One pound of meat equals one attribute point

"I'll go there myself." Su Heng thought for a moment and then made up his mind.

"You?"

Su Gui hesitated, "This is not good. What if we encounter danger?"

"It's dangerous to stay here." Su Heng said, "The things in the well are not clean. Hei Kui Mountain, even if this incident didn't happen, I would have to go and take a look. Besides, other people would just be sending it away for nothing."

Since he started practicing martial arts, Su Heng has become more and more decisive.

In front of his son, Su Gui gradually felt a lack of confidence.

"Do you want to send two people to follow you and go with you so that you can take care of each other." Su Gui suggested.

"No." Su Heng shook his head, "The gap is too far."

If he really encountered a dangerous situation, even if he brought two guards, it would only be a burden.

On the contrary, Su Heng would go and come back quickly alone, and it wouldn't take long.

"Well... okay." Su Gui sighed, feeling helpless.

This world...

He was becoming more and more unfamiliar, and he couldn't make up his mind when he encountered something.

Unconsciously, Su Heng has become the backbone of this big family, the real boss.

"Then I'll leave now."

Su Heng didn't want to waste time, so he said a few words and pushed the door open to leave.

He strode forward, and the two landscape trees planted in the yard swayed with him, making a rustling sound.

In the blink of an eye,

Su Heng's back disappeared from Su Gui's sight.

The latter raised his head, the sky was gloomy, the leaden clouds were hanging low, and the dull thunder came from the wilderness outside the city, but it was about to rain.

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Chi!

A white-headed black-feathered bird circled and flew over the city.

Su Heng stopped.

This is a slum near the city wall on the west side of Changqing County, called Lao Shu Fang, where good and bad people are mixed, and the environment is the worst.

There is no light in the alley full of garbage and yellow ash, and the houses on both sides are dark and low.

Patched and worn clothes were hung on bamboo poles outside the house, with only a slight difference in color between men and women.

There was also a worn-out stool in front of the door.

Not far away was a pile of dog shit that had been trampled into pieces.

Su Heng heard coughs coming from the alley, and the creaking sound of wheels rolling over the ground.

In the darkness.

A wheelbarrow was pushed slowly out of the alley.

There were three corpses piled together on the cart. The man pushing the cart had a gray cloth on his face, but his eyes were still sick.

Su Heng stepped aside to get out of the way.

He narrowed his eyes and looked into the depths of the alley.

In the darkness, figures stood silently, their bodies were thin, their faces were numb, and their bodies and faces were covered with scabies caused by pollution.

I don’t know if it was an illusion,

but Su Heng always felt that he saw some kind of strange yellow light from their eyes.

"So many people are infected by the plague."

Thinking of the rotten corpses that injured people in front of the Xu family not long ago.

Looking at the lower-class people in front of him who were obviously not in a good state, even a strong Su Heng couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

Leaving Changqing County, he went north along the official road.

When he met a huge banyan tree, he turned to a mountain road on the left, and then went forward to the Jiuqu River where the guards usually came to fetch water.

There were low shrubs growing on both sides of the road, dotted with dark red fruits.

This fruit is called Di Ren, which is said to be a traditional Chinese medicine.

Su Heng didn't know the specific efficacy.

But he remembered that after eating this fruit, his mouth was full of black and couldn't be wiped clean.

Continue forward,

bypass a steep mountain wall.

Su Heng stood on a big rock and soon heard the sound of gurgling water from a distance.

Jiuqu River, located north of Changqing County, flows from west to east all year round.

When they were young, Su Heng, Su Shang, and Su Li, three siblings, often came here to fish and have picnics accompanied by their family members.

However, in spring, because the ice and snow on the mountain melted and the flow increased, the river water would appear a little turbid.

These fragmented memories slowly came to his mind, but Su Heng did not act rashly.

The forest was foggy.

The turbid and black river water flowed from west to east, while the white silk-like mist was shrouded on the river surface, automatically moving westward, which looked extremely strange.

The cold mist flowed, over the surging water, over the abandoned and broken docks on the Jiuqu River, over the low shrubs and rocks in the forest, and finally over Su Heng's ankles.

A bone-piercing chill penetrated into the bone marrow, Su Heng's muscles tightened, and his eyes flashed with the fire of pure yang true energy.

This fog was very abnormal;

Not only did it block the line of sight, but even the sound of the water in the Jiuqu River gradually became distant.

Soon, Su Heng's eyes were all white, and he could only see rocks and forests within a three-meter radius.

"Flutter!"

There was a strange sound above his head, and the branches trembled slightly.

Su Heng looked up and saw a brown owl on the tree trunk tilting its head and looking at him curiously.

He retracted his gaze.

With his black cloth shoes on the ground, Su Heng continued to move forward.

Even if his vision and hearing were disturbed, Su Heng's sense of smell could still work.

Another benefit brought by the attribute panel was that he was extremely sensitive to the smell emitted by the demons. As long as the demons appeared near him, Su Heng would definitely notice it.

But before he could sense the breath of the demon, another smell appeared in Su Heng's nose.

It was an old, rotten smell of blood.

"Those guards who came to Jiuqu River to fetch water?"

Such a thought flashed through Su Heng's mind, but he soon felt that it was not.

The smell of blood was not fresh, mixed with soil, damp and rotten, obviously it had been dead for a while, and the body was pecked by wild beasts and birds, leaving only a little trace of life.

Su Heng rushed towards the direction where the smell of blood came from.

Pushing aside the bushes in front of him, entering the forest, and soon arrived at the destination.

On the open space on the ground, the remains of two corpses were displayed one after another, the bodies were separated, the flesh and blood on the bodies were devoured, and the remaining heads were highly rotten. There were two fat, white worms drilling around in the black eye sockets.

The exploded ground, the broken and fallen trees, the torn bushes...

There were traces of fierce fighting around.

Su Heng's nose twitched slightly. Under the smell of rotting human blood, there was another faint bloody smell with a light fragrance.

That smell did not belong to humans or beasts, but could only come from demons.

Moreover, this fragrance was very refreshing, and the strength of its owner must not be underestimated.

Su Heng carefully turned over the body despite his nausea.

Under the bones and torn clothes, Su Heng found a wooden token in the blood-stained mud.

Su Heng held the token in his hand and took a closer look.

Hiss...

Su Heng's heart tightened, and his pupils suddenly contracted.

But he saw the back of the token, with the words "Qingmao" written in ancient seal script.