Zhang Zheng took the initiative to pick up the bead, and when she held it in her hand, she was surprised to realize that the bead had grown a little bigger. It was almost half the size of a fist.

Forget it, after all, this thing doesn't belong to you anymore, so why do you care about it?

With this in mind, Zhang Zheng handed the beads to Lin Yihan without any hesitation, "My storage bag is ruined. Please trouble Brother Lin to hand over the beads to the sect."

Lin Yihan carefully observed her expression, and without any intention of being forced, he took it and put the void ring into it.

"You do have a heart."

Qin Shuangyan glanced at Zhang Zheng with an inexplicable expression, her tone of voice was either mocking or appreciative.

Zhang Zheng grinned at her shyly and did not reply, pretending to accept her compliments calmly.

Seeing that the ownership of the treasure had been settled, Zhang Xiaoliang put away a trace of greed in his heart and asked: "This place has become a dead place, and there is no trace of demonic cultivators' activities. What's next?"

When the admiring senior brother asked, Xiao Xiaoning was the first to respond, "Since you have no intention of doing this, why not return to the sect?"

The remaining people looked at each other. There was no guarantee that the strange phenomenon here would not be discovered by other monks. Following the current trend, they might think of the existence of the magic weapon of life.

In this case, it would be better to return to the clan as soon as possible.

All of Zhang Zheng's magic weapons were destroyed in the black smoke, including the newly purchased flying magic weapon.

Therefore, before leaving, she couldn't keep up with the others.

Several people had sacrificed their magic weapons and whizzed away. No one noticed her embarrassment. On the contrary, Qin Lingzhi, who had no sense of presence, noticed her.

Qin Lingzhi, who was always taciturn, floated in front of her on a gourd and said simply: "Come up here and I'll take you."

Zhang Zheng glanced at her in astonishment and hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Thank you, senior sister, but I am still looking for a child. I am entrusted by a relative and cannot refuse. I am sorry to let down senior sister's kindness."

Hearing this, Qin Lingzhi no longer pressed for help. It was unexpected that she could help her with words.

Perhaps it was because she had always been ignored by her family when she was young, so when she saw her alone, she suddenly felt pity in her heart and took this action.

The yellow stone gourd wandered away towards the sky, and there was no trace of it anymore. Only then did Zhang Zheng look back.

She didn't lie to Qin Lingzhi, she really wanted to find a child here.

Maybe she had already gone to other places, or she didn't know where she died. Since she agreed, she at least had to take action.

This search lasted for a month. Zhang Zheng searched the town for thousands of miles but found no one. Now this Lingshui City was the last town. If no one could be found here, she would have no choice but to leave.

"Excuse me, sir, have you seen a little girl in the past few months? She must have wandered here alone."

The man selling candied haws on a stick waved his hands impatiently, "I've never seen this before. There are so many girls, who pays attention to these!"

A woman was buying candied haws for her noisy son. When she heard Zhang Zheng's question, she couldn't help but look at her sideways for a while.

She was about 20 years old, and her clothes with wide sleeves were clean and tidy. She didn't look like a bad person. The woman made a few remarks: "How old is the girl? Does she have any characteristics, such as the clothes and shoes she wears? Where can you find out by asking like this?"

Zhang Zheng was stunned when she was asked. She didn't know this, so she had to make up an excuse and said: "It's my aunt's child. My aunt and uncle died unexpectedly a month ago. I learned the news and rushed here from outside. The child

But it’s gone.”

She said with a sad face, "I have been wandering around with my parents since I was a child and have little contact with my uncle's family. This time I accidentally learned about it from a fellow villager. I wanted to take my niece home, but I didn't expect that she was missing. I didn't know her.

It’s not clear what kind of clothes he was wearing when he left, and his age.”

It didn't look like she was faking it. The woman herself had children, so she felt some sympathy for her plight.

"The world has been bad these past two years, and there have been more people fleeing. You might as well go to the refugee city to look for them."

"Thank you, sister, but where is this refugee city?"

"It's not far away. It's right in the city. You go into the alley on the right and you'll be there in a quarter of an hour's walk."

Following the direction pointed by the woman, Zhang Zheng quickly found the refugee city.

Dirty, messy, poor...

Zhang Zheng felt familiar at first sight. She had also lived in such a terrible place about twenty years ago. The stench of people and food waste... stimulated the spirit and made people sick.

Simple sheds were erected haphazardly on the ground, their thin roofs overwhelmed by the weight, as if the rain would collapse even if it rained heavily.

It was empty on all sides, with a group of refugees in ragged clothes and sallow faces crowded in. Their eyes were lifeless and empty, as if there was only a shell left.

City guards wearing helmets and armor stand solemnly and upright on duty here to prevent refugees from flowing into the city and disrupting order.

With swords and halberds crossed in front of Zhang Zheng, the city guard asked: "Who are you? Why are you here?"

"I'm here to look for my niece. She got separated some time ago. Please be kind and accommodating to me."

The city guard looked her over. She was neatly dressed and had a good face. He said, "Please show me the household ID."

The customs and regulations were strict. In order to avoid fugitives and refugees fleeing in all directions, all provinces and cities implemented the household ultimatum system.

Zhang Zheng took out the Zhangshui Prefecture Household Certificate that he had copied in advance and handed it to the city guards.

After checking her identity, the city guards lowered their guard and stopped stopping her. Seeing that she was a weakling, they reminded her kindly, "Go in and be careful. There are many vicious refugees inside. Come out early."

Thanking the city guards for their kindness, Zhang Zheng headed straight into the refugee area, where her spiritual sense detected children and women gathering there.

"Jiujiu, are you there? Your grandma asked me to come find you."

Her call did not elicit any response. Most people only looked up at her and then lowered their eyelids. They lay or sat down, as if they regarded the dirty and smelly ground beneath them as the coffin of their final death.

The atmosphere of oppressive despair made this space dull and difficult to breathe.

There was still no one, and Zhang Zheng was not surprised when he realized this. After all, if a little girl disappeared in a land where demon cultivators were raging, it was most likely that she died a violent death.

She just felt a little uncomfortable, and it felt like there was a huge stone pressing on her heart.

The dying screams and groans of the people in the town, the dead and depressed faces in the refugee area, and the missing girl...

Reason told her that it was not her fault, that it was not her fault that the refugee's body was exposed in the road, and that it was not her who caused the girl's disappearance.

Even for the people who died tragically in the town, it was not her subjective intention. She was just a butterfly flapping its wings, unintentionally hastening their death.

But reason could not completely control her thoughts, and her emotional emotions were like waves, jumping up and down without stopping.

In a trance, a vague connection emerged in her mind: why did she happen to join this team, why did this team happen to be ambushed by a demon cultivator, and why did Cao Ran and the formation master unanimously deal with me, who is not a very advanced person?

The monk?

Could all this be premeditated? It was aimed at her.

The scene during the entrance trial appeared before our eyes, the demonic cultivator's eyes were full of promise, and he looked determined to win. Could this be a trap planned by them? In order to get what they were looking for from her.

Zhang Zheng didn't know if her guess was correct, or if it was all just a coincidence. Her guesses were all random thoughts.

Sighing, since she didn't find anyone, she should return to the sect as soon as possible.

Just as he was about to turn around and leave, a boy squeezed out from the crowd. He was dirty and so thin that the spine of his back protruded into a frightening curve.

He stumbled up to Zhang Zheng, his eagerly stretched out little hand stopped in the air, paused, and finally retracted it and hid it behind his back.

Unexpectedly, his eyes were as clear as stars, shining with stubborn light.

"If you are looking for Jiujiu from Li Sijia Town, I can take you there, but you have to take me with you."


Chapter completed!