Chapter 10: The Valley of the Greedy Beast
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"Young master!"
"Young master!"
A few shouts sounded in his ears, Yuan Lintian was in a trance, his memories faded away like a tide, and he saw dozens of pairs of hopeful eyes staring at him.
"No problem. ”
"Stand down, and I'll take counsel with the Holy Guard. Yuan Lintian only felt dizzy, as if the fatigue accumulated from the past year's sea rush suddenly flooded his body, he rubbed his temples and waved his hand to command.
"Yes. When everyone saw that he was not looking good, they all withdrew.
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Liangchen was holding the jade slip in his hand in the room to comprehend the exercises, and he saw Yuan Lintian with a sad face walking in.
"How's it going?" asked Yoshitomi.
"Alas~ I don't hide it, I don't have a clue. ”
"My uncle has always been in charge, but he left me with such a big game of chess, and I don't know what to do next. Yuan Lintian shook his head lightly and briefly said the troubles he had just discussed.
There has always been a big tree to rely on, and suddenly one day I found that this tree fell down. Looking around, there are people who need their own protection!
Those who don't want to leave will still leave in the end.
People who don't want to grow up still have to grow up after all.
"Alas~" Yuan Lintian's mind was complicated, and he couldn't help sighing, "Now there is less than a month before the start of the soul selection sacrifice, if you follow the method they discussed, first go to the Black Mountain Village, and then break into the Longtan Tiger's Den, and trek thousands of miles to reach the Sun Peak, not only is it too late, but I am afraid that even my life will be lost on the way." ”
"Did the high priest tell you what you were going to do when you came back?"
"As I said, at that time, my uncle just said that he would contact the hidden pile first, and then go to Touch Sun Peak to participate in the soul selection sacrifice. As for how to get to the Touching Sun Peak, he didn't elaborate, as if he didn't need to say that I knew it. Or maybe he said it at the time, but I just didn't remember it. Yuan Lintian recalled for a moment with a deep groan, and replied with a little melancholy.
After all, after so many years of wandering, coupled with the attitude of the people up and down to stay away, he is not very keen on this revenge plan.
If it weren't for his uncle's ardent expectations, he would probably prefer to be a stranger.
"Since he said that he has reached the Touching Sun Peak, there will definitely be an arrangement, you can recall the memories again, or look for the relics left by the high priest to see if there are any clues. Liangchen suggested, after all, the Yuan family has made a comeback after decades of forbearance, and every step will definitely be counted, even if there are variables in the soul selection sacrifice, but at least it will not even become a problem to touch the sun peak.
Yuan Lintian's eyes lit up when he heard the sound, and he patted the waist with an extra storage bag in his hand, and then leaned towards the table, clanging many more objects. It was my uncle's storage bag.
"I remembered that my uncle used to look at a map over and over again. He said as he flipped it.
After some searching, he found a scroll of animal skin maps, the edges of which were badly worn, and he should have been reading them often.
The map slowly spread out, and it was a map of Wujiang, with many small red dots scattered around the edge of Wujiang.
Yuan Lintian carefully identified it, and sure enough, he also found a red dot on the smoke miasma snake forest.
"On this map, there are more than 100 hidden piles scattered all over Wujiang. Yuan Lintian said and found the words Black Mountain Cottage in the red dot in the middle.
Some of the hidden piles have a thin yellow line drawn between them, some have a cross drawn on them, and a few places are marked with stars, and the overlapping symbols are densely packed throughout the map.
"This line should be a teleportation array or a connected place, what does this star mean?" Looking at the various symbols, he guessed, but he looked even more confused.
I had to find the Sun Touching Peak, but I found that this peak was lonely, and there was no line connected to it at all, so I was a little disappointed and pushed the map aside.
"It's too late, there must be a teleportation array to catch up, my uncle said that if you can catch up, then there must be a teleportation array!"
Teleportation Array .....
Seeing that he was at a stalemate, a dark passage suddenly appeared in his mind, and a panicked teenager ran desperately after an old man.
The dark passage went straight underground, without a single light, and I don't know how long it took to run, the old man finally stopped in a secret room.
The old man took out a slender cane and thrust it into the center of the pattern in the secret room, and the two disappeared in a cloud of light.
This image often appeared in his dreams during the decades that followed, like a lingering nightmare, which often woke him up in the middle of the night.
Suddenly, he jerked to his feet and pulled a citrine cane out of the pile.
He grabbed the map again and searched for it, his fingers slicing over the dense dots, and finally landed on a spot where a six-winged frost-white worm was drawn.
"Shadowless Gu, Yuan Wang's Mansion, Scattered Star Pavilion. ”
"Sure enough!"
He looked for it again with excitement on his face, and found two more places with the same pattern, and the last place was a red dot marked by a star, the greedy beast stream.
"Found it!" Yuan Lintian was surprised, and he shouted, startled Liangchen to look at it.
"No wonder, my uncle never said the route, it turns out that he once took me through this road!"
"This is the route of escape back then!" Yuan Lintian muttered to himself in a low voice.
Although this road can't reach the Touching Sun Peak, the Scattered Pavilion of the Yuan Wangfu is only three or two days away from the Touching Sun Peak, as long as you can sneak into this place, all problems will be solved.
"Look at this map, it will take half a month for the greedy beast stream to leave this place. Rest for the night, and we'll leave tomorrow. Yuan Lintian finally solved the first problem alone, and said energetically.
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Ten days later.
In a steep and dark canyon, a team staggered. The team consisted of seven or eight people, and they looked like ants under the cliffs.
At the forefront was a man with missing ears, most of whom were scarred, but among them were two heroic men in black, who were slightly outstanding. It was the Liangchen group who sneaked all the way to this place.
Greedy Beast Stream, one of the many dangerous places in Wujiang, is named after a group of vicious greedy beasts growing in this place. This beast has a strong body, rough skin and thick flesh, not only has a strong recovery ability, but also moves quickly, is extremely cunning by nature, and likes to eat carrion the most. In addition, there are all kinds of poisons and poisonous insects in the valley, so very few people break in.
Since entering the canyon, the sky has gradually turned into a thin line, like a winding white snake hovering overhead, and occasionally wisps of sky light sprinkle around, but it is difficult to expel the darkness in everyone's hearts.
In the valley, because there is no light all year round, the ground is covered with moss and is extremely slippery. There are all kinds of strange mushrooms growing on the roadside, the mushrooms are tall and short, chubby and thin, with small covers with thin handles, and large covers with short handles, and the shapes are very strange. The color of the mushroom is also different, or withered yellow, or plain brown, or dark blue gray, or acacia white, dull and slightly bland.
But the large flowers and plants next to the mushrooms are gorgeous and dazzling, and the flowers are the size of human faces, or blood red, or emerald green, or begonia vermilion, or peacock blue, colorful and gorgeous.
The small dim mushrooms set off the large colorful flowers, which are even more brilliant and colorful in the first reflection.
If it weren't for the strange beast roars that reverberated in the canyon from time to time, everyone almost thought that they had arrived at a blessed place.
Because they were afraid of alarming the greedy beasts, everyone did not fly, and they hid their breath and walked carefully on the ground.
After another half a day, the sky on the top of the canyon was also tightly covered by dense trees, and the surroundings were suddenly dark.
Someone wanted to sacrifice the fire lamp, but was stopped by the people next to him, so he had to move forward in the dark.
After walking for another half an hour, there was no stone road on the ground, and the feet were full of thick dead branches and leaves, and a small stream beside it meandered, and the sound of insects and frogs in the water gurgled.
About an hour along the stream, they saw a rock in front of them like a great axe slashing at the people, and the stream was also split in two here and flowed to both sides.
"Which way?" asked Yoshito.
"I don't know. Yuan Lintian looked at the two black holes left and right and shook his head helplessly, and as he spoke, he took out the pitch-black token again and clicked it repeatedly, and the token flickered like a firefly in the night, and then it was silent again.
When he entered the canyon, Yuan Lintian had used the token to send a signal, thinking that the hidden pile should send someone to answer at this time.
"Let's wait a minute. Yuan Lintian said after finishing everything.
"Yes. ”
Everyone had to stop moving, and the ground was muddy and they couldn't sit cross-legged, so they had to find a wall to lean on or lean on.
These people are a few slightly more capable people selected from the snake forest, and they have only walked out of the snake forest when they buy necessary items in the past few decades, and they will return immediately after exchanging items in the nearby villages to inquire about the news, so everything they see along the way is relatively novel.
"Look at this mushroom, I don't know if it tastes more delicious after making snake soup!" said one of them, pulling up a fist-sized mushroom from a crack in the stone.
"Down! it should be poisonous!" someone next to him immediately stopped.
"Alas~ In the past, we often went into the mountains to collect herbs and collect poisons, what poison have we never seen? Now that we have been hiding for so many years, we don't even have the courage to do so!" the man sighed, but still threw the mushroom out of his hand.
Xu listened to his emotion, everyone's hearts sank, and the field suddenly quieted down again.
At this moment, a loud cry sounded on the field!
"Ah——! save me!" I want to chat with more like-minded people about "Giant Gate Scroll", pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find a confidant~