After leaving Tianhe County, Pei Mengqing, Xiao Ri, and the Orange Bureau went all the way to the southeast.

Two big oranges squatted on his shoulders, their paws tugging at his collar, Pei Mengqing walked quickly in the air, stepping on the canopy of the trees from time to time, maintaining a level of consumption and recovery that was barely equal.

The reason why it is reluctant is because once his physical strength is consumed to only forty percent, he will change to one of the incarnations of the Tiger in the Kohi or Tachibana game, and carry the other two forward, during which he can recover his physical strength.

In this way, the constant rotation can basically ensure that everyone or cat is physically strong and able to travel long distances.

Basically, I walked out of the confines of Liang County in one morning, and in the afternoon, I had already walked through one-third of Runan County.

Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Pei Mengqing asked the opinions of the two big oranges:

"Do you want to find a place to rest, or do you want to go in the starry night? However, there are no stars and moons lately, and I saw a lot of dark clouds in the afternoon. ”

The weather in this world is very regular, and generally speaking, there are dark clouds in the afternoon, and there is a high probability that there will be dark clouds at night, which is very important for those who need to walk at night.

In addition, since leaving Liang County, it has been spring in other places, and there is not a trace of snow.

Although there is still a little cold in early spring, it is far less torturous than the cold winter in Liang County.

Even, there is some poetry in the spring cold, if you change to a talented person, you will definitely be able to write some poetry.

For a person like Pei Mengqing, if he is allowed to swear at others, it is okay to let him recite poems.

The two orange cats have not received much education, they are only literate, can read some official notices, and have nothing to do with poetry recitation.

"Then rest for the night, will you fall?" Xiao Ri said.

"Okay, that's down." Pei Mengqing said this, staring from the forest and falling into the forest.

As soon as they fell into the forest, Tachibana and Xiao Sun immediately emitted a golden light to illuminate the surroundings.

Luckily, I didn't encounter any shadow touches this time.

Pei Mengqing and the two big oranges quickly cut down trees to make a wooden house, and then rested in it for the night, taking turns to keep vigil.

After a night without incident, early the next morning, they continued their journey until the afternoon, when they finally reached the edge of Runan County and Jiangxia County.

In front of it is a very large village, or judging from the low walls, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a small town.

"Spend the night here? Or just go for it? Pei Mengqing still consulted the wishes of the two big oranges.

But this time, Xiao Ri and Tachibana have different ideas, after all, seeing that the distance is not far, if you continue to hurry, you may be able to get to the place in the first half of the night, so you want to hurry up.

"Okay, let's go in the starry night." Pei Mengqing has no opinion.

But nothing happened along the way, and now there is finally a problem again.

They hit the "ghost wall".

They had been running around for a long time, and they could not get out of whichever way they went, and no matter how they went, the village and town appeared in front of them, as if they were forcing them in.

"The situation is not right, Lao Pei, do you understand the formation?" Xiao Ri asked.

"He doesn't understand, if he does, we definitely won't go around and go back to square one." Orange Bureau said.

"Well, I really don't understand." Pei Mengqing had no choice but to say.

"In that case, let's go to the town nearby, and we'll put this formation guy in a while, and see what is wrong with him, if you don't set up such a formation here." Tachibana said angrily.

Don't blame it for being angry, seeing that the end is just around the corner, it will soon be able to improve its strength smoothly, but someone has set up such an ecstasy array here to trap them here, and everyone is angry.

People are the most impatient when they have walked ninety-nine steps in a hundred steps.

The same is true for cats, even cats.

So Pei Mengqing pressed his right hand on the Tianshuang Sword and began to set foot on the road into the village and town.

The walls of the villages and towns are so low that they seem to be unable to stop even the horses.

Those who rob houses and houses can jump over with a slight leap.

However, it is also possible that the wind and rain have eroded the earthen wall, so it is understandable that it is shorter than before.

But what made them strange was that such a town that was obviously a little problematic turned out to be well-lit and human.

Don't underestimate the human taste, where there are few ordinary living people, there is no human taste.

If we want to talk specifically about what human smell is, it can be understood as the breath and signs of people's survival and activity, and it has not been interrupted until now.

Obviously, this village and town, which I don't know the name and are not on Pei Mengqing's map, is very human.

"It's even weirder." Pei Mengqing said silently.

But they soon figured out what the problem was.

As soon as they entered the village, they found that five or six people were approaching from the surrounding area, surrounding them, and their posture was no different from that of ordinary people, but their expressions were very strange.

Pei Mengqing counted carefully, it was six people.

These six people, with calm, excited, or greedy expressions, looked like they were robbing a roadblock.

They look like people and speak human words, but they don't have a human touch on them.

"Be careful, they're not human." The orange bureau also noticed this, and the golden light on his body shone brightly.

It turned out to be really useful.

Under the golden light of the orange bureau, the footsteps of the "people" immediately stopped, began to slowly retreat, and covered their pale faces with their sleeves.

"Who are you?" Pei Mengqing asked.

The men didn't speak, just took two more steps back.

Seeing that they didn't speak, Pei Mengqing didn't want to make a casual move without understanding the situation, so he continued to walk towards the center of the village and town, wanting to find an inn or restaurant, at least to inquire about the news.

But the "men" still surrounded him and refused to leave, moving forward as he went, whispering from time to time.

Pei Mengqing didn't care what they said, anyway, when he arrived at a place that looked like a restaurant, he knocked on the door.

"Anyone? Stay! He shouted.

There were people in there, and he and the two big oranges could feel it.

But in the face of his knock, he didn't come to open the door, obviously he could feel that those people were not far behind the door, and it wasn't that there was a problem with his ears, but he just didn't come to open the door as if he didn't hear it.

Pei Mengqing thought about it and didn't break through, although he could kick it open with one foot because the door was thin.

"I guess it's the existence of a few things around who don't know what it is, so they don't dare to open the door, or rather, something will happen after opening the door."

Xiao Ri reasoned logically and felt that it was those "people" who made the people in the house dare not open the door.

In order to test this idea, they walked around the whole village and found that the doors and windows of every house were closed, and although they could see the lights, no one was willing to open the door, whether they knocked on the door or said they wanted to stay.

In order not to kill others, Pei Mengqing did not think about breaking into the door of any family, but found a person with a glass window who seemed to have good conditions and knocked on the window gently.

The sound of knocking on the window attracted the person in the window, and the man had a wary look in his eyes, and immediately called his family, not daring to approach.

However, the orange bureau and Xiao Ri on Pei Mengqing's shoulders still attracted him.

After all, the monsters that appear in the villages and towns every night don't glow.

Pei Mengqing shouted outside:

"I'm not a bad person, I'm not one of those things that don't look like people, I'm passing through here, trapped around by ghosts, and I have to stay here for the night!"

Seeing this, the man inside hesitated for a while and asked:

"Where are you from?"

"From Tianhe County in Liang County, to Pingchun County in Jiangxia County." Pei Mengqing said, "Do you see the two orange cats on my shoulders?" If you can't trust me, can't you still trust the cat family? ”

The cat family is still very reliable and has a lot of "brand influence".

In fact, before the Great Zhou Dynasty, all dynasties, even in the era of warlord separation, all respected the cat clan and often cooperated with the cat clan.

However, the cat clan will not participate in the internal struggle between the human race, they just want to save the common people - it is in this way that they can gain the trust of all the races, and believe that the cat clan will not be a traitor sent by other forces.

The common people basically have a portrait of the cat family in their homes, and they are the most poor, and they also know what the cat family looks like.

This furry body, four paws, as well as this big round eyes and honest appearance, as long as you look at it, you can naturally associate the word "cute".

The man was a little moved, and wanted to open the door for Pei Mengqing.

But was stopped by the hostess.

Pei Mengqing has good hearing, and they can hear the hostess inside saying:

"Don't go, what if it's with those monsters?"

The man said: "He is with the cat family, it will not be those monsters, I heard that some cat people can indeed shine." ”

The hostess continued to dissuade: "What if it's an illusion? Those monsters usually behave like ordinary people, but they change when they show their hideous faces, who knows if these two cats are conjured by monsters with fantasy? ”

Pei Mengqing had no choice but to knock lightly on the window to interrupt the conversation between the two:

"Well, it's okay if you don't open the door, tell me about those monsters? They look like people, but they will retreat when they are purified by the purifying light of my two cat brothers, and I want to ask more about them. ”

Hearing his words, the man looked at the two large oranges on his shoulders again, looked at the golden light that emanated, and cautiously leaned closer to the window to look into the distance.

He saw those humanoid monsters in the distance standing far away around Pei Mengqing, not daring to approach.

This has never happened before, and there has never been a situation where you don't need to close doors and windows to stop monsters.

He had a hunch that this was their only chance to be rescued, and that hope lay in the young man with two cats.

If you don't open the door, the strength of the cat clan will be exhausted, and the other party will be eaten and wiped clean by the monsters.

So he made up his mind and opened the door to Pei Mengqing:

"Come on in!"

Pei Mengqing hurriedly entered the door.

After entering, the humanoid monsters around them quickly approached, and seemed to want to squeeze in, but the man immediately closed the door, locked the door, and blocked them out.

The hostess was frightened at first, but when she saw that he didn't seem to be a monster, she breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed her expression, and invited him to sit down in the living room.

Pei Mengqing did not refuse, followed up with two big oranges in the living room, and after sitting down, he politely took the tea and thanked him.

After checking that there was no poison in it, I took a sip.

"Dare to ask, what is the same thing as those people outside? They look like people on the outside, but I can feel that they don't have any smell on them. ”

Pei Mengqing sat down and asked politely to the male and female hosts.

Perhaps it was the previous sound that woke up the children of the family, two children of six or seven years old, a brother and sister, who came out of the other room.

When Xiao Ri and the orange bureau saw the child, their expressions immediately deteriorated, and they found a high place and jumped up.

Children and cats, they are deeply experienced.

Children have no malice, but they don't have to be malicious, they will scratch their tails and stab their cats, and they don't want to make children cry, so they can only endure it.

After experiencing the pain of being tortured by a child, these two big oranges saw the child again, and they were all far away.

"In Xia Lu Mengcheng, this is my wife Zhao Haiyue, we were originally from Nanyang County, and later escaped famine with our family, and planned to go to Yuzhou, but, alas, ......"

Lu Mengcheng sighed when he said this, and his expression became sad.

"Later, could it be that just like us, we passed by here and couldn't get out?" Pei Mengqing asked.

"Exactly." Lu Mengcheng nodded and sighed, and began to talk about their family and even the affairs of this village......

I don't know who built this village, and I don't know when it appeared here, blocking the border between Runan County and Jiangxia County.

Originally, there was a small road nearby, and it was not the main thoroughfare between the two counties, but it was usually walked by some people.

And so people kept coming to this village and town.

If you count by time, Lu Mengcheng's family came ten years ago, and they are the first batch of people who began to live here, and there are a few families before them, basically they only strayed here eleven or twelve years ago and settled here.

Originally, a village with a lot of new buildings, there were no other people, and there were pigs, cows, sheep, chickens and other domestic animals, so it was very suitable as a new place to live.

Lu Mengcheng's family also thought so.

After all, when he arrived in a new town, he had to find a way to get a small wooden shed, and with his spiritual strength, he would have to find a good job to support his family, and it would take half a year to earn the money for a new house.

It has to be said here that a house that can live for a family costs twenty silver dollars, and this purchasing power is enough for a family of four in this era, and they can live by eating meat every day for five years.

A house with a yard starts at thirty-five silver dollars.

Therefore, at the beginning, the family was quite happy to come here, thinking that they had saved a lot of money by picking up a house for nothing, not to mention that there was no need to run away from the famine, and there were still a lot of livestock to raise.

Moreover, there is a lot of farmland around the villages and towns that can be cultivated, all of which are ownerless, and there are even no officials to collect grain and collect taxes and ask people to serve in forced labor.

So they settled here, just like the families before them.

Unexpectedly, a year later, the horror here was revealed......