Although Sanshan County and Shuxian County are adjacent to each other, there is a vast uninhabited area between the two counties. This barren area is neither under the jurisdiction of Sanshan County nor Shuxian County, and is a veritable "vacuum zone".

Seven days later, Bian Yao and Twilight Song walked out of the boundary of Sanshan County and entered this flat and open wilderness. At this point, there are still a few days away from Shu County.

At the insistence of Twilight Song, the two hurried all the way, starry and night, rarely stopping.

On the way, rivers and forests are often visible, but there are no people in sight, only broken and unrecognizable house walls and weedy old ruins.

At the beginning of May, the weather is getting hotter and hotter.

At dusk on this day, the brilliant colorful glow fills the sky like a stream, and it is beautiful.

Suddenly, in a small forest, two fast figures rushed out, which were Bian Yao and Twilight Song.

At a glance, they found that there was a narrow river outside the forest, and the two of them slowed down, walked to the riverside and squatted down, picked up the cool river water to wash off the sweat and dust on their faces, and then walked to the nearby wild trees to rest.

Bian Yao leaned against the tree and sat facing west, his face was slightly tired. He looked at the clouds in the sky, ate a few spirit fruits, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly raised his hand and pointed forward, and said with a smile: "Look at that red cloud, it doesn't look like a three-legged big red dog?"

On the side, Twilight Song was meditating with her eyes closed, and when she heard this, she slowly opened her eyes, stared at the western sky for a moment, and replied lightly, "Like a two-legged dog." ”

"Look slow, just scattered one, just now there are three legs. Bian Yao stared intently at the distant sky, and argued with a serious face.

Twilight Song didn't say anything, and withdrew her gaze from the sky with a blank face, but inadvertently glanced at the river not far away.

Suddenly, his expression changed suddenly, and he suddenly bounced up and quickly rushed to the riverbank.

Bian Yao couldn't help but be stunned, although he was puzzled by his companion's unusual behavior, he knew that something must have happened. Without thinking, he quickly stood up and ran after him.

It is a clear and narrow stream, and the surface of the river is very clean, and there is no debris such as duckweed or aquatic plants, which is sure to stand out if there is anything foreign on the surface.

It was a floating corpse, floating upstream from the current, and it clearly met the eyes of the two of them.

For cultivators, walking in this impermanent world, encountering dead people, and even killing people with their own hands are originally ordinary things. However, since the two of them left Sanshan County and entered this inaccessible wilderness, they have never seen a single figure, and now they have found a corpse in the river, which is naturally difficult not to arouse curiosity.

From the outside, the deceased was a middle-aged man with disheveled hair and a body floating in the water, with no frontal appearance in sight. Judging from the dress alone, this person is undoubtedly a cultivator. Although it was impossible to see the whole body of the corpse, from the point of view, there were no obvious injuries on the deceased's body, and even the clothes were not damaged in the slightest, and there were no signs of a fight.

The two men stood quietly on the shore, watching the corpse go away, and their expressions gradually became solemn, for they noticed and were very sure of one thing—that the man had not been dead for long!

After a brief discussion, the two of them followed the small river and went up the river with the spirit of curiosity.

About half an hour later, Twilight Song suddenly paused, stared coldly at the side ahead, and whispered in a deep voice, "There is a situation!"

Bian Yao hurriedly stopped, and swept his eyes forward carefully, and saw two figures lying crookedly in the grass more than ten zhang away in front of him.

The two of them cautiously stepped forward and found that there were some shriveled or shattered spirit fruits scattered around the vicinity, as well as an empty wine jar. In the messy grass and slightly damp soil, there is still a faint residual aroma of fruit wine.

After a little temptation, Bian Yao was shocked to find that the two strangers who collapsed on the ground were not dead, they seemed to be in a deep coma, and they couldn't wake up!

Surprisingly, the two strangers were in a posture with their arms in their heads, their bodies curled up and fell to the ground, their scarlet eyes were wide open, a pair of eyes seemed to be about to come out, and their facial muscles were severely distorted, and their expressions looked a little scary!

It was clear that the two men had struggled in pain and frantically before falling into a coma!

Twilight Song remained silent, and slowly got up to look far and near, but saw that within a radius of miles, there were only a few sparse trees except for lush weeds and a meandering river.

Time passed, the sunset became thinner and thinner, and the scattered streams hung on the horizon, about to disappear.

Suddenly, a blue finch swept from the low sky, let out a loud cry, and drew a galloping shadow, which also broke the silence of the moment.

"It's an evil dream cultivator!" Bian Yao looked at one of the unconscious cultivators, and suddenly came back to his senses, his expression became extremely solemn, and his tone also revealed a little uneasiness!

"Huh......?" Twilight Song exclaimed, turning her head to look at Bian Yao, her eyes as if asking.

"These two people should be in the same group as the person in the river before, judging from the current situation, they are probably in the dark dream cultivation, and the dream has been swallowed!" Bian Yao stood up suddenly, and glanced around a few times, looking a little nervous!

"Are you sure?" Twilight's face turned grim, and there was a hint of surprise in her eyes.

"As far as I know, there must be no mistake, and the murderer must be an evil cultivator in the Dream King realm, these three people should all be dream maniacs, and they don't have the ability to resist at all!" Bian Yao nodded and replied without hesitation.

Twilight thought for a moment and said, "That man has left since he committed the murder, and he will probably not return, so this place should be safe." As far as I know, most of the evil dream cultivators operate at night, so we don't have to rush tonight, so we will rest here and wait for dawn before we go on the road. ”

Bian Yao understood that he was thinking about himself, because the original purpose and motive of evil cultivation was to quickly improve his cultivation by devouring other people's dreams. In order to avoid causing unnecessary trouble, evil cultivators generally do not rashly attack people other than dream cultivators. Therefore, for sword cultivators, the existence of evil dream cultivation would not pose any threat to them.

"You don't have to stay, since you are in a hurry to return to Shu County, we will continue to rush according to the plan!" Bian Yao said seriously, his face had returned to calm.

Hearing this, Twilight Song was surprised, he stared at Bian Yao's face for a while, and said lightly, "Do you want to find death?

Bian Yao smiled and replied, "We chose to go in the direction of Shuxian, this wild field is so wide, I don't think it's so coincidental, it will let us run into that evil cultivator." Even if you do, you don't have to worry about me, my dreams are different from others. ”

Twilight Song heard a little mysterious and inexplicable taste from his last sentence, and couldn't help but be slightly stunned, but she didn't say anything more. Since they first met, the two had experienced many things together, and he knew very well that the companion in front of him was not a person who would joke with his life.

Not long after, Bian Yao and Twilight Song left the shore of the narrow stream, turned to the southwest and galloped away.

The twilight gradually thickened, and the darkness of the night shrouded in a curtain, covering the boundless wilderness.

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The moon has not risen, and the stars in the night sky are flickering and dimming.

At the top of a low ridge, a dark figure sat quietly in the grass, motionless.

Suddenly, the black shadow let out a soft sigh from his mouth, and then opened his eyes and looked down the ridge.

But in the night, on the deserted field, two figures were running quickly.

The black shadow let out a strange laugh and muttered to himself, "Good luck, I caught two more prey!"

A moment later, the black shadow let out a slow breath, and its figure suddenly leaped to its feet, like a foraging night harrier, flying down from the barren ridge, chasing the two figures that were about to disappear.