Chapter 198: A Place Where the Living Should Not Be Disturbed

"What... are you looking at?" Su Mu was startled when he saw Jiang Wu suddenly turned around.

Jiang Wu turned his gaze from the sky above his head to look at him, his amber eyes revealing a bit of indifference. Su Mu felt a chill on his back and took a step back in fear, "What do you want to do?"

Jiang Wuding looked at him, and then took away the dagger tied to his waist when He Yunxing passed by.

Su Mu was so frightened that the hairs on his body stood up. Just as he was about to call for help, He Yunxing shouted at him sternly, "Don't move!"

Su Mu was frightened and took another step back, leaning his back against the tree. At this moment, Jiang Wu suddenly raised his hand and shot the dagger at him!

Su Mu's mind went blank, and just when he thought he was going to die, he heard a "puff" sound next to his ear, and some sticky liquid splashed on his face and neck, and a strong smell of blood invaded his nose.

He turned his head stiffly, and the first thing that came into his eyes was a dead snake nailed to a tree trunk by a dagger. The snake was as thick as a baby's arm, and its winding body, intertwined with black and gold, was still entangled on the tree. Its triangular head was almost cut in half by the dagger, and the blood dyed the dagger red.

Su Mu stared at it for a second, his legs went limp, and he sat on the ground and vomited violently.

Jiang Wu walked up and drew his sword, and He Yunxing quickly shouted, "Be careful!"

Everyone looked at the worry and anxiety that was not concealed on He Yunxing's face, and understood something in their hearts after observing his nose and heart.

However, Jiang Wu just glanced at him, then drew his sword with a swift movement, and the snake's corpse fell to the ground with a plop, deader than dead.

"It's a bit like a cross between a golden python and an ironhead, a species I've never seen before."

Bi Yan's words made the team fall into silence. Three days had passed since they left the forest where they were trapped by the formation. In just three days, they had seen more than a dozen kinds of poisonous snakes and insects that they had never seen before, and even saw an extremely rare white wolf.

That was the first night they walked out of the forest. The snow-white wolf appeared like a ghost five meters away from Cheng's tent, its eyes a deep red, and it stared at their tent quietly, just like a human. Ji Ruoxuan, who had gotten up at night, was so scared that he let out a sharp cry, waking everyone up.

As we all know, wolves are social animals. One wolf is not scary, but a group of wolves is scary.

Just when the program crew was facing a formidable enemy and asked Jiang Wu what to do, the white wolf turned around and ran into the dark forest and disappeared.

After that, they never encountered the white wolf again, but began to encounter more and more poisonous insects and wild beasts. Or, in other words, the deeper they went into the mountain, the more of those things they encountered, and the formation that trapped them in the beginning seemed to be there to protect them.

The team had not slept well in the past few days, and now something like this happened. Everyone in the team was a little depressed. After Su Mu finished coughing, he shouted angrily before he even had time to rinse his mouth, "I don't want to record anymore! I want to go back! I want to go back to Linhai!"

Everyone looked at each other. In fact, when Su Mu was trapped in the formation, he had already shouted that he didn't want to record, but everyone felt that it hadn't come to that point yet. After all, he still had Jiang Wu as his backer. But the venomous snake was only five centimeters away from Su Mu just now, and they didn't have any anti-venom serum. If Jiang Wu had been a little slower, Su Mu would be a corpse now.

The current situation is undoubtedly more dangerous than any program they have recorded before. Even old guests such as Bi Yan and Guan Qi are considering giving up.

Ji Ruoxuan was so tired that he wanted to sit on the ground, but he was afraid of poison, so he could only half-bend his waist and look at Yang Chen with a bitter face, "Director Yang, you didn't tell me before that this mountain is so dangerous? The signal is not good, and we can't even call for help! Do you want to kill people for money?"

Yang Chen looked more haggard than the others. He was sweating profusely. He looked like he had aged ten years in just a few days. "...I did ask someone to check it out. Five of them came back safe and sound. They told me that the mountain is a bit difficult to climb, but it's not dangerous. At most, you just need to be careful of leeches and mosquitoes."

Ji Ruoxuan pointed at the thick and poisonous snake and asked, "Do you think it is a leech or a mosquito?"

Yang Chen choked and sighed, "I should have stayed in that forest earlier. At least it's safe."

"It's useless." Jiang Wuyong wiped the blood off the dagger with a leaf, handed the knife to He Yunxing, and said calmly, "The formation in that forest is a temporary formation. It has become invalid after you left."

This statement instantly caught everyone's attention. Cheng Ye frowned and looked at him, "How did you know that?"

Jiang Wu calmly dropped a bomb, "Because I set up that formation."

Everyone's eyes widened instantly, and after a while someone asked in disbelief, "...Why?"

"I told you, this mountain is dangerous."

"So you did it for protection... No!" Ji Ruoxuan suddenly widened his eyes and said in surprise, "So you have already discovered us?!"

Jiang Wu replied, "Yeah."

Ji Ruoxuan subconsciously wanted to ask Jiang Wu why he had not told them at the beginning, but instead used the formation to stop them. But then he thought again, they just thought it was an ordinary mountain at that time, and even if Jiang Wu reminded them, they probably would not give up the journey.

Everyone was speechless for a moment.

"Then can you set up that formation again?" Ji Ruoxuan asked cautiously.

Jiang Wu shook his head. "I can't set up a formation. I used the remaining power on the broken stele to set up a formation. If I want to set up another formation, I have to find the next stele."

Everyone was a little disappointed when they heard this, but Cheng Ye suddenly said, "Do you recognize the words on that stone tablet?"

Jiang Wu glanced at him and said, "Yeah."

Cheng Ye's breathing became heavier, and he continued, "The pattern on it is the same as the text I showed to the master at Qingyang Temple before. I checked it out, and it is the text for offering sacrifices to heaven during the reign of Emperor Zhaowu of the Great Zhou Dynasty."

Jiang Wu didn't say anything, just listened quietly. The way people around him looked at him had changed.

戫Ｈ熙Ｈ彖Ｈ对Ｈ讀Ｈ嘉Ｈ

"How do you know that text? What does it mean?" Cheng Ye's pale face turned red with excitement. "What on earth are you looking for in this mountain?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the forest covered by shade became quiet, and even the sound of insects could not be heard.

Jiang Wu lowered his head and did not intend to answer his question. Cheng Ye was a little anxious and was about to get up and walk towards him. At this moment, a loud bird song suddenly rang above their heads. It seemed to come from a very far place, but it penetrated their eardrums and echoed above the forest.

Jiang Wu suddenly stood up and looked in the direction where the sound came from. His calm eyes were surprisingly bright at this moment, and a smile appeared on his face, which rarely showed any expression.

Everyone was stunned, and saw Jiang Wu raised his hand to his lips, and with a little effort he blew out a loud whistle, which was exactly the same as the sound just now.

The next second, something even more incredible happened. Following Jiang Wu's whistle, the sky above their heads was filled with the same loud cry again, as if responding to Jiang Wu, one after another, endlessly, and even getting closer and closer.

Everyone subconsciously looked up at the sky, their heartbeats accelerating, and they felt that something shocking would happen in the next moment.

Finally, a white figure flew towards them from afar in the sunlight.

Two-meter-long wings, snow-white feathers, sharp scaly claws, a curved beak, cold and sharp black round pupils, with the sound of flapping wings, a white eagle as big as a puppy fell on Jiang Wu's raised left arm in the eyes of everyone.

The people who saw this scene stared with their eyes wide open, and they were speechless for a long time, until Jiang Wu gently stroked the white eagle's head, took out a piece of purple cloth with complicated patterns from its mouth, and asked, "Are you sure this mountain is the one you are looking for?"

His voice was calm, yet it carried an inexplicable sense of emptiness and depth that made everyone shudder.

Yang Chen swallowed and replied, "This is Mozi Mountain... right?"

Jiang Wu did not answer, but asked, "Do you know what Mozi means?"

"Wh…what do you mean?"

"In the Great Zhou's sacrificial text, Mozi is just an approximate pronunciation. Its real meaning is a place where the living should not disturb."