I do research in ancient times

Chapter 169

Seeing the figure go away, Clay finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"It can be regarded as dismissed! This group of Xihu people are too thieves, I don't think that Su Buti is a good guy!"

He muttered.

Ning Fei was not as relaxed as him, he frowned slightly, and turned his eyes to Nada.

"What does Su Buti mean by the phrase 'There is only one way out of the mountain, and you have to go through Hexa City' before leaving?"

At that time, Nada had already broken free from the rope and stood up from the ground.

Nada is not a person who doesn't know what is good or bad. Before that, Ningfei organized Su Buti to beat him in his heart. Now he knows everything and says everything.

"That bastard is right. Tiantiekeng is a dead end, surrounded by Mount Keten, and the only access is Hexa City."

Nada scratched his head, and his face was also very ugly.

He offended Ye Hu of Hexa City, it seems that the other party is not a generous person, and the days after that may be difficult.

"What about the Tuotuo River?"

Ning Fei pointed to the nearly dry river.

"Although the water in the river is gone, the river can still be walked, right? Could it be that we have to detour through Hexa City here?"

Listening to his question, Nada shook his head.

"That's not necessary."

"But the Tuotuo River runs through the Keten Mountains, with cliffs on both sides."

Nada scratched his head with a troubled look on his face.

"After leaving Keten Mountain, the river channel enters the desert. There is no one living in it, regardless of direction. Once people enter, they will not be able to exit. It is a place of death."

"So, unless you don't leave Tiantiekeng, it's impossible to bypass Hexa City."

He didn't say a word, Ning Fei's heart sank a little, and when he heard the final conclusion, he fell directly to the bottom.

When Su Buti was about to leave, he had already begun to doubt their identities, and he might turn back soon, what would they do then?

You can't go back along the Tuotuo River. If you want to go, you have to pass through Hexa City. It's no wonder if you don't get blocked!

"Ah?! Why is this!"

Clay looked disappointed.

"Are there no other tribes in this broken place?"

Listening to his question, Nada thought for a while.

"Yes, there are. On the other side of Mount Keten is Donghu Sanbu, and Tuhe, Baike, and Nanshi are all on the other side of Mount Keten."

"It's just that this mountain is very strange. Most of the places are cliffs. There is only one passable pass, which is guarded by Tu He in the third part."

Having said that, Nada paused for a moment, and glanced carefully at Clay, who was still holding a bow and arrow.

"I heard you speak Amilei, and I wanted to ask you before, are you from the third part of Donghu?"

"My father is from Nanshi."

Clay said.

"Oh, no wonder."

Nada nodded and tapped his chest.

"I'm from Tuhe. Your father told you that Tuhe, Nanshi and Baike are all good brothers. We are different from those savages in Xihu!"

In fact, Clay's father didn't talk much to him, probably because he felt that his son would never have a chance to return to his hometown, so he wanted him to be a professional man with peace of mind.

The only thing Clay knows about his hometown is that his tribe is called Nanshi. In the far, far north, there are many brothers, sisters, uncles and aunts in his hometown, and how his father came to the Central Plains through untold hardships.

It was also the first time he had heard about Donghu Sanbu.

Clay was a little excited.

"Then that, then how can we go to Keten Pass, how can we go to Nanshi?"

He turned his head to look at Ning Fei, with his small hands tugging at Ning Fei's sleeve.

"Brother Jizi, as long as we go to Nanshi, we can go home. My father said that Nanshi has a sea, so our boat can be used!"

Ning Sawzi: ...

He silently thought about his own fish boat, and said nothing, not wanting to discourage the child's good mood.

Feng Kai shook his head directly.

"To get to the mountain pass, we have to go through Hexa, those people may not let us go."

He could see clearly the scene just now, and Su Buti had already become suspicious, and the reason why he didn't do anything directly was probably because he was still not sure whether Ning Fei was the one, and temporarily used a strategy to stabilize the army.

Anyway, there is no other access to Tiantiekeng, and they are already trapped in it.After confirming Ning Fei's identity, Hexa's Ye Hu will probably send soldiers over to arrest him, and present Ning Fei as a rare commodity to the master.

What he thought of, Ning Fei could naturally think of it, even thinking further than Feng Kai.

The mountain pass is impassable, and it is unrealistic to go back along the river, so we can only think about crossing Keten Mountain.

When he was washed by the flood, he had observed the terrain. There were cliffs on both sides of the Tuo Tuo River, and it was almost impossible to climb up.But the magic is that the cliffs on both sides are almost the same height, and the top is also very flat.Rather than a mountain, he thought it was more like a rift created by an earthquake, and the low-lying part of the rift was a dry river.

In such a terrain, if there is a bridge on both sides of the rift valley, it can directly cross to the other side of the Keten Mountains.

The opposite is Donghu's territory, avoiding Hexa City, they are considered safe for the time being.

After thinking about it, Ning Fei turned to look at Nada.

"Nada, where is your iron workshop? Do you have coal and tools?"

"Yes, yes, yes!"

Nada quickly replied.

He thought that Ning Fei was going to show off his knives casting skills, but for a moment he forgot that he was still in danger, and happily led the three of them up the mountain.

"My workshop is on the top of Sanyazi Mountain."

While walking, Nada introduced the situation of Keten Mountain.

"There are many peaks in Keten Mountain. This mountain looks like a front tooth, so the Tianjiang craftsman named it Yazi Mountain."

"From here to there, there are Da Yazi, Second Yazi, and Third Yazi. There are ten peaks in total, that is, ten Yazi."

"Among them, Sanyazi Mountain is the closest to Tiantiekeng, Wuyazi Mountain is the highest, and Shiyazi Mountain is the narrowest and most dangerous place in the Tuotuo River. There are several bends there, and one of them is even close to the mountain on the opposite side of the river. , when the water gets there, it will be very fast and heavy.”

Ning Fei listened carefully, but Clay and Feng Kai tacitly moved one after the other, protecting him in the middle.

They haven't completely let down their guard against Nada.Although Nada did not expose their identities in front of Su Buti before, it does not mean that he can be absolutely trusted.

"You said Siyazi Mountain is the closest to the other side... Can you cross from there to the other side?"

Ning Fei thought for a while and asked seriously.

"Of course not!"

Nada shook her head again and again.

"Although it is the closest, there is still a distance of one hundred and eighty feet, which cannot be crossed unless you can fly."

One hundred and eighty feet, that is a distance of about 300 meters, okay.

Ning Saw nodded.

He vaguely had a plan in his mind, because it was too shocking to speak out for the time being, he had to see the situation before making a decision.

If possible, he still wanted to avoid direct confrontation with the barbarians of Hexa as much as possible, because that was almost a dead end with no chance of winning.

Nada's workshop is on a flat slope on the hillside of Sanyazi.

The workshop is well-built, not only has an iron smelting furnace and a forging room, but also dug several warehouses for coal storage by taking advantage of the mountain.

"It's the most burnable black coal, and the inventories of generations of Tianjiang craftsmen are here."

Nada said proudly.

"Recently, black coal has become more and more difficult to find, otherwise there would not be only a few warehouses left."

Ning Fei took a piece of black coal and observed it, then nodded silently.

The coal is good coal, at least better than that of Niubeishan, but I don't know if it contains much sulfur.

He was upside down.

"Can I burn a piece and have a look?"

"of course."

Nada was very confident in the quality of his own coal, and immediately found flint and dry wood to light the coal.Ning Fei carefully observed the burning situation, especially the height of the flames and the heat, and he had some calculations in mind.

"Can I go up the four teeth and have a look?"

Ning saw asked.

"what?"

Nada scratched his head.

He thought that the master was going to open a furnace to forge swords, so he happily took out his family wealth to offer treasures.As a result, looking at it now, the master doesn't seem to care much about how the stove is burning, and he only wants to go up the mountain.

"It's okay, but the wind is relatively strong on the mountain at this time..."

Nada paused, and muttered again.

"And the eyes are full of red gravel, nothing to see."

Ning Fei ignored him, and went to the top of the mountain after asking about the route.

Sanyazi Mountain and Siyazi Mountain are actually a row of mountains. You can go to the other side from the top of the mountain, but the mountain road is rugged and narrow, and the process of climbing up is very exhausting. Ning Fei can't keep up with the team after walking more than half.

Feng Kai stopped and knelt down in front of him.

"Come up."

Ning Fei didn't refuse either.

The most pressing thing now is time.Once Su Buti returns to Hexa City to report to Yehu Sakulu, the other party may learn about Lu Shiji from certain channels, and then he, a Xibei, will not be able to hide it.

Therefore, meaningless refusal and face are necessary, and wasting time is adding burden to the companion.

Feng Kai's footsteps were fast, even with Ning Fei on his back, he kept up with Nada's pace steadily.It took the four of them a quarter of an hour to climb to the top of the mountain. The wind on the top of the mountain was very strong, flying sand and rocks, making people unable to open their eyes.

Ning Fei was placed on the ground by Feng Kai, and he stretched out his hand to check the direction of the wind.

"This assembly, the westerly wind has been blowing on the mountain, isn't it?"

"what?"

Nada froze for a moment, then nodded.

"We have a kind of wind blowing here all the year round, and it doesn't change."

"The wind is the strongest at noon, and there is no wind at night when it gets dark, and the wind is also light before the sun rises in the morning."

He looked at the sky.

"Now is the time to grow up. It will be fine in an hour or two, and you can see the opposite mountain."

Ning Fei looked at Feng Kai behind him, the man took something from his bosom and gave it to him, it was the "Thousand Miles" that Feng Kai coveted.

Ning Fei held up the binoculars to observe the terrain on the opposite side, and found that although Siyazi Mountain was the closest to the opposite side, it was not as flat as Sanyazi Mountain because of the mountain and terrain.

But the top of the mountain opposite Siyazi Mountain is just a flat cliff, and some rare green plants grow on the cliff surface, swaying in the wind.

Ning Fei measured the risk again, silently calculated in his mind for a while, then turned around and prepared to go down the mountain.

"Huh? Are you leaving now?"

Nada was confused by him and followed behind with a dazed expression.

"Well, let's go, come up after the sun goes down, and see what you said about the lack of wind."

Ning Fei looked at the sky while walking.

"It's still early, let's go down the mountain to take out the boat and do a little modification."

"If time and conditions permit, let's prepare to run away."