After discussing with Ye Qingshan, Ye Qinghe, Lin Yuqing and the commanders, they decided to enter Xishan by means of a carpet search.

Except for the first day, a minimum of six kilometers were advanced every day from the second day. The reconnaissance battalion cooperated with the detachments to move forward, with the reconnaissance battalion exploring the road in front and the guards following closely behind, and the distance between the two was not more than two kilometers. That is, every two kilometers of the reconnaissance battalion had to wait until the Guards joined it before it could continue to advance.

The reason why Ye Qingshan arranged it this way was to better protect the scouts, after all, most of them didn't know martial arts, if they really encountered fierce beasts or poisons, the distance was too far, and the guards behind would not be able to rescue them.

However, Ye Qingshan also knew that although this could protect the safety of the scouts, it greatly limited the speed of advance. According to his conservative estimates, it would take fifteen days to reach the edge of the West Mountain Barrier.

"It depends on how deep the poison is hidden?" Ye Qingshan sighed secretly in his heart. He knew that the farther west he went, the more dangerous it became, and it was very unstable in terms of landform, biology, and climate, especially near the barrier, which was even more mysterious. He's been here for 25 years, but he's never dared to set foot in that mysterious place.

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Under the arrangement of Jin Laiwang and Du Sangui, Cheng Yifan's detachment, like other reconnaissance detachments, entered the Xishan Conglin at noon.

Cheng Yifan's deputy detective is a middle-aged man who looks to be about forty years old, of course, his actual age must be more than that. "Nine out of ten people here are old monsters whose age does not match their appearance," Cheng Yifan already knew this as soon as he entered this enchantment.

This middle-aged man, named Wu Yi, is not tall, about 1.75 meters, which is comparable to Cheng Yifan. His face is very thin, like a small person with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks, and there is a large black mole on the left side of his face, and there are two slender curved hairs hanging from the middle of the black mole, which makes people feel like they want to tear it off.

Cheng Yifan is not judged by his appearance, but he has seen this person during the competition, "It is the five people in the same position as Scar Nine and Gao Ren." ”

Although Cheng Yifan is not smart, he can also guess: "This person must have been deliberately placed by Du Sangui." ”

The other ten people, Cheng Yifan had never seen them before, but these people were all deployed by Du Sangui, and Cheng Yifan couldn't determine how many of them were his.

Although he has a chief investigator here, and he also has command over these people, he is empty because of Du Sangui's calculations. But he didn't care, all this was expected by him.

"My lord, your performance yesterday was so good, we all think that you should be the chief detective!" At this time, Wu Yi, who was walking side by side with Cheng Yifan, spoke first. As he spoke, he deliberately asked the ten people behind him, "Did you say yes?" ”

"Yes!" There was a neat sound from behind, and Cheng Yifan used his hearing to distinguish it, and roughly identified it as six voices.

"Six out of ten people are from this Wu Yi, is this guy deliberately demonstrating to me?" Cheng Yifan said secretly in his heart, "I really don't know whether to praise this guy for being confident or stupid!" ”

He knew that it was useless to be polite with such people, so he didn't spend much time on it. smiled and continued to walk forward, leaving Wu Yi in a daze.

Wu Yi looked at Cheng Yifan's back and snorted coldly, and then shouted at the people behind him: "Hurry up!" ”

It's a very humid forest. The forest is not thick, but there are two people tall, and the distribution is very sparse; Most of them are silver-leaved trees; The roots of the trees are damp, and some are even soaked in water; The branches and foliage of the trees are very few, mostly dry branches, and occasionally a few dead trees that fall sideways; There was a light mist drifting through the forest, and it seemed that there were only black and white in the distance.

Cheng Yifan felt that this environment was somewhat familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere. Soon he remembered the nightmare he had the night before he left his hometown. The old man who stood in the black and white forest, couldn't see his face clearly, but kept calling him back to Wuyun Mountain. It's just that the woods in the dream are much more lush than here, and the fog is bigger than here. ”

"And the grass is not the same? There is no such green grass on the ground in my dream! There aren't so many puddles either! Cheng Yifan looked at the green grass half-submerged in water around him, and unconsciously compared it with the environment in his dream.

While wandering his mind, he walked forward unconsciously, forgetting to observe his surroundings for a while.

"My lord, be careful!" A voice came from behind him, and Cheng Yifan came back to his senses from his thoughts.

At this point, he found himself stepping into a large puddle of water. What was terrifying was that there were more than a dozen water snakes more than one meter long swimming towards the soles of his feet in the puddle. Cheng Yifan hurriedly retracted his feet, and scolded himself in his heart, "What's wrong with me, I was thinking about it in this environment." ”

Cheng Yifan is not afraid of being bitten by these water snakes, ordinary water snakes are not poisonous, if they are bitten, at most they will be fine after a while. He blamed himself for not being distracted in such a harsh and dangerous environment, if it was a group of poisonous snakes just now, and no one reminded him, then he would be in danger. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little less disgusted and a little more fond of this person named Wu Yi.

"Thank you, Wu Yi!" Cheng Yifan smiled lightly at Wu Yi behind him. Wu Yi was about to reply, but heard Cheng Yifan continue: "You are older than me, just call your name in the future." "To be honest, Cheng Yifan is really not used to being called here, and he calls him an adult at every turn, as if he is deliberately reminding him that this is not his original world.

"Hmm...... No, it's not appropriate. Wu Yi was Cheng Yifan said this, and he couldn't react for a while. He couldn't guess the meaning of Cheng Yifan's words, he just thought that Cheng Yifan wanted to get close to him and envelop himself. And when he squeezed out a smile and wanted to say something to Cheng Yifan, he saw Cheng Yifan leave himself and walk forward.

"Sir, slow down, the end is ahead." Wu Yi, who was stunned for a few seconds, hurriedly followed, and said while chasing.

At this time, Cheng Yifan also understood what Wu Yi's mouth meant by the end: "The end of the forest, the beginning of the meadow." ”

Walk straight two kilometers into the mountain and you will be out of this forest, which is why you only go two miles on the first day. Because the environment after two kilometers is much more dangerous than this wood. Poisons, fierce beasts not to mention, mud pits and swamps are everywhere.

Not far from the feet of Cheng Yifan, there is a large lake, and around the lake, except for a few dry dwarf trees, are all aquatic plants and reeds. The reeds are more than a meter high, densely connected together, and there are no gaps at all.

Looking along the west, the boundless reeds cannot be seen, like an ocean. If it weren't for the trees beside him reminding Cheng Yifan, Cheng Yifan would have suspected that he was not in the mountains, but in a wetland grassland.

"My lord, Lord Jin and Elder Ye just let us go deep into here." Wu Yi, who was behind Cheng Yifan, quickened his pace and caught up, for fear that Cheng Yifan would continue to walk forward.

"Are you afraid of Elder Du?" Cheng Yifan's sudden appearance of this sentence surprised Wu Yi very much. He was stunned for a few seconds, a flash of horror on his face in surprise, as if he remembered some terrible past. He stammered and replied, "No...... Nothing. ”

"Haha......" Cheng Yifan suddenly burst out laughing, laughing so that Wu Yi's uneasy heart chilled.

He had seen Cheng Yifan's competition yesterday, and knew that this person's skills were no worse than Elder Jin's, but Cheng Yifan's handsome face made him feel: "This person should be a person with a good heart, at least not as perverted as Elder Du." ”

"People are good at being bullied, Elder Du would never dare to be disobedient, but he didn't expect that this seemingly simple young man in front of him would be so uncertain, and he could see through his heart at a glance."

"I guess he already knows that I'm Elder Du's person." Thinking of this, Wu Yi squeezed a smile, pointed to the lake in front of him and diverted the topic and said: "In the early years, there were a lot of crocodiles here, and the hunters caught them all over the time, but now they are almost gone." ”

"Hmm," Cheng Yifan replied, and did not follow the topic. Instead, he asked, "Have you left all the markings?" ”

"All are left, and where there are swampy mire, dry branches are put on them; Where there is a lot of poison, white stone powder is also sprinkled. Wu Yi pointed to a few grasses not far away that had been treated with dry branches and white stone powder.

"Let's take a break, and when the guards in the back come up, we'll go south and have a look." Cheng Yifan commanded everyone.

This time, he went into the mountains to round up the "murderous poison", using a carpet search and arrest method, and marched towards the mountains in a line. Because the longitudinal area of Xishan is very wide, and the reconnaissance team does not have many personnel, they can only demarcate the scope of search, Cheng Yifan and their team is the fourth squad, and the longitudinal range of search and arrest is two kilometers south of the north.

Cheng Yifan didn't say anything, but he could guess from the complaining attitude of the team members: "The area assigned to their team should be the worst." ”

He guessed, "It is impossible for Du Sangui to cover the sky with one hand in the reconnaissance camp, and it is impossible for the eleven people here to be all his henchmen, and some of them must have been implicated by him and assigned to this worst place." ”

"Danger and opportunity coexist, maybe there is something unusual in this worst place!" Cheng Yifan remembered what happened to Hantan, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"I just don't know, what's wrong with Zhao Yawen now?" I don't know why, in the past few days, Cheng Yifan has found that he always thinks of Zhao Yawen inexplicably. And every time I think about it, I have a strange feeling in my heart. It felt like something that belonged to me had suddenly been lost.

"And that girl named Bai Su, I don't know what happened to her in the Li family?" Cheng Yifan suddenly felt that he was a bit of a nymphomaniac, and all he thought about was women. Shaking his head with a wry smile, he took out a stone from his bosom that Jin Laiwang handed him when he was leaving.