Chapter Seventy-Six: The Search
Fire ants are a kind of monster beasts in the depths of the dense forests of southern Xinjiang, much larger than ordinary ants, about the size of a child's fist, with fire on their fangs, and they are like soldiers holding torches when they flock together at night, so they are also called fire army ants.
The strength of this demon beast is not strong, even ordinary beasts can trample to death several times, but the crawling speed is very fast, the most terrifying thing is that they never act alone, when hundreds or thousands of fire ants flock in, the demons have to avoid, and they like to chase their prey, and they chase after the target, which is really a headache. Therefore, in the Demon Beast Illustrated Book, fire ants are ranked as upper-level demon beasts.
Encountering fire ants is also the misfortune of Xin Changgeng and Yang Sanfa, and there is nothing to say about being chased by fire ants, but they lost the direction they came from.
Under Ah Hao, Changqing and Lao Liu, it can be said that there is no daylight, but they can't find a way back, and they can only temporarily condescend to others.
The two of them returned to Beikou this time to see if they could find their way back and take those fellow refugees who were still hiding in a cave to the safety of Nanwu City.
"This is the obligation of the disciple, when he was in the Yunmeng Sect, the disciple was quite cared for and favored by Elder Xing, Elder Mo and Master Xin. ”
Xin Changgeng was a little ashamed: "That...... Jiang Zhiyu and Chen Tianzhen are also ......"
Gu Zuo was stunned: "These two have also broken through the realm and built a foundation?"
Back then, in order to tie up a few inner disciples, these two people deliberately embarrassed Gu Zuo, and six or seven years have passed since that period of grievances, and sometimes they think they have forgotten, but when these two names are mentioned today, they immediately appear in front of them, and they are vivid.
Xin Changgeng nodded: "Jiang Zhiyu built the foundation in the first month of last year, and Chen Tianzhen was in March last year. ”
Gu Zuo understood what Xin Changgeng meant, and said angrily at the moment: "Those little things in the past, the disciples have almost forgotten, Master Xin can rest assured, I have saved thousands of fellow Daoists in Nanwu Prefecture, not the two of them, should be saved or saved." ”
The initial unhappiness when I heard these two names did disappear in a blink of an eye, Gu Zuo is now the lord of Nanwu Prefecture, and his stall is bigger, and his mind is naturally wider. Besides, he beat Chen Tianzhen and Jiang Zhiyu back then, and the grudge would have been avenged a long time ago.
According to Xin Changgeng and Yang Sanfa, in that cave where I don't know, there are thirty-six monks, so many lives, and among them are the same people in the past, Gu Zuo will definitely find a way to rescue them, and he also has this confidence, as long as he finds a place, he will definitely be able to lead them to Nanwu City safely.
Let the two of them describe in detail the surrounding terrain where the cave is located, what these two said is not of much use, the whole of southern Xinjiang is rolling mountains and deep valleys, and there are dense forests and mountain streams everywhere, how to find this?
The only useful information is that the place is roughly located to the west, and it took Xin Changgeng and Yang Sanfa five days to come to the north entrance after coming out of the cave that day.
Gu Zuo took out the map of Nanwu Prefecture and began to study, the scope of the west should be from the southwest to the northwest, five days, it is definitely not five days of straight line travel, if it is calculated according to the distance of the straight line, it is at most two days, and it is more than thirty miles per day.
As a result, Gu Zuoyu drew an arc on it, pulled out a fan-shaped area, and said to a few people: "It should be in here." ”
This fan-shaped area is about thirty miles away from Nanwu Prefecture, a hundred miles long from north to south, and twenty miles wide from east to west, which still looks very large, but Gu Zuo has a way.
Gu Zuo has a map and a spiritual domain, although he is walking through the deep mountains and old forests, he can ensure that there will be no mistakes in the judgment of the general direction, as long as this fan-shaped area is divided and searched according to the area, it can be ensured that there will be no leaks.
When dividing, the length of the north and south hundred li is divided into eighteen horizontal lines, about one every five miles, and the search is carried out in the east-west direction, mainly by the top of the mountain and the ridge, and the north and south can see more than two miles, Xin Changgeng and Yang Sanfa can identify the approximate area where the cave is located.
Eighteen lines, each twenty miles, at their own speed, can be completed one or two times a day, and rest at night, so that it only takes half a month to complete the search.
Gu Zuo wanted to ask Luo Jun to return to Nanwu City with the injured and unconscious Schröding, but Luo Jun was unwilling, saving people or something, she felt that she was duty-bound: "No need to go back, I can carry Schrödinger away, it doesn't take much effort, his injury is not a big deal, snake venom is just a snake, take sperm preservation pills, I will give him the road to expel the poison, and he will recover in a few days." ”
She is a Jindan monk, walking on a flying sword, there is indeed no cumbersome problem with a Schrödinger, as for the consumption of spirit stones, Gu Zuo and her have a lot on her, it is not a problem at all.
As soon as he said it, Gu Zuo led the way in front, Xin Changgeng supported Yang Sanfa, who was limping, and Luo Jun carried the unconscious Schrödingtu, and the group went out of the north entrance and marched in the northwest direction.
There were not as many demon beasts in the vicinity as there were in Nanwu City, they were even more sparse, and they were faster to walk - of course, this sentence was only valid for Gu Zuo, and the rest of the monks could not follow suit.
Along the way, in order to be in a hurry, Gu Zuo did not deliberately avoid some lone demon beasts when he encountered them, and the fishing line thugs came out and rolled the demon beasts over, and the shallow ones were killed directly, and the deep ones were thrown to Luo Jun for processing.
From the night to the dawn, and then to the evening, after killing twenty or thirty demon beasts, the thirty-mile road was over, and when he came to the top of a mountain, Gu Zuo identified the terrain and map, and judged that he had entered the northern end of the fan-shaped zone, so he found a leeward mountain rock to rest.
After dark, it is impossible to judge the surrounding environment, so you can only rest.
Luo Jun beckoned to Gu Zuo, patted the place beside him, and motioned for him to come over. Gu Zuo walked over and asked, "What?"
Luo Jun said: "Lie next to me and tell me about your grievances and hatreds in Yunmengzong." ”
Gu Zuo said speechlessly: "There is a difference between men and women. There's nothing to talk about besides. ”
Luo Jun said: "Don't treat me as a woman, just treat me as a brother." ”
Gu Zuo shook his hand and left: "Bored!"
Luo Jun muttered: "Boring!"
That night, some demon snakes came out to make a nuisance, and they were all cut by Luo Junfei's sword, and after dawn, they first beckoned Xin Changgeng and Yang Sanfa to identify the terrain under the mountain, and these two looked carefully for a long time, and they both said that it was not where the cave was, so Gu Zuo took people down the mountain and marched towards another mountain due west.
Xin Changgeng followed behind him and asked, "Xiao Gu, are you still practicing the Spirit Search Technique now?"
Gu Zuo replied: "There is no way, I can only practice this." ”
Xin Changgeng asked again: "You were able to hide and predict the location of the demon beast along the way, because of the spirit search technique?"
Gu Zuo said: "This is a method of using the spirit search technique, chasing the Dao technique, does Master Xin think it's okay?"
Xin Changgeng asked again: "In which year did Xiao Gu build the foundation?"
Gu Zuo said: "It's February this year." ”
Xin Changgeng sighed: "Your technique is quite wonderful, we all looked away back then, but it's okay ......."