[King Shen] Please enter the urn

On the glacier road, more than a dozen fork roads twist and turn like water snakes, and fork roads are born on top of fork roads.After walking for a while, the originally separated roads merged into one place in twos, threes, threes or fours.It loops back for a while, cuts off for a while, and goes back to the original place for a while.Like a maze, it makes people dizzy and disoriented.

The ancient trees on both sides of the ice road are uneven, and the vegetation is mixed.The towering giant tree, with its branches and snake skin, has a crown as big as a cover, covered with white snow and ice, covering the sky and the sun.Shrubs, vines, thorns and weeds are overgrown underneath, and the dead branches and grass are covered with snow crystals, which obscure the original appearance, making it difficult to use them as signs to identify the way, making it even more difficult to find the way.

All roads are frozen waterways. If the ice and snow melt in spring and summer, it will turn into a trickle of water, nourishing the soil and watering the vegetation. At that time, the flowers will bloom, competing for beauty and beauty.

However, it was mid-winter at this time, and the waterways were all frozen into ice. Although the vast expanse of snow had a special charm, it slowed down the speed of people and horses—if you sprinted on the slippery ice, you would accidentally fall. Broken waist and broken legs.

Under the guidance of Wang Lianhua, the guide, the horse team shuttled through this natural maze.

At the beginning, he was impassioned and his morale was high.But after walking for a long time in the maze-like ice road, there are still many dense forests ahead, and there is no sign of getting out of the dense forest.

It is haunted and haunted by trees, and every road you walk seems familiar, just like "ghosts hitting a wall".

Many people felt irritated in their hearts, the entire team was silent, and a silent and depressing atmosphere gradually spread.

Wang Huoshao was the first to be unable to bear this kind of depression.

He said to Wang Lianhua: "Why didn't you go out for a long time?"

"Aren't you lost too?"

"If you don't know the way, just tell us, don't lead us around here like blind people."

Wang Lianhua did not answer directly, but smiled slightly and said, "Brother Huoshao, have you heard the story of 'Drowning Forest'?"

Wang Huoshao asked curiously, "What's 'Drowning Forest'?"

Wang Lianhua shook her head, shook her white fan, and said like a storyteller: "When we talk about 'Drowning Forest', we have to start with a strange incident more than 50 years ago."

"More than 50 years ago, this place was an ordinary small town. The town was built on the water, and a wide river passed through the city. Farmland, living a fairly affluent life."

"However, there were unexpected events. Who would have thought that there would be a sudden earthquake in the lower reaches of the river, causing the rocks to collapse and blocking the lower river. The river that could not flow out rose rapidly and overflowed the embankment overnight."

"It was late at night, and most of the people in the town were sleeping in a sound sleep. No one knew that a monstrous flood was coming to them."

"After the flood, almost all the people in the town drowned in their sleep, and only a few dozen people managed to escape."

"Because the flood flooded the land and the road was blocked by rocks, no one collected the bodies of these drowned people. Their bodies could only be soaked in the river water and slowly rot."

"More than ten years later, the flood gradually receded and became a woodland with interlaced waterways. Dense forests grew on the broken walls of the town. Some people who escaped their lives came to search for the corpses of their relatives, but the strange Yes, no one can find even a single bone."

"It's as if all the corpses have evaporated from the world."

"After the town was abandoned, people built a road in that forest for the convenience of traveling."

"Everyone who walks on that road has been reminded by those who know the past - when walking, walk lightly, and don't wake up the things sleeping in the woods."

"If they opened their eyes, no one would be able to get out of that wood."

Wang Lianhua's voice became softer and lower as she spoke.

Hearing that Wang Huo was burning, his hair stood on end, and he felt the wind blowing from behind, which made him feel chills from his back to his heart.

He tied his tongue and said, "You, you, what are you doing telling this story?"

As if to cheer himself up, he couldn't help but raise his voice a little bit.

Wang Lianhua's complexion changed suddenly, she tapped his lips with a folding fan, and whispered: "Hush, keep your voice down, something is looking at you."

Wang Huoshao's eyes popped in fright, and he stammered, "You, you, don't play tricks, there are no abandoned towns here, and I don't know if you made up that drowning forest!"

"You don't believe it?" Wang Lianhua smiled faintly, pointed to her feet and said, "Look, what is this?"

Wang Huoshao subconsciously looked down, and a shrill scream that did not match his physique went straight into the sky, startling a group of jackdaws into the air.

With a "bang", he collapsed to the ground, his face was pale, and he shrank back with his hands and feet——

Under the ice under his feet, there was a pair of dark eyes staring straight at him!

Yun Chuxiu was stunned when he heard the sound, and strode forward.

When I saw those eyes, I was also startled, and I just wanted to reach out to brush away the snow and dust covering the ice, so that I could see clearly what was underneath.Suddenly the eyes moved slightly, as if something under the ice suddenly turned to the head.

Yun Chuxiu was startled, pulled out the long knife at his waist with a "shua", and guarded it in front of his chest with great vigilance.

After not seeing any movement under the ice for a long time, he cautiously stretched out his hand again to wipe off the snow, dust and mud, and the things under the ice gradually revealed the whole picture.

It was a drowned body.

His face was pale and swollen from the blisters, like a crumbled dough cake.He was dressed in rags, with nine bags on his shoulders and a four-foot-long green bamboo stick tied around his waist.

On the slightly rotten face, a pair of eyes opened with horror.His dark pupils had long lost the luster of a living person, but he could still vaguely see the pain and unwillingness condensed in his pupils before death.

He stared intently at the living people on the ice, as if he was questioning—why are you still alive when I am dead?

There was silence in the whole cavalry, some were staring, some were terrified.

Seeing the utterly dead body, Yun Chuxiu basked in the sun, put the knife back into its sheath.

The frightening scene just now was probably just pushed by a passing fish.

He felt someone walking behind him, and when he looked back, it was Zhao Biqiong.

Yun Chuxiu said: "Master, this corpse..."

Zhao Biqiong's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said lightly: "The elder of the Nine Pockets of the Beggar Gang——Shi Yun."

Yun Chuxiu was shocked: "It's him!"

He couldn't help but take another look at the corpse under the ice.

Shi Yun, the elder of the Nine Pockets of the Beggar Clan, is a first-class figure standing at the top of the rivers and lakes.If the current leader of the Beggar Gang does not have a successor, with his martial arts and qualifications, he should be the next leader of the Beggar Gang.

But now, it is absurd and regrettable that such an all-powerful character in the rivers and lakes died quietly in a deserted snowy ridge.

Zhao Biqiong stared at the corpse in silence for a while, then turned to Shen Lang and said, "We are late."

The smile on Shen Lang's face disappeared, and his clear eyes were as sharp as a sharp edge.

He said, "Not too late."

"As long as there is still a person hanging on the edge of the cliff and we need to pull it, it will never be too late."