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Autumn is crisp.

Summer has just ended, the temperature has turned cooler, and the sun is most warm and pleasant at this time.

Ruan Buwei, a traveling businessman, liked the weather very much. He got out of the carriage, asked the driver to get into his carriage, and drove forward by himself.

"General Shang Ruan, you are so cheerful today! Drive the car yourself."

A man on horseback wearing leather armor and a long sword hanging from his waist laughed.

Ruan Buwei laughed: "My hands are itchy after not driving for a long time. Do you know, Mr. Ji?"

I was known as the Car God of Gaoguan County back then! I can also use a donkey cart to drift.

I drive a car faster than others ride a horse! No matter what goods are in short supply, I will be the first to bring them to the county. "

Head Guard Ji: "I didn't expect General Shang Ruan to have such a wonderful past."

"I was young at that time, and I only knew how to act recklessly. I once worked without rest for three consecutive days and nights in order to deliver a cart of food that was in short supply.

In the end, I was fine, and the horse almost died from exhaustion!

It doesn't work anymore. If I sit or lie down in the carriage for half a day, my whole body will feel sore. "

Ruan Buwei couldn't help but recall what he looked like twenty years ago when he was a young businessman.

From the initial one-person bicycle, he has now established a chamber of commerce. A caravan has more than 20 cargo carriages.

From a hawker Ruan to a businessman Ruan, from a capable young man to a fat and confident person.

Head Guard Ji: "Then why do you have to personally escort the caravan? Just leave the matter to your subordinates and our bodyguards."

"No, there are some things that you have to do yourself to feel at ease."

Ruan Buwei drove for a while, then felt tired and sighed: "Maybe I shouldn't do business as a merchant, but should worship Xuanmen and learn Xuanwu while I'm young like you."

Head Guard Ji: "General Shang Ruan is joking, the Xuanwu Way is too difficult.

I joined the Longming Sect when I was twelve years old, but I still haven't been able to break through the Xuanliu.

Those who do not enter Xuanliu are no different from ordinary people. There are so many people like me. In the end, I can only make money by escorting Mr. Ruan for you. "

Ruan Buwei was a little surprised. He had the impression that Ji Biaotou had a strength of four to five hundred kilograms, and had copper skin and iron bones.

He is the strongest martial artist in his hometown town. He can challenge four or five martial arts gyms by one person, and even the masters from seven or eight boxing gyms cannot defeat him even with sneak attacks.

"A master like you or a mere mortal?"

Head Guard Ji: "Of course, despite the fact that I am invincible in this town, if the imperial court sends two or three elite soldiers in armor, armed with crossbows, and fire a volley, I will..."

As the two of them were talking, the escort who was exploring the way came back.

"Botou Ji and General Shang Ruan, the road ahead is clear. We will arrive at Gaojia Village soon."

Ruan Buwei: "Well, let me inform everyone to prepare to go to the village to rest and replenish supplies, and then continue moving forward in the afternoon."

…

A quarter of an hour later.

The caravan arrived at the empty village entrance.

"Huh?" Head Guard Ji was a little curious as to why there was no one in the village at noon.

Although it is the busy farming season, I just passed by the fields and saw no farmers working.

In the carriage, Ruan Buwei opened the curtains and stuck his head out: "Boss Ji, didn't Village Chief Wang come to receive you?

I have clearly said hello to him and will be back in half a month, asking him to prepare tea and rice in the next few days. "

"No." Ji Biaotou shook his head.

Ruan Buwei: "Then let's keep going and see if we can meet anyone."

Head Guard Ji: "General Merchant, based on my experience, we encountered an abnormal situation. It is safer to exit the original route and change the route."

Ruan Buwei thought for a while: "If we change the route, it will be delayed for four or five days. This batch of goods must not be delayed!

Don't worry, Mr. Ji, I've been doing business on this road for twenty years, and nothing major has ever happened. Just keep moving forward.

If we encounter bandits or bandits, won’t we still have you? Otherwise, what else would I hire you to do? "

Ji Biaotou frowned: "Okay."

He remembered that the last time, an employer forced himself to take a dangerous road, which resulted in the death and injury of several of his men.

Now I have no choice but to make some worse plans.

The caravan moved on.

A smell gradually filled the air until finally everyone could smell a distinct stench.

"Did the village get massacred?"

It's not like Ji Biaotou has never seen the tragic situation after a village was looted, but what's strange is that the houses in the village don't seem to have been burned, killed, and looted.

It wasn't until the caravan arrived at the grain field of Dijia Village that everyone discovered the source of the smell.

The empty grain field used to be the place where the caravans stopped, but now the grain field in front of everyone has turned into a pool.

I don't know how deep the pool is, because it is filled with foul-smelling blood, with pale human bones floating in it, as well as flesh, flesh, and body parts that have not been completely dissolved.

"This...this! What happened! Did the bandits do it?" Ruan Buwei was horrified.

"No, bandits may pile up corpses, but they won't do this. It's like..."

Ji Biaotou glanced around the blood pool. The ground was covered with incantations and there were a row of flags with strange symbols painted on them.

"...the work of evil cults and evil spirits."

"General Shang Ruan, we have to enter Gaoguan County as soon as possible and report to the county government!" Ji Biaotou once worshiped Xuanmen and knew that evil cults are more terrifying than ordinary bandits.

Fortunately, the evil ritual has ended. If they happened to run into the ceremony, they would be in danger.

"Ah!!! Help! Help..."

Chief Ji's rejoicing did not last long, as a scream came from behind the caravan.

I saw a blood-red toad about eight feet long and five feet high. It didn't know when it came to the caravan. It was covered with pustules and stuck out its tongue to wrap around the last bodyguard.

Its tongue was covered with bone spurs, which pierced into the bodyguard's flesh, causing him to cry out in pain.

Then, the toad opened its mouth, its upper and lower jaws were covered with fine and sharp teeth.

Instantly, the escort was pulled over, and the toad opened its mouth and bit.

Crack! Blood spurted out, and the unlucky escort's body was held in the toad's mouth, with half of his back still outside the mouth, still trembling.

"Stop!" Another escort rushed forward and slashed with the sword in his hand.

The blade could not cut into the toad's skin at all, but several pustules were broken.

Disgusting, sticky poison spurted out and sprayed the escort's face.

"Ah! Ah! Ah!!"

The escort fell to the ground and struggled in pain. The places on his face that were stained with poison spurted all over. Within a few breaths, the man's face melted into a bloody mess, and the bones were exposed, which was extremely creepy.

"Monster...monster! Let's go!" Ji Biaotou had lived so long, and he had only seen records of monsters in books. He didn't expect to actually encounter one today.

The road behind was blocked by a big toad, so everyone ran forward.

"Hiss!!" "Moo!!"

When passing by the blood pool, several horses suddenly neighed one after another, jumping and jumping in panic, throwing the escorts and drivers on the horses off.

In the blood pool on the side, a group of blood-red tentacles like seaweed stretched out and entangled the horses' feet.

Soon, the horses and even the vehicles were dragged into the blood pool by the blood-red seaweed.

"Help! Ji Biaotou, help me..."

The escorts and drivers who fell to the ground did not escape, and were entangled and dragged into the pool.

"What happened!"

"What's going on!"

"Ji Biaotou, save me!"

Ruan Buwei was trapped in the carriage, listening to the wailing and screaming outside, and could not escape so he could only keep calling for help, but no one answered him.

For a long time.

There was no more noise outside, and it returned to calm.

Ruan Buwei panicked and panted, gently opened the curtains and looked out.

The next moment, eight or nine blood-red eyes on a face outside the window turned at the same time and stared at the fat businessman.

"Ahhhh!!!"