There was no word for the night, and the next day the elder woke up at dawn. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw.

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Info called out to a few of the women who were in charge of preparing the food, added a little firewood to the fire that had been burning all night, and began to sit not far from the fire in a daze.

After waiting for a while, Yi and Hurricane woke up, came to the elder's side together, and sat down.

Yi said, "Elder, shall we go and investigate which valley in a moment?" ”

The elder said, "Well, I'll have some food in a while, and I'll go with 'Hurricane' and 'Miao' to explore that valley, and you and everyone will wait here." ”

"Why? Elder, I want to go with you too. ”

"No, you can't go, you and I have to be with everyone, and you don't have enough experience, so you don't want to go this time, you know?"

"Alright then, Elder, I'm not going, I'm staying with everyone."

"'Hurricane', you take care of the elders."

"No problem, young patriarch, I'll take care of the elders."

"I'm not that old, just take care of yourselves, leave me alone."

"Yes, yes, the elder is not old, and he is very powerful, the food is ready, let's go eat."

'Yi' said.

The woman who prepared the food distributed the food to everyone, just a little jerky and some plant roots, and a few grains of rock salt for each person.

After everyone had eaten, the elder called 'Hurricane' to give a general description of the situation in the valley.

It turned out that the valley was less than ten miles to the southeast, backed by a small mountain range, and it didn't take long to go back and forth from the place where everyone rested to the valley.

The elder told 'Yi' to lead everyone to rest here, and let 'Hurricane' lead the way and set off with 'Miao'.

The valley was not far away, and the elder, 'Hurricane' and 'Miao' were there in a while, but there was a small forest on the road that needed to be bypassed, and both the elder and the 'hurricane' cautiously did not enter the woods, but walked around the perimeter of the woods.

The elder stood at the entrance of the valley and looked around, only to see that the mouth of the valley was about forty or fifty paces in a radius of about forty or fifty steps, and the ground was full of stones of different sizes, and there were not too many plants growing on it, so it looked a little empty.

On the left-hand side of the valley is a gentle slope that takes about 100 steps to the top.

On the right hand side of the valley is indeed a cliff, which is not a good sight to be.

The elder thought for a moment and said to Hurricane, "Let's go up to the top of the hill first. ”

"Yes, Elder."

The three of them came to the top of the slope and looked into the valley.

I saw that the valley was in an oval shape, from the mouth of the valley to the inside about a mile is the mountain range behind the valley, the other direction of the valley is about five or six miles, one end is a pine forest, the other end is a bamboo forest, the middle part of the valley is a large bush and a small patch of grass, there are not a few big trees.

At the end of the bamboo forest there is a small pool, and a waterfall hangs from the top of the mountain and flows into the pool.

Hurricane pointed to a mountain wall in the valley not far from the mouth of the valley and said to the elder, "See, sir, I found a rock salt mine at that location. ”

"As soon as I found out about the rock salt mine, I hurried back to you and reported to you."

"Well, you're doing a good job, I see, the rock salt mine on the mountain wall looks not small, enough for us to use, but I don't know if there are any beasts in this valley? If not, we can be our tribal station. ”

"I don't know, I'll go to the valley with 'Miao' in a while, and Elder you will rest here for a while."

"I don't have to rest, but you go around the pine forest over there, you go to the opposite side of the mountain wall, I'll look around the waterhole, and when the light is dark, we will meet under the wall of the rock salt mine. Be careful, run in case of danger. ”

"Alright, Elder, listen to you."

"'Miao' let's go."

The three men descended a gentle slope into the valley and headed in three directions.

Let's not talk about what the other two people have discovered, but let's talk about the adventures that the elder experienced during this investigation.

The elder was old and experienced, so he didn't rush into the bamboo forest, but first circled around the bamboo forest.

The elders found that there were no traces of large animals around the bamboo forest, but there were many traces of small animals, such as rabbits, pheasants, and field mice.

On one side of the bamboo forest, in the valley near the mountain wall, there is a path that looks like a path that many small animals have stepped on.

The elder walked up the path cautiously, and when he saw that there were no animals to drink from now, his heart was half relieved.

Walk cautiously along the path towards the waterhole.

At the end of the path, there is a small sand and gravel beach, less than a radius of dozens of steps, and the water surface of the waterhole is not large, about a hundred steps, slightly larger than the sandy and gravel beach, but the water color of the waterhole is dark green, and it looks very deep.

The elder had reached the end of the path, and was about to step onto the sandy beach, when suddenly he saw a ripple on the surface of the waterhole, as if something was swimming up from below the water.

The elder hurriedly turned around, walked quickly to the edge of the bamboo forest, found a bush of dwarf bamboo, and hid it behind the bush.

Then the elder saw a battle that he would never forget.