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Oops, I fell into a trap.

After a brief moment of nervousness and panic, Wu Zhongyuan quickly calmed down. If he fell into the trap, it wouldn't be a big deal. As long as the trap was not set by the Bear Clan, no one else would kill him if they caught him, at least not. Will kill him immediately.

Not only was he no longer panicking, but he felt more at ease. He had been worried before and didn't know why Suzaku reminded him not to go south, but now he finally knew.

Don't be anxious when things happen. Urgency will lead to chaos. Once it comes, calm it down. If you can't push it, you kick it twice. If it can't be broken, just ignore it for now.

He was not the only one in this barrier, there were five people, to be precise, there were five living people, two women and three men. These people all saw him. While he looked at these people, these people People are looking at him too.

The three men were all dressed as warriors. They were all in their thirties or forties, with fierce eyes and a gangster air. The two women were in their twenties and one in their thirties. The one in her twenties was wearing a natural coarse linen dress, holding a small branch in her mouth and sitting casually on the branch of a big tree. The woman in her thirties was dressed more gorgeously and stayed with the three men. She hugged her knees and sat next to a shack made of tree branches.

The three warriors were originally sitting. After briefly looking at Wu Zhongyuan, they grabbed their weapons and stood up.

"What do you want to do?" Wu Zhongyuan asked coldly.

The three of them didn't answer, but moved forward with ferocious expressions on their faces, their eyes like three mad dogs that wanted to bite someone.

There are five or six bones on the ground. The skin and flesh on these bones are gone. Where did the skin and flesh go? As you can guess with your buttocks, people will eat their own kind when they are extremely hungry. This is a manifestation of animal nature, but not everyone will do this.

"Three." Wu Zhongyuan inserted the stick into the soil.

The three of them exchanged glances when they heard the sound, and continued to move forward without stopping.

"Two." Wu Zhongyuan took the bow in his hand.

Seeing him take off the bow and arrow, the three of them were a little wary, but they probably hadn't eaten for a long time, so they didn't stop there, but spread out left and right and continued to move forward.

Wu Zhongyuan didn't shout. He bowed horizontally with his backhand and shot three arrows to death.

Seeing the three people screaming and falling to the ground, the woman in her thirties screamed in fright. Wu Zhongyuan tilted his head to look at her. The woman quickly got up and hid behind the shack.

Wu Zhongyuan looked up again at the young woman on the tree, who was looking down at him with no obvious expression, just a slight frown on her brows.

Wu Zhongyuan picked up his bow and arrow, took down the baggage smoothly, took out two pancakes from the gap in the baggage, and threw one to the young woman on the tree. When he threw it, he deliberately threw it a little sideways, leading the woman to use his body skills to catch it. , as soon as he stretched out his hand, his cultivation level was immediately revealed, it was light blue Dongxuan.

The thirty-year-old woman hid behind the shack and did not dare to come out. He could only throw the pancake near the shack. When the woman saw the pancake, she eagerly crawled over, grabbed the pancake in her hand and walked back.

"It's a waste if you give it to her." The young woman on the tree broke open the cake and sniffed it.

"Isn't it a waste for you?" Wu Zhongyuan asked with a smile while carefully looking at the woman's appearance. At this time, most men have Chinese characters and most women have round faces. This young woman also has a round face, short hair, and medium-sized eyes. , being long and having no features is not a disadvantage. On the contrary, having no features is often more attractive.

"We have suffered a lot from you." The young woman glanced at Wu Zhongyuan.

Wu Zhongyuan was greatly surprised when he heard this. He raised his head and asked with a smile, "What does it have to do with me?"

"The person who set up this formation is here to catch you, right?" the young woman asked.

"Why do you say that?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

"Don't panic after you find yourself trapped." The young woman began to eat the pancake. She ate in big mouthfuls, but she didn't look embarrassed when eating.

Wu Zhongyuan did not comment and asked, "How long have you been trapped?"

"Today is the eleventh day," the young woman said.

"What have you been eating during this time?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

"It's not human flesh anyway," the young woman said.

Wu Zhongyuan looked away and looked at the woman hiding behind the shack, "Hey, how long have you been trapped?"

"More than two months." The woman replied timidly.

"Where are they?" Wu Zhongyuan pointed to the three corpses on the ground.

"Longer," the woman said.

"Why didn't you die of thirst?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

The woman behind the shack raised her hand and pointed to the west, and the woman on the tree said, "They wanted to dig a hole to get out, but they couldn't get out even though they dug very deep, but they dug out water."

"Who are you?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

"Why should I tell you?" the young woman in the tree asked.

"Because I gave you dry food." Wu Zhongyuan smiled.

"I won't starve to death if I don't eat your pancakes." The young woman was quite arrogant.

"Don't eat it if you dare." Wu Zhongyuan teased.

"You gave it to me, why don't I eat it?" the young woman asked.

Wu Zhongyuan just teased her and didn't want to hurt her self-esteem, so he changed the question, "My name is Wu Zhongyuan, what do you call me?"

"Wu?" The young woman frowned and looked sideways.

"I haven't seen my portrait?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

"What portrait?" the young woman asked.

Wu Zhongyuan waved his hand, stepped forward, and retrieved the arrow from the corpse, "How often do they come to check the trap?"

"I don't know. It seems that no one came to check on me during the time I was trapped." The young woman shook her head.

Hearing what she said, Wu Zhongyuan turned to look at the woman behind the shack, "Have you ever seen anyone checking the situation here from outside?"

The woman behind the shack choked on her pancake. When Wu Zhongyuan asked, she swallowed hard and shook her head repeatedly.

Wu Zhongyuan frowned. If no one came to check the trap, it means that the purpose of setting the trap was not to capture, but to kill.

Thinking of a good environment, the stench around him made him nauseous. After looking around, Wu Zhongyuan picked up a single knife and used it as a shovel. He dug into the low-lying areas and dug holes, and then dug the corpses and those who had been eaten. The skinless bones were dragged out and buried.

At first, the two women stood by and watched. Later, the woman in the tree jumped down and helped him move the body. The woman behind the shack also came over to help in fear.

"What do I call you?" Wu Zhongyuan looked at the young woman.

"I am the seventh child, so you can call me Qi'er," the young woman said.

Wu Zhongyuan looked at the older woman again, and before he could ask any questions, the latter took the initiative and said, "My name is Xiu Niang, and I live in the town to the west."

Wu Zhongyuan nodded, and after working for half an hour, he finally buried the body and bones properly. The embroiderer brought a bamboo tube over and poured water for Wu Zhongyuan to wash his hands.

"If you light a fire here, can you see smoke outside?" Wu Zhongyuan asked Qi'er.

"Of course," Qi'er nodded, "But even if someone sees the smoke, they won't come this way."

"Why?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

"Do you think those people who were eaten got into it by mistake?" Qi'er answered with a question.

"Can the shouting from here be heard outside?" Wu Zhongyuan asked again.

"This is the Beidou Formation. The people who set up the formation added another formation eye in addition to the seven formation eyes. The purpose is to isolate the sound," Qi'er curled his lips and said, "If people outside can hear us, I Gone out a long time ago."

"Huh? How do you know so much?" Wu Zhongyuan tilted his head and looked at her.

Qi'er did not answer Wu Zhongyuan's question, but pointed to the woods to the east and said, "If you see the crooked-neck tree, the eighth formation point is buried under the tree."

"Are you sure this is a formation and not a spiritual energy barrier?" Wu Zhongyuan asked. He specializes in martial arts, but his specialty is not this. He can't tell the specific difference between a formation and a spiritual energy barrier.

"The spiritual energy barrier will rebound with the same force when it senses external force, but the formation will not." Qi'er said concisely and comprehensively.

"Will this formation disappear as long as the formation eye is destroyed?" Wu Zhongyuan asked again.

Qi'er nodded, "I know where the formation's eye is. The difficulty is that I can't tell people outside the formation to destroy it."

Hearing what Qi'er said, Wu Zhongyuan concentrated his mind and tried to establish a connection with Dasha. When he felt Dasha's response, he felt reassured. However, he did not immediately order Dasha to come and break the formation. Instead, he turned around and looked around. Observe your surroundings.

"You are also trapped in the formation, why can't I see you panicking?" Qi'er tilted his head and looked at Wu Zhongyuan.

"Is panicking useful?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

"Are you from the Bear Clan?" Qi'er asked.

Wu Zhongyuan nodded. At this time, the last name represented the race and tribe. He just said his name was Wu Zhongyuan, and Qi'er guessed that he was from the Bear tribe.

"Why do they want to arrest you?" Qi'er asked again.

Wu Zhongyuan did not answer, but turned around and walked westward. Qi'er's origin was unknown, so we should not talk about it.

He went over to check the well, and Xiu Niang followed him.

The well is on the west edge of the formation, with a diameter of about two meters. The water in the well is less than one meter from the ground. You can reach the water by lying beside the well.

While Wu Zhongyuan was looking at the well, Xiu Niang came over and whispered, "Hero, don't talk to it too much."

"It?" Wu Zhongyuan frowned and looked sideways.

"It's not a human being." Xiu Niang whispered.

Even though the embroiderer's voice was kept very low, Qi'er still heard it. Perhaps she was disdainful of the embroiderer's whistleblowing, so she sarcastically said, "Although I am an alien, I have never done the evil act of cannibalism."

The embroiderer was shocked and frightened, and bowed her head in shame.

Wu Zhongyuan knew what Xiu Niang had done before and why she wanted to report. He did not humiliate her or look down on her. It is the nature of the world to be greedy for life and afraid of death. He can stick to the bottom line, but he cannot demand that ordinary people can stick to the bottom line. He took out a few pancakes from his bag and handed them to her, then turned and walked elsewhere.

The smell on the ground was unpleasant, so Wu Zhongyuan jumped to a tree, found a seat from a high place, and frowned and thought against the tree trunk.

What he was thinking about at this time was who set up this formation. There were only two people who knew that he hid the Luanfeng Sword here that day. One was Jiang Nan and the other was Wu Dali. The one who leaked the secret should be Wu Dali. The reason why he did this It is judged that the area covered by this formation reaches one hundred feet, which is more than three hundred meters, and the place where the sword is buried is not the center of the formation. Jiang Nan knew the specific location where the sword was buried, but Wu Dalie did not. He only told Wu Dalie that day that he had buried the Luanfeng Sword in the woods to the east of the town.

Wu Dalie definitely didn't leak the secret on purpose, but this guy is a drunkard and greedy. Drinking is not a problem, but being greedy is a problem. Being greedy is actually not a big problem. Being greedy when you can't drink is a big problem. Wu Dalie is the kind of person who likes to drink even though he can't drink enough. It's not surprising that Fang Fian'er can get drunk and spill the beans.

Who got the clues from Wu Dali's mouth and set up an ambush here? The possibility of the Bear Clan is unlikely, because the Bear Clan knows that he can control Dasha to break the formation from outside, but it cannot rule out the possibility of the Bear Clan, because the Bear Clan does not know that he can find the formation's eye, even if he can control it Dasha, if you don't know the formation, you can't get out of trouble.

In addition, there is another very important detail, that is, if what Qi'er and Xiu Niang said is true and no one has ever come here to check during this period, it means that the people who set up the formation did not want to capture him, but wanted to kill him. He, in this way, the Bird Clan was also excluded, because before he summoned the Azure Dragon Armor back, the Bird Clan did not dare to kill him.

Cow tribe? Probably not. Jiang Zheng is an old cunning guy who is best at assessing situations. With Jiang Nan here, Jiang Zheng has no reason to attack him. Jiang Zheng will never become enemies if he can get married.

The three tribes are unlikely to be involved, but excluding the three tribes, who else wants to kill him?

After pondering for a long time, I finally decided not to order Dasha to come and break the formation for the time being. Let's take a look first. As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of thieves, you are afraid of being missed. If you are not afraid of open swords, you are afraid of hidden arrows. We must find out who is this person who uses dirty tricks to do evil. …