At the ruins of a broken wall outside the town, Lin Xin and Cheng Ruofei and Jiang Yueer walked slowly behind a white ruined wall.
The wind was blowing, as if someone was crying. The half-human tall weeds around were also blown hard and lowered their heads.
"Junior Brother Lin." Cheng Ruofei said in a low voice. "To be honest, in this team, the three of us are now the only ones who can trust each other."
"How do you say that?" Lin Xin asked in a low voice.
"You are a new disciple who joined for less than two months, and a lot of information is unclear, so it is impossible to have any plans. I joined this mission purely because of Yue'er." Cheng Ruofei said calmly. "But do you know why Yue'er joined the mission?"
"What?" Lin Xin was startled and had a guess.
"Kong Yuhui."
Jiang Yueer opened her mouth to speak, but Cheng Ruofei spoke first.
"Sure enough..."
Lin Xin felt more and more that there was something wrong with Kong Yuhui.
"Kong Yuhui took the initiative to find Yue'er, who had been secretly in love with him, and asked her to accompany him to complete this task." Cheng Ruofei said coldly, "I always felt wrong before, but now I finally understand."
"What do you want to understand?" Lin Xin suddenly saw Jiang Yue'er's face turn pale.
"They want to condense Yin blood." Cheng Ruofei said coldly. "To condense Yin blood, you need to consume the whole body blood of at least five inner masters!"
Lin Xin was startled.
He suddenly recalled that when he was in the room just now, there was no trace of blood around Shi Kun's body, everything was clean, as if there was no blood in his body at all!
"I just said how could there be a naturally occurring yin blood here, I didn't expect it to be condensed from their own people!" Cheng Ruofei's voice became colder and colder. "So cruel... With so many missions in a row, it's no wonder Kong Yuhui's skills have improved so quickly!"
Recalling that Kong Yuhui, Ouyang Qing, and Jin Yuzong's Zhou Jing all seemed to have a tacit understanding with each other just now, obviously the three of them may be insiders.
"Then, why can I trust you?" Lin Xin came back to his senses and looked at the two girls in front of him.
"I'm afraid Yue'er won't die." Cheng Ruofei said calmly, but her face turned pale. "But you and I, as well as Shi Lei, and the three other people besides Zhou Jing from the Jin Yuzong, may still die tonight."
Lin Xin suddenly remembered that weird Ouyang Qing from last night.
"From now on, we must stay together anytime, anywhere, or we will be the next to die!" Cheng Ruofei seemed to know a lot.
"Can you tell me that there are all kinds of weirdness everywhere in this town, why?" Lin Xin asked. "On the first night, I saw a pale face. On the second night, I saw Ouyang Qing, who led me the way, but almost...tonight is the third night."
"Have you met them already? This town was extinct thirty years ago. In addition, they conspired to kill so many disciples and drink their blood for their own use. The resentment generated is enough to cover the entire town." Cheng Ruofei took a deep breath and said softly. "All kinds of strange and strange things often happened in the past, you just need to remember one thing, don't trust anyone after dark at night."
"Don't trust anyone?" Lin Xin felt numb for some reason. "Why?"
Cheng Ruofei was wearing a green dress, with two small bags protruding like puff sleeves on her shoulders, which seemed to be for decoration.
She looked around, carefully put a finger into a small bag on the left, and took out a piece of white talisman paper.
"This is for you, you didn't prepare anything, if you go back, you have to pay this back."
"What is this?" Lin Xin took the talisman paper and saw that there were dense black characters like tadpoles on it. At first glance, he felt dizzy and couldn't see anything clearly.
"The talisman of resentment, if something strange appears within three meters of you, this talisman will automatically burn, but there will be no fire, it is very concealed. You can use it to judge and identify the situation." Cheng Ruofei explained. "Actually, our four sects, including many sects, if we want to survive the endless weirdness in this world, the security side relies on these external props. In the future, you will need to prepare more for missions."
Lin Xin put away the talisman carefully, showing a little more kindness to Cheng Ruofei. "Thank you."
"No, helping us is also helping ourselves. Besides, this talisman is worth two yuan, so don't forget to return it to me." Cheng Ruofei gave a rare smile.
She looked very weak, like a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, with a six-petal flower woven with white feathers on her black hair in a shawl.
Fair skin, like a porcelain doll, although the facial features are not very beautiful, but very well-behaved.
But when he really spoke, he gave people a gentle and calm temperament.
"No, I don't believe Brother Kong will harm us!" Jiang Yue'er, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, shaking her head vigorously.
"Don't worry. We will know the real situation later. The key now is to protect ourselves first!" Cheng Ruofei said calmly.
"Then what should I do?" Lin Xin asked in a low voice. He had long felt that something was wrong with this place. Now that Cheng Ruofei knew so much, he simply asked her directly.
"Let's... move together first!" Cheng Ruofei looked at Lin Xin and said word by word.
Both Lin Xin and Jiang Yueer were taken aback.
In a dilapidated bedroom.
A stick of yellow-brown incense slowly drifted out of gray-white shreds of tobacco from the incense burner. The shreds of tobacco went straight upwards, getting weaker and weaker, and gradually dissipated in the air of the room.
Beside the table where the incense burner was placed, sat a veiled woman in green clothes. The lower half of her cheeks were covered by the veil. The white veil fluttered slightly with her breathing. It was Ouyang Qing who had returned to the room.
She was sitting upright by the table, with her hand on the hilt of the long sword on the table, as if she was closing her eyes and meditating.
"Kong Yuhui seems to have woken up." Suddenly a man's voice rang in her ear.
"So what?" Ouyang Qing didn't care, "You and I join forces, and Kong Yuhui can't win?"
"I'm afraid he also has backhands." The male voice said in a low voice.
"It's nothing more than Yinxue Formation and a few of his subordinates. How far can a mere second floor struggle?" Ouyang Qing calmly said, "The real trouble is this town, and the resentment is getting heavier."
"We'll leave as soon as we've dealt with the matter, and we don't need to wait for the Yinblood Bird to appear." The male voice replied.
"Leave early?"
"Leave early."
Ouyang Qing was silent for a while after hearing this.
"good."
"One more thing, those three little guys moved in together, will you deal with it or I will do it?" the male voice said lightly.
Ouyang Qing's eyes drooped.
"Let me do it. You can get three drops of Yinxue if you kill it."
Lin Xin and Cheng Ruofei and Jiang Yue'er packed up all the things in the room, and then the three chose another house with an empty yard and moved in together.
The three of them were divided into two rooms, next to each other. Naturally, there was a door that could be opened and closed on the wall between the two rooms, so they could communicate with each other without opening the door.
After tidying up the room and putting away the things, the three of them fetched water to wash off the sweat and dust on their bodies.
"The water is running out."
Cheng Ruofei whispered as she sat down to rest in Lin Xin's room.
"Where's Jiang Yueer?" Lin Xin saw that she was the only one coming.
"Go to rest." Cheng Ruofei shook his head slightly, helplessly. "The three of us are just a small Guiyuan Jue. If we face Kong Yuhui, Ouyang Qing, and Zhou Jing, any one of us will be killed. Even if we are in a group, we don't have enough actual combat experience, so we may not necessarily be their opponents. "
"Jiang Yue'er has different identities, so you want to rely on her to make those three people fearful and dare not attack us?" Lin Xin understood what she meant.
"It would be great if it could be done. If it is true that Yue'er's identity is really estimated, Kong Yuhui would not take the initiative to invite her together." Cheng Ruofei was still helpless.
Lin Xin didn't say anything. He had to deal with the corpse monkey that was injured last night, a corpse monkey that could not be beaten by the explosive strength of the so-called second-level Guiyuan Jue. Obviously, the power of the Yanyang Talisman Sword can at least deal with the second-level, or even the third-level Guiyuanjue internal masters.
However, due to the difference in the level of internal power, his explosive speed can't keep up, and the Yanyang Talisman Sword can't see the light. It's best to use it in a sneak attack or when no one knows that it can decide the battle situation.
He compared his strength in his heart. If he attacked Kong Yuhui and Ouyang Qing in a sneak attack, he still had a slight chance of winning. It was that Zhou Jing... The speed of his attack was so fast that Shi Lei was injured before he could see what was going on.
"Don't worry about it too much, something will happen tonight." Cheng Ruofei said in a low voice, "If their goal is to gather Yin blood, then the more people die, the more Yin blood they can get."
"Why don't we leave here? Go back and report to the sect?" Lin Xin asked.
"Without evidence, no one will do anything to them, and they will directly expose us. Moreover, leaving here to go to other places is also not feasible. Leaving aside the mission issue, even now, there must be people guarding Kong Yuhui's defenses around here. "Cheng Ruofei shook his head.
"Then we're just waiting?"
"We're just trying to protect ourselves."
Lin Xin didn't say any more, but when he thought of the red mist, he didn't just want to protect himself. This world is too dangerous, and if one's strength is too low, there is a crisis everywhere.
"If possible, we may have a chance to counter Kong Yuhui with a sneak attack." Cheng Ruofei said again at this time. "It's even possible to get the Yin blood they condensed."
Lin Xin's heart was shocked, and he looked at the girl. It was like meeting her for the first time.
"They forced me too!" Cheng Ruofei gritted his teeth. "Something will happen tonight, remember, don't trust anyone!"
Lin Xin saw that her face was extremely serious, and knew that this matter was very important, and when he thought about what happened to Ouyang Qing before, he nodded heavily.
"At that time, I will make arrangements. As long as we survive tonight, we can go to Ouyang Qing. She is the only one in the team who can compete against Kong Yuhui." Cheng Ruofei's voice gradually became quieter.