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- Chapter 348: The Abnormal Cangman Mountain
There are many strange and dangerous places on Cangman Mountain, and the scenery in this mountain is also beautiful and colorful. There are green trees below the mountainside, but the top of the mountain is covered with snow. There are many small He tribes scattered in the deep jungle on this mountain. Although they are related to the He tribe outside the border, they have no contact with them.
Cangman Mountain is their patron saint, and the He people here rarely go down the mountain to contact the Han people. In their view, the Han people are all demons, murderous demons without blinking an eye. Since the He tribe warriors in the primitive jungle outside the border set up an ambush in Cangman Mountain many years ago and tried to assassinate Luo Yao's only son Luo Wen, the He tribe people in Cangman Mountain have lived an even more fearful life.
After the assassination, although the seventy assassins were all killed by the old man carrying the fine steel sword box, this could not calm Luo Yao's anger. Many people from the He tribe on Cangman Mountain were implicated and died. From then on, they did not dare to have any contact with their fellow tribesmen outside the border.
??A long, long time ago, before the Shang Kingdom was established, this land was ruled by the He people. Thousands of miles in radius are the jurisdiction of the He people, and the culture of the He people is prosperous. The founder of the Shang Kingdom was a prince from the Central Plains Dynasty at that time. He was ordered to lead an army to the south and brought the war to this relatively peaceful place. The prince used a powerful army to make the He people surrender. After that, he did not want to return to the Central Plains to serve as a minister, so he established a new empire here.
??In the subsequent empire he established and the campaigns of the Central Plains Dynasty, the He people also played a certain role in the stability of the Shang Kingdom. It was also from then on that the Shang emperor became more and more obsessed with He culture. The wizards of the He tribe became highly respected in the palace, and their words could even influence the government.
The laws of the Shang Dynasty clearly stipulate that if a wizard kills a person, he only needs to compensate the family of the deceased with a donkey. But if someone kills the wizard, the nine tribes will be implicated. Not only high-ranking officials and dignitaries have become firm believers in wizards, but even their wives and daughters also worship wizards. Wizards have cuckolded many dignitaries in the name of teaching witchcraft. And when wizards teach so-called magic to those women, Even if the dignitaries returned home, they would not dare to disturb him, for fear of disturbing the wizard from casting spells.
The powerful wizards at that time even had promiscuous affairs in the harem, including the women of the Shang emperor.
Because of this, the He people once had a high status in the Shang Kingdom. They are even more privileged than the Han people, forming a deformed social structure.
Under such a social structure, the conflicts between the Han people and the He people naturally intensified.
By the end of the Shang Dynasty, civil servants and He wizards colluded to squeeze out military generals, so that the huge Shang Dynasty claimed to have an army of one million, but in fact it had no combat effectiveness at all.
The nightmare of the He people began when the Shang Kingdom fell and Luo Yao took over Yongzhou. The army of the Sui Dynasty never stopped suppressing the He people, so that the He people had to migrate southward for years and finally retreated to the primitive jungle to save their lives. Even so, Luo Yao would send troops to suppress some He tribes every year and massacre the prime men of the He tribe to ensure that this once powerful nation would never rise again.
After most of the He people retreated to the primitive jungle, a small number of He people stayed because they were nostalgic for the prosperity of the city. But they underestimated the revenge of the Han people. The Han people, who had been oppressed by the He people for hundreds of years, crazily squeezed out the remaining He people. By the time they wanted to go back to the primitive jungle, it was already too late. The He people outside the border did not accept them. They had no choice but to migrate to Cangman Mountain to live.
Because there are too many ferocious beasts on Cangman Mountain, there are countless traps set by nature, and there will be miasma in the jungle at some point. In addition, half of the water in the mountain is not drinkable, so this is not a suitable place to live. place. But in order to save their lives, the He people can only live in this cruel mountain environment.
However, it is precisely because the environment in Cangman Mountain is so harsh and flying insects and wild beasts are rampant that Han people rarely set foot here, so the He people can avoid being ostracized and massacred.
There are dozens of large and small tribes in the forest in this mountain, with more than a thousand people in large and seventy or eighty people in small ones. After more than ten years of understanding and exploration, they have gradually adapted to the life in Cangman Mountain. They have figured out the rules of the miasma, found ways to deal with the wild beasts, and identified safe water sources, and their lives have gradually stabilized.
But they no longer dare to approach Han people. When they see Han people entering the mountains, they will immediately hide away. After so many people died, they didn't even dare to feel hatred.
So when the four of them, Fang Jiezhuo, Chen Heng and Chen Ha, arrived at Cangman Mountain, they couldn't find a guide to go to the Deer and Monkey Cave. When the He people saw them, they had already run away and dived into the jungle. People who were not familiar with the road would not dare to chase them casually. This mountain is full of murderous intent, and no one can guarantee that if you walk around randomly, you will become the food of a giant python in the next second.
Before leaving Yongzhou, Fang Jie found a guard who was similar in stature to himself.He put on his mask and asked Shen Qingshan, Mu Xiaoyao and others to accompany him out of Yongzhou City to go sightseeing. As long as the surveillance people were not allowed to get too close, there would be no flaws. The four of them disguised themselves and went out of the city, then found the flying fish robe at the Ouchi guard office outside the city. They ordered war horses and traveled all night long to get here.
¡°There are not many roads up the mountain, and it just rained a few days ago.¡±
Zhuo Buyi looked at the surroundings and said, "It won't be too difficult for us to go up the mountain even without a guide. Isn't this what you were best at when you were in Fangu?"
Fang Jie was born as a scout, so he is indeed no stranger to searching for traces.
Fang Jie nodded, turned back to Chen Heng and Chen Ha and said seriously: "You two must follow me faithfully and listen to my words. If you dare to run around and disobey me, I will immediately find the place where I beat you." That person of yours will put you in a cave to eat fish.¡±
Chen Heng Chen Ha¡¯s face changed in fear, and he nodded like a chicken pecking at rice. The words "cave" and "eating fish" are nightmares for them and they cannot resist.
Fang Jie and the others found a place to hide their war horses and leave a mark. They were not worried that the He tribesmen on the mountain would steal the horses. The He people in Cangman Mountain were already extremely afraid of the Han people's revenge, so they dared not take the initiative to provoke them.
Fang Jie raised his head and looked up, always feeling that something incredible would happen in this deep mountain.
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Fang Jie quickly found the place where Luo Wen's team stored their horses based on the traces. A dozen soldiers guarding at least forty horses were resting in a forest. Judging from the number of horses, Rowan was accompanied by about thirty guards. These people are all elite left midfielders. They may not be difficult to deal with one on one, but as long as their number reaches more than five people, it will become extremely difficult to deal with.
Once you find this place, it¡¯s not too difficult to find the way up the mountain for Luo Wen and others. Fang Jie and the other four had good cultivations. Although Zhuo Buyi was injured, Chen Heng and Chen Ha were there. The two of them carried him up the mountain as easily as carrying a straw.
"There are twelve people staying at the foot of the mountain."
Fang Jie looked at the place where Luo Wen and the others started climbing. It was relatively open and the footprints on the ground could still be seen. After walking back and forth twice, he whispered: "There are forty-four horses, which means there are thirty-two people following Rowan up the mountain. I identified them carefully and found that the footprints that could be seen were twenty-seven people that is to say"
Zhuo Buyi took it and said: "In other words, there is more than one old man with good strength around Luo Wen, and these people who have not left any footprints will not be too easy to deal with."
Fang Jie nodded: "However, generals with good military backgrounds are more likely to lose in a one-on-one duel with Jianghu people with the same level of cultivation. The way to fight on the battlefield is the way to fight with Jianghu people. It¡¯s completely different. In this environment, we have fewer people, but that doesn¡¯t mean we are at a disadvantage.¡±
Zhuo Buyi smiled: "Anyway, you have already made up your mind. If I don't catch up, I will see if you will have the intention to retreat."
Fang Jie smiled and said, "Mr. Zhuo is the one who knows me."
The four of them climbed up looking for traces, and Zhuo Buyi's power of perception played a great role. They avoided many poisonous insects and beasts, including a giant python as thick as a bucket that was hard to detect sitting on a big tree. A python is so big that once entangled, even a master with good cultivation will have difficulty getting away.
Because it is inaccessible, the mountain still maintains a very primitive ecological environment. Along the way, we encountered not only ridiculously large pythons, but also spiders as big as a human head. The most disturbing thing about this spider is that its back looks like a lifelike human face. If you look at it sharply, you will have the illusion that there is someone peeking out from among the trees.
The climate at the foot of the mountain is warm and there are many poisonous insects. These insects are even more threatening than pythons because they hide in the grass and mud and are difficult to guard against.
Fortunately, there were traces left by Luo Wen and his team, otherwise it would be difficult for Fang Jie and the others, who were coming to Cangman Mountain for the first time, to walk to the mysterious deer and monkey cave on their own.
¡°Deer and Monkey Cave is a name that has only been called out in recent years. No one has ever discovered it before. It is said that it is a large cave, and an unknown thing lives in it. According to the vivid descriptions of people at the foot of the mountain, this kind of thing has a body like a gibbon, but a head like a deer, and has hard horns. These things only live in caves and never come out, and they don't know whether they eat grass. Still eat meat.
Fang Jie will not firmly deny this rumored description. The world is too big, and there may be any weird creatures in such a remote place. But in his mind, he never remembered anything with the body of an ape and the head of a deer.
After climbing up for about an hour, Fang Jie found himself on the trail.A body was found in the grass. Most of it was tangled in spider webs, but judging from the boots and exposed arms, it was the soldier on the left wing. A giant spider that looked like a human face from the back was resting not far away. It was estimated that this person had been sucked into a mummy.
Chen Heng and Chen Ha seemed to be afraid of this kind of thing, so they carried Zhuo Buyi and hid far away.
"This kind of thing must be highly poisonous, maybe even the spider silk is poisonous."
Fang Jie sighed. He could imagine the fear the soldier had before he died.
Just when they were about to avoid the spider and prepare to continue upward, suddenly there was a rustling sound in the grass. Fang Jie and the others immediately took a few steps back in caution and leaned together. Not long after, they saw dozens of about Insects with a wrist thickness of about ten centimeters crawled out and quickly surrounded the spider. The resting spider seemed to be aware of it. He stood up suddenly and turned around to look and immediately ran away.
But its speed was far not as fast as those bugs. Dozens of bugs quickly surrounded the spider. The human-faced spider began to show its teeth and made a squeaking sound as if it was threatening something, but those bugs didn't care at all as they swarmed up. The human-faced spider was quickly suppressed below, and what stunned Fang Jie and the others the most was that these bugs started to connect, one after another, and in just a few dozen seconds, they formed a line that was more than two meters long. A long snake with a head and a tail.
Assemble the snake to entangle the human-faced spider and bite the human-faced spider in one bite. Fang Jie even saw the blue fangs in the strange snake's mouth.
They didn¡¯t dare to stay for a long time, so they moved quietly and tried not to make a sound.
After going out for two miles, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"What is that? Is it a snake?"
Zhuo Buyi couldn't help but ask.
Fang Jie smiled bitterly and shook his head: "How do I know There is something weird everywhere in this mountain. Whether those insects or wild beasts, they look like they are from two different worlds than what's outside the mountain. Now I have to admit , the things in the Deer and Monkey Cave may really exist.¡±
"you say¡¡"
He frowned and said thoughtfully: "I even wonder if a group of perverts once lived in this mountain. These perverted things were all created by perverted people."
Hearing this, Zhuo Buyi's expression changed. Although Fang Jie's words were a bit difficult to pronounce, he understood.
"You mean, everything in this mountain is man-made?"
"This was also the place where the He people lived. This kind of environment is most suitable for the life of those wizards."
Fang Jie shook his head: "I always feel that there is something wrong with the origin of things here. No matter how bad the environment is, species will not mutate for no reason, unless someone domesticates them and prompts them to change. This person or this group of people People may have been dead for a long time, but the things they created are multiplying."
"For wizards, isn't this a paradise for cultivating voodoos?"
Fang Jie's emotion made Zhuo Buyi feel more and more uneasy: "Try to be careful, maybe there will be many He wizards in this mountain. Poisonous insects are not scary, poisonous bugs controlled by people are scary." - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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