The figure of the expedition disappeared into the mist, the general of the Gurg lowered his sword, the defenders stopped their battle cry, and the fortress fell into a deathly silence again, and everyone extended their gaze as far as possible, through the shroud of mist, following the figure of the expedition.

"General, will they succeed?" One of the squires asked.

General Gorg did not answer.

"Are we going to wait 700 years?" He asked again.

"No, they will succeed, our mission is done." The general put the long sword into the sheath, in this life, he has never felt so easy - 700 years ago, there was also a group of people who came here, they escorted the scepter, but they disappeared in the Valley of the Dead and never came back, and what disappeared with them was the hope of the defenders, and this time, General Gurge felt that Xia Ruobing would succeed, the moment this fairy-like princess came to the fortress, General Gurge had a strong premonition, she was the one appointed by God to release the soul!

"But what are we going to do?" The squire asked, and everyone here was wondering about their future.

"Life will always find a way out for itself!" General Gorg turned his horse's head and smiled.

The scepter escorts from 700 years ago didn't come back until the wooden bridge collapsed, but not this time, General Gorg thought they would, and now, just wait patiently.

Waiting is a punishment, and fate is like a frozen picture for the guardians who have waited here for 1,000 years. And this time, people can no longer bear the torment of waiting, and the cruelest thing is not to deprive people of hope, but to give them hope and then let them slowly despair in waiting......

The ranks by the Black River turned neatly, they would return to the fortress and continue to wait, the old horse leading the way, General Gurg squinted at the rising sun, life will always find a way out for itself, yes, it will always be!

The two attendants hurriedly crossed the Black Great Wall and trotted, General Gurg took hold of the reins, the horse stopped obediently, and the two ran to the general's horse, owed, and said mournfully: "The High Priest of Kelland has joined the ranks of the ancestors. ”

"I see." General Gurg was stunned for a moment, and replied in a low voice.

General Gorg looked back at the misty gorge and said silently: "High Priest of Kellar, may your teachings guide them, and may your soul be with us......"

"We finally got the permission of those primitive people and stepped into the canyon, next, Mr. Chen Badai, what should we do?" Dick shouted to Chen Badai, who was leading the horse.

Chen Badai looked back at Xia Ruobing and the others who were following behind them, looming in the mist, after entering the canyon, this expedition team that was theoretically a team had already split, Dick felt uncomfortable with Tchaikov, he urged Mr. Min and Chen Badai to take the lead.

For a place that doesn't even have even the most basic map information, trying to find a stick less than a meter long in the middle of these mountains is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Chen Badai can only take one step at a time, his plan is to go along the canyon to the vicinity of the Undead Peak first, if according to what the high priest said, the people of the Poseidon 700 years ago will send the scepter back to the Undead Peak, and there will definitely be a cave on the Undead Peak where this damn scepter is stored!

"Min, do you have a better idea?" Dick saw that Chen Badai didn't speak, and asked again.

"This is the mountains at the junction of Asia and Europe, Dick, and if you cross this it is China...... "Mr. Min began, "and the scepter will always be somewhere." ”

Dick shrugged, what's the difference between that and not saying?

"I hope I won't run into an avalanche...... Mr. Min muttered as he looked at the snow on the mountain peaks looming in the distance.

The last avalanche made Mr. Min not set foot here for 20 years, but Mr. Min remembers that place, which is not far from here......

The sun slowly dispelled the morning mist, and the canyon gradually showed its original appearance, the canyon was up to a kilometer wide with strange rocks and rugged, and the rushing black river gathered down from the high mountains in the distance, pouring all the way to the edge of the canyon, meandering along the terrain of the canyon, until the outside of the fortress, the canyon was divided into fragments by the stream, all the way up and up, and not long after entering the canyon, you could see the traces left by the fire that the high priest said - the black mountain stones were burned, Many of the large trees in the canyon that can only be hugged by several people are only wooden stakes that remain less than a meter. Two thousand years later, the canyon has not even recovered from the fire, some vines and plants cover the ground weakly, most of the place is bare black rocks, but the trees are sparse, if it were not for the strange rocks and streams, everyone would have moved much faster.

Wang Xingguo looked at his watch, it was now close to noon, and the distance they had meandered through the rugged canyon had not exceeded 3 kilometers, and the two docile pack horses, the deeper they went into the canyon, the more uncooperative they became, and they stopped many times, and they needed to pull the reins hard, and they took steps very reluctantly.

"Oh oh! Dick, Quiet! Be quiet! Pandey tried to soothe the old horse that had been Dick, and now it was spinning in circles, with resistance and fear in its eyes, desperately trying to break free from the reins of Pandey's hand, and turn back......

Pandey managed to quiet it, but it didn't dare to take another step.

"Hey! Pandey, what's wrong with your horse? Dick, who was a few dozen meters ahead, heard the agitation behind him, looked back, and called out to Pandey, "It seems that your horse doesn't want to be with you." ”

"Die! Dick! Pandey couldn't figure out what was wrong with the meek horse, which had been resisting since it entered the Canyon of the Dead.

Dick's pride did not last ten seconds, he heard a clear explosion in his ears, Dick smelled a rotten smell in the air, he didn't react, the horse led by Chen Badai suddenly raised its hooves and neighed frantically, Chen Badai pulled the reins with all his strength, but it was still broken free, and the horse dragged the reins back and ran.

"Stop it! Stop it! Chen Badai shouted reflexively to chase after the horses that had run away, and they were immediately resupplyed.

The rugged canyon hindered the horse's speed, and Tchaikov, Wang Xingguo, and Sherpa blocked the horse's path and surrounded the horse on the edge of a boulder, and the horse's eyes were full of fear, and finally Tchaikov picked up the reins, approached the horse, and stroked the horse's neck to calm it down again.

"Poof......" There was another clear explosion, and a puff of gray-green smoke rose from behind a boulder, and Mr. Min climbed up the stone, raised his eyes, and called in a low voice: "God! ”

Xia Ruobing caught up, she climbed the stone, and was as stunned as Mr. Min, she turned her head and shouted, "Come on!" Ghostface skeletons! In the air! ”

Chen Badai took the reins from Tchaikov, but without saying thank you, he tied the horse to a stake, turned around and climbed onto the stone.

As far as the eye could see, there were objects the size of human heads, gray-white skulls, black eye sockets, ethereal gaze at these explorers from afar, some the size of fists, but the black eye sockets and nose hollows were also clearly visible, and at the base of a stone, a huge ghost-faced skeleton grinned at Sensen's mouth, as if smiling at them.

"Poof......" The top of a skull cracked in the distance, and a burst of gray-green smoke rose up, dancing in the air like a soul, Chen Badai felt that this smoke was like a floating ghost, and it took a while for the smoke to dissipate.

Seeing all this, Tchaikov muttered to himself: "This is the ghost-faced skeleton that the high priest spoke of, the ghost-faced skeleton that sings in the cold wind every night!" ”

"It seems that the Canyon of the Dead is still very appropriate!" Pandey said, jumping off the rock, looking down at a ghost-faced skeleton at his feet, which seemed to be staring at him as well.

Pandey kicked it lightly with his foot, and the top of the skeleton exploded, and gray-green smoke enveloped Pandey.

"Ahem......" Pan Dee choked and waved his hand to drive away the smoke, Wang Xingguo smelled a rancid smell, like the smell of a decomposing corpse.

"It smells terrible!" Pandey complained, "I should have put on a gas mask!" ”

"There are so many ghosts here!" Xia Ruobing said in a low voice.

The ghost fungus is a fungus that grows at an altitude of 1,500 to 3,500 meters, and according to legend, it is the illusion of resentment after death, this rare fungus can cause too many unpleasant associations, and its harsh requirements for the environment also make it slowly disappear into the human world.

"Ghost fungus?! Is it toxic? Pandey felt that his actions were a bit reckless.

"According to the records, there is no ......," Xia Ruobing said with a smile.

"That's good." Pandey was relieved, and then looked at the ghost fungus under his feet, the explosion just now, it seemed to consume all the energy, the spores stored in the head had flown away, and the shell of the ghost fungus collapsed and turned into an ugly grimace.

Pandey approached a ghost fungus growing on the waist of a black rock, this ghost fungus should not be mature, the almost round ghost fungus really looks like a skull, and a few black patches are like eye sockets and nasal hollows on the skull, some of the larger ghost mushrooms can clearly see the slightly open jaw, the size is like a human head, this thing is extremely uncomfortable to see even one, and this canyon is covered with thousands!

Pandey couldn't help but reach out and touch the ghost fungus, the skin was a little damp, like a mushroom with a layer of mucus, the skin was not yet dry, meaning it was not mature enough to release spores, Pandey pulled out a knife from his waist and cut open the skeleton......