Although Nie Xiaosheng was familiar with the road to Shufang, after all, they took a shortcut road, Nie Xiaosheng sold things back and forth from Shufang, and took the Shanglan Ancient Road, which bypassed the Jihou Pass and went from the direction of the Great Plains, so although Nie Xiaosheng had heard of many things in the Jihou Pass, he had not seen it with his own eyes.

As for why this road is called Shanglan Ancient Road, Nie Xiaosheng once said to Tang Wu that when the caravan comes here from Shufang, it will always bring a spice, which smells like an orchid, and the color is dark blue or light purple, but the shape is like a pepper fruit, which is very popular with the surrounding people, so people call this road Shanglan Ancient Road.

Nie Xiaosheng stood under the ancient city wall of Jihou Pass and looked into the distance, he still remembered that when he was a child, Nie Xiaosheng followed his elders through the Shanglan Ancient Road, looked at the ruined city pass from afar, and listened to the stories narrated by the elders.

Seeing Nie Xiaosheng looking into the distance in a daze, he tugged at the corners of his clothes and asked, "What did you see?" It's just a little scary. ”

Nie Xiaosheng came back to his senses and said: "I just remembered some of the past, don't delay our journey, let's continue to move forward, we will cross the Jihou Pass to the Jihou Valley, we will not be afraid of chasing the soldiers." ”

Tang Wu was a little worried, and said, "Didn't you say that the terrain in the Jihou Valley is complicated, can you find a way out?" ”

Nie Xiaosheng said: "To be honest, I haven't been here either, I heard from my grandfather's generation that there is an underground factory for smelting steel in the depths of Jihou Valley, where it is the industrial core of the ancient empire, and there is always steam coming out of the sky when it is running, but now there is none, if there is still those steam to guide the direction, we should be able to successfully go to the Great Rift." ”

"I think we're still going to travel through the Great Plains, it's terrifying to get lost in it." ”

Nie Xiaosheng shook his head and said, "In my opinion, the Great Plains are much more dangerous than here, when I came from the Dawn Side, several people crossed the Great Plains with me, but unfortunately, they all died. ”

"What's wrong?" What did you encounter? ”

Nie Xiaosheng said: "There are flame crystal armor fire beasts on the plains, as well as thunder eyes that can fly, it's no wonder that walking on such a bare plain will not become the target of their predation." ”

Nie Xiaosheng and Tangwu talked about the hardships and dangers they experienced along the way, while looking for the entrance to enter the pass under the city pass, although the season pass has been abandoned for a long time, but the gate is still closed, unless you want to enter unless you find a gap under the city pass.

After walking along the city pass for a short time, I found a big hole in a gala corner, the hole was not very deep, but it was very large, and it looked like someone had dug it.

Seeing Nie Xiaosheng jumping down, Tang Wu asked, "Do you know what this is for, you just jump inside." ”

Nie Xiaosheng probed into the cave and said, "There should be someone who wants to enter this level like us, so I dug a big hole leading to the inside, I don't think there is a problem, come down quickly!" ”

Tang Wu and Nie Xiaosheng got into the cave together, the front of this hole is still very spacious, and the further you go, the narrower it becomes, and the walls of the cave on both sides of a person's passage have to squeeze their shoulders, and the further they go inside, the darker it becomes.

Tangwu followed behind Nie Xiaosheng and said, "Be careful, this kind of place should pay attention to safety the most, in case there are still people inside!" ”

Nie Xiaosheng said: "The soil in this cave is very dry, it shouldn't have been dug up recently, and people have been extinct in this season for a long time, if there are, there are only some birds and beasts." ”

Climbing to the end of the hole, Nie Xiaosheng stood up and said, "It's the exit above, I'll go out and have a look first." ”

Nie Xiaosheng held the stone ridge on the cave wall and climbed out of the hole, but he didn't know where he was, he just felt that it was pitch black in front of him, and there were people around him in a trance! Looking at it again, a group of people were sitting in front of Nie Xiaosheng, they were wearing armor and their weapons were scattered aside.

Nie Xiaosheng was startled, stunned in place, and found that the group of people around him did not move, Nie Xiaosheng was relieved, and after carefully scanning the surrounding situation and finding out the surrounding situation, Nie Xiaosheng pulled the tangling dance up.

Tangwu was already anxious below, thinking that something special had happened above, and after climbing up from the cave, she was also startled, Nie Xiaosheng comforted her: "It's okay, these people are dead." ”

Tang Wu calmed down and looked around, and found that these people in armor were covered with dust, and the bodies in the armor had long since turned into a pile of dried corpses, and I don't know how long they had been here, and their faces were no longer recognizable.

"Why are these people dying here?" ”

Nie Xiaosheng took a breath and muttered, "I don't know, I didn't expect there to be so many dead bodies in Ji Hou Pass, but you see that their weapons haven't been pulled out, they should be trapped here." ”

Looking to the side again, there was a big hole in the wall, as if it had been blown open by something, and Nie Xiaosheng said, "Let's go out from here and talk about it." ”

The two came out of the house and found that the road outside was connected to the Jihou Gate, and the houses on both sides were full of corpses of the defenders, Nie Xiaosheng looked forward and walked, and said: "These people should be trapped inside, you see their desperate posture of leaning against the root of the wall, plus their weapons are not opened, and the door is also closed, they are all trapped and died in it." ”

"Why?" ”

Nie Xiaosheng said: "Who knows, this is all a matter of the last era." ”

Soon after the two walked forward, there was a huge factory building at the intersection of the house and the canyon, and the spacious factory building was a platform one by one, and the platform was crisscrossed by railways, and the railway was leading to the valley, and the soil at the mouth of the canyon was very loose, and the stone walls on both sides were blocked by wooden strips and iron pillars, in order to prevent the earth and stones from falling.

Nie Xiaosheng and Tangwu walked into the mouth of the canyon, there are dozens of canyon mouths here, which one should they take? Nie Xiaosheng searched for a long time on the map board on the platform, and the revelation on it was very complicated, Nie Xiaosheng sighed and said, "Let's take any one of them, these roads should be able to lead to the Great Crack." ”

"Let's take the narrowest one, and there should be a lot fewer beasts on the narrow road." ”

Nie Xiaosheng shook his head and said: "I think you should take the widest one, there are many obstacles on the narrow road, and the wide road should be easier to walk." ”