Chapter 5 Mountain Path
"Did you find anything over there?" Li Xinchen shouted to his side as low as he could.
The bamboo forest is boundless and spreads into the distance, and even in some places the bamboo grows densely, and there is no possibility of passing through the bamboo at all, these bamboos are like a wall, except for the road where Li Xinchen and them came before, there is no other choice for the creatures in this mountain.
Li Xinchen couldn't help but sigh with emotion, no wonder the village has been able to exist peacefully and soundly in this troubled world for so long, these bamboos around it are actually a good natural barrier, and it is impossible for outsiders to touch the village without the people in the village to lead the way, of course, the premise of all this is that outsiders have no blades in their hands.
As long as the sword is sharp enough, what are these bamboos?
At this moment, Seinfeld let out a low snort, scaring Li Xinchen, who was tense and nervous, half to death, and all kinds of guys in his hands almost beckoned him. It wasn't until they saw Seinfeld's gesture clearly that several people breathed a sigh of relief and tiptoed over, trying not to step on the dead branches and leaves under their feet, so as not to make too much noise.
Behind a few bamboos, quite a few bamboos were cut down directly, so a road was cut out that led straight to the mountainside. The reason why these bamboos outside are placed here is naturally to play a shielding role, and people who come and go on this mountain road outside, if they are not looking carefully, even if they walk next to these bamboos, they will not find the mystery inside.
"This ······ This is in the direction of the village! Seinfeld subconsciously wanted to move forward along this road, but was quickly stopped by Li Xinchen's eyes.
"Brother Chen!" Seinfeld was stunned for a moment, but saw Li Xinchen pick up a few stones in his hand and throw them into the road, while Seinfeld and the others vaguely understood something, and subconsciously held their breath. There was only the sound of the howling wind and the rustle of bamboo leaves in the whole mountain.
The stones fell to the ground one after another, making an intermittent and dull sound, but there was not the slightest movement around. Li Xinchen frowned, and then said in a deep voice: "There should be no traps, but everyone should try to be careful and don't panic." ”
Seinfeld and the others took a breath of cool air, obviously the situation in front of them had already exceeded their expectations, no one expected that they would be so close to these thieves.
Although they usually grow up in the mountains and wilderness, and they have fought with wild beasts in the mountains since they were young, even if they encounter large beasts such as wild boars, they have the ability to escape if they can't beat them, but this does not mean that Seinfeld has the ability to compete with the enemy, after all, they are still young, and they grew up in this indisputable mountain wilderness, and they can't even understand why they want to fight and kill, so naturally they can't understand what these bandits are doing now.
For them, it has never been as if they were going to face the threat of the enemy one day.
Seeing that there had been no movement in the mountain road, Li Xinchen took the lead in taking a step forward. This mountain road is not spacious, it can be seen that it is a road cut out with a knife and axe all the way, only one or two people can go side by side, and there are no traps arranged on the mountain road, indicating that the thieves also worked hard when they came, and it was not easy to get this road, and it can also show that there are not many thieves who come, and nine times out of ten they are sentinels or forwards.
This is what really makes Li Xinchen breathe a sigh of relief, there are a lot of young and middle-aged people in the village, and every household has more or less a sickle or something, if it is just a sentry or a striker, nine times out of ten it is squatting or scouting outside the village, and it will not be so urgent to attack the village.
After all, in this troubled world, the older people are still quite vigilant, with a few forwards or sentinels, even if these bandits have three heads and six arms, it is difficult to do anything about the village.
Li Xinchen suddenly remembered something, paused suddenly, turned around and whispered: "Go quickly, clean up all the footprints and everything we left in the open space just now!" ”
Although he didn't know where these bandits came from and what they wanted to do to the village, looking at the traces they left today, Li Xinchen understood that these bandits were at least a potential threat to the village. Moreover, these bandits opened up roads in the mountains instead of taking the big road, and even disguised the roads they opened up, which made Li Xinchen even more vigilant.
All this can already show what these bandits are coming to, and it can prove that these bandits are definitely not some rabble, one of them may have a master to guide and guide, and second, it is possible that these bandits are really a group of broken armies as the villagers say.
Even if some guerrillas are scattered, they are at least the army, and the combat quality they have shown in opening up this mountain road cannot help but be unconcerned by Li Xinchen. What's more, even if the villagers in the village are young and middle-aged, it is difficult for them to have the strength to fight in the face of some soldiers!
Once they let their brigade rush into the village, this peaceful mountain village could be wiped out.
It is precisely because these bandits are likely to be born as ruffians that Li Xinchen hurriedly asked Seinfeld to clean up the footprints they left before as much as possible, otherwise even if a few of them walked up this road and were able to retreat, it was very likely that they would attract the attention of the enemy because of footprints and the like, not to mention that these seemingly shrewd bandits would be able to know their whereabouts and be exposed, and it was even more likely to speed up their actions against the village.
What Li Xinchen has to do now is to buy time for the village as much as possible. Even if there is no resistance in the village, at least there is an option to hide.
"Brother Chen, it's cleaned up, you shouldn't be able to see anything, we also covered the footprints on that piece of mud with leaves!" Li Qiu walked over quickly, said in a low voice. And Zheng Qing and Seinfeld also came over cautiously, for fear of making too much noise.
If you want to fight with these bandits, Seinfeld is not good at them, but if you want to talk about hiding traces, these young men who are born in the mountains and have been jumping around in the mountains since they were born dare to call them second, then I'm afraid that no one dares to call them first, hiding traces is simply a handy for a hunter who may encounter his prey at any time.
So just now, Li Xinchen also directly handed over this matter to them to do.
"Follow me, be careful." Li Xinchen said softly, slowly took a step forward, and paid attention to the change of pace under his feet, there are many dead branches and fallen leaves in the deep mountains and old forests, and any step on them may cause a sound, in the silent empty mountains, any little "click" crisp sound may cause chaos on the entire mountain.
Although Li Xinchen is a traveler, fortunately, the memory of Li Xinchen before is still there, so he can quickly master the necessary skills to survive in these mountains. And behind him, Seinfeld and the others obviously didn't face such a situation for the first time, they were all cautious while looking around, while keeping up with Li Xinchen, choosing a place where there were no dead branches and leaves, and if it didn't work, they would directly pull those branches and leaves away with their hands or feet.
And as we move forward, the whole mountain road becomes narrow again.