This child is the only surviving child in Zangfeng Town. Although the remaining townspeople are fighting among themselves and having internal strife, they still have a basic conscience and take good care of this "tiger" Chen Xingang.
And this child also became taciturn after experiencing the massacre of the town by horse thieves.
A child who used to be quite lively, now he just says hello to everyone he meets and doesn't say much.
In fact, everyone can understand it, because even those adults have psychological shadows and are wary of everyone.
This is true for adults, let alone children?
Therefore, no one noticed the strange changes in this child. Only the sour scholar showed something wrong in the records in his diary.
Xiaori and Li Yuanzhong discovered the problem.
For example, in the penultimate record, the sour scholar recorded an incident, saying that he found a tiger hiding in a cabinet at a conflict scene.
The conflict arose when two people were competing for a few cattle and sheep. They secretly bet and fought, seemingly blocking the tiger hiding inside.
In order to hide, Huzi hid in the cupboard and did not appear until the incident was over.
But there's a problem here.
The winner who killed someone did not admit that he had killed someone.
But everyone knew that he had killed someone, but when someone entered the house for so-called "evidence", no body was found, and no blood was seen.
And the next day, the so-called murderer was also found dead in an empty house.
In the next few diaries, it was also recorded that there were fewer and fewer people in the villages and towns. It was obvious that everyone had realized that something was wrong. The remaining food and resources were enough for the remaining people to share, and the possibility of fighting again became smaller.
However, people are still disappearing.
And it's the kind that can't even find the body.
It seems that some kind of creature has sneaked into the town, devouring the remaining lives bit by bit.
On several occasions, the sour scholar found traces of Hu Zi at the "crime scene".
He tried to find the body of the missing person, and bravely asked Huzi some questions.
As a result, Huzi completely changed his previous state and invited him to hide and seek from time to time.
The sour scholar felt something was wrong, but he soon became "confused", and his words and himself in the diary became messy, with priorities reversed, and he lost his logical ability.
The records on the last page are all filled with words such as "hide and seek", "nightmare", "wind", "sword" and "shadow". Moreover, the entire content is messy and the handwriting is difficult to read.
"So, this child was controlled by the touch of shadow, or even assimilated? But, if that's the case, why do we have to hide and seek..." Xiaori strangely sent a message to Li Yuanzhong.
He told one by one what happened when he, Pei Mengqing, and Ju Ju encountered the Touch of Shadow in the Liangjun Forest, but for the time being, he concealed the matter of Hope Dengzhan.
After all, although these two are heroes, they are not close friends like Pei Mengqing.
What the character and true appearance of these two people are remains to be considered.
For something as legendary as the Light of Hope, there's no guarantee that others won't have extra thoughts.
There is no need to speculate on what happened next. Li Yuanzhong and Xiaori also understood that all the people behind were killed by "Hu Zi", and Zangfeng Town has completely turned into the current Nightmare Town.
But I don’t know why, that “tiger” actually understood the sustainable development, and kept people trapped here. While constantly sending out humanoid monsters, it provided “foreign troubles”, but never killed them all and allowed it to develop. .
It's like understanding the "catfish effect" overnight. Only by understanding that there are external dangers can these people continue to be united without despair or a sense of crisis.
"Zangfeng Town, is there something hidden here?" Xiaori thought for a while and then asked.
Its good brother Pei Mengqing is looking for the next famous sword, but there are only sixteen famous swords in the world. How can they be so easy to find? If the "Zang Feng" here means that there is a famous sword hidden here, then Pei Mengqing might actually have a chance to get a new sword.
In fact, Xiaori's guess was right.
Here, there is also a famous sword treasured, but it is ranked a little lower.
Hidden here is the Purple Lightning Sword...
That's right, it's Zidian Qingshuang's Zidian. It's called Zidian Qingshuang together with Pei Mengqing's first Qingshuang sword, and it ranks one place ahead of Qingshuang sword, ranking fourteenth among the sixteen swords in the world. .
As for why this purple electric sword is here, we have to talk about it further.
About seventy years ago, there was a swordsman named Lu Chengfeng, who was a late Xuanqi level warlock swordsman.
One day, the hero Lu Chengfeng passed by this place - it was still a forest at that time - and the hero Lu Chengfeng encountered a shadow touch here.
Although Xiaori and Pei Mengqing are not completely convinced, the book here hints that the Touch of Shadow at this time is indeed the evolution of the two fused together.
But Lu Chengfeng only bumped into one at that time.
It must be said that the Touch of Shadow is cunning and difficult to find its body. Its body is everywhere that light cannot find, and its core can be transferred at will, so it is very difficult for Lu Chengfeng to defeat.
Although Pei Mengqing and the others seemed to have won easily at the time, in fact, it was mainly because they hoped that Dengzhan would indeed be the nemesis of the monster made of the evil god's flesh and blood, such as Shadow Touch.
For any late-stage Xuanqi-level warlock, the Touch of Shadow is a powerful enemy that is difficult to deal with and difficult to get rid of.
What's more, Lu Chengfeng is indeed a hero with a benevolent heart.
After realizing the power and danger of the shadow touch, Lu Chengfeng thought for a long time and finally decided to use the formation method he was good at to leave his purple electric sword here as the formation eye to seal the shadow touch here.
The seal was successful. Although Lu Chengfeng lost his sword, he did not complain. He was ready to wash his hands in a golden basin and retire from the world.
But the problem is that the seal is located on the edge of Jiangxia County and Runan County.
And coincidentally, another Shadow Touch was also in the forest at the border of the two counties.
The touch of shadow loosened the sealing formation little by little and finally managed to get out of the gap and merged with the sealed touch of shadow, reaching the late mysterious level.
Although it is at the late stage of Xuanqi level, with the characteristics of the touch of shadow, cross-level combat is not a problem, and it is enough to compete head-on with the warlocks at the early stage of Qi level.
It would be even more difficult to deal with him if he hid in the shadows and used his own abilities.
After that, the two shadow touches merged and gradually absorbed the people passing by, and finally the prototype of Zangfeng Town was built.
The idea of this shadow touch is very simple. It is to continuously develop this city. When it truly becomes a county town with a population of tens of thousands, it will devour it in one fell swoop and break through to the Qixing star level.
The idea is very good, and it is a long-term plan. For an inhuman existence like it, it is already quite resourceful.
But the problem is that long-term planning is prone to surprises.
The group of horse thieves more than ten years ago was an exception.
At that time, Shadow Touch was sleeping underground, and he planned to continuously remove the influence of the seal - the seal still existed, but there were still restrictions on it - but he failed to notice the changes in the village and town in time, causing the "food" he raised to be burned. After killing and looting all the people, the problem was discovered.
The fodder that has been raised for decades was about to gradually evolve into more counties, but was intercepted?
It was angry, but there was no way to undo the damage.
In the end, the only option was to set up a fascination formation to trap all those who entered here by mistake, forcing them to stay here.
Only allowed in but not allowed out, it is a "paradise".
If the news does not spread, there will be no more horse thieves plundering here.
But to be on the safe side, lest a group of horse thieves stumble into this place, it simply merges into an inconspicuous child and tries to understand human formal logic and ideas.
As the saying goes, "Know yourself and the enemy, you can fight a hundred battles without danger." This is the kind of thinking that a few cautious people will have in the shadow of a shadow.
Because of this, without the accident of Pei Mengqing and the two orange cats, his plan would have come true.
So it gradually and completely took on the identity of Hu Zi.
Perhaps it was the influence of Huzi's personality during his lifetime, or perhaps the shadow touch was completely integrated into this body, so the shadow touch began to be contradictory.
To put it simply, I am a bit schizophrenic...
Two flowers bloomed, one on each side. Xiaori and Li Yuanzhong understood and straightened out some things and the history of this place, while on the other side, Pei Mengqing, Wang Hongren and Juju were still trapped in that "inner world" Here, we are playing hide and seek with the tiger, or the touch of shadow.
The two people and the cat hid in a bedroom, closing the door tightly and not making any sound.
Since it is hide and seek, you might as well try it out according to the rules of hide and seek.
The sound of footsteps came from outside the door, and then the sound of the door opening.
The cloth shoes made a crunching sound on the wooden floor, but the steps were gentle, as if they were not in a hurry, but were really playing hide and seek with them.
But it was precisely because of this gentle and calm pace that it brought a great sense of oppression to the two of them and the cat.
Especially for Pei Mengqing, who has watched many horror movies and knows some of the plots in them very well, it is even more terrifying.
Pei Mengqing's message from Orange Bureau and Wang Hongren:
"If this door really can't stop him, and we are discovered again, don't fight with him, just break out of the house, disperse, and find a way to break the situation."
"Okay." Juju naturally had no objection.
Wang Hongren thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.
Wang Hongren is not stupid, he is similar to Pei Mengqing, and he can probably feel the power of the shadow touch.
He felt that he couldn't defeat him in a head-on confrontation, not to mention that this place seemed to be in another place that was the same as the real world.
In other words, Touch of Shadow is a home game and has been working here for many years.
The sudden intrusion of the three of them was already very dangerous. They might gain a temporary advantage in a head-on confrontation, but if they couldn't find the core of the Shadow Touch, they would be exhausted sooner or later.
Thinking of this, the footsteps came closer to the door of the room where they were.
The sound of footsteps was like a drum beating on their hearts, making them extremely nervous.
Until, the footsteps suddenly stopped in front of the door, and there was no movement at all.
Pei Mengqing and the cat exchanged glances without moving, but their gazes and perceptions had surrounded the entire room. No matter where there was a change in noise or the door being broken open, they would react immediately.
Pei Mengqing swallowed and stared at the door.
Although Wang Hongren is known as a gun lord, he is also frightened when he encounters such a strange and powerful enemy.
Ju Ju squatted on Pei Mengqing's shoulder and looked around.
Suddenly, a black mass slipped under the door. It looked like it was hair.
This hair was wet, like a hanged man who had been soaked in water for a long time.
Black hair continued to grow, filling the room and soon covering the floor.
Pei Mengqing and Wang Hongren had jumped onto the window sill without making any sound.
Those black hairs were like tentacles, constantly "raising their heads" and "exploring", sniffing everywhere like living creatures.
However, they seemed unable to "stand up" and couldn't reach the window sill. They just tried their best to crawl along the foot of the bed to the bed. When they found that there was no living thing, they quickly dissipated and exited the door.
Soon, there were footsteps outside the door again.
The footsteps gradually moved away from the room, and it sounded like they were going upstairs.
Pei Mengqing, Juju, and Wang Hongren all breathed a sigh of relief.
Pei Mengqing sent a message to one person and one cat, and said:
"It seems that its perception is not omnipotent. Even in this world, it cannot break in at will. Instead, it uses that weird hair. It seems that we can take shelter here for the time being."
Wang Hongren nodded and said through a message:
"Huh, I'm ashamed to say it. Although I'm known as a gun lord, in this case, I'm really just... ah!!!"
When the words came to light, Wang Hongren suddenly screamed and looked behind Pei Mengqing in horror.
This voice startled Pei Mengqing, and when he saw Wang Hongren's eyes looking at his back, he broke into a cold sweat instantly.
Could it be that there is something behind him?
He was just about to ask Ju Ju. After all, when Ju Ju was on his shoulders, he was always responsible for taking care of his back.
But he suddenly realized that the weight on his shoulders didn't seem right.
Turning around for a moment, he discovered that Juju was gone.
"I found you, hee hee hee..." A high-pitched child's voice sounded from behind, and Pei Mengqing immediately jumped onto the bed and stayed away.
When I turned around to look again, I saw Wang Hongren's figure nowhere on the window sill. There was a pale child standing there, looking at him with a weird smile on his face.
Pei Mengqing had goosebumps all over her body.
Although he was frightened, he immediately calmed down and became angry out of fear:
"Hee hee hee, hee, your mother is screwed up! Whose child doesn't go to school in broad daylight and just hides and seeks with people everywhere, right? And your shabby hair is like a bad mop. You can't even mop the floor. .
"Look at how you look, do you look like a serious child? You look like a kid who has no knowledge and only knows how to have fun. Don't you have any regrets at all?
"Where's your conscience? Where's your filial piety? Where's your ambition and sense of shame? I'm afraid you'll be eaten by a dog!"
This angry curse can be regarded as dispelling some of the fear in his heart.
Pei Mengqing finally calmed down and drew her sword!
