The Gate of the Genkai

VIII The Ancient Temple Encounters a Corpse

Half a year later, in a remote mountain road in the barren mountains outside Fengcheng.

There was a heavy rain in the sky, and water droplets the size of beans “crashed” on the ground. From time to time, there were bursts of muffled thunder in the half-black clouds, and bolts of lightning flashed out wildly.

A figure was running like a leopard in the heavy rain. Every step it took, it jumped five or six steps away from a normal person. In a blink of an eye, it turned over a nearby hill and disappeared directly into a dense forest next to the hill.

After a while, a cold light suddenly flowed around the figure.

There was a loud rumbling noise, and a dozen or so big trees fell from the middle after the figure flashed by.

At this moment, a huge bolt of lightning appeared in the nearby sky, clearly reflecting the silhouette of a person wearing a straw hat and coir raincoat.

The person disappeared into the darkness in a flash as the trees swayed.

An hour later.

A seemingly dilapidated mountain temple gate was knocked open with a “bang”, followed by the sound of heavy footsteps, and a figure carrying a huge object on his shoulders walked in with a gust of wind and rain.

The two people who were originally surrounded by a bonfire in the main hall of the mountain temple were stunned when they saw the person coming.

“Hey, there are guests who used my firewood”

The person who came threw the things on his shoulders to the ground heavily, and after shaking the rain on his coir raincoat, he asked calmly.

The first two people in the hall were a man and a woman.

The man is about forty years old. Although he looks elegant, his face is full of wind and frost. The woman is only fourteen or fifteen years old. The original pretty face.

“Ah, it turns out that the firewood in the temple is my brother’s property. I didn’t know it before, and I thought it was unowned. In addition, my clothes were wet before, so I used it first with my little girl. But, brother, you Don’t worry, the old man will pay for the firewood.” The middle-aged man got up and apologized, but his eyes glanced at the huge object thrown on the ground, and there was still a hint of fear on his face.

It was a brown-haired wild boar weighing a hundred catties, with white eyes, blood on the corners of the mouth, and two exposed giant teeth that were broken, as if it had been dead for a long time.

“Since the firewood has been cut down, it is for use, so why talk about money?” The figure stepped forward a few steps, and in the light of the bonfire, a young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, with a single knife behind his back, was Shi Mu.

“I don’t know what to say, Zhong. Thank you so much, little brother.” The middle-aged man heaved a sigh of relief when he heard this, and quickly thanked him with a smile on his face. Then he sat down by the campfire again, and comforted the girl next to him in a low voice.

The girl was wearing a blue dress, she also secretly glanced at Shi Mu, but she didn’t say anything, she seemed quite quiet.

At this time, Shi Mu took off the single sword on his back, and then took off his coir raincoat, revealing a thick black iron armor, which tightly wrapped the upper half of his body, only his neck and a pair of eyes were exposed. arm.

“Hey, this is a black armor.” After talking with his daughter, the middle-aged man was surprised when he saw the half-length black armor on Shi Mu’s body.

“Your Excellency knows this armor.” Hearing this, Shi Mu was a little surprised.

“Hehe, let me tell you the truth, I have seen a blacksmith make this armor before, and I was so impressed that I recognized it at a glance. I don’t know how many pounds this armor is. Zhong heard from the blacksmith that this black Although the armor can be worn on the body, it is extremely fragile and has almost no defensive power. The only function of making it is to exercise the body of the warrior by virtue of its heavy weight.” The middle-aged man replied with a smile.

“My black armor doesn’t weigh a few kilograms, it’s too heavy, and I can’t wear it at all.” Shi Mu said vaguely, and clasped his fingers on the side of the black armor with a sudden force.

With a “click”, the black armor split into two pieces out of thin air, and was thrown to the ground by Shi Mu.

There were two “boom” and “boom”, and the ground trembled slightly. Seeing this, the middle-aged man’s eyelids jumped twice.

This kind of weight, I’m afraid it should be more than five or six hundred catties. Could it be that this young man is a ferocious beast in human form, otherwise how could he be able to move freely while wearing this thing. It seems that the other party is not very old, but his physical body is very powerful, and the body tempering technique will definitely not be inferior.

Shi Mu untied the shackles of the black armor, and his whole body seemed to be relaxed. He turned his hand and picked up his one hand, and with a few swipes, he chopped off the two front legs of the wild boar. A cold light lingered around a pig’s leg for a while, and its fur was shaved off in a blink of an eye.

Then, the boy took out a small bottle from his bosom, poured some white powder on the pork leg, walked a few steps to the campfire, and started grilling on his own.

After a while, a strong smell of meat wafted over the entire temple.

The father and daughter on the opposite side of the bonfire had already taken out a pack of dry food and shared food with each other. But after the girl smelled the aroma of the barbecue and looked at the oily pork leg, she couldn’t help swallowing, but immediately Discovering something was wrong again, his face turned red again, and he lowered his head.Seeing this, Shi Mu smiled slightly, and suddenly passed the half-roasted pork leg to the opposite side.

“What an embarrassment, we have already used my little brother’s firewood, and we will share this barbecue again.” The middle-aged man was overjoyed when he saw this, with a humble mouth, but he took the barbecue with both hands unceremoniously.

Seeing this, the girl next to “Father” felt a little embarrassed, and let out a coquettish cry.

“Didn’t you see that there are more barbecues over there? This little brother is so skilled, I don’t think he would care about this little meat.” The middle-aged man replied to the girl with a smile.

“Father, you really are. My son, thank you very much.” The girl still couldn’t help complaining to her father, and after a moment of hesitation, she blushed and thanked Shi Mu.

“It doesn’t matter, the wild boar I hunted this time is full of weight, and I couldn’t finish it.” Shi Mu had already peeled off the fur from another pig leg, walked back a few steps, and replied with a smile.

“By the way, little brother. This place should not be far from Fengcheng. My father and daughter came from Yingcheng to seek relatives. I didn’t expect to encounter heavy rain on the way and get lost in the mountains, so I came here by mistake.” The middle-aged man hurriedly tore off a piece from the barbecue, handed it to his daughter, and asked Shi Mu about it.

“So that’s it. I said this temple is so desolate. How can there be people at such a late hour. Don’t worry, Uncle Zhong, this place is not far from Fengcheng. Go eastward for more than ten miles from the mountain road at the gate, and you can see Fengcheng’s west gate.” Shi Mu was a little stunned, and replied without thinking.

“Great. Xiu’er, did you hear that, we can go to Fengcheng tomorrow, and you can become the daughter-in-law of the Wu family soon.” After hearing this, the middle-aged man said to the girl with great joy.

“Father, what nonsense are you talking about? In our current situation, and I’m so ugly, whether people will admit this marriage is another matter.” When the girl heard her father mention her marriage, she was immediately ashamed.

“What’s so ugly about my daughter? In the eyes of my father, I have always been smart. As for our family’s current situation, it has something to do with the Wu family. Xiu’er, you don’t have to ask, when the time comes, you will be your own father.” I brought this matter up with the Wu family.” The middle-aged man listened to the girl’s words, but he didn’t take it seriously.

When Shi Mu heard this, his heart moved.

Could it be that the Wu family is the “Wu family” in Fengcheng that is only under the influence of the Jin family. However, the father and daughter are thin and weak, so they should not be warriors.

Just when the middle-aged man, father and daughter were talking in a low voice, and Shi Mu continued to barbecue in silence, suddenly a mournful howl came from a distance, followed by a rumbling sound, and in a blink of an eye, it came from far to near, as if Something huge came straight to this ruined temple.

“What is this? Is this a beast on the mountain?” The middle-aged man was shocked, and immediately stood up, and took out a dagger that was shining coldly from his body, and blocked it in front of the girl with a face full of panic.

But judging from his trembling legs, he probably has no strength to restrain the chicken.

“Be careful, it’s definitely not a beast, at least not a beast in this mountain, otherwise I would never have heard this howl.”

Shi Mu jumped on the single knife beside the bonfire with one foot, grabbed the handle of the knife, stared at the door firmly, and said with a vicious look all over his body.

You know, he has often come here to hunt all kinds of wild animals in the past six months, not for fun, on the one hand, to practice the body tempering technique, and on the other hand, to gain actual combat experience in sword art and boxing.

Although there are not many powerful beasts in this mountain, there are no fewer than a hundred wild wolves and wild boars that died in Shi Mu’s hands during this period, which makes him have a lot of experience in actual combat, and he is by no means an ordinary warrior who has never seen blood. comparable.

Although the middle-aged man didn’t understand martial arts, he still had some eyesight. After seeing Shi Mu’s calm and calm expression, he couldn’t help feeling a little relieved, but he still firmly protected the girl behind him.

There was a loud bang of “boom”.

The originally dilapidated temple gate suddenly burst open from the outside to the inside. Amidst the splashes of countless pieces of wood, a dark humanoid monster suddenly rushed into the hall.

“This is a zombie. Why did this ghost appear here? What are Fengcheng’s troops doing? It’s over, we are dead.” The middle-aged man saw the appearance of a humanoid monster clearly, but almost passed out on the spot. .

zombie

Shi Mu stared at the humanoid monster on the opposite side, his scalp also became numb

The monster in front of me was two feet tall, its facial features were bloody and bloody, and only two huge blood holes were left in the eyes. It was covered with a layer of thick black bristles, and drops of green liquid fell from its body from time to time. , emitting an unpleasant smell that makes people want to vomit. :