The pastoral concubine of space

Chapter 173
The young man said with a bitter face: "I just thought they were just asking casually, how could I have thought that they would really go." But if they hadn't gone to Qingyao Mountain, why would they suddenly lose contact?
"Which Qingyao Mountain are you talking about? Is it one of the three nearby mountains you just mentioned?"

A few villagers hesitated and murmured, you pushed and shoved each other, but no one said anything.

Xiao Yunchu had no choice but to look at Aunt Liu who was obviously the most enthusiastic. The latter hesitated for a moment, probably worried that something would happen to those who lost contact, and sighed: "Actually, there are four hills near our village, but one of them is It is much smaller than the other three, and there are not many people going there, it is the Qingyao Mountain mentioned just now."

"Why didn't anyone go? Because there are no good medicinal materials on the mountain?"

"That's not true." Aunt Liu glanced at the mountain to the east, "There are still a lot of good things on Qingyao Mountain, such as medicinal materials, wild vegetables, and some pheasants, hares, and even wild boars. Go up and take a look. The harvest of preservation is several times higher than that of other places, and that mountain is very evil."

Xiao Yunchu became interested, "What kind of evil method?"

"Five out of ten people who went to Qingyao Mountain couldn't be found after entering. They mobilized people to search all over the mountains and plains. They seemed to have disappeared out of thin air. They couldn't even find a corpse, but after waiting ten After half a month, they will be found lying in a particularly conspicuous place, but when they are found, they are basically dead, and they are basically starved to death."

It does sound bizarre.

Feng Yunxiu: "Is there no missing person who came back alive?"

The young man who spoke just now said: "Yes, but very few, and it is said that they will lose their breath soon after they come out."

"He died of starvation too?"

"That's not true! People who came out alive described what they encountered in the mountains. It is said that they encountered thick fog after going up the mountain. The thick fog is very evil. Once people go in, they will lose their way and can't find their way out. Some people You will also see some weird looking monsters, and most people either starve to death, or are scared crazy by those monsters."

Someone opened the chatter box, and the other villagers couldn't help talking about it, the content was basically the same, they all said that there is often fog on Qingyao Mountain, regardless of the weather, there is no phenomenon at all on other surrounding mountains, just Qingyao Mountain was covered with thick fog every three days, as long as someone entered the foggy day, life and death would be hard to say.

When exactly did the vision on Qingyao Mountain start to appear, the villagers couldn’t tell, but since they can remember, the elders in the family have strictly ordered them not to go to Qingyao Mountain, and the elders also obeyed their elders According to word of mouth, the situation in other surrounding villages is similar.

Unless the locals really can't survive, they will go to Qingyao Mountain, which is rich in natural resources, to try their luck. If they are lucky enough not to be trapped by the fog, they can make at least a few dozen taels of silver by selling the harvest they find in the mountains. It is true that people who are afraid dare not approach even half a step, but these days there are always people who are desperate to make money, so the number of people who disappear in Qingyao Mountain every year does not increase but decreases, and the total number of people disappearing throughout the year is about one hundred and eighty.

Thinking about how many people died in the seemingly green mountains and green waters, don't you feel chills?
In the hearts of most locals, Qingyao Mountain is like a flood and a beast, and they usually don’t take the initiative to mention it for no reason. Usually, people from other places ask where it is suitable for collecting herbs, and the three mountains mentioned do not include Qingyao. Even if they mention this mountain, they will seriously remind them not to go, so as not to cause accidents.

If you don't listen to the advice and insist on doing it, you can't blame them if something goes wrong.

In addition to the fog on the mountain that will cause you to lose your way, there are also some people who found some strange medicinal herbs on the mountain. They were all in high spirits and couldn't sleep. No one could tell whether such cases sounded miraculous or not.

In short, from the attitude of the villagers, it can be seen that they did not take these things seriously, and only regarded these legends as similar to modern "urban strange news". Are they considered mountain village legends?

"What do you think?" After saying goodbye to the villagers, Xiao Yunchu looked in the direction of Qingyao Mountain in a vague way, and said leisurely.

Feng Yunxiu: "It is said that after taking the medicine, he recovered from a serious illness and was in high spirits. It is probably because the medicinal materials here have been nourished by spiritual energy for a long time and have undergone some mutations. The efficacy of the medicine has been exerted to the extreme. It can basically be deduced that the spirit mine may be in this Qingyao Mountain. You said before that maybe some monks used some means in the spirit mine. Those monsters and the fog may be some means of the monks. For example, illusion?"

"In order to make people avoid Qingyao Mountain like a snake and scorpion, and prevent the spirit mine from being discovered? There is a possibility."

"We can't figure out why even if we make wild guesses. We don't know how true or false those rumors are. Why don't we go to Qingyao Mountain to investigate in person. If there is no accident, the person who broke the army should have entered Qingyao Mountain and was arrested. Trapped, it’s okay if they are together, if they are separated..."

The captain of each breaking army team not only has a defensive magic weapon, but also a storage bag that can be used to store some pills or other necessities, such as drinking water, and some dry food, which can be shared by a team for a few days It's not a problem, if they are scattered...the qi training period has not yet been bigu, even if they will not starve to death after a few days of starvation, the state may not be very good.

"Don't worry too much. It's not that there is not enough food and grass when marching. If there is really no dry food to eat, as long as it is not a wasteland where there is no grass, they will not starve to death." Feng Yunxiu said very naturally.

However, Xiao Yunchu's heart moved, and he looked at him in surprise, "Did you also eat some 'special' food when you were marching and fighting?"

Feng Yunxiu's expression remained unchanged, "In special circumstances, I have eaten the dead horses of the enemy army, and drank horse blood to moisten my throat when I was thirsty."

The image of Feng Yunxiu drinking blood suddenly appeared in Xiao Yunchu's mind, his whole body trembled, he couldn't tell what it was like, his heart ached?There must be, and it's a bit complicated.

It’s because she came from the end of the world in her previous life. In the early days of the end of the world, she basically treated herself well in terms of eating and drinking because she had the space. Drinking blood from raw meat is unimaginable.

While speaking, the two had arrived at the foot of Qingyao Mountain. Although there was no snow in the south this season, the weather was still quite cold. It was a coincidence that there were waves of white mist floating on Qingyao Mountain today. I saw a small peak, and the vegetation in the rest of the mountains was covered by thick fog.

The fog is not very thick at this time, and after a while, it will be so thick that you can't even see your fingers.

Xiao Yunchu tentatively let go of his divine sense and scanned the surroundings, and found that his divine sense could only detect the surrounding area within a diameter of less than ten meters, and anything more would be a vast expanse of whiteness.

"Do you feel anything?"

Feng Yunxiu looked around and shook his head: "I still remember the feeling when you set up the spirit gathering formation on Mount Taichu, but here, there seems to be no trace of the formation? Then what's the matter with these fogs?"

Xiao Yunchu felt it thoughtfully for a moment, and then made a guess with uncertainty, "Perhaps, the fog here is indeed a kind of maze, but it's not what you think, but because of the special geographical environment here, or because of the Tibetan fog. A natural maze formed by the spiritual mine in the mountain?"

(End of this chapter)