Lonely Immortal

But after Zhang Zhiwen said this, he felt that what he said was a bit superficial. In this small force, the most indispensable thing is the situation where the team leader is in power. Zhao Mingyin has many things that he can control in this team. Go, and could Yan Ting and Sui Qing still complain to Zhuo Yaoyue?

Even if their complaint succeeds, Zhao Mingyin will only receive some temporary blame. Yan Ting and Sui Qing will still have to hang out in the team, and it depends on Zhao Mingyin's face, and the situation will be even worse.

Therefore, don’t underestimate Zhao Mingyin, the small captain. He is not a big official, but he has a lot of power. He has the final say in this small team. If Zhao Mingyin continues to improve his strength and is promoted to the inner hall, then what will happen to him? Almost, it would be Yan Ting and Sui Qing's turn to take charge, that is, it would be their turn to be team captains, but in fact Zhao Mingyin basically planned to let Zhao Liumei advance, and Zhao Liumei's promotion would not be so fast.

It's a bit troublesome to think about this matter. At best, it means borrowing their Dao Soul Stone or something, but at worst, it means exploiting them, but there is nothing they can do about Zhao Mingyin, otherwise Zhao Mingyin will make things difficult for them in every possible way.

Now Zhang Zhiwen is here, and Yan Ting and Sui Qing are about to win over Zhang Zhiwen and tell him the situation of the team in advance. Zhang Zhiwen naturally feels uncomfortable when he hears this situation, but there seems to be nothing good about it. way.

He is just a newcomer. In the end, Zhao Mingyin has the final say in this team. Could it be that if he joins, Yan Ting and Sui Qing can join forces with him to fight against Zhao Mingyin? This is obviously impossible.

"Forget it, I hope his daughter will be promoted soon. If her daughter is promoted, he can be promoted quickly, and then we can have a good life."

When Yan Ting said this, Sui Qing remained silent. Obviously, Sui Qing didn't pay much attention to Yan Ting, because even if Zhao Mingyin and Zhao Liumei were promoted, Yan Ting would be the squad leader in that round, not Zhao Mingyin. A virtue?

Zhang Zhiwen has obviously seen the trick here. It seems that it is not easy to get ahead. He has to line up one by one and take his time. This is a bit awkward. He is a newcomer now, which means he has to wait until Zhao Mingyin and all the others are all here. After being promoted, it was Zhang Zhiwen's turn to be the team leader. Only then could he use his power for personal gain, and only then could he quickly improve his strength and advance quickly.

Therefore, Sui Qing just glanced at Zhang Zhiwen lightly, then said nothing, stood up and left. From the beginning to the end, Sui Qing did not say a word. When Yan Ting saw her leaving, she seemed a little bored, so she also left. , Zhang Zhiwen was left alone.

Zhang Zhiwen was also a little bit dumbfounded. He could leave the team now or complete the mission alone, but he doubted that if he did this, he might not even be able to receive the mission. As for the number of formation protections of the identity token, he was not very sure. Mind you, if there were no tasks to receive, he wouldn't be able to improve his strength, and he would even be demoted to a handyman.

Therefore, Zhang Zhiwen didn't have many options. For the time being, he could only follow Zhao Mingyin to see what was going on.

In this way, everyone showed up in the small courtyard early the next day, and Zhao Mingyin took everyone away from the place.

"Today we are going to Pinghuai Village to kill a strange beast, but it is still the same old rule. We have to find the strange beast first. Therefore, we still have to work separately. After some investigation, everyone will take a look at this strange beast. The beast is lurking somewhere, and this strange beast has been wreaking havoc in Pinghuai Village for some time, killing several villagers. It was the villagers who reported the case to Chen's government office, and we received this mission..."

Zhao Mingyin spoke quite calmly. It was obvious that he was relatively familiar with the task, but this was the first time Zhang Zhiwen heard about this kind of task. Only then did he realize that the situation here was really similar to the secular world, but originally it seemed Some rogue thieves turned into strange beasts, and some policemen turned into outer disciples. The essence seemed to be similar.

As for the villagers, they are all foundation-building cultivators, equivalent to ordinary people. They are unable to fight against the strange beasts. Even the golden elixir monks have a hard time facing the strange beasts. One of the biggest characteristics of the strange beasts is their latent nature. No one knows where it is hiding.

"Once the strange beast takes shape, it will be a result of the cultivation of the golden elixir. Because it is difficult for villagers to advance to the golden elixir, some people will inevitably follow the evil path. They will devour the human elixir and transform into strange beasts, but they can be promoted to the golden elixir." Cultivation base, and the elixirs they swallowed from the villagers were not golden elixirs. What they swallowed were the cultivation bases of the Tao. The elixir here actually refers to the Dantian!"

Zhao Mingyin started to talk about some common sense about strange beasts. If he hadn't said it, Zhang Zhiwen really didn't expect this to be the case. He thought that strange beasts swallowed golden elixirs, because that's what happened in the mines, so he thought Rendan means golden elixir. In fact, the word Dan in Rendan refers to Dantian.

The strange beast directly digs out the human Dantian, swallows Daogen, Jindan, or Nascent Soul, etc., and directly evolves and mutates into a strange beast. The strange beast in Pinghuai Village swallows Daogen Dantian. It grows and advances. With his golden elixir cultivation, he turned into a strange beast.

"As for the specific investigation, we arrived at Pinghuai Village and we can make further decisions only after we understand the situation with the villagers."

Zhao Mingyin continued.

His statement is obviously reasonable. If you want to find the strange beast lurking in Pinghuai Village, you must know more about the situation. Yan Ting and Sui Qing naturally have no objections. Although they think Zhao Mingyin is embezzling and abusing his power, he seems to be remarkable in completing the task and there is nothing to blame.

"Dad, don't be so long-winded. When you arrive in Pinghuai Village, just ask around, then gather the villagers out and test it. Isn't it easy to pull out the strange beast? Really, why are you talking about this? I'm tired of listening to it. Who doesn't know it?"

Zhao Liumei is impatient, but she completely forgets that there is another Zhang Zhiwen in the team. Zhang Zhiwen doesn't know what's going on, and Zhao Mingyin said these words to Zhang Zhiwen.

"Haha, okay, then let's go."

Zhao Mingyin obviously dotes on his daughter. He smiled and didn't think there was anything wrong with his daughter. He finished talking.

So, the group set off.

Pinghuai Village is still some distance away from Pengyu Island. It took them three days and three nights to reach Pinghuai Village. Zhao Mingyin had a map in his hand, otherwise it would be easy to get lost and not find the place. Only the team leader is qualified to have this map, and others are not qualified. Even if they get the small map, they can't use it. It is bound to the team leader. Once someone tries to activate the map, the map will be automatically scrapped.

From such a small thing, it is not difficult to see that even a small force like Yaoyue Team is quite cautious and has a strict hierarchy. It is almost in line with the series of levels of Chen's government office. They are all progressive, from top to bottom, and the hierarchy is strict. No one is allowed to challenge the authority at will. Now Zhao Mingyin is the absolute authority of this team. Without this small map, Zhang Zhiwen asked himself that he would not be able to find this Pinghuai Village.

It can be seen from this that this small force is not something that is randomly generated, but is deliberately arranged by Chen. Otherwise, there will be no such small map, nor any protection token. This is clearly a way for Chen to rule everyone. If they manage it layer by layer, then they must not think about crossing the line. If one person goes to receive the task alone, even if he gets the task by luck, how can Zhang Zhiwen come to Pinghuai Village? He still has to ask for directions?

A village that is three days and three nights away from Pengyu Island, how can he ask for directions? Anyway, Zhang Zhiwen will definitely have a headache when he thinks of this matter. In addition, even if he finds it, will the villagers here cooperate? Who knows?

Sure enough, Zhang Zhiwen just thought about it, Zhao Mingyin took everyone to Pinghuai Village, and then he directly found the village chief of Pinghuai Village and told him the purpose of his visit. The village chief then received them.

Obviously, this so-called village chief is very knowledgeable about the market. He knows that Zhao Mingyin is the team leader, and he has confirmed Zhao Mingyin's identity. Otherwise, he seems to not trust Zhao Mingyin.

Therefore, if Zhang Zhiwen came to this place alone, the village chief would not trust him at all, nor would he entertain him. At this moment, the village chief entertained Zhao Mingyin, and even treated him respectfully.

Afterwards, everyone discussed some things in the house and asked the village chief about one thing. The situation described by the village chief was roughly the same as the report given by the outer hall, that is, more than a dozen villagers disappeared for three consecutive months. At present, no corpses can be found. It is estimated that they were thrown into the sea to feed the fish. So the village chief quickly contacted the Chen family government office and asked them, the outer hall disciples, to come and kill the strange beast.

But was this done by the strange beast? Maybe the villagers in the village committed a crime and killed someone?

Zhang Zhiwen had such an idea in his mind, but he did not say anything. Instead, Zhao Liumei spoke first.

"Village chief, we don't want to care about the situations you mentioned, such as the missing relatives. I just want to know why you think it was done by the strange beast?"

When Zhao Liumei asked this, the village chief immediately replied: "My Lord, the reason is this..."

The village chief then began to talk about other situations, that is, although the missing bodies were not found, some villagers accidentally saw the strange beast, otherwise they would not be sure that it was the strange beast that did it. They said that after dark that night, they saw a monster appearing in the woods and killing people.

"Oh? Where is this villager? Ask him to come over immediately!"

When Zhao Mingyin investigated this place, he planned to ask the witness to come over. This might be the best way to find the strange beast directly. The village chief seemed to be prepared for Zhao Mingyin's decision. He immediately asked the villager to come over.

The villager came very quickly. He looked like an honest fisherman in his early twenties. But Zhang Zhiwen knew that these people would not age very well. The village chief looked to be in his forties, because they were born with the foundation-building cultivation. But even if they were born with the foundation-building cultivation, it seemed that many of them could not practice and could not make progress. Only a very small number of people could improve their cultivation.

Zhang Zhiwen also felt this during this time. If this was the case, then Wanxian Island was indeed very strange!

After the villager came, he stammered about what he saw that night. He had gone out to sea to fish, and then came back a little late. When he passed the forest outside the village, he found movement in the forest...

The villager said it several times before he made it clear. Basically, the strange beast captured people, ate them in the forest, and then dumped the bodies into the sea. The strange beast the villagers saw was just a shadow, about so.

"You smell blood?"

Zhao Mingyin confirmed again.

"Yes, I smelled it. The smell was so strong that the little one was very scared at the time..."

The villager was still thinking about continuing. He had a look of horror on his face. It was obvious that he was really scared at the time, but Zhao Liumei interrupted him impatiently and sent him away.

"Dad, it seems that this thing was done by the strange beast. The government office's mission is true, and the village chief didn't lie. Okay, let's go to Xiaolinzi first and have a look. By the way, the village chief Chief, you lead the way!”

Zhao Liumei directly asked the village chief to get up and lead the way. There was no need for Zhao Mingyin to give orders or anything. It was as if she had the final say on this small team.

Zhao Mingyin didn't have any objections, and seemed to think there was nothing wrong with Zhao Liumei, but Zhang Zhiwen actually disagreed, because since a strange beast appeared here, theoretically, anyone here could be a strange beast, including the village chief, including the one just now Villagers!

If Zhao Mingyin is a veteran, there is no reason for him not to know this. Then if he knows this, it would be too childish for him to let Zhao Liumei lead everyone so stupidly? If the village chief is a strange beast, or the villagers are strange beasts, is this place a trap?

Maybe there is more than one weird beast here? Even a lot of weird beasts? Or are they just waiting for Zhang Zhiwen and others to fall into the trap? Then they killed Zhang Zhiwen and others and swallowed the human pill alive?

This is not impossible. Even if the village chief and villagers do not look like any strange beasts, because Zhang Zhiwen did not feel the breath of any strange beasts coming from them, logically speaking, Zhao Liumei must be so reckless. No, she was lucky this time. The village chief and villagers were ordinary people. But if they weren't, wouldn't they be in big trouble? Was the whole army even wiped out because of this?

This is what Zhang Zhiwen feels is the biggest problem in this team, and Yan Ting and Sui Qing seem to feel this too, but they seem to be fine and seem to trust Zhao Mingyin more. Maybe they feel that Zhao Mingyin should not put him and his daughter into harm's way. Give up your safety so rashly.

And just when Zhang Zhiwen was thinking about these things, everyone came to the small forest mentioned before. When they came here, Zhang Zhiwen immediately sensed the aura of a strange beast!