The river was far away from the black mountain. Qin Jiyan couldn't see clearly. He could only vaguely see that it looked like it had been burned by fire. There was nothing on the top of the mountain, but it gave people an indescribable feeling of disobedience.
feel.
The guide followed Qin Jiyan's expectations, his eyes jumped, and he said tremblingly: "Speaking to your lord, people here call that mountain Ghost Mountain. There were originally people living in Ghost Mountain, but then a fire destroyed it.
No more. That mountain is very strange. It used to be full of trees. We could still go into the mountain to collect some things. Occasionally we could cross the mountain and exchange some things with a few families in the mountain. But now I don’t know why, it’s obviously burned to the ground.
I just can’t get over it.”
"Is there a family in the mountain?" Qin Jiyan raised his hand to signal the rowing guard to stop.
When the guide saw that the boat had changed its direction, he felt uneasy but did not dare to say anything. He could only nod and said: "I have gone in once before. There are dozens of families at the foot of the mountain. It is a small village. The government has also registered it, but later the people inside
Everyone was dead, and the officials carried hundreds of corpses out."
"Well, let's go take a look." Qin Jiyan responded softly and motioned to the guards to row towards the ghost mountain.
"Sir, do you want to go into the mountain?" the guide asked in horror. When Qin Jiyan nodded, he knelt on the ground with a thump, "Sir, you must not do this."
"What? Is this mountain inaccessible?" Qin Jiyan asked with raised eyebrows, but did not ask the guards to stop.
The guide nodded repeatedly: "Sir, it's not that we can't get in, it's that we can't climb this mountain. The old man in the village said that the people who were burned to death were too resentful and wouldn't let outsiders like us go in and destroy their place.
, whoever wants to go in will never come back."
"That's nonsense." Qin Ji said it wasn't that he didn't believe in ghosts and gods, but that the problem with the mountain had nothing to do with resentment.
Someone should have set up a formation on this mountaintop and activated the formation.
"Sir, this is true. No one has climbed over this mountain since the officials took out the corpse inside. There were a few bold people who thought they were good and tried to climb over by force, but they were killed three days later.
Found dead at the foot of the mountain." The guide looked like he was about to cry and was unwilling to take a step up.
Qin Jiyan did not force the other party and asked him to stay below to watch the ship. This person was introduced by the government, and Qin Jiyan was not worried that he would run away.
These days, no ordinary person dares to go against the government unless he no longer wants to live.
The guide burst into tears upon hearing this, and repeatedly promised that he would keep an eye on the ship and would bring them back no matter how long it took.
"Sir, if you can't get in, you must go down the mountain. This mountain is really evil." The guide thought that even the county magistrate was afraid of these people, and couldn't help but worry about whether Qin Jiyan and others were dead, so he could still survive.
Thinking of this possibility, the guide became worried again and wanted to follow Qin Jiyan up the mountain, but Qin Jiyan had no intention of taking him with him. He jumped on the boat before it docked, followed closely by the guards.
A group of five people arrived at the foot of Ghost Mountain as quickly as possible. Qin Jiyan did not rush up the mountain, but looked around at the foot of the mountain, and then asked the guards to move a few large rocks halfway up the mountain.
The emperor's education was not in vain. He didn't know how to set up a Bagua array, nor did he know how to break it, but it was not difficult for him to walk through a less lethal array.
After spending half an hour adjusting the formation, Qin Jiyan led his guards up the mountain.
Without the obstruction of the formation, Qin Jiyan and his party easily climbed over the Ghost Mountain. The other side of the Ghost Mountain was the same, completely burned by the fire and bare without any greenery.
The guard went down first to explore the road. At the foot of the mountain was a piece of loess. After passing through this piece of Huangshan, there was another high mountain behind.
The mountains on the other side of the loess are lush and green, and the trees are towering into the clouds, but across the Ghost Mountain, outsiders can't see anything.
This place is really weird.
Qin Jiyan walked slowly down the mountain. At this time, the guard who had gone down the mountain first had noticed the clues. When he saw Qin Jiyan coming down, he stepped forward eagerly and said: "Your Highness, there are footprints. There are traces of two people. One of them should be taller."
The man is about six feet tall, with high and low feet; the other's footprints cannot tell whether he is a man or a woman. Judging from the depth, the man's figure is very strong, and he must be carrying heavy objects while walking."
The guard reported the situation he discovered as quickly as possible.
"Well, follow the traces and look for it." Qin Jiyan had a strong hunch that Gu Qiancheng must be nearby.
The secret guards and soldiers searched every tributary of the moat and every village around them. Only this ghost mountain was not visited. Apart from this mountain, Qin Jiyan could not think of anywhere else where Gu Qian could be accommodated.
City hides.
It is too arbitrary to say that she is hiding. With Gu Qiancheng's sense of responsibility, she will not disappear for more than ten days or even half a month for no reason. She is afraid that she is in danger and cannot escape.
Thinking of this possibility, Qin Jiyan felt very uneasy and desperately hoped to find Gu Qiancheng in the next second.
When His Highness Qin led people into Ghost Mountain, Gu Qiancheng finally caught a skinny rabbit. Looking at the fluffy little rabbit, Gu Qiancheng calmly skinned it and cleaned it.
Compared with the kindness and intolerance in my heart, filling my stomach is a big deal.
Resisting the urge to chew it raw, Gu Qiancheng cut the rabbit into two halves, skewered them with shaved branches, and put them on the fire to roast.
Gu Qiancheng had only eaten a few grasses before, but now his stomach was still empty. When the smell of barbecue came, Gu Qiancheng's mouth watered.
She wanted to eat so much, she wanted to eat so much, she was starving to death.
Gu Qiancheng couldn't bear the temptation of the aroma of food, so he decisively peeled off the cooked outer layer and stuffed it directly into his mouth.
"It's scalding me to death, it's scalding me to death." Gu Qiancheng ate so quickly that it was so hot that she stuck out her tongue, but even so, she still couldn't bear to spit it out.
She was really, really hungry, so hungry that she could eat rabbit meat raw.
After swallowing it in a few mouthfuls, although it was bland and tasteless, Gu Qiancheng still felt it was extremely delicious, and the feeling of satisfaction in her stomach made the pores all over her body relax.
It felt so good to eat. She would never starve herself again. She only had to endure the feeling of hunger once and she would never want to try it again.
After eating the cooked outer part of the rabbit meat, Gu Qiancheng continued to roast the rabbit meat on the fire, and then...she found that she was even hungrier, her saliva was secreting out, and she looked like she was starving to death.
The appearance of a ghost reincarnated.
Gu Qiancheng was about to cry, but she couldn't control her body's instinct!
In order to distract himself, Gu Qiancheng stuffed a few more grass balls into his mouth and chewed them slowly while waiting for the rabbit meat to be cooked.
The aroma of barbecued meat floated far away when the wind blew. The fat woman who came into the mountain to look for Gu Qiancheng smelled this aroma and immediately guessed that the person she was looking for was nearby.
The huge body moved quickly through the mountains, with the iron rod glowing with red rust in his hand, which looked unusually abrupt among the trees...