Chapter 17: The Man in the Demon Path
Xu Tianhai walked out of the courtyard and came to the street to check what was going on.
Next, he saw a lot of patrolling soldiers rushing out of all directions.
These patrol soldiers, who are usually responsible for protecting the security of the Xu family's cottage, are now beating gongs and drums to tell the nearby Xu family.
"Ladies and gentlemen, now there is a person in the Demon Dao who has attacked our cottage, and that person in the Demon Dao has injured many elders, and the other party has fled to the mountain in front. The elder said that they had also injured the person in the Demon Dao, and the other party would definitely not be able to escape far! Everyone, the old and weak, the women and children should stay at home, and the younger ones should make all kinds of preparations, and then go into the mountains with us to find the person in the Demon Dao! Everyone must be very cautious, you are facing a real person in the Demon Dao, you must not fall for any conspiracy and tricks of the person in the Demon Dao, you must not have any contact with the person in the Demon Dao, once you find his trace, immediately release signal flares!"
Then the mountain patrol soldiers sent a signal flare to the people present, telling them to follow them to the high mountain in front of them to find the demon cultist.
After Xu Tianhai heard this, his brows furrowed slightly, and he couldn't understand why someone from the Demon Dao entered the Xu family's cottage to make trouble.
He felt that the Xu family cottage was just a poor ghost cottage without many resources.
It stands to reason that those people in the Demon Dao are unlikely to be able to look down on such a copycat.
After a while, he saw eight teams formed in front of him.
He found that there were about fifty people in each team, and when the patrol soldiers thought that they had enough people, they led the Xu family towards a high mountain in front of them, and headed in different directions.
"Everyone run, everyone should run fast, and everyone should pay attention to the situation around us, the person in the demon path is likely to be lurking in the woods. In short, everyone must keep their eyes open and carefully observe the situation around them!"
One of the patrol squad leaders in charge of leading the team shouted loudly.
At the same time, there are also many low-level wolfdogs in the team, and these wolfdogs are very good at smelling blood in the air.
As a disciple of the Xu family, Xu Tianhai didn't want to violate the rules set by the ancestors of the Xu family.
The ancestors of the Xu family clearly stipulated that once the entire Xu family cottage sounded the bell and drum of the enemy attack, anyone who was in the Xu family cottage and could fight the Xu family must come out to meet the enemy, and only some old, weak, sick and children were allowed to be left in the Xu family cottage.
Every household in the Xu family cottage will prepare some spears, long swords, long bows and long arrows for defense, so every Xu family member who comes out now is carrying long spears, long swords, long bows and long arrows up the mountain to find the people in the demon path.
Those who do not actively cooperate with the Xu family's ancestors will be punished very severely.
Xu Tianhai followed behind a patrol leader, his brows furrowed, he was thinking about whether this would be a conspiracy by Xu Yifan and Wang Lili.
"Did they deliberately create such an incident so that I could disappear normally in the future?"
Thinking of this, Xu Tianhai raised his vigilance and only moved forward with a large number of people.
After a while, the wolfhound of his team smelled blood, and the wolfhound immediately became very excited, and rushed towards a dense forest in front of him with everyone.
Xu Tianhai was in the middle of the team, he didn't rush to the front, nor did he follow the back of the team.
The rest of the team was immediately on high alert, knowing that there might be someone in the Demon Path ahead.
How powerful the people in the demon path in front of them were, they couldn't predict.
They could only pray that the people in the demon path in front of them were seriously injured, as their elders had said, or they feared that they would be wiped out.
The team leader immediately let the two wolf dogs rush over, and the two wolf dogs rushed towards the dense forest in front of them as fast as lightning.
However, the next moment, everyone heard a rapid sound of breaking the air from the dense forest in front of them, and they could tell that it was the sound of crossbow arrows.
Then they heard several terrible howls from the wolfdogs.
"Everyone, be careful! There's an ambush ahead!"
The squad leader immediately shouted loudly, so that everyone in the team could hear him.
The squad leader knew that he was shouting so loudly, and he would definitely alarm the people in the demon path hiding in front of him.
But he thought that the terrible screams of the two wolf dogs in front of him at this time were enough to alarm the people in the demon path hiding in front, and he guessed that the other party was most likely hiding in front.
But he didn't dare to conclude that in case, the two wolf dogs in front of him had just fallen into the trap set up by the people in the Demon Dao here.
The team leader knew that the next thing he had to do was to investigate whether the crossbow arrows in front of him were sent by the people in the demon path or from the traps.
As a result, the squad leader did not immediately release the flare.
Xu Tianhai took a deep breath, and he hurriedly used his divine sense to release his senses, carefully probing every move in the dense forest in front of him.
At this time, there was no one in the Xu family disciples around him who could use their divine sense to probe like him, they could only rely on opening their eyes wide, pricking up their ears at the same time, and carefully listening to the movements in front of them to determine whether there was an enemy in front of them.
After a while, he spotted two figures lurking in a dense forest in front of him.
"There's someone up there! and it's two!"
Xu Tianhai frowned, he wondered if the two figures lurking in front of him were killers sent by Xu Yifan and Wang Lili, or if they were themselves at all.
His eyes flickered, and for a moment, he couldn't make up his mind.
He saw the squad leader in front of him continue to release a wolfdog, and let the wolfdog rush towards the dense forest in front.
He judged that the squad leader was trying to see if it was a trap in front of him, or if an enemy had used a trap on the wolfhound.
Xu Tianhai exhaled a breath of turbidity, and hurriedly went to investigate every move in the dense forest in front of him.
After a while, he found some crossbow bolt traps in the dense forest ahead.
As soon as a creature touches the mechanism that fires the arrows, the bolts will immediately shoot at that creature.
This time, the wolfhound released by the squad leader continued to be wiped out by the crossbow bolt mechanism.
The squad leader didn't hesitate any longer, and hurriedly released a signal flare into the sky.
At this time, Xu Tianhai was staring at the two figures, and he noticed that the two figures were slowly crawling towards the rest of the dense forest at this time.
This time, he could see the faces of the two figures clearly.
"Not them!"
However, to Xu Tianhai's surprise, he found that the two people were not Xu Yifan and Wang Lili, but a middle-aged man with a scar on his face and a little girl about eleven or twelve years old.
"Who are they, and why are they here?"
Xu Tianhai was puzzled.