Everyone then returned to their tents one after another. It was already approaching evening, and under the cover of flying snow, the valley was gradually getting dark.
The grim-faced Taoist priest did not return to his tent, but watched the camp soldiers seal the pass for a while, then circled the camp to the foot of the northern mountain, and then stopped as if thinking about something.
"What's wrong, Master Chen?" Pei Shuang suddenly appeared from behind: "Are you worried?"
The ghost-faced Taoist priest turned his head when he heard the sound, glanced at a series of footprints on the snow leading to the mountainside, and replied: "It's okay, just take a look around."
Pei Shuang walked to the ghost-faced Taoist priest, looked at the camp and said to himself: "Both sides of the valley seem to be high mountains, but there is no guarantee that there is no slow road. We can only stay here for one night, and we must continue on the road tomorrow morning."
"Sir..." The Taoist priest with a grimace looked at Pei Shuang: "What about tonight?"
"We will have someone on duty tonight, so you'd better be more energetic." Pei Shuang patted the snow on his body, and after saying this, he walked towards the tent.
The grim-faced Taoist priest stood there, looking at the distant mountains covered with silver and sighing. It seemed that Pei Shuang was as he thought. After blocking the pass, the valley might not be safe. Moreover, wolves are extremely cunning animals. The heavy snow in the sky The weather is a good time for them to launch an attack.
Ghostface Taoist Priest has heard many legends about the wolves on the plateau. These wolves are all led by a wolf king, and each has its own territory for survival. Among the wolf kings, there are also high and low, strong and weak. Among them, the white-haired and black-clawed wolf king mentioned by the guide is a very rare and powerful color species "Snowdrop Mo". It likes to move most in the snow, because the snow can It hides its specially colored claw hairs to achieve a perfect camouflage effect.
The Taoist Priest with a grimace thought and glanced in the direction of the pass. He secretly prayed that there was only one path in the valley, and then silently turned around and returned to the camp.
After dinner, Pei Shuang began to arrange for people to be on duty at night, and ordered other people to sleep in their clothes and soldiers to prevent accidents.
The whole team went into the night in this inexplicable tense atmosphere.
Around three o'clock in the evening, the whining wind and falling snow suddenly stopped, and the entire valley fell into silence.
The grimace Taoist priest had not slept at all. Now that there was no movement outside, he was even more afraid to sleep. He tossed and turned in bed, feeling that the slightest movement could stimulate his tense nerves.
I stayed up like this until almost four o'clock in the morning. As the long night entered the second half, and the surrounding environment was too quiet, even Luo Laoqi rarely snored, so the grimace Taoist priest also began to relax, and he was slowly falling asleep. Comes to mind.
The grimace-faced Taoist priest's eyelids were closing little by little, and in the ambiguity between sleeping and waking up, suddenly a weak knocking sound sounded in the dark night.
The grimace Taoist opened his eyes suddenly and hurriedly listened carefully. Soon he heard the second knock, followed by the third and fourth... The sound seemed to have a hidden pattern, and it continued to spread in the quiet night. Come, but because the sound is too weak, the Grimace Taoist priest cannot determine the direction of the source of the sound.
"Could it be that the night guard was idle and bored and deliberately caused a scene?" The Taoist priest with a grimace raised the quilt with suspicion and decided to go out to see for himself. When he opened the door and walked out of the tent, he saw the moonlight shining all over the earth. The snow was estimated to be waist deep.
The knocking sound was still there, and could be heard more clearly outside the tent.
The ghost-faced Taoist priest quickly looked around following the sound. After some searching, he finally fixed his sights on the direction of the pass.
At this time, there was another sound of stepping on the snow. The Taoist Ghostface walked around the camp and saw two guards carefully approaching the pass. Apparently they also heard the noise, and the sudden appearance of the Taoist Ghostface also startled the two of them. , hurriedly waved his hand to signal the Taoist priest with a grimace to follow him softly.
The three of them joined together and began to slowly approach the pass.
The knocking sound became clearer and clearer. It sounded like something was knocking on the rock wall. The Taoist Priest with a grimace felt very strange. No matter how cunning the wolves in this snowy area were, could they possibly make such a sound?
In the blink of an eye, the three of them had arrived at the pass. The Juezi camp guards used stones to build a stone wall here, which was at least two people high. It was basically impossible for a group of wolves to jump in, unless they had the ability of monkeys to crawl in using their claws.
The sound of knocking was so close that it could be said that there was only one wall between the three of them.
This situation was extremely weird. In the quiet and cold snowy night, such an unreasonable sound could be heard, and every knocking sound seemed to be beating on the hearts of the three people, making the three people terrified. , even more unbelievable.
The grim-faced Taoist priest and the two soldiers looked at me and I looked at you. They seemed to be considering whether to climb up the stone wall to take a look. Just as the three of them were struggling with how to let each other climb, a black figure suddenly flew over from the top of the stone wall. Something weird.
The ghost-faced Taoist priest had quick eyes and quick feet, and he ducked quickly, but the two soldiers were much slower. One of them was directly hit, and then he saw the thing rolling into the snow again.
"Ah!" the soldier screamed and fell straight into the snow.
"Zhang San!" Another soldier hurriedly bent down to help him. After a little inspection, he found that he was just knocked unconscious and his life was not in danger.
The grimace Taoist asked the soldiers to hold Zhang San while he stepped forward to find out what was flying in.
The grim-faced Taoist bent down and was about to reach out after sweeping away the snow. Suddenly, the snow beside him also collapsed. Then, like a chain reaction, the snow began to collapse along an arc, and soon formed a formation on the ground. A snow ditch came out.
The grimace Taoist priest felt something was wrong and stood up immediately. He first looked at the other end of the snow ditch, which seemed to be leading to the bottom of the rock wall on the left. Then he looked at the end in front of the stone wall, and wondered in his heart: Why does it seem that something is crawling from the stone wall to the rock wall? It's over there, but the black thing just now doesn't look like a living thing, does it? And the size is much smaller than the width of the snow ditch.
"That, over there!" At this moment, the soldier suddenly pointed to the bottom of the rock wall and said in a trembling voice, "That's where Wang Wu's body is placed!"
"What?!" The grim-faced Taoist priest glanced in the direction of the rock wall, and an ominous feeling suddenly rose in his heart. He quickly bent down and groped in the snow for a few times, and then took out a dark object.
Under the bright moonlight, the Taoist Priest with a grimace looked carefully, not wanting to be thrown out by the thing at this glance, and saw that what he was holding in his hand was a heart! And this heart does not belong to any other animal, it is clearly that of a human being!
This heart has been frozen solid, just like a stone. Zhang San is lucky if he is not crushed to death by it. The grimace Taoist guessed that it was probably the dead Wang Wu, because when he was found, his heart had already been taken away by the Wolf King. However, the heart didn't have legs, so how could it fly from behind the stone wall? Is it possible that the Wolf King is also causing trouble?
