When we arrived at the hillside on the left, the snow peaks disappeared from our sight, replaced by a very short hill, with tall pine trees growing tightly together, blocking the sunlight and causing the soil on the hillside to appear dull gray-brown.

Li Renfeng bypassed the pine forest and took a weedy path, gradually speeding up his footwork.

The water vapor floating out of the hot spring could not spread here, but the fog around was still very heavy. In this fog, you could vaguely smell a smell similar to that after the burning of gunpowder.

I asked Li Renfeng what was going on here. Li Renfeng just shook his head and said he didn't know.

After a while, the smell in the fog changed and smelled more like the smell of oil smoke coming out of the kitchen.

The fog became thicker and thicker, and gradually, the visibility had dropped to a distance of three or four meters. We could only walk together tightly in case someone fell behind.

When passing by a mountain ridge, Liu Shangang quickly approached me, pointed to the left side of the mountain ridge, and lowered his voice and said, "Someone is here."

As soon as he finished speaking, I heard someone shouting loudly in the fog: "Ghost soldiers should use the way, mortals should not approach!"

I immediately asked Liu Shangang and the others to avoid it, but Li Renfeng leaned forward in the direction where the sound came. I stepped forward three steps and wanted to pull Li Renfeng back. At this moment, several figures appeared in the fog, and they were coming towards us.

I can see them, and they can naturally see me too.?

Realizing that it had been exposed, I motioned to touch the hilt of the Qinggang Sword, but saw the person on the other side waved at me: "Don't get close to me!"?

The man was wearing a unique costume of Jiufeng Mountain Gate, and a high black hat on his head, but the man's face was not covered with powder. He seemed to have not taken care of himself well for a long time. His chin was unshaven and looked older than his actual age.

Seeing that I didn't move, the man waved his hand at me again: "Do not to avoid it, the ghost soldiers will use the way!"

I pulled Li Renfeng back aside, and the man walked over to us. I saw that behind him were several Jiufeng Mountain Gate people. These people were holding a long wooden pole in their hands and hanging a paper man on the top of the pole. When they were walking, the paper man kept swaying with the wind, looking like a group of hanged ghosts floating in the air.

Jiufeng Mountain has always been hidden. Apart from the disciples of Jiufeng Mountain, few people in the industry know where Jiufeng Mountain is. We are all wearing casual clothes now, and you can tell at a glance that they are from outside, but those people just now seem to have no defenses against us at all, which makes me very confused.

I watched these people go up the hillside until their figures were about to be completely blocked by the fog, and Li Renfeng asked me: "Don't you go over and take a look?"

I glared at him: "What did you run away just now?"

Li Renfeng seemed a little surprised: "When I heard someone talking, I wanted to go over and take a look."

This guy has no experience in walking outside. I sighed in my heart and said to him: "From now on, you and me will keep a distance of less than two meters, and you must not be too far away from me!"

Li Renfeng nodded reluctantly: "Okay."

I let out a long sigh and shouted to Liang Houzai: "Houzai, thin monkey, come here first."

After a long time, no one responded to me, and there was no sound of Liang Houzai and the others coming from the other side.

I couldn't help but frown: "Haozai?"

No one answered.

At that time, I had a bad premonition in my heart. I pulled Li Renfeng and hurried to the place where Liang Houzai and the others had just stayed to check it out.

The fog was too heavy, so I could only walk forward a few steps based on my intuition, and then I saw some empty shells scattered on the ground, but Liang Houzai and the others didn't know where to go.

I squatted down, picked up an empty bullet and looked at it. This was the armor-piercing bullet brought by Liu Shangang. In addition, the grass nearby was also trampled, showing dense footprints.

In just one or two minutes, Liu Shangang and the others must have experienced a fierce battle, but I was so close that I didn't hear any sound.

Li Renfeng looked at the shell in my hand and asked me: "Brother Liu fired the gun just now, why didn't he hear the movement? Oh, they were killed, right!"

To be honest, I don’t want to pay attention to him now, but I still said, “There is no bloody smell, and none of them should be injured.”

Li Renfeng: "It's not Luo Youfang's bad guy, right?"

What he said is what I am worried about now.

I calmed down and stood up. Li Renfeng was still chattering beside me: "Uncle Master, what should we do now?"

You know you're anxious now? If you hadn't been running around without caring about it just now, Liang Houzai and the others might not have disappeared!

"What should I do? Find the three of them first," I glared at Li Renfeng and shouted at him with anger: "You follow closely!"

While speaking, I grabbed Li Renfeng's clothes tightly, and then slowly groped along the footprints in the grass.

The footprints first became denser, and then became sparse again, but while they were sparse, they also became more organized and no longer as scattered as they were.

At the beginning of the battle, Liu Shangang and the others seemed to be caught off guard and panicked for a moment, but they quickly came to their senses and stepped back rhythmically while fighting back. They only took steps and evacuate quickly while finding the space.

At first I suspected that Luo Youfang suddenly attacked and launched a surprise attack on Liu Shangang and Liang Houzai. However, in the grass, there were three footprints of different sizes. The three of them should have escaped together.

But I don’t understand one thing. Since Liu Shangang and the others have fought here, after they escaped, did the attackers catch up? Why are there only three footprints in the grass?

In a place covered with broken sand, Liu Shangang and his friends' footprints disappeared. I speculated that it was Liu Shangang who deliberately hid their footprints in order to prevent the pursuers from discovering their whereabouts.

Li Renfeng squatted on the ground, pinched a small pinch of yellow sand, frowned, and said to himself: "How can there be yellow sand on such a mountain? The sand is too thin, as if it was deliberately broken sea sand."

After hearing what he said, I paid special attention to the sand on the ground. Indeed, the sand was too detailed, just like finely ground flour.

Liu Shangang and the others were leaving anxiously just now, and I wonder if they had left me a signal.

Just as I was about to step into the sand, Li Renfeng grabbed me from the side: "Uncle Master, you can't enter this place."

"Why can't you get in?" I asked him with a frown.

Li Renfeng said: "These sand shouldn't have appeared here. I guess it may be that someone has done Feng Shui here. The fog is too heavy, and I don't know what kind of situation is going on, so I'm afraid there will be danger after entering."

It was the first time I have seen him speak so seriously after having been in contact with Li Renfeng for so long. It can be seen that his nerves are tense now.

I pointed to the sand in front of me: "Liu Shangang and the others should have gone in, so I have to find a way to get them out."

Li Renfeng: "Then you have to let the fog dissipate first. I can see clearly what kind of situation is ahead before I know how to save them. Uncle Master, this matter is not urgent. Let's... go to the top of the mountain first. When the snow peak just disappeared, I took a general look at the terrain. As long as we can get there, I will have a way to let the fog dissipate."

Li Renfeng felt a little guilty when he said this.

But I have to say that his words make sense. Now that the fog is so heavy, it is really difficult to get out if we mistakenly make a mistake by others.

I let out a long sigh, nodded, and asked him, "Can you still distinguish the direction?"

Li Renfeng shook his head first, then said, "Walk along the edge of the sand, you should be able to find the top of the mountain."

I don’t know what the basis for him to say this, but I didn’t understand the Feng Shui and geomantics set, so I didn’t ask much, so I pulled Li Renfeng up and walked forward along the edge of the sand.

Li Renfeng was unable to let go of Liu Shangang and his friends' disappearance. While walking, he muttered: "What's going on? Why didn't you hear the sound just now? There was always a little movement when shooting, right? Why didn't you hear the sound? Besides, in just a few dozen seconds, why did you lose yourself?"

He kept saying this, and I didn't answer his words, and was alert to the situation nearby throughout the whole process. The fog was too thick, and we couldn't know what was hidden behind this white fog.

From afar, I heard a sound coming from the front. Although it didn't sound very real, it could probably be distinguished. It seemed like the sound of the wedding party beating drums and drums.

I patted Li Renfeng to calm him down, and then carefully identified the location of the sound source. I could confirm that the sound was slowly approaching us at this time.

Given that when I met the people from Jiufeng Mountain Gate just now, those people did not defend us, I also planned to make a bet this time, standing there, waiting for the sounds on the opposite side to slowly approach.

After about ten minutes, several red figures appeared in the fog.

I pulled Li Renfeng and quickly got up.

Li Renfeng was obviously afraid of those figures. He followed me and said timidly: "Are those shadows... human?"

"It would be fine if it wasn't for someone." I replied briefly.

After that, Li Renfeng and I didn't talk anymore and walked forward silently.

As the people in front were getting closer, I realized that they were all wearing red coats, some were pounding gongs in their hands, some were playing suona, and a woman in the same red coat took out handfuls of red paper money and spread it to the ground.

These people were stirring together, and it was very lively, but in such a thick fog, the lively atmosphere gave people a very strange feeling.

I came over to a man playing suona. When he saw me walking up to him, he was still smiling at me.

It was noisy around me, so I raised my voice and asked him, "What are you doing?"

He replied loudly: "Send a wedding." His face was filled with a strong sense of joy as he spoke.

I looked at the team that sent the bride and didn't see the sedan chair. The only adult woman in the entire team was the woman who was scattering paper money. At the end of the team, there was a girl about eight or nine years old.

I couldn't help but frown: "Who will send a marriage to?"

The man turned around and pointed to the little girl who followed the team: "It's still a question. Of course, it's a wedding to the saint. Oh, you guys hurry up and prepare. We have to have two more wedding banquets tonight. If you don't go back now, things will be delayed."

Hearing his tone, it seemed like he was very familiar with me, but I was very sure that I had never seen him before.

The person following him also said, "Yes, Xiaowu, go back quickly, the village chief is waiting for you."

I asked, "Who is Xiaowu?"

He pointed at me: "Why did you start making trouble again? Are you Xiaowu?"

After saying that, he shouted at Li Renfeng again: "Isn't this a bad guy? Your father has been looking for you these two days, and he is almost crazy!"
Chapter completed!