The town of Swallow Set is really small.

It is said to be a town, but in fact, it is a short street in front of me with a few shops scattered on both sides, and it will be done in a short time.

Crossing the street, there is a winding mountain path up the hill.

Aunt Tian was in good spirits, and along the way, she kept telling the young man about the legends of this swallow mountain, the mysterious Lei Zhenzi Cave, and the magical stories about Liu Xiu, the emperor of the Han Guangwu Dynasty.

It's about that there are very few outsiders visiting here, but today suddenly there are so many strangers, Aunt Tian feels novel, so she chatters endlessly.

However, Aunt Tian is old after all, and she is walking again, and gradually she is walking slower and slower, and gradually falling to the end of the line, but his mouth is still babbling, but it sounds like she is panting.

The young man smiled, and did not urge her. An old woman, who is old, is walking again, so naturally she can't get up quickly.

But there is no other way to think about it, Aunt Tian can't ride a horse. wanted the young boy to get off the horse and walk as well, but he was a little reluctant, not because he was lazy, but mainly because the people they were going to face and the things they had to do next were very important, and he didn't want to waste his physical strength on the road.

It's better to let Aunt Tian slowly follow the back of the team! Anyway, there is only this mountain road up the mountain in front of me, and I am not afraid that I will go the wrong way.

He was not interested in the legends and stories told by Aunt Tian at all, he looked up at the dense and deep woods on both sides of the mountain road, lowered his head, his face was solemn, he didn't know what he was thinking, and he was in a trance.

The other four people behind him also had a calm face, their heads bowed, each with a worried look, and let this Aunt Tian follow the team farther and farther away, still nagging endlessly.

The group walked slowly along the mountain road.

The woods on both sides of the mountain road at your feet suddenly became much wider, and a valley appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

On both sides are the vertical cliffs that look like knife blades, and in the middle of the mountain road where two horses can pass side by side is overgrown with yellow weeds in autumn, and it seems that this place should be inaccessible in normal times.

The young man lifted the reins of his horse and rode into the valley. The valley was empty and silent, only the whistling wind blew past my ears, and it seemed extraordinarily quiet.

The young man was about to lift the horse and move forward, when his face suddenly changed, because he suddenly remembered, why didn't he hear Aunt Tian's nagging voice now?

He turned his head abruptly and asked the four horsemen behind him, "Where is the Tian lady just now?"

Everyone was stunned, looking left and right, but there was no trace of Aunt Tian at all.

Looking at each other, everyone realized that they didn't know when it started, and it had been a long time since they heard Aunt Tian's buzzing voice like a fly.

The scar-faced man thought for a while and said, "Maybe she's an old woman, and she's tired from walking and sitting in the back to rest! ”

The young man nodded in agreement.

The scribe with the beard sighed and said, "I hope so." ”

He suddenly raised his head and sniffed deeply, his complexion changed suddenly, and then he jumped off the horse.

Everyone looked at him in confusion and squatted down, brushed aside the dense yellow weeds on the road, reached out and touched the ground, and when he pressed his hand again, he saw the oily mud on his hands.

He put his hand in front of his nose and sniffed it, his face suddenly turned pale, and he lost his voice: "It's fire oil!"

The faces of the rest of the people also changed, and they could faintly smell the foul smell of fire oil all around them.

The oil on the ground and the dense withered grass all over the ground, once a little spark is seen, the consequences are unimaginable.

The young man's face changed drastically and he shouted

"Quick, rush out of the valley, get out!"

Unfortunately, it was already late.

From the mouth of the valley where they had entered, a puff of black smoke suddenly rose, and then red flames burst out, and in the blink of an eye, the entire valley was filled with scorching flames and black smoke.

The neighing of horses, the screams of men, the crackling of the burning flames in the valley rang out for a long time, along with the howling of the wind.

Not far away, Aunt Tian stood outside the valley, looking at the raging flames and smoke in the valley, shook her head, sighed deeply, turned around and walked back along the way she came.

When Aunt Tian returned to Yanziji Street, in front of her sewing stall, seven or eight people had gathered, all waiting for her to come back.

These people Aunt Tian all know, all of them are old neighbors and acquaintances in the swallow collection for 20 years.

There is Zhang Lao Er, who opened a restaurant, Wang Mazi, who opened a noodle stall, Xu Fatzi, who sold pork, Deng Bo, who sold loose wine in the town, and so on.

And a swarthy and sturdy middle-aged man standing in front of them was the hunter who lived in the mountains in the mouth of Aunt Tian before, Tian Lao Wu.

Aunt Tian quickened her pace, walked straight to Tian Lao Wu, and gave a salute: "Helmsman." ”

Helmsman: Could it be that these people on this swallow set are still not organized in some way?

Tian Lao Wu nodded and asked in a deep voice, "You asked Zhang Lao Er to call us all here to gather, what happened?"

It turned out that before Shi Cai set off, Aunt Tian went to ask Zhang Lao Er not only to help look at the stall, but also to secretly ask him to inform others.

Aunt Tian shook her head and sighed: "It seems that we can't live here anymore." ”

Tian Lao Wu frowned and asked, "What's the matter, is it the right person who came to the door?"

Aunt Tian nodded and said, "Just now when it was almost dusk, five strangers came to the town, riding tall horses and dressed gorgeously, and they seemed to be people from the Jiangnan area. The leader was a young boy, and when he opened his mouth, he asked the old man if there was a crazy middle-aged woman living nearby. ”

Tian Lao Wu frowned when he heard this: "Crazy middle-aged woman, how did you answer?"

Aunt Tian bowed down and said, "The boy brother also mentioned that this middle-aged woman should have a son who has not returned, and when the old man heard it, he expected that they must be coming for the young lady." ”

"So the old man dared to say that the crazy lady was the helmsman's daughter-in-law, and you lived in the mountains behind the town, and then the old man asked Zhang Lao Er to quickly notify everyone to come and gather, and he led the five people to the back mountain valley. ”

Tian Lao Wu's eyebrows raised: "Back Mountain Valley, you led them to the Flame Array?"

Aunt Tian said: "Exactly. Seeing that they were coming from afar, the old man must have come for the young lady, and in order to ensure the safety of the young lady, he had to lead them into the fire array. ”

Tian Lao Wu thought for a while, nodded and said: "You did the right thing, now everyone here has all received the grace of Lei Ye's life, our lives are all given by Lei Ye, and now that Lei Ye is no longer here, no matter what, we must live up to Lei Ye's entrustment, even if we fight for our lives, we must protect Miss's safety." ”

He lowered his head and groaned for a while, sighed and said: "When we came here twenty years ago, we set up this fire array just in case an enemy chased after us. ”

He suddenly raised his head and asked Aunt Tian, "Have these five people ever said where they came from, who are they, and why did they come to find **?"

Aunt Tian shook her head and said: "They have very few words, their tone is very tight, no matter how old people talk along the way, they are silent, I really don't know where they come from." ”

She thought for a moment and said, "But judging by their clothing, they must be from here."

In the Jiangnan area, it is expected that if they are not from the Great Lei Gate, they must be from the Jiangnan Ming family, no matter which side they are, they are not easy to deal with. ”

Tian Lao Wu nodded in agreement, and said: "It seems that the opponent has found here, and we can't stay here any longer, so we will go home tonight to pack up our things, and escort the young lady away early tomorrow morning." ”

Everyone nodded yes.

Tian Lao Wu thought for a while, and then asked Aunt Tian: "If these five people are really sent by the Great Thunder Gate or the Jiangnan Ming family, they must be extremely powerful and extremely difficult to deal with, are you sure that they have all been buried in the fire array?"

Aunt Tian smiled slightly and said, "Please rest assured, the old man was outside the valley and watched the five of them enter the valley, and then saw the fire in the valley with his own eyes, and then left." ”

She turned around and pointed in the direction of the valley behind the mountain, and said, "If you don't believe it, the black smoke in the valley can be clearly seen here!"

Who knew that when she turned around and pointed, her outstretched hand could not be retracted again, because she suddenly saw that the five people in her mouth who should have died in the fire array in the valley behind her were now lined up and striding towards her along the road behind her!

But she saw the fire and smoke billowing in the valley with her own eyes, how could they escape?

Could it be that they are ghosts?

Aunt Tian couldn't help but shudder, and looked at it carefully.

I saw that the five people in front of me were all gray-faced, their faces were black, their beards were burnt yellow, and their clothes were tattered, especially the young man in the lead, who was dressed in spotless white robes, and was burned by the flames at the moment, and there was still scorched smoke.

The five of them all stared at Aunt Tian with an angry and hateful look, and she felt a burst of hair in her heart.

The five of them walked up to Aunt Tian and stopped, and the young man sneered and said, "Thank you, Auntie, the road you brought is really good, and you are almost going to bring us into the palace of Hades." ”

Aunt Tian was a little speechless and speechless.

She couldn't figure out how these five people escaped safely from the fire array?

Tian Lao Wu on the side calmly walked forward a few steps, gave a salute, and said, "A few of them are really good, I didn't expect that they could retreat in this fire array." ”

"Flame Array?" The scribe with the eight-character beard beside the young man frowned, "This is the Flame Array that was famous all over the world back then?"

The young man sneered: "The fire god thunder fear of the fire array is really powerful, if we hadn't found out in time that this eldest lady was gone, and became suspicious, as long as we went a little deeper into the valley, the five of us would definitely be burned to char like those five horses at this moment." ”

He smiled sadly at Aunt Tian and said, "Auntie's kindness in leading the way, we must repay you well." ”

His words were full of murderous intent, and Aunt Tian couldn't help but shudder when she heard it.

Tian Lao Wu asked in a deep voice: "You can retreat like a fire array, are you from the Great Thunder Gate Lei family?"

The eight-bearded scribe laughed and said, "It seems that you have been hiding here for too long, and the news is closed, and it is not very bright! The Great Thunder Gate was in the capital more than a year ago, and their main hall master, Lei Potian, escaped with death, the Great Thunder Gate has fallen, and the Lei family has now been torn apart, how could we be sent by the Lei family?"

Tian Lao Wu's face changed, they have lived in seclusion here for twenty years, and they rarely deal with outsiders, they really don't know these news.

I didn't expect such a big thing to happen in the changes on the rivers and lakes.

can make Lei Potian escape with death, what kind of terrible character should the opponent be?

Tian Lao Wu's face sank and asked, "It's not from the Lei family, so who are you?"

A smile suddenly appeared on the young man's face: "We are all from the Jiangnan Ming family, in the Xia Ming Jade Building!"