Guan Luoyang squatted down and touched the ravine, pinching a handful of mud on his fingers.
Judging from this feeling, the formation of this ravine should not have happened last night, but it should have occurred within two or three days.
To make a bold guess, he stepped into the Snake Valley with fragrant pills that could lure venomous snakes, but he didn't see a single snake. This was because all the snakes in the Snake Valley had followed this path and left.
And the person who caused this long ditch was someone holding some kind of instrument?
still……
Guan Luoyang carefully identified the direction in which the snakes and insects were crawling, looked at the tendency of the soil to be disturbed and collapsed, and began to walk forward along the ravine.
After leaving the valley, climbing over the high slope, and arriving in a forest, Guan Luoyang found scales as big as half a palm on the trunk of an overturned tree.
The scales turn yellow and black, and the roots turn white.
Guan Luoyang applied more force to his hands inch by inch. After the scales were bent to the limit, they broke into two halves with a bang. Their toughness was probably no less than that of an iron sheet of the same thickness.
His eyebrows moved and he continued to walk forward.
Between the fallen trees, more and more of these scales were left, some embedded in the trunks, and some scattered on the ground.
A large stone with a height of three people was pried out from a gentle slope in the forest. The soil and moss on the surface were all messed up, and large crisscrossing white marks were scratched out.
This stone had the most scales scattered around it, as well as a lot of blood.
The moment he walked around the stone, Guan Luoyang's pupils shrank and he almost cut it out with a knife.
There was actually a blood-stained python coiled there. Even if it was coiled there, it was close to the height of the lower abdomen, occupying a large area of five or six meters around, and it had a terrifying size.
If you look closely, you will see that the python is headless and has only a huge hole. It turns out that it is just shed snake skin.
Guan Luoyang used a knife to pick up one end of the snake skin and walked out step by step until he straightened the heavy, wet snake skin. It looked like it might be more than twenty meters long.
Judging by the width of the snake's skin, the snake's body should be as thick as a bucket.
Guan Luoyang stared at the snake skin silently, recalling the reminder in the reincarnation mission.
The earth dragon turns over, disasters occur frequently, demonic nature, corpse evil, and human heart.
He has seen zombies, he has also seen mages.
We have also dealt with ghosts that can be manipulated by magic, such as the strange monkey in the old house by the water and the incense-eating ghost of Taoist Master Zhiyuan.
But he hasn't seen the demon yet.
The big python in front of me might be considered a monster.
If a monster of this size grows after molting, it can easily crash into the house, tear down the house, and swallow wild beasts and living people one by one.
Not to mention that there are thousands of snakes accompanying this monster. Even if it just passes through a certain town, there is no telling how many casualties it will cause.
Guan Luoyang frowned and thought, walking around, piercing the snake skin one by one to determine whether there was a difference in the hardness of the snake skin in different parts.
He stabbed from the beginning to the end and calculated the position of the seven inches. After stabbing in a circle, he found nothing. Even if it was seven inches, the strength of the snake scales seemed to be the same.
With no time to think anymore, Guan Luoyang turned around, took a deep breath, looked for the direction in which this trajectory was spreading, and hurried away.
He took a step of more than ten meters, and wherever he passed, green leaves flew behind him, passing through the jungle like a gust of wind.
I don’t know if the other wild beasts and birds in the forest have been scared away long ago and have never come near this place.
In the vast woods, the sun shines through the branches and leaves, casting large spots of light, and only his figure is walking quickly through.
Until he came to a river, the tracks of many snakes and insects slid into the river bank at an angle.
"call……"
Guan Luoyang's pace slowed down, his eyes filled with the sparkling waves on the water, "Are these snakes just entering the water?"
If you just enter the water, whether you live at the bottom of the river or enter the sea from the river, it can probably be regarded as something to be thankful for.
But after Guan Luoyang walked along the river bank for a while, he vaguely smelled the smell of blood.
He rushed in that direction, and there were actually many soldiers guarding the river bank.
But the presence of these soldiers could not cover up the extremely tragic battlefield.
A general wearing armor had good hearing and vision. He turned his head first and shouted: "Who is it?"
Guan Luoyang stepped forward: "I was originally a martial artist who was going to the Snake Valley to collect medicine. I found traces of snakes moving out. I was worried that the python would hurt people, so I pursued them all the way."
"It's Taoist Master Qiu Hong."
One of the soldiers shouted out, "Does the Taoist still remember me? During the big battle yesterday, I followed the commander there to bear witness."
Guan Luoyang looked at him and seemed to have some impression.
"When the battle came to an end, I was ordered to quickly report back to the Commander-in-Chief, but I met General Yu on the way."
The soldier whispered something to the general.
General Yu's expression slowed down, and he clasped his fists and said, "It turns out to be the Taoist Priest of the Zhenwu Temple. I just sent people to the Zhenwu Temple to ask for help from the mages. Unexpectedly, by chance, a Taoist priest arrived here first, and he still got the Jade Urn. An expert in mage talismans.”
"Taoist Priest, come and see."
General Yu moved out of the way.
In fact, there was no need for him to deliberately move away. This battlefield was too large, and it was impossible for these soldiers to block them all.
Boas and human corpses were everywhere along the river bank, entangled with each other and dead. The soldiers were dealing with the dead bodies.
Hundreds of people died, and the number of dead pythons and venomous snakes was probably incalculable. The traces of the battle stretched from the place in front of them to four or five miles away.
But in addition to the corpses of people and snakes, there are also giant beasts lying on the ground one by one.
It's an elephant.
Jiaozhi has long had a tradition of using elephants for warfare. However, if an ordinary elephant encounters a pit dug in advance, encounters artillery fire, or even encounters the deliberate interference of a mage, it is easy to lose control and may trample the elephant. Attack your own team.
So things like cavalry are actually not commonly used.
However, the ears of the elephants in front of them all had cinnabar-colored lines that seemed to grow naturally. Some of the cloth bags wrapped around their bodies were broken, and what was exposed were small artillery and ammunition boxes tied to their bodies.
This is a military unit specially cultivated after the Ming Dynasty regained Jiaozhi in the early years of Jianwu. It is called the "Diwei Army".
Each elephant used in this kind of army must be guarded by a mage. From a young age, these elephants have been carefully prepared with feed, taken care of as they grow, fed with cinnabar pills, and developed an unshakable mind, capable of running rampant and fearless in death.
But as long as they are cavalry with the same training and the same kind of cinnabar breath, they can get close to these elephants freely and master their advance and retreat. It is really like a psychic state where human and elephant are one.
Guan Luoyang has read a lot of books in Zhenwu Temple and learned a lot of legends about this army. It is said that when this kind of army is mobilized, it must first notify all the governments to prepare relevant feed, so every time it is dispatched They are all so loud that even the people talk about them.
But now it seems that this army, which was supposed to be located in Jiaozhou Mansion, actually walked through the wilderness and secluded woodland without anyone noticing, and came to the vicinity of Chengyin Mansion.
All news is tightly sealed.
It is not difficult to imagine that this army must be shouldering extremely difficult and important responsibilities.
But now, these elephants have shed poisonous blood and are lying dead here.
General Yu said anxiously from the side: "Arch Mage, after encountering a group of snakes, a noble man disappeared nearby. I wonder if you have any means to find his location?"
