Early in the morning of May 3, a group of 20 people set out for the border.

Judging from the map, there is a pass directly west of Lushan City, which is the official road between Jingzhou and the Baise Kingdom, and they are here to check the situation this time.

It took half a day for Ling Yi to arrive at the Jingzhou Pass, where there are many garrisons, the atmosphere is depressing, as if the war was completed overnight, and the border guards stationed are all amazing, this is the momentum of the soldiers who have been baptized with blood, this is a steely army.

Looking at the pass guarded by the army, Ling Yi knew that there should be no problem here, since it was a problem caused by the patrol team during the patrol, then he should go to the border patrol route to check the situation.

Taking out the map, referring to the location of the pass, Ling Yi found a border mountain road, of course, this is definitely not the patrol route of the border guards, the patrol route of the border guards is impossible to mark on the map, and ordinary people cannot know, only by slowly looking for the advanced mountain, can they find the patrol route.

The mountains and forests on the border of Jingzhou are mostly primeval forests, the forests are dense and dense, and the monsters are infested, the only advantage is that there are no powerful monsters, and the powerful monsters in Jingzhou are mainly concentrated in the vast canyon and the Jingzhou rift valley.

The vast canyon is far away from here, and Ling Yi is no stranger to it, but they have never experienced this Jingzhou Rift Valley. Of course, there is no need to worry, the monsters in the Great Rift Valley are said to be concentrated at the bottom of the Great Rift Valley, and the forests above will not haunt them.

After finding the right direction, the group set off towards the border after filing at the gate, and met many residents on the border and caravans walking the two countries along the way, and inquired about the situation of many people, but found no news at all.

After walking for more than an hour, I have reached the boundary monument, with the boundary monument as the boundary, and then go out to the boundary of the White Kingdom.

Heading north, they returned to the Tada Rift Valley, a distance where few people would walk on the treacherous terrain, so they turned around and continued north along the border.

The border road is dangerous and dense, but because there will be border troops patrolling from time to time, there will still be some small roads, and it is not too difficult to walk.

It took two days for Ling Yi and his party to patrol the guard area of the border defense of Lushan City, and met two groups of people on the way.

One group was a border patrol team, and after the two sides exchanged views, Ling Yi and the others did not get any useful information; the other group was a gang squad, with only 17 people, who also took up the task to investigate the situation.

This gang is called the Sanlin Gang, because the initiators of the gang in the city are three martial artists surnamed Lin, and this time the leader of the team is Lin Shen, the deputy gang leader, who is only in his thirties, but his strength has reached the strength of a six-rank martial artist.

Lin Shen is a kind person, after meeting Ling Yi and them, they were also very polite, originally they wanted to go through the patrol route, but after listening to Ling Yi and their investigation, they decided to explore the edge of the White Kingdom together.

At the beginning, Ling Yi also had such an idea, for so many days, the Jingzhou side of the Dongsheng Empire must have explored the territory of their country clearly, and if they found it, they would not wait until Ling Yi and they found out now, then the problem might exist on the side of the White Kingdom.

Lin Shen originally wanted to explore alone, but seeing that Ling Yi and the others were strong, he invited them to join him: "Brother Wu, since everyone is here for the same task, I'll be honest with you, although all of us are martial artists, I don't dare to be careless." The first few missing gangs were involved in many great martial artists, but they also failed to complete the task, so let's go forward together, so we can take care of each other. ”

Ling Yi listened to his proposal, discussed a few words with Sun Ze and the others, and agreed to Lin Shen's proposal: "Brother Lin, if you don't dislike it, let's go together, so that we can finally take care of it." ”

The opinions were agreed, and Lin Shen put forward the idea of exploration: "Our gang also performs tasks on the border all year round, and we know the terrain here relatively well, so I will analyze and analyze it for everyone first!"

Ling Yi agreed: "Brother Lin is right, we should have a purpose in our investigation, we can't wait for the blind cat to meet the dead mouse, we are not a gang here, we can have Brother Lin's guidance, and it will save a lot of effort to investigate!"

"Bring me the map!" Lin Shen commanded, and one of his men opened the map for him and laid it on a stone.

Ling Yi carefully looked at this map, Lin Shen's map was much more detailed than his own map, and many paths, peaks, and valleys were not marked on Ling Yi's map.

After carefully consulting the map, Lin Shen pointed out three places where it could be, two valleys and a river.

The closest place to a few people was a place called Ewha Valley, which was very close to the border, so they packed their bags and everyone set off.

Now there are eighteen people left in the Shenwu Society, and they have to report the situation to the border guards every day, so two people were arranged by Ling Yi to go back to the pass to deliver the news yesterday and today.

It took half a day for the two gangs to reach the predetermined Ewha Valley, which is a relatively low-lying valley that differs from other places in that it is a relatively flat area around it.

This location has penetrated more than thirty miles into the White Kingdom, and there are plum trees all over the place, and the trees are already hanging green or red plums.

Lin Shen summoned Ling Yi and the others over, and pointed in three directions, these are three paths that go deep into the White Kingdom, one task, Ling Yi and Sun Ze are responsible for checking the path in the north.

The two of them did not call anyone else, but quickly stepped forward to investigate, and explored the ten miles of road back and forth, the road here has not been walked for a long time, and it is all covered with thatch, not to mention human tracks, and even animals are nowhere to be seen.

Nothing was gained, and the two turned around and returned to Pear Blossom Valley, and when they returned, people from the other two directions also returned.

Sun Ze shook his head and said, "We have explored more than ten miles, not only the path, but also the woods around the path, and we have found no trace of anyone. ”

A martial artist of the Sanlin Gang also reported his findings: "The path I am responsible for is also not abnormal, although there are traces of people, and we have also found several traps and traps, but judging from the situation in the surrounding woods, it should be left by the hunters of the White Kingdom when they went up the mountain, and there is no fighting." ”

Hao Jun also reported the situation of the road he was responsible for, which was similar to the previous situation.

Lin Shen listened to the situation of several people and said: "It seems that this place can be ruled out, I have also explored here, and I have found traces of many people, only footprints, and there are also signs of fire, all of them are artificially extinguished fires, and there are no traces of fighting, and judging from the footsteps, these people should have left normally." ”

"Traces?" Ling Yi asked strangely, "Could it be the traces left by other gangs when they came here to check on the situation?"

Lin Shen nodded, confirming Ling Yi's guess: "I found a lot of packaging of Dongsheng Empire's goods here, it seems that it may be left by other gangs." I didn't find it here, let's go to the Wenlai River to have a look!"

set off, began to investigate again, and came to Wenlai River, and Lingyi and the others did not find anything at a glance.

It is a seasonal river, and the water only rises every year during the rainy season, and it has not yet entered the rainy season, so the water level is not too high, and the pebbles at the bottom of the river are exposed to the air.

There was no fight from the scene, and in order to find out more clearly, the group walked five or six miles along the river and found nothing.

At night, while resting by the river, Lin Shen found Ling Yi and the others, sat on the stones by the river and began to discuss tomorrow's itinerary.

Lin Shen said: "It seems that we have not found anything, and I don't know if we will find anything in the Dead Wood Valley tomorrow, Brother Wu, what are your plans?"

Ling Yi thought for a while and replied: "If we don't find it tomorrow, we will leave early the day after tomorrow at the latest, and then go back to the Martial Pavilion to collect some information!"

Lin Shen nodded in agreement and said, "So many gangs can't find out what the problem is, and so many people are missing, I hope there will be a harvest tomorrow!"

Ling Yi continued: "This time we were also too careless, we came out without collecting any information, and we didn't even have a decent map ready, we used my eldest brother's map of the continent, and we didn't even mark such a small geographical location, it seems that we have to go back and choose a map!"

Lin Shen said with a smile: "Actually, your map is already very good, but the scale is too large, and it is only suitable for a large range of use, for this range of tasks, you still have to choose a map with a small scale, so that the geographic information is more detailed!"

Sun Ze was embarrassed to hear this and said: "I'm still inexperienced! I thought that buying a big map would solve everything, who knew that there was so much knowledge to use!"

Lin Shen admonished: "In the future, when you go out to complete the task, you must first collect good information, especially geographic information, which is of great help for marching, defense and retreat, especially retreat in the field, there is a direction and no direction to determine your life and death, and you can't be careless in the future!"

Ling Yi and a few people hurriedly thanked, there are some things that can't be learned in school, and you can only understand them if you experience them!

Another day, early on the morning of May 6, the two gangs continued on their way, and finally reached the Valley of the Deadwood after noon.

It's just like its name, it's a place of dead wood that is rare on the southwestern border, and no one knows why it's formed, and all the trees are withered. It stands to reason that this is a dry land, so the withered trees will always decay, but for thousands of years this area has remained the same, the dead wood will not decay, and the buds will no longer be green!

Seeing such a strange scene, Ling Yi and the others were also very curious, and asked Lin Shen, Lin Shen didn't know what was going on, everything seemed to be a natural existence, but it violated the laws of nature!

This area is a bit broad, and the group went to investigate separately, but they didn't find anything, and found traces of people, and there were no traces of fighting.

The people who got nothing could only find a place to rest in the end, and they didn't say anything all night, and Ling Yi and the others parted ways with Lin Shen early in the morning of the seventh.

Before leaving, standing at the mouth of the valley of the dead wood valley, Ling Yi invited Lin Shen to return to Lushan City with them, but Lin Shen refused, he still wanted to explore for two more days, otherwise he would come out in vain, even if he couldn't complete the task, he had to see if there were any other tasks that could be completed, such as the task of finding herbs, there were a lot of medicinal materials in the primeval forest on the border of Jingzhou, as long as he looked carefully, he would not return empty-handed.

Bidding farewell to Lin Shen, Ling Yi led the Shenwu Society back to Lushan City before dark.

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