Before dawn, Hong Yuan quietly returned to the inn and continued to lurk as a wandering swordsman. The mask on his face, as well as the newly debuted dragon hunting team, are his best cover.

For three days in a row, Hong Yuan stayed at home and did not go out to spy again.

While he was meditating and cultivating in his room, there was chaos outside. Almost every day, five or six waves of people immediately come to the door to investigate, and they are repeatedly reviewed, which makes people complain. Next, in the midst of people's protests, the soldiers not only did not relent, but became more and more rude, and if they answered any questions unclearly or slowly, they were beaten violently in public, and at worst they were arrested on the spot and escorted back to the Ghost Gate General's Mansion and put into the dungeon.

As time passed, the Flame Knights not only did not keep their promise to open the city gates, but instead intensified their investigation and became more and more severe. Under the pretext of the wave of monsters and the threat of the night demons, the ghost gate was turned upside down.

With the power of their respective families in Donghai City, Zou Haiyan and his party were relatively good, and they were not treated too harshly by the soldiers. But after a few days, the group was also tired, and they were also a little panicked, not knowing what was going on. There was nothing to do, and the group did not dare to go out of the inn, and even the meal was solved in the room.

The atmosphere became more and more tense, and there were very few people walking around the streets and alleys, and no one dared to oppose or protest in public. The roughness and ferocity of the guards at the Ghost Gate make people dare not speak.

In the room, Hong Yuan continued to sit cross-legged on the bed and cultivate, waiting patiently.

The frantic search of the guards of the Ghost Gate Pass had long been expected by him, and he had already foreseen it when he escaped from the Ghost Gate General's Mansion. Chu Yannan had spent so much effort, he was bent on killing himself, and he had to kill him, and meeting him on the narrow road in the Ghost Gate Hall and retreating under his nose would only make him even more crazy. In order to achieve his ulterior purpose, Zhou Tiejun, the Great Commander of the Flame Knights, must fully cooperate with Chu Yannan and go crazy. The more they can't find their whereabouts, the more crazy they become!

"Chu Yannan, Zhou Tiejun......"

"Keep going crazy, you can't be on the brow for a few days!"

Hong Yuan sneered, and heard a rush of hurried, heavy footsteps outside, and a team of flame knights rushed in to start a new round of investigation.

The inn was in chaos, the soldiers were extremely vicious, Hong Yuan ignored it and continued to meditate on his cultivation, and handed it over to Zou Haiyan and Liang Laosan and others to deal with; if necessary, he could also let the soldiers interrogate him openly. Chu Yannan and Zhou Tiejun were extremely bold, and their methods became more and more ferocious, but just by doing so, they wanted to find themselves out, which was similar to looking for a needle in a haystack.

Hong Yuan had already prepared and calmly faced the crazy search of Chu Yannan and Zhou Tiejun, all he had to do now was to wait patiently.

And so it went on for three more days.

Under the pressure of the soldiers, the people stranded in the Ghost Gate Gate dared not speak out, but as time passed, they gradually became irritable after panic, and they did not know that they would have to wait until the Year of the Monkey. Just when some people were forced to abandon their actions and prepare to return to Night Dragon City, a shocking news suddenly came. In the red clay valley, which is about eighty miles away from the Ghost Gate Pass, a large number of pythons suddenly appeared, frantically attacking passers-by, blocking the road from the Ghost Gate Pass to the Night Dragon City.

The west gate of the Ghost Gate has not been opened, and it has been blocked by the Flame Knights, and no one is allowed to leave the city;

Now, leaving the Ghost Gate Pass from the East Gate, the road back to Night Dragon City has also been blocked!

The people became more and more nervous, and soon there were many rumors circulating in the city. According to legend, according to an adventurer who fled back covered in blood, the red earth valley was crowded with large and small pythons, at least 50,000 or 60,000, and they would kill anyone they saw, and in the mountains and forests, there were more pythons coming out of the depths of the Guiling Mountain Range, and the number was getting bigger and bigger. The elderly people quickly thought of the wave of demon beasts, the wave of demon beasts composed of countless pythons. Judging from experience, if the Ghost Ridge Mountain Range really broke out in the Python Wave, it would never be as simple as just blocking the traffic arteries, and it would either spread in the direction of Night Dragon City, or it would roll towards the Ghost Gate.

All kinds of rumors spread like a plague to every corner of the Ghost Gate, and an indescribably heavy and oppressive atmosphere permeated the sky above this thousand-year-old Xiongguan, like a little bit of fire oil. The soldiers' rough interrogation made the atmosphere of the ghost gate more and more depressing.

Amid all the rumors, people nervously waited in the hope of hearing some good news. But unfortunately, one after another adventurers and merchants who fled from the direction of Night Dragon City said that there were more and more pythons in the Red Earth Valley, and they were moving in the direction of the Ghost Gate Pass. Soon, even the guards of the Ghost Gate Pass became nervous, and the two gates on the east and west sides were closed together, strictly prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving, and the Ghost Gate General's Mansion issued a first-level alert order and sent people to Yelong City for help.

As soon as the soldiers posted the guard order on the city gate and the walls of the inns everywhere, the sharp-eyed people noticed that a python had come from the east and appeared outside the Ghost Gate.

Hearing the news, almost everyone climbed up to a high place to look out, and Hong Yuan also followed Zou Haiyan and others to the roof of the inn. Looking into the distance, I saw a black line appear in the sky, and countless pythons swept across the mountains like a flood. A group of flame knights who stayed outside the city to guard rode their horses and galloped wildly, standing on the roof of the inn and looking, just to see a flame knight being held in the mouth by a giant python with its big mouth open, and then swallowed in one gulp.

"Ah......h

People screamed, and Zou Haiyan, Liang Laosan and others, who were known as bold all the way, were all so frightened that their faces turned white.

"Python wave, sure enough, python wave!" Liang Laosan muttered to himself, the fat all over his body was trembling, and he was so frightened that his soul almost fell off. Since he was a child, he was most afraid of snakes, and when he saw the snakes outside the city from afar, his legs were weak.

"Every time a wave of demon beasts breaks out in the Ghost Ridge Mountain Range, it is a disaster, and it takes Night Dragon City to send a large number of alliance masters to resolve it, and ordinary people can't help at all. With the current strength of the Ghost Gate Pass, we will definitely not be able to hold it, and if we want to live, we can only leave the Ghost Gate Pass immediately!" In the crowd, an elderly and experienced old man proposed, and his old body was also trembling.

A middle-aged adventurer stepped forward and chimed in, "Yes, if you want to live, you must leave immediately." Let the soldiers open the west gate and let us out!"

"Open the gates!"

"Open the door, let's get out!"

......

More and more people agreed, and the adventurers and caravans stranded in the city quickly gained a unanimous consensus.

Before, when the soldiers blocked the city gate and did not let them go out of the city to the Night Demon Stone Forest, saying that there was a wave of demon beasts, many people were skeptical, or even not believed it at all. Now, seeing the mighty python outside the city, no matter how suspicious, he was extremely nervous. At first, the people just shouted loudly in the inn, and slowly began to walk out of their inns towards the west gate, asking the soldiers to open the gate.

Zou Haiyan, Liang Laosan and others also walked out of the inn and joined the protesting army, only Hong Yuan did not go, and stayed under the pretext of taking care of the carriage.

"Hong Python, well done!"

"Chu Yannan, Zhou Tiejun, I want to see how you still block the city gate, and see how long you can hold on!"

Hong Yuan sneered, stood condescendingly on the roof of the inn, and watched the crowd gather and head towards the west gate. The adventurers who fled back from the Red Earth Valley covered in blood, and the various rumors that caused a storm in the city, including the old man who was the first to stand up and propose to open the west gate and the middle-aged adventurer who was the first to echo it, were all secretly arranged by Zhao Xuemin. On the night they escaped from the Ghost Gate General's Mansion, the two had already planned all this.

The group of snakes that came to the city of Ghost Gate Pass was not a wave of demon beasts, but a python army that Hong Python was ordered to quickly form. The Ghost Ridge Mountain Range is high and densely forested, and it is a treacherous place where monsters and beasts are rampant, and it is not too difficult for Hong Python, a super snake demon, to form a python army here. After receiving Hong Yuan's order, he went deep into the Ghost Ridge Mountain Range and brought out a lot of pythons, giving people the illusion that a wave of pythons had broken out in the Ghost Ridge Mountain Range.

During this time, the Ghost Gate Pass was to block the city gate under the pretext of the threat of the Demon Beast Wave, making it impossible for people to protest; in response to Chu Yannan and Zhou Tiejun's excuse, Hong Yuan will make a plan and let the snake demon Hong Python lead a large group of pythons to attack the Ghost Gate Pass!

It is useless to protest, and it is not a way to blindly hide and wait, and it is necessary to put enough pressure on the other side in turn. Reminded by Zhao Xuemin, Hong Yuan quickly thought of this method. The python army outside the city is an external pressure, and the adventurers and merchants stranded in the city are internal pressure, creating a strong pressure on the Ghost Gate Pass! Although Zhou Tiejun has always covered the sky with one hand in the Ghost Gate Pass, under this double pressure, he is afraid that he will also be anxious!

Hong Yuan condescendingly looked at the growing crowd from afar, quietly waiting for the moment when Zhou Tiejun was in submission.

The battle of Skinny Dog Ridge was wrestling;

Now, the Ghost Gate Pass is a silent battle, a battle of wits. Only by thwarting the conspiracy of Chu Yannan and Zhou Tiejun can we successfully reach the Night Demon Stone Forest!

Hong Yuan, who was standing on the roof of the inn, suddenly had a feeling in his heart that he was fighting a decisive battle thousands of miles away, and he didn't need to take action in person at all. Of course, if he finds an opportunity to kill Chu Yannan or Zhou Tiejun, he will never miss it! Even, if he doesn't have a chance, he can create an opportunity to prevent these two guys from living in the Night Demon Stone Forest!