In the dark night sky, the moon seemed to be unable to lift its spirits, it hung lonely above the canopy, and the faint and thin moonlight sprinkled on the land in the forest.

At night, the woods are even more bleak and quiet, only a bright bonfire is jumping, and the occasional "crackling" sound is heard in the flames, bringing a touch of warmth and vitality to the silent woods.

On the side of the bonfire, the young man leaned against the roots of a big tree, and beside him stood a stick wrapped in gray cloth.

Counting this day, Qiu Lei has left Jingyang Town for five days, these five days, day rush, night tired, every time, Qiu Lei's heart inexplicably rose a faint sense of amazement, although he was determined to go out to practice, but the world of Xuanhong is so big, Qiu Lei does not know where to go.

He stretched out his hand and casually threw a piece of firewood into the fire, the dim flame became brighter, but the blankness in the young man's eyes did not weaken, the mysterious blood bead technique, and the covenant of the Sky Survey City three years later, all made Qiu Lei feel pressured.

In the past few days, he has not continued to practice according to the exercises on the blood bead, first, when he is out of the house, Qiu Lei is afraid that he will be exhausted and comatose again, and second, since the last time he went crazy in front of the hut, Qiu Lei himself has also become a little jealous of the blood bead.

He had been practicing the pulse technique every day for the past few days, but Qiu Lei found that his pulse power had not shown any signs of increasing at all, and this sign of weakness had become more and more powerful since he came out of the deep pool of the stream.

It was as if his qualifications were weakening little by little, Qiu Lei had a hunch that it wouldn't take much time, and if he didn't continue to cultivate according to the method on the blood bead, his pulse technique would not increase in the slightest.

This was not good news for him, it meant that Qiu Lei had only one way to continue cultivating the Blood Bead Technique, otherwise, his talent would stagnate, and his cultivation would not grow again.

The young man sighed softly, Qiu Lei felt that his future was bleak, if it went on like this, let alone the three-year covenant, I am afraid that it would not be long before he would become a walking corpse who only knew instinct and killing!

Just as he hesitated, there were several commotions on the main road not far away.

The boy immediately became alert, and he hurriedly stepped on the campfire, and picked up the stick wrapped in gray cloth at hand.

He leaned over the thorns beside the road, looked along the end of the road, and saw a procession of several people at the end of the road in the direction of this place.

There was also a donkey carriage in the procession, on which several layers of scarce goods were piled up, and several men dressed as warriors were armed with swords and marched around the carriage.

Qiu Lei only glanced at it, and he could see that this should be a bounty mercenary squad.

The bounty mercenaries on the Xuanhong Continent are roughly divided into several types, one is a large mercenary team with strict discipline and a large number of people, the number of people is often around hundreds, and there are a few strong teams, the number of people is even more than a few hundred, this kind of mercenary group has its own mansions and mansions in some regions or cities, they are not subject to the jurisdiction of the city lord in the boundary, and they do not obey anyone's orders, only money and silver are the only criteria and orders for mercenaries.

The discipline of the other kind of mercenary team is not strong, and the number of people is not as large as the first one, usually only a few to a dozen people, all of them are some individuals who organize themselves, a few people or a dozen people team up to do tasks together, some of them will be disbanded after a mission, and the trust and tacit understanding between each other before are far inferior to the first one.

But this is also the most common kind of mercenary organization in various towns on the mainland, their tasks cover a wide range, what to hunt and kill vein beasts, go into the mountains to collect medicine, guard caravans, and other tasks can often see their figures, as long as they are paid, these mercenaries will do almost anything, even if someone pays for their lives, some mercenaries will take such an order.

The team in front of them was dressed differently, and they walked very casually, and many people were laughing and joking with each other when they were hurrying at night, and except for the solemn face of the leader of the group, this team had little discipline to speak of.

Coupled with the fact that the donkeys they pulled the cart were still a little lame, this mercenary team was obviously not very well-funded, and it seemed that it naturally belonged to the second most common type of bounty mercenaries.

Qiu Lei could see that the direction of this team's march was obviously to Beilongshan Town, which was not far away, and that was also Qiu Lei's first stop when he went out to practice, Beilongshan Town was famous for its backing to Beilongshan, although it was not far from Jingyang Town, but unlike Jingyang Town, it was already a more remote border town, almost not under the jurisdiction of Sky Survey City, the town was self-sufficient, except for the occasional caravan that came and went to Sky Survey City, it had little to do with Sky Survey City.

Qiu Lei offended the Liu family, and originally planned to leave the southern border, cross Beilongshan, and go directly to the Donghe boundary in the northeast of the southern border, so the first stop was to prepare to settle in Beilongshan Town.

He originally wanted to rest here for the night, set off early tomorrow morning, and be able to enter Beilongshan Town around noon, but since he met this mercenary team here, he might be able to travel together to save some time, and he would be able to enter the town early tomorrow morning.

Thinking like this, Qiu Lei came out of the thorn bush and was already standing on the side of the road.

His sudden appearance surprised the mercenary team, the middle-aged man in the lead raised his left hand, and the whole team stopped advancing, his right hand was already on the saber on his waist, his eyes were staring at Qiu Lei, and said, "Who is standing in the way in front of you?"

Seeing that the other party looked like a great enemy, Qiu Lei knew that he was reckless, he put the stick in his hand on his back again, and slowly took two steps forward, so that the other party could see his appearance clearly, before he spread his hands and said: "I have no malice, I was going to Beilongshan Town, and I was preparing to spend the night here, and when I heard someone passing by, I wanted to see if I could go with you." ”

The leading man glanced Qiu Lei up and down, only to realize that the other party was just a young man who had not yet weakened his crown, but he did not relax his vigilance, but glanced at the surrounding woodland, and after confirming that no one was ambushed, he said to Qiu Lei: "Who are you? Why do you want to go to Beilongshan Town." ”

"My name is Qiu Lei. The young man replied: "I am from Jingyang Town, and I am going to Beilong Mountain, and I am only going to cross the mountain to the Donghe Boundary." ”

The man was still frowning, as if he was thinking about whether Qiu Lei's words were true or false, and the person behind him had already laughed and said, "I thought it was a guy who didn't have long eyes to rob the Dao, and his feelings were just a hairy boy." He put away the blade he had drawn and said to the man in the lead: "Brother Huang, it's just a child, since he wants to go along, let him follow the team." ”

"How can this work?" Brother Huang's face turned pale, and he refused: "Although this kid is not very old, he came out of the forest in the middle of the night, and there are no accomplices lying in ambush around, this person's identity is undecided, his whereabouts are unknown, we are mercenaries, everything should be cautious, how can we let a kid of unknown origin be mixed in the team?"

"Brother Huang, what you said is true. The man first responded, and then smiled: "We go out, we should be careful, but this is only a hundred miles away from Beilongshan Town, if it weren't for the owner's urging, we wouldn't have to rush at night, and to be honest, this car of things is not a valuable cargo, a car of rotten grain, how can any thieves hit our calculations." ”

Hearing what he said, Brother Huang hadn't spoken yet, and a mercenary behind him said: "Yes, Brother Huang, we have been mercenaries for so long, and we have never encountered any robbers to rob cars. ”

Brother Huang heard this person's words, his face was already iron blue mixed with red, but it was not easy to be seen by people in the night, although he wanted to refute, but he couldn't speak, because what they said was the truth, since he was expelled from the Scarlet Wolf Mercenary Group in the East River Realm, he could only be reduced to a remote place in the southern border to be the captain of a small mercenary team, in the past two years, the next business is only five or five, each time the goods transported are not very valuable, and the commission is very small, even these people in the team, although they don't say it, there is also a faint tendency to disband。

As a mercenary team, even the bandits are not interested in the goods you ship, and they don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing.

When Brother Huang was hesitating, a voice as crisp as a yellow oriole came from the donkey cart behind him: "Brother Huang, since this is the case, let that person go along, there are so many of us, it doesn't hurt to have one more young man who is not yet weak." ”

When Qiu Lei heard this, he noticed that there was a girl sitting behind the donkey cart, and he followed the prestige, only to see that the woman was only sixteen or seventeen years old, wearing a pale yellow dress, although her appearance could not be seen clearly in the night, but she could be sure that she was a rare beauty, and her faint smile made her reveal a fresh and ethereal temperament, coupled with the crisp and beautiful voice like a yellow bird, so that the young Qiu Lei couldn't help but show a trace of amazement.

Hearing this woman's words, Brother Huang's face showed a look of helplessness, since the owner had already spoken, he had no choice but to nod and said to Qiu Lei: "Boy, since this is the case, you can follow behind, Xiao Li and Dongzi, the two of you follow him together, and you are not allowed to get close to the carriage within ten steps." ”

Although there was still a trace of doubt and distrust in the other party's words, Qiu Lei didn't care, after all, Jean didn't come for the other party's goods, he immediately thanked him, and continued to move towards Beilongshan Town accompanied by the two of them.