The last time I encountered one in the forest of Liang County was a Shadow Touch, but this happens to be the junction of the two counties. If the two Shadow Touches merge and become stronger here, they can do more things. possible.
"But..." Xiaori said this and changed to sound transmission, "If it is really the touch of shadow, why doesn't it just turn all these residents into nutrients? Why did it have to use some strange means to transform those humanoid monsters? ?”
Pei Mengqing wasn't sure, but he had a guess:
"Not necessarily. What if the shadow touch here has a higher level of intelligence and traps people here? When the population here increases, the offspring will continue to reproduce.
"In this way, he can absorb more nutrients. Maybe one day he will be strong enough to break through the restrictions of counties and counties, reach a certain critical value, and start to harm people in other states and counties."
Thinking of this, Pei Mengqing, Xiaori and Juju were all shocked.
If Pei Mengqing's guess is correct, what is here is really a touch of shadow, and if it really reaches that limit, it may be impossible to prevent it.
At that time, if you drill into any county town, you can turn the city into an empty city overnight. By the time the people of the Zhou Dynasty find out, it will not know where it has gone, and it can scurry around everywhere. .
When someone does find it, it might have eaten people from several counties and become stronger.
If it's true, then no matter what they say, Pei Mengqing and Xiaori will have to kill this thing here.
But Pei Mengqing thought of another "foreign aid".
He silently asked the practice system in his heart:
"Is there no hope lamp this time?"
[It will not be released for the time being. It will be released after the host has discovered the secrets in the town. Otherwise, the opponent will not be able to be eliminated this time just by relying on the lantern of hope. 】
"It's the touch of shadow, right?" This is the question Pei Mengqing really wants to ask.
[Yes, the host’s judgment is correct, please proceed with caution. 】
Pei Mengqing thought about it for a moment and understood why he didn't send out the lamp first this time.
This time the two shadow touches merged together and controlled an entire town, which was much larger than the village settlement last time. It was obviously not possible to rely on the previous method to divide and gradually force the line back and forth.
As long as the core of the Shadow Touch moves back and forth in the shadow darkness, he will not be able to win even if he exhausts all his strength.
And even if the lamp of hope can be used to hit the opponent head-on, I am afraid that the residents of this village and town will not survive. At the last moment, the touch of shadow may absorb all the townspeople.
After all, they have to be sent, so long-term development can be considered. Anyway, as long as there are still pedestrians passing by here, they can continue to be "captive".
After figuring this out, Pei Mengqing explained her thoughts to Xiaori and Juju, and decided to stay in the town for a few days with the townspeople every day to see if they could find the problem.
"Brother Lu, I'll excuse you for tonight. It seems that I have to stay here for a while." Pei Mengqing didn't say too much.
If you are too full of words and say that you will be saved after I come, the two cat clansmen around me will definitely save you. It will be embarrassing if you cannot fulfill your promise.
Lu Mengcheng waved his hand: "It's a small matter. Today, I'll invite Brother Pei and the two Cat Masters to stay in the guest room. Early tomorrow morning, I will take you three to the town. You can choose vacant houses and land at will."
"In that case, thank you very much, Brother Lu."
After that, Pei Mengqing chatted with Lu Mengcheng for a while, mainly about what major events had happened in the outside world recently. When he heard that the former emperor Sima Hui had become "Emperor Zhou Ming", Lu Mengcheng was very sad. He took the whole family and knelt down to pray to him. He kowtowed several times in the direction of Luoyang.
In this world that prefers ancient times, imperial power is still deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Regardless of whether Lu Mengcheng's family fled the famine due to mistakes such as the government's failure to provide disaster relief, at least they never blamed the emperor in their hearts.
In the hearts of ordinary people, imperial power controls everything. In so many years of propaganda, the Zhou Dynasty was the "savior" that ended the troubled times.
But Pei Mengqing didn't know what the other royal families were like, but the Zhou Dynasty was really different, at least not like the emperors of the Jin Dynasty on Earth who had few normal people.
At least every emperor of the Zhou Dynasty he knew was willing to die for the entire dynasty, and the president of Yanzhou University was also from the Sima family.
Although he has never seen it, it is possible to establish a university like Yanzhou University, educate so many students, and use the massive spiritual energy released by Canglan to take the opportunity to turn Yanzhou University and even the entire Tianhe County into such a "technological" city. , which shows his ability.
Pei Mengqing was led by Lu Mengcheng to the guest room, followed by Xiaori and Juju, and fell asleep quickly.
She had been traveling for a long time today, so she was very tired. Lying on the pillow, Pei Mengqing almost fell asleep quickly and did not continue to practice.
After all, "Ming Xin Jue" hasn't been released yet, and he has reached the end of his cultivation in the soul nourishing realm for the time being. His soul, body, and spiritual energy reserves are already at their current limit.
Xiaori and Tachibana took turns keeping vigil.
However, as Lu Mengcheng said, in a house with closed doors and windows, those monsters cannot break in. As long as you pull the curtains and don't look or listen to the temptations of those monsters, you will be fine.
So, a peaceful night passed.
Early the next morning, after Pei Mengqing woke up, she shamelessly had breakfast, and then led by Lu Mengcheng to choose an empty house in the town.
Lu Mengcheng introduced him:
"The owner of this house was drunk three months ago and accidentally put a monster into the house. The whole family suffered. If you don't mind, Brother Pei, you can choose this house because the furniture in the house is complete. .
"But if you mind, it would be better to choose another house that has not had any accidents."
"Just this one, it doesn't matter."
If it were Pei Mengqing in the past, he definitely wouldn't want to live in a house where an accident happened and there was still a smell when he entered the house.
But now that he has experienced so much, it is not like he has never seen more disgusting things, and it is not like he has never experienced more disgusting smells and scenes.
"Well, if you have other needs, just tell us directly. Now we will take you to the surrounding land and choose a piece of land for farming? We will distribute seeds and livestock such as pigs, cattle, sheep, and chickens to every new person or family." Lu Mengcheng said.
Pei Mengqing shook her head:
"Thank you Brother Lu for your kindness, but I am a Taoist and I don't need food to survive. I can leave the farmland and livestock to those who need it more. We only need a place to stay."
Lu Mengcheng nodded and expressed his understanding:
"In that case, I won't disturb Brother Pei. There are...well, there are many places in this room that need to be cleaned carefully. You should clean them slowly..."
Pei Mengqing nodded and sent Lu Mengcheng away.
As for the "careful cleaning" mentioned by Lu Mengcheng, it is not just something that can be solved by "careful".
The bedroom in this house is just like a murder scene. There are blood stains on the bed boards, walls and windows. Even now, you can still smell a rotten and bloody smell.
"Xiaori, Juju, let me handle it for you." Pei Mengqing said.
This is not because he is a hands-off shopkeeper, but the purifying light of the two big oranges can quickly clean up the place.
Whether it's a virus, mold, or something unclean, it can be easily solved.
However, during this "purification" process, something happened.
"Lao Pei, come quickly!" Ju Ju shouted.
Pei Mengqing heard the sound and was checking if there were any other gaps in the house. She hurried over when she heard the sound.
"What's wrong?"
"Look!" Xiaori pointed to the sky, where a soul-like person was floating.
Pei Mengqing took a closer look and saw that it was true.
"Hello? Can you hear us?" he asked.
The soul-like person was floating in the air. When he heard Pei Mengqing's voice, his expression was confused and painful. When he looked at him, he seemed to have finally remembered something:
"Yes." He replied.
"Who are you? Do you remember what happened?" Pei Mengqing asked.
The soul seemed to be in more pain, holding his head as if he still had a headache:
"I am drunk."
"Who did you get drunk with?" Pei Mengqing asked.
Xiaori praised him secretly.
This person's soul state is not stable. It is probably the soul of someone who was killed before. It may be able to answer a few questions before it dissipates.
Asking "what happens when you're drunk" is a wasted question.
It would be better to ask who he drank with. Maybe the person who got him drunk was the one with the problem.
"Follow... follow the deputy mayor... behind... ah!!!" The soul seemed to think of the horrific scene when it died, suddenly screamed, became extremely unstable, and finally dissipated.
Xiaori jumped up and completely purified the dissipated soul to prevent it from being completely absorbed by the touch of shadow here.
"It is estimated that the soul was accidentally attached when he died. It was not discovered by the touch of shadow, so it can exist until today. Then it showed its shape after being illuminated by the purifying golden light of the two of us." Xiaori scanned. The cat's tail and paws jumped around the room lightly, avoiding the blood on the ground with disgust.
Cats have mysophobia, which Pei Mengqing has known for a long time after being together for so long.
"It's just that the deputy mayor he was talking about was the mid-level spiritual level warlock that Lu Mengcheng mentioned?" Pei Mengqing thought for a moment. Lu Mengcheng said at that time "there is another one", which means there is probably only one.
"Do they have a personal grudge?" Orange Bureau asked.
It also had light steps, and it moved strangely to avoid the blood stains on the ground.
"It's possible that if it's a personal grudge, it's possible that the soul would be drinking with him before he was alive, deliberately getting him drunk so that he doesn't have the ability to distinguish, and then borrowing a knife to kill someone and letting those monsters kill him." Pei Mengqing said, " But it’s also possible that this guy is a mole. To be specific, why not go to other houses where people have died?”
When he brought him to choose a house, Lu Mengcheng said that everyone would gather in the small square in the center of the town at noon to hold a "welcome party" for him.
The town needs new hope and new blood, so every time a new person comes, the town must do this.
At least, let everyone know that there will be more and more unlucky people who accidentally enter this ghost town...
After the orientation party, Pei Mengqing can get close to everyone, visit each house, and then take the opportunity to let Xiaori and Ju Ju use the light of purification to see if there are any surviving souls, and maybe he can get more information. .
But in the morning, around ten o'clock in the morning according to earth time, two more people came into the village.
These two men, one carrying a knife and the other carrying a gun, looked like knights running around in the world.
In fact, they are really heroes walking around the world, each of them is a late-stage Xuanqi level warlock.
The man with the knife is called "Knife Town Hebei" Li Yuanzhong.
The man with the red tassel gun is called "Gun Ba" Wang Hongren.
These two are heroes from the Yanzhou, Yuzhou, and Jingzhou areas. They often move around the boundaries of the three states, doing chivalry and justice. While destroying the machinations of organizations like the Night Chaos, they also help a bunch of ordinary people when they can. common people.
At least in terms of chivalry, these two are completely good people.
The two of them originally crossed from Wuling County to Xiangyang County to Jiangxia County, and planned to go from Jiangxia County to Liang County between Yanzhou and Yuzhou.
So why did they go to Liang County?
They are going to "disaster relief" and solve the zombie crisis.
Being able to know things about Liang County as far away as Wuling County does not mean that these two people have a "full picture vision" and can accurately locate the place where accidents occurred and where there were conspiracies.
If so, they would have gone to Liangzhou County a month or two ago to solve Tianmeng Pavilion's conspiracy to destroy the county.
In fact, knights and warlocks like this also have their own organizations.
These two people joined an organization called "Tianyimen".
This organization is not a sect, but an association similar to what Pei Mengqing knows. The warlocks who join this association are basically powerful warlocks with a reputation in the world, or they can join if recommended by other "members".
Tianyi Gate is widely distributed in various prefectures and counties in the four prefectures of Sili, Universe, Yanzhou and Jingzhou, and most of them are in the most prosperous places in a county.
For example, in Liang County, the most prosperous place must be Tianhe County. Tianyimen has a branch in Tianhe County.
Therefore, after the severe cold persisted for a long time, Yangzhou Man - now everyone in the city knew that there was an evil organization called Yangzhou Man who was causing trouble everywhere, and they were the ones who created the zombie virus - after almost killing the entire Liang County, Tianyimen’s Tianhe County branch finally couldn’t sit still.
So they posted hero posts widely and conveyed the information to several other branches through formation communication. Then other basic branches shared the news with the knights and warlocks they could contact to see if anyone was willing to come to Tianhe County to help rescue the siege. of.
Li Yuanzhong and Wang Hongren are planning to go to Tianhe County to help...
Who would have thought that passing by the junction of Jiangxia County and Runan County, they would be as unlucky as Pei Mengqing and the others, and they would stumble in.
But in comparison, they were lucky, after all, they came in during the day.
If there is no cat clan, insulting this town at night is basically sending a message within a message.
