After listening to Huo Qubing's order, Croce quickly asked people to take action.

Because there were tens of thousands of troops and they were well-trained, it didn't take long for the soldiers to use dry branches and hay to quickly pile up a "firewood wall" more than ten feet high and eight feet wide. This kind of "firewood wall" composed of branches and hay "Firewood Wall" is more than three miles long.

Croce added mugwort, resin, tung oil, etc. to this "firewood wall".

When everything was ready, a row of soldiers dressed in red stood out. These soldiers were all tall and strong, and what was even more unusual was that each of them had a big eagle on his arm.

The body of this kind of eagle is as big as a calf, and its wings are more than a foot long when spread out. Such a huge eagle is extremely rare.

On the talons of each eagle hangs a special white ball. This white ball is made from dried wild boar bladders. It is strong and light in weight. Under the white ball are dense holes, which contain Croton. Specially configured fuel.

The formula of this fuel is top secret and is inherited from their family. No matter what is sprinkled with this fuel, as long as it encounters a spark, it will ignite a raging fire that cannot be extinguished even if it is thrown into water.

Croce put the fuel into the white ball, and then hung it on the talons of the eagle. The trained eagle would follow the direction of the wind and fly at low altitude over the area to be burned, and put the fuel in the white ball through the bottom of the ball. Make a small hole and spread evenly.

When the "firewood wall" composed of branches and hay on the outside is ignited, the scattered fuel will be quickly attracted, forming a terrifying sea of ​​​​fire in an instant, and no living thing in the sea of ​​​​fire can even think of escaping. Even the soil will be burnt.

It was precisely with this kind of fire attack that Croce burned more than 10,000 Huns soldiers alive. This was an unprecedented victory for the Han army and shocked the entire court and the public. Even Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was overjoyed when he heard the news. Crazy, Croce was named "General of Chariots and Cavalry", which greatly shocked the Huns. For this reason, the Huns also sent people to the Western Regions to find such people who knew the fuel formula, but in the end they were unsuccessful. And return.

Therefore, this Croce is Huo Qubing's confidant and his trump card. Facing this extremely dangerous and mysterious "Vine Valley", Croce's fire attack is probably the only option, regardless of this " Are there real ghosts in "Vine Valley" or other monsters? This raging fire is their nemesis.

In a fire attack, the wind direction is the most important. Before the wind direction changed, Croce quickly lit the "firewood wall" on the outside after preparing everything, and the dozens of large eagles, with a whistle, flew low in the sky. Fly through the "Vine Valley" and spread the fuel in the white ball evenly.

In this way, the wind took advantage of the fire, the fire assisted the wind, and the fuel on the vines was ignited. The entire vine valley turned into a sea of ​​​​fire, which could be seen hundreds of miles away.

The fire burned for more than ten days, and all the vines were burned away.

These vines have grown for hundreds of years and remain evergreen all year round. They are layer upon layer and very dense. As a result, the land under the vines has never been exposed and is therefore very humid. However, after more than ten days of fire, Not only was there more than two feet of vine ash on the ground, but the land below was also scorched and turned into red soil.

Perhaps it was God's good will, but as soon as the fire was extinguished, there was a heavy rain.

After the rain cleared up, Huo Qubing ordered the army to enter the "Vine Valley".

At this time, no other ghosts or monsters were seen except ashes and scorched earth. From then on, the mysterious "Vine Valley" disappeared forever, leaving only a fertile wasteland, and no one was there anymore. Been missing.

The surrounding people gradually came here to open up wasteland and farm, and "Vine Valley" soon turned into fertile farmland. As for why so many people disappeared in "Vine Valley", it became an eternal secret, as if all The truth disappeared with the fire.

Although this hidden danger was eliminated, Huo Qubing and Croce were heavily rewarded by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, but Huo Qubing always wanted to find out the real secret of this "Vine Valley" and what kind of monster it was that killed so many people.

Coincidentally, four or five years after the "Vine Valley" was burned down, Huo Qubing got acquainted with a descendant of the Mohist school. This man was named Hou Di. technique.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was keen on cultivating Taoism and becoming an immortal, so he had many alchemists around him. One of them, an alchemist named Luan Da, was the most favored by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty even married his daughter, Princess Wei Chang, to him.

But Hou Di exposed the tricks of these alchemists one by one, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty suddenly realized that he had been fooled. These alchemists were also punished, and Luan Da was exterminated, which was what he deserved.

Therefore, Huo Qubing admired Hou Di very much, so he told Hou Di all the mysteries and weirdness about "Vine Valley" and asked Hou Di what was going on.

After Hou Di listened to Huo Qubing's story, he just smiled and said that it was not difficult to solve these mysteries, as long as Huo Qubing went to the "Vine Valley" with him again.

Seeing how confident he was, Huo Qubing knew that he had asked the right person, so he readily agreed to Hou Di.

It happened to be spring at that time, and there was no vine left in the "Vine Valley", only black and purple fertile soil.

Hou Di walked around in the "Vine Valley" and finally chose the lowest place and asked the accompanying soldiers to dig down.

When they dug more than two feet deep, Hou Di asked the soldiers to stop, and then poured a jar of blood into the dug hole. While everyone was surprised, suddenly, from the pool of blood in the hole, slowly, A vine slowly grew out, and the vine looked like it was growing upwards. Everyone around was shocked, because no one had ever seen a vine growing so fast.

Hou Di still didn't explain much, and just asked the rabbits to be thrown into the pit. As soon as the rabbits fell into the pit, the vines suddenly wrapped the rabbits tightly, and became tighter and tighter. , no matter how hard the rabbit struggled, it was of no avail, and the rabbit was entangled until the skin was torn and the flesh was bloody.

Everyone around was dumbfounded, including Huo Qubing.

Hou Di pointed to the pit and said to Huo Qubing with a smile: "Don't the general want to know how those people disappeared? This is how they disappeared."

"I see, I didn't expect these vines to eat people," Huo Qubing said in surprise.

"Actually, this is not a vine, but a kind of monster that grows on vines, called a 'vine demon'. It looks very much like a vine. There were countless such 'vine demons' in the original 'Vine Valley'. Once a person enters Once inside, you will be quickly entangled to death by this kind of 'vine demon', and this kind of 'vine demon' likes human flesh and blood very much. After it absorbs human flesh and blood, it will reproduce faster," Hou Di further explained.

It turns out that this kind of 'vine demon' has extremely strong vitality. When encountering a fire, they will plunge underground and can sleep underground for more than ten years. As long as there are vines above, they will come out immediately.

Although the fire burned most of the "vine demons" to death, there were still some "fish that slipped through the net". They got into the ground in time before the fire arrived, so they were not burned to death by the fire.

However, fortunately, the fire burned thoroughly, burning all the branches, leaves, roots, and seeds of the vines, making it impossible for the vines to grow again. This gave the 'vine demons' no chance to return to the ground.

Since then, the 'Vine Demon' has never appeared in historical records, and it seems to have been extinct. However, I never expected that on the edge of the cliff in the middle of the night, the 'Vine Demon' would appear again.

When Crazy Six finished speaking, we were all silent. Questions quickly flashed through my mind, why did the "vine demon" appear here, what is the relationship between the "vine demon" and Gao Xiazi, on the edge of this cliff, And what kind of mystery is there?

Crazy Six took out that leaf again and observed it carefully. He suddenly murmured: "I seem to know what's going on." Although his words were not loud, we were all shocked and immediately went over to take a look. The leaf in Crazy Six's hand.

Under the illumination of the flashlight, the leaf was still the same as when we first saw it, as slender as a bamboo leaf, as thin as a cicada's wing, and redder than a maple leaf, but other than that, there was nothing special about it. at.

"Have you discovered anything?" the Japanese female translator asked Madman Liu softly.

Crazy Six did not answer immediately, but lightly poked the leaf with his nails, and some red juice oozed from the punctured area of ​​the leaf.

"Smell carefully what this smells like,"

We took turns bringing our noses close to the leaf, and strangely enough, we smelled blood.

"There are plants whose sap smells like blood," I couldn't help but say.

After hearing what I said, Madman Six smiled slightly and said leisurely: "Actually, this is not a leaf at all, but an organ of the 'vine demon'."

Ah, an organ in the body of the "vine demon". We were all shocked when Madman Six said this.

I touched the leaf with my hand and felt its texture carefully. Sure enough, it didn't feel as crisp and soft as a leaf at all, but more like a thin piece of meat, which was very elastic and tough.

"Did you notice that when the 'amphibious man' monster just touched down on the edge of the cliff with its tentacles, it pulled out a 'leaf' like this. This means that the 'vine demon' was probably hiding on the edge of the cliff just now. Go up, and that 'leaf' was picked from the 'vine demon',"

Crazy Six's speculation is very reasonable, and we all feel scared. The legendary "vine demon" that is so ferocious and terrifying has just been so close to us.

Crazy Liu continued with a thoughtful look on his face: "The 'amphibious man' might not have fallen off the cliff at all, but was entangled by the 'vine demon'. Where did he get entangled? There is probably a person on the cliff wall. Cave, and the 'amphibian man' got entangled in the cave. In addition, since the 'amphibious man' climbed this way, it means that the blind man Gao must be here. Based on all these speculations, the possible situation is that, there is something on the cliff. A cave entrance, and the tall blind man is hiding inside,"

Crazy Six's words made all of our hearts beat wildly. If this is true, we have determined the location of Blind Man Gao.

But what we didn't expect was that the entrance to the cave where Blind Man Gao was hiding was on a cliff. Not only that, there was a terrifying "vine demon" near the entrance of the cave.

Grandma, why is this tall blind man so difficult to deal with? Every hiding place is full of traps, and each of these traps is weirder and scarier than the last.

Now we are faced with two choices: although we have found Crazy Six's hiding place, there is no way to get in and can only return without success; the other is to brave the dangers and find a way to enter the cave on the cliff.
Chapter completed!