Chapter 689: Xiao Tenglong
In the ring that Ling'er threw to him, how to say it, there were scattered piles of silver taels everywhere, and the little girl was obviously not interested in these, so she included them at will, so she didn't manage them anymore.
It's definitely not like a girl's habit.
When the proprietress of the teahouse saw that he suddenly took out a ring, her eyes immediately lit up, and she put down the teapot she was about to take away with a smile, and said, "I don't know what you want to inquire about, giggles, I won't tell you, I'm the ...... of this quicksand city."
Zhang Hao didn't wait for her to finish boasting, so he took out some silver taels from the ring and put them on the table, and said, "Don't gossip, I just want to know what's going on nearby!"
The proprietress watched him put away the ring, and there was a hint of disappointment in her eyes.
Lazily put away the silver taels on the table, and the proprietress pouted: "If you want to say that there are no strange things, but recently I heard that there are some strange things in the Grand Canyon of Mordoro, and some people see that they often emit a red light from it in the middle of the night, and several forces in Quicksand City have gone one after another, but when they come back, there are fewer people." Someone asked them, but the people who came back didn't say anything!"
"Mordoro?" Zhang Hao frowned, the name was a little strange.
The proprietress has seen a lot of people, and she naturally understands the ability to observe words and feelings, and when she saw this, she smiled and said: "Mordora is our local dialect, in fact, it means the devil!"
Zhang Hao nodded slowly, then stood up, looked at the oncoming group of people, and said, "Devil Canyon?
The gang walked near the teahouse and saw a man in a ghost mask muttering something, and their eyes were a little surprised.
Zhang Hao didn't want to have too much contact with the people here, so he asked the proprietress about the direction of Devil's Canyon and left the city in a hurry.
Quicksand City, perhaps the city where he stayed for the shortest time, Zhang Hao only stayed for more than ten minutes, chasing the direction of the sunset.
Although he didn't want to make contact with the locals, he was still being targeted, and just as Zhang Hao left Quicksand City, a team of people hurriedly followed. The leader looks not young, and his face is full of wrinkles and furrows.
The sun was gradually setting on the horizon, and the weather in the desert was still cool in the evening, Zhang Hao sat alone on a sand dune, looked up at the endless desert in the distance, sighed and said, "Everyone, after following for so long, shouldn't you come out and sit?"
The sand dunes not far away squirmed, and then, a group of people got up from the sand, and the old man led by him laughed, waved at the group of subordinates, and said, "Boys, don't hide!"
As the old man's words fell, people kept coming out from behind the sand dunes, and soon surrounded Zhang Hao in the center.
At first glance, these people often beg for a living on the knife edge, each of them has a few scars on their bodies, and the old man led by them has more, and the entire upper body is scarred: "Good boy, since you know that we are following, you still dare to sit here, hehe, aren't you afraid of death?"
"Say, follow me something!" Zhang Hao didn't seem to hear what he said, sat there by himself, withdrew his gaze from the sky, and asked.
Seeing this, someone immediately took out the blade and shouted, "Do you really think that we don't kill people?"
However, the old man waved his hand, stared at Zhang Hao with his eyes, and said, "We have no malice, we just want to negotiate a deal with you!"
Although he said it politely, the subordinates around him did not relax in the slightest, and the blades in their hands made a trembling sound, obviously ready to do it at any time.
Zhang Hao turned his head to look at the old man, frowned, and said, "Trading, I think you are looking for the wrong person, right?"
"Hehe, I didn't even say what the deal was, how do you know that you have found the wrong person?" The old man took two steps forward at this time, stood nearby and gasped, "You're going to Devil's Canyon, right?"
Raising his eyes to look at him, Zhang Hao's expression was extremely cold, the old man in front of him was not weak in cultivation, but he still pretended to be old, obviously wanting him to relax his vigilance.
Seeing that Zhang Hao was staring at him and didn't speak, the old man laughed and said, "Don't worry, we don't have any malicious intentions, we just heard that you are going to Devil's Canyon, so we want to cooperate with you!"
Speaking of this, I saw him take out a map from his arms: "Young man, walking in the desert, it's not okay to trespass like this to you!"
"Do you know what's in Devil's Canyon?" or what's inside that attracts you?" At this time, Zhang Hao also slowly stood up, staring at the old man with cold eyes.
The atmosphere suddenly became tense, and the subordinates of the old man around him had slowly raised their blades, and as long as the old man gave an order, they would do it.
However, the old man did not give an order, squinted his eyes and looked at Zhang Hao carefully, and after a while, he laughed and said: "Young man, knowing too much is not good for you, as long as we cooperate with each other and arrive at the Devil's Canyon, the old man will naturally be separated from you, and what you want to do has nothing to do with the old man!"
Seeing that he still didn't speak, the old man hesitated for a moment and said, "Devil's Canyon is not as you think, it is not above the ground, the old man can only say so much for the time being, young man, the rest is up to you!"
As if to show goodwill, he waved his hand to let those subordinates put away their blades.
But Zhang Hao looked at him coldly, and only nodded slightly after a while, and said, "Say, what do you need me to do?"
As soon as he heard this, the old man laughed: "Happy, the old man likes people who don't spare the bends, if you want to enter the Devil's Canyon, you must pass through an oasis, when the time comes, the old man hopes that you can make a move!"
"What are the difficult characters in it?" Hearing this, Zhang Hao raised his eyebrows slightly, and said with a sneer: "If I can't even deal with you, I'm afraid I'll be sent to death if I go up!"
The old man did not show displeasure, and sent those subordinates away with a smile, and said: "Little brother, we don't talk darkly, the old man knows that your cultivation is not under me, but if you want to enter the Devil's Canyon, you and I must join forces." Otherwise, if you go on your own, you will be sent to death!"
Speaking of this, I saw him spread out the map in his hand, pointed to one of the places that was enclosed, and said: "This oasis is occupied by a mysterious force, and the old man once sneaked in it once, but unfortunately ......"
"Mysterious forces?" Although there were doubts in his heart, Zhang Hao still asked without moving, "How do you know?"
At this time, the old man's subordinates had already lit a bonfire, and this flame was actually dispensable to cultivators, in order to prevent the sand snake from approaching.
The old man looked around and saw that those subordinates were busy with each other, so he lowered his voice and said, "Because the old man saw them use human sacrifice with his own eyes, and he ......"
Speaking of this, the look on his face was a little unpleasant: "And the sacrificial thing is a nine-headed bird, which has never happened in Zhongzhou before!"
"Nine-headed bird, you mean immortal bird?" Zhang Hao's eyes narrowed slightly, and he took a cool breath gently.
It has been recorded in ancient books that in ancient times, there was a kind of nine-headed bird that had the ability to reach the sky, feeding on living people, and not killing it! However, there are very few words about this nine-headed bird, and with the torrent of history, many records about the nine-headed bird have been lost.
He had also heard Lingxuzi talk about it, but he didn't expect that there was really such a thing in the world.
When the old man saw the strange expression on his face, he smiled and said, "Yes, it is the legendary immortal bird, but it seems to be imprisoned by something, and it can only survive by those human sacrifices, otherwise, this desert may have already become a dead place!"
Speaking of this, the old man sighed a little embarrassed.
"You don't want me to deal with the nine-headed bird, do you?" Zhang Hao looked at the old man opposite with strange eyes, but said with a sneer.
"Hehe, it's not you, it's us!" The old man laughed, put away the map, and said, "If you don't agree, you can leave now, and the old man won't be embarrassed with you!"
Seeing this, Zhang Hao stretched his waist, looked up at the night sky that was gradually revealed, and said, "If I leave now, do you think you will let me go?"
The old man's body trembled slightly, and the wrinkles on his face became extremely stiff, and after a while, he laughed dryly and said, "Little brother said he was laughing!"
I thought that the group of people who came after me was for money, but I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen in the end, Zhang Hao sat there, watching the old man's subordinates busy, and sighed in his heart.
If these people knew that the old man was taking them to death, I don't know if they would be so heartfelt.
There was no word all night, and when Chenhui quietly appeared, they had already walked some distance, and in order to reach the oasis that the old man had spoken of, the group did not stop at all.
It wasn't until the evening three days later that a reckless jungle appeared at the end of sight.
The appearance of such a forest on the desert was extremely abrupt, and Zhang Hao even thought it was an illusion, until the old man's subordinates cheered, and he didn't understand.
At this time, it was not the best time to enter this oasis, and the old man instructed those subordinates to set up tents on the spot to rest, but he left quietly with Zhang Hao that night.
The two sneaked all the way to the edge of the oasis and found that the forest was very strangely quiet, and in general, the forest at night would be a time for monsters to haunt the forest, and all kinds of sounds gathered together, showing the vitality of the forest.
And here, if it weren't for the tall trees in front of him, Zhang Hao even suspected that he was still on the desert.
The trees that grow here are very small, with far fewer branches and foliage than the trees outside, and from a distance, a bare trunk stands in the sand.
Only when you walk in, you will find that there are some short branches growing on the trunk of the tree.
In the depths of the silent forest, there was occasionally a rustling sound, this kind of sound Zhang Hao was not unfamiliar with, and when he first entered the desert, he was almost plotted by something that made this sound.
The old man jumped into the forest and said, "There are sand snakes everywhere here, hey, according to the little brother's cultivation, there is no need for the old man to remind you!"
Zhang Hao nodded expressionlessly, motioned for him to continue leading the way, and walked for a while before asking, "Why did you bring those people here?"
And the old man who walked in front flashed a cold glint in his eyes, and said with a sneer: "It's nothing!"
"They should be the sacrifice you brought out the nine-headed bird, right?" But Zhang Hao didn't intend to stop there, and continued to ask.
The old man's pace slowed down significantly, and after a while, he smiled: "The old man has never said that!"
Zhang Hao knew that it would be difficult to get an answer if he asked any more, so he sneered in his heart and continued to grope forward behind him.
Along the way, the two of them are constantly attacked by sand snakes, and these nasty things do not swoop down from trees or the ground like other snakes, but suddenly burst out of the soft sand.
Sometimes, even if you step on it, there is nothing unusual, but the moment you walk over, a sand snake will suddenly come out of the place just now.
The old man was obviously prepared, and when he swallowed an elixir, the sand snakes stopped attacking him and turned to Zhang Hao, but every time a sand snake approached his feet, it would be reduced to ashes by a small flame of flame.
Although there were some troubles along the way, they did not encounter any tricky things, and after half an hour of trekking, the two finally arrived at their destination.
In front of them was a castle with some lights faintly visible.
The old man led him along the city wall for a while, but suddenly stopped, and then bent down and groped for a while on the wall, and slapped his palm against one of the stone bricks.
The ground beneath the two of them immediately slid to the side, revealing a dark hole.
After three days of getting along, Zhang Haoyi learned that this old man was the leader of a force in Quicksand City, and in his early years, because he offended a powerful person, he was forced to hide in this desert, and outsiders called him "Evil Hand Ghost Claw Xiao Tenglong!"
Jumping into this hole, there was a staircase that stretched down, leading to the city wall, it seemed that Xiao Tenglong had been prepared.
Just as they had just taken a few steps forward, there was a faint scream from behind them......
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