Chu Tao unfolded the sheepskin drawing and searched for the light: "If we don't see Jiang Shaoyun, let's go to the ruins of the Song family to explore, the nearest road is ......"

The three of them walked through the bush along a trail that had been abandoned for an unknown amount of time. The ancient trees are towering, intertwined, and the sunlight leaks a few bunches from time to time from the dense branches and leaves, like the crystal jewels scattered by the heavens to the world, reflecting the colorful halo. The crows and magpies are contending, and a few mischievous squirrels are running past from time to time, bringing a bit of wild fun.

Walked in silence for at least two hours. Suddenly, I heard the sound of water murmuring, and my eyes became cheerful.

They walked to a drawbridge. The suspension bridge is erected on the canyon twenty or thirty zhang wide, and on both sides are steep stone walls, looking down, its depth is two or three hundred zhang, as if a sharp axe has split the mountain in half. The turquoise water reflected the color of the sky, flowing unhurriedly, two rusted iron cables were fixed to the rock wall, the hemp rope used for the handrails had long since disappeared, and even the wooden stakes that had been erected had been hollowed out by insects. The planks on the iron cables were already scattered.

Chu Tao wanted to pass, Jun He had already rushed to his side with an arrow, picked up a stone and threw it at the bridge board.

With a "squeak", the planks fell into the deep valley along with the stones, and were shattered by the rapids with a "snap", and in an instant even the wreckage could not be found. The shaking of the iron rope shook off a few boards that had been held here for I don't know how many years.

"Don't you dare to pass?" Chu Tao left the next sentence and flew away little by little. The purple coat flew away as if it had wings. Like a crane dancing, and like a dragonfly dotting the water, it took five or six steps lightly on the iron cable to reach the opposite shore and land steadily. The iron rope didn't move at all!

The two who were behind were dumbfounded.

Xie Junhe was unconvinced: "Feather Chase Flying Steps, can you show off your family's light skills so much?"

"Junhe, be careful. Before the words fell, Xie Junhe had already taken a few steps back and rushed towards the iron rope, like an arrow off the string. "Sonorous ......" the iron rope tightened to meet his unbiased steps. Approximately, the unsheathed remnant sword is also so swift and neat. In the blink of an eye, he was on the other side.

Qin Shi didn't want to be embarrassed, but he had no other way, so he gritted his teeth and risked his life. I can't care about the front and the back, and I can't care about the shaking under my feet. But the rope shook so violently that it almost shook him off. Seeing that he was about to reach the other side, as soon as his feet slipped, his body was about to really fall. Luckily, he grabbed the rope.

At the same time, Chu Tao's hand was firmly grasping his wrist: "Be careful, Qin Dashao." ”

He had no choice but to climb to the other side with no grace, and Xie Junhe, with the power of Chu Tao, lifted him soaked in sweat up the cliff.

After crossing the suspension bridge, you will reach the end of the dense forest, and a path covered by intertwined rotten branches will be slippery and misty, and you will walk more than a hundred steps to a cliff with no daylight. And it was dark. The three of them stopped at the same time and looked at them in a daze.

"Hey," Xie Junhe, who had never liked to talk much, said blankly, "We'...... When will you get to hell?"

Chu Tao frowned slightly and did not answer.

A terrifying and strange cloud filled the surroundings, and a disgusting smell of corpses hit their noses, forcing the three of them to cover their noses with their sleeves.

The rock walls rise high into the sky, leaning obliquely and pressing down. The walls were marked with deep marks like axes and chisels. Longitudinal tangled vines tangle all over the ground, climbing along the cliff. Dead leaves spread out layer after layer, piling up at the bottom of the cliff. Large and small gray-white rocks are all over the ground, mixed with dead leaves. Between the rocks and dead leaves, against the rock wall, there were skeletons stacked horizontally, tangled with vines. There are too many fragments of bones to be counted. There were also several carrion corpses, which were pecked by flocks of evil birds.

A gust of wind passed through the forest, and the wind seemed to carry bursts of sorrow from the soul, and the whining sound was endless.

"Who is so cruel?" Qin Shi exclaimed.

Jun He wanted to rush forward to check, but Chu Tao stopped and said: "The bones are slightly black and purple, be careful of the corpses being poisonous." Looks like it's been going on here for some years. ”

He picked up a branch and picked away the top skull from afar, and as soon as the dead branch touched the skull, the entire skull shattered into many pieces. What is the force that makes these bones black and brittle? Chu Tao didn't dare to speculate. But he clearly saw that the cross-section of the neck bone was neat and flat—these people had all been cut off by a sharp weapon.

Qin Shi searched for it, hoping to find clues such as inscriptions or footprints, but found nothing: "Could it be that this is also related to Jiang Shaoyun?"

Chu Tao didn't say anything, only raised his head and pointed to the high place of the rock wall, the sunlight leaked through the layers of green branches, and faintly reflected the words "Broken Soul Rock" in a shocking way. Qin Shi vaguely remembered the legend: At the Broken Soul Rock under the Beacon Fire Ridge, all those who approached did not leave alive. Therefore, no one knows where the Broken Soul Rock is, let alone anyone looking for it.

"The things here seem to be worse than the Song family's fire. ”

"Look!" Xie Junhe, who was looking around, rushed towards the two, and a few rusted iron darts were displayed in the palm of his hand: "Scattered everywhere, deeply embedded in stone cracks, there are dozens of them, it seems that there is a big war." ”

Chu Tao took out an iron dart of Tang Yao from his sleeve and compared it to it: it was shaped like a water droplet, except for rust, there was no difference.

Qin Shi said: "Maybe we should meet Tang Yao for a while!"

"Not necessarily. Chu Tao shook his head: "Tianyuemen is good at using poison and secret weapons, but Tianyuemen may not be able to explain much about what is going on here." The killer clearly wanted to cover up another fatal wound. ”

The wooden stick in Chu Tao's hand pointed at a skeleton, and the broken ribs and subtle abrasions were impressive.

Qin Shi found that many corpses had similar traces. The scar was a far cry from the dart they had found. Who is the murderer?

Jun He grinned with a smile: "Have you noticed that Tang Yao's people followed us all the way, but they suddenly evaporated from the moment we met Shen Yanfei." Is my nose not working, or is Tang Yao kind?"

Chu Tao joked: "It's your brain that doesn't work." Don't you see that drawbridge that hasn't been walked on for years? I know what the legend of Beacon Fire Ridge calls it ?——Nether Bridge. To be precise, those who want to stay alive at least know that they shouldn't go any further when they see the bridge. ”

Qin Shi gave a cold shudder: "Then you still take this road!"

Chu Tao directly threw him a sentence: "It's still too late to go back." ”

Qin Shi turned around to observe the movement around him, and suddenly heard a few strange creaks of dead branches under his feet, and the hidden weapon flew from everywhere, and the three of them hurriedly fell down. I saw a rain of arrows grazing over their heads.

"What person?" Qin Shi secretly complained.

"It's not anyone. Jun He jumped to the place where the crossbow bolts were fired in the blink of an eye, and pointed to a row of crossbow machines that were half-hidden between the branches and half-buried in the earth, "The cobwebs are tangled, it must not be new." Beacon Ridge is really not a good place, and it is not safe to walk. ”

Chu Tao smiled: "No matter how difficult it is, you have to go! Be careful." Find a safe place to spend the night. ”

"Spend the night here?"

Qin Shi clearly felt that his legs were trembling, and the more he looked at those corpses, the more hallucinating he became. Even the whirring wind seems to have become a ghost crying wolf.

It was dark in the blink of an eye, and Chu Tao led the two to the sheltered rock wall, and jokingly said: "The sky is the cover of the earth, and the chivalrous man has been like this since ancient times." Qin Dashao, don't you miss Wangjiangtai?"

Of course, Qin Shi was not convinced, so he and Jun He collected firewood and made a fire together.

In the blink of an eye, night fell, several days of tiredness, Chu Tao and Jun He had already fallen asleep on the stone wall, only Qin Shi leaned on the haystack, tossing and turning, listening to the indescribable voices in the wild, looking at the shadows of the trees with teeth and claws, the events of the day and the words "Jiang Shaoyun" hovered in their minds, endlessly.

Unprecedented regret: I shouldn't provoke Chu Tao, let alone follow him who doesn't know whether he is an enemy or a friend to find Jiang Shaoyun. No, in fact, he was already wrong when he looked at Jiangtai. If he hadn't let go of his peaceful life, clamoring to come to Fenghuoling to meet Chu Tao for a while, I was afraid that he should be intoxicated in the gentle countryside with wine and piano now! Chu Tao was right, he really missed Wangjiangtai.

Who is Jiang Shaoyun and what does he want to do?

In the dream, there was only the shadow of swords and swords, and there were traces of blood.