1921. Chapter 1921
Holding these two strips of cloth, Ye Qing groaned slightly, and finally decided to go in the direction pointed by the strips. Anyway, now in this canyon, he doesn't know which direction to go, and the result is the same which way he goes, which can be regarded as a past exploration.
Walking a little further, Ye Qing found a few more strips of cloth, all of which were wrapped around trees or something, and it seemed that someone had left them on purpose. Or, the people in the past used these strips of cloth as markers to mark the path they had traveled.
Ye Qing walked all the way, and all the strips of cloth he saw were torn off and put in his pocket. He did this to prevent Du Canglang from chasing these strips of cloth to find him.
The canyon was full of dense forests, Ye Qing walked in them, and it was not so easy for Du Canglang to find him. Of course, if there were no strips of cloth to guide the way, even Ye Qing himself wouldn't know how to walk here.
The canyon occupies an area, Ye Qing walked about two miles away, and the white bones around him began to gradually decrease, and the strips of cloth were also increasing. Ye Qing was even more sure that this strip of cloth must have been deliberately left by someone as a marker.
Walking around a corner, Ye Qing suddenly heard a cold voice: "Stop!"
Ye Qing was startled, because he had already heard it, and this was obviously Du Canglang's voice. The sound was so loud that Ye Qing's eardrum buzzed, and he couldn't hear where the sound came from at all. However, this also frightened Ye Qing, was he discovered by Du Canglang?
"Come out, I saw you!" Du Canglang's voice sounded again, listening to this voice, Ye Qing was suddenly a little surprised in his heart. Since Du Canglang saw himself, with his strength, why didn't he come out and catch him, but instead shouted so loudly? He turned his head to look around, but he didn't see any trace of Du Canglang at all, let alone where this voice came from.
Seeing Du Canglang, Ye Qing was a little at a loss for a while, and he didn't know if Du Canglang had found himself, so he stood in place and didn't dare to move, but only quietly looked around. After a full five minutes, Du Canglang's voice came again: "Don't run, I saw you!"
It's just that this time, the voice is already far away from Ye Qing. Although Ye Qing hadn't heard where the voice was coming from, he knew that Du Canglang was getting farther and farther away from him.
Hearing this voice, Ye Qing breathed a long sigh of relief, he finally knew what was going on. Du Canglang didn't notice him at all, he just shouted and scared him, trying to scare him out. Fortunately, Ye Qing had a good heart in his heart, and when Du Canglang shouted, he didn't walk around, nor did he answer Du Canglang's words. If it was half a sentence, Du Canglang would have heard his voice, and he would have found him a long time ago.
patting his chest, Ye Qing hurriedly walked around the corner and continued to move forward quietly, not daring to make too much noise at all. And not far away, Du Canglang's voice came again, but this time it was farther away from him. It can be seen that he and Du Canglang are running in two directions completely, which makes Ye Qing's heart even more stable. The two are so far apart, it is not easy for Du Canglang to catch up with him.
Not daring to linger, listening to Du Canglang's voice getting farther and farther away, Ye Qing gradually quickened his pace. After running for about three miles, I could no longer find the marks left by the strips of cloth, and all the clues seemed to have come to an abrupt end here.
Ye Qing looked around, and his intuition told him that the clue was broken here, and according to the normal calculation, there must be something wrong around here. He took a closer look around, especially near the tree where the last strip of cloth had been tied, to see what was so special about it.
After circling around the tree twice, Ye Qing didn't find anything special. Just when he was wondering, Ye Qing's hand inadvertently touched a place on the top of the tree trunk, and suddenly felt that that place was a little slippery. Ye Qing looked up, only to see that the bark of the tree was damaged somewhat, revealing the sap of the trunk, so there was this slippery feeling.
Seeing this, Ye Qing's heart suddenly moved. These trees grow in the canyon, and under normal circumstances, nothing can break it at all, how did this trunk break its bark? Moreover, Ye Qing looked carefully, and the place where the skin was broken, it seemed that something heavy had cut it. Ye Qing knew these things, when he was in the army before, he had seen some tree-climbing tools, hanging on the trunk of a tree, and this would happen. Could it be that the location of the broken skin on the trunk was scraped by a tree-climbing tool?
Ye Qing hurriedly looked up, carefully observed the surroundings of the tree, and found that there were still many such traces on it, extending all the way to the top of the trunk. Obviously, someone must have climbed this tree before, so there are such traces on this tree.
The strip of cloth was no longer there when it arrived at this tree, the mark was broken here, and now there were traces of people climbing the tree, which made Ye Qing have to wonder if those people had climbed the tree here. It's just that what are they doing on this tree? It's very tall and big, but there's nothing on it?
After a little hesitation, Ye Qing still decided to go up and take a look for himself. He knew that the people who could enter this canyon were not stupid, and these people must have come here for a purpose. Since they climbed this tree, there must be something wrong with this tree, and Ye Qing naturally wanted to go up and study it in person.
Those people used to climb trees and still needed tools, but Ye Qing didn't need anything, he knew these skills when he was very young. When I was in the army, I often fought in the mountains and forests, and my skills in climbing trees were even more superb. Although there is no internal force to protect the body, and the strength is far less than before, Ye Qing wants to climb this tree, but there is no difficulty.
Tucking his clothes into his pants, Ye Qing used his hands and feet together, hugged the trunk and rubbed it a few times before climbing up. This tree grows very peculiarly, there are not many branches underneath, three meters up, but the branches are forked. Moreover, I don't know how many years this tree has grown, and the branches on it are as wide as a football, and people standing on it will not step on this branch at all. Moreover, the branches are covered with branches and leaves, and they are lush and green, and when people step on them, they will block them tightly, and it is a good place to hide.
Ye Qing climbed up to a height of about ten meters, and the traces left by the tree-climbing tools came to an abrupt end, that is, those people stopped when they climbed here. Ye Qing turned his head to look around, wanting to see what was around here. However, he didn't look at it, he turned his head to look at it, and was suddenly startled.
The branch is surrounded by lush foliage, which can keep people in the middle of it. Ye Qing stood on this branch, and about three meters behind him, there was a human head exposed outside the branches and leaves!
It was a man with a very pale complexion, a face that was not half the size of a normal person, and his facial features seemed to be twisted and curled together. But it can be vaguely seen that there is still a kind of horror on this person's face, a kind of dying unwillingness. The human head fluttered in the air along with the branches and leaves, and it looked extremely permeable.
Even though Ye Qing was extremely bold, he was also taken aback when he saw such a human head in such a bone-covered canyon. However, he soon regained his composure. After looking closely, I found that the person's face was not so, but shrunk for some reason, so it became half the size of a normal person. Moreover, it wasn't just a human head, his body was blocked by the foliage behind him, because the foliage was so dense that it looked as if there was only one head.
In fact, if the body was all exposed, it wouldn't be so horrible. Only one head is exposed, which makes people have to be shocked.
Figuring out the specific situation, Ye Qing breathed a sigh of relief. He walked along the trunk of the tree and turned the corpse over, only to be shocked to find that the fabric of the clothes worn by the corpse was exactly the same as the strip of cloth that Ye Qing had seen as a mark before.
"These marks were left by you!?" Ye Qing looked at the corpse in shock, this was a man in his thirties and forties, his hands were covered with calluses, and he had a lot of tools for tomb robbing, it seemed that he should also be a professional tomb robber. Judging from the situation of the joints on his body, this person should have practiced martial arts, and his strength should not be weak, at least he has reached the realm of internal strength and external strength. Among the tomb robbers, there are not many people with such strength, and this person entered the Death Mountain and died here so strangely, which makes people have to wonder.
They all climbed this tree, but what happened to the man, and the man died here? Is there any danger in this tree?
Thinking of this, Ye Qing subconsciously turned his head and looked around, but he didn't find anything special. He wondered how the man had died on this tree, and if he had come alone, what had killed him? If he had not come alone, but had been with him, then why had he been placed on this tree?
Ye Qing couldn't figure out these questions for a while. In order to find out the origin of these people, Ye Qing moved the corpse out, carefully observed the specific situation of the corpse, and wanted to find out the cause of the man's death, so as to analyze what happened to the man.
After turning the corpse back and forth several times, Ye Qing did not find any fatal wounds. Just when Ye Qing was wondering, he suddenly realized that there was something wrong with the corpse's neck. Ye Qing looked carefully, and saw that there were two deep tooth marks on the neck of this corpse, which looked as if something had bitten through the artery in his throat, and he had lost too much blood, so he lost his life.