bayedsolid Chapter 346: Determined to Enter the Beast Mountain
Chapter 346: Determined to Enter the Beast Mountain
The stars are clearly there, but when you look closely, they flicker and disappear; they feel like they are right in front of you, but when you reach out to grab them, you just can't reach them.
Chu Xiaomu started to chase, grab, and pick the stars... Occasionally, he would pick a few or a dozen stars, but when he opened his palms again, his palms were empty... He was extremely annoyed and wanted to give up, but the stars appeared around him again, twinkling and very tempting. At this time, he couldn't help but chase and grab again...
Fortunately, he did not feel tired at all inside. No matter how long he ran, how high he jumped, or how hard he exerted, he did not feel tired. It seemed as if he had endless energy.
The next day, after washing up with the mountain spring, Chu Xiaomu arranged for everyone to patrol the border as usual.
Zhang Hou said, "Mu Tou, I think you are wasting your time. The Sha people have already entered Bicheng and the beacon fires have been lit. What's the point of us patrolling the border?"
Chu Xiaomu did not argue with him and said, "It's okay if you don't go to patrol the border. It just so happens that the oil root grass and thick fur grass used as beacon fire have all been burned. You just need to prepare these two things today."
Digging oil-root grass and cutting thick fur grass are much more tiring than walking and patrolling the border. Zhang Hou naturally would not agree and said, "No, how can I, Zhang, do all this easy work alone? No, no, I can't take advantage of this. If we have to do it, we should all work together, especially the eight of you who can share more."
Everyone said, "You are thick-skinned and good at accounting. Why don't you become an accountant?"
Chu Xiaomu was still leading Zhou Weide, Zhou Weiyi, and Zhang Hou to patrol the border. When they reached the place where Yan Zhua and others' footprints were found, Chu Xiaomu couldn't help but squat down to look again. A few days had passed, and the footprints left behind were more difficult to distinguish than before. Fortunately, Yan Zhua was tall and his feet were surprisingly large, so the weeds he trampled down had not yet fully grown. Chu Xiaomu and the other three checked for a while before they found that these footprints were actually walking diagonally down from a ridge of Gusong Ridge.
Looking at the Beast Mountain where the trees were gradually becoming denser, Chu Xiaomu seemed to be thinking about something.
The patrol found nothing unusual. When we returned to the camp, it was already late. Wangang's team had just returned. Everyone prepared food and talked while eating.
Wangang said, "Xiaomu, I think we really don't need to patrol the border."
"Why?" Chu Xiaomu asked.
"Today we kept heading west and arrived at the junction with the previous team, but we did not encounter any of their troops."
"Is this strange? You've encountered this before?"
Wangang nodded and said, "Although I can't see it every time, I can see it eight out of ten times."
"That's right, maybe it just happened to be the wrong time today."
"Absolutely not. We went there early today and waited there for almost half an hour, but we didn't see them coming. We discussed it and decided to go to their camp to take a look..."
Lin Zhen took over the conversation: "You won't know until you see it. I was shocked. There was no one at the place where they camped. Even the tents were removed, and the beacon fires were burned..."
"Have all the tents been moved away?" Chu Xiaomu began to get really worried.
Wangang said, "Yes, the tents have all been moved away. At first I thought that was not their camp, but when I looked around I couldn't find any other camp. And we found a lot of footprints of people and horses, which means they must have been walking in and out of that place often, so it is definitely their camp."
Zhou Weide said impatiently: "Brother Xiaogang, you are beating around the bush just to say that the other teams have withdrawn. Why bother to say the last sentence?"
Wangang nodded and said, "That's what I mean."
Chu Xiaomu thought that the other scout teams had already withdrawn, and he guessed that something big had happened to the Nanding Army, and this big thing was most likely that the Chisha Kingdom was preparing to attack or was attacking Humu Pass. The nine people in his group were escorted back to Bicheng because of the Dongxi Village incident, so they did not receive any news. He couldn't help but sighed, thinking that he and his group had never become real Bicheng soldiers.
When everyone saw him talking with a frown on his face, they all felt strange and looked at him, waiting for him to speak.
Chu Xiaomu suddenly had a bold idea and said, "This place is too far from Nanding Army, why don't we go to Dongzhong Army!"
Everyone stared at him with wide eyes and started asking questions at once.
"why?"
"Are you going to rebel?"
"Why do you suddenly want to go to Dongzhong Army?"
"Do you want to go see Yu Aqi?"
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Chu Xiaomu couldn't hide it any longer, so he simply told him that Huang Jieshi asked him to find "Bujian Peak". Finally, he said, "Huang Jieshi said that this matter is very important and it concerns the safety of the people of the world. From what the general said, Bujian Peak should be near the place where Yanzhua and the others passed through the Beast Mountain. Maybe it's not too far from here. As long as we find the road they took, we should be able to find Bujian Peak. So we can't go back to Nanding Army."
When everyone heard him say that this matter was so important, they all fell silent. They thought to themselves, we were slaves a year ago, our status was very low. Even though we have joined the Green City Army now, we are just a few small soldiers with no ability and no status. How can we be responsible for such a big thing as "the safety of the people of the world"?
Lin Zhen said: "My father, grandfather, and even great-grandfather have been traveling all over the country for dozens or hundreds of years, either to the Snow Country or the Red Sand Country, and even to the Dragon Snake Island in the Water Country, but I have never heard them mention a place called 'Busting Peak'."
Wu Sheng said: "When you were born, your great-grandfather had been dead for decades. Even if he knew, he couldn't tell you." Everyone knew that he liked to argue, so they ignored him.
Wang Gang also said: "We are afraid that we can't handle such a big thing... I think we should return to Nanding Army."
Last year, Zhou Wei De had eaten the Wood Spirit Fruit once when he went into the Beast Mountain with his previous reincarnation, and he had been thinking about it ever since. When he heard that they were going to go into the Beast Mountain to look for the Invisible Peak, he naturally agreed completely, thinking that if he could come across magical fruits like the Wood Spirit Fruit again, he would definitely eat a few more. Moreover, he was very dissatisfied with Zhou Bo and Xiao Zhenrong, so he was extremely reluctant to return to Nanding Army.
Some of the nine people said that they should trust Huang Jieshi to go find Bu Jianfeng, while others said that they should first return to Nanding Army and listen to the arrangements of the central army or battalion officers. They argued endlessly for a while.
Chu Xiaomu said, "How about this, those who are willing to go with me to Beast Mountain to find the Black Miasma Ancient Road can sit next to me, and those who are willing to return to Nanding Army can sit behind Brother Xiaogang."
Everyone also thought that this was a good idea, so they stood up and chose to support the side they wanted, just like the night before they fled to Jiaoshan and parted ways with Gao Yijue and others.