Chapter 19: Anomaly
This night, Anxun slept very unsteadily, as if he had returned to the old house that was once precarious.
In the distance, a wild beast roared, sharp and piercing.
He didn't feel the slightest drowsiness, so he could only force himself to close his eyes.
The Lu family is the overlord of Split Zhao City, and should not have anything to do with the rebellious Fire Transmission Sect.
However, the lord of Great Xia was old, and none of the seven sons except for the two minor princes had anything to do.
When the dynasty was unstable, the families and sects grew savagely, and there was a faint tendency to shake the foundation of Great Xia.
In the past two years, there have been many droughts in various places, and many people who are barely living have no harvest.
Countless people starved to death.
Many people can only sell themselves to other people, praying for a bite to eat.
The power of the great clans is expanding wildly, and many hidden sects have also sent disciples to occupy a large territory.
The prestige of the dynasty was worn out little by little by the troubled times.
The way of the dog day!
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The sky was slightly bright, and the servants of the Lu family were already swaying around the bamboo house with a gong.
"Get up!"
Breakfast is a rough noodle steamed bun, a small bowl of pepper fried offal for one person.
Steamed buns are enough.
Many young people were gulping down on food, fearing that they would not have enough time.
Lao Hu was unhurried, and took the time to go out to facilitate it.
Seeing An Xun's puzzled gaze, his dry fingers pinched a piece of the tip of his lung and stuffed it into his mouth, revealing a satisfied expression.
"It's so early!"
"Qingluan Bird still has to forage for food!"
Poked his head out and glanced at it.
Sure enough, none of the surrounding luannios were gone.
The servants of the Lu family were in a pile of threes and twos, leaning on the edge of the bamboo house and chatting and joking, some of them were still washing their faces.
There is no nervous preparation before the hunt at all.
Only then did he feel relieved.
Returning to the house and approaching the old servant, An Xun thought about it, took out half of the pepper lung slices, and sent them to the senior's bowl.
"It's still you kid on the road!"
The old beard grinned, his two eyebrows bloomed, and his beard shook and shook.
"The bone eaters only move in the early hours of the morning, which is the favorite food of the birds!"
Anxun is clear.
After breakfast, the dishes and chopsticks cleaned up by themselves.
It was a long time before a young servant came to urge.
Lao Hu inked and queued up slowly to the end.
He whispered: "Don't be reckless, boy, remember to lean back when something happens." ”
Anxun frowned.
The old servant obviously knew something, but no matter how much he asked, he couldn't pry his mouth open.
"Hurry up!"
Today's servants of the Lu family seem to be much more vicious than yesterday, and they still carry thorn whips in their hands.
Whoever walks slowly, just follow the back.
The thorns pierced into the skin, a bloody patch.
A rough man wanted to resist, but the young man of the Lu family on the side shot directly and cut off his waist with a sword.
The two halves of the body struggled on the ground, and the screams made people's hearts tremble.
The station was unusually dull.
The rough man died, and the smell of blood irritated the nerves of the handymen.
No one spoke.
Senior Brother Zhang Yi signaled something to him at the end of the crowd.
Very anxious.
"What are you looking at, get up there!"
An Xun was whipped and the stinging pain went straight to his waist and abdomen.
He took a cold breath, didn't speak, and climbed the folding ladder.
"Let's go!"
Under the scorching sun, the hunting party headed all the way to the northeast without stopping.
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Today's hunt seems to be no different from yesterday's.
The location was changed to the Gobi.
Seven-tailed poisonous scorpions, sand pond tigers, phantom rats.
Under the claws of the birds, they all became lambs to the slaughter.
It is still peeled and the meat is taken.
The food at noon was better than yesterday.
And enough is enough.
Lao Hu eats a lot.
also took advantage of no one to pay attention and stuffed a large piece of meat into his arms.
Seeing this, An Xun also ate a lot, and while he was going to serve the meal, he leaked a large piece of beef on the bamboo bed.
Then quickly cover it with the cotton clothes you wore earlier.
The other seven or eight handymen buried their heads in eating, and no one noticed anything unusual.
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The scorching sun in the afternoon is scorching, and sweat can be dried in a few moments.
The piece of meat had been flattened by Lao Hu and tied to the inner layer of the linen with a belt.
There was no difference on the outside.
Anxun also learned to bring this piece of meat.
The old servant grinned, as if he were smiling.
Got on the back of the bird again, this time the journey was unusually slow.
Lao Hu tapped An Xun's back and drew a circle with his fingers.
What does that mean?
An Xun glanced around and didn't feel anything wrong.
The old fellow sighed, lay down to sleep, and ignored him.
The cold wind was raging, and Qingluan's flight path was very rough.
Rounded several big bends.
Anxun understands that the brute beasts they can't afford to provoke are bypassed.
If there are birds on the road that don't have long eyes, they will also be directly killed by the strong man without delaying for a minute.
It wasn't until he got off the back of the bird that An Xun understood what Lao Hu was talking about.
Only then did he realize that there was no bamboo basket on the bird's back, and there was no trace of the short knife that had been distributed.
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The destination is a low valley.
It is surrounded by flat land, and the mouth of the valley faces a rainforest.
There is a huge lair in the middle of the valley.
Countless ants the size of calves are shuttling.
The mother nest of the six-winged crystal ant!
As early as the first day, Lao Hu inadvertently talked about this kind of ant.
The six-winged crystal ant is a social creature that usually consists of a single queen, dozens of guards, and an explosive number of worker ants.
Adult worker ants have the strength to refine their skin.
The ant guards range from bone refining to dirty refining periods, and most of the adult ant queens are comparable to the perfection of their strength.
Even more strengthened horizontally.
It's no wonder that hunting parties don't issue short knives to the handymen.
This kind of thick iron can't break the shell of the crystal ant at all.
Their task is to bring out the worker ants.
Already smart people have guessed everything, and the group of servants is a little commotional.
An Xun glanced around, and instantly lost his mind.
The members of the hunting party had fenced off the servants.
The only gap is the mouth of the valley.
A servant tried to escape, and was directly cut off by a knife.
Anxun has no idea of running away.
This is a wilderness, without the Luan Bird of the Lu family, where can it run?
He tried to hide himself in the middle of the crowd to avoid being killed by mistake.
The strong man of the Lu family walked in front of the frightened servant.
Lao Hu introduced that this is the elder of the Lu family, Lu Chengzhi.
Lu Chengzhi beckoned back, and a servant hugged a package.
Inside are more than a hundred long knives.
The edge of the knife is blunt, only the tip of the knife is open.
His voice was sharp.
"One long knife for one person!"
"Lure the worker ants out!"
"As long as we hold on until we capture the nest of the six-winged crystal ant, all the people who survive, ten taels of silver, ten catties of brute meat!"
Except for the more than twenty sturdy men who came to the hunting party through the vouchers, the others were all victims around Split Zhao City.
They have long been homeless.
Hearing the reward Lu Chengzhi said, many people's eyes lit up.
It's just that they are hesitating.