Chapter 47: White Fox Delivers the Map
"Xiao Gao, what happened to you guys, why are Master Xue and the others all lying on the ground?"
As soon as Cheng came and saw a group of us falling around, he immediately asked anxiously, while I waved my hands, I said, "Let's talk about it on the way, Elder Xue and the others have been hit by necrotic poison, so hurry up and send them back to the camp before we say anything else."
With that said, Cheng and I and a team of them, helped Elder Xue and the others down the mountain, and then rode a motorcycle towards the camp, on the way, I talked to Cheng about the situation.
From the time we went up the mountain, all the way to the encounter with the ghost-faced hornets all told, while Cheng brother after hearing all of this is repeatedly blamed himself.
He said that he was tracking the murderer earlier, and since his soul couldn't hold out any longer, he didn't look at the situation on the mountain, and immediately rushed back to report the news, not realizing that this would almost make our group of people fall.
"Brother Cheng, you can't be blamed for this. After all, there are so many mountains in this big mountain, who knew this mountain was so strange. But Brother Cheng, that murderer is dead, and our clues are broken."
I even said, and Cheng's face got heavy when he heard this, but he said in the next moment, "It can't be helped that the murderer is dead, but we can go and look at that murderer's body tomorrow to see if there are any clues left. And since that village is a ghost army guarding the tomb of Yue Yu Wang, it is inevitable that it will not have some messages from the tomb of Yue Yu Wang. So we can go there tomorrow to have a look, maybe we can find some clues!"
Cheng said, and I nodded at that, according to the way things are going nowadays, that's all that can be done.
After a brief discussion with Cheng, we also returned to the campsite, and then sent Elder Xue and the others to the doctor's place for treatment. The doctors in our accompanying team were still very good, a Chinese medicine practitioner, and a Western medicine practitioner, cooperating with each other, they quickly cured Elder Xue and the others of their symptoms of poisoning, causing Cheng and I to both breathe a sigh of relief.
And the next morning, Cheng brother see Xue old master and other people are no big deal, then and I, and the other seven special forces went to that ghost mountain, looking for clues.
This time we went to the mountain in the daytime without the terror of last night, those ghosts all retreated and didn't dare to come out at all. And those ghost face hornets although not afraid of sunlight, but we are prepared gas mask, and a thick layer of clothing, so not afraid of those hornets attack. So we went up the mountain this time, which can be said to be very smooth.
"Brother Cheng, this is the abandoned village we encountered yesterday, and also, that man in black is on that Xingtai."
After arriving at that village cottage again, I said in succession, while Brother Cheng sniffed and first scanned the ruins of that ghostly village cottage, then he went up to that stone platform and carefully watched the shattered corpse of that man in black.
"Everyone look for it, since this murderer is the one who came alone to assassinate us, he must know the route back to their headquarters and should have a complete map on him."
Cheng said, and searched, but that black clothed man were torn by us yesterday, clothes are also broken beyond recognition, there can find anything, so after half a day of searching, we also have no clue.
However, the process of brother is not discouraged, after looking for the broken body of the man in black, we began to look for the abandoned village, but also did not find any clues. This ghost cottage do not know how many years ago, have been weathered out of shape, almost no valuable things left, are some rubble.
And in this way, the only clue we have left is the top of that man's head mountain, after all, this mountain is the only place that is the most evil besides this ghostly fortress.
"Let's go up the mountain and look again!"
Cheng said, and then led a group of us up to the top of the mountain, at the moment it was already daytime, those ghost-faced hornets were already out and about, black and pouncing on us when they saw us. But now we have a gas mask, but also not afraid of those ghost-faced hornets to sting, and there are people in our team with insecticides, poof poof a few times, those hornets were smoked away, so that we are all at peace.
"What a strange place!"
After chasing away those wasps, Cheng then looked at the terrain of the mountaintop and said something strange, then he pointed at a human head and said to the two special forces, "Dig up this human head and take a look."
In the face of Cheng's order, the two special forces did not hesitate, immediately took a shovel and dug down the head that Cheng pointed at, about half an hour later, the two special forces dug the head open, and at this moment we found that there was a body under the head, but this body was slimy, and at a closer look, all of it was honey.
It seems that these ghost-faced hornets used these bodies as nests and accumulated honey inside, and due to too much honey or too much age, all this honey penetrated out from the skin of the body, and a sticky protective film was formed around the body.
And I see here at once understand, no wonder these corpses can be thousands of years without decay, the original is a group of bees to pick honey for them, these corpses infiltrated in the honey, so that these corpses will form a layer of natural protective cover, and thus will not be decayed.
"Really powerful, even came up with this way to save these corpses, it seems that this is a method of the ancient people to raise ghosts, these corpses will make their souls will not collapse with the passage of time, thus forming a team of immortal ghost army. But for these people's corpses to be able to cause these hornets to keep making their home here, there should also be other ways to get the corpses out of the way!"
Cheng studied for a while, then gave another order, to which those special forces did not have nonsense, took out knives and sawed open a corpse, then searched for it, after a long time, but found a round stone out.
This stone light yellow, exudes a light pine fragrance, and in the inside of this stone, there is a large ghost-faced hornet, seems to be the mother bee, was sealed inside. And we also understand at a glance, the original is the ancient people use the principle of amber, will a female queen bee sealed in the amber, so these hornets will be attracted to generations of nesting in these human bodies, has to ensure that these people's corpses will always be infiltrated with honey, will not rot.
"Brother Cheng, it seems that this is a method of the ancient people, or rather the Yu Clan, to raise ghosts to store corpses, but our clues seem to be broken."
After this corpse was thoroughly deconstructed, I sighed, while Cheng also fell silent at his words, although the results of this search were very disappointing, the reality was just like this, we didn't find any clues.
"Let's dig up all these corpses and burn them, as for the clues to the tomb of Yu Wang of the Yue Clan, we'll go back and study them slowly. Although there are no clues here, but these medieval troops guarding here must have some intentions, surely the Yue Yu Wang tomb is not far from here, we go back and refer to the terrain here, after studying the map conception left behind by Feng Lao before his death, we might be able to find some clues."
After a long time, Cheng announced the end of the search mission. And although a group of us were all a bit lost in our hearts, we ended up following Cheng's order to burn all those corpses, and since then, this group of ghost army no longer existed.
And a group of us, after settling the matter of the ghost fortress, no longer stay here, directly down the mountain, but just as we were about to go down, a small white fox stopped our way.
I look, but it is yesterday I and the fat man saved that little white fox, and later it saved us, and this moment that little white fox to come, mouth is holding a point of the map, directly sent to my hands, so I a burst of surprise. At the same time I also directly open the map to see, but this look, I immediately ecstatic.
This map was a map of the entire Peak Ridge, and there were some routes marked on it, including the location of the Yue Yu Wang Tomb. When I saw this, I knew that Cheng's deduction was not wrong, that black-clothed man really did have a map on his body, but this map was taken away by this little fox, which made us think that the murderer didn't have a map.
"Brother Cheng, great, this is the map of Yue Yu Wang's tomb!"
I said, quickly handed the map to Cheng, and Cheng looked at it is also immediately the face of the building joy, "really no way out of the mountain, dark flowers and a village, this is good, Xiao Gao we immediately go back to the camp, organizing the people, go directly to the Yue Yu Wang Tomb!"
After looking at the map, Cheng finally greatly out of a long breath, but also immediately led all of us down the mountain, back to the camp, and in our walk, I found that the little white fox has been following us, to which I was up to the heart, this little thing is too smart, I also do not have a pet, take back as a kitten and puppy to raise is also good.
So when we left, I took this little thing also hugged on.
And when we returned to the camp, we also immediately gathered everyone, first studied the map, and then all set off, toward that Yue clan Yu Wang tomb.
The location of this tomb was really as Cheng had estimated, it wasn't far from this Ghost Mountain, only more than two hundred kilometers away, and it only took us about half a day that day to arrive at the location on the map.
This is a large basin group, which is full of large and small basins, and some dangerous peaks of different heights, surrounded by thick fog, almost a natural maze. And that Yu Wang Tomb of the Yue Clan was in the very center of this natural big maze, a deep valley.
"Alright, ahead is the range of the basin cluster, let's all get off and walk."
Around dusk, our group arrived at the edge of this basin, then Cheng ordered that everyone get off and walk.
We didn't have any nonsense about this, this basin was full of puddles and mounds, and with the fog, it was almost impossible for a motorcycle to walk in it.
So after our people came here, they all got off directly, brought their important equipment, and walked into this basin group.
"Aiya mama, this fog is evil, I can't see my fingers, Brother Cheng, we won't go in the wrong direction, right?"
After entering the misty area of the basin, Fatty muttered, while Cheng said, "Don't worry, it won't be wrong, my soul is able to perceive the four directions, this mist is the same to me with and without. So there's no problem with the route."
Cheng said, and then led us to continue to go deeper, but just when we had not gone for long, Cheng suddenly made a hidden gesture to us, and then led a group of us to hide in a thick grass.
"What's wrong with Cheng? Gaha (why) hide ah?"
Fatty then asked Cheng in the grass, while Cheng gave Fatty a silent gesture before quietly saying to us, "There are Yin soldiers in front!" With that, Cheng pointed towards the front.