Mountain and sea essence

After scaring away the evil spirits who were trying to attack him, Qiao Jun turned around and patted Sun Hao on the shoulder to comfort him, "Don't be afraid, I am the Chongming Bird, and I can exorcise evil spirits. Those evil spirits would not dare to do anything with me."

"I can see it." Sun Hao glanced at Qiao Jun's dark golden double pupils, and looked away awkwardly.Since the news of his parents' death came from Mount Mang eight years ago, it was the first time he got along so well with a monster, and he felt a little at a loss. "Let's find Meng Ping quickly."

"Where should I start looking?" Qiao Jun retracted his hand on Sun Hao's shoulder, scratched his head, and asked.

"When I was brought here by Meng Ping, I saw him leading that demon to that side." Sun Hao raised his hand and pointed Qiao Jun in a direction.

"Then we want to look in that direction."

After Qiao Jun finished speaking, he ran towards the direction Sun Hao pointed.Sun Hao followed closely behind Qiao Jun.

The two rushed four or five miles in one breath, and arrived at the small square at the entrance of the village.Running all the way, not to mention Meng Ping and Moren, I didn't even see a ghost, only the gloomy cold wind, wrapped in sand and dust raging under the dark sky.

Qiao Jun stopped, and after Sun Hao breathed a sigh of relief, he said, "We have run for such a long distance, but we haven't found any clues related to Meng Ping. Will Meng Ping run in this direction for a while?" , turned and ran somewhere else?"

"It's possible..." Sun Hao said, frowning tightly together.

He saw that Meng Ping was running in this direction when he left, and he was not sure afterwards.But what is certain is that going straight in this direction is definitely not Mengping's only route choice.Thinking of this, Sun Hao became more and more anxious.

"I don't think it's okay to run in this direction blindly. I have to find a way to find out where Meng Ping is..." Qiao Jun said.

"Do you have a solution?" Sun Hao looked at Qiao Jun eagerly.

"Well... by the way, we can call Meng Ping!" Qiao Jun took out his phone, and was dumbfounded when he turned on the screen, "Why is there no signal?!"

"This is Xiaoqianshishi. It is not in the same space as the outside world, and it is not within the coverage of mobile phone signals."

Qiao Jun put away his mobile phone in disappointment, looked around, ran to the watchtower on the side of the small square, climbed up the simple pedestal, stood on the observation tower of the watchtower, and looked into the distance .Standing on the sentry tower and looking out, the range seen from the street is much larger than before, and the edge of this ghost city can be faintly seen.Qiao Jun stared at it for a while, feeling that the low house on the edge looked a little weird.Rows of houses there are constantly collapsing and disappearing, and then condensing and rebuilding, and the cycle is endless.

This phenomenon seems to be... a manifestation of Xiaoqian's instability in the world, right?

Speaking of which, it is also a mystery that such a small thousand world will appear here.Qiao Jun once heard Lu Qiguang Lu Daochang from Qingyueguan say that the drawers that lock monsters in the Monster Locking Tower use the magic of Xiaoqian World. In modern terms, it is probably a kind of sealable alien space.The spells of the Little Thousand Worlds were created by several ancient masters, and before they passed away, they left only three Little Thousand Worlds for future generations, which are the three demon-locking towers in the human world, and there is no fourth Little Thousand Worlds. The presence.I don't know who and when it was built.But it's important to find Meng Ping now, and it's not the time to delve into this issue. Qiao Jun looked around from the sentry tower, and then turned over from the tower.

"How is it?" Sun Hao hurried forward to ask.

Qiao Jun shook his head, "I didn't see any obvious movement."

Sun Hao's face turned pale, and he said in a hoarse voice: "Could Meng Ping have..."

"Don't think about it." Qiao Jun interrupted Sun Hao's wild thoughts, "It's normal if there is no movement. You ran out to ask for help and came back, and it took half an hour before and after? Meng Ping couldn't have been chased by the devil all the time. Now, running wildly for half an hour is too much for a young man, let alone his age. And I don't think he will run around so mindlessly. There are empty houses everywhere in this ghost town. He will definitely find a way to hide got up."

Sun Hao's face softened a little, and he thought for a while and asked, "Can you smell Meng Ping? Let's follow his smell to find..."

"I'm a bird, not a dog! Don't you know that among the sensory organs of birds, the sense of smell is the first to degenerate?" Qiao Jun said, "It's okay for me to feel evil, but if you rely on the sense of smell to find people, you have to find them." Come Huang Yao!"

Sun Hao: "..."

Qiao Jun: "However, I can try to fly to the sky to find out..."

Sun Hao's eyes lit up, "By the way, you are a bird, you can fly!"

Qiao Jun: "No, no, I'm not sure if I can fly, I can only try."

In the past 20 years, he always thought he was a chicken, and never thought of flying.After learning that he was actually a Chongming bird, he was in an embarrassing period of moulting and hadn't learned how to fly yet.This is really no way, try hard.

"Don't have too high expectations." Qiao Jun dampened Sun Hao's flame of hope, and continued, "But even if I succeed in flying, I can't take you with me. You are alone. ..."

"I can protect myself. I have a way to deal with those evil spirits. Even if I meet a devil, I will find a way to escape." Sun Hao interrupted Qiao Jun, and hurriedly said, "I am still young, and I can run for a long time. I believe I can drag you to save me!"

Qiao Jun didn't continue to babble, climbed up the sentry tower again, turned into his original form, and then flapped his wings and took off with apprehension.At first, Qiao Jun flew crookedly and almost fell from the sky, but in the end he managed to fly up by relying on the bird's instinct.

Qiao Jun heaved a sigh of relief, circled around Sun Hao's head, and flew out towards the distance.

The field of vision in the air is very wide. Although it cannot be said that the situation below is completely clear, it is relatively easy to find any troubles below.Qiao Jun lowered the flying altitude as much as possible, centered on the thatched hut where the entrance and exit of this small world is located, and searched out round and round in a radial pattern.

As he said before, with Meng Ping's physical strength, it was impossible for him to run wildly for half an hour after Sun Hao left.That is to say, as long as there is no accident, it is impossible for Meng Ping to go to a place that is too far away from the thatched cottage.

Qiao Jun flew around and around, and when he flew to an unknown number of times, he finally spotted two figures behind a tile-roofed house in the north of the small square at the entrance of the village, six or seven miles away from the thatched cottage.One was leaning against the wall, half hidden in the shadow of the eaves, and the other was lying face down on the ground.

Qiao Jun twirled in the air, and immediately swooped down towards where the two figures were.Qiao Jun was flying and landing for the first time, so he had absolutely no experience in this. In order to stabilize his figure more conveniently when landing, he turned into a human form when he approached the ground.

With both feet on the ground, Qiao Jun staggered forward a few steps. Before he could stand still, he saw the man sitting against the wall suddenly jump up from the corner of his eye, and his figure disappeared in place as an afterimage. In an instant, a strong wind hit the back of his head.

Qiao Jun was not defenseless. The moment the opponent's attack came, he bent down and let the strong wind pass by the back of his head.Then, take a step forward, use the stepped foot as the axis, rotate your body backwards, and grab the hand that is attacking him with your backhand.

Qiao Jun turned around like this, and immediately met the attacker face to face.This was a young man in his early thirties, not the Meng Ping he was looking for, but someone he knew.

"Sun Yue?!" Qiao Jun's eyes widened, looking at him in surprise.

More than half a month ago, two members of the Xunzhou Tiangong Bureau's task force and a coordinator disappeared in Huangjiang District.And this person is none other than Sun Yue, one of the two members of the missing task force.He is also one of the best in the Xunzhou special mission team. When Qiao Jun was still working at the Xunzhou Tiangong Bureau, he met him several times in various meetings, so even though the other party had strange demon patterns on his face, He still recognized it immediately.

After Qiao Jun recognized Sun Yue, he slowly felt that the arm he was holding was not feeling right.Qiao Jun's gaze shifted from Sun Yue's face to Sun Yue's hand.After seeing the appearance of Sun Yue's hand, Qiao Jun couldn't help but gasped.The entire arm is covered with black-gray fur, and the nails are sharp and hooked.This is not a human hand at all, but a wolf's paw!But Qiao Jun clearly remembered that Sun Yue was a human being and not a monster. Humans grew claws of wolves. With this partially demonic feature, Sun Yue's current identity was ready to be revealed—a demon.

Qiao Jun had heard of the devil more than once from Zhuang Shenglan and Fu Li, and also saw the severed hand cut off from the devil with Fu Li, but this was the first time he really met a living devil. Someone, and a person he knew, the shock in Qiao Jun's heart was not insignificant.

After Qiao Jun called out Sun Yue's name, Sun Yue's bloodshot eyes showed a trace of confusion at first, then suddenly woke up, shook off Qiao Jun's hand holding him, and retreated to the eaves of the tile-roofed house.

"Sun Yue?" He called out in doubt, and subconsciously took a step forward.

"Don't come here!" Sun Yue growled, then whispered in pain, "I will hurt you..."

"Sun Yue, are you conscious?" Qiao Jun said in surprise.The devil is manipulated by others and has no self-awareness. Sun Yue is still conscious, so maybe he didn't really become a devil.

Sun Yue smiled wryly, "It's just temporary sobriety, I don't know how long I can last."

"While I'm still awake, I want to tell you something, please help me convey it to the bureau." Sun Yue took a deep breath, and without giving Qiao Jun a chance to speak, she spoke quickly, "The devil was artificially Manufactured, they inject monster blood and special medicines into practitioners like us, transform us into demons, and control them through contracts."

"This is the contract." Sun Yue pulled off his collar, revealing a dark and ominous ancient character on the collarbone, then raised his finger and pointed to the palace in the center of the ghost, "This is the base where they made demons, and that palace is The factory that produces demons. I don’t know who they are. I guess there are two masterminds. One wears a mask to disguise, and the other often changes bodies. Before it fell completely, I sneaked out while the manager was away for the past two days. While wandering around this low-rise area, I met Meng Ping who was attacked by a demon."

"The devil who attacked Meng Ping has been killed by me." Sun Yue glanced at the man lying on the ground, then looked at Qiao Jun who ran over to find the corpse and continued, "Are you here to save Meng Ping? Hiding in the low room in that area, hurry up and pick him up, he was injured a little, and his condition is not very good."