At first, Long Chen thought that this ape might be a spiritual beast raised by others, but later he felt it was not the same. It was more like it had eaten the corpse of a ghost soldier and mutated into this state, just like the situation at Holy Snow Peak.
If the situation is as expected, then following the ape, you can find the place where the Martial Saint hides his troops.
However, the ape's hands and feet were cut off and turned into a monkey stick, so the ape could not lead the way.
"Take it up."
Long Chen smiled helplessly. He just wanted to make the ape stop struggling, so he was a little more ruthless.
Feng He immediately backed away, while Gan Xin and Mo Lin picked up the leg, which weighed hundreds of kilograms, and slowly dragged it over.
The ape was on all fours in the air. When he saw Gan Xin, Mo Lin came closer, made a sharp sound, opened his sharp fangs in a threat, and his severed arm was still moving around.
Gan Xin scolded: "You beast, you are like this and you still dare to threaten me."
Long Chen said: "Just put it nearby, let's go."
Feng He said: "Sir, if we leave, can its hands and feet be able to put it back together on their own?"
Long Chen didn't explain too much, Gan Xin and Mo Lin put it down and left.
"Let's go."
Long Chen pulled Feng He back and retreated. Gan Xin and Mo Lin followed, and the four of them quickly disappeared from sight.
The ape kept roaring, and when there was no movement or sound from Long Chen and the other four, the ape moved its body on its own, first letting the ape's arm rest on its body.
The cut made by the sword energy was very smooth, but the severed ape arm was frozen, and the thin ice had to be melted after being reattached.
Fortunately, it didn't last long, and the ape arms slowly fused together.
After the ape arms were fused, the ape did not crawl with its hands. Instead, it straightened its arms and rolled its body. When it reached its side, it slowly reattached its two legs with its ape arms.
The legs were frozen for a long time. After the ape fought back, he lay in the snow waiting to recover.
In the distance, Long Chen and four others were squatting on the branches, holding binoculars in their hands, observing the movement from a long distance.
This distance is far enough that the ape cannot detect it.
"This beast's healing ability is almost the same as that of a ghost soldier. It can be healed when connected."
Feng He was surprised. He didn't expect the ape's repair ability to be so strong.
After a while, Feng He put down the telescope and whispered: "It seems that the beast's legs can't grow back."
Through the telescope, Long Chen discovered that the ape's legs and feet seemed to have been frozen and unable to grow back.
"Then...how does it go back?"
Gan Xin was also a little worried. The ape's legs and feet could not grow back, so it would not be able to lead the way and find a place to hide troops.
Mo Lin was still observing. In the camera lens, the ape lay on the ground for a long time, but its legs showed no signs of healing.
The ape also became very irritable. He grabbed his frozen leg and threw it hard into the distance. Then he crawled westward with his hands, leaving a crawling mark on the ground.
"It's okay if this beast crawls back."
Mo Lin said happily.
Long Chen smiled and said: "This is the best result. There are only two ape arms crawling, which can lead the way without posing a threat."
"Don't worry, let it crawl slowly, the traces will not disappear."
There is no snow in the sky, and the traces of the apes crawling will not be covered. Long Chen is not in a hurry and will rest where he is now.
An hour later, Long Chen slowly walked back to the open space.
Feng He knocked on the ape's thigh, which knew how to stiffen, and asked: "Do you want to take it back? Maybe eating it will have miraculous effects."
Eating the meat of ghost soldiers can change your physique and increase your cultivation. The legs of apes may also have magical effects.
Gan Xin said: "It's so heavy, you carry it back?"
Feng He said regretfully: "It's just too heavy. It's a pity to put it here."
Mo Lin smiled and said, "You can just take a few bites now."
Feng He thought about it seriously, but in the end he didn't say it, feeling a little nauseous.
Long Chen looked at the crawling traces extending to the west and said, "Let's go, follow."
The four of them walked westward following the crawling tracks left by the apes, and walked out of the black forest.
The crawling traces extended to the foot of a mountain in the distance. Feng He looked at it with a telescope and said, "Could it be that Wu Sheng is hiding his troops under the mountain?"
Long Chen said: "I thought I was in the black forest, but I didn't expect it was at the foot of the mountain."
The four of them followed quickly and soon reached the foot of the mountain.
But strangely, the traces disappeared at the foot of the mountain.
"there is none left?"
Mo Lin knelt down and looked carefully, then looked for crawling marks around him, and found that they had indeed disappeared.
"Is there some mechanism here that has sneaked underneath?"
Gan Xing guessed so.
Long Chen shook his head, pointed at the trees on the hillside and said, "Look at those trees, there are scratches on them."
The three of them looked up and remembered that the ape liked to climb trees.
"We were wrong. In the past, the hidden soldiers were underground, so we thought they were underground. This beast climbed a tree and went up the mountain."
"However, the place we are looking for to hide the troops should be at the foot of the mountain."
Gan Xin stepped on the snow under his feet, still thinking that the place where the soldiers were hidden was in a cave somewhere under the mountain.
Long Chen looked around and finally said: "Go up and take a look first. This ape climbed up. Maybe there is something on the mountain."
Long Chen jumped up, stepped on the tree, and went all the way up the mountain. Gan Xin and Mo Lin followed immediately. Feng He, whose Qinggong was not good enough, waited at the bottom of the mountain.
Following the traces on the trees, Long Chen and the others quickly reached the top of the mountain.
Standing on the tree, Long Chen discovered that there was actually a mountaintop lake among the mountains.
The surface of the blue lake is frozen, but the water underneath is not frozen. Apes are crawling on the ice.
"It's so strange, why doesn't the water under the ice freeze?"
Gan Xin whispered.
Logically speaking, in such a cold place and on the top of a mountain, the entire lake should be frozen. This is very strange.
Long Chen looked at the surrounding terrain and said: "This may be a volcanic crater, and there are hot springs under the lake, but the amount of hot springs is not large, and the temperature can keep the water underneath from freezing."
The water temperature and the outside temperature are just at a critical point. The lake surface freezes, but the water does not freeze.
"Where does that beast want to go?"
Mo Lin looked at the crawling ape curiously.
Long Chen took out his telescope and watched the ape climb across the ice and then enter a cave.
"Are there ghost soldiers hidden in the cave?"
Gan Xin also saw it and thought that there might be ghost soldiers hiding in the cave just like before.
But the cave on the top of the mountain is not big. How many soldiers and horses can be hidden?
Long Chen came down from the tree and said, "Let's go over and have a look."
The three of them landed on the lake and slowly walked towards the cave.
Mo Lin walked very carefully, and the three of them stayed as far apart as possible for fear of breaking the ice.
Long Chen walked a dozen steps and suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?"
Gan Xin thought that Long Chen had discovered something wrong.
Long Chen looked at the ice at his feet and suddenly said: "You guys spread out."
The two people immediately dispersed, and Long Chen drew his sword and pierced the ice.
The frozen ice surface is not thick to begin with, and cracks spread from under your feet and then collapse.
Long Chen was hanging in the air, looking at the broken ice beneath his feet. Black human heads could be vaguely seen under the water, and some of them seemed to have grown algae.
"It's indeed underwater."
Gan Xin and Mo Lin returned to the lake, and they could see more clearly.
Mo Lin said: "Your Majesty's judgment is correct, it is indeed here."
Gan Xin stared at the ghost soldiers hidden at the bottom of the lake, then looked at the cave where the ape had entered, and said, "What is in that cave?"
