Chapter 44: The Mysterious Back
On the small hillside, there was a strong smell of blood, corpses were everywhere, stumps and broken arms were everywhere, whether it was Chen Heng or others, it was the first time to encounter this kind of scene.
Just by taking a look, Su Ling immediately retched, Chen Heng and Xiaobai's faces were also extremely ugly, but Su Fan looked much calmer.
Chen Heng reluctantly took a few deep breaths, and after calming down a little, he forcibly endured the discomfort and walked forward.
There were at least a hundred corpses lying on the ground, most of them were injured by swords and spells, and some were directly bitten to death by brute beasts.
The clothes on their bodies are the same as the corpses that floated down the stream before, and those wearing gray servant clothes should be the one who was being hunted down, and under the black clothes of those black-clothed people are the light green servant costumes they saw before.
It can be seen that the corpses they found before came from here, and the two sides have been fighting for many days, and the dead ones a few days ago have been washed downstream by the flood.
Among these corpses, there were several more brute beasts that had been killed, but most of them were not completely dead, and only one breath remained on the ground, gasping and convulsing.
Chen Heng thought about it, and in order to avoid trouble, he stepped forward and stabbed those brute beasts that had not yet lost their breath to death with swords one by one.
At this time, the others had also relieved their breath, but Su Ling's face was still extremely ugly, and he kept following Xiao Bai, holding his left arm tightly.
"Are we going to keep chasing?"
Su Ling had to retch from time to time, the smell of blood in the scene was extremely stimulating to her, and being able to barely stand firm was enough to prove her character.
"Chase!" Chen Heng said firmly: "Although there are monks among these people, the strongest ones are only the fourth or fifth level of the acquired body realm, and they are not a big threat to us. But after all, there are a lot of people on the other side, let's follow behind first, if the one in front is really Miss Luo, let's wait for the opportunity to move then. ”
In any case, the main purpose of their trip to Mangcang Mountain this time was to find Luo Shanshan, and at this time, they finally had a clue, so how could they give up easily?
What's more, going up in trouble, this is the mentality that a cultivator should have.
Naturally, the others also understood this truth, although they were a little apprehensive in their hearts, but they did not say anything against it.
Chen Heng waved his hand, walked ahead, and led everyone into the forest.
In fact, Chen Heng's decisive decisions along the way helped them save them a lot of trouble, if it wasn't for Chen Heng's presence, they would definitely not have been able to get here now.
So unconsciously, Chen Heng has become the backbone of everyone. With him, they dare to take risks no matter how big the risk is.
Of course, this was also because they knew that Chen Heng would not take them to death.
The trees in the mountain forest were dense, and the moonlight could only faintly penetrate a little sporadic glimmer, which was much darker than the previous section of the forest.
In this case, Chen Heng could only slow down and search carefully.
Along the way, they found several corpses one after another, and there were traces of swords and spells everywhere in the forest, and some thick trees were broken by brute beasts, fell to the ground, and even crushed some people to death.
The whole mountain forest is in shambles.
Fortunately, they didn't encounter a lone beast, otherwise it would have been quite difficult in this poorly lit mountain forest.
Looking for these traces, Chen Heng and the others followed all the way, but they never found other clues.
It seems that the people fighting in front of them have already gone away.
"Let's take a break here!"
Never able to catch up, Chen Heng saw that everyone was already tired, so he found a relatively hidden and clean place, so everyone stopped and rested first.
Walking in this kind of terrain, they have to be highly vigilant about their surroundings all the time, and they have been on the road all day, and everyone is exhausted.
If you continue walking, if you encounter an enemy or a brute beast, I am afraid that everyone will not have the strength to meet the enemy.
Hearing Chen Heng's words, Su Ling and Xiaobai were both relieved.
Su Ling's leg injury was just right, and Xiao Bai had just been injured, and among the four people, the physical strength of the two of them was the worst.
Everyone ate some dry food first, drank some water, and recovered a little.
"Brother Chen, I'm going to find some herbs and change the medicine for the wound. ”
After resting a little, Xiaobai regained some strength and said to Chen Heng.
Everyone knew Xiaobai's level of picking herbs, and there was nothing to worry about, so they didn't object.
"Be careful!"
Although Su Ling wanted to follow, she was very tired today, and although she was relieved at this time, her physical strength had not recovered, and she really couldn't walk.
Xiaobai nodded in understanding.
Chen Heng pondered for a moment and said, "Xiaobai, I'll go with you." It's so poorly lit and you're hurt......"
Xiaobai waved his hand to interrupt Chen Heng's words and said, "Don't worry, I'm not that fragile, not to mention that I'm just looking around here, and I don't run far, don't worry." ”
I didn't encounter any danger along the way, so Chen Heng didn't insist anymore, but said, "If there is something to shout, I will rush over immediately." ”
Xiaobai nodded and left.
Chen Heng sat by the tree, recalling what he had seen today.
From the veil he found at the beginning, to the corpses floating down from the stream, to the big battle that followed, everything seemed reasonable, but he always felt that something was wrong.
These two sides that seem to be obviously hostile, why did they suddenly appear on this reckless mountain?
In the vicinity of this Mangcang Mountain, there seems to be no other force except for the Divine Soldier Mountain Villa.
Even if someone appeared on the mountain, it should be some hunter team similar to Tianyou, and these two parties were obviously the family members and servants of some forces.
If the party being hunted down is indeed from the Luo family, it is reasonable, then who are those people in black, and why would they hunt down and kill the people of the Luo family?
Chen Heng always felt that things were not as simple as they seemed on the surface.
There are so many things that you can't find out if you don't understand the reason.
It seems that we will only have to wait until we catch up with those people.
With a light sigh, Chen Heng dispelled these complicated thoughts in his mind, and was about to close his eyes to recuperate for a while, when he caught a glimpse of a shadow suddenly flashing in the woods in front of him.
Due to the suddenness of the incident, the speed of the shadow was extremely fast, Chen Heng only saw the back of what seemed to be a woman, and he couldn't catch it at all.
The Su Fan brothers and sisters naturally also noticed this movement, and invariably looked at the location where the shadow flashed, however, in this dark mountain forest, the line of sight was limited, and the shadow had already flown into the dark.
Chen Heng hurriedly got up and stepped forward and said to Su Fan and Su Ling: "You wait here, Xiaobai will come back and talk to him in a while, and I'll chase him over and take a look." ”
Time was limited, and without waiting for Su Fan and the others to respond, Chen Heng immediately unfolded his body and chased forward.
In fact, after practicing the Nine Transformations of Drifting Floo, Chen Heng's body technique has made great progress, but in the blink of an eye, he has already gone far.
Attentively, the trees in the forest retreated at a high speed, and Chen Heng's figure moved, avoiding those trees one by one. But he soon found out that he didn't know if he was following in the wrong direction, or if the figure was too fast, and he couldn't catch up at all.
Pausing his figure, Chen Heng pondered carefully.
"Looking at that back, it seems to be a woman, does it have anything to do with the two groups of people before? Or is this just a monk who accidentally entered the Mangcang Mountain?"
Without a clue, Chen Heng couldn't think of a reason, and suddenly his heart moved: Could it be, turn the tiger away from the mountain?
Worst!
As soon as the thought moved, I wanted to turn back, and suddenly found a white silk handkerchief hanging from the branch in front of me, fluttering slightly with the breeze.
It can't be that the man just dropped, right?
Chen Heng took a leap, took off the silk handkerchief, and when he opened it, there was a line of beautiful small characters on it.
"Ape Valley ahead, danger, don't go any further. Unharmed, don't seek, don't read. ", signed: Luo.
"It's ......"
Chen Heng was stunned for a moment, from a literal point of view, this silk handkerchief was obviously deliberately left by the previous person, and the purpose was to remind them that there was danger ahead, don't approach.
Anyway, let's go back and take a look, I hope I'm suspicious!
Worried about the unknown enemy's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, Chen Heng hurriedly put away the silk handkerchief, spread his body and rushed back.
Soon, Chen Heng returned to the place where he had rested before, and when he saw Su Fan's brother and sister standing there with some concern, he breathed a sigh of relief.
When the two saw Chen Heng, Su Fan hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Have you caught up?"
"Has Xiaobai come back?" Chen Heng did not answer immediately, but asked him about Xiaobai's news.
Unless everyone is safe and sound, Chen Heng still can't be completely assured.
"Brother Chen!"
As soon as his words fell, Xiaobai's voice rang out.
I saw him slowly walking out from behind a big tree, with the smell of fresh herbs on his body, and he had already changed his medicine.
Seeing that Xiaobai had also returned, Chen Heng's heart was finally completely relieved.
After sorting out his thoughts, Chen Heng took out the white silk handkerchief from his arms and told everyone about the situation just now.
"Ape Valley ahead, danger, don't go any further. Unharmed, don't seek, don't read. ”
Su Ling read the words on the silk handkerchief and guessed: "This means that there is a very dangerous ape valley ahead, telling us not to move forward." But looking at the latter sentence, the other party obviously knew that we were looking for Miss Luo, and told us not to worry, and we didn't need to go to her, Miss Luo was safe and sound. ”
Everyone can naturally see the meaning, which is also the most puzzling thing for Chen Heng, since the other party knows that he and the others are looking for Miss Luo, and she knows the news of Miss Luo, why don't they show up to see each other and have to leave this silk handkerchief?
If the other party is from the Luo family, since the Luo family invited them to help, they should at least come forward to make it clear. There is no reason to let them go back for no reason.
Xiaobai took the silk handkerchief, looked at it carefully, and said: "Look at this handwriting, it is clean and tidy, beautiful and beautiful, and it is like a painting, it should be a woman's handwriting." Since the payment is Luo, then this silk handkerchief is left by Miss Luo. ”
Almost everyone else thought the same way, and nodded in agreement.
After a pause, Xiao Bai said again: "Since Miss Luo said that she was not in danger, she asked us not to go to her, maybe it was just that we couldn't get out of it temporarily, and we went to add to the chaos." I think we'd better go back to the Divine Soldier Villa and wait for news from her. ”
Su Fan hesitated: "I didn't see Miss Luo, is our mission completed?"
Su Ling didn't stand on Xiaobai's side this time, but raised his eyebrows lightly, and said in a deep voice: "Although it is very likely that these words were left by Miss Luo, none of us have seen her with our own eyes? ”
Besides, even if she wrote it, it doesn't prove that she is absolutely safe, think about the battle situation that Chen Heng described before. I think it's more likely that she's being coerced, otherwise why wouldn't she show up and tell us about it?"
Su Ling's analysis was reasonable, Xiaobai was also silent, and suddenly remembered that Chen Heng on the side seemed to have never opened his mouth, and immediately looked at him. And the Su brothers and sisters also looked at Chen Heng at the same time.
Chen Heng's status in this squad has long been indisputable, no matter whether he goes or stays, everyone will definitely obey his decision.
Chen Heng glanced at everyone, and simply said one word-
"Chase!"