Chapter 195 Reunion in Miancheng
When Ouyang Xiao Leng and Ouyang Hongye arrived outside Miancheng, it was almost dusk. Several clouds in the purple sky surrounded the red sun and slowly sank to the west, making the whole city seem to be shrouded in a faint rouge. Because they don't know much about the situation in the primitive forest, it's too dangerous to go in at night, so the two plan to find an inn in the city to stay overnight, and leave for the depths of the dense forest the next morning.
Although it is this time, the streets of Miancheng are still very lively. The small vendors on the street keep shouting, hoping to make another fortune at the last moment of the day. Since Qianqi and Lingyu exposed the true face of the black fish spirit pretending to be a night fork and broke the slave black market of the mountain weasel, the city also seems to be more vibrant than before.
Although it is not as prosperous as Wangcheng or Dongyao, the residents of each city are filled with an indescribable happiness and joy. Almost as soon as they entered the city, Ouyang Hongye felt this. But Ouyang Xiao Leng didn't care about these. All he thought about was to find a place to stay and fall asleep. When he opened his eyes again, he could go to Qingyun, where Xia Qiu might be imprisoned.
Soon after entering the city, they found a small inn. The inn has a total of two floors. There is a restaurant where you can eat and drink downstairs, and upstairs is a guest room. After eating something casually downstairs, Ouyang Xiao Leng went back to the upstairs room and went to bed early. Ouyang Hongye stayed to drink alone. When the guests were almost separated, he called the innkeeper to sit with him and took the opportunity to inquire about the recent situation in Miancheng.
In fact, the owner of this inn is not the first time to show off what he knows to the guests who come to Miancheng. Seeing that Ouyang Hongye was also interested in the recent legendary incident in Miancheng, he pretended to be mysterious and said to him, "Speaking of which, a big thing and a strange thing has happened in Miancheng recently. !"
"Oh? Tell me about it!" Ouyang Hongye poured a glass of wine he had just bought for the boss and handed it over to ask.
"The recent big event is that before you came, a black fish spirit who pretended to be a night fork and domineering suddenly appeared in the city, and the mountain weasel who appeared earlier than him and forced people to go to a dead end and had to sell him as a slave. These two villains have made the residents of Miancheng suffer a lot! As a result, two young heroes suddenly came a few days ago, which not only exposed the true face of the black fish spirit, but also subdued the weasel and his men!" Speaking of this, the boss's eyes shine with admiration.
"What's the strange thing?" Ouyang Xueye thought that the choice of staying to inquire about the situation was really right.
"Two hundred miles to the west of Miancheng is a primitive forest. Do you know?" The innkeeper asked.
"Uh-huh, my brother and I just want to go hunting in that forest." Ouyang Xueye casually told a lie.
"Young man, I think you are quite well dressed and talkative. You must not be a prince or nobleman, but also the son of a rich businessman. I advise you and your brother not to venture in that forest if it's not for the sake of life!" After saying that, the innkeeper drank all the cups to hide his nervousness when he mentioned the primitive forest.
"How to say this?" Ouyang Xueye asked.
"There is a camp outside the forest. The camp is full of hunters who make a living by hunting. Their leader is called Lao Yi. This group of hunters have lived there for ten years. They have always been a collective action when hunting, and they are sheltered by the gods of the temple of the forest, so there has never been an accident of their companions being killed or missing by beasts in the past. But recently, many hunters have disappeared into the dense forest for no reason. Needless to say, the corpses have not even left a clue. Everyone said that there were monsters in the forest. The innkeeper's hand holding the cup trembled a little.
"Is it really so evil?!" Ouyang Hongye poured him another glass of wine and said.
"Isn't it? Why did I lie to you?" The innkeeper looked at him with fear in his eyes.
After listening to the innkeeper's words, Ouyang Xueye remembered what Ouyang Yong said that there is still a way to make the earth temple appear in the case of not being able to get tributes, that is, to inject enough blood into the altar to arouse the resonance of the source blood pool and force the earth temple to rise. If so, those hunters may have become the victims used by Qingyun to open the Temple of the Earth.
On the other hand, he was also interested in the two legendary teenagers mentioned by the boss, so he turned the topic back and asked the boss, "Where did those two teenagers come from?"
"It seems to be from Dongyao. I don't know the details. After they solved the two bullies in Miancheng, they soon opened and didn't give everyone a chance to thank them, alas..." The innkeeper sighed regretfully.
"Dong Yao?" Ouyang Hongye was stunned after hearing this, thinking that the two teenagers were most likely Qianqi and Lingyu, but why did they suddenly run to Miancheng? Do they also know about the source blood pool, so they came for Xia Qiu? If that's the case, why didn't they inform Wang Cheng? They won't still be angry with Ouyang Xiao Leng. He said goodbye to the boss with these questions. He went back to the room and saw that Ouyang Xiao Leng was lying near the ** with his back to the door, and he was sleeping in ** and clothes near the door.
In the morning, Ouyang Xiao Leng was the first to wake up Ouyang Hongye. He smelled the smell of wine all over his body and frowned. The two went straight to the virgin forest and saw the hunter's camp in the mouth of the innkeeper. The light in the early morning hit the white tents as if they had burned a layer of gold edges.
In the past, the hunters had already set out to hunt in the dense forest, but now they are all sitting in the open space in the middle of the tent and chatting. When they saw someone coming, they looked up at Ouyang Hongye and Ouyang Xiao Leng on the horse.
"What do you do?" A five- and three-thick hunter stood up and asked.
"We are from Wangcheng and plan to go hunting in the woods." Ouyang Hongye answered first.
"Look at your dress, you don't look like a hunter." Another hunter sitting there covered with a cloak also stood up and said.
"Thousands of riders!" Ouyang Hongye and Ouyang Xiao Leng almost suddenly recognized that it was Qianqi's voice.
Qian Qi lifted the hat on the cloak and asked, "Why are you here?"
Another black cloak also lifted his hat and stood up. Ouyang Hongye and Ouyang Xiao Leng turned out to be Lingyu. He waved his hand to the surprised hunters beside him and said, "These two are our friends!" Then he pointed to the tall hunter who stood up first and said, "This is the leader of the hunters, called Lao Yi!"
"Hello!" Ouyang Xueye first said hello to Lao Yi, and then then said, "We came here for the blood pool of source crime. I heard that Xia Qiu was taken there by Qingyun to change souls."
"What? Soul change?!" Qianqi was scared by these words.
"Well, that's right!" Ouyang Xiaomeng nodded and answered, and it was no longer embarrassing to see Qianqi again.
"We heard that Yecha had appeared near Miancheng before, so we chased it to Miancheng and found that it was just a fake. Despite this, the fake told us that the real Yasha had appeared outside the city. Later, after the two of us solved some things in the city, we just wanted to go back to Dongyao, but outside the city heard that the hunters disappeared one after another in the virgin forest, so we directly came here to investigate the clues. When he met Ouyang Xiao Leng again, Qianqi had lost his anger for a long time, but answered calmly.
"Typ Tell me what you have investigated." Ouyang Hongye asked again.
"Lao B told us that just some time ago, the number of fierce beasts in the forest suddenly surged, and there were many more tree people guarding it, so it was not easy to enter the depths of the dense forest." Ling Yu took over the topic and responded.
"We have been hunting in this forest for nearly ten years, and we have never seen so many cat and tree people. In the past, they were controlled by the gods of the earth temple and would not attack us hunters at all, but recently they seem to be out of control. I suspect that they caught our companions." The hunter leader Lao Yi said angrily and clenched his fist.
"How many people are missing?" Ouyang Hongye asked.
"There were originally more than 30 men in this camp, but now there are only about a dozen left!" Lao Yi replied.
"The two of us tried several times to forcibly break through the defense line of the tree man and the cat's son, but failed to get close to the earth temple. Originally, we planned to send a letter to my father and you to call for some help, but I didn't expect that it was really the right time for you to come!" Qianqi stretched out a hand to Ouyang's little cold hand.
"Qingyun intends to use the source sin blood pool sealed by the three temples to change the soul of Xia Qiu. The earth temple is the first of them. The whole soul change takes 49 days, so we must save her at this time!" Ouyang Xiaon held it tightly and said to him without hesitation that the determination to save Xia Qiu at this moment had pulled the hearts of the two teenagers back together.
"The thief Qingyun actually came up with such a vicious trick!" Qianqi was so angry for a moment that he felt that the blood all over his body surged to the top of his head.
"I heard that there is no possibility of reversing by using this method to change the soul, right?" Ling Yu felt that his whole body was trembling.
"Well... So we have to save her body before that. Her soul is now in the infinite heaven and my father. With the help of that little make, we have a psychic." Ouyang Xiao Leng turned his eyes to Lingyu and said.
"Well, if only I were here, I also want to hear her voice!" Qianqi said with some regret.
"That's right, I must save Sister Xia anyway!" Lingyu's eyes answered firmly.
"Although our ability is limited, we can also help you. We still have some experience in dealing with cat-butt. The cat-butt here is different from other places. It is bigger and more aggressive!" The hunter leader Lao Yi stepped in.
"Thank you very much. You don't have to take risks with us!" Ouyang Hongye said with some apnoy.
"We make a living by hunting. If you can really solve those cat and tree people, and find out what happened to the god of the earth temple, we can also take back the way of life, otherwise we have to hold them together and wait to die." Lao Yi looked down at the other hunters and said.
Other hunters followed Yinghe:
"The boss is right!"
"Yes, you can also find those missing brothers!"
"Well, yes!"
"I haven't seen what a tree man looks like." This is the first time that Ouyang Xiao Leng has heard that there is a tree man. It is inevitable that he is a little curious.
"They were originally tree demons protecting the earth temple, and they should be regarded as the hands of the Lord of God. On the outside, it looks like half a man and half a tree. Each tree man is about five meters tall and attacks the enemy with countless vines as arms. The explosive fruit growing on their canopy is their weapon. The power of the explosive fruit is very huge. If it is blown up by them, ordinary people will definitely die. Even if the demon power is powerful, it will have to be skinned. Lao Yi said with a serious expression and lifted his right sleeve and had a dark scar on his arm. "This was left before. Although it was only a little bit of the spark splashed when the explosion fell to the ground, it still left a big wound."