Of course, this youth was Zhang Tie.
Even Zhang Tie had not imagined that he could see such an ugly scene in the maple woods of Helan Mountain Range. These days, Zhang Tie had seen so many loyal and righteous officials in Peacewest Military Region and so many strangers who didn't forget to help each other even though they were fleeing for their lives. At the sight of these people, Zhang Tie felt disgusted.
The maple leaves in the woods were red. The fresh blood of those corpses instantly dyed the ground red, which was grim, icy and cruel …
The hypnosis soul controlling skill in Bloody Soul Sutra was just like killing chickens with a butcher's knife. Therefore, Zhang Tie didn't even need to move his hands. Instead, he only needed to move his mouth to make these dirty small figures commit suicide.
Steward Li pierced his own heart with a dagger and died with everlasting regret. Before he died, he rolled his pale eyes and stared at the sky.
Wherever there were people, there would always be greed and betrayal. However, when such greed and betrayal were displayed in front of Zhang Tie in such a bloody and cruel scene, when masters and servants and wives and concubines started to plot against and kill each other, Zhang Tie was pricked. Watching Steward Li's look before his death, Zhang Tie suddenly thought of a question — — there's always an ugly side in human nature. Will I suffer such a betrayal because of others' greed?
This question made Zhang Tie hesitant for a short while. However, closely after that, Zhang Tie shook his head and forgot about this question. As it was in the holy war, he didn't need to worry about it groundless.
Although this Steward Li was as weak as an ant in Zhang Tie's eyes, he had a terrifying mind and means.
Zhang Tie indeed didn't read many books; neither did he know much about medicament and pills. Therefore, until now, if Steward Li didn't explain it to him, Zhang Tie would not know that taking potassium iodate for a long time could lead to a loss of ejaculation; neither did he know that potassium iodate had been changed into potassium iodate by demons and Three-eye Association. Such knowledge was too obscure for most people. Even though Zhang Tie was a knight, he didn't know all the details about the knowledge and history before the Catastrophe.
Zhang Tie only knew that when he was in Blackhot City, as Blackhot City was short of iodine, he always bought daily necessities, rice, oil and salt for his family. According to his mom, two bags of salt would be added with iodine each year. Additionally, the iodine was added with potassium iodate instead of potassium iodate. Even though it was salt with potassium iodate, his mom who was in charge of the kitchen and the meals of the family still didn't allow his family members to eat it often.
However, this thing was not important. After thinking about it for a short while, Zhang Tie had forgotten about it. It was very simple for Zhang Tie to know whether potassium iodate was harmful to humans or how demons and Three-eye Association changed Hua's salt before the Catastrophe. There was a Human Pharmacists Guild in the trouble-reappearance situation of Xuanyuan Hill. There must be the most authoritative and professional documents and research materials on this aspect in the database of Human Pharmacists Guild. If Zhang Tie wanted to know these contents, he only needed to visit the trouble-reappearance situation. Alternatively, he could directly ask his elder brother Zhang Yang. As a pharmacist, Zhang Yang's knowledge on this aspect was much greater than that of Steward Li.
However, it was unnecessary!
"No matter how many books you read, if you don't take the right path, what's the use?" Zhang Tie let out a sigh as he lowered his body and took out the gold checks from the steward.
These people were guilty and deserved to die; however, their money was innocent. Zhang Tie didn't want to waste it. There were only over 600,000 gold coins on the steward, which was nothing for Zhang Tie today. However, in the eyes of commoners, over 600,000 gold coins was already an astronomical figure, which was enough for a lot of people to rack their brains and do a lot of inhumane things. Numerous refugees were escaping to the inland of Peacewest Military Region. Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory had started to accept refugees from Peacewest Military Region one after another. This amount of money was enough to build a town and allow 50,000-60,000 refugees to have a new home and start a new life.
Of course, Zhang Tie was willing to help 50,000 refugees settle down by bending down. Zhang Tie was not that lofty. As a person who grew up in the Civilian Area and didn't even want to drink rice brew which cost a few copper coins per bowl, Zhang Tie knew the power of money in dangerous and chaotic times.
After throwing those gold checks into Castle of Black Iron, Zhang Tie didn't stay here anymore; instead, he strode towards the depth of the maple woods. This encounter was just an ugly performance which exposed the dark side of human nature that Zhang Tie had seen in Helan Mountain Range over the past 2 months.
Of course, Zhang Tie didn't come here for this performance.
Everything was too coincidental. This maple woods was definitely not like what those dead people saw. There were only maple syrup for them to taste. This maple woods was full of dangers. It could be said to be the most dangerous place in Helan Mountain Range. Those people who had hundreds of thousands of gold coins in their eyes could never understand it … At this moment, besides knight scouts like Zhang Tie, there were a lot of human fighters in Helan Mountain Range.
At this moment, besides knight scouts like Zhang Tie, there were a lot of human fighters in Helan Mountain Range. These human fighters were the observation posts and field scouts of Black Armor Army. Their mission was similar to that of Zhang Tie. They were also the eyes and ears of Blackwater Base on the ground of Helan Mountain Range. Because there were so many observation posts and field scouts here, the information that they sent back to Blackwater Base could be complementary to the information that Zhang Tie sent back to Blackwater Base. Sometimes, when these observation posts and field scouts found the traces of local knights, they could send a warning back to Blackwater Base through Blackwater Base. Therefore, these observation posts and field scouts were indispensable forces in Helan Mountain Range. In the holy war, there were not only knights fighting on the battlefield.
Two days ago, Zhang Tie received the remote-sensing communication from Blackwater Base, which told Zhang Tie that a lot of human observation posts and field scouts had been missing in Helan Mountain Range between Yunze Prefecture of Huanzhou Province and Jishi Prefecture of Wuzhou Province in the past two weeks. The day before yesterday, even one of the 20 earth knight scouts in Youzhou Province who was dispatched by Blackwater Base to patrol and snipe demons in this region had disappeared.
As a knight scout, even if Zhang Tie didn't find anything, he should send a message back to Blackwater Base as one of his duties to indicate that he was still alive and on duty. This was also an early warning means for knight scouts. If an earth knight lost contact with Blackwater Base for 2 days without any reason, it probably meant that the earth knight had been killed.
As the situation in this region in Helan Mountain Range was not good; additionally, Zhang Tie's patrol region was adjacent to this region. Therefore, Blackwater Base directly sent an order for Zhang Tie to check the problem in this region.
If it was other knights, it would take them at least 10 days to locate a problem in such a mountainous area which covered over 700,000 square miles. After receiving the task, Zhang Tie spent 2 days to locate this mountainous area which covered over 20,000 square miles. Finally, he confirmed that the problem might be in or near this vast maple woods.
Zhang Tie walked in the maple woods leisurely. Even though he stepped on the leaves, he didn't make any sound. The dew in the bushes and grasses couldn't even touch Zhang Tie's clothes as if it was isolated by a bizarre strength. Zhang Tie was like an invisible shadow in the woods.
Only after walking in the maple woods for a few minutes, Zhang Tie had found something when he was less than 300 m away from the place where Steward Li's team murdered people.
On the trunk of a tall sugar maple, Zhang Tie saw a 20 cm long, pinky finger-thick metal pipe. The middle of the metal pipe had been frozen by the solidified syrup.
Zhang Tie pulled the broken metal pipe out of the trunk. The black metal pipe was a bit sharp at one end. After taking a closer look at it, Zhang Tie immediately recognized that it was a multi-purpose tool carried by field scouts in Taixia Country. This item could be used to release blow needles, which could kill a defenseless target or wild prey within 50 m. This item could also rapidly bleed when stabbing people. As a result, the wound could hardly be healed. Of course, this metal pipe could also be directly inserted into the trunk so that the user could collect and suck the syrup of the sugar maple conveniently.
This was something that a field scout would never casually leave behind. Judging from the situation at the scene, this pipe had been stuck in the tree for a few days.
Zhang Tie looked at the ground. With his knight's consciousness, he could still find some strange traces on the ground. After walking along the traces for less than 10 m, Zhang Tie had caught sight of a soldier's field camouflage being torn with blood stains in the grasses...
After picking up that small piece of camouflage, Zhang Tie raised his head and looked at the sky. Closely after that, he made a bizarre hand gesture. Closely after that, a woodpecker and four chickadees flew towards him from hundreds of meters away. After flying around Zhang Tie for a short while, the woodpecker and the three chickadees flew away once again. However, the last chickadee stayed on Zhang Tie's palm where he was holding that small piece of camouflage. After jumping for a short while, it nodded and flew towards the other direction of the maple woods …
Zhang Tie was right behind that chickadee... (To be continued.)
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