Chapter 554

The cave was dark, and a few people built a fire against a corner of the cliff.

It's raining cats and dogs outside. Fortunately, they found this cave. Otherwise, they would be soaked in coir raincoat.

The rain was so heavy that it was almost impossible for any beast to walk outside, and even if there was danger, the monkeys in the cave would be alert, so everyone had a good rest this evening.

The rain slowed down in the morning, and after an hour, it began to clear up.

The monkeys went out of the cave one after another and filled their stomachs in the fruit forest.

Xu Qing and his family simply ate some hot water and fruit. After the rain stopped, they continued on their way.

According to Li Changting, the destination is not far away from them. It's within five miles.

But they didn't expect to meet people in such a place.

But think about it. Although there are guards outside the Wanyao grottoes, they can only prevent ordinary people who don't know the truth from entering. For example, some martial arts experts can't stop them.

There are five men in the other party, all dressed in green clothes, with a small burden on their back. Looking at their clothes, they seem to be exploring.

"Which school are you from?" The first man said.

These people are generous, but they are not afraid of them. Maybe they see that among the eight of them, there is a woman with a cat in their arms. It doesn't look like they are very powerful.

"Qin family castle." Qin Tianye takes out a special token of Qin family castle.

"It turned out to be the master of the Qin family castle. I'm so disrespectful!" The man at the head was stunned. He immediately hugged his fist and laughed. He also took out a token. "We are the disciples of sunset villa. I'm Zhai Shen. These four are my younger martial brothers."

After greeting each other, Hu Ling asked them, "are you here for treasure?"

Zhai Shen: "yes, it seems that you are too. I just don't know if the things we are looking for are the same."

Hu Ling ignored the other party's tentative words, but talked with the other party and asked about their experience all the way.

Xu Qing asked Qin Tianye in a low voice, "what does sunset villa do?"

Qin Tianye: "weapons makers, most of the weapons in the river's Lake come from the sunset villa. The Qin family castle also has business relations with them. The sunset villa always only deals in business and seldom participates in the disputes in the river's Lake, so it's relatively low-key. But it is said that a daughter of the owner of the sunset villa married a member of the demon sect. In recent years, there have been frequent contacts between the villa and the demon sect. "

Xu Qingdian said he knew.

It is not easy to judge whether sunset villa is evil simply by regarding it as a businessman.

Hu Ling said: "compared with them, I think we are lucky. Several of them died in the swamp, were chased by crocodiles near the swamp, and met with poisonous wasps. But these five people are not good people at first sight. They are too disguised. "

Looking at Hu Ling's meaning, he didn't ask what he was looking for here.

All the way back and forth from the jungle, on the way to meet a few poisonous snakes were neatly solved, eight people found another river without danger.

Li Changting looked at the stones in the river for a while and said to them, "we're almost there. Let's go along the river first."

At noon, eight people set up a fire to boil water by the river. While they were eating dry food, they saw Zhai Shen and his younger martial brothers coming.

"What a coincidence?" Zhai Shen was surprised to see them.

Hu Ling: "I don't think you are going to the east?"

Zhai Shen casually sat down not far away from them and said, "halfway through, I found that I had taken the wrong road."

At this time, one of Zhai Shen's younger martial brothers went down to the river and picked up a stone from the river. He took out a small hammer to break the stone. He was surprised and said, "look, we found it."

Zhai Shen twisted a little black powder in the gravel with his fingers, took a black pendant out of his pocket and approached the gravel. Soon some black things were absorbed on the black pendant.

"Yes, it's iron." Zhai Shen's expression is light, "it seems that we are going to have a look upstream."

Hu Ling: "are you looking for iron ore?"

Zhai Shen: "that's right, aren't you?"

It's hard for Hu Ling to answer, but he murmured in his heart that iron ore is not rare in Lanzhou, and the mineral resources here are rich, otherwise the imperial court would have given up this wild land.

According to the amount of the imperial court, Lanzhou is vast and sparsely populated. It will take hundreds of years for this number of people to consume those iron mines.

However, Zhai Shen and his family would venture to find iron ore in Wanyao cave. Unless they are so poor that they really have no iron ore to spend, who would pay such a high price to come to such a dangerous place.

But now it seems that the other side's purpose is easy to guess.

It's true to look for iron ore, but there are also grades in iron ore. they are afraid that they despise ordinary iron ore.

If you think about it, I'm also looking for it. Now it seems that they are looking for the same thing.Zhai Shen didn't worry. He ate his dry food slowly. Finally, he told Hu Ling that he would set out together and be a companion on the way.

Although we all have the same destination, it doesn't matter whether we follow or not.

Along the way, Xu Qing found that there were no fish in the river, unlike the river they followed when they came.

After walking for half an hour, they were suddenly blocked by a waterfall.

It's really strange to see from here, because there are many large and small holes in the middle of this vertical rock mountain, and the water flows out of these holes, vertically down, forming several large and small waterfalls.

Now I don't know whether what they are looking for is in the mountains or farther up the mountains. But there is a problem to be solved. How can they get there?

The height of the mountain is not high. It's about five stories high. It's just that the mountain is covered with very slippery cliffs. It's too difficult to climb up.

Li Changting gave Xu qingjiao to Qin Tianye and Hu Yi, and took Hu Ling to the back of the waterfall to have a look.

Li Changting and Hu Ling rushed to the back of the waterfall and looked up and down.

On the other hand, Zhai Shen is not idle. Compared with them, they have more experience. But now Zhai Shen has to admire some of them. He even thinks of looking for the entrance from below.

It's a pity that one of his younger martial brothers with excellent water quality sneaked into the bottom of the pool to have a look. He didn't find the exit. Instead, he brought back a dark iron ore.

The ore is very small, but the egg is big, but the color is so pure that it can be regarded as top grade iron ore in sunset villa.

Such a small stone may have been washed down by the current. It is very likely that there are a lot of iron ores hidden in the mountain!