Chapter 35 Chipa Plateau
"This thing is invulnerable to swords and guns? I have a bag of melon seeds here, do you want to eat some?"
"Give me a handful." Although the wind and sand were strong.
"It weighs almost as much as an elephant. Hiss, this butt can really make people shit if it sits on people! Dad, that unlucky guy seems to be Nian Songyu's subordinate?"
"What is shit?"
"Nothing. The national master performed a ritual! He threw two big fireballs into the enemy's mouth, and the toad burped... Well, it doesn't seem to work."
About an incense stick later, the two purple golden toads were thrown off the boat.
Compared to their majesty when they just jumped on the boat, their body size shrunk to one-fifth of the original, from bloated to skin and bones.
He Lingchuan remembered that Sun Guoshi opened a hole in their bodies and stuffed something into them. The two toads lost weight at a speed visible to the naked eye, became dehydrated, could not jump, and their eyes became more bulging.
Then they died.
"Did you see it clearly?" They looked like they were going to die.
He Chunhua shook his head. As the national master, he must have extraordinary means, and I think these means can also be used on people.
In the following journey, the team encountered two more attacks by monsters that were not afraid of stench, but only the ship of National Master Sun was affected, and the other two ships were safe and sound.
Others sighed at the luck of the national master and were glad that the monster did not jump into their ship, otherwise it would never be solved so neatly.
But Sun Fuping and others frowned secretly.
Why did the three attacks target the national master? What does this mean? A tall tree attracts the wind?
After hurrying, the team finally approached the destination before dark.
The herald on the Nian Songyu ship pointed to the distance and shouted to the companions on the two boats behind: "The Panlong City is ahead!"
In fact, he didn't need to remind them. Everyone had already gathered at the bow to watch the most spectacular scene in the Panlong Desert-Chiba Plateau.
This plateau was pushed up from the ground by force majeure countless years ago, and the difference from the flat ground under everyone's feet is at least forty feet (one hundred and thirty meters)!
There is also an unfathomable gully in the middle, which is six feet wide.
This place is like the dividing line between two continents, clear, obvious and resolute.
When the walnut boat arrived here, the boatman operated very carefully, using the pickled meat to hang the earth dragon and go west along the natural chasm.
It would be over if he fell down.
After walking for a quarter of an hour, Panlong Ancient City finally began to grow in everyone's vision, and the outline of the gray outer wall became more obvious.
This plateau is so vast that the vertical surface is like the cut surface of a double-layer cake, almost at a ninety-degree angle with the flat ground. The two words desolate and majestic are probably born for it.
At this time, the sun began to set in the west, casting mottled shadows on the facade at the edge of the plateau, making it look like a giant beast lying prone in the desert, winding and silent.
This terrain is definitely a typical example of being easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is no wonder that Zhong Shengguang can stick to it year after year. Without this objective condition as a basis, feelings and passion are empty talk.
Going further, the altitude of the plateau drops gently, as if it is a long downward slope.
Panlong City stands at the mouth of the slope, firmly guarding the only passage to Chiba Plateau in the south!
The boat slowed down, and there was a bridge in front of it, spanning the entire deep ravine.
This is a natural stone bridge, connecting the land under everyone's feet to the south, and connecting to the small open space in front of the south gate of Panlong City to the north.
To attack Panlong City, I'm afraid this is the only passage, and even ten times the force can't take it down. He Lingchuan looked at this stone bridge and felt angry for the Xianyou and Baling coalition forces more than a hundred years ago.
Later history proved that ten times? Haha!
The walnut boat came to this place, and the journey came to a temporary end. The boatman took the pickled meat off the pole and threw it to the earth dragon as a reward.
After running for two hours, the three earth dragons were so tired that smoke came out of their mouths. If they were not born with a stubborn mind, with a brain smaller than a ball, and they were worried about the piece of delicious meat that was always fragrant in front of them, they would have given up long ago.
Now that the meat was finally in his mouth, the earth dragon didn't care that there were many prey here, and turned around and ran away.
Everyone jumped off the boat, and Master Sun came to put away the magic weapon. He recited a few mantras, and the big boat turned into a small walnut again.
Although the wind was strong and the sand was heavy, the air here was many times fresher than on the boat. The soldiers who got rid of the smelly pickled meat couldn't help but breathe deeply.
He Lingchuan tapped the ground with his toes: "Stop here, aren't you afraid of strange beasts or monsters coming?" Just like on both sides of the Red Cliff Road.
Nian Songyu smiled: "There are rocks underneath, and the sand is less than half a foot. At most, a few centipedes and sand snakes can be hidden. Are you afraid?"
He Lingchuan kicked away a layer of sand and found that there were indeed hard rocks underneath. Yes, if there were no solid walls on both sides of the gully, the natural bridge would have collapsed long ago.
Nian Songyu suddenly asked: "What's going on?"
He Lingchuan turned around when he heard the sound and saw Zeng Feixiong's men escorting two people over.
The two struggled desperately. Although one was short and the other was thin, it took three strong men to hold him down.
The most peculiar thing was that they were all wearing a jacket-like talisman robe, which was actually two pieces of yellow silk put on the front and back of the body, and then tied together to avoid the trouble of wearing sleeves and collars. The vermilion runes on the silk flew up and slowly rotated around the captives.
There was no doubt that they were Zeng Feixiong's men. But the look they gave everyone was strange, both violent and greedy.
He Lingchuan had hunted before, and felt that this look should belong to coyotes.
"Possessed by the three corpse worms." Seeing them like this, Zeng Feixiong felt uncomfortable, "National Master, tie up two of them for observation."
All the three zombies on the other ships were driven away, but Sun Fuping kept two of them.
Now he took the lead and stepped onto the bridge.
In fact, the bridge itself is quite wide, about fifteen feet (more than forty meters), but placed in the wilderness, above the ravine, and in front of Panlong City, it is really as thin as a toothpick.
Thousands of troops from the coalition forces probably fell into disgrace here, countless times.
He Lingchuan lowered his head and saw that the bridge surface was mottled in color. It was obvious that it was stained many years ago, and it was layered on top of each other. It has changed in different shades after hundreds of years.
Walking on the bridge, it seemed that everyone could smell the pungent smell of blood.
This was the front line of the war between the three armies. Around this corner, countless battles took place back and forth.
There are far more dead souls here than anywhere else.
Sun Fuping suddenly said: "This bridge appeared the day after tomorrow, it is not natural."
Nian Songyu stepped on the ground and said, "The material is indeed different from the wasteland. This should have been made by the coalition forces of Baling and Xianyou."
Zeng Feixiong was walking beside He Lingchuan and was surprised when he heard this: "The stone has no seams and is one piece. Is this made artificially? Besides, the sentries on Panlong City are not blind. Can they let the enemy build a bridge under their noses?"