After listening to the story told by Okita Sakura, Lawrence and the others immediately became excited. Because after many twists and turns, the whole thing finally allowed everyone to see the dawn of success.
So after leaving the laboratory, they hurriedly ate a bowl of ramen at a nearby noodle shop to fill their stomachs. Then they took a public carriage operating in the city and rushed to the building not far from where Okita Sakura mentioned.
On the road closest to the mountain.
"Does it feel like there is no difference between this mountain and the surrounding mountains?" Saifeir sighed after getting off the car and looking at the surrounding mountains.
Lawrence felt that Saifei's feeling was correct, because he was standing here and didn't realize that the hill in front of him had any special features, whether it was the height of the mountain or the shape of the mountain. The green masson pine trees formed a large area.
Masson pine forests cover all the surrounding hills like a green blanket.
"Yes, there is indeed no difference from a distance." Okita Sakura nodded, and then led everyone towards the mountain, saying at the same time. "But if you walk into the forest, it is easy to see through careful observation.
What is the difference between this hill and the surrounding hills?"
"——This mountain is different from other mountains because I discovered it when I was a child. At that time, some people from the surrounding villages would come to this forest to pick up pine cones to obtain pine nuts when the pine cones matured, and they would also look for those hidden in the pine trees.
Poria cocos at the root. And after I learned swordsmanship from my master, I went further than others, so I discovered that there is something about this mountain that is different from all the surrounding mountains."
Listening to Okita Sakura's introduction, Lawrence and the others slowly climbed up the hillside, stepping on the soft pine needles on the ground. After walking for more than ten minutes, they heard the sound of gurgling water in front of them.
"The next road may not be easy to walk. I think this is why I was the only one who discovered that there are a lot of centipede grass here before." Okita Sakura said and led everyone through a small bush, and then turned around an upper
A flat boulder. In an instant, a valley appeared in front of the four people, and under the valley was a creek more than three meters wide.
"It's over there." Okita Sakura seemed much more lively when she entered the forest, probably recalling the carefree time when she was young. She stepped on the sunken part of the big stone next to her and jumped up with all her strength.
After looking around, he pointed to a five or six-meter-high cliff on the opposite side of the valley. "I remember that cliff. The thing we are looking for is on the cliff."
Lawrence looked where she pointed, and saw a white mountain wall in front of him. No wonder Sakura Okita came here two or three years ago, but she still recognized it this time, because it was
The white stone of the cliff looks particularly conspicuous in the surrounding green mountain forest.
The reason why others don't go there is also very simple. After all, people from the surrounding fishing villages come here mainly to collect some specialties such as pine nuts, bark, and resin as a sideline business. Even if the surrounding relatively safe mountain forests are only the outer area
They are not too young. They can easily collect what they want. There is no need to suffer and go deep into the mountains and forests, and then risk their lives to climb the four or five-story cliff.
Not to mention that you can see from the heights of the river that the top of the cliff is just a masson pine forest that is not much different from other places. Moreover, from such a distance, those woods may look better than the surrounding ones because the soil on the mountain is too poor.
The woods were a lot withered, so naturally no one went up there.
The terrain here is indeed harsh for ordinary people, but it does not pose a big obstacle to extraordinary people. Soon, several people crossed the river and valley, and then simply climbed up the cliff using ropes.
After Saphire went to the top of the cliff and pulled Lawrence up to the small cliff, he found that the top of the cliff was a pine forest that looked very flat. However, it may be because of the strong wind on the mountain that there was no pine forest on the ground.
There is no thick layer of pine needles like at the foot of the mountain, but a lot of green grass growing there.
"This is centipede grass." Sakura Okita leaned over and picked off a feather-like blade of grass and said, "This is the only place I've ever seen such a concentration of centipede grass, but back then I was only on the edge of a cliff.
After looking at it, I went down without looking for this place properly."
"Of course, another reason why I didn't search here was that it was almost dark when I came up, and a large group of wild quilts kept rushing towards my face. In desperation, I had no choice but to go down quickly. After all, there wasn't much up there at that time.
The pine cone I’m looking for.”
"Then let's search this place today." Lawrence looked at this hilltop platform that was about the size of three or four football fields. "I have a hunch that we will find something very critical to us here."
something.”
Since becoming an official warlock, Lawrence feels that his premonition ability has become much stronger. It may be that Bai Ze's ability to seek good fortune and avoid evil is slowly emerging as his bloodline is awakened little by little. And this time
After climbing the cliff, Lawrence felt that something good was going to happen.
In addition to his intuitive feeling, Lawrence found that the view from the edge of the mountain top was very good. He could see all the way to the seaside, especially he could clearly see every move on the beach where Lawrence and the others were when they salvaged those things.
For example, now they could see the flat-bottomed barge leaning against the shore, and several people were carrying the things they had salvaged before onto the boat.
Thinking about it, if that person was obsessed with the things on the shipwreck and wanted to salvage it, and there was a patrol near the beach, then it would be very reasonable to find a place where the beach could be observed but people on the beach could not observe it, and wait for the opportunity.
of.
"I hope what you said is true." Saphire raised his hand and patted Lawrence on the shoulder, and then walked into the woods with everyone. Compared with the woods below the mountain, the only characteristic of this woods is that it is high.
It is relatively high, and there are no wind-blocking obstacles around it, so the pine needles will be blown away by the mountain wind before they fall to the ground. This makes it much easier to search for things that may be hidden.
Sure enough, more than ten minutes later, Zhu Yan's voice came out from a bush. "I found a strange cave. Come over and see if it is what we are looking for."
Hearing this, Lawrence and the others who had dispersed to search immediately rushed to where Zhu Yan was now. They saw Zhu Yan squatting on the ground. There was a stone slab in front of him that had just been uncovered, and under the stone slab there was a one meter in diameter.
Many caves.
"This bare stone slab was too conspicuous on the grass, so when I saw it, I stretched out my foot and stepped on the stone slab, and found that it was empty under the stone slab." After everyone gathered around, Zhu Yan said
I started the process of discovering something was wrong here.
"It can be seen that there should be some turf on top of this stone slab as a camouflage at the earliest, but it is obvious that centipede grass cannot be grown normally on the stone slab. So after a long time, only this one is left that obviously does not match the surrounding environment.
It’s a slate.”
"Let me see what's under here?" Lawrence said, taking out a stack of paper pieces cut into human shapes from the space bag, injecting them with magic power, and then threw the pieces of paper into the air.
These paper figures flew up and came to life under the influence of magic, and then floated into the cave in a row. Lawrence stood at the entrance of the cave and directed these paper figures.
"There is indeed something unusual about this place." After controlling the paper man to float into the cave, Lawrence soon discovered what was unique about this cave. "I saw a broken wooden ladder."
"Awesome!" Zhu Yan and Okita Sakura happily clapped their hands in celebration, because in such a wilderness, other than the target they were looking for, no one else would be free to build a secret base in such a place.