Chapter 338 **
Shi Bin walked on the winding path of the mountains and forests, followed by a Xuanshi lower-level monk who was originally in charge of the Han Yue Mansion, after two days of communication, Shi Bin knew that the name of the monk was Wu Yun, although he used to be in the Han Mansion, but he had no talent for refining weapons, but after entering the manor, he did several tasks one after another, and he was one of them when he caught and tracked the monk with Ao Yu.
For this reason, Qin Wen also rewarded him with a suitable set of skills, and now his realm is steadily improving, and his sense of belonging to the Qin Mansion is also very strong, so this time Lu Mo sent him to partner with Shi Bin, and let the two go to the mountains and forests to explore the Zhou family's discovery of spar deposits.
It is estimated that the Zhou family's spar excavation is now more and more, so the mobile transactions of more than 30 people in the city are now fixed in five shops, and after Lu Mo's investigation, these five shops are rented by the Zhou family, and they are all in the business of trading spiritual objects.
Lu Mo also went to these shops a few times, and traded some magic weapons and elixirs with them, after calculating the profits, Lu Mo knew that they were using the trade of spiritual objects as a guise, in fact, most of their business was focused on the trading of spar ores, but this trading method was more secretive, and it also reduced the suspicion of many monks.
And Lu Mo noticed that in one of the more remote shops, they had already begun to try to smelt spars, and these various signs showed that the spar deposits discovered by the Zhou family this time must have mined a lot of money, so Lu Mo quickly sent Shi Bin and Wu Yun to take a map imitating Monk Cheng to explore the location of the mineral deposits in the area controlled by the Zhou family.
After Shi Bin entered the mountain forest, he discussed it with Wu Yun, and finally the result of the discussion between the two was to divide the area for exploration. Focusing first on the vicinity of steep hillsides, and on flatlands and valleys where spars are scarce, they marked five key areas on the map and searched them in order from east to west.
The area controlled by the Zhou family was relatively exclusive to idle monks, which also increased the difficulty of Shi Bin and Wu Yun's exploration, and every time they entered a new area, they had to check on the Zhou monks who appeared in the local area. After avoiding these monks, you can enter the mountains and search.
This is the fifth day that they have entered the area controlled by the Zhou family, Shi Bin saw that there was a low hillside in front of him, so he took out the map and compared it, and found that he was about to walk out of the first area demarcated, and no mineral deposits were found in this area, and they were faced with two choices below, one was the area facing the southwest, and the other was the area facing the northwest.
Shi Bin discussed with Wu Yun at this time: "Let's get out of the first search area immediately." Which way do you think it's better for us to go next?"
Wu Yun thought for a while and said: "During this time, I took a look at the distribution of the terrain, this kind of spar ore should be in a place where the monks pass by relatively rarely, if there are often monks over there, the mineral deposits are estimated to have been discovered a long time ago, and the Zhou family suddenly guards these places with heavy troops, which will also lead to some discussions in the mountains and forests, and these families that are stronger than him in the vicinity will also send people to investigate." ”
"And we have been in the mountains and forests for so many days, and we have not found any idle monks in this area with frequent activities. It shows that the larger forces in this vicinity still don't know about the Zhou family's acquisition of the spar ore, so I think our search should focus on those areas where there are fewer monks. ”
Shi Bin nodded and said, "I think so too." Judging from this map, the southwest slope is more gentle, and the northwest slope is more steep, so let's start with the northwest slope to see if there is anything found there. ”
After deciding on the direction they were going, they followed the mountain road to the northwest into another area they had demarcated. Among these five areas, only the northwest region is the closest to the Zhou family's manor, but it is the most precipitous place, and there are not many monks of the Zhou family who usually go here, so their exploration is much smoother.
It was already approaching evening, and Shi Bin took out dry food from his storage bag and handed it to Wu Yun. Then the two of them sat on a stone platform next to them, nibbling on dry food and drinking water, these days, they have been eating like this, because they are afraid of being discovered by the monks of the Zhou family, even if some pheasants, rabbits and the like pass in front of them, they did not do anything, after all, after catching these animals, they have to light a fire, in that case, it will attract the Zhou monks to check, causing unnecessary trouble.
But at this time, suddenly a gray rabbit came out of the mountain range not far from the two, and after the two were slightly taken aback, they saw that the rabbit was staring at him curiously, Wu Yun slowly got up and walked in the direction of the rabbit, Shi Bin said in a low voice: "Wu Yun, this is still within the scope of the Zhou family, and we can't eat that rabbit if you catch it." ”
Wu Yun smiled and said: "Brother Shi, the mountains here are relatively high, after catching the rabbit for a while, let's find a cave to roast and eat, the people of the Zhou family will not find out, a bird has faded out of the mouth in the past two days, let's come out without wine, let's roast some meat to open the meat." ”
Shi Bin looked at the surrounding mountains as Wu Yun said, so he didn't stop it anymore, just smiled faintly and watched Wu Yun walk towards the rabbit lightly, but this rabbit was also more alert, and after feeling Wu Yun's approach, he suddenly rushed out, and came to the foot of a steep mountain in a few leaps.
Wu Yun was stunned at this time, he didn't expect that a monk in the realm of a Xuanshi was actually tricked by a rabbit, and felt that he had lost face in front of Shi Bin, so he flew up and chased in the direction where the rabbit was running, and between two breaths, he saw the gray hare running desperately.
Wu Yun couldn't help but show a faint smile on his face, not to mention an ordinary hare, it was a spirit beast in the mountains and forests, it was impossible to run out of his palm, but as soon as he reached out and grabbed it, the hare suddenly rolled over, and it turned directly into a cave.
After Wu Yun was stunned, he couldn't help but directly probe the Yuan Qi into the cave, and after a muffled sound, the cave was completely opened from the bottom to the top, but there was no trace of the hare inside, at this time, Shi Bin felt Wu Yun using the Yuan Qi, so he hurriedly got up and flew to his side and asked, "What happened?"
Wu Yun said a little frustratedly: "It's really his grandmother's evil door, I didn't catch a rabbit, I caught it when I saw it, I didn't expect it to get into a hole, and I didn't find it when I opened the hole. ”
As he spoke, he really checked it with his divine sense, Shi Bin couldn't help but laugh when he saw that Wu Yun had used his divine sense to catch rabbits, but during the exploration a few days ago, he had to watch out for the appearance of the Zhou family monks, and the two of them were also nervous, and now that they were in this kind of sparsely populated place, it didn't matter if they relaxed occasionally.
But at this moment, Shi Bin suddenly found that Wu Yun gestured with his eyes, his heart immediately rose, and he made defensive preparations casually, and then Wu Yun said to Shi Bin: "There are two monks under the opposite hillside, it is estimated that they have discovered us, our soldiers are divided into two ways, you face east and I face west, don't let these two people escape." ”
Shi Bin nodded slightly and agreed, and his clothes moved slightly and quickly flew towards the place Wu Yun said, in the process of flying, Shi Bin also used his divine sense to find the two monks under the hillside, the two were lying under a stone, and the moment the divine sense found the two, Shi Bin and Wu Yun had already come to the position of the encirclement.
Unexpectedly, there were two disheveled monks in front of them, a man and a woman, the male monk was still shirtless and looked a little flustered, while the female monk was rolling a long robe haphazardly, with snow-white thighs exposed underneath, hiding behind the monk in fear.
Seeing that the people who found them turned out to be two strangers, the male monk breathed a sigh of relief and then showed a nervous expression, so he hurriedly took out his flying sword from his storage bag and asked Shi Yu, "Who are you? Why did you come to our Zhou family's territory?"
Shi Bin had already seen from the eyes of the male monk that these two were a pair of cheating men and women, only the cultivation of the upper level of the Xuan monk, he glanced at Wu Yun, Wu Yun instantly pinched the female monk's neck from behind, the female monk struggled for a while, but the long shirt on her body could not hide the leaking spring light, and the snow-white chest appeared in front of the three of them.
The male monk knew that if he warned him, his relationship with the female monk would be completely exposed, so he had to fly and stab Shi Bin with a sword, striving for a chance to escape, Shi Bin showed a disdainful smile at the corner of his mouth, and directly struck the male monk's flying sword with a wave of his hand, and then lightly pressed a finger on the male monk's dantian, the male monk felt that his body was weak, and the vitality of his body disappeared without a trace, and his body was paralyzed on the grass.
The male monk only realized at this time that his opponent was a monk in the Xuanshi realm, but what made him feel that there was still a glimmer of life was that after the two monks captured them, they did not kill them, he said with a trembling voice: "You, who are you?"
At this time, Wu Yun patted the female monk's snow-white thigh and said, "Yes, you have leisure and elegance, come to this beautiful place to talk about love, it doesn't matter who we are, but I want to ask who you are?"
Shi Bin used his divine sense to look around, and after finding no other monks, he also showed a faint smile, allowing Wu Yun to ask in this way. (To be continued......)