Lianghe County is named because it is close to Lianghe River.
Lin Ji and Lu Zhaoer left the county town.
But just after walking along the Lianghe River, Lin Ji stopped.
Lu Zhaoer also looked at Lin Ji.
"I smell it." She was referring to the bloody smell from before.
Lin Ji nodded and looked down at his feet.
The ground is brown.
After the blood dries, it turns brown and becomes muddy with soil.
He reached out and grabbed a handful of soil. Although he was close to the river, the soil in his hands was dry.
"The body is at the bottom of the river." Lu Zhaoer suddenly walked towards the river and said.
Lin Ji walked over quickly.
The moon is bright and clear, and the river water is clear.
There were countless corpses piled up indiscriminately, waiting quietly at the bottom of the river.
Fish and shrimp often take a bite, and some corpses have been chewed so hard that the bones can be seen.
There was no obvious blood stain, so it must have been washed away.
Fortunately, the Liang River is running water and ends in the sea.
"They were the people who were scared out of their wits by the monsters and wanted to flee Lianghe County." Lin Ji whispered, "I guess they were traveling in groups, and there were quite a lot of them. But they were targeted by the monsters, and that's how they got there
The second time, this is what we are seeing."
"Let's move on." Lu Zhaoer pursed her lower lip and her face became even colder.
The two of them continued to move forward, but neither of them had the intention to speak.
Along the way, I was just silent, looking for any traces that Zhan Chengfeng might have left.
It went on like this for two hours.
By late at night, the two of them had walked more than a hundred miles. Moving forward from Lianghe, they had reached the Qingshan Mountains.
The Qingshan Mountains run across Liangzhou.
One section of the Lianghe River passes through the range of mountains.
There are countless monsters in the mountains, and I heard that there are big monsters deep in the mountains that are equivalent to the seventh and eighth realms of monks.
Anyway, Lin Ji estimated that in his fourth realm, he could wander around the outside of the mountain range.
"Want to go into the mountain?" Lin Ji looked at Lu Zhaoer.
"Come in." Lu Zhaoer nodded.
But she obviously also knew the risks of going into the mountains, so she added: "What I said at your house before was not a joke."
"Why did you mention this suddenly?" Lin Ji was a little surprised.
"I am the most troubled by indecisiveness. If you are really in danger, if nothing can be done, I will definitely run for my life without hesitation."
Lu Zhaoer said word by word: "On the other hand, if you can't save me if I'm in danger, don't waste time. It's important to save your life."
Lin Ji smiled, the atmosphere was too serious.
"Don't worry, I will definitely escape faster than you."
"This is the best." Lu Zhaoer did not smile, but walked into the mountains along the Lianghe River.
Lin Ji rubbed his hands in embarrassment and muttered: "This kind of personality is really cold."
"I can hear it!" Lu Zhaoer's voice came over.
Lin Ji slapped his forehead and followed quickly.
I forgot that this person is also in the fourth realm, and his hearing is not very good.
Taking two steps faster, Lin Ji quickly caught up with Lu Zhaoer and moved forward side by side with her.
Entering the mountain forest, a damp smell of decaying vegetation fills everything around you.
Every time I put my foot down, I feel the ground collapse.
This is a situation that occurs when leaves have fallen off over time and have been inaccessible for a long time.
We advanced through the forest for about half an hour.
Lin Ji casually caught the leech that had crawled onto his trouser legs at some point. After squeezing it to death, he frowned slightly and said, "Something's wrong."
"What?" Lu Zhaoer paused.
"It's too quiet, there shouldn't be only the sound of insects."
Upon hearing this, Lu Zhaoer also reacted.
"That's right! In this mountain forest, the night is when wild beasts are active. How come it's been half an hour and I haven't heard the roar of the Dingdian beast?"
"As soon as I entered the mountain, I used my spiritual sense to detect it. There were no living things around...except for insects, of course."
When Lin Ji said there were no living creatures, he even included the birds on the branches.
Lu Zhaoer quickly investigated and found that it was exactly what Lin Ji said.
She thought for a moment and then said hesitantly: "The birds and beasts in the mountains also know how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Maybe something happened here."
"And that happened not long ago," Lin Ji said.
But no matter what, the two of them still had to move on.
After walking forward for a while, an open space appeared in front of us.
In the open space, a huge pit appeared in front of them.
Both sides are full of broken trees.
Lin Ji and Lu Zhaoer quickly quickened their pace and came to the side of the pit.
"It's the monk's method, should Master Zhan take action?" Lu Zhaoer looked at Lin Ji.
"Yes, the big tree next to it is still fresh, and there are no traces of wind erosion and rain. It just happened in the past few days."
While talking, Lin Ji jumped into the pit again.
But just as his feet landed, there was a crisp sound.
Click.
"What?" Lu Zhaoer also jumped down when he heard the sound.
"I don't know." Lin Ji pushed away the soil with his feet.
Along with the soil that was pushed aside, there was also a decayed white bone.
The faces of the two suddenly became serious.
Lin Ji used the scabbard to dig for a while, but after digging two palms deep, the soil disappeared. Instead, there were countless bones and skeletons.
"This is the burial ground." Lin Ji took a deep breath of the smell of earth in the forest and continued digging.
Lu Zhaoer on the side also started to help.
After a while, a gap seven to eight feet long and wide was dug out.
A pair of withered bones were revealed, piled up haphazardly and exposed to the air.
"This is just the tip of the iceberg." Lin Ji frowned, "How come there is such a place to bury dead people here? And looking at these withered bones, they must have been dead for a long time... No wonder the trees in this area are so lush and their roots are
They’re all stretched out.”
"It's a mass grave from thousands of years ago."
"What mass grave?" Lin Ji asked puzzledly.
"The territory of Liangzhou was originally called the Liang Kingdom thousands of years ago and was destroyed by the Qin Dynasty." Lu Zhaoer said slowly, "This place should be one of the burial places after the country's annihilation war."
As he spoke, Lu Zhaoer pointed at the rotten clothes on the skeletons in the pit.
"There are clothes of Da Qin soldiers and Liang soldiers. You can't go wrong."
"That's it." Lin Ji suddenly realized.
"Were all the soldiers who died in battle buried in such a hurry?"
"Once a general has accomplished so much, it will be good if he can find a place to dig a hole and bury it." Lu Zhaoer said.
"Yes, one general can make a thousand bones wither." Lin Ji nodded.
After the two men buried the pit again, they continued to move forward.
Not long after walking along the river, there was a rock wall blocking the way forward.
The rock wall was not high, only a few dozen meters, but the Liang River bypassed the rock wall and flowed in another direction.
In the middle of the rock wall, there is a dark cave.
"Do you smell it?" Lin Ji looked at Lu Zhaoer again.
"I smell it." Lu Zhaoer stared at the cave.
The smell of blood that I smelled by the river before was not as good as here. It was obvious that the smell of blood was emanating from here.