Chapter 4: Cold-Blooded

Inside and outside the Golden Gate, the scenery is very different. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Just now, it was a vibrant and green scene, but in an instant, it sent a group of contestants to a barren mountain land.

Here, the climate is cold and humid, and between breaths, you can faintly smell a chilling smell of blood filling the air.

Not only that, but there is another violence in this air that ordinary people cannot understand.

When violence and gore are mixed together, it causes a strange feeling in people's hearts - timidity.

And the weeds and thorns everywhere and the roar of fierce beasts that permeated the ridges made this strange feeling even more intense.

"Next, the race begins, and the exit is in a crevice in the mountain due north, so please go quickly after finding the bag. ”

While everyone was still immersed in the timid atmosphere created by Viper Ridge, Zhu Bingxin's voice sounded again, like a bright light in the fog, pulling the hearts of the contestants out of their strange situation.

After that, everyone did not dare to have any more hesitation, and hurriedly threw themselves into the nervous search.

A pair of eyes searched carefully among the thorns on the ground like searchlights, for fear that they would miss that vital area.

At this time, Liu Yi was not blindly looking like everyone else, his eyes were slowly and accurately looking at the surrounding environment, as if he was observing the surrounding mountain terrain.

Looking at the mountain wall shrouded in mist, Liu Yi seemed to feel a special force, which was slowly condensing in the clouds.

But just when Liu Yi was curiously preparing to investigate what this power was, Li Fangtian's voice sounded in Liu Yi's ears.

The voice like the sound of a bell chime is even more pleasant to the ear in this slightly quiet atmosphere.

"Liu Yi, what are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and go in to find the bag. Before the words fell, Li Fangtian's palm had already grabbed Liu Yi's shirt, driving him to follow his footsteps and quickly march towards the ridge.

And at the moment when Liu Yi left, in the clouds and mist, two illusory faces suddenly appeared.

The owners of these two faces were the sect master and the seven elders who had appeared on the high platform of the training ground before.

"Brother Sect Master, that kid just now, Hiccup, has a strong soul perception, and he can actually perceive the special things in the clouds. The Seven Elders, who were dressed casually, with stubble on their faces, and were full of wine, were staring at Liu Yi's back who was gradually disappearing into the clouds, and immediately drank the wine in the gourd, and asked the door master drunkenly.

"Indeed, this kid is the heir of Brother Jingxuan, it seems that the Liu family is about to have another genius. Before the words fell, the old man's kind cheeks were shocked with a touch of disgust, and he immediately said earnestly: "Senior Brother Gengxun, I think you should be a little more restrained, immersed in wine all year round, regardless of the things in the door, however, this time at the admissions conference, you must accept a secret disciple, so that your Ling Yunfeng will also increase in popularity." ”

Hearing this, the Seventh Elder, known as Gengxun, smiled indifferently, raised his palm, and the sweet liquor in the gourd poured out and fell into this person's mouth accurately.

After enjoying it deliciously, he smiled casually, then raised his eyebrows, and fell asleep on the chair behind him.

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At the same time, Liu Yi and Zhu Bingxin, who had already gone deep into the mountains, hunched over, their eyes wide and round, constantly looking for the whereabouts of the bag in the ground and the gaps in the surrounding mountains and rocks.

As they went deeper, the coldness and dampness that came from the ridge became more and more intense, like sharp blades, leaving faint scars on their slightly immature skin.

At this moment, nearly a stick of incense had passed, but what they saw now, in addition to weeds and rocks, was the corpses of animals all over the ground, and the aura released from the bones added a bit of horror and mystery to Viper Ridge.

"How long has it been since this, and there is not even a clue to the tips, I'm curious, in this Viper Ridge, is there really a trick?" Flipping his head helplessly, Li Fangtian smiled bitterly and complained in a low voice.

And Liu Yi, who was beside him, did not have any impatience, but concentrated on everything around him, as if he was looking for something.

"Brother Li, think about it, there are only fifteen tricks in the Viper Ridge of Nuoda, this must be a trick used by the Qiyao Gate to brush up the number of people, and it is also mentioned in the precautions that the contestants can snatch each other. If we are allowed to find the tips easily, then won't we become the target of public criticism?" With an indifferent smile on the corner of his mouth, Liu Yi's palm gently flipped the stones around him, and in his spare time, he explained to Li Fangtian beside him.

"What Brother Liu Yi said does have some truth, but I don't quite understand, since you entered Viper Ridge, you have been rummaging around on the ground looking for things, I don't know what you are looking for?"

Hearing this, the smile on the corner of Liu Yi's mouth expanded a little again, and his warm and brilliant face was really able to sweep away the dull atmosphere around him.

"Brother Li didn't know, according to the medicine book, although the triangular viper in the Viper Ridge was a cold-blooded thing, but because of the hot and dry things in the Ridge, the lower part of the snake's belly was extremely dry, and in this humid and cold environment, the viper would inevitably leave special traces wherever it passed. As he spoke, Liu Yi opened his clenched right hand and exposed a lighter-colored stone to the air.

"According to our reasoning, the Seven Yao Gate will not let us find the bag at will, then there will inevitably be a group of vipers entrenched near the bag, so we only need to follow the traces of the viper all the way to find the location of the bag. And this stone is a special mark I found on the road before, and if I guess correctly, the closest one to us should be located not far to the east. As the words blurted out, the warm smile on Liu Yi's cheeks was gradually replaced by a touch of seriousness, and in that seriousness, there was also a unique and mature atmosphere.

Under the influence of this aura, Li Fangtian actually had a feeling of obedience to Liu Yi's words.

After that, the two of them followed the clues they had found before, and slowly searched forward, until a pungent smell of blood filled the air around them, and their footsteps slowly stopped.

"It's here. The corners of his mouth provoked a touch of affirmation, and Liu Yi's eyes looked through the dense thorns to a clearing inside.

But it was found that a python-like viper with the thickness of a calf and covered with snow-white patterns was entrenched in front of a wooden stake.

The viper's head is triangular, its bloodthirsty fangs protruding from the slender corners of its mouth, and its diamond-shaped pupils are filled with a wild ferocity.

On the other hand, in the center of the viper, a pool of red blood that had not yet completely dried was still slowly spreading outward, and every inch of diffusion could add a strange color to this area full of violence.

At this moment, the eyes of both of them were focused on the brocade bag neatly placed on the surface of the wooden stake.

"Brother Liu, it's really high, I didn't expect that I could find the tip so easily with just some inferences, I think this admissions conference, we will definitely win the first position. The excited smile on the corner of his mouth was constantly expanding, Li Fangtian's eyes almost narrowed into a slit, and his palm shook Liu Yi beside him, and the words in his mouth were amazed.

But now Liu Yi didn't have the heart to taste the admiration in the words too much, a pair of deep eyes kept sweeping over each entrenched viper, and after a while, the indifferent expression was replaced by a touch of dullness.

"The terrain is high, the air is thin, the clouds are shrouded, and there is no special movement around each viper, so it is assumed that these vipers have been entrenched here for a long time, and the storage of the pouch must have some special purpose. Slowly sitting on the ground behind him, Liu Yi gently grabbed a handful of sand on the ground with his palm and released it through the gap between his fingers.

Looking at the sand that fluttered in the wind and finally merged into the clouds, Liu Yi's mind suddenly remembered something, and his palms involuntarily scratched at the thorns full of violent aura beside him.

"I remember that there was a record in medical art that there was a thorn called the burial sea, which was dark and poisonous, and was a great weapon to restrain poisonous snakes. And the enrollment meeting held by Qiyao Gate is naturally to recruit talents, not to exterminate people, so if I am not mistaken, these thorns all over the ground in front of me should be the so-called burial sea thorns. He carefully broke off the thorns all over the ground, and took a towel to wrap it in it.

Slowly getting up, Liu Yidu walked over the thorn forest and came to the center of the clearing, but the palm of his hand involuntarily waved the thorn he was holding to a nearby viper, as if testing the effect of the thorn.

But it was found that at the moment when the thorns approached the viper, the viper's originally calm body stood up abruptly.

The snake letter kept swallowing in its mouth like a sharp blade, as if to remind the vipers around it.

Sure enough, at the moment when the sound of the snake letter came out, the entrenched vipers around them also stood up in unison, and a pair of angry vertical pupils stared at Liu Yi in front of them, and the bloodthirsty fangs had now stretched out from the corners of their mouths, as if they were demonstrating to Liu Yi.

"Brother Liu, it's not good, hurry up and withdraw it. Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Fangtian hurriedly slapped his waist, and a fine light rose to the sky, accurately falling into Li Fangtian's palm, turning into a sharp dagger. At the same time, his figure also jumped into the thorn forest, and eagerly reminded Liu Yi.