"Old Huang... this guy... is he crazy?"
Some people sitting inside found it ridiculous and puzzled that it was a rainy night and it was pitch black, wet, slippery and cold outside, but they just took a bandit out like that.
"Yeah, why don't you call them back?"
Huang Zhixian looked at the people around him. They had also seen Ji Yuan leaving. From their expressions, he knew that he was not seeing things.
"When I wanted to call out, there was no one in sight. Anyway, let's be careful tonight."
I wanted to put the yellow paper in my hand into my arms, but when I thought about how I was already wet and there was fire all around me, I felt like I had nowhere to put it and could only hold it in my hands.
The door of the big house was closed. Regardless of whether the gentleman at the door was talking nonsense or not, at least he succeeded in making everyone more cautious.
On a rainy night, Ji Yuan grabbed Bazi by the collar and moved like a dragon shrinking the ground.
The bandits who were shouting and screaming at the beginning and wanted to go back were now speechless.
When I just came out from the house, I felt like I couldn't see my hand in front of me, but amid the "boom..." thunder, lightning illuminated the earth.
In this brief moment of light, Bazi could see that the surrounding scenery was rapidly receding, and the deserted village had been left behind. However, they had clearly only been out for a short time, so logically they should not have left the village yet.
At this time, Bazi looked at the gentleman who was holding him, but found that the other party was just walking leisurely, not even running. He was so exhausted by the wind that he could hardly speak.
Bazi shivered a few times, not sure if it was because of shock or cold, but it seemed that this caught Ji Yuan's attention. In the next few breaths, Bazi clearly felt that the clothes on his body had strangely become dry.
It was not until this time that he realized that although there was a strong wind, he was not hit by the rain.
"Pay attention to the lightning to identify the way. Let's go to the place where you just fought. Is the direction correct?"
Ji Yuan's voice came from the side. At this moment, the world in the heavy rain was much clearer to him than a sunny day, except for the lack of color. Even the footprints on the ground left by a group of warriors were very "conspicuous".
I'm asking now just to confirm.
"No, that's right. There will be a dirt slope soon. We need to turn in a different direction to get there."
Bazi didn't dare to make any more noise. He suddenly felt that what this man had said before might be true, and that it might be safer for him to stay with him than to stay in the deserted village.
The two of them moved very quickly. After a while, Ji Yuan had stepped onto the slope that Bazi mentioned, and then he confirmed a direction and headed straight ahead.
A moment later, the two returned to the battlefield where the warriors and the bandits had fought before, and saw the corpses on the ground.
"It seems this is the right place!"
Ji Yuan muttered to himself, cleared his breath, and endured the unpleasant smell as he walked closer to the area where the corpses were most densely packed. Without any investigation, he followed the scent and touched the neck of a corpse directly.
"Boom..."
Lightning flashed across the sky again. In Bazi's sight, there was a terrible bite mark on the neck of the corpse, and half of the neck was almost bitten off.
“Ouch…!”
Bazi was so frightened that he trembled and cried out.
"There is no essence or blood in the corpse. Well, the same is true for these. But there is some blood left over there. They must have died in a fight. This thing likes to prey on living people. Even the three souls and seven spirits are sucked dry along with the essence and blood."
The more Ji Yuan said this, the more scared Bazi became. However, the former had no intention of paying attention to the bandit's feelings at this moment. Instead, his eyes fell on the bodies of the bandits who died in the fight.
There were a few new souls with confused looks on their faces lingering around the corpse. It seemed that there would be no underworld officials coming to collect their souls, so they really became lonely ghosts.
"Let's go to your village and point out the direction."
“Here, over here!”
Bazi suppressed the fear in his heart and pointed in the direction the bandits had left before. Ji Yuan listened quietly for a while and could hear traces of a large group of people advancing.
"Well, cheer up, don't point the wrong way, let's go."
Ji Yuan took a step and took Bazi to chase after him at a faster speed than before.
It was obvious that the bandits would not go directly back to their lair, but would take a detour through some rivers and other places where their footprints could be erased. However, Ji Yuan now had a guide, so he naturally chose the shortest route.
While on the road, Ji Yuan also asked Bazi about the scale of the bandits' camp, how many people were there and other basic information.
Judging from the remaining breath, it seems that those wounded bandits all died at the mouth of the same evil creature, and it looked somewhat like a zombie.
This thing is very blood-thirsty, and it can suck all the essence out of a person. The dead have no blood and no energy in their bodies, so naturally it is impossible for them to transform into corpses. But this thirst for blood is too much. It wants to suck a village of hundreds of people dry by itself
. . .
There is a Nanwangzhai on the Ainan Mountain. A few bandits gave it the name Nanwangzhai in the beginning, which meant they were so arrogant that they called themselves the local kings in the vast Nanyuan Road.
They do have the capital to be arrogant. They now have a total of four to five hundred bandits under their command, many of whom are even deserters from the army. Even the second-in-command in the bandit camp was once an officer.
Although the village is located on Ainan Mountain, the road there is extremely rugged. The village is built on a rocky hill with steep terrain around it. The path into the mountain is narrow and long, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.
The group of bandits who attacked more than a dozen warriors before were the fierce bandits in Nanwang Village.
These tired and exhausted bandits returned here more than half an hour ago. Many of them quickly filled their stomachs and fell asleep in their own sheds.
When Ji Yuan was carrying the stick and hurrying on his way, in a main hall of Nanwang Village, unlike the group of brothers outside who had gone to bed early, the six heads of the village and some small leaders were gathered here to eat and drink.
The group of people were having a great time eating and drinking mutton and stew, baked bread and wine, and they were shouting and yelling all the time.
"Oh! If we had kidnapped those women, we would have enjoyed ourselves tonight. It's so damn unlucky. We've run into some evil spirits!"
Hearing the third in command complaining, the eldest in command, who was sitting at the top, couldn't help but ask.
"Old Three, what evil spirit did you run into?"
The fifth boss who went with them took a sip of wine and quickly responded.
"Brother, you didn't see it. Before, the third brother asked me and the second brother to go over there. We checked the bodies of those brothers. Each of them was bitten on the neck. Two of them had particularly deep marks that directly pierced the blood vessels of the necks of those brothers who died tragically."
"That's right. These people died silently, which was chilling to watch. I also checked some of the bodies and found scratches on them. There were also traces of struggle on the ground around some of them. In short, they were pinned to the ground by something very powerful and eaten alive."
The third in command added a sentence to this.
"All the blood on the body has been drained. The person must have died because his blood was sucked dry."
"Hiss..."
Many leaders who did not participate in the ambush took a deep breath after hearing this, and found it quite weird.
"So we withdrew, leaving those people behind. Although beauties and gold and silver are good, you have to be alive to enjoy them!"
The big boss picked up the wine bowl and clinked it with his brothers.
"Well said, come on, drink!"
“Drink!” “Yes, drink, drink!”
…
During the heated conversation, a small leader drank too much and had to pee urgently, so he went out to urinate.
It was still raining outside. I opened the door to the hall and went out. The cold wind blew and I shivered all over.
It was not convenient to walk too far on such a rainy day, so he went around the main gate of the village hall, walked to the back along the eaves, and then unbuttoned his pants to relieve himself.
After a while of letting out some water, his body suddenly felt cold for a few times, and that was the end of it.
"Huh...it's still cold in March."
At this time, lightning flashed and thunder roared.
"Boom..."
The electric light that briefly illuminated the village allowed the small leader, who was tying his trouser pockets, to suddenly see someone holding another person outside a shed in the distance.
The person who was caught had his feet off the ground and was twitching all over, which was scary to look at.
'What's going on over there?'
Just as he was thinking about it, there was another "boom" of lightning. When the little leader turned around, he suddenly saw a bulge on the ground on the side moving towards him rapidly.
"what?"
"boom… "
Two clawed hands suddenly stretched out from the ground and grabbed his feet.
"Ah... Ugh..."
The sharp cry started and then stopped abruptly, but it still made a sound.
Inside the village hall, several leaders who were drinking and eating meat all stopped what they were doing. They were good at martial arts, and the other small leaders might not have heard it, but they all heard the screams filled with fear.
"Quiet!"
The leader shouted and the village hall suddenly became quiet. For a moment, the only sounds were the sound of wind and rain outside and the occasional thunder. This silence revealed a sense of uneasiness.
"You, you, and you, go out and take a look!"
The third in command immediately pointed to the people near the door. The latter looked at each other, took their weapons, opened the door and walked out.
Watching them go out, there seemed to be no danger, but soon three short noises were heard.
"Ah..." "Ugh..." "Dang..."
"boom… "
One side of the wall of the village hall was hit hard by something.
"Oh no, there is danger, brothers, get ready..."
“Boom…” “Boom…”
Two large holes were blasted directly into the curtain wall of the gate and the hall on one side. Looking along the firelight, there were two or three ragged figures standing at each hole.
"who!?"
"Be careful on the ground!" "Ah..."
Several leaders used their physical skills to escape. At the same time, amid the screams of their brothers, two holes exploded in the ground, and two terrifying brown monsters jumped out of them.
One of them swung his hand, and with a "puff..." sound, he directly cut off the head of a small leader.
Seeing the blood gushing out, the two monsters rushed to the headless body, hugged the body and bit its bloody neck.
The third in command felt a chill run down his spine and started to roar.
"Damn it, this dirty thing has followed me to the village! If I don't fight hard today, I'll have to give an account!"
The sound attracted the evil creatures outside, and they flew in one after another, reaching the bandits in one leap.
"Fight to the death!" "Kill..."
"Squeak..." "Zheng..."
The boss saw a monster coming towards him, so fast that he couldn't even see it clearly. Without time to think, he gathered all his energy and chopped it hard with his ring-handled broadsword.
"when… "
Sparks appeared before my eyes, my hands were almost numb, and I was unable to cut into the opponent's body. Moreover, the monster did not stop at all.
"boom… "
The big boss was hit hard in the chest, with a pair of sharp claws digging into his body from behind, and a big mouth on his shoulder and neck.
"Ah—!" "Boom..."
The monster carried the leader directly and smashed the back wall of the village hall to get out, showing its tremendous strength.