In the morning, the sky is slightly bright.
The chirping of birds woke up everyone in the team who were already sleeping very alertly.
The early bird catches the worm; the early bird catches the worm.
The team that got up early turned their backs to the rising sun, left the quiet Shucheng, and came to the Dabie Mountains.
The scope of Dabie Mountain is very vast. The important thing is that it is not an isolated peak, but a continuous mountain range.
As the central area of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Revolutionary Base in the past, it has a very complex landform and steep enough terrain for a large army to be stationed here.
Anyone with some knowledge of history will not be unfamiliar with the Dabie Mountains. However, whether it is the strategic significance of the Dabie Mountains in modern wars or its historical position in another old revolutionary base in the world, for everyone in the team, they have no idea. What's the meaning.
They are not here to remember the martyrs, but to catch ghosts.
According to Li Qiang and Qi Zhen's ideas, everyone in the team can refer to the strategies used in Plants vs. Zombies.
Go to unusual places, go to places where there are many ghosts, and push all the way there, and you will definitely find something.
After entering the Dabie Mountains, everyone clearly felt that the temperature in the air had dropped a lot, probably due to the influence of Yin Qi or ghost Qi.
No one has been here for a long time.
In addition to an obvious road before entering the mountain, after entering the mountain, you can only vaguely recognize the mountain trails that the hunters walked before, and they moved forward slowly.
Originally, they expected that the team would be warmly entertained by those ghosts after entering the mountain. However, the sun was just right, so unexpectedly and reasonably, no one found any trace of the ghosts.
After all, hunting for ghosts is not like hunting for prey.
As a professional hunter, Yu Liang's ability to find traces was of no use here.
But generally Qi Zhen can still be sure that the team's route is correct.
Because the chirping of insects and birds became less and less, and the temperature in the air became colder and colder.
Yu Liang held the fighting bow in his hand, ensuring that he could take out arrows from the quiver behind him at any time and shoot something that might suddenly appear.
The magic fluctuations around Jiang Yan have always been maintained at a very active level, and she must be able to release her best magic at any time.
Li Qiang is not holding an M249. Quickly drawing the weapon allows him to summon the most suitable weapon at any time when facing danger.
Qi Zhen's Sharingan has been opened, and she is observing everything around her at any time.
The most idle person at this time was Meng Ran, who was in the middle of the team. As a healer, she really had nothing to do before the battle started.
In order to prevent getting lost, Yu Liang would leave marks on the surrounding ground, trees, and rocks every once in a while that only he could understand.
This is so that the team can have a trace to follow when returning.
When the sun was already high in the center of the sky, the team finally sat down on the ground for the first time and began to rest.
The physical fatigue did not have a huge impact on everyone, but the high mental tension still made Qi Zhen decide for the team to rest where they were.
"Although we can clearly feel that we are getting closer to our goal, if we keep going like this, when will we reach the place we are looking for?"
Jiang Yan felt the increasingly abnormal magic fluctuations around her and asked with a frown.
Qi Zhen naturally understood what Jiang Yan meant. Not only Qi Zhen, but everyone knew that delaying like this would only become more detrimental to the team.
The right time, right place and right people, there is absolutely no right place. Choosing this time to enter the mountains is to reduce the other party's advantage in time and time to the lowest level.
After all, no matter how powerful a ghost is, it will still have a natural resistance to sunlight. Even if a city god like Zhang Zongchang is not afraid of sunlight, it does not mean that he likes daytime.
At the end of the day, ghosts are ghosts, that's common sense.
Once darkness falls, not to mention whether the team will still have the energy to deal with the following difficulties in this unfamiliar environment, it is just a matter of finding the road in the invisible mountain forest after dark. A very difficult thing.
After all, this place is not like Juchao Country, with those magical stones and aquatic plants that emit faint light all the time.
In half a day, the team had traveled a considerable distance in the mountains.
It's time to choose again.
"As you can see, although we can confirm that the route forward is correct, we still don't know how long it will take to actually reach the destination of this trip." Qi Zhen said.
"So now we have three options before us. First, we continue to follow this mountainous route until we find the ghost, but we are neither sure when we will find it, nor whether this road will Absolutely correct; secondly, we return the same way and take a long-term approach. Personally, I would prefer to exit here first and enter the mountains tomorrow. After all, fighting at night is too detrimental to us."
Qi Zhen thought for a while and did not continue speaking.
"Where did the third option come from?" Yu Liang wondered.
"The third option is actually something I personally don't recommend, so I didn't mention it just now. The third option is to find a place to station in the mountains and wait for daylight the next day before moving forward," Qi Zhen said.
"Isn't this great? Why don't you recommend it?"
In Meng Ran's view, finding a relatively safe place to stay and rest before dark will not affect the team's forward speed, but also avoid the possibility of contact and fighting with the opponent at night. It is the best of both worlds. .
"Let me tell you." Li Qiang said.
"I generally understand the reason why Qi Zhen does not recommend that we find a place to camp for the night. This is probably due to his caution, but it happens that he and I also have the same worry. That is whether we have been discovered by the other party after entering the Dabie Mountains. Yes." Li Qiang slowly opened his mouth and analyzed.
The other three are all Yizheng.
"bingo." Qi Zhen said.
"If we are already under the opponent's gaze from the first moment we enter the mountain, or even if the opponent is just waiting for the best time to attack, then for us, staying here will never be a wise choice. "Li Qiang said.
"This means that the opponent can choose any time they think is suitable to start fighting with us, and we can only be tired of dealing with the attacks that the opponent may launch at any time. We will lose the initiative at the first opportunity, whether it is day or night." Qi Zhen added.
"And this is why you suggested that we leave here and return to Shucheng first." Li Qiang said.
Qi Zhen nodded.
"But if we go into the mountain again tomorrow, even if the journey ahead of us is easier, we still can't avoid the same situation happening again, right?" Meng Ran asked.
"Yes, so I'm very confused now." Qi Zhen nodded and said helplessly.
"Captain, what do you think?" Yu Liang asked Li Qiang.
"At this point, I prefer the third option." Li Qiang said.
"Why?" Qi Zhen asked.
"Because the final result may not be too different," Li Qiang said.
Qi Zhen thought about it and knew that what Li Qiang said was right.
Under the current situation, it is actually difficult for the team to be the first to discover the enemy's traces and combat strength, and then formulate a combat strategy that is relatively beneficial to the team, and then make contact with the opponent.
The possibility of being discovered first by the opponent is almost 100%, so the team can only wait for the opponent to launch an attack at any time.
No matter which strategy the current team adopts, there is a high probability that there is no possibility of attacking first.
This is probably the first problem the system has brought to the team in this mission.
Since Qi Zhen agreed with Li Qiang's suggestion, others naturally had no objections.
Everyone made a plan and continued to move forward until they reached a relatively safe location and then set up camp.
There is another big problem in choosing this plan, which Qi Zhen and Li Qiang tacitly agreed not to mention.
Because the five members of the team all know it in their hearts.
Once the team cannot find the ghost in one go before dark, it means that even if the team sets up camp, everyone must maintain a state of high mental tension at all times and must not relax at all.
After resting, the team moved on.
Either the system is deliberately making things difficult for the team, or there really are no ghosts here during the day.
In short, before dark, the team had to follow the previous plan and find a relatively safe place to camp for the night.
Everyone was currently in a mountain col. There was a spacious open space in the middle of the steep mountain wall. Behind them was the trail they came from, and in front of them was a winding passage.
After all, this is not a war between humans. There is no need to worry about the enemy pushing down rolling logs or falling rocks from the mountain to attack the team's camp. Camping here is a very reasonable choice.
What needs to be guarded against are the front and back paths.
A simple tent was set up, a bonfire was lit, and several people sat together, waiting for dawn before it got dark.
Naturally, no one is interested in sleeping peacefully here, and the tent is also there to withstand the all-pervasive mountain wind.
Indeed, this is a very suitable choice for the team to camp, but there is a very obvious flaw, that is, the terrain here is like a ventilation duct deliberately designed for the mountain wind.
The mountain wind howled, although it wasn't that violent, but it couldn't stand to keep blowing like this.
It was completely dark, and you could still see a sliver of sky between the two peaks when you looked up.
The stars are twinkling and it looks beautiful.
"How long have we been in this game?" Qi Zhen suddenly asked.
"I don't know, it's been almost a month." Yu Liang said.
"I don't know when it will end." Meng Ran was a little frustrated.
"I think the system will let us leave after we finish the work on Shu Mountain and the Well of Gods and Demons," Qi Zhen said.
Everyone stopped talking and took the time to restore their physical strength.
"Look, the moon is out."
After hearing Meng Ran's words, everyone looked up and saw that half of the crescent moon had been revealed from behind the mountain peak, and it seemed that it was still moving slowly into the sky in the middle.
At this moment, a sudden change occurred!
