Dragon Elephant Valkyrie

Chapter 245
The team traveled another distance, and the terrain of the canyon began to change.

Originally, it was just a deep valley with no end in sight, but a horizontal chasm gradually appeared.

It's as if the strong man in ancient times split the earth with his sword, and then struck horizontally again.

However, the horizontal chasm and the vertical chasm are slightly different in terms of terrain texture, and it doesn't look like the same strong man said it.

After this horizontal gap appeared, the terrain became more and more complicated.

After the team turned the horizontal gap, they came to a sheltered rock wall. The team stopped, and the leader announced to stop and rest.

The team has been walking all day and really needs to stop and refresh.

There are traces of people's activities near this rock wall, such as the rock where the stove was built, and a piece of burnt black wood.

Obviously, this rock wall should have been the temporary foothold of the merchant before.

"Mr. Qin, do you want to get out of the car and take a rest?" Shang Bie asked.

Qin Yu sat in the chariot all day, but he wasn't tired. He just wanted to go for a walk after sitting for a long time, so he stepped off the bronze chariot and observed the surrounding environment by the light of the torch.

There is a sense of gloom in this deep valley, and there are strange sounds from time to time.

It sounds like the whistling sound of the wind blowing through the deep valley, but listening to it makes people tremble in the bottom of their hearts, as if there is something terrible lurking in the whistling sound and chooses to eat people.

The merchant's guards began to set up a stove to live and cook, and they cooperated with each other very tacitly. Obviously, this was not the first time they came here.

"Sir Shang, how long will it take to enter the Emperor's Market this time?" Qin Yu saw that the guards of these merchants were so well prepared, and felt that it would not take a few days.

"At least seven or eight days, at most half a month." Shang Bieli replied.

Qin Yu glanced at the baggage truck at the back of the line, and felt that Shang Bieli's answer was watery. The food on the baggage truck could last for at least a month or two. If you save a little, you can persist for three months without any problem.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew.

Accompanied by the strong wind, there was a sharp whistling sound, which made the scalp numb in the ears.

hiss!
With the sound of howling, the twenty chasing beasts immediately exploded and roared.

The horses also kicked and neighed immediately, and some of them even got rid of the hitching post and ran away in the direction they came from.

Several merchant martial artists flew over immediately, grabbed the reins and forced the horse to stop.

The commander of the guards severely reprimanded the martial artists and told them to tie up their horses.

After eating, the team formed a circle around the carriage to block the night wind, and then slept under the rock wall.

The commander of the guards arranged for people to watch the night in turn, but of course it was not Qin Yu's turn to do this kind of work.

The night passed peacefully, and the team set off again the next day, continuing along the deep valley.

In this way, the team traveled during the day and camped at night.

Even though he was in a deep valley, it was still pitch black and he couldn't see anything even in the daytime. Except for a ray of skylight above his head, the bottom of the valley could be said to be invisible.

Therefore, the team lights hundreds of torches all the time.

Although there is not much difference in brightness between day and night at the bottom of the valley, the night is far more gloomy than the day, so the team still insists on the habit of camping at night.

In this way, it took three days in a row.

On the fourth night, the team chose a relatively flat rock wall to camp.

There is a mud swamp tens of meters away from the rock walls.

After the merchant's martial artists set up camp, they began to catch fish in the mud.

There is indeed rain in the swamp, but these fish look strange, their bodies are pitch black, and their eyes have degenerated. They are a bit like catfish, but they are slightly different.

"Are these fish edible?" Qin Yu asked suspiciously when he saw the palm-wide strange fish caught by the martial artist.

Shang Bieli stood aside, and said with certainty: "Yes, there was a landslide in a deep valley, and our merchant team was trapped at the bottom of the valley. After eating all the food, we survived by eating this kind of fish."

After the merchant martial artist cooked the fish soup, he also brought a bowl to Qin Yu.

The taste is not good, there is an uncomfortable fishy smell, but this may not be a problem with the fish, or it may be that there are not enough seasoning ingredients.

However, these merchant martial artists ate dry food for several days, and it was rare to have fresh food, so they all ate to their heart's content.

After nightfall, the team camped in a circle around the carriage again.

Qin Yu also fell asleep on the bronze chariot. Since he had gotten used to this way of spending the night in the past few days, he fell asleep very quickly.

until midnight.

Suddenly, the bronze chariot shook!
Roar!
hiss!
The roar of the beast and the neighing of the horse sounded at the same time, and there was a lot of noise.

Qin Yu quickly jumped up, grabbed Fen Tianjian and jumped off the chariot.

I saw the hundreds of one-in-a-million steeds tethered by Shan Yanqian screaming and struggling crazily, as if they had encountered something terrifying and wanted to break free from the reins and run away.

The twenty chasing beasts pulling the chariot also struggled and roared. The vibration of the bronze chariot just now was pulled by the chasing beasts.

The beast master quickly swung his long whip to suppress these chasing wind beasts, but some chasing wind beasts still wanted to break free from the chariot and run away.

The merchant's martial artists were also in a mess, some shouted loudly, some ran around to tame the horses.

Shang Bieli also jumped out of another carriage and yelled at the guard commander: "What happened!"

The guard leader dragged a young guard over and shouted eagerly: "Say it! What happened?"

The young guard stretched out his trembling hand, pointed at the quagmire, and stammered, "There is something... There is something in the quagmire..."

"What?" Shang Bian looked towards the direction of the quagmire, but didn't see anything amiss.

"It's huge, fast, and terrifying!" The young guard described with a horrified expression, "Just like this, I dragged a horse into the mud."

Shang Bieli immediately led people to the edge of the mud, and indeed found traces of mud and heavy objects rubbing against the ground on the shore.

The guard leader measured the width of the mud on the ground with his feet, and said, "Seven steps wide, if there is something, it's not small."

Shang Bieli grabbed the young guard and asked again: "Tell me, what did you see?"

The young guard shook his head and replied tremblingly: "It's too dark, the thing is too fast, I can't see clearly, I just saw a huge black shadow flashing, dragging a horse into the mud."

"Everyone be on guard, stay ten feet away from the mud, and beware of sneak attacks." Shang Bie gave an order, and then turned his head to report the matter to Shang Qingqiu.

Qin Yu pulled back the commander of the guards and asked, "Hasn't such a thing happened before?"

It's not the first time that merchants have entered here, but the team is in such a mess, it doesn't look like they are prepared.

The commander of the guards replied: "There has never been an accident in this swamp before."

"Then what happened in other places?" Qin Yu asked with a frown.

The commander of the guards froze and did not answer the question.

(End of this chapter)