But Mao Dong is really tired from running, and he can't afford to talk to Mu Qingzi anymore, so he just listens and doesn't speak, at most when he pronounces it wrong or expresses it incorrectly, he lazily corrects it, and once Mu Qingzi can't understand it, he has to translate it with his mind through Xiaohuan.

When Xiaohuan didn't see anything delicious, he didn't like to go out and go around, and since he set off, he stayed in the spirit bag, playing in circles around the stone ball.

It is a high-level spiritual object, unlike humans who are forced to sleep when they enter the spirit bag, in which it can not only maintain clarity of the spirit, can hear and feel everything outside, but can also talk freely with the outside world, but it can only say the same words as Ah Huang, and can talk directly with Mu Qingzi, but with Mao Dong, it has to communicate through the mind pickup.

As a result, a strange conversation unfolded between Xiaohuan, Mu Qingzi and Mao Dong, and in the thousands of miles before arriving in the Pengshan region, accompanied by bursts of dust and smoke drifting all the way, they continued to answer each other.

The path leading to the Pengshan region was all along the sandy road on the side of the mountain, winding around one mountain after another, and the mountain road of more than a thousand miles took almost five hours, except for a brief stop in the middle of a valley station, for the wilderness was completely uninhabited.

The next post station has reached the edge of the Pengshan region, and there is a place behind the mountain called Chu Lingwei City, a very small polder market built entirely because of the post station.

When the post station in Chu Lingwei City was sharpened, Mu Qingzi also deliberately went to ask an old post guard if he had heard of the Xie family, and after getting a completely ignorant answer, he had no choice but to continue on the road with the guards.

Yu Lingxing had twenty hours in a day and night, and the journey of five hours was only past noon, and it was still early, so this small team that had eaten and drunk enough naturally continued to set off and go to Mianshanji, where the Xie family once existed in the past.

The closer they got to the cotton mountain market, the easier the road became, and in less than an hour, their small team arrived at the cotton mountain market, and saw this so-called market town built on the cotton mountain from a distance, and the condescending scene really made Mu Qingzi and Mao Dong stunned.

This is still a market town, it is simply a medium-sized castle, equivalent to a fiefdom of a princely state or a city governed by a large county, and they stopped on the top of a small hill, and they already felt the majesty of the castle on that hill from a distance.

In the eyes of Mu Qingzi, who has been a man of two lifetimes, this mountain fort is simply compared to the witch's castle in the fairy tale of medieval Europe on the earth, with layers of fortress-shaped stone buildings built from the middle of the mountain to the mountain, and the area around the top of the mountain is surrounded by stone courtyards and spired towers of different heights.

There is a mountain gate archway at the foot of the mountain, and there are armed soldiers guarding in front of the door, which does not look like a family station, but like a border guard, because it just blocks several mountain roads from south to north, it seems to be a thoroughfare, but this cotton mountain lies in the middle of the time, that is, it is like a huge pass that is not opened by a husband and a man.

According to his explanation, this is the location of the Zhong family, although the old name of the inheritance is still called Mianshan Ji, since the Zhong family started to build the city, it has been privately renamed Zhongshan City, but this is a three-regardless zone, and the name of the city is not recognized by the government.

With the help of Xiaohuan and Mao Dong, Mu Qingzi was able to talk to Captain Yu at will, and knew from Captain Li's mouth that the Yidu City under the jurisdiction of the Kingdom here could not be managed, and the nearby principalities could not be managed, but belonged to the major families and some small sects in the Huanshan area.

The name of the kingdom is Ganbi, which is one of the five major human kingdoms of Yu Lingxing, in addition to the capital, Yidu and other major cities and surrounding territories, there are many principalities and marquis states below, which are hereditary feudal states owned by the prince's relatives and meritorious heroes.

Under the rule of the Gambi Kingdom is a very simple pyramid shape, the kingdom is governed at the top, the following is surrounded by major directly subordinate cities and principalities, and then there are marquis and county towns, and there is no longer a sub-feudal county town, and the bottom three levels are market towns, polder cities and villages.

His Majesty the Lord of the Kingdom, His Royal Highness the Grand Duke, and His Excellency the Marquis all said that the head of the county and the head of a county were actually called "county lords" and "county lords", and the most surprising thing to him was that the mayor of the market town and the mayor of the polder city, the mayor of the town was actually bigger than the mayor.

However, once he thought that the little devil country was also smaller than the county, and now His Royal Highness the Grand Duke was not even more outrageously called "Her Royal Highness the Princess", his mentality was much calmer, and he couldn't help blaming himself for being rare and strange, which violated his family's style of always keeping pace with the times.

Captain Li is a talkative person, seeing this person, a cat and two aliens are stupid, it arouses him to talk a lot, and he can't wait to take out all the dry goods in his stomach and dry them again, and he has been staying on the top of the hill, and he doesn't feel a backache for a long time.

This dry man waited for the northwest wind to blow enough, then rode forward, galloped towards the castle on the mountain, as the saying goes, look at the mountain to run a dead horse, see the castle is near, wait to come to the castle outside the mountain gate under the hill, also ran for nearly half an hour.

The captain showed the warrant signed by the lord of the castle to the soldiers guarding the gate, and then smoothly entered the territory of Zhongshan Castle, crossed the mountain gate and the ring road up the mountain, and there was an old-fashioned town gate, which was also guarded by soldiers, but with the warrant of the castle lord, he passed by the same.

Walking into the real Mianshan Old Town, you can see that there are rows of shops, medicine stores, wine shops, inns and other business houses in the criss-crossing streets and alleys, although the time is close to evening, there are still a lot of pedestrians and merchants on the street.

It can be seen that in addition to the casually dressed population of the town, there are also many people who come in from outside with their bags, not only the immortal race, but also the god human race, the witch race and even the demon race.

Captain Yu smiled and said: "This place is not far from the Wild Land, the Wild Land is all under the world of the Witch Race, but the Divine Race is from the more southern and northerner regions, and the Demon Race is a vassal race that lives with the Immortal Race in this area, which should be similar to the geographical distribution of the Terran Race in your Mixed Star Domain." ”

In order to unify the response, Ah Jin had already attributed a few of them who couldn't speak or speak the lingua franca of the Star Domain to those who had come from afar to experience from the Mixed Star Domain, and they were people from the sect, and the so-called sect still used the name of the Jinshi Sect, so as to save the local sect and family from seeing that it was Jin Dan and even the Yuan Infant Scattered Cultivator.

"It's the same, hehe, it's the same," Mu Qingzi didn't know how the Terrans in the Mixed World Star Domain were distributed, and they all responded vaguely.

They first found a remote inn but with a large yard to live in, it didn't matter how expensive the spirit stones were, they brought a lot of them in their pockets, and placed a bunch of people well.

As soon as he had dinner and asked Captain Yu to gather his men and go into the room to rest, Mu Qingzi told Mao Dong to keep vigil, carefully arranged the defensive talisman he brought, and planned to rest for the night, and go out tomorrow to inquire about the situation.

Early tomorrow morning, Mu Qingzi will take the spirit bag with a small ring, take the cat Dong who has grown into a mount, and go out to the street to walk around.

Generally, only the demon clan and the shape-shifting demon clan will appear alone in the town market, although Mao Dong also has the mid-stage cultivation of Neidan, but he has not yet transformed into a shape, and it is not suitable to go to the street alone, he must follow Mu Qingzi as a mount, otherwise he will be captured by others as an ownerless spirit animal.

Mu Qingzi just led it and walked slowly, thinking about where to find a place to find out the situation of the Xie family's disappearance, according to Ah Jin's statement, this mountain market town was originally the main residence of the Xie family, and the Zhong family, which later developed, was only a side branch of the Xie family.

Now that the main side is upside down, the side branch suddenly made a fortune, and the main family has disappeared, which can't help but arouse Ah Jin's great suspicion, but he can't come by himself, and the Mu Qingzi and Mao Dong and Xiaohuan sent have no combat power, so they have to order them to quietly enter the village, and don't shoot.

Mu Qingzi kept in mind Ah Jin's entrustment, and just pretended to be a traveler, anyway, the city lord's warrant was also written like this: "There is a friend of the city lord, Mr. Mu, who wants to travel to the Pengshan area for a short time, and I hope that the checkpoint where he passes by will be released and taken care of."

As the lord of Yidu, the big city of the Gambi Kingdom, although he does not have jurisdiction over the "three regardless" areas of the Pengshan region, his prestige spreads far and wide, and the princes, families and sects in the thousands of miles around Yidu City will give him some face, and no one will move the people he sends.

Mu Qingzi wandered around the streets and alleys of the downtown for several days in a row, not only entering teahouses, wine shops, but also medicine shops, utensils shops, shops, inns and not letting go, taking Mao Dong in and out, knocking on the side, and asking the elderly about the whereabouts of the Xie family.

But the old people who were asked about this were all dumbfounded, saying that they didn't know that Mianshanji once had such a Xie family, and now there is indeed a person named "Xie" in Zhongshan City, but it is just an ordinary family, and it can't become a family.

After going out and returning to the inn room one day, Mao Dong became the size of a ruler, sat on the wooden floor, brushed six cat whiskers, and said very frustratedly: "Mu Daoyou, my old cat thinks that I am not looking in the wrong direction." ”

Mu Qingzi released Xiaohuan out of the spirit bag, let it go out to have fun on its own, the terrain here is different from Yidu City, the cotton mountain set is under the mountain, it seems that there are things it is interested in, in addition to going out to do the serious work of asking for news, free time always give Xiaohuan free movement, let it go around drilling.

He watched Xiaohuan disappear from the ground with the rolling stone ball, shook his head and sighed: "Alas, Dong Daoyou, we are not familiar with the place, and we can't startle the snake, Daoyou specially confessed to act in secret, other than that, Poor Dao can't think of any other way to inquire." ”

Mao Dong raised a fluffy paw and shook it, bared his teeth and said: "According to the old cat's high opinion, it was hundreds of years ago, it is impossible for these mortals to know, I have also paid attention to it on the street, not a single Jindan monk is missing, at most there are a few innate people, it seems that it has only been advanced for a long time, you know, the longevity of the human race foundation cultivator is only more than two hundred years, how can these people know what happened hundreds of years ago." ”