Bonfires were soon lit. The mercenaries' hands and feet were also very skillful, and it took not much effort to peel, clean, debone and cut the flesh of a huge mountain tiger, and the tiger meat was cut into pieces, which they wore with thin iron rods and roasted on the campfire support.

I held an iron rod in my hand, and I slowly turned it as I sprinkled the meat with condiments. The condiments are brought by Tang Niu, sprinkled on the tiger meat and smoked by the fire, the oil in the tiger meat continues to drip on the firewood under the bonfire, making a sparkling sound. In the past few days, I have been hungry, although I still have some dried meat in my baggage, but there is not much left, and the taste is not as delicious as tiger meat, so when Tang Niu said that he wanted to eat tiger meat together, I also readily agreed.

It was now completely dark, and the firelight reflected the faces of each of us red, and the mercenaries were quite bold and laughing.

On the side, Tang Niu sprinkled some black and yellow condiments on his tiger meat, turned his head and said: "Brother Chasing Shadow, the tiger meat can be eaten in another tea time, this condiment is bought by us from Dali, and it is most suitable for roasting raw meat, and the roasted meat is fragrant." ”

I looked at the tiger meat on the skewers on my iron rod, probably this condiment is really different, the roasted tiger meat is only golden in color, not a little burnt black. I smiled and said, "Have you ever been to Dali?"

Tang Niu flipped over the tiger meat in his hand and said with a smile: "In our business, we are walking around, running around the rivers and lakes to eat." ”

A lean man on the other side of the bonfire spoke up: "We have not only been to Dali, but we have also been to the Liao Kingdom in the north. He took his tiger meat to his nose and sniffed it, put it back on the bonfire, and said, "However, there are frequent wars in the northern frontier, and we haven't been there a few times, and most of them are running errands along the southeast coast and the western regions. ”

The Song and Liao countries have always been at odds, and there are often wars on the edge of the territory, and I also know a little about these things, all from the mouths of the bosses of Chenzhou such as Wu Chengbang, but I have never paid attention to this kind of thing, and even if I heard it, it was only the wind blowing in my ears.

I also flipped over the iron rod in my hand and said, "Then what herbs are you looking for in the Western Regions this time?"

Tang Niu said: "I came to pick up the things that the king of Luzhou Xianwu City entrusted us with." ”

I was surprised, "The foot is born in the swamp of death, where are you going to pick it now?"

A person next to him sighed: "Who says it's not? This herb is hard to buy, it has no price, and it only survives in the Death Swamp, which is now closed, and our trip is in vain." ”

The man said with great regret, as if the herb was as precious as he said. I know that when I was in the Death Swamp, in order to refine the medicine that could resist miasma, I helped her grind herbs in her tent, and one of them was a yellow grass with two yellow grasses that resembled human feet. It's just that at that time, we only thought about refining the potion, and we didn't think about how precious that herb was, and the room full of herbs was piled up into a mountain, and the foot walking was only a very inconspicuous one.

Tang Niu added a few dry wooden branches to the bonfire, looked up at the lean man opposite, and said, "Xu Qing, you go and pick up some firewood again, and keep it for sleeping and heating at night." ”

The man named Xu Qing nodded in response, handed the iron rod in his hand to a mercenary beside him, got up and ran towards the woods to the south of us. Tang Niu turned his head again, looked at me and said, "A few of us came to the Western Regions a little late, just as the Seven Great Sects and the Immortal Hall were fighting in the Death Swamp, and they were dismissed by the Sand City Lord before they even saw the Long Tail Blood Mosquito, and then we heard that there was a kind of fish-headed monster Gu worm in the Death Swamp, which specializes in eating people, and whoever enters will die." ”

At this time, the person next to me spoke up again: "Brother Da Niu, I heard from the disciples of the Giant Eagle Gate that that kind of fish-headed monster not only eats people, but even stuffs gold, stones, plants and trees into the stomach, which is very terrifying. ”

As soon as he said this, the other two mercenaries who were roasting tiger meat also nodded, and one said: "The Western Regions is a wild and chaotic place, those hateful wizards raise some ugly evil parties, I heard that the fish-headed monster is very large, even more ferocious than this mountain tiger." ”

Even a herd of mountain tigers can't match a fish-headed monster, right? They talked energetically, but I couldn't speak, and I just thought silently in my heart. If there were thousands of mountain tigers in the death swamp at that time, maybe the Seven Great Sects and the Immortal Hall would not have been reduced to such an embarrassment, the fish-headed monster and the enemy were not distinguished, although it was not as exaggerated as these mercenaries said to eat gold and iron raw, but they could even eat their own companions, but it was more terrifying than eating gold and iron grass and trees, and in terms of ferocity, the mountain tigers were far inferior.

After this person finished speaking, Tang Niu shook his head and scolded with a smile: "Okay, you don't talk nonsense here, seeing is believing and hearing is false, don't take it seriously after listening to some words from others." ”

Hearing him say this, I was a little strange, looked at him and said, "Don't Brother Tang believe that there is a fish-headed monster in the Death Swamp?"

Tang Niu smiled and said, "Believe it is believe, this matter is already known to the whole world, and even the seven major sects have released the wind, how can there be anything wrong?" It's just that I don't believe that those fish-headed monsters were raised by wizards in the Western Regions." ”

I said: "That's not good, the fish-headed monster is like a ghost monster, and only the wizards of the Western Regions can raise it in the world." ”

Tang Niu sighed and said, "I think Brother Shadow Chasing didn't think about the spirit snake in the Immortal Hall, right?"

My heart trembled slightly, and I remembered the giant snake in the Dragon Cave again. I said, "Brother Tang thinks that the birth of the fish-headed monster is all because of the spirit snake?"

Tang Niu said: "Maybe, I'm not sure. However, this great change in the Death Swamp must have something to do with the people of the Immortal Hall, but I am afraid that those fish-headed monsters were deliberately raised by them to deal with the Seven Great Sects. ”

He was very serious, if I hadn't been to the Death Swamp and entered the Dragon Cave in the first place, I'm afraid I would almost have to believe him now. I couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "If the fish-headed monsters are raised by the people of the Immortal Hall, why are they even attacked?"

"It's just a trick to get away with it. Tang Niu sneered and said, "Didn't Brother Shadow hear about the dying counterattack before the Immortal Hall escaped from the Death Swamp? Before the Immortal Hall escaped from the Death Swamp, it deliberately deceived the Seven Great Sects into going with it, the purpose was to use the ferocity of the fish-headed monster to eliminate the Seven Great Sects in the Divine Dragon Cave in one fell swoop. ”

I laughed dryly and said, "Brother Tang also heard these things, right? It's just random speculation by others, and it can't be taken seriously." ”

At this time, the man next to me suddenly said: "Brother Shadow Chasing, this is not random speculation, but has a factual basis." ”

I was a little stunned and said, "What facts?"

"Before the Immortal Hall entered the Death Swamp, it had already installed a spy thief among the Seven Great Sects, and its purpose was to coax the Seven Great Sects into the Divine Dragon Cave. ”

I was taken aback and said, "Is there such a thing? Who is that spy?"

The man was still spinning the iron rod in his hand, but he smiled casually: "It's true." That person's name is Gu Tian, he is the head of the world's dart bureau, and his identity as a spy of the Demon Sect has been confirmed by the Seven Great Sects. ”