Chapter 168: The Dead City of the Canyon
After that, Yun Wen and I took a nap for a while, until we felt that the lights outside were flickering, which was particularly irritating to the eyes, and we woke up, and the voltage was unstable, indicating that the battery was not enough, which meant that about three hours had passed, and it also meant that our rest time was over.
I pushed her forward, while Yun Wen wrapped a piece of animal skin in a linen quilt cover, tied it with a linen rope, and put it on Sanfu's body with an iron pot and a military pot filled with water, so that she could carry it, and she herself wore one, leading the horse rope in front of her, and set off.
Walking out of the door, the sky is not yet full of light at this moment, it is cold outside, the cold wind blowing is particularly stinging, Yun Wen took the horse to eat the grass first, drink enough water, we also went out, opened the door of the post station, and went outside.
As soon as I got outside, I saw a big footprint on the ground, I compared it, it is unlikely to be an orangutan, but the shape of the footprint is somewhat similar, it seems that it came last night, but did not find a chance to start, and waited outside for a long time, it seems that it left shortly after dawn, and we are only separated from the front and back feet.
"What kind of grudge does this guy have, and why has he been eyeing me lately? Why hasn't it been like this before, but more recently? I said to myself.
But at this moment, there was no sound outside, and Yun Wen heard it, and she said: "If the other party's identity is related to the ancient Red Pupil Clan, I know why she is targeting us, it must be related to our destruction of the orangutan sacrifice ceremony, and it may also be related to the lost Yin Eclipse Pot." ”
"Why?" I asked.
"That [Yin Eclipse] is the Blood Pupil Clan's sacrifice to the boys and girls in their own clan, countless innocent blood and exchanged for evil things, their clan regards it as a treasure, if it is lost, it will be found, and we are the initiators of its loss, moreover, many of the practices of the orangutans are similar to the Red Pupil Clan, including the practice of sacrificing living people, refining corpses and prolonging life, are extremely similar, and that bronze tripod only the Blood Pupil Clan knows how to use and sacrifice, but the orangutans are skillful, this is unlikely to be the professor of Li Mufeng's predecessors." Yun Wen said.
"You mean, the orangutans know how to sacrifice because they were taught by the red-eyed monster himself? And if it's possible, the red-eyed monster can still get some benefits, and we cut off its 'wealth' road? Is it? I asked.
"If it weren't explained like this, there would be no way to explain everything clearly, otherwise how would we explain that the tripods and sacrifices used by the orangutans are the same as those of the Blood Pupil Clan? There will be no such coincidence in the world, if you can connect the relationship between the red-eyed monster and the orangutans, then you can explain everything, that is, what you said, the red-eyed monster and the orangutans are in cahoots, but they are destroyed by us, and the sacrifice is ruined, so that it will be a strange thing. Yun Wen said.
"If that said, why did it kill those fifty Black Skull members before? Later, he killed the Gu Eagle, could it be that it was also related to the destruction of the orangutan sacrifice at night? I asked.
"I don't know this very well, but when the Gu eagle hunts and lures others to take the bait, it usually screams like a baby, and the Blood Pupil Clan has always believed that the baby is the most spiritual sacrifice, if it can be refined alive, it will refine many crystals, which is the most supplement, so it may be unintentionally killed by mistake when it passes." Yun Wen said.
That's right, the red-eyed monster is also an ape, no one is so smart, maybe when he heard such a cry, he thought that the Gu Eagle was a human baby, so he killed it, he never thought that the Gu Eagle was smart for a lifetime, relying on this trick I don't know how many people on the island have eaten throughout the ages, but in the end because of the same skill, he was killed by mistake, I really sighed for it.
It's just that how an ape knows how a human baby calls? Could it be that someone else is teaching it?
"Then there are fifty members of the Black Skull, I wonder if most of them died in the west camp of the canyon, the place known as the City of Death, it is estimated that they violated the red-eyed monster, or the blood pupil clan hidden in the city, so they were wiped out, this is also my guess." Yun Wen said.
Unconsciously, we have been following the footprints for more than an hour, but there is still no sign of them, but those footprints seem to have been left in advance, and they can continue to be seen and discovered, which is as if someone was deliberately leading the way in front.
I didn't feel right, let the team stop for a while, I squatted down to check the footprints, it always felt like something was wrong, but I couldn't say, the depth of the footprints was pushed according to time, basically it could leave enough depth, it may be two or three hours earlier than we started, so the footprints are fresh but will slowly fade and become lighter over time, and this characteristic is completely consistent.
It shouldn't be surprising, but I have a feeling that my speculation is terrible, exactly right, and completely in line with the facts, which makes me wary.
But now the only clue is to follow the footprints, otherwise we will also be headless flies, so even if we are suspicious, we can only continue to go on, so I called the team to move on.
Bai Lu had a few times along the way, her body twitched, her face was so pale, that there were a few times when we stopped one after another to feed her water with a military pot, and Yun Wen chewed some herbs for Bai Lu to swallow, which could alleviate the strong symptoms of her nerves being stimulated by Gu worms, and only then continued to move forward after she was a little better.
Soon to the middle of the dangerous forest, there are a lot of evil deer footprints, there are broken branches in the trees, it is estimated that there is a certain fierce beast inhabiting, I try to whisper, I also slowly picked up the golden sword, first unraveled the eight gestures, in case of accidents, can not be timely defense and counterattack, but all the way through the face of the face, and then there are bison footprints, and wolf footprints, but the strange thing is that I can't see one.
And the strange thing is that although there are traces of various animal footprints in the whole forest, etc., prove that it lives in this vicinity, but I can't see one, and the last time, there are no birds and birds, quiet and silent, as if avoiding us, I carefully identified it, this neighborhood is still a dangerous jungle, and it has not yet reached the ape dense forest area.
Besides, the leaders of the orangutans were all killed by me before, the old gray, the overlord orangutan, and the four-armed white ape, this family is all finished, and the orangutans are trapped on the Claw Dragon Mountain, and they will no longer affect the ecology of the ape jungle too much, in this case, how can it be so quiet and terrifying?
Not long after that, I picked up a piece of blood jade on the ground, the blood marks on it looked really scary, looking at the evil sect, Yun Wen took it, and her first reaction was: "This is red lotus jade, soaked in the corpse of a baby, it is the 'masterpiece' of the blood pupil clan, Zhou Bo, can we throw it away?" ”
I nodded, and Yun Wen immediately threw it away.
And since I got here, I feel that something is wrong, why haven't I seen this thing before, and I accidentally picked it up? Yes, this is ample proof that the red-eyed monster is taking this road, but this time, how do I feel like someone is fishing with bait, and I am about to take the bait.
"Wait, something suddenly occurred to me!" I ordered it to stop.
Yun Wen immediately grabbed the horse, we stopped, she asked suspiciously, "Did you find anything?" ”
"It's too coincidental, everything is too coincidental, it's too weird, I expected something, there will be something, I think there should be footprints, there are footprints, how deep and shallow are exactly the same as I deduced, I think there should be a vicious beast nearby, and there are various characteristic traces of the vicious beast, I think the branches should be trampled by the deer, there are really a lot, too much to my liking! It's more like a deepening of solipsistic consciousness, so here... This should be an illusion, but that piece of blood jade is leaking the bottom. I said.
Yun Wen trembled and asked, "What's missing?" ”
I rummaged around, and then poured the water from the kettle on my hands, applied it to my eyelids and ears, and asked Yun Wen to do the same, and the picture in front of me changed dramatically in an instant!
I saw that we had already walked in a canyon mountain road, the hour was not right, it was already in the afternoon, approaching Shenshi, there was a faint fragrance wafting in the wind around, it was the smell of ghost claw flowers, and not far in front of us, there was a broken city gate open, and the city gate was written "Xiying"!