to blame

The team took a short break by the lake.

Nan Jiang took Li Youran and Bai Ying to collect the scales of the water lizard found by the lake, and collected lake water and soil samples for Lin Su to test.Tang Xun dragged the instrument to search for energy fluctuations in this area.

Ming Xia sorted out her luggage and weapons, and even drew a few sketches.

"This is really not a place that water snakes would like." Qingqiu nestled in his arms, chatting with him in a low voice, "It doesn't look like that kind of warm and humid feeling here."

Ming Xia turned a new page and began to draw the pine trees on the other side of the lake and the snow-capped mountains in the distance.

"Dry, cold, and covered with snow." Qingqiu counted his paws one by one to Ming Xia, "And where does it sleep? There is no such wet grass beach here. Do you want to get into the mud at the bottom of the lake?" go?"

Although Ming Xia was almost swallowed by the water snake as a snack, to be honest, he didn't know much about that terrifying long worm. He only knew that it was the leader of the water snake clan, occupying the whole clan's resources to heal its wounds, selfish , ferocious, and poisonous.

When it was in the old city, it didn't kill demons and people.In the end, seeing that he couldn't run away, it broke through the eye of the formation and fled all the way back to the formation.

"If this place violates its habits," Ming Xia felt that Qingqiu's analysis made sense, "then it must have a reason to escape here."

When Qingqiu thought of the thrilling scene that day, he became terrified, "What else can it do, it just wants to escape."

Nanjiang came from the side, heard Qingqiu's words, and gave it a thumbs up, "Smart."

Qingqiu twitched a little, opened his round bean eyes and asked him hopefully, "Then what shall we do?"

Nan Jiang stretched out his hand and flicked it on the head, "We must first determine its route, and it is best to determine its exact location. Come on, call everyone over, let's have a meeting."

The meeting place was chosen in an open place by the lake.

Tang Xun opened his notebook and showed everyone the topographic map of the Pine Cliff area.

From the map, Pine Cliff is located at the northernmost end of the Xishan formation, and it is also the highest peak in the entire formation.The top of the mountain is covered with snow all the year round, and it is said that there are rocks under the ice layer, no grass grows, and there are basically no living things.

The site of Meirensong is halfway up the mountain.

This area is similar to Daxing'an Mountains in terms of climate and topography, and many precious tree species in Daxing'an Mountains grow well here.Moreover, the ecosystem of Pine Tree Cliff is similar to that of Greater Khingan Mountains, because the natural environment is relatively more stable, and there is no reason for hunters to come and go at will. Many extinct or endangered rare animals are preserved here.

Ming Xia murmured to Qing Qiu regretfully, "If my parents can enter here, they will probably be overjoyed."

Qingqiu thought of the room full of bottles and cans in Mingxia's house, and his hair all exploded.

Ming Xia didn't notice its frightened expression, his eyes were attracted by a squirrel not far away.The little squirrel bounced and ran across the branches, stopped again, and looked curiously at these people by the lake with round eyes.Perhaps the reason why there are few people here, the little squirrel is not afraid of people.

Ming Xia looked away and continued to listen to Tang Xun explaining the situation of Pine Tree Cliff.

Tang Xun marked a bright circle on the map, "This is the place where the body of the beauty pine is sealed. It is not far from the time when Zhuhuai transformed into form. During the melee of the ten thousand monsters, it was also the main force of the monster clan. The blood of the demon hunter. In the final battle, he failed to set up an ambush but was captured, and was finally sealed into the Western Mountain Formation."

Ming Xia thought to himself, this is also the enemy of demon hunters, the enemy of human beings.

"Its body is not particularly tall." Tang Xun's expression was very serious, especially Mingxia and Qingqiu who didn't know the situation, so he paid more attention, "On the contrary, it is a low-key person who knows how to assess the situation. Monster, all its strength is hidden in the dark - its root system is very developed. A few years ago, the "Sixth Group" was tested. In its natural state, the root system of the Beauty Pine almost covered the pine cliff Nearly one-third of the area. It even extends to the vicinity of the No. [-] supply station."

Supply Station No. [-] is their next foothold.Nanjiang mentioned this place. Before entering the mountain, their equipment and weapons need to be replenished once.

"Probably the situation is like this," Nanjiang began to conclude, "In short, although we still don't know whether the water lily and the beautiful pine are really working together, but entering the pine cliff is equivalent to stepping into the territory of the beautiful pine. Be prepared to be attacked by it at any time."

As he said that, he took Tang Xun's notebook, typed a string of strange words into the dialog box at the bottom of the screen, and passed them to the team members one by one.

English plus strange characters, plus a few suspected French words, even mixed with numbers...

Ming Xia turned her head to look at Qing Qiu in bewilderment.

Qingqiu whispered to him with some distress, "It's the secret way of the 'Sixth Group' to transmit internal information. Hey, what, it's called a password! I haven't learned it yet."

Ming Xia thought to himself that there were so many foreign words in it, it would be strange if it could learn it.When it was literate, it was determined not to learn the "barbarian language".

This way of transmitting information is obviously for fear of leaking any internal information.Maybe there are Meirensong's eyes and ears nearby, this guess made Ming Xia nervous involuntarily.

Nan Jiang came over and sat down beside him, and took one of his hands.

Ming Xia was startled, and was about to retreat when Nan Jiang whispered, "Look at the strokes."

What he wrote in the palm of his hand was: [Just read it and understand it, don't say it. ]

Ming Xia nodded her head, her heart was quietly pulled together.

[People from the technical team are repairing the large formation at the northernmost end of the formation. ]

[The gap in the formation is at the northern peak of Pine Cliff, near the border.Meirensong wants to combine the power of the water scorpion to break through the formation. ]

[Beautiful Pine probably guessed that the gap in the formation has been discovered, and it thinks we are here to prevent them from breaking the formation. ]

[Once the large formation is repaired, the hydrangea will be pressed back into the seal. ]

[The next thing we have to do is to attract the attention of Meirensong and Water Hell, and buy more time for the technical team. ]

Ming Xia nodded, expressing that she understood.

This is actually a tactic to attack the west. Their team marched into the formation in a mighty manner, encountered a water pheasant and had a fight, and then took the initiative to go back and forth to the "Nine Mu Umeda" of the gu carving to do tests, and the fish The women's fight was also quite big. To put it bluntly, this series of actions was used to attract the attention of the target people, making them think that the "Sixth Group" sent them to catch water beetles. is behind.

Ming Xia also wanted to react at this moment. If the ultimate goal is to seal the water gnat, then the "sixth group" should not send a combat team like Nanjiang and the others—he thought at first that the goal of the mission was to kill the water gnat Woolen cloth.

[Can't be killed.Can't kill either. ]

Nan Jiang saw what he was thinking, and continued to hold one of his hands and wrote on it: [The operation of a large formation requires energy.The energy fluctuations of monsters are also the energy needed for the operation of the large formation. ]

Ming Xia didn't understand, [Only relying on the energy fluctuations of monsters is enough to support the entire formation? ]

[Of course not enough.Just like a solar water heater, it uses solar energy when it is sunny, and needs to be plugged in when it is rainy.The energy of monsters fluctuates strongly, but is unstable, and can only be used as auxiliary energy for the formation. ]

Ming Xia nodded, indicating that she understood.

[The fluctuation of demon power is closely related to the big formation, and the 'sixth group' can locate the traces of the big monsters at any time through this connection.This can also be seen as a way of monitoring. ]

Ming Xia suddenly realized.

No wonder those blood-debt big monsters were just sealed up. He thought that was punishment, but it wasn't.At least not all of them.

The real punishment is to turn them into a part of the big formation. The big formation uses the energy they provide to make a special protective cover, covering the entire Xishan Great Formation tightly, and bringing them into the monitoring range at any time .

Bind yourself in a cocoon, and paint the ground as a prison.

At this moment, Ming Xia was full of admiration for the person who set up this formation.

[The water lizard is an exception, because it has been in a dormant state before, so the big array did not monitor its position, which allowed it to take advantage of the loophole.Of course, this also means that it is more dangerous, because all the monsters that can appear in the big formation are spirit bodies, and only the water lizard is its own body. ]

Ming Xia didn't quite understand what the spirit body meant. Nan Jiang didn't want to talk about it in depth, but said that he would know in the future.

Ming Xia thought for a while, took Nan Jiang's hand, and wrote in his palm: [The technical team has arrived at Beifeng now? ]

Nan Jiang nodded slightly.

[What shall we do next? ]

Nan Jiang replied: "Let them think that we are here to capture water scorpions, and if they can't be captured alive, they will be killed." ]

Ming Xia asked again: [Are there their eyes and ears around now? ]

Nan Jiang didn't hold his hand any more, but just nodded and motioned him to look aside with his eyes.

Ming Xia followed his line of sight and saw that on the big tree by the lake, a fluffy little squirrel was holding something in its two paws and gnawing on it.Looking around while nibbling, the small round eyes are indescribably clever and weird.

Ming Xia, "..."

"No mistake, right?" Ming Xia couldn't believe it, such a cute little thing is actually a spy?

Nan Jiang was amused by his expression, "Think about what it eats? It has a relationship with the pine tree. Is it strange to run errands for the pine tree?"

Ming Xia felt that his feelings had been deceived, so he grabbed the crossbow beside him and shot an arrow in the direction of the squirrel.The arrow whizzed into the branch above the squirrel's head.

The squirrel was startled, threw away the dried fruit in his hand, turned around and burrowed into the depths of the tree crown.

Ming Xia got up to take back the long arrow, and while climbing the tree, he muttered bitterly, "If it weren't for the fact that you didn't find out anything, and you look so cute... I'll shoot you to death with one arrow!"

Qingqiu was taken aback by his sudden uproar, these two people were clearly holding hands, why did they shoot arrows all of a sudden?

Ming Xia retracted the arrow, turned to Qingqiu, "Didn't you realize that this guy is a monster?"

Qingqiu blinked his eyes, "Squirrel? It's not."

Tang Xun also chimed in, "It's a little yellow dot that lights up on the screen, it's really not."

"It's really not." Nan Jiang said: "At most, it looks like the beauty of Tu Qing's family, a little bit smarter than ordinary animals. Now that the reporter has returned, we have to make preparations."

Ming Xia was still thinking about what to prepare, when Qingqiu yelled, "What is that?!"

Ming Xia turned her head and saw circles of water ripples on the calm lake surface, the waves became bigger and bigger, as if a spring suddenly appeared under the lake surface, and water splashed from bottom to top.

Under the vigilant watch of a group of people on the shore, the suspected spring in the middle of the lake began to move towards the shore.

As Nanjiang's orders were issued one by one, several people on the bank began to prepare for battle in an orderly manner.

As a long-range attacker, Ming Xia was pushed and shoved by Nan Jiang to a big tree by the lake.

There are many old pine trees growing in this highland, and at least three or four people can surround the trunk.This made Ming Xia feel relatively safe.In case some monsters really come out later, if you start your hands, such a thick tree trunk will not be broken in one fell swoop.

Ming Xia set up the crossbow, placed the arrow box on his body in a suitable position according to his usage habits, and then fired the bow, aiming at the group of fast-moving water patterns on the water surface.

Below him, Nan Jiang and his men had already set up a battle formation, each of them waiting for the battle.

The water pattern moved to a place close to the shore and stopped, and then disappeared quickly, as if something hidden under the water fell silent again.

The next moment, the water sprayed into the sky, and a huge black snake tail rose high in the water spray, and hit the gravel beach on the shore with a bang, like a runaway train, rampaging towards Nanjiang where they were. .