Dongshan is a low peak on the outskirts of the Lotus Mountain Range, located in the northeast of Shitou Town. There are many nameless mountains around it, and the roads are rugged and difficult to travel. Xia Ming followed a team of hundreds of people and traveled for five days before arriving at the nearby Dongxiang Village. Many temporary wooden houses were newly built on the edge of the village, and the able-bodied men from hundreds of villages had moved in ten days ago.

Three days ago, according to the best route explored by scouts, the project of logging and opening roads had already started. The starting point is two miles north of the village, and it is only more than ten miles away from the mining area in the south of Dongshan. The logging team, transportation team, protection team and other teams are still in order. Everyone wears an insect repellent capsule, which is full of herbs such as wormwood, cloves, calamus, and mint picked nearby. There are also people who are responsible for spreading drugs with pungent smells such as realgar powder, and poisonous insects, snakes and ants on the ground are scattered.

Xia Ming's arrival gave Xia Qiusheng a surprise. The two chatted for a while. Xia Ming also took the opportunity to give Xia Qiusheng the ten silver coins of the champion, saying that he had a task for the material officer and hurried away.

"Erwa is a good child. Old Xia, you are lucky!" Seeing Xia Ming leave, Li Tieshan patted Xia Qiusheng on the shoulder and said with a smile.

"Haha, your tiger is bad?" He rolled his eyes at Li Tieshan. Xia Qiusheng was so happy that he couldn't even say it. Knowing that his son had food, accommodation, and a lot of money to receive, he no longer hesitated and put the silver coins he gave him into his arms.

The material officer did have a security post. Xia Ming followed a few old material officers for two days and basically understood the environment and the progress of the project. It would take about half a month to reach the mining area. It is estimated that the war will start three to five days before arriving.

"We can't wait until the mining area is actually mined before going, otherwise it will be difficult to have the opportunity to contact all the star stones. We have to act tonight!" With a plan in mind, Xia Ming secretly made up his mind.

Xia Ming had dinner with Xia Qiusheng. He left first, using the excuse that he had something to do. He took his prepared package and quickly ran towards the southern col of Dongshan along the edge of the logging area.

Xia Ming prepared for this operation for several days, spending twenty silver coins alone. The insect repellent and snake repellent medicine sacs he prepared were much better than those on the construction site.

As a top master in the human world in his previous life, he had learned a lot in his two thousand years of practice, and he also dabbled in the art of taming beasts. This time, he specially prepared some "beast luring powder" and several "beast avoidance pills". Although the final effect was not as good as in his previous life due to the limitation of materials, it was more than enough to deal with the wild beasts in the underground!

This was one of his trump cards that allowed him to explore the mining area at night. Another trump card was his night eyes, which were stronger than those of tigers and wolves, and could detect many dangers in advance.

More than ten miles was not far, and it usually took only one stick of incense. Xia Ming was cautious and only ran eight or nine miles. Just when he wanted to take a break, he suddenly felt a palpitation and felt a sense of danger approaching rapidly.

Although he had lost the ability to project his spiritual consciousness, the powerful spiritual instinct of the Spiritual Transformation Stage still existed. Xia Ming did not dare to neglect it. With a thought, he took out a "Beast Avoidance Pill" and instantly increased his speed to the extreme, and jumped away from the tree.

"How did he find us? Isn't he afraid of death?" Seeing Xia Ming disappear in the bushes, the four figures paused, and an old voice sounded with a hint of doubt.

"Yes, this is close to the cave of the ape man!" A person next to him echoed.

"No matter what, can you lose to a kid? Moreover, he must not die before he gets the thing!" There was a hint of ruthlessness in his voice, and Liu Lao chased after him first.

The remaining three people didn't waste any words, followed in a fan shape, and soon disappeared into the night.

After running three miles, Xia Ming deliberately passed by the wolf and cheetah's den. He wanted to kill someone with a borrowed knife, but when he looked back, he saw four black shadows in the moonlight, less than fifty feet away from him: "So fast, I was not held back by those two beasts?!"

"Boy, don't run, the ape cave is ahead, do you want to die?" Just as Xia Ming wanted to continue running forward, he suddenly heard an old voice in his ear, full of temptation.

"What a joke, you actually want to use such a cheap method to deal with me!" The "Sound Wave Power" that bullies the weak has no effect on Xia Ming's soul. He smiled disdainfully and took out a few fish bladders at random. The powder in them could be vaguely seen shaking. Then, he pulled out the arrow and carefully fixed it behind the arrow head. Looking at the four people who had approached within twenty feet, he raised his hand and fired three arrows in a row, not seeking to hit the target, but just a rough accuracy.

"Childish!" Seeing the arrows coming, Liu Lao sneered, shook the long sword in his hand slightly, and instantly shook them all away, and rushed over without any delay. However, he did not notice that when the arrows were blown away, the three weak fish bladders all exploded. A large amount of powder was scattered in the air under the cover of the night, just contaminated on the four people who passed by quickly.

"It's poisonous, hold your breath!" Approaching Xia Ming ten feet, Liu Lao finally smelled the strange smell of the animal attractant powder, his body stagnated, and he shouted in a deep voice.

"Swish, swish, swish!" Three figures followed and stopped, holding their breath.

"Strange?" Liu Lao frowned as his qi turned around, and he did not find anything unusual.

"It seems nothing happened?" The middle-aged man next to him had the same doubts.

"No, I fell into a trap!" Liu Lao suddenly realized, looking at Xia Ming who ran away again, thinking that he had discovered the other party's trick, and hurriedly took a breath and lightened his body, and chased after him.

Immediately, the remaining three people also understood, secretly cursed Xia Ming for being cunning, and followed closely.

"Damn, you scared me, I thought you didn't dare to chase me?" Seeing that several people started again, Xia Ming breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the ape cave dozens of feet away, raised his mouth slightly, raised his hand and shot an arrow.

"Dang, dang..."

The arrow hit the cave wall, making a crisp sound, echoing continuously in the silent valley.

"Ah! Ah! Ah..."

The angry roars of the apes continued, and in less than a finger snap, more than ten of them rushed out, more than ten feet tall and agile.

Directly crushed the beast-avoiding pills and applied them on his body. Xia Ming flashed a few times, bypassed the cave entrance, and ran up the mountain.

"Shua, shua, shua..."

Knowing Xia Ming's treacherous plan to kill people with a borrowed knife, the four people flashed a few times and were about to bypass it.

"Ah!" The roar increased by eight degrees, and more than ten apes rushed out like lightning, intercepting the four people.

"Kill him!" The speed did not slow down. Old Liu did not suspect that there was a trick, and shouted loudly, and stabbed out with a sword.

"Swish..." With a light sound, the long sword hit the ape's chest and abdomen. Old Liu raised his mouth and shook his arm slightly, wanting to shatter the opponent's internal organs.

"Ka, Ka, Ka..."

The sound of metal folding sounded, and Old Liu was shocked to find that the ape actually held his long sword with both hands. Under the competition between the two sides, the one and a half-inch thick fine iron long sword was directly twisted into a twist.

"Is this beast crazy?!" He was shocked. The reaction speed of the ape was far beyond Old Liu's imagination, and he burst into swear words.

The ape didn't care about this. He drew out his long sword angrily, ignored the injuries on his chest and abdomen, and flew up.

Without an arm and his weapon, Liu had no choice but to pull out a half-foot-long dagger and fight the ape-man.

The remaining three were equally miserable. They were caught off guard and not only lost their weapons, but one of them was hugged by the ape-man, who bit his shoulder with his bloody mouth, tearing off a palm-sized piece of flesh, and the humerus was clearly visible.

"Ah..." The severe pain almost made the man faint, and the tragic cry resounded through the valley.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Hearing the miserable howl of his companion, Liu's heart trembled, and he gathered all his strength, punched three consecutive times, forced back the three apes in front, and rushed to his companion, slashing at the ape-man's neck with a knife.

"Swish..."

Perhaps it was the super-level performance under high pressure, the dagger's blade actually emitted a faint light of about an inch long, which flashed across the ape's neck like lightning, causing its movement to stagnate. Then, the huge ape head fell, and the thick liquid sprayed out.

"Grand Fighting Master?!" Xia Ming's pupils shrank. He didn't expect that there was such a master among the enemies. In his impression, unless he had special fighting skills, only when he reached the Grand Fighting Master level could he control his Qi and form it!

In fact, he really thought too much. Liu Lao was just forced into a hurry. He blew out nearly half of his fighting Qi in one breath, and then he showed his light, like a sword.

"Retreat, retreat quickly!" Pulling over his semi-conscious companion, Liu Lao shouted loudly and retreated first.

"Be careful!" Before Liu Lao could retreat far, the two companions who also escaped suddenly shouted a warning and looked at Liu Lao's back in horror.

"Ah——!"

The earth-shaking roar was deafening. Liu Lao, who was within reach, felt dizzy and his hand loosened, and he fell to the side with the dagger.

"Puff!" A wooden cone as thick as a bowl appeared in front of Liu Lao's chest, with a half-pulled trembling heart at the tip, and blood spurted out.

"Puff!" A mouthful of blood spurted out. After regaining consciousness, Old Liu slowly lowered his eyes and looked at the wooden spike that pierced his chest from his back in horror. He made a "ho ho" sound in his throat, but could not make a complete sound.

Several apes pounced on him in an instant, and before Old Liu was completely dead, they rushed to eat him. The accomplice who fell to the ground also failed to escape the bad luck. The moment he regained consciousness, he was crushed by an ape who rushed over and turned into delicious food.

Scared to the point of almost incontinence, the remaining two black shadows fled frantically, fighting desperately and attacking, just for a glimmer of hope. Unfortunately, the apes gathered more and more and surrounded them. In the end, after killing five or six of them, the two were still submerged in the sturdy black shadows.

With rich experience in his previous life, this kind of scene was not enough to shake Xia Ming's nerves. He just regretted that he did not leave any survivors and missed the opportunity to find out the other party's origins. However, he was not very worried, because it was not difficult to guess. From his recent experience, the only possible enemy was the man in black that night. The explanation was that the news was leaked by an insider. No matter whether the other party was intentional or unintentional, it was known by these people. What worried him now was that there were only four people here, where was the remaining one?