Fire Monster

Chapter 44 The Shadow Walking Upright

"What's your plan?"

After everyone helped to send Li Guangyu's wife and children over, Li Guangyu asked in a deep voice. This was also what Yang Mao and others wanted to know, why did Zhao Guanshan think he could fight against the evil behind the strange fog.

"First find the other four martial arts apprentices. We need to gather our strength."

"What if they don't want to obey? Do you have any other Level 2 Imperial Seal Huts to house their families?"

Li Guangyu frowned and asked, although the second-level imperial seal hut is good, the space is not large. Even Zhao Guanshan’s second-level imperial seal hut can accommodate one adult and one child at most.

"My landlord also lives in a second-level imperial hut. I will persuade her to help accommodate the two of you. Anyway, I need to persuade at least one more martial arts apprentice, because you have psychic weapons in your hands."

Zhao Guanshan said calmly that judging from the various clues currently known, he felt that the source of this strange fog might be even more difficult than what happened last night.

So even if you want to rush in, you should try to be fully prepared.

Li Guangyu stopped talking and led the way, heading straight to the home of another martial arts apprentice.

When he arrived in front of the other party's seal hut, he turned around and said:
"I have a good relationship with Qu Ergou. I can help you convince him."

"Boom!"

Li Guangyu knocked on the door, not very hard, but the protective glow of the Imperial Seal Hut vibrated slightly, like ripples on the water. Obviously, it was time to replace the energy storage spirit stone.

"Ergou, open the door, it's me!"

There was no movement in the room. Zhao Guanshan frowned slightly and looked around. Qu Ergou's house was closer to the eastern end of the Slum Lane, at the end of the gourd. There were a total of six imperial seal huts in this area, but only the protective light of his house was still on.

"Bump the door!"

Li Guangyu was about to continue knocking on the door, but Zhao Guanshan shouted decisively.

This time Yang Mao reacted quickly and kicked decisively. With a "puff" sound, the protective glow was shattered and the door of the Seal Hut also collapsed instantly. Without the protection of spiritual energy, it was just an ordinary one-inch thick wooden door.

"you--"

Li Guangyu was angry, but the expression on his face froze the next second, because the room was already empty. Qu Ergou and his family were all gone, leaving only a psychic sword that was still emitting black smoke and fell to the ground.

At this time, even Yang Mao, Liu Erya and others who were not very experienced could see it.

It wasn't that Qu Ergou's family was playing hide-and-seek with them, but some powerful and unknown evil had attacked him in advance. He wanted to activate the psychic sword to fight the enemy, but he didn't know whether he was half a beat too slow or his strength was too low, not only did he fail to defeat the enemy, but his psychic sword was destroyed instead.

"The enemy was one step faster than us, and I suspect that this evil demon may have disguised itself as a human. Maybe it is an acquaintance of Qu Ergou."

Zhao Guanshan stepped forward and picked up the psychic sword. The sword was still warm. Looking closely, he saw three or four circles of rose-red stains on the hilt, like traces of quenching.

Just by looking at this point, he could tell.

The core spiritual supply array of this psychic sword was damaged due to psychic overload, which in turn was caused by panic and improper use.

Then it can also be proved conversely that the enemy must have pretended to be an acquaintance of Qu Ergou and attacked him suddenly, catching him off guard.

In addition, judging by the residual heat on the sword, the enemy should have attacked within three minutes.

This is also the reason why Qu Ergou’s seal hut was not damaged.

"What should we do now? We have to hurry and notify the others!"

There was a trace of panic on Li Guangyu's face, because he thought that the evil demon might very well disguise himself as him, and only if it was him, Qu Ergou would not be on guard at all.

"No need. In other words, no matter what we do, the evil demon will get ahead of us and kill anyone who may affect its plan. This strange fog is its best cover."

"And now we have two pieces of good news."

"First, the evil spirit is weaker than we thought, or it needs more time to grow and become stronger than us, otherwise it would not resort to such tricks."

"Secondly, the evil demon is not capable of killing everyone in the whole slum alley for the time being. It can't even kill Qu Ergou who was startled after breaking into the first-level imperial seal hut."

"So now, don't look for other people for now. Li Guangyu, Yang Mao, Erya, you three will form a group and immediately go along the road and shout loudly to inform everyone not to open the door. Even if you hear a familiar voice, don't open the door, because there are evil spirits who will pretend to be familiar people, trick you into opening the door, and kill you and rob you!"

"But remember, the three of you must always be vigilant and not be taken advantage of by the evil demon. If there is an emergency, don't panic." After giving the order, Zhao Guanshan took out a portion of marrow cleansing liquid and handed it to Yang Mao. At the critical moment, nothing was more explosive than this thing, not to mention that the evil demon might not dare to attack the three of them.

"What about you? Pei Ziyuan and Song Gui are not strong enough. The evil spirits may attack you. Why don't we act together? The martial arts teacher said that in a critical moment, the worst thing to do is to divide your forces."

Yang Mao said anxiously, and Pei Ziyuan and Song Gui nodded hurriedly, they were both scared!

Brother, don't divide your forces.

Zhao Guanshan nodded, confirming that Yang Mao was not distracted during class, and then deliberately waved his hands impatiently.

"Hurry up and do it. I'm actually stronger than you! You should worry about yourselves."

"Besides, we don't have much time. We have to get ahead of that evil demon."

After that, Zhao Guanshan glared at Song Gui and Pei Ziyuan again and shouted, "What are you two doing standing there? Help me, tear down this hut and take out the rune nails inside."

"No, no need for defense?"

Song Gui asked stutteringly.

"Defense, damn! I wish that evil demon would come and die, then all problems would be solved."

Zhao Guanshan cursed deliberately and boasted with full confidence, although it was not really boasting because he did have the ability to protect himself.

But at this time, it is very important to make your companions full of confidence. Boss Cao's thirst quenching by looking at the plum is very practical.

Sure enough, Zhao Guanshan's confident look, "I won't tell you I have a plan," and his nonchalant look from head to toe successfully infected Pei Ziyuan and Song Gui. Even Li Guangyu, Yang Mao, and Liu Erya felt much more relaxed.

Yang Mao and Liu Erya experienced what happened last night. Although they don’t know how Zhao Guanshan did it, it is definitely awesome.

Seeing how calm and composed Zhao Guanshan was, how he gave orders with such confidence, how his expression did not change, and how he was still in the mood to make jokes, Li Guangyu felt that this man was definitely not an ordinary person!
In short, this wave of morale +10.
In fact, Zhao Guanshan was a little nervous. Didn’t he know that dividing the troops was a taboo?

Just when the six of them were about to come looking for Qu Ergou, Qu Ergou's family was killed ahead of time. It was as if there was an evil demon watching them in the dark.

Therefore, he was also deliberately luring the evil demon to take action.

After all, compared to a martial arts apprentice with a psychic broadsword, a martial arts student with a marrow-cleansing spiritual liquid who can explode at any time, and a martial arts student who is not too strong but will not be a drag, their trio looks the weakest.

At the same time, this division of troops is also a test to test whether Liu Erya is still useful to the evil demons and whether there is any hidden danger in her.

If there is, the evil demons will definitely not let it go this time and will definitely find a way to kidnap Liu Erya or take other actions.

In short, through this test, Zhao Guanshan can get a lot of information and confirm many things.

It provides directional guidance for the actual plan he will implement next.

Of course, there is no need to tell anyone else about this plan.

The imperial seal hut in Qu Ergou's house is normal, so you can't be impatient when dismantling it, especially the core spirit-supplying array, which requires more carefulness and patience.

Zhao Guanshan was so focused on disassembling it that the psychic sword was placed casually next to him, not very noticeable.

Song Gui and Pei Ziyuan were responsible for dismantling the overall structure of the hut, pulling out groups of wedge-shaped iron nails engraved with runes from the wooden boards and putting them away.

These are all high-level substances.

This matter is simple.

"Zhao Guanshan, do you feel that the weather is suddenly a bit cold?"

After a moment, Song Gui suddenly spoke tremblingly. Just now he had felt a cold wind blowing on the back of his head. He didn't dare to look back, nor did he dare to run around, let alone shout, let alone tell the reason directly. As a martial arts student, he still understood this basic taboo.

"It's a bit cold!"

Pei Ziyuan, who was helping with the dismantling, also spoke tremblingly. From the corner of his eye, he could clearly see a thick and impenetrable black fog spreading behind Song Gui. The black fog was a few centimeters away from Song Gui at this moment, but it was very human, and responded to Song Gui's movements accordingly.

It was as if Song Gui's shadow was no longer willing to lie on the ground and had begun to walk upright.

(End of this chapter)