In Cangling County, on the south bank of the winding Hengshui River, an official road runs from the southwest to the northeast, extending far into the distance.
At the turning point of the official road, there was a motorcade that stretched for several hundred meters, coming out from the city in the southwest.
On the leading escort flag, the word "Sitong" is written in smooth strokes, and the cloud pattern embroidered with gold thread below shines brightly in the morning sun.
Song Ciwan was sitting on a carriage loaded with goods behind Sitong Escort Bureau, holding a white goose and admiring the scenery along the way. He saw that the mountains were long and the water was wide, and the world was vast, and he naturally felt a sense of vastness and openness in his heart.
The driver was a female warrior from Sitong Escort Bureau. Escort Master Wei specially arranged for Song Ciwan to ride in this car because this female warrior was actually a nephew of Escort Wei.
The female warrior's name is Lan Qiuyan, and her cultivation is in the bone-burning stage. She only needs to run with the escort team one or two more times before she can officially become a bronze medal escort. By then, she would naturally no longer have to do such work as driving a car.
She has a sharp temper, and although her personality is not enthusiastic, she has clear likes and dislikes. This kind of person is actually quite easy to get along with.
Escort Wei introduced her to Song Ciwan. The two had been in the same car for half a month and had become quite familiar with each other——
Yes, counting from the day he left Huailing City, Song Ciwan had been away with the Sitong Escort Bureau for more than half a month.
In the past half month, the escort team passed seven cities one after another.
Some cities are relatively close to each other, such as Suyang and Huailing. The two cities are only a hundred miles apart and can be reached in one day.
There are also some cities that are far apart from each other, often requiring two or three days or even four or five days of walking in the wild. In this case, camping in the wild is very particular.
There are certain taboos especially at night that must be observed.
For example, nine bonfires must be lit at night, and someone must stay vigil beside the bonfire to ensure that it cannot be extinguished throughout the night.
Sometimes at night, there will be some unconscious gray gamers who are attracted by the breath of living people and approach the convoy in ignorance.
Don't look at him at this time, just hold on to your mind, control your mood swings, and keep throwing a plant called fragrant grass into the fire. Slowly, this low-level weirdness will wander away on its own.
This is also the most effective and peaceful way for ordinary mortals to deal with low-level weirdness.
Lan Qiuyan often explained to Song Ciwan: "Some people in the countryside often light torches mixed with fragrant grass when they inevitably have to walk at night."
"Of course, they generally don't walk at night. You see, the villages we pass by basically build walls and are guarded by ancestral halls."
"Otherwise, even in the Earth Temple, there are also those who worship the mountain god. They often go to the City God Temple in a nearby city to ask for spiritual talismans to return to worship."
"If it's an extremely remote backwater, we escorts won't go there at all. Ah Wan, I advise you not to go either."
Song Ciwan nodded repeatedly after hearing this. She had followed the escort team for the past half month and felt that she had opened up a lot of horizons, learned a lot, and had rich experiences.
Another example is that one time, the escort team set up camp at dusk.
Hundreds of people were noisy, washing and cooking. In the midst of the excitement, a pair of extremely pitiful-looking couples walked on the road at the foot of the mountain in the distance.
The husband is blind and the wife has a broken leg.
The blind husband carried his wife with a broken leg on his back, and the wife showed him the way. As if they were one body, they approached the escort team with their rice bowls in hand.
The bodyguards did not receive any instructions but were just vigilant. There was a husband from a wealthy family named Zhang who was traveling with the bodyguards. At that time, he felt pity and quickly said to the servants around him: "Although this couple is in trouble, But they are obviously affectionate and righteous. Come on, bring a bowl of porridge and a bowl of eggs to these two of you."
This was said very quickly, and by the time the escorts from Sitong Escort Bureau wanted to speak out to object, it was already too late.
The couple who were blind and had their legs broken had already stepped into the guarding circle of the escort team. Suddenly, the wife opened her mouth, and countless long fleshy ropes like thin snakes were sprayed out from her mouth. The first one was aimed at the little boy who wanted to give him porridge. Lang Jun rolled away.
Fortunately, this family is a big customer of Sitong Escort Bureau, and the young man is always protected by a silver medal escort.
The escort immediately gathered his energy and blood, pulled out a pair of shooting star sticks from his waist, and cracked open the flying flesh ropes.
Then, the escort team started a fierce battle with the pair of uninvited guests.
Standing outside the circle, Song Ciwan saw not only the variety of battles between folk warriors, but also the strangeness and treachery of monsters.
Yes, this strange couple is a monster, not something weird.
There are many types of demons, not only animals can become demons, but also objects can become demons, plants can become demons, and sometimes even some inexplicable and weird things can become demons.
For example, the watchman's clepsydra that Song Ciwan once cleaned at the demon refining platform, or the things he had heard about, the scholar's picture scroll, the makeup girl's bronze mirror, etc.
This type is basically regarded as an artifact becoming a demon.
Demons have demonic aura and cunning aura, which is often the most fundamental way to distinguish them.
Later, the bodyguards killed the pair of monster couples with broken legs and blind eyes. When the monsters fell to the ground after their death, they turned into two pairs of skeletons entangled and tied together!
Chief Kou of the Suyang branch of the Sitong Escort Bureau came over and sighed: "The skeletons turned into monsters. I think the original owners of these two skeletons must have been extremely loving when they were alive, and they will die when they die. These two skeletons, we It’s better to bury him alive.”
After listening to the instructions, the bodyguards found a remote open space not far away and buried the corpses of the monsters deeply there.
Mr. Kou personally walked to the corpse pit and poured a jar of strong sun wine into it, causing smoke to rise above the pair of bones, and the smell of the burnt corpse demon was driven away.
Only then were they covered with soil and the demonic couple were truly buried together.
In this way, under various unpredictable and strange encounters, the escort team went through one journey after another, until the wind and snow stopped again, the sun peeked out of the clouds, and they left Suiyuan City.
Suiyuan City is surrounded by Hengshui River, and a hundred miles further along this river is Pinglan City, the county seat of Cangling County!
At this point, most of the escorts in the escort team had relaxed smiles on their faces.
Lan Qiuyan also smiled and said to Song Ciwan while driving: "Awan, our escort team should be able to reach Pinglan before dusk today. The road from Suiyuan City to Pinglan is basically safe. We don’t have to worry about anything anymore.”
Song Ciwan also smiled and nodded. Just when he was about to answer her, the motorcade in front of him suddenly stopped.
Why stop?
But on the broad official road ahead, I don't know when there was a "person" standing with his back to the escort team and his hands behind his back.
This is no ordinary "person", but a demon with a fox head and body!
This demon is seven feet long and wears a simple Taoist robe with large sleeves and an apricot-yellow silk ribbon around its waist.
If you don't look at his fox head, who can doubt that he is not a human but a monster?
The fox demon clasped his hands behind his back and faced everyone, and said in a gentle voice: "Dear travelers, I have a question that I am confused about, so I came here to ask."
(End of chapter)
