The sword seemed to touch something like a rope in the water. Ding Cheng shouted, "Found it." He withdrew his sword, reached for it, and found a chain, and pulled it hard. Sure enough, after a rattling sound, something slowly rose in the water.

It wasn't until the thing was halfway up that everyone could see that it was a boat! But there was something strange about it, it was abrupt, and it didn't look like an ordinary ship made of wood. Ding Cheng flicked his fingers and found that the ship was originally carved out of rock.

After everyone stepped on the stone boat, the stone boat moved towards the cave. The cave grew wider and brighter, and suddenly a burst of aroma hit, which was extremely strong. Everyone hurriedly covered their mouths and noses to prevent the aroma from being poisonous.

After a while, Ding Cheng didn't notice anything unusual about the aroma, nor did he feel dizzy, and his internal breath was running as usual, but he felt refreshed, so he was relieved.

The stone boat carried several people out of the cave and stopped at a dock made of large bluestone. Everyone stepped off the stone boat and looked up, and what appeared in front of them was a valley, and the mountains on both sides were densely packed with camellia trees. The camellia flowers are blooming, and the fragrance is wafting for ten miles, no wonder you will smell a strong aroma just now. It's not that everyone hasn't smelled the fragrance of camellias, but there are only about a dozen camellia trees that you usually see, how can there be such a strong aroma, so although everyone feels that they smell the aroma of camellias, they can't believe it.

Halfway up the mountainside, there is a cluster of courtyards, hidden in the woods and a sea of camellia flowers, revealing a few corners.

Ding Cheng pointed to the house and said, "It must be a den of thieves, let's go over and have a look." ”

At that moment, several people slowly approached the house, and stopped when they were more than ten feet away from the house. Ding Cheng said: "Why don't I go and investigate the situation first." ”

Yujianglong nodded and said, "That's fine, Guo Zhengnan will go with you." ”

Ding Cheng and Guo Zhengnan quietly touched it, came to a place about ten zhang outside the gate, and hid behind a few camellia trees. I saw two big men dressed in black, holding a ghost-headed knife in their arms, patrolling back and forth. Ding Cheng and Guo Zhengnan each held a stone in their hands and bounced towards the two men in black. The two black-clothed men snorted without snorting and slowly collapsed to the ground.

The two of them hid by the backyard wall and jumped into the courtyard gently. There are several rooms in the courtyard that look like kitchens and sundries, with a small door on the left and a long corridor outside. A fat man happened to come out of the kitchen, saw Ding Cheng and Guo Zhengnan jumping into the yard, and just wanted to open his mouth to ask, but Guo Zhengnan knocked him down. Ding Cheng flashed into the kitchen and saw an old man washing a big rooster in the kitchen, and before the man could react to what was going on, Ding Cheng's long sword was already on the old man's neck.

Ding Cheng shouted in a low voice: "If you want to live, don't shout, you can answer whatever I ask." ”

The old man replied tremblingly: "The villain is a small common man, who was caught by them to cook, please spare the name of the little old man! What the good man wants to know, the little old man must tell the truth and dare not deceive." ”

Ding Cheng asked, "How many thieves are there here, and where are they?"

The old man replied, "There are twenty-three kings in the two heads here, and there are about five or six in the front yard, and the rest are in the upper courtyard. How many people are in the Zhuangzi in the back, Xiao Lao'er doesn't know. ”