"Then thank you Alliance Leader Chen for your kindness."
Huo Yuanshan glanced at the guys beside him, and the group put away the guns on their shoulders and went straight into the valley.
At this time, just after Mangzhong, the frozen soil underground melted, and the valley was full of life.
Flying insects and colorful butterflies, birds singing and flowers fragrant.
There is a layer of velvet growing on the ground just above the feet. It is very soft when you step on it. Looking from a distance, it looks like a green carpet, which is in sharp contrast to the Gobi desert where you came from.
"I think this Chen You is talking nonsense. Where can such a vital place come from?"
"That's right, everyone here is just looking at shopkeeper Huo's face. He, Chen You, is nothing. He is just a spiritual alliance. To put it nicely, it is called Lingmeng. To put it bluntly, isn't it just those people who wear a pair of pants? What's so great about it? .”
Someone in the team muttered.
This time, Huo Yuanshan was in charge, and the people who came were not just the Ling Alliance, but also many people they didn't know.
Mr. Li followed his grandfather and took a cursory glance.
This trip was crowded and mixed.
Although the Fang family and the Bai family from the Ling Alliance also came with them, in the final analysis it was just a matter of interest.
Including them, there were only seven people from the Spirit Alliance this time.
Huo Yuanshan brought no less than thirty people, and everyone brought enough equipment.
Not far from Huo Yuanshan is a thin, middle-aged man with tied hair on his head, dressed as a Taoist priest, with a mustache on his face, and shrewdness in his eyes.
When I came here, I heard someone say that this person's surname was Peng. Because he could chop with a knife without fear of fire or water, he was called the corpse-tying Taoist Peng Jinshou.
Next to the Taoist priest is a simple-looking young man with short hair and a big bag on his back. He is Peng Jinsheng's disciple.
Hong Laojiu was full of gangsterism, and behind him were seven or eight equally rough and arrogant men. Each of them carried a broad sword on his back, with a fierce look in his eyes. No one knew how many people died under their hands.
The Chu family group walked in front of Mr. Li and the others. Chu Yuxuan, who was in the lead, looked back from time to time and glanced at Mr. Li and the others intentionally or unintentionally. This made Mr. Li a little more afraid of Chu Yuxuan.
The last person walking was a woman, with a stern expression and few words. She was followed by nearly thirty people, who were silent along the way.
When Huo Yuanshan introduced them, he only said that the woman's name was Xu Zixue. No one knew their origins or what they did.
"There's something ahead!"
Chu Yuxuan, who was walking in front, seemed to have discovered something.
Everyone followed her gaze and saw a dark corpse lying in the grass not far away.
The posture was twisted, the body was charred, and it looked like an antelope.
The valley was full of life, and it was not surprising that wild beasts appeared, but the death of the antelope was really strange.
Just when everyone was confused, the few people walking at the front shouted again.
Not only here, there were also two charred animal corpses not far ahead. They had been dead for a long time, and the corpses were so rotten that they were almost stuck together.
Grandpa asked Chen Ze, the accompanying man, to pull out one of the corpses.
Someone recognized it as a vulture.
The vulture is a plateau bird of prey that often inhabits the tops of mountain cliffs. It is extremely capable of flying, especially when swooping down to attack, its speed is astonishingly fast.
It has keen vision and is extremely ferocious. Once it spots prey, it will swoop down like an arrow and capture them firmly with its claws like steel hooks.
The eagle is one meter long, and there are still burnt marks on its dark brown feathers.
Under it was a rotten Tibetan fox. When Chen Ze pulled it out, the sharp claws were still hooked tightly on the dead fox's hip bones.
Everyone could see that death happened suddenly.
What on earth could cause this vulture to both die at the moment of hunting the Tibetan fox? This made everyone feel uneasy, and they couldn't help but think of what grandpa said before.
There is something unusual about this place.
As the team continued to deepen, everyone's expressions became more and more surprised.
In this seemingly vibrant valley, there were actually corpses and messy skeletons everywhere, both human and animal.
Some looked like they had just died, with dry hair dancing in the wind.
Some have been dead for a long time, half of their bodies buried in the mud, and there are white maggots crawling on their bodies.
Some only had a pile of bones left, scattered messily among the cracks in the grass.
From time to time, crows and a few unknown birds jumped around on the body, tearing at the internal organs and flesh.
Everyone was stunned by the scene in front of them. A few brave ones found a few dead branches and fiddled with a corpse on the ground.
It was an old man wearing a gray Chinese tunic suit and a Tibetan hat wrapped around his head.
This man didn't know how long he had been dead. His body had decayed to varying degrees, and his sunken eye sockets were filled with maggots.
"This is a shepherd, how could he die here?" Grandpa frowned.
Hong Laojiu used the tip of his knife to push away the dead man's arm, holding a copper tobacco pipe in his hand.
"Damn it, I thought it was something good, but it turned out to be rubbish."
Hong Laojiu wiped the tip of the knife on the ground with an unlucky look on his face, and inserted it back into the scabbard with a clang.
"Ignore those dead people, keep moving forward!" Huo Yuanshan raised his head and glanced at the sky, with a slight urgency in his voice.
Further in, the vegetation gradually becomes more lush, including sea buckthorn, tamarisk, poplar... and the species gradually increase. Crowds of crows and unnamed birds fly through the air, leaving behind a variety of cries.
There are thorn bushes, red willows, and rocks with sharp teeth everywhere. A corpse with a hideous face is hidden among the rocks and weeds. Every step a person takes, his heart beats with fear.
Sometimes when I step down, I accidentally step on a body that has not yet completely decomposed, and an inexplicable thick black water oozes out from the soles of my feet. The smell is so offensive that it makes people suffocate.
The melting permafrost formed dense underground rivers underground. I heard the sound of rushing in my ears more than once, but there was no water in sight.
A few unlucky ones accidentally stepped on the air and fell into the water with a "gudong" sound. In an instant, most of their bodies were submerged, as if they were trapped in a swamp. It took the combined efforts of more than a dozen people to pull them out.
At this time, everyone understood how terrifying this seemingly vibrant place was.
Dark clouds gradually gathered above the head, and Huo Yuanshan urged everyone to speed up.
The further you go in, the more corpses are on the ground. It’s not an exaggeration to describe the scene as corpses everywhere.
"Shopkeeper Huo, is there something you haven't explained clearly to everyone?" Chu Yuxuan pointed to a corpse not far away, with a hint of indifference in his voice.
"If my guess is correct, this person should be from your Huo family, right?"
Everyone followed Chu Yuxuan's fingers and saw a man lying head down on the ground, the hand holding the gun was scorched black.
Behind him is a backpack exactly like the Huo family's.
Huo Yuanshan glanced at Chu Yuxuan, and a rare hint of anxiety appeared on his calm face, "If you don't want to die, leave quickly!"
"ah!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a scream suddenly came from the team, and a man fell to the ground without warning. His whole body was charred, his whole body was twitching, and his eyes gradually lost their luster.
"Dead...dead?"
Everyone was shocked.
"Don't stop, run!" Huo Yuanshan's expression changed drastically, he shouted and rushed forward.
Click!
A thunder sounded out of thin air, and Mr. Li felt his eyes blurred, and a strange red flash instantly entered the barrel of the gun behind the person in front of him.
Bang!
The gun body exploded instantly, and the man didn't even have time to scream, as his body was burned to charcoal.
"It's lightning!" Grandpa exclaimed.
Looking up, I don’t know when a large dense cumulus cloud gathered above my head.
No one reacted, only Huo Yuanshan in front of him ran wildly towards the depths of the valley without looking back.
Click!
Another red lightning exploded in the crowd, and the lightning hit the handle of the knife on the back of one of Hong Laojiu's men. The man's skin and flesh were immediately torn apart, and even the turf on the ground turned up.
"Are you just waiting to die!" Hong Laojiu trembled angrily, "Run the hell away!"
"Unscrupulous Heavenly Lord, your sins are too serious, and the Thunder God and the Lightning Mother have punished you with a great calamity!" The Taoist priest wiped his beard, "Qiu Sheng, a disaster is coming, follow my master and leave this gloomy place! "
The young junior responded and followed closely, clutching the cloth bag.
Everyone desperately chased in the direction of Huo Yuanshan. No one expected that lightning would appear in such a place.
Click!
Click!
Lightning appeared strangely one after another, and people were constantly being hit, lying on the ground covered in charred black.
"Throw away all the swords and guns! Quick!" At this time, Mr. Li and his grandfather finally understood why Huo Yuanshan asked his people to put away their guns.
These are electrical conductors, and in a place like this, carrying those things on your back is tantamount to courting death.
Even so, not many people would listen to Grandpa and the others.
For them, losing their weapons in a place like this is no different than committing suicide.
From time to time, hacked and charred corpses were seen on the ground. Everything at this time was tantamount to a massacre. In the face of such a terrifying natural disaster, ordinary people had no power to resist at all.
Everyone is aware of a problem.
Huo Yuanshan had sent someone here before. He already knew what would happen here.
Mr. Li didn't know what the Huo family found here, but now he understood why Huo Yuanshan sent invitations to various major families.
This is not a place that one family can manage.
Here, staying alive depends entirely on luck.
"ah!"
There was a scream, and in a hurry, Chu Yuxuan and his two hands missed the next step, and half of their bodies fell into the quagmire. The remaining few tried to pull, but they could only slow down their fall, and it had no effect at all.
In this situation, everyone was too busy to take care of themselves. There was no time to save them. They could only watch those people struggling in the mud and calling for help.
Chu Yuxuan and the others were still struggling. Thunder and lightning exploded frequently around them. With a scream, one person was struck by lightning and fell into the mire together with the two people who were pulling him.
The mud gradually swallowed up their bodies. Chu Yuxuan looked determined and said sharply to the remaining few:
"You guys, leave me alone and leave!"
A few people were still hesitating.
"Go quickly, this is an order!" She forcefully pulled away the hand that was being held, "Go back and tell my dad that it's cloudy and rainy, so he should make plans in advance!"
Thunder is everywhere and there is no time to delay.
Chu Yuxuan's body sank slowly, and suddenly, a hand firmly grasped her arm.
Mr. Li looked at his grandfather who rushed out in shock.
"Are you crazy!"
