Chapter 145: The Best of Both Worlds
The county seat of Ansong is very close to Changxingpai, only less than fifty miles.
It can basically be regarded as the front door of the Changxing faction, thanks to this, Ansong County has been very stable in the past few years, and there is basically no disaster.
It's going very well.
In normal times, people would often go in and out of the city gates, going from place to place.
But now the gates of the city are deserted.
There were only two or three soldiers standing defending the city, and there were very few even ordinary pedestrians.
Even though it was still summer, they felt the slightest chill.
If it's too "cold", it's really cold.
Because there were too few people, and the people who came in and out were basically familiar faces, the soldiers defending the city became more and more perfunctory.
Most of the time, at most, it is to look at it twice, judge the situation, and don't care about anything else.
Squeak, squeak!
The sound of the wheels spinning hard came, but it was an old man driving a donkey cart, pulling a cart of firewood and haystacks, driving slowly, he seemed to have a good relationship with the soldiers guarding the city, and when he passed by, he only laughed a few words, and then continued to enter the city.
Didn't really check.
The old man drove the donkey cart, walked on the streets of the city, turned left and right, passed one road after another, and finally came to his own backyard, and after stopping the donkey cart, he went back to the house to drink water.
As he walked, he muttered, puzzled: "Why is this firewood so heavy today, is it because there is too much water in it?" It seems that it will take a few more days to dry before it can be taken out and sold. β
When the old man left the backyard, the cart full of firewood and haystacks suddenly moved, and a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy came out from under the car.
It was Zhou Heng.
In order to avoid startling the snake, he did not swagger in directly, but chose a relatively secretive way to sneak in secretly.
After all, there are too few people coming in and out of Ansong County now, and a stranger like him, who has never been here, can easily be recognized once he shows up.
In this case, until the source of the incident is really found, it will be a state of darkness and darkness, which is very unfavorable.
Besides, Si Ming didn't know where he was at this time.
If it was because of the grass and the snake, which led to the death of Si Ming, then Zhou Heng would be very upset.
And you won't get any additional rewards that way.
Zhou Heng acted silently, found a remote place in this backyard that was not easy to find, and hid temporarily.
"It's a hell of a place. His brow furrowed, he already knew what the problem was.
It's just that there are ghosts entrenched here!
ββThanks to the addition of spiritual attributes and the warmth of innate skills, Zhou Heng's divine soul is already very powerful, and his ability to perceive ghost qi has naturally become much stronger than before.
Therefore, as soon as he calmed down and concentrated, he felt the powerful and incomparable ghost aura entrenched in this Ansong County.
Subsequently, he began to think about the situation of the disappearance of people in Ansong County and Lufeng County.
The mission information distributed by the Zhou Tian Patrol Division included introductions to Ansong County and Lufeng County.
Since more than a month ago, people in Ansong County have been disappearing out of thin air, and there is no trace of them, and they cannot be found in any case.
And it's silent, there's no movement at all.
Many people wake up in the morning to find that their husbands, wives, children, parents, etc. are gone.
The people here reported to the officials, but the result was that several arresters died, and the situation was not alleviated in any way, but worsened, and people disappeared more and faster.
At this point, the county lord had no choice but to report upwards and ask Wu Zongshan, the lord of Huangtong Mansion, to deal with the matter.
In the end, it was Wu Zongshan who informed the Zhou Tian Patrol Division of the matter of Ansong County.
Soon after, news came that something similar to Ansong County had happened in Lufeng County.
As a result, the Zhou Tian Patrol Division sent a seven-rank martial artist codenamed "Si Ming" to investigate here.
But in the past half a month, I haven't seen Si Ming again.
She didn't leave the city, she should still be in Ansong County, but I don't know if she was hiding or being arrested.
After thinking about it, Zhou Heng decided to find Si Ming first.
After Si Ming is rescued and settled, he will investigate the ghost things in depth, so as to avoid Si Ming being hijacked by ghosts and throwing rats on his side.
At the same time, if you can find Si Ming, you can also understand the situation of the ghosts here in more detail.
Of course, in the process of finding people, it is also possible to investigate the traces of ghosts, and the two do not conflict.
It's just that at the beginning, Zhou Heng planned to focus on saving people first.
"However, if you want to save people, you must first find the whereabouts of Si Ming. Zhou Heng frowned slightly, he had no clue about this now, and if he blindly searched for it like this, he would probably directly expose his whereabouts.
"Well, you really should add a communication function to the masks, as well as a function to confirm the positioning of each other, so that it will be much easier to find each other. β
Unfortunately, this can only be imagined.
Right now, the Zhou Tian Patrol Division can't even transmit information from the mask to the star map, let alone communicate in real time.
"By the way, there is a way!" Zhou Heng had a flash of inspiration, suddenly laughed, and said secretly: "Since it is inconvenient to deliberately find it, then I can use the 'accidental' method to find it." β
He took out the talisman seal that he had kept close to him to block yang qi and put it into the Qiankun Secret Bag that the Pure Yang Palace was equipped with for the true disciples.
In this way, the aura of his pure yang body could no longer be suppressed.
If Si Ming is injured by a ghost and it is difficult to leave quickly, she carries ghost energy on her body and follows the law of yin and yang aggregation, even if Zhou Heng is just hanging out, he may meet her.
If she wasn't hurt by the ghost, it meant that she hadn't encountered the ghost yet, or the ghost here didn't have the ability to hurt him, even if she was exposed, it wouldn't hurt her.
This approach can be said to have the best of both worlds.
"If you can stumble upon a ghost's lair, it's even easier. The corners of Zhou Heng's mouth curled slightly, and he said secretly: "Then you can go straight to the Yellow Dragon and destroy the ghosts here in one fell swoop." β
Although his current strength is only almost equivalent to the top ten on the human list, he is invincible in the face of sixth-grade level ghosts, but this is only the level of his own strength.
There's still a bunch of special skill cards that haven't been used up.
The five-colored divine light is still there.
......
At night, the moon is hidden and the stars are scarce.
The north of Ansong County is the most prosperous area, where many deep mansions and courtyards are built, alleys and alleys are intertwined, and of course there are many idle houses.
Chen Yingyu was hiding in a remote firewood house in a compound, she was wearing a mask and a black shirt, and she was using her internal power to urge qi and blood and expel the ghost qi entrenched in her body.
This has been going on for six or seven days.
Fortunately, it was secluded enough and the firewood house was rarely visited, so she was not discovered, otherwise she would have been forced to move to the hiding place, and it would have been a waste of days of hard work.
"Huh......" Chen Yingyu exhaled a breath of turbidity, felt the situation in her body, and was slightly happy, "The ghost qi has been removed a lot, and at most there will be three more days, and you will be able to move normally."
"The situation here must be reported to the organization, there are a large number of ghosts gathered in this small county town, and there is a powerful ghost thing called the 'Great King', which is extremely dangerous!"
She is the star envoy "Si Ming" sent by the Zhou Tian Patrol Division to investigate the situation here.
Originally, Chen Yingyu thought that this place should just be an ordinary ghost thing to harm people, after all, the missing people are some ordinary people, and according to common sense, the ghost thing here should not be strong.
But when she came here and really encountered ghosts, she realized that the entire Ansong County and the adjacent Lufeng County were actually just traps.
It's just to catch the people of the Zhou Tian Patrol Division!
The people in these two counties are not the purpose of these ghosts at all, but just bait, what these ghosts really want is the people of the Zhou Tian Patrol Division.
It is precisely because of this that they will only kidnap some ordinary people, but never attack the cultivated warriors, so as to create the illusion that the strength of ghosts is not strong.
Avoid attracting the strong men of the Zhou Tian Patrol Division.
At that time, Chen Yingyu encountered three seven-grade ghost creatures, with strong strength and peculiar abilities, even though her strength was not weak, and she also had the magic skills inherited by the star envoys, but she was still difficult to beat, and she was injured by the ghost qi, and she escaped with all her might.
"I must resume contact with the organization as soon as possible, otherwise the organization will definitely send someone to investigate my whereabouts, but due to incomplete information, I'm afraid I won't send Liupin over.
"However, considering that I am missing, I should send someone stronger than me, maybe it will be the peak of the seventh grade, the powerhouse of the initial intersection of the exterior, but even so, most of them are not the opponents of those ghosts!
"If you come, you will be sent to death......"
Chen Yingyu bit her red lip lightly, feeling remorseful.
In the past three years since I joined the Zhou Tian Patrol Division, every mission has been smooth, and I have gradually become vigilant.
It won't be as unstable as it is now.
"It's useless to think too much, so it's better to seize the time to get rid of the ghost. Chen Yingyu said secretly, and was about to start running her internal qi again, but suddenly her ears moved, and she heard footsteps outside.
Someone wants to come to the firewood house?
Is it a ghost, or a servant of this house?
However, no matter who it is, I can't stay here anymore and must leave immediately.
Chen Yingyu immediately made the decision to leave through the window, but when she was about to move, she suddenly felt that her legs were cold, and she lost her mobility and was motionless.
"Oops, how did the ghost go right to the legs?!" she was shocked.
She had been seriously injured before, and the ghost qi had already invaded the blood veins in her body, and when these ghost qi passed through her legs, it would cause her legs to be unable to move.
Normally, there will be an hour between each time.
It's been exactly an hour since the last time, and she can't move.
"Let's see who it is, if it's just the servant of the owner of the house, maybe there is still a discussion. Chen Yingyu said secretly: "If it is a ghost, it can only damage its foundation and escape." β
Squeak!
It was at this time that the door to the firewood room opened.
What caught Chen Yingyu's eyes was a tall and slender figure, wearing a purple robe, extremely luxurious, and wearing a mask painted with the face of a noble emperor.
Behind this figure was the night sky without stars, but for some reason, the moment he opened the door of the wood room, the clouds that covered the stars and moonlight in the sky drifted away.
So the starlight and the moonlight poured down, shining through the window into the firewood room, and at the same time draped over the masked man, making him full of mystery and dignity.
"Si Ming?" the man chuckled, seeming pleased, "I'm here to save you." β