"Mi Su, how far is this place from Qingqiu Kingdom?" Hu Bugui suddenly asked.
"It's not far away. Our Qingqiu Fox Clan is huge in number, and our clan's territory has been expanding over the years. After passing the valley ahead, we will see a village." Mi Su pointed ahead and said.
Upon hearing this, Hu Bugui nodded and looked over there.
Soon, the three of them turned around the valley and saw the small village in the distance.
It didn't look much different from the human villages, except that the houses built by the foxes were mostly circular semi-underground buildings, with log walls and roofs covered with wooden boards and hay.
What's also different is that almost all of these fox houses have two or three doors built in different directions.
Seeing this, Mi Su was about to run over there, but was stopped by Shen Luo.
"Wait, something is wrong."
It was dusk now, and it should be time for everyone to prepare dinner, but the village was dead silent, without any smoke rising from the chimneys, as if no one lived there.
Shen Luo immediately released his spiritual sense to investigate, and sure enough, there was no one inside.
"How could this happen?" Mi Su asked in surprise.
"Let's go and take a look." Shen Luo said as he walked in front.
Mi Su followed closely behind him, and Hu Bugui naturally protected at the back.
But after the three of them entered the village and took a look around, they found that the village was clean and tidy everywhere, with no signs of damage to the houses and no signs of fighting anywhere.
"It looks like these villagers evacuated in an orderly manner, rather than being attacked." Hu Bugui said, pointing to several intricate wheel tracks extending to the other end of the village.
"It seems that Qingqiu Kingdom has also sensed the crisis and evacuated all the villagers in advance." Shen Luo frowned.
"There is no time to lose. We have to rush to Qingqiu Kingdom as soon as possible to find out what is going on. If the conflict is not resolved in time, I am afraid that the Tang Dynasty and Qingqiu will really have to fight." Hu Bugui said.
The three of them immediately quickened their speed and rushed to Qingqiu State.
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Early in the morning of the second day, the three of them arrived at the deepest part of the Rising Sun Valley in the morning light.
This is the narrowest place in the entire valley. The towering mountain walls on both sides are extremely smooth. Under the reflection of the morning sun, they are golden and look brilliant.
Under the golden light, a city fortress formed by continuous buildings stands in the valley sandwiched between two mountain walls, bathed in dazzling light and exuding a very unique atmosphere.
Shen Luo and the other two stood outside the city, watching the scene in front of them quietly.
The little fox Mi Su was already used to it, and there wasn't much emotion in his eyes except the joy of returning home.
Shen Luo sighed, thinking that the origin of the Morning Sun Valley might be due to this reason.
Only Hu Bugui had a complicated expression, and there was even some excitement in his eyes.
Arriving here, most of the three people's previous doubts were solved. The terrain outside the city was not flat, and it formed a series of platforms of different sizes, on which hundreds of colorful tents of various sizes were built.
The villagers in the empty villages that we encountered on the road earlier have now been resettled here.