Sure enough, the first stronghold I saw next in the Wanderer's Mountains wasn't much different from what I had imagined, it was a tribal jungle hut that, to put it bluntly, even somewhat similar to the Dawn Dawn and their Niki settlement.

However, the Niki buildings were much more rudimentary than those of the wanderers, who built their houses in the mountains, but used mostly stone and steel and very little wood.

Most of the houses are divided into upper and lower parts, and the underground parts are all connected to each other.

The underground layer here is much shallower than other places, because their main purpose is not to do Gu research, but only to expand their activity area and add a layer of escape routes.

After all, it is not easy to carve out a habitable place in this mountain range, and they have also tried to reduce the total area as much as possible in order to pursue seclusion, so every inch of land is precious.

The upper and lower buildings are basically about forty or fifty square meters, and they are irregularly distributed within the boundaries they have opened up in advance.

In addition to these structures, they have converted almost all the tall trees in the vicinity into small watchtowers that can observe the situation in the distance, and in fact we have already been spotted by wanderers here as soon as we got close to the edge of the mountains.

And the people from the patrol team we met before also came to us on purpose, otherwise it would not have been so coincidental.

This is the first Wanderer's Mountain stronghold on the eastern branch, a bit of an outpost, and there are not many people living here, only about a hundred.

From the casual chats with these people, it can be seen that they only have two jobs on weekdays, the first is to defend the security of the eastern entrance of the Qinhuai Mountains, and the second is to receive goods from Life No. 2 City and several other out-of-mountain strongholds nearby.

Of course, in the past, these goods needed to be traded to obtain, and the most primitive method of trade was barter, that is, if the wanderers in the mountains wanted to be something, they needed to trade with items of equal value, and the two sides took what they needed and did not owe each other.

And now is a special war period, the alliance leader has united everyone, so the materials are not divided from each other, and now the materials they take over are actually more inclined to the transfer of materials, after all, the level of security outside the mountain range is much lower than that inside the mountain range.

The man in charge of the place was a scrawny young man with large eyelids and a cunning look, as well as the standard wanderer's scruffy attire.

This person seems to have no one who knows his name, and everyone calls him Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yi said that we came at the right time, because it won't be long before the entire Qinhuai Mountain Range will be closed, that is, they will reject any outsiders, because the people on the command side have already determined the policy, and in a short period of time, they will shrink the defense line to the branches around the Qinhuai Mountain Range, and other outsiders will not accept it if they come late, in order to avoid voodoo people from mixing in it.

When we came this time, we also had to go through identity verification, but with Qin Yao and Liu Yong here, we were exempted.

Xiao Yi told us to wait here, and he would send someone to inform the alliance leader and others of our arrival, and then when the order was lowered, we could go, otherwise if we went on our own, we would definitely be injured by mistake.

"Then how long do we have to wait?" Liu Yong asked.

"Fast is one day, slow is three or four days. Xiao Yi said without thinking.

I said in my heart that this is all burning eyebrows, these people in the command are so lazy? It's not to get approvals, why do they take so long?

Not only is the return date already determined, but I am also anxious to make a resistance agreement with the wanderers here, and after listening to their battle plan, we will see if we can use our advantage to open up some new tricks to finally defeat the voodoo.

"You understand, too. Xiao Yi held his chin and said: "Now there are a lot of things to deal with on the command side, and dozens of surrounding loiterer communities are communicating with us, if you don't determine the authenticity from the details, it is really easy for voodoo spies to get involved." ”

After finishing speaking, Xiao Yi glanced at Liu Yong again and said, "And we also need your help with some things here......

Damn, I scolded in my heart, why do you want to help?

I'm here only to seek an alliance, not to show kindness.

But it's not easy to refuse now, Liu Yong also pretended to ask what is the busy, as long as we can do it, we will try our best.

Xiao Yi nodded gratefully and said, "We have recently lost some people in the Holy Maiden Peak, it seems that some Gu things that are not afraid of the cold have appeared over there, if you can help expel those things...... It will be of great help to us! And it will also be very helpful to fight for a position in front of the alliance leader in the future!"

These wanderers are playing tricks......

I don't care about the status of these guys at all.

What can these old hats do when they are emperors among them?

But we don't have anything else to do now, and he said that there are Gu creatures over there that are not afraid of the cold, I really don't believe it, the Gu creatures I know can only survive in the cold area for a short period of time, could it be that these attacking Gu creatures already have their own warm nests?

The Virgin Peak is located behind a dead wood forest in the north of this stronghold, surrounded by several frozen rivers, there are actually a lot of wild animals before the thaw, and these wild animals are not infected with the Gu worm virus, but now they can't see any of them.

I first let the other people stay in the stronghold to rest, and then let Na Xiaoyi take me, Liu Yong and Gechai to the location of the Holy Maiden Peak, the distance is not far, and it takes less than a quarter of an hour to walk in the mountain.

Towards the end of the day, we saw a number of wanderer's observers hovering inside and outside the woods, all dressed as hunters on full alert.

"They've been here for more than a week. Xiao Yi said: "I haven't even seen a shadow at all." ”

"Did the missing man find his body?" I asked.

Xiao Yi shook his head: "There are no bodies, not even a single bone slag can be seen, but some of us have heard their screams before they disappeared...... Feel...... It's a lot like ......."

"Looks like it's coming from underground?" I answered.

"That's right!" Xiao Yi nodded heavily, looked at me with some surprise and said, "Dude, it seems that you are an expert." ”

"The connoisseur can't talk about it, but he has also been with Brother Liu Yong for a long time and has been stained with some fairy spirit. I said deliberately.

"That's that, that's. "Xiao Yi really took advantage of the situation to pat Liu Yong's ass, I hope you can come here in person this time to figure out what is here, we have a lot of stone and wood mined from here, and now this place is shrouded in fear, no one dares to come at all!"

"Where is the location of the accident?" Liu Yong was not stupid, and asked the key as soon as he asked.

"Look from here!" Xiao Yi pointed to a dense forest in the north and said, "Do you see that pocket-like forest pass? The inner side of the forest that goes deep into it is a high-risk area! We have now issued a ban on this place, and we are not allowed to enter!"

"Then you mean to ask us to go inside and check it out?" Liu Yong's voice was a little dissatisfied, it seemed that this guy was timid.

"Of course not!" Xiao Yi saw Liu Yong's ugly face, and hurriedly defended: "I just hope you can help us take a look...... Or to sense if there is anything uncontrollable around here...... Other energies?"

I was a little surprised in my heart, it seems that this Xiao Yi still knows a lot about Liu Yong's abilities, and he actually knows that he can sense nearby spiritual energy, but I feel that this matter may not have much to do with spiritual energy.

After all, it's freezing here, and it's very difficult for other psionic energies other than the energy on my body to work here, and even if they do, the impact will be very small.

Combined with what they said before and hearing someone's screams coming from the ground, I feel that these "murderers" are very likely to be similar to the type of Gu things like the little black thing, their cold resistance is stronger than other Gu things, and they are fast enough to act, and their size is small and difficult to be detected.

Thinking about it this way, I seemed to have the bottom in my heart, I asked Xiao Yi to send some people to keep an eye on both sides of Linkou, and let some people with good marksmanship follow us ten meters behind us to cover us, and then Liu Yong and Gechai and I took the lead and approached Nalinkou.

Before, because Xiao Yi was around, it was not convenient for me to ask Gechai's opinion, but now that there is no one else around, I whispered to Gechai what he thinks of the situation here.

Ge Guess's answer was very simple, he said that there were no traces of Gu activities here at all, because the activities of Gu animals would definitely leave clues on the ground, such as the traces left by the dirt contaminating the ground, turf, branches and leaves, and the smell left by Gu animals in the air when they were moving nearby, these traces are difficult for outsiders to judge, but as a senior Gu master, he is still very expert in tracking this point.

This was unexpected, because if what my brother said was true, it meant that it was impossible for a little black thing, or even a Gu thing like a little black thing, to exist here.

After thinking about it carefully, I realized that what I guessed was probably right, because this place was originally a place where wanderers frequently moved, and if there were any Gu creatures, they should be the first to find out.

What's more, Xiao Yi never said the slightest speculation about "Gu things" from beginning to end, which shows that they have actually ruled out this possibility a long time ago.

But I didn't give up, and as I got closer to the forest mouth, I took a deep breath and began to quietly feel the energy nearby.

I wasn't stupid enough to release all the psionic energy, because that would inevitably be seen by the wanderers, but I was just quietly taking a deep breath and using my sensitivity to the nearby psionic presence to discover the nearby energy source.

But......

Nothing.

It seems that Ge Guess is right, it is impossible for Gu things to exist inside and outside the range of the Holy Maiden Peak within this forest mouth.

Then there are only two possibilities, either some kind of carnivorous animal with a small body, or ...... Human!

The latter is naturally more likely, after all, animals have a limited IQ, how can they be 100% able to escape the surveillance of wanderers?

Seeing that I didn't sense anything, Liu Yong quit, he said again and again that we don't need to work hard for these guys, and now that we can't sense spiritual energy, it means that there are animals in this forest that are more terrible than Gu things, so it's even more difficult to mess with, and it's too dangerous for us to go in.

"I'm going to go, I'm not going!" Liu Yong said angrily.

I told him to be less verbose, and asked Ge Chai to threaten him with a Gu spell, and then Liu Yong asked me in a muffled voice, "Are you crazy, right?

"Now is the time for us to establish our prestige, and if we can solve these threats, we can fight for our own position in the future, and I don't believe it. ”

Gechai also said: "The most terrifying thing in the world is nothing more than the psychic illusion brought by Gu things, now we can even deal with these things, and the demons and monsters in the forest are even less terrible, you two will follow me later, let's walk inside a distance to see the situation!"

After saying that, Gochai took the lead and stepped into the deadwood forest, and I heard a few exclamations from a few wanderers who were far behind us as they stepped into it.

I also immediately kicked Liu Yong and followed him in.

Strange to say, the moment I entered the woods, I felt that the sky above me seemed to darken, and a gloomy feeling began to spread around us.

I could still hear some miscellaneous ambient sounds before, but after entering the woods, even these noises disappeared, as if our ears had suddenly been cut off from the source of hearing.

Gechai gestured for us to follow, and he himself walked forward as he released a few small black Gu worms from the box.

His box had been treated with a special Gu technique, which not only kept the body warm, but also allowed the Gu to survive in it without being affected.

I didn't understand Gochai's intention at first, but when the black bugs fell on it and died, I understood, Gechai was further testing whether this place started with the survival of Gu worms, and it seemed that it was indeed "negative".

Just now, I put the box back in my clothes, and I picked up a dead branch on the tree next to me and swept it back and forth on the ground, obviously looking at the traces on the ground.

This tracking technique is somewhat similar to Dawn, but it seems to be more efficient than Dawn's, and Gochai's travel speed is almost not affected, so he moves forward while checking the ground tracks, and it only takes less than a few minutes to find clues.