Chapter 216: Encounter with robbers on the road
The people tied the carriage to the stump and started the fire as usual. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Fortunately, even at noon, they could not see the sun in this place, otherwise they would not have had the courage to sit in the open space at noon according to the weather of the previous day.
Qingtian sat cross-legged on the ground for a while, and then couldn't help but tilt his head to observe the stone wall in the distance. The cliff was really quite high, and it was impossible to see the end, and it was cut into the sky at ninety degrees, and it looked magical and terrifying. In addition, there was no sunlight for a long time, and the cliffs grew patches of moss, some of which were dried and dark green, and some of which were newly grown and tender green.
On a sunny day, I looked up along a patch of moss, and then I noticed a gap at the top of the cliff.
It stands to reason that such a naturally formed gap is not particularly rare in the wild, but the feeling of suddenly discovering a gap on such a flawless cliff made Qingtian's heart suddenly surge with a strange uncomfortable feeling.
Before she could point out to the little one next to her, the Flying Shadow, who had been obediently nesting at her feet, stood up suddenly, and made a sound similar to the "woo woo" in her throat at the gap.
Qingtian's spirit suddenly tensed a little. Flying Shadow has always been the most alert of the group.
And now it looks like it's on the verge of the enemy, which means... It's hard to deal with things on top.
At the same time as Feiying stood up, the group basically stood up as well, looking up at the gap and taking an attack pose. And Lu Shang, the only ordinary person in the group, straightened his arm and grabbed something from the air.
"What's going on?" Wu Qingqiu was the first to speak.
Lu Shang revealed the miniature version of the black feather in his hand, and his brows slowly furrowed: "It was the black feather who sent us supplies that was intercepted by them." ”
"Then this is—" Sunny Sky gestured to the bird in his hand.
Lu Shang looked up at the gap in the cliff, "When the Lu family sends supplies, the person in charge will bring communication birds, but they will not be used until the last resort." The stuff above... I'm afraid it's not easy to mess with. ”
"We can't sit still here. Wu Qingqiu frowned, "And it's easy for them to do something in this place at this time." ”
Everyone agreed with Wu Qingqiu's words, and then, after a short discussion, decided to retreat slightly from the way they had come, so that they might be able to climb the cliff next to them from the side.
As the head of a business family, Lu Shang is a necessary and significant thing to save his people intact at this moment.
So the crowd quickly packed up their things and retreated from here. Before leaving the meadow, Qingtian faintly saw the figure peeking out of the gap.
When Lu Shang's people sent the communication bird out... Shouldn't have been discovered?
Qingtian originally wanted to tell Lu Shang about this concern, but after careful consideration, he dispelled this idea, and the people who doubted him in front of Lu Shang didn't seem to be very good? Moreover, Lu Shang's temper has been getting worse and worse because he hasn't seen the demon recently, and they have tried to keep their distance from him for half a month.
It's better not to touch this moldy head yourself...
Soon, the group retreated into a sparse woods that they had passed earlier.
This area is probably much more sparse than the surrounding woods because of the variety of trees, and the group put the carriage inside, not to mention that it is not particularly conspicuous from the outside, and it is not very stuffy to stay inside.
Xiao Low and Xiao Gao came back in a circle around the forest, on the other side of the forest was a large clearing, and a little further away there was a river, if they really reached the last resort, they could quietly evacuate from the other direction, if it was in the clearing before, then they would have to be captured.
After careful discussion, Wu Qingqiu, Qingtian, Lu Shang, and Xiao Low tried to climb the cliff from the side, while Xiao Gao, Xiao Bei, and Xiao Xi guarded the carriage and things in the woods, and if the situation was not right, they would retreat from the side in the carriage, and everyone would meet on the other side of the river later.
Xiao Low took out a few signal flares out of nowhere, one red and one green, and also gave Xiao Gao a few.
"If you're in danger, pull the red one, and if you can't wait for us to come, pull the green one. So do we. Xiao Low pulled Xiao Gao and explained carefully.
The four of them came out of the woods with their waists bent, and although it was still far from the gap in the cliff, everyone was tense and tense just in case. When we first hit the road, although we considered the situation of encountering robbers, the ordinary small robbers and a few people were actually not in sight, but the robbers in this place were obviously not a group of ordinary people.
Able to force a well-trained person to release a communication bird, to occupy such a favorable terrain, to intercept a huge black feather in the air, no matter from any point of view, this group of people is extremely capable.
Perhaps the gap in the cliff was not really a natural formation, but a deliberate attempt to make it easier to carry out some kind of plan.
Qingtian followed a few people and climbed up with his hands and feet, and from the side of the cliff, there should be mostly rocks and sparse trees, but it was not until they were halfway up that they realized that their thoughts were a little naïve.
This cliff has been around for a long time, and although there are craggy rocks underfoot, there are still many trees growing tenaciously on these strange rocks, not to mention the number of them, and some of them are particularly lush.
However, this unexpectedly lush tree did not bother several people, and even in some ways, the tree also did a good job of hiding their whereabouts. Otherwise, the other party is condescending, and it is easy to find them, and it is easy for the other party to do anything casually.
"Look, this is where they should have been. Xiao Low suddenly pointed to a bush of grass that had been pressed quite low and said.
Sure enough, since they came up, they haven't seen any specially built roads for walking, either the group doesn't usually walk in this direction, or the group doesn't usually walk... Qingtian frowned, and the sentence "There is no road in this world, and when there are more people, it becomes a road." ”
But there are traces of people passing by here at the moment, but it has not been trampled on for a long time to form a road, does this mean....
"Do you guys think it's weird?" said Qingtian at last.
"You mean," Wu Qingqiu's long white fingers tapped his chin, "Is it possible that they expected us to go this way and arranged the trap in advance?"
Qingtian really thought like this, but she felt a little incredible, so she didn't mention it directly, and at this time, Wu Qingqiu broke her sentence and no longer hesitated, "Yes, that's what I meant." Otherwise, why would there be traces of people passing by here, but no traces of paths?"