Chapter 304: A Mysterious Fork in the Road
With Xiao Yeguo's help, except for Tang Yuan and Li Shao, the other five major forces all successfully crossed the sea and sky line.
After crossing the sea and sky line, you have already reached the ridge of more than 4,000 meters above sea level, and then you will pass through a mountain road to officially enter the boundary of the Taiyuan Ruins.
From the perspective of the few people standing now, the ruins behind the dense forest can already be faintly seen.
Thinking of the various legends about Taiyuan earlier, even people like Cheng Bai, who were used to laughing, couldn't help but look solemn.
I don't know if it's because of the purple cloud, or because the altitude has increased and the temperature has dropped, and there is no longer the bright sunshine on the mountain road.
The sky was gloomy, black and oppressive, with an oppressive dull feeling.
There are no green trees and red flowers around, and even magical beasts such as birds and birds are gone.
"There is a fork in the road," the group walked all the way, and at the intersection ahead, there were five forks.
Five forks of the road, lying quietly, look like each fork is exactly the same.
It may seem that every road leads to the top of the mountain, but it is possible that only one of them leads to the top of the mountain.
A strange feeling welled up in everyone's hearts.
Earlier, the village chief did not say that there was a fork in the mountain.
These forks look very new, and they contradict the ancient history of the Taiyuan ruins.
Why exactly five of a kind?
It's like someone already knows that there will be five major forces entering the mountain, specially prepared for them.
No one made a rash choice, after all, whether the route was chosen correctly or not was directly related to whether or not the Taiyuan Ruins could be found.
The leaders of several major forces came out, and after consultation, it was decided to draw lots, and each major force chose a fork in the road.
After the draw was completed, Blue drew the first fork on the left,
"Bai, Jiuxiao, we have parted ways, you should be careful," Ye Beiming and Cheng and Bu separated.
Yun Sheng also greeted Tianyi Yu, Huo Yu and others.
The people of the five major forces have entered their respective forks in the road.
After two quarters of an hour, the unlucky second prince of Tang Yuan, Li Shao, arrived with a group of Tang Yuan's magicians.
Ahead, there is only a lonely mountain road, on which traces of people can still be seen.
"Tsk, it's all gone, go, speed up, catch up immediately," Li Shao led people and rushed towards the mountain road.
After choosing the fork in the road, Yun Sheng and his team walked all the way forward.
Along the way, everything is very ordinary, both sides of the mountain road are full of thick fallen leaves, and it looks like no one has passed for a long time.
But after walking all the way, Dugu Xiu suddenly stopped the team.
"It seems that something is wrong, it looks like the Taiyuan ruins are obviously very close, but after walking for two hours, it seems that the top of the mountain is still very far away," Dugu Xiu looked at the faintly visible white buildings on the top of the mountain, frowning.
Not only Dugu Xiu, but Yun Sheng and several others also noticed.
Obviously, I kept walking, but the scenery and mountain roads around me seemed to have no end.
"It's not early, let's rest in place first," the sky was overcast, and Lan decided to let the students stop and rectify first.
On this night, twenty students and Later Qin warriors rested in the open air.
When they woke up in the morning, they hastily used some dry food and water, and prepared to continue walking.
"Huh," who knew that when counting the number of people, Lan suddenly found that there was one less person in the team of the elite battalion of the mainland.
"We are also missing a warrior," Dugu Xiu also checked his subordinates and found that there were also fewer people.
The atmosphere suddenly became tense.
After some inquiry, Lan inquired from the missing magician's companion that the magician had left the army in the middle of the night and entered the mountains and forests in the middle of the night because of internal urgency.
"The same is true of that warrior, who also left the army in the second half of the night," Dugu Xiuna, the same news.
The sky was still gray, and if it weren't for the hourglass of time, Yun Sheng and the others would be difficult to tell the difference between day and night.
"Let's go into the mountains and forests to see if we can find any clues, don't let everyone disperse, keep the same formation as when we were on the mountain road earlier," Dugu Xiu ordered his subordinates to line up immediately.
Yun Sheng and Lan followed in the middle, and everyone's expressions were very solemn.
If they didn't return overnight, the lives of those two team members were feared......
The group broke away from the mountain path and walked step by step into the depths of the forest.
Mount Taiyuan is very large, and the trees here are full of dead grass and dead leaves because no one has cut them down for hundreds of years.
In the deepest place, even a tall man like Ye Beiming Dugu Xiu fell down, and he was drowned by the blades of grass and leaves.
Several warriors of Hou Qin walked at the forefront, cutting down as they went, and walked for half an hour.
"Look, guys, ahead!" The warrior who walked in front saw a familiar figure leaning against a tree with his back to everyone.
The missing warrior was found, and the people of Hou Qin, including Dugu Xiu, breathed a sigh of relief.
These people are Dugu Xiu's personal guards, and they have followed Dugu Xiu since they were children, and the friendship between master and servant is very behind.
The clothes and the bulky man were the Later Qin soldiers who had disappeared earlier.
"You kid, let everyone find it easily," the warrior at the head complained, and stepped forward to give the warrior a punch.
Hearing the sound, the missing warrior turned his head.
There was an eerie gurgling sound of bones moving.
After seeing the man's face clearly, the Hou Qin warrior led by him screamed miserably and stepped back a few steps.
Where is the martial artist of Hou Qin, it is clearly an inhuman skeleton, half of the rotten face has exposed bones, the other half of the face is full of rotten flesh, the eyeballs in the eye sockets are cloudy yellow, and the eyeballs hang out.
The skeleton warrior jerked out the saber at his waist and looked at the warrior at the front.
The warrior at the head did not take precautions, and the sword wind was hoarded, and his left arm was cut off with a single sword.
Dugu Xiu and Hou Qin's warriors were shocked, "Zombies." ”
The Iron-blooded Knights of Hou Qin deserved to be a good division, and at this moment, they showed extremely strong discipline.
Several people are in a three-three-one team, one team covers the injured warriors, and the other pair covers Dugu Xiu and Mrs. Chi Bi respectively.
"Bang"
Just as Lan and the others were about to help, a fireball suddenly shot out of the jungle.
In the jungle, there was also a person standing, that person was the magician who disappeared in the middle of the night earlier, his appearance was similar to that of a zombie warrior, half a carrion, half a skeleton, he lurked in the forest, sneaking up on everyone.
It's just one night, and the warriors and magicians who were alive and well before have become zombies who are not human or ghost, and it's too weird.
"Chase," Lan didn't hesitate, and immediately took a group of magicians to chase after the zombie magician.