The black mist was shrouded, the life withered, the color of the earth was as black as thick ink, and sometimes there was a long and mournful howl...... This is the Soul Abyss, not a Jedi for any living beings to inhabit.

A group of monks wrapped in shiny black cloth flew to a stop a kilometer before the fog, their clothes emitting a faint aura to ward off the aura of the place.

The leader of the big man carried a cage made of black stone, and inside was a little boy of six or seven years old, wearing clothes full of patches, and was wrapping his body tightly in a black leather robe, and his little face was blue from the cold.

"What's the price of today's ghosts?"

"Three-point soul stone!"

"Damn! It's down again! It's not letting us live, and we'll barely get enough food and clothing for a few days of hard work, and I'll put my life into it if I'm not careful!"

"Stop complaining!

The big man at the head looked at the boy in the cage and said casually: "From ten minutes, every additional minute after that, add an extra soul stone!"

There was no warmth in his tone, as if it was a dead thing trapped in the cage.

The boy nodded, panting, "If it's me...... I didn't make it, ahem, please give my sister the soul stone!"

"Yes!"

The boy smiled happily, as if he had solved a big problem, clumsily wrapped his body in a black robe, and said, "I'm ready!"

The big man grabbed the chain at the top of the cage and lifted the cage up.

"Whew, whew!"

The big man threw the cage into the air, as if he was throwing a lasso, and the boy couldn't care about getting warmer, and his hands clung to the railing.

"Whoosh!

The cage was thrown into the black mist by the big man, and there was a muffled sound.

Next, all the monks were ready to fight.

"They're coming!They're coming!Pull me back!!"

The boy's voice came from the mist, mixed with some low roars, and it was clear that there was something else in the mist.

Hearing the cry for help, the big man did not move, and the boy's voice continued: "Save me! Ah!! I'm hurt! Please! Get me out!"

The big man still didn't move, and the other monk whispered, "Boss, it's almost there!"

"What's the hurry! Bait is rare, of course, you have to make the best use of it. ”

The big man grinned, and the monk beside him couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, so he could only pray silently for the boy.

The boy's voice faded until silence remained.

"Alright! ready to shoot!"

"Yes!"

The big man sank his waist and tucked his shoulders, and was about to pull back the cage and draw out the things in the fog, only to feel a gust of wind blowing, which made him shiver.

"Did anything pass just now?"

"Boss, are you dazzled! We ......"

"Click!"

There was a crisp sound in the mist, and before the monks could figure out where the sound was coming from, a young man was already standing in front of them.

The young man held the boy in his hand, who had long since lost consciousness, and said loudly, "What are you doing?

"Who are you, put that little cub down for me, and don't delay our hunting!"

"Hunting, you want to catch ghosts?"

The big man raised his thumb, pointed at himself, and said proudly: "We are soul hunters, of course we have to hunt ghosts!"

"Why?"

"Collecting ghosts is the order of the four soul kings, and we, as members of the soul clan, naturally have to respond to the call!"

"Then you can't use children as bait, right?"

"Don't talk nonsense! This is the periphery of the Soul Abyss, and it's very dangerous! If you don't want to die, get out of here! Don't delay us from getting rich!"

"Oh, so the ghosts are for sale!"

"So what? We soul hunters are working for the Soul King, you ......"

"Boss, look at that little cub!"

Dahan looked at the boy in the young man's arms and found that the other party was holding a shiny spar in his hand, and the boy's face was gradually recovering.

"Soul Crystal !!"

Dahan looked at the soul crystal in the boy's hand, and there was a greedy look in his eyes.

"Give me this little cub, and hand over the soul crystal in his hand too!"

The young man didn't say anything, handed the boy to the other party, and the soul crystal was not taken back, the big man grabbed the soul crystal, put it in his hand and rubbed it repeatedly, seeing that his children might not be so kind.

"Count yourself as acquaintances! Now, hand over all the soul crystals on your body!"

Dahan didn't believe that this young man only had a soul crystal on his body, and the other monks slowly surrounded the young man, and unless the other party fled into the black mist, there was no possibility of escaping.

"I won't give soul crystals, but I can help you attract some ghosts to settle the bill, what do you think?"

"Oh, is that true?"

The big man was a little moved, the younger the soul the more attractive it was to the ghost, and the young man looked like he was only about twenty years old, so it should be no problem as a bait.

"Of course it's true! I'll make you rich!" 120

"Don't brag! Three wild ghosts can only exchange one soul stone and make a fortune!

The young man smiled and said, "Let's talk about it first, if I don't draw out, you can take as much as you want!"

"Of course! Don't underestimate us!"

"Okay!

Lin Xiuqi smiled slightly, and said loudly: "Let's make a appearance!

He waved lightly, and an earth-shattering whistling sound came out of the black mist, and tens of thousands of wild ghosts appeared, and in the blink of an eye, they had surrounded this group of soul hunters.

"Old, old, boss! what are we going to do!"

"First, help me up first!"

“......”

Dahan looked at the young man with a calm expression and a smile in front of the black fog, where he still didn't understand the reason, all this was a ghost made by this soul, and it was really kicked to the iron plate.

"Seniors, we have no eyes, please be merciful and let us go once!"

Dahan was the first to kneel on the ground, and the other soul hunters bowed one after another, begging for mercy.

"Oh, that little boy just now pleaded like this, you don't seem to have any intention of saving!"

"This ...... He is a soul bait, and he has already made an agreement with us and others in advance, even if he loses his life, we will give the soul stone to his sister!"

Lin Xiuqi looked at these soul hunters, one by one, they only had the cultivation of the Jindan period, the foundation was not strong enough, and there were injuries on their bodies, and there were only three and a half soul stones on the bodies of a group of souls, all of which were poor cultivators.

"Forget it, it's useless to embarrass you!"

Lin Xiuqi waved his hand, and the ghost with fangs and claws neatly retreated into the black mist, as if nothing had happened.

"Thank you, seniors! Thank you, seniors!"

The souls kept kowtowing, and Lin Xiuqi said loudly: "You go back and call more soul hunters, wait here, in the next period of time, there should be ghosts escaping from the black mist, you can catch them, but you can't use soul bait in the future, do you hear?"

"Seniors, the ghost is hiding in the black mist, our strength is low and we can't enter, and there is no way to do it, and ...... Our soul bait is not chosen randomly, this little guy can't live for a week even if he doesn't make soul bait, and he can get a little soul stone to give his sister a chance to live if he does soul bait, who doesn't want to survive!"

Lin Xiuqi couldn't help but be stunned, he could see that the other party was not lying, but he was very strange why this was happening.

"You ...... Aren't you selling ghosts? Can't you support your family?"

This sentence seemed to ask the sad part of the souls, and a thin man said helplessly: "Senior! You are a strong man who is high above, and you don't understand the sufferings of the people! The soul king collects ghosts and expands the army, but all the little ones with good qualifications have been taken away, leaving only a group of us with weak strength! Here are poor mountains and bad waters, and there is no hope of farming, so we can only be soul hunters, exchange ghost souls for soul stones, and exchange soul stones for food, but the income is limited, only enough for food." ”

Another man with a yellow face and thin muscles said: "Soul hunters are very dangerous, they are often injured, and if one accidentally even takes his life, then the whole family can only wait for death!"

He pointed to the boy in the big man's arms and said, "This little guy is the child of the soul hunter, his parents have fallen, and only he and his sister are left, they are too young to hunt souls, but they also need to eat, so they can only be soul bait!"

"Don't the Soul Kings have a relief policy?"

"Soul King, where do they know this, they only know about expanding the army, and they don't care about the rest, saying that this is a special period, and they must be prepared to suffer, and the result is that only we are suffering!"

"Why don't you get out of here?"

"Senior, with our strength, it is impossible to cross a vast area to travel to a city, and we will definitely starve to death halfway!"

Lin Xiuqi nodded, the cities of the Soul Clan are far apart, and there is no teleportation formation, with the speed of these Jindan monks, I am afraid it will take a long time, in addition, they can say that they can open the valley, and their relatives may not be able to hold it out.

"Go and call your companions, get ready to catch the ghosts!"

"Senior, you're a soul whisperer!"

"Hmm!"

"You're going to enter the soul abyss alone, it's too dangerous, isn't it?"

"You don't have to worry about this, remember! Don't enter the soul abyss, and don't use soul bait, I may make a big move after I go in, so you can pick the soul that slipped through the net and shoot!"

"Yes!"

Lin Xiuqi thought that saving a boy and scaring these guys by the way might be able to stop some bad practices, but he didn't expect the situation to be like this.

Who isn't here to survive?

He suddenly remembered that many years ago when he was in the mortal world, he was still a rookie in his career, and a colleague in his early forties was overworked and died suddenly.

At the memorial service, the wives and daughters of their colleagues wept silently, and everyone felt that it was not worth working hard, and they all thought that no matter what happened, they would not be able to force themselves to be like that.

After a while, when the department manager mentioned the situation of the colleague, everyone knew what was going on.

My colleague's wife has a very low income, the child is less than two years old, and the family lives in a big city like Modu, and it is not easy to balance work and life, but I suddenly found out that my wife was pregnant with a second child.

Originally, these were nothing, although the young couple had a tight life, they could barely turn around, but the colleague's father was a gambler, and after borrowing usury and online loans, who would pay back the money? Only he, as a son, could pay it back.

The father-in-law and mother-in-law were also not worried, clamoring all day long to move into the city, complaining about the son-in-law's incompetence when there was nothing to do, and all the pressure was finally transferred to the son-in-law.

As an ordinary office worker, an ordinary forty-year-old man, what way can he make money?

He can only work hard, for overtime pay, tirelessly, every day when he returns home is already the next day, and he has to get up to start a new day's work after sleeping for less than three hours.

Finally, in this almost desperate state, the colleague collapsed.

Lin Xiuqi remembers very well that once at a drinking party, his colleague drank too much, hugged him who had just joined the company, and said earnestly: "Xiaolin! Make more money while you are young! Without an economic foundation, everything is in vain! Also, when looking for a partner, remember to take a good look at each other's parents, don't be a group of vampires!"

At that time, colleagues only complained occasionally, but it was those who showed up in the whining that slowly drained him.

It's all about life, what a poignant sentence.

These soul hunters, these soul clans living near the soul abyss, why don't they repeatedly lower the bottom line of being souls in order to survive!

Lin Xiuqi's mood is not very good, but at least now he has a solution, as long as he helps the soul clan survive the catastrophe in three years, all this may change.

I hope so!