Chapter 63: The Valley of Strange Gravel
Gravel Valley is a naturally formed canyon, the mountains on both sides are rich in beautiful jade, for thousands of years, countless people who mine jade and gamble stone come and go here, all kinds of mining holes are dotted on the cliff wall because of the mining of jade, and there are many waste stones mined out of are thrown in the valley, over time, the bottom of the valley is densely covered with large and small stones, and the name of the gravel valley comes from this.
Standing at the entrance of the gravel valley, Chen Xi looked at the endless gravel all over the ground and sighed: Water drops and stones wear through, such a large mountain range has been dug by a small manpower.
Walking into the valley, the already strong mountain wind was obstructed by the mountains on both sides, and then blew out through the only catharsis outlet of the gravel valley, which appeared more manic, and the air flow brought by the mountain wind blew through the mine to produce a whining sound, because the size of the mine cave, the depth and even the height of the division were different, and all kinds of whining sounds converged into one, sometimes high and sometimes low, intermittently.
He took out a medium-grade spirit weapon dagger from the ring, Chen Xi cut off a corner of the stone in his hand like cutting tofu, saw the gray stubble inside, threw it on the ground in disappointment, and then continued to look for the next piece. This is a common technique used by people who gamble on jade, if the stone has a texture on it, then it can be bought from the miners at a low price, such a stone is sold in towns near the mountains on the Kuixing Continent, people call it the original stone, if you are lucky, after breaking the skin to reveal the jade, this rough stone will immediately double in value, countless people who fantasize about getting rich overnight choose to gamble, but there are very few who really expel the jade.
The gravel on the ground is discarded after countless people, trying to find jade in it is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, and finally Chen Xi had to give up the stone at the mouth of the valley and head towards the depths of the gravel valley, there are not many people who can go inside, maybe there are relatively more opportunities, Chen Xi does not expect to gamble on a piece of jade to make a fortune, but at least to give him a reason to continue searching, that is, there are indeed unmined veins here.
Walking to the middle of the gravel valley, Chen Xi found a skeleton on the ground not far away, judging from the shattering of its skull, it should be a miner who fell down, thinking that these miners were willing to risk their lives for their livelihood, but in the end there was no one to collect the body, Chen Xi couldn't help but sigh that the world was cold. However, as it went deeper, more and more bones appeared, some of the heads were broken, some even had intact bones, more than ten scattered bones of different shapes, carefully probed the surroundings, Chen Xi found that all the bones around, there was no sign of fighting, although these people did not know how many years they had been dead, the clothes on their bodies, the flesh and blood had rotted, and were blown away by the mountain wind, but scattered on the ground, obviously crude knives and iron hooks for mountain climbing, indicating that they were indeed jade miners, If it seems excusable that the miners died after a stumble, then how did the miners with intact bones die?
Coming to an intact skeleton again, Chen Xi carefully observed: there were no broken bones in the body, which was caused by external forces, there was no color deepening under the throat bone and two ribs, and death from poisoning was ruled out, and there was enough clear water and wild fruits on the mountains on both sides to eliminate food shortages.
Just when Chen Xi saw the hand of the skeleton, a major discovery was suddenly revealed, the ten fingertips of the skeleton had obvious damage, although countless years have passed, there is no sign on the ground, but, the damaged fingertips show that these people experienced a period of painful struggle before they died, and the missing fingertips were caused by scratching the ground.
In the huge gravel valley, except for Chen Xi and the old man with wine, there is no one, and the bones in front of him are just a warning, there must be some secret hidden in the depths of the gravel valley!
At this time, Chen Xi was no longer interested in looking for jade, carrying a dagger, and cautiously continued to go deep into the valley, an hour later, except for the bones seen at the beginning, there were no bones in the gravel valley, and the gravel all over the ground and the mining caves on the mountain wall showed that this place had experienced a period of prosperity, but at this time, except for the noisy whining sound in the ears, everything seemed so dead and silent.
Chen Xi felt irritable for no reason, looked at the old man who was walking slowly behind him and shouted: "Dead old man, who do you want to show if you want to die or live, it annoys me, believe it or not, let you stay here and be the company of those dead ghosts!"
The old man was slightly stunned, and the pupils of his eyes that swept towards the mine shrank, before that, Chen Xi's words and deeds were not abnormal at all, and the old man himself didn't feel anything wrong, but now, Chen Xi in front of him made the old man feel very strange, although Chen Xi had little respect for himself in the past, but he would never keep claiming that he was a dead old man, let alone trying to kill himself here with a violent face, everything shows that Chen Xi at this time is being disturbed by some invisible factor, the bones on the ground, Chen Xi's abnormality, The empty and uninhabited gravel valley, so the contradictions are directed to the whining in the ears.
After carefully scanning the mountain wall, the old man sneered: What a big deal, someone actually arranged the entire Gravel Valley into a Demon Sound Devouring God Array.
Looking at the old man who was still dragging his feet, the violent Chen Xi flattened the dagger in his hand, and with the other hand, the palm of his hand was against the tail of the dagger, and his legs slammed on the ground, and his whole body was like a sharp sword flying at the position of the old man who was drinking, and the sharp blade of the dagger pointed at the heart of the old man of wine!
In the face of Chen Xi's attack, the old man turned around and ran, but an old man in his twilight years, how could his speed be comparable to the full force of the late cultivator of the Phantom Sea, the sharp dagger hit the back of the old man almost instantly, Chen Xi held the palm at the end of the dagger and suddenly exerted force, a dazzling brilliance burst out on the back of the old man wine, the huge force not only shook the dagger in Chen Xi's hand into pieces, but even his body was overturned, and then the force of the recoil, the old man jumped out, Fell on the gravel more than ten zhang away in a very ugly posture, the angular stone did not let him scratch a little bit of flesh, and sat up, the old man just wanted to scold, but saw that the silver light on Chen Xi's fists after landing on the ground skyrocketed, and the splitting mountain fist struck again with the sound of breaking the sky.
Sitting on the ground, the air flow brought by the Split Mountain Fist blew the old man's sparse beard in all directions, just as the fist of silver light was still an inch away from the old man's face, Chen Xi's eyes suddenly became clear, and seeing that his target of attack was actually the old man of wine, Chen Xi changed his fist violently, and the silver mang almost rubbed the old man's head.
Maintaining the posture of punching, Chen Xi's face was less than a foot away from the old man with wine, and even the old man with wine had a few crow's feet clearly.
Withdrawing his fist in embarrassment, Chen Xi said with a look of shame on his face: Old man wine, I don't really want to attack you, this gravel valley has disturbed my mind.
Waving his hand indifferently, the old man said: Of course I know that you didn't mean it, and even if you did it on purpose, I don't care, otherwise when your dagger stabbed me in the back, I would already be a corpse.
Hurriedly checked the back of the old man who was hit by himself, except for the dust on the old man's own bones, the greasy robe was not even a little damaged. After making sure that the old man was fine, Chen Xi smiled and said: Sure enough, it is a treasure dress, but since I can't hurt you, why do you still jump, and you fall so ugly.
patted the dust on his body, and the old man shouted: You just can't hurt me, and I can't stand and let you fight, that's what a fool does.
Chen Xi chuckled and said, "Someone seems to have been playing a fool all along.
Thinking that he was beaten in Huaiyuan City for wine, the old man with wine turned red, and hurriedly said: Mo Ti in the past, Mo Ti in the past, the reason why I jumped here is because only here can you listen to me soberly, even if you take a step back, you will lose your mind again.