Morimu sent a few soldiers to a radius of five kilometers around the city to search for the two missing men, and the rest stood by. It's just that the rest of the people are talking about the disappearance of the two people.

They know very little about the two of them. Ono is a native man, who has always acted mysteriously, and is reluctant to share his past with others. And the young soldier had not yet learned how to get along with the other soldiers. So everyone also remembered the names of the two people, and the rest didn't know much.

Although the two people are not familiar with each other, they have lived together for a while, and Ono is the veteran of the archaeological team, and these Japanese still want to get the two people back.

Fearing that something would happen again, Moriki asked the people who went out to find people to stay in groups of three, and the distance between them could not exceed ten meters. Every three minutes, the other teams are to be notified of their location by tapping the trunk of a tree, and if they find that any of the teams are not responding as agreed, or if any of the teams are missing, they will immediately warn them, and then the rest of the group will gather together.

Sen Mu was also a little scared, and strictly ordered them not to leave the camp for more than five kilometers. Although as soldiers of the Empire, their mission was to die on Chinese soil, this bizarre disappearance was not the way they expected their own death. It is Moriki's responsibility to ensure the safety of these men.

After more than two hours of carpet searching, they still couldn't find two people, even the clues they had walked through. The search force all returned to the camp and informed Senmu of the situation.

Moriki was even more puzzled. It stands to reason that the two of them went out in the middle of the night, and it was pitch black, so they shouldn't be able to go far. And the forest was full of dead branches and leaves, and the soil was very soft, and they should have left footprints or something when they walked past. But they found nothing.

Moriki ordered everyone to have breakfast and continue to set off. The loss of two people in the army is not a big deal. The leader said that he would not look for it, and the soldiers below did not dare to have any objections.

The troops soon set off. When they climbed the hill, they saw the square platform. The members of the archaeological team and the soldiers were stunned by what they saw.

The name of this mountain beam is Guanqiling. The Sifang Terrace is like a huge chessboard, and Guanqiling is the place where you can see the whole picture of the Sifang Terrace.

The summit of the square platform is a large plane, surrounded by steep cliffs, and along the square platform is surrounded by a complete narrow flat land, and there is another mountain a few hundred meters away. The whole scene was like a square table in a basin of water, with a mountain on each side, like two benches.

In the southeast corner of the Sifang Terrace, there stands a huge stone bar, the height is slightly higher than the Sifang Terrace, and it is the highest point in the entire Sifang Mountain area. The part of the stone bar above the ground is more than 200 meters, and the part buried in the ground is not known how long.

A good man once took the slag of the stone strip back for testing, the stone strip has a life span of more than 100 million years, and its composition also contains a large amount of salts. From this, experts deduced that this stone bar is ironclad evidence of the vicissitudes of the sea in this area. The stone strips are boxy, angular and smooth, and not even moss can survive on them. It is said that no one has been able to go up until now.

Guanqi Ridge is on the south side of the Sifang Terrace, and the position they climbed up to the front of the Sifang Terrace is facing the front of the Sifang Terrace, and they go down the deep ditch over this ridge, and then find the only path to reach the flat top of the Sifang Terrace.

It stands to reason that they should be happy to see that their destination is close at hand. But all of them felt very depressed. A few local mountain runners have come to this place without a small number of people, but they have never felt this way today. It's like someone is grabbing their throat, and I'm a little out of breath.

They didn't pay attention when they were climbing the mountain, it should be noon, but they couldn't see the sun, and the sky was dark, as if it was going to rain.

People in the mountains know that this is the season when the rice flowers bloom, and this kind of weather is like this for almost 20 days in this month. There are no clouds in sight, and there is no sun in sight. But the Japanese don't know what the weather is like. Just lost two people, they were already very depressed, and now this weather makes them even more irritable.

There were no clouds in the sky, but there were clouds of fog on the mountainside beneath their feet, scattered at the tips of the trees. This is the case in the Sifang Mountains, sometimes when you walk into the fog, it is like rain, and your clothes are soaked, but the rest of the place is very dry.

Mr. Wang, one of the local mountain runners, pointed out the direction of the path to Sen Mu, and the troops continued to advance. Going down the mountain is a little less strenuous than going up. But this mountain road is too steep, and everyone does not dare to be careless, so they carefully caress the trunk of the tree next to them and move into the deep ditch.

"Captain, what do you see there?" An archaeological team member pointed to the mountainside of the square platform opposite.

There are a few puffs of green smoke rising from the mountainside of Sifang Mountain, straight up to the sky, straight and straight, without a trace of wind blowing, like the smoke of a farmer's roof.

"Mr. Wang, are there still farmers in this mountain?" Sen Mu asked as he called Mr. Wang over with a gesture.

"Report to Taijun, there is no one in this deep mountain."

"And what's the matter with all this smoke?"

"The Sifang Terrace is the place where the aura of heaven and earth is gathered, and many spiritual animals come here to practice. These smoke are they, the monsters, absorbing the aura. Mr. Wang told what he had heard.

This saying has been passed down for a long time, and although no one has seen it, the villagers have passed it down from generation to generation, and they all believe it. No one dares to go to the place where the smoke is coming from. But even if they wanted to see it, it would be difficult to get to the smoke.

It wasn't until decades later, in the eighties, that anyone figured out what was going on there. It turns out that there are coal mines in the Sifang Mountain area, and many of them are open-pit, but they are really difficult to mine. Not to mention that it is deep in the mountains, it is difficult to transport machinery and equipment in. If it is mined, it will be necessary to build a railway, and if the railway is laid here, it will be worth more than the coal mine itself. Therefore, to this day, people have not been developed until Sifang Mountain is a treasure land.

Surrounded by leaves, some of the exposed high-quality coal ignites when the temperature is hot in the summer. The next year, the other part that had been washed out by the rain burned again. Therefore, you can see the scene of green smoke curling here every year.

At that time, the locals didn't know the reason for this matter, so it was rumored that there were monsters cultivating here. However, the Sifang Mountain area is rich in products, with a wide variety of animals and plants, and there are really many rare and exotic beasts that thrive here. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a feng shui treasure that gathers the aura of heaven and earth.

"Bastard, where are there any monsters, don't spread this kind of rhetoric." Moriki is now holding the trunk of the tree with one hand and the telescope in the other, and there is no free hand, otherwise he would have to slap it over.

Moriki knew that morale was very important now, and if he said more such strange legends, it would be difficult to ensure that his subordinates were not suspicious. If the morale of the army is scattered, it will be really difficult to bring.

Moriki didn't ask the answer he wanted, so he didn't continue to ask. Their purpose wasn't to study the strange landscapes here. Their destination was the hanging coffin of the gods. The troops continued to advance.

When they went down into the ravine, a few mountain people noticed that there seemed to be something different from their usual place. They can't see the difference, and they always feel that something is wrong.

Mori Mu smelled a familiar smell, and the three-year-old veteran from last night also smelled it. It was filled with the smell of the creature's urine left behind last night. The two men were full of doubts. It seems that this shouldn't just be something that one animal can do. And it seems to be a deliberate smell, with the meaning of a puppy peeing to declare the territory.

Many animals have a tradition of fighting for territory. They will leave their own smell on their own territory, telling their fellow citizens that there is already a master here, and if they dare to break in, it will be regarded as aggression, and the master will not let it go. Once there is a land grab, there will be a vicious fight.

However, this method generally leaves only a slight taste, which is only distinguishable by one's own kind. It's rare to make a claim to a different kind of creature like this.

Now that they are alerted, they will be considered enemies to any creature that intrudes on their territory. It's no wonder you can't hear birds or animals. It's even more eerie here than it is at the top of the mountain. If you can't hear the birds in the mountains, it's quite terrifying. What's more, they already have some low emotions.

Moriki immediately became vigilant. He knows the rules of the animal kingdom. He took his pistol in his hand, held it up with both hands, held it close to his ears, ready to shoot at any time, and at the same time ordered: "Everyone be vigilant, ready to fight!" ”

The others didn't know why, but the commander gave the order, so he picked up all the spears, opened the insurance, and was always ready to deal with emergencies.

Moriki also redivided the division of the soldiers, allowing two people to observe the movements on both sides, and two people to watch behind them, and surround the others in the middle. A group of people cautiously groped their way forward.

"Bang", suddenly a soldier fired a shot into the mountain, and the others, not knowing what was happening, followed the "bang, bang" in the direction where he shot indiscriminately. Both the archaeological team and the local runners crouched down with their hands on their heads.

After the shot rang out, Moriki came to the first soldier who let go of the gun, "What did you find?" ”