As night fell, Cangyuan City gradually fell silent.

Because of the rain for several days, most families turn off the lights early after dinner and go to sleep to relieve the tired body after a hard day.

Only restaurants, tea shops and casinos are still lit up for those who have leisure and money to have fun.

Another period of time passed.

Even these places were closed, and the whole city finally fell completely silent.

Only the wind and rain whistling from the mountains blew the doors and windows rattling, bringing a heavy damp and cold atmosphere.

There is a wine shop with lights on, and candles are constantly swaying in the wind and changing shapes.

A middle-aged man with a fat figure is carefully looking through the accounts, picking up the wine jug at hand from time to time and taking a sip, then picking up a few dried fruits and putting them in his mouth to chew slowly, quite a kind of leisurely and complacent mood.

And as the last page of accounts turned, he drank the remnants of the wine in the pot in one gulp, and a tired but satisfied smile appeared on his oily face.

Although the rain has brought inconvenience to many people's lives and work, the business of the restaurant has also become booming.

Many herb pickers and hunters who can't go into the mountains will come to kill time, even if they just order a pot of turbid wine and a plate of boiled beans, they can make a lot of money when they sell too much.

The shopkeeper closed the account book, squinted his eyes and leaned back on the oil-stained counter, took the tea that was already a little cold in his hand and drank it slowly, and began to plan his business and life for the next few days.

This lingering autumn rain shows no signs of stopping.

In the short term, it is a good thing, which has more than doubled the profit of the liquor store, but if it continues until winter, or even if the mountains are closed by heavy snow, I am afraid that this year will be extremely difficult.

Also, not long ago, he heard that those alien races in the Northern Wilderness Prairie showed signs of going south.

If this is really the case, Cangyuan City is afraid that it will go through another sword disaster, and it doesn't know what kind of miserable scene it will be.

"It is still necessary to prepare gold and silver in advance, and once the situation changes, you must be ready to leave immediately."

"Fortunately, last year, I bought a Zhuangzi in the south of the city, and there are still horses in it that are ready to go, as long as you can escape from the city as soon as possible, you can escape all the way south along the trail."

"It's just a pity that this wine shop, when I took it over from my father, I knew that it was one of the properties left by a big man, and it took a hundred years from generation to generation before it came to my name.

The old ancestor surnamed Shi seems to have a good relationship with Qinglin Mountain Daozi, who is known as the number one sect, so he can become the most powerful figure in the entire Cangyuan City in one fell swoop as the small leader of the low-level gang.

It's a pity that more than 100 years have passed, the ancestor of the Shi family has passed away for many years, and even the first disciple of the sect who is like an immortal has long since disappeared through the sky, leaving only many legends to circulate in the world......"

The shopkeeper thought silently, poured himself another pot of turbid wine, and ate the few dried fruits left.

He suddenly remembered that in the afternoon before yesterday, when the few warriors who passed by to rest were chatting, they said that something seemed to have gone wrong in the Northern Wilderness, even several holy places had been uprooted, and the major tribes had suffered heavy losses, and they were almost on the verge of being wiped out.

But in the eyes of the shopkeeper, most of these people brag.

With the weakening national strength of the Great Sunday, it is no longer the strong soldiers of Taizu Taizong back then, nor the domineering and strong of Emperor Wu, nor the suppression of the sectarians, it is not easy to maintain the balance of power with the Northern Wilderness, how can there be spare strength to mobilize a master army to carry out the Northern Expedition?

What's more, if there is really going to be a large army going north, there should have been all kinds of news inside and outside Cangyuan City, so why didn't they hear the slightest information?

Therefore, it is necessary to prepare in advance, at least to have a secret place to evacuate, enough food and warm clothing, and be able to support the next possible upheaval.

Thinking of this, he carefully put the ledger into the drawer, then got up and walked to the door and shouted at the back kitchen, "Xiao Yue, Xiao Yue!" ”

After a while, a shopkeeper who was about sixteen or seventeen years old and looked thin and weak came to respond, "Shopkeeper, what do you always command?" ”

The shopkeeper asked, "You're busy tonight, have you heard any important news?" ”

"Back to the master, those sub-diners and gamblers don't have anything new to say, nothing more than talking about this obviously abnormal autumn rain, and the rest is miscellaneous and all kinds of gossip and trivialities......"

"Oh, the little one almost forgot one thing, that is, there was an old customer who drank too much tonight, I have to say that he entered Cangmang Mountain this morning, and before he went far enough, he saw the demon tiger resisting the wind, and the dragon rose into the air, so frightened that he didn't even dare to ask for the medicine he had collected, and he even crawled back with a rolling belt."

"The demon tiger resists the wind, and the dragon rises into the air?"

The shopkeeper of the wine shop spit out a peanut shell, with a disdainful expression on his face, "I believe him, it is better to believe that tonight, the army of the Northern Wilderness will come to the city, and all of us will be captured and killed as two-legged sheep." ”

He took a sip of the residual wine and was silent for a long time before continuing, "Don't tell me these nonsense that you have drunk too much, you will come to the wine shop at dawn tomorrow morning, and go with me to the Zhuangzi in the south of the city to see how the cattle and horses we raise are doing recently." ”

"Don't worry, I'll come over early tomorrow morning."

At this moment, there was a sudden muffled bang.

The door of the liquor store was slammed open.

The cold wind and cold rain roared in from outside, instantly pouring a large area of the floor to the ground.

A man stumbled in, his feet slipping flat and falling to the ground.

But he didn't realize this, he just shouted with horror on his face, "Master, something has happened, something has happened!" ”

The shopkeeper of the wine store was startled, and the wine he had just drunk suddenly turned into a cold sweat, soaking his clothes in an instant.

His throat swelled, and he asked in a trembling voice, "What's wrong, could it be that the Northern Wilderness army is coming?" ”

"No, it's not the Northern Wilderness, it's Cangmang Mountain!"

"There is an army of demons who have slaughtered Cangmang Mountain, and they have slaughtered all the villages outside the city, and the fall of the entire Cangyuan City is afraid that it will be in a moment!"

The shopkeeper of the wine shop suddenly thought of the demon tiger resisting the wind, and the dragon took off, and his face couldn't help but become pale.

He took a deep breath, drank all the wine in the pot with a bang, and said in a deep voice: "Turn off the lights, and then you make it clear, what is it that came out of the Cangmang Mountain and slaughtered the towns and villages outside the city!?" ”

The man gasped and said, "Those people in the inner city have begun to flee from the south gate, and when the little one came over, he saw a dragon with two wings on its back and flying clouds and mist, circling back and forth in the northwest direction. ”

This news is like a big cold hand, clutching the heart of the shopkeeper of the wine store, and it is still desperately squeezing inward, and the whole person's mind has become blank.

Endless fear had completely enveloped him.

Can't even think normally.

Outside the wine shop, heavy rain poured down.

In the liquor store, no one said a word.

The hall, which was noisy and lively not long ago, seems to have become an ice coffin at this time.

It was cold and silent, dark and dreary, and there was no trace of life.

Only the sound of the wind whistling outside, and the sound of falling rain, lapping on the windows and exterior walls, brought even more palpitating feelings of fear.

The shopkeeper shuddered, instinctively wanting to pour a little more soju into his mouth, but his fingers just touched the flask, but stopped abruptly without warning.

The next moment, he turned around with difficulty and looked towards the window that had just been blown open on one side.

In the sound of the wind and rain, he seemed to hear the sound of light footsteps.

In between, there is a snoring of unknown significance.

It's like a spoiled cat, rubbing around people's feet.

The shopkeeper swallowed a mouthful of saliva and reached out to grasp a sharp knife on the counter.

Click!

At that moment, a bolt of lightning pierced the sky.

Instantly illuminate a rainy night like day.

In an instant, the rain curtain outside the window suddenly froze, like an extremely terrifying picture, frozen in the deepest part of the consciousness of the shopkeeper.

It wasn't a cat, it was a formidable tiger.

It was still chewing on half of the corpse in its mouth.

Blood trickled down, and as the rain fell to the ground, staining large areas of bluestone a dark red color.

Xu Shi found the prying gaze, and the tiger, which was white and did not see a trace of variegation, turned his head and looked back.

The two eyes are like an abyssal pool, emitting a cold light that makes the heart palpitate.

The electric light disappeared, and the liquor store was darkened again.

Only the clattering chewing sound mixed with the wind and rain and passed into the ears.

"Wake up, master, I'm afraid we can't stay in this city right now, we have to leave immediately, even if we may lose our lives, we must leave quickly, and the farther we run, the better!"

"Where are you going, don't you see that demon tiger?"

The shopkeeper was in a trance, almost unable to think normally, but asked instinctively.

"Demon Tiger?"

"What demon tiger?"

The man who came to report the news looked dazed, and subconsciously followed the gaze of the shopkeeper to look out.

"There's nothing outside the window, sir, were you dazzled just now?"

He pretended to be relaxed, picked up the bench in one hand as a defensive weapon, and prepared to come to the wall and close the wind-blown window.

One step, two steps, three steps.

There was a soft click.

A long tongue like a javelin pierced the man's chest.

Then he jerked his body out of the window, and in an instant disappeared into the dark rain curtain outside.

The shopkeeper and the shopkeeper looked at each other, and they both saw surprise and fear in each other's eyes, as well as disbelief and helplessness.

The next moment, the two of them fled into the box on the side of the hall like crazy, huddled in the cold and damp corner, completely ignoring the rain and blood-soaked clothes, and did not even dare to move.

Little by little, time passed.

Outside, the sounds became denser.

Like a death curse, it continued to reach the ears of the two with wind and rain.

It's like a shadow of terror that is getting closer and closer, bringing an unbearable chill, and a growing sleepiness that is enveloping them little by little.

In the box, which was completely shrouded in darkness and silence, the shopkeeper would bite his lower lip every once in a while, chew and swallow a small piece of meat slowly, with the help of intense pain and the strong smell of blood, to keep himself awake and not fall asleep.

For him, physical injuries and pain can actually alleviate this feeling of extreme fear.

If he hadn't been thinking about Zhuangzi in the south of the city, as well as the cattle and horses he had high hopes for, he might have broken the heartstrings that had been tense and turned into a cold and stiff corpse.

I don't know why, he's so tired.

If he could, he really wanted to close his eyes and fall asleep.

However, because he didn't want to die yet, he was determined not to lose consciousness.

Otherwise, it will be like Xiao Yue, who accidentally closed his eyes, and then lost all his life breath.

But as time went by, the shopkeeper of the wine shop was also a little desperate, and he felt that it was difficult for him to continue to persevere, and maybe he could die like Xiao Yue in the end, and he could be regarded as a whole corpse.

It's just a pity that the Zhuangzi in the south of the city has well-fed cattle and horses......

Smack!

Suddenly, a soft sound came to his ears.

Then he seemed to feel a trace of warmth that he had not felt for a long time, coming from all parts of his body, and the whole person was a little lazy, and he no longer felt cold and sleepy just now.

Squeak!

There was another soft thud.

It turned out that the door of the box was pushed open.

The clasp that locked it, and the bench behind the door, didn't even do anything, and it was easily pushed in by one hand.

The shopkeeper of the wine store slammed his force and directly bit off a large piece of meat from his lower lip.

Only then did he suddenly wake up under the dual effect of intense pain and the smell of blood, and looked out the door in fear.

Have the monsters that ravaged the city finally found here?

Is he going to die soon!?

A series of thoughts came up, and the shopkeeper remembered the tragic situation of the butler who was killed by the tongue through the chest, and the string that had been tense in his heart suddenly broke, and without thinking about it, he pulled out the short knife hidden on his waist and stabbed it fiercely at his throat.

Click!

His knife-wielding wrist was caught.

Then he saw a young man in white clothes and white robes, who was as gentle as jade, squatted down in front of him, and asked in a slightly puzzled tone, "Am I so terrible, why do you want to commit suicide without saying a word when you see me?" ”

"You, you're ......," the shopkeeper said, gasping for breath and shuddering.

"My surname is Wei, and my single name is a Tao character."

He casually put the short knife aside, and continued in a calm voice, "It can be regarded as a person from the outer city, this time it was just passing by, and I wanted to go home to see it when I felt something, and it can be regarded as a wish before the final decisive battle." ”

Wei Tao soothed his emotions, turned his head to look at the dark mist surging outside the door, and suddenly raised his hand slightly, grabbed a long tongue that shot from the mist, pulled it in front of him and carefully observed it.

Before he could make any moves, a terrible howl sounded from the dark depths outside the door, and then the long scarlet tongue dissipated, leaving no trace of existence.

"The clouds are from the dragon, the wind is from the tiger, and the beetle snake comes out of the mist."

"It seems that the changes are getting faster and faster, but I didn't expect that the first one to come out was the beetle snake deity who should have appeared in the Wuji Palace."

"I just don't know how the beetle snake that was reborn because of the Lord will be different and different from the original Holy Spirit beetle snake."

Wei Tao clapped his hands and brushed away the dust that didn't exist, "Do you know when the fog that shrouded Cangyuan City began to appear?" ”

The shopkeeper took a deep breath, looked at the gentle face in front of him in a daze, and his mind couldn't help but calm down.

But in the next moment, it was as if a light flashed, dispelling the darkness and illuminating his heart in an instant.

The surname is Wei, and the single name is a Tao character?

So, his name is Wei Tao!?

Legend has it that he inherited the mantle of Emperor Wu, and integrated the entire sect until he stepped into the realm of ascending immortals.

Isn't Wei Daozi long gone in the world, and he can even descend from the fairy world, and even appear directly by his side!?

The shopkeeper of the wine shop was agitated, his eyes rolled white, and he suddenly felt endless sleepiness under peace of mind, and he fell asleep without saying a word.