"Did you find anything over there?" Li Xingchen shouted to him in as low a voice as possible.
The bamboo forest spreads endlessly into the distance. In some places, the bamboos are so dense that it is impossible to pass through them. These bamboos are like walls. Except for the road that Li Xingchen and the others came from before, there is no way to pass through them.
Don't give this mountain creature any other choice.
Li Xingchen couldn't help but sigh. No wonder the village has been able to exist peacefully for so long in this troubled world. The bamboos around it are actually a good natural barrier. It is impossible for outsiders to reach the village without the guidance of villagers.
Of course, the premise of all this is that outsiders have no weapons in their hands.
As long as the sword is sharp enough, what do these bamboos mean?
At this moment, Song Fei let out a low cry, which frightened Li Xingchen and the others half to death. The various guys in their hands almost greeted him. It wasn't until they saw Song Fei's gestures clearly that the few of them relaxed easily.
He took a breath and tiptoed over, trying not to step on the dead branches and leaves under his feet to avoid making too much noise.
Behind a few bamboos, many bamboos were cut down directly, so a road was cut, leading straight to the mountainside. The reason why the bamboos outside are placed here is naturally to provide a shielding effect on the mountain road outside.
If people who come and go are not searching carefully, they will not discover the mystery inside even if they walk by these bamboos.
"This... this is heading towards the village!" Song Fei subconsciously wanted to walk along this road, but was quickly stopped by Li Xingchen's quick eyesight and hands.
"Brother Chen!" Song Fei was startled for a moment, but saw Li Xingchen picking up a few stones and throwing them into the road. Song Fei and the others vaguely understood something, and subconsciously held their breath. There was only the sound of the howling wind in the entire mountain.
and the rustling of bamboo leaves.
The stones fell to the ground one after another, making intermittent dull sounds, but there was no movement around. Li Xingchen frowned, and then said in a deep voice: "There should be no traps, but everyone should try to be careful and not panic."
Sein Fei and others took a deep breath. Obviously, the situation before them had exceeded their expectations. No one expected that they were so close to these thieves.
Although they usually grow up in the mountains and have often fought with wild beasts in the mountains since they were young. Even if they encounter large beasts such as wild boars and cannot defeat them, they still have the ability to escape. However, this does not mean that Seinfeld and the others have the ability to compete with the enemy.
After all, they are still young and grew up in this uncontested mountain wilderness. They can't even understand why they want to fight and kill. Naturally, they can't understand what these bandits are doing now.
For them, they never imagined that one day they would face the threat of an enemy.
Seeing that there was no movement in the mountain road, Li Xingchen took the lead and took a step forward. The mountain road was not spacious. It could be seen that it was a road cut with knives and axes. It could only allow one or two people to walk side by side, and the mountain road was
There were no traps laid out, which shows that the thieves worked hard to find this path when they came. It also shows that there were not many thieves who came, and most likely they were sentinels or vanguards.
This is what really makes Li Xingchen breathe a sigh of relief. There are a lot of young and middle-aged people in the village, and every household has more or less sickles. If they are just scouts or forwards, there is a good chance that they are in the village.
If we were to set up camp or conduct reconnaissance outside, we wouldn't attack the village in such a hurry.
After all, in these troubled times, older people are still quite vigilant. With just a vanguard or sentry, even if these bandits have three heads and six arms, it will be difficult for them to do anything to the village.
Li Xingchen suddenly remembered something, paused, turned around and whispered: "Go quickly and clean up all the footprints and other things we left in the open space!"
Although he didn't know where these bandits came from and what they wanted to do to the village, looking at the traces they left today, Li Xingchen understood that these bandits were at least a potential threat to the village. And these mountain bandits were at least a potential threat to the village.
The thieves opened roads in the mountains instead of taking the main road, and even specially disguised the roads they opened, which made Li Xingchen wary.
All this can already explain what these bandits are running for, and it can also prove that these bandits are definitely not just a bunch of people. On the one hand, there may be experts to guide them, and on the other hand, it is possible that these bandits are really
As the villagers said, it was a group of broken armies.
Even if they are some stragglers, they are at least an army, and the combat qualities they displayed by opening this mountain road cannot help but make Li Xingchen take notice. More importantly, the villagers in the village, even if they are young and middle-aged, are facing some soldiers.
Hey, it’s hard to have the strength to fight!
Once their large forces are allowed to rush into the village, this peaceful mountain village may be destroyed.
It was precisely because these bandits were probably soldiers and gangsters that Li Xingchen quickly asked Song Fei and others to clean up the footprints left by them as much as possible. Otherwise, even if they walked along this road, they would be able to
If you escape unscathed, it is very likely that your footprints will attract the attention of the enemy. Not to mention that these seemingly shrewd bandits will know that your whereabouts are exposed, and they are more likely to speed up their attack on the village.
What Li Xingchen has to do now is to try to buy time for the village. Even if there is no resistance in the village, at least there is the option of hiding.
"Brother Chen, after cleaning it up, nothing should be visible. We also covered the footprints on the mud with leaves!" Li Qiu walked over quickly and said in a low voice. Zheng Qing and Song Fei also came over cautiously.
, for fear of making too much noise.
When it comes to fighting these bandits, Sein Fei and the others are not good at it, but when it comes to hiding their traces, no one dares to say that these young guys who were born as hunters in the mountains and have been jumping around in the mountains since they were born dare to take second place.
First, concealing traces is an easy task for a hunter who may encounter prey at any time.
So just now Li Xingchen directly handed over this matter to them.
"Follow me, be careful." Li Xingchen said softly, stepping forward slowly, paying great attention to the changes in the pace under his feet. There are many dead branches and leaves in the deep mountains and old forests, and stepping on them may cause noise.
, In the silent empty mountain, any crisp sound of "click" may cause chaos on the entire mountain.
Although Li Xingchen is a time traveler, fortunately, the memory of the previous Li Xingchen is still there, so he can quickly master the necessary skills to survive in the mountains. Behind him, Sein Fei and the others are obviously not facing such a situation for the first time.
He cautiously looked around and followed Li Xingchen, choosing a place where there were no dead branches or leaves to step on. If that didn't work, he would just push the branches and leaves aside with his hands or use his feet.
And as we moved forward step by step, the entire mountain road became narrow again.