Chapter 508 Where is this?

Southern Xinjiang is a very large area, not much smaller than the Central Plains. However, the valleys there are lush with vegetation and there is not much suitable arable land. In addition, snakes, insects, rats and ants are everywhere. It is no wonder that people in Southern Xinjiang always peek at the Central Plains. .

Theoretically, you can reach Southern Xinjiang by walking west or south from Qingyang Town, but if you go west, you will enter a mysterious forest.

This forest extends all the way from southern Xinjiang. As you can tell from the name, it is basically like a maze. Even locals cannot get out if they go too deep, let alone outsiders.

If Ning Xianer and the others really go to the west, they might crash into it. No matter how high your martial arts skills are, it will be useless if you can't get out.

Yang Yiyi didn't understand the local situation and didn't know what Wu Shaoyi was worried about, so she immediately asked the waiter:

"Did a group of people from southern Xinjiang pass by?"

"People from southern Xinjiang? I've never seen them before. They generally don't come to Qingyang Town. Most of them are active at the border."

Compared to Ning Xianer and the others, the people from Southern Xinjiang walked more quietly. After asking a few more questions, the waiter couldn't think of anything useful, so he had no choice but to give up.

At this time, Qin Yan, who had just separated, came back again, and Yang Yiyi quickly asked her to sit down and drink porridge.

However, Qin Yan didn't seem to be in much of a mood to eat. She sat at the table and whispered:

"I asked some local thieves about it, and they said they saw my elder brother and a group of people passing by outside Qingyang Town before."

The Sixteenth Village has a good relationship with thieves in many places. Zhou Yuxuan has been out and about all year round, and many people know him. So when he appeared nearby, he was immediately recognized.

"Going west?"

"Why do you think it's going west? Those thieves secretly said it was going south."

"Ah? But the waiter in the shop just told us that he saw a group of Jianghu people heading west with murderous intent."

Qin Yan was also confused by this sentence.

There were people from the Sixteenth Village in Ning Xianer's team, and they would definitely ask the local thieves if they had seen Zhou Yuxuan. In fact, when Qin Yan was asking about this, the local thieves also said that they had seen Zhou Yuxuan not long ago. People from the Sixteenth Village asked.

This is strange. Knowing that Zhou Yuxuan went south, why did Ning Xianer continue to chase him west?

"I guess Ning Nuxia may be planning to take a shortcut to block them. The heroes around her may have divided their forces on the road, trying to block the Southern Xinjiang people before they return to Southern Xinjiang."

Wu Shaoyi's guess was reasonable. After all, it was better to go around to block people than to chase after him from behind.

"But where do we go to catch up with them?"

Ning Xianer can divide his troops into several groups, but Yang Yiyi and the others only have three of them. If they go in the wrong direction, they may not be able to catch up.

Wu Shaoyi thought for a moment and said:

"Let's go west as well. Compared to the Southern Xinjiang people who are secretive and hard to figure out their whereabouts, Ning Nuxia's team is more conspicuous and easier to follow."

This is a fact. People from Southern Xinjiang are bound to hide their heads when they move in the Central Plains. This time, they were lucky. Some thieves noticed Zhou Yuxuan in the team of Southern Xinjiang people. They may not have such good luck next time. Following them may lead to trouble. Chasing lost.

Qin Yan actually wanted to go southwest to chase Zhou Yuxuan, but she had to admit that Wu Shaoyi was right.

She was confused when she was concerned, and she would have gotten angry a long time ago, otherwise she would not have dragged her body that had not fully recovered to pursue him.

Wu Shaoyi also knew this. Seeing that Qin Yan was very hesitant, she added:

"Anyway, let's go to the fishing village mentioned by the waiter first and ask. If it's not easy to chase, then we can change the route and go south."

Yang Yiyi remained as before, thinking about nothing.

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After a quick breakfast, the three of them immediately set off again, leaving Qingyang Town and walking westward along the road.

Although there was no means of transportation, the three of them had martial arts skills with them. Wu Shaoyi, who was most likely to be the hindrance, used her internal strength to move her wheelchair and ran faster than Qinggong. Therefore, the three of them found the fishing village mentioned by the waiter without much effort.

The village is not big, with only a few hundred people by visual inspection. When you enter the village, you can see that every household has fishing nets hanging out. It is obviously a place where fishing is the industry.

Yang Yiyi and the others arrived just in time. As soon as they entered the village, they saw an old man driving a donkey cart ready to leave the village. There were fruits, vegetables and fresh fish on the cart. It was obvious at a glance that they were sent to the city.

"Old man, wait a minute, we have something to ask you."

When he stepped forward to ask, he happened to be Lao Yangtou, who delivered food to the city every day. It was he who told the waiter that he saw a large group of Jianghu people passing by the village entrance.

It's a good thing that the witnesses can be found so smoothly, but the information from the witnesses is similar to what the waiter said. At most, there are some slight differences in details.

And when talking about this, the old man was very frightened. He lit the dry tobacco pole with trembling words as he said it.

After all, they are ordinary people who live a responsible life. As soon as they go out, they see hundreds of Jianghu people passing by with weapons in their hands, and they all look murderous. It would be strange not to be shocked.

Probably because Yang Yiyi and the others are all women, and their looks are not bad, and they don't look evil, so the old man is less defensive and tells everything when asked.

Finally, he added:

"Go further west and you should reach the Lost Trail Forest. The three heroines must not go in, otherwise it will be easy to enter but difficult to come out."

"Thank you, old man. We know."

We arrived at the place but couldn’t get any more information. What should we do?

Keep chasing.

Fortunately, it has only been two days, and it has not rained in these two days, so the footprints and everything are still there.

Yang Yiyi and the others left the fishing village and followed the direction pointed by the old man. Along the way, they could see many footprints left in the wild, which could barely be regarded as road signs that could guide the direction.

Wu Shaoyi brought a map from home, which clearly marked the location of the Lost Forest, which was still a bit far away from them.

The three of them had a brief discussion and decided to continue following the footprints for a while and wait until they got outside the Lost Forest.

If Ning Xianer and the others had entered the Lost Forest, they would turn south. If not, they would continue to chase and ask around in the next town.

With a map in hand and in broad daylight, the sun was very clear, so it was not difficult to identify the direction. There were also footprints on the road as clues and guides. It should be possible to chase them all the way without any problems.

However, there were still problems that should not have gone wrong.

Yang Yiyi looked at the treetops that blocked out the sun and sighed:

"Where is this..."

Originally, they followed the footprints and entered a sparse forest. Wu Shaoyi looked at the map and confirmed that they were still far away from the Lost Forest, so the three of them continued to follow the footprints.

However, they went deeper and deeper without realizing it. When they found it, there was no longer any surging river water around them, nor any farmland or official roads, only dense bushes and lush trees.

The treetops were so large that they almost blocked out the sun, as if it was cloudy all of a sudden.

At this time, Qin Yan came down from the tree:

"Our direction is correct, but the map..."

"This forest is not marked on the map."

Wu Shaoyi was also confused when he held the map.

They were clearly following the map and were not lost. Where did this dense forest come from?

What's even more fucked up is that the three of them immediately found that they couldn't get out.