Chapter 131: Calculating the Gu Clan Team
The Guyuan Forest is located outside the southern border of the Song Dynasty. It is very vast and filled with various complex terrains, with steep ridges, canyons and rivers everywhere.
Zhou Zhilu walked slowly in the forest, surrounded by thick trees and tangled vines.
On the towering trees that even the two of them could not fully embrace, bursts of insect chirping could be heard one after another, and between the tree trunks, the faint sound of friction caused by crawling could be heard.
“Crack.”
The dead leaves under Zhou Zhilu's feet made a crisp sound, but at this moment a black shadow suddenly shot out from the bushes towards his face.
Fortunately, Zhou Zhilu reacted quickly and drew the long sword from his waist. A silver light flashed, and the black shadow instantly split into two and fell to the ground.
It was a strange reptile, with a body like a lizard but with fleshy wings. It was only the size of a palm, but its mouth was full of sharp teeth.
If we were to say that the most dangerous existence in the Guyuan Forest is definitely not the Gu tribe that lives in seclusion here, but the unique specialty of this forest - the Gu insect.
Gu worms are different from demons and spirit beasts. They have basically no intelligence and rely entirely on survival instincts to survive. Most of them are highly toxic, brutal by nature, and difficult to cultivate.
However, the Gu tribe has a magical way to control the Gu insects, which is also the ability they rely on to survive in the Guyuan Forest.
Zhou Zhilu picked up the corpse of the reptile on the ground and continued walking forward until he stopped by a stream.
He threw the reptile's body onto the bank of the stream, then took out some other reptile's bodies from the storage ring and threw them around.
After doing all this, Zhou Zhilu retreated to a distance and hid on a tree branch.
Not long after, several large spiders were seen crawling out of the woods and gnawing on the corpses on the shore. At the same time, several long snakes were slowly approaching and confronting the spiders.
However, Zhou Zhilu's target was not them. He estimated the time and looked towards the upstream of the river.
I saw five boys and girls wearing animal skins walking towards this side.
Zhou Zhilu had followed them for three days. In his opinion, the Bai family in the Guyuan Forest was absolutely not a place they could go.
Because the old lady and the patriarch of the Bai family are most likely here, one is at the ninth level and the other is at the seventh level. If I get close, I will be exposed in a minute.
So Zhou Zhilu set his sights on the Gu tribe, and if he wanted to contact the Gu tribe, he needed to gain their trust.
It wasn't until he saw this team of Gu people that an idea came to his mind.
This Gu tribe team seemed to be searching for a certain herb, but the team members' cultivation was not very high, most of them were at the second or third level, and their actions were extremely unconcealed.
Zhou Zhilu guessed that these boys and girls might have sneaked out on their own, otherwise they would easily die if they wandered around in the forest like this.
In the past few days, Zhou Zhilu has been gradually changing the direction of the Gu tribe's movement by attracting poisonous insects and wild beasts, destroying trees or leaving sword marks.
The purpose is to let them collide with a team of Bai family members not far away!
Sure enough, the team stopped after discovering the spiders and snakes. Faced with these large poisonous insects, the team was naturally unwilling to take risks easily, so they could only take a detour and move forward along the route planned by Zhou Zhilu.
There are four men and one woman in the team. The girl's name is Zhisha. She came out to find herbs to cure the poisonous insects she cultivated.
She was hesitant and fearful when she said, "How about... should we go back? Everyone took such a risk because of me. I'm afraid we'll be scolded by the village chief again if we go back."
The young man walking in front of the team said, "It's okay, Zhisha. If we don't find the Snake Ghost Grass, the young Gu you worked so hard to cultivate won't survive. We just need to be careful. Look, we've avoided a lot of danger along the way."
Others in the team also said, "Yes, but these Song people are really annoying. If it weren't for their crazy picking, our village wouldn't be short of Snake Grass."
Zhou Zhilu, who was behind, was sitting on a tree, calculating the distance the team had traveled and muttering to himself.
Getting closer...
The young man walking in front of the Gu tribe team was talking while looking back and walking forward confidently, as if he wanted to make Zhisha no longer afraid.
"As long as we pick a few more snake grasses this time, the village chief and his men won't scold us. They might even praise us."
"Yes, after all, it's not just the yarn that needs it. In fact, many people in the village have had some problems with their Gu insects recently."
"Hehe, if I can get a reward from the village chief, I want to exchange it for a more powerful young Gu, like..."
Just as the boy was thinking about what kind of young Gu reward he wanted, he suddenly heard a sharp sound of breaking wind.
Suddenly, an arrow shot out from the bushes in front. The young man in the front was looking back and smiling, but suddenly his head exploded like a smashed watermelon.
The arrow pierced the boy's head, scratched the ear of someone behind him, and disappeared into the bushes.
The red and white things that exploded from the boy's head in front instantly splashed onto the faces of the people behind.
The smiles on everyone's faces suddenly froze, and then turned into fear, and screams instantly resounded among the woods.
Several people wearing exquisite robes and holding swords came out from behind the trees and walked towards the Gu tribe team with cold eyes.
"It's the Bai family! Run!"
Seeing this, the remaining four people screamed and ran behind them in panic.
But how could they outrun the killers from the Bai family? The young man who was running last was pierced through the calf by a thrown long sword and was nailed to the ground.
As soon as the shrill scream was heard, the Bai family killer from behind rushed forward and cut off his neck with a knife.
A young man in front saw his companions in such a miserable state, his eyes showing determination, and shouted: "Zhisha, Xiaoye, hurry up and leave, I will stop them!"
He slapped the pocket on his waist, and countless black flying insects flew out of his pocket, swarming towards the Bai family killers who were chasing him.
Looking closely, each of these flying insects has a sharp mouthpart, like a mutated mosquito.
But then a fat killer from the Bai family slapped his stomach with both hands, and a raging fire spewed out of his mouth, instantly burning the black flying insects to ashes.
Another person at the back drew his longbow, and with a bang, the arrow cut through the sky, instantly piercing the boy's chest, and then hit Zhisha's leg.
The boy's body fell to the ground, and Zhisha was tripped by an arrow and fell to the ground. Seeing the killer from the Bai family coming towards her with a long knife in his hand, Zhisha screamed in despair.
However, a silver light flashed overhead, and the Bai family killer's arm holding the knife was instantly chopped off to the ground with blood splattering.
A man in a black robe and a bronze mask stood in front of Zhisha. His broad back seemed to hold up the world. He spoke in a gentle voice:
"My friends, why did you treat these teenagers so cruelly?"
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