The two continued to rush forward, and when they arrived at the area closest to the settlement of Liaonan, there were more people.

But these more active people are still in a state of horror, quiet and speechless, as if they are afraid of waking up the passers-by in their dreams, or afraid of disturbing some weird travelers.

These people's actions are also strange. They walk very slowly and regularly.

Normal people usually walk with different priorities due to the actual situation, but these people do not walk when walking, or they only have the "slow" walking form.

Such a strange way of walking makes these people look less like living people, but more like walking zombies or puppets!

However, the people living here did not realize that there was anything unusual about them, and they all seemed to live weakly.

When Si Xinchang looked at Shu Feng and the residents here, they always felt that those people seemed to be in a state of semi-absent, as if they had just woken up, or as if they were about to fall asleep.

Si Xinchang and the others did not communicate more with the residents in a strange state nearby, but continued to move towards the Liaonan settlement.

The more you go to the Liaonan settlement, the fewer merchants you travel around.

Si Xinchang and his team found a business group that seemed to be relatively large and investigated some situations.

The two of them were lucky. The business group they met was the largest business group around that came here to trade. In order to get practical and reliable news, Si Xinchang gave the leaders of the business group a lot of benefits.

The leader of this business group was Duan Su. After getting enough benefits, he decisively explained the inside story to the two of them in detail.

This area has undergone some strange changes a long time ago, but the changes are not that drastic change, but some subtle evolution.

First, some people dreamed of strange dreams, and then some people disappeared mysteriously, and then the residents of the entire area became a little taciturn.

At the beginning, these changes did not affect the travel merchants coming and going too much. Everyone just listened to them as strange stories. Later, when the atmosphere of the entire area changed, the travel merchants obviously felt something was wrong.

People who have lived here for a long time can't feel any changes at all. Only those businessmen who always run around can find changes in this area.

Of course, if the atmosphere is just wrong and there is no actual danger, it is impossible to deter business dealers from doing business. Only when the danger is greater than the opportunity and interests can merchants stop them.

But later, the entire business group disappeared mysteriously here, and not only happened. Faced with real danger, businessmen had to think about gains and losses.

In the end, many traders chose not to come here to take risks. Only a small number of people like Duan Su's caravan dared to come here to trade.

The reason they come here to trade is of course because the profits here are very generous and are enough to offset the risks they have to bear.

But when Si Xinchang asked Duan Su and the others what the secret was, this guy refused to say it. This is the root cause of their wealth that they can come here to reap rich wealth, and of course it is impossible to easily leak it to others.

It was not until Si Xinchang finally took out some precious things to trade with Duan Su that Duan Su could not bear the temptation and let go.

However, Duan Su did not tell the two of them the secret, but secretly found two hooded robes from his luggage and exchanged them for what Si Xinchang took out.

According to Duan Su, if the two of them encounter danger, they can wear these two robes. Generally speaking, the robes can save their lives!

The two robes were gray-brown, and the materials used were very simple and they were not well-made. However, the robes were dyed with a very strange pattern from the hood to the lower leg.

The pattern is like a broken branch, with five branches forked on both sides of a main branch, three on the left and two branches on the right.

The overall pattern is very simple. It is actually not suitable for use as a decorative pattern, especially not suitable for printing and dyeing the entire robe.

Those strange patterns made the two robes very ugly and weird. No one would wear such things on their bodies in normal circumstances. Duan Su did not ask the two to wear this thing as normal clothes. These two robes were used to save lives in his mouth.

Shu Feng obviously did not believe what Duan Su said. In his opinion, the story told by the other party was too bizarre. In addition, Duan Su obviously concealed something, which made it difficult for Shu Feng to believe him.

However, Si Xinchang did not think Duan Su was talking nonsense, because what Duan Su said was bizarre but very organized, and in line with everything they saw at the moment.

Duan Su's business group is the largest caravan team they have encountered in the past few days. Since the other party dares to come to such an obviously strange place to make a living, they must have some reliance.

Si Xinchang noticed that Duan Su was subconsciously cautious in every action involving two robes, as if he was afraid of destroying them. And his eyes were always wandering between the two robes and the precious trading goods in Si Xinchang's hands, and he seemed to have not made up his mind.

Therefore, Si Xinchang, who was cautious by nature, did not accept Shu Feng's objection in the end. He chose to exchange a large number of precious items for Duan Su's two strange robes that looked ordinary and extremely ugly but could save lives in Duan Su's mouth.

Duan Su's destination for this trip was not the settlement of Liaonan, so his business group soon separated from Si Xinchang.

After learning that the two were going to talk to the southern settlement, Duan Su seemed to have something to say but didn't say it. Finally, when everyone separated, Duan Su solemnly told the two that if they had to talk to the southern settlement, they would not try to get to a strange area near the central square of the settlement.

Duan Su did not tell the two of them the reason why he said this, so he said goodbye to Si Xinchang and the others, but it seemed that his warning was definitely from the heart.

Once again, only Si Xinchang and Shu Feng were left to move towards the Liaonan settlement. Because Si Xinchang did not listen to Shu Feng's advice before, Shu Feng was dissatisfied with his wasting of public property when he was on the way.

Si Xinchang did not refute, but just smiled and persuaded the other party, saying that it would be better if he bought it. If nothing really happened this time, he would bear all the losses in this transaction.

Seeing that the other party had already said this, Shu Feng couldn't complain about anything anymore, and he just complained deeply in his heart.

The last part of the road near the Liaonan settlement increased more pedestrians. Although most of them remained silent, the two of them who were rushing to relieve their inner tension slightly.

In their opinion, it is better for someone than no one. No matter how weird these people are, they still fall into the scope of humanity.

There is no large business team on this journey. It seems that the pedestrians on the road are all local residents. Perhaps some of the lone businessmen pretend to be rushing on the road silently, but Si Xinchang and the others can't see it.

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Chapter completed!