"Three years into a nursery, ten years into a forest, nearly twenty or thirty years have passed, and sure enough, even the road has disappeared."

Umiphon didn't expect that the vegetation in Wushen Gorge seemed to be even stranger than he expected.

"Let's go to the watchtower and make sure where we are."

After speaking, Yue Guanchao took them to the abandoned watchtower, which was the same as the watchtower at the foot of Wuhuang Mountain, with stacked gray eaves, blue brick masonry, towering stone steps, strict barriers, and other garrison facilities such as battlements and turrets, which were probably used to encircle and suppress the east and monitor the canyon in the past.

Now, it is basically almost ruined, the surrounding is covered by flowers and shrubs, many ancient trees spread the canopy, almost completely enveloping it in the green shade, if you don't look carefully, you can't tell that there is a watchtower hidden in this verdant forest, if this thing is a wooden pavilion, it is estimated that the house has already corroded and collapsed.

At this moment, Yue Guanchao looked at the "zhi" shaped staircase, the brick cracks and stone gaps were full of weeds, like bean seedlings and wheat seedlings popping up in the gaps, he picked up a sharp machete, and kept cutting off the crown side branches above his head, and cut a path from it.

Climb the stairs, stand at the battlement, this watchtower is about forty or fifty meters high, and everyone goes up to the next floor, and finally fades the cascading green barriers in front of them, and begins to appear in the canyon panorama.

There is no open space in the canyon, and the lush forest is like algae in the pond, filling the canyon completely, and in the endless green sea, you can see countless rivers and lakes twisting and turning, connecting with each other, like gold and silver woven pearl and jade chains spread out in the canyon, dividing the canyon into countless mottled forests.

The sky is full of rich miasma that does not disperse for a long time, the sun shines, the water vapor on the riverside and the miasma in the forest blend and superimpose, reflecting the colorful blurred halo, the more vivid, the more poisonous and violent, there are foreign birds passing by, must be smoked to fall downward, can no longer fly out.

This place is like a highly poisonous Gu altar, but most of the flying insects and beasts that can stay here have already adapted to the toxicity, and have even become part of the canyon poisonous forest, and have been cultivated by the evil Gu wild forest.

"These water networks are all rivers built in the past, from the hills to the network of rivers spread out in the canyon, and then into the giant river at the end, forming a canal channel, the forest has been growing and spreading for thousands of years, the river has become a recognizable road, I used to enter the canyon, generally go around the river to go forward, as long as I follow the flow of the river, I will not get lost."

"At the moment, most of the markings I've made are gone, and we have to find our way along the river again, which is not easy, but it is the only safe way."

Before Wu Mifeng's words fell, Song Siyuan picked up the binoculars and carefully looked around, and the smoke in the distance attracted her attention.

"Uncle Wu, there seems to be someone making a fire in the forest?"

Yue Guanchao took the telescope and carefully observed the direction, and there was indeed smoke hovering in the forest: "Could it be that I am mistaken, eighty percent of the fog in the river has risen, what do you think?" ”

Yue Guanchao then handed the telescope to Wu Mifeng, he took the telescope to look at the source of the smoke, and his pupils kept flickering: "It is indeed not fog, the fog is water droplets that are easy to float on the canopy, and these white mist will immediately drift away as soon as they reach the canopy, most of which are smoke caused by fire." ”

Wu Mifeng's speculation made everyone curious, and Song Siyuan asked: "There are really people in this canyon, but who is that person who can survive in the canyon for so long?" ”

"No matter who it is, this smoke is so strange, I haven't seen it a few days ago, but when we enter the canyon, the smoke immediately appears, what does this mean? It is estimated that some people with intentions deliberately attracted us to the past. ”

Umiphon knew that things couldn't be so coincidental, if someone was really making a fire and cooking, it was impossible for the patrolling guards not to find out, and the fact that they hadn't found these people all these years was enough to tell the story, according to this logic, the smoke was obviously a reminder, deliberately let them see it, so as to attract them.

"Could it be that it's really this group of people who are pregnant with Dongjin?"

Wu Xuanyu's words made everyone nervous, and he was able to survive in the canyon for thirty years without being poisoned, which already showed that he had the ability, this fireworks came too strangely, and it seemed extremely deliberate, obviously exposing his whereabouts, thinking about it carefully, I didn't know what bad ideas I was holding.

"It's possible what you said, but we don't know anything for the time being, let's just keep going, and ignoring it is the best solution."

Umiphon knew that the smoke was mostly a tool to attract their attention, and that they had not yet reached the altar of the witch god, so it was safest not to respond to all changes, so as not to cause extraneous problems for the idlers in the canyon.

Song Siyuan looked at the smoke, but had a different opinion with Wu Mifeng: "Uncle Wu, I think we may not be so easy to get our wish, since we have all burned the fireworks to us, we have to go and see what we say, whether it is pregnant or not, I know that these things are people or ghosts, and I feel a little more at ease when I go to the altar, so as not to worry too much, but I will be frightened by them." ”

Yue Guanchao nodded: "I also think we should go and see, they all came to the door, we have to meet them, if they are really coming at us, even if we don't go to them, they will definitely have to trouble us, and it will be difficult to rectify it when the time comes." ”

Wu Mifeng didn't want to start another dispute in the canyon, but seeing Yue Guanchao, they insisted on going, so they had to follow their ideas and go to the source of the smoke to find out.

Got off the city tower, along the river, Yue Guanchao and nearly twenty of them, under the leadership of Wu Mifeng, walked along the river, although these jungles are dense, there are no trees from the river, along the way, they cut a road with a machete.

After walking for about an hour, everyone finally came to the source of the smoke, which was close to the river and there were few trees, and there were wooden buildings on stilts two meters above the ground on the beach of the Asakusa River, surrounded by a fence, a hoe and rake on the shelves by the vegetable garden, and a stove under the eaves of the courtyard, in which dry wood was burning, and thick white smoke was emitted.

The white smoke they saw was obviously wafting from here!

"Anyone?"

Yue Guanchao motioned to the people around him to wait outside, opened the fence door and walked into the courtyard, and walked up the stairs to the wooden building.

With a squeak, Yue Guanchao pushed open the door of the wooden house at the end of the stairs, and there was only a living room and a place to sleep inside, except for some simple furniture made of wood.

No one?

Yue Guanchao realized that something was wrong, picked up the shotgun behind him and became vigilant, his pace gradually slowed down, lowered his voice and approached the bedroom door, first kicked the door open with his foot, and saw that there was no movement, so he picked up the shotgun and walked into the bedroom.

Looking around, there was only one bed in the bedroom, a chair counter in the window, and a layer of oil on the surface of the bedding and pillows, probably because people often slept here.

Yue Guanchao opened the cabinet, there were only a few changes of clothes made of coarse cloth, and hunting boots, grappling hooks, ropes and other things, looking often used, dilapidated, he saw that there was no one inside, his heels fell backwards, and he kept exiting the door.

The moment he turned his head, a dirty old man suddenly appeared in front of him like a stake.

His eyes were bloodshot, his eyes were cloudy, his hair was gray, his waist was rickety, his black cloth cloak was matched with rough and dark skin, just like the evil ghost in the deep mountains and old forests, and his cunning eyes looked around with bad intentions, which added to the sense of horror.

With just one glance, Yue Guanchao turned out like a frightened bird, and the old man seemed to be taken aback, and shouted out in a loud voice, his voice was as sharp as an old eunuch who had been castrated.

"Oh, whose dead child is this, take the gun and break in, hurry up and get me out, what kind of person are you."

Everyone realized that there was danger, and immediately turned over the fence and walked in, all around the small courtyard, Yue Guanchao picked up the gun, aimed at the old man who came out, and looked at him vigilantly.

Wu Mifeng was very afraid that this person was Ren Dongjin, and stepped forward to carefully observe this dirty old man, who was indeed not his former enemy, so he was relieved, and then, he shook his head at everyone, signaling that they should not be so nervous.

Yue Guanchao sensed Wu Mifeng's meaning, and already knew that this was not Ren Dongjin, he breathed a sigh of relief, put away his vigilant eyes, and asked, "Old man, this place is full of poisonous miasma, how can you build a house in such a place?" ”

"This is my house, I don't build a house here, where do you tell me to go?"

The old man seemed to be a little excited, babbling and pointing at the crowd between his words, almost madness and madness, even if he looked thin, he could not grasp the subsequent movements, and could only be half vigilant and half relaxed.

"This is your home? You've always lived here? ”

Song Siyuan became curious, if this place was just his temporary residence, she might choose to believe this old man's words, it was more or less strange to settle down alone in a forest full of poisonous miasma, and she had to cheer up and deal with it carefully.

"Yes, my family's tablets are all here, can I still tell lies."

The old man groped inside for a while, and took out a tablet from it, on which strange totems were written in witch characters, Wu Mifeng read the words carefully, and nodded at everyone: "The meaning of these words records his ancestors, according to the records of the Mo family, probably the Gu people in the hilly area. ”

Although she knew his identity, Song Siyuan was still very curious about how this old man had lived in the poisonous miasma forest for so long, and asked curiously: "Old man, since you are a living in the hilly area?" How did you survive in the jungle? ”

"What else could it be? The one who killed a thousand knives in the east of pregnancy? ”

These words stirred up a thousand waves with one stone, and everyone became vigilant.

"He, wasn't he burned to death in the imperial city a long time ago?"

Seeing that his guess had come true, Wu Mifeng's eyes became extremely concerned, of course, this concern was not to hope that he would live, but to find him out and kill his enemy.

Some people died, but not completely......