Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 836 Skyfire (4000)

With such worries in mind, Wu Liang and the Tuan army completed their preliminary investigation of this "fairy mountain".

In terms of food, everyone also gained a lot. In addition to Bai Jingjing deceiving a large bag of seabirds, Zhuge Liang also used the smaller three-bow bed crossbow to shoot a wild boar weighing more than 200 kilograms. With the assistance of Yang Wanli, the wild boar was successfully beheaded, and the Huan army could have extra meals today.

Returning to the camp near the stone-carved arches like this, all the people in the Tuan army hurriedly cooked the seabirds and wild boars. First they reported a meal, and at night under the command of Wu Liang, they sliced ​​the remaining meat and smoked it. Jerky.

Although the jerky smoked in such a hurry is not easier to preserve than the jerky they carried before, it is enough to ensure that it will not spoil for three to five days, and these jerky is actually only enough for so many of them to eat for three to five days. When there is no time to rot.

And so on until the next day.

Wu Liang finally ordered to enter the three gate towers.

So the soldiers of the Huan Army quickly put away the camp tents, and after putting out the bonfire, they completed their assembly. They walked towards the three gatehouses with a feeling of apprehension.

After passing the first gate tower, clouds and mist rise!
Sure enough, as the big dog said before, a large cloud and mist appeared inexplicably around, and there was a vast expanse of whiteness everywhere, and the visible range was only about 20 meters.

Such a visual distance is very easy to get lost, and it is also difficult to predict the danger ahead in advance.

"..."

Under the circumstances, the people in the Huanren Army, who were already nervous, became even more nervous.

Everyone held their breath almost at the same time, and clenched the weapons in their hands.

After passing the second gate tower, the sky changes!

Sure enough, as Dagou described before, the clouds and mist seemed to have lightened a lot, but the sky suddenly darkened. Looking up to the horizon, the sun that had just risen in the east had long disappeared, replaced by Thick clouds, only the edges of the clouds reveal some faint halos.

"..."

Everyone then became more cautious, and their steps slowed down a lot. They almost all moved forward slowly with bowed bodies, and their eyes moving around quickly showed the anxiety in their hearts.

After passing the third gate tower, bones appear!
In the process of passing through the three gate towers for the first time, they heard a slight "click, click" sound coming from under their feet, as if something crispy was being crushed by them.

And when everyone completely entered the third gatehouse.

Only then did they notice that even the ground under their feet was completely composed of gravel and bone stubble, and not far from here, there were indeed many white bones scattered here and there.

Some of the white bones still maintained the posture when they died, and it was easy to tell what kind of bones they were, while some of the white bones had begun to shatter because of their age, and part of them turned into bone stubble all over the floor.

Besides.

Everyone did indeed see a human skeleton lying on the ground. To this day, there are still some remaining pieces of cloth hanging on these human skeletons, and it is difficult to feel the slight breeze swaying, as if warning them not to continue In the depths of this "fairy mountain".

But oddly enough.

It may be because of the "open air". Although this place is full of bones and looks like hell, the air does not have the expected stench.

As for the weirdo that Big Dog mentioned...

This is something that the people in the Tuan Army have been guarding against since they stepped into the first gate, but until they entered the third gate, they searched around for a long time with their weapons in hand, but they did not see the so-called weird person. Not even an unusual shadow was seen.

Under such circumstances, naturally someone subconsciously looked at the big dog.

The big dog immediately frowned, pointed to the right side and said, "It's strange, the villain remembers it very clearly. When the villain entered here, the strange man walked there, only a few feet away from here."

"I believe you. Didn't you also say that the weird man was walking? Since it can move, it can go anywhere. How could it stay here obediently and wait for us after so many years?"

Wu Liang patted the big dog on the shoulder for reassurance, then turned his head and glanced at everyone, telling them to look back, and then continued, "Although we haven't seen that weird person at this moment, everyone still can't take it lightly. From now on, anyone People are not allowed to leave the team without authorization, and are not allowed to touch anything without authorization, if you find anything, report it to me first, do you understand?"

"promise!"

The crowd responded.

In fact, at this point, Daquan's experience is useless to the Huan army, and he has basically lost his value as a guide.

But since Wu Liang brought the big dog here, it is absolutely impossible to leave him outside alone.

According to the experience of horror films of later generations, the more we are in such a weird and dangerous place, the more we should prevent one person from acting alone, otherwise accidents will happen soon.

What's more, the big dog has already been infiltrated by that weird bug, and at this moment, like them, he has fallen into the situation of "a dead horse as a living horse doctor". If Wu Liang and others are safe, then there is a high probability that he will survive. Wu Liang might still find a way to get rid of the bugs in his body. If Wu Liang and the others were to encounter an accident, the big dog's death here would be a well-deserved death, and no one owed anyone.

"Young Master, according to your opinion, where should we start to investigate now?"

Yu Ji stepped forward and asked.

Wu Liang looked at the surrounding environment. Although the dark sky did not block his sight like clouds and fog, there was still only a black shadow in a place a little far away, and even the "fairy mountain" in front of him was a dark shadow. There are large black shadows, so it is still difficult to see many details.

"Our trip is to find out the truth about this 'fairy mountain', so every inch of the territory here belongs to the scope of our exploration, so we still have to proceed step by step, starting from the edge first."

After pondering for a moment, Wu Liang said seriously, "Brothers, follow me."

As he spoke, Wu Liang had already taken the lead, bypassing the three gate towers and walking towards the place where they landed on this "fairy mountain" by boat before.

The terrain here is almost the same as the outside. There are still two low mountains blocking the line of sight outside the three gate towers. Only by bypassing these two low mountains can they reach the place where they landed before.

However, the scenery along the way has changed a bit.

When I was outside before, there were some old trees along the way. Although they were not the kind of giant trees that had lived for thousands of years, it was not uncommon to see trees rising four or five feet from the ground.

But in this small world, these four to five feet of trees no longer exist, replaced by some small bushes that are only one or two meters high at most.

And looking at all the vegetation here, it seems that they have been pruned, and they are not lush enough, but they have never seen a single tree over two meters.

Wu Liang also deliberately checked the species of these plants.

They are not the kind of shrubs that will never grow tall, but northern deciduous trees that can easily grow to a height of several feet. There is really no reason for this to happen.

"My lord, what do you think is going on here?"

Yang Wanli soon discovered an unusual area, and after ordering all the people in the Huan army to stop advancing, he brought Wu Liang to check it out.

This is a piece of scorched earth with a radius of tens of meters.

The bare ground has been burnt black, and all the plants have been burned into charcoal, and you can smell a burning smell when you get close.

"Wildfire?"

Wu Liang lowered his body and picked up a little bit of charcoal from the ground and twisted it. The charcoal was still very dry, indicating that the fire should have happened not long ago, maybe even a few days ago.

However, Wu Liang was puzzled by the cause of the fire.

If this place is always so dark and sees no sunlight, it will be difficult to raise the temperature, and the possibility of wildfires is not high, and the ground here does not accumulate a large number of pine needles like a pine forest, which cannot accumulate heat inside, so The cause of this fire can also be ruled out.

If it is not these two possibilities, then there is only the last possibility - thunder.

In fact, most of the wildfires in nature are caused by thunder. Even the process of humans discovering fire is not unrelated to the wildfires caused by thunder.

But this kind of place...will it thunder?
Wu Liang looked up at the cloudy sky, it seemed that this possibility was not impossible, but even if it was thunder, the lightning should strike at higher ground first, why would it strike such an inconspicuous place?
"Gentleman, I'm afraid this place doesn't have the conditions for wildfires?"

Zhen Mi also stepped forward and asked the same question. Compared with others, the nine-tailed fox demon who has lived for thousands of years is the master of survival in the wild.

"I don't think so either, but the way of heaven is inherently elusive, and this possibility cannot be completely ruled out for the time being."

Wu Liang murmured.

The way of heaven contains all the laws between heaven and earth, and natural phenomena are of course also within the scope of the way of heaven, so there is no problem for Wu Liang to attribute the wildfire to the way of heaven.

"So is it possible that the fire was set on fire?"

Yu Ji asked again.

"We crossed the river with a narrow escape, and it would be even more difficult for others. Besides, there is no one here, and it is almost impossible for anyone to come from other places like us."

Wu Liang looked at Da Quan and said, "Da Quan, besides us, has anyone passed by your fishing village recently?"

"Except for the floating corpse in the Yellow River, the villain has not seen anyone other than the young master and others in the past six months."

Big Dog replied.

"So this possibility can basically be ruled out."

Wu Liang nodded slightly, "I'm afraid it will be difficult to find out this matter for a while. Let's put it aside for the time being. Let's check other places first, and maybe we can find something new."

……

Not long after, everyone has arrived at the place where they landed when they were outside.

The terrain here is still the same as that of the outside world, and the Yellow River still divides into two rivers on the left and right after reaching this "fairy mountain" and flows into the sea.

And at the end of these two rivers, you can still see the turbulent water potential and hear the roaring water.

Looking to the other side, the river bank over there is still as usual.

It's just that I don't know whether I can return to the original world after arriving on the other side by boat, or whether I will be trapped in this small world that seems to be completely parallel to the outside world forever.

To say what a difference.

That is the floating corpse in the water.

There are no floating corpses floating in the river here, and naturally there is no rotten smell from those floating corpses in the air. As for the terrifying monsters in the water... there shouldn't be any.

However, the situation in front of him still caused Wu Liang to speculate.

According to Big Dog, this place became the mouth of the Yellow River only after a breach and diversion in recent years, and this small world has also become the mouth of the Yellow River.

This shows that some geological changes in the outside world can have an impact on this place.

Then if, as the big dog predicted, the Yellow River may not take too long to destroy this "fairy mountain", then I am afraid that it will not only be as simple as destroying the entrance to this small world, but it is very likely that it will be destroyed by then. They will also destroy this small world together.

Just when Wu Liang was thinking so.

"Boom--!"

A loud noise suddenly exploded!

"?!"

Wu Liang's ears even had tinnitus of "wheezing".

"what happened?!"

The people in the Huanren Army were also taken aback, they took a few steps back nervously and focused their attention on guard, while hastily followed the sound.

The deafening sound just now seemed to come from behind a small mountain they had just passed, but no one could tell clearly what happened.

"Son."

A soldier in the back of the palace took the initiative to step forward and said, "The sound came from behind the short mountain. I was looking there just now, and suddenly I saw a faint light behind the short mountain. The light flickered and seemed to be moving. , It lasted like this for a few breaths, and I was about to report this matter to the young master, but I saw that bright light flashed suddenly, and then there was this sound, and the light disappeared along with the sound."

"Why didn't you say it earlier?"

Yang Wanli immediately scolded with widened eyes when he heard the words.

"Forgive me, Lieutenant Yang, the light was faintly visible, and the villain thought he was dazzled, thinking that it would not be too late to report to the young master after looking carefully, but he didn't expect such a change in his divine kung fu..."

The soldier quickly explained.

"you!"

Yang Wanli wanted to say something else.

Wu Liang had already raised his hand to stop him, but his eyes were still fixed on the short mountain, and he frowned and asked, "There seems to be smoke rising from behind that short mountain, did you see it?"

"Is there?"

Everyone looked carefully.

between speeches.

The smoke rising from behind the dwarf mountain has gradually become thicker, and the smell of burning has gradually appeared in the air. Everyone nodded and said: "Young Master, look carefully, there seems to be a fire behind."

"Go, go and see!"

Wu Liang led the crowd back immediately.

Around the short mountain so quickly, everyone's eyes were immediately illuminated by a fire.

I saw a piece of trees behind the dwarf mountain burning ragingly, and the scale of the fire had spread to a few meters in radius. If this situation continued, the trees in a row within tens of meters nearby would turn into a sea of ​​flames.

(End of this chapter)