Chapter 127, Gongcheng
Traveling along the way can be described as trekking through mountains and rivers, overcoming thorns and thorns.
I remember that in some trendy and fresh styles there would always be people tiptoeing along old train tracks, with some inspirational words about life attached to the tracks. However, after walking along this extremely long abandoned track myself, I felt terrible and had no intention of appreciating the beautiful mountains and rivers, not to mention that the mountains and rivers here belonged to demons.
Jiang Shang and his party did not encounter any serious dangers on the road afterwards. They were basically general-level monsters, or groups of slave-level monsters out hunting or migrating.
This level of danger may not be ignored for experienced college students, but for Jiang Shang today, there is no danger at all.
With their current strength, as long as they don't encounter a commander-level demon, they will have a smooth journey.
After traveling for four or five days, the track came to an end.
Not far from the end is the small goal of Jiang Shang and his team's trip - Gongcheng
Today, the city is overgrown with weeds and in a dilapidated state. The gloomy weather shines on the gray and cold concrete soil, showing a sense of desolation and desolation.
The green plants that represent vitality seem out of place and full of contradictions compared to the concrete that represents human civilization.
"Is this Gongcheng?" Mao Xinrui said, looking at the city in the distance.
"Yes, Gongcheng is ahead. It seems that after nearly twenty years, this place has become very desolate and dilapidated. Not even a high-rise building that is basically intact can be seen." Li Lao said, turned his head and looked behind him and said, "Fu Zhong, use the Wings of Wind to survey the air and see the distribution of monsters in the entire Gongcheng, especially the location of the leader of the two-tailed demon leopard. You must find it! This is the top priority.
Jiang Shang, you and Meng Ziyi should split up and explore the distribution of demons outside Gongcheng and the general route to Songling."
"Good" x3
"What about me? What about me?" Tu Meng saw that the other three people except himself had tasks and he could only stay here, so he couldn't help but ask hurriedly.
"I've told you so many times that your mission is to protect me and grandpa. Why can't you remember it?" Mao Xinrui glanced at Tu Meng and said righteously.
"........."
Protecting Mr. Li is fake, protecting Mao Xinrui is real.
There is only one healing mage in the team, and he must be protected as a treasure. If something happens, it will be difficult for him to survive in the wild.
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Near the outskirts of Gongcheng is a plain with small hills. Today, it is surrounded by a jungle. The houses that once existed there are hidden deep inside, like the cabins in fairy tales.
Further out and to the north is a river. The river is not very wide, only about a hundred meters, and surrounds half of Gongcheng.
But the point is that this river is a tributary of the Yellow River!
The Yellow River is a famous river in this ancient country. Like the Yangtze River, it has bred countless powerful monsters.
It is also the birthplace of Jiao-type monsters, or sub-dragons and pseudo-dragons with true dragon bloodlines.
However, they don't need to worry about this river during this exploration, because it is a little northwest of Yongzhao Mausoleum where Jiang Shang and his team are going. If it is not necessary, they will not go there at all.
So Jiang Shang only needed to explore the forest.
After Mr. Li gave the instructions, Jiang Shang and Meng Ziyi went to explore in two directions, one in the east and one in the west.
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After exploring the eastern forest, Jiang Shang was somewhat surprised to find that most of the monsters he encountered in the entire jungle were actually two-tailed demon leopards.
From time to time, you can even see the figure of a warrior-level two-tailed magic leopard.
Logically speaking, with a leader-level existence, these demon leopards should all gather within Gongcheng and should not appear in the outer forest. "Bang!"
After beating the last demon leopard to death with his fist, Jiang Shang looked at the corpses on the ground with a solemn expression.
Just now when he turned back from the edge of Gongcheng, the route he took was different from the original route. Unexpectedly, he encountered the scene of a two-tailed demon leopard mating in heat.
Moreover, within his perception range, he could clearly sense that there was a large energy source not far from the border between Gongcheng and Wailin.
Combined with what he had experienced before, Jiang Shang had reason to believe that something must have happened in Gongcheng, forcing the magic leopard tribe to withdraw from Gongcheng.
"I have to go back and tell Mr. Li about this."
Thinking of this, Jiang Shang's figure turned into a residual image and disappeared on the spot.
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When Jiang Shang rushed back to the original place, Fu Zhong, who had entered the city to investigate, had already returned and was reporting the clues in the city to Mr. Li.
Jiang Shang walked forward and heard Li Lao say, "According to your description, the undead in the Song Mausoleum must have rioted. It's filled with smoke and miasma. If these undead have begun to leave the Song Mausoleum, then that's our chance, a chance to directly enter the Yongzhao Mausoleum!"
Hearing this, Jiang Shang spoke at the right time: "Mr. Li, when I was patrolling the forest, I found that the two-tailed magic leopard tribe seemed to have evacuated Gongcheng and was heading southeast. I could even detect an energy source that seemed to be at the commander level in the outer forest."
After hearing this, Mr. Li was delighted and quickly took out a map from his pocket and handed it to Jiang Shang.
"Please point out the location you found."
Looking at the detailed map of Gongcheng 20 years ago, Jiang Shang pointed at it and drew a circle, saying, "I am exploring this location, and the energy source is within the range of the circle I drew."
While Jiang Shang was speaking, Meng Ziyi, who had gone with him to investigate, had also returned.
Afterwards, he reported to Mr. Li what he had discovered during his exploration in the west.
It was basically the same as what Jiang Shang said. The monsters seen on the road were all two-tailed demon leopards.
The only difference is that the people we met in that direction were all slaves, and there were no generals.
Obviously, the retreat direction of the Magic Leopard Tribe was towards the southeast, with only a few Magic Leopards falling behind in the southwest.
"It seems that the undead spirits of Songling have indeed explored the range of the mausoleum and invaded Gongcheng. Otherwise, the Magic Leopard Tribe would never abandon this city." Elder Li analyzed, and then waved his hand and said, "Let's go directly into the city from the west to avoid conflict with the Magic Leopard Leader, and then head towards Songling along Dugong Road."
After saying that, Mr. Li took the lead and walked towards the west.
The demons in the west are really just as Meng Ziyi said, basically they are all slave-level beings.
Jiang Shang and his entourage entered Gongcheng without any effort.
The scene here was basically the same as that seen from outside the city, dilapidated and desolate.
The Outer Ring Road was filled with abandoned cars that had already grown a patina. They were jammed on the road. It was conceivable that when evacuating, these cars basically blocked the road and most of them abandoned their cars and fled.
Resurrected, my author!!!
P.S. I haven't updated in the past few days because I took a car to my former rental home to clean up the room and buy furniture. Now everything is almost done, I will update as usual!! (≧≦)
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