Chapter 71: Stone Tablet
"What is this place called?"
Yan Moying saw a stone tablet in front of him. With the help of the torchlight, he read the words on the tablet: "This place is seven miles away from Guiying Peak. A deep trench surrounds the peak in front of you. Its width is two miles at each place, isolating the peak from the outside world. However, if someone is destined to come here alone at midnight today, he can cross it. You must not tell others about the inscription you saw, otherwise your fate will end and you will never have the chance to cross this deep trench again."
Yan Moying thought: This place is seven miles away from Guiying Peak, and the deep trench surrounding Guiying Peak is always two miles wide, which means that if you want everyone to stay five miles away from Guiying Peak, you must say goodbye to them here temporarily.
Yan Moying said to the guards: "I must go forward alone on the road ahead."
The guards were a little surprised. They had been traveling together, but now they were at such a terrifying place, but Guard Yan wanted to go alone? They were also a little puzzled - what was written on the stone tablet that made him make such a decision? So, everyone took torches and went over to observe the stone tablet.
All I heard was the guards saying, "There is a deep trench ahead, please stop."
Yan Moying was slightly stunned after hearing this: "What words did you see?"
"'There is a deep trench ahead, please stop.' Why, Guard Yan, isn't this what you see?" said a guard.
"Oh..." Yan Moying hesitated. He immediately understood: Maybe it was his special ability that the old man mentioned last time that made the words he saw different from those seen by others.
"Guard Yan, this stone tablet clearly tells us not to go any further. We have to change our route anyway. Let's go back and rest for a night, and then look for another way tomorrow!"
Yan Moying thought that he couldn't explain this matter clearly to the guards, otherwise it would be a disaster. But if he didn't explain it clearly, they would definitely persuade him not to go alone for their own safety. It would be better for him to go with the guards to the row of houses for hunters on the road just now, wait until they fell asleep, leave them a message and then say goodbye. He felt that he had walked here alone, and there was nothing to do on the road. He could go back alone when the time came. He didn't know when he could go back, so there was no need to waste the guards' energy. So Yan Moying led the guards back and headed straight for the row of houses for hunters that they had just passed by.
After a while, the group arrived near the row of houses.
"Who is it?!" A man suddenly jumped out from behind the house, holding a bow and arrow and yelling at Yan Moying. When he saw some guards following Yan Moying, he realized that it would be more disadvantageous for him to directly draw the bow and arrow to offend them in such a situation where the other party was outnumbered. He regretted it a little, but still did not dare to let go. He still pulled the bow, but the tip of the arrow moved down and was no longer aimed at Yan Moying.
Yan Moying used the firelight to see a hunter with a slightly frightened look in his eyes, so he smiled and said, "We would like to stay here for one night. Can you help us?"
Seeing that Yan Moying and his group had no ill intentions, the hunter stopped drawing his bow and held the arrow and bow in his hands. In fact, seeing so many people who seemed to have no ill intentions, he felt more at ease, not as uneasy as when he was preparing to stay here alone. He was straightforward and said whatever he wanted to say. When he saw Yan Moying and his group, he said to them as if he were meeting friends: "I am also here to stay. I encountered something strange in the area today, so I am still scared. I apologize for any offense I just caused. You...you didn't encounter anything strange, did you?"
(End of this chapter)
