Start into the abyss

Chapter 109 108. More money is needed, the cracks in the snow (4.4K words)
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The dull sound of hammers falling from time to time sounded, the blacksmith shop was steaming hot, and the scarlet hot sparks splashed everywhere, small, instantaneous, and dazzling in the ice and snow.

There were also people leading fat sheep through the dark dirt to the slaughterhouse in the distance.

And the slaughterhouse is also set up in the open air, and the sheep being skinned have long been hung on the iron hooks.

The sheep's head was drooping, its eyes were staring, looking into the distance, there was still fear in it, and its blood was falling drop by drop in the iron basin below, forming a brightly colored jelly.
This is just an ordinary town in the North, or a camp.

Since the beast riots, the country of ice and fire has been destroyed, and the area where people live has become narrower and narrower.

Bai Shan looked at the small camp, and a man with a beard happened to meet his gaze.

The bearded man was holding a wine bag in one hand, and was wiping off the wine stained on his beard with the other, but with inexplicable hatred in his pupils, he was staring at Bai Shan, the entire "Excalibur Battalion" army where Bai Shan was located, and Song Lengyang, Wei Chu and others
Even when he realized that Bai Shan was also looking at him, the bearded man didn't bow his head, but showed an inexplicable blood on his face, as if he wanted to be ruthless, but was quickly pulled away by others.

Bai Shan scanned again, and in the entire camp, there was no one who came into contact with him with good intentions.

It seems that there is a blood feud.

"What happened to them?" Bai Shan asked the second brother-in-law beside him.

Song Lengyang narrowed his eyes and said, "It's just a little misunderstanding."

Bai Shan lowered his voice and asked, "What misunderstanding?"

Song Lengyang scanned the surroundings and said: "They mistakenly think that the disaster in the Ice and Fire Kingdom was brought about by us, they are really ignorant!!"

After finishing speaking, the second brother-in-law raised his hand and pressed the iron-like rapier at his waist, and walked forward quickly.

Bai Shan walked with him, but glanced at the town again.

He could see that in this small town, even the children were staring at them fiercely.

After a while, the team passed through several camps and arrived at the camp where the Lord of Ice and Fire Nation was.

The Divine Sword Camp set up camp outside, while Song Lengyang entered the camp together with two royal priests.

Bai Shan, Wei Chu and the two sect disciples who came to carry out the task were wandering outside.

Wei Chu walked to Bai Shan's side and said with a smile, "Young Master Bai is really lucky."

Bai Shan said casually: "It can't be compared to Mr. Wei's elegant demeanor."

Wei Chu said with a smile: "Young Master Bai, please don't laugh at me. Mrs. Bai and I have only known each other since we were young. So please don't hold any rift in your heart, Mr. Bai.

In the past, Mrs. Bai and I were good friends, and we can also be good friends in the future.

Besides, you and I are both from the Qingyun Sect, isn't there still a feeling of fellowship? "

When he spoke, his expression was serious, full of sincere feelings, and it was impossible for people to suspect that there were other dark purposes in what he said.

Bai Shan said: "I didn't say anything about Ningning."

Wei Chu said: "But I need to explain this matter clearly to you, Mr. Bai, so as not to bury me in your heart."

Bai Shan smiled, it seems that this son of Xinling Hou's family also knows Ning Ning's character very well.

However, he didn't plan to do anything at all, so he said, "It never happened."

Wei Chu said: "Really?"

"really."

"Then when I return to the capital, if I invite Mr. Bai to play in the Jiaofang Division, Mr. Bai must not refuse."

"I don't go to that kind of place."

"And you said you didn't bury me?"

The two were talking, when suddenly there was an angry roar from the camp not far away.

Both of them are masters, even if they are a little far away, they can hear clearly.

The roar was erupted by the Lord of the Ice and Fire Kingdom.

It's still a big talk.

"We don't want to!

We have paid enough, and it is absolutely impossible to use the lives of the remaining soldiers to explore!
The beast horde here is terrible, their lives are not their lives!

You go to yourselves! "

Bai Shan and Wei Chu looked at each other.

However, both of them are obviously newcomers, and they don't know much about the situation.

However, the voice of the lord of the Ice and Fire Nation quickly subsided.

There seemed to be some kind of whispering in the camp that was hard for outsiders to hear.

After a stick of incense, Song Lengyang came out with two priests, and two disciples from the Baishan Weichu sect went up to meet him.

Wei Chu asked, "Brother Song, isn't everything going well?"

Song Lengyang shook his head: "It went well."

"Huh?" Wei Chu was confused.

Baishan is also inexplicable.

The two clearly heard the anger of the Lord of the Ice and Fire Kingdom just now, so how did it go smoothly?

Song Lengyang didn't say much, he just led the people to the "Excalibur Camp", and then said: "Today they sent people to investigate, and after the investigation, we have the latest information, and we will start tomorrow morning."

really
Not long after, a team of 600 people lined up in the camp where the Ice and Fire Nation was located.

Although these people did not have the spirit of the Excalibur Battalion, they were all strong and strong, holding weapons like giant axes, and looked very fierce.

Afterwards, the group headed northeast.

Bai Shan was standing on a high slope with Song Lengyang, watching these people go away.

Song Lengyang suddenly said: "Do you know what happened just now?"

Bai Shan shook his head, "I only heard that the lord was angry and refused, but I didn't expect to agree so easily."

Song Lengyang smiled and said: "He is not yelling, he wants to increase the money."

"Add money?"

"He thought that after this time, he would follow us back to Daqian, and then the emperor would give him a title.

And his Ice and Fire Nation's number one expert, King Ji Ye, hopes to become my royal enshrinement, and then have the opportunity to read the second-level spells and exercises.

The matter of the throne and the matter of the royal enshrining, the emperor has long agreed.

However, even if Qingyun Sect doesn't have any second-level spells, I only promise to try my best to get them.

Even so, though, they both agreed.

Then the impossible becomes possible.

Soldiers who could no longer consume their lives were sent out.

However, the situation around Shiling Mine is very complicated and constantly changing, and the previous information is useless. If we don't want to sacrifice for no reason, we must have someone to investigate.

So, we are scouts for monks, and they are our scouts. "

After hearing this, Bai Shan fell silent.

It's also fortunate that my brother-in-law is here, and if I were someone else, I would definitely not talk to him about this.

And my brother-in-law really regarded him as his own family.

Song Lengyang asked suddenly: "Are you going back to the boat tonight?"

Bai Shan nodded.

Song Lengyang said: "Then you go back earlier, it won't be safe when it gets dark, don't make Ningning worry too much."

Bai Shan smiled and said: "It's fine when it's dark, I'll stay here a little longer, after all, I'm here to carry out a mission."

Song Lengyang said: "There must be nothing to do today, just wait for the news, we need to explore tomorrow. When the time comes, you have to come early."

"That's fine, I'll go first." Bai Shan turned around and left the camp.

The next day.

It is rare for the northern part of the Ice and Fire Country to clear the sky.

early in the morning.
When Baishan returned, Song Lengyang was talking to Guo Shouhe: "Old Guo, let's go to investigate today first, and let you bring someone over after we have discovered something famous."

The brawny man in armor said: "Okay, I'll follow your arrangement, and I will worship you in Song Dynasty."

After Song Lengyang finished speaking, he saw Baishan approaching and said, "You came just in time, we are preparing to leave."

Bai Shan took a glance, and beside Song Lengyang were Wei Chu and four other marrow-cleaning warriors.

He approached and said, "How's the situation?"

Song Lengyang said: "Talk while walking."

After an hour,

The seven people followed a forest path to a canyon.

The canyon is covered with glaciers.

Song Lengyang took out the map and said: "Further forward, two kilometers away in a straight line is the location of Shiling Mine.

However, the road ahead has become a maze, and the mountains and woods are not bad.

But there are many deep ditches in the snow, and there is a danger of stepping on the air and falling. These dangers are nothing to you, but you still have to be careful.

Because, there are still some weird beasts hiding in the snow, as well as first-order monsters that may be eyeing us.

Yesterday, those people from Ice and Fire Kingdom lost more than 300 people before they helped us explore some safe areas, but we need to explore the rest by ourselves.

Everyone, let's look at the map first. "

A group of people immediately surrounded them, and saw many red figures marked on the map, some unknown monsters in red, some black ink lines, some monsters were crossed, some were not marked, and some were red. question mark.
The red is a little mottled, and it looks like it was painted with human blood.

And numbers are written next to each pattern.

Song Lengyang stretched out his finger and said: "The crossed monster means it has been solved;
Those who didn't fight meant that they couldn't fight and could only barely escape;

The red question mark means that he didn't even see how he died, so he could only escape;
The black ink means that there are ravines in the ground, and these ravines are newly created, not before.

As for those numbers, it is the number of people who died somewhere.

Then, there are two obvious fork roads here, both of which lead to the Shiling Mine. What we have to do is to pick one to check first, and the other tomorrow. "

A sect disciple said: "Song Gongfeng, wouldn't it be good if we split into two groups?"

Song Lengyang gave him a cold look and asked, "Do you want to die?"

That sect disciple is usually a high-ranking master, and when he heard such a rush, he immediately became angry, but Wei Chu laughed and stepped forward and said: "This place is dangerous, if we separate, it will be easily wiped out, Brother Song Is it out of this consideration?"

Song Lengyang nodded.

Such an interruption can be regarded as a roundabout.

Everyone calm down, the next step is to choose a route.

The extension of this fork in the road has already been explored.

The two roads are also clear at a glance, one has more "black ink lines" on the outside, and the other has more red monster graphics.

A sect disciple said: "This distribution is very strange. Are the monsters avoiding the black underground ravine?"

Another priest said: "Maybe it's just a simple fear of stepping on the air and falling, so I avoided it."

The sect disciple said: "Then how deep is this gully? How could such a deep gully be formed?"

Everyone was speechless.

After some discussion, everyone still chose the path with more "black ink lines".

The reason is simple, this path only needs to be careful, while the other requires killing blood.

If you can reach Shiling Mine through the fork in the "black ink line", the mission will be directly accomplished.

Seeing that everyone had chosen, Song Lengyang put away the map.

Everyone entered the canyon and went to the left.

After a period of careful walking.
Suddenly, a disciple of the sect exclaimed, his body sank suddenly, but he fell less than half a foot away, and the disciple spun up, like a kite flying out of the snow deftly, carrying There was countless snow and dust.

Snapped.

The disciple landed on the ground, saw the eyes of everyone, and said: "It's okay, I just encountered a small ditch."

Song Lengyang walked over and moved his palm suddenly. Under the palm, the snow piled up like a wave, revealing a crack about two meters long and half a meter wide.

It was dark under the crack, and I didn't know how deep it was.

Song Lengyang squinted at the cave, raised his hand to grab the thin sword at his waist, and said to the one beside him: "Throw something down and have a look."

The priest responded, bowed his head to find a fist-sized stone, and came to the cave.

Everyone else was on guard.

Bai Shan also stared intently at the crack. For some reason, he always thought of some movies he had watched in his previous life. Some cracked the ground and many monsters flew out of it, and some cracked the wall and evil ghosts crawled out of it.
At this time, the surroundings were so bright that people who were shaking were almost blind. Coupled with this quiet atmosphere, it really had a "sparkling" atmosphere.

He took a silent breath.

The atmosphere suddenly became tense.

brush!
The offering threw stones.

Stones fall into crevices.

clap clap clap.
pop
Snapped.
The impact sound is from dense to scattered, the interval is longer and deeper, but also deeper.
Until the sound disappeared from everyone's ears, no one heard the last landing sound.

"It's so deep." Wei Chu couldn't help but marvel, his left hand was tightly clutching the yellow gourd around his waist, but his right hand was tucked into his sleeve and he didn't know what to grasp, obviously he was ready to fight.

Song Lengyang sighed softly: "If it's only deep, then it's okay."

Wei Chu was stunned for a moment, and then his expression became more solemn.

Song Lengyang said: "Go ahead."

Everyone walked forward for a while, and encountered several "falling" incidents during this period, but no matter who encountered them, they escaped lightly with their movements.

After half an hour, everyone finally came to a black ink line.

A bloody "18" and a "question mark" were marked on the ink line, which indicated that [-] soldiers from the Ice and Fire Nation had died here, and an incomprehensible incident had also occurred.

Compared with the previous "1" or "2", this "18" and "question mark" are extremely dazzling and penetrating.

Also, this is the last ink line marked on the map.

Song Lengyang said: "There must be something weird about this ravine, let's go around it."

Everyone nodded and became more vigilant.

Although it takes some time to make a detour, and there are mostly mountain walls on both sides of the gully, it is very easy for everyone.

Soon, everyone went around.

Just walking forward for a minute or two, a sudden exclamation came.

The exclamation lasted only half a second before it turned into a deeper and deeper scream.

Everyone hastily followed the sound, but they couldn't see anyone
Obviously, people have fallen into the rift and cannot come back.

Several people looked at each other, and the one who fell was a sect disciple.

No matter how you say this disciple is at the marrow washing level, let alone a hole. Even if he is thrown from the cliff, he may be able to climb back through the stone wall.

In other words, if it were them, the result would probably be similar.

Song Lengyang's Adam's apple rolled, and he shouted: "Don't move, don't take a step!"

Immediately, he said again: "Wei Chu, try the bean soldiers in your gourd!"

Wei Chu spread his right hand, and three low-grade spirit stones rolled out from his sleeve. He grabbed this high-grade spirit stone, and then grabbed a yellow talisman.

This is the magic spell.

Wei Chu guided the aura in the spirit stone with his finger, and slapped it towards the center of the talisman, creating a connection between the spirit gathering talisman and the three low-grade spirit stones.

The next moment, a swirling mist suddenly appeared.

Wei Chu tore off the yellow gourd from his waist, murmured something, then snapped open the stopper of the gourd, held it high and dumped it down.

Suddenly, little beans jumped out of the gourd one by one.

When they see the wind, they grow, and when they land, they become "faceless stickmen" who are half a foot tall.

Following Wei Chu's thoughts, these "faceless stick figures" explored the surrounding snow fields.

Wei Chu's [Spirit Gathering Jue] has been cultivated to the fourth level. Although he can't store spiritual energy by himself, he can use the "Spirit Gathering Talisman" to extract the spiritual energy in the spirit stone, so as to use the first-level magic weapon.

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