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Song Jue had some doubts on his face.
She doesn't quite understand this.
In Xuanjie, she is a disciple of a noble family, as long as she doesn't enter the secret realm to fight with others, basically as long as she declares her name, most things can be easily smoothed out.And after entering the Ten Thousand Realms, because of the mission, she usually has a cover-up identity. All she needs to do is to make this identity more prestigious and easier to act, so naturally there will be no concept of multiple identities. .
But Su Anran doesn't think so.
"I didn't fight the shepherd before. We pretended to be brothers and sisters. Based on your relationship with Cheng Zhong, you can naturally go to Junwu Mountain to visit. But now, not only have we fought the shepherd, but I also killed the shepherd to save the world. With a superficial understanding of power, how do you think they will believe it? Therefore, we naturally need a second layer of identity as a cover, at least not to make the humans here hostile."
"Then what about the third-tier identity?" Song Jue asked again.
"This identity is what we need to use when we go to the two sacred places of inheritance, Wushan and Gaoyuanshan." Su Anran said, "I recognized the real body of the shepherd, and Cheng Zhong will definitely pass this on to him. Junwu Mountain, as long as we go to Junwu Mountain, we will definitely attract the attention of others, and I am afraid that we will even have to deal with the powerhouses in this world, so we must have an identity that can suppress them."
Song Jue nodded clearly, and said, "Then how should we make identity arrangements?"
"The second level of identity, you are my bodyguard, responsible for my safety." Su Anran's eyes fell on Song Jue's sword, "Wait a minute, you are both my shield and my sword If you declare to the outside world, you say you are a samurai."
"Samurai..." Song Jue silently read the word again. Although she didn't understand it very well, she trusted Su Anran, so she nodded in response, "Then what about the third floor?"
"We are worshipers from the Twin Shrine, you are the witch, and I am your shadow guard."
"The other way around?" Song Jue blinked with a confused look on his face.
"Yes." Su Anran nodded.
He was actually a little helpless in his heart.
In the Daoguo Shrine, the status of priests has plummeted since Yinyang Dao was demoted, and was gradually replaced by witches. Of course, Su Anran prefers to understand that the people there are more "Eromang", so they are desperate The status of the witch was elevated, which led to the increasing status of the witch, and finally became the human spokesperson for the gods enshrined in the shrine-but in fact, before the yin and yang way was shattered, the status of the witch was actually not low. One of the priesthood.
The so-called three major clergy systems, that is, the system of priests, priestesses, and monks. Among them, priests can be male or female, and priestesses and monks can only be women and men respectively.
If Su Anran's guess is correct, then the period that the traverser who left the inheritance in this world traveled through should be the period when the priest system declined. The setting, combined with Song Jue's knowledge of yin and yang spells, it is completely reasonable to give her a layer of skin as a great witch.
The only pity is that she doesn't know naginata, otherwise she can pretend to be more similar-naginata is a martial art that has been passed down as a school of female swordsmanship since the Edo period of the island country, and it was also a great one in that era. One of the compulsory courses for most shrine maidens.
Even in modern times, some relatively formal large shrines still retain this compulsory course, but the purpose of it is no longer for combat, but as a dance performance.It is similar to Taijiquan and Guoshu of the Celestial Dynasty.
but……
Su Anran glanced at Song Jue's Taidao again, and it could be regarded as barely having a passable identity.
……
And almost when Su Anran and Song Jue started to make confessions, Cheng Zhong also let Xinniao out.
"What you said is true?" The head of Hailong Village, a rather burly bald man, asked in a deep voice, "Did the two of them really kill the shepherd?"
"Yes." Cheng Zhong nodded, "I saw it with my own eyes... I don't know the specific situation, but I believe that the adults at the Holy Land of Junwu Mountain will definitely be able to investigate clearly. I just need to report what I saw and heard truthfully. Just report it to them."
"But they..." The bald man touched his head, "Their strength..."
"Don't underestimate them." Cheng Zhong shook his head. At this time, his face did not have the loyal look shown before, "Although they restrained the shepherd because of their martial arts, the methods Song Jue showed before, It's definitely not an ordinary martial art, but it's a bit like those masters on Gao Yuanshan."
"Gaoyuan Mountain..." The bald man's expression changed when the name was mentioned, "Are you sure?"
Cheng Zhong nodded: "I even think that the real purpose of their trip is not Junwu Mountain, but Gaoyuan Mountain!"
"If that's the case...could it be..."
"Silence!" Cheng Zhong shouted hastily, "Don't forget what the masters said, that name cannot be mentioned!"
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"You two, are you still used to living here?"
"It's okay." Su Anran smiled, "It's much better than the place we lived in earlier."
"That's fine, that's fine."
A burly young bald man couldn't help showing a simple and honest smile on his face.
Su Anran and Song Jue also smiled back.
The picture looks quite harmonious.
But in fact, Su Anran and Song Jue have already passed the period of judging each other's emotions by the expressions on each other's faces - the old foxes in the mysterious world have caught a lot, if they just judge each other simply by their expressions His true thoughts have long been eaten until there are not even bones left.
This is the second day that Su Anran and Song Jue came to Hailong Village.
The burly bald man in front of him is the village chief of Hailong Village.
Because of the particularity of the demon world, the leader of the gathering place here is not an ancestral system, but the capable ones.
Zhang Hai is the No.13 head of Hailong Village. His great-grandfather and father were also the head of Hailong Village. Strictly speaking, he is still a standard yamen.
It's just that there are not many such yamen identities in Hailong Village. Apart from Zhang Hai's Zhang family, there are Xu family, Zeng family, Zhao family, etc., all of which have ancestors who once served as the head of Hailong village.It's just that as time passed, these families had their ups and downs, but eventually they gradually developed into a large-scale family, which naturally made Hailong Village prosperous and powerful.
In the Hailong Shrine of Hailong Village, there are four treasure halls, which respectively enshrine the famous utensils used by the ancestors of the Zhang family, Xu family, Zeng family, and Zhao family—the demon world, and there are only nine magic weapons in total. This naturally leads to the preciousness of famous weapons, so usually in some big families, famous weapons are like magical weapons to suppress the luck of a family, and cannot be used easily.
"By the way, why didn't you see Brother Cheng?"
"He is still waiting for a reply in Xinfang." Zhang Hai said with a smile.
"I see." Su Anran nodded, and did not continue to ask this question.
Although he didn't know why he had to wait in Xinfang for a reply after he sent the letter, but he knew that Zhang Hai had set a trap here and was planning to lure himself to inquire about related questions, so Su Anran would naturally not do what the other party wanted.
Seeing that Su Anran didn't seem to intend to ask more questions, Zhang Hai's face was as calm as before, but there was still a trace of regret in his eyes.
Song Jue, who was on the side, was watching the whole process, and only when Zhang Hai shifted the topic to her, she would answer a few words, but the topic would end soon, and did not give the other party a chance to communicate in depth—this is true Quite in line with Song Jue's identity and persona at this time: as a younger sister, in the presence of her elder brother, it is natural for her not to speak too much; even if her second identity is exposed, as a warrior, she will naturally In the same way, in the third layer of identity, she is the great priestess of the shrine, so naturally she is not qualified to bother the noble her with such entertainment and inquiries, or at least Zhang Hai's identity is not qualified and She talks on an equal footing.
The persona designed by Su Anran for Song Jue was not something that came up out of nowhere, but a design that completely complied with Song Jue's personality characteristics, and tried to make no one suspicious no matter what level of identity was exposed .
But in this way, the atmosphere is naturally quite awkward.
So Zhang Hai didn't stay for too long, and after chatting with each other for a while, he chose to leave.
As the temporary owner of this temporary residence, Su Anran got up to see them off, and after the two parties bid farewell at the door, Su Anran turned around and returned quickly.
However, when both sides turned their backs to each other at the same time, no matter whether it was Zhang Hai or Su Anran, their expressions instantly became gloomy.
"He's testing us." Back in the room, Song Jue spoke first, "I guess Cheng Zhong didn't come out to see us this time, so he should be suspicious of us."
"It's normal." Su Anran nodded, "But I'm also to blame for being careless. I didn't pay much attention to Cheng Zhong's performance at Tianyuan Shrine before. It turns out that guy has been acting since then."
Su Anran hadn't reacted before, but after seeing Zhang Hai's performance, he suddenly came to his senses.
The information transmission of Xinniao is naturally not slow. After all, it is the only means of communication in this world, especially Xinniao has a certain blood of demons, which also allows Xinniao to continue on its way at night, so that it will not be like humans. generally have to seek shelter.
But Cheng Zhong is already the commander of the army, if he rushes desperately, except that he has to find a shelter to rest at night, his speed may not be much slower than Xinniao.
According to Su Anran's estimation, it is probably the time difference between Xinniao and Xinniao.
In this way, after Cheng Zhong rushed to Hailong Village to pass the news to Zhang Hai, they should continue their journey instead of staying here to delay time.
Even to the extreme, Cheng Zhong could take them to Chunfeng Village according to the original plan, and then tell the owner of Chunfeng Village about the shepherd's follow-up and attack, and he would send people to Hailong Village, and then Cheng Zhong would continue to take Su An Ran and Song Jue went forward together.In this way, even when he and others arrived at Junwu Mountain, he could just join the Junwu Mountain meeting - Su Anran couldn't believe that the Junwu Mountain Society didn't even have a discussion meeting for such a big event.
However, Cheng Zhong did not choose this approach.
It's a waste of time here in Hailong Village.
Both Su Anran and Song Jue are not stupid, it's okay if they didn't pay attention before, but now they are suspicious, how can they not find the inconsistency.
"What should I do?" Song Jue asked.
Su Anran didn't reply immediately.
He frowned thoughtfully.
"If we don't follow the original plan, let's have a showdown with Cheng Zhong."
"Showdown?" Song Jue was a little surprised.
Originally, Su Anran's previous plan was to inquire about the location of Junwu Mountain and Gaoyuan Mountain here in Hailong Village, and if Cheng Zhong didn't want to go with them, they would leave Cheng Zhong and go on their own.Although without Cheng Zhong as a guide, it might be difficult for them to comprehend the inherited knowledge of Junwu Mountain, but Su Anran believes that there will be a way after all, and if it is not possible, "borrowing" is also possible.
But now that Cheng Zhong has other plans, it is naturally impossible for Su Anran to continue to act according to the original plan.
He's not one to sit still.
Although Su Anran was quite happy to be a moth in the presence of Tai Yigu and his senior sisters, but now that he is the person in charge, he should naturally take responsibility.What's more, in this action, he also has his own purpose, so helping Song Jue solve the problem of the follow-up inheritance of the knife drawing technique is actually tantamount to helping himself.
This point, Su Anran is still clear.
"Remember our second layer identity?"
Song Jue nodded: "I am your warrior, you are the priest."
"Remember, we are Izumo messengers." After saying that, Su Anran got up and walked towards the door.
Although Song Jue was a little dazed, she still followed Su Anran closely.
Compared with Linshanzhuang, Hailong Village is indeed much larger in scale. It is estimated that there should be about [-] to [-] households, of which the four major families account for about [-] households-the human race in this world Development is somewhat equivalent to the war-torn old days, they all encourage more children and more breeding. After all, there is no shortage of meat, but what is really lacking is the harvest of five grains such as fruits, vegetables, and rice.
Therefore, this can easily lead to nutritional imbalances in people in this world.
It is true that people who practice martial arts need a lot of meat, but practicing martial arts is not about cultivating immortals - in the mysterious world, Su Anran can even drink pills to supplement the body's various nutrients, but the world of monsters does not have the concept of pills .As a result, it naturally made it difficult for the villages in the demon world to expand, because they were restricted by rice grains, and on the other hand, it was caused by nutritional imbalances: this problem was the most serious.
The nutrition cannot be balanced, and the demon hunters in this world will have many hidden diseases that they cannot understand in the process of continuous cultivation. In addition, they need to constantly overdraw their vitality when fighting with monsters, so demon hunters are often quite short-lived Yes, very few people can live past the age of 50, unless they are relegated to the second line and no longer need to shoot.
Su Anran was walking on the road of Hailong Village, watching all the way, he found that there was no one over 50 years old in the village.
Basically, they are young adults in their 30s and 40s, and those over [-] are quite rare.
But different from the age group, almost all the villagers in Hailong Village wear weapons, and their bodies are quite vigorous-everyone here has the strength of the leader of the group, and even the leader has a second or third rank. Ten, this scale can be said to be more than ten times that of Linshanzhuang.
Song Jue's face looked a little ugly.
Because she has probably already guessed the reason.
Su Anran also felt that this kind of practice was a bit hurtful and too cruel, but he still didn't say anything more. After all, he didn't plan to develop in this world, so naturally he didn't have the right to say anything.
After asking all the way, the two soon came to the Xinfang that Zhang Hai mentioned before.
Cheng Zhong and Zhang Hai were indeed here.
Besides these two people, there are six other people in Xinfang, four of them are the same strength as Zhang Hai and Cheng Zhong. Stronger and younger—Chen Jing may have broken through to the limit of being a captain, but if these two have enough opportunities, they may try to hit the realm of generals.
In the history of Hailong Village, there has been more than one general.
The current head of Hailong Village is only half a step away from the general, which is why he can be the head of Hailong Village. Can you overwhelm others?
"Brother Su, Miss Song, why are you here?" Cheng Zhong looked surprised when he saw Su Anran and Song Jue, obviously he didn't expect these two people to come here just like that.
"Not much gossip, I just want to ask Brother Cheng, when do you plan to leave again?" Su Anran didn't bother to be polite to these people, and said straight to the point.
Hearing Su Anran's words, the others were a little stunned for a moment, obviously they didn't expect Su Anran to say that.
This already seemed quite impolite.
"Hehe, Brother Su." Seeing that the others were silent, Zhang Hai came out to smooth things over with a smile, "We have sent a letter to Junwushan. According to the regulations, we must wait here for Junwushan's reply and arrangements. So... Mr. Cheng can't leave for the time being."
Cheng Zhong, who has been recognized by Lei Dao, as long as he does not fall, he will definitely be the pillar of strength in the future, so it is not an exaggeration for Zhang Hai to call him Mr. in advance.In the same way, he called Su Anran "little brother" with some respect, but whether this respect is superficial or sincere, only he himself knows.
"That's good." Su Anran nodded, "Show me a direction, and my sister and I will go there by ourselves."
"Uh……"
The smiling Zhang Hai was immediately choked up.
The subtext in his words just now is naturally mainly to appease Su Anran, and wants him to stay here for a few more days, so the politeness in his tone is also for the sake of looking good for each other.But at this moment, Su Anran completely showed her dominance to the fullest, without any scruples about affection, so naturally Zhang Hai's polite words became a kind of humiliation, which was deliberately embarrassing.
Reminiscent of Zhang Hai's identity as the head of Hailong Village, he is now ashamed, and he is not alone, nor is it the Zhang family.
In an instant, the expressions of the other people in Xinfang became ugly.
Among them was someone who stood in front of Su Anran with one step forward.
The faces of Cheng Zhong and Zhang Hai changed drastically in an instant.
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The atmosphere in Xinfang suddenly became tense.
Others didn't know the details of Su Anran and Song Jue, but Cheng Zhong knew it all, and Zhang Hai, who had heard Cheng Zhong's description, also knew some secrets.
With the background strength of their Hailong Village, they are naturally not afraid of the shepherds. Even if they encounter a shepherd's attack, they will be able to stop them. The level is also the level corresponding to the general.
But you must know that this is based on the entire village of "Hailong Village" as a unit, rather than relying solely on individual strength.
But Su Anran and Song Jue?
Just killed all the shepherds in the [pasture]—no tricks, just killed the shepherds head-on.
Zhang Hai thinks he can't do it, even if he takes the whole Hailong Village, he can't do it!