At first glance, this salt field looks like a snowfield, and most of the ground is covered in white.

There are some shallow craters in the ground, which are caused by the snow melting and pooling together after it falls.

On the snow-white ground, salt flowers emerge from the ground like coral, and the center of each salt flower is dark or light, red or blue, and at first glance, it looks like a fairyland. However, those who know this place avoid it.

Although there is salt everywhere here, salt is poisonous, and no one who has eaten it or licked it has been spared. Therefore, for a long time, this place was recognized as a dangerous place, and whoever entered it would die, and some people even said that this was the burial ground of salt beasts, and whoever approached here and violated their tombs would be punished. It's a demonized land.

It wasn't until someone walked into the salt field and found a salt mine that the dead land came alive.

Click-click--

A subtle clicking sound came from the shallow cavity of the hollow.

Shao Xuan saw that an orange-yellow crystal pillar emerged from the shallow pit, looking like a crystal-like delicate texture, crystal clear. The crystal pillar is like a seedling that breaks through the soil, growing upwards and branching out. As it grows upward, the surface of the crystal becomes translucent from transparent to translucent, and then covered with a layer of hoarfrost, and when it grows to nearly half a man's height and stops growing upward, the whole is almost the same as the salt flowers found elsewhere in this salt field, except for a slight difference in color, which looks a faint orange.

This is only one of the salt flowers that "bloomed", and in the other sunken shallow pits, there were also other salt flowers popping up, the colors were green, red, and even black.

Although this is a beautiful sight, it is reminiscent of the legends of this place in the past. But it makes the people who see it feel creepy.

"Let's go, just don't eat them. Zhengluo said.

Stepping on the salt ground, I heard a clear click, which was the sound of stepping on the salt layer on the ground, much louder than on the snow. Under the feet are large and small cracked salt crystals, which are lumpy. There are flakes, the big ones are trampled into small ones, and the small ones are trampled into powder.

The team walked as high as possible, avoiding the shallow pits, and the boots were soaked in water, and when they dried, they would precipitate salt, which were also inedible, and were poisonous.

"There are footprints!" said Docom, pointing in one direction.

The footprints left on the salt ground will remain for a while, even if the temperature rises. It doesn't melt as quickly as snow.

"There were probably more than two hundred, no more than three hundred, and they stayed for no more than four days. "Vatsa is already familiar with this salt field and can roughly tell it based on the traces on the ground.

"It is estimated that it is a new group of people from the Fierce Fox Tribe, and it is not like they were left by the two tribes. After Susha came up and looked at it, he said.

The people of the Fierce Fox tribe will be more neat when they leave, but the people of the Sen tribe are more messy than these. So, these footprints will not be left by their two tribes.

"No rest tonight. Keep on your way!" shouted Seiro.

Although according to the past habits, in order to maintain sufficient physical strength to meet the enemy, they will definitely stop to rest and repair, even if they are in a hurry for the first few days, they have also stopped to rest at night. But after listening to Shao Xuan's words, Zhengluo decided to change his previous approach.

There is no hot broth, no rice porridge to warm the stomach, and when you are hungry, you can only nibble on frozen jerky, and all you can smell in the air is the salty smell of salt. All I could hear, apart from the howling of the wind, was the sound of footsteps on the salt floor.

Fortunately, it was not very windy and there was no snow on this night, so it was much calmer than the previous days.

Such a calm is easy for people to slack off, but Zhengluo keeps urging, so that everyone's nerves have been tense, and they don't complain, they just know that it's good to listen to the leader in everything, and the leader will never harm them.

At the same time, among the salt mines.

A few people from the Fox tribe and the Sen tribe dressed in thick furs were talking in the salt cave.

This is the salt cave of the Fox tribe.

The salt underneath the salt mine is layered, one layer of rock, one layer of salt ore, another layer of rock, and then another layer of salt mine. However, they like to continue digging down before the first layer is finished, and they finally dug up something not long ago, but they didn't expect that the surprise was so big.

After thinking about it, they chose to ally with the Sen tribe, the temperament of the mountain wind is too weird, and the people of the Burning Fox tribe don't look down on them, and the relationship between the two tribes of Yanjiao and Taihe is close, one knows, and the other is not far away, so, after excluding these three, it is the Sen tribe. Although the people of the Sen tribe sometimes look quite arrogant, when it comes to fire crystals, the people of the Sen tribe will also be smart and put away their arrogance for the time being.

At this time, the six high-ranking people of the two tribes gathered together, and among them, there were several eye-sized fire crystals.

"This is dug up today, there are more fire crystals below, it's just that the further down it goes, the more difficult it is to dig, it won't take thirty or fifty days, and it may not be able to finish digging, I'm afraid that during this time, Yanjiao and Taihe will come over." Said a man dressed in brown animal skins, with haphazard hair and a rough face. This is the people of the Sen tribe.

"As far as we know, the people of Shanfeng are probably united with Yanjiao and the Tai River, and they may come here to grab mines. Although we used salt to recruit some people, we always had to be on guard. The people of the Flame Horn are not so easy to deal with. The leader of the Flame Fox said.

"In such weather, they will come too?" the people of the Sen tribe doubted.

"If they really came on a snowy day, they would definitely know the secret of the fire crystal!" said the Fox Leader's face was fierce. They have already given half of it to the Sen tribe, and their flesh has been hurting for a long time, if they don't want to guard against those three tribes, why should they divide the benefits?! They don't allow anyone to join in and share it!

In this regard, the people of the Sen tribe also think the same way.

Gollum -

A strange cry came from outside the cave, and the sound was flying in this direction.

A man from the forest tribe raised his hand, and a gray shadow snorted, resting on his arm.

It was a bird, resembling a bird of prey, but not very large.

The bird shook its feathers as if it were shivering, and then barked at the man from the forest tribe.

Goo-goo-goo

The face of the man from the Sen tribe changed, "The people of the Tai River have come to the salt mine, and now they are almost in the salt field. Sure enough, they know the secret of the fire crystal!!"

"The people of Taihe have already come, and the people of Yanjiao must not be far away. It must have been the last time that the people of the mountain wind detected the fire crystal, so they joined forces with them. It is estimated that they will reach the salt mine the day after tomorrow. The leader of the Burning Fox has already made several calculations in his heart and said.

"The day after tomorrow?" the people of the Mori tribe muttered, "In three days, I am afraid that the sky will change, and the previous plan will have to be changed." ”

The people who talked about this fierce fox were also depressed, they had already arranged a few plans, arranged a formation, but were disturbed by sudden weather changes, the people of the Sen tribe have always been very sensitive to weather changes, and they can infer the change of climate from the changes in various grasses and trees in the mountains and forests. Say that there will be a change, or even a change in three days, and that will definitely happen.

"Hard work may not be able to stop them, especially the arrogant people of Yanjiao. "The leader of the Blazing Fox is estimating the impact that the tripartite cooperation over there can bring to them.

"What then?" asked the Sen tribesman, frowning.

A woman with narrow eyes who was sitting next to the leader of the Burning Fox had a flash in her eyes, and she laughed coquettishly, "It's not impossible. ”

The others all looked at the woman in unison.

The woman, dressed in a fiery red fur, raised her hand and stroked a white fox in her arms, "The sky does change, but it is not three days. In two days, there will be a huge change!"

As if in response to the woman's words, the fox in her arms raised her head and whimpered.

"Two days, are you sure?, how do you know?" the people of the Sen tribe suspected.

"I don't care how you know, but I'm sure there will be a change in two days. The woman's tone was steady, confident in her words.

"Even if there is a change in two days, what can you do to solve it??"

"It's actually simple. The woman said unhurriedly, "The sky changes, manpower cannot be stopped, once it happens, you can only bear it, or find a place to hide." Here in the salt mines, the only place that can be avoided is the salt cave. ”

"What do you mean......" the others already understood a little. The salt mines are only those opened by their five tribes, and the place of refuge, of course, is only the salt caves of their five tribes.

"But if there is no salt cave, you say, the people of the mountain wind, Yanjiao and the Tai River are coming, once the sky changes, where can they avoid it?"

"Destroy their salt caves!" the others had a gleam in their eyes.

"On the other side of the Tai River, we will arrive the day after tomorrow at the earliest, and the Yanjiao and Shanfeng sides must be similar, and we will destroy those salt caves tomorrow. When they come, we just need to guard our caves, the salt caves are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and they are blocked outside, and the weather changes, even if they want to destroy our salt caves, they don't have so much time. The leader of the Flame Fox said.

"Not bad. The woman smiled and narrowed her eyes, and nodded in agreement.

"It's just that the salt caves of the three tribes have been destroyed, how will the people you recruited be resettled?" asked the people from the Sen tribe.

"Get out of the salt cave on the other side of your Sen tribe, let them go in and hide when the time comes, and we can send some people on both sides to take care of it, the important thing is to guard this place. The woman said.

It is not impossible to temporarily give up their salt cave, for the sake of fire crystals, the people of the Sen tribe can temporarily put down the salt mine, "But what if the people of the three tribes of Shanfeng seize the salt cave over there?"

"Even if we do, what if we do, their casualties will be not small, so why should we be afraid?" said the woman. Three of the five salt caves were destroyed, and they were heavily guarded here, even if the last salt cave was occupied, most of the people who died at that time were temporary helpers they recruited with salt, and if they died, they would die, and they were not the people of their fierce foxes who died, and they could still wear down the combat effectiveness of the three tribes of the mountain wind, why not?

The decision here is good, but they don't know that there is such a person who does not play cards according to common sense, and is rushing overnight. (To be continued......)