The five so-called mountain chasers walked as fast as they could, but the blood-eyed bat that had been in the direction did not rush to chase after them, but screamed and pounced on them.

It swept over the young man's faceless skull, easily peeling off the poor man's scalp and lifting it into the air with the black bun on his scalp.

The bun was torn apart by the blood-eyed bat, and the long, messy hair was scattered in the night wind, looking like a strange human head from a distance.

"Whoosh!"

A crudely crafted feathered arrow suddenly shot out of a dark alley below, nailing it precisely to the throat of the blood-eyed bat.

The beast fell upside down from mid-air without saying a word, and smashed into the dust along with the young man's scalp and hair.

"Uncle Qi's handsome archery!"

As the words fell, a sturdy young man ran out of the dark alley.

He was in his early twenties, with a simple face, but he carried a big axe in his hand, which was a good killing weapon at first glance.

The young man ran to the side of the blood-eyed bat, and without saying a word, he slashed down several axes fiercely one after another, and when he had to divide the beast's body into several pieces, he hated and cursed: "Why can't these ghosts be killed?" ”

"You also said they were ghosts, how can they be killed so easily?"

A slightly old voice sounded, and then an old man walked slowly out of the dark alley, followed by a sleepy old yellow dog.

The old man's sideburns were half white, but his body was burly, his back was straight, not only did he not see the slightest rickety old age, but even his face was ruddy and tight.

He was dressed like a hunter in the mountains, with a hunting knife hanging from his waist, a wooden bow in his hand, and a quiver on his back.

The old man muttered as he walked: "Yu Daring, how many times has my old man said it?" Let you move and you move again! These beasts are so cunning that it's not once or twice to play dead and fight back! ”

"Oh, how many times have I told Uncle Qi? Don't always learn from them and call me Yu Daring! I have a serious name! ”

The young man shouted, and proudly raised the big axe in his hand: "The Xiucai Gong in my village said that the small one is called the axe, and the big one is called Yue...... My name is Yu Dayue! Yu Dayue! ”

Old Man Qi sighed and said in disgust: "What are you talking about, my old man is not deaf, I don't need to say it twice!" ”

"There are only wrong names in this world, no wrong nicknames, and your broken name is far worse than my grandson, what is there to be proud of?"

Yu Dayue quit and muttered dissatisfiedly: "Always say that your grandson is your grandson, what is your grandson's name?" ”

Qi Laohan ignored him, squatted in front of the two corpses and looked at them, shook his head and sighed: "Those demons who wipe their faces really deserve to be killed, but they are always in groups, never alone, and they can't find a chance to start if they want to!" ”

Yu Dayue squatted down beside him, scratched his head and said: "These are the affairs of the government, we can manage them, and if we can't manage them, it's important to find a way to quickly cross the forbidden water, the bones of my father and second uncle are still lying in Quzhou Village north of the forbidden water!" ”

"You know what?"

Qi Laohan glared, and Yu Da'er was so frightened that he immediately shrank his neck: "Although there are many people we gathered this time, I see that most of them are ordinary and kind people. In the past two months, they have heard and seen many evil things with their own ears, and they have long been afraid in their hearts, even if the forbidden water is really opened, few people may dare to venture across the river. ”

Yu Dayue was stunned for a moment, but soon came back to his senses, and said excitedly: "I said it!" Uncle Qi is only willing to take me Yu Da these days...... Yue came out to walk around, it turned out that he couldn't look down on those wretches! ”

"What do you say! They have traveled thousands of miles to find their relatives here, they are all good children who are filial piety and can endure hardships, you don't want to bully them anymore! ”

Qi Laohan treated his own grandson like his own grandson, and scolded Yu Daring without seeing it, and then sighed faintly: "So far, it doesn't hurt to tell you some things, this is the news I have heard from many parties in the past ten years." ”

"When the forbidden water was about to be opened, from Yongchang County to Dai County, and then to the entire Ulzhou, it was already one step ahead of the evils, with countless casualties!"

Later, it was even said that there was a demon blood sacrifice forbidden water, which completely opened the passage to cross the river. After the imperial court quelled the chaos, he took advantage of the situation to send troops, set up a pass in the north of the forbidden water, and buried our relatives there......"

Qi Laohan shook his head a little sadly, and then continued: "In the demon chaos back then, there was this kind of demon who could use the evil art of wiping his face! ”

"Whether it's in the city or in the wilderness, whether it's the pedestrian street or the closed rooms, there are people who are harmed by it. It is said that there were thousands of people in the entire Ulju who were wiped out of the face of the whole of Ulju back then, and those demons continued to wreak havoc for months until the eve of the opening of the forbidden water cave! ”

"If it weren't for the fact that I heard about the disturbance of the forbidden water and the resurgence of the demon disaster, there would not be so many people gathered here, and you don't know anything!"

Although Yu Dayue is bold, he is not a simple-minded stupid and bold person, and after hearing the words, he understood after a little thought, and a pair of tricks suddenly lit up amazingly: "Uncle Qi, do you mean, these face-wiping demons know how to survive the forbidden water?" ”

He stood up suddenly: "Then what are we waiting for?" Hurry up and catch up and take a few? ”

"What if they have a smearing technique? Uncle Qi, you shoot with a bow and arrow from a distance behind, and I wield a big axe in front of me, and don't teach them to get close! ”

Qi Laohan was a little helpless when he heard this, and he also stood up: "Why are you here again?" Even if you really want to fight hard, you should prepare in advance, choose a good place, and set up ambushes and traps, otherwise you can only see whose life is harder. ”

"Just like the two of us, whether life is hard or not is secondary, and the legs and feet are not as good as others, what are you chasing?"

After that, Qi Laohan simply pulled his legs and left: "Let's leave this place of right and wrong first, if it is seen, it will be impossible to say it in front of the official master!" ”

He took a few steps in great strides, and when he turned around, he saw that Yu Dayue was still standing in place, his face was unconvinced, and he immediately said angrily: "You, compared to my grandson, you are far behind!" He killed that ...... in the first place."

He stopped talking and refused to go any further.

Yu Dayue pricked up his ears and blinked, but he was obviously interested in Qi Laohan's half of the sentence.

He didn't screw anymore, and hurriedly trotted to catch up, and asked curiously: "Listening to Uncle Qi's words, my little brother who has never met is not a bad man, why didn't he come with him this time?" ”

Old Qi was furious: "You are looking forward to the death of my old Qi family!" ”

Seeing that the old man's beard was all open, his qi and blood were surging, like a tiger's eyes, Yu Dada'er was really scared this time.

He raised his left hand and slapped himself heavily in the face, and his two eyes were also red: "Don't be annoyed! I, Yu Daring, said the wrong thing, can't I compensate Grandpa! ”

When Qi Laohan heard this "Grandpa", and saw this child who was not a few years older than his grandson like this, his heart suddenly softened, and the tiger power faintly emanating from his body was also taken back.

"Alas, my old man is half cut into the ground, what's there to be annoyed about? It's just that I pity you, a good boy, if you die in this northern land, the relatives in Quzhou don't know how to be sad......"

Yu Dayue breathed a sigh of relief, and then grinned: "My mother died of illness the year before last, my sister-in-law also got married, and the rest of the relatives have long since lost contact, so they all wish I could die quickly, so that my house and belongings can be divided!" ”

"When my father and second uncle died in the north, my aunt left her daughter and ran away. My mother is a fool, pulling my sister and me alone. ”

"She couldn't get off the ground with little strength, so she washed people's clothes during the day, did needlework under the moon at night, cried for a while, and finally blinded her eyes, and didn't see those relatives to help!"

Hearing this, Qi Laohan couldn't help but ask, "Then how did your family of three survive?" ”

"Helpless, I sold all the family's land without telling my mother, and then went to the shipyard to be an apprentice. The family made do with surviving. ”

Yu Dayue talked about these past events, with a smile on his face, but his eyes became more and more red.

"What a poor boy! Speaking of which, although my grandson is protected by me and has never been hungry when he was a child, he is a ...... without mother's pain."

Qi Laohan sighed with emotion, stepped forward again, and asked as he walked: "The shipyard is all about dealing with wood, even if you learn the craft, you must use the axe and pull the big saw, you are a helpless half-sized child, and people are willing to accept it?" ”

Yu Dayue was aroused, and the conversation was very strong, and he also replied while walking: "You don't know, our people surnamed Yu in Quzhou are all the same ancestor, hundreds of thousands of years ago it is said that he was an official who specialized in building ships and cars for the lord of the country, what is it called 'Boat Festival', 'Car Festival', and what is it called 'Festival Envoy'...... In short, the Yu family's aura in carpenter work is not picky! ”

"I know you're always literate, but look at my 'Yu' character, doesn't it look like a canoe made of hollowed-out tree trunks?"

Yu Dayue said, and once again proudly raised the big axe in his hand: "I'm not bragging to you, I was born to be a person who can use an axe, and I have strength, people and cleverness, but after studying with a master for three years, I have practiced the unique skill of putting seals with one hand!" ”

"What do you mean by putting a seal? It's just to patch the boat! First remove the broken parts of the ship, and then you have to fill these holes that have been removed and have strange shapes. ”

"I never measured the size when Yu Dayue mended the boat hole, just relied on our two tricks to take a few looks, and then found the right wood to cut with an axe, and it was done as soon as it was chopped, and it was a tight fit!"

"Relying on this skill, I buried my mother beautifully, and gave my sister-in-law a thick dowry, so that she could straighten her waist in front of her in-laws and husband!"

Seeing that the young man was dancing with his eyebrows and dancing with his hands, sweeping away the sadness and depression of Fang Cai, Qi Laohan couldn't help but smile: "I didn't expect you to be a master carpenter, my old man is really disrespectful!" ”

Yu Dayue smiled, and immediately hit the snake with the stick: "Then grandpa will be polite to me in the future?" Don't glare at me, especially! You're scary when you stare at you, like a big insect in the mountains......"

"Hey! Speaking of which, it's also my good grandson, your brother who has never met, who hunted a tiger in the mountains and brought it home, and gave my old man tiger meat and bones to nourish his body......"

Regarding Yu Dayue's quiet change of title, Qi Laohan accepted it calmly, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "You are a carpenter who repairs ships, and you have also entered the mountains and seen big insects?" ”

Yu Dayue immediately smiled and nodded: "That's not it!" Shipbuilders and repairers have to go to the mountains to find timber. One of the most famous mountains in Quzhou is called Rotten Ke Mountain, and I heard that the word "Rotten Ke" means rotten axe handle......"

The young man said as he tightened his grip on the big axe in his hand.

Old Man Qi didn't pay attention to his subtle movements, but Huo Ran raised his head and looked at the southern sky.

At some point, there was a black wind, and there were hundreds of blood-eyed bats, large and small.

Many bats carry long human hair under their claws, and they are scattered and fluttering in the wind, and they look terrifying.

Immediately afterwards, a colorful rainbow rose from the south, blatantly crashing into the night sky, the long tail meandered more than ten feet, and a hideous tiger head seemed to grow in front of it, and it crashed straight into the chaotic black wind.

Almost at the same time, a thunderclap came from afar, like a tiger roaring in the mountains, shaking the heavens and shaking people's hearts.

The black wind was pierced by the long rainbow, and the corpse of the blood-eyed bat fell down in a swoop, and the tangled messy hair was broken countless times, revealing the figure of a huge bat inside, the size of a calf.

The big bat, with its bloody eyes like lanterns, opened its mouth and roared loudly towards the south, fierce and powerful.

The next moment, the sound of the bowstring ringing was endless, and the black pressure pressed hundreds of feathered arrows into the air, shooting countless people at once.

The remnants of the little blood-eyed bats squeaked, leaving their leader behind and fleeing frantically, and in the blink of an eye, they swept over the south gate of the small city and came north through the city.

Yu Dayue was stunned for a moment: "Then the arrow is the newly opened official army outside the city?" It's so powerful! ”

Hearing this, Qi Laohan suddenly came back to his senses, grabbed the young man's arm and ran: "Don't look at it!" That army will surely enter the city and chase after it. We were wandering around the street in the middle of the night, and most of us couldn't get off when we were hit! ”

Yu Dayue woke up like a dream, and hurriedly spread out and strode up.

"Wow!"

The old yellow dog, who had been silent and followed slowly, finally came to his senses and regained the feeling of wandering around Komatsu Mountain.

The two men and the dog did not linger long in the street, but chose a narrow alley to get into it, and before they had gone far, they heard the sound of horses' hooves rumbling in the south, mixed with the sound of bowstrings and arrows breaking through the air.

The old and the young glanced at each other, and their steps suddenly accelerated.

"This time, the imperial court's response is much faster than more than ten years ago, and it sent a strong army before the demon disaster was rampant!"

Qi Laohan sighed as he ran: "The people of Ulzhou are not small, but I don't know how many of these soldiers who came to quell the chaos will die in the north, leaving orphans and widows behind without anyone to take care of them......"

"Hey, Grandpa, don't worry about others, let's take a look at what we're looking at first!"

Yu Dayue suddenly screamed, raised his axe and pointed forward.

Qi Laohan's footsteps slowed down a little, and when he raised his eyes, he saw many ghosts appearing in front of him, and he actually blocked this alley tightly!

These ghosts didn't pay attention to the two, but faintly divided into two groups, as if they were arguing with something, and were abusing and pulling each other.

"This ......"

An old man and a young man stopped, subconsciously looked back, and saw that the fire was faintly lit on the long street behind him, and the sound of people shouting and neighing gradually became louder.

Seeing this, Yu Dayue hesitated and asked, "Grandpa, do you say that people in this world are terrible or ghosts are terrible?" ”

(End of chapter)