Volume 3, Longyuan Ancient Land_Chapter 168, Gu Yilin
We didn't leave the Ryubara Ancient Land, instead, after passing through the tunnel, we reached the second forest.
"What's going on?" The scene in front of them surprised everyone.
"Are we on the wrong track?"
"It's impossible, there's only one way back, there's only one tunnel, we can't go wrong, we all follow the way we came. But where is this? ”
I frowned, sure enough, the Great Ancient Land is not that simple, in addition to the terrifying weird giants, there are also these terrible traps and enchantment circles.
"Don't panic, everyone, spread out and see if there is another way!" Aba proposed.
All of us scattered except for a few corpse chasers, and I walked around the surrounding woods and found nothing special, while Luo Qiong climbed a large tree to look out from afar.
"Did you find anything there?"
"No, there was no one, and no living thing was seen. Where are you? ”
"We didn't find anything here, it's weird! I don't see any other way, should we go back? ”
Just as someone was proposing to go back, he suddenly heard a junior brother under Ah Ba shouting, "Why is the tunnel gone?" ”
After this shout, everyone shifted their eyes to the tunnel behind them, and sure enough, we had just come out of that tunnel, but at this moment the tunnel was gone, and the mountain wall was smooth and smooth, and there was no trace of the tunnel or the entrance at all.
"What about the tunnels? Why is it gone? The sudden disappearance of the way back alarmed the people who had already felt strange. The night before, they had just experienced the attack of the giants, and the frightened people had now encountered such a strange thing, how could they not be alarmed.
The tunnel is gone, the cave is gone, the way back is gone. Even if a few people took out spirit runes and explosives to bombard the mountain wall, it was useless, and there was still no trace of the tunnel after the big crater was blown up.
"It's over, we must have fallen into some kind of enchantment or entered a powerful magic circle, and we are all going to die here......" Several pessimistic guys in the team were already sitting on the ground, looking like they were going to die here. Ah Ba walked up to me nervously and asked quietly, "Brother Shan, what's going on?" ”
I shook my head and said that I didn't know, this result made Ah Ba more and more panicked, while the other group of people advocated finding another way out, after all, it was not yet to the point of exhaustion, even if you entered the enchantment and formation, you might be able to find a way out by gathering everyone's strength.
At this moment, Luo Qiong, who had been standing on the tree and watching, climbed down with a smoke, stood beside me and whispered: "Brother Shan, in the distance, there is cooking smoke about six or seven kilometers away. ”
This discovery really surprised me, if I guessed correctly, this should still be the Longyuan Ancient Land, is there still a life alive in this Great Ancient Land Secret Realm?
"Do you want to tell them about it?" Luo Qiong asked.
After thinking about it and nodded, Luo Qiong immediately opened his mouth and shouted at everyone, everyone was very excited to learn the news of seeing the cooking smoke, and seeing the cooking smoke means that there are people nearby, and if there are people, it means that there is a way out.
"I think the top priority now is to go to the house of the person who cooks cigarettes and ask about the situation, but it is inconvenient for so many of us to go in the past, so I propose to go to three or four people, and the others will stay and wait for news. Flares are used as a sign that if we shoot a red flare to indicate danger, the people who stay will find something else to do on their own. If it's a green flare, it's safe, and we'll send someone to lead the way, how about that? "It was the leader of another group who was proposing.
"And who's going to go?"
The final decision was to let Ah Ba, me, Luo Qiong, and the leaders of the other two groups act together, and the others were unified under the command of the leader of the remaining group.
It was six or seven kilometers in a straight line, but it took a long time to go around in the forest, and we only came to the place Luo Qiong said after nightfall. Through the thick foliage, I saw a small wooden house in front of me, which stood alone, but through the window there was a fire, and some sounds seemed to be heard from inside. We stepped forward and knocked on the door, and an alert voice came from inside.
"Who?" Someone asked.
"We are people who are passing by and are lost, and we want to come in and ask for directions." Ah Ba said.
After a while the door was opened a small slit, and then a very nervous old man appeared before us, holding a sickle in his hand, and when he saw us, he asked, "Who are you?" ”
"Uncle, we really don't have malicious intentions, we are the ones who are lost. You let us go in and ask for directions, we won't do you any favors. Ah Ba hurriedly explained.
"Untie all the clothes on your chests, I want to see your chests!" The old man's behavior made everyone quite strange, but in order to show that there was no malice, everyone could only untie their clothes, and the old man took a kerosene lamp and nodded, opened the door, and let us in.
The house is not big, there are two rooms inside and outside, we walked in and sat down, the old man poured a cup of tea for one of us, I went around a lot, the door of the inner room was closed, but from the pots and pans, chopsticks and shoes These details of life can be seen, there are two people living here, there should be more than just one old man.
"Uncle, what do you think we're doing on our chests?" Aba, after getting dressed, asked.
"Hey, I'm sorry for a few. As you may know, there are strange creatures in this forest, and there are some strange people living in it, and these strange people are all terrible animals with black skin that eat people and don't spit out bones. I'm afraid you're pretending to be them, so I want to look at your chests and make sure your chests aren't black, which means you're not those monsters. Hearing this, Luo Qiong hurriedly asked: "Are those strange people three meters tall and infinitely powerful?" ”
The old man shook his head and said, "No, they are about the same size as you young people, and they don't have much strength." ”
I listened silently, and when I heard this, I thought it was strange, black skin, but not the black giant we encountered, but normal human size and strength. Could it be that we have already left the Ryubara Ancient Land and entered another place? Or have we entered a secret place in the ancient land of Ryuwon?
There was no evidence of either possibility, so I frowned and remained silent.
"Where is this? Old man. What do you call it? A team leader asked.
"Oh, my surname is Long, you can call me Long Laohan, this forest is called Guyilin, I have lived here since I was a child, there used to be many villages here, but then the old people died, and the young people left. Mainly because of those dark-skinned monsters, everyone moved away to find a safe place, leaving only an old immortal like me to stay here and wait for death. ”
The old man who lived alone in the old forest, I saw some hunting tools and fishing nets hanging on the wall, so I asked, "Uncle Long, do you make a living by hunting?" ”
"yes, what else would you eat?" He smiled and nodded.
"Are there animals in this forest?" I asked curiously.
"Huh? Of course there is, you see the corner of the wall is the hare I shot this morning, do you want to take a sip, it's fragrant. He pointed to it, and I looked up, and sure enough, I saw a hare hanging from it. There are no animals in the Dragon Plains, so those black giants will go out through an exit to steal food from the outside world. But there are animals here, which is obviously not in line with the ancient land of Ryuwon.
"You said this place is called Gu Yilin, do you know the way out?" I asked. This is also what everyone is most concerned about, the old man nodded and said: "Of course I know, I'll take you out tomorrow, and it's not too early today." I'll pick you up the hut in the back, and you'll sleep in it. ”
We thanked each other, and after the old man went out, Luo Qiong asked in a low voice, "Brother Shan, what do you think?" ”
"There's a big problem." I whispered but didn't elaborate, but walked to the door of the back room, knocked lightly, and said, "The girl inside doesn't need to be afraid, we have no ill intentions, just say hello to you, you don't have to come out." ”
As soon as these words came out, everyone except Luo Qiong was taken aback, and Ah Ba asked in surprise: "Brother Shan, is there another person inside?" ”