Dugu Zhishui picked up the fruit on the ground, looked at the pleasing red fruit in his hand, and suddenly remembered a scene on the road.

The hunters in the team are all veterans who often wander in the mountains, and they have long lost count of how much demon beast blood they have on their hands. Dugu Zhishui admits that he is not a cold-blooded and ruthless person, he learned to kill in that illusion, but he has never been a person who loves to kill. Therefore, whether it is for monsters or people, he always has his greatest compassion. As long as he doesn't provoke him, he never touches the cubs of the demon beast, this is the principle he has set for himself as a hunter. However, just because he is willing to do so does not mean that others will do the same.

For the people in the hunter's trade, monsters are equal to money, and as for their lives, they are worthless.

On the way here, the team encountered a litter of monster cubs. It was a litter of silver moon wolf cubs, with pure white fur, a chubby little body, and blue eyes, which looked extremely cute.

At first, the hunters did not find this litter of wolf cubs, when the team passed by a bush, an adult female silver moon wolf suddenly attacked, this hunter team of the lineup can be called luxurious, how big a wave can a silver moon wolf in the realm of martial arts set off? No accident this silver moon wolf has only one way to die, but this silver moon wolf has obviously been fatally injured at that time, but out of nowhere burst out of the strong vitality, it still keeps struggling to crawl forward. The hunters were so excited that instead of killing the silver moon wolf at once, the hunters watched the show with great interest.

At that time, Dugu Zhishui was very strange, the demon beast has a more acute perception of danger than humans, although the silver moon wolf is not very intelligent, but it is enough for it to take the initiative to avoid when encountering a strong enemy, such a powerful hunter team, it should not take the initiative to attack. After all, the team was full of experienced hunters, and it was not long before someone noticed the problem, and everyone knew that it must be guarding something, so a nest of wolf cubs was soon discovered in a small mound nearby.

In normal times, the hunters will definitely bring these little cubs back to the city to sell, and many officials and lords in the city like to raise demon beasts, especially this kind of demon beasts with combat effectiveness. However, this mission is special, and the captain of the hunter does not allow them to make any extraneous branches, and it is easy to attract attacks from other silver moon wolves with their wolf cubs. Dugu Zhishui thought that they would let the litter of wolf cubs go, but they still couldn't survive without their mother. However, what he didn't expect was that when the captain of the hunter forbade the wolf cubs to be carried, the hunter who first discovered the wolf den actually smiled and smashed the wolf cubs into flesh one by one in front of the she-wolf who was not yet dead, and the broken young bones and flesh were scattered all over the ground, staining the flat ground in front of the she-wolf into a red and white.

The she-wolf's eyes widened, and she wanted to scream but could not make any sound, and the blood kept flowing from her mouth, and she saw that her chest rose and fell less and less, and finally stopped. Until death, its eyes were fixed on the puddle of bone blood in front of it. From the beginning to the end, the other hunters watched coldly, and a few even pointed to the ground with minced meat and laughed, in their eyes, this situation could not be more common. Dugu Zhishui wanted to stop it, but he didn't do anything in the end, and he only felt cold all over his body.

Hunters are at the lowest level of cultivators, and those cultivators who are attached to the clan sect are reluctant to look at them directly. In the world of cultivators, hunters can only bully demon beasts that are weaker than themselves. As a result, the hunter class, accustomed to the oppression of other cultivators, often used the torture and killing of monsters as a perverted way to vent. They take pleasure in it and indulge in it.

This scene, Dugu Zhishui has heard of it, but it is the first time he has seen it with his own eyes. Before that, he had always thought that hunters were just a legend to torture and kill monsters for fun, and he had always thought that hunters hunted monsters only for the purpose of survival and development. Demon beasts kill for survival, but what about people? Every time I think of this, Dugu Zhishui doesn't want to think about it anymore.

"What's wrong with you?" Gu Boqing couldn't help but feel strange when he saw Dugu Zhishui staring blankly at the vermilion fruit in his hand.

"Huh?" Coming back to his senses, Dugu Zhishui put away the fruit and smiled slightly, "It's okay, I've been here long enough, it's time to go." ”

Gu Boqing said calmly: "You don't plan to earn a bounty?"

The atmosphere seemed to freeze for a moment.

Dugu Zhishui smiled: "You really want me to stay and earn this bounty?"

"I don't want to. ”

Dugu Zhishui was puzzled and asked, "What's the solution?"

Gu Boqing replied seriously: "You are very strong, I don't want to be your enemy." But if you still want to earn a bounty, I can give you double the price of them, and you can help me. ”

Dugu stopped laughing, shook his head and said: "If it is placed in normal times, naturally whoever gives more money will help whoever is there." It's just that there may be two of my friends in that team, so I can't promise you this time. ”

"Well, it's a blessing that you can stop, it's me who is greedy. Gu Boqing leaned over Dugu Zhishui, "Take advantage of the darkness, don't illuminate, and walk all the way to get out of the fog." When I've settled the matter here, I'll thank you again if I have a chance to see you again. ”

Dugu Zhishui sighed in his heart, he glanced at the little flower fox squatting on the ground, and said, "Why do you have to clash head-on with those people, since you know that they are coming, why don't you leave early with the foxes?"

"This is my home, and I will never allow anyone to trample on this land. Gu Boqing's expression was firm, "How long can you hide?" I don't want to keep fighting with them, this matter will have to be settled after all." ”

Dugu Zhishui nodded and got up to say goodbye. Gu Boqing watched his figure disappear in front of the door, only to hear a whisper floating softly.

"They have about fifteen martial artists, and they have brought a formation called Tianluo Earth Net, which is said to be able to trap Martial Zun, but according to my speculation, with their strength, they can trap at most one Martial Sect. Also, be careful of the leading Li family, he is a martial arts ......"

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In the dark mist, Dugu Zhishui walked silently. It didn't take long for his eyes to suddenly light up, and he habitually raised his hand to cover his eyes, and found that he had come out of the fog. The bright moonlight illuminated a clearing in front of him, and the sparse trees in the distance cast shadows like eerie claws sticking out from the ground. Behind him was a pitch-black darkness, light and darkness formed a sharp dividing line, and the light that crossed the line was swallowed up, and there was not a shadow of light in sight. Dugu Zhishui stood on this dividing line, and he settled down and found that he had not been here. He remembered that his luggage was still with the hunters, so he looked for directions and decided to take a look on the same hillside where he had returned.

On the top of the hill, Ah Yan and Sun Xiaofeng sat around a bonfire, silently chewing dry food. There were a lot of horses tied around, but there were few people in the camp. There was another bonfire a little far away from Ah Yan, and two people were whispering and not knowing what to talk about. The camp was very quiet, and the footsteps of Dugu Zhishui were particularly loud, attracting the eyes of the four people in the camp.

Dugu Zhishui first saw Ah Yan and Sun Xiaofeng, and then glanced at the camp and found that there were only four people left. Among the other two, there was a square-faced man staring at him expressionlessly. Dugu Zhishui sneered, and threw a provocative look at the square-faced man, the square-faced man suddenly turned pale, and touched the saber on the side, and the other person saw that the situation was not good, and stopped the square-faced man. Dugu Zhishui ignored the anger of the square-faced man, and he walked slowly to his horse, and found that the diamond-shaped dart was gone.

Seeing him check his belongings, Ah Yan reminded, "When the two of us came back, the team had already entered with the net. ”

Dugu Zhishui nodded, walked over to her and sat down, and asked, "How did you guys get out?"

"We lost our lead when you went after the raider, and we didn't get out of the woods for a long time. Ah Yan paused and continued: "Later, when it got dark, I was afraid that it would be too dangerous to walk at night, so the two of us prepared to stay where we were and rest. ”

"And then?"

Sun Xiaofeng took over the conversation and said, "Then I suddenly remembered that I had heard someone tell a legend. There is a mysterious misty forest in this deep mountain, as soon as someone walks into the forest, it will inexplicably start to fog, and people surrounded by fog will lose their way and keep turning in circles in the forest. It is only at night that it is possible to get out by chance, and the place where you go out must not be the place where you originally entered. So Ah Yan and I started to walk forward in the dark with the mentality of giving it a try, but we didn't expect that we really walked out after walking for half an hour. ”

Dugu Zhishui nodded and said, "Me too." Then he continued, "How long have they been in?"

"They had just left when we came back, and they must have been gone for about half an hour. Ah Yan said.

Although he had already received some information about the Misty Forest from Zeng Kui, when Han Li led people in, he found that he still underestimated this mist. According to the information given by Zeng Kui, he brought people to the small hillside, which should be directly opposite the entrance of Qingqiu Mountain, and he could lead people straight into Qingqiu Mountain as soon as it was dark. He was not worried that Zeng Kui would deceive them, the Li family had already sent someone to closely monitor Zeng Kui's family, if he dared to lie, then he would face a situation where life was worse than death.

However, Han Li still forgot an important question, could Gu Boqing not have imagined such a simple way to enter the mountain? Along the way, the team had already encountered several flying arrows and traps. Ordinary arrows and traps would not have threatened this team of experienced hunters, but since they could not be illuminated at this time, and the fog blocked their perceptions, those traps that caught them off guard in the darkness were truly a weapon of life.

Qingqiu Mountain is still unknown, and two people have been lost in the team, and three more are seriously injured, and several are slightly injured. In particular, one of his attendants was shot in the left chest by a crossbow arrow and almost killed him on the spot, which made Han Li feel even more furious. As a powerful cultivator in the realm of the Martial Sect, how could he have suffered such grievances! In a fit of anger, he ordered someone to light a torch and clapped his hands angrily at the tree in front of him, wanting to directly destroy the tree, he wanted to open up a path! However, what made him feel incredible was that as soon as his palm fell, a faint brilliance quickly flashed on the surface of the forest, and the big tree did not move at all, and it did not even leave a handprint on the surface.

Han Li's pupils shrank, realizing that the trees in this forest had been protected, and that this simplest and most direct path had become a deadly path. In desperation, Han Li decided to take a detour, and the team circled around the mist with torches, and when they were sure that there were no traps left, they extinguished the torches again.

The team walked out from the end of the misty forest, and Han Li, with a gloomy face, ordered someone to leave the seriously wounded in place, and ordered another person to guard them, and then disappeared into the darkness again.

At last, when they came to the end, they touched the huge stone wall, and the team lit torches and went along the stone wall, and after a long time they found the gap, which was the road to the valley. At this point, there were only eight people left in the group.