Cold, sticky...

Du Kang suddenly opened his eyes!

He was sitting in a patch of mud with his back against a poplar tree.

The cold rain had soaked the leather armor on his body, and he was still holding a broken long knife in his hand.

Looking around, this is a mountain road in the forest.

There are dense woods on both sides of the road, and there are broken gun barrels, scattered swords, and corpses and severed limbs on the mountain road.

"Where is this? Why am I here?"

With this thought, a flood of memories came to Du Kang.

After a while.

"Before time travel, I had no car or house, and after time travel, I was still poor and had only my life left. Wasn't this time travel in vain?"

Du Kang rubbed his temples to relieve the severe pain caused by the memory shock, and he understood his situation.

He traveled through time and space into a troubled world where demons were rampant and human lives were insignificant.

This young man is also named Du Kang, and he is a swordsman of the Blood Clothes Society.

This time the gang accepted a deal to kill a wolf demon.

After the demon-slaying team left the city, everyone rode on big horses and sang songs. Only ten miles away from the city, they were attacked by a wolf demon.

A ten-foot-long green wolf demon sprang out of the woods on the roadside, catching everyone off guard.

The last thing the original body saw before his death was the wolf demon's glowing green eyes and the cold light flashing across his chest from the wolf's claws.

Thinking of this, Du Kang subconsciously touched his chest.

There was a long gash in the leather armor on his chest, and blood could still be seen faintly in the damaged area of ​​the leather armor, but his smooth and strong chest was unscathed.

"The wound has recovered inexplicably. Is it a time-travel benefit or a golden finger? Having a golden finger during time-travel seems to be a standard feature for the protagonist."

Du Kang stroked his chest. The wounds in his memory had healed, but there seemed to be a trace of phantom pain remaining.

"Goldfinger?"

"Grandpa?"

"System dad?"

It was peaceful, there was no blue panel in front of my eyes, and there was no sweet voice of the young lady in my ears.

"Don't I have a golden finger?"

"Impossible, absolutely impossible."

"I must be opening it the wrong way."

Du Kang subconsciously denied this possibility. Travelers without golden fingers would be too miserable.

He groped around on his body again, but found no strange tattoos or ancient artifacts.

"Why!"

After a while, Du Kang sighed, seeming to have accepted the fact that he did not have a golden finger, and stood up holding on to the poplar tree.

"You should always think of the good in everything. At least I, Du Kang, have lived my second life now."

"Now that the wolf demon has left, the top priority is to leave here as soon as possible and return to the county. The smell of blood may attract other beasts or monsters, and it is too dangerous to stay here."

The sky was dark and light rain was falling.

Looking around, most of the corpses at the scene had been disemboweled, and the smell of blood and internal organs mixed into a strange smell.

The rain turned this section of the mountain road into a quagmire. Du Kang waded through the mud one step at a time to reach the employer of this mission.

The employer's name is Hong Sihai, the owner of a restaurant in the county. He is tall and powerful.

He looks less like a restaurant owner and more like a knight errant.

The night before the team set off, Boss Hong invited the swordsmen to Yingchun Tower to drink 20 taels of flower wine. He treated the guests with great magnanimity.

But at this moment, he was lying in the mud, his mind was running wild, and his brain was dripping all over the ground. His ferocious expression was full of despair and pain.

Judging from his expression, he must have never expected that he would die from the wolf demon on the way before he went to Langya Mountain to kill the wolf.

From the memory of my predecessor, I know that this is a troubled time, with heroes divided, human lives are like nothing, and monsters attack people without any reason.

It seems that due to the absorption of the original owner's memory, Du Kang had no fear of the corpse. He rummaged around Hong Sihai's body for a while before finding a glass ball in a sewn-up pocket of his underwear, and then rummaged through his boots.

A small piece of sheepskin came out.

The moment his hand touched the sheepskin, a blue brilliance suddenly flashed in front of him, forming a classic Windows interface.

【Name】: Du Kang

[Life span]: 19 years 147 days/70 years

[Buried Blade Technique]: This method was created by the former Demon Forbidden Division. It uses the blood of wolf demons as ink and inscribes talismans on the blade. Then the blade is buried in the forearm without dying. The blade can be put into the body and the human blade becomes one.

, this blade will have the power to kill demons.

[If you don’t hold a sharp blade and wolf fairy blood, you cannot consume lifespan to practice]

This is... golden finger?

Du Kang hurriedly opened the sheepskin and took a look. It was densely sewn with needlework and small regular script. It was indeed the "Buried Blade Technique".

On it are written the cultivation methods and matching talisman styles, followed by a list of various medicines and various precautions needed to assist the cultivation.

In this world, humans and monsters coexist, humans live in cities, and monsters roam the wilderness.

Humans are the spirit of all things, while demons possess the essence of heaven and earth. Humans are born with wisdom higher than that of beasts, and beasts possess powerful power when they transform into demons.

If humans want to practice cultivation, they need to introduce demons into their bodies, transform themselves into demons, and possess the power of demons.

The method of cultivation is called magic, and the practitioner is called a monk, and his golden finger seems to be able to control life, practice, and conduct.

Du Kang then found six diamond blades on the horse corpse next to Hong Sihai. Holding the blades, sure enough, the content on the panel immediately changed.

[Unable to practice without wolf fairy blood]

Even decent people like Hong Sihai didn't have the blood of wolf demons. They still needed to hire swordsmen to kill the wolves, and Du Kang didn't have the financial resources or the means to buy it.

The golden finger could not be used for the time being. Du Kang thought about it for a moment and decided to return to the county seat first and then make long-term plans.

After digging out more than a dozen taels of broken silver from Hong Sihai's bag, Du Kang did not dare to waste any more time, so he just picked up a complete long knife and walked towards the county seat.

Several things on Hong Sihai's body are of great value. The bead is called the Demon Refining Bead, which can extract blood essence from monster corpses. This Demon Refining Bead alone is worth thirty taels of silver.

Although the six diamond blades add up to weigh less than three kilograms, the diamond is made by monks using gold as the main material. The weapons made of diamond are famous for their strong sharpness and can cut iron as well as mud. It is a family tradition that one sword can be used for several generations.

If it's not broken, this three-pound blade is worth at least five hundred taels of silver, and it's still worth nothing.

Spells are secretly taught by each sect, and even his own disciples have to be tested repeatedly before they can be taught. As a result, these things are all cheap to Du Kang now.

As for the swordsman who died here, he was originally going to Langya Mountain to kill the wolf demon. Apart from weapons, he only had a few days of dry food with him, and absolutely no money.

Now that the most valuable thing has been obtained and all the horses are dead, Du Kang naturally will not clean up the battlefield and just wants to leave this dangerous place as soon as possible.

"ah……"

Du Kang had just taken a few steps when he heard a shrill scream coming from a distance. Perhaps the sound was too far away and could not be heard clearly.

Du Kang's heart moved, and he turned back to the scene to count the number of people. Fortunately, the battlefield was not big, so he quickly counted them and found a total of sixteen corpses.

There are a total of eighteen people in the team, so there should be seventeen corpses here!

Someone ran away! And he died on the way back to the county seat!

The wolf demon hasn't left yet, it's just chasing the fleeers!

Will the wolf demon come back? With the wolf's keen sense of smell, can I escape the wolf demon's pursuit if I run away?

Du Kang's mind changed rapidly, and it seemed that staying here was the best choice. The smell of blood on the battlefield was heavy and could confuse the wolf demon's sense of smell, so he could only take a gamble.

At the same time, Du Kang had a lucky idea in his mind that he was unaware of.

If you can kill the wolf demon, you will have the wolf demon blood you need to practice the Blade Burying Technique.

Du Kang hurriedly searched the scene again and found a complete divine machine crossbow, while several others had been bitten to pieces by the wolf demon.

This magical crossbow is the main force for killing monsters this time. Although it has various shortcomings such as slow winding, single shot, and difficult maintenance, it is extremely powerful and can penetrate a two-finger-thick steel plate within fifty steps.

The demon-killing team was equipped with multiple divine machine crossbows. This time, the demon-killing team was able to catch the demons easily, but unfortunately, they were attacked by a wolf demon when the divine machine crossbow was not cocked.

A magical crossbow weighs fifty kilograms. Du Kang had never thought of looking for it before. Without horses, no one could carry it back to the county town on this muddy road. Now he could only rely on it to save his life.

Du Kang dug out another oil-skin paper bag in his arms. This paper bag was wrapped very tightly. It contained the demon-baiting powder originally planned to lure the wolf demon.

It is said that this substance is as deadly to wolves as catnip is to cats, and no wolf can resist such temptation.

He returned to Hong Sihai's horse corpse.

This horse is tall with shoulders and broad in body. It is said that it is the descendant of the demon horse. I heard that Hong Sihai is usually very precious and never lets others touch it. Now it is an excellent bait for feeding wolves.

Du Kang sprinkled the powder on the horse corpse and muttered something while doing so.
To be continued...