Because of speculation, the team's advancement slowed down further, and no one was seen until they entered the village. At this time, even the slowest person should realize that the situation was not good, and in a sense, they were all considered human elites.

Xinghuang Village used to be a cargo distribution center to go east in Zhongli District, and the shape of the villages and towns is different from that of most villages. After passing by the archway at the entrance of the village, there are still no houses. The roads are all flat and wide yards, and some broken debris and boxes are piled up scattered during this period. This place used to be a place similar to the logistics distribution center. The goods from east to west were sorted and loaded here, but at this time, it was full of dilapidated and depressed scenes, especially with the thick fog in the distance, it was even more desolate.

After passing through the freight yard, you can finally see the building, but unlike the residential buildings, these huge rows of buildings look like steel structure factories on the earth. The huge building has an extremely simple outline, the entrance door is extremely wide, and it uses side sliding doors that are rarely seen on the Shenzhou Continent.

Seeing Tianyou's eyes staying on the building for a long time, the senior brother who had been here immediately reminded: "This is a car dealer, a place that specializes in renting and replacing carriages and horses, and also operates some low-end spirit riding transactions, but it mainly provides services for carriages and horses."

Mules and horses that pull carts are no more than cars on earth. The tolerance of long-distance livestock is even worse than that of humans. Unable to adapt to the water and the land is easy to make the livestock sick. In this Shenzhou Continent, where productivity is extremely backward, any livestock that can pull carts is an extremely precious resource and no one is willing to waste it at will. Therefore, in order to preserve the physical strength of these mules and horses, the best way is to replace the livestock they used before when they go to a place. The new livestock is full of physical strength and can be directly on the road without rest. The convoy originally brought can be placed here for rest and replaced when they return. In this way, the area where each mule and horse travel is only its regular movement range and do not require long-distance movement, which naturally eliminates the problems of unlucky water and land.

Of course, this service is not free. The cattle and horse brought by the convoys are deposited in the carriage and horse shop, and the carriage and horses used in the carriage and horse shop are also paid for rent. Although this fee is quite large for the carriage, it cannot be saved because the cost of losing mules and horses will only be higher.

"Let's go over and take a look, and the others are on the spot." Tianyou reminded the others, and then carefully approached the big house with the senior brother who had been here.

The huge wooden building is quite neat, with no obvious damage, and the surface paint is also very complete, and it does not look like it is abandoned. However, the carriages at this time give people a gloomy and terrifying feeling. The half-open door is pitch black, and no sound can be heard, but a foul stench can be smelled.

No matter how you clean the place where animals are raised, it will not taste at all, but the smell here is extraordinary and terrifying, even more terrible than the garbage dump under the scorching sun.

Tianyou and his senior brother looked at each other and realized what the odor represents. Along the way, they had seen many things that emitted this odor. If nothing unexpected happens, there must be those things in the carriage.

He approached the gate carefully, but the senior brother didn't dare to walk directly in. Tianyou didn't urge him. He gently pushed him into the door, and then grabbed him who was still trying to continue walking forward, signaling to wait for a while. The senior brother didn't quite understand why Tianyou pushed him in and didn't let him walk in, but Tianyou knew that he was helping him adapt to the dim environment.

Although there is fog outside the house, the sunshine today is actually very good, so white light is emitted everywhere in the fog, but the room is different. It is not sunny here, which is much darker than outside.

Standing at the door for a while, after getting used to the dim light in the house, Tianyou began to move forward, and the senior brother behind him also followed carefully. He was not stupid. After standing for a while, he understood Tianyou's intention, patted Tianyou's shoulder and praised in a low voice: "You are quite experienced."

Tianyou did not answer, but smiled, then pointed to the upstairs, signaling the two to explore separately.

The shape of this carriage is really like a modern steel structure factory. The only difference is that the material is wood. As soon as you enter the sliding door opened horizontally, close to the left wall, there is an inner staircase, which goes directly to the corridor outside the room on the second floor. This row of rooms is all hanging on the height of the second floor like bird grids, and the row below is full of beasts. You can see the support made of thick logs and the fence below, but there are no traces of livestock.

The senior brother nodded and pushed forward along the ground. Tianyou did not use the Emperor Dao Sword, but replaced it with the bear claws he liked. This narrow stairs and corridors are really not suitable for the Emperor Dao Sword that is more long as one person. As for Taiyi, it will be even more unusable.

Tianyou originally wanted to not make a sound, but the wooden steps really had no room to play. As long as it was not really as light as a swallow, it would make a creaking sound when stepped on it. Tianyou simply stopped making a lighter pace, and rushed to the corridor on the second floor with great strides. The senior brother below looked up at Tianyou in confusion, but found that he had kicked open the door of the first room in front.

The room was quite neat, with a row of wooden tables with pens and ink on it, which looked like an office. However, when Tianyou turned his head, he found that this row of rooms was actually connected. The rooms behind the door were actually one room, leading from one end to the other, with no separation in the middle, and most of them were desks and cabinets, and nothing special.

Walking along the room all the way, Tianyou finally confirmed that there was nothing worth noting inside, but just as he was about to go out, he suddenly heard the shouts of his senior brother.

There was no time to go back to the door that was kicked open at the beginning. Tianyou kicked the wooden door in front of him and stood in the corridor and looked over with the sound. The senior brother who was obliquely below was checking a fence, which didn't seem to be in danger. Tianyou looked at his feet, and simply turned over and jumped down with a railing. He also flew up and down a big tree two or three feet tall when he was in Qingyuan Mountain. This height was naturally no problem.

After landing, he ran behind his senior brother, and Tianyou finally understood the reason why he called him.

There are two large and small water rhinoceros lying in the fence. Although this thing is a monster, it is still quite gentle. As long as the method is appropriate, it is not troublesome to use it as a cattle and horse. What is important is that this thing has extremely tenacious vitality, and there is no situation such as fatigue or illness. The strength is much greater than that of a cattle and horse, and its endurance is much better. Although the food is over two or three cows, its strength is comparable to that of the three strongest water buffaloes. Moreover, this thing is not much slower than a galloping horse when sprinting with all its strength, and it is also extremely adaptable to rugged terrain, so it is very popular among transportation teams. After all, water rhinoceros that encounter bandits, road bandits, and unload the ropes can be regarded as combat power.

It is not surprising that there is a water rhinoceros here, but the dead water rhinoceros is relatively abnormal. Now only the head and some bones are left, and the body is extremely protective and has been gnawed. The small one is almost the same, only half of the body is left, and the half behind is missing.

There are many light-transmitting holes on the walls around this fence, which are exactly the same as the long horns of the water rhinoceros. In addition to the corpse of the water rhinoceros, you can also see a human leg on the ground. The degree of rot should be left by zombies rather than living people.

Tianyou stood up and looked around. He soon found the broken wooden railing outside the opposite beast railing, so he ran over and found a seriously deformed zombie behind the wooden railing. The zombie had a leg missing, and its body had basically turned into a pancake, and its head was even more cracked like a watermelon. If nothing unexpected happened, this was the owner of the leg in the beast railing, but looking at it, it shouldn't be able to use its legs.

The senior brother followed him from there and saw the low zombie, and then looked back at the beast railing over there. "Is this picked up by the water rhinoceros?"

Tianyou nodded. "It should be the result of a full-strength collision, otherwise it wouldn't have flew so far. We searched separately, and there should be still around. Water rhinoceros is not that easy to deal with, and a zombie can't handle it."

Sure enough, the two of them soon found seven or eight zombies that were not human in shape in many corners, but they had completely lost their vitality. In addition, they also found some skeletons here, which should be resurrected skeletons, but they were all like zombies, and only the slags were left.

Maybe because the two of them had entered for too long, Zhao Lingyun's voice suddenly sounded at the door. "Tianyou, are you okay?"

"Let everyone come in. There is no danger here, I just found something."

Hearing the hello, Zhao Lingyun turned around and called out to others, and then walked in first. After everyone gathered at the beast railing to see the situation and listened to Tianyou's analysis, everyone couldn't help but start to slam.

Obviously, what they least wanted to happen happened. The skeletons and zombies around the White Bone Cave wandered into Xinghuang Village, and even the strong water rhinoceros was bitten to death. It is conceivable what the ordinary people here would end up.

"Are we going to evacuate like this?" Lu Meng asked everyone.

Everyone's eyes gathered on Tianyou at the same time, and obviously everyone wanted him to make an idea.

"No, let's continue to investigate, at least to determine whether there are still surviving in the village. We cannot stand by death and refuse to save us."

This proposal was immediately recognized by everyone. The monks of the Immortal Sect have always regarded themselves as the right path, so naturally they will not be vague about saving people.

The carriages could not provide more information. After leaving, everyone began to explore nearby buildings in turn. In addition to the carriages at the entrance of the village, there were still no houses along both sides of the road, and all were tall inns, restaurants and inns. The entire Xinghuang Village has been commercialized, and all the houses retreated to the hillsides on both sides of the main road. If you want to enter, you must pass through the alleys on the building on both sides of the main road, and then climb up the steps covered with moss and stones, and then pass the winding path to reach the houses.

To be honest, this layout is simply the standard for villas in the middle of the mountain. The smooth and shiny stone streets are accompanied by green stone steps, coupled with the scattered buildings on the hillside and the dense forests at higher levels, and even the Yellow River looming in the clouds in the distance. People believe that this is a resort.

However, at this moment, if this is still a resort, it must be a supernatural theme resort. The buildings in the clouds and mountains and the villagers who disappeared without a trace were all weird.

There were too many houses, but Tianyou did not dare to let everyone disperse their actions. He first explored inns and inns along the streets. After confirming that there was no one in it, the team began to walk towards the mountain house on the side of the Tianshan Mountain. Although this side was closer to the dangerous birthplace and the possibility of survivors was not high, it did not mean that Tianyou and the others were going to give up here.

There was no discovery in the inspection of the houses on the lower floor, and the team advanced up along the stone steps. When they reached the door of the first house in the second row, there was a bang in the house, as if something was going to turn around.

The sudden noise immediately aroused everyone's alertness, and a group of people scattered and surrounded the house.

Tianyou gestured with his eyes, then raised his palm and stretched out three fingers, and then began to retract one by one. Finally, when he took back his last finger and clenched his fists hard, Tianyou himself, Zhao Lingyun, Bai Bingyu and three melee senior brothers broke into the room from the doors, windows and walls of the room at the same time.

Of course, this method was brought to the team by Tianyou. It is a very common CQC tactical move on earth, but it has never been studied on the Shenzhou Continent. First, because the army here has never been professional, and secondly, because of the different weapons and combat methods. However, this does not prevent Tianyou from teaching everyone such tactics.

The loud noise caused by multiple points entering at the same time instantly confused the audio-visual perception of the people hiding indoors. They stood up in a hurry and wanted to escape but found that they had no idea where to run. The six breakthrough points were specially studied. No matter which direction the people in the room broke through, they would inevitably encounter at least two interceptions. The only flaw left was the direction of the main entrance, where it was a sniper front formed by a remote team. If the person who rushed out of this place had any bad intentions, they would be instantly caught from multiple directions, and the house behind them would be blocked by people who broke into other directions, which means that it would be impossible to go back if they rushed out.

Sure enough, the noise from multiple directions forced the people in the room to rush towards the only soundless door in horror, and then rushed out of the black house.

Without the obstruction of the house, the target was instantly replenished by everyone's sight. Tianyou raised his hand and signaled that several senior brothers responsible for ranged attacks had put down their weapons, while the two melee senior brothers stepped forward and stopped two small figures running in a hurry.

What ran out of the room was not a monster, but two children. The older girl looked about seven or eight years old, wearing white gray, and I don’t know how it was done. The younger boy looked only about five years old, and was covered in mud and dust like a girl, looking like two little beggars. But if you look closely, you will find that their clothes are actually very new, but they are just dirty.

After the two children were blocked, they still struggled desperately to escape. The older girl even opened her mouth and bit the senior brother who stopped him. Unfortunately, the strength of the monk's body was really exaggerated. Although it hurts a bite, it only made the senior brother a little angry and failed to get her out of trouble.

Tianyou and others who rushed into the house also walked out at this time. Lu Meng and Bai Bingyu stepped forward to comfort the two children. Maybe women knew how to coax the children in nature, and the two children soon calmed down in their comfort.

Looking at the two dirty little guys, Tianyou wet two cloth towels with the water bags he carried with him and handed them to Bai Bingyu and Lu Meng. Zhao Lingyun next to him also came over at this time, took out the water bags and food from his body and handed them over.

Both children looked hungry, and when they got the food, they started to chew on them. Lu Meng and Bai Bingyu took advantage of this time to help them wipe the white gray on their faces.

Tianyou knew that he had to wait until the child was completely stable before he could ask questions, so he went back to the room alone to check. There was no important discovery, but he found the place where the two children were hiding. It was actually under the stove, in the burning furnace.

I don’t know what happened to the earth stove in this house. There is a layer of iron plate in the furnace that burns the fire. After it is opened, there is a shallow pit that is not too big. Unless you have learned Jiu Jitsu, adults usually can’t get into it, but the two children are just right. As long as the iron plate is covered, most people really don’t expect that there will be people hiding in the furnace. This also made Tianyou understand how the white ash on the two children came from.

Tianyou, who had no further discovery, retreated again, and the two children finally told some situations intermittently under the comfort and inquiries of Lu Meng and others.

Tianyou and the others' previous guess was correct. The undead outside the White Bone Cave walked out of the valley, but the first one to attack the village was not the undead, but the demon clan. Just after sending a request to Zixiao Palace to investigate the poisoning incident, Xinghuang Village was covered with a heavy fog. The eight or nine-year-old girl spoke in a very organized manner. According to her description, the heavy fog flowed down from the hills behind them, just like a flood. She also said that the adults in the village said it was ghost fog, which was consistent with Tianyou's judgment.

After the ghost fog covered the village, the villagers began to prepare for the entire evacuation under the organization of the village chief. They didn't want to leave before because the poisoning incident only affected the weak and sickly people. Although the incidence rate was very high, it was not to the point where it was inevitable to die. Anyway, after leaving the village after getting sick, they would recover naturally after a period of time, so everyone was not particularly worried.

But the harm of this ghost fog is too obvious. With the back of the Jietianshan White Bone Cave, these villagers certainly know what the ghost fog means, so everyone finally decided to evacuate the whole village.

Unfortunately, just as the team was about to set off, many monsters suddenly rushed out of the mountains. The villagers were naturally panicked when they saw the monsters, and because of the heavy fog, the villagers could not organize effective defense. The entire team was in a mess instantly. The two children ran away with the team under the leadership of their parents, and finally they simply groped and hid back to their homes.

The four family hid in the house and listened to the roar of monsters at the foot of the mountain and the cries of villagers gradually faded away, and then survived the night of fear and worry.

Originally, they planned to leave the whole family the next day, but they ended up being one step late. Before dawn the next morning, a group of zombies and skeletons wandered along the hillside, blocking the family in their homes.

When those monsters came, there were many villagers, and everyone could not take care of them. However, these undead were everywhere, and they could smell human taste, so it was difficult to hide. In the end, the children's parents hid them in the pit under the kang, and they rushed out of the house to lead the nearby undead. As for whether they ran away or were killed, the two children didn't know.

Of course, the chances of two adults to survive are not slim. The movement speed of zombies and skeletons is actually not fast, at least no one can run fast. As long as they don’t just crash into the encirclement, their legs and feet can basically run away. To put it bluntly, these are just low-level undeads that have been eroded by the Yin Qi and transformed into future low-level undeads, and there is still a big gap between them and the real ghosts in the White Bone Cave. At that time, if the villagers’ team was not dispersed, they could be completely killed even if they were surrounded.

After understanding what happened, Tianyou interrupted and asked where the undead went, but both children shook their heads and said they didn't know. Tianyou could understand this and did not ask any further questions.

Now it seems that Tianyou and the others' previous speculations have basically been confirmed. The fog around is ghost fog, and the undead left the valley that was originally occupied in the ghost fog and entered the Xinghuang Village. As for the monsters mentioned by the two children, Tianyou and the others could not tell whether they were the two they encountered yesterday, but it can basically be confirmed that those monsters were also a disaster. It should be that the sudden spread of the ghost fog caused the undead to move out of the range of movement, and then occupied the area where the monsters originally lived. Most of the monsters were forced to go down the mountain to escape the invasion of the undead.

Although I knew a lot of things, there were still many things that could not be confirmed. One is where the undead and monsters went; the other is what happened to the undead who were killed in the village; and the third is whether there are survivors nearby.

Regarding Yi and Er Tianyou, he does not intend to explore it specifically, but the third item must be confirmed. If he can learn one or two clues during the process of completing the third item, it would be fine. If he cannot, he would not plan to investigate it in depth.

Because the situation has been cleared, Tianyou and the others no longer entered the house. Instead, they only shouted a few times outside each room. If no one answered, they would immediately evacuate. Since the villagers were dispersed by monsters and encountered a wave of undead, they would inevitably rushed out as soon as they heard the rescue information, so they did not need to search one room at all. After all, Tianyou and their time could not be delayed. Now it has been noon, and it is very nervous to check the entire village in one afternoon. Tianyou does not want to delay it until night. Everyone knows that the undead after dark and the daytime are completely different concepts. These guys are almost equal to a collective upgrade of ten levels at night, and even the lowest level skeletons will become quite difficult.

They were just shouting outside the house, and the search speed was indeed much faster, and their efforts were not in vain. After the villagers' team was dispersed, many people's first reaction was to run home, and some of these people failed to escape the undead tide, but there were also lucky people like the siblings.

After two hours of close search, Tianyou and the others finally successfully gathered more than 30 villagers. Although there are a lot of this number, it can only be said to be extremely tragic compared to the number of villagers who fled at the beginning. Tianyou and the others could only pray that the others had just escaped into the surrounding mountains and forests, and it was obviously impossible for them to search and rescue. They don’t have that ability or time now.

The gathered crowd began to quickly move towards Zhao Village under the escort of Tianyou and others. They had been delayed too much time in order to search the entire village. As the color was a little dim today, the ghost fog was even more gloomy. In this state, Tianyou would be completely dark. So Tianyou began to constantly urge them to run. Let the weak people ride on everyone's spirit riding, and the remaining people without physical strength were supported by Tianyou and the others. In short, how far they ran before dark. No one knew whether the undead who passed through the village would turn back, and they didn't know whether the undead in Tianshan would continue to flee. In short, it was absolutely right to leave Xinghuang Village. Everyone agreed with this, so no one had any complaints, and even if they were tired, they had to grit their teeth and run.

Unfortunately, they were still one step slower in the end. As the sky gradually darkened, Tianyou and the others suddenly found that a large number of figures appeared in the ghost fog seeds ahead. Looking at the awkward posture and strange pace, the identity of the masters of these figures was self-evident.

"Ah..." It's not good to take civilians. People who have not experienced professional training first react to something happening, and this behavior is almost equivalent to committing suicide in a dangerous encounter.

Sure enough, as several villagers in the team screamed in panic, the undead who were originally wandering suddenly turned around and rushed towards them in an orderly manner, and the speed was obviously increasing.

Although the zombies are slow to move, the skeletons can run, and their speed is not too slow. At least it is quite fast for those villagers who are exhausted.

Under normal circumstances, the villagers should be running a little faster than the skeletons, but these people are survivors who have been hiding at home for two days. Their physical strength has dropped to a very dangerous level, so now they can't run the flexible skeletons at all. What's even more terrible is that when these people are nervous, they can't even exert their previous speed. Many people who are supported by Tianyou and the others begin to slim on the ground with their legs weak, and Tianyou and the others can't run at all.

Seeing that he couldn't escape, Zhao Lingyun simply threw away the village woman he was supporting before, pulled out his own Red Flame Sword and said, "I've fought with them. They are just low-level undead, I'll take you out."

Lu Meng reached out and pressed Zhao Lingyun and said, "Senior sister, don't be impulsive. Single undead are not scary, but there are too many of them, and it is difficult to really kill without corresponding weapons. When you lose your energy, we will be even more dangerous."

"What do you think you should do?"

Seeing the army of undeads getting closer and closer, Tianyou and the others could even see the rotten teeth in the mouth of the skeletons in the front row. However, at this time, everyone really couldn't think of any solution. It was not difficult for them to break through, but with the group behind them... it was cumbersome, burden, and anything was fine. In short, it was obvious that they could not escape with this group of people. Once surrounded by a large group of undead, even Tianyou and the others would be in danger.

Just as everyone was in a dilemma, a sharp roar suddenly came from the forest obliquely. The sound was sharp and harsh, making people feel pain in the eardrum. As the sharp roar ended, everyone suddenly found a ball of fire flying out of the fog, and a zombie sprinting in the middle completely ignited it.

As the fireball descended, a rumble of footsteps sounded. Yesterday, the pig demon who had suffered a lot from Tianyou and the others also killed him from the side, instantly passing through the skeleton army horizontally, instantly reverting the skeleton in front to a bone state, and in the form of fragments.

"Anger Flame Spider Spirit. The Pig Demon? Aren't these two monsters we encountered yesterday? Why did they fight with the undead?"
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