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As soon as the shrill whistle was heard, there was a moment of commotion in the team. Many servants stopped one after another. Li Changsheng and Zhu Kaisheng in the middle rushed to the front, leaving Zheng Yong in the middle.

The Gu Masters on both sides did not move, but were on full alert.

Many ferocious beasts act in groups and are intelligent. Once they find a gap, they will rush in and not only kill the Gu Masters, but also hunt down the servants.

Because in the eyes of ferocious beasts, these are all food.

When Li Changsheng rushed to the front, he found that Xiong Qiang's face and body were covered in blood. There were two long-armed stone monkeys more than one meter tall and covered with hair on the ground. One of them was killed by a bone thorn gun piercing the heart, and the other was beaten to pieces by Xiong Qiang with his bare hands.

"How many long-armed stone monkeys are here? Are there any monkey kings and poisonous insects?"

"Three or four stone monkeys came, and it looked like they were trying to harass us. They injured a servant, but they haven't found the Monkey King or the poisonous insect parasitic on him yet. However, these stone monkeys are very vengeful and may continue to harass us. But if we don't punish them, they will just snatch the servant away and eat him..."

Chang Xiao looked solemn. These stone monkeys, which were one or two meters tall, were not vegetarians. They would eat humans, and most of them lived in groups with strict hierarchy. Occasionally, some special poisonous insects would parasitize on the monkey king. Those poisonous insects would increase the strength of the monkey king, but once the monkey king died, people would have the opportunity to catch those wild poisonous insects when they left the monkey king and looked for the next host.

The long-armed stone monkey is just a relatively common ferocious beast. Generally, there will be a first-level one among more than ten stone monkeys, and a monkey king among fifty stone monkeys, and that kind of monkey king is usually a second-level ferocious beast.

However, if there are more than a hundred long-armed stone monkeys, it is easy to produce a third-level monkey king. And if there are five hundred or a thousand long-armed stone monkeys, it is easy to produce a fourth-level or even fifth-level monkey king. In this case, if you encounter such a large group of long-armed stone monkeys, you can only run as far as you can.

One or two ferocious beasts are not scary, but what is scary is a group of ferocious beasts with a beast king. Once encountered, the Gu Master can only be food in front of them.

This is why the advance team goes first. A small number of long-armed stone monkeys like this must be eliminated or driven away. Otherwise, they will actively attack the Gu Master if they encounter him. If they encounter ordinary caravans or civilians, it will be a huge disaster.

A long-armed stone monkey could completely eat up a village without the protection of a Gu Master.

The servant who was scratched by the long-armed stone monkey was also sent to the carriage to rest. One of his legs was bloody and mangled by the long-armed stone monkey, and the white bones inside could be seen. He almost fainted several times from the pain, but he was still biting a piece of rag, holding on tightly to prevent himself from shouting.

Li Changsheng's natal poisonous insect is the hexagonal dragon fish. This kind of poisonous insect can regenerate severed arms and has super strong self-healing ability. This is why Li Changsheng dared to stab himself at any time.

So this time Li Changsheng spent a little bit of his energy and drove his own poisonous insect to rescue the servant. Fortunately, although his injuries were serious, he was not on the verge of death. After Li Changsheng spent a cup of tea, the bleeding of the servant's injured leg stopped, scarring began, and even new muscles began to grow.

In three to five days at most, the servant's legs will be able to move around normally without any scars left, and they will look the same as before the injury.

"Thank you, Master Li, for saving my life!"

The servant knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Li Changsheng, but was stopped by him and asked to go to the carriage to rest for a day or two.

Li Changsheng was worried that there would be more attacks from the long-armed stone monkeys, so he just stood at the front of the team. Fortunately, they were careful along the way. Perhaps they were frightened by the counterattack from Xiong Qiang and Chang Xiao, and by the evening, the long-armed stone monkeys never appeared again.

And they also came to Xiaohe Village.

This village is a small village in the northern wilderness. A while ago, there was an incident in this mountain village where a ferocious beast slaughtered the entire village. The Gu Master in charge of protecting this village reported this to the higher authorities and requested that the guards help to clean up the village when they go north every year. Otherwise, it won’t take long for this small river village to have its people either slaughtered or secretly escape!

In the Dayan Dynasty, ferocious beasts were rampant. Generally, villages like the ones mentioned above would dispatch a first-level Gu Master to guard the villages in order to deal with the ferocious beasts that occasionally appeared.

He is also responsible for checking every village to see if there are any talented seedlings with good qualifications. However, in the past hundred years, such talented seedlings have become increasingly fewer and rare in such remote villages.

The Gu Master of Xiaohe Village was a first-level Gu Master in his forties or fifties. He looked a little old. When he was talking to Li Changsheng and the others, he coughed from time to time. He said that he had a chronic illness. Although he spent a lot of money on treatment, it didn't get better, so he just put it off and didn't bother to seek treatment.

The Gu Master's surname is Zhou Tong. He said that several strange things have happened in Xiaohe Village in the past three years. He suspected that there were ferocious beasts or wild Gu worms at work, and hoped that they could help check it out.

It turned out that an old man died in Xiaohe Village during a rain three years ago. At that time, Zhou Yong was a little surprised when he saw that the old man's belly was abnormally big.

However, because the weather was hot at the time, the body could not be kept for long, so he asked the villagers to cremate it.

Later, several villagers who cremated the bodies seemed to have fallen seriously ill. It was only after Zhou Yong got some grass poison and asked them to drink it that they recovered completely.

Then a very strange thing happened in the village: every time it rained, someone in the village died, and the dead people would become big-bellied.

Moreover, the villagers who cremate the dead will fall seriously ill after the ceremony. Zhou Tong has experience with this and will prepare grass poison for them to drink in advance. Even so, many people will become weak and need some time to recover.

Moreover, this situation becomes more serious as the rainfall increases during the rainy season.

As a result, this village, which originally had thousands of households, was reduced to less than a hundred households in just three short years.

The others either died or moved away secretly with their families.

The people left behind are mostly old, weak, sick and disabled, and there is really not enough money to support their family relocation. Zhou Tong has been reporting this to the higher-ups, saying that if this problem is not solved.

It is estimated that in a year or so, only some ruins will be left of this Xiaohe Village.

"The villagers of Xiaohe Village are having a really hard time. The deaths from the heavy rain are just one of the problems. There is another even more troublesome thing, which is that people have no way to survive..."

When Zhou Tong said this, his originally numb eyes had turned red.