It took a lot of words to sort everything out, and after Chen Jian finished speaking, Ye Liancheng fell into a long silence after hearing it.

"There was a vulture that flew to the Yellow Emperor Mountain - we have been monitoring the north all this time, and not a single bird has flown very far, and the vulture has been moving very early. ”

Chen Jian nodded: "They have made sufficient preparations. ”

"Yellow Emperor Mountain ......" Ye Liancheng thought about how many people he needed to send and which people were the most cost-effective to send, he glanced at the subordinates around him, and then said, "Let's let three people form a team to go to Yellow Emperor Mountain and bring all the artifacts back, what do you think?" he finally asked Chen Jian.

"No, I can't. It was Bai Yao who spoke, "I have found many traces of birds along the way, Emperor Shaohao and those birds who came to steal the artifact are quite shrewd, they know that the Yellow Emperor Mountain is difficult to capture, and they will definitely ambush the people who take the artifact on the road." ”

Ye Liancheng's heart trembled after hearing this, it turned out that the enemy had already infiltrated the south, and there were not only sharp eyes in front of him who were watching them, but also a cold gaze that could surprise at any time behind them.

"Then in your opinion, how many people do we need to send to the Yellow Emperor Mountain?" Ye Liancheng knew that this unattractive woman was a traveler, and he attached great importance to her proposal.

"Everyone left the central mountain and retreated to the Yellow Emperor Mountain. ”

"You're asking us to give up here?What are you kidding?!" A man from the Ye Gang roared, "Central Mountain is our bottom line, and leaving is to show weakness to Emperor Shaohao!"

"It's better than being wiped out in two ways, right?" Bai Yao raised his eyes, looked at him coldly, and then looked at his leader Ye Liancheng, "Helper, what do you think?"

"I'll think about it. ”

Bai Yao understands that for those who try to integrate into purgatory, the central mountain is not only the highest mountain on the horizon, but also an indelible lighthouse in their hearts, where their faith, hope, and light like a pilgrimage - when she first came to purgatory, she also regarded the central mountain as the destination of her soul, where the toil and sweat of the prisoners of Purgatory for generations gathered, and it was a gathering of hope to escape from purgatory.

If you want Ye Liancheng and the others to give up the central mountain without resistance, they need to pay a great psychological price.

"When you were thinking about it, I went to Center Hill with him first, and I haven't been back for many years. Bai Yao involuntarily used the word "come back", she thought to herself, she still regarded this place as her home.

Thinking of this, she feels nostalgic and misses the time she spent with her master.

Where did the master go, did he leave, or did he fall into the mouth of a beast from which he could not escape?

"Please. Ye Liancheng nodded.

Bai Yao took Chen Jian and left the Ye Gang's temporary place, and they set off to the first "scenery" - the first mountain mover who buried himself in the soil.

"Do you have to leave everyone?" On the way, Bai Yao didn't tell Chen Jian about it.

"Yes. Bai Yao pointed to the sky in the north, "The matter is much more serious than I imagined, you see those birds in the sky, once something happens to the Yellow Emperor Mountain, they will attack directly after Emperor Shaohao gave an order, and it is too risky to stay in the central mountain, so it is better for everyone to retreat to the Yellow Emperor Mountain." ”

"That makes sense," Chen Jian nodded, "but birds...... I've never wondered, what's so scary about birds?"

"They are the strangest beasts in purgatory, only they have access to clouds and fire, and that's what makes them special, and their eyes have color, don't you think it's strange? Everything is red, but their eyes have all kinds of colors. The red-eyed birds were the most common birds, and the top was turquoise, and then the apricot yellow - the vulture we saw on the Yellow Emperor Mountain was the apricot yellow-eyed bird, and the Shaohao Emperor standing at the top of all the birds, as far as I know, was the white pupil. ”

"Red, green, yellow and white, what's the difference the higher you go?"

"The birds of the lower layers must obey the orders of the upper planes, and the higher they go, the more human and intelligent they become. ”

Bai Yao stood in the mountains and forests, recalled the location of the "cemetery" of the first mountain movers, and then continued to move forward.

"And there is more than one white-pupiled bird, in addition to Emperor Shaohao, there are several others, but I don't know the specific situation. ”

Bai Yao had told Chen Jian early on that she knew almost nothing about birds. Chen Jian felt regretful.

"Let's go, the man should be in front. ”

They walked through all kinds of cramped corridors, the brocade of red flowers cutting through the skin, and finally saw a crooked stone monument in a not too open space, which was probably the stone monument erected for the first mountain movers.

Chen Jian stepped forward, there was no writing on it, maybe there had been, the weathering over the years had left the stele only countless rough scratches, and there were some unusual-looking flowers growing on it, I don't know if anyone intended to do this.

Bai Yao stood beside the stone tablet: "Shhhh ”

Chen Jian didn't speak, and when he heard Bai Yao's reminder, he held his breath and listened carefully.

The cry came from the ground.

"Hear that, right?" Bai Yao said happily.

Chen Jian heard Bai Yao's tone, and it was a little unpleasant. She was able to take other people's pain as happiness without any psychological burden, and he was not blaming Bai Yao's behavior, but worrying—when would he become like this?

Is it coming?

Chen simply got up: "He won't reply to us?"

"You can try. Bai Yao said happily, "I haven't tried it anyway, he is stuffy in the soil all day, what can he know?"

"That's just as well. Although Chen Jian said this, he still bent down, knocked on the thick ground, and shouted, "Hey, can you hear me?"

The crying seemed to have stopped, and Chen Jian couldn't hear it clearly because he was talking.

He shouted a few more times into the ground.

"Who are you......" A faint voice came from the soil, and Chen Jian seemed to have seen the face of that person - a skinny body, sunken eyes, eyeballs had collapsed into the brain, without a trace of life, like a thousand-year-old rotting corpse. An eternally shriveled stomach was a sign that he hadn't eaten in years, and he might occasionally be able to taste the bugs that burrowed into the dirt.

Speaking of insects, Chen Jian felt that he had never seen insects in purgatory, and insects may not be able to endure the environment of purgatory and have become extinct.

- This is his conjecture.

"Who's ......"

There was a voice from the ground again, and Chen Jian heard it this time.

He thought it was a little funny, this mountain movers, who was he, he should know that he had been crying under the land for more than a hundred years, right?

"I want to ask, do you know how to get out of purgatory?" Chen Jian didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, and directly stated his purpose.

"When he died, he left ......"

"I know, but none of us can die. ”

“...... I can't die either. ”

"yes, it looks like you don't know. ”

"......" fell silent for a long time, and he seemed to starve to death again.

"Let's go?" Bai Yao said, "There are still a lot of interesting things on the central mountain, how boring this person is." ”

"Wait. Chen Jian felt that there was no need to be in a hurry.

"......" I don't know how long it was, and the sound of dirt collapsing came from underground.

"When he died, he left ......"

Bai Yao looked at Chen Jian with a wry smile: "You can't ask anything from him, he has already gone completely crazy." ”