Chapter Seventy-Four: Man and Wolf Infested
"Yo yo yo...... Now that his cultivation has improved, how can he still become modest?" Long Xiao quipped.
"Don't laugh at me, these moves of mine were injected into me by the blood soul seniors, and I am not good at learning, and I haven't reached one-tenth of his old man's level!" Li Zhen smiled.
"If you can fully activate the moves in your body, I'm afraid no one in this world will be your opponent. Long Xiao also looked at Li Zhen happily.
"That's not necessarily, there is a sky outside the sky, and there are people outside the people. Li Zhen raised his head and looked at the sky in the distance, falling into deep thought.
The tea shop was originally overcrowded, but after Li Zhen's fight, people thought that ghosts were coming, and they scattered and fled, only the shopkeeper was shivering under the counter.
"Boss, settle the bill!" Long Xiao walked over and said to the boss.
"No, no, no, I am grateful that a few uncles left me with my little life, how dare I still accept your silver taels!" said the shopkeeper under the counter without daring to look up.
"Haha......" Long Xiao pouted, and Li Zhen continued on their way.
After a day of jolting in the carriage, it was getting late, and they arrived at a place called Wanfeng Town.
"Let's hang out for a day, let's stay in this town tonight, right?" Li Zhen really didn't want to hurry.
"It's okay! You first find out if there is an inn here!" Long Xiao saw that this town was poor and declining, and there were few pedestrians.
The carriage walked around the town, and there really wasn't an inn.
"I feel that there is no inn in this town, you see every household here, the courtyard is broken, how can there be an inn!" Long Xiao also wondered, this place is located on the main road between the north and the south, it should be full of merchants, why does it seem so declining.
"It's strange that every house in this town closes so early, it's not dark, and the streets are already sparsely populated. Li Zhen also felt the strange atmosphere of this town.
"Then we have to find a family to spend the night! we can't spend the night outside!" Long Xiao got out of the carriage and looked around to see which house was still open.
"You see that old lady sitting at the door! Shall we go over and ask?" Li Zhen pointed ahead, there was a family under an old locust tree, and an old woman with gray hair was sitting at the door.
"Old man, it's getting late, can we stay with you for the night?" Long Xiao spoke very slowly, and his attitude was very respectful.
The old woman, with gray and messy hair and deep-set eyes, looked ahead with a numb expression, as if she had not seen the three of them, and she held a black cat in her hand, and the cat's eyes shone with blue light.
"Whew!" the black cat ran down from the old woman and ran into the house.
Ziyan's frightened body trembled, she was already afraid of cats, not to mention that this black cat was particularly scary.
"Old man?" Li Zhen went over and gently patted the old woman's shoulder.
"Who?" said the old woman, looking up with her empty eyes.
"Old man, we are in a hurry! Li Zhen raised his voice and shouted in the old man's ear, this old woman not only can't see with her eyes, but also with her ears.
"Oh, come on!" said the old woman, who led them into the house, and walked slowly ahead of her with a cane, tapping on the ground.
"I didn't want to find a good family to stay here, I found a blind and deaf old lady!" Long Xiao complained in his heart that Li Zhen was too hasty in doing things, such an old man was pitiful enough, they also came to harass others, it was rare that the old woman was warm and generous, and he couldn't say anything.
They followed the old woman into the courtyard. This yard is not big, and it is full of debris, there is no place to put your feet at all, and there is a pungent strange smell rushing in the yard, which makes people smell it and turn their stomachs.
"Rest here!" the old lady pointed to the northwest corner of the courtyard.
The three of them followed the direction of the old lady's crutches, and there was a haystack in the corner, which in some places was used to raise pigs.
"Okay, let's just rest here for the night, there is a courtyard wall to keep out the wind. Long Xiao looked at the environment and although it was very poor, the old woman was blind and deaf, and she took them in, and they had nothing to pick and choose.
"Don't go out at night!" said the old woman, and went into the house.
The three of them looked at each other, not knowing what the old man meant by this sentence, Li Zhen originally wanted to ask, but when he thought that the old man's ears were not good and it was really troublesome to communicate, he couldn't help it.
"Whew!" Long Xiao let out a sigh, "It's going to be one night!" Ziyan, you clean up here, I'll take some hay to feed the horses, let's be hungry for one night!" Long Xiao didn't want to disturb the old man anymore, he went out, everything was casual, he took a bundle of hay and walked out the door.
Purple smoke spread out the haystack, and she had to lie down and rest for a long night! She had been away from the palace for so long, and she had suffered everything, and this sleeping haystack was no problem for her now.
Li Zhen stood there and looked at this family carefully, and he had many questions in his heart: How did this deaf and blind old woman survive? Does she have no wife, children, and children? And what is the mystery of the old woman's last words?
"What do you want?" Ziyan had already packed up the haystack, and when he saw Li Zhen standing there suspiciously, he asked.
"Oh! it's nothing! it's cleaned up so quickly?" Li Zhen looked at the tip of Ziyan's nose oozing sweat, and reached out to help her wipe it.
Where did Ziyan have such intimate contact with a man, Li Zhen's inadvertent action made her blush to the root of her ears instantly.
"Just a few haystacks, spread out and sleep, what's so difficult about that?" Ziyan hurriedly lowered her shy little face and spoke like a mosquito.
Li Zhen looked at Ziyan's shy demeanor before realizing that his actions just now seemed to be a little frivolous, and he also felt a little embarrassed.
"What's wrong?" Long Xiao asked curiously after looking at Li Zhen's embarrassed expression after coming in.
"I didn't ...... It's nothing. Is the horse bolted up?" Li Zhen hurriedly diverted the topic, his tone flustered.
"It's bolted, I don't know what the old man means when he says don't go out at night. Long Xiao kept thinking about what the old woman said, and he didn't care about guessing Li Zhen's flustered thoughts.
"Could it be that this town will be infested with wild beasts at night?" Long Xiao's question happened to be something that Li Zhen had been pondering, this town was located in a low-lying place in the mountains, surrounded by mountains and lush trees, and it was normal for wild beasts to infest.
"What's the use of you two big men guessing here? Why don't you go out at night and see what is going on? Ziyan came over and interjected, in her heart, Long Xiao and Li Zhen were her safest barriers, and there was no difficulty in the world that they couldn't solve.
Li Zhen and Long Xiao looked at each other and smiled, and pursed their lips.
In the middle of the moon, when Wan Lai was silent, Li Zhen and Long Xiao got up from the haystack, not because of the purple smoke, in fact, they also had a strong curiosity, since the old woman didn't let them go out at night, maybe something strange would really happen here at night, the more they wanted to go out.
Not wanting to alarm anyone, they jumped into the street.
"Whew!" a strange cry sounded.
Li Zhen was startled, and as soon as he went out, he met the black cat in the arms of the old woman who was scurrying around the street.
Li Zhen stroked his chest, calmed his nervousness, and continued to walk forward with Long Xiao.
"Look at your timid look?" Long Xiao grinned, although it was sarcastic, Li Zhen sounded much better.
Only the moon cast a bright light on the street, and the surroundings were quiet, as if a cough was like a muffled thunderstorm.
"Did the old lady scare us? What's going on in the silence on this street?" The two of them turned around for a long time and didn't encounter anything strange, and Li Zhen was a little impatient.
"What's in it for the old woman to bluff us, let's see!" Long Xiao felt that there must be something strange in this.
Suddenly, there was a sound of horses neighing, as if frightened.
"Our horse!" Li Zhen said nervously when he heard the voice that seemed to come from behind him.
"Go back quickly!" Long Xiao didn't expect that something strange would really happen.
The two of them rushed back to their lodgings. Li Zhen had already condensed the blood shield at the tip of his fist and was ready to fight.
"The dragon shadow is heavy!" Long Xiao rushed to the door first, and before he finished speaking, dragon shadows had already been released from his body, and he crashed towards the bolted horse.
Li Zhen followed, and the scene in front of him really surprised him a lot, a vicious wolf was biting their horse, and the wolf's eyes emitted a faint blue light.
The dragon shadow of the dragon roared towards the evil wolf, the wolf seemed to feel the power of the dragon shadow, jumped back, and actually turned over to dodge, it looked back at the dragon roar, and fled like a gust of wind.
"A bad wolf, look at what you're fuss about. Li Zhen didn't expect Long Xiao to be so nervous, and even the dragon shadow was heavy.
"That's not an ordinary wolf!" Long Xiao looked at the direction in which the wolf fled, and was dazed.
"It's not a wolf, it's true!" Li Zhen ignored Long Xiao and walked straight to the horse to check the horse's injuries.
"This ......" Li Zhen walked up to the horse, only to find that the wound on the horse's neck had begun to fester, and a large black mark around it was still expanding.
"That wolf tooth is poisonous!" Long Xiao also came around, and he said after hearing Li Zhen's exclamation.
"How can wolf teeth be poisonous?" asked Li in shock and anger.
"I said it's not an ordinary wolf, I can feel the spiritual power in its body! If it's just an ordinary wolf, can I let the dragon shadow go too?"
"How can there be spiritual power fluctuations in the wolf's body?" Li Zhen didn't know what Long Xiao was talking about.
"It's a human wolf!"
"What?human wolf?" Li Zhen had never heard of such a thing as a human wolf.
"I don't know exactly what happened, but it was a human wolf! and I'm sure it was a beginner human wolf, otherwise it wouldn't have escaped. "Long Xiao has seen the legend of the human wolf from the ancient books in the past, the human wolf recorded in the book is extremely ferocious, specializing in eating humans and other beasts, belonging to the spirit of the world, all beasts dare not approach him, and all things are subservient to it.
"How can there be such a monster in this place? No wonder this place is so dilapidated, even the old woman advised us not to go out at night, if ordinary people encounter human wolves, there is only one left to be slaughtered?" Li Zhen suddenly felt a burst of sympathy for this place.
"Our horses can't be saved, and if we don't find out about this matter, we won't be able to leave with peace of mind. Long Xiao said sadly.