Chapter 2 Inquiry

The wind is rustling, the ancient road is bleak, and the lonely extension.

Zhou Yixian and his granddaughter Xiaohuan have left Death and traveled east for three days.

At the right time of the day, they were still walking on the ancient road, but the originally flat wilderness on both sides of the ancient road has been replaced by the gradually increasing hill jungle.

Zhou Yixian looked forward and saw a dilapidated stone pavilion not far from the road. He just felt tired of walking, so he turned his head to Xiaohuan and said, "Let's go and have a rest."

Xiaohuan answered, and then looked back. His eyes were full of smiles and he said, "Maoist priest, let's sit down together!"

The wild dog Taoist who had been following them smiled and nodded. Originally, after the wild dog Taoist left Shize, somehow, he followed Zhou Yixian and Xiaohuan far away. At first, Zhou Yixian was a little uneasy. But a few days ago, after suddenly meeting the middle-aged man who claimed to be tens of thousands of people on the road, Xiaohuan said a few words to him, and the relationship was a little closer. In the past few days, he got closer and followed them directly.

Zhou Yixian walked to the pavilion and watched the wild dog Taoist follow Xiaohuan in. He was not as polite to the wild dog as Xiaohuan. He rolled his eyes and suddenly said strangely, "I said, Mr. Wild Dog, why have you been following both of us? We are all poor. There is nothing for you to grab.

The wild dog Taoist stared at Zhou Yixian and sneerned, "Stinky old man, you're pretending to be poor again. Don't think I don't know the weirdness in your bamboo pole!"

Zhou Yixian and Xiaohuan were both stunned. Zhou Yixian jumped up as if his buttocks had been burned by fire. His face turned red and he said angrily, "Good boy, I have known that you are not a good person for a long time. You really coveted my money."

The wild dog Taoist gave him a blank look. Before he could speak, he only heard the little ring next to him and said slightly surprised, "Taoist priest, how do you know?"

As soon as Xiaohuan opened his mouth, the wild dog Taoist suddenly lowered his voice for somehow. He hesitated for a moment and said to Xiaohuan, "He doesn't leave his hand every day, and even sleeps in his arms. That's all right, but every little while, he can't help touching the bamboo pole. Looking at this, the idiot will know that there is something wrong with the bamboo pole.

The little ring burst into laughter. Zhou Yixian blushed, snorted, turned his head, and suddenly felt that it was too embarrassing. He turned around and said angrily to the wild dog Taoist, "Even if there is something wrong with my bamboo pole, it's not your turn. Tell me, why are you following us all the time?

The wild dog Taoist was stunned and couldn't speak for a moment.

Zhou Xian suddenly became proud, with a smile on his face and pointed to the wild dog and said, "Ha, don't think I don't know that you coveted the beauty of my property and our family's small ring all day long..."

"Grandpa!" The little ring turned red and shouted loudly at Zhou Yixian.

Zhou Yixian realized that what was wrong, but the old face could not be pulled down. He said, "Say, isn't it..."

The wild dog Taoist secretly took a look at Xiaohuan, and saw that the white skin on the girl's face was white and red at this moment, slightly shy, but her bright eyes were like stars, shining, and a sense of youthful beauty was really coming to her face. The wild dog suddenly felt a sense of low self-esteem for no reason and lowered his head.

Xiaohuan stared at Grandpa Zhou Yixian. She has been wandering around the world with Zhou Yixian since she was a child. She has a lot of knowledge. Naturally, she is more open-minded than ordinary girls. At this moment, she turned her head to the wild dog and said, "Master, don't listen to my grandfather's nonsense. He can't spit out ivory in the dog's mouth..." Zhou Yixian was furious and said, "How dare you call grandpa a dog? Obviously, that guy is a wild dog!"

Xiaohuan spit out his tongue and made a grimace at the wild dog. The wild dog buzzed in his mind, and he only felt that his eyes were full of this beautiful face, which could no longer tolerate other colors, and he did not care about Zhou Yixian's ridicule himself.

Zhou Yixian turned his head angrily and said to the wild dog, "Hey, you haven't said why you followed us!" If you can tell a good reason, I will let you follow; if you can't say it, hey hey, just let you know how awesome I am!"

The wild dog slowly withdrew his eyes, was silent for a long time, and said, "I don't know either."

"Ha!" Zhou Yixian laughed and his face was full of disdain.

Xiaohuan looked at the wild dog Taoist and said with great interest, "Daoist priest, what's wrong? You don't have a home to go back to, do you?"

The wild dog smiled bitterly and said, "You're right." Somehow, he seemed to be particularly willing to speak in front of this girl at this moment. As soon as he opened his words, he said inexplicably: "I have been strange since I was a child. After I was born, I was thrown into the wilderness as a monster by my parents, leaving me to live and die..."

"Ah!" Xiaohuan covered his mouth with his hand and was shocked. Zhou Yixian rolled his eyes and looked unbelief.

The wild dog Taoist continued, "Later, I was found by a group of wild dogs. They didn't eat me, but fed me with food, so after I became sensible, I always called myself a wild dog."

Zhou Yixian sneered again next to him, but Xiaohuan looked focused and nodded slightly.

The wild dog Taoist ignored Zhou Yixian, smiled at Xiaohuan and said, "So I haven't had a home since I was a child. If I have to say it, the kennel is my home. Later, a senior of the previous generation of the blood refining hall happened to meet me, and a moment of pity put me under the door and preached my Tao. Since then, my bento blood refining hall is my home.

Zhou Yixian sneered and said, "Then you should go back to the Blood Refining Hall. Why are you still walking outside all day?"

The wild dog Taoist lowered his head, with a gloomy face, and said for a long time, "The Blood Refining Hall has been destroyed by the Ghost King Sect. The leader is the ghost fierce you have seen."

"What?" Zhou Yixian and Xiaohuan were surprised at the same time. The internal struggle of the demon religion is fierce and cruel, but it is not widely publicized, so Zhou Yi and others do not know about the annexation of the Ghost King Sect and the Blood Refining Hall. However, at the same time, they were surprised, but their reactions were also different.

Zhou Yixian frowned, as if he had thought of something. He shook his head and sighed for a long time and said, "It's a pity! When the black-hearted old man was there, how powerful the blood refining hall was, alas..."

Xiaohuan didn't think so much, but after being shocked, he remembered something and said, "Is it the ghost who took people to destroy you? Then why do you still follow him?"

The corner of the wild dog Taoist's mouth twitched and slowly explained the matter briefly.

After hearing this, Xiaohuan snorted and said to Zhou Yixian, "Those old people are too boneless."

Zhou Yixian stared at her and said, "You are young, what do you know about backbone? If it's a matter of life and death, not everyone has that backbone.

Xiaohuan curled the corners of his mouth and said, "Then wouldn't this wild dog Taoist priest rather die than surrender?"

Zhou Yixian looked at the wild dog, nodded and said, "I didn't see that you still have this backbone before. It's not easy. But over the years, the ghost has been known as the Bloody Prince, who has killed countless people. How can he let you go?

The wild dog Taoist shook his head and said, "I don't know either."

Zhou Yixian was speechless, with a deep thought in his eyes, and his usual playful smiling face has gradually disappeared. When the wild dog Taoist saw that Zhou Yixian suddenly showed such a look, which was very different from the past, he couldn't help but be stunned, but just as Xiaohuan opened his mouth to speak, his attention was attracted.

Xiaohuan looked at him twice and whispered, "Then don't you feel uncomfortable following him like this all day? He destroyed the blood refining hall that treated you with great kindness. You must hate him very much, right?

The wild dog was at a loss, and then silent. After a long time, he slowly shook his head and said blankly, "I don't know. Originally, I hated this person very much, but in the past few days, I slowly thought, what's the use of blaming him? Even if it's not him, it's not the Ghost King Sect, Wandumen will do the same thing as Hehuan Sect, and the Ghost King Sect is just a step ahead.

"Huh?" Xiaohuan didn't say anything. Zhou Yixian first made a slightly surprised voice and looked up and down at the wild dog Taoist again, which was quite impressive: "How can you think of this layer? I underestimate you."

The wild dog Taoist glanced at Zhou Yixian. Obviously, he was not interested in Zhou Yixian's praise. Zhou Yixian was not funny. He smiled and was not angry.

The wild dog Taoist took a look at Xiaohuan and saw that her eyes were as bright as water, and her eyes were full of waves, as if they were flowing. It was really touching. Somehow, he didn't dare to look more. He lowered his head and said, "That day, when I came out of death, I was so annoyed to stay I will see the boss and others. I happen to see you, and I don't know why I followed you.

The wild dog Taoist suddenly seemed to think of something. He quickly raised his head and said to Xiaohuan, "But I don't have any intention to hurt you. I don't know what to do. I'm probably just walking around!" If... if you don't want to, I'll go now."

Xiaohuan smiled and said, "It doesn't matter! I don't matter. Then come with us in the future! Anyway, the world is so big that I don't think you have a place to go.

Zhou Yixian was shocked and pulled the little ring and said in a low voice, "Stupid girl, why are you messing with this guy with us?"

Xiaohuan glanced at Grandpa and said, "What's this guy? He has a name. Besides, he didn't mean any harm. He just walked with us. What's there to be afraid of?

Zhou Yixian said angrily, "You don't know the depth of heaven and earth. He is a notorious person in the demon religion. I heard that he used to..."

Zhou Yixian suddenly stopped and didn't say anything. Xiaohuan stared at him and said, "What happened to him before? Tell me that you have heard of what he has done before?

Zhou Yixian scratched his head, thought for a long time, and said, "I don't seem to have heard of what he did..."

Xiaohuan smiled and was about to turn around. Zhou Yixian grabbed Xiaohuan and said, "But it's always not good for you to let this person follow us!" Why is this so?"

Xiaohuan said lightly, "It seems that when we were passing by the barren hill last night, a wild boar rushed out of the roadside. Grandpa, you hid far away. It was the Taoist priest who rushed to drive the wild boar away, otherwise I, a weak woman, would be facing a big wild boar alone."

Zhou Yixian blushed and said, "I'm old and weak. How can I stop a big wild boar? Besides, are you a weak woman, not to mention the wild boar, even if there is a tiger, you are not..."

Xiaohuan suddenly coughed, and Zhou Yixian didn't say anything.

Xiaohuan turned around, smiled at the wild dog Taoist sitting on the side, and said, "Taoist priest, please take more care of him in the future."

The wild dog quickly got up and said, "No, nothing. If there is any rough work, just let me do it."

Zhou Yixian snorted far away.

At this moment, a cold and peaceful voice suddenly came from outside the pavilion, saying, "So you came here."

The wild dog shook his body and turned his head to look. The little ring next to him had lost his voice and said, "Ah! It's you!"

On the ancient road outside the stone pavilion, there stood a young man with no expression on his face and a gray-haired monkey lying on his shoulder. It was a ghost.

It is early autumn. Although it is noon, the sun is not as hot as summer, and a cool breeze blows outside the stone pavilion from time to time.

Just in the stone pavilion, the atmosphere suddenly fell silent with the arrival of the uninvited guest.

The wild dog Taoist sat aside with a red and white face, staring at the ground, and he was really nervous. Gui Li still stood on the other side with a blank face. Instead of looking at the wild dog Taoist, he stared at Zhou Yixian.

Xiaohuan looked at the wild dog Taoist, then at Gui Li, and said carefully for a long time, "Well, Mr. Zhang, Gui Li, why are you here?"

Gui Li looked at her and said, "I'm here to find your grandfather."

Zhou Yixian was stunned and said, "Look for me?"

Gui Li nodded and said, "Yes, I would like to ask the senior a question."

Xiaohuan was immediately relieved and smiled secretly at the wild dog to reassure him. Then he turned to be interested in Gui Li and said, "Ah! You are such a powerful person, what do you want to ask my grandfather?

While talking, she suddenly saw the little gray on Gui Li's shoulder. A pair of dripping eyes turned around and grinned at herself. She couldn't help but love her and said with a smile, "Ha, I'm the one who gave you sugar-coated haws that day! Do you still remember me?"

"Squeak, squeak." Monkey Xiaohui shouted and nodded incessantly. Suddenly, he jumped up from the ghost's shoulder and jumped into Xiaohuan's arms. It seems that the monkey has a good impression of the sugar-coated haws that day.

Xiaohuan smiled and reached out to catch Xiaohui. Unexpectedly, after he got it, it suddenly sank. It turned out to be unexpectedly heavy and almost threw it to the ground. Fortunately, she reacted quickly and quickly increased her strength. Then she stabilized her body and held Xiaohui, but there was a burst of surprise in her heart. It's only a few days, and Xiaohui's figure hasn't grown up much. Why does he suddenly weigh more than half of his weight? It's really strange!

Gui Li looked at the little ring teasing Xiao Hui and giggled around. He looked very happy. There seemed to be a faint smile in the depths of his eyes, but then disappeared and turned his head to face Zhou Yixian.

Zhou Yixian shrugged his shoulders and said, "I'm only nine years old and I'm rich. There's nothing I don't know about the world. But it's strange that you would ask me for advice. What's the matter, can you tell me?"

Gui Li ignored his boast and said lightly, "On that day, there was a fish-headed monster who attacked your granddaughter. Do you remember?"

Zhou Yixian was stunned, and the wild dog Taoist and Xiaohuan next to him listened to him and looked over at the same time.

Xiaohuan hugged Xiaohui and said, "Yes! That monster is so fierce. If it hadn't been for Mr. Ghost Li and Sister Ping'er in time, I would have been killed by it.

Gui Li still looked at Zhou Yixian and said, "At that time, you said that the monster was a fishman of one of the sixty-three different races in southern Xinjiang, right?"

Zhou Yixian was silent for a moment and said, "That's good."

Gui Li arched his hand and said, "I don't know what else the seniors know about this fishman family?"

Zhou Yixian took a look at Gui Li and said, "Why are you suddenly interested in this?"

Gui Li pondered for a moment and nodded, "Since I ask my senior, I don't have to hide anything else from you. After you left, my men seemed to have been attacked by a group of monsters similar to the fishman, with heavy casualties, so I want to learn from my predecessors.

Zhou Yixian frowned, his body gradually straightened up, and his eyes gradually thought, but he didn't say anything. Gui Li was not in a hurry and stood aside quietly. For a long time, Zhou Yixian suddenly said, "Is the death of your dead cruel? Most of the bodies have been cut into several sections. It's terrible?"

"Ah!" This whispered, but it was made by the little ring. Seeing her face full of horror, she was obviously very surprised.

Gui Li nodded slowly, looked deeply at the old man in front of him, and said, "Yes, that's right."

Zhou Yixian nodded and said, "That can't be wrong. It must be the work of the mermaids of the 63 different races in the 100,000 mountains in southern Xinjiang. This alien group has a strange appearance and was born with a fish head at the time of birth. According to their own legends, it is the offspring of the ancient fish god and the human woman**, and they have always been the descendants of the fish god. This alien has always been cruel and easy to kill, and believes that whether it is an animal or a human, only by cutting the body to pieces after the slaughter can the ghost be chopped and killed at the same time, so as to avoid future trouble. So under their hands, whether it's animals or people, most of them can't even save a whole body.

Suddenly, there was a strange sound. When the two looked at it, Xiao Huan's face was pale, his eyebrows were frowned, and they were a little queasy.

Zhou Yixian shook his head slightly, looked at Xiaohuan and sighed, "There are so many more ferocious things in the world that you don't know!"

Gui Li naturally won't be like a small ring, but he also frowned slightly and said, "Why have you never heard of such a fierce alien race before?"

Zhou Yixian said lightly, "You have always lived in the Central Plains, and naturally you don't know such wild aliens. Among the 100,000 mountains in southern Xinjiang, there are evil water and poor mountains everywhere. The people there drink blood, which is completely different from the people who were enlightened in the Central Plains. However, those aliens have always been used to the place where their ancestors lived, and on the road that the Middle-earth must be connected to the southern Xinjiang is the location of the 'Incanding Valley', one of the three major decent schools in the world. Occasionally, several barbarians ran over, and most of them were killed by the disciples of the Burning Valley Details of ethnic groups in Xinjiang. When I was young, I also traveled around the world and ran to the vicinity of 100,000 mountains in southern Xinjiang, so I knew a little about it.

Gui Li nodded slowly, but the light in his eyes gradually lit up and said, "As my predecessor said, it is persible to run in occasionally, but such a large group of aliens silently entered the Central Plains, and when it came to the death swamp no less than thousands of miles away from the southern Xinjiang, it was It's impossible. Unless you guard the incense valley in southern Xinjiang, what's wrong..."

Zhou Yixian suddenly stretched out and said lazily, "That's your business. I'm too lazy to care about it."

Gui Li pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "Thank you, senior."

After saying that, he turned around, but saw Xiaohuan holding Xiaohui and teasing it.

Xiaohuan looked at the ghost in the corner of his eyes and couldn't help laughing and said, "Your monkey is so cute! By the way, why is it suddenly so heavy? Also, you can see that it suddenly opened such a deep gray mark on its forehead, as if it had one more eye. Ha ha, isn't it? Monkey?"

With that, Xiaohuan made a grimace at Xiaohui. Xiaohui grinned and swayed behind him.

Ghost's heart moved. Since he was in the Heavenly Emperor's treasure house that day, Xiaohui drank the cup of mystery ** and swallowed the strange stone, he slept for two days and nights like being drunk. After waking up, he didn't see what he ate, but his weight suddenly increased a lot, and his appearance gradually began to change. The hair color became brighter and brighter, especially the gray mark on his forehead, which became more and more obvious.

However, except for these, Xiaohui has no other changes. It's still the same. At first, Gui Li was a little worried, but when he saw that Xiaohui was not different, he was gradually relieved.

At this moment, the ghost paused and turned his eyes to the wild dog Taoist. The wild dog Taoist looked at him with a little fear in his eyes.

Gui Li said lightly, "Are you going to follow them in the future?"

The wild dog Taoist was silent for a moment and said, "Yes."

Gui Li said, "What I told you before, do you remember that these old people will come to you at any time?"

The wild dog's face was gloomy, but when he looked at Xiaohuan, he still said, "I know, I don't care. It's their own traitor. Do you still have the face to come to see me?"

Gui Li looked at Xiaohuan intentionally or unintentionally, then withdrew his eyes and said, "Since you want to do this, it's up to you."

The wild dog Taoist was stunned and looked up. It seemed that he didn't expect Gui Li to be so talkative. Gui Li didn't care about him. He walked aside and said hello to Xiaohui. Xiaohui rushed out of Xiaohuan's arms and jumped to Gui Li's shoulder three or two times.

Xiaohuan was stunned and a little reluctant. He said, "Are you leaving now?"

Gui Li nodded, arched his hand to Zhou Yixian, and then the blue light under his body rose, instantly turned into brilliant blue light, rushed straight to the sky, and disappeared in the sky in a short time.

Seeing the ghost figure disappear, the wild dog Taoist suddenly took a breath. It seemed that the ghost stood here just now, and there was an invisible power, which made him breathless.

Xiaohuan looked at it and was about to laugh at him a few words. Suddenly, he heard a gust of wind behind him, and a soft voice sounded softly behind his back: "Sister, we have met again."

Xiaohuan was stunned. Before she turned around, she smiled and said, "Sister Ping'er."

Looking back, it was indeed a colorful and magnificent golden bottle, standing behind with a smile, and I don't know when it appeared.

After all, the wild dog Taoist is a man of the demon religion. He is quite afraid of the golden bottle, and his expression is a little uncomfortable. But Xiaohuan and Jin Ping'er had a good relationship. When they saw her, they were overjoyed and pulled her to laugh.

Jin Ping'er, like her sister, touched Xiaohuan's head lovingly, and then looked at the sky intentionally or unintentionally, and said, "Xiaohuan sister, I'm looking for you today. In fact, I want to ask your grandfather a few words."

Xiaohuan, Zhou Yixian, including wild dogs, were all stunned.

Jin Ping'er said to Zhou Yixian indifferently, "I still have a few questions to ask you about the alien fishmen in southern Xinjiang!"

Zhou Yi was dumbfounded and frowned, but Jin Ping'er's eyes looked lightly at the sky before asking.

Between the high blank clouds, a faint light shuttled through the clouds and gradually went south.