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Sure enough, as Xie Jun expected, on the communication machine, the green dot representing Xie Jun disappeared after coming to the coordinates that he had just reached, and there was no response through the voice call, only some chaotic whistling sounds, although there were still a few hours before dawn, but everyone was not sleepy at the moment, listening to the boring sound of the rain drops hitting the tent, so they kept watch around the communication machine until dawn. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At dawn, the rain stopped, and the fog seemed to be getting thicker and thicker, but everyone didn't care about this, and began to pack up their tents and prepare to move to camp.

Everyone's mood is very eager, and even the movements are a lot faster, fortunately, Liu Shuyan had the foresight to arrange for everyone to eat before dawn, otherwise everyone can't take care of breakfast now, and they didn't rest well last night, and it is easy to keep up physically, and now Wang Jianjun is missing, Xie Jun has also temporarily lost contact, and it will be even more troublesome if someone is sick again.

Along the markers left by Xie Jun, everyone traveled very slowly, mainly to investigate the patterns that Xie Jun said along the way, everyone kept in sight and searched, until they reached the stone cliff along the road signs, a total of four patterns were found, plus the larger patterns at the bottom of the stone cliff There are a total of five, Liu Shuyan just took high-resolution photos of these carved stones, and there is no time to study the reasons for the formation of these patterns for the time being.

Chen Keyan and Zhang Jinzhu made one more trip, transported the rest of the things up the slope under the stone cliff, found a relatively dry place, tested the working condition of the communication machine, and set up a new camp about 50 meters away from the stone cliff.

While eating chocolate to recover her strength, Chen Keyan stared at the screen on the communication machine with some interference noise, the smile that used to hang on her face all day was gone, and her always soft temperament became a little cold.

Everyone can't just sit stupidly here, so Liu Shuyan discussed with Chen Keyan, leaving Zhang Jinzhu to guard the communication machine, and the remaining four people searched the situation around the stone cliff together, but fortunately, the long-lost sun finally rose, dispelling the thick milk-like fog in the forest, and the visibility in the forest was greatly restored, which facilitated Liu Shuyan's search action.

After half a day of searching, on this south-facing hillside, a total of nine rocks with patterns were found, with the stone cliff as the apex, showing an irregular fan-shaped distribution, the size of these patterns is relatively small, only the size of a palm, distributed on the side of the stones all over the hillside, when the water on the stone is dried, the pattern also disappears, obviously, this should be a road sign deliberately made by someone, the target is to point to the cave under the stone cliff, however, the stone cliff should be an obvious sign, why put these marks on the hillside, go directly towards the stone cliff？

Liu Shuyan and his two students were immersed in the fun of exploring secrets, and temporarily forgot the depression caused by Wang Jianjun's disappearance, but Chen Keyan's heart has been paying attention to her senior brother, and she can't forget it for a moment, and her mood is naturally not much better, until she kicked a wild boar that came out to forage for food, and the three masters and apprentices who were addicted to exploring the puzzle found that Chen Keyan's mood became more and more anxious.

Liu Shuyan watched the 'squeaking' wild boar disappear into the bushes, and secretly smacked his tongue, it was a male wild boar of two or three hundred catties! Looking at Chen Keyan's tense expression, Liu Shuyan gave Wen Suqin a look and said in a voice: "Miss Chen, I know that you are worried about Master Xie's safety, but if your emotions are so nervous, it is easy to have an accident, so how can you complete the task assigned by your senior brother? Besides, you know your senior brother's ability best, don't you believe that he can find Wang Jianjun?" Relax. ”

Wen Suqin also stepped forward and persuaded in a low voice, Chen Keyan thought about it, and smiled embarrassedly, but smiled a little reluctantly: "I know, don't worry, I won't affect my work because of my emotions." ”

Chen Keyan raised her head and glanced at everyone gratefully, Liu Shuyan and Wen Suqin both smiled and nodded, while Chen Tingyi dodged his gaze a little flustered, Chen Keyan took a deep breath and said, "Everyone continue to work, I will be responsible for everyone's safety." ”

The surrounding somewhat oppressive atmosphere seemed to be suddenly eased, the sounds of various insects and small animals came out inexplicably, running away under the footsteps of several people, Chen Keyan tilted her head slightly, looking at the frolicking birds in the treetops, the sun shone on the water droplets at the tips of the leaves, flashing with gorgeous light, and the entire forest seemed to be made of glass, so beautiful as a dream.

A smile appeared on the corner of Chen Keyan's mouth, she clenched her fists hard, and looked back in the direction of the stone cliff......

Drinking the broth made from the sealed soup stock and jerky, chewing biscuits in his mouth, Liu Shuyan frowned and looked at the picture on the laptop, which was a distribution map made by combining the patterned stones with patterns after being located by the communication machine and combined with the map, but the scattered locations seem to be meaningless, so what is the relationship between these stones distributed on the hillside and the pattern marks on the stone cliff?

Wen Suqin and Chen Tingyi held a hand-drawn sketch, which was also a map of the distribution of stones on the hillside, frowning and thinking, and from time to time put forward some unbelievable ideas, but they didn't sound very reliable.

Chen Keyan sat on the stone, looking in the direction of the cave from time to time, if it weren't for the senior brother explaining that he protected these people, Chen Keyan believed that he would definitely not be able to help but go into the cave to find the senior brother, although that kind of behavior was very stupid, and even brought trouble to the senior brother, but the impulse in his heart could not be suppressed.

Wen Suqin looked at Chen Keyan, who was a little distracted, sighed lightly, and took the sketch to Chen Keyan's side: "Keyan, look, what mystery is hidden in this drawing?"

Chen Keyan was stunned for a moment, then reacted, smiled at Wen Suqin, signaled that she was fine, and then looked at the sketch in her hand, suddenly had a familiar feeling, took the sketch, rotated the direction, Chen Keyan opened her memory, for some reason, Chen Keyan read a lot of classics of the division, and later Xie Jun brought back a lot of electronic versions of ancient books from the capital, Chen Keyan read them when she had time, and unlike Lin Xuemeng, who singled out the magic circle, she looked at everything, and seemed to have made up her mind to become a polymath of Qimen。

"This, this seems to be a magic circle!"

Wen Suqin's eyes lit up, just now she showed the drawings to Chen Keyan, purely to distract Chen Keyan, but she didn't expect Chen Keyan to really see something.

"Circle? What is a circle? Is this really a circle, and what is it for?"

Wen Suqin's series of slightly urgent questions even shocked Liu Shuyan, put down the laptop and came over, staring at Chen Keyan, waiting for her answer.

"Circle...... How to say it, in fact, it is to use a relatively small, relatively weak energy field to control a relatively large and strong energy field, which is achieved through the control of energy conversion and derivation, the mechanism is very complex, and it is an advanced application technology of Qimen. ”

Liu Shuyan asked excitedly, "Oh, can Miss Chen recognize the magic circle formed by these nine patterns?"

"Yes, this is not a profound magic array, just a fog hidden array that benefits each other, and its function is to produce a large amount of mist to accumulate and not disperse, which is generally used to hide or cover ......"

"Smack!" Liu Shuyan slapped his thigh hard: "I understand, it turns out that this hillside is used to cover this stone cliff and cave, originally this mountain forest will be in the fog for a long time, here faces south, not affected by the north wind, and the terrain is not high, there are also high mountains in the south, especially the tall forests, blocking the flow of air, and the fog here is perennial." But why is there no fog now?......"

"Because the circle is invalid! A magic circle will not work forever, the operation of the magic circle is related to many factors, if it is not adjusted in time, or the magic weapon itself that sets the magic circle fails, etc., the magic circle will lose its effect, this magic circle should no longer work, and I am near those carved stones, and I can't feel the existence of the aura, so to speak, this magic circle has long been invalid, yesterday's fog is purely natural, and it has nothing to do with this magic circle...... Wait a minute...... Circle ...... I see......"

Chen Keyan pondered for a while, and suddenly burst into a happy smile, the setting sun projected on her face through the forest, and her happy smile seemed to be blooming.

"Ke Yan, what do you understand, does it have anything to do with Master Xie?"

Chen Keyan smiled and nodded: "Well, senior brother must have guessed it, so, that cave, that cave is also a magic circle, so Wang Jianjun will never return, since senior brother is facing a magic circle, I don't have to worry." ”

"Why, isn't Master Xie's magic circle at a very high level? So he must be able to crack the magic circle in the cave. ”

Chen Keyan recalled Gu Yuanzhi's evaluation of the level of Xie Jun's magic circle, and couldn't help laughing: "No, my senior brother's magic circle level is the level of two knives in his own words, but he has a thousand gold! Qianjin is a guy who is very sensitive to aura, she will definitely be able to find the node of the magic circle, as long as the node is destroyed, the entire magic circle will lose its effectiveness." ”

Liu Shuyan and Wen Suqin glanced at each other, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief, Wang Jianjun's disappearance and Xie Jun's news have always been pressed in their hearts, since Chen Keyan said so, the big stone in their hearts was finally moved, and at the same time, they also had a more expectant idea in their hearts, since the magic circle has appeared here continuously, then, the location of Dongtian may be near here, don't forget, Dongtian is the residence of those people in the Qimen who seek the Tao.

(To be continued)