At the foot of the steep cliff of the goddess, under a towering tree by the crocodile pool, a young man slowly opened his eyes while lying flat.

"The weather was so nice. The man looked at the clear sky, sat up slowly, and stretched wide.

"Huh?"

When he looked up slightly, he saw a man in black lying on the ground not far in front of him, and the man under the tree seemed to remember something.

"Last night, there was a guy who called himself Kato Taka who was pretending to be a ghost to himself, and by the way, that guy seemed to be chanting some kind of ghost spell, which made Lao Tzu dizzy. The man muttered to himself.

"Hey, Taka Kato, is that you? It's dawn! Hey, wake up......"

The man under the tree called a few times, but there was no response, so he went up to check. I saw the black-clothed man lying on the ground with a face like ashes, bleeding from his seven orifices, but he was already dead.

"How did you die?"

The man remembered all the strange things that had happened yesterday, and his heart was a little uncertain. He was called Shiziling by the dead people on the ground, but he couldn't remember why he was here, let alone what he did before, how he could have the ability to kill a big crocodile, and of course he didn't understand how Kato Taka died on the ground.

Thinking about it, he suddenly felt a sharp headache hit him, and the pain made the man squat down in pain, but at a glance he saw that the dead man in front of him was holding a small token in his hand.

Strange to say, when he saw the token, the pain in his brain seemed to lessen slightly. The man hesitated, then reached out and took the token in his hand.

The token is not big, but it is only half the size of a palm, but it is very heavy to start, and there is no luster in the black. When I turned it over, it was depicted on the card with two crossed skeleton patterns, engraved with three small words: "Dead Night." ”

"Dead night?"

"What a scary name?" the man shook his head.

Suddenly, there seemed to be a faint light flickering on the token, and a cold feeling passed from the token into his palm. At the same time, the hot current lurking in his body seemed to give birth to an induction, and a hot current surged from his chest to the palm of his hand, instantly merging with the cold meaning coming from the token, and suddenly a strange and wonderful feeling surged into his heart.

"It's so comfortable!"

The headache just now seemed to have weakened a little, and a mysterious feeling rose in the man's heart: "This token, how can it seem like an old friend I haven't seen for many years, it feels so kind, so familiar......"

The man played with the token in his hand for a while, no longer trying to trace his memory, and the severe headache slowly subsided.

While he was in a daze, a feeling of hunger came to his stomach, so he put the token in his arms and got up to see what was around him to satisfy his hunger. Only then did he realize that the clothes on his body had already been tattered, and only a few rags were left hanging on his body.

The man frowned, simply tore off all the rags on his body, thought about it, confessed his guilt, and took off the black robe of the dead man on the ground and put it on his body.

When he took off the black robe from the dead body, he found that there was still a paper book in Kato Taka's arms, and the man did not care because he was in a hurry to go out to find food, so he casually put the token in his arms along with the paper book.

Then he hurriedly dug a pit and buried the body of Kato Taka, washed his face by a stream, and strode out of the valley.

At noon, the small county of Pan'an was still quite quiet. After all, this is just an inconspicuous small county town in the eastern part of the Bright Moon Continent. Although Pan'an County is not very far from Songhu City, the largest city in the east, it is not too close.

Outside the county is Pan'an Mountain, and the steep cliffs on the mountain are famous. Legend has it that a hundred years ago, there was a fairy haunted on the lonely cliff, which once attracted many young men to visit the mountain, although the fairy disappeared later, but the name of the goddess cliff was retained.

Most of the ** in the small county town are surnamed Yu, among which Yu Hongfa Yu's family is a big family in the city. It is rumored that a distant relative of the Yu family surnamed Chen is a well-known master in Songhu City, and he is a real master who can rank seventy-seven on today's 'Top 100 List'.

The so-called "Top 100 List" is compiled by the two strange people of the Elder Dian and the legendary patriarch of the beggar gang in the Temple of the Protector of the Country, which is basically updated once a year, and is officially informed to the world by the Imperial Military Department at the beginning of February every year.

Although this list is not 100% accurate, most of the people on the list do have real talents, especially the top 20 top masters, and there have always been few objections from all martial arts sects.

The distant kinship with this big master surnamed Chen made Master Yu have a lot of face in Pan'an County. You must know that the current situation in the Mingyue Continent is turbulent and divided, and there are endless thieves and horse thieves from all over the world, and the real martial arts masters are definitely the objects of the major chaebols.

No matter which family or the power lord, the real martial arts masters are respected as guests, and the number of masters is simply a direct portrayal of the strength and weakness of the major families.

Master Yu himself is a big family in this Pan'an County, with a big family and a big business, and he has such a powerful distant relative, so he naturally has a very high prestige in this county.

At this time, although it was already noon, the small county town was still quiet, only Master Yu's house was very lively.

It turned out that Master Yu's family was recruiting guards, and it was said that they were going to Songhu City to send a batch of gifts to Songhu City to celebrate the birthday of his master relative.

Due to the chaos of public order nowadays, and the Yu family is afraid that there will be some mistakes on the road, so they openly recruit capable guards, hoping to ensure the safety of the congratulatory gift.

The remuneration offered by the Yu family is good, ten silver coins per month for ordinary guards, and if they are masters, it is said that they can get one gold coin per month, which is equivalent to one hundred silver coins.

At present, the monthly income of ordinary people on the Mingyue Continent is only two or three silver coins, so as soon as the announcement of the Yu family's recruitment came out, many young people in the county who felt that they had some skills came to sign up.

Martial arts are extremely popular on the Mingyue Continent, almost everyone of young people knows martial arts, and many foreigners who pass by here are also attracted by the high remuneration on the recruitment notice, and they have joined the ranks of applicants.

Yu Dafu is the housekeeper of Yufu, as his name suggests, he has a fat head and big ears, and he is very blessed. Because he was so obese, his huge body filled a chair full of Eight Immortals. The thin old man sitting next to him was Niu Zhengying, the head coach of the Yu family's nursing home.

All applicants need to register their names and origins with Yu Dafu first, and then Niu Zhengying's two proud disciples, Yu Wei and Yu Wu, will consider their skills before deciding whether to be hired.

Today is the last day of this recruitment, and although there are many people who come, none of them can make Niu Zhengying look at them so far. So far, no one under Yu Wei and Yu Wu has been able to hold up three moves. Most of them are not as skilled as the Yu family's original nursing home.

Although the Yu family is not a great family, there are more than 50 nursing homes, among which Niu Zhengying, the head of the nursing home, is one of the best masters in Pan'an County.

However, these applicants really disappointed the people of the Yu family, and it seemed that there was only the last applicant left.

"Next," Yu Dafu said weakly, and a young man stood in front of him.

"What's your name?

Yu Dafu asked, but he didn't hear the answer for a long time, and he felt a little impatient. He put down the pen in his hand and looked up at the young man in front of him.

This young man was wearing a black robe with a strange texture, his figure was very straight and well-proportioned, with a square face, thick eyebrows and starry eyes, but he also looked dignified. It's just that the hair is a little scattered, and there is a bit of confusion in the eyes, a little silly.

"What's your name?" Yu Dafu raised his voice and asked again.

"My name is ...... Stone...... Shiziling. The man finally hesitated, but his name seemed a little slurred.

"Where's the man?"

"Hmm...... Higashi-Ryo Island. ”

"Where is Dongli Island?" Yu Dafu asked with some surprise.

Shi Ziling opened his mouth, he wanted to say something but didn't say it for a long time, but Niu Zhengying, the head of the nursing home on the side, accosted him.

"Dongli Island seems to be an island country outside the East China Sea, right? I've heard a friend talk about it when I've traveled abroad, haven't I?" Niu Zhengying asked kindly.

Shi Ziling thought about it and nodded slightly with a stupid expression.

Yu Dafu registered Shi Ziling's name and asked, "What kind of kung fu are you good at?"

Shi Ziling's eyes widened, scratched his head, and said, "I...... I haven't practiced kung fu, but ...... But I've killed a very large crocodile. ”

"Crocodile?"

Yu Dafu was a little inexplicable, turned his head to look at the head of the Niu Sect beside him, and Niu Zhengying was also confused. Seeing that this Shi Ziling is sturdy and lofty, he has a bit of the demeanor of a young master, but just looking at the way he speaks, I feel that he is a little demented.

"Since he said that he had killed a crocodile, even if he hadn't practiced any stunts, he had some courage and brute strength, and this time the escort gift was far away, and the Yu family was afraid that this little guard was not enough, and this Shiziling could at least fill the scene. ”

Niu Zhengying thought for a while and said, "I don't know how you came to our Pan'an County, and why did you think of coming here to apply for a guard?"

"I came here after I saw the job posting at the city gate," Shi Ziling replied.

"Hmm...... I don't know what to say, yesterday I woke up and found myself lying under the cliff over there," Shi Ziling pointed in the direction of Pan'an Mountain in the distance, "I don't know if I broke my head, I can't remember the previous things now, and if I think too much, I will have a terrible headache." ”

Shi Ziling's expression was very distressed, and he was quite worried. His hand unconsciously touched the pamphlet in his arms, which recorded some things in the "Dead Night Gate" sect to which Kato Takashi belonged, as well as other wonderful things that seemed unbelievable.

Just now he said that he was from Higashi-Fence Island, which was also a place name he had read in a pamphlet, and in fact he couldn't name any other place.

But there are some things that Shi Ziling doesn't intend to tell all, although he has lost his memories of the past, he is not a fool. From the strange things that happened to him yesterday to the strange descriptions recorded in Kato Taka's notebook, he had a faint feeling that something very unusual had happened to him, and he was afraid that something more unexpected would happen in the future.

Now, Shi Ziling just wanted to find a place to stay, carefully study everything written in this booklet by Kato Taka, as well as the wonderful heat that suddenly surged in his body from time to time, and of course, what was the state of the world he was in now, and then think carefully about what to do next.

Along the way, he only found some wild fruits to satisfy his hunger, and while eating, he sat down and flipped through the booklet in his arms.

He felt that he urgently needed to find a place to settle down first, so when he walked out of Pan'an Mountain and entered Pan'an County, as soon as he saw the recruitment notice of the Yu family, he immediately rushed over to sign up.