After leaving Luojiazhai, on this day, a group of people came to Quanzhen, looking at it, the whole Quanzhen was depressed, everywhere was ruined and broken, there were no pedestrians on the spacious streets, and it was desolate.

Seeing such a scene, Ah Qi muttered: "I wanted to get some drinks in this town, but it seems that there is no hope now." ”

"Well, we can borrow these houses to rest for the night." Meng Baiyu saw that it was getting late and decided to stay here.

"That's right, you don't have to camp in person, but why can't you see a single figure in this huge town?" Meng Zhong answered.

"This town is called Quanzhen, the old man once visited when he was young, and this town was very lively at that time, but now it is so depressed, I am afraid that something has happened." Mr. Mei, who was walking aside, said.

Meng Zhong heard that Mr. Mei, who had been silent, suddenly spoke, so he turned his head and asked, "Sir, you didn't say anything all the way, but I have a question in my heart, that is, how far is that Mengdu?"

"It's not far, it's not far, it's still ten days away from this town." Mr. Mei said.

"Oh." Meng Zhong nodded.

"Some people often call Mengdu the magic capital, are there really demons and monsters there?" Ah Qi interjected.

"You bastard, it's just that others are so polluted, and you actually come to say this, aren't you afraid of being damned?" Mr. Mei glared at Ah Mi and said angrily.

"Oh, got it."

When he walked to the middle of the street, Meng Baiyu stopped, and at the corner of the street a few zhang away, a pavilion appeared in front of him, and above the gate of the pavilion, there was a plaque "Bafang Xianju".

"This inn looks like it's still alive. Everyone is waiting here, and Brother Li and I are going to check on the situation. Meng Baiyu looked at the pavilion, and after speaking, he led Xiao Li to the "Bafang Immortal Residence".

When Meng Baiyu raised his hand and was about to push the door in, he suddenly heard a slight sound in the inn, and his raised hand stopped in mid-air, paused, and asked, "Is there anyone in the house?" I waited for a night to pass by here, seeing that it was getting late, and wanted to borrow a night here. ”

After waiting for a long time, there was no response in the inn, Meng Baiyu listened carefully, but there was no movement, so he gently pushed the door in. Suddenly, a shadow rushed towards him, Meng Baiyu was startled, his hand shook hard, and with a "snap", the shadow in the middle was suddenly numb, his eyes were dark, and he almost fainted.

Meng Baiyu looked down at the back of his hand, and found that there were some colored powders on the back of his hand, and there was nothing else, so he asked Xiao Li in a low voice: "Brother Li, can you see what it is?" ”

"Nope." Xiao Li replied, "Can Brother see clearly?" ”

"I haven't seen it yet, maybe it's some birds or something, right?" Meng Bai Yu said.

The two entered the inn, only to see that the spacious guest hall was not as bad as they imagined that it was covered with dust, some square tables and stools were neatly arranged, on the counter, several pots of orchids were blooming vigorously, and on the large cabinet behind the counter, some fruits and vegetables were neatly placed, the counter had sides, and there was a staircase to the second floor. Going up to the second floor, the second floor is much more elegant than the first floor, with a large table and a separate private room, and the beds and bedding are complete. Looking at these, Meng Baiyu was very puzzled, there was no trace of a fight in the inn, and the people inside seemed to have just left in a hurry, and they even forgot to bring the door.

Back in the guest hall, Meng Baiyu stood and thought for a while, then walked to the large cabinet behind the counter, he was afraid that the unguarded things were not clean, and if everyone ate them by mistake, they would get sick. When Meng Baiyu walked behind the counter, he was about to check the things in the cabinet, and suddenly felt that there was something moving under his feet, so he looked down and saw a big colorful butterfly on the ground, slightly fanning its wings. Looking at the delicate wings and bright eyes of the colorful butterfly, Meng Baiyu's compassion soared.

"It turned out to be you poor little fellow, who hit the back of my hand so that it didn't hurt." Meng Baiyu held the colorful butterfly in the palm of his hand, walked to the window, put it on the edge of the window, and said softly, "You are injured, right?" How did you come into this house, the orchid attracted you? Stay on this window edge obediently, and when there are many people in the house, they will step on you. ”

After putting away the colorful butterflies, Meng Baiyu turned his head to Xiao Li and said, "Brother Li, tell them all to come over, and tell everyone to go left and right to see which room can still accommodate people, this inn is afraid that it will not accommodate so many people." ”

Xiao Li went out in response, and Meng Baiyu went to check the colorful butterfly again: "Ke Ling's little guy, where are you hurt?" ”

That colorful butterfly naturally couldn't talk to Meng Baiyu, and Meng Baiyu himself knew in his heart that he just seemed to want to talk.

After a short time, Xiao Li led the people in. Meng Baiyu arranged for the elderly, women and children to live in the private rooms on the second floor, and the rest to live in the guest hall on the first floor and the houses around the inn.

Xiao Li lit the candle he took from the counter, and everyone took advantage of the candlelight to share the dry food, while some people pulled the table and drank wine.

"Benefactor, come over and have a drink." Seeing Meng Baiyu eating dry food on the side, Ah Qi shouted.

"Drink." Meng Baiyu gestured.

At this time, You Yang came down from upstairs: "What is Brother Bai Yu eating, I want to eat too?" ”

"Eat and drink." Meng Bai Yu said.

"Grandpa asked you to take Ah Mi to his bedroom." You Yang whispered, turned around and went upstairs after speaking. Looking at You Yang's back, Meng Baiyu was in a daze, and it took a while before he came back to his senses. Only then did he realize that he hadn't spoken to You Yang in days.

Meng Baiyu took Ah Mi to the private room where Mr. Mei lived, and when he saw that the door was closed, he knocked lightly on the door, and after a while, the door opened, and it was You Yang who opened the door.

"Where's the gentleman?" Meng Baiyu stretched out his head to look inside, and when he didn't see Mr. Mei, he asked.

"In the middle of the room." You Yang replied. After speaking, he led Meng Baiyu and Ah Qi to sit at the big table. On the table, there are several empty bowls.

"Yu'er is here. Hasn't your daddy arrived yet? As soon as Meng Baiyu sat down, Mr. Mei walked out of the room.

"Did the gentleman call me Daddy too?" Meng Baiyu asked.

Mr. Mei said: "That's natural, if you drink and call your son, can Lao Tzu be left behind?" ”

As soon as Mr. Mei's words fell, Old Man Meng's voice came from outside the house: "I'm afraid that Mr. only remembers my son, but can't remember me." ”

After Old Man Meng came in, he sat down at the table.

Mr. Mei poured four bowls full of wine, sat down, picked up the bowl and said: "This wine is privately taught by the old village, although it is not better than my plum blossom wine, but it is also the best wine, the gang of Xiao Si downstairs drank and ignored us, we drank good wine, and they were angry." ”

After Mr. Mei finished speaking, he took a big sip first. Old Man Meng also picked up the bowl and drank it.

Seeing that the two elders drank first, Meng Baiyu and Ah Qi also picked up the bowl.

"If you drink my wine, you have to do things for me." Seeing that Meng Baiyu and Ah Qi finished drinking, Mr. Mei said slyly.

Meng Baiyu glanced at Mr. Mei: "It turned out to be a trap, Mr. commanded." ”

"Yu'er is so refreshing, I wonder if Ah Qi's nephew is also so refreshing?" Mr. Mei said, staring at Ah Qi with a pair of deep eyes.

Ah Qi only felt that Mr. Mei's eyes were like cold lightsabers, and he didn't dare to look at them directly, so he lowered his head and whispered, "Listen to Mr. All." ”

"Nephew, the old man asked you, did you have any other purpose for coming with you this time?"

"I'm ......" Ah Qi looked at Meng Baiyu and paused.

"Sir asked you, and you told the truth." Meng Baiyu glanced at Ah Qi.

Seeing Meng Baiyu's promise, Ah Qi said: "I didn't mean to hide it, but no one asked, so I didn't explain, in fact, in addition to following my benefactor, grandpa also asked me to inquire about some news, I heard that Zhongzhou and Mingchuan have been in constant friction recently, and I am afraid that there will be a fight." ”

After listening to Ah Qi, Mr. Mei seemed to fall into deep thought, and after a while, he said to Meng Baiyu: "Yu'er, pass the word and let everyone improve their spirits." ”

"Sir, if they beat them, if we don't provoke them, why be afraid?" Meng Baiyu was puzzled.

"Yu'er didn't know that there was originally a person named Lang Yige in this town, who was said to be a somewhat capable person, and he gathered a group of people to find out the news on the rivers and lakes for sale. This spring town is not under the control of Zhongzhou and Mingchuan, and has long become a thorn in the side of both sides, a thorn in the flesh, if the two sides really want to fight, it will be the first place to suffer, in order to block any news that either side has bought here. Looking at the current scene in Quanzhen, I am afraid that it has been poisoned. It's just that a powerful character like Lang Yige is also on the way, which shows that it is not simple to come. Mr. Mei took a sip of wine and continued, "I'm afraid that the people who came to attack the town are still hiding somewhere, and the people who are quietly outside to collect news will return, cut the grass and eradicate the roots, or ambush the people who come to buy news." ”

"I wanted to come here to find out some news, but it seems that I can't find anything." Listening to Mr. Mei's words, Ah Qi was slightly disappointed, "Why don't we leave here quickly?" ”

"It's getting late, and we don't know much about the recent situation in Zhongzhou and Mingchuan, so it's not appropriate to travel indiscriminately, and everyone is running around for days, tired and tired, and needs to rest." Mr. Mei looked at the dark night outside the window and said.

After hearing this, Meng Baiyu felt uneasy, and hurriedly led Ah Mi downstairs, stopped everyone from continuing to drink, and instructed Meng Zhong and Xiao Li to go to the next house to gather all the young and middle-aged people, while he and Ah Mi waited outside the inn.

After a while, Meng Zhong and Xiao Li summoned everyone, and the people who were drinking in the inn and inn also came out.

"We may be in danger tonight, so we must keep our spirits up, keep our bows in our hands, and keep our arrows in our hands." Meng Baiyu commanded everyone.

Meng Baiyu knew that everyone still had lingering fears about the black dragon's flooding of Jinzhong Mountain. But he has to cheer everyone up and work together to overcome the difficulties ahead.

The people did not know what would happen in the night, and they were afraid, and they all clenched their bows.

Meng Baiyu asked everyone to use hunting techniques to set up defenses around the house and at both ends of the street, and after the defense was completed, he ordered: "I will stay in the inn, Brother A, Brother Li, you two go to the left and right houses to rest, and take care of the brothers." If there is any movement, use the whistle as the contact code. ”

Meng Zhong and Xiao Li each led a team of people to the left and right, and Meng Baiyu and Ah Qi also returned to the inn. When they returned to the house, they spread their mats on the ground, put out the candles, and slept, and said no more.

The night suddenly fell silent.

Meng Baiyu didn't lie down, he sat cross-legged on the seat with his eyes closed, quietly listening to the silence of the night outside the house.

At midnight, a wave of drowsiness hit, and in the haze, Meng Baiyu felt something pounding on the window. He opened his eyes and looked out the window, and it turned out that the colorful butterfly he had placed on the edge of the window was flapping its wings against the window that he didn't know who had closed, as if it wanted to enter the house. Outside the window, a round of crescent moon quietly climbed up from the other side of the mountain while everyone was asleep, and the faint moonlight weaved a hazy net, covering all the scenery in the net, every grass and tree, every brick and tile, it was no longer as realistic as in the daytime.

Meng Baiyu got up, walked to the window gently, opened the window, and the colorful butterfly gently landed on his shoulder.

When Meng Baiyu turned around and was about to leave the window, he suddenly heard a scream in the distance, and he realized that what he was worried about had finally come. He immediately woke up everyone and contacted Meng Zhong and Xiao Li, and soon after, Meng Zhong and Xiao Li responded. At this moment, another scream came, presumably someone was on the road again, but the sound was closer than the previous one. After the screams were over, everything was quiet again. After Meng Baiyu hinted that everyone was on guard, he secretly looked out of the window, and the hazy street was empty and there was no one in it. Just as he was feeling uneasy, a strong wind blew in, and the door of the inn was suddenly slammed open, and a figure had floated into the middle of the street, followed by countless figures floating down from the room across the street, surrounding the inn and the houses on the left and right. Only then did Meng Baiyu remember that he had forgotten to arrange the mechanism on the room. The shadow who floated first waved his hand, and the figure behind him suddenly lit a torch in his hand, illuminating the entire street clearly.

"Where did the monster come from in the house, and how dare you make a mistake here? The mechanism of giving has been broken, and you are not quick to come out and die. The man who had floated first spoke. The mask he wears is different from the others, and he can be identified as the leader at a glance.

Everyone was frightened by this sudden scene, and their hearts were cold, and they didn't dare to speak.

Meng Baiyu thought to himself, no matter what the people outside were, they had to go out and explain things clearly, and they couldn't just fight with others in a daze. He then moved his steps, and when he was about to walk out, he was grabbed by someone, and when he looked back, it turned out to be Mr. Mei. Seeing Meng Baiyu turn around, Mr. Mei shook his head at him and signaled him not to go out.

"What happened to the gentleman?" Meng Baiyu said softly.

"The old man is uneasy." Mr. Mei replied in a low voice, "The person who comes is clearly not good, so don't go out of the house easily, just wait and see what happens." ”

When the leader saw that there was no response in the house, he was unhappy, but he did not seem to dare to come near, so he angrily said, "Fire attack, burn them." ”

As soon as the sound fell, countless torches flew towards the inn and the houses on the left and right.

Meng Baiyu saw that the people in Tsing Yi attacked indiscriminately, and he couldn't care much about it, so he gave an order: "Release the arrows." ”

The feathered arrows flew out like raindrops.

The leader was startled, jumped back, waved his hand, and the feather arrows that flew in front of him were all stirred out, but the people behind were not so lucky, some of them were hit by arrows and fell to the ground injured. Seeing this, the leader immediately rose into the air and waved a brilliant curtain of light, which flew down from the air like a curtain of fire, slashing out the feather arrows that shot from him, and dissolving the killing of his subordinates, and then, he drew his long sword and swung it, and the blue sword came straight to the inn. When everyone saw this, they were horrified, but they had no time to escape, and they only felt that they were going to die here. Just as the sword was approaching the inn, a colored light shot out from the house, and the colored light and the sword touched each other, and the "pop" burst out, and the brilliance was like a brilliant multicolored firework, shining brightly, and like a lightning bolt falling from the sky, it exploded the entire inn door. A force struck in all directions, and everyone inside and outside the house took a few steps back and fell to the ground. The leader also seemed to be hit, and fell from the sky, and fell into a dog's, and after a while, he got up, but the sword was thrown aside.

Meng Baiyu also got up, but his eyes were black and he couldn't see anything. He fell to the ground without feeling pain, but when he stood up, he found that he was injured, and it took him a moment before he regained his sight. Meng Baiyu was the closest to the door, and when the shock wave hit, he bore the brunt, but fortunately, he was healthy and not too seriously injured. Meng Baiyu couldn't care about his pain, he had to take everyone out of the inn immediately, and the inn was already on fire at this time.

"If you want to live, you will rush out for me." Meng Baiyu shouted, and rushed out first, and then everyone in a trance came to their senses and rushed out one after another.

When the leader saw someone rushing out, he immediately took a stance, and a light blue mist in his palm gradually condensed into a light cluster, which gradually turned blue as the size changed. When the ball of light was as big as the moon in the sky, the leader pushed the ball of light towards the white feather. When the light group was about to touch Meng Baiyu's body, Meng Baiyu's body suddenly emitted a white light, and the dark blue light group was bounced back by the white light.

"Withdraw." After the leader stood firm, he gave an order and jumped on the roof, and the other people in Tsing Yi who were not injured also jumped on the roof of the building and disappeared into the busy night sky.

"It's not good, save people!" Meng Baiyu didn't care to check whether the people in Tsing Yi really retreated, and he didn't care about the pain on his body, so he rushed back to the inn. Meng Baiyu ran to the guest hall, the smoke had wrapped the guest hall, he only felt that the smoke choked his mouth and nose, and he almost couldn't open his eyes. Through the gap in the smoke, seeing that the old and young on the second floor had gone downstairs one after another, Meng Baiyu turned sideways and let them get out of the inn smoothly, and when he saw that no one came down, he rushed upstairs to quickly check every bedroom. When Meng Baiyu came to the last bedroom, he saw that the door was closed, he kicked the door open, and found two children, a man and a woman, crying and fighting fireworks with their hands, while dragging an old man lying on the floor. This bedroom is occupied by the old man Zhao Tianying and his grandchildren, the son and daughter-in-law of the old man Zhao Tianying drowned when the Black Dragon flooded Jinzhong Mountain, leaving two grandchildren for him. Meng Baiyu rushed in and touched it, and found that although the old man Zhao Tianying's body was still a little warm, he had lost his breath. He then crossed the blockade of the smoke and quickly carried the two children away from the inn. Came to the outside of the house, put the two children down, Meng Baiyu rushed into the inn again, when he came to the bedroom where the old man Zhao Tianying lived, the whole inn was surrounded by a sea of fire, he hugged the body of the old man Zhao Tianying, jumped out, and broke out of the window. After Meng Baiyu gently put the body of the old man Zhao Tianying on the ground, he turned around and asked Meng Zhong and Xiao Li if the people in the left and right houses were okay, and at this time, Meng Zhong and Xiao Li were leading people to tie up the injured people in Tsing Yi.

"Some people were injured, but fortunately no one was killed." After tying up the injured man in Tsing Yi on the ground, Meng Zhong replied, and as soon as he finished speaking, he saw the old man Zhao Tianying lying on the ground, so he asked, "What's wrong with Uncle Zhao?" ”

Meng Baiyu took off his clothes and covered the old man Zhao Tianying, and said softly: "The old man is gone." ”

Everyone gathered around, no one spoke, just quietly looked at the body of the old man Zhao Tianying. The old man Zhao Tianying worked hard, was kind, and never had a grudge against others, but he lost his son when he was old, and on the way to escape, he also died in this fireworks.

"Why did Grandpa sleep so deeply?" The boy who was rescued by Meng Baiyu leaned over, squatted down and pulled the old man Zhao Tianying's clothes, "Grandpa, why haven't you gotten up yet, everyone is looking at you, aren't you ashamed?" ”

"Brother, grandpa is dead." The older girl said, crying, "Grandpa is dead, we don't have my father and mother, and my grandfather is gone." ”

Meng Baiyu's nose was sour, and he almost burst into tears, but he held back. You Yang hugged the girl, but tears flowed down her cheeks.

Meng Baiyu was afraid that You Yang would be too sad and cause a cold illness, and in front of everyone's eyes, he would not be able to comfort him personally, so he motioned to You Lian to comfort You Yang. You Lian hugged You Yang and cried: "If my sister doesn't cry, everything will pass, it will pass." ”

You Lian cried with You Yang for a long time before comforting You Yang.

Faced with such an attack, everyone did not dare to sleep anymore, and they all stayed away from the burning inns and houses, waiting for Meng Baiyu's order. Meng Baiyu thought to himself: "Who will be the attacker?" Just as he was about to question the kidnapped Tsing Yi people, someone came to report that the Tsing Yi people had killed themselves by biting their tongues. After listening to the report, Meng Baiyu scolded: "The thief raised it." ”

"Brother, what are we going to do now?" Seeing that Meng Baiyu didn't instruct, Xiao Li walked over and asked.

"Go back to the mountains." Meng Baiyu was afraid that the people in Tsing Yi would attack again, so he checked the surrounding terrain through the hazy moonlight, and found that there seemed to be a forest in the mountain behind Quanzhen, so he said. Surviving in the forest is their forte.

After receiving Meng Baiyu's instructions, everyone carried the body of the old man Zhao Tianying and quietly left Quanzhen.

When it was dawn, everyone hastily buried the body of the old man Zhao Tianying, and under the guidance of Mr. Mei, they continued to march towards Mengdu.