In the Clouds: Mulan Line

Chapter 7
Baihua Ridge.

The place lives up to its name. The mountains and plains are covered with wild flowers of various colors. From a distance, it is full of purples and reds, and the scenery is very pleasant.

Before Alan disappeared, she liked to follow Uncle Shijiao here to herd sheep. When she came to Baihua Ridge, Hua Mulan seemed to see a lively girl choose a particularly delicate and beautiful wild flower, pick it off and stick it on her temple, and then took it. The Hujia on the lower waist began to play on the hillside.

The fresh tune was sent far away with the gentle mountain wind, and the sheep on the hillside were scattered around, gnawing the pasture on the ground leisurely.

However, everything was broken by sudden changes.

Disaster came to this warm father and daughter without warning, turning their originally peaceful life into an abyss of despair in an instant.

Hua Mulan led the horse and searched inch by inch on Baihua Ridge.

And Baili kept the promise with a solemn expression, his eyes became extremely bright, as if he could see all the details... In fact, he really saw it, no matter if it was a butterfly flying among the flowers, flying around The birds, and some small animals that jumped around, did not escape his sight.

In addition, the pair of ears on the top of his head were constantly shaking, capturing all the movements around him, whether it was the wind or the chirping of insects.

I don't know how many times it has been searched by Uncle Shijiao and the people of the Dalan tribe, so there are footprints everywhere.In this case, it is difficult to distinguish even if there are any traces.

But neither Hua Mulan nor Baili Shouyue raised this point, they just silently searched for possible clues.

The figures of the two moved little by little on the hillside. They found Tianhe from dusk, and continued to search after dawn. Even though the sun was high, they did not intend to stop searching.

Seeing that the entire hillside was about to be turned over by them, Hua Mulan knew that they would most likely find nothing.But Hua Mulan was not discouraged at all. As long as there is an inch of land left, there is still an inch of hope.

Even if you can't find anything in the end, it's just starting all over again.

After searching for a day, Hua Mulan also had to admit that the mastermind behind the scenes was indeed very skilled. There were hardly any tall trees in Baihua Ridge. According to Uncle Shijiao's description, there was nowhere near the sheep herding place. occluder.

In this case, to be able to kidnap people silently, skillful skills and habitual crimes are indispensable.

Thinking of this, Hua Mulan became even more angry. The missing girls were probably more than the two cases she knew about, and there were many hidden victims.

But at the same time, Hua Mulan's attitude towards the Dalan tribe is even more strange. From her point of view, apart from being able to see that the black hand behind the scenes is neat and sophisticated, she can't see how Miss Alan's disappearance has anything to do with the gods. what……

At this time, Baili Shouyue suddenly let out a "huh", and Hua Mulan turned her head immediately, and saw Baili Shouyue squatting in a bush of flowers.

Hua Mulan: "Did you find anything?"

She went to the flowers and looked carefully, but she didn't see anything, but found a bunch of dried flower branches among the flowers.

Hua Mulan picked it up and looked at it, then thoughtfully said, "This is probably where Miss Alan disappeared?"

At that time, Miss Alan was supposed to be sitting here, looking at the flock of sheep and her father, playing her beloved Hujia.

However, Hua Mulan felt that Baili's keeping the promise wasn't the reason why he was surprised because he discovered this point. There should be other discoveries.

At this time, Baili Shouyue pushed aside a flower bush, pointed to the exposed soil and said, "Captain, look."

Hua Mulan... Hua Mulan looked at it seriously, but she could only see that the soil here was black and very fertile.

Baili Shouyue didn't mean to be mysterious, so he grabbed a handful of dirt and rubbed it, then raised his hand to aim at the sun, opened his fingers a little, and let the crushed sand flow through his fingers. Little by little.

Seeing this, Hua Mulan observed the sand more carefully.

And as the sand gradually fell, Hua Mulan finally made a discovery.

Out of the corner of her eye, she suddenly caught a flash of light.

How can there be light in the soil?
Hua Mulan made a decisive move, her fingers were as quick as an afterimage, and accurately caught the light from the falling sand.

After putting the thing that brought light into her palm, Hua Mulan's pupils suddenly shrank.

A few grains of black fine sand, against the background of Hua Mulan's fair skin, look extraordinarily deep and dark, and under the sunlight, they emit a little faint light.

At first glance, this light still makes people feel a little nice, but after taking a second look, black halos appeared in front of them unconsciously, and then the head became groggy involuntarily, and the blood in the body seemed to be affected by it. Some kind of traction, the sound of my heart beating came from my ear, the sound became louder and louder...

hum!
The epee behind Hua Mulan suddenly let out a soft sound. At the same time, Hua Mulan woke up instantly, and her eyes looking at the black fine sand became extremely sharp.

"Black crystal sand."

These seemingly magnificent and mysterious black crystal sands are not good things, and more importantly, they should not appear here.

"The black crystal sand will make people lose themselves, but only 'Black Snake' will bring the black crystal sand." Baili Shouyue also frowned slightly.

Black crystal sand will only appear in places where "Black Snake" has appeared.

In the cloud, "Black Snake" can be described as notorious.

However, what the black snake refers to is not a terrible poisonous snake, but a terrifying natural disaster.

Most people in the cloud have heard such a sentence - when the black snake comes, the entire land will be swallowed by darkness.

When the black snake appeared, it covered the sky and the sun, billowing smoke and dust. Looking from a distance, one could see countless black smoke rising from the ground, sweeping across the ground, devouring everything, life, and buildings that passed by.

The black smoke writhed and twirled, connecting the sky and the earth, like ferocious black snakes with terrifying mouths wide open.

And when the black snake passed through, what was left behind was a ruined wall, and the place where it passed was dead and silent, which can be called the most terrible natural disaster in the cloud.

Therefore, in the cloud, whenever a trace of the black snake is found, no matter how large or small the tribal city is, there is no way to resist it except to flee immediately.

The tribes that lost their homes because of the black snake, and even disappeared overnight, as if wiped from the earth by a big black hand, are not rare in the history of Yunzhong.

Even those who survived the ravages of the black snake by chance were confused and ignorant, as if their bodies had been spared by the black snake, but their souls had been devoured by the black snake.

Such a terrible natural disaster has been passed down from generation to generation in the clouds. Even if you have not seen it with your own eyes, you must have grown up listening to the horror legend of the black snake since childhood.The awe of the people in the cloud towards the black snake can be said to be innate.

And the so-called "Black Snake" is composed of these inconspicuous tiny black crystal sands.Gather sand to form a tower, and drip water to form a sea.And countless black crystal sands gathered together to form a terrifying black snake.

But such an ominous black crystal sand should not appear in this place.Hua Mulan looked up and looked around, the mountains and rivers were beautiful, the birds were singing and the flowers were fragrant, it didn't seem like a black snake had appeared.

Did the people of the Dalan tribe also discover these black crystal sands?
"I think this may be a clue." Baili kept the promise.

Hua Mulan said solemnly: "The appearance of this black crystal sand is very strange. I suspect that the attitude of the Dalan tribe may also have something to do with the existence of these black crystal sand... This is indeed the only clue at present."

"It seems that we should see which bandit gangs are related to Heijingsha." Hua Mulan thought for a while and said.

Although the black crystal sand is extremely unknown, there are not no people who resell the black crystal sand in the cloud.Even in the sand sea, there are large business groups dedicated to catching black crystal sand.It is said that black crystal sand also has very special energy, and this is where its value lies.

But black crystal sand often appears in the sand sea, and those business groups that catch black crystal sand and sell black crystal sand are also in the sand sea.

Could it be that bandits from the sea of ​​sand came near the Great Wall?
When Hua Mulan thought of this, her eyes suddenly sank.

"Then it looks like we have to go to the sand sea." Baili kept his promise.

"There is a Peacock City closest to us, where there is a stronghold of one of the three major business groups in the cloud."

Hua Mulan only thought for a second before making a decision: "Let's go to Peacock City."

No one knows these terrifying little grains of sand better than the merchant groups holding black crystal sand in their hands.

After that, Hua Mulan and Baili Shouyue searched again on Baihua Ridge, and they left Baihua Ridge only after confirming that they had found nothing other than black crystal sand.

At another sunset, two figures and two horses, accompanied by billowing smoke and dust, quickly disappeared among the mountains and mountains, and the direction they were heading was the real core area in the cloud, the sea of ​​sand in the cloud the direction of...

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(End of this chapter)