"Click, click, click......"

Chen Mo sat in the carriage and chewed the antlers in his mouth, and there was a stack of oil cakes and a bowl of meat sauce on the side.

The antlers have no taste and are indeed crispy, but they can be very uncomfortable in the throat when swallowed.

So Chen Mo bought some meat sauce and oil cakes to eat with the antlers, which can adjust the taste and swallow better.

Biting off another piece of antler, Chen Mo lifted the curtain and took a look at the outside scene.

It is estimated that after another one or twenty miles, it should be until the barracks.

Open the wooden box on the car and put away the remaining antlers.

Chen Mo lifted the curtain and walked out of the carriage, the place he was going to was the barracks, although the driver who drove the car was also a soldier of the Zhuniuji barracks.

But if they don't show up, the soldiers in the camp will never let them into the camp at will.

The carriage and horses walked for a while, and the familiar military camp gradually came into view.

The place was still as heavily guarded as ever, and the guards in charge of the barracks were quickly on guard before the strange carriages and horses had even arrived.

The two soldiers who were in charge of guarding the door hurriedly ran over, and when they saw Chen Mo, their faces were slightly surprised.

"Brother Thirteen, didn't you go to office? Why did you come back all of a sudden? One of the soldiers asked curiously, turned and waved to the tower in the distance, signaling that his companion did not need to be on guard again.

"Something, I want to go to the barracks and see my father." Chen Mo said in a deep voice.

The two soldiers quickly got up to work, pulled away the horse, and let the carriage in.

The three carriages drove all the way into the deepest part of the barracks, and Chen Mo jumped out of the carriage and personally moved the things in the carriage one by one.

"Just leave one carriage for me, and you can drive the other two back now." Chen Mo instructed the soldiers who came to take out two ingots and five taels of silver from his bosom and handed them to the two of them.

The two of them happily bowed and worshipped, and then drove away.

Several pro-soldiers accompanied them all the way to ensure that they would not wander around the barracks.

Chen Mo walked into the barracks alone carrying a wooden box, and several pro-soldiers who had gathered here wanted to come to help, but he also declined.

Some of the more knowledgeable pro-soldiers understood in their hearts that they could not just look at the contents of the box.

Immediately stepped away, and even those pro-soldiers who had not yet figured out the situation were dragged away by them.

For a while, only a few soldiers on duty were still here.

"Hmm!" Sun Shouren was originally sitting in the study, looking carefully at a letter in front of him, and he couldn't help but be stunned when he saw Chen Mo walking into the house with three wooden boxes.

"You didn't keep a good guard in Zhuniuji, why did you suddenly run back, did something happen?" Sun Shouren frowned slightly, flipped through the letter in his hand, and hurriedly asked.

"This matter is a long story, father-in-law, listen to me slowly." Chen Mo slowly put down the three wooden boxes, turned around and closed the door.

There are also two Bingjian statues in the study, and the windows are closed very tightly to prevent the cold from draining, so he doesn't have to work hard.

"My child asked you some time ago why there are people on duty in the barracks day and night, and they have to beat gongs and drums.

I was just puzzled before, but it wasn't until something happened to me recently that I finally understood. ”

Chen Mo didn't have the idea of going around in circles, and went straight to the point.

After listening to his words, Sun Shouren's face changed suddenly, and his brows were tightly locked, like a Sichuan character.

Get up and open the door of the study, and let a few of the soldiers who were on duty in front of the door go outside, and don't let anyone else in.

After making arrangements, he walked back in front of Chen Mo again.

"Do you really know why gongs and drums are sounded in the barracks?" Sun Shouren's tone was cautious, and his expression was rarely serious.

This matter cannot be overjoyed, and must be confirmed again and again.

"That day I woke up suddenly at night, and heard a strange noise from the outside world, and when I went to look for it, I didn't think about it, but I fell into a gray fog.

In that gray mist, I also encountered a strange creature, a very ferocious deer. ”

"I killed it, but its corpse was left behind, turning into a piece of living flesh with a strange aroma.

I was worried that there would be problems after eating, so I endured it and didn't dare to eat it, and then I heard the gongs and drums beating in the barracks, and I got out of the gray fog, and the live meat became what it is now. ”

Chen Mo said a lot in one breath, and took out a piece of live meat from his arms.

Sun Shouren sighed softly, took it in his hand, and looked at it carefully back and forth.

"I tried it twice later, and each time I fell into the gray fog, I met these strange creatures, and I got something.

Father, what is that gray mist? Why does the sound of gongs and drums disperse it? What kind of creature is the strange deer that lives in the gray mist? ”

Chen Mo asked many questions one after another, which had been bothering him since he first fell into the gray fog, and now he finally had the opportunity to ask them in one go.

"Sit down first." Sun Shouren waved his hand and asked Chen Mo to sit down at the desk.

"Now that you know everything, then I won't hide it from you anymore."

Chen Mo's eyes couldn't help but light up when he heard this, sure enough, his guess was correct, his father-in-law, as a strong man in the entire Xingyuan Mansion, really understood these secrets.

"I've told you about ruins and ruin monsters before, but they all have a specific scope, and as long as they are not in them, then they will not be affected by them.

The gray fog is different, it has a more accurate name called mirage.

They only appear in places where crowds gather at night, and they will not be encountered by a single person, even if they are in a group of seven or eight people. ”

Sun Shouren slowly narrated, as Chen Mo expected, the powerhouses of this world had long been in contact with the gray fog or mirage.

"You remember, if you camp in the wild in the future, you don't want to bang the gong and drum and expose yourself.

Then the number of people gathered in three acres of land must not exceed forty, and once this number is exceeded, there is a possibility of mirage.

Or you can guarantee that everyone wakes up and falls asleep at the same time, and that they won't wake up for even a split second in the middle of the night.

Otherwise, don't think about tricks, you must arrange for someone to sound the gong and drum. ”

Sun Shouren spoke in great detail, and as a general of the First Army, he needed to be constantly reluctant to go out at night to patrol and investigate.

So he has a lot of experience in how much of a range and how many people can be arranged at the same time without any surprises.

These are all things that will not be talked about in the military book, and they can be regarded as the secret legends of the major generals.

"That's not right, the child remembers the last time he fell into the mirage, and the speed was obviously very slow, even if he accidentally woke up at night, he shouldn't have entered the mirage directly, right?" Chen Mo's face was slightly puzzled.

"That's because there's only a small mirage next to you, so it's slow to drag you in.

And if no one strikes the gong to disperse the mirage, then it only takes a moment to drag you into it.

If the mirage covers a large area, it can forcibly pull you into it, even if you are in a deep sleep.

In the end, it may be useless to ring the gong, and you can only hold on to it until dawn, and then it will slowly disperse. ”

Sun Shouren's tone was cautious, but also a little afraid, the most terrifying thing about the mirage was this.

As its coverage increases, its power grows and eventually drags everything into it.

Therefore, the more people gather in the place, the more people will be assigned to guard and beat the gong, so as to ensure that there is a sufficient surplus in the number, and there will never be a shortage.

Even in the more important cities, in addition to the gong, there are many other ways such as water bells and tower bells to dispel the mirage and ensure the safety of the city.

In short, the imperial court's defense against the mirage has always been rather indiscriminate.

Otherwise, if there is an accident, I am afraid that the entire city will be swallowed by the mirage.

"And where did these mirage monsters come from, and why did they leave behind not corpses when they were killed, but these things." Chen Mo continued to ask.

"The monster in the mirage is the evolution of the mirage, and the reason why it is called a mirage is because everything you see in it is a mirage. Even if you kill them for a while, they will evolve again after a while. Sun Shouren replied in a positive voice.

His strength may not be much different from Chen Mo, but as a Zhengwupin official, the information he can access and understand is far beyond Chen Mo's ability.

"So hunting the monster in the mirage, is it weakening its power? If you kill enough, will it be able to wipe them out completely? ”

Sun Shouren nodded lightly, "You're right, the truth is like this."

But everyone who enters the mirage and does not return is also constantly strengthening it.

What's more, the power of the mirage is too strong and too much, and to this day, countless strong people don't know how many mirages they have hunted from it.

The power of the mirage has never weakened, and there are even signs of becoming stronger. ”

Sun Shouren let out a long sigh when he said this, even with only the information he had been exposed to, he could feel a kind of despair for no reason.

The mirage was too strong, and it was still getting stronger, and no matter how much they tried it, they couldn't weaken it in the slightest.

Everything the Terrans did was to linger in front of them, wanting to delay longer.

As time goes on, it is almost certain that the mirage will eventually swallow this world.

Fortunately, according to the information that Sun Shouren knew, if the mirage wanted to devour this world, it would take at least hundreds of years or thousands of years.

He never doubted whether this information was true or not.

So his worry and despair about this matter is only a little occasional, and he is not very anxious.

Hundreds or thousands of years later, things are too far away, and leaving it to future generations to solve is that you don't have to worry.