Someone is chasing?

Jiang Yao squinted his eyes and carefully studied the figure by the moonlight. Judging from the person's dress, the other party seems to be a young mountain man in his thirties, and like the villagers who participated in the search outside, his face is also strangely pale, but this person seems to be alone and in a hurry, not at all looking like he wants to search people, but as if he is in a hurry to go somewhere, which is really suspicious.

Jiang Yao observed for a moment, and suddenly an idea sprouted in his heart, he quietly turned his head to look at Mu Jianyun, but saw that Mu Jianyun also happened to cast his eyes at this time, the eyes of the two touched, and at the same time turned to the figure in front of him, the intentions of both sides were suddenly clear, so they didn't talk nonsense, the two got up one after the other, Qing Yu and Zhou Wentao saw this and immediately followed quietly, and the four of them followed the figure not close or far under the cover of the night, groping in the direction of the woods.

The full moon loomed behind the clouds, sprinkling the misty moonlight on the mountains, and also thanks to the blessing of this moonlight, everyone did not need lighting equipment for the time being to continue to capture the figure of the strange villager, only to see the man familiar with the ruins and ruins, and in a few moments walked out of the confines of the village, straight to a certain direction in the woods outside the village.

Huh, why does this person's route feel a little familiar?

Jiang Yao observed the movement of the figure, and suddenly remembered the Russian-language map he had found in the backpack in Old Man Huang's room, he quickly took out the compass and map he had obtained earlier from his arms, and looked at it twice by the moonlight, although the picture was very rough, but from the general direction, the route that spread from the village into the woods was very similar to the current one, and this person's purpose was obviously somewhere in the woods.

Is it a coincidence......?

Jiang Yao thought, and suddenly found that the figure in front of him suddenly stopped, turned to look in the direction of Jiang Yao and the others, the four of them were startled, and hurriedly hid behind the shadow of a remnant wall, and did not dare to move.

The figure looked around for a moment, but didn't seem to notice anything, and then turned again and quickly burrowed into the dark woods.

"The line of sight in the forest is not good, and it is easy to provoke movement and be discovered by him if he is too close, but if he is too close, he may not be able to track him......"

Jiang Yao looked at the figure of the person in the distance, turned his head to Mu Jianyun to cast an inquiring look, but found that the other party's face did not seem to be entangled at all, but gestured to the green feather beside him, the latter immediately understood, reached out and tapped a butterfly-shaped metal charm on the lower neck, only to see that the exquisite charm immediately came out of the rope, as if suddenly injected with life, began to flutter the mechanical wings, silently tracking away in the direction where the figure disappeared.

"While we can't use abilities on normal people, this mechanical gadget I'm making isn't limited, and we'll soon know where he's gone. Qing Yu said, her eyes flashing with pride, she reached out and stroked the butterfly earring on her ear, and a moving red dot was immediately projected onto her retina.

"This way. Qing Yu raised his head and resolutely pointed in a direction, and everyone immediately stepped into the dense forest according to the instructions, and after a period of zigzag shuttle in the forest, Qing Yu, who led the way, suddenly stopped.

Qing Yu stretched out his hand and made a "silence" gesture to Jiang Yao and the others, and when everyone saw this, they immediately leaned down cautiously, followed Qing Yu to hide behind a rock, and looked forward.

I saw that the woods shrouded in silver moonlight in front of me seemed to be faintly mixed with a faint orange and yellow light, but when I looked closely, I found that it was the light of a torch, and the source of the light was a hidden cave.

This is a stone cave in the rock wall of the mountain, the entrance of the cave seems to be not small, but because it is obscured by a few tall trees, it is impossible to make out from a distance, if it were not for the entrance of the cave standing an equally sturdy young villager looking around vigilantly, it is really impossible to find this cave, and the posture of the villager looks like a guard guarding the entrance of the cave, but this person is like the rest of the village, his skin is extremely white.

"Hmm...... who's it!

The sound of rustling suddenly broke the silence of the woods, and the guard immediately became nervous, but when he saw that it was the young villager who was being followed by Jiang Yao and the others who walked out of the woods, the guard's expression relaxed significantly.

"What's the matter, it turned out to be you, it's long overdue to come for a shift change, why are you so slow today, I'm going to starve Lao Tzu to death!" said the guard with a hippie smile, stepped forward and patted the comer's shoulder, and spoke.

"Hey, don't mention it, today the village chief brought back two unlucky guys, and I was going to deal with them like those before, but I didn't expect one to let them run away without paying attention, and also took away the two who were locked in before, and now the whole village is out of the village. The young villager smiled bitterly and shook his head helplessly. "No, because this delayed the shift, don't mind, I'll invite you to drink next time. ”

"Haha, forget about drinking, we don't know how long our body can last. When we can see the light of day again, let's have enough drinks together......" The guard smiled wryly and pointed to his pale face, but there seemed to be bitterness in his words. "By the way, have the four people who escaped been found? If they run away like the rich young master before, it will be troublesome......"

"Don't worry, if they can't run, they won't be able to get out of this forest at all, and it is estimated that they will be caught back soon. The young villager exchanged his duties with the guard, who had gotten a few words before turning and walking towards the woods.

Seeing this, Jiang Yao and the others hurriedly shrank back, and after watching the guard who had changed shifts leave, they once again moved their eyes to the strange cave in front of them, as well as the young villager who had begun to perform his guard duties.

"The 'rich young master' they mentioned in the conversation just now...... Could it be that it refers to my brother?" Zhou Wentao, who had been silent for a long time, finally couldn't hold back this time, and moved his inquiring gaze to Jiang Yao.

"Quite possibly...... It seems that the location of Brother Wen Hai's accident this time is really in that village. Jiang Yao stared at the villager and nodded slightly. "There are so many strange places in this village, and it seems that there are still big secrets, and this cave is still guarded in the middle of the night, and it is certainly not simple inside. ”

"I always felt ...... The loss of my brother's soul seems to be related to this cave, although I can't be completely sure, but I feel this way......," Zhou Wentao gritted his teeth and said. "Shall we go to the cave and have a look? Isn't it easy for three men to go up together and subdue the guard?"

"But it would be bad if there were other accomplices in the cave......" Jiang Yao thought and turned his head to look at Qing Yu. "By the way, Qing Yu, can your mechanical butterfly detect the situation in the cave?"

"I tried it just now, but there was a strong interfering magnetic field in the cave, and my butterflies couldn't get to the bottom of it. Qing Yu sighed, reached out and put away the mechanical butterfly that flew back, and buckled it on the necklace again.

"Forget it, I'll go and lure the guards away. Jiang Yao said, just about to leave, but suddenly as if he remembered something, he suddenly stopped his steps and looked at Zhou Wentao hesitantly.

He couldn't stay too far away from Zhou Wentao, especially in this forest with miasma floating in it.

"I'll go, Qing Yu, you take them into the cave while you take the opportunity, be careful. As soon as Mu Jianyun's words fell, his figure flashed and rushed into the woods, shuttling through the forest like a phantom, and soon attracted the attention of the young man on guard.

"Who!?" the young man pulled out the scimitar at his waist, hunched his waist, and moved step by step towards the bushes that made a movement.

"Click, click......" The faint sound of footsteps came from the bushes, and the young man's face changed, and then he accelerated to chase after the bushes in front of him.

"Almost, let's go. Seeing that the man's attention had been completely attracted by Mu Jianyun's movements, Qing Yu was also unambiguous here, and immediately took Jiang Yao and Zhou Wentao to approach the rapid cave from behind.

The ground under his feet was not flat, and there were traces of landslides around the cave entrance, which made the actions of the three of them have to be cautious, but Jiang Yao quickly saw that it was not a naturally formed landslide, but artificially caused, and there were marks on the rock wall, in other words, this was an artificial stone cave that was blown out.

In order to blast through the mountain to form such a big movement, ordinary soil* must not work, it is necessary to have professional blasting equipment, these isolated mountain people actually have such conditions? Or ......

Jiang Yao stared at the scene in front of him, his heart was full of doubts and his feet did not stop, and under the leadership of Qing Yu, the three of them quickly got closer and closer unconsciously, and finally stepped into the cave.

As soon as he entered the cave, Jiang Yao obviously felt a strange sense of oppression, as if there was some kind of force constantly tearing at his chest, and even his breathing became a little unsmooth. Jiang Yao turned his head to look at the other two, and found that Qing Yu and Zhou Wentao also had some wrong faces.

Over here...... What's going on?

Jiang Yao thought, holding his forehead and taking a deep breath, the energy in his body circulated again unconsciously, and a crimson inscription faintly flashed between Jiang Yao's eyebrows. Soon, under the harmony of the glimmer of the inscription, the sense of oppression slowly dissipated, and Qing Yu and Zhou Wentao, who were beside Jiang Yao, seemed to be affected by the red glimmer, and their faces gradually improved.

"Just now...... What's the situation?" Zhou Wentao finally relieved himself and pressed his chest and gasped slightly.

"I don't know...... This place is very evil, so let's be careful. Jiang Yao said, as if he remembered something, and looked back at the direction where the guard disappeared, as if he was a little uneasy. "Anyway, Mu Jianyun is okay with him?"

Jiang Yao's worries were not unreasonable, for the 'Spirit Imperial Divine Envoy' who acted in full accordance with the rules and regulations, he was very worried that the other party would be too rigid and put himself in it.

“…… Don't worry, although we can't use abilities on ordinary people, we won't be helpless, Brother Jianyun's strength is very strong, and he will join us soon. ”

Qing Yu said and glanced at Jiang Yao, she didn't expect that he, who didn't want to see Mu Jianyun before, could think of the other party's safety at a critical moment, which made Qing Yu's impression of Jiang Yao change a lot, and the originally somewhat defensive look in his eyes was suddenly reduced by half.

"Let's go, let's go inside. Qing Yu said, and then led the two of them down the winding and long passage, zigzag into the cave, and the traces of artificial excavation on both sides of the cave are more obvious than the outside, the width of the passage is about two adults in parallel, and the torches on both sides also provide enough light for the passage, but everything in front of them is quite simple, like a hastily dug passage.

"Under what circumstances do you usually dig such a big hole in the mountain? Is it mining?" Jiang Yao looked up and found that the top of the cave was not short, obviously it took a certain amount of manpower and material resources to do it, and some water droplets were dripping from the top of the cave, how weird it looked.

"In the case of mining, there are no reinforcement facilities, and there are no tracks in the form of minecarts. Qing Yu said. "It seems to me that there is only one kind of person who can do such a thing, and do it so rudely and crappily – and that is a grave robber. ”

"You mean this is actually a thief hole?" Jiang Yao looked incredulous. "But what tomb robber would build a cave so high and so big?"

"I don't know about this, so I can only keep walking and see if it is really connected to the tomb......"

Qing Yu seemed to hesitate on his face, but before the words fell, Zhou Wentao, who was listening to the side, suddenly opened his mouth:

"I think, Qing Yu is probably right this time, this is a thief hole. Zhou Wentao said, stretching out his hand and pointing ahead.

At the end of the spreading passage, a broken bluestone wall suddenly appeared, and in the huge ancient tomb behind the remnant wall, a black shadow gradually came into view in the dim light.

It was a large cyan coffin bound in chains, suspended alone in the middle of the tomb.