Meng Tian gave an order. He was still closely followed by Meng Xi, who was holding a military flag at this time. After hearing Meng Tian's order, Meng Xi held the flag with both hands and danced lightly.
"Dong dong!" Two dull sounds sounded first, and then more than ten drums rang together.
The forest suddenly became noisy. Meng Tian squinted his eyes and looked at the hillside not far away.
The hillside was still silent, no birds chirping, no birds flying in the sky.
Meng Tian was slightly confused.
The last time he met thousands of birds here were carrying branches, and then he encountered thousands of beasts carrying grass.
It has to be said that the momentum at that time shocked him, a veteran of many battles.
As the saying goes, an elephant will be killed if there are too many ants.
Not to mention the wild boars and insects, the birds, numbering at least in the tens of thousands, cannot be taken lightly.
If these birds attack the army, the soldiers will always be wearing armor, and there will probably be many casualties.
After all, most of the soldiers wore leather armor, and only those above the height had iron armor.
Therefore, before entering the mountain this time, Meng Tian made a lot of preparations, and drums were one of them.
This is also the method used by large armies for daily hunting.
To his surprise, even though he was beating the drum at this moment, there was still silence in the forest.
"Did the scout get his reward?" Meng Tian frowned and asked.
He had already warned the scouts in advance not to disturb them if they encountered unusual people or birds, but to report directly.
"General, the scouts found nothing." Meng Xi built a pavilion with his hands, squinted at the forest ahead, and answered respectfully.
For fear of accidentally breaking into the beast tide, the scouts did not go too far this time, but stayed about fifty steps in front of Meng Tian.
These scouts are not concentrated on the mountain road, but need to be scattered in the forest, leaving only a few people on the mountain road, carrying small flags, for the purpose of conveying messages.
The scouts are all experienced people. They are good at looking for energy and are good at tracking in the mountains.
If they say they haven't found anything, that doesn't mean they haven't found wild beasts.
Rather, it means that they have not found even fresher traces of animals at all.
"General, the scout said," Meng Xi continued to look at the flags of the scouts in front, and continued, "There is nothing found in the mountains on both sides. Do you want to continue moving forward?"
Meng Tian's brows furrowed deeply. The last time he came here, he also paid attention to the surroundings. He also felt that the surroundings were very quiet and unusual.
At that time, I only thought that the mountains of Chu were different, but later I found out that it was actually the birds and beasts that had gathered together in the world.
Are these birds and beasts still gathering there? Or have they never left?
So what do they eat?
Or maybe they left Yunmeng Mountain because of the earth-shattering thunder just now.
However, when we were at the foot of the mountain, we never heard the sound of birds and beasts at all, nor did we see a large number of birds and beasts leaving Yunmeng Mountain.
Meng Tian hesitated.
Although he came here this time under orders to clean up Yunmeng Mountain, what he was thinking about most was actually the young man on Tianmen Platform.
As a confidant of the First Emperor, he knew that although the First Emperor hated the alchemists deeply and even vowed to kill all the alchemists, immortals, and supernatural beings in the world, it did not mean that the First Emperor really did not believe in immortals.
The First Emperor was only deceived by the alchemists. From then on, anyone who dared to talk to the First Emperor about magical things would be regarded as the other person's intention to deceive him again.
If the First Emperor was really convinced that there were no gods in the world, why would he go to Langya County?
Obviously, the First Emperor's desire for immortality was still there, he just didn't believe in the world anymore!
In this case, Meng Tian must invite this stranger in the mountain to come to the First Emperor no matter what, to refine the elixir of immortality for the First Emperor!
However, that stranger's attitude is unclear, and he doesn't distinguish between friend and foe!
Meng Tian didn't believe that strangers from Chu would have any favorable impressions of Qin people!
For this reason, he specially took the honor of a general and served as a vanguard general.
And, a lot of preparations have been made!
If not, Fusu might directly order the mountains to be burned. This is the Qin army's usual way of dealing with the mountain people hiding in the mountains!
So what if the alien is burned to death?
Or, if the aliens can't be burned to death, what if those so-called auspicious spiritual beasts are burned to death?
He was slightly anxious. At this moment, there was a loud sound of horse hooves. The Pegasus scout who had previously sent orders on the mountain road turned back: "General, we have found a strange beast and we don't know how to deal with it. Please, General." Show me!"
"Exotic beast?" Meng Tian was slightly startled, "But the whole body is white?"
"No, it looks like a blue ape!" The scout hesitated.
Cyan ape?
Meng Tian's heart moved slightly.
"Stop the war drums, take me to see it!" He said decisively.
"General, leave from here!" The scout breathed a sigh of relief. It was obvious that his original intention was to let Meng Tian deal with it himself.
Following his guidance, Meng Tian turned his horse away from the mountain road and walked deeper into the forest on the left, while his personal guards, Magistrate Wu and others followed closely.
After not walking far, the scout whispered: "General, this is the ape."
Meng Tian looked around subconsciously, and the next moment, he was stunned on the spot.
An ape was standing upright on a rock at this time!
This ape is about half a person tall, with long blue and white hair all over its body. It looks quite strong, with its eyes tightly closed.
Although there was noisy hooves and loud drums on the mountain road just now, the ape seemed unaware.
Even when Meng Tian and others had arrived in front of it, it didn't even open its eyes.
"Lingwu, what is this?" Meng Tian asked involuntarily.
"This may be the green ape in the mountains." It was Magistrate Wu who spoke. This time he finally fulfilled his duties as magistrate of Yunmeng County and served as the general's guide.
Meng Tian subconsciously turned his head and glanced at Magistrate Wu, then returned his gaze to the ape.
"I know that this is the green ape in the mountains. There is also such a thing in Qin." His eyes were a little straight and he said absently, "What I'm asking is, what is this green ape doing?"
"I don't know..." Magistrate Wu was even more confused than Meng Tian at this time.
He stared blankly at the green ape standing on the rock, with one furry right arm curled up in front of his chest, and the other arm slowly pushed forward. Pushing to the end, he suddenly straightened his waist flexibly, and struck out with his right arm extremely quickly, making a sharp roar of "Woo".
Then the ape stopped in this posture, seeming to be thinking and comprehending.
"Hiss..." A gasp suddenly sounded, but it was Mengxi.
He stared dumbfounded at the ape's awkward posture and its two arms placed in front of him like hugging the moon, and said in surprise: "General..."
He didn't finish his words because Meng Tian spoke first and interrupted him.
Meng Tian's tone was also full of surprise, and he spoke as if he was talking in a dream.
"Your Majesty, is this true for all Chu regions?"
"The ancient ape in the mountains actually knows boxing?"
