Chapter 212: Corpse Xiao Carrying Mountain Woman

After eating and drinking his fill, Chu Danqing began to review the knowledge brought by his mastery skills as usual.

Although his learning efficiency was relatively slow, learning is like sailing against the current; if you don't advance, you retreat.

A little growth is still growth.

Otherwise, what would he do with this time?

Zhong Ting also chatted with Chu Danqing from time to time, occasionally probing Chu Danqing's background and intention to go to the Yuanping King's tomb.

It's just that Chu Danqing's mouth was tight, and he couldn't ask anything.

By nine o'clock, there was really nothing to talk about, and in the end, he could only go to sleep himself.

This was considered staying up late for him, after all, there were no entertainment projects.

Plus, he had to get up early the next day, so most of the time he went to sleep as soon as it got dark.

Actually, there was another reason, which was to save money.

At night, whether reading or writing, one had to light a lamp; over time, lamp oil money was a big expense.

Da Bao watched cartoons for a while and then went to sleep too.

He had to recharge his batteries; who knew what would happen tomorrow.

Chu Danqing wouldn't sleep; with his current situation, sleeping was a bit too wasteful.

Time reached the second half of the night, and strange sounds came from outside the mountain cave.

Yue Lan Wu Ying indicated whether he should go take a look, and Da Bao also woke up immediately.

He was indeed asleep, but his instincts and intuition were still in effect.

So when he sensed the movement, he climbed up at the first opportunity.

On the contrary, Zhong Ting was truly exhausted from today's "Monopolizing the Top" kick.

Plus, the sound wasn't very loud, and he wasn't a grave robber to begin with, so he didn't need to be vigilant when sleeping.

Due to multiple factors, he didn't wake up.

"Don't worry about it; if they don't come to provoke us, we shouldn't go looking for trouble." Chu Danqing said.

He wasn't the type to kill everything he saw; this night was the world of fierce creatures, and if he acted recklessly, it would be easy to attract strong enemies.

The strength of this world is clearly not low, and before the talent task is completed, he doesn't want to cause extra trouble.

The gains can be a little less, but the talent cannot have problems.

As long as he can complete the S-level talent awakening task, this evaluation will be at least S-level.

He had the cultivation room, and the maximum gains.

With Chu Danqing's words, Yue Lan Wu Ying naturally didn't continue to act.

Da Bao also curled back up, preparing to continue sleeping.

It's just that the strange sound got closer and closer, forcing Da Bao to climb up again, and even Zhong Ting was startled out of his sleep.

"This movement seems to be a Corpse Xiao." Zhong Ting listened carefully and quickly identified the fierce creature approaching.

"I've dealt with a few of these fierce creatures; most are born from the resentment of adulterous men and women who died without repenting."

"Therefore, they are fond of filth."

"The males are burly and sturdy, the females are enchanting and charming."

"And they will abduct men and women to force them together."

"How can a person compare to such a fierce creature? They won't last a night before they die."

"Secondly, they are addicted to killing; this is a common trait of all fierce creatures."

"So even if you can survive the night, you won't escape death before dawn." Zhong Ting said.

The place where he lived indeed didn't have as many fierce creatures as the Cangmang Guling, but because of the collapse of rites and music and the chaos of warlords, there were quite a few.

It's just that their strength was a bit low.

The previous Demon Grievance Corpse, if placed in the region where he lived, would already be able to wreak havoc on one side.

Placed in the Cangmang Guling, its strength was truly not worth mentioning.

"How is their strength?" Chu Danqing asked.

"Perhaps between the Corpse Centipede and the Corpse Demon." Zhong Ting could only identify the species from the sound; how could he have the ability to sense their strength?

If he really had that ability, he would have gone out and kicked the Corpse Xiao to death with one kick, so why would he be telling Chu Danqing all this?

After he finished speaking, a burly figure slowly approached outside the mountain cave.

On its body grew a layer of fine green fluff; Chu Danqing took a closer look and found it was actually mold, and its body emitted a fermented smell.

"Good fellow, others are rotting, you are fermenting." Chu Danqing subconsciously complained.

However, soon, he shifted his gaze to the Corpse Xiao's back, where it was carrying a fainted woman.

Her appearance was normal, her clothing and skin matched that of a poor family, and her hands had calluses from doing farm work.

"Something's not right, very not right." Zhong Ting said suddenly.

On the other side, the Corpse Xiao threw down the fainted woman; it sensed the aura of a living person, and because its gender was male, it formed a same-sex repulsion and started killing directly.

Da Bao met it at the first opportunity, and the two sides fought in the mountain cave.

"What's not right?" Chu Danqing asked.

"Corpse Xiao are lustful; this woman definitely wasn't abducted from nearby." Zhong Ting continued: "Logically, after finding an empty place, they would start forcing them together directly."

"How could they come here?"

"Could it be people from the previous village?" Chu Danqing thought of this possibility; after all, they were moving, and it wasn't impossible to meet them on the road.

"Absolutely impossible." Zhong Ting said decisively: "They were walking in a different direction from you and me; the Corpse Xiao has plenty of places to go, how could they bring people to you and me?"

"On the contrary, at the Huang Long River, there is a small village where my senior uncle once rested."

"If nothing goes wrong, the woman abducted by this Corpse Xiao is highly likely from this small village."

"It's just that I don't understand why they would bring her here."

The night in the Cangmang Guling is indeed full of crises for people.

But for fierce creatures, it's just normal; with the Corpse Xiao's lustful nature, after abducting someone, they would run at most one or two miles before starting.

"If it's not a problem with the Corpse Xiao, then..." Zhong Ting's gaze fell on the fainted woman on the ground: "Then it's a problem with this woman."

Upon hearing this, Chu Danqing reminded: "We don't believe in victim-blaming."

About five minutes later, Da Bao tore the Corpse Xiao in two with one claw.

The battle ended quickly; the strength of this Corpse Xiao was far lower than what Zhong Ting said, only a bit stronger than the Demon Grievance Corpse.

In front of Da Bao, who was gradually adapting to the battle intensity, it was no match at all, so naturally, it died quickly.

However, after death, this Corpse Xiao didn't drop a treasure chest.

From this point, Chu Danqing could judge that this Corpse Xiao and the Blind Boy he met before belonged to the small monsters in a group event.

Before all of them are killed, there will be no treasure chest output.

And the Corpse Xiao wasn't the main body of the event, and Chu Danqing hadn't had deep contact yet.

Otherwise, the task should have been triggered by now.

After having Da Bao throw the Corpse Xiao's corpse to a wind-sheltered position outside the mountain cave, the smell in the mountain cave was much better.

Chu Danqing had Da Bai treat the woman; because she was just an ordinary person, one Spirit Art: Spirit Healing was enough.

It was mainly to purify negative effects, but it looked like the mechanism was relatively complex, and the person didn't wake up immediately.

Zhong Ting went over and patted the other party's face, and then she turned awake.

Clearly, after treatment + purification, the coma directly turned into a sleep state.

As soon as the woman woke up, her expression was confused, and she didn't quite understand the situation.

But seeing that there were strangers around and Da Bao, who had just finished throwing the Corpse Xiao's corpse, she opened her mouth to scream on the spot.

Fortunately, Zhong Ting was quick-eyed and fast-handed, covering the other party's mouth, so she didn't make a sound.

"Quiet, it's night now; if you don't want to attract fierce creatures, be quiet, understand?" Zhong Ting warned fiercely.

He had seen the simplicity and kindness of commoners, and also the stupid and evil ones among them.

The woman nodded, indicating she understood.

Zhong Ting then chose to let go and asked: "What's your situation? How did you get caught by the Corpse Xiao?"

After the woman calmed down, she also understood some of the situation; it must be these people in front of her who saved her.

"It's not just the mountain monkeys, there are also night cats, black rats, many fierce creatures suddenly swarmed into our village."

"I was a bit lucky to be caught and not die." The woman cried when she said this: "Others... others..."

Upon hearing this, Zhong Ting's brow immediately wrinkled.

It's not that fierce creatures don't swarm; the Blind Boy they met before was this type of fierce creature.

But most of these are limited to the same type of fierce creature; different types of fierce creatures acting together is indeed rare.

'There is a great fierce creature driving the fierce creatures!' This thought immediately appeared in Zhong Ting's mind.

"Are there any other abnormalities?" Zhong Ting didn't draw a conclusion immediately, but continued to ask for the reason.

"I don't know, they just suddenly came." The woman replied, but then changed her tone: "Wait, in the past two days, the Huang Long River has risen by more than three inches."

Chu Danqing didn't feel anything; isn't it just ten centimeters?

But Zhong Ting knew that it wasn't the season and it hadn't rained, yet it rose by nearly ten centimeters, which was enough to explain the problem.

"Anything else?" Zhong Ting didn't give up and continued to ask.

After thinking about it, the woman said: "Five days ago, a group of soldiers and a few people dressed strangely came; they might have been grave robbers."

"They arrived at our village and talked to the village chief mysteriously about something."

"I don't know the specifics; I heard some rumors from the village chief's daughter-in-law."

"They said they were going to find some Mysterious Woman Ganoderma." The woman didn't hide it.

Chu Danqing went through his mind, and the knowledge provided by his identity didn't have information about the Mysterious Woman Ganoderma.

However, Zhong Ting's expression changed; clearly, he knew what the Mysterious Woman Ganoderma was, and judging from his expression, it definitely wasn't a good thing.

"What is the Mysterious Woman Ganoderma?" Chu Danqing asked directly.

"The so-called Mysterious Woman Ganoderma is not a kind of medicinal herb, but refers to the Eldest Princess Ganoderma of the Lin State back then."

"In the late Eastern Lin Dynasty, this Eldest Princess Ganoderma claimed that the Mysterious Woman taught her military books at night, so she raised an army to restore order and pushed her younger brother to ascend the throne to rebuild the Western Lin."

"Later generations honored her as the Mysterious Woman Ganoderma."

"At the same time, because of this merit, after the Mysterious Woman Ganoderma died, she was buried in the Cangmang Guling by her younger brother, the emperor, with state funeral specifications, in order to continue to suppress the national destiny of the Lin State."

"That group of warlord soldiers and grave robbers went to the tomb of the Mysterious Woman Ganoderma." Zhong Ting looked at Chu Danqing; the second half of what he said was that the Mysterious Woman Ganoderma, who had become a great fierce creature, might have come out of the mausoleum.

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