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() After a few days, these quacks have gradually gotten used to living under this huge fireball. After nightfall, although the light of the fireball still illuminates the surrounding tens of miles as bright as day, the people who should sleep Still able to sleep as soundly as before, the forest that was still bustling during the day has completely quieted down, only the low rumble of the flames flowing on the huge fireball can be faintly heard. .. And probably because of the fireball, all the birds and beasts in the forest ran away for a while, and it seemed that even the insects were not left behind, which made the silence after nightfall a bit strange.

More than ten miles away from this huge fireball, at the edge of this sparse forest, the movement on the grass finally seemed to have some vitality, but it did not mean that there were birds and beasts here. The nearby birds, beasts and insects all ran away, and the hunters sent by the Treasure Hunting League had to go dozens of miles away to find wild animals to hunt.The movement here comes from the occasional sound of horseshoes.

There was a steady sound of horseshoes from far to near, and three quacks on horses came out from the shadow of the woods on one side.These are three people dressed in different clothes and with a large age gap. The youngest is only a 40-year-old boy with two short swords on his waist, while the oldest is a [-]-year-old A man of many years old, with his head on his head, looked as if he hadn't slept for four or five days, but he didn't see any weapons on his body. Adding another strong man in his thirties with an iron rod on his back, the three rode their horses. Walk side by side together, looking around from time to time while walking.And although these three people are dressed in different ages, they all look a little tired. Even the most energetic young man is a little absent-minded, and the middle-aged man who is originally lacking in spirit is even more unbearable, as if he can be on the horse at any time. Like falling asleep.

"It can't be done, stop and rest for a while." The middle-aged man finally couldn't bear it anymore, he stopped the horse and almost fell crookedly.

"Xiong, this trip is still a long way off." The young man seemed a little dissatisfied, staring at the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man sat down on the ground and refused to get up.He shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter, I can't do it anymore, I want to rest, I really can't hold it anymore."

The young man straightened his waist, and glared at the middle-aged man: "Why are you so sloppy? You have been doing this every night on patrol these past few nights. Either shitting or urinating, or not having the spirit to evade. Stop and go all the way. Yes, how can the task assigned by the three lords be so perfunctory?"

The middle-aged man glanced at the young man with drooping eyelids, and replied in a desperate tone: "Three leaders? Just say that you are the second leader of the photoshoot. If you are so serious, you won't go to Yongzhou to join the army, but you will follow me." It's really a pity that the movie club is a thief."

"What did you say Xiong? Who is the thief?" The young man put his hands on the two daggers at his waist.roared at the middle-aged man.

"Anyway, it's not my surname Xiong. My surname Xiong kills people and robs women, but they are only robbers, not thieves." The middle-aged man said lazily.

The burly man who had been silent all this time waved his arms towards the two of them, and said in a deep voice, "Okay, both of you calm down. Tonight is the last night of our rotation. Don't you still want to worry about this?" Let’s do small things, go and taste the whip of the Law Enforcement Hall?"

"Hmph. It was the last night that I endured this guy." The boy angrily withdrew his hand from the dagger.

The burly man said to the middle-aged man again: "Xiong Guangning, you also hold on for a while. When you finish patrolling this section of the road, you go back and sleep casually and no one will pay attention to you. If people behind find that we are delayed here, report it to the police. It’s alright for you, a lone thief with no background, but we will be reprimanded, and if we fail, we will be punished.”

"This is a place where the birds don't lay eggs. There are so many people patrolling these nights, but did they catch a ghost?" The middle-aged man named Xiong Guangning slowly got up from the ground. , still muttering complaints in his mouth, suddenly he turned around again.He ran towards the shadow of the woods not far away. "No, I'm going to shit. Wait a minute, I can't help it."

The burly man and the young man were about to speak to stop them, but the middle-aged man had already rushed to the shadow, opened his pants and squatted down, making a squeaking noise.The young man turned his head to show an expression of extreme disgust, and the burly man also shook his head and looked away.After a while, after the two urged, Xiong Guangning walked over with his trousers in his hands.Slowly climbed on the horse, and then the three of them rode to another place together.

The sound of hooves gradually faded away.Until it disappeared, and the place was about to return to the lifeless silence before, two figures emerged from the woods without a sound.A slender woman in white clothes, a young Taoist priest with casual clothes and messy hair.It was Xiaoxia and Mingyue who came out for a walk.

"Xia Daoshi, it's not very fun to take a walk with you. Why do you keep hiding from those people?"

Mingyue frowned and shook her head, her black hair fluttering with the wind.The firelight from a distance dyed everything around her red and yellow, but when it shone on her, it reflected the softness of the moonlight, her small mouth curled up, and her pair of slightly wrinkled eyes. Thin eyebrows seem to be able to arouse the hearts of bystanders.

But Xiao Xia didn't seem to be aware of the beautiful scenery around her at all. Instead, her eyes flickered, with a strange smile on her face, she was concentrating on something on the ground in front of her, and walked over quickly, squatted down, and tilted Head up carefully.

If other people were watching this scene at this time, they would only come to one conclusion, that is, this young man is simply crazy.Because he abandoned the stunning beauty around him and ran over to squat down to watch carefully. The thing that Han surnamed Xiong pulled out just now was a pool of half-dry stool, and he was very attentive and careful. , very focused, and even simply lay down, the expression on his face almost twitched.According to this, it seems logical that even if he pounced on it and ate it in one bite at the next step.

Good thing he didn't really do that.He just took out a piece of talisman paper from his waist, shook it casually, and the talisman paper suddenly became as hard and straight as a blade, and then he carefully stretched out the talisman paper knife and inserted it into the ground, closing the ball of shit together Picking up the soil below.

In the raised earth pit, a stone tablet was lying quietly inside.This stone tablet is only the size of a palm, gray and white in color, very delicate in texture, and many indistinct lines are engraved on it.

After carefully observing for a while, Xiao Xia was satisfied to re-lay the stool and soil in her hands back to the original place.Then he straightened up, took a few steps back, took a deep breath, shook his head and said, "It stinks, it's disgusting, what did this Xiong eat?"

"Since it's so disgusting, why do you still go like that? I wonder when you became fond of that." Mingyue just didn't understand.

"Because even if it's disgusting, it's so funny." Xiao Xia smiled.The expression was satisfied and complacent, but also a little amazed. "The inheritance of the Kunlun faction is really not simple. It's just that the people from the Lower Third Academy can make such a big formation to arrange the formation in the past ten days, so as to sneak into the Kunlun of the Treasure Hunting League There are quite a few Pai brothers, and it's not completely unreasonable for those people to dare to attack Suzaku Spirit Fire."

Those three people just now were sent by the Treasure Hunting League to watch the night.Indeed, as Taoist Shi said to Tang Gongyi before, they could gather so many people to come together.It wasn't some hot-headed and reckless people, these two thousand people were arranged in an orderly manner, and each performed their own responsibilities. Some were responsible for hunting and foraging, and some were patrolling and investigating.Lian Ye also sent his younger brother to patrol around at night, which has the flavor of a military trip.It's just that this isn't a real army after all. People from all walks of life are mixed together, each with different intentions. Although they can act in the same way on the surface, they all have their own methods behind the scenes.The middle-aged man named Xiong Guangning was obviously a member of the Kunlun faction, and he secretly arranged formations while patrolling around.

The spells of the Kunlun School are not widely spread in Jianghu, and Xiao Xia doesn't know much about them, but he can still guess some clues from Liang Hongtao's slip-up words.I took advantage of the night to come out quietly and found these interesting things.

But Xiaoxia is still a little uncertain about what to do after she finds out.When the undercurrent is turbulent, and it is obvious that it has not been fully exposed, it is obviously the most sensible to watch quietly.Xiaoxia couldn't even be sure if Daoist Shi was really unaware of the actions of these Kunlun faction people, or if he was still preparing a backhand that he didn't know about.

"Xia Daoshi, why are you in a daze? You've finished all you want, now go on for a walk. I know there will be a small stream over there. Let's go catch fish and play."

Miss Mingyue was the most carefree, she didn't waste half of her thoughts on the confusing and complicated situation.Holding Xiao Xia's hand, he was about to walk over there.But suddenly she frowned, turned her head to the depths of the woods, and said in a low voice, "Who's coming over there again? It doesn't seem to be those night watchmen."

"Let's hide again." Xiao Xia hurriedly pulled the displeased Mingyue back to the place where she hid just now.

Not long after, a rush of footsteps came from the direction Mingyue noticed, and then a person walking quickly came out of the woods, the fire shone on the person's face, and Xiao Xia quietly hid in the shadows Surprised, because this person is Chu Yangdao

people.

Taoist Chuyang walked very fast, and he didn't hide anything. He strode like that and headed out of the woods. It's a headache.What's weird is that because of the backlight, Xiao Xia couldn't see the eyes of Taoist Chuyang, but for some reason, the dull scene of Taoist Chuyang he met in the hut before suddenly reappeared.

Walking out of the woods, Taoist Chuyang did not stop, but walked further away. Xiao Xia was thinking about how to chase after him, when suddenly there was a sound of horseshoes from another direction, and someone shouted from afar. : "Who is that person in front, stop!"

It was the night patrol team from the Treasure Hunting League who came, but it wasn't the three people who had passed before, but four other people came galloping on horseback from another direction.The routes of these people patrolling all around are intertwined and connected with each other, and there is an open grassland outside the woods. Taoist Chuyang will almost certainly be discovered if he walks out like this.

However, when the patrolling four rode their horses to the front, they also recognized the Taoist Chuyang who often followed closely beside their lord, and their nervous expressions relaxed, and they asked, "So it's Chuyang?" Daoist, I don't know where Chang Xingse is going in such a hurry at this late hour?"

Taoist Chuyang pointed to the direction he was going and said to those people: "I found that there was some change in the Huo sect's mountain protection formation that day. It seems that the spirit of the earth there is showing signs of instability. .”

Although Taoist Chuyang is not one of the leaders, he has a very important position in the Treasure Hunting League, so the leader said: "Why don't we send the Taoist leader over there. If there is something to do, you can also help the Taoist leader. "

"No need." Taoist Chuyang waved his hand. "Anyway, the front is not far away. When I get there, I have to sit quietly and feel it carefully. If someone is around, it will be distracting. You just go to watch the night. Don't worry about me."

Taoist Chuyang's back was gone, and the four patrolling people were also gone. Then Xiao Xia came out from the hiding place, took out a talisman in her hand and stuck it on her body, and her figure gradually changed. Be transparent.

"Daoist Xia. Are you going to follow that person there again?" Mingyue also came out from the shadow.pouted. "It's no fun to follow other people around all the time and steal quietly."

"No way, I promise it will be fun this time." Xiao Xia stared at the back of Taoist Chuyang who was almost gone.Smiling like picking up a 1 tael silver ticket for nothing.

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When you are tens of miles away from Tianhuo, the fireball that envelops Tianhuo is no longer so huge. It is just like a big torch in the distance, and the light from it is not so bright. From behind, Taoist Chuyang's figure can be illuminated as a long black shadow.

Walked briskly for nearly an hour.After more than 20 miles away from the woods under Tianhuo, Taoist Chuyang seemed to have finally found the place he was looking for. He sat cross-legged on a mound, closed his eyes, and meditated, as if he was really in harmony with what he was looking for. As I said, I began to quietly explore and sense the flow of the earth's spiritual energy under the ground.There was silence all around, and finally there were some insects chirping from here, chirping sounds from time to time, and the breeze blowing from the grassland.It really sets off Taoist Chuyang, who is sitting quietly with his eyes closed, with a bit of immortality.

I don't know how long it took, those insects suddenly disappeared again, and the surroundings returned to a dead silence.Then, in the dead silence, there was a sound of footsteps, and a figure walked quickly from a distance.

While still far away.There was nothing strange about this figure, but when he walked near the mound, he realized that it was actually a very fat figure, nearly nine feet tall.The waist circumference is at least seven or eight feet, like a huge bear that has eaten too much.But the movements of this figure during walking are not clumsy.This man came towards the direction of Tianhuo, his appearance was vaguely illuminated by the flames in the distance, he was a tall and fat man with a full face and a leather armor.

When he got closer, the ground trembled slightly with his weight of more than 300 jin, but Taoist Chuyang, who was sitting quietly with his eyes closed, didn't notice it at all, and didn't intend to open his eyes at all.But the fat man walked straight towards Taoist Chuyang, walked all the way behind Taoist Chuyang, and stopped when he was almost touching Taoist Chuyang, his bull's eyes stared blankly at the meditating man on the ground Taoist Chuyang.

But Taoist Chuyang was still completely unconscious, as if he didn't know that there was a huge and dangerous monster standing behind him, and he still sat cross-legged and motionless, with a peaceful expression on his face.A gust of wind blew past, making the sleeve robes on his body rattle, and he looked like he was going to be gone with the wind.

Taoist Chuyang didn't move, but the fat man standing behind him squatted down and opened his mouth.

The chubby mouth is so big that it can fit a big fist when it is opened, but the chubby is not satisfied, and continues to force the mouth open, even the sides of the lips are pulled apart, and the jaw There were two clicks from the bone, and he broke free from the jaw joint with force, and finally opened the mouth to an unbelievable extent, like a snake about to eat.Then the fat man lowered his head again, and swallowed the head of Taoist Chuyang under him in one gulp with his unbelievably wide mouth.

It seems a bit wrong to say that it is swallowed whole. After all, no matter how fat this person is, no matter how big his mouth is, he is still a human being after all. It is impossible to swallow another person, but at least Taoist Chuyang's head and neck are intact. It was completely stuffed into the fat mouth, and the already fat face was stretched even bigger, and even the neck was doubled because of the heads of Taoist Chuyang being stuffed.The body that was already a little fat and deformed now looks even weirder and a little human-like.

Even so, Taoist Chuyang still didn't wake up. Although the head and face had been completely swallowed into the fat mouth, the posture of the rest of the body, hands and feet hadn't changed much, and it was still sitting cross-legged. look like.

A gurgling sound came from the fat chest and abdomen, as well as from the mouth and throat. It sounded like he was gargling. Taoist Chuyang's head and face were all contained in the fat mouth again, leaving the two of them aside. Regardless of the extremely weird shape, this appearance is simply that the fat man used his mouth as a container to wash the hair of Taoist Chuyang with saliva.

After less than half a cup of tea, Fatty spit out Chuyang Taoist's head from his mouth.Except for some saliva on his head and face, Taoist Chuyang looked the same as before, his chest was also slightly heaving, and he seemed to be immersed in the exercise of meditation all the time.Then Taoist Chuyang opened his eyes, stood up, got up and walked in the direction he came from.It was the same as when I came here, and I still walked in such a stride, the only difference was that the frown had been relaxed, as if the thing that had been lingering in my heart and I couldn't figure it out had been resolved.Facing the light, it can be seen that his eyes are very energetic.

From the beginning to the end, Taoist Chuyang never glanced at the big fat man behind his back, and he didn't even seem to feel the existence of this monster that once swallowed his head in his mouth. He really just came here to sit quietly, Feel what he is talking about.

And the fat monster like a monster ignored Taoist Chuyang, and turned around and walked quickly in the direction he came from.This strange and inexplicable scene all happened in a dead silence, without any words or sounds.

At this moment, there was a slight screeching sound from a small piece of grass not far from the hill, and a few grasses were inexplicably squeezed and broken, as if stepped on by a missing foot. .

It was originally a very slight sound, and even in the dead silence of the surrounding environment, it should not be able to reach a distance of several feet, but the fat man who had walked several tens of feet turned around suddenly, with a pair of big dull eyes. The place where the sound was made in a daze.

The place where the sound came from seemed to be nothing, surrounded by unobstructed grasslands, but suddenly he rushed there with a speed and dexterity that were not commensurate with that huge body, the huge body With a gust of wind, he rushed there almost in the blink of an eye. He had already drawn two big knives from behind with both hands, and swung a burst of knife light to cut down on the grass that seemed to have nothing.

There was a loud bang, weeds and soil were flying around, and two blurred figures that seemed to appear out of nowhere jumped to the sides and dodged Fatty's blow.

"Don't you come here safe and sound? We haven't seen each other for more than ten days, how did you learn the trick of swallowing people's heads?" The slightly embarrassed figure rolled on the ground and stood up, looking at the fat man with great interest. , greeted happily.

Fat didn't answer.There was no expression on the fleshy fat face, the blood was slowly flowing from the cracked lips, soaking half of the face in blood red, under the reflection of the fire, it looked like a fat zombie who had just sucked blood, with a pair of The dull protruding fish eyes fixed on the two figures that gradually became clear.

In the distance towards Tianshan Volcano, although the sound was heard in the silence, the Chuyang Taoist who was walking quickly did not even turn his head. She's eyes are only looking at the huge fireball in the distance, as if there is nothing else in this world.

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