With Yuan Zhan clearing the way, the wild mountain forests that were originally densely packed and without roads became less difficult to walk.
Before it was getting dark, the group finally arrived at the residence of the original Gaoshan Cave Clan.
In order to increase the speed of travel and reduce the danger, Yan Mo left all the Mo troops at the foot of the mountain before entering the mountain, and only brought Si and Luo.
All the way up to the top of the mountain, which is the arc mountain in the middle of the two corners, you can see a large meadow and countless gorgeous wild flowers when you come up.
The wind blows across the face, bringing light floral and strong grassy scents.
Cloudy sky, sunset glow, blooming flowers, wide vision.
Everyone's spirits were lifted.
"This is a good place." Yan Mo admired from the bottom of his heart.
The scenery is beautiful, but there are countless dangers hidden in those seemingly harmless meadows that are as tall as half a person.
Here, no one is foolish enough to say that they want to lie directly on the grass. It is not easy to be covered by insects and ants, but it is even more normal to be bitten by a poisonous snake.
"Someone came down the mountain from there." Yuan Zhan relied on his height, and he could see the strangeness of a grassland in the distance at a glance.
Yan Mo turned his head and asked Luo, "Where do your people live?" He didn't see any buildings on the meadow.
Luo Jin felt timid, especially since he didn't find any traces of clan activities around the meadow. If it was normal, whenever someone approached the meadow, no, as long as they approached the foot of the mountain, there would be patrolling soldiers throwing spears at them as a warning, but No one came out until they reached the top of the mountain, and there was no one else in this huge meadow except them.
This is not normal.
Could it be that his people have really...
"Snail?" Warm palms touched his head.
Luo Ding raised his head calmly, smiled apologetically at the priest, and hurriedly pointed to Niujiao Mountain on the left side of the edge of the meadow, and replied: "We are alpine cave people, so naturally we live in caves. This alpine grassland is huge. , there are many terrible beasts hidden inside, and the beasts in the forest occasionally come out to hunt, we can only guard against them by living in the cave.”
The location of Luo's finger happened to be the direction Yuan Zhan found strange in the grass.
"Go and have a look first." Yuan Zhan took the lead and walked forward.
Jiufeng and Dobby were watching from the sky, Yuan Zhan walked ahead to clear the way, and Yan Mo postponed.
The little ones didn't dare to be too big, and just like Si and Luo, they all held sticks and cats around their waists to explore the way.
There was a rustling sound in the grass, and Yan Mo signaled everyone to leave it alone, Yuanzhan showed the aura of a demigod warrior, and the beasts were most sensitive to danger, so they all fled away.
When we came to the edge of the meadow, we could clearly see that the weeds here had become much shorter, and there were still many traces of trampling.
The further we go, the shorter the weeds are, and gradually they can only cover people's ankles.
The close-up view of Niujiao Mountain on the left was clearly shown in front of everyone, Yan Mo couldn't help but raised his head and clicked his tongue lightly.
This is the uncanny workmanship of nature, right? There is actually a natural terrace formed on the west side of Niujiao Mountain.
The terraces on the bottom three floors are the widest. They are actually planted in the front, and the caves for people live in the back.
There are 19 floors of terraced fields, and they get narrower as they go up. The highest floor is only halfway up the mountain of Niujiao, and then there are vertical cliffs that are difficult to climb by manpower.
Yuan Zhan also praised the residence of the Gaoshan tribe: "This place is easy to defend and difficult to attack. As a small tribe, the residence is very good."
Luo is also very proud of his family's land. Several nearby tribes were jealous of their land and came to snatch it many times, but they all beat them back.
Yan Mo raised his hand to beckon Jiufeng, and Jiufeng turned into a bird and landed.
"What do you say about the news you inquired from the birds, that there were people here before, but all the people withdrew not long ago?"
"Yes, it's here. They showed me there. There are still many dead people over there." Jiufeng pointed to the south of the meadow with his wings.
Yuan Zhan heard the words and went to check first.
As Yan Mo walked towards the first floor of Niujiao Mountain, he asked Jiu Feng: "The places where human activities are located in this Niujiao Mountain? Where are they mainly concentrated?"
Jiufeng patted his little wings and said he didn't know. Even if the birds would pay attention to the whereabouts of humans here, how could they distinguish the traces of human activities so carefully
Seeing that Jiufeng couldn't ask anything here, Yan Mo asked Luo, "Where is the sacred place in your clan that you told me about?"
Luo paused, but he said without much hesitation. He couldn't see any members of his clan here. Obviously, his clan members had either fled, or were all captured or killed. What can't be said
Besides, the holy land of their clan is actually a good name. When you walk in, you will find a big cave, which is warm in winter and cool in summer. The great shamans and elders of the clan often arrange for weak clan members to live there. He also played in it when he was a child, and it was empty, with only a spring, and nothing else.
The holy place of the Gaoshan Dong people is not in the terraced caves on the west side, but in the south.
It happened that Yuan Zhan came back and told everyone, "There is indeed a lot of blood there, but the corpses were basically dragged away and eaten by wild animals, only some broken fur and bones."
Luo Luo, who was worried that those dead people might be from other clansmen, was disappointed or glad that she didn't have to face the bones of her relatives, her expression was very complicated.
Before going to the holy land of the Dong people, they quickly walked through the first to third floors of the terraced fields, but found no survivors, but judging from the traces left, many people lived here not long ago.
Luo stayed for a long time in a cave dug by manpower on the second floor.
Yan Mo went in and took a look, there was not much space inside, apart from the hole at the main entrance, there were two other holes inside.
The snail that was turning around in the hole suddenly grabbed a half-tanned fur from the ground, and said in a voiceless voice: "This is my mother's handicraft! This fur is still fresh, my mother..."
Luo thought of the dead people in the grass in the south, and tears rolled down his face. He didn't dare to think about how his mother was doing now, and could only imagine that maybe she escaped with others.
"Don't worry, Jiufeng heard from the birds in the mountains that a group of people here were killed, but some escaped. When the matter is over, I will ask Jiufeng and the creatures in the mountain to help you find it." Your clansman, maybe you, Mu, are still living well there."
"Master Priest!" Luo Putong knelt down to Yan Mo, "Please, please..."
Yan Mo sighed, "First search the caves on the upper floors to see if there are any clues. If there is no clue, we will go to the holy place you mentioned. If there is nothing found in the holy place, then expand the search scope."
"Thank you, Priest!" Luo kowtowed to Yan Mo and stood up.
Yan Mo told them several times that they don't need to kneel, let alone kowtow, but Mo Jun has been trained as a slave for so long, and the habit of kneeling at every turn cannot be adjusted for a while.
I searched all the caves in the nineteen-story terraced fields, and found nothing except the remaining traces of life.
Yuan Zhan searched nearby, while Yan Mo asked the creatures living nearby for advice, and finally pieced together an approximate story.
About one and a half months ago (this time is Yan Mo's speculation), a group of humans lived here.
One day, there seemed to be some disagreement among this group of humans, and someone led a group of people to kill another group of people.
Then a person who seemed to be the leader of this group of humans found out about this. He was very angry and stopped the group of people from continuing to kill, but another leader appeared, and the two sides almost fought.
In the chaos, a group of people were killed, and another group took advantage of the chaos and fled into the forest.
The leader who stopped them defeated the other side and forbade the others to search for the escaped man.
In the end, these people also left. Before leaving, another controlled leader ordered someone to set a big fire in a big cave, which almost burned the meadow. But what the group of people who left didn't know was that the fire they set was extinguished miraculously when it reached the entrance of the cave, and it didn't spread to the entire meadow.
Yan Mo thoughtfully said: "According to the descriptions of the birds, beasts and insects, the big witch Zheli and Shuyi from Dingyue may have come. Zheli wanted to kill all the slaves alive, or even set them on fire, and wanted to eliminate all clues, but But Shu Yi stopped him."
Yuan Zhan didn't like to hear his wife keep mentioning Shu Yi with the big yue, so he interrupted immediately: "There's nothing special here, I've seen it all, go to the cave in the south. Didn't that cave prevent the fire from spreading? Definitely some oddities."
Yan Mo also guessed that this holy land of the Dong clan was the land of relics, and seeing that he couldn't find any clues, he took everyone to a detour to the holy land located in the south of Niujiao Mountain.
It's just that the first night's harvest disappointed everyone, and they found almost nothing.
This so-called holy place is a large cave that looks very ordinary, but its location is quite special, it is just on the mountainside, and there is only a narrow path leaning against the mountain wall to climb up.
For others, it is a bit dangerous to take this path, but for Yuan Zhan and Yan Mo and his party, it is no different from walking on flat ground.
Before entering the cave, you can first see a large flat land, which is a huge rock extending from the mountain wall.
Seeing this flat land, Yan Mo inexplicably thought of the word apron.
If they came by bone bird, then they can land directly on this flat ground.
Looking at the entrance of the cave, it is really big. The highest part of the cave is as high as a six-story building, and the widest part can drive a train.
As soon as you step into the cave, you can feel the temperature change immediately, and it feels about three to five degrees lower than the outside only at the entrance of the cave.
It was dark inside the cave.
Yan Mo backed out on purpose, the sun outside was about to set, but there was still afterglow shining, and it was directly south, and the entrance of the cave was so big, it stands to reason that the lighting in the cave should not be so bad, but it was so miraculous, as long as he walked through the entrance of the cave, That line was pitch black.
In fact, it's not really so dark that you can't see your fingers. After your eyes get used to it for a while, you can still roughly see the appearance of the cave, but this kind of lighting is still too low, which is abnormally low.
Is it because of the fire? Yan Mo temporarily put this question aside, stood at the entrance of the cave and looked at the cave carefully.
According to Luo, the cave inside is a set of caves. There are three holes in the cave, and each is smaller than the other. The spring known as the Holy Spring is in the third and innermost cave.
Probably because the Dingyue people set off a big fire before leaving, the outermost hole was burnt to pitch black, and the wall could not be seen clearly.
"Dingyue should have absorbed fire control fighters. This is the fire that can only be caused by at least two fire control fighters above level six." Yuan Zhan is a combat expert, and he can see who the fire maker is after walking around the outer cave.
Then, with a wave of the man's hand, countless fireballs floated up, and the visibility in the cave increased greatly.
When it was dark and then light, Yan Mo suddenly noticed something and turned his head suddenly.
There is nothing at the entrance of the cave, and the scenery outside is still beautiful.
Dobby flew past him not far away with spinning tentacles.
The little ones were happy to see the brightened cave, and they came alive with bouncing around.
"Mo, what are you looking at?" Yuan Zhan asked him.
Yan Mo turned around and smiled, "The sunset is beautiful, the sun is about to set."
Yuan Zhan glanced out, hummed perfunctorily, forgive him for being a barbarian, and his romantic cells have not yet been developed.
Yan Mo suppressed that strange feeling to the bottom of his heart, looked up at the wall of the cave, because a large number of fireballs illuminated the situation outside the cave, he could see clearly at a glance, "They are deliberately burning the wall of the cave."
"Is there something on the wall of the cave?" A few children were also curiously exploring in the cave. Su Men didn't go far, and turned to ask his master.
Yan Mo nodded, "Maybe there are murals, maybe there are written records, maybe there are some special signs, in short, no matter what there is, Dingyue people don't want us to see it."
"Ah! Master, what should we do then?" Su Men felt that Ding Yue was good or bad.
Yan Mo called Luo Luo and asked him: "Do you still remember what is on the wall of the outer cave?"
Luo said uncertainly: "I don't really remember, the cave is very dark, it seems that there is something engraved on the wall, but we can't understand it, the big witch said it was the language of God."
Yan Mo and Yuan Zhan looked at each other, it seemed that there were words carved on the wall of the outer cave.
"Do you remember where it was all engraved?"
Luo looked at the dark and high cave wall and tried to remember, "There are not many divine words, I remember there are some there, and there seems to be some there, no, maybe there?"
Sweat dripped from Luo's forehead, and she was about to cry, "My lord, I don't remember, it's been too long, I, I..."
Yan Mo hurriedly comforted him, "Shhh, don't worry, it doesn't matter if you can remember as much as you can."
Luo pointed out several locations with uncertainty.
Yan Mo and Yuan Zhan went to see if they could recover their thoughts, or find some traces of the divine language.
But what a pity!
"They cut off all the cave walls with text!" Yuan Zhan cursed a series of obscenities, and became more and more unhappy with Dingyue people.
Yan Mo asked Luo if he still remembered what those divine words looked like, Luo racked his brains to come up with a few, and used the pen Yan Mo gave him to draw some ghostly symbols on the white paper crookedly.
Dobby flew to see, even he was not sure if this is the interstellar lingua franca where the Pan'a family is located, the twisted arc is so ecstasy!
"There is a 40% chance." Finally, Dobby judged this.
The two of them lit torches with a few boys and worked around the outer cave a few times, but found nothing.
Yan Mo wanted to find out the reason why the fire stopped when it reached the entrance of the cave, but he couldn't. He repeatedly went in and out of the hole, and his strange behavior made others stare at him.
Dobby flew over, "Mo, did you find anything?"
Yan Mo squatted on the ground and touched the ground, "What about you?"
Dobby was frustrated. "I can't find anything. There's no apparent energy here, and there's no band of any kind."
Yan Mo comforted him, "Don't worry, it's okay if you really can't find anything."
"Yes, we can go to Ding Yue to snatch their discoveries!" Dobby cheered up.
Yan Mole got up.
Yuan Zhan used his soil control ability to explore the entire outer cave in depth, but in the end he could only shake his head, "The back of the cave wall and the ground are solid, and there is nothing strange about it."
Yan Mo looked at the sky outside, "It's already dark, let's rest in the outer cave for a while, and then go to the middle cave after dinner."
There must be something here, but they can't detect it with their current means.
He had to find the place where Ding Yue found the energy gun first, maybe there would be some clues there
Yan Mo wanted to tell Yuan Zhan about that wonderful feeling, but he didn't want "that spy" to find out what he had discovered, so he could only temporarily be bored in his heart.