These people are well-trained, not like ordinary robbers. They were dressed in uniform dark crimson brocade robes, holding swords in their hands, and their eyes were as fierce and sharp as eagles.

The combat experience that those previous dungeons brought to Empress Yin came in handy at this time.

She raised her hand and flew out several silver needles, directly knocking down several enemies who rushed at her.

There should be one left.

Unexpectedly, when she turned around, Queen Yin saw that General Min's neck had been held against a knife.

"If you don't want him to die, don't move!"

-

Although the farmers warmly invited them to stay, because they were in a hurry to go to Quanling City, Xia Qingyang and they still decided to leave when Queen Yin and the others returned.

However, for some reason, I waited left and right, and after a long time, I still didn't see anyone.

Xia Qingyang couldn't sit still, and planned to go up the mountain to find it in person.

"I'll be with you." He Minghua said.

He Minghua's [Shadow Control] talent is a good hand at finding people, and if He Minghua helps, it will save her time asking the plants for directions.

She was about to nod her head when she heard Lao Xu's loud shouting coming from not far away: "What are you doing?!" ”

When they heard the noise, they rushed over, only to see that next to the manger, Lao Xu grabbed the wrist of a farmer and glared angrily.

Xia Qingyang: "What's wrong?" ”

Lao Xu: "This man puts something in the manger." ”

The farmer's face was full of horror: "No, my lord, I—I just want to help you feed the horses......"

Lao Xu: "What kind of feed needs to add white powder to it, huh??? ”

He Minghua bent down and grabbed a handful of feed out, tried it with the props hidden in the cuffs, looked up and told Xia Qingyang: "Meng's sweat medicine, the dosage can pour the horse medicine." ”

Xia Qingyang didn't say a word, and directly pulled the farmer's neckline: "The matter of the mountain god is fake, you want to kill passers-by, so you keep us, right?" ”

"I, I ......"

The farmer was furious by Xia Qingyang's cold tone, and the two trembled, and he didn't even have the strength to defend again.

"What's going on?" Ren Yi was resting in the car just now, and was called by Lin Menglong at this time.

Xia Qingyang said the situation in three or two sentences: "Xuanniang, they haven't come down from the mountain for so long, something may have happened, I have to look for it." ”

"Don't worry." Ren Yi comforted her, turned her head and looked at the kneeling farmer on the ground seriously, "Why did our companion who went up the mountain to pick medicine go for so long and didn't come back?" Is there an ambush of your accomplices in the mountains? ”

"No, no, the villain has no accomplices, and both the villain and the villain's wife are cornered. If you don't sacrifice the living, the mountain god will be angry, and the villain is really helpless, so he has the courage to attack the adults......"

How is it a "sacrifice" again.

This keyword caused Xia Qingyang and Ren Yi to look at each other at the same time.

But it's too late to ask about this right now.

Ren Yi asked the farmers again if they knew what the reason for Min Jiang and their failure to return might be.

"Ahead is the realm under the jurisdiction of the mountain god, and if they set foot on it, they will definitely be captured by the mountain god's anger. Yes, it must have been the mountain god who took them away. Whoever provokes the god of the mountain will have his bones broken and his flesh sucked dry......

The farmer's expression gradually shattered with horror, as if he remembered some terrible picture.

Xia Qingyang resolutely gave up and continued to extract information from his mouth, raised his head and said to He Minghua: "I will go up the mountain to find someone by myself." Senior brother, you are here to protect the head of the family, by the way, you must ask clearly what the sacrifice is about. ”

"Okay, be careful."

He Minghua did not have any doubts about Xia Qingyang's strength and arrangement.

Xia Qingyang was probably worried that it was getting late and thieves would come to attack the convoy, so he asked him to stay to protect Ren Yi.

-

It's getting dark.

After Xia Qingyang asked Ren Yi and them which way Empress Yin was taking, he hiked directly up the mountain.

The mountains and forests were already a little cold and gloomy in the evening.

However, Xia Qingyang has the ability to communicate with animals and plants, and she can even hear birds complaining about the cold nights, and grass and trees complaining that passers-by are stepping on too much, so that they can't stand up straight. So she didn't feel anything to be afraid of.

"I'm sorry, I want to ask, have you seen two humans, a man and a woman, going up the mountain, and in which direction did they go?"

Xia Qingyang squatted down and asked.

It wasn't long before she heard a variety of answers.

Some gave her direct directions, and some told her what had just happened here.

Xia Qingyang pieced together these fragmentary narratives into clues-

A group of humans grabbed the two humans, a man and a woman, and went in the direction of the mountain temple. And, recently, that group of humans has successively arrested more than a dozen humans and locked them in the mountain temple, not knowing what to do.

"Thank you." Xia Qingyang asked and thanked him.

"No thanks. The female human is very good, picks leaves very lightly, and does not dig roots. A weak, thin voice answered her.

Xia Qingyang understood that this meant that when Empress Yin was collecting medicines, except for those medicinal herbs that were supposed to use the root system for medicine, the others retained the root system of the medicinal grassland as much as possible, so as not to affect the growth of the medicinal grassland.

In fact, her conversations with animals and plants are generally half-listened to and half-guessed. After all, many animals and plants, even if they have opened their minds, are intermittent in sentences. Fortunately, most of the thoughts of animals and plants are simple and simple, so even if the meaning is not clear, it is easy to guess and complete.

After Xia Qingyang asked for the general direction, he immediately rushed over.

Concern is chaos.

In fact, if you calm down and think about it, you will know that Queen Yin will not be in any danger. As long as she doesn't encounter the player, with her silver needle lethality, there will be almost no opponents.

And even if she encounters a player, Empress Yin's [Divine Doctor Holy Hand] talent can also make her recover quickly when she is injured. It can be said that in their entire team, Queen Yin is the most difficult one to really defeat.

But Xia Qingyang still tried his best to go deep into the mountains and forests as quickly as possible.

Soon, in a mountainside depression near the top of the mountain, she saw the legendary mountain temple.

I saw that the temple was obviously no longer a product of this dynasty, but a much older and older institution. But it should be because someone always comes to clean it, so from a distance, the temple is quite clean, and there is even incense offering.

Xia Qingyang saw the scene in the temple at a glance-

Several men are discussing in the temple. On the futon, there are Queen Yin and General Min who are lying crooked, I don't know whether they are awake or faint.

She was so close, and the men still didn't react, which was enough to show that they were not players in the game. At least not high play.

Since this is the case, with the strength of Queen Yin, it should not be difficult to escape with General Min. How can it be controlled by these people.

Listening to the conversation of the men a little closer, Xia Qingyang's pupils shrank.

These men were discussing the matter of "sacrifice".