Chapter 75 Section five

With the assistance of Butler Liu and his team, Duan Shizhang was overjoyed to find the horseshoe imprint of Zhang Xian and the others. He expected that after dawn, when the dense fog cleared, Zhang Xian would not be able to escape even if he had great abilities. Duan Shizhang, Liu Guanjia and others discussed briefly, and after chasing forward for less than half an hour, Tan Ma came back with a sad face and reported: "Uncle Duan, Lord Liu, their footprints suddenly disappeared!" Duan Shizhang cursed: "What! What did you do!" The spy said sadly: "Their footprints entered a grassy slope, and then went further in. Unexpectedly, there were many gravel roads in the mountain, and they disappeared."

Duan Shizhang said angrily: "Trash! Take me to see it!" Duan Shizhang and others rushed to the grassy slope where Zhang Xian and the others disappeared. Sure enough, as the spies said, in this deep mountain, many gravel roads appeared inexplicably. , into the forest in a disorderly manner. Butler Liu said in surprise: "Strange! This place is already deserted. Who would waste such a great effort to build these roads?" Duan Shizhang scolded: "Don't worry about it so much, divide into several lanes, and chase them in for me!" As he spoke, he patted his horse forward.

Steward Liu wanted to persuade Duan Shizhang to discuss it before making a plan, but seeing that Duan Shizhang had already taken his people away, he had no choice but to follow closely. A large number of people rushed in with Duan Shizhang, divided into several groups, and followed each other with the whistle as an order. The further you go, the more straight the gravel road is, far from being as complicated as the entrance. The whistles used for communication gradually become one, shaking the valley to ring. Duan Shizhang took the lead and came to a clearing in a dense forest. There was a small hut in the clearing, dilapidated, dark and uninhabited.It's really strange, who would open up such a clearing in the dense forest that is inaccessible?

Just as Duan Shizhang was about to leave, other people from all walks of life emerged from several intersections and squeezed into the open space. Duan Shizhang and Steward Liu looked at each other, greatly puzzled, Steward Liu commanded: "Take these roads!" The direction Steward Liu pointed to was the roads on the other side that no one had come out of. So everyone dispersed and chased into these roads. But after running along the road for a while, all the teams gathered in the open space of this dilapidated hut.After running again like this, everyone returned to the open space.

Seeing this scene, Steward Liu was greatly surprised, and rushed to Duan Shizhang, flattering his horse, and said, "My lord! There's something weird here! We're separated by several roads, and we didn't turn around. Why have we been circling here?" Duan Shizhang's face was gloomy and uncertain, and he said: "The fog here is still thick, and I can't see far away, so I must have taken the wrong intersection." Butler Liu said: "Master! Could it be that Zhang Xian lied to us and wanted to trap us? This kid is very scheming, very difficult to deal with!"

Duan Shizhang looked sideways at Chen Guo behind Butler Liu, and shouted, "Chen Guo!" Chen Guo was looking around, full of thoughts, when he heard Duan Shizhang calling him, he quickly responded: "Master Duan! I'm here!" Duan Shizhang shouted: "What's going on here?" Chen Guo frowned greatly, thought for a while, and said: "Master Duan, is this the Jiugong Bagua Formation? Zhuge Liang used it before." Duan Shizhang scolded: "What kind of crap! Does Zhang Xian have the skills to set up an array?" Chen Guo said bitterly: "Master Duan, why don't we mark all the intersections and walk for a while? I'm still not sure what's going on."

Duan Shizhang scolded: "Useless things!" He didn't want to talk to Chen Guo any more. Steward Liu took advantage of this opportunity to arrest the villagers who were familiar with this area, and asked, "What is this place? How do I get out?" The villagers said tremblingly: "This place is called Luoma'ao. There are many rocks and deep trees, so few people come here, but I have never heard of anyone who can't get out." Duan Shizhang shouted: "Few people come? Then what are these roads and rotten huts?" The villagers said tremblingly: "About three years ago, a businessman came to our village and said that the Fengshui here in Luoma'ao is very good. , so many of us scrambled to work for him, each village sent people, and each village was responsible for repairing a section, all obeying his orders and doing according to his wishes. The businessman said he made a mistake again, so the temple was not built, and everyone broke up. Later, I heard that the businessman called a group of workers from other places and worked here for a while, but there was no more work, and finally everyone left So it was abandoned.”

After Duan Shizhang and Liu Steward listened to the villagers' narration, Liu Steward asked, "What does that businessman look like?" The villagers said: "An ordinary person, the kind who is not conspicuous on the street, that is... just the eyes look strange, like a pool of deep water, I can't tell what he is thinking." Duan Shizhang snorted, "Mom! His eyes are so deep, he must be Zhang Xian! This son of a bitch made preparations two years ago!" Butler Liu said: "It should be him, master, we have all fallen into Zhang Xian's trick!" Duan Shizhang shouted: "Damn it! If you want to trap me, there is no door. Isn't it just a Luomaao? I don't believe that there are so many of us and we can't find a way out!"

Steward Liu asked the villagers again, "How did you get out before?" The villagers said: "It's very simple, look at Luoma Peak, go straight and get out!" The villagers turned their heads to look around, and finally pointed to a hazy hilltop in the mist in the distance and said, "Wow! That's Luoma Peak. It's foggy and I can't see it clearly, but it's there!" Duan Shizhang laughed loudly and said, "God help me too! The thick fog has cleared away a lot! Zhang Xian, Zhang Xian, let me see where you can go!" Just as Duan Shizhang was about to greet everyone to walk towards Luoma Peak, Chen Guo ran to Duan Shizhang and Liu Steward with a yell, shouting, "Master Duan! Steward Liu! I know, I know! I know what's going on! !"

Butler Liu scolded: "Chen Guo, what do you know!" Chen Guo thought that he had made a great contribution, and shouted: "We didn't go around in circles, it's all a blindfold! The clearings look exactly the same, with similar sizes and intersections, and they all have the same thatched hut, but they are actually different. Yes! Master Duan, Steward Liu, look at this hut with a hole, but there was no hole in that hut just now!" Chen Guo yelled inarticulately, pointing everywhere. Duan Shizhang scolded: "Okay, you still have some eyesight!" Chen Guoxi said: "Master Duan, Steward Liu, if this is the case, we just need to go straight, and we can leave the valley without following the road!"

Duan Shizhang sneered, ignored Chen Guo, and shouted: "Let's go! Everyone look at the Luoma Peak in the distance, chase after me!" Rumbling horseshoes rolled, and everyone had already rushed out. Chen Guo was still baffled, and still said to himself: "Hey! I haven't finished yet..." But when he turned his head and saw that everyone had left, he was the only one left standing there stupidly, and the mountain wind blew, He shivered from the cold.At this moment, Chen Guo suddenly remembered that he had been to this place ten years ago, and it was the place where Liu Wanyao lived before!This clearing, this abandoned hut, is almost exactly the same as it was ten years ago.Chen Guo was so frightened that he got on his horse and chased Duan Shizhang and the others.