In front of him is Qiu Xing Mountain, Jiang Xixi stands at the foot of the mountain, looking up at its rolling mountains. Her mind unconsciously returned to her childhood, when her father always took her to practice in the mountains, not only teaching her swordsmanship, but also learning a lot of skills to survive in the wild. Once, when she stumbled and fell into a trap set by Orion, her father saw it, but instead of rescuing her, he left without saying a word. Jiang Xixi stayed inside for a day and a night, and finally climbed the pit with her bare hands with her own strength, and when she came up, she found that her father had been guarding outside, and he was holding his daughter whose nails were falling off and shivering from the cold, crying like a three-year-old child.

Thinking of this, the corners of Jiang Xixi's eyes flashed with a sourness, she made up her mind, and did not choose the path that the hunters often took to enter the mountain, but climbed up the muddy hillside next to her little by little. The sky was cut into locks by the branches of tall trees, and the moonlight, as thin as a light veil, scattered down, blinking mysteriously as the leaves swayed. The branches of the great tree were black and cracked, covered with tess, and the criss-crossed branches were thick and strong, like a pair of strange hands.

Although Jiang Xixi had tried not to make a movement, she still felt that her footsteps were several times more amplified than usual, she frowned, no, this place is indeed as evil as the woman said. She grew up in the mountains and forests, and naturally knows everything in the mountains by heart, most of the animals in the mountains are day and night, and at night, not only can you hear the chirping of birds and insects, but even the footsteps of animals. But this Qiu Xingshan, except for the occasional sound he made, was dead silent, as if those living creatures had been devoured by something overnight, just like the hunter who had left home, disappeared without a trace.

Jiang Xixi grabbed a section of the tree trunk in front of her, and was about to climb to the top of the tree to a high place to investigate, but she suddenly stepped on a puddle of slippery and sticky things, and fell to the ground unsteadily. Her fingers touched the liquid, and she couldn't help but shrink it back suddenly, with years of experience in handling cases, Jiang Xixi had already guessed what it was without looking at it, but she still forced herself to lower her head and carefully observe the internal organs.

As she expected, the half-cut stomach and a mass of intestines on the mud floor did not belong to any beast, but to humans, and they emitted a fishy and choking stench, so smoked that Jiang Xixi pulled his collar upwards to cover his nose. She tossed her hands back and forth in the grass next to the guts several times, and finally found what she was looking for—a half-cut sweat towel.

"Presumably this sweat towel belongs to the hunter," she sighed softly, "sure enough, he still didn't escape, and that seven or eight-year-old child has no father since then, but how did he die, is there any fierce beast in this deep mountain?" ”

Jiang Xixi stuffed the half of the sweat towel into his clothes, and once again climbed the trunk of the tree with both hands, and with a little force under his feet, he attached his whole body to the big tree, and climbed up the treetops little by little. She hid herself in the thickest clump of foliage, sword in hand, squinting at the movement in the forest.

The moon climbed higher and higher, and finally, it came to the top of the tree where Jiang Xixi lurked, and sprinkled the moonlight like water all over the forest. Jiang Xixi had been in the tree for two hours, her hands and feet were gradually numb, and sleepiness hit her head little by little, so she had to pinch her thigh from time to time to prevent her accidentally falling asleep and falling from the tree. There was still no noise in the forest, and Jiang Xixi decided to wait for another half an hour, because she still had official business, so she couldn't delay the business because of her momentary sympathy.

But just as she made up her mind, she saw a sage plant a few steps away from her moving gently, as if something had penetrated the roots of the grass and pulled the branches and leaves above. Jiang Xixi's eyes widened, trying to see the thing hidden under the layers of branches more clearly, but at this moment, something strange suddenly happened, the sage stopped shaking, but another bush closer to her began to swing gently. Then, as if they had been infected, the plants around her began to shake one after another, and when one stopped and then replaced another, they moved more and more madly in the moonlight, as if they were dancing a strange dance.

Finally, when Jiang Xixi leaned against the trunk of the tree in amazement, not knowing which direction to look, the silence fell back under the tree.

Cold sweat slid down Jiang Xixi's face to her neck, soaking her neckline with a large patch, she desperately held her breath, grabbed the hilt of the sword with both hands so that the blade was facing down, and stared down with a pair of big eyes that she didn't dare to blink, for fear that something would suddenly jump up from under the tree and pull her internal organs out of her stomach.

"Click, click......" A strange sound came from below, and before Jiang Xixi could find the source of the sound, he was thrown away from the trunk by a strong shaking. Thanks to her refined kung fu, at the moment when she was about to land, she used the tip of her sword to lightly touch the ground, and the whole person bounced out in an instant, and once again landed firmly on another tree.

"Giggle...... Giggles...... A few casual laughter burst out from the bushes below, and they pierced Jiang Xixi's heart like a few steel needles, making her feel like she was soaked in a bucket of ice, her body was cold and stiff.

The giggle ...... laugh closer, but this time it wasn't underneath, but on a dense clump of branches behind her, and a small figure was faintly visible in the layers of branches.

A chill rose from behind Jiang Xixi, but she didn't hesitate, turned around and raised her sword and cut off the branch quickly. With the sound of falling branches, she saw something emerge from the leaves, jumped onto the trunk with a "snap", and crawled in her direction.

"Brute." Jiang Xixi scolded fiercely, then put his hand into the placket, took out a handful of iron balls the size of his fingers, and threw it down.

The iron balls touched the trunk of the tree and burst open, causing the bark to fly sideways and sparks to emerge. Jiang Xixi heard a strange cry like a child and a beast, and then took advantage of this time to jump quickly to another tree, and then jumped to the ground a few feet away, and ran in the direction from which he came without looking back.

Jiang Xixi didn't dare to look back, because she knew that even if she delayed a little time now, she might be caught up by the unknown thing behind her. She also knew that she was no match for it at all, because at the moment of jumping off the tree, she found that the big tree she had been hiding in had fallen off its bitten bark and staggered, leaving only the thickness of her wrist.