A few days later, in the afternoon, a small lake one hundred and fifty miles west of Boyuan City, camped and fished on the shore of Bailiyan Lake, which was very leisurely. A fast horse came from the east, and when he came in and out and stopped the reins, the knight turned over and hurried down to the lake:

"Deputy Marshal Qiyu, the news has spread, the eldest grandson, Wei Guo, and Sun Guo have come to ask to see the deputy marshal."

The person who came said quickly, Bailiyan said slowly:

"Got it. Take a break and head back to the city to stand by. ”

"No!"

When the people came to retreat, Bai Liyan and Guan Longxiang, who were sitting next to him, said:

"It's rare to be a scoundrel, and the Son of Heaven is probably scolding us again."

"Hehe, if everyone is a humble gentleman, how can there be chaos in the world, and it is not impossible to be a scoundrel."

"Sir, that's right." Bai Liyan affirmed, and then said: "In troubled times, traitors are needed, and capable ministers are used to govern the world." At present, the etiquette collapses and the chaotic world is rampant, and the ministers can do it, and the traitorous male must also do it, and only in this way can he be invincible. ”

As he spoke, the fishing line in the water was chaotic, and there were hidden fish on the bait, and after waiting for a while, Bailiyan gently lifted the fishing rod, and suddenly felt struggling at hand.

"Big fish, it's a big fish!"

After speaking, Bailiyan stood up and stepped back, trying to pull the big underwater fish to the river, Wei Qi quickly stepped forward to pull the fishing line, but under the hard pulling, the fishing line was broken, and I saw a big blue and black fish eat pain, and jumped out of the water, which really surprised everyone.

"Vice-marshal, look, what a big fish!"

Wei Qi blurted out, and Bai Liyan hurriedly scolded him:

"Stupid, who told you to pull the fishing line, let go of such a big fish, drink the northwest wind tonight!"

Wei Qi's face was red, and he said aggrievedly:

"Isn't it a temporary urgency for my subordinates, and with such a big fish, the fishing line can't be eaten."

"You don't admit that you are stupid, how can such a big fish be fought by manpower, and you must use fatigue to drag and indulge repeatedly and consume its strength to pull it ashore. It's good now, let go of the big fish, what do the brothers eat at night. ”

"Wang Qiang and the others went hunting in the forest early, there will be a harvest, where can they be hungry."

Wei Qi quibbled, Bai Liyan glared at him and said:

"It's really brainless, knowing that you can't defeat your opponent, can't you use your head to smash it. Even if the fishing line can't hold the big fish, you have to try to win by other methods, you think that fishing is just for eating meat, and there is still a lot of knowledge in it. ”

Wei Qi stayed by his side for a long time, and Bai Liyan also found that his attainments in some aspects were far inferior to Jiang Jie, but he was more talented than Jiang Jie in martial arts and equipment. Wei Qi entered the Hou Mansion at the age of eleven, and Bai Liyan trained him single-handedly, so the conditions were much better than when Jiang Jie followed him.

Weapons and martial arts are quite good, shooting is quite powerful, the revolver fifty meters to shoot the target he is basically nine rings and ten rings, Bailiyan can only play seven or eight rings. Since a pistol is more difficult to master than a rifle, the level of shooting of a pistol is a good indication of a shooter's qualities.

After counting Wei Qi and Wei Qi, Baili Yan looked at the fish and sighed, put away the fishing rod and prepared to close the stall. At this time, I suddenly remembered Wang Qiang and others who went into the forest to hunt in the morning, and then looked at the pocket watch, the time was already four quarters, and I couldn't help but start worrying:

"Wei Qi, Wang Qiang and others have been to the forest for half a day, and they haven't returned yet, take someone to take a look, don't have an accident."

"No!"

After instructing Wei Qi, Bai Liyan continued to pack up the fishing gear and returned to the camp to prepare for the barbecue. But until it was dark, and Wei Qi, Wang Qiang and others returned to the camp for a long time, Bai Liyan suddenly became nervous.

"It's broken, something must have happened!"

Guan Longxiang answered:

"Wang Qiang and Wei Qi are strong in martial arts, and the more than 30 people accompanying them are all elite soldiers, and none of them have returned so far, so it won't be calculated."

When Bai Liyan heard the news, he suddenly had murderous intent, and in a blink of an eye, he thought that Liang Guo had made a black hand, he got up and said:

"Let's go, into the woods!"

Bai Liyan has never given birth to a son in his life, so he has always regarded Wei Qi as his own son, although he is a little strict with him on weekdays, but it is also for his good, and he still loves it very much. If Wei Qi has three longs and two shorts, someone has to pay this blood debt.

Leaving 50 people to take care of the camp and horses, Bailiyan and Guan Longxiang personally led more than 200 people into the forest to search. As soon as he entered the woods, Guan Longxiang noticed something abnormal, and he said:

"Deputy marshal be careful, it is quiet in the dead of night, but there is no other fire in the forest, Wang Qiang and Wei Qi may have encountered an accident!"

"Got it." Gritting his teeth and saying, Baili Yan ordered everyone: "The guns are loaded, each team should spread out a defensive formation, keep a distance, be careful under your feet and around you, do not leave the team, and slowly search within the field of vision." ”

"No!"

Everyone spoke in unison, and then they formed a formation, looking for traces of the ground, pushing and searching to the north, but there was no trace of a fight, and they walked out of more than three miles, deep in the forest, and found a compass, which belonged to Wang Qiang.

The reason why it is definitely Wang Qiang's compass, not Wei Qi's, can be clearly distinguished from the shape and function.

The compass issued by Wei Qi is the latest fourth-generation compass, and Wang Qiang uses the third-generation compass, and the functions and systems of the two are not much different, the difference is that the fourth-generation compass dial is colored and uses tempered glass. The third-generation compass is black on a white background and plain glass.

"It's weird, what did Wang Qiang do with a compass!"

Bai Liyan suddenly became suspicious, and Guan Longxiang answered:

"Could it be lost here?"

Bai Liyan shook her head and said:

"Not really. The compass is carried in a leather bag around the waist with a metal buckle that will not be taken out unless it is used. Even when you run bumpy, you won't miss out. Unless Wang Qiang took the compass and ran in an emergency and missed it. And ......"

Speaking of this time, Baili Yan's heart shook violently, and at first thought that she was dazzled, so she immediately took a torch and took a closer look, and found that the compass showed that the direction was completely opposite to the way it came.

"Shhh...... Hell yes! Mr. Guan Long, we must have come from the south! ”

"Of course, it's from the south, why did the deputy marshal say this."

"Look, sir!"

Guan Longxiang looked down at the compass and was taken aback. The compass deviates from the way it came, and no matter how it rotates, it always points in the direction of the path.

"Vice marshal, could it be caused by a damaged compass?"

"No!"

Bai Liyan shook her head and took out her compass, and the situation was still the same. Not only that, but the pocket watch has also stopped, apparently caused by some unknown strong magnetic field outside. This means that it is never the compass that is wrong, and it is not a geomagnetic problem.

If it is a geomagnetic disturbance caused by an underground mine, the compass should rotate disorderly or constantly shift with walking, instead of pointing in a single direction all the time, and it is completely contrary to the south and pointing to the north, the only explanation is that there is some kind of strong magnetic field in the north, which has an effect on the magnet in the compass, and it is not a simple magnetic effect, it should be electromagnetic or other band energy.

If it is a pure magnetic substance, it can be so powerful that it can lock on to another magnetic material in the air, which means that the iron objects carried with you should also be affected, but it does not.

"Mr. Guan Long, you lead a hundred people to stay here, make a good mark, and I'll take someone to check it out."

"This place is sinister, the deputy marshal is a heavy duty and should not take risks, exit first tonight, and it is not too late to enter the forest after dawn tomorrow."

"No, sir, look at the heavens!"

Bailiyan's fingers were in the air, Guan Longxiang raised his head and looked at it in shock:

"Moon, Moon......"

The moon and the sun are always rising, rising in the east and setting in the west, so as long as the moon is set due south, the moon should be in the east at nightfall, and after the compass fails, Bailiyan's first reaction is to observe the moon and star position, and it turns out that the moon is already in the west. If it is positioned incorrectly, the moon will appear in the west, but in the direction of the time, the moon will be in the west, which is incredible.

This means that either it's just before dawn or something "weird" happens. If it was just a simple magnetic field problem, Wang Qiang and Jiang Jie could have returned to the camp along the footprints they had come, but now none of them have returned, obviously this forest is not ordinary

With Guan Longxiang's detailed instructions, Bai Liyan led fifty people to the north to continue the search, and as he walked, someone suddenly shouted in horror:

"Vice, deputy marshal, the brigade is gone!"

Bailiyan's scalp suddenly went numb, and when he looked back at the direction of the time, he found that Guan Longxiang and other 1780 people were no trace of them. A chill could not help but rise in his heart, and he said:

"Don't look back, look at the brothers around you, and keep going."

Bai Liyan didn't dare to think about it anymore, he couldn't understand the current situation at all, all he had to do was to stabilize people's hearts and continue to search.

Minutes and seconds passed until a cliff, possibly a valley, was found, and an indistinct crash could be heard from beneath the cliff.

"Deputy marshal, there seems to be a sound down there."

The guards shouted when they heard this, Bailiyan took a torch and threw it down the ditch, and the firelight fell vertically and drifted away, until more than fifty feet later, it hit an unknown object and made a violent sound, looking down at the firelight, but I didn't know what was below.

Then the guard said:

"Deputy marshal, Wei Qi, Wang Qiang and the others won't fall."

"There are fifty or sixty feet here, and it is still possible for one person to fall, and there is no reason for more than 30 people to fall."

As soon as the words fell, another guard came to report:

"Deputy Marshal, find our army's rope."

"Where, take me to see it."

Ordinary soldiers of the Xian army are not equipped with ropes, only the logistics baggage battalion will reserve ropes, tripping ropes, special task squads, reconnaissance teams will also carry ropes.

The Bailiyan Guards are also issued ropes, but not everyone has them, and each team has different functions and division of labor, so the ropes they carry are limited. The ropes carried by Wang Qiang and Wei Qi were not enough for them to descend to the bottom of the valley, so there should be a downhill step at the bottom of the rope.

Find the rope, sure enough, found the fixed rope of the steel nail and the Xianjun habitual tethering method, Baili Yan decisively sent two people along the rope to probe, a few calls came, the fire can be seen that there is an earth platform twenty zhang down, the left side of the earth platform is a slope, faintly leading to the bottom of the valley.

Signaling the two to go down, about a moment passed, there was a signal of shouting and torch waving from the bottom of the valley, which meant that the bottom of the valley had been touched, and Wang Qiang and Wei Qi must have touched it from this. Leaving five people to continue to guard the valley mouth, Bailiyan immediately led people down to the valley to converge.