After leaving Tianhe County, Pei Mengqing, Xiaori and Ju Ju headed southeast.
Two big oranges squatted on his shoulders, their claws tugging on his collar. Pei Mengqing quickly took steps in the air, stepping on the crowns of trees from time to time, maintaining a barely equal level of consumption and recovery.
The reason why he is reluctant is because once his physical strength is exhausted to only 40%, one of Xiaori or Tachibana will transform into a tiger and carry the other two forward. During this period, he can recover his physical strength.
This constant rotation basically ensures that every person or cat has enough energy to travel long distances.
Basically, we walked out of Liang County in the morning. In the afternoon, we had already walked a third of the way through Runan County.
Seeing the sky getting dark, Pei Mengqing asked the two big oranges for their opinions:
"Should we find a place to rest, or should we travel on a starry night? But there are no stars and moon recently. I saw a lot of dark clouds in the afternoon."
The weather in this world is very regular. Generally speaking, if there are dark clouds in the afternoon, there will most likely be dark clouds in the evening as well. This is very important for travelers who need to travel at night.
In addition, since leaving Liang County, it has been spring elsewhere, without a trace of snow.
Although there is still a bit of cold in early spring, it is far less torturous than the cold winter in Liang County.
There is even something poetic about the cold spring weather. If it were a talented person with great literary talent, he would definitely be able to write some poetry.
For a person like Pei Mengqing, it would be okay if he was allowed to curse and curse at others, but not if he was asked to recite poems.
The two orange cats did not receive much education. They were only literate and could understand some official announcements, but they had nothing to do with reciting poems.
"Then let's rest for one night and then talk about it. Are you going to leave?" Xiaori said.
"Okay, let's go." Pei Mengqing said this and stared at the forest from the forest to the forest.
As soon as they landed in the forest, Juju and Xiaori immediately emitted protective golden light, illuminating their surroundings.
Fortunately, I didn't encounter any more shadow touches this time.
Pei Mengqing and the two big oranges quickly cut down trees to build a wooden house, and then rested inside for the night, taking turns to keep vigil.
Nothing happened all night, and they continued to set off early the next morning. In the afternoon, they finally arrived at the edge of Runan County and Jiangxia County.
Ahead was a village that looked very large, or from the low city walls, it would be an exaggeration to say it was a small town.
"Have a rest here tonight? Or go directly?" Pei Mengqing still asked the two big oranges for their wishes.
But this time Xiaori and Tachibana had different ideas. After all, the distance was not far away. If they continued on their way, they might be able to get there in the middle of the night, so they both wanted to go quickly.
"Okay, then let's go on our way on a starry night." Pei Mengqing had no objection.
But nothing happened along the way, and now finally there is a problem again.
They hit a "ghost wall".
They ran around for a long time, no matter where they went, they couldn't get out, and no matter how they walked, the village appeared in front of them, as if forcing them to go in.
"Something is wrong, Lao Pei, do you know the formation?" Xiaori asked.
"He doesn't understand. If he did, we definitely wouldn't go around and go back to the starting point." Ju Ju said.
"Well, I really don't understand." Pei Mengqing could only say.
"In that case, let's go to the town and meet the guy who put up this formation to see what's wrong with him that makes him set up such a formation here." Ju Ju said angrily.
Don't blame it for being angry. Seeing that the end is right in front of you, you can quickly and smoothly improve your strength. However, someone set up such a enchantment array here to trap them here, which makes everyone angry.
People are most easily impatient when they have taken ninety-nine steps in a hundred steps.
The same is true for cats, even cats to an extent.
So Pei Mengqing placed her right hand on the Tianshuang Sword and started to enter the village.
The walls of the villages and towns were so low that even horses seemed unable to stop them.
Those who are robbing homes can be jumped over with a little jump on horseback.
However, it is also possible that wind and rain have eroded the earthen wall, so it is understandable that it is shorter than before.
But what surprised them was that such a town with obvious problems had normal lights and a sense of humanity.
Don't underestimate the human touch. Generally, places with few living people have no human touch.
To be specific about what human flavor is, it can be understood as the breath and signs of people's existence and activities, and it continues to this day.
Obviously, this village, whose name is unknown and not on Pei Mengqing's map, is very human.
"This is even weirder." Pei Mengqing said silently.
But they soon discovered the problem.
As soon as they entered the village, they found that five or six people were approaching from the surroundings and surrounding them. Their postures were the same as ordinary people, but their expressions were strange.
Pei Mengqing counted carefully, there were six people.
The expressions of these six people were either calm, excited, or greedy, and they looked like they were robbers.
They looked human and spoke human words, but there was nothing human about them.
"Be careful, they are not human." Juju also noticed this, and the golden light on his body shone brightly.
It turned out to be really useful.
Under the golden light of the Orange Bureau, the steps of those "people" immediately stopped, began to retreat slowly, and covered their pale faces with their sleeves.
"Who are you?" Pei Mengqing asked.
These people didn't speak, but took two steps back.
Seeing that they were silent, Pei Mengqing couldn't take action casually without understanding the situation, so she continued walking to the center of the village, hoping to find an inn or restaurant, or at least inquire about the news.
But those "people" still hung around him and refused to leave, moving forward as he moved forward, and whispering from time to time.
Pei Mengqing didn't care what they said. Anyway, when he arrived at a place that looked like a restaurant, he knocked on the door.
"Is anyone there? Stay at the hotel!" he shouted.
There are people inside, he and the two big oranges can feel this.
But when he knocked on the door, he didn't open the door. He could clearly feel that those people were not far behind the door, and it wasn't because of his ears. But he just didn't open the door as if he didn't hear it.
Pei Mengqing thought for a moment and didn't force his way in, even though the door was so thin that he could kick it open with just one kick.
"It's probably because of the presence of those unknown things around them that they dare not open the door, or in other words, something will happen after they open the door."
Xiaori reasoned logically and felt that it was those "people" who made the people in the house afraid to open the door.
In order to test this idea, they walked around the entire village and found that the doors and windows of every house were closed. Although they could see the lights, no one was willing to open the door regardless of knocking on the door or asking for accommodation.
In order not to kill other people, Pei Mengqing did not think about breaking into any family's door. Instead, she found a house with a glass window that seemed to have good conditions and knocked on the window.
The sound of knocking on the window attracted the person inside the window. The person's eyes were wary and he immediately called his family and did not dare to come near.
However, Juju and Xiaori on Pei Mengqing's shoulders still attracted him.
After all, the monsters that appear in villages and towns every night do not glow.
Pei Mengqing shouted outside:
"I'm not a bad person, nor am I something inhuman. I was passing by here and was trapped by ghosts beating the wall. I had to stay here for one night!"
The man inside saw this, hesitated for a while, and asked aloud:
"Where are you from?"
"From Tianhe County in Liang County, go to Pingchun County in Jiangxia County." Pei Mengqing said, "Did you see the two orange cats on my shoulders? If you can't believe me, don't you still believe in the cat clan?"
The cat family is still very reliable and has great "brand influence".
In fact, before the Zhou Dynasty, all dynasties, even the era of warlord rule, respected the cat clan and often cooperated with the cat clan.
However, the Cat Clan will not participate in the internal fights between human races. They only want to save the common people. Only in this way can they gain the trust of all races. I believe that the Cat Clan will not be traitors sent by other forces.
Common people basically have portraits of the cat family in their homes. At the worst, they also know what the cat family looks like.
This furry body, four paws, as well as these big round eyes and honest appearance, as long as you take a look at it, you can naturally think of the word "cute".
This man was somewhat moved and wanted to open the door for Pei Mengqing and the others.
But he was stopped by the hostess.
Pei Mengqing and the others have good hearing and can hear the hostess inside saying:
"Don't drive. What if you are with those monsters?"
The male owner said: "He is with the cat clan, so he won't be those monsters. I heard that some cats can indeed shine."
The hostess continued to dissuade: "What if it's an illusion? Those monsters usually behave like ordinary people, but they change when they show their ferocious faces. Who knows whether these two cats are conjured up by monsters through fantasy?"
Pei Mengqing had no choice but to knock on the window gently to interrupt the conversation between the two:
"Well, you don't have to open the door. Tell me about those monsters? They look like humans, but they will retreat after receiving the purifying light of my two cat brothers. I want to ask more about them. Information."
After hearing his words, the man looked at the two big oranges on his shoulders, looked at the golden light emitting, and then cautiously approached the window and looked into the distance.
He saw the humanoid monsters standing far away around Pei Mengqing, not daring to get close.
This has never happened before, and there has never been a situation where monsters can be blocked without closing doors and windows.
He had a premonition that this was their only chance to be rescued, and hope lay in this young man with two cats.
If the door is not opened, all the strength of the cat clan will be exhausted, and the opponent will be destroyed by the monsters swarming up and eating them up.
So he made up his mind and opened the door to Pei Mengqing:
"come on in!"
Pei Mengqing hurried in.
After entering the door, the humanoid monsters around them quickly approached and seemed to want to squeeze in, but the man immediately closed the door and locked it, blocking them out.
The hostess was scared at first, but seeing that he didn't seem to be a monster, she breathed a sigh of relief, her expression relaxed, and she invited him to sit in the living room with her.
Pei Mengqing did not refuse and followed into the living room with two big oranges. After sitting down, she politely took the tea and said thank you.
After checking that it was not poisonous, he took a small taste.
"May I ask, what are those things outside that look like humans? They look just like humans on the outside, but I can feel that there is no human flavor in them."
Pei Mengqing sat down and asked politely to the host and hostess.
Perhaps the previous sound woke up the children of the family, two children aged six or seven, and a brother and sister came out of another room.
When Xiaori and Tachibana saw the child, their expressions immediately changed and they found a high place and jumped up.
Children defeat cats, they both know this very well.
Children don't have any ill intentions, but even if they don't have any ill intentions, they will scratch their tails and pinch their cats. They don't want to make the children cry, so they can only endure it.
After experiencing the pain of being tortured by a child, these two big oranges would stay away from children again when they saw them.
"Lv Mengcheng, this is my wife Zhao Haiyue. We are originally from Nanyang County. Later, we escaped the famine with our family and planned to go to Yuzhou, but, alas..."
Lu Mengcheng sighed when he said this, and his expression became sad.
"What happened later, was it like us, passing by here and unable to get out?" Pei Mengqing asked.
"That's right." Lu Mengcheng nodded and sighed, and began to talk about their family, and even this village...
I don’t know who built this village and town, and I don’t know when it appeared here, blocking the border between Runan County and Jiangxia County.
Originally, there was a small road nearby, not the main thoroughfare between the two counties, but some people usually walked on this road.
So people kept coming to this village and town.
If calculated in terms of time, Lu Mengcheng's family came here ten years ago. They were the first families to start living here. There were several families before them, and they basically only entered here by mistake eleven or twelve years ago. Here it is.
Originally, a village or town with many relatively new buildings, no one else there, and livestock such as pigs, cows, sheep, chickens, etc., was very suitable as a new place to live.
Lu Mengcheng's family thought so too.
After all, when he arrived in a new town, he had to find a way to build a small wooden shed. With his spiritual strength, he could find a good job to support his family. It would take him half a year to earn enough money for a new house.
It should be mentioned here that a house that can accommodate a family costs twenty silver dollars. In this era, this purchasing power is enough for a family of four to eat meat every day for five years.
A house with a yard would start at thirty-five silver dollars.
Therefore, when they arrived here, the family was quite happy at first. They felt that they had saved a lot of money by buying a house for free. Not only did they not have to flee for work, but they also had a lot of livestock to raise.
Moreover, there are many farmlands that can be cultivated around villages and towns, but they are all ownerless, and there are even no officials to collect grain, collect taxes, and ask people to do corvee labor.
So they lived here like the previous families.
Unexpectedly, a year later, the horror here would become apparent...
