The first snow of winter covered the entire northern frontier in silver. Xuanyuan Honglie, who got his wish, although he was only a small viscount lord, he was already very satisfied. At the very least, the barons and lords under his command will obey him.

Xuanyuan Honglie's territory is in the northernmost part of Kanzhou, at the southern foot of the Mingyue Mountain Range, and it is the throat that guards the southward movement of the people of the Northern Wilderness Prairie Grassland. The snow in the highest part of the Mingyue Mountains does not melt all year round, and the winter is naturally much colder than Xuanyuan City in the hinterland of Kanzhou. In some places, the snow was knee-high and the water froze early.

Although the fireplace in the castle was warm, Xuanyuan Honglie had never been the kind of person who coveted pleasure. He led a dozen soldiers and rode horses along the southern foothills of the Mingyue Mountain Range. The purpose of Xuanyuan Honglie's inspection is not to prevent the Beidi people from going south, even if these grassland people want to go south, they are blocked by heavy snow, and Xuanyuan Honglie wants to guard against those living dead.

It was the third day of the group's tour, and after they had made their way east through a vast forest, a glacial lake was in front of them. The few vague figures walking on the ice lake could not be recognized due to the wind and snow, which made almost everyone draw their swords in alarm.

"What are those things?"

"Be on guard!"

Baron Shulian, who had a giant axe on his shoulder, volunteered, "I'll go and see what the situation is!" After speaking, he dismounted and headed straight for the ice lake.

"Let's go over and have a look. Xuanyuan Honglie commanded the rest of the people.

The rest of the men dismounted and ran towards the blurred shadows on the icy lake.

After Hu Lian walked in, he saw the situation clearly, and shouted loudly to Xuanyuan Honglie: "My lord, it's a few Shandizi." ”

When the other ten men arrived, they surrounded the Baron of Shan Dizi. These Shandi people are a branch of the Beidi people, because they live in the land outside the Huawai and do not accept the etiquette and music education of the Central Plains Zhuchang, so they are called Shandizi. Shandi, like many Beidi people, does not believe in the Lord of Light, Chang, they believe in the sky.

Xuanyuan Honglie walked over and saw a woman with her hands tied. It turned out that the three Shandi men were chasing the woman. As soon as they caught the woman, they were driven over by the Lian Lian, which ruined the good thing.

The woman's hair was disheveled, and her face was so black that it looked like she had been smeared with a pot of smoke and ink. When she saw Xuanyuan Honglie, it was like seeing a savior, and she screamed for help with all her might, "Help me......"

The woman said something that Xuanyuan Honglie couldn't understand, but she could tell that she was calling for help to herself.

"My lord, this is an alien woman!" he concluded, "I just don't know what to say." My lord, can you tell where she's from?"

"I can't tell," replied Xuanyuan Honglie truthfully, "but I can tell she's calling for help." ”

"Then the lord is going to save ...... Or don't you save it?"

"Since you happened to meet it, how can you not save it?"

After speaking, Xuanyuan Honglie personally untied the rope for the alien woman and put his cloak on the alien woman's body.

"That'...... What to do with these Shandizi?"

"Let them all go!"

Although Xuanyuan and its neighbors were often harassed by these Shandi people, Xuanyuan Honglie had no intention of killing them. After letting go of the Shandi people, Xuanyuan Honglie decided to turn back because he had added one more person and didn't have much dry food to carry.

In order to take care of the woman, Baron Lien gave up his horse and walked with a great axe on his own. As a large man eight feet long, he also laughed at himself that he wanted to relieve the pressure on the horse. As the group walked through the forest, the sky gradually darkened. In the snowy winter, this forest is filled with an eerie fog.

Walking to Xuanyuan Honglie's right, he suddenly asked, "My lord, do you feel as if something is following us?"

Xuanyuan Honglie replied, "I have already felt it!"

"This fog is evil enough, it's been more than two hours, and I haven't walked out of this woods yet. The baron grumbled.

A soldier pointed to a tree, "Look, my lord, this tree ...... We're back here in the tree. ”

"Huh...... "You see, I remembered this face when I passed by here. Now it's back here, what a evil door!"

At this moment, the woman dismounted, looked at the mysterious face on the trunk and shouted "Anarakshasa", and then knelt down again, and made a gesture of killing people and wiping her neck.

Seeing this, he didn't know why, "Hey...... What kind of evil is she falling for?"

Xuanyuan replied, "It seems that she is telling us that someone is awakening the sleeping Hades King Anarakshasa . These people went around arresting people for blood sacrifices, the purpose of which was to wake up the Hades as soon as possible. ”

After Xuanyuan Honglie finished speaking, the woman nodded, indicating that she meant that. Then he gestured again, grabbed a handful of snow and wiped it on his face.

"What did she say?" asked the fat baron curiously.

She said that she was the one who was caught and escaped, and she went all the way south to escape here. She also said that once the king of Hades is awakened, he will unleash a storm of extreme cold, and there will be no other creatures on the earth except those strange spirits who are not afraid of the cold. ”

After Xuanyuan Honglie finished speaking, he looked into the woman's eyes, trying to make sure that he had explained correctly.

The interracial woman nodded.

"Hmph, pretending to be a ghost, the battle of the gods and the Hades are just legends, they don't exist at all. Baron Fried.

Xuanyuan Honglie said: "Whether the Hades King exists or not, those strange ghosts who have come back from the dead are real. ”

"I'm just curious...... Why can this woman understand us?"

Xuanyuan Honglie asked rhetorically: "Do you suspect that she is pretending to be a ghost?"

"My lord, isn't there anything wrong with her being able to understand what we are saying, but dancing and speaking some incomprehensible bird language?"

Xuanyuan Honglie replied, "I believe her." ”

"Your Excellency, beware! Some witches are naturally demagogues, especially the vixen with nine tails. ”

"I believe her," Xuanyuan stressed, "I believe it, not that she's pretending to be a ghost." The baron should be on how to get out of this forest!"

Shulian picked up the giant axe and slashed at the mysterious face on the trunk of the tree with an axe, "Fuck your mother's Hades, see if Lao Tzu doesn't split your head with an axe." ”

Baron Lian went down with this axe, and actually split the blood of that mysterious face, and he was shocked when he saw it.