Chapter 119: The Rat Cave
It has been snowing for several days, and although the heavy snow has stopped yesterday, it is still too early for the snow on the road to melt.
The road outside the city was covered with snow and became a white carpet of curving white, and on both sides were pines and cypresses covered with snowballs, and a breeze blew through them, and the snow on the branches of the trees fell softly.
A pale gray figure was shooting forward at a high speed against the ground, his body leaned forward slightly, his feet were in the breeze, and his body was like a spirit swallow, just a little on the ground, he had already crossed a distance of several zhang.
And where he landed, the snow only sank slightly, and if you didn't look closely, you couldn't even find the footprints left on the snow.
Chen Ziang stared closely at the white flying insects flying in front of him, and occasionally raised his head to look at the surrounding environment, but he had been running wildly for several hours.
As the sun moved westward, the scorching sun began to turn red, and the blue sky was originally white clouds, but now the white clouds near the setting sun were dyed red, and the surrounding sky seemed to be burned by fire.
A bare mountain appeared in the distance, and in the light of the setting sun, the mountains were like ugly giants, prostrate on the earth, casting deep shadows.
Taikang Thousand Mountains!
Since the name is called Thousand Mountains, it naturally symbolizes that there are many mountains here, and although each mountain is not high, it is closely connected one after the other.
These mountains do not grow trees, but some mines, more than a hundred years ago here was also a prosperous place, gold, silver, copper and iron from these thousands of mountains in an endless stream to Nanyue to all parts of the country, some even sent to Daqian.
Taikang City has also flourished for hundreds of years because of these mines.
But the mineral deposits are exhausted, how can they be able to defeat the greed of the people's hearts, the current thousand mountains have long been hollowed out, and they have been abandoned by the rich and noble families who contract the mineral deposits!
What remains in the mountain is the dense and interconnected caves, but they don't want to become a treasure in the eyes of some people, so it has attracted a group of bandits who hate ghosts and hates - a nest of rats in a thousand mountains!
At the foot of the mountain, Chen Zi raised his eyebrows and looked at the flying insect that was running straight towards the mountain, and waved his right hand lightly, and a gentle force had pulled the tracer fly back to his side.
"It seems that people have been brought here, and there is some trouble now!"
The mountains of Qianshan have been mined for hundreds of years, and no one can say clearly about the passage caves in them. It's like a labyrinth, and if a person ventures into it, he will definitely be dead!
No matter how high your martial arts are, it won't be of much use to put it here.
But now that he knew that people had been captured here, he naturally had to find a way to go in and find out.
Chen Ziang's heart only turned slightly, and his figure had risen from the ground again, but instead of going up the avenue, he penetrated into the white mountain rocks.
"First of all, we must find the entrance to the cave, and then we must find the people. ”
The entrances to the caves on the thousand mountains are dense, most of them are not more than ten meters deep, and some of them look deep, but they may become a dead end when they are halfway through.
It seems that it is not easy to find the real way into the mountain among these caves.
But Chen Ziang locked on to the target after a while.
Because it is a snowy day, there are only a few people like him who walk on the snow without a trace after all, and it is much easier to find shoe prints in the snow.
"Lao Li, work hard! hurry up and go back to the cave early, I don't know if the sixth master has accompanied us with a side dish recently?"
A man with a beard pulled a sleigh in front of him, and a wonderful smile appeared on his face at the mention of side dishes.
The sleigh was piled with rice and noodles, and there was a hanging of bacon hanging aside.
"I'm trying to do it, or you think you can pull these things alone?"
Behind the sleigh was a thin man in a melon-skin hat, leaning forward and pushing forward.
"As for the side dishes, don't think about it! It's not a big day for the New Year's holiday, how can the owner think of us?"
As he spoke, he sighed deeply, with a look of unwillingness.
"Who said that? Didn't you see a new batch of little ladies here a few days ago? Didn't you catch two of them today?"
The beard in front of him smashed his mouth, and said with a smile: "Especially the two who went in just now, but they are as beautiful as flowers, and they seem to be all chicks?"
"Old Qi, don't think about it. I've heard that these two girls are both good at kung fu, especially one of them, it's even more amazing, it's a great master who has practiced true qi!"
The thin man pushed forward hard, and finally pushed the sleigh in front of the hole.
"Can we play with people like them?"
"So what? There are still fewer kung fu women who have entered our place? After a while, they are still honest and obedient, and they can play as much as they want?"
"That's also the master's ability to play, we don't have this blessing. ”
The two of them lamented as they unloaded the sleigh one by one, and shouted loudly towards the entrance of the cave.
After a short time, four men dressed in ash and cotton shoulders ran out, and after greeting the two, they began to carry the goods into the cave one by one.
Suddenly, a strong wind blew, causing snowflakes on the ground to fly, and also fascinated the eyes of several people.
The snowflakes poured straight into the cave, and a figure passed through several people silently and entered the cave.
The entrance to this cave is not large, only three people can walk in parallel, but the further you go, the more spacious it becomes, and finally it is three or four meters high, and the ground is smooth enough to pass even a horse-drawn carriage.
The cave is dark and gloomy, Chen Ziang is dressed in gray clothes, relying on his ears and eyes, after being familiar with the environment in the dark, he can always find the figure in front of him in advance, jump on the top of the cave early, and move forward with the momentum of gecko climbing the wall.
There is a torch on the shelf at a distance on the wall of the cave, but most of it is not lit, only a little fire can make people see the road clearly, probably to save money, right?
The further he went, the more the cave branched, and Chen Ziang had to wait for someone to come out of the fork before moving forward again.
I don't know how long it took for a noisy voice to come from the front.
"Xiao Xu, bring a few fresh goods to the Justice Hall, you have to use them!"
A majestic voice sounded, and a one-armed man with a scar on his face appeared in Chen Ziang's eyes.
"And the woman that the boss just used a few days ago, send it together. ”
"Yes! ”
The four men with swords at their waists arched their hands, retreated to the back, and pushed open a stone door.
Behind the stone door was a passage, and on one side of the passage were cells like cells separated by iron bars, and in each room there were several women huddled together, and there were as many as seven or eight women, and there were thirty or forty women here at a glance.
Many women choked and sobbed from time to time, and the noise in Chen Ziang's ears came from here.
Most of these women were not very old, and they were all medium and high in appearance, and they should have been cared for by their fathers, brothers, and husbands at home, but at this time, they were huddled tightly like frightened little mice, and they were even more trembling when the stone door opened.
Chen Ziang, who was on the top of the cave in the distance, saw this scene, his eyes couldn't help but turn red, his chest rose and fell uncontrollably slightly, and the muscles on his body tightened.
"You, you, and you!
A man circled around the fence and pointed at a few of the women with one hand, and the others had already opened the cell door and pulled out the woman named by the man with a fierce face.
In the end, there was another person who had a cell alone, and she didn't let people pull her to come out, looking at the stiffness on her face, it seemed that she had accepted her fate.
"Hu Tou, what do you think of these people?"
The one-armed beard swept his eyes, nodded and said, "Send them to the bathroom, clean them up and send them to the Juyi Hall, there are guests here today." ”
"Yes!"