I opened the window of my room and looked at it, and it was dark.

The night has passed.

......

Ding Hao finished washing up and walked out of the room, Gao Feng and the others had already been waiting outside, and when they saw Ding Hao coming out, they greeted respectfully, and the little girl Xue'er washed away the mud stains on her face, revealing a fair and delicate little face, as if she had changed someone, and greeted Ding Hao loudly.

The group had breakfast at the inn and began to set foot on the journey to [Valley Village].

Before leaving [Taiping City], Ding Hao bought a lot of things, most of which were armor, weapons and food, and hired a big carriage to completely pull it out.

The sun was red, and there were still fine snowflakes floating in the sky, and the group walked out of the north gate of [Taiping City].

......

Valley Village.

Like many small-scale ethnic villages, Gudi Village is not large, covering less than 60 acres of land.

The village is located between a hill, backed by the Snow Dragon Mountain, the mountain is a year-round snow glacier, in front of the village is a grassland and shrubs that have been covered with ice and snow, a deep stream of thousands of meters deep crypt, as if it was a crack cut by a sword of some ancient power, the wind wails every day, and the snow and fog are filled.

The whole village is built on the mountain, and the fall shows a long and narrow shape in the east-west direction.

A main street runs from the east end of the village to the west end of the village, flanked by houses made of rock and ice.

The periphery of the village is made of rocks, giant trees and ice to build a wall more than 50 meters high, all kinds of thorns are frozen in the ice, from a distance it looks like a white hedgehog that is clustered up, the ice wall glistens in the sun, it looks majestic, can be used to resist the invasion of some low-level demons.

With the arrival of a long winter, both humans and demons are facing a crisis of food shortage.

At this time of year, the conflict between the human race and the demons in the land of Selangor will intensify, and there will be bloodshed almost every day, and the two sides have to fight with swords for the continuation and survival of the race.

When the sun first rose, Gao Lin, who was already seventy and three this year, as the longest man in the village and the only elder here, took some armed young men to climb the arrow tower on the south side of the ice crystal siege, and looked down at the south while being on guard.

Today, four or five days have passed since the date when the village chief Gao Feng and several young and middle-aged people in the village went to [Taiping City] to hire guardian warriors, and according to the previous agreement, yesterday should be the day when Gao Feng and the others will return.

"The demons in the Snow Dragon Mountain are getting more and more irritable, I'm afraid that it will soon spread to this area, I hope the village chief will return smoothly and hire a good guardian martial artist, otherwise it will ......"

Gao Lin didn't dare to think badly.

If there were no guardians, maybe this winter would be the end of Valley Village.

One after another, many villagers stood on the high wall, looking at the mountain road in the south with expectant eyes.

Time passed slowly in such an anxious waiting.

Gradually, as the sun reached noon, there was still not the slightest figure in sight on the only road leading to the outside world in the distance.

"Elder, why haven't they come back yet, village chief?" A young man who looked to be eighteen or nineteen years old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, was quite heroic, and he was really impatient to wait, holding a spear with an iron tip, and couldn't help but speak: "It can't be that you encountered a demon on the road......

"Gao Jian, don't talk nonsense. Gao Lin raised his eyebrows and interrupted the bastard's words.

Gao Jian opened his mouth, but he didn't dare to talk back.

"Look, there's movement in the distance...... someone shouted in surprise.

Everyone suddenly looked towards the mountain road to the south, only to see that in the distance, where the white sky and the ground meet, more than a dozen black dots faintly appeared, and then the dots became clearer and clearer, not demons or other animals, but figures moving at high speed.

"Is it the village chief, are they back?" Gao Lin was overjoyed, but in the next moment, the joy on this old face covered with ravine-like wrinkles instantly froze and turned into horror.

"Quick, immediately arm, the arrow tower is ready, it is the people of [Blood Dragon Village]......"

A long white flag suddenly fluttered on the mountain road in the distance, and the flag depicted a blood-colored dragon with teeth and claws, which was pulled by the north wind and hunted, as if it had come to life, swimming in the sky, full of bloody aura.

The banner was held in the hands of a knight in black iron and light armor.

Behind this burly knight, a cavalry team of more than thirty people roared over, as if a black evil wind was blowing between the white sky and the earth, the speed was extremely fast, and in the sound of thunderous horses' hooves, this team of knights came to the ice crystal wall of [Valley Village] in the blink of an eye.

The fierceness of these knights can be seen even more at close range.

The black armor on each of them was stained with blood, all of them were black long-haired horses, and there were several heads hanging under the horse's head, which had been frozen, but the frightened and angry expression on the face of the head was still clearly recognizable, obviously having just been killed.

These guys are like an army of Grim Reaper who have come out of hell.

The knight's iron armor was silent and solemn with frozen red blood and silver-white ice, and the white gas from his mouth was diffused, like a ghost mist, and from time to time a horse snorted sound, making the atmosphere even more terrifying, filled with an indescribable murderous aura.

Above the city walls, the people of Valle Village were almost stunned.

Most of them were so frightened that they couldn't even say a word, and some were even so frightened that they trembled, and their hands holding their spears began to tremble, their faces turned pale, and their eyes were full of despair.

Almost everyone has heard all kinds of rumors about [Blood Dragon Village].

This group of the largest mountain bandits within a radius of 500 miles, notoriously bloodthirsty and ruthless, came to take the roaring like the wind, crisscrossing the area of Xuelong Mountain, no one dared to provoke, robbing caravans, looting villages, robbing people and money, all evil, everywhere they passed, the slightest resistance, they would be burned and killed, and the chickens and dogs were not left.

However, this group of ferocious bandits also knows that they can't exhaust their fish, and as long as they express their obedience to the [Blood Dragon Village] within a radius of 100 miles, they will collect [Blessing Gold] once a year and four seasons, and they will no longer loot, so many similar villages, including [Valley Village], can survive.

Under the city.

The first black-armored knight, the most burly, looks at least two meters five tall, as if it is an iron tower, sitting on top of an equally huge and somewhat exaggerated half-demon horse [Black Wind Beast], bald head, face and scalp are printed with cyan beast pattern thorn tattoos, even more terrifying,

The tattooed bald head had a pair of eyes squinting slightly, and there was a faint trace of green flickering in the depths of the pupils, which was cold as if it were not like human eyes.