New and dark light years

Chapter 26: People in the Mist
Before nightfall, everyone searched the area they were responsible for, but still found nothing.

Now the sun was setting, its color blood-red.

Because the fortress walls are high and block the sunlight, the inside of the fortress is even darker.

The sixteen gathered together again, and their expressions were very serious.

"We have two choices now." Xu Saifeng looked at the setting sun and said, "One is that we stay here until we have thoroughly investigated the matter before leaving, but that's very dangerous."

"The second thing is that we leave immediately and go back to explain what happened here to the county magistrate."

Someone immediately said, "I choose to leave. What's happening here is not right. It's dangerous to stay. I always feel like someone is watching us in the dark."

But some people also said, "We haven't figured out the reasons for the deaths of the soldiers in the military garrison, or why the True Lord disappeared! If we go back like this, the county magistrate will probably think we're just sitting there doing nothing!"

"But it's better than death. What happened here is very strange. Even the True Lord disappeared."

"The True Lord may not be dead. I think we still need to investigate thoroughly, otherwise it will be difficult to explain when we return. Do you really think that County Master Huang is easy to talk to?"

So everyone started arguing, and it seemed to be getting more intense.

After listening to them arguing for a while, Li Lin suddenly said, "Let's leave here first and go somewhere safer to spend the night. We can come back and investigate during the day. Why do we have to choose between fleeing and staying?"

Everyone looked at Li Lin, their expressions seemed a little strange, as if they were twisted and struggling.

Xu Saifeng clapped her hands on her face and said, "We old hands have been fooled just now. We are ashamed. This place is indeed not right. Li Xunshu is right. Let's leave first and make plans tomorrow."

After that, the sixteen people rode out of the city before the sun completely set.

"I know there's a cave nearby. Let's spend the night there."

After Xu Saifeng finished speaking, she led the way.

After riding for a while, someone suddenly shouted, "Look at Bobai Town, something is wrong."

Everyone looked back and found that the entire military town was covered with a layer of black fog in the blood-red setting sun.

It looked extremely ominous.

There is no such thing when there is sunshine in the daytime.

Xu Saifeng hissed subconsciously, "The resentment has thickened into a fog, visible to the naked eye, and can confuse the mind! That place is a trap. No wonder we didn't think of leaving, but only focused on arguing. If we delay any longer, we really won't be able to leave."

Bai Bufan asked curiously, "What's it like to stay in that kind of fog? How should we deal with it?"

"Either you have practiced the Soul Technique, or you have enough Yang Energy in your body, both are enough to resist the influence of this mist."

Everyone suddenly realized.

The old man laughed and said, "No wonder Li Xunshu was able to remind us!"

Everyone laughed.

All the spirit hunters in Yulin County knew that Li Lin was still a virgin.

At this time, someone asked, "Patron Bai should still be a virgin, right?"

Bai Bufan showed an expression of shame.

When he was thirteen years old, he had sex with his maid.

When everyone saw his appearance, they laughed even louder.

Amidst laughter and joy, Xu Saifeng led everyone to a high slope. There was indeed a cave here, and there was a flat muddy ground in front of the cave entrance. Standing here, you can also see the Bobai Military Town in the distance.

At this time, the white jade plates on everyone's waists began to flash a faint red light, indicating that there was a ghost nearby.

Xu Saifeng took out seven yellow triangular soul-calling banners from her saddle bag, started from the cave entrance, inserted them in a circle around the mud, and then returned to the cave entrance.

Bai Bufan asked his uncle curiously: "What kind of formation is this." Bai Liwei shook his head, he didn't know either.

"This is a family formation, I won't mention the name." Xu Saifeng smiled and said, "It's used to gather the Yin energy nearby, creating the illusion of a tomb... At least it will make the wild ghosts think that this is a tomb and that we are the wandering ghosts in the tomb, so they won't bother us."

When everyone looked, they saw that the red light of the white jade token on their waist had indeed disappeared.

"This formation is very powerful. If it is used outside the village or county, wouldn't it save countless lives?" someone said.

Xu Saifeng laughed and said, "You can fool people for a while, but not forever. Besides...how big is the scope of a tomb? How big is the scope of a county or a city? How can you compare the two?"

That's true, everyone understood.

Everyone tied up their horses and lit a fire in the cave. After some poisonous insects were smoked out by the smoke, the spirit hunters went in to rest.

After Xu Saifeng arranged the order of taking turns on duty, everyone ate their dry food in silence.

Because it was not Li Lin's turn to keep watch, he sat in the cave holding the thin blanket "Zhagui Yi", leaning against the mud wall and closing his eyes to rest.

Logically speaking, this place is in a good location and has the formation set up by Xu Saifeng, so it should be very safe.

But the accident still happened.

In the second half of the night, all the night watchmen's white jade tablets emitted a dazzling red light at the same time.

All the spirit hunters were awakened, except Bai Bufan.

He was still fast asleep.

Bai Liwei took two steps forward and slapped him on the head to wake him up.

"What's wrong? What happened?!"

Bai Bufan shook his head, his eyes half asleep.

The spirit hunters ignored him, picked up their weapons and walked out of the cave.

There was nothing outside the cave, but the dense and frequent mumbling sounds were already very obvious.

When Xu Saifeng saw that the soul-calling flag she had planted was missing two poles, her face suddenly turned ugly.

"Who is on guard now..." As soon as he finished speaking, he found a spirit hunter lying at the entrance of the cave, with blood gushing from his neck.

The other person who was on night watch was missing.

Without saying a word, Xu Saifeng took out two more soul-calling banners from her backpack and reinserted them.

The red light of the white jade plates on everyone's waists gradually weakened and disappeared.

"Shi Xunshu's throat was slit. There's no way he can be saved." Zhou Liwei pulled his nephew back, separating them from the other spirit hunters. "The missing person is Lao Hou."

At this moment, all the spirit hunters subconsciously distanced themselves from others.

Although the missing Lao Hou is most likely the murderer, who can guarantee that there are no accomplices among the remaining people?

Xu Saifeng's face looked very ugly. He was the leader of this mission. Now that this happened, even if the mission was completed and they returned to Yulin County, he would not be able to escape the charge of poor supervision.

This will affect the amount of 'Jinglu' he can get in the future, which may be less.

Xu Saifeng took a deep breath and said, "Everyone, it seems we need to find the traitor first."

"How to find it, someone asked."

Xu Saifeng said gloomily, "What do you think of the soul-searching method?"

(End of this chapter)