"What do you think?" Fan Shenxi saw Qiu Xiaobei in a daze, pinched her ears and asked.

"Oh," Qiu Xiaobei put aside his complicated thoughts, "I heard a legend before, there is a family surnamed Chen who is very powerful and can predict the future, I just think that my mother-in-law seems to be able to calculate the future, I think it's amazing." ”

"It's not as mysterious as you think, as long as you think about it in many ways, and have the ability to judge the deduction of the last nine steps from someone else's step, it is not difficult to plan what may happen in the next few years." I think that when he first met Qiu Xiaobei, when he thought that his life was not long, he was planning how to take revenge on the entire royal family after his death.

"Alright, don't think about it so much, let's go over and have a look."

He led her through the white trees, Qiu Xiaobei was next to him, on the one hand, he didn't want to get too far away from him, on the other hand, he was supporting him to walk, and his eyes were looking around.

"What are you looking at?"

"Shenxi, where are your shadow guards?"

Fan Shenxi didn't answer, pulled Qiu Xiaobei to stop, Qiu Xiaobei looked along his line of sight, and found that the bark seemed to be moving, and when he looked closely, there were white snakes wrapped around the trunks of many white trees, some big and some small, and the largest one that could be found at present was the thickness of the baby's arm, and the small one was about the same as chopsticks.

It's like looking at a snow bear in the snow, if these white snakes don't move, they can't find it at all, if it weren't for Fan Shenxi's keen senses to find something strange, they would have walked a few steps further, and they would have to walk into the snake cave, and they didn't know how many white snakes were entangled in these white trees.

It's one thing to catch a snake to eat, but in such a place where it is difficult to even capture the target clearly, Qiu Xiaobei was a little stunned, and if something moved, he would look over in fright, and stared at it for a long time before confirming that it was only a leaf that moved.

The situation is very bad for them, even more difficult than the snow bear.

"Heavy." She habitually called his name to embolden herself.

But this time, Fan Shenxi was really there, he blocked her in front of her with one hand, hiding her behind her, and she said loudly: "I think, I don't have to guess, I can know where your shadow guard is." ”

Sure enough, when they were fighting, the white snake on a white tree on their left suddenly launched an attack on them, and before Fan Shenxi could make a move, a black shadow leaped over, kicked the white snake away, and then fell behind them.

There are one and there are two, the white snake is like a signal flare, and the other white snakes entrenched on the white tree also attacked them one by one, and a total of three shadow guards also burst out one after another on their side, dealing with these white snakes that pounced from all directions like hidden weapons, except for Qiu Xiaobei, who did not seem to have no combat effectiveness and was still a big burden, the three shadow guards and Fan Shenxi were all masters, but they were still all dignified.

"I'll try."

Qiu Xiaobei secretly took out a piece of rune paper and let it ignite, and shot towards a white tree that had climbed a lot of white snakes, and the fire did not fall when it hit the tree, it stuck to the trunk of the tree, just like a small cluster of fire growing in the book, and the white snakes climbing on the tree slipped back one after another, obviously afraid of fire.

"This fire ......" Fan Shen stared at the small fire that had been burning for a long time and had not been extinguished, thoughtfully.

Seeing that the fire was useful, the shadow guard took out the fire fold, lit the dry wood, and swung it towards the white snake that pounced, and the white snake shrank back in fear.

"It seems that you are really afraid of fire," Ying Wei said affirmatively, and then also expressed his amazement at the fire that Qiu Xiaobei had just released, "Madam, what's the matter with your fire?" ”

The dry firewood here is wet in the snow, and it is not easy, and it finally went out not long after it was ignited, even if it was useless to know that the white snake was afraid of fire, but the fire that Qiu Xiaobei shot earlier than them is still burning.

"Haha, hidden weapon, I made a hidden weapon for self-defense, mixed with oil, it is not easy to extinguish, hehehe." Qiu Xiaobei showed a pure smile.

"So, do you still have a secret weapon?"

Shadow Guard slashed off a snake with a knife and asked.

"Well, yet, there's more." Qiu Xiaobei, under the protection of the shadow guard, picked up three thick sticks, wrapped the talisman paper around one end of the stick, and then lit it to make a fire stick, she did it hidden, like she was just smearing something on the stick, and handed them to them separately after lighting it, "It should be able to burn for a while, let's get out of here quickly." ”

Fan Shenxi glanced at Qiu Xiaobei's hand that was deliberately hidden in his sleeve, and protected her beside him without saying a word, and the three shadow guards were guarding the two of them, waving a fire stick to scare off the white snake while continuing to move forward.

"Hiss, hiss-"

The further they went, they simply entered the woods full of white trees, and the denser the white trees, the more white snakes there were, and one by one their tails were wrapped around the trees, and the heads of the snakes were raised, and they looked like snakes growing out of the trunks, which were strange and infiltrating.

The three shadow guards didn't dare to relax a step, and the torches were pointed at them the whole time, for fear that one of them would not be good, and which snake would take advantage of the loophole.

However, it was useless to be vigilant later.

The white trees are too dense, and I don't know how this tree is planted so densely, one by one, you can pass through it, but you will definitely rub it over the trunk or branches and leaves, and you can't rub it next to those white snakes.

They had to stop.

"Is this white snake poisonous?" If not, fight the three shadow guards to be bitten by one, and let the two masters pass safely, if it is poisonous...... They will still do this, but they are afraid that if the poison is too strong, they will not be able to hold the master through this white forest.

"Toxic." Qiu Xiaobei said affirmatively, glancing at the three shadow guards, "So don't mess around, if you really die, who will protect us." ”

Yingwei's life is dedicated to her master, she doesn't want to blindly veto this brainwashing loyalty, but at least, she doesn't want to sacrifice meaninglessly for loyalty, while protecting her master, she thinks they can live well, and when they die, what can they do?

Ying Wei glanced at Qiu Xiaobei vaguely and didn't speak.

Fan Shenxi patted Qiu Xiaobei's head: "This palace knows what you think, but it is not feasible, your plan is that you use your body to block and get out of this forest as quickly as possible, not to mention how big this forest is, to ......" He lowered his head and glanced at Qiu Xiaobei, "With our situation, it can't be fast." ”

Although he can't walk fast with his legs, his internal strength can last for a while, but Qiu Xiaobei is different, she has been in this body for eight months.

"Your Highness, this ...... Is that backward? "The torch in my hand is about to be extinguished, and if it is impossible to move forward, I can only retreat first.

"There's no hurry." Fan Shenxi blocked Qiu Xiaobei behind him, took a step forward, slapped away the white snake that flew over with one palm, and looked at the distribution of the dense white trees.

Since the queen mother let him come here, there is no complete dead end that cannot be entered, these dense white trees, seemingly chaotic, but there are always mysterious places.

"Go over there." He pointed in a direction, and there, where the trees were closest to each other, white snakes stared at them with cold eyes.

"Yes." The shadow guard did not have any doubts about Fan Shenxi's decision, and even the white snake full of trees was not afraid, and one of the shadow guards took the lead, and then was surprised to find that the seemingly densest place was only because of the angle, and when they really walked in, they knew that it was the most spacious road, and they could let them pass by intimidating the white snake with a torch.

Fan Shenxi and Qiu Xiaobei were escorted by the other two shadow guards, and they really passed smoothly, and they relied on Fan Shenxi's pair of "discerning eyes" to walk to the end of the white tree forest safely, but in the end, what stood in front of them was a whole row of white trees arranged horizontally, without twisting and turning, they were straight on the same horizontal line, "intimately" blocking them, like a row of tree walls.

And how are they going to climb over this tree wall and get out of this forest?

"Let's go over from above." Qiu Xiaobei, who had been following closely behind Fan Shenxi, suddenly spoke.

"But this tree is very high, and if I don't have to borrow strength, I can't cross it with light skills." This trunk is full of white snakes, and it won't work at all if you want to settle down and borrow power.

Fan Shenxi, who was staring at the tree, smiled: "Just do what Madame said." ”

"Yes."

One of the shadow guards jumped up to test it, and the others saw that he had passed straight through the treetops.

Fan Shenxi sighed "Sure enough", his legs and feet were inconvenient, so he borrowed the power of the other two life shadow guards, and jumped up with Qiu Xiaobei in his arms, but the height did not exceed the white tree, and the position in the upper part of the tree began to stagnate, Fan Shenxi took her and hit it directly, and then did not touch any trunk branches, as if passing through, and then landed, and the shadow guard who came earlier helped him.

After the last two shadow guards also passed, they also looked back, Qiu Xiaobei said: "It's just an illusion made by borrowing the light to refract." She then looked at the treetops, which were completely indistinguishable from the real or fake, and then moved her gaze upwards to the distant mountain wall, and wondered what had happened to her outside the valley.

But he is an alien demon, even if his ability is limited, there should always be a way to save his life.

"Let's go." Fan Shenxi hugged Qiu Xiaobei, "It was just a small test just now, it won't end so easily, be vigilant, the test of the queen mother will not be merciful." ”

Qiu Xiaobei came back to his senses, put one hand on Fan Shenxi's waist behind his back, and still grabbed his clothes with his hand, and continued to move forward accompanied by three shadow guards.

Out of the white tree and snake forest, it is a white snowfield, accompanied by the dark and oppressive sky, and the mood that should be open is always more like depression.

"That's ...... Lake water? ”

After walking in the white snow for a while, I looked from a distance and found that something was reflecting in front of me, and when I looked closer, I realized that it was water, a lake.

When he came to the lake, looking at the lake that was still swaying slightly, Qiu Xiaobei was very surprised: "In this kind of weather, it's just a lake, but this water doesn't freeze?" ”

She squatted down slowly, her hand went down in the water, the water was icy, she touched it twice and came back, just after a while, she felt that her hand was going to be frozen, and immediately was carried into her arms by Fan Shenxi to help her warm, and by the way, she was taught two sentences: "This place is full of weirdness, no matter what you can't touch, children know this truth." ”

Qiu Xiaobei smirked and wanted to pull his hand out, but he didn't let him: "What else are you messing with?" ”

"Your hands are so cold, I'm afraid I'll freeze you too."

Fan Shenxi's eyes lifted, her dark eyes looked at her face, she instantly stood upright, obediently put her hand in his arms and didn't dare to move.

She stole a glance at the shadow guards next to her, and the three shadow guards turned their backs to them, looking at the sky and the lake very seriously, and pretending to be a sculpture to show that she had seen nothing.

so as not to be blinded.

Fan Shenxi said: "Check around." ”

"Yes."

However, after a round of investigation, nothing was found.

The lake is surrounded by snow, and further on is the edge of the valley bottom, from this point of view, this valley is not much except for the deep, and it is full of snow, at a glance, there is really nothing to find, but the white tree snake forest just now, maybe there is something more.

How did such a clean valley make a strange soldier disappear back then, could it be that they all sank to the bottom of this lake?

"Your Highness, do you want to go to the bottom of the lake to check?"

Fan Shenxi looked at the lake water that seemed to be clear, but he couldn't actually see the bottom of the lake: "How to investigate?" Although the water of this lake is not frozen, it is more frozen than ice, and no matter how deep your internal strength is, once you enter, it will never be pleasant. "I don't know if I can dive to the bottom of the lake.

"Then, go back to the White Tree Snake Forest and see if you can take a longer pole to explore the lake?"

Fan Shenxi agreed, the shadow guard was very good, and when he was alone, he played this advantage very well, and he couldn't see anyone in the blink of an eye.

"This is Hachi, right?" Qiu Xiaobei remembered that among the shadow guards, Xiaoba was the most straightforward, but the light skill was the best.

Fan Shenxi pinched her cheek: "You remember clearly." ”

Qiu Xiaobei hurriedly hugged his waist, originally to hug him, but with a big belly, it would be very good to be able to hug his waist: "Shen Xi ~ Husband ~ The people around you, I must remember it well." ”

"Speak normally!" It gave him goosebumps.

The jealous man is really a headache, Qiu Xiaobei's face is straight, and he said in a proper manner: "His Royal Highness the Prince, the slave thinks that this place is very strange." ”

"What's weird?"

Qiu Xiaobei took two steps away, first staring at the lake, then looking away at the sky, and then at their feet, obviously feeling strange, but he couldn't say where the strange point was: "For the time being, I can't think of it." ”

Fan Shenxi rubbed his thumb over her cheek and didn't laugh at her: "It's okay, think slowly." "All the way over, although it is all snow, but because of this, which little horn is wrong, the eyes pass in a flash, and the transmission to the brain will make her feel wrong, but she can't remember where she has seen it or what she has seen.

After waiting for a while, Hachi came back, and sure enough, he took several branches, and he tied them together to form a long pole, and slowly probed to the bottom of the lake.

Everyone was silent, and another shadow guard lay on the ground, his ears facing the surface of the lake, listening to the movement of the long pole in the bottom of the lake, Xiao Hachi probed and probed, and it seemed that he didn't find anything, and the long pole in his hand became heavier and heavier, heavier and heavier.

The shadow guard lying on the ground asked Hachi to take the long rod out of the water, and then found that the part of the long rod soaked in the water borrowed a thick layer of ice.

It is conceivable that if a person goes down, he will have to freeze at the bottom of the lake.

"There should be no bodies in the lake." The shadow guard lying on the ground got up and said, "The long pole should touch the human body, which is different from the movement of touching stones, dirt, aquatic plants, etc.

"Yes, there must be corpses at the bottom of the lake." Qiu Xiaobei rushed to speak affirmatively and eagerly, and after finding that everyone was looking at her, she explained with an embarrassed smile, "I mean, this long rod was frozen after only testing a small place, so I can't be sure that it won't be ...... Uh, strange stuff, hehe, it's all my guess. ”

Her slightly drooping eyes hid her worry.

The temperature here is low, and there is Fan Shenxi's walking super dragon qi, she was not sure at first whether the yin qi that was absent was her illusion, until she deliberately used her hands to stir the lake water by probing, and only then did she determine this matter, there were people dead here, and more than one person died, and the corpse was at the bottom of the lake without accident, and it was not decomposed.

This did not surprise her, not to mention the disappeared strange soldiers and the legendary thieves of the Snow Mountain, that is, those forces who wanted to find the strange soldiers, they must have also sent people to find them, although the waterway to the Snow Mountain is hidden, but since everyone knows that there is this place, naturally many people know how to come, so, it is normal that there have been people dead here, and it is strange that there are no people at all.

However, this is not what she found strange when she told Fan Shenxi just now.

Fan Shenxi glanced at her and said to Ying Wei: "Look for it again." He believed her unconditionally, even if she really just said it casually.

Qiu Xiaobei, who was still bowing his head and pondering, raised his head suddenly: "You're not afraid that I guessed wrong, and my efforts were in vain?" ”

"What are you afraid of," Fan Shenxi smiled, "You are my nobleman." ”

She blushed and looked away, and the shadow guards on the other end spontaneously put the long pole to the bottom of the lake again to explore, every short period of time, they had to take out the long pole to remove the ice, which was very troublesome, and the long pole re-entered the bottom of the lake may also re-explore the place it had found, and the effort spent was not a little bit or two, these were thought of a long time ago, Fan Shenxi still spent a lot of effort to get rid of Xiaobei here, and no one knew that the corpse really existed.

Because maybe you can use this time to investigate other places, and you will have more clues.

The long pole changed from one to four, and Fan Shenxi took the long pole himself and tried again in the place where the shadow guard had been looking.

"There it is!"

Xiao Shi shouted, and Xiao Hachi, slowly clamped the things he touched, and the long rod was put down for a while to freeze, and the situation of the "thing" at the bottom for a long time can be imagined, if it weren't for the fact that the lake water didn't freeze for some reason, the "thing" might become amber in the ice, and it would be even more difficult to fish.

The "thing" was fished out, and it was indeed a corpse, yes, I don't know when it died, because the corpse looked very complete, as Qiu Xiaobei thought, it was not decomposed, and even the clothes were frozen intact.

Putting it on the ground, Xiao Shi stepped forward to check, and then reported to Fan Shenxi: "Your Highness, the clothes worn by the other party are very similar to the clothes of the Dacheng National Guards a few years ago, but the subordinates found a brand on him, which belongs to our Dafan Dynasty." ”

He handed Fan Shenxi the sign that he had finally dug up from the frozen corpse, it was an identity token, and the lines on it were indeed from the Great Fan Dynasty.

Wearing the clothes of Dacheng and holding the identity brand of the Dafan Dynasty, this is interesting.

"Could it be that the people of Dacheng and Dafan Dynasty met here and fought here, and our people killed the people of Dacheng and threw their bodies at the bottom of this lake." The third, Shadow Guard Eleven, muttered.

Xiao Shi said: "It's hard to say that there is only one corpse, let's take a look." ”

Once they had an experience, they roughly knew what the place with corpses was like, so the next search went much smoother, and several corpses were fished out one after another...... There are quite a few corpses hidden.

And judging from the clothes and ornaments of the corpse, there are many countries and rivers and lakes, including the Dafan Dynasty.

Eleven muttered again: "Could it be that everyone gathers here, and then kills each other and stews in a mess?" ”

"Perhaps, they didn't die by the enemy's sword?" Qiu Xiaobei suddenly spoke, "So many people from different factions came here, it must be for something, it may be that strange army, or it may be other treasures, it is not in the interest to start fighting before they find it, they should cooperate with each other in the early stage, and fight again when they find something." ”

The spirit here has almost dissipated, and the only thing left will not be close to Fan Shenxi, and there is no sense, it is just a wisp of resentful spirits fluttering, and she doesn't have to ask, but she just feels that the death of these people is not simple.

Fan Shen Xi said: "Xiao Shi, check these corpses carefully and find out the cause of death." ”

Although it has been frozen for many years, many wounds are not easy to judge how they were caused, but fortunately, there are many corpses, which can provide a variety of references.

After waiting for a while, Xiao Shi gave an answer that was not very certain, but had the greatest probability: "They were probably stoned to death." ”

"Stoned?"

"Yes, it should be smashed by a heavy object such as a stone, because of the integrity of the corpse, this kind of smashing is obvious, and if it is replaced by other knife wounds and sword wounds, it may not be possible to find out after a long time."

When Fan Shenxi heard this, he looked around, how did the white snow kill so many people?

Qiu Xiaobei lowered his head and muttered "stoned to death", suddenly shouted "ah", and grabbed Fan Shenxi's sleeve: "Shenxi, Shenxi, I know what's wrong, I know what's wrong from just now." ”

"Don't worry." Fan's deep and calm voice comforted her well, "Speak slowly, what have you discovered?" ”

"Light." Qiu Xiaobei spread out his hands, looked at his hands, and then looked at the soles of his feet, "We are blocked, there is no light." ”

The three shadow guards looked at each other, unable to understand what she meant.

However, Fan Shenxi looked up at the sky, narrowed his eyes, and seemed to sigh faintly, and seemed to be puzzled: "What about a cloudy day?" ”

"Yes, cloudy." Qiu Xiaobei pulled back his clothes again, "This day, it's always cloudy, so everyone doesn't think there's anything wrong, but if it's ......" She pointed in the direction she came from, and said to Eleven: "Eleven, run this way, run farther, and then run back." ”

"How the hell did you recognize me?" Eleven asked, according to what Qiu Xiaobei said, he had already run a certain distance under his feet, at least five zhang long, completely beyond the range of the ice lake, and ran back after getting Qiu Xiaobei's permission.