A large caravan of dozens of people snaked through the deep mountains and dense forests, pulling into a long curved procession.

At this time, it was already the tenth day of entering the mountains, and the caravan had already entered the deepest part of the Luoyue Mountain Range.

They chose to enter the mountain when it was in the autumn when there was little rain, so it was sunny and cloudless these days.

Because there is no rain, the mountain road is not difficult.

"Turning the mountain in front of you is the Ghost Gorge, and there will be more than ten miles of narrow plank road to go, but it hasn't rained in the past few days, the plank road is not slippery, and it is estimated that there will be no problems, but you still have to be careful, because the other side of the gorge is a rapid, even if the martial artist of the acquired realm falls, he will be seriously injured if he does not die." ”

The person in charge of the caravan introduced Lu Shaoyu.

After getting along with each other these days, Lu Shaoyu knew that the person in charge of the caravan was named Wan Fubao, and everyone called him Uncle Bao. And the caravan he belonged to was owned by the Wanjia family belonging to Tianshui City, the capital of Anzhou.

Tianshui City is not far from Huayuan City, where Fang Yi is located, and it is a neighboring city-state, so it is not very far from the Luoyue Mountain Range. The Wanjia family in Tianshui City is a medium-sized family, and its heritage is naturally incomparable with the behemoth-like Tang family, but it can also be regarded as a strong party in Tianshui City, and the family has five or six innate realm martial artists in charge, and its strength is also slightly stronger.

This caravan is owned by 10,000 families, and often trades with Cangzhou, mainly to transport Anzhou's exquisite ceramics, handicrafts, supplies, ironware, farm tools, cloth, salt and other things to Cangzhou for sale, and then transport Cangzhou's medicinal materials, animal skins, musk and other raw materials back to Anzhou for trading.

Although it took more than three months to make such a trip, it was quite profitable. Often, there is a net profit income of nearly two or three hundred thousand taels of silver in one trip. If you can make two or three trips a year, this income is quite good.

Taking this trade route is one of the important sources of income for Wanjia.

Wan Fubao has been serving in the caravan for nearly 30 years and has walked this mountain road more than 100 times, so he is extremely familiar with the situation in the mountains. Under his leadership, the caravan has been safe and sound.

After walking for a while, the caravan forward had already bypassed the mountain range in front, and soon, Lu Shaoyu and the others also came to the foot of the mountain range. Suddenly, I heard the sound of rushing water in front of me.

Lu Shaoyu sat on the mule horse and looked forward, but saw that the terrain behind the ridge was suddenly cracked, the mountains were separated, and a deep gorge with a width of dozens of zhang appeared in the middle, and the sound of rapid water flow came from the bottom of this deep gorge.

By this time, the caravan vanguard had already followed the path between the mountain peak and the deep gorge, and went down the flowing water.

This place is steep, with cliffs on one side. On one side is the rapid flow of water. If you accidentally fall down, ordinary people will definitely have no bones left. Between the mountains and the gorge, there is only a small plank road that can only accommodate one person and one horse passing in parallel.

Wan Fubao ran to the front of the caravan, constantly telling the guards and merchants to be careful. The mules and horses were arranged together, strung together with ropes, their eyes tied, their ears sealed, and their mouths gagged with cloth.

The terrain is steep and the rapids below the cliffs are so steep that mules and horses should never be allowed to hear the rapids and see the surrounding terrain, lest they be frightened and fall under the canyon.

Moreover, if a mule or horse loses its way and falls into the deep gorge, it will surely scream. These screams are likely to startle the mule herd, triggering a cascade of reactions that will cause more mules and horses to panic.

So, in order to prevent these things from happening, the mules and horses had to keep their eyes and ears plugged and their mouths gagged, so that they could be strung together in batches before being led forward by humans.

The people of the caravan were all people who often walked this trade route, they were all veterans, and they were extremely skilled in everything, and they had already begun to deal with all kinds of things in an orderly manner without Wan Fubao's orders.

One by one, the eyes and ears were obscured, the mouths were gagged, and then they were strung together by long ropes, like grasshoppers strung on the same straw, in groups of ten, each led by one and supported by another.

The people of the caravan went first, and Lu Shaoyu and other individual merchants and travelers fell last. Lu Shaoyu didn't have anything heavy on his body, so there was nothing troublesome, and he walked side by side with Fang Yi on this narrow plank road.

Because the road was narrow, it was necessary to walk cautiously, and the team walked extremely slowly. Listening to Wan Fubao, this narrow plank road is more than ten miles, and it is impossible to pass through it in one day. However, there is a small and no small flat area in the middle of the boardwalk, which can accommodate a caravan to rest there for a night.

The rapids under the canyon are turbulent and the sound of the water rumbles, which makes people feel chilling.

The procession moved forward slowly, although there were dozens of people and more than 300 mules and horses in the caravan, but at this time there was no sound quietly, the horses did not neigh, cautious, lest they jump and fall into the rapids below.

I walked all day, and everything happened in the evening.

Fang Yi walked beside Lu Shaoyu, his eyes were not idle, he looked at the rapids below, and then looked at the steep and difficult cliffs, he was speechless, and suddenly whispered to Lu Shaoyu: "Shaoyu, look, there is a cliff on one side and a deep stream on the other, if someone wants to be unfavorable to the caravan, roll stones on the top of the cliff, I'm afraid that no one in this caravan will be able to survive." ”

Lu Shaoyu glanced at the surrounding environment and nodded, this is indeed a dangerous terrain, if it is a war, it is definitely a place where soldiers must fight.

He pointed to the cliff and said, "If you want to roll the rocks, the other party will have to climb up the cliff." But this cliff is steep, how easy is it to climb up? Unless it is a martial artist of the Innate Realm, otherwise, even a martial artist of the Acquired Realm may not be able to do it. ”

"Hehe, not necessarily, you see, the cliff over there is not so steep, if you want to go up, ordinary acquired martial artists can go up as long as they spend a little effort. Fang Yi stretched out his hand and pointed forward.

Lu Shaoyu looked forward, and sure enough, he saw that there was a depression into the flat land of the cliff, which was estimated to be half a mile in radius, enough to accommodate all the people and mules and horses of this caravan. The merchants in front had already entered the flat ground, stopped, and some set up some fences around it to trap the mules and horses, some unloaded their horses, and some began to build tents.

Everyone is working together and getting busy.

Wan Fubao said that the place of rest halfway is probably here.

Lu Shaoyu looked towards the cliff on the edge of the flat ground, and sure enough, he saw that the slope of the cliff was much smoother than other places, not as steep and steep as the previous cliffs, as long as a martial artist with a little strength, it was not difficult to climb up. As Fang Yi said, if there were surprise soldiers here, and if they wanted to attack the caravan, it would be easy.

Lu Shaoyu said with a smile: "Hehe, this caravan often takes this trade route, and it has always been good, there shouldn't be a sneak attack, you ......"

Before he finished his words, his face changed, and he saw more than ten figures suddenly appear on the top of the cliff near the flat ground. With the appearance of these figures, huge boulders more than a person high were pushed out by these people, and with a rumbling sound, they tumbled down from the top of the cliff............ (Thank you for requesting recommendation and collection support.) =^__^=）