To the southwest of Zhenjiesi, there is a canyon in the dense fog area.

Because the mountain walls on both sides slope outward, like the outstretched wings of a bird, it is named Shuangchi Gorge. The rushing Wushui River is like a violent beast, passing through the canyon like breaking through mountains and walls, all the way to the south.

The rapid current stirred up the thick fog above the river.

After leaving the canyon, the water flow is relatively gentle.

Two figures stood by the river bank, it was Cao Kai and Black Claw.

At this time, more than twenty days had passed since the treasure hunt in the underground palace. In order to avoid the pursuit of iron rodents, Cao Kai stayed in the earthly immortal world for six days as a precaution. Until the wind stopped again, the breath he left behind was completely blown away by the wind.

It blew away and no trace was found before it came out.

These days, he and Black Claw have searched the river section north of the Twin Wings Gorge. He was responsible for the exploration, and Black Claw went down to the river to search, and the harvest was huge, with tens of thousands of blood essences alone!

Bluefin Frogman Blackclaw is more like a demon than a human.

When hunting for treasures in the water, they are usually considered to be the same kind by the water monsters and will not be attacked. Occasionally, if they encounter trouble, they can escape after breaking out their blood. If the water monsters chase them ashore, Cao Kai will take action to deal with them.

The monsters that appear in the thick fog are generally not very powerful, and the strongest ones are only those who have perfected their body. Cao Kai's methods are enough to deal with them.

"Strange, why isn't there even a piece of blood essence?"

On the east side of the river, Cao Kai frowned and looked at the flowing river in front of him.

The water flow in this section of Shuangchi Gorge is very fast, and things like Blood Essence and Qingming Iron will be washed downstream by the river water. It is not surprising that there is no harvest. But here is a place where the water flow is relatively gentle. There is no reason to connect a piece of Blood Essence and Qingming Iron.

Nothing valuable like that can be seen.

Ever since they passed the Twin Wings Gorge and walked along the river, he and Black Claw had never found any blood essences. Even materials such as Qingming Iron were rarely seen, which was completely incomparable to those upstream.

This is obviously unreasonable.

"Could it be that some powerful demon appeared in the river and took away all the valuable things?" Cao Kai guessed that although there were many demons in the mist, most demons were not interested in things like blood essence.

However, there are also a very small number of them who like to collect such things.

Based on Chouziying’s experience in scavenging over the years.

Monsters who like to collect items such as blood essences are usually extremely powerful and relatively intelligent. Once such monsters are discovered and reported, the World Suppression Department will send strong men to kill the monsters.

"A demon? You came at the right time."

"Walk."

Cao Kai took Black Claw and headed south along the river bank.

Since his strength reached the peak of body training and Ben Lei Yi Dao was also promoted to the realm of true meaning, he has not yet made a full-strength attack. He has encountered some water monsters before, but their strength is not high, and the strongest ones are only around the seventh or eighth level of body training.

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The two of them walked forward together.

Almost everything in the river was plundered, and Cao Kai didn't like the remaining sesame seeds and mung beans. When it was close to noon, the two of them had walked along the river bank for more than ten miles and arrived at the end of the small world.

Lift your eyes and look ahead.

A huge gray-white light curtain rose, connecting the sky and the earth! The rushing river water hit the light curtain, but it was like a mud cow entering the sea, and was swallowed up instantly.

"It's a barrier to the world."

As the leader of a realm, Cao Kai naturally knew what the light curtain in front of him was.

"No demons found."

"So where did everything in the river go?"

Looking at the world barrier, Cao Kai felt even more confused. After the Wu Shui River flowed through Shuangchi Gorge, it was as if it had been filtered by a large invisible net, and valuable things such as blood essence and Qingming Iron disappeared.

Not only that, not even a single water monster can be seen in Hanoi.

This matter is full of weirdness.

If the things at the bottom of the river were looted by demons, then why was the downstream section of the river exclusively searched and left upstream? And even if there were demons searching for treasures, they couldn't also loot the water monsters in the river, right?

When something goes wrong, there must be a monster.

"Walk."

After thinking for a moment, Cao Kai immediately turned around and left with Black Claw.

He is not a curious baby. Whenever he encounters something strange, he has to get to the bottom of it and understand it clearly. The person who dares to be the first to eat crabs is a warrior, but the first warrior to eat poisonous spiders is a loser.

life.

Curiosity not only kills cats, it can also kill people.

Not long after Cao Kai left, the calm river surface suddenly surged with huge waves, and a faint and terrifying roar came from the depths of the river, as if something huge was turning over.

Soon, the river surface became calm again.

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At night, northwest, there is the top of a low mountain.

Looking south from the top of the mountain, the fog shrouded the area at night is like a giant beast dormant in the darkness, rolling and surging, giving people a shocking feeling like black clouds looming over the city.

"There are still two days before the wind will start in the fog."

At the top of the mountain, Cao Kai turned around and looked at a long fire dragon from west to east not far to the north. Hundreds of huge fire towers were lined up, one every 100 meters or so, and each fire tower was more than three feet tall.

High, illuminating the dark night.

by firelight

You can vaguely see groups of town guards patrolling with demon dogs below.

The demon dogs bred by the Department of Zhenjie have an extremely sensitive sense of smell and can track the scent of strangers from several miles away. Moreover, these demon dogs are not weak. Even masters with the seventh level of physical training or above must deal with them with caution when encountering them.

It happens that the wind has stopped in the fog now

In order to prevent outsiders from breaking in, the Zhenjie Division sent a large number of patrolling guards.

When the wind blows again, the defense strength here will be greatly reduced. Breaking into the fog area when the wind blows is simply asking for death, and this is the best time for him to escape from this place.

Soon Cao Kai found a hidden cave at the foot of the mountain.

Walking into the cave, the figure disappeared in a flash.

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Earthly Immortal Realm, in the small courtyard to the north.

"It's finally hatched." Cao Kai sat at the stone table and looked at the silver-black mist floating above the table. The mist was about the size of a fist and was constantly surging.

These are the hatched rodent larvae.

"but…"

"Why is it different from what is recorded in the Insect Code?" Cao Kai wondered. He used the earthly fairy world to simulate the energy field emitted by the treasure to cultivate the iron rodents. They were slightly different from those in the underground palace.

look carefully.

The carapace of these larvae is covered with silver spots, like a black seven-spotted ladybug.

He tested it using the insect identification techniques recorded in the Insect Dictionary. The potential of these rodent larvae he cultivated was very high, many times higher than the ordinary rodent insects recorded in the book. I guess this change should not be a bad thing.

When he and Black Claw searched for treasures in the Wushui River, they killed some water monsters and collected a lot of monster blood, which was enough to feed the larvae.

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Three days later, in the early morning, the ugly hour had just passed.

In the early morning, when people are most sleepy, everything is quiet, and only the whistling wind echoes between the sky and the earth. Around the fire platform, the guards of the Zhenjie Division who are responsible for night patrols have long been tired, so they simply sleep against the fire platform and their clothes.

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When the wind blows, no one dares to break into the thick fog in the south.

As for preventing prisoners from Chouzi Camp from escaping?

If it were ten years ago, people might still take this seriously.

But now, no one has escaped for several years. The last time someone escaped from Chouzi Camp was three years ago. So this night patrol is just a formality.

"Cough, cough."

Under the fire platform, a sleeping guard of the Zhenjiesi Division was awakened by the need to urinate. He coughed twice, stood up unsteadily, and quickly walked to the wasteland not far to the south, unbuttoned his pants and planned to drain the water.

Suddenly a black shadow appeared behind the guard

Perhaps because he drank too much last night, the guard squinted his eyes and was half asleep. He didn't notice anyone approaching at all. He only heard a soft click, and the guard's neck tilted and his body slowly fell to the ground.

"This method really worked, and those demon dogs didn't notice it."

At this time, Cao Kai was naked, and his body was covered with a layer of black mud. Even his mouth, nose and eyes were covered by the black mud. Although he couldn't see, he could still see clearly thanks to the Earth Immortal Domain.

The surrounding scene. And with his strength, holding his breath for a period of time is not a problem.

He quickly took off the guard's clothes and put them on himself.

He casually took the body of the guard on the ground into the immortal world. Cao Kai put on his soldier's hat and pulled down the brim of the hat to block his face covered in mud.

"Leave quickly."

The process went surprisingly smoothly.
Chapter completed!