Volume 43 Chapter 9 Problem Areas

This boy is naturally Zhang Tie.

Even Zhang Tie did not expect to see such an ugly scene in the maple forest of Helan Mountain today. These days, I have seen a lot of loyal ministers and righteous men in the Anxi Governor's Mansion, and I still don't forget when I flee. Strangers who supported and helped each other suddenly saw these people, and Zhang Tie felt indescribably disgusted.

The maple leaves in the forest are turning red, and the blood of the corpses that fell on the ground has also dyed the ground red in the blink of an eye. It is stern, cold, and cruel...

The secret technique of hypnosis and soul control in "Blood Soul Sutra" was used on such a few little people, but it was just a sledgehammer, so Zhang Tie didn't even need to use his hands, he only needed to move his mouth, and let these few dirty little people kill themselves.

Butler Li himself pierced his heart with a dagger, and it can be said that he died with unsatisfactory eyes. Before he died, he rolled his pale eyes and stared at the sky.

Where there are people, there is greed and betrayal, but when such greed and betrayal are displayed in front of my eyes with such a bloody and cruel picture, when master and servant, wives and concubines start to plot and kill each other, Zhang Tie was stabbed Suddenly, seeing Butler Li's expression when he died, Zhang Tie suddenly couldn't help but think of a question—human nature always has an ugly side, will he encounter such a betrayal because of other people's greed?

Zhang Tie struggled with this question for a while, but then, Zhang Tie shook his head and put the question to the back of his mind. It was a time of holy war, so there was really no need for him to worry about it here.

Although this Steward Li's strength is low, he is completely like an ant in Zhang Tie's eyes, but this person's mind and wrist are quite terrifying.

Zhang Tie did not read much, and his knowledge of potions and pills was even less. Therefore, until this time, if Steward Li didn't explain it clearly, Zhang Tie didn't know that long-term consumption of potassium iodate could make people less energetic. It is unprecedented, let alone potassium iodide, which was used to supplement iodine in Chinese table salt before the catastrophe, was replaced by potassium iodate by demons and three-eyed society. Such knowledge is too unpopular for most people Even if Zhang Tie is a knight, he is not clear about every detail of the knowledge and history before the cataclysm.

Zhang Tie only knows that when he was in Heiyan City, because Heiyan City was an inland iodine-deficient area, he often bought firewood, rice, oil and salt for his family. Both bags are iodized, and the iodine added is indeed potassium iodide instead of potassium iodate. Even if it is salt with potassium iodide, the mother who controls the kitchen and the family's food authority does not let the family eat it often.

But this thing is the last part, Zhang Tie just passed it in his mind for a while, and then threw it away. For Zhang Tie, he wanted to know the harm and influence of potassium iodate on the human body, or he wanted to know more clearly about the demons and the three eyes. How did he tamper with the Chinese salt before the catastrophe? It's very simple. In the realm of soul robbery in Xuanyuan Hill, there is the Human Race Alchemist Association. In the database and database of the Human Race Alchemist Association , there must be the most authoritative and professional literature and research materials in this field. If Zhang Tie wants to understand these contents, he only needs to go to the realm of soul robbery. Or, you can just ask his elder brother Zhang Yang directly. His elder brother Zhang Yang is also an alchemist after all, and his knowledge in this area is a hundred times better than that of Butler Li.

However, there is no need for this!

"No matter how much you read, what's the use if you don't follow the right path?" Zhang Tie sighed, bent down, and took out the gold ticket from the housekeeper.

These people are guilty and deserve to die, but the money is innocent and there is no need to waste it. The housekeeper has not many gold tickets, only about 600,000 gold coins. For Zhang Tie today, this amount of money is worthless.

It's really not worth mentioning, but in the eyes of ordinary people, these more than 600,000 gold coins are already an astronomical sum of money, which is enough for a bunch of people to rack their brains and use all means to do many dehumanizing things. The thing is coming, there are countless refugees fleeing to the inland in Anxi Governor's Mansion, and Zhulong Territory has begun to accept refugees from Anxi Governor's Mansion. The money is enough to build a market town and accommodate 50,000 to 60,000 refugees Do you have a new home and start a new life?

Bending down can give 50,000 refugees a place to live. Of course Zhang Tie is willing. Zhang Tie is not so lofty. He is reluctant to drink more than a few coppers a bowl of rice wine for a person who grew up in a civilian area. From a human point of view, Zhang Tie knows more about the power of money in times of crisis and chaos.

Throwing those golden tickets to the Fort of Black Iron, Zhang Tie didn't stay here anymore, but walked to the depths of the maple forest. Encountered an ugly performance that exposed the dark side of human nature.

Of course, Zhang Tie didn't come here just to watch this performance.

All of this can only be said to be a coincidence that couldn't be more coincidental. In this maple forest, it is by no means the same as those who died saw, there are only sugar maples for them to taste syrup. , is full of dangers, and can be said to be the most dangerous place in Helan Mountain. It is definitely not something that those people who have hundreds of thousands of gold coins in their eyes can understand...

At this moment, in Helan Mountain, in addition to knight scouts like Zhang Tie and the others, there are also a large number of human warriors. These human warriors are observation posts and field scouts placed by the Black Armor Army in this area. Tie is similar, and it is also the eyes and ears of the Blackwater base on the ground in Helan Mountain. Because there are a large number of these observation posts and field scouts, the information they send back to the Blackwater base can, to a certain extent, be comparable to that of Zhang Tie. The information they sent back complemented each other and confirmed each other. Sometimes these observation posts and field scouts found traces of local knights, and they could also send back to the Blackwater base to warn Zhang Tie and the others through the Blackwater base. Therefore, these observation posts and field scouts also congratulated them. One of the indispensable forces in Lanshan - the so-called holy war, not only knights are fighting on the battlefield.

And Zhang Tie received a remote sensing communication from the Heishui base two days ago. The remote sensing communication told Zhang Tie that in the area of ​​Helan Mountain at the junction of Huanzhou Yunze County and Wuzhou Jishi County, in the past two weeks, there have been a large number of people. The human observation posts and field scouts disappeared in this area, and they completely lost contact with the Blackwater base. Just the day before yesterday, an earth knight who was also sent by the Blackwater base to patrol and snipe the demons in this area was at the beginning. One of the twenty earth knight scouts in Youzhou who stood up together with Tie also disappeared.

As knight scouts, including Zhang Tie, even if nothing is found every day, as one of their responsibilities, they have to send a message to the Blackwater base to indicate that they are still alive and on their posts. This is also one of the means of early warning for knight scouts. One, it is using life as an early warning, and an earth knight has lost contact with the Blackwater base for two days without any reason, and there is no information, so there is a high possibility that the earth knight is already in danger.

The situation in this area of ​​Helan Mountain is not good, and Zhang Tie's main patrolling area is adjacent to this area, so the Blackwater base directly sent an order to let Zhang Tie come over to check and see what's wrong with this area. .

If it is other knights, it will not be possible to locate a problematic place in such a mountainous area of ​​nearly 700,000 square kilometers. Zhang Tie also used all his strength after receiving the task. To figure it out, it took two days before I locked my eyes on this mountainous area with a radius of more than 20,000 square kilometers, and finally determined that the problem might be in or near this vast maple forest.

Zhang Tie walked unhurriedly in the maple forest, even if he stepped on the leaves, there was no sound at all, and the dew that had not dissipated in the forest shrubs and grasses could not touch Zhang Tie when he passed by. Above the corner of the clothes, it seems to be isolated by a strange force, walking in the woods like this, like a shadow without substance.

After walking slowly in the maple forest for a few minutes, Zhang Tie found out that the straight-line distance from the place where Butler Li and the others murdered their money was less than 300 meters away.

On the trunk of a tall sugar maple, Zhang Tie saw a 20cm-long thin metal tube that was still inserted into the tree trunk and was as thick as a little finger. In the middle of the thin metal tube, the solidified syrup had frozen .

Zhang Tie pulled out the small broken metal tube from the tree trunk. The metal tube was black with a sharp end. Zhang Tie took a closer look and recognized it immediately. Tools, this kind of thing, can release the blowing needles used by field scouts silently. The blowing needles used by Taixia field scouts can silently eliminate an undefended target or wild prey within 50 meters. It can also be used to quickly bleed when stabbing people, and the wound is difficult to heal. Of course, when encountering this piece of sugar maple forest, this metal tube can also be directly inserted into the tree trunk, so that the user can It is convenient to collect the syrup juice that sucks the sugar maple.

This thing, for a field scout, would never be thrown away at will, and judging from the situation at the scene, the pipe had been stuck in the tree for several days.

Zhang Tie looked at the ground of the tree trunk. On the ground, with the keen perception of a knight's heart, he could still find some strange traces. Zhang Tie walked along the traces for less than ten meters, and saw a small piece of grass on the ground. Camouflage of torn soldier field camouflage with bloodstains...

Zhang Tie picked up the small piece of torn camouflage, looked up at the sky, pinched a strange seal on his hand, and a woodpecker and four tits flew over from a few hundred meters away. The bird flew around Zhang Tie twice, the woodpecker and the three tits flew away again, but the other tit landed on the palm of Zhang Tie's hand holding the small piece of torn camouflage, jumped twice, and nodded. , then flew up all of a sudden, and flew towards another direction of Fenglin...

Zhang Tie followed behind that tit...