Long Chen slowly opened his eyes, and his body was surrounded by a thick layer of snow.
When sleeping at night, Long Chen covered his body with a cloak, like a small tent, with snow covering it.81Zw.????m
Standing up slowly, the snow was shaken off, and Long Chen tied up his cloak again.
Gan Xin and Mo Lin were already up. Gan Xin was smoking and Mo Lin was drinking.
“It doesn’t feel very cold either.”
Gan Xin smiled and smoked a cigarette. They also covered their bodies with cloaks last night and slept like this all night.
Long Chen grabbed a handful of snow and washed his face, saying: "If the barbarians can survive, we can."
Most of those barbarians have little cultivation and can live on the grassland for generations. With Long Chen and the others having such high cultivation, there is no reason why they can't survive.
"Let's go."
Long Chen ate some dried meat, and Mo Lin led the way to the cliff cave they had visited.
The wind stopped, the snow stopped, everything was white all around, but there were still dark clouds overhead.
The three of them walked for a long time, and it was almost dark before they reached the cliff cave they were talking about.
"This is it."
Mo Lin looked at the snow-covered mountains around him and was very sure that the location was correct.
Gan Xin stood in the snow, took off his leather hat, moved his ears, and said, "It's strange, why is there no sound?"
If the barbarians spent the winter in the cliff cave, it would be very lively.
It's evening now, and when it's time to have dinner, there should be smoke and the sound of children.
But no, nothing was heard.
"Maybe they don't spend the winter here?"
Long Chen continued to walk forward.
Mo Lin shook his head and said: "No, they said they would come here every year because there are not many places in the grassland to escape the wind and snow, especially places that can accommodate tens of thousands of people."
Long Chen stopped and said, "You guys wait here, I'll go take a look first."
In this case, there must be something fishy, so Long Chen should explore the path by himself first.
Gan Xin and Mo Lin didn't say anything. If there was a problem, Long Chen's cultivation level was the highest, so it would be safest for him to go.
Long Chen activated his true energy, stepped on the snow with both feet, and walked forward slowly.
When he walked to the cliff cave, Long Chen smelled the stench of cattle and sheep. This was normal. Groups of cattle and sheep would have this smell.
Going further, you can hear the braying of cattle and sheep, but strangely, there is no human voice.
For herdsmen, cattle, sheep and livestock are the most important property. It is impossible for the animals to be here but the people not to be there.
Unless something goes wrong and someone is killed or eaten.
Long Chen continued to walk forward, and when he reached the entrance of the cave, he saw footprints all over the ground and ice slag soaked in flesh and blood.
"We were attacked by ghosts!"
Long Chen did not enter the cliff cave, but immediately flew up.
On the cliff of more than 100 meters, Long Chen kept flying up, his hands resting on the protruding places. When he reached the top of the cliff, Long Chen looked around and did not see any shadow of the ghost clan.
After confirming that the ghost clan was no longer around, Long Chen slowly jumped down and landed in front of the cliff cave. Gan Xin and Mo Lin had already come over.
When Long Chen was flying upwards just now, they saw it and guessed that something must have happened.
"How could this happen? They are all dead?"
Gan Xin squatted down and looked at the footprints on the ground and the ice slag soaked in flesh and blood. There was even blood stains inside the hole.
There was a heavy wind and snow yesterday, which covered up the footprints outside. Because there was a cliff blocking the cave, the footprints were still there.
Long Chen asked: "Can you estimate the number of people? The number of ghosts."
Gan Xin and Mo Lin looked at the footprints in front of the cliff cave, shook their heads slightly and said, "It's impossible to estimate, because these footprints are not only from the ghost tribe, but also from the barbarian tribe. They are mixed together."
In addition to human footprints, there are also many animal footprints on the ground, which are impossible to distinguish.
Long Chen looked at the cliff cave with a very ugly expression on his face.
"Go in and see if there are any corpses of the barbarians."
After Long Chen finished speaking, Gan Xin and Mo Lin discovered the biggest problem: where did the body go?
At least tens of thousands of barbarians gathered in such a large cliff cave, but no corpses were seen here.
Gan Xin and Mo Lin slowly walked inside. The cave was crowded with livestock. When they saw people approaching, the cattle and sheep slowly moved out of the way.
At this time, corpses trampled by animals can be seen on the ground.
Each of these corpses is different. Some are pulpy, some are cracked, some are stuck with animal skins and clothing, and the state of death is different.
But they have one thing in common, that is, their heads were crushed, or their heads simply disappeared and could not be found.
"It seems that this place was attacked by ghosts and people were eaten."
"But the bigger problem is that these people who were eaten are not here."
Long Chen let out a long sigh, the worst situation has occurred, the person whose blood has been sucked by the ghost clan has become the puppet slave of the ghost clan.
This is why Long Chen wants the barbarians to enter the south of Yanmen Pass.
"Sir, this is just one of the gathering places. The situation in other gathering places of the barbarians is likely to be the same."
Gan Xin is also very worried. If these blood-sucked barbarians really follow the ghost tribe, the situation will be too bad.
Mo Lin asked: "What should we do next? Continue the search? Or..."
Long Chen thought for a while and said: "No, let's go back immediately. The ghost tribe is attacking the barbarians everywhere. Their ranks are getting stronger and stronger. If they attack Yanmen Pass, we will not have time to come back for reinforcements."
Gan Xin and Mo Lin thought so too.
Long Chen searched for the things left by Manzi in the cave and found three sets of sleds in the warehouse.
The last time he attacked the barbarians, Long Chen used a sled. The barbarians found it useful and started to make it popular.
Taking the sled outside, the three of them put it on and immediately ran south.
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The barbarian team escaping from Yanmen Pass marched hard on the snow.
The wind and snow stopped, but the snow was very deep. They were worried that Long Chen would chase them, so they kept walking north without resting.
"Tuduo, we can't walk anymore, let's take a rest."
A barbarian really had no strength and said to the leading man.
This man named Tuduo was their leader, and he led everyone to escape over the mountains.
Tu Duo looked back at the exhausted team and said: "I also want to rest, but Long Chen may be chasing him at any time. If we don't go further, we may die here."
Having said that, everyone can't move anymore.
Tuduo had no choice but to stop and rest.
Everyone took out dried meat, grabbed a handful of snow, and ate randomly.
At this time, several people from the north were walking this way with difficulty.
When Manzi saw it, he immediately stood up and said, "That's...our tribesman?"
Tuduo also stood up and immediately stepped forward to respond.
There were five people in total. When they saw Tuduo, the five of them were very excited and said with tears in their eyes: "Finally I found you."
Tuduo didn't recognize these five people and asked, "Which tribe are you from?"
A middle-aged man said: "We are from the Speed Department."
Tuduo felt strange and asked: "The speed department spends the winter in Aung La Mountain. Why did you come here?"
The Lisu tribe did not like the Great Zhou Dynasty. When Tuzhi mobilized various tribes to move south, the Liesu tribe made it clear that they would spend the winter in the cliff caves of Mount Aung La and would not follow the large army to move south.
So Tuduo was very surprised as to why these five people were here.
The middle-aged man cried: "It's gone, it's gone. There are ghosts. The ghosts ate all our people. We escaped from the tunnel of the cave."
Several other people echoed: "There are many ghosts. They eat people and have eaten all our people."
"More than 20 of us escaped and kept walking south, trying to find Chanyu at Yanmen Pass. They couldn't walk and froze to death. Only five of us were left."
