The group set off on their way again. Once they found the way forward, they did not change the direction. They walked in a straight line over mountains and ridges as if they were walking on flat ground.
Looking at the direction of travel, Yu Qing gradually became expressionless, his eyes became deep again, and he moved forward numbly.
Tie Miaoqing, who was accompanying him, occasionally glanced at him, and gradually felt that Yu Qing's expression was a little strange, and asked: "What's the matter? You feel worried, are you afraid that I will break my promise?"
There was only one last fire cricket left, and she didn't want any accidents to happen.
Yu Qing still wanted to get close to the beauty in his heart, and there was a smile on his face instantly, "It's nothing, I'm just a little tired. I'm not high in cultivation, you know."
So Tie Miaoqing reached out and grabbed his arm again, "Since we have already set off, just hold on a little longer and have a good rest when you get there. Resting in a cave is better than in the open air."
"Yeah." Yu Qing nodded, but just being held by a beautiful woman's hand was not enough. He daydreamed about how it would feel to hold this woman...
And just a moment after the group set off again, another group of people flew out from the 'Ancient Mandrill Forest'.
A group of people wearing black attire were none other than 'Jian Yuan Zhai' and his party.
The number of people has been reduced by more than half, and there are only a dozen or so people left out of more than thirty people, and all of them are in a miserable state, and some are even ragged and scarred.
The leader, Cui You, the deacon, was not much better. There were several parallel bloody gashes on his chest, and it felt like he was almost disemboweled.
A group of people had obviously encountered something unexpected.
Seeing the group of 'one-horned mandrills' behind him and no longer pursuing them, Cui You immediately took the lead and landed, stopped, holding a large rock in his hand and panting.
More than a dozen of his panting men took out the medicine and helped each other apply the medicine.
The limping Wu Kuang also took out the good golden sore medicine and went to Cui You. While helping him apply the medicine, he gasped and said: "Deacon, this time it was so dangerous, I almost gave it all to Gu Mandrill Laolin." '."
After applying medicine to the wound, Cui You's face twitched in pain for a while. After taking a deep breath of cold air, he held up the open wound on his chest, looked up to the sky and said slowly: "This place is indeed well-deserved for its reputation of being 'no monsters'. Fortunately, the shopkeeper came before You gave us that token to protect us from unexpected events, but we didn’t expect it to actually come in handy.”
Wu Kuang asked, "What kind of token is that?"
Cui You laughed and said: "The big shopkeeper from Qixia Mountain has some friendship with the son of the old demon of Qixia, and he gave him a token. Now it seems that this place is 'non-monster' and dare not give Youjiao Port face." Refute the old demon Qixia’s face.”
Wu Kuang clicked his tongue and said: "It seems that the 'not monster' doesn't know that the old demon Qixia has been killed by the Earth Mother."
Cui You: "I don't want to interact with the outside world. I don't know anything about it. It's normal to not know. But then again, it's only because this 'not monster' doesn't know, otherwise we wouldn't be alive. If you survive a disaster, you will have good luck in the future. !” He looked up and waved, “Keep going!”
"This..." Wu Kuang looked back at the injured and exhausted appearance of everyone, and said, "Deacon, everyone is so injured and exhausted, please rest first."
Cui You glared and said: "I'm not hurt, am I not tired? By now, you must have figured out that we are tracking a group of people. I might as well tell you clearly that we must chase these people before they leave the ancient death place. When it comes to them, there are too many external variables. If we make any mistakes, the big shopkeeper won’t be able to spare us!"
"Yes." Wu Kuang agreed with a grimace, and then ran to mobilize a reluctant group of people to set off again.
But this time he didn't run very far before he stopped again.
Because I saw the conspicuous target again, the small stone was sitting on the stake!
Wu Kuang stared at the pattern on the stone and turned around, wondering: "Deacon, this picture is different from the previous one. What does the arrow in the box mean? Is this left by our people?"
Cui You muttered: "The arrow tells us where to go, and the box around the arrow tells us to stop tracking." After saying that, he turned back to look in the direction of 'Gu Mandrill Old Forest' and sighed in confusion, "I probably understand the attack. What happened? We may have been running too fast. The person we were following should have been in front of us not long ago. The 'one-horned mandrill' had not calmed down after being disturbed by them, so it was bumped head-on by us. It seems they left here not long ago, if we hurry up we might have to meet them directly!"
"..." Wu Kuang was speechless for a while, and it took him a while to figure out what was going on. He wanted to say that he had already told him to take a break, but you didn't listen and insisted on rushing. After all, I didn't dare to say what I wanted to say, so I hesitated and said: "After chasing for so long, stop tracking? Then when will you start chasing again?"
Cui You said: "Since he left his intention, he will naturally give us an explanation. Everyone happens to be tired and rest on the spot. It's time to rest."
A group of people were already exhausted and immediately collapsed after hearing this...
There is a basin in the mountains. There is a vine covering the entrance of a cave in the basin. If you don't know that there is a cave here in advance, it may not be easy to find.
Miao Qingtang and his party stopped here. This was another underground entrance where they had discovered Fire Cricket before.
Yu Qing did not rest in time. Instead, he asked Cheng Shanping and Zhu Shangbiao to make preparations and cut down the trees first.
After the two men went to carry out the execution, Yu Qing asked Tie Miaoqing to take him to the end of the tunnel to see first. Sun Ping wanted to stay and look at Xu Fei and Chong'er, two burdens, and watched them disappear with a portable oil lamp. Inside the tunnel.
Zhong'er, who also watched the two disappear, suddenly asked timidly: "Shopkeeper Sun, Master Shiheng catches another fire cricket, can we leave the ancient death place?"
Sun Ping smiled and said, "Yes."
There was expectation in Chong'er's eyes, and she was fed up with being carried around by others' arms.
Xu Fei also hoped that everything would go well, but Cheng Shanping's attitude towards Yu Qing made him secretly worried. He was worried about whether Cheng Shanping could keep his promise and return Yu Qing's things to Yu Qing. Among those who killed two demons in a row with ten kilograms of spiritual rice was a Xuan-level demon cultivator.
That guy dared to risk his life for two thousand taels of silver. One of the things Cheng Shanping took away was worth ten thousand taels. He really couldn't imagine what Yu Qing would do for tens of thousands of taels of silver.
He hoped that he was overthinking it.
It was not without reason that he had this worry. Not long ago, he vaguely noticed that something was wrong with the way Yu Qing looked at Cheng Shanping. The key was that he had seen similar looks in Yu Qing's eyes, when he was hiding in a tree hole and wanted to shoot the demon cultivator. At that time, Yu Qing's eyes showed that look, as if he was about to get angry...
Going deep into the tunnel and far away from the cave entrance, a lone lamp flickered in the darkness, and the scattered footsteps in the silence were clear.
Yu Qing, who was walking with the woman holding a solitary lamp, suddenly said, "Madam boss, I have something to ask you."
Tie Miaoqing had a good attitude toward him now and said cheerfully: "What's the matter?"
Yu Qing: "Is the mission Youya released this time the three fire crickets?"
Tie Miaoqing: "Of course, I can't be mistaken about this, there are three."
Yu Qing: "No, you misunderstood what I meant. What I meant is that Youya will only accept three fire crickets for this mission?"
"Yes, only three." Tie Miaoqing answered seriously and curiously, "Is there something wrong?"
Yu Qing: "What if several teams find all three fire crickets?"
Tie Miaoqing explained in detail: "Youya said to take three, that is three, no less, no more, no less, no more, no more. Whoever finds the three first takes them When you go back, whoever completes the task will be over, and others will find it in vain. It depends on who can complete it first."
Yu Qing nodded thoughtfully and asked, "How many shops in Youjiao Port have accepted this mission?"
Tie Miaoqing thought slowly and said: "It's hard to say. Youya only puts out tasks and will not force any shop to accept or not accept them. Those who are willing to accept can just bring back the three fire crickets mentioned in the task. There is nothing wrong with it." The steps involved in accepting the mission, so I can’t figure out how many shops have accepted the mission. Just the ones I know may come, and there are probably about twenty. I’m not sure how many stores have come.”
Yu Qing: "In other words, there are people from other shops in Youjiao Port."
Tie Miaoqing smiled and said, "That's for sure."
"You are working so hard now, aren't you afraid that someone has already completed the mission and returned?"
"I don't know if anyone has returned. I just try my best to find them and bring them back as soon as possible. The rest can only be left to fate."
"If another team knows that the other team has completed the task first, there will be a possibility of snatching it. Is this my understanding correct?"
"Yes, if the situation you mentioned really occurs, snatching will be normal. But you have to know that the scope of the ancient death land is not small, no smaller than your entire state. The possibility of people from two shops colliding with each other is very slim."
Yu Qing lowered his head slightly, looked at his feet and walked forward silently, and said nothing.
After walking quietly like this for a while, the light from the oil lamp suddenly drifted and swayed abnormally.
Yu Qing stopped suddenly and suddenly took action, grabbing Tie Miaoqing's arm.
Tie Miaoqing's arms froze for a moment. She was not used to being held by other men like this. This was indecent to her. She quickly waved her arms away and angrily shouted: "What are you doing?"
As soon as Yu Qing caught his hand, he realized something was wrong. He quickly let go and said hurriedly: "Don't misunderstand, stop for a moment and don't move."
Tie Miaoqing was confused and found that he was staring at the flame of the oil lamp in his hand. He couldn't help but look at the oil lamp in his hand and then at him. He didn't know what was going on and couldn't help but ask: "What's wrong?"
Yu Qing didn't answer. He looked around, then raised his hand and took out a dozen sticks of incense from behind his back, and lit them together on the lamp. He stared at the floating smoke for a while, and he didn't know what he thought of, but the corner of his mouth suddenly appeared. A smile emerged.
Tie Miaoqing asked again: "What happened?"
"There may be something unclean." Yu Qing muttered casually, then took the incense and spread it out one by one on the walls on both sides.
Tie Miaoqing still believes in his words now, coupled with his strange behavior. After hearing this, she quickly looked around, but with her cultivation, she couldn't detect anything, and quickly wiped the "Blue Enchantress" 'On my eyelids, I still didn't see any ghost, and I felt creepy.
Putting the incense on both sides of his hands, Yu Qing waved his hands as if nothing happened and said, "Let's go."
The two continued to move forward, but Tie Miaoqing always felt that something cold was following behind her, making her whole body uncomfortable. Even the flickering lights seemed to give her a sinister hint.
