Chapter 172 Entering the Mountain

"My lord, why don't you lead the team in?" Wang Yiming couldn't help suggesting.

"No, I want to handle this matter myself. You continue to watch them clean up the town at Wanhekou, and you must not slack off. Especially those who suddenly become ill must be dealt with according to the procedures we have discussed, and nothing will go wrong. Understand? "

"clear."

Shen Hao was suffocating doubts in his heart. He was very curious about the mystery of the encrypted map hidden by the Xu family, so he naturally wanted to see it with his own eyes. Moreover, going to the front line to investigate in person and being in command are two different things. Since it is done, it must be perfect.

Shen Hao personally led the team, with two local Xuanqing Guard guides, fifty soldiers from the Black Banner Battalion of Fengri City, fifty thousand household guards, and two doctors.

After getting off the official road, I walked for an hour before seeing the start of the route on the map, a mountain depression. The obvious feature is that the col is crescent-shaped.

It's actually not far from Xiushan Village, it's only about twenty miles away from the village.

"Remember to make marks along the road, so as not to get lost." Although there is a guide and promises that "you can come out with your eyes closed", Shen Hao still confessed uneasy,

The soldiers of the Black Flag Battalion in Fengri City responded quickly, many of them had been in the army before, and they still knew some methods of field marching.

For example, peel off the bark and engrave it as a mark.

The journey was fairly safe, with so many people entering the mountain, even ferocious beasts would not jump out, their instincts would keep them away from disaster.

However, there is no road at all in the mountains, and the vegetation is dense, so we have to open the road, so the speed is very slow. Moreover, Shen Hao also divided the front, middle and back teams into three teams for the sake of safety, one team was in charge, one team was forward, and the other team was dispatched in the middle. This cautious approach has naturally slowed the pace of progress.

After walking for two hours, the sky has begun to darken.

"My lord, we should come here now." The guide pointed to a small section on a rubbing map and said to Shen Hao. This afternoon, less than a third of the path on the map was walked.

"Speed ​​up a little tomorrow, but you should not relax. Go down and rest."

Shen Hao didn't need to worry about security matters, he had his own small tent, and the others slept in the open.

The next day we continued on the mountain road, and the speed was faster than yesterday. In the afternoon, we reached the node position where the spies were confused by the map.

"Going forward is a place that the spies haven't been to before. There may be some traps. Everyone be vigilant, and if you find anything around you, call the police immediately."

Because Shen Hao judged that the basket of ghost pears in Xu's family was picked somewhere in front of here, and the ghost pears did not grow in a good place. In the front, don't dare to be careless.

Sure enough, after crossing the half-fold line on the map, the atmosphere on the mountain road became not so normal. The originally lush and dense forest began to appear strangely shaped ghost trees, and the rocks on the ground were mostly sharp as knives, and even the soil became dark, sticky like mud when stepped on?

"hiss!"

"Shua!"

The sergeant who opened the way in front swung a knife and cut off a black snake that suddenly shot from the grass. The snake's head was triangular and its fangs were inch long. If it bites it, it might peel off its skin if it doesn't die.

"Kurosawa Viper. There is such a snake here?"

Seeing the Zhangchang snake corpse handed back by the spies in front, a doctor was quite surprised when he saw it, because this Kuishawa Agkistrodon is also a kind of alchemy material, and its venom is a medicine primer for a top-grade poison pill.

"This kind of snake is usually found in barbarian places, and it is rarely seen in the territory of the old Jing dynasty. I didn't expect it to grow here."

"It's very strange here. The surrounding forest, which was originally full of vitality, has now become cloudy, and ghost trees are overgrown, and the soil is as black as pulp. This kind of area should not appear here. This, this is unreasonable."

A monk who knows a little bit about geology will be confused by the situation in front of him. It is obviously a good landscape with good mountains and rivers, but it suddenly changes from "beautiful mountains and rivers" to "ghostly and weird", without even a trace of excessive topography in the middle, which is strangely abrupt .

Shen Hao raised his vigilance again, and told everyone that he has now entered a high-risk area, and any disturbances should not be taken lightly.

After walking for another half an hour, Shen Hao found that the yin energy here was getting heavier and heavier, and even the surrounding vegetation felt inexplicably oppressive, and he always felt that there were eyes staring at them.

"Stop advancing! The front and rear teams spread out two miles to search, and if they are threatened, they will be annihilated!" Shen Hao decided not to rush in and look at the situation before talking, the terrain changes here made him very depressed.

No one felt that Shen Hao's cautiousness was wrong, they all felt similar to Shen Hao's, and those who leaned on the periphery of the team drew their weapons to guard each other without even being called out.

Soon, the weirdness of this place opened Shen Hao's eyes again.

"Report, I found three Guitou pears! They all bear fruit!"

"Report, I found a strange tree that can move, and it is attacking us!"

"Report, found a strange beast."

After spreading out and searching within a mere two miles, warnings came back continuously. Fortunately, the danger is not high, and a group of people can easily deal with it with a large number of people.

Shen Hao first went to see the three ghost pears. It is five or six meters high, with lush branches and leaves, and you can smell an attractive fruity fragrance if you get closer. Looking at the fist-sized golden fruits between the leaves, it makes people salivate.

"My lord, there are traces of climbing on this tree." A soldier came to report.

Hearing this, Shen Hao walked over and took a look. Indeed, there were some obvious scratches on the trunk of a ghost pear tree. It didn't look like it was caused by the claws of a wild animal. It should be caused by shoes stepping on it, and when he looked up, he could see that some branches were also broken. up.

The Xu family picked ghost pears here?

There is a map, which shows that the Xu family knows the weirdness here, so it should not be a mistake but a purpose to come in, for these ghost pears?

Before Shen Hao asked the doctors accompanying the team, because there are very few Guitou pears in Jingxi, it is difficult to buy them in the market and the price is very high. So will the Xu family come in just for money?

"Pay attention to vigilance and continue to move forward."

Shen Hao frowned, but still gave the order to continue exploring. And looking at the map in their hands, they were only at two-thirds of the way, and it was impossible to reach the red dot marked on the map today with their current speed.

This is much slower than what Shen Hao expected before coming here, and it is hard to say whether there will be any danger when sleeping in the open tonight, after all, the inside and the outside seem to be two worlds.