The Legend of the Demon Hunter

The next day, at daybreak, Xiao Zhu and Xia Shi left the Xia family and headed towards the east of the city together.

Arriving at the eastern border of the city, the tall city wall of Fuguang Town comes into view. The wall is built with huge stones and is more than ten meters high. The surrounding houses look particularly small in comparison.

The construction of such a tall wall must be to protect against the invasion of monsters. In this land, monsters have occupied most of the territory and squeezed humans into one town after another. People huddle together for warmth just to seek a living space.

In the past, there would be patrol members from the Xia family on the city walls. Once they found anything unusual, they would immediately light a signal smoke signal to inform the demon hunters in the city.

But today, it seems unusually quiet here.

Xiao Zhu and Xia Shi walked up to the city wall side by side, but they still didn't see any patrol officers. Xia Shi became suspicious and looked around.

"Could it be that they were lazy and left their posts?" Xiao Zhu asked doubtfully.

"No, there are usually at least four or five patrolmen on this wall. It is impossible for them to be off duty at the same time. Moreover, according to the rules set by the three major families in Fuguang Town, it is a serious crime to leave the post without permission during patrol. They dare not do that." Xia Shi explained.

"That's strange. Let's continue looking forward!" Xiao Zhu said.

The two continued walking for about 500 meters, and Xiao Zhu suddenly stopped. Xia Shi asked in confusion: "Brother Xiao, what's wrong?"

Xiao Zhu pointed to the edge of the outer city wall and said, "Shi'er, look!"

Xia Shi looked in the direction Xiao Zhu pointed, and saw a large pool of blood there.

"Oh no, something happened!" Xia Shi changed from walking to running and quickly ran forward, Xiao Zhu followed closely behind. After the two of them moved forward about a hundred meters, they saw two bodies lying on the ground. The bodies were wearing patrol uniforms. Xia Shi recognized that these two people were the ones sent by Fang Zhiyuan the day before yesterday.

Xiao Zhu looked at the black faces of the corpses and said, "They were all poisoned, but it looks like they have been dead for some time."

Xia Shi seemed not to hear what Xiao Zhu said. She looked down at the ground from the city wall, walked forward a few steps woodenly, and then stopped. Xiao Zhu realized something was wrong from her body movements. He walked behind Xia Shi, and when he saw the scene in front of him, his heart tightened.

There were several corpses lying crookedly on the ground, and on the ground, there was a huge bottomless pit that connected the inside and outside of the city wall.

Xiao Zhu expressed the problem that both of them were aware of:

"It's a monster. A monster has sneaked into Floating Light Town!"

"The patrol personnel were killed before they could even send out a distress signal. This shows that the monsters that sneaked into Fuguang Town this time are either extremely powerful or huge in number," Xia Shi added.

Letting this group of bloodthirsty and violent criminals sneak into a town full of civilians would have disastrous consequences.

For a moment, both of them felt as if their hearts had sunk into an ice cellar!

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Xia family.

Xia Meitao always felt that something was wrong.

Xiao Zhu and Xia Shi had already set out for a while, and it was now noon. Although the Xia family had never liked noise, it seemed a little too quiet today.

Following the beat of his heart, Xia Meitao walked out of the room and headed towards the courtyard where Fang Zhiyuan lived.

As soon as he walked out of the courtyard, Xia Meitao noticed something unusual. There was a person lying on the ground in the distance. He was shocked and suspicious. He took two steps instead of three and ran towards the person. Then he noticed that it was the doorman, Old Wu. Xia Meitao had a bad feeling. He leaned over and sniffed Old Wu's breath and found that he was dead.

Xia Meitao also noticed that there were obvious marks of strangulation on Old Wu’s neck, indicating that he had been strangled to death.

"Who is it?" Xia Meitao suddenly raised his voice and shouted towards the empty courtyard. At the same time, he turned around and looked around, but when he looked around, the surroundings were as quiet as usual, with only the rustling of leaves.

Xia Meitao became more alert. He put down Old Wu's body and walked forward carefully. When he walked out of the courtyard door again, the scene in front of him made his hair stand on end - there were seven or eight bodies lying crookedly on the ground, and blood was all over the floor. All the dead people were from his Xia family.

But the murderer is nowhere to be seen!

Xia Meitao stood in the middle of the courtyard, feeling both shocked and angry. Who on earth dared to slaughter the Xia family members so wantonly? Moreover, these people died so silently that even he didn't realize it.

"Demon Hunter!" Xia Meitao uttered a few words slowly. He knew that only a demon hunter could have such power. But who else could it be?

At this moment, a familiar voice suddenly came from a distance, and the voice was very urgent: "Master Xia, be careful!"

Without giving it any time to think, Xia Meitao immediately took two steps back. These two steps just happened to avoid the hidden weapons flying from the air. The three flying knives hit the place where Xia Meitao had just stood, and fell on the granite floor with a "clang clang clang". The blades were dark green, obviously poisoned.

After all, Xia Meitao was an experienced demon hunter. He looked up into the air along the trajectory of the flying knife and saw a middle-aged man in yellow clothes standing there.

"Ouyang Duan!" Xia Meitao gritted his teeth and said these words. At this moment, two more figures appeared beside Ouyang Duan. The three of them jumped down from the roof and stood opposite Xia Meitao. They were Ouyang Duan, Ouyang Hong, and Ouyang Mingyue from the Ouyang family. Except for the injured Ouyang Mingque, all the demon hunters of the Ouyang family were out in full force today.

Fang Zhiyuan rushed over from the courtyard behind him and stood beside Xia Meitao. Seeing that Fang Zhiyuan was safe and sound, Xia Meitao felt a little relieved.

"Master Ouyang, my Xia family has no grudge against you. Why did you massacre the Xia family members today? Does the Ouyang family want to wipe out my entire Xia family?" Xia Meitao's face was as cold as frost.

"No grudges?" Ouyang Duan smiled coldly and said, "That demon hunter kid from your Xia family almost took Ming Que's life!"

"What?" Xia Meitao looked confused and puzzled. After this incident happened yesterday, Xia Shi and Xiao Zhu had not had time to explain to Xia Meitao, and they hurriedly set out to inspect the east of the city this morning. They did not expect the Ouyang family's revenge to come so quickly.

But Xia Meitao quickly regained his composure and said, "If anyone from our Xia family hurt Young Master Ouyang, our Xia family would be responsible for the consequences. Just look for me, Xia Meitao. Now that you are slaughtering people at will in the Xia family, do you think that the Ouyang family is the number one family in Fuguang Town and you can do whatever you want?"

"Master Xia is right. We came here today to do whatever we want." This was said by Ouyang Hong, who had a gloomy face.

"Hmph! Just you guys?" Fang Zhiyuan snorted coldly.

"Mr. Fang and Sect Master Xia are very powerful. We certainly can't defeat them, but we have invited two friends here today." Ouyang Duan said with a sneer.

As soon as Ouyang Duan finished speaking, two more men in grey robes came out from behind Xia Meitao and the others. One of them had grey hair and beard, and the other looked like a middle-aged man in his forties.

"Chen Long, Chen Hu, your Chen family is actually colluding with the Ouyang family?!"

Xia Meitao felt a sudden chill in his heart.