Huan Xisha suddenly said: "I heard my master say that there is an internal power in the rivers and lakes called Cold Ice True Qi, if it is Gong Shen Creation, only this True Qi can freeze people's ice crystals. Do you think there will be thunder and lightning true qi, and when you do the gong, you can shoot lightning. ”

The crowd gasped.

"I've heard of the Ice True Qi, but the Thunder and Lightning True Qi is unheard of. Sha Zhantang shook his head and smiled bitterly.

He suddenly felt that his knowledge was too shallow.

"Everyone, let's continue to explore. Since this trace was left unintentionally, it is obvious that there will be no pattern. ”

Others had no choice but to continue to investigate. At least having a purpose is better than not having one.

After walking out for about five or six miles, everyone finally found another black trace. The confidence of the people rose and they continued to move forward, until the sky was dark, and they had found seven or eight such traces, the largest one could be six or seven feet, and the small one was only two or three inches.

At this time, it was getting dark, and several people didn't even eat lunch. Sha Zhantang proposed, "Everyone, let's camp here. We don't have much dry food with us, so we can only return tomorrow if we look for another day. ”

Fang Lin was puzzled: "This situation is a bit weird, if that mysterious swordsman is just to throw corpses, why do you have to travel such a long distance." ”

"That's normal. They must have killed so many people to cover up something, and it was extremely normal to throw corpses far away. ”

When they went out, they each brought dry food and water, Sha Zhantang lit a fire and ate some dry food, and then said to everyone: "Everyone, I think we should go back and bring some supplies." ”

Fang Lin echoed: "Originally, we just wanted to explore the scene, and we brought some supplies just in case, but we didn't think that we had miscalculated. ”

Tie Zhongli also answered: "Looking at this situation, the mysterious swordsman may still have an organization, and if you go back to get supplies, you can just bring some support." ”

"I think there is only one person in the mysterious swordsman, and if it is an organization, it is impossible to be so secretive. ”

"Yes, there are many people, and we only found black traces along the way, and there are no other traces, and it is impossible for a large group of people to be so secret. Fang Lin added with deep sympathy.

"But anyway, if you go back, you must need to bring some more people, and it's a big deal to bring good hands. ”

"Since the master of the sand village said so, then please go back. Phantom Xisha proposed, but Sha Zhantang simply agreed: "Okay, then I'll go back." Hopefully I can get back tomorrow morning. ”

Sha Zhantang said that, took a short rest, and then performed light skills and jumped out.

In fact, this time I didn't travel much distance, but it was only thirty or fifty miles. But the site gradually reached the edge of the hills, and the outline of the forest could even be faintly seen in the distance.

After meditating and resting for a night, in the early morning of the next day, before dawn, they felt movement, and the four of them woke up one after another, but Sha Zhantang had already rushed back. This time they came on horseback. The knights on the horses were dressed in pitch-black armor, not like knights but like cavalry of the army.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the elite Blackscale Guard of our Divine Sword. ”

The equipment they wore seemed to be crusty armor, with iron pieces that resembled fish scales on the vital points, helmets and even masks, and a straight-edged Tang knife for each of them! Each of them had a blanket on the back of his horse, and the bulging bag inside was sure to contain all kinds of supplies.

There were seven knights in this team, but there were eleven horses, which were obviously brought over by Phantom Sunset and the others.

Before, because it was a mountain, everyone didn't ride a horse, but now they felt that the road was far away, so they rode a horse, even if they didn't ride a thing.

Sha Zhantang got off his horse and distributed the dry food on his horseback to everyone, and each of them was given a bag of water.

Sha Zhantang instructed the knight behind him, "Brothers, come down and rest first." ”

Fang Lin took a sip of water and said, "The master of the sand village is really serious this time, and he actually transferred all the black scale guards out. ”

"Well, I can't help it. That mysterious swordsman is too powerful. Isn't it almost like sending a team to death when an ordinary team pulls it out? ”

Phantom Xi devoured two pieces of mung bean cake, drank his saliva and muttered: "I said Lao Sha, will you be a little arrogant, maybe that swordsman is not very powerful, but mysteriously makes us think that he is very powerful." Aren't those brothers he killed miners?"

"There are only two miners, and the rest are from the security team, and the kung fu is not weak. The mysterious swordsman killed people invisibly, and he must have cut people in half casually, otherwise he would definitely not have wasted such efforts. The master kills people until the point, and the fatal wounds are generally not too piercing. I haven't heard of any martial arts master on the rivers and lakes who kills people and takes people's heads at every turn. ”

After the sky was dark, everyone continued to explore, and Sha Zhantang let the Black Scale Guard follow.

Until they got out of the hills, they never found any new traces. When you enter a meadow, there are more marks, and almost a corroded weed mark leads straight into the forest.

This is a jujube forest, interspersed with some locust trees and elm trees and some small shrubs of the family Rhinoceraceae, but this season has passed the flowering period, there is no flower on the branches, but the jujube is ripe a lot, the red and green are very attractive, and the big trees and small trees are full. Seeing that these jujube trees are scattered and disorderly, they seem to be natural forests, and there is no artificial management, Phantom Xixu picked a few dates and rubbed them on his clothes and ate them, and the taste was quite sweet, he couldn't help but shout: "Hey, brothers on horseback, come down and pick dates." ”

Unfortunately, no one paid any attention to him.

"There are traces here. ”

Fang Lin beckoned everyone to arrive. It turned out that this jujube forest was surrounded by shrubs, but a gap was cleared in this place, and the broken branches were cut out by a knife. It's just a little vague to be trampled on.

"Look at the situation, but the prospecting team has found it. Fang Lin dialed the newly grown weeds, and the small stumps on the ground were clearly visible, "Look at the incision, but it looks like your Taishan Guard's * did it." He stood up and pinched a severed branch, the cut was flat and charred.

Fang Lin put the branch into a paper bag and put it in the treasure bag, and he entered the forest first.

Sha Zhantang greeted the Black Scale Guard and said, "Sha Yi, you take the Black Scale Guard's brother to wait outside." ”

However, he continued, "The horses are left outside, so let's come in together." ”

There were not many large trees in the forest, and small trees were clustered, and a path that had obviously been trampled out extended deep into the woods. The trails are narrow and dense in the woods and are not suitable for horses.

The branches on both sides of the path show signs of being cut down, as well as those that have been corroded. There are also some fine branches that are directly corroded and broken, and the fractures are flat and blackened, which does have the effect of being split by lightning.

Penetrating into the depths of the jungle, the space opened up coldly, and a pool with a range of twenty zhang away appeared in front of him. The whole pool was charred and black, just like the previous traces, but the charred soil was a little sulfided, like discarded iron slag. There is no grass growing in the pond, but half a deep rainwater has been accumulated.

"Everybody be vigilant. ”

There was no need for Sha Zhantang's reminder, although the traces of the tragic fighting around him had been covered up for many days, the destroyed branches could not be recovered.

"It seems that this is where the crime occurred. But I'm still a little confused, if the prospecting team finally found this place, then how they didn't have a trace along the way. ”

After saying this, Fang Lin answered his question: "There are hard stones everywhere in the mountains, and it is not easy to leave a trail. In addition, after many days, the wind and rain have long covered up those traces. ”

Phantom Xi was stunned, and said again: "This big crater should be a crater." Can Fang Zhutou see how long this big pit has been? ”

"I don't see that. I wondered if it would have been a huge move to be able to smash such a big crater, but I didn't seem to have felt such a big movement in the decades of my life. ”

"It would take hundreds of years for this forest to form, to say the least, and this meteorite must have landed before the forest was formed. ”

In other words, the meteorite landed at least 100 years ago. The place is extremely remote, surrounded by hills, and it seems reasonable that it can go undetected for a long time. ”

"But in the end, the meteorite was discovered. ”

"The doubts are getting bigger and bigger. And who took the meteorite? ”

Phantom Xisha and Fang Lin were discussing here, but the others had already stepped around, and even the knife went down to the big pit to investigate.

Suddenly he felt a gaze inexplicably, and when he raised his eyes, he suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and at some point there was a strange beast looking at him on the other side of the pit.

The beast was pitch black, and at first glance it looked like a dragon, but on closer inspection, it didn't look like it. It has a slender and muscular body, slightly flattened at the top and bottom, a head like a dragon's head but without horns and whiskers, its limbs are strong and powerful, its four claws are broad, and its tail is long, thin, and it grabs a thin branch with a casual wave, and the branch falls silently. When he saw this scene, he was so deeply attracted that he forgot to be afraid.

The beast was about three feet long, but its tail was about six feet long. It's smooth throughout, and it's faintly dazzling, black, and it's really weird. It has no hair, no scales, and only seems to have smooth and delicate skin, like black jade.

At this time, the others also saw this strange beast, and Sha Zhantang was shocked and subconsciously about to draw his knife, but the phantom sunset stopped him abruptly: "Don't do it!"

Sha Zhantang's hand slowly left the handle of the knife, and the knife also saw the strange beast at this time, he was at the edge of the pond, and the strange beast was on the opposite side of the big pit, he was neither advancing nor retreating, and he was at a loss for a moment.