Chapter 287 The Forbidden Land of Death, Mysterious Herbs!
In the mountains in winter, everything you look at is a withered and withered scenery. The big trees with all their leaves are like old people who are dying.
The cold wind hit my face like a knife.
Dae Jang Geum wrapped herself in a down jacket. In winter, unless she had to, she would not go up the mountain to collect herbs because she would freeze to death, but today, she felt so warm.
This dress is so easy to wear!
I’m afraid there’s no one in the middle hall, right?
Da Janggeum raised his head and looked at Lin Baici's back.
He is so powerful, he must be a big shot in the Celestial Kingdom, right?
"Mr. Lin, we are almost there. Just two quarters of an hour's walk will be where we hunt and collect herbs!"
Li Taixian unzipped his down jacket. It was too hot and made him sweat profusely. He was reluctant to wear it and wanted to save it for the wedding.
"Half an hour left?"
Gu Qingqiu stopped, bent over, holding her knees with both hands, and gasping for breath. Her physical condition was not good to begin with, and traveling on the difficult mountain road was simply too torture.
"I told you to stay at the foot of the mountain, but you didn't listen!"
Lin Baici tried to persuade her, but it was useless. Girls like Gu Qingqiu have independent ideas of their own, or they are stubborn and will not listen to other people's suggestions at all.
Gu Qingqiu wanted to save face. After hearing Lin Baici's words, he tried to control his breathing and continued walking forward.
She must not be underestimated, but she began to blame herself in her heart.
Gu Qingqiu, you are too self-righteous. You are worried that they will miss important clues when they enter the mountain. In fact, there is no need. Lin Baici's brain is very easy to use.
"I should trust him!"
Gu Qingqiu reflected that since she was a child, she had only trusted her father, and now Lin Baici is qualified to be the second one.
More than half an hour later, everyone arrived at a mountain slope, where a wooden house was built with wood. Judging from the appearance, it was more than ten years old.
"This is a place where hunters, ginseng gatherers, and medicinal herb collectors rest after entering the mountains. Firewood can be used, but you need to replenish it as much as you use!"
Li Taixian introduced the unwritten rules and opened the door of the wooden house.
The inside is very simple, with some firewood stacked on the west side and a lot of logs laid on the east side, more than a foot above the ground. This can prevent moisture and can be used as a floor and bed.
A sunken fire pit was dug out on the log bed, with a rope hanging from it and a dirty clay pot hanging from it.
After eating, the fire pit can be covered with a wooden board, so that when sleeping on it, the residual heat of the fire pit will make the night very comfortable.
Lin Baici took a look and judged from the thickness of the dust that no one had lived here for several months.
"Looking at it like this, Doctor Li probably didn't enter the mountain!"
Gu Qingqiu sighed.
Doctor Li is over fifty this year. In ancient times when life expectancy was generally low, this was considered a long life. If he went into the mountains alone for many days, he would have little hope of surviving.
Gu Qingqiu felt that Dr. Li would not do such stupid things.
"Two people form a team, go find Divine Doctor Li and meet here in the evening!"
Lin Baici arranged the task and glanced at these people with fierce eyes: "Don't be lazy. If you are discovered by me, I will definitely make him feel more uncomfortable alive than dead!"
"Don't worry, Mr. Lin, we will definitely find Divine Doctor Li!"
The bearded party quickly made sure.
"Li Taixian, lead the way to the forbidden area!"
Lin Baici urged, time was too tight, and he didn't know how Hua Yueyu's condition was, so if he could go back a day earlier, he would have less to worry about.
"Do you really want to go?"
Li Taixian swallowed: "There are mythical beasts there, and trespassers will be killed!"
"Then kill the mythical beast and drink it!"
Last night, Lin Baek quit chatting and spent most of the night talking to Lee Tae Hyun and Dae Jang Geum, and learned that there was a forbidden land in the mountains.
Lin Baici went to the mountain today. In addition to looking for Doctor Li, he also planned to enter the forbidden area to have a look. What if there were clues to the pollution caused by the purification rules?
"Regiment Lin, instead of letting those officers and soldiers look for themselves like headless flies, why don't you just follow us?"
Quan Xiangren came close to him and quietly suggested that he felt that in critical moments, these people could be used as bait to distract the monster, even if it only took a few minutes, it would be enough.
"Whatever, just do whatever you want!"
Lin Baici didn't care.
Quan Xiangren immediately stopped the bearded man and asked him to lead his troops to follow.
The team set off again, and an hour later, they arrived at a mountain col.
"If you go any further, you will enter the forbidden area."
Li Taixian pointed to a large stone in the distance, with the four characters "Those who trespassers will die" written on it in the blood of some kind of animal.
Next to the big stone, there was a circle of wooden stakes, and on each stake was a human head that had rotted to the point where only bones were left.
Lin Baici glanced at it, not caring at all, and walked in first: "Spread out in a fan shape, that is, everyone is twenty feet apart. If you find anything, shout!"
Quan Xiangren didn't care about this kind of warning, but as natives, the bearded men and his party were very nervous. Just when they were about to find a reason to stay, Lin Baici's cold eyes were already staring at them.
"..."
The bearded man shivered, not daring to talk nonsense, and followed obediently. However, he played a trick and stayed close to Lin Baici. In this way, if he encountered danger, he could approach him in time and get protection.
Everyone continued to move forward, the temperature was very low, and the breath they exhaled condensed into white mist.
Lin Baici touched his stomach.
If you don’t feel hungry, you can only rely on luck to find it.
"To the northwest, there are herbs."
Nagami suddenly commented.
"Herbal medicine? Can it cure the plague?"
Lin Baici looked up, looked at the compass, and immediately quickened his pace. More than twenty minutes later, he saw a steep cliff, which looked like it had been split vertically by a giant axe.
There is a mountain stream and spring water flowing, making a gurgling sound.
"Go over and have a look!"
Lin Baici was alert to his surroundings.
Li Taixian is indeed an elite member of the tiger-catching army. In this kind of area, his perception is very strong and he is very experienced, and he immediately sensed the crisis.
"There might be someone!"
As soon as Li Taixian finished speaking, a black shadow suddenly shot out from the forest and went straight to Lin Baici's face.
That's a wolf tooth arrow.
"careful!"
Li Taixian was in a panic and it was too late to rescue him. Then the next moment, he saw that Mr. Lin didn't even dodge, he stretched out his hand and grabbed the arrow that was shot at it.
"Sir, be careful! It's poisonous!"
Li Taixian quickly reminded.
"fine!"
Lin Baici looked at the arrow in his hand. He was wearing giant elephant power gloves, otherwise he would not be so reckless in catching arrows: "Do you know him?"
"The arrows were made by the mountain people themselves!"
Dae Jang Geum knew this kind of arrow. She was caught by the mountain people before. Because she was a medical woman and knew medical skills, she was let go because she treated the mountain people. Otherwise, she would have died long ago.
"This is our hunting ground. Leave immediately or we will kill you without mercy!"
After a male voice finished speaking, more echoes echoed in the mountains and forests, followed by screams and calls for help.
Some officers and soldiers were arrested.
"what to do?"
The bearded man was a little nervous.
"Come out and surrender, or die!"
Lin Baici held his sword with murderous intent.
"You guys come together!"
Quan Xiangren urged, everyone was in a hurry and had no time to play a death and survival game with these mountain people.
Phew! Phew! Phew!
More than a dozen arrows were immediately shot at Lin Baici. The mountain people were not stupid. They saw that Lin Baici was the boss, so they naturally killed him first.
Without a leader, the enemy will inevitably be defeated.
Dang Dang Dang!
Lin Baici swung his sword and easily chopped off those arrows, and then activated the sound of Sanskrit Buddha and the breath of a hundred flavors to enhance his hearing and smell.
In the blink of an eye, Lin Baici locked the position of the caller.
"Don't do anything, it's me. There's a big epidemic outside. We came in to find Dr. Li and find herbs to save people!"
Dae Jang Geum ran a few steps forward and shouted.
When the mountain people saw Dae Jang Geum, who had treated them before, they were ready to show mercy and tell these people to get out quickly, but the young boss moved.
He ran wildly, rushing through the mountains and forests, like a tiger or a cheetah, full of terrifying momentum. What was even more terrifying was that the direction he ran in was exactly where the clan leader was.
Without any hesitation, another wave of arrows came.
With Lin Baici's reaction, he could have chopped off these arrows with his bronze sword, but he didn't want to take the risk, so he summoned the Muscle Buddha.
boom!
Wearing shorts and shirtless, the muscular Buddha appeared in front of Lin Baixin. He was running wildly, swinging his fists and knocking away the arrows. Even if a fish slipped through the net and was shot at it, it would be bounced away.
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"What kind of monster is this?"
The bearded man was shocked,
Li Taixian was terrified. It turned out that this man had a trump card. Fortunately, he surrendered yesterday, otherwise he would have been abandoned in the wilderness and become lunch for wild dogs.
Lin Baici saw a figure jumping down from the tree in the dense forest and wanted to move his position. He immediately threw his bronze sword.
"Let's go!"
Whoosh!
The Dragon Tooth King Sword whizzed past with a touch of bronze light, and after cutting off one of the man's ears, it penetrated the trunk of the big tree in front, and drew a circle among the flying wood chips.
, flew back.
Snapped!
Lin Baici caught the bronze sword.
"Don't force me to go on a killing spree, kneel down and surrender!"
Lin Baici shouted loudly.
Muscular Buddha punched a big tree nearby.
Click!
The big tree that could hold a person's arms broke directly. Muscle Buddha grabbed it, used it as a javelin, and threw it towards a big tree more than forty meters away.
boom!
Amidst the huge crash, two mountain men wearing animal skins fell from the tree and fell to pieces.
"Don't kill anyone!"
Lin Baici stopped Quan Xiangren and Big Beard who wanted to go on a killing spree.
"Why?"
Quan Xiangren didn’t understand.
"I need some soldiers!"
After Lin Baici finished speaking, he looked at Da Jang Geum: "Looking at you, you seem to know them, and being able to survive from the barbaric mountain people shows that they respect you. Please help me persuade you to surrender!"
"I can give them fine wine, fine food, gold, silver and jewels, as long as they work for me for ten days!"
Ten days, Lin Baici felt, was enough to deal with the rule pollution.
Gu Qingqiu originally wanted to persuade Lin Bai to save people and capture some slave soldiers, but found that he had the same idea as him and had no choice but to shut up.
Why!
The leader is too powerful and I can’t show my value!
"me……!"
Dae Jang Geum hesitated because she was afraid that she would not do well.
"I believe you can do it!"
Lin Baici smiled, encouraged Da Janggeum, and took out some food and a down jacket from the black alms bowl.
Dae Jang Geum took a deep breath and shouted to the mountain people: "Master Lin is a good man. If you listen to him, you will have endless delicious food!"
The mountain people were very loyal and did not leave, not because they had food to eat, but because the bearded man led the troops and captured two prisoners.
The mountain man with one missing ear walked over with a fierce look on his face. Before he could speak, Lin Baici opened a box of lunch meat and threw it away.
The smell of lunch meat made the one-eared mountain man stuck.
"Give me ten days of work, and when you're done, I'll give you three years of food and clothing!"
Lin Baici threw the down jacket over.
These mountain people wore worn-out animal skins, and it was obvious at a glance that they were poor.
I didn’t recognize the down jacket, but my sense of touch was unmistakable. I knew it was a good thing when I touched it, so I quickly put it on my body, and the cold wind was blocked.
"I want this kind of clothes, ten twenty!"
I can't count with one ear and can only count up to twenty.
Lin Baici nodded.
Yi Er looked at the lunch meat, took a bite, and immediately the lion opened his mouth: "I also want weapons, knives and bows and arrows."
"I'll prepare it for you as soon as we get off the mountain!"
Lin Baici was not afraid that these people would regret it. At worst, they would just kill them when the time came.
"Can you let my people go?"
One ear looked at the two tribesmen, and then at the muscular Buddha.
"Let them go!"
Lin Baici ordered the bearded man and took out the bandage and hemostatic medicine and handed them to Da Jang Geum: "Go and bandage him!"
"Is there anything left to eat?"
Yi Er never thought about running, but there was nothing he could do. It was too cold this winter. There was a lack of food and clothing in the mountains, and many people had already starved to death.
Someone in the clan has already proposed to go down the mountain to rob, but that is a capital crime. Now, if you work for this nobleman, you can earn some food, so it is not a loss.
One ear looked at the clean, well-nourished Lin Baici and the woman next to him, and knew that this was a noble person. In addition, the bearded man dressed in officialdom obeyed Lin Baici like a domestic dog, and he even suspected
This man is royalty.
Lin Baici took out several boxes, which contained bread, lunch meat, and mineral water.
"Calling this place a forbidden area isn't something you just made up because you don't want outsiders to enter your hunting grounds, right?"
Lin Baici asked.
"There really is a forbidden area, just under the cliff over there. Doctor Li told us not to go there, or we will die!"
In this era, the words of Dr. Lee, who had a reputation for skill and benevolence in Goryeo, were golden words.
"Let's go over quickly and take a look!"
The bearded man urged, it would be great if he could find Divine Doctor Li in the forbidden area.
…
Under the cliff, there is a recess, forming a long and narrow cave. There is a hot spring, and the hot water is bubbling, forming a small spring pool.
On the rock wall of the cave, there are some small lavender flowers growing, and a faint fragrance wafts in the air.
"There's something wrong with this flower!"
Gu Qingqiu was worried: "Don't come close!"
"What did you find?"
Jin Yingzhen stopped.
"There are no weeds here, just these little flowers!"
Lin Baici explained that it stands to reason that even if these flowers are the main plants here, there will be some weeds nearby.
"What kind of plant is this?"
Kwon Sang-in pushed Dae Jang-geum and asked her to speak quickly.