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Nanjiang set up a telescope to observe the fire on the river beach from a distance.

Behind him, Li Youran and Tang Xun told Ming Xia about the situation of the Kopxi Mountain formation.

"Looking down from mid-air, the Xishan Great Formation is in the shape of a gossip plate," Li Youran said: "The S-shaped line in the center of the gossip plate is actually a twisted twist of Gemian Mountain and Xixin River."

Ming Xia nodded, indicating that she understood.

"The Xixin River originates from a place called Songshuya on the southern peak of Gemian Mountain. It goes all the way to the north and divides into two tributaries at the south of the No. [-] Supply Station. One flows eastward, crosses the plain on the east side of the Xishan Mountain, flows through Yaoxi District, and finally It flows into Taohua Bay. Well, Taohua Bay is also a tributary of the Yao River."

Ming Xia nodded again. In fact, long before he knew the "Sixth Group", he vaguely knew that the river in the park on the west side of Yaoxi District flowed from the west mountain.

There are many tributaries of the Yaojiang River, and the locals have been used to seeing rivers everywhere since they were young, and no one has the leisure to trace the source and get to the bottom of it.

"The other tributary will continue to go south, along the west side of the northern peak of Gemian Mountain, and finally join the Yaojiang River." Li Youran turned to Tang Xun, "Is there anything else to add?"

After seeing Ming Xia's fierce fighting power, the team members also began to accept him from the bottom of their hearts.Now that he has been regarded as a partner, it is natural to share resources with him in order to have better cooperation in the next cooperation.

Tang Xun is not very good at giving lectures to others. After thinking about it for a while, he decided to give Ming Xia a general introduction to the places they passed by, "Didn't Lao Li say that the big array is a gossip board? Our current position starts from geography. In terms of azimuth, it is about twenty degrees east of the central axis of the formation."

He pointed to the south direction, "Before you heard what the captain said, the situation of Leather Mian Mountain is more complicated, and the existing map of the data group is also incomplete. Some places have records and have been marked, and more The place is blank."

"There is another saying that on the topographic map of the entire South Peak, the blank area closest to the south is the center of the entire formation. This is also where we will enter later."

Tang Xun was paying attention to the students' reactions while giving lectures. Seeing him nodding, he continued, "Actually, the formation center of the Xishan Great Formation is just a theoretical statement, because there is no such thing as the center of the formation in all the information we have obtained. Clearly documented and explained.”

Li Youran noticed that Ming Xia's eyes started to straighten, so she made a long and short summary, "Hey, just think about it this way, the entire Xishan formation is a complicated machine, and the center of the formation is equivalent to the power device of the formation. .So it’s okay if everyone doesn’t know, maybe it’s safer. Don’t you think so?”

"In short, it's dangerous to go into the mountains." Qingqiu couldn't understand Li Youran's lecture posture, hugged Ming Xia's neck with some jealousy, and glared at Li Youran, "There's a lot of nonsense."

After all, Ming Xia is not a specially trained combatant. Hearing this kind of unknown dangerous place, the first thing he feels is not excitement or eagerness to try, but faint fear.

He has to go through a process of working hard to overcome this fear, so that he can move forward with the same fighting spirit as them.And the more he knew about their environment, the more it would help ease his tension.Therefore, when others speak seriously, he listens more seriously.

"Since the terrain is a gossip board," Ming Xia asked a little confusedly, "then there is a circle on one side of the gossip map?"

"We don't know much about how the formation was set up at the beginning." Li Youran said: "We only know that the circle that is mapped to this large formation and represents the Yang level is Yaoxi District, a civilian residential area. The one representing the Yin level There seems to be some great monster sealed in the circle, and that is the most heavily guarded and dangerous area in the entire formation. We can't easily enter it either."

Tang Xun also showed a happy expression, patted his chest and said, "Fortunately, our mission has nothing to do with that side for the time being."

Nan Jiang stood by and listened for a long time, but when he heard such useless words, he couldn't hold back and kicked Tang Xun's ass.

Tang Xun patted his pants, and ran away hey hey, "Oh, I'm just talking. Talking about it, it's not serious."

Li Youran rolled her eyes, reached out and patted Ming Xia's shoulder, "Don't listen to him, it's actually not that scary, all the powerful things are closed. If there are any, let's find a way to deal with it." .”

Ming Xia felt that what he said was very Nanjiang style, and nodded with a smile, "I understand, if I need to participate, I will definitely cooperate with you."

Li Youran patted him hard on the shoulder, "Good job!"

Qingqiu was not happy anymore, "You can't bully you even if you are a good person. You see, you slapped Ming Xia's shoulders red!"

Ming Xia, "..."

He wanted to say that he was not that delicate, but no one listened to him at all.

Li Youran sneered, "Where is it popular? Can you still see his arms through his clothes?"

"Of course." Qingqiu also imitated her and hummed, "I can still see the tattoo on your arm, such a rustic pattern, a mess... What is that? It seems to be a name, right?"

Li Youran was furious, her face flushed red, "Rogue!"

"Why am I a rascal?" Qingqiu was also furious, "I didn't mean to watch it, if you have the ability, you should be strict..."

Ming Xia, "..."

Nanjiang, "..."

"Shut up!" Nan Jiang couldn't stand it anymore, and Ming Xia found out that his subordinates were such a bunch of idiots, would he still be willing to be their foreign aid?

Li Youran ran away clutching her arms.

Ming Xia asked Qingqiu, "Does she really have tattoos? Whose name is it?"

Qingqiu took a deep breath, recalled it with his round eyes, and then showed a somewhat embarrassed expression, "There is a tattoo, and the name is actually my guess."

Ming Xia became obscenely curious about the privacy of the female man, "Is it the name? What kind of character is it tattooed on?"

Qingqiu felt embarrassed, "I... I don't know..."

Ming Xia, "..."

Well, I forgot that this person is actually semi-literate, with only elementary school education in modern Chinese.Maybe the tattoo is an English name, which is regarded as a flower.

"Okay, let's change the subject." Nanjiang wanted to talk about the girl's tattoo, "Mingxia, come and see, this is the first time to use this incendiary bomb, and the records are complete."

Ming Xia quickly agreed.

On the river beach in the distance, the fire is still burning.It wasn't until more than ten minutes later that the fire gradually extinguished, and the group of fragmentary bugs trapped inside by the fire also disappeared.

Strangely, there were no traces of burning left on the burned river beach, and the color of the grass did not change.So Ming Xia suspects that what may be burning is some kind of substance that he doesn't understand, not the kind of burning that he is familiar with in daily life.

Ming Xia finished recording and walked up the mountain with Nanjiang.

The small hills in this area belonged to the middle area between Leather Face Mountain and Xixin River, so it was possible that neither the monsters in the mountain nor the monsters in the river were in charge of them. From a safety point of view, it was guaranteed for the time being.But whether they really want to go into the mountains, Nanjiang has no idea.

But one thing is for sure, that is, even if you want to walk the mountain road, you will definitely not touch the deep mountains, at most you will be farther away from the Xixin River.

The two walked one after the other, and Ming Xia couldn't help asking him, "Brother Nan, since this river has been flowing into Yaoxi District, will the monsters in the river..."

Nan Jiang understood what he was worried about, thought for a while and said: "You should be familiar with the drawing software on the computer, right? I remember that when drawing, there will be many layers. The first layer is the background color, and the second layer is the background color." Outlines, and the third layer is color...it's kind of like that, right?"

The topic entered Ming Xia's familiar territory, and he vaguely understood what Nan Jiang wanted to express.

"The same is true for the Xixin River." Seeing the thoughtful look on his face, Nan Jiang smiled slightly, "The one that flows into Yaoxi District is a layer, and the one that seals the fishwife and other monsters is another layer." Layer. Although the two layers are superimposed, in fact, the things in one layer will not run into the other layer."

Ming Xia understood.

He looked back at the river beach in the distance.At this moment, the sun was setting, the river was flowing meanderingly, and the river surface was shining with fine streamers. The fairy trees on both sides of the river swayed their slender branches, and the scattered flowers danced on the river surface.

There are no fish-like and human-like monsters, no tentacles waving all over the sky, and sparks soaring into the sky at the end. What you see before your eyes is still a beautiful picture.

Ming Xia felt as if he had just woken up from a nightmare.He didn't dare to look too much, and hurriedly ran after Nanjiang in three or two steps.

Tang Xun opened the map on his notebook, zoomed in, and transferred to the southern peak of Leather Mian Mountain.

This area is only a rough outline on the map, but inside it is a bunch of blanks.Of course, this is not the focus of Nanjiang's attention at the moment.What he was looking at was the section of road next to Xixin River at the foot of the mountain on the east side of Nanfeng.

It is about two days' journey from here to their destination, Pine Cliffs.

The next day's journey will be easier and safer, because the foot of the mountain is far away from the Xixin River, which is far beyond the range of the fishwife's attack.But the journey on the first day will be a bit troublesome. Unless you go into the mountain, even if you drive along the foot of the mountain, you will be too close to the river.

"Captain," Tang Xun zoomed in on the map and pointed Nanjiang to look at it. "Look at the section in the middle of Nanfeng, where the forest is marked, indicating that this is a place that has been detected. Can we go directly north to this forest, and then from the forest to the forest?" East, return to the river? This way you don’t have to enter the larger blank area in the south, and you just avoid the road that was close to the river on the first day.”

Nan Jiang was silent.

Going directly north from where they are at the moment, they need to pass through the southernmost blank area. Although they only need to pass through the edge, it is still impossible to determine what danger they will encounter.

One option is an unknown danger, and the other option is a known danger. According to common sense, he should choose a known danger.But unfortunately, so far, the only thing they have that works against fishwives is a long-range weapon, and incendiary bombs cannot be used when the distance is too close.

As a result of the discussion, everyone chose to enter the mountain.

The reasons are all ready-made: no matter what kind of opponents they encounter on land, with their force value, they can at least resist for a while, and they can still run if they cannot be beaten.But if you are dragged into the river by a fishwife, you don't even have a chance to resist, and your body will be taken over by parasites—and taken from the inside.

This infection process is said to be completed in a very short time, which is really chilling.

Two hours later, a group of people walked into the south peak of Leather Face Mountain.

This is a canyon marked as "foggy valley" on the map, and further in is a blank area.Judging from the approximate geographical location, it will take them about six to eight hours to go through the blank area to the marked woods.

"Is it called this name because there is fog all year round?" Ming Xia approached Nan Jiang and asked him in a low voice, "Is there anything here?"

Nanjiang introduced him in a low voice, "It is true that there is often fog here, but there is no special interference, and the equipment can be used normally. At least we will not go in the wrong direction."

This explanation was scientific enough, but Ming Xia was still a little uneasy.

The fog in the valley was getting thicker and thicker, gradually, the figures in the front, back, left and right began to blur.