Soul echo

Chapter 719: Gathering of Legends
As night fell, the people who had been having fun all day lost their excitement and dispersed from the venue.

The venue of the trade fair quickly returned to calm, but Zhong Ye could not leave because there was still some work to be arranged.

Although the first day of the exhibition was passed without any risk, many people should have lost their minds after seeing the goods stored in the exhibition hall.

After arranging the night patrol work properly, Zhong Ye left the venue of the fair.

The knights and policemen who had rested for a whole day patrolled the venue to ensure that the goods would not be lost, but Zhong Ye couldn't stop them from stealing. All he can do now is to trust these people's 'conscience' and 'sense of responsibility' .

The police should not be able to do anything, after all, their family members live in Jingzhou, so maybe a knight.

So when hiring knights, Zhong Ye tried his best to choose players.

Although players are equally greedy, as long as they are given 'missions', they will obey.

After leaving the meeting place, Zhong Ye walked slowly towards the city. Halfway there, he stopped again and looked back. Even under the darkness of night, the meeting place with several piles of bonfires could still be seen.

It also occupies a huge area, and there are also many 'buildings' erected, which makes the venue look like another city.

Many thoughts flowed in the calm eyes, after a while, Zhong Ye suppressed the boiling thoughts and walked back to the city.

When he finished washing, the whole city was already silent.

Zhong Ye stared at the sky in a daze, and after a while, turned his head to look to the left.

A crow flew over and landed on the stone table beside Zhong Ye, lowered its head and pecked at the small tube tied to his leg, signaling Zhong Ye to open it.

After Zhong Ye opened it, a piece of paper popped out, followed by several nuts.

The crow was nibbling nuts on the stone table, Zhong Ye picked up the piece of paper and glanced at it.

"I don't know if Mr. Zhong has time, but the old man wants us 'legends' to get together. '

The piece of paper is not big, and it can carry not many words, only two short lines.

Although the sender did not leave a name, Zhong Ye knew that the sender should be the head of Wudang Mountain.

Proposing a party at this time?
Zhong Ye tapped the stone table with his index finger, hesitated for a moment, and then made a decision.

"Can you take me there?" Zhong Ye smoothed the crow's fur with his fingers.

The crow, which had just finished eating nuts, shook its body and flew into the sky with one wing.

Zhong Ye spread his legs and followed behind the crow.

The crow's flight speed was not fast, it seemed that it really understood Zhong Ye's words and was leading him the way.

Wudang Mountain has several properties in Jingzhou, and the head of it now lives in a small independent courtyard. When Zhong Ye arrived, the rest of the legends who came to participate in this fair had already arrived.

"The master of Jingzhou Mansion has arrived, and the old Taoist is far away to welcome him."

The four legends present all showed enough politeness, they stopped their communication when the conversation was in full swing, and got up to salute Zhong Ye.

Zhong Ye also made enough gestures, respectfully returned the salute, and then the head of Wudang Mountain invited him to sit down.

After taking his seat, Zhong Ye spoke first, refuting the words of the head of Wudang Mountain: "The owner of Jingzhou Mansion is not me, but the people of this Jingzhou Mansion. I am only the current manager of Jingzhou Mansion."

Several legends looked at him and did not speak for a long time.

After a long while, a big bearded man raised his teacup, shook his head, and said, "I really don't understand you people from the earth, people who talk about people and people who talk about people... Although I can feel your enthusiasm from the bottom of my heart, it's really difficult understand."

Zhong Ye looked at him, and then heard the head of Wudang Mountain introduce with a smile: "This is the current head of the Dajiang Gang, Zhang Bing."

"Is the boss being upset by the player?" Zhong Ye asked, otherwise how would Zhang Bing know what the player looks like?

"No, it's just that the gang members of the Dajiang Gang have suffered a little embarrassment." Zhang Bing shook his head again, "The Dajiang Gang has a great career, and there are always some good and bad. When the players were clearing out the water bandits, they faced off against the Dajiang Gang a few times. , although those who died were those who deserved their crimes, but they are members of the Dajiang Gang after all, and a gang is a group assembled by using "loyalty". If there are too many, there is nothing I can do."

The Dajiang Gang is not considered a gangster. It was originally composed of boatmen and fishermen who lived in the Yangtze River, and later joined some traders. As time went by, this gang grew bigger and bigger. Until now, under the leadership of Zhang Bing, it has occupied Most of the territory in the Yangtze River Basin.

However, they can't be regarded as Baidao, because there are too many gang members, good and bad people mixed together, not to mention bad people, there may be abyss believers and demons among the gang members.

Zhang Bing knows the earth and the players, so he must know how big the threat of the abyss is to the world of Dan, and there are punishments for the gangsters who do evil, but this kind of punishment should not be done by the players, because those players are 'outsiders' , what he did was simply unconvincing.

Zhong Ye nodded thoughtfully, and changed the subject, "Where are these two?"

"This is 'Sword of Heaven' Shen Yixing." The head of Wudang Mountain pointed to Shen Yixing.

Then, he turned his wrist, "This is the patriarch of Xinyuantang, Qinghezi."

Finally, the head of Wudang Mountain raised a single palm, "And the Taoist, named 'Yangtai'."

Zhong Ye gave another salute to the few legends present. After all, he is a junior, so etiquette is still required.

"Old man Yangtai, now that Zhong Ye is here, you should tell me why you invited us over?" Qing Hezi said, raising the teacup in his hand, "Could it be just to invite us to have a cup of tea?"

It can be heard that the relationship between Qinghezi and Yangtai is good, at least they can joke with each other.

"Blessed Immeasurable Heavenly Venerate."

After Yang Tai sang a holy name, Zhong Ye felt some changes in the surrounding environment.

"Everyone, don't panic, the old Taoist's move is only to shield the secrets, so that outsiders can't spy on our conversation, and it will not harm you."

As he spoke, Yang Tai dug in his sleeve, took out an object, and placed it in front of everyone.

"Can you recognize this thing?" Yang Tai pointed to the round stone and asked Huan.

The stone is translucent, and everyone can see that a cloud of black mist is slowly rotating in it.

Seeing this thing, Zhong Ye frowned, "This should be 'Painted Skin'. I also encountered this kind of thing when I was in Xilu, but the people of Xilu call them 'Heart Eaters'."

Afterwards, Zhong Ye talked about the incidents related to the Mind Eater, and even mentioned the matter of 'he completely killed the Mind Eater aggregate'.

After finishing speaking, Zhong Ye looked up at Yangtai, "Master Yangtai, you suddenly took out this thing, do you want to ask something?"

Speaking of this, Yang Tai, who had kept a smiling face before, also straightened his face, and said seriously: "This thing is a 'painted skin', this matter is naturally clear, not only clear, but Wudang Mountain is also the nemesis of all kinds of ghosts and ghosts. specifically for these things.

"Monsters like 'Painted Skin', although possessing some intelligence, have always behaved in the same way as wild beasts. You should know this."

Seeing that everyone was nodding, Yang Tai sighed, and said in a deep voice: "After listening to what Zhong Xiaoyou said, the old man has some doubts whether Dongtu's 'Painted Skin' has also given birth to a consciousness aggregate—right at the beginning of the exhibition. A few days ago, a disciple of our Wudang who traveled abroad came back. After he came back, the mountain guard array detected abnormalities in his body, but no matter how his teacher checked, nothing was found on him, so he had to ask the old master for help.

"The old Taoist went to check on that disciple, and then found this thing on that disciple, but this is not the most serious thing."

Yangtai paused for a moment, and his tone became heavy: "The most important thing is that when the old man discovered the parasitic 'painted skin' in that disciple's body, the 'painted skin' lost all his wisdom in an instant--the old man can guarantee that, after the old man just discovered At that time, the 'Painted Skin' had intelligence, and it was using the disciple's eyes to look around.

"The old Taoist felt that there was something strange about this matter, so he flew to several places that the disciple traveled to find out, and found the same situation in a certain village. Those 'painted skins' lost their sanity after being discovered by the old Taoist.

"Because of this, the old Taoist came up with the idea of ​​participating in the exhibition. Fortunately, the old Taoist guessed it right. There are indeed many grandmasters participating in this exhibition..."

(End of this chapter)