The crescent moon is like a sickle, hanging high in the sky.
The dim moonlight cast down, reflecting two hazy figures on the ground somewhere on the south bank of the Nanhe River.
Gou Fu led the way, followed closely by Gao Yuan.
Along the way, Gou Fu felt that his heart was beating like a drum, and his calves were also spinning.
He wanted to sit down and take a breath before leaving, but he didn't dare because the person following him would not agree.
Due to the increasing number of casual farmers cutting firewood in recent days, the riverbank outside the wild forest is in a mess, and broken branches and vines can be seen everywhere.
If you don't pay attention to your steps, you will trip. In addition, Gou Fu is a little distracted, so this walk is particularly difficult.
After walking along the river bottom to the lower reaches of the Nanhe River for a while, Gou Fu gradually slowed down and after looking carefully for a long time, he stopped in a weedy place next to the dry river bed.
Then, Gou Fu turned to Gao Yuan, raised his face and forced out a dry smile and explained:
"Senior, this cave is an abandoned otter cave that I accidentally discovered twenty-seven years ago when I first came to Qingyuan Town. I lived here for six years after slightly expanding it.
After that, although I moved to a shanty town to live permanently, the younger generation would come here every year to repair and strengthen it. It has always been used as an emergency refuge and I have never brought anyone here."
As he said this, Gou Fu's heart was bleeding.
He didn't lie, this place was indeed a shelter he had spent countless efforts building, and he had never brought anyone here.
In fact, Gou Fu also built several simple shacks on the outskirts of the shanty town.
But Gao Yuan's behavior just now was really terrifying. He was afraid that after he took him there, the person in front of him would be dissatisfied and kill him, so he directly led the other person here in one step.
Gao Yuan nodded noncommittally and signaled Gou Fu to continue leading the way.
Gou Fu very diligently pushed aside the vines and weeds covering the periphery of the Otter Cave, then turned around and smiled at Gao Yuan before bowing and getting in.
Gao Yuan waited outside until Gou Fu climbed a few meters inside, then pressed the amulet around his waist with one hand and followed behind him with the other hand.
This is an arc-shaped tunnel that gradually extends downward. The first few dozen meters are very difficult to walk, and as it goes deeper, the entrance of the tunnel continues to shrink.
But as we went deeper, our eyes suddenly changed into a horizontal tunnel full of artificial traces.
The ground here has obviously been leveled, and there are wooden reinforcement piles at regular intervals.
After walking another ten meters or so, my eyes suddenly opened up.
As Gou Fu lit the oil lamp on the side, a somewhat empty underground space appeared before Gao Yuan's eyes.
This is a square secret room of about forty square meters. The top of the secret room is sealed with several huge wooden beams. Dozens of wooden stakes buried against the corners support the wooden beams, making the entire secret room extremely strong.
In addition to the wall where Gao Yuan and Gou Fu walked out, the other three walls also had a deep tunnel leading to an unknown place, and Gao Yuan could still feel the slight flow of air.
The layout of this secret room is very complete. At a glance, there are tables, chairs, benches, beds, stoves and counters.
Gou Fu led Gao Yuan to sit down on the chair and said proudly:
"Senior, every item here was hand-made by the junior himself over the years, dragging the materials in."
Gao Yuan was also a little surprised by this secret room. It seemed that it was not something that could be built in a day or two.
But he had something on his mind at the moment, so naturally he was not in the mood to pay attention to this.
He asked Gou Fu to light the oil lamp on the table, and then Gao Yuan took off the package on his body.
After unfolding it on the table, I took out a package of individually wrapped talisman paper and cinnabar.
Afterwards, Gao Yuan stood in front of the table and pointed at Gou Fu in the opposite corner.
Before he could speak, Gou Fu immediately understood what Gao Yuan meant, and quickly ran to the corner and stood with his back to Gao Yuan.
Gao Yuan smiled at Gou Fu: "Do you need me to emphasize the specific details?"
Gou Fu quickly turned his head, the smile lines on his face were as crowded as the folds on the buns and said:
"No, no, no, junior is standing here. As long as you don't say anything, senior, junior will never move!"
Gao Yuan nodded with satisfaction. Seeing that Gou Fu had turned his head, he stood in front of the table, spread out the talisman paper and cinnabar, and took out two bottles of Qi Nourishing Pills and placed them aside.
Then Gao Yuan began to adjust his breathing and gradually calmed down his mood.
After his mind calmed down, Gao Yuan began to mentally sort out the new knowledge he had acquired after upgrading the amulet twice.
After a while, Gao Yuan finished adjusting, touched the cinnabar jar with his right hand, and started drawing on the talisman paper without stopping at all.
After a while, an improved version of the amulet with many different details from the previously drawn amulet spiritual pattern was successfully produced.
Gao Yuan sensed that according to the new method of making talismans, less than 70% of the inner energy was consumed.
After pouring out two Qi-nourishing pills and swallowing them directly, Gao Yuan picked up the newly made amulet and observed it carefully.
After strengthening to the master level, although the main body of the new amulet's spiritual pattern is still the same as that of the ordinary amulet, the details are quite different.
Not only that, the drawing of the spiritual patterns is no longer straightforward. In places where several spiritual patterns are densely gathered, there are nodes where the internal energy accumulates, making the primary and secondary distinctions between the lines obvious and very three-dimensional.
After another pause, Gao Yuan felt that his inner energy was filling again under the influence of the Qi Nourishing Pill.
Without further delay, he took out a piece of talisman paper again and began to draw.
…
A few hours later, after pouring the last two Qi-nourishing pills into his mouth, Gao Yuan took out all the various talismans on his body and counted them.
There are ten master-level amulets, five master-level evil-repelling talismans, three kinds of ordinary healing talismans, and nine ordinary light-body amulets to ward off cold. Gao Yuan then adjusted these talismans in order according to his usage habits.
At this point, Gao Yuan turned away from the desk with satisfaction and looked at Gou Fu, who was standing quietly in the corner without moving from beginning to end.
Gou Fu, who was "facing the wall and thinking about his faults," heard the noise and his body shook slightly, but he did not turn around in the end.
Gao Yuan nodded with satisfaction, pulled up the chair next to the table and sat down, then said in a deep voice:
"You can turn around now."
…
After killing two people in a row in the evening, Gao Yuan actually didn't go far.
After escaping, seeing that no one was chasing him, Gao Yuan circled around the southern area to observe for a long time. After confirming that there was no danger, he secretly turned back.
When he went back, he happened to see a group of people surrounding the two people who died in his hands, so Gao Yuan wrote down the characteristics of the leading people.
After describing it in detail to Gou Fu, Gao Yuan finally knew the origin of the group of people who ambushed him.
Ma Wuji was suspected of being a late-stage master who had advanced to the seventh level of Qi training a few years ago.
For unknown reasons, Ma Wuji did not choose to live in Qingyuan Town. Instead, he led a dozen of his men to live in a shack at the southernmost end of the first row of the shanty town.
Usually, he mainly leads people to hunt monsters in the wild forest, and occasionally does some killings and robbery.
Ju Gou Fu said that Ma Wuji was as famous as Zheng Song in the North District and was one of the strongest people in the shanty town.
After understanding the general information about his opponent, Gao Yuan stopped delaying and turned around to see Gou Fu looking at him anxiously, guessing that the opponent had vaguely guessed his plan.
Gao Yuan then bared his teeth at Gou Fu and said, "Do you want to know what talisman I just drew?"