"But I did hear the guards say that there wasn't a platoon on patrol the night before, and I don't know when it was hung up. They seemed to hear a popping sound at night, and thought it was a night bird flapping its wings, but then thought that it might be the movement of these guys struggling on a rope. ”

The Grey Hat sighed and didn't ask much about the patrol. These guards are full of nonsense, and they are not sure what to do.

"What's the pattern on the gray wall?"

The guy smacked his lips and rubbed his hands, but he didn't say anything.

The gray hat could only hand him a few more large sums of money, and the man put it away before he continued: "It came out of nowhere." I had only cleared the manger the night before, and there was nothing on the wall; Early yesterday morning, the bandits were hoisted up, and this relief also appeared. ”

"All together?"

"Which comes first and which comes later, I don't know." The man added, "The relief from yesterday morning was majestic, and now it is paste." ”

"Confused?" Grey Hat wondered, "What do you mean by being confused?" ”

"When it first appeared, it looked like the real thing, and I came up with a bucket and was startled by it, thinking that there was a monster sticking its head out of the wall." The guy pointed to the Jiaoshou totem and said, "What you see now is rough, not so ...... Well, it's not that fine. ”

"So the pattern is slowly degrading?"

The guy didn't know what degradation meant: "It's just vague anyway." ”

The gray hat pointed to the swaggering blood banner at the city gate:

"Have you ever seen or heard of that Jiaoshou pattern on the flag?"

Apparently it was a mark.

The guy shook his head.

Grey Hat went to the city to find a place to stay, and went out again to inquire about the news.

Asked and asked, the residents were pretty much the same as the guys said.

But he met an errand officer in the tavern, who had been to Daishan yesterday. The gray hat invited two glasses of wine, and the messenger told him what he had seen and heard on the mountain.

Here's the first-hand information:

Only the bandit leader and his six brothers were hung at the gate of Fengxian County, and nearly 200 bandits under them died in the old nest of Daishan.

Most of the bandits had wounds on their backs, apparently they had turned and fled, and then they were killed.

Grey Hat asked, "Can you see how many people are in the team that attacked them?" ”

"There's something strange going on that mountain!" The errand servant poured wine again, "Have you ever been to Daishan?" The bandits' lair was built on the mountainside, and the road was very steep, with many cliffs and dense forests, and it was impossible to ride a horse at all. In the past, the government organized several encirclement and suppression, and they had to put their mounts halfway up the mountain and go up the mountain on foot. Hey, if it weren't for this terrain, we would have been able to get rid of them ten years ago. ”

"So what's the oddity?"

"It's here!" The officer looked mysterious, "We found a large number of messy horseshoe prints on the top of the mountain, in the lair of the mountain bandits!" ”

“……”

"It's fresh, and it's bloodstained!"

So how did the attacker's mount get up? Flying up?

"We also captured three captives." The officer continued, "They hid in the grass and shivered, and when we found them, one of them was delirious, and the other confessed......"

He stopped to moisten his throat, and found that many drinkers had gathered around, all listening attentively to what he was saying, so his interest was even higher, and his expression became more mysterious: "This thief said that the cottage was foggy the night before yesterday, and it was dark everywhere. He was woken up by a strange noise, like a hundred ghosts crying at night, gloomy, so unscrupulous, and then there was a sound of horses' hooves outside, and he thought he had heard it wrong, and ran out to see—"

Dozens of black-armored soldiers rushed out of the dense fog, killing people when they saw them, and they were extremely fierce. The bandits were stunned, not knowing where they came from, and they didn't have time to close the gate. The leader of the bandits came out with some of his brothers to meet them, and shouted who was coming, and the leader of the black-armored cavalry pointed at them and said, 'You are full of evil, and the time of death has come!' I'm here to send you down to the Nine Shadows! ’”

"This leader is covered in black fire, and there are ghosts flying around in front of and behind him, which is terrifying to look at. The bandit leader did not believe in evil and grabbed the long knife and went up, but the two of them did not face each other, and several brothers fell to the ground one after another, and even he himself did not survive a few rounds. ”

"The black-armored cavalry kills like chopping melons, one or two knives are one. The thief didn't have the courage to fight hard, so he hid in the bushes. A black knight was originally rushing at him, but several bandits happened to escape, and the black knight shifted his target to kill. The messenger licked his lips, "The bandit fought back on the verge of death, just as he pulled off the black knight's helmet. You know, what did the thief in the grass see? ”

The others listened attentively and asked, "What do you see?" Say it quickly, say it quickly. ”

"The Black Knight is not human at all!" The messenger lowered his voice and looked mysterious, "He's only half cheeky!" ”

The audience expressed their dissatisfaction: "What is half a face! ”

The officer raised his index finger and slashed from his left forehead to his right jaw: "This half has a cheek, the other half does not, even the skull is exposed!" He has no eyelids, and his right eye is just a bead to look at people! ”

Everyone didn't believe it: "Can this still live?" ”

"Or he's not human!" The officer continued, "The black knight grabbed the bandit, face to face, and sucked his soul out in one bite!" The man, the man was paralyzed at once. ”

It glanced at the grass, and the thief hiding there was scared on the spot. However, the black knight didn't seem to see him, he just took back his helmet and put it back on, turned around and went to kill again! Hey, you say, 'How can a living man be like that?' ”

The audience was incredible: "It can't be that thief who made it up, right?" ”

"That little thief swore to me with his dick, it was definitely what he saw with his real eyes, and he didn't tell half a lie."

"And then?"

"He hid in the grass and shivered, and heard one after another screams from his companions, and after almost two quarters of an hour there was no movement." "He also saw that the black-armored cavalry had tied up the bandit leaders and dragged them to the back mountain. ”

"We also followed the messy horseshoe prints to the back hill, and found that the traces only continued in front of the bushes. It can be seen that the captive is not lying. He took a sip of wine, "But! Behind the bushes, there is a cliff! You say, how did these black-armored cavalrymen leave the cliff out of thin air with their captives and horses? ”

Everyone was amazed when they heard it.

Finally, someone scolded:

"Damnation, this is damnation!"

The blood banner on the city gate also reads, "Retribution is not happy."

"These black knights, it's really an evil spirit that climbed up from the Nine Shadows to ask for a soul." Otherwise, how can such a thing as absorbing the soul of a living person be done by ordinary living people?

Amid the chatter, Grey Hat quietly left the liquor store.

In the early morning of the next day, the shouts of the city gatekeeper were full of anger:

"Untie it all, untie it! It's been three days since the body was exposed! ”

(End of chapter)