Although the position of the stone is very low, for a child, it is also necessary to put his feet on his feet. His small arm is about two fingers thick, and he basically has no strength.
Zhou Fei asked, "What are you doing?"
The child trembled with fright at her voice, turned sideways vigilantly, and leaned her back against the rock like a frightened animal.
Zhou Fei was helpless, and had no choice but to hide the weapon and hang it behind Yang Jin's back. She stepped forward, clasped the stone, and broke it down... She didn't move.
Zhou Fei was a little surprised, her fingers suddenly tightened, and a blue vein jumped out on the back of her hand. She exerted 80% of her strength, and the sand and soil was agitated by her internal force, and it fell rustling, but the stone remained motionless. When she saw the child firmly stretch out her hand to pick it up, she thought it was just a piece of rock stuffed inside, but she didn't expect it to be one with the rock behind.
Wu Chuchu squatted down, looked carefully into the child's eyes, and asked, "Why are you digging that stone? Is there anything there? Or did you see an adult taking it down?"
The child was afraid of Zhou Fei, but he was okay with Wu Chuchu. He lowered his head and kept silent, his fingers digging at the cracks on the back of the stone, glanced at Zhou Fei secretly, and then nodded quickly.
Zhou Fei frowned. She has really focused on the snow breaking knife in recent years, but it doesn't mean that other skills are not good. After a certain level, martial arts are all by analogy - if even she can't break the stone, then How did a few ordinary farmers do it
If they had this skill, how could they be easily killed on the side of the road
Li Yan bent down and looked at the child, and asked, "Hey? Why doesn't he speak? I think he runs very neatly, and he can understand what other people are saying, so he shouldn't be."
The child shrinks himself even smaller.
Zhou Fei thought about it and said, "Maybe people in the valley really rely on some moving stones as road signs, but this little cub doesn't necessarily remember which one it is. Why don't we look for it nearby."
Yang Jin seized every opportunity to mock her and said, "You can't do it, right?"
Zhou Fei had nothing to say to someone like Yang Chai who was looking for trouble, so she simply took a step back and said, "You can do it."
Yang Jin snorted, put the broken cover aside very preciously, and pulled out his own breaking wild goose knife. He was an outlier among the southern border people. When he was using the big ring knife, he naturally had a posture. I saw him take a half step back, his shoulders sank slightly, and he let out a low voice.
The "Thirteen Swords of Broken Wild Goose" in his palm is not just a posture, Yang Jin stepped forward abruptly, the big sword fell as if it was about to traverse Mount Tai, the blade wind was also divided into two by the sharp blade, and a short "woo" Shouting, Li Yan, who was standing three steps away, was hurt by the strong wind, so she hurriedly picked up the huddled child and ducked to the side.
The blade collided with the rock with a sour sound, and the sound of "choking" persisted in the mountain. The tip of the knife cut into the small crevice that was almost covered by dust, and the entire rock wall was shattered by his rock. The knife trembled incessantly...
However to no avail.
The Broken Wild Goose Knife used brute force to deepen the original stone crack by more than half an inch, but the stone identified by the child was still growing in place.
Yang Jin roared, red from the forehead to the collarbone, even if he wanted to draw a knife and fight again.
Li Sheng just didn't have time to stop it, and he finally couldn't stand it anymore, and said: "Brother Yang, even if the people in the valley really use moving stones as road signs, they are also road signs made by adults, how can adults choose such a sign? Short rock? You… you…”
Zhou Fei laughed out loud, and continued, "Are you stupid?"
Yang Jin: "..."
Seeing that several of his companions were prone to infighting, Wu Chuchu hurriedly interrupted: "But at least it means that this child has seen his parents take down the rocks on the mountain wall along the way, right? If the child follows this example, will it explain? The adults who put the stones also had their feet on their feet?"
Zhou Fei stretched out her arms, stood on tiptoe slightly, and felt around the rocks on the upper floor. She felt that every stone was firmly rooted in the same place, and she didn't feel that any one had been touched.
"I still haven't." Zhou Fei frowned, "Could it be that the little cub also remembered the place wrong?" "Then it shouldn't," Wu Chuchu said softly, "There is a fork in the road ahead, you see, A Yan, a person who has never been here, knows how to make a mark under the tree pit, and if the people in the valley really leave a mark, it must be near every fork in the road."
When everyone heard the words, they fell silent for a while. The five people and ten eyes glanced at the child thoughtfully from time to time. The child seemed to be even more uneasy. He curled himself into a small ball and buried his face in Wu Chuchu's arms. , Obviously, expecting to ask something from his mouth is enough, not to mention that such a small child may not be able to tell what he has seen.
Suddenly, Li Yan said, "Is it possible..."
Everyone looked at her together.
Li Yan shrank her neck: "Just... I'll just say it casually, that, sister... Could it be that you... aren't tall enough?"
Zhou Fei glanced at her, and Yang Jin squinted at the top of Zhou Fei's head, showing a contemptuous smile.
Li Yan hurriedly sank into Dantian, took a firm stand, and said loudly: "But it's useless to grow so tall, and we don't aspire to be a big fool! I mean... or you can look up?"
Silly big Yang Jin: "..."
Why is he hanging out with these nasty Central Plains people
Li Sheng said, "I'll come."
When his words fell, he saw Zhou Fei's toes lightly tap the ground, and sprinted up the rocks, her footsteps were as light as a feather, and there was not even a grain of sand on the mountain wall that had been harmed by the Broken Wild Goose Knife. get off.
Li Sheng has always known that Zhou Fei is not good at light work, but to this day, her light work like a breeze makes the word "no trace" suddenly pop up in his heart.
For some reason, Li Sheng thought of Xie Yun.
"What are you in a daze," Zhou Fei said lightly, climbing on the rock, "Give me the knife."
Li Sheng came back to his senses and hurriedly threw the broken cover to her. Zhou Fei used the handle of the knife to knock the stones up and down. Suddenly, Li Yan shouted, "Be careful!"
A stone the size of a palm fell out of thin air. Zhou Fei quickly caught it, turned over and jumped off the rock.
There is an extra hole in the rock, revealing a small spring inside. Once the stone is knocked, the spring will automatically jump up, and the stone will pop out, but the spring has grown slightly over time. Rust, fortunately Zhou Fei tapped it a few more times out of caution, otherwise he would have missed it by accident.
Li Sheng asked, "What's the mystery in the stone?"
"It seems to draw a direction." Zhou Fei said, "Wait, what is this?"
"Bring it to me." Li Sheng hurriedly took it over, and saw that a gossip picture was actually engraved on the small slate, and beside it were dense annotations, all of which were teeny and small. The content is also very advanced, not to mention Yang Jin and his likes, even Zhou Fei may not be able to recognize all the words.
Could this thing come from the refugees who took refuge in the valley
Li Sheng glanced at it roughly, and saw that the person who carved the stone seemed to be afraid that people would not understand it. He made a small space in the middle of a pile of complicated annotations, and carved a simple and rude arrow. It says "in".
"It's a road sign." Li Sheng said, "I'm afraid this valley is man-made, and the secret passages in and out are also left by predecessors in advance... Could it be a forbidden area? But since it is a forbidden area, how can so many outsiders be allowed to approach? "
A few people thought that they had to take a look at it anyway, so they dealt with the turtle dove scout on the spot, touched it along the way, and every time they reached a fork in the road, they looked for stone road signs in this way. The complicated gossip array diagrams on the road signs have been expanded. They are all young people, and they walk very fast, but despite this, they have been around here for more than two hours. The surrounding mountains, rocks and forests are almost the same. If it is not for the different annotations on the stone road signs, they almost doubt that they are still in the same place. Circling in circles.
From sunset until late at night, the dew fell, and the seemingly unchanging forest path finally turned a corner, and the field of vision opened up. Li Yan was exhausted, and she was surprised and happy when she saw this. Zhou Fei covered her mouth.
As soon as Li Sheng waved his hand, a few people hid in the shadows on the side of the road.
After a while, a figure flashed by at the end of the path, and there were people patrolling back and forth.
Li Sheng nodded to Zhou Fei - he found the right place.
Zhou Fei lifted the shattered cover and spun up. It was just the night when the moon was dark and the stars were dark. She swept up the treetops, and not a single leaf was disturbed. Like a vigilant bird, she disappeared in a blink of an eye.
She was already familiar with the late-night lurking. She passed through the night without a trace, and approached the entrance of the valley after a few ups and downs. Zhou Fei took a look and saw that there were more than ten guards guarding it, which was more than ordinary gate towers. Even more strict, the guards are all wearing armor, but they are facing the valley. Obviously, these people are not worried that outsiders can break in, but they are preventing people in the valley from escaping.
The whole valley was as bright as day, and near the entrance of the valley, broken branches and wooden stakes were piled up in a pile. They were all newly cut trees, and the leaves were still bright. I wonder if it was because someone had stepped up their defenses after escaping through the dense forest in the mountains.
From time to time, there is the sound of golden stones walking back and forth by people in armor.
At this time, Zhou Fei heard a familiar bird call. She looked up and saw something flashing at her on the mountain. It turned out that Li Sheng and the others had climbed to a high place.
Zhou Fei had a very tacit understanding with him. As soon as she heard the bird's voice, she understood what he meant. She grabbed a handful of beans that were fed to the horse, raised her hand and hit it out. The black beans added strength and hit the rocks in the mountain, "Crackling" There was a loud noise, and the guards were immediately alerted, and they all picked up their swords and looked around.
Zhou Fei fell from the tree in a hurry. The guards only felt a black shadow flashing past, and they couldn't tell if it was a person. There was chaos. When Zhou Fei led the guards away, Li Sheng and the others quickly ran past the darker part of the mountain. Fortunately, the trees on the mountain were not cut down in time, only the entrance was cleaned up, avoiding that one. There is nowhere to hide in a short distance.
The guard at the entrance told Zhou Fei to take a walk. Finally, a circle of people with swords carefully approached the pile of wood following the sound. The long wooden warehouse in his hand stabbed a pile of leaves, only to hear a scream between the branches and leaves, which scared the guards to draw their swords and swords, but the little leader pulled the long wooden warehouse and saw that his wooden warehouse was pierced on the head. A big bird, not yet dead, fluttered its wings and struggled to death.
"Why is it a bird?" The little leader scratched his head inexplicably. "It's scattered, and everyone goes back to their posts... Is this a crow or what? Why is it so big? It's really evil!"
Seeing that it was a "false alarm", the entrance to the valley soon returned to calm. Only the little leader felt that a terrifyingly large crow suddenly appeared in the middle of the night was unlucky, so he took the big bird to the fire and planned to burn it directly.
He was humming a little song that he didn't know where it was. The long wooden warehouse was hanging on the fire, and a cold light slowly peeked out from behind him, pointing directly at his back.
At this moment, there was a sudden sound of footsteps, and the patrol team in the valley came over and greeted him from a distance: "What are you baking? It's okay to steal it, don't make a mistake!"
The little head shouted and responded, but he didn't see the cold light behind him and slowly shrank back.
Zhou Fei turned her head to look at the open valley, and saw many shabby dwellings in the valley, some of which were flattened and fortified. In the middle was a huge military tent, which was very conspicuous under the shadow of the firelight. It's neat and tidy... This is too far from the "Qi access control area" she imagined, especially those residential houses that have not had time to be leveled, obviously they have been through the wind and rain for some years, and she can see it from a high place A few tattered bricks and a half-collapsed livestock pen.
Qimen has always been mysterious and unpredictable, and the "forbidden area" is even more a legend. The black judge has been in the Qimen for so many years, but he has not touched the edge of the forbidden area. Will there be a group of ordinary people in it who raise pigs and herd sheep
impossible.
Zhou Fei couldn't help being disappointed and sighed secretly. She felt that the whole day and night were all in vain. In fact, thinking about it, she knew that it was so easy to crash into the gated area of Qi. If there was such good fortune and luck, she would still Can you run around for more than three years and get nothing
Zhou Fei took back the shattered cover indifferently, glanced at the little leader of the Northern Army who was ignorantly taking his life, and silently ducked to the edge of the mountain wall to avoid it.
"When the Northern Dynasty army gathers here, it's not a matter of the rivers and lakes that we arrogant people can manage," Zhou Fei thought.
Because Li Sheng was carrying Wu Chuchu and a child with him, he did not dare to be too aggressive. He has been carefully exploring the outside of the valley under the cover of mountains, rocks and trees. There is not a single old or weak soldier, all of them are strong people... The scout is wrong, there are at least nearly 40,000 people, mainly cavalry and archers."
Yang Jin and Li Yan stared at each other with big and small eyes.
Only Wu Chuchu replied gently: "The baggage is very small, so I'm afraid I won't stay here for a long time."
Li Sheng finally found someone who could understand people's words, and sighed with relief.
Wu Chuchu stretched out his hand again and asked, "What's going on there?"
Several of them were martial arts practitioners with excellent night vision. Looking in the direction of her finger, they saw a heavily guarded place in the corner of the valley, which was blocked by iron fences, and a figure in ragged clothes could be vaguely seen. .
At this moment, there was a sudden sound behind him. Someone tapped the stone with the handle of the knife. Yang Jin was startled and turned around abruptly. Seeing that it was Zhou Fei, he put down the Broken Wild Goose Saber.
Zhou Fei said impatiently: "Let's go, we are just a few people, and we have a little cub with us, and it is found that they are not playing - brother, I will go back and find Qi Men myself, you first hurry back to find my father, Don't delay business."
"Wait." Wu Chuchu suddenly said, "Look, what are they going to do?"