"Everyone, check the equipment and supplies you are carrying one last time, and get ready to go."

The soldiers were dressed in brand-new armor, and the standard spears in their hands pierced into the sky, the tips of the spears flashed in the sun, and each of them was in high spirits and waiting for the order to act.

A crisp sound of horses' hooves from far and near, the general rode a tall horse, along the leading team to the rear of the team, stopping from time to time to point out the problems in the arrangement of the team and the loading of materials, the eighth guard station dispatched about 200 people this time, led by Shen Dutong, a staff general assisted, the marching arrangement is not much different from the past, the forward is led by the soldiers of the guard, responsible for opening up the road, behind is the convoy carrying supplies, and at the end of the team is the rear guard where Yan Zheng is, responsible for the security task of the entire convoy.

The elegant carriages of the Luo family are located in the middle of the entire convoy, their task is very important, and it is also extremely mysterious, except for Shen Dutong, no one knows what they are participating in this exploration operation for, Luo Ting lifted the curtain and looked outside, the soldiers who did not participate in the exploration operation were all standing on both sides, watching their comrades who were about to set off, their faces were all smiling, but Luo Ting could still feel a trace of sadness from it, after all, many people were separated, We will never see each other again.

The past few days of drinking and enjoying made Luo Ting's handsome face look a little haggard, but it also made his gloomy temperament undoubted, he took off the string of white jade beads he was wearing on his wrist, twisted them one by one with his fingers, and from time to time there was a black aura spit out of his mouth with his breathing, and then absorbed by the white jade beads in his hand, after the white jade beads absorbed the black aura, a strange cloud pattern faintly appeared on the surface, which was obviously a powerful magic weapon.

Although the Luo family practiced the Demon Shadow Heart Devouring Mantra, with the improvement of their own realm, the form of expression was also different, the scouts who wanted to kill Yan Zheng before had to rely on themselves to contain the black aura, and then release it from the body during the battle, Luo Ting obviously went one level further, relying on the natal magic weapon to contain the black aura, and the daily cultivation is also to transform the heaven and earth aura into black aura, which is used to warm the magic weapon and improve their own cultivation.

The army is in good order, not the same as the hired guards of the caravan, this mission is assisted by the eighth guard, it will be safe and smooth, just complete this mission is fine, but there are other things to worry about, Luo Ting frowned slightly, remembering the letter he received yesterday, the letter was written by the Great Elder, the letter said that the scout in charge of investigating the fifty-seventh exploration operation had mysteriously disappeared, indicating that the lamp where his life was located had also been extinguished not long ago, indicating that the scout had died, and they suspected that there was something strange about this matter, There must be someone behind him, so he was ordered to secretly contact the survivor and continue to investigate the location of the red yarn Bodhi, taking into account the situation of the scouts and avoiding startling the snake.

In addition, the Great Elder also expressed his suspicions about the survivor in the letter, but Luo Ting scoffed, at the wine table a few days ago, he had already asked Shen Dutong about the survivor, and the information he got was that the survivor's name was Yan Zheng, he was an excellent soldier, his ability was a little more outstanding than ordinary people, and there was nothing special about it, this was no different from the information that the Luo family had obtained from the Eighth Guard before, Luo Ting really didn't understand why these old things were holding on to a mortal? However, complaining is complaining, and when he enters the Netherworld, he will send the right person to contact that Yan Zheng, and get some information from him to send the Great Elder away.

Lao Lu and the veterans leaned against the door of the cafeteria, looking for Yan Zheng in the team, Yan Zheng's little brother has not been in the Eighth Guard for a long time, even if it has only been less than four months now, but everyone feels that they have established a deep relationship with him, and they have more or less received his help from daily trivial things and work and life, and now he is about to embark on a journey, everyone's hearts are full of reluctance, and the veterans of the kitchen do not have to participate in the exploration operation, Their hard work was only to make enough dry food for the entire team to eat for half a month, and Yan Zheng was also a special case, participating in the exploration operation as a member of the kitchen.

Lao Lu took out a letter from his arms, which was a letter that Yan Zheng asked him to send to his parents after the team set off, he could guess the content of the letter, it was called a family letter, but the content of it was probably the same as the suicide note, it seems that Yan Zheng really participated in this operation with the determination to die, or he didn't plan to come back alive from the beginning.

Lao Lu was really curious about how much trouble a promising young man like him could cause, but when dealing with the corpse that Yan Zheng had hidden in the pigsty, Lao Lu, who had seen the wind and waves, was also shocked, this middle-aged man who was killed by Yan Zheng turned out to be a Jade Void Cultivator! Moreover, Lao Lu also specially confirmed with the sentry that night that they had not heard any strange movements, Yan Zheng had killed a Jade Void Monk alone, and killing a Jade Void Monk without causing a huge movement didn't mean that Yan Zheng's own strength had surpassed that of Jade Void? Lao Lu didn't dare to continue to think about it, the secrets of Yan Zheng's body and the forces involved behind him were far from being able to be touched by a small Wu Commander.

Yan Zheng, who was standing in the line, was still recalling what Lv Wuchang told him last night, more precisely, it was a relatively complete story, obviously Lv Wuchang thought that this story was very important, because Yan Zheng was also the first time to hear him tell it.

"I participated in a total of two exploration operations, the first time I returned safely, and the second time I was seriously injured because of the use of broken steel body, what I want to talk about happened at the end of the first exploration operation, when I could have been in the army for a little longer than you are now, but it was only three or four years, I have always heard others say how dangerous and terrifying the ghost is, and I have seen many veterans who quit the army because they were injured in the ghost world, but because they have never been there, so I don't believe it very much."

"The goal of our exploration operation is similar to this one, it is also to enter a completely unknown area, and find a safer route from it, at first everything is normal, we are moving very fast, there is about another two or three days to turn back, you know, the dangerous environment of the Netherworld even the powerful people are not willing to stay longer, so the general who led us on the mission at that time decided to return as soon as possible after arriving at the destination, of course, we encountered a lot of monsters on the way forward, However, after paying some acceptable prices, they were all successfully solved, and when we finally arrived at our destination, we still had nine out of ten people left. ”

"Strange things happened on our way back, and less than halfway through the way back, many people began to behave in a manic, irritable, aggressive manner, and many people said that they heard something whispering to them in the dark, and some tried to escape from the team and go deeper into the dark realm, and the general tried to stop it by all means, and was even forced to deal with it by military law in the end, but our team was still torn apart, and it became a scattered sand just before returning to the safe zone, Only a few brothers and I trusted each other and never separated, and then later, we encountered something we never thought of - the Yin Soldier borrowed the way. ”

"I know you may think I'm talking nonsense, because the soul of a person will dissipate when he dies, even if the monk's soul is tough, it needs a body to accommodate it, and it is impossible to exist in a soul state out of thin air, but we saw it that day, a group of soldiers with blurred faces marched in the thick fog, the armor they wore and the standard weapons they held in their hands were exactly the same as the ones we were equipped, after encountering the monsters, they waved their weapons and fought bravely, and after slaughtering the monsters, they disappeared with the thick fog."

"I asked some monks who were slightly similar to the way of the divine soul, and they explained that these Yin soldiers were ghosts left behind by soldiers who died in battle, and although their bodies had died, their souls refused to leave due to strong obsessions, or they were bound by strange forces and could not leave, so they could only wander in the secluded realm all day long, repeating the task of killing demon beasts day after day, and could no longer rest in peace."

"The route of this operation is to continue to move forward on the basis of the route we explored before, so the place you are going to must be very dangerous, maybe you may encounter a completely different situation than before, so I hope you must pay attention to safety, if you also encounter the Yin soldiers, you can use their power to drive away the demon beasts, but I don't know if they will be bad for the living, so I think you better hide and don't come into direct contact with them."

Yan Zheng also heard a little about the story told by Lao Lu, they all rumored that it was the heroic soul of the fallen soldiers who were protecting the soldiers who strayed into the dangerous area, although Yan Zheng did not believe this statement, but this fact is impossible to ignore, since those Yin soldiers are wandering near this road, then at the critical moment, maybe it can be used by him, it is true that this power is completely uncontrollable, but if it is used properly, it can play a surprising effect.

After inspecting the last soldier, the general drove his horse back to the leading group and reported to the commander, "Commander, the soldiers are all ready, waiting for your order. ”

"Good." Shen Dutong nodded, he turned around, pulled out the saber at his waist, pointed to the sky, and gave an order to the entire team,

"Listen to my orders and go!"

"Let's go!"

With Shen Dutong's order, the soldiers also shouted in unison, and in this tsunami-like shout, the team set off.