"Twenty miles to the south is a dense forest. Through the forest, you can find a cave. Behind the cave is a canyon, and in the valley is the bandit's village."
She pointed to the fang mark in the map: "The map only shows this point. The specific situation near the village will not be clear until we get to the place."
Sun Qing held up the parchment in doubt and looked at her sideways: "In that case, you will lead the way."
Liu Ruyan nodded in agreement.
After a long journey, everyone finally arrived at the canyon in the early morning.
The clear water in the valley flows eastward and stretches to the end of the horizon.
Sun Qing crouched in front of the river with his arms folded, looking at the village on the mountainside against the rising sun.
"You really found it." Sun Qing gasped, the desire in his eyes clearly revealed.
Liu Ruyan squinted her eyes to look at the surrounding scenery, and saw that the village was quite large and looked condescending.
She turned to Sun Qing and said: "The terrain here is complicated. I want to take a few people up the mountain to explore the road first. In order not to alert others, the others will stay here and wait for news."
Sun Qing thought for a moment and responded: "I will go with you."
So, Liu Ruyan, Dong Qingxian, Liu Xin, and Sun Qing set out again. They crossed the river and escaped into the dense woods of the valley.
There was a mountain road in the forest that could lead to the bandit's village. In order to avoid being discovered, Liu Ruyan took a different path and walked in the opposite direction along the stream.
At this time, they took a detour to the back of the bandit's stronghold, which was the weakest point in the defense.
Walking out of the woods, in front of you is a village made of blue-gray rocks.
Sun Qing stared at the village with bright eyes, unplugged the cork of the water bag with one hand, took a few sips, and wiped his mouth.
Liu Ruyan relied on her memory to draw a detailed map of the terrain when they arrived in the parchment scroll, and the entire map was finally completed.
"You performed well today. When I become the head of Shangdu, I will promote a few of you soldiers." Sun Qing stretched out his hand to grab the picture and put it in his arms.
Liu Ruyan has no intention of striving for merit, and joining the army is just a means for her to find the Xuan Kun Seal.
She said calmly: "The bandit camp is well-defended. Why don't you wait until I sneak in to find out what's going on before Brother Sun takes action?"
"It's not your turn to interfere with what I do." Sun Qing suddenly changed his face, "When I recruit the brothers, I will just rush into the village."
"Absolutely not!" Liu Ruyan stopped her decisively, "The situation inside is unknown, and we must not act rashly before we detect anything."
Sun Qing looked at her sideways and sneered: "You are asked to lead the way, do you really think you are a scout?"
Liu Xin stood in a dilemma between the two.
He felt that what Liu Ruyan said made sense, but Brother Sun Qing was also right. They have hundreds of elite soldiers, how could they be afraid of just a bunch of rabble?
Sun Qing left as soon as he said so.
Liu Ruyan's eyes were heavy, and she turned to Dong Qingxian: "Follow Sun Qing, it's best to find a way to delay his actions. After I finish my work here and send the signal, you can lead the troops to attack the stronghold."
"Okay." Dong Qingxian nodded, "You should also be more careful."
"What are we going to do next?" Liu Xin followed Liu Ruyan step by step.
Liu Ruyan took him sneaking all the way, carefully avoiding the watchtower in the village, and hiding in a corner to investigate from a distance.
The people responsible for guarding the gate are two Kunlun slaves with curly hair and black bodies.
The Kunlun slave was as strong as an ox and wore the clothes of a Central Plains man. Liu Ruyan was surprised. She didn't expect that the bandit village actually used the Kunlun slave as a handyman.
Looking further ahead, Nuoda's watchtower stands tall, with guards on all sides.
Since the stockade was built in an open flat land with no shelter nearby, it was not easy to climb over the wall and enter the hospital in broad daylight.
"Ye Xun, bring up the map of the bandit camp for me."
As the young man appeared, a microscopic model appeared in front of his eyes, but the structure inside the village was unknown.
He shook his head: "As long as the plot is involved, the system's positioning function will be automatically blocked."
Ye Xun tried switching the camera and turning on the drone panoramic mode. With Liu Ruyan as the center, the scenery within a hundred steps was still gray: "The positioning has failed."
"It's okay." Liu Ruyan said calmly, and took out a "listening urn" from her arms. She buried the listening urn in the soil and put her ear to the mouth of the urn. Through a thin layer of leather, she could detect several numbers in a radius.
Movement ten miles away.
"To the southeast, five miles away, someone is approaching the bandit camp." She suddenly said, "Listening to the noise, there should be two people on the other side, and a cart. The cart is quite heavy, and it may be possible to hide people."
Liu Xin experienced eavesdropping for the first time. He followed closely behind Liu Ruyan and searched for the source of the sound. Sure enough, he saw two men walking slowly holding a wooden cart.
The strange thing is that the two of them didn't speak to each other, they just kept making gestures.
Both of these people are actually mute.
But when Liu Ruyan saw the goods on the cart, her face suddenly darkened.
She didn't expect that what the driver was transporting was a freshly slaughtered pig.
Liu Xin was also stunned, not knowing what to do, "There is such a pig in the car, where should we hide it?"
"Just pretend to be a coachman," she whispered.
Liu Xin realized what he was doing and quickly rushed forward, knocking the person down and dragging him into the grass.
On the side, Liu Ruyan silently memorized the appearance of the coachman, took out the disguise tool she carried with her, and said to Liu Xin: "Time is tight, so we can only make it roughly similar."
Liu Xin stared at the bottle in her hand and wondered: "Wang Dazhuang, what are you doing?"
Liu Ruyan held his head down and pointed the brush in her hand at his face, "Don't move, it will be done in a moment."
As the brush strokes, Liu Xin's skin color gradually darkens, Liu Ruyan's fingers fly, she uses fish bladder glue to change the shape of her eyes, and Luozidai thickens her eyebrows.
Finally, she asked Liu Xin to change into a coachman's shirt and put on his turban, and the young man turned into a coachman.
"It's still eye-catching." Liu Ruyan sighed.
Immediately afterwards, she disguised herself as another coachman, with a pockmarked face, a hunched back, and an extremely ugly appearance.
Liu Xin gasped when he saw this. Not to mention, Wang Dazhuang was so ugly at this moment that it was so irritating to his eyes just by looking at him.
"Don't talk nonsense later." Liu Ruyan hunched her back and stepped forward to push the cart.
Liu Xin nodded: "I know, just pretend to be dumb!"
The two pushed the cart to the gate of the village and looked at Kunlun Slave with flattering faces.
Kunlun slave stared at the two of them and said in a stiff tone: "What are you doing stupidly? Tell me the code quickly."
She gestured with her hands for a while to indicate that she could not speak.
"What about you?" Kunlun slave looked at Liu Xin, "Don't pretend to be deaf and dumb. I saw you doing well a few days ago."
Liu Xin came to his senses.
When he saw the coachman making gestures before, he mistakenly thought that both of them were mute, but little did he know that only the pockmarked Liu Ruyan pretended to be unable to speak.
Regarding this, Liu Ruyan also had a gloomy expression.
Kunlun slaves use a local accent, which is called "Southern Wu dialect". Liu Xin comes from the north and speaks "Northern Yayan". The accents of the north and the south are completely different.
Once he opens his mouth, he will be noticed immediately!