There are mixed woods near Death Valley, with coniferous trees being the most common.
All are tall red pine, fish scale pine, ash, big blue poplar and other trees.
Towering to the sky, the huge tree canopy spreads out to its fullest, blocking out the sky and the sun, and the forest is extremely dense.
Lei Zi bravely walked at the front, keeping an eye on all directions and listening in all directions, and moved forward cautiously.
The entire forest was filled with some white mist, making it almost impossible to see anything in the vast expanse.
A ray of sunset shines into Death Valley, the fog gradually begins to disperse, and visibility improves.
When the fog cleared, I discovered that the birds and animals here had already returned to their nests, and the quiet forest was as scary as hell.
A forest path appeared in front of him. Lei Zi stopped and stared at the newly appeared path.
"Let me tell you, Xiaolinzi, there is this new road ahead. Could it be a beast road?"
As he said that, he checked around the trail to see if there were any traces of wild beasts walking by.
Worried about encountering wild beasts here and causing unnecessary trouble, they appear cautious.
I took a few steps forward and stood next to Lei Zi, scanning the path with the Blood Demon Eye Technique.
I really haven’t noticed that any wild beasts have walked here, and there is no excrement left by any wild beasts.
"Leizi, this shouldn't be the beast path. Look at the branches next to the path to see if there is anything."
"where?"
Lei Zi heard me say that there was something, and looked around, looking not far away.
Suddenly, he discovered that about ten meters ahead, there was a red cloth hanging next to the road.
Lei Zi used the Cao Hao sword in his hand to push aside the weeds and walked towards the red cloth strips.
Taking a closer look, the red strip of cloth should be a piece of cloth torn from a piece of clothing.
He picked up the pieces of clothing and walked back, came to me and said, "It seems that people come to Death Valley often."
"Since someone dares to come in, then this Death Valley will definitely not be as scary as others say."
Lone Wolf couldn't help but remind him: "Leizi, you'd better be careful."
Lei Zi smiled and said: "It's not like a beast, so it should be fine."
The lone wolf simply stopped talking. Lei Zi glanced at me and said: "After passing through, it will be Death Valley."
Qin Yujie looked at the map in her hand and said, "Brother Lei Zi is right, the Death Valley is within a few hundred meters ahead."
I took a deep breath and thought: Finally we’re here, this is really off the beaten path.
He took the torn red cloth strip from Lei Zi's hand, looked at it for a while and said, "This is a new one."
"Haha, Xiao Linzi, did you see it?"
Lei Zi smiled and said, not knowing what he was thinking, but the third uncle's brows jumped.
He asked doubtfully: "Xiao Lin, do you think this is a new one?"
"Does that mean someone went in? Or came out alive?"
The third uncle grabbed a cigarette, puffed out smoke rings and said, "Anyone who dares to enter here is probably an old hunter."
I stared at the cigarette in my uncle's hand for a long time, feeling curious that it was the first time I saw my uncle smoking.
After the third uncle took a few more puffs, he inserted the pipe into his waist and walked towards the path with his hands behind his back.
When several people saw that my third uncle had entered first, they all followed him and walked inside.
After walking forward for more than a hundred meters, a small open space suddenly appeared in front of us, with a trail crossing the open space.
Continuing to extend towards the forest ahead, I quickly stopped and observed the movement.
Everyone also stopped, and Lei Zi said: "Xiao Lin, why did you stop?"
As he finished speaking, he saw a tiger's head sticking out from behind the tree beside the road ahead.
Everyone saw clearly in an instant that this might be the tiger, the king of beasts in the mountains.
The few of us did not move in a hurry, but patiently stopped and watched.
But a long time passed, and the tiger in the distance did not move.
It seems to be taking a nap and resting. When the wind blows, the tiger's fur moves.
"Grandma, this tiger is blocking our way. What do you mean?"
Lei Zi couldn't help but cursed, and slowly stretched out his right hand to cover the Cao Hao sword behind his back.
I held him down with one hand and said, "Hey, Lei Zi, don't use your sword, just drive it away."
After I finished speaking, I made a hand gesture, threw out a yellow paper man, and flew towards the tiger.
The tiger was hiding behind the trees, staring at us with no intention of leaving.
I drove the paper man again and got a little closer to the tiger. When the wind blew in the forest, the tiger's fur moved.
But when we got closer, the tiger still didn't leave. Only then did we realize that the tiger was actually just a tiger skin.
Then a smile appeared on my face, and everyone seemed to understand when they saw the smile on my face.
Lei Zi asked: "What's going on?"
"Fake, tiger skin used to scare people."
Lei Zi was speechless and immediately cursed: "Grandma, the whole tiger-skinned monster is scary."
I smiled slightly and started walking along the road, much bolder than before.
Despite this, I don't dare to be careless, because I don't know what else is going on in the depths of the valley.
After walking along the road for only a few dozen meters, I found numerous bones appearing in the forest on both sides of the road.
And the further you go, the more dead bones you see along the way. Skeletons were everywhere, and it was daunting.
A skull was shaking on the ground, walking as if it had legs.
Everyone had seen it before, but they were not frightened by this sudden weirdness.
I couldn't help but stop and stare at the skull rolling on the ground.
Suddenly, a colorful, furry mouse came out of it, screamed and slipped away.
Everyone looked at me and I laughed, and the atmosphere suddenly became much more relaxed.
There were beads of sweat on the lone wolf's resolute face, and his eyes were fixed on the direction of Death Valley.
He said indifferently: "This Death Valley is just like the legends outside, with bones piled up like mountains."
"But it's so dense, it doesn't look like the bodies of those who died trapped in the mountains."
"It's puzzling to me how this place looks like a corpse dump."
There was a smell coming from the forest ahead. It was very strong and unpleasant.
Everyone present was a veteran, so they naturally knew what this smell represented.
It was clearly the smell given off by corpses after they had decomposed, a pungent corpse stench.
I suppressed my smile and walked towards the forest ahead, where I saw many corpses.
Under some trees, there were piles of corpses almost everywhere.
Judging from the black cloth shoes with thin soles and coarse cloth clothes, he must be a mountain ranger near the foot of the mountain.
Everyone watching also frowned, but they did not continue to look and had no choice but to continue walking.
Next to the road, another pile of corpses appeared, but the condition of this pile of corpses was a bit appalling.
Bitten by ferocious beasts and pecked by eagles, the body was completely covered with no good spots anywhere on the body.
"Xiao Linzi, at a glance, there are more than a dozen corpses here, like a group of people."
"Well, I can also see that the condition of the body after death is almost the same."
"This proves that they should be together, they are the farmers at the foot of the mountain, who came to work in the mountains."
Walking by a lying corpse, Lei Zi seemed to see something on the corpse's legs.
He stopped me and said, "Xiao Linzi, look at this corpse to see if there is anything on its legs."
I had walked out a few meters when I stopped and turned around to look at Lei Zi.
I saw this body lying on the ground, with some strips of cloth wrapped around its right leg, and there seemed to be something inside.
Without moving, the blood demon pupil technique instantly penetrated the leggings and saw the situation inside.
I saw some things inside, and I immediately guessed that they were probably all fake.
At this time, Lei Zi had already reached out and opened the cloth strips tied to the man's legs.
A cylindrical object wrapped in rags was revealed. Qin Yujie seemed to have guessed something and was quite excited.
Lei Zi unfolded the rag bag and found a large yellowish-white mallet covered with horizontal stripes and warts.
Appeared in front of several of us, everyone's mouths were wide open, dumbfounded.
Even the third uncle couldn't help but look at it a few more times and said, "Seven taels of ginseng is considered a ginseng, and eight taels is a treasure."
"However, this old mountain ginseng has nine taels in total. It can no longer be said to be a treasure. It is a goblin."
