There are so many steep and dangerous places on Cangman Mountain, and the scenery in this mountain is also beautiful and colorful. The trees below the mountainside are shady, but the top of the mountain is covered with snow. There are many small He tribes scattered in the deep forest on this mountain. Although they are connected with the He tribe outside the border, they have no contact with each other.
Cangman Mountain is their patron saint, and the He people here rarely go down the mountain to contact the Han people. In their view, the Han people are all demons, demons who kill people without blinking an eye. Ever since the He tribe warriors in the primitive jungle outside the border set up an ambush on Cangman Mountain many years ago and tried to assassinate Luo Yao's only son Luo Wen, the life of the He tribe on Cangman Mountain became even more frightening.
After the assassination, although the seventy-odd assassins were all killed by the old man with the steel sword box, this did not appease Luo Yao's anger. The He people on Cangman Mountain were implicated and killed many people. Since then, they dare not have any contact with their kindred outside the border.
Long, long ago, before the establishment of the Shang Kingdom, this land was dominated by the He people. Thousands of miles are the rule of the He people, and the culture of the He people is prosperous. The founder of the Shang Kingdom was a prince of the Central Plains Dynasty at that time. He led the army to the south according to the order, and brought the war to this relatively peaceful place. The prince used a powerful army to subdue the He people, but he didn't want to return to the Central Plains as a subject, so he established a new empire here.
In the subsequent battles between the empire he established and the Central Plains dynasty, the He people also played a certain role in the stability of the Shang country. It was also from then on that the emperor of the Shang Kingdom became more and more obsessed with the culture of the He people. The shamans of the He nationality became the court worshipers and revered status, and their words could even influence the government.
The laws of the Shang Dynasty clearly stipulated that a wizard only needs to compensate the family of the deceased with a donkey for killing people. But if someone kills the wizard, it will implicate the whole family. Not only high-ranking officials and dignitaries became faithful believers of wizards, but even their wives and daughters also worshiped wizards. Wizards don’t know how many dignitaries wore green hats in the name of teaching witchcraft. When wizards taught so-called spells to those women, Even if the dignitaries returned home, they did not dare to disturb them, for fear of disturbing the wizard's spellcasting.
At that time, the powerful wizards even fornicated the harem, even the women of the emperor of the Shang Dynasty.
Because of this, the He people used to have a high status in the Shang Kingdom. They are even more privileged than the Han Chinese, forming a deformed social structure.
Under such a social structure, the contradictions between the Han people and the He people naturally intensified.
At the end of the Shang Dynasty, civil servants and He nationality wizards colluded to exclude generals, so that the huge Shang Kingdom had an army of one million claimed by the outside world, but in fact it had no combat power to speak of.
The nightmare of the He people began after the Shang Kingdom perished and Luo Yao entered Yongzhou. The suppression of the He people by the army of the Sui Dynasty never stopped, so that the He people had to migrate southward year after year and finally retreated to the primitive jungle to save their lives. Even so, every year Luo Yao would send troops to suppress some He tribes and massacre the middle-aged men of the He tribe to ensure that it would be difficult for this once powerful nation to rise again.
After most of the He people retreated to the primitive forest, a small number of He people stayed because they were nostalgic for the prosperity of the city. But they underestimated the revenge of the Han people. The Han people who were oppressed by the He people for hundreds of years were crazily squeezed out. It was too late when they wanted to go back to the primitive forest. The He people outside the border did not accept them. They had no choice but to migrate to live in Cangman Mountain.
Because there are too many ferocious beasts on Cangman Mountain, there are countless traps laid by nature, there will be miasma in the jungle at some point, and half of the water in the mountain is not drinkable, this is not a suitable place to live. place. But in order to save their lives, the He people can only live in this cruel mountain.
However, it is precisely because the environment in Cangman Mountain is too harsh, with flying insects and wild animals raging, Han people rarely set foot here, so the He people can avoid being ostracized and massacred.
There are dozens of large and small tribes in the forest in this mountain. The big ones have more than a thousand people, and the small ones have seventy or eighty people. After more than ten years of understanding and exploration, they have gradually adapted to the life of Cangman Mountain. They have figured out the law of miasma appearance, found a way to deal with those beasts, and identified a safe water source, and their lives have gradually stabilized.
But they no longer dare to approach the Han people, and they will immediately hide away when they see Han people entering the mountains. After too many people died, they didn't even dare to have hatred.
So when Fang Jiezhuo, Buyi, Chen Heng, Chen Ha, and the others arrived at Cangman Mountain, they tried to find a guide to go to Luhou Cave, but they couldn't find it. The He people saw them running away and going into the jungle, and those who were not familiar with the road did not dare to chase them casually. There are murderous opportunities everywhere in this mountain, and no one can guarantee whether if you walk around indiscriminately, it will become food for the giant python in the next second.
Before leaving Yongzhou, Fang Jie found a guard who was similar in stature to him to put on his mask, and asked Shen Qingshan, Mu Xiaoyao and others to accompany him out of Yongzhou City to go sightseeing in the mountains and rivers. As long as the watchers were not allowed to get too close, they would not be exposed. The four of them pretended to go out of the city and found the Feiyupao at the inner guard outside the city. They took their horses and rushed here.
"There are not many roads up the mountain, and it just rained a few days ago."
Zhuo Buyi looked around and said, "Even if we don't have a guide, it's not too difficult for us to find the mountain. Isn't this what you were good at when you were in Fan Gu?"
Fang Jie was born as a scout, so he was no stranger to looking for traces.
Fang Jie nodded, turned his head and said to Chen Hun and Chen Ha very seriously: "You two must follow me obediently, listen to my words, if you dare to run around and if you don't obey, I will immediately find you That person of yours will lock you into a cave to eat fish."
Chen Hum and Chen Ha's frightened expression changed, and he quickly nodded like a chicken pecking at rice. The words cave and eating fish are nightmares for them and they cannot resist.
Fang Xie and the others hid the horses somewhere and left a mark. They were not worried that the He people on the mountain would steal the horses. The He people in Cangman Mountain were already afraid of the revenge of the Han people to the point of panic, so how dare they take the initiative to provoke them.
Fang Jie raised his head and looked up, feeling that something unbelievable would happen in this deep mountain.
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According to the traces, Fang Jie quickly found the place where Luo Wen's team kept their horses. A dozen soldiers were resting in a forest guarding at least forty horses. Judging from the number of horses, Rowan was accompanied by about thirty guards. These people are all left-wing elites, and it might not be difficult to deal with one-on-one, but as long as their number reaches five or more, it will become extremely difficult to deal with.
It is not too difficult to find here, and then find the way for Luo Wen and the others to go up the mountain. Fang Jie and the four of them had good cultivation levels. Although Zhuo Buyi was injured, but with Chen Heng and Chen Ha, the two of them carried him up the mountain as easily as lifting a straw.
"There are twelve people staying behind at the foot of the mountain."
Fang Jie looked at the place where Luo Wen and the others started climbing. It was relatively open, and the footprints on the ground could still be seen. After walking back and forth twice, he said in a low voice: "There are forty-four war horses, that is to say, thirty-two people followed Luo Wen up the mountain. After I carefully identified them, the footprints that I can see belong to twenty-seven people... That is to say..."
Zhuo Buyi took it and said: "In other words, there is not only one old man with strong strength beside Luo Wen, and these few people who have left no footprints will not be too easy to deal with."
Fang Jie nodded: "However, generals with military backgrounds have good cultivation, one-on-one and quacks with the same cultivation will lose more in duels. The way of fighting on the battlefield is the same as that of quacks. It's two different things entirely, and in this environment we have fewer people but it doesn't mean we are at a disadvantage."
Zhuo Buyi smiled: "Anyway, you have already made up your mind, if you don't catch up and see, you won't have the heart to retreat."
Fang Jie said with a smile, "Mr. Zhuo knows me too."
The four people searched for traces and climbed all the way, Zhuo Buyi's perception power played a great role. They avoided many poisonous insects and ferocious beasts, and even a giant python with the thickness of a bucket that was hard to detect while entrenched on a big tree. The boa constrictor is so big that once it gets entangled, even a master with a good cultivation level will find it difficult to escape.
Because of the inaccessibility, the mountain still maintains a very primitive ecological environment. Along the way, not only met a ridiculously large python, but also a spider the size of a human head. And the most palpitating thing about this kind of spider is that their back looks like a lifelike human face. If you look at it suddenly, you will have the illusion that there is someone peeking out from among the trees.
The climate at the foot of the mountain is warm, and there are many poisonous insects. These insects are even more threatening than giant pythons, because they hide in the grass and mud, and they are hard to guard against.
Fortunately, there were traces left by Luo Wen and his team, otherwise Fang Xie and the others, who came to Cangman Mountain for the first time, would have found it difficult to walk to the mysterious deer monkey cave by themselves.
Luhoudong is a name that has only been called out in the past few years, and no one has discovered it before. It is said that it is a big cave, and there is an unknown thing living in it. In the vivid description of the people at the bottom of the mountain, this kind of thing has a body like a gibbon, but a head like a deer, and has hard horns. These things only live in the cave and do not come out, and they don’t know that they eat grass. Still eating meat.
Fang Xie will not firmly deny this rumored description, the world is too big, there may be any strange creatures in such a remote place. However, in his memory, he never remembered that there was anything with the body of an ape and the head of a deer.
After climbing up for about an hour, Fang Jie found a dead body in the grass beside the path. Most of it has been entangled with spider silk, but judging from the boots and the exposed arm, it is the left forward soldier. A giant spider that looks like a human face from the back is resting not far away, it is estimated that this person has been sucked into a mummy.
Chen Heng and Chen Ha seemed to be very afraid of this kind of thing, and carried Zhuo Buyi to hide far away.
"This kind of thing must be very poisonous, maybe even spider silk is poisonous."
Fang Jie sighed, he could imagine the fear of this soldier before he died.
Just when they were about to avoid the spider and prepare to continue upward, suddenly there was a rustling sound in the grass, Fang Xie and the others immediately took a few steps back cautiously and leaned together. The worm with a wrist thickness of about ten centimeters crawled out and quickly surrounded the spider. The resting spider seemed to have noticed it, got up suddenly and turned around to look at it, and was about to run away immediately.
But its speed was not as fast as those bugs. Dozens of bugs quickly surrounded the spider. The human-faced spider began to show its teeth and made a creaking sound as if it was threatening something, but those bugs didn't care at all and swarmed up. The human-faced spider was quickly pressed down, and what stunned Fang Xie and the others the most was that these insects started to connect, one after another, and in just a few tens of seconds, they formed a line that was more than two meters long. A long snake with a head and a tail.
The assembled snake entangled the man-faced spider and bit it. Fang Jie even saw the blue fangs in the weird snake's mouth.
They didn't dare to stay for long, and tried not to make a sound as much as possible.
After going out for two miles, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"What is that? A snake?"
Zhuo Buyi couldn't help asking.
Fang Jie smiled wryly and shook his head: "How do I know... this mountain is full of weirdness. Whether those insects or beasts, it looks like things from two worlds. Now I have to admit, The stuff in that stag monkey cave might actually exist."
"you say… "
He frowned and said in thought: "I even wonder if there used to be a group of perverts living in this mountain. These perverted things were created by those perverted people."
Hearing this sentence, Zhuo Buyi's expression changed. Although Fang Xie's words were a bit awkward, he understood.
"You mean, everything in this mountain is man-made?"
"This place used to be the place of the He people, and this environment is most suitable for those wizards to live in."
Fang Jie shook his head: "I always feel that there is something wrong with the origin of the things here. No matter how bad the environment is, species will not mutate for no reason, unless someone domesticates them and makes them change. This person or this group of people People may have been dead for a long time, but what they made multiplied more and more."
"For wizards, isn't this a paradise for raising Gu?"
Fang Jie's emotion made Zhuo Buyi feel more uneasy: "Try to be careful, maybe there will be many He tribe wizards in this mountain. Poisonous insects are not terrible, but poisonous insects controlled by people are terrible."