Chapter 32: Montenegro
When the sun rose the next day, Ujida had already crossed the most border mountain village in Shuanghe County, she was originally a Yiren who was good at climbing mountains and mountains in the dark, and she was a priestess with divine powers, this trip was quiet all the way, without arousing the alarm of any villagers, but at this moment she stood in the sun and gave birth to a confusion that she had never felt before.
She remembered this path clearly, and it could not be wrong, the qualified priests of the Great God Guru would not lose their way on the path they had walked once, let alone twice, where she and her companions had drunk the rice wine served by the master's house, and the high priest had blessed the family, and now ...... What happened to this family?
The thatched hut in the shape of a man stood in the sun, and the men and women dressed in the Yi sat drinking and playing in the courtyard, their faces were familiar to her, and she could even call out the names of two or three of them, and recite the genealogy of their family and the kinship of a certain generation of her own family, if she was not the priestess of the Guru God, she must have rushed through the door, reported the name of her Tusi daughter, and asked them to provide a mount and an attendant.
However, she was precisely the priest of the great god Guru.
The building is no longer under the blessing of the Gruul Great.
It was as dark as the surrounding forest.
Paikon Toast didn't know where his daughter was, he was a very practical man, and he always thought only about what was good or bad for him, so when he saw the dark mountains in the distance, he gave the order to stop his advance, which was the end of the journey that he had agreed with Hualin before he set out.
"What is over there in Montenegro?" Hua Lin asked him.
"It's the land of the Great Guru. "Indeed, whoever sees those mountains will have no doubt that they belong to some unnatural being, that they are too strange and terrifying, that they are completely different from the other mountains in the Mt. Yi, that they are neither tall nor steep, but no one has the desire to climb them—what to do by climbing them? Every hill in the Black Mountains has no grass and no birds, and all the mountains are covered with black sharp gravel, and under these barbed stones you won't find a single grass or a cricket. Someone had climbed the highest mountain in the vicinity and looked at it, saying that there were at least a hundred of them in Montenegro, like a deep scar on the earth, and that blasphemous fellow met a terrible fate, but his words were passed down among some dissident Tusi families, and Paigang Toast's family was one of them.
The ground between Montenegro and Montenegro was also completely covered with sharp black gravel, and there was only one path that had been swept out by the slaves that led to the depths of Montenegro, and that path, which Pagang Toast had walked several times, and as far as he knew, after walking through three hills, was the end of the path, where the High Priest practiced.
The nobles of the Yi people, who had curryed favor with the high priest, constantly brought slaves, livestock, wine, and grain from outside the mountains, and the high priest and his men lacked nothing in this empty mountain, and he was accompanied by a hundred disciples and servants every day, and lived more than all the toasts. In recognition of his kindness, Paikon Toast lived in his courtyard for a week, and every day, the high priest sacrificed cattle to the god Gruul, and his daughter Ujida was one of the assistants in the ceremony.
Ujda as a priest should know more about it, such as they never heard the screams of the cattle slaughtered, and they always came back empty-handed, what did they do with the cows?
The high priest as they called them on a daily basis was the shallowest of them, and they said that the other two places of cultivation were in the deeper mountains, where no mortals could reach, so there was no way to get to them, and they did not need the dedication of the nobles, and the god Guru would naturally give them everything. Their mission is to guard the gateway for the Gruul gods, because the end of Montenegro is the end of the world, and beyond the end are countless evil spirits.
That's all they know, they don't know more details, Ujda may know some, maybe he doesn't. Although her status is noble, she is too young.
It is very dangerous to enter Montenegro rashly, and Hua Lin also knows it, but the description of the Yiren priest is secretly consistent with the knowledge he obtained on Qiyun Peak, the end of Montenegro is the desert that connects the Danxia Kingdom, no, the place marked as a desert on the map is actually the "Yiwai Ghost Country", that is, the fundamental place of the Death Worship.
"Send two of the most astute men to see what happens to the bowels of the sheep after the death of the high priest, but do not cross the first mountain of Montenegro. ”
After thinking about it for a while, Hua Lin gave Pai Gang such an order.
Paegon was also glad to carry it out, and he set up camp at a great distance from Montenegro, and distributed enough supplies to all men, including slaves, for two days' worth of supplies, and told them to feed the horses and sharpen their knives as best they could, and gather the rest of the goods in one place, and prepare to wait for the next day's daylight to rise, and then send two of the nimblest lads on fast horses to inspect the distance, and when they returned, he immediately pulled out the camp and headed back, and in order to avoid any obstacles that might be encountered, he was also prepared to give all the remaining goods and pack horses.
He wasn't afraid of ordinary priests, but what could make Hua Lin think seriously couldn't be taken too seriously.
For this reason, he claimed that he was not worth the night, but he was ready to get up secretly after nightfall, and carry a knife to check if there were any people in the camp who were so confused as to abuse the supplies, and he distributed more supplies for them in case they were lost, not for them to eat and drink.
However, before he could peek out from behind the tree, he heard something very unusual.
The whole camp, as if, when he did not give the order, pulled out the camp.
No, they did not pull out the camp at all, they threw away their goods and their tethered horses, as well as their swords and bows, which they did not wear on their bodies, and formed a long procession, and went straight to Montenegro in the distance. The night watchman in charge of guarding the camp was at the front, and the others followed them, their footsteps silent without torches.
Paigang Toast, who remained where he was, heard only the pounding of his own heartbeat and the crackling of the campfire.