were scaring the baby in his arms.

His words seemed to have some special power, and they quickly condensed into a rapid sonic impact.

The sound waves are like rolling waves, and rows of staggered impacts come over, condensing into substance. The crest of the wave is like a knife, and the trough is like a sword, cutting off the heads of many evil spirits in the front row of the Sigurg's team like cutting melons and vegetables.

Bang bang.

The sound of heads hitting the ground sounded one after another.

In the blink of an eye, except for Sieg and some other high-level apprentices and quasi-first-level petty leaders, most of the rest died in this wave of attacks.

Headless corpses followed in all directions, falling one after another.

The blood sprayed, connected together, forming pools of blood.

The strange man's small voice took the lives of hundreds of evil spirits in the blink of an eye!

Hiss.

The sound of gasping cold air sounded, and the faces of the many surviving evil spirits showed horror on their faces one by one.

"Monster ......"

"Ahh

The remaining troops in the back were suddenly in confusion, and they all retreated in a panic to the rear.

Sig's face suddenly became more ugly than ever, and he reached out and touched the blood splattered on his face, his eyes gloomy.

"This weirdo...... I can't see through it!"

Judging from the sonic attack just now, the level of this strange person is definitely higher than his own, or even more than level two, and it is very likely to be a high-level creature!

At this moment, the strange man who had been keeping his head down finally showed his face.

It was a leopard-faced old woman with a peaked wizard's hat, her skin was dry and sticky to her bones, her yellow hair was all over her face, and she had a few whiskers on her cheeks. She was not tall, and at the moment she was carefully holding the baby in her arms, focusing all her attention on it, without looking at everyone.

Sieg swallowed, as if thinking of something.

He remembered a story he had heard as a child, a story about a leopard-faced witch.

Legend has it that there was once a young hunter who, during a hunting trip, encountered an injured baby female leopard.

When the boy saw how small the leopard was, he rescued it and brought it back as a pet.

Later, the leopard gradually grew up, and the boy also got married, had his own happy family, and became the male owner of the family.

The family gets along well, and the leopard's wildness seems to have been tamed, and the male owner's children are treated as if they were his own.

One day the man and woman of the house went out, leaving only the young baby and the leopard, which had grown up.

When the man and woman came back after a day out, they suddenly found that their child's bed was in a mess, and the ground was covered with dazzling blood.

Under the extreme nervousness, the emotions of the male and female owners began to lose control, and just when they saw the leopard lying on the side, with the same blood on its mouth, and licking its paws with cold eyes.

An ominous premonition came to the minds of the two of them. Out of control, the man picked up a shotgun and shot the leopard on the spot.

However, the reversal came quickly.

After the leopard was killed, the man and woman, who were immersed in the grief of losing their son, suddenly heard a cry coming from under the bed.

They subconsciously moved the bed away, only to find that their son was lying under the bed at the moment, just waking up from his sleep!

The truth of the story speaks for itself.

It turned out that the two men and women forgot to lock the door before leaving, causing a trafficker to sneak into the house. The faithful leopard noticed the uninvited guest, first hiding the little master under the bed, and then desperately fighting the traffickers.

The blood on the side of its mouth was the same as it had been after biting the trafficker's body.

It was originally a touching story of the loyal leopard savior, but I didn't expect the final ending to be so emotional.

However, the story doesn't end there.

When the man and woman buried the leopard with guilt, one day, an old woman wearing a peaked wizard's hat suddenly visited their home.

The male and female owners of the family thought that this was just an ordinary homeless man, and wanted to give away some money casually. Unexpectedly, the old woman suddenly showed a look of resentment on her face. Her hair grew rapidly, and soon her head turned into a leopard's head.

And this leopard's head is exactly the same as the leopard that was killed by the male and female owners before!

At the end of the story, the couple went insane and became insane. And their only child, the baby, was also taken away by the old woman, and was never heard from since.

Seeing this leopard-faced witch at this moment, Sieg naturally recalled the dark fairy tale he had heard in his childhood. This fairy tale is used by adults to scare disobedient children.

Sieg felt a little dry in his throat at the moment, and was about to say something. But suddenly, he noticed that the leopard-faced old woman's right hand suddenly stretched out a finger and pointed in the other direction.

"It's ...... Do you want us to take a detour?" Seeger noticed, the man pointing in the other direction. There is also a stone bridge over there, which can lead to the Fire Demon Capital, but it is just a detour.

"Your Excellency...... What should I do?" a few small leaders approached and asked nervously.

This large area of corpses is crisscrossed like the end of the world.

One voice can kill so many people, the strength of this leopard-faced witch can be imagined!

"Let's go, take a detour!" Sigurd was silent for a long time, still deciding not to provoke the strange old woman.

At that moment, many evil spirits bypassed this side and walked towards the bridgehead in the other direction.

Before leaving, Sieg glanced back at the old woman. At this moment, she was still holding the child in her arms, shaking it carefully, without looking at everyone.