chapter 12
Hu Ye and one hundred and two subordinates took the "Flying Dragon Ship" to sail to the sea and sailed north along the coastline.
It is now the spring season, and the southeast wind is blowing on the sea. The white sails on the three sides of the "Flying Dragon Ship" swell in the wind, driving the hull to slash the waves on the sea surface and move like flying.
Now that everyone is in the vast sea, there is no need to worry about leaking the secret, Hu Ye announced the purpose of the trip to everyone. As for the detailed plot, he only informed the two leaders Zheng Yun and Li Yingfeng.
The boat was full of young young people around twenty years old. I heard that I was going to dig out the treasures of the Qing Dynasty and dig the dragon veins by the way. They were all excited.
The crowd was at sea for more than one day. The "Flying Dragon Ship" finally arrived on the coast of Liaodong and found a suitable location to dock.
Hu Ye left thirty soldiers to guard the ship, and the remaining 60 were divided into three teams. He, Zheng Yun and Li Yingfeng each led a team to three groups to rush to the "Lu Ding Mountain" marked by the treasure map.
Hu Ye led the first team, who had the full treasure map in mind, walked in the front, leaving two teams marked as the back guide along the way.
Their route was approaching that the territory designated by the Qing Dynasty and the Rakshasa Kingdom in the Treaty of Nebchu, and it was also a bitter and cold place in the extreme north. Even in the spring season, there were still unmelted ice and snow, so there were mostly wilderness along the way, with rare people.
There was nothing to say along the way. On that day, Hu Ye and his group arrived at a place where the two rivers converged, and saw a mountain mausoleum on the banks of a river from afar.
This mountain is not tall, but within a dozen miles, there are endless plains and wilderness, which shows its unique charm.
Hu Ye recalled the details on the treasure map, looked up at the mountain, and saw some broken walls and ruins appearing in the mountains, as if they were a destroyed city. He couldn't help but feel happy and determined that this was the "Lu Ding Mountain" he was looking for.
As far as he knows, the Rakshasa people built a castle called "Yaksa" on the mountain in their early years as a military base that invaded the East.
After his Wei Shibo led his army to defeat the Rakshasa army and forced him to sign the Treaty of Nebchu, the Rakshasa Kingdom withdrew its troops from here, and the castle was also demolished by the Qing army.
Hu Ye led twenty subordinates to speed up their pace to the "Lu Ding Mountain".
Now the mountain is full of grass and trees, and everyone can only walk through the mountains and forests with high and low artemisia.
While walking, Hu Ye suddenly heard a scream from behind him. When he turned his head to look, he saw a soldier falling downwards by stepping on the air.
Finally, this person has been trained and reacted quickly, and grabbed a clump of weeds around him with his hands in time, so he did not continue to fall.
Hu Ye flashed, reached out and grabbed the man's back collar, gently lifted him and pulled him out on the solid ground beside him.
"Thank you, Lord!" The soldier was shocked and hurriedly thanked Hu Ye.
Hu Ye squatted down to see where he fell. After pushing away the clump of grass, he saw a pit with a diameter of more than 5 feet deep. The walls of the pit were straight up and down, with obvious signs of manual excavation, but there were no ambush like nets and thorns below, unlike traps dug out by hunters.
He carefully observed the pit for a while, and a thoughtful look appeared on his face, and then told everyone to be careful when walking forward to avoid another accident.
At that time, the soldiers cut down some long wooden sticks to explore the way, but they found no less than twenty or thirty similar deep pits along the way.
Judging from the traces of excavation, some of these deep pits seemed to be excavated in the past one or two years, while others were much earlier, such as those dug more than ten years ago.
Hu Ye's expression on his face was a little solemn. He greeted behind him and called a soldier and explained to him carefully.
The man wrote it carefully and bowed to Hu Ye, turned around and walked quickly down the mountain.
Hu Ye and others continued to marching up the mountain and gradually walked to the ruins of the castle.
At this time, it was the red sun setting west, and the sky was already a little dark.
Hu Ye immediately ordered to find a place in the ruins of the castle for a temporary stay for one night, and continue to go up the mountain tomorrow morning.
Two soldiers crossed the crowd and first went to the castle ruins to find a suitable location as a temporary station. However, when they just walked to the city gate that had collapsed most of the time, they seemed to suddenly see something amazing, and stopped together, staggering in place like wooden sculptures.
Hu Ye knew something was wrong, so he hurriedly rushed to the front and asked, "Why are you..."
"Master of the Hall retreat quickly!"
The two soldiers heard Hu Ye's voice and turned to see that he had walked closer. Their faces changed drastically at the same time. They shouted in unison, rushed forward, grabbed Hu Ye's arm, and dragged it backwards.
Hu Ye was both angry and funny, and stood firmly as if he had grown a root. How could the two of them drag him?
"If you have something to say, what's so frightening!"
After hearing this reprimand, the two of them calmed down a little. Although they let go of Hu Ye's hands, they still stood side by side in front of Hu Ye, as if they were afraid that he would take a step forward.
One of them lowered his voice with a nervous look on his face, "Master, we saw a simple post at the city gate, which was left by the 'Poisonous Hands' King'!"
"The King of Poison Hands?" Hu Ye showed surprise on his face, and he also understood why these two elite soldiers were so nervous.
They are all children of the "Heaven and Earth Society" congregation. They have grown up from childhood by listening to various secrets and strange stories from the elders. The most bizarre and strange and terrifying one is undoubtedly the legend about the "Piracy King".
In the mouths of those elders, the "Piracy King" has countless incarnations like gods and demons. Sometimes she is a scholar with a elegant appearance, sometimes an old monk, sometimes a short and fat man with a wide face, and sometimes an ugly woman with a lame hunchback.
Any place where the "poisonous medicine king" appears, there will always be people who are poisoned and die suddenly, and they are all kinds of strange deaths.
Some people are obviously taking strict precautions in advance, but they are still poisoned without realizing it.
Some of them were poisoned and killed by all the people around them, which was fine.
Some others were obviously advancing, retreating, drinking and eating with everyone around them, but he was the only one who was poisoned and everyone else was safe and sound. It was so strange that it was extremely strange.
In the early years, this proverb was circulated in the world, saying: "I would rather meet the King of Hell than meet Lao Wang; I would rather be shot than meet Lao Zhang."
This is about the power of the two top masters of the world. "Lao Wang" was the master of the gossip sect, "Shog Heshuo" Wang Weiyang, and "Lao Zhang" was the master of the Wudang Sect, "Fire-hand Judge" Zhang Zhaozhong.
Later, Zhang Zhaozhong died as an enemy with Honghua, and Wang Weiyang also lived to his death at home. This sentence was changed to: "I would rather receive the King of Hell than touch the King of Medicine poison!"
If you want to fight and kill in real life, no matter how powerful the enemy you face, these soldiers under Hu Ye are fearless.
But when faced with a terrible person who killed people with poison, they couldn't help but feel nervous.
What's more, they don't care about their own life and death, but they must consider Hu's safety.
Hu Ye frowned slightly, and he pushed the two people who were blocking him away, and took a few steps forward to the broken city gate.
Sure enough, I saw a piece of plain paper on the broken wall that was only one person above the door, which read: "The name is a fellow traveler in the world, and I am waiting for the local people to stay in this deserted city for three days. I hope that my friends will avoid it for the time being. I will be sure to take this advice."
In the lower left corner, the four words "Well-known and unfamiliar" are written, and a gourd pattern is drawn next to it, which is the unique mark of the legendary "The King of Poisonous Soldiers".
Chapter completed!