More than an hour later, the two trappers sent out came back sweaty.

There is a ruined stone house on the bluestone cliff, and the stone house has been overgrown with miscellaneous trees, and after searching around, I found no signs of people living on it recently.

This was expected by Yang Congyi, the bluestone cliff was too easy to find, the bandits had been exterminated once, and they should not dare to continue to stay in this place for the sake of their lives, otherwise they would have to run away as soon as the government came.

Since there are no bandits here, the only way to do this is to go to the other two places first.

According to the villagers, there is a cave on a mountain more than ten miles away, and the villagers call it a cat's ear hole, you go and investigate. If the bandits live, don't be alarmed, and if there are no bandits, come back and join us. Cat ear piercing should not be easily entered, it is said that the inside is very deep and there is no end. Don't go into the hole. Yang Congyi considered and decided to divide the team into three parts.

The one who called Wang Wu to catch quickly and loudly should be.

"Liu Jian, you take a team of people to stay here, wait for Wang Wu's news, if there are bandits in the cat's ear hole, you bring people over to support, there are no bandits, after they come back, you go to Panlong Village to meet us together, and we will leave marks along the road."

The catcher named Liu Jian nodded yes.

"The others follow me to find Panlong Village."

After the arrangement, Wang Wu led two teams to the north, Liu Jian led a team to stay at the Qingshi Cliff, and Yang Congyi took the remaining two teams to continue to search upstream along the river.

Yang Congyi and others walked along the river for half an hour, then abandoned the river and climbed to the top of a mountain. According to the old farmer, Panlong Village is on a high mountain in the east, you can look east from the top of the mountain, there are several high mountains between the ups and downs of the mountains, I don't know which one the old farmer is talking about.

In fact, this is not to blame the old farmer said clearly, the mountains are originally many mountains, standing in the low place looking at the high mountains is not visible, the high mountains have covered the line of sight, there is no special sign, can not distinguish at all, and there is a saying that a mountain looks at a mountain high, there is no way to compare, unless the peak where Panlongzhai is located is obviously higher than other peaks, otherwise it will take a lot of effort.

"Which mountain do you think is higher?" Yang Congyi stretched out his hand and pointed to a few peaks in the east, and asked about the catch around him. He's really having a hard time.

"The one on the left." "High on the right." "It's obviously the highest in the middle." The catchers soon quarreled.

The distance between those mountains and their location is not the same, so visually speaking, the difference is huge, and standing here and arguing will never lead to a result. In the end, Yang Congyi decided to go to the middle mountain first.

From a distance, the mountain looked like a solitary peak, and the north and south were not connected to the other peaks, and the mountain looked a little steep from a distance.

Yang Congyi determined the goal, although the catchers were still arguing, it was meaningless, just noisy, to have some fun, the mountains were too tired and boring.

Everyone looked at the mountain and walked for a long time, but they still felt that it was out of reach, obviously they felt that it was not far away, and after turning over a few mountains, they saw that there were mountains in front of them, and the target mountain was still in the distance. Although everyone complained, they had to take a short rest and continue to move forward, because Yang Congyi told them that they had to rush to the mountain before dark today.

I crossed the valley and the mountains all the way, and finally when I was exhausted, I reached the foot of the mountain.

Looking up at the top of the mountain, I saw that the mountain peak was straight into the sky, the height was boundless, and I saw that the white clouds were floating on the side of the mountain, and the red glow was rolling around the mountain, and the top of the mountain seemed to be in the clouds, and it had gone straight into the heavens.

This mountain is too high, to say more than 1,000 meters, at this time the sun has set, or less than half an hour, the sky will be dark, if you want to climb to the top of the mountain, there are not two or three hours I am afraid that it will not work. I don't know if this mountain is the Panlong Mountain in the mouth of the old farmer, the situation on the mountain is unknown, it is inconvenient to go up the mountain casually, but you can't stay at the foot of the mountain.

After thinking for a while, Yang Congyi decided to take people up the mountain and talk about it in the mountains. The catchers were tired all day, their mouths were hungry again, they caught a lot of snakes on the road, and they had to make a fire to cook snake soup at night, and they had to find a hidden place on the mountain to hide the fire. A fire is lit at the foot of the mountain, and it is too conspicuous at night, and if there are bandits on the mountain, it is not easy to alarm them.

As soon as the crowd heard that they were going up the mountain to find a place to rest and cook snake soup, they were immediately interested, and they couldn't take any more rest, so they hurriedly got up and went up the mountain. The last time there were many people and the snake soup was not enjoyable, but now there are only about 20 of them, and there are many snakes on the road, so they will definitely be able to eat enough tonight, and they start to drool when they think about it.

Their luck was good, and it didn't take them a quarter of an hour to find a concave cliff that sheltered them from the wind and rain. The stone cliff is backed by the stone wall, facing the woods, one zhang is wide, four or five zhang long, the woods are not far away, the wind and rain are hidden and hidden, the key is that one side can go up the mountain, one side can go down the mountain, enter can work, retreat can defend, it is a good place for them to stay and rest at night.

Yang Congyi didn't think about it, and immediately decided to camp under the stone cliff to rest.

When the crowd heard it, they were naturally very happy. Quickly set up the tent, and went to find firewood, some set up a pot to make a fire, some have to help clean up the snake meat, not long after, the snake meat is cut into the pot, the fire burns, and then there is a fragrance wafting out, the mountain wind blows, the mountain is full of drifting.

Snake soup is the preference of the public to catch fast, not Yang Congyi's, he will take a sip if there is more, and he will not grab it without him, it is a casual fate. So, after the tent was set up and he ate some dry food, he began to meditate and practice.

Under the fire, the snake soup didn't take long to cook, and naturally there was inevitably a scramble. The snake soup is really fragrant, and you also scooped a bowl for Yang Congyi, but when he saw the white snake meat, he didn't want to drink it. The result is naturally cheaper other catchers, and they can take an extra sip.

The sky has completely darkened, the sky is full of stars, and the night view is very beautiful, but the catchers do not know how to appreciate, eat and drink enough, it is time to sleep and rest, run in the mountains for a day, lie down for a while, and snore.

Yang Congyi arranged that someone is on duty at night, sleeping in the wild, no one is on duty at night, not to mention others, just say beasts, if no one is on duty at night to make a fire, the hungry beasts will attack people, once the fire is lit, the general beasts will avoid it when they see it from a distance, and it will naturally be safer to stay at night.

At night, Yang Congyi generally does not sleep deeply, and his senses are sharp when practicing the "Five Dragons Hibernation Method", and he is unlikely to sleep deeply. But at night, a pot of snake soup has a strong fragrance, and it is inexhaustible for a long time, and Yang Congyi, who provoked him, could not practice with peace of mind, and the fragrance wafted in his nose from time to time, causing him to feel uneasy, and then he simply stopped practicing, anyway, this breath is useless, and it doesn't matter if he doesn't practice for a day.

At night, everything rests in peace, and most of the most active birds in the mountains and forests have also fallen asleep, and only a few are still crying without a sound. People have night owls, and birds and finches naturally have those who don't sleep at night, such as owls.

"Snakes, there are snakes! There are snakes! Suddenly, the silence of the night was broken by a few exclamations.

Yang Congyi's senses were keen, and as soon as the scream entered his ears, he turned over and sat up, and without thinking too much, he rushed out of the tent in an instant.

As soon as he got out of the tent, he saw that the night hunter was away from the fire, with his back against the cliff, his face full of panic, waving his knife in his hand, and shouting: "There are snakes, there are many snakes." ”

Seeing Yang Congyi quickly come out of the tent, Na Zhukuai immediately shouted to him: "Yang Zhutou, there are a lot of snakes outside." ”

Yang Congyi turned his head to look out of the cliff, and saw the firelight flickering, the dark shadow on the ground squirmed, fixed his eyes and looked carefully, only to see that not far from the fire, the snake shadow rolled, and the ground a little farther away was densely packed I don't know how much, the rustling sound, accompanied by the "pop" sound of firewood burning, made people's hearts beat and their scalps numb.

"Get up, it's dangerous!" Seeing this situation, Yang Congyi couldn't think about it anymore, and woke everyone up first, otherwise he would wait until he was completely surrounded by snakes, and in a panic, he didn't know what chaos would happen.

A roar woke everyone up from the snake soup dream, and they hurriedly climbed out of the tent, so that they didn't even have their eyes fully opened, and they were still sleepy-eyed.

But there are also people who are vigilant, and the first shout of the night catch wakes them up, and when they come out after Yang Congyi, they naturally look at the dense snakes outside. Suddenly shouted in panic: "There are a lot of snakes, everyone run." ”

As soon as he said to run, he didn't care about taking anything, so he turned around and ran towards the mountain.

I just woke up to catch fast, heard that there were a lot of snakes, and saw someone running away in a panic, where to think about it, I pulled my legs and followed the catch fast, and fled to the mountain like a desperate escape.

"Don't panic, stop first!" Yang Congyi saw that the catchers were so flustered and didn't bring anything, so he ran for his life, and suddenly became anxious and wanted to stop him.

But in the face of danger, who can still listen to his orders, and more than two dozen catchers ran away in a blink of an eye.

Seeing this, Yang Congyi's brain teaser was in a hurry, everyone else had already run away, and he had to keep up, but so many snakes would not be surrounded for no reason. Without waiting for him to think about it, he saw the snakes surrounding the tent under the light of the fire, and turned to the top of the cliff, trying to chase them up the mountain.

Seeing this, Yang Congyi didn't have time to think about it anymore, so he took the knife and gun, and a few shots scattered the fire, and the firewood was scattered above the stone cliff, just blocking the way up the mountain for those snakes who had turned.

Seeing that those snakes were stopped by firewood, spinning left and right, huddled together, and did not dare to approach, Yang Congyi took the opportunity to jump over, and ran towards the mountain in a few strides, and hurried to chase the fast catchers who ran away.

There is no moon in the night, only a little starlight, and in summer, the forest is dense with foliage, and the rare starlight is also blocked, and the forest is dark.

Yang Congyi is not very worried about the snakes chasing after him, the snakes are not faster than people on land, he is most worried about the fast catchers who are desperately escaping in front, in such a dark place, and in the mountains and forests, no matter how careful they are, they are usually unavoidable, bumps and falls, injuries and bleeding, and now they are desperate to escape, I really don't know what the result will be.

At the beginning of entering the forest, Yang Congyi couldn't see anything, so he didn't dare to run around like the fast catchers, stayed for a while, his eyes were slightly adjusted to the darkness, and after he could gradually see the things in front of him, he followed the path stepped out in front of him and chased after the fast catchers.