The Legend of the Demon Hunter

Xiao Zhu and Xia Shi stayed in Nuowan City for two days. Before leaving, they went to Chen Xuelan's tomb. Her tomb was built on a small hill beside Swan Lake. It was a sparsely populated place and the tomb was overgrown with weeds. Xiao Zhu and Xia Shi silently cleared the weeds. They moved slowly because the past was like a gushing spring that flooded their hearts.

In Nuowan College, where many talented people are born, Chen Xuelan is just average in both talent and appearance. She has lived in the college for many years. Apart from Bai Ruchen and Xin Jiunian, two veterans, she has the most experience. Even Chu Enze and Ruqing were her students. For so many years, she has been unknown, watching her students rise one by one, while she is getting older day by day.

Chen Xuelan has a maternal aura that has invisibly infected generations of students. When Xiao Zhu disappeared, she was the only one who accompanied Xia Shi to the south to find Xiao Zhu, even though she knew that the monster army was besieging the city. She also saved Xiao Zhu's life twice. Especially in the battle against the Golden Winged Eagle King, if she hadn't fought with her life, Xiao Zhu and Xia Shi would have been buried here.

Xiao Zhu suddenly remembered what Chen Xuelan said on the way to Nowan College that day: "Children, I always believe that one day you will drive out all the monsters and take back this lost world!"

After they had cleared the weeds, Xiao Zhu bowed deeply toward the grave. He looked at Xia Shi, and saw two lines of tears on her fair and pretty cheeks. Xiao Zhu sighed quietly, "Shi'er, let's go."

Xia Shi nodded, and the two of them no longer had any worries. They then flew north towards the Huanling Kingdom.

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The Rhine Empire was long and narrow, with a huge north-south span. The two flew for seven days across the entire Rhine Empire and arrived at a small border town.

When they first arrived in Huanling Country, Xiao Zhu and Xia Shi had not yet decided where to go next. They decided to go to this small town to rest for two days and learn about the situation in Huanling Country.

This border town is larger than Xia Shi's hometown, Fuguang Town, and has more and more luxurious houses. It can be seen that it was a very prosperous place in the past. However, after the two entered the town, they soon discovered something unusual - nearly half of the houses in the town were locked, as if no one had lived there for a long time. Even the houses that were occupied had their doors tightly closed, and no one entered or left. There was no one to be seen on the wide roads.

It was already dusk at this time. Xiao Zhu and Xia Shi finally found an inn in the center of the town. The door of the inn was closed but not locked. The two pushed the door open and walked in.

As soon as I walked into the inn, an unpleasant smell hit me in the face, the smell of dust and corruption. The tables and chairs in the inn were covered with dust, and it seemed that no one had been here for a long time.

"Is anyone there?" Xiao Zhu asked tentatively.

His voice echoed in the inn, but no one answered.

"Brother, this place seems to have been abandoned for a long time." Xia Shi gently covered her mouth and nose with her sleeves. It was obvious that the smell of the inn made her uncomfortable.

"Let's go up and take a look!" Xiao Zhu pointed to the second floor of the inn, where there were several guest rooms.

The two walked up the stairs of the inn to the second floor. The unpleasant smell in the air seemed to be stronger. Xiao Zhu walked to a guest room and gently opened the door. There was nothing in the room except a table, chairs and a wooden bed.

"Ah——" At this moment, Xia Shi's scream suddenly came.

Xiao Zhu rushed to Xia Shi's side as if by reflex. In fact, he was only a few meters away from Xia Shi at this time. Xia Shi was standing at the door of another guest room. Xiao Zhu stood in front of Xia Shi and followed Xia Shi's gaze to look inside the guest room. Suddenly, his stomach churned and he almost vomited out the food he had eaten during the day.

There was a dead body in this guest room. This person had been dead for a long time, and the body had been severely decomposed, with a foul smell. The rotten smell in the inn was coming from this dead body. At the same time that Xia Shi screamed, two carrion-eating rats crawled out of the dead body.

Although Xia Shi is also a demon hunter, she is a girl after all and has a natural fear of corpses. She hugged Xiao Zhu's arm tightly, her voice trembling: "Brother, let's go!"

"Yeah." Xiao Zhu also felt disgusted with this place, and the two of them quickly left the inn.

The two walked on the streets of the town, and it was getting darker. Xiao Zhu wanted to find a place to stay for the night, but he didn't know where to go. Just as he was hesitating, he suddenly heard a noise from a house on the side of the road. It was the howling of an old man.

At this moment, the door of this family opened, and an old man who looked to be in his seventies or eighties ran out in a hurry. He ignored Xiao Zhu and Xia Shi on the road, and ran to a neighbor's house with trembling steps, knocked on the door in a hurry, and shouted: "Yu Qing, come and have a look, my mother is dying!"

At this time, the door of the neighbor's house opened, and a man who looked to be in his 40s or 50s came out. Strangely, his head was wrapped in white cloth, and it seemed that someone in the family had just passed away. He held the hand of the bewildered old man and said, "Uncle Kun, take me to see it!"

The two men walked into the old man's house one after the other. Just as they stepped through the door, a pleasant female voice suddenly came: "Uncles, is anyone sick at home? I know a little bit about medicine, I wonder if I can help?"

The two men turned around and saw Xiao Zhu and Xia Shi standing in the middle of the road. Seeing that they were not dressed like locals, Uncle Kun was at a loss and looked at Yu Qing. Yu Qing asked doubtfully, "Do you two know any medical skills?"

"Yeah." Xia Shi nodded affirmatively.

Yu Qing saw that the two men looked very young and did not look like bad guys, so he nodded and said to the old man, "Uncle Kun, why not let these two take a look too!"

"Okay!" Uncle Kun nodded affirmatively, and Xiao Zhu and Xia Shi followed the two middle-aged men into their house.

Walking into Uncle Kun's house, Xiao Zhu and Xia Shi saw a young woman lying on the bed. The woman was as thin as a stick, with a sallow face. She lay there motionless, and was about to die. Next to the woman was a baby, who was ignorant and still sucking the woman's nipples. Seeing this scene, Xiao Zhu felt uncomfortable in his heart, and he turned away reluctantly.

Xia Shize hurried forward, she felt the woman's breath, then touched her forehead, then she breathed a sigh of relief, she turned around and said, "She can still be saved."

Hearing this, the three men all showed expressions of joy on their faces.