Chapter 65 The Mystery of the Red Mist

Everyone followed the direction indicated by the compass and headed south. Everything they saw along the way was towering trees, but strangely, they did not hear the singing of birds and saw no traces of animals in the forest.

Except for the flowing white mist, there seemed to be no living creatures in the entire forest.

It is said that the vegetation here is so luxuriant, and all kinds of wild fruits can be seen everywhere, it is impossible for animals to survive. It would be fair to say that the fog here is indeed poisonous, but now they are safe and sound, indicating that this poisonous miasma is clearly a conspiracy of the Nanyi people.

In this way, they didn't waste a single soldier, and the foggy mountain became a natural Great Wall for them to resist foreign enemies.

"Everyone, be careful!" Yan Cheng was always vigilant, everything here was weird.

"Look..." someone said: "There are so many precious medicinal materials in this mountain, how much would they cost if they were sold!"

"You have to go out first before talking." Chen Wujin said.

He turned back and glanced at Laiji on the horse: "Why hasn't this kid woke up yet?"

Bai Qilang said: "It's better not to wake up, otherwise you will be in trouble."

The group of people walked in the forest for most of the day. The trees blocking the sky and the thick fog made it impossible to see the sun, but the sky did get darker obviously. It was already afternoon.

The foggy mountains are so big that it is impossible to walk out in one day.

Yan Cheng ordered everyone to stop and prepare to sleep in the mountains overnight and continue moving forward tomorrow.

Everyone unloaded their luggage from the horse and took off the ropes. Suddenly someone shouted: "What do you think that is?"

Zhuang Wan followed the sound and saw that the white mist not far away was mixed with strands of red mist, like a gauze, very dreamy.

But they didn't have time to appreciate the beautiful scenery. Yan Cheng ordered: "Mask!"

Everyone is covered up, because the cause of this red mist is not yet known, so it is best to be careful.

"I'll go take a look!" Yan Cheng took the sword.

"I'll go too!" Zhuang Wan said.

"You stay here!"

"Okay, leave it alone." Zhuang Wan walked forward on her own.

The two of them came and walked along the direction where the red mist was drifting. They saw that the red color was getting thicker and thicker, but they also confirmed the fact that the mist was not poisonous.

"What on earth is this?" Zhuang Wan put her hand into the mist, which was as misty as smoke, and soon her hand was stained with some red particles that were thinner than hair.

"It seems that the fog looks red because of this thing."

"Be careful!" Yan Cheng warned, and the two continued to move forward. More and more red particles were floating in the air, and even Yan Cheng's white clothes were contaminated.

"Look!" Zhuang Wan pointed forward: "What is that?"

I saw a huge valley in front of me. There was a kind of red plant growing in the valley, with leaves like ferns. The whole valley was full of such plants, layer upon layer, even slowly expanding outward. And the red particles were like

It drifts out from its leaves.

Zhuang Wan picked a leaf at her feet and turned it over to the back. She saw that red sporangia were densely distributed on it, and red particles as fine as dust were escaping.

"It turns out these are its spores."

Ferns generally have spores, but she has never seen this kind of fern before, and she doesn't know what kind of rare species it is. If Mu Qiulan was here, he should know about it.

However, the mystery of the red mist has been solved. There is no poisonous miasma in this foggy mountain that can kill people.

"That's wrong!" She said to Yan Cheng: "We have a guide car, why do we still come here?"

"This is strange!" Yan Cheng said, "Let's go back quickly."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard several screams.

"problem occurs!"

When the two came back, their tents and luggage were all still there, but Chen Wujin and more than a hundred people were missing. There was no blood on the ground, and no traces of a fight were left.

Yan Cheng quickly protected Zhuang Wan behind him, holding his sword and looking around cautiously.

But the surroundings were filled with white mist and deathly silence. Except for the screams just now, everyone else seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.

"What's going on?" Zhuang Wan was a little scared.

Yan Cheng didn't answer her, but seemed to have thought of something. He walked to the compass, checked it carefully, and finally found a magnet under the car.

"It seems that someone deliberately led us here."

Zhuang Wan looked at the magnet in his hand and thought of Lai Er's ghost sighting last night.

"Could it be that the beast last night did it?"

"Wild beasts are just to hide people's eyes and ears." Yan Cheng said: "The people of Nanyi like to raise all kinds of snakes and insects. This foggy mountain is hot and humid. Even if there are no big wild beasts, there should be many snakes, insects, rats and ants. But we have been walking all the way.

, have you ever encountered any living creature?"

Zhuang Wan said: "You mean someone tampered with the compass while we were going to the river to check?"

Yan Cheng nodded.

"Could it be a Nanyi person?"

"It's very possible." Yan Cheng said: "No one is more familiar with the terrain here than them."

"Then what do we do now?"

"Continue going south! If you find Nanyi's lair, you will naturally find the others."

"Okay!" Zhuang Wan turned around and packed her luggage, "Then let's leave quickly!"

Suddenly, she felt something wrapped around her feet, and then her whole body was lifted up. She screamed in fright.

Yan Cheng turned his head suddenly and saw that Zhuang Wan had disappeared, and the cry came from the tree.

He stepped on the tree trunk with his sword and jumped up in twos and twos. The thick fog filled the air, and there were no people on the tree. Only a piece of rag could be seen between the branches, which was Zhuang Wan's clothes.

"Come out!" He clenched his fists and shouted angrily, but there was only an echo.

At this time, a sharp arrow shot straight at him through the thick fog. He flew to avoid it and pierced the sword in his hand in the direction where the hidden arrow was fired at him. He only heard the sound of "ah" and rolled in the thick fog.

One person comes down.

He came down from the tree, grabbed the man, and asked sternly: "Where is he?"

The man vomited a mouthful of blood, tilted his neck and died.

He drew out his sword and looked around with a stern expression: "Who is it? Come out!"

No one answered, and no one fired any more arrows. There was only silence in the entire mountain...

When Zhuang Wan woke up, her head was still hurting. She remembered that she was hung directly from the tree, and then she was knocked unconscious...

She jumped up, opened the curtain, and got off the bed.

This is an attic made of bamboo, with a faint light. There are book desks in the room, and there are ox horns, swallow feathers and other ornaments hanging on the wall. There is an incense burner in one corner, and the incense is rising, but it doesn't smell good, it should be

For mosquito repellent.

Zhuang Wan opened the bamboo curtain and came out of the house, only to see a lively village town in front of her, with customs and customs that were completely different from those in the Central Plains.

She saw that the totem on the flag in front was similar to the one on the face of the Nanyi people in the canyon.

"This...is this Nanyi?"

"That's right!" There was a man standing downstairs at some point, looking up at her.

This person is very tall, while most of the Nanyi people around him are short. He has some stubble on his face, but he looks like Zhou Zheng. He looks to be thirty-four years old, but he is not greasy and is quite pleasing to the eye.

"Who are you?"

The man didn't answer, he just said: "Are you hungry, girl? Eat something first."

Then, two maid-like women came upstairs carrying colorful cakes.

The man also came up and said with a smile: "Girl, please!"

Zhuang Wan is indeed a little hungry... No!

She looked down at her clothes and saw that she had changed them.

"you……"

"Don't worry, girl, your clothes were changed by my two maids." The man said, "It's just because the girl's clothes are a little damaged. If not, I wouldn't have known that the girl is actually a girl."

Zhuang Wan: "So what?"

"Don't get me wrong, girl. I just didn't expect that there are women serving in the army. I admire you deeply, so I treat you with courtesy."

Zhuang Wan didn't want to be polite to him, so she asked directly: "Where are my brothers?"

"Don't worry, they are all fine!" The man invited her into the house: "Girl, please!"

Zhuang Wan looked around. Although the house was located on a busy street, the men walking around on the street all had knives on their waists. They didn't look like ordinary people. In other words, this Nanyi was a soldier.

nation.

If she wanted to run, she probably wouldn't be able to get out of this street, not to mention she wasn't familiar with the road at all.

"Okay!" She walked into the house, wanting to see what this man wanted to do.

The brightly colored pastries on the table are all served in silverware, which is pleasing to the eye.
Chapter completed!