Chapter 1730 The Inaccessible Mountain
Qin Yan sneaked in to inquire about the news. Who knows, these guys just need to recruit young men. Compared with selling their own brothers, an outsider like Qin Yan who comes under the pretext of defecting is naturally the best choice.
Qin Yan cursed secretly and struggled with the bandits for a few more words before reluctantly following the people who were being driven in.
Of course, this is pretending.
Although it's a bit weird to be sold, but being able to go in and take a look openly is considered to be a part of it.
Apart from anything else, Qin Yan is still very confident about the mechanism. Besides, not only are there monsters around him, but there is also an immortal named Li Chengqi watching over him, which makes him feel extremely safe.
Qin Yan suddenly understood why Yang Yiyi was so reckless. This unshakable sense of security was probably what Yang Yiyi felt.
Pretending to be reluctant was to prevent the bandits from seeing their flaws and sneaking into the common people. Qin Yan slowed down a little and said to the vixen behind him:
"Remove my cover-up, don't remove yours, it will scare others."
The vixen nodded and obeyed. Due to the darkness, no one in the crowd noticed that one second he was a short man, and the next second he turned into a woman who was twenty years old.
After touching his body to confirm that the illusion had been withdrawn, Qin Yan took a few steps and caught up with an old man in his sixties or seventies.
"My father-in-law, what's wrong with you?"
Qin Yan is very good at using her own advantages. She will frighten the people with her ferocious illusion skin, but with her original appearance, she will make people less wary.
When the old man saw that Qin Yan was a young woman, he had no suspicion that she was also a bandit.
"Girl, were you arrested too?"
Qin Yan nodded in agreement and said:
"I was captured when I went home with the caravan to visit my relatives. Why didn't you ask for ransom and instead brought us here?"
"Look at the accent, girl, you are not from around here."
The old man said:
"Erlang Mountain has been very weird recently. There are strange noises every night, and hunters don't dare to walk around. There are even rumors that there are man-eating monsters in it, looking for food every night."
The father-in-law obviously didn't know that there were two real monsters behind Qin Yan.
"Have you ever seen monsters, old man?"
"Look what you said, who has seen this before?"
The old man sighed:
"All the folks in the nearby villages have been kidnapped. I'm afraid... Oh, you've committed a crime. You won't be able to survive if you cross the sword and horse."
"After passing the sword and horse?"
The old man seemed to feel that his life was not long, and he wanted to talk. He pointed at Erlang Mountain, which was getting closer and closer, and said:
"When I was a child, I heard from my family that Erlang Mountain has supernatural powers and cannot be approached easily. Look at the top of the mountain, does it look like a knife? The other side looks like a galloping horse, so the older generation said about the iron knife. Peak and Benma Peak, life and death depend on God’s will. No one goes to Erlang Mountain at all, not to mention that there are monsters in it.”
The bandits said there were treasures inside, while the local people said there were monsters inside that could not be approached easily.
It is normal for the two parties to have different information. Qin Yan asked:
"Have you heard of Poyun Cave?"
"I have never heard of it. Girl, do you still have the time to think about this?"
"Thank you, husband."
"Alas..."
The old man shook his head and said nothing. When he looked back, he found that Qin Yan had disappeared.
When inquiring about information, you must not chase after one person. Qin Yan specifically asked older people, people who might know more about the area.
The information obtained is also very similar. In short, Erlang Mountain is inaccessible.
Erlang Mountain is shaped like a crescent moon, with a valley cut out in the middle. On the left is Tiedao Peak and on the right is Galloping Horse Peak. No one knows what the inside is like because no one dares to go in.
Mixed in the crowd, Qin Yan lowered her head and covered her mouth and whispered:
"Brother Li, do you see anything?" The people's reactions were similar. For example, they all said that Erlang Mountain could not be entered.
If there really is something weird, Li Chengqi would definitely be able to see it.
"No, I haven't found anything strange yet."
Li Chengqi said:
"However, the Iron Knife Peak and Galloping Horse Peak remind me of something else."
"What?"
"The iron knife of the leaf gate drinks the horse."
Li Chengqi has always wondered why the treasure of Zizimen is called Iron Knife Drinking Horse.
That thing is obviously a discus, at most it can be opened.
It could barely be considered a knife in appearance, but it had nothing to do with drinking horses.
But considering that Shen Qingshuang personally went to grab this thing, what if Tiedao Yinma has a close relationship with Erlangshan?
After the Iron Sword Drinking Horse is unfolded, there is a nine-square grid composed of ninety-nine and eighty-one squares, which may be a hint or method to unlock some kind of mechanism.
But beyond that, there was nothing.
It's hard to say now, but Li Chengqi thought of drinking horses with iron swords.
We have to continue to see what exactly happened.
However, for safety reasons, Li Chengqi said:
"I'll ask Yiyi and Ning Xian'er to come around. Don't go too fast."
Qin Yan nodded to express understanding, and Li Chengqi stopped talking immediately.
Although Qin Yan really wanted to work as a foreigner, he was not far from Erlang Mountain. The bandits behind him kept urging him. No matter how slowly the crowd walked, it took only a few minutes to reach the place in the middle of Erlang Mountain that was like a knife cutting with an axe. valley.
At this time, the moon emerged from behind the hazy clouds, and a layer of silver light shone on the ground, which was reflected by the snow, making the vision much clearer.
Qin Yan saw that directly in front of the crowd was a thick cloud of cold fog, and the crowd was forced into the fog by the bandits.
And strangely enough, as long as a person enters the fog within five or six meters, he will disappear without a trace, and it is impossible to see what is on the other side.
By the time Qin Yan saw Leng Wu clearly, it was almost time to be driven in. Unless she turned against him now, she could only follow him in.
Li Chengqi seemed to be guiding Yang Yiyi and Ning Xianer around, so he remained silent. Qin Yan felt a little unsure.
She took a half step back and grabbed the hands of the vixen and capybara to ensure that she would not get separated from them, and then stepped into the cold mist.
Almost as soon as I stepped in, the sounds in my ears disappeared.
There were originally many people around, some crying, some sighing, but these voices disappeared, and it seemed that only Qin Yan was left.
She tightened her fingers and found that she was still holding the two monsters'... well, claws. She felt relieved and continued to move forward.
The disappearance of the sound was just the first abnormality. Immediately, Qin Yan found that her sense of direction had been completely obscured. She was now even unable to determine whether she was walking in a straight line.
This feeling is not that I can't tell the direction, but it's like being drunk and unable to make myself walk in a straight line.
Judging from the current situation, Qin Yan might not be able to walk out even if he looks back immediately.
Just like that, I couldn't tell whether I was walking crookedly or not, and I took two more steps. The cold fog around me became thicker and thicker, so thick that I could hardly see my fingers.
At the same time, Qin Yan discovered that the cold mist was not ordinary water vapor, but more like extremely cold ice, or like cold hands. Every step she took, it seemed to be gently stroking her exposed cheeks, which made people sweat. Stand on your head.
(End of chapter)