The Era of Game

14 Exploring the Back Peak

    Wang Dawai carried his long-handled mountain axe and swaggered into the kitchen backyard; Li Zheng stood outside the courtyard, watching Wang Dawai walk in step by step; Wan Jingtian hid behind the kicked door, and he dare not dare asthma.

    You must know that both Li Zheng and Wang Dayi recognize Wan Jingtian, and in their cognition, Wan Jingtian is the messenger of the water imperial palace and should be asleep in the guest room at this moment. So if they found that Wan Jingtian appeared in this place at this time, it would obviously be unreasonable.

    Gao Baoshan stood in front of the kitchen door. He who had always smiled stopped laughing at this time. He put on a cold face that refused to be thousands of miles away and said to Wang Dawai: "I am a kitchen here. Outsiders can't enter casually. Otherwise,it will stain the food!"

    Wang Da took a sip: "You won't let me in, I don't want to enter yet! I came here to tell you: Houfeng broke into the thief, and the third brother asked you to go with us to catch the thief!"

    Gao Baoshan seems to have heard a huge joke: "Go to the back peak to catch the thief? Wang Dawai, are you stupid? There are already bandits everywhere on Shirong Mountain. If the thief is not coming in and out of the back peak, why not? Can it be an official?"

    Wang Dawai pulled the mountain axe to the ground, held the axe handle in his hand, and said: "You cook don't go around these word games with me! Third brother's order, you have to go if you don't go!"

    Gao Baoshan raised his head and looked at Li Zheng outside the courtyard. His attitude was still cold: "Second Master, I am busy preparing dinner, do you not want to let the brothers eat at night?"

    Li Zheng squeezed a reluctant smile at Gao Baoshan: "Brother Gao, you also know what's on the back peak. It's this time. I don't think I can eat dinner today!"

    Gao Baoshan meditated briefly upon hearing the words. After that, he went into the kitchen and took two kitchen knives out. He said to Li Zheng: "In this case, I will help you this time. But you people, don't you need to go? People have been constrained by the thief, so if someone breaks into the front and back peaks, there will be no one to report the news!"

    Seeing Gao Baoshan's decision to take action, Li Zheng smiled more sincerely on his face: "Brother Gao said yes, if you go, the little thief won't catch it?! Those of us, let's stay and take good care of the village!"

    Gao Baoshan’s big deal made Li Zheng happy, but Wan Jingtian was unhappy. He originally wanted to wait for everyone to catch the lame boy and get into the back peak to save others. , But I didn't expect that Gao Baoshan would break the game with a few words!

    In addition, this guy Li Zheng, who is in the heat, will have such an attitude towards Gao Baoshan, which may prove Wan Jingtian's guess: This chef surnamed Gao is indeed not an ordinary character.

    Wang Dawai turned and was discharged from the hospital, but he didn't even see Wan Jingtian hiding behind the door.

    Gao Baoshan followed Wang Dawai, gave Wan Jingtian a meaningful look, and walked out the door silently. Outside, Gao Baoshan also closed the courtyard gate.

    The closing of the door should be natural in Li Zheng's eyes, because after all, this is the site of Gaobao Mountain, and it is normal for people to close the door.

    But Wan Jingtian was very clear in his heart: Gao Baoshan was covering himself.

    Maybe Gao Baoshan really thought Wan Jingtian was a timid "new bandit" who escaped, so he didn't mention Wan Jingtian in front of Li. In this way, Gao Baoshan is a good person; or, he really wants to keep Wan Jingtian as an apprentice.

    Wan Jingtian accepted Gao Baoshan's favor of "hiding himself", but he was not prepared to hide it like this. As soon as the three of Li Zheng left, Wan Jingtian quietly followed—he was still going to the back peak. The current chaos is an opportunity. Although this opportunity is not particularly good, it is better than nothing.

    Wan Jingtian has no stealth skills and no light work, but he is a dark night assassin who has been for two months, and his ability to hide is also practiced day and night: how far to keep track of people in order to be difficult to find, and It's not easy to get lost; he still has some experience in places where it is easier to hide his body.

    Therefore, Wan Jingtian relied on his own abilities and quietly followed all the way.

    It is convenient for someone to lead the way. Wan Jingtian originally thought that if he wanted to go to the back peak, he had to climb over the front peak; but in fact, there is a cave that crosses the front peak halfway through the front peak. The saddle road to the rear peak; the rear peak is shorter than the front peak and not much higher than the saddle, so it will be here soon.

    The rear peak is a bit steeper than the forward, plus it is slightly shorter and northerly, and the light is not as good as the front peak, so naturally, there is less vegetation and more rugged boulders. There is a cliff on three sides of the back peak, and only the south side facing Saddle Road has an entrance. There are two natural boulders on both sides of the entrance, like two-door gods; in the middle of the boulders, the people of Shi Rongshan built tower posts and bamboo thorn fences for an interception.

    But when Wan Jingtian passed, there were a few pools of blood above the tower post, and the bamboo thorn fence was also destroyed. Looking at the scale of the damage at the scene, it is completely impossible to imagine that it was the work of a lame young man, and it was more like being run over by a few mad cows.

    Gao Baoshan didn't watch those scenes more, nor did he show the slightest surprise, but went straight in with a clear destination. This made Wan Jingtian feel that Gao Baoshan was a person who had seen bigger things and was quite familiar with this rear peak, which ordinary people were not allowed to enter; therefore, Wan Jingtian became more curious about Gao Baoshan.

    Houfeng said that it was big or not, and it was not too small. At least he couldn't see it thoroughly, but it took enough time to turn a full face.

    The first place Wan Jingtian hurriedly followed Gao Baoshan was an old but not run-down courtyard. The yard was very strange. There was no house in it, only a ten-meter-high tree was planted in the middle. The tree was not lush, but I didn’t know why it gave people a very spiritual feeling.

    Gao Baoshan circled the tree and looked carefully before walking out of the yard. Wan Jingtian quickly hid and continued to follow.

    The second place to go to Gaobaoshan is a cave entrance. Outside the cave lay three severely injured bandits, probably guards guarding the entrance to the front and back peaks and this cave. Gao Baoshan went over to check the injuries of the three of them, and then ignored them and went into the cave.

    Wan Jingtian stood far away, unable to see the specific situation, but guessed that there was probably the Qingyuan Sword that the lame boy said was hidden in the cave. Because Shi Rongshan is not big at first, there are only two small peaks at the front and back. The back peaks are relatively steep and the entrance of this cave is guarded.

    It's just that Wan Jingtian is not interested in the Qingyuan Sword, or at least not so much at this time. So instead of following the cave, he quietly walked away and continued to search for the place where the Shirongshan villagers were imprisoned.

    Soon, he saw the wooden ridged cage that held the villagers in a small open space north of Houfeng. The cages are very large, one has five, and each cage contains more than a dozen villagers, adding up to more than 60 people.

    Sure enough, the villagers are all young and disabled, and they are not in good condition; and some of them are especially bad, and it seems that they will soon be in a bad state.

    Seeing this, Wan Jingtian was very anxious - judging from the current situation, eight people would be able to die in less than three days, and by then, his mission could end in failure.