Chapter 59: The Changning Mountains
Although the Changning Mountains are cold, they are lush in forests and abundant in resources, and a mountain range feeds half of the people of Changning Prefecture.
When you first enter the mountains, you can see a few people digging and picking in the mountains every once in a while, and when you go deeper, you will encounter some hunters, and there are more traps for catching animals in the forest.
But after entering the snow line, almost all the people disappeared, and there were only a few footprints of hunters, all the way to the forest.
The forest is vast, the world is also white again, and the clear and cold air seems to have a bit of purification, which sweeps away the boredom in their hearts.
The wind carries the broken snow fluttering in the forest sea, like catkins in the sky, which is extremely magnificent.
Qin Wan tightened the leather jacket on his body, and although he changed into winter clothes in advance before going up the mountain, he still felt a little cold.
"Be careful, hunters in the Changning Mountains often set traps under the snow." Dongfang Lan reminded everyone.
Qin Wan said: "By the way, I haven't asked the Oriental girl where she is from Changning Mansion?" ”
Dongfang Lan said: "My ancestral home is Taicheng. ”
Before going up the mountain, Qin Wan went to a nearby bookstore and bought two maps.
One is from Changning Mansion and the other is from the Changning Mountains.
She opened the map and looked at it, from Yangcheng, where they were now, to Taicheng, where Dongfang Lan lived, it was four hundred miles away.
It seems that Dongfang Lan shouldn't know much about the situation here.
"But I've walked through the Changning Mountains once before, so I know a little bit about the situation here." Dongfang Lan said.
Qin Wan's eyes were filled with joy, and he spread out the map of the Changning Mountain Range in front of Dongfang Lan, and asked, "Then with what Dongfang girl sees, where should we go?" ”
Dongfang Lan pointed to a mountain peak on the map and said, "If I remember correctly, there is an ice pool here, according to the growth habits of Binglan, it should be possible to find it here." ”
"What about velvet?" Qin Wan asked.
Dongfang Lan stared at it for a while, clicked on an extremely remote location on the map, and said, "We can take a look here, it's just a little far ......away."
There is the Ice and Fire Peak of the Changning Mountains, an extinct volcano that erupted five hundred years ago, but is now completely buried by ice and snow.
"I remember that eight years ago, there was a batch of velvet in Changning Mansion, which was found by a few thieves in Binghuofeng, and a batch was sold at a high price in Fucheng, and I also met an old doctor in Fucheng at the beginning, so I knew that there was such a medicinal herb."
Dongfang Lan said and muttered for a while before saying: "From here to Ice and Fire Peak, it will take at least three days, it takes too long to come and go, in fact, you can also take a look at other places, and maybe you can also find the whereabouts of the velvet." ”
"Let's go directly to Ice and Fire Peak, if there is no other place, wouldn't it be even more delayed." Qin Wan decided.
Xiao Yan's current situation, there is no time for her to look for ethereal possibilities elsewhere, since Ice and Fire Peak has found fire velvet there, there is a chance that she can find it if she goes there again.
A few people were walking, when they suddenly heard the rustling sound of snow not far away.
"There's a bunny!"
Xiaolian whispered excitedly.
Everyone also discovered the situation, and on the snow in the distance, a snow-white figure was frantically picking up the snow there, as if trying to break free of something.
"Don't go over, it's supposed to be a trap." Qin Wan said.
In her previous life, when she caught strange beasts, she had also set this kind of trap.
The rabbit was just a bait, and the ground there could only hold the weight of a rabbit, and the prey would fall into the trap if it walked over.
"Then let's not break this trap, these hunters will not be easy." Xiaolian said kindly.
Everyone carefully bypassed the trap, and as they walked, Xiaolian smoothed out their footprints with snow.
Qin Wan wanted to speak and stopped, most of the animals in the mountains rely on their sense of smell, so many of them appear here, the smell is very obvious, unless they are extremely hungry, they will not attack this rabbit.
But seeing Xiaolian's serious and busy look, she didn't tell her.
At noon, everyone did not rest, ate some dry food, and continued on their way.
In the evening, the mountain wind began to get stronger, and the snow was so heavy that it was difficult to walk, so everyone found a cave to rest.
Qin Wan sat at the entrance of the cave, barely seeing anything outside.
The wind and snow seemed to isolate them from the whole world, such a thing had happened in previous lives, but she had the supplies in the space, so she never worried.
She thought of Xiao Yan under the mountain, in fact, what does this guy have to do with her, she doesn't need to care about him at all.
It's just that the faint sense of responsibility in her heart makes her unable to leave him.
Moreover, if she hadn't come to this world, Xiao Yan would have woken up by now and led the exile team all the way to Xizhou.
Because of her arrival, the original trajectory was changed, which Qin Wan had no way to deny.
When he came out of the inn, Qin Wan gave Xiao Jun ten nutrient solutions, ten days, which should be completely enough.
Dongfang Lan and Xiaolian both knew that Qin Wan was in a hurry, so as soon as the wind and snow stopped, even if it was not yet dawn, they still set off immediately.
It was almost noon when they came to the location of the ice pool.
Before he got closer, he saw a group of snow wolves in the distance tearing and eating a wild deer in the ice pool.
Those snow wolves were very vigilant, and immediately discovered the existence of several of them, and they were all vigilant.
The wolves that live deep in the mountains are not afraid of people, and for them, these four people are likely to become a good meal.
Under the wolf howl of the head wolf, those snow wolves who were gnawing gave up their food and rushed towards Qin Wan and the others together.
They all seemed to be experienced hunters and well-trained, and in the blink of an eye, they surrounded Qin Wan and the others, and there was not a single gap.
"It seems that the only way to do it is to do it." Qin Wan pulled out the sword he was carrying.
Dongfang Lan stood up and said, "You don't have to do it, I'll come." ”
As she spoke, she raised her sword and charged at the wolf.
Dongfang Lan's body is light, and in a blink of an eye, he came to the head wolf, the head wolf is also fierce and bold, it is in the deep mountains, at most a few hunters, completely ignoring humans, and also pounced on Dongfang Lan.
At the same time, the two next to the head wolf also pounced together.
The other wolves saw that Qin Wan Xiaolian and Zang Qi did not move, and they did not rush to attack, and all the wolf heads looked at Dongfang Lan and the head wolf, as if they were waiting for a result.
Dongfang Lan held the sword in his backhand, rolled his body, and jumped directly from under the jumping head wolf, and at the same time dodged the pounce of the two wolves next to him, and the long sword was inserted from the head wolf's abdomen, directly disemboweling it.
After a terrible wolf howl, Dongfang Lan didn't even touch half a drop of wolf blood, and rolled to the side and stopped.
When those snow wolves saw Dongfang Lan kill their head wolf so easily, they were so frightened that they whined and hurriedly ran away with their tails between their legs.
Dongfang Lan stood up, took a handkerchief to clean up the blood on the sword, and said calmly: "These wolves are like this, as long as the first wolf is dead, the others will also be scattered, and it is not troublesome to deal with." ”