The night is as heavy as water.

A small clearing in the mountain stream was crowded with people at this time, four quietly burning torches were separated in all directions, and the dim light made people barely see the faces of their relatives, and everyone snuggled up to each other as a unit, and fell into a deep sleep.

Tang Xiao, who was exhausted, had that strange dream again at this moment.

In this dream, even when night falls, the streets are still full of traffic, pedestrians rub shoulders on the sidewalks that are neatly spliced with stone slabs, the colorful neon lights on both sides of the road seem to have no end in the distance, and on the wide lanes, people sit in boxes of cars and flow endlessly, in the dream, the men have fresh short hair, and the women are all kinds of colorful clothes, high heels, hitting the stones, constantly making tinkling sounds.

With his increasingly vague memory, Tang Xiao kept walking forward like a wise man, passing through alleys and alleys.

The fruit vendor shouted loudly on the side of the road, and the familiar faces of the fried sugar and oil fruits nodded and smiled at Tang Xiao.

Around the corner stood a large billboard with flashing lights, and then followed the billboard through a dark stairway.

Finally, I came to the low building surrounded by high-rise buildings in my memory.

In front of the low house, a woman in a small white floral dress stood with a beautiful face, long hair and a shawl, smiling brightly.

The moment he saw Tang Xiao, he slowly opened his hands.

At this moment, the tears in Tang Xiao's eyes slipped down, lonely and silent, like a milk swallow throwing into the forest, rushing forward, wanting to tightly hold this haunting figure into her arms and hold her hands that were as white as onions.

However, a roar sounded, and a white car once again shattered the picture.

Tang Xiao woke up suddenly with resentment, but he felt that his face was covered with slimy liquid, and he didn't know if it was tears left in his sleep or something else, so he immediately looked up.

"Ahh

A terrible scream came from Tang Xiao's mouth.

In his eyes, a pitch-black beast head appeared above Tang Xiao's head, two eyes the size of copper bells emitted a faint green light in the dark night, and saliva continued to slide down the two long fangs.

Tang Xiao was so frightened that her urine came out, and she quickly turned over and fled.

But where did he pass the fierce beast in the mountain forest quickly, I saw that the beast had already opened its bloody mouth and bit Tang Xiao's neck.

Tang Xiao instinctively stretched out her trembling hands to block it, and said in her heart: "It's over, it's over, I'm afraid where will I go this time?"

"Choke!"

A crisp sound of metal rubbing sounded, and Tang Xiao only felt a burst of silver light pouring down from the corner of his eye.

Immediately afterwards, a fishy smell of still warm liquid sprayed on Tang Xiao's entire arm and face, and the sticky touch made Tang Xiao feel very uncomfortable.

The expected pain did not appear, but the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground came.

Tang Xiao slowly removed his blocked hands to look, but the original fierce beast was already in a different place at this time, and a huge black head fell to Tang Xiao's feet.

Its appearance is impressively the head of a black panther, and the blood is still flowing from the erect neck.

The panther was very large, more than twice the size of an ordinary panther.

On top of the stone, Shi Gaoyuan's majestic body stood with a sword, and the muscles on his arms seemed to be cast of steel in the light of the fire, full of power.

"It's a pity that it's a little black cat, the meat is sour and hard, wouldn't it be beautiful if it was a big wild boar?"

Shi Gaoyuan put away the long knife, the blade was actually stainless and extremely sharp, and shook his head to feel sorry for the black panther and not the wild boar.

Tang Xiao quickly pinched his arm, wondering if this was another nightmare, but the pain in his arm and the wet jacket and pants let him know that he seemed to have brushed shoulders with death again.

The sleeping crowd not far away was also awakened by the movement here, and leaned over one after another.

"Look at the old man, what a big leopard"

"I'm afraid this beast has become a spirit, right? How can it look like this? ”

"Everyone be careful, this beast in the Snake Ridge Mountain really can't be treated with common sense!"

When he saw this black panther as tall as a horse, he was immediately shocked and discussed.

Tang Xiao took advantage of everyone's inattention and left the crowd slightly, although the body was a child, but no one knew about such a thing as being scared to pee his pants.

Then he came to a bush and took advantage of no one's attention, and then with a slight firelight, he quickly took out his jacket and pants from the burden on his back to change, and poured out some water to wipe away the slimy blood on his face.

When the cleaning was completed, it was already moonlight, and the crowd had dispersed and continued to rest, after all, there was still a long mountain road to go tomorrow.

The breeze blew on the mountains, and even in the middle of summer, I felt the slightest coolness.

The frightened Tang Xiao didn't dare to fall asleep anymore, leaning against the torch in the corner in a daze.

At this time, only Shi Gaoyuan and his black-clothed attendants took turns to stand guard for the villagers.

But after experiencing the dangerous scene just now, Tang Xiao knew that this seemingly simple standing guard was using his life to build a security wall for the villagers, letting the rain and wind blow outside the wall, and not moving a single inch inside the wall, he couldn't help but admire them.

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After a night of suffering, the sky finally gradually brightened, and under Shi Gaoyuan's orders, they put away their bags and the team started again.

Tang Xiao continued to gnaw on the dry beam that he hadn't eaten last night with black eyes, snatched the old people's burdens again, and continued to move forward.

Tang Xiao walked and walked, his head was full of the situation of Shi Gaoyuan's knife last night, clean and neat, his right hand lightly pulled out the long knife, although it was more than a foot away from the black panther, but the silver knife that burst out was like a shadow, directly cutting the thick skin and fleshy black panther neck and neck vertebrae into two, the power was amazing.

After thinking about it, Tang Xiao had deep doubts about this world.

This is like a myth and legend in the original world, and it naturally appears in front of you.

Could it be that there are really gods and ghosts in this world?

Tang Xiao thought about it, and walked quickly to the village chief's side to ask what was going on

"Grandpa the village chief, who is that uncle in front?"

But the old village chief immediately gave Tang Xiao a chestnut and said: "Silly child, don't scream, what uncle is not an uncle, he is Shi Gaoyuan who went out of our village, General Shi, but he is a big man who has made military exploits on the frontier battlefield, and he is very capable."

The old village chief deliberately accentuated the three words of our village in his speech, and he was quite proud in his words.

Tang Xiao was very disdainful of the boasting of the village chief and retorted: "Then why didn't he continue to make meritorious contributions on the battlefield and drive the barbarians back?"

"Hey!"

The old village chief sighed, his expression was gloomy: "The luck is not good, the natural and man-made disasters in Xizi have exhausted the last bit of national strength, the grain and grass in the army are already empty, and even if the soldiers go to the battlefield, they will only lose their lives in vain." ”

Tang Xiao saw that the village chief's eyes were gloomy, and he knew that he had mentioned the sad matter of the village chief, so he nodded and said no more, and he couldn't ask what he wanted to ask, so he had to continue to bury his head in the road.

The boring journey passed in a blink of an eye in two or three hours.

After days of unremitting progress, everyone finally approached the top of Pansnake Ridge, and the road became wider and wider.

But as everyone moved forward, the clouds in the sky became thicker and thicker, obscuring the scorching sun, and the group seemed to be walking in the twilight.

Qing Sac's face was solemn, and he quickly took out the gossip plate to divinate again.

"Oh no!, hurry up and go back the way you came!"

Qing Sac's right hand clenched the hanging sign engraved with "Great Murderer", looked nervous, and shouted.

But as soon as the words fell, an earth-shattering beast roar came from the top of the mountain.

Tang Xiao followed the sound and saw a huge black shadow like a big truck rampage through the mountains and forests, swooping down towards the crowd, and the wind set off in the rapid running was like a sharp blade that would cut deep marks on the big trees on the path.

"Run!" Shi Gaoyuan shouted loudly to the crowd.