After a continuous autumn rain, the air in Daque Mountain became extremely humid, and the yellow leaves fell to the ground, as if covering the mountain forest with a thick quilt, and the forest without a road seemed even more difficult to move forward.

Hu Shou gently brushed away the dead leaves on a piece of bluestone with his right foot tied with military leggings, and then pulled out the saber on his waist and pried the bluestone open, and a half-human-length brown flower snake appeared in front of him.

The weather became colder, and the flower snake coiled in a circle in the stone pit, as if it had begun to seek a state of hibernation, and without the stone to shelter from the wind, it only moved lightly twice, coiling tighter.

No one knew the snake's name, but just by looking at the colorful colors it was, you could guess what would happen if it was bitten.

Hu Shou crossed the back of the knife, pressed the snake's head tightly, and then stretched out his right hand to grasp the snake's head, and the thumb and index finger pressed the flower snake's jaw bone with force, so that it could not close the hideous mouth.

Looking at the terrifying fangs of the flower snake, Dong Yuan, who was standing on the sidelines and watching, frowned, and couldn't help but shudder.

I saw Hu Shou very skillfully pressed the flower snake on the big tree beside him, and suddenly nailed the snake head of the flower snake to the tree, Hu Shou turned a blind eye to the struggle of the flower snake, bent down and pulled out a sharp dagger from the marching boots, the tip of the knife was embedded, and the snake skin was peeled off with a sharp slide from top to bottom.

Hu Shou grinned, compared the position of the dagger, and gently poked and picked it from the back of the snake's neck, and a thumb-sized, green snake gall fell into his hand.

Hu Shou handed the still steaming snake gall to Dong Yuan, and Dong Yuan shook his head without thinking about it.

"Good stuff." Hu Shou smiled.

Dong Yuan swallowed lightly, still shaking his head firmly.

Hu Shou smiled, not reluctantly, turned around and called: "Dog!" ”

"Hey, Brother Hu called me?" A young sergeant emerged from the nearby woods.

Hu Shou spread his hands, the dog saw the snake gall in his hand, his eyes lit up, he stepped up in two steps, and he was not polite, took the snake gall and raised his neck, swallowed it in one bite, without the slightest expression that was difficult to swallow, and even licked his lips with an aftertaste.

Hu Shou turned around and took off the flower snake nailed to the trunk, threw it to the dog, and said, "Warm up the body with stewed soup for everyone, and remember to clean the poison sac." ”

"Okay!" The dog carried the flower snake and turned away excitedly.

Hu Shou smiled, turned around and sat down on the bluestone, took out the sulfur paste in his arms, and gently applied it to his arm.

Dong Yuan, with a rich expression, also found a stone next to him and sat down, frowning: "Why aren't you all afraid?" ”

Hu Shou is not too good at chatting, just smiled and shook his head without speaking.

Dong Yuan entered Daque Mountain with Hu Shou and others half a month ago, originally Dong Yuan didn't want to set foot in this death demon domain that made him have countless nightmares in this life, and no one wanted to go back and experience the nightmares he had already had. He will come in again, completely to repay Yang Yi for his kindness in helping the refugees in Qianzhou.

A month ago, Yang Yi secretly summoned Dong Yuan, saying that he wanted to open up a road that could march in Daque Mountain, Dong Yuan walked through Daque Mountain not long ago, and had an understanding of the situation and road inside, hoping that he would lead the team.

Dong Yuan is a person who knows how to repay his kindness, and he also knows very well in his heart that although the thousands of refugees from Qianzhou Mansion are now temporarily settled, they are outsiders after all, and if they want to really gain a foothold in Shuzhong, they need to contribute. Therefore, with the attitude of certain death, Dong Yuan led some young people among the refugees in Qianzhou, and followed the five hundred soldiers led by Hu Shou as a guide to enter Daque Mountain again.

But what Dong Yuan didn't expect at all was that entering the Death Demon Domain this time was a great surprise to him, and this mountain forest where the devil lived seemed to have suddenly become docile.

The last time I passed by here, those hungry vipers and beasts were like the soul messengers of hell, and I don't know how many Qianzhou refugees have become their mouths. And this time, Hu Shou's old hunters will always hunt those fierce beasts silently before they attack, they used to eat people, but now they have become everyone's appetizing military food.

The last time I passed by here, those poisonous insects and mosquitoes that killed people invisibly would always cause people to suffer from strange diseases without knowing it, and then die without warning, but this time, as long as you apply something called sulfur paste on your body, mosquitoes will basically avoid it.

The last time the refugee team passed by, they could only sleep among the grass and trees, and sometimes they slept next to them, and the next day they woke up and disappeared, and even the corpse could not be found. And this time, the kind of marching tent made of silk cloth carried by Hu Shou and others, as long as they got in, not only was it extremely warm, but those wild beasts that haunted at night could not eat.

However, the fear in Dong Yuan's heart is even worse, in his opinion, this Daque Mountain is the devil's hell, and Hu Shou, a group of Shuzhong generals, can actually walk in hell, is there a place in this world where they can't go?

Hu Shou has always turned a blind eye to Dong Yuan's frightened expression, he only does what he has to do, since his village was slaughtered by the rebel army, Yang Yi avenged them, these honest mountain hunters have already given their lives to Yang Yi.

Hu Shou took out a sheepskin map from his arms, carefully unfolded it, and then added a sign on it with an ink pen, and threw the map to Dong Yuan on the opposite side, and said: "We should have walked half the way by now, you see where we should go next?" ”

Dong Yuan took the map, looked at it with a frown, raised his head again, turned around and observed the surrounding environment, pointed ahead and said: "If I remember correctly, one day further will come across a big river, the water is very turbulent, and the refugee team walked along the big river for three days before finding a place to cross the river." ”

Hu Shou nodded, and said thoughtfully: "This message is very important, after eating later, you will look around, and be sure to remember where the place where you can cross the river is." After a pause, he said: "We have been in the mountain for more than half a month, and time is pressing, so we can't waste too much time here." ”

Dong Yuan suddenly wondered: "Why do we have to leave a group of people every time we walk?" ”

Originally, the team of more than 500 people, every time he walked a section, Hu Shou would leave more than 10 people, and then continued to move forward, until now there are only more than 200 people left in the team.

Hu Shou thought for a moment and said with a smile: "Those people all stayed to build a supply station." ”

"Supply depots?" Dong Yuan exclaimed.

Hu Shou said: "You can understand it as a post station, and when you go back, you will find that we will have a place to rest every time we walk, and the information has been able to be transmitted very smoothly, maybe in a few years, there will be a crowded road in this Daque Mountain." ”

"It's... How is this possible, this is the Death Demon Domain, what does His Royal Highness the King of Shu want to do? Dong Yuan had already closed his mouth in shock, and seemed to understand the purpose of their trip at this moment.

That Nine Nerds Shu King wants to conquer the Death Demon Domain!

Hu Shou smiled and said: "Our Highness once said that there was no road in this world, and when there are more people walking, it will naturally become a road." ”