“Sir, this is Langya Valley…” Seeing Yan Liqiang and Sun Bingchen’s group, Liang Yiji rode his rhinoceros horse and ran towards Yan Liqiang and pointed at the valley in front and said, “This valley is more than thirty miles long. As long as we pass through this Langya Valley, there is a market town in front called Huijiaji. There is another road on this side of the valley that will bypass Langya Valley, but the journey is more than sixty miles. If we take the Langya Valley, we can reach Huijiaji before dark. If we take the other road, we will have to travel in the dark to reach Huijiaji…”
While Liang Yiji was speaking, Yan Liqiang was also looking at the Langya Valley in front of him, and his heart couldn't help but beat violently.
The terrain of the Wolf Fang Valley was too dangerous. In the long canyon, there were ridges and cliffs on both sides that were like wolf teeth. There was only one road that was just wide enough for three carriages to run side by side. In such a valley, as long as someone blocked the roads in front and behind the valley, the people inside would be trapped like turtles in a jar, and they would not be able to escape unless they had wings.
The reason why Liang Yiji stayed here waiting for Sun Bingchen to come was because the few guards who were exploring the way were only more than ten miles away from the large group of people here. This distance was the maximum distance at which they could give a warning. Once they rashly chose this road to enter the valley, and the group of people behind them followed in, if anything changed, there would be no point in them even giving a warning.
Sun Bingchen looked at the two roads in front of him and was considering whether to take the two roads. One road was closer but very dangerous, while the other road was farther away but had relatively more room for maneuver.
Yan Liqiang and others were also looking at Sun Bingchen, waiting for Sun Bingchen's decision.
The Langya Valley in front of him made Yan Liqiang feel inexplicably uncomfortable, but at this time, he could only listen to Sun Bingchen and had no right to make a decision.
“Woof…Woof…”
Just as everyone was waiting for Sun Bingchen's decision, the yellow-haired man who had been staying in a car behind suddenly shouted. Yan Liqiang turned his head and saw the yellow-haired man suddenly jumped out of the car and ran towards him. After circling around him twice, he rushed straight towards the Langya Valley.
Yan Liqiang was stunned for a moment, and quickly said to Sun Bingchen, "Sir, Huangmao's nose is very sharp, and it seems that he has discovered something. I will go over and take a look!"
Sun Bingchen knew that the dog raised by Yan Liqiang was very special. Hearing Yan Liqiang say this, Sun Bingchen glanced at Liang Yiji next to him and said, "Yiji, follow Liqiang over to take a look!"
"yes!"
Liang Yiji and Yan Liqiang rode on their rhinoceros horses at the same time and ran towards the entrance of Langya Valley. When they arrived at the entrance, Huangmao had already rushed into the Langya Valley. After running forward for more than 20 meters, he suddenly jumped into a bush nearby and ran towards the hillside behind the bushes.
Since the hillside could not be climbed by riding the Rhino Horse, Yan Liqiang and Liang Yiji had no choice but to jump off the Rhino Horse, run through the bushes, follow Huangmao all the way to the top of the hillside.
The small hillside was more than fifty meters above the ground, right at the entrance of Langya Valley. When Yan Liqiang and Liang Yiji ran up, they saw Huangmao standing behind a bush on the top of the hillside, with his head down, sniffing the ground.
Yan Liqiang walked over, squatted down, and took a closer look, and saw several footprints on the ground.
"Brother Liang, come and see..."
Liang Yijie came over, squatted on the ground, looked at the footprints on the ground, gestured with his hands, and frowned deeply, "There are three people. The pattern on the soles is a warrior's boots. Look at this small hole. There are anti-slip iron round nails on the soles. It's not something that ordinary people wear. Hunters won't wear this kind of boots to hunt..."
"Well, someone should have appeared here..." Yan Liqiang lay on the ground, compared the distance between the footprints on the ground and the bush, then stood up with a serious face, "Someone should have been lying here not long ago, hiding behind this bush. From here, it is the direction we came from. These three footprints were left when they stood up..."
At this time, the yellow-haired cat had already run to a patch of thorns more than ten meters away and barked twice. The two men walked over and found that on the ground behind a patch of thorns where the yellow-haired cat was, there was a small patch of soil whose color was darker than the ground next to it. The two men knew what that meant as soon as they saw it - someone had urinated here, and the person who urinated should be one of the people who left the footprints nearby.
There is nothing good about a pee, but from the wetness of the urine, it can be determined that the pee was taken about an hour ago, or within two hours...
There was a strand of black wool on the thorns next to the urine stain. Yan Liqiang took the strand of black wool and just by looking at it, he knew that the black wool was camel hair, which should have been scratched off from the cloak.
Yan Liqiang and Liang Yiji looked at each other. Neither of them said anything, but they could see the solemnity in each other's eyes.
The most common colors of this camel-hair cloak are gray and yellow, which are also the natural colors of camel hair. Dyeing camel hair black is very troublesome and costly. In the entire northwestern states, there are very few people who wear black camel-hair cloaks. As far as Yan Liqiang knows, there is a group of people in the northwestern states who are famous for wearing black camel-hair cloaks. They are a group of people with secretive whereabouts and ruthless actions, and they never leave any survivors.
…
A few minutes later, the strand of black camel hair was in Sun Bingchen's hand. Sun Bingchen squinted his eyes and turned the strand of camel hair over and over in his hand. "Yijie, you said that this black camel hair cloak is worn most by the Black Wind Bandits in the Northwest states?"
"Yes, I've heard people say that some people liked to wear black camel-hair cloaks in the past. However, after the appearance of the Black Wind Bandits, because the Black Wind Bandits wore black camel-hair cloaks and killed too many people and had a bad reputation, there are very few people who like to wear black camel-hair cloaks. It's because they are afraid of being misunderstood..." Yan Liqiang nodded.
"It seems that it is correct. It is indeed the Black Wind Bandits who have come to our door!" Sun Bingchen waved his hand and threw the black camel hair into the wind. The expression on his face had become more serious than ever before.
"My Lord, what should we do now?"
"Everyone, get on your horses, take everything you can carry with you from the carriage, and abandon the carriage at the entrance of the valley. Then we will take the road next to it and not enter the Wolf Fang Valley!"
Following Sun Bingchen's order, everyone got busy...
(End of this chapter)