She threw the corpses of the bandits directly on the road without caring about them. She asked Chou Chou to clean up the footprints on the ground and try to leave no traces.
She had just paid attention and moved quickly when she started, so there was almost no blood on her body and her shoes were clean.
Speaking of shoes, the shoes she is wearing now are the two pairs of going out shoes that Mrs. Xue prepared for her to match the two sets of clothes.
In fact, it was a little inappropriate to wear them at this time, because they were worn in the summer, and the shoes were made of satin. Not to mention they were a little cold, not very strong, and they were a bit painful on the bumpy road.
Although they are shoes for going out, the soles are actually not that thick. After all, they are worn by ladies.
She originally planned to go to the county to buy two more pairs of shoes. She really didn't know how to sew clothes and make shoes, so she could only buy ready-made ones.
While driving the carriage south along the branch road, Chou Chou swept away the wheel marks behind it.
This is easier to do, Chou Chou did it easily with his spiritual consciousness.
When she reached the grove she saw before, Qingyan thought for a moment and said, "Chou Chou, why don't we go to the village in a hurry? It's already noon. If there's nothing to eat in the village, we can go there by ourselves. It's not convenient to make or take it out, so I might as well eat it outside first and then go there.
If we can stay overnight, we can have a meal at a villager's house in the evening. If not, we can go to the mountains to find a way to save time. "
"Okay, then let's have lunch in this forest and take a rest."
It doesn't matter if you are ugly or not, you can do whatever you want. There are also little leopards and horses to feed, especially the little leopard, which is already hungry and starts to rub against it.
Qingyan didn't intend to expose the little leopard in front of people. When she went to the village, she would just put it in her bag and secretly feed it some food and make it convenient for her.
She didn't want to have too many contacts with other people, and she would stay with a relatively well-off family, even one with vacancies. If there were no vacancies, she wouldn't stay. Even if it was a girl, she wouldn't want to stay. Live with others.
Not to mention Chou Chou and Little Leopard, I also don’t like sleeping with strangers and feel insecure.
After driving the carriage into the woods, I don't know why there is a relatively wide passage in the middle of the trees. Although there are many weeds, the carriage can pass through.
She drove the car to a more central location so that it was basically invisible from the outside. People who come out from the other side of the mountain at night cannot be seen clearly unless they walk up to them.
"Chou Chou, do you think there are any wild animals in this forest? Generally speaking, there should be wild rabbits, right?"
Chou Chou scanned it with his consciousness and said: "Yes, there are some, but not many. It must be due to the season. They are all in the hole. If you want to eat, I will get one out for you."
Qingyan shook her head, "No, we still have the vegetables we packed before. We can eat those first. The rabbit needs to be cooked fresh and lit on fire in the woods. Will this unidentified way let people know that there is someone here?"
She just asked out of curiosity. As long as there are wild animals, she won't worry. There are them in the woods, which means there will be them in the mountains too.
I found a relatively flat place, felt the wind direction, looked at the distance between the trees, and asked Chou Chou to take out a piece of plastic sheet from the space and tie it between the two trees to block the wind and save time while eating. Comfortable.
He still took out the big wooden basin from before and placed it on the ground as a table, and the small wooden basin as a bench. Then he washed his hands and took out the leftover vegetables and sesame cakes from yesterday to eat.
After eating a sesame seed cake, I drank a bowl of millet porridge, and then I ate an apple. There was no room left in my stomach.
She was not in a hurry to leave anyway, so Qingyan asked Chou Chou to put away her things first, "Do you want to take a walk together to eat something?"
Chou Chou shook his head, and after collecting his things, he lay down on the carriage, "I don't need to eat. If I have that time, I might as well lie down for a while."
Since it didn't want to move, Qingyan had no choice but to walk toward the east of the forest with the little leopard, which was also full.
She didn't know why, but she wanted to go over there and have a look, as if something was calling.
Of course, this feeling is not strong, it is just a sixth sense.
Her steps were not urgent, she just walked forward leisurely.
The leaves in the woods have turned yellow. Although there are still many hanging on the trees and have not completely fallen off, there is already a layer on the ground.
The little leopard found it very funny when he stepped on the leaves, making a crunching sound. He kept running back and forth on them, and even deliberately jumped to the thicker places where the leaves were piled up, causing the broken leaves to fly around and touch the fur. There was a lot of it, and he shook his body vigorously and shook his hair.
Qingyan looked at it funny and didn't care about it. The little Zai Zai just wanted to be more lively. Because there was a carport blocking the road, the little leopard never got into the satchel, so it was not aggrieved and felt more lively than before. Quite a few.
One person and one leopard strolled until they reached the other end of the woods before stopping. Looking back, they saw that the carriage was no longer in sight. They had gone quite far without realizing it.
Looking back, she saw a very ordinary wasteland in front of her. It was no different from what she had encountered before. But Qingyan always felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't tell what was wrong.
I had to call Chou Chou in my mind to see if it could find anything.
Hearing her call, Chou Chou ran over through the space without replying and landed on her shoulder.
Seeing Chou Chou arriving instantly, Qingyan was stunned, "So fast? Did you follow me into the space?"
Chou Chou nodded and shook his head. I heard you calling me. I was afraid that there was something urgent on your side and I came here through space. "
Qingyan's eyes widened, "Have you recovered a little? Now the space is the same as the one in Xiangxiang. Can you go to another place through space?"
Chou Chou continued to shake his head, "That's not the case. It only needs to be within the coverage of my spiritual consciousness. Xiangxiang can go to all over the world, and it's still far behind."
Although it doesn't want to admit it, it still knows the gap between itself and Xiangxiang.
It didn't want to discuss this, so it changed the subject and said, "Why did you ask me to come here?"
Qingyan pointed to the open space in front of her and said to it: "Look at this open space with your spiritual consciousness. I always feel that there is something wrong here, but I can't tell what the problem is. It's obviously not much different from other places. It's all a piece of land." Huangcao, anyway, he has an intuition that this place is a little different."
Chou Shanyan immediately looked over with his spiritual consciousness. There was nothing different on the ground, just some weeds and the occasional small stone.
After thinking for a while, he probed the ground with his spiritual consciousness. At first, he found nothing, but when he reached twenty or thirty meters below, his eyes widened.
"Let's get out of here quickly!"
Qingyan was startled by its urgent voice and subconsciously asked: "What's wrong?"
He asked, without stopping, he bent down to pick up the little leopard and walked back.
Chou Chou: "There is a tomb down here. It has a history of at least several thousand years."
Qingyan was confused, "There's no need to run away even if there's an ancient tomb, right? Are there zombies inside?"
Of course, this was her random guess. Isn't that how it is played on TV, especially in ghost movies, where there are ancient tombs and there are zombies.
I also thought that it was thousands of years ago, and now we are in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. Doesn’t it mean that it is even longer in the future?
Chou Chou replied: "That's not true. There is something wrong with the tomb. It is also an altar for ancient sacrifices. When I just entered with my spiritual consciousness, I touched a formation and was attacked by the formation.
I'm afraid that the formation is some kind of restriction and some follow-up chain attacks, so I want you to stay away from there to avoid getting hurt. "
When Qingyan heard that it had been attacked, she quickly asked nervously: "Are you okay? Are you feeling uncomfortable anywhere?"
Chou Chou shook his head, "No, I took it back very quickly, almost at the first touch, without being hurt."
Qingyan felt relieved and quickly quickened her pace to run back.
"I'm sorry, Chou Chou. I almost got you hurt because I was out of curiosity."
Chou Chou touched her hair soothingly, "Don't worry, it's okay. The main reason is that I am too weak now. If it returns to its heyday, a small formation in a tomb will be destroyed with just one spiritual consciousness!" "
After saying that, he jumped into Qingyan's arms and made a gesture of contempt for everything.
Qingyan was so amused by its appearance that she almost laughed, and rubbed its head with her face.
By this time, they had returned to the place where the carriage was parked. Qingyan put the little leopard into the carriage, turned the horse around and walked out of the woods.
After thinking for a while, he said to Chou Chou: "Why don't we go to that village? That village is not far from here. If there is any problem, innocent people will be implicated."
Chou Chou shook his head, "Don't worry, it's really fine. I didn't find anything strange inside. The formation inside shouldn't be involved that far away."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a muffled sound coming from behind. The sound was not very loud, but both of them had extraordinary hearing, so they heard it very clearly. It came from underground!
The man and the beast looked at each other, causing the big bear to speed up.
Until they came out of the woods and returned to the road, the rumbling sound still did not stop, and the ground did not shake. At least it was not like a tomb collapsing. Some mechanism must have been activated.
They didn't want to go back to investigate. Even Chou Chou wanted to use his spiritual sense to probe into the ground to take a look, but Qingyan stopped him.
She was afraid of any accidents. If Chou Chou was injured, then they would be in real danger. They actually knew it was danger. It was best to stay away now and not be stupid.
Qingyan took out the spiritual stone wrapped in several layers of cloth from her bag, handed it to Chou Chou and said, "Why don't you absorb the spiritual energy in the spiritual stone first? If there is any danger, at least you can protect yourself. "
Chou Chou took it and felt the spiritual energy inside, shook his head and said: "The time is too short, and not much has been recovered inside. Let it be absorbed again. It is not an emergency now."
Qingyan had no choice but to put the spirit stone back into her bag. Ever since she took it out, the spirit stone had been kept outside, in order to allow it to better absorb the spiritual energy between heaven and earth and fill it up quickly, including being ugly. So is the little piece of ugly buckle.
Fortunately, although the light of this spiritual stone is very bright, it will be covered by a few layers of cloth and will not be exposed. This also reduces the risk of being discovered by others.
"Then shall we go to the other side of the mountain? Or return to the road and go west?"
The carriage stopped after it came out of the woods. They thought that the woods that were nearly two miles apart should be far enough.
Chou Chou looked towards the road with his spiritual consciousness, shook his head and said: "No, those officers and soldiers have already come over. Vice General Wang is in the town. The other officers and soldiers went to chase the bandits in several directions. One of them has already arrived at the corpses." , checking."
Upon hearing this, Qingyan hurriedly asked: "Will you see us then? Do you want to hide in the woods again?"
Chou Chou: "No, listen to their conversation, I've just seen this place, and I'm ready to go back to the town to report, and I'll pull a cart over to transport the body. I'll leave two people there to watch."
Qingyan quickly drove the carriage south, "Then let's go south quickly and try to stay out of sight over there."
Chou Chou nodded and asked Big Bear to speed up. Although there were some bumps, he couldn't care less now.
At this time, the rumbling sound was gone. I don't know if the mechanism stopped on its own, or if it was too far away to hear.
Even if we rode faster, it took another twenty minutes to reach the foot of the mountain.
Qingyan looked at the scene in front of her and asked doubtfully: "Are we at the end of the road? Where is the village? Didn't you say there is a village with a backing?"
Chou Chou also took a breath. It had just visited the ancient tomb and the main road outside, and did not use its spiritual consciousness to explore this area again. The place where there was a village before was actually empty!
It used its spiritual consciousness to scan around and around, not even under the ground, and could not find any trace of the previous village.
This...a village just disappeared out of thin air?
In front of you is the end of a road, and then there is an open space covered with stones. Opposite the open space is a mountain wall. The mountain wall is more than ten meters straight up and down. It is scary to look at it, and it feels like it can be photographed at any time.
Qingyan frowned and scratched her head and said: "What's going on today? Why did we encounter such a strange thing? If you are wrong, there is no village here, then what is this road for? Take a look. I know there are people walking there often.
But if there was a village, how could it disappear out of thin air? Even if it is taken into the space by some divine beast or great power, it must leave some traces. This place does not look like a place where there are extraordinary people at all. "
When Chou Chou heard what she said, he suddenly thought of something and said, "Maybe this village is still here, but it was just hidden using formations or blindfolds."
"Array? Blind method?"
Qingyan looked at Chou Chou, waiting for it to elaborate.
Chou Chou nodded, "I also thought about the formation in the tomb just now, and that's why I guessed this. Since there is a formation in the tomb, why can't it be found here? The village I saw with my spiritual consciousness before looked very ancient. The houses are all made of stone, not cave dwellings or adobe houses.”
