On the second day of entering the Sword Thorn Forest, a sudden ice fog enveloped the entire Sword Thorn Forest, and the air was filled with fine ice dust, which was extremely low visibility, and these ice dust would enter your lungs with your breath, frostbitten your respiratory system.

Qin Luzhu has a mask on his face, and he will also encounter such weather in the Cold Mountain Plateau, but it is rare, and Qin Luzhu is also prepared to wear a mask.

Zhang Chi didn't put on the mask, compared to Qin Luzhu, his ability to resist cold was much stronger, and in such weather conditions, the primary problem that bothered them was how to find the right way forward.

Qin Luzhu suggested that they find a place to rest first, it was easy to get lost when walking in the ice and fog.

Zhang Chi groped around to find the big trees around, the trees in this area were intact, and there was no tree hole from above that could be accommodated.

This is not difficult for Zhang Chi, he pulled out the dragon scale sword, and effortlessly dug a hole in the tree, and when he was expanding the hole, Qin Luzhu suddenly reminded: "Listen, there are footsteps!"

Zhang Chi listened attentively, and sure enough, he heard footsteps coming from a distance, because he didn't know whether the person who came was friend or foe, Zhang Chi decided to hide first, he and Qin Luzhu did not choose to enter the tree hole, but hid behind the trunk not far away, which was also to avoid being blocked in the tree hole.

The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and a tall figure appeared where they had just dug a hole in the tree, judging from the vague body shape, it should be a human being, about two meters three tall, burly, because of the visibility, it was impossible to see the outline of his face.

The man's breathing was so heavy that the howl of the cold wind through the trees could not drown out his breathing. He reached out and touched the fresh hollow of the tree, and suddenly he became irritable, raised his fist and struck the trunk of the tree hard.

Empty!

The sound of the fist hitting the trunk of the tree echoed in the forest for a long time, probably because the tree had dug a large hole in advance, so the trunk became fragile, and the trunk was broken by the man's punch, and it fell straight down with a rumbling sound.

Qin Luzhu and Zhang Chi clinged to the side of the tree trunk, and both of them exclaimed in their hearts at the same time, this person's brute strength was really strong enough.

Zhang Chi clenched the dragon scale sword with both hands, and Qin Luzhu also drew out the saber, those who can survive in this harsh environment are all strong, and nine times out of ten they will be netherworlds, which is quite dangerous, once he discovers their hiding place, he must strike first and eradicate it without hesitation.

However, the man did not continue to search, and turned around after breaking the big tree, and Zhang Chi had no intention of following to chase and kill, after all, the purpose of their coming this time was not to fight monsters and upgrade, and the matter of fighting and killing could be avoided.

After the man left, the two did not leave immediately, and according to the normal law, they usually did not go and returned. This sudden ice fog has never shown signs of dissipating, and if you continue to delay here, I am afraid that you will not be able to catch up with He Donglai and Qin Junshi when you come back.

The ice fog slowed them down a lot, and when the ice fog subsided, new problems arose.

They soon understood the origin of the name of the Sword Thorn Forest, and when they reached the middle of the journey, they found that the ground of the forest was full of clusters of ice crystals like gladiolia and thorns, large and small, with different shapes, which looked very beautiful, but the existence of these beautiful ice crystals affected their progress, and if they wanted to continue to move forward, they had to overcome the thorns.

It took them five days before they came to the vicinity of the ruins of the Holy City, the entire ruins of the Holy City were still in the stage of cold wave closure, around the ruins of the Holy City, there was a white cold wave surrounding, because of the existence of the cold wave, the surrounding temperature was also extremely low.

Zhang Chi and Qin Luzhu searched along the ruins of the Holy City in the bitter cold, hoping to find the whereabouts of He Donglai and Qin Junshi. According to the calculation of time, the cold wave will dissipate in three days, after the cold wave dissipates, He Donglai and they will enter the ruins of the holy city according to the established plan, Zhang Chi accepted the commission of the ancient sinking fish to stop them, although it is not clear the true purpose of the ancient sinking fish, I believe that after seeing He Donglai, they should be able to get an answer.

It took a whole day to walk around the Holy City in the cold and cold winds, but I was a little disappointed that I didn't find any trace of the two of them, and I didn't even see any sign of anyone.

Returning to the entrance of the Holy City, he found a place to settle down nearby, Qin Luzhu boiled some snow water, used the snow water to make tea, and the two of them ate some dry food.

Looking at Qin Luzhu, Zhang Chi couldn't help but think of the first time they met in Qingping Mountain, and said with a smile: "Do you remember the incident of robbing me of food?"

Qin Luzhu couldn't help laughing: "Be careful." ”

Zhang Chi said: "Thinking about it now, it seems to have happened just yesterday, and it seems like a different world." ”

Qin Luzhu said: "Okay, you can feel less emotional, and rest well when you are full." She checked the dry food: "We don't have much dry food left." "The main reason is because most of the dry food was carried by Ji Chang and Cao Chengguang at that time, and the dry food was naturally taken away after they disappeared.

Zhang Chi said: "It's okay, there must be food in the holy city." ”

Qin Luzhu knew that he was comforting himself, he had never been to the ruins of the Holy City, how could he be so sure, Qin Luzhu said: "It's okay, if you really don't have anything to eat, I'll eat you." ”

Zhang Daxian sighed and said: "When I meet a female goblin like you who eats people and doesn't spit out bones, I can only accept my fate, how are I going to eat today?"

"Get out!" Qin Luzhu smiled and made a gesture to hit him, tilted his head back, and hit the ice wall behind him carelessly, hitting it too hard, and even swallowed several pieces of ice.

Qin Luzhu heard Peng's voice and said with concern: "Does it hurt?"

Zhang Chi shook his head, turned around and looked, it stands to reason that the head is not so powerful, the real reason is that there is only a thin layer of ice behind it, and under the ice is a stone wall, because it is a different substance, so the combination is not tight enough, the head shatters the ice, and the ice naturally cracks and falls.

Qin Luzhu also came over, saw that the stone wall was full of symbols, and said in surprise: "It's all words." ”

Zhang Chi glanced at her, looked at her serious and specialized appearance, and said with a smile: "Can you understand?"

Qin Luzhu nodded and said, "I can understand something, after all, I have been here for eighteen years, this is an ancient script." ”

Zhang Chi heard her say this, so he didn't bother her, in order to facilitate Qin Luzhu's research, he stretched out his hand and patted it, peeling off the ice covering the stone wall, so that she could see it more clearly and carefully.

Qin Luzhu said: "It's a stone tablet." ”

Zhang Chi was a little disappointed, thinking that she could see something mysterious, even if she didn't know a word, she knew that it was a stone tablet, shook her head and said, "Could it be a flower?"

Qin Luzhu said: "It records the battle of the Holy City, which is the battle to destroy the Holy City. ”

Zhang Chi said: "Is it a battle with the Netherworld?"

Qin Luzhu said: "To be exact, it was only after the Battle of the Holy City that there were records of the Netherworld. ”

"Didn't the Nether teleport from the sinkhole?"

Qin Luzhu shook his head and said: "I have studied it specially, and according to the calculation of time, it can only be said that part of the Netherworld was teleported from the Tiankeng, and the first batch of Netherworld should have nothing to do with the Tiankeng." ”

Zhang Chi said: "Could it be the aborigines of the Netherworld?"

Qin Luzhu said: "According to the calculation of time, it can probably be traced back to the beginning of the establishment of the Divine Secret Bureau. She pointed to the stele and said, "There is no record of the Netherworld on it, which is equivalent to adding a piece of evidence, and I believe that more evidence can be found in the ruins of the Holy City." ”

Zhang Chi said: "Could it be that the appearance of the Netherworld is related to the Divine Secret Bureau?"

Qin Luzhu said: "It's better not to talk nonsense about things without evidence." After reading the above text, the two of them squeezed together again, Zhang Chi is humanoid heater, Qin Luzhu couldn't help but think, don't say it's himself, even if any beautiful woman comes over, he has to take the initiative to pounce on him.

Zhang Chi was worried that Qin Luzhu would feel cold, so he took out the Dan furnace of the star-patterned iron he was carrying, and kept the alchemy warm and alchemy.

Qin Luzhu watched from the side: "Where did you learn this alchemy technique?"

Zhang Chi said: "Ancestral." ”

Qin Luzhu couldn't help laughing: "Your grandfather Zhang Tugen?"

"Zhang Qingfeng!" Zhang Chi corrected.

Qin Luzhu shook his head: "No, judging from your information, Zhang Qingfeng has always been incognito, you didn't even know your own background in the past, how could he teach you alchemy? And your grandfather himself can't." ”

Zhang Daxian can tell her other things, but this matter really can't be said, he can't tell Qin Luzhu directly, he was demoted by the Jade Emperor, and the heavenly opportunity must not be revealed, not because he wants to hide it from her, but because he is worried that this kind of thing will not be good for her if it leaks out.

Qin Luzhu pointed to his nose and said, "Something to hide from me!"

Zhang Chi said with a smile: "To be honest, even I am confused, didn't I be stupid for three years because of a car accident in the middle? ”

Qin Luzhu looked at him suspiciously, thinking that this guy was lying again, but she didn't mean to break the casserole and ask the end, she glanced at him and said, "Do you like to say it or not." ”

Zhang Chi said: "Women really like to listen to lies. ”

Qin Luzhu threatened: "Believe it or not, I cut your tongue." ”

Zhang Daxian sighed: "Cut it, cut it, anyway, it's not me who loses." ”

Qin Luzhu rushed up and writhed with him, and when the two were laughing, a scream suddenly came from outside, they stopped, and Zhang Chi said in a low voice: "You stay, I'll go out and have a look." ”

"Let's go!"

Zhang Chi climbed out of the snow cave where he was hiding, and stretched out his hand to pull Qin Luzhu out, the screams were in the northwest of them, it should not be far, although Zhang Daxian refined a few stealth pills on the way, but in this cold environment, he was not interested in taking off and playing stealth.

Qin Luzhu took off his longbow, the arrow was on the string, and once he found that something was wrong, he would attack immediately.

The two used the trunk of the tree to hide, moved back and forth, and soon came to the place where the incident occurred.

There was a person lying on the snow, Zhang Chi motioned for Qin Luzhu to cover in place, he first grabbed a snowball from the ground, aimed at the person on the ground and smashed it, the snowball fell on the person's body, and the person did not react.

Zhang Chi drew out the dragon scale knife and walked over, while Qin Luzhu bent his bow and arrows, aiming at the man's head, beware of fraud.

Zhang Chi came to the man's side and found that the man was dead, the death was miserable, the chest and abdomen were dissected, and all the internal organs were removed, because the temperature was cold, and the blood had already congealed as soon as it gushed out, so there was not much snow on the ground.

Qin Luzhu also walked over when he saw that there was no problem, and seeing that the person's death was so miserable, he couldn't help frowning, checked his belongings, and said in a low voice: "Chongmu clan." ”

Zhang Chi originally thought it was the Netherworld, but he didn't expect it to be a member of the Chongmu clan, it seems that in addition to them, there are people here.

Qin Luzhu looked around, the murderer should have gone away, but he didn't see any footprints, and he looked up and found nothing new in the sky.

Zhang Chi said: "Go back." ”

Qin Luzhu whispered, "It's not safe here. ”

Zhang Chi said: "I have a way. He took the deceased's belongings with him, which contained some usable things.

The two did not return to their original hiding place, but chose a big tree, and Zhang Chi dug a big hole in the middle of the big tree nearly ten meters from the ground, which was safer than the underground.

The two of them moved into the tree hole, and Zhang Chi turned snow into ice to seal the hole, so that even if an enemy passed by, it would not be easy to find out where they were hiding.

Qin Luzhu dug a few small holes in the trunk of the tree, which can be used for ventilation, or he can stretch out the telescope to observe the surrounding conditions, and when not in use, he can plug it with a cotton cloth.

They decided to abandon the search, and according to the map, the only entrance to the Holy City was below. Three days later, when the cold spell passes, the gates of the Holy City will be revealed from the lingering cold wave, and the characters from all walks of life will gather here.

Qin Luzhu poked the telescope into the hole and observed the situation.

Zhang Chi lay in the tree hole and said lazily: "Don't be so cautious, you always have to come." ”

Qin Luzhu took back the telescope and plugged the hole with a cloth ball: "Except for Mr. He and my second uncle, the rest are the five of us, how did the people from the Chongmu clan get here?"

Zhang Chi said: "Nonsense, taking the risk to come here must be for the secret of the Holy City, maybe he also came to find the Netherworld Ancestor, isn't it rumored that the Netherworld Ancestor holds the secret of defeating the Netherworld?"

Qin Luzhu said: "There are only two ways to pass through the Great Wall of Ice and Snow, one is to hold a pass, and the other is the way we choose, I haven't heard of anyone who has been allowed to pass through the Great Wall of Ice and Snow recently, and the secret passage we chose is not known to anyone else at all." ”

Zhang Chi said: "The Great Wall of Ice and Snow has gone through so many years, maybe it has been full of holes for a long time, you can find cracks that can pass through the Great Wall, others can, don't forget, the best thing for the Chongmu clan is to drill holes in the wall." ”

Qin Luzhu said: "But I still can't figure it out, ordinary people are afraid to avoid the extreme north, why do these Chongmu clans want to take risks?"