Are you crazy? Who asked you to hunt for treasures in the emperor's harem?

Just as Li Shuhong said, today's road was particularly difficult to walk on. The weeds were basically as tall as a person. If you walked a little slower, you might lose sight of the team.

Ye Fan and Liu Mengying led the way, each holding a machete, and built a larger path along the way.

.........

at noon,

"Brother, this is so strange. It's clearly noon, but it feels like it's getting dark. It's so white all around that it's easy to get lost..."

Liu Mengying looked around and spoke.

"really!"

Ye Fan nodded. He glanced at the business travelers who were following closely behind him with nervous and even terrified expressions, and said, "Everyone, take a break and have lunch!"

"it is good!"

"Okay!~"

..........

Hearing this, many business travelers cheered, because they were actually quite tired a long time ago, but they didn't dare to say it...

Soon, Ye Fan and Liu Mengying cleared the weeds and stones on the spot, leveled the ground a little, and then started to make a fire and prepare to cook.

"That...that Third Brother Zhang!"

At this time, Li Shuhong came over with a few bags of dry food in her hands, "Brother Zhang, are you going to light a fire and cook?"

"Yes!"

Ye Fan nodded, "You can steam or roast the smoked ham and pressed duck in your hand. They are delicious! But you have to wait until we finish cooking first!"

"what?"

Li Shuhong was surprised. "Brother Zhang, you misunderstood. I don't want to use your stove. I'm here to bring you food!"

As she spoke, Li Shuhong handed the smoked ham, pressed duck, sesame cakes and other items in her hand to Ye Fan.

"okay!"

Ye Fan took it, cleaned it skillfully, and then handed it to Liu Mengying.

"Uh, Shuhong, you guys don't eat hot food, why do you only eat dry food?"

Ye Fan was puzzled when he found that all the business travelers, including Li Shuhong, were sitting on the ground or on their luggage bags, drinking water and eating various dry food.

"Brother Zhang San, it was fine before, but now we have entered the Ailao Forest... If we make a fire to cook, the noise will be too loud, and it will easily attract wild beasts or even ferocious beasts... Besides, making a fire to cook takes a lot of energy, and if we encounter an emergency, it will be difficult to deal with it, and the losses may also be relatively large!"

Li Shuhong quickly explained to Ye Fan.

"Roar!"

Before Ye Fan could respond, suddenly, a fierce roar came from behind him, and then a huge tiger with a gray-yellow body and two sharp fangs rushed out and bit Ye Fan's neck directly.

"Oh!"

"boom!"

Two dull collision sounds were heard in succession, and it turned out that the big tiger with fangs was knocked to the ground by Ye Fan's punch.

After Ye Fan and his companions had a snack, they continued to walk deeper into the Ailao Forest.

...........

at dusk,

"Brother, the beasts in the Ailao Forest are so strange! Normal beasts will run away when they encounter stronger humans... Especially when a sneak attack fails and they are hurt by the opponent, they will generally run away..."

"But the jackals, tigers and other ferocious beasts we walked towards all afternoon attacked us like crazy... Unless we kill them, they will keep attacking us... "

Liu Mengying couldn't help but frown as she looked at the corpses of wild animals lying on the ground behind her.

"Something is definitely not right!"

Ye Fan nodded, "And as we go deeper, this Ailao Forest gives people a very uncomfortable feeling!"

...........

The night falls,

Ye Fan, Liu Mengying and the other merchants have already set up camp, but unlike before, the merchants' camps are basically together and much closer to Ye Fan's camp.

The business traveler left one third of his people to guard the night, and the rest went to sleep after dinner. Some had to get up in the middle of the night to change shifts, and some were too tired during the day...

"By the way, Shuhong, you mentioned the name Ailao Forest before because this forest has all kinds of howling sounds at night... just like the howling of prisoners in the government's death row, but we haven't encountered any along the way~"

Ye Fan walked toward the outskirts of the camp and spoke to Li Shuhong who was standing guard.

"Well... Brother Zhang San, I have only heard about Ailao Forest from my elders, and this is my first time here!"

Li Shuhong blushed and felt a little embarrassed.

"It's okay. Some of these statements are just rumors and cannot be trusted!"

As Ye Fan was speaking, suddenly, a whimpering sound came from far away in the dark forest around him.

"Woooo~!"

"Sasha!"

"Uh~ah!"

"Ah! Let me out!"

"I am innocent!"

"help me!"

..........

After the whimpering, there was a burst of crying, screaming, begging for mercy, and cries for help, one after another, coming from far and near around the dense forest.

Hearing this voice, Li Shuhong turned pale with fright. The other men and women who were on guard also changed their expressions drastically and moved towards Ye Fan in fear.

"Brother, what's that noise around us? It's a bit scary!"

Liu Mengying was originally drawing a camping scene with great interest. After hearing the voice, she immediately put away her drawing board, drawing paper and other drawing tools and walked to Ye Fan's side.

"It really sounds a bit like the sound inside a prison cell..."

Listening to the various sounds that kept ringing around him, Ye Fan couldn't help but mutter. He was not unfamiliar with this kind of sound. After all, he was arrested and thrown into prison several times when he was in Jiangzhou City... He had also been to the prison in the capital several times...

"Zhang.....Brother Zhang.....what.....what should I do?"

Li Shuhong's face was full of fear. At this time, Mr. Pan, the owner of the business hotel, hurried out of the tent and came over with his sleepy business staff.

"Never mind it!"

Ye Fan waved his hand, "There's such a thick fog around here. If you rashly go to investigate, you might get lost in the blink of an eye... Just continue sleeping!"

"this…….."

The merchants and travelers looked at each other, and no one returned to their tents.

"Whether it's a person or something else that's making scary noises, at least there's no sign of an attack. Don't panic. If you don't rest at night, you won't be able to travel during the day! Leave those who are on guard, and the rest should get some rest!"

Seeing this, Liu Mengying immediately spoke.

Boss Pan observed for a while and found that there were only terrifying noises coming from the dense forest, but no monsters were attacking. He then comforted the merchants and went back to the tent to rest.

After looking around for a while, Ye Fan yawned and returned to the tent, while Liu Mengying stayed outside to keep watch.

Soon, Ye Fan came out of the tent, looking quite angry. "What kind of ghost scream is this? It's endless. Can't let me sleep?"

Because of the horrible nightmares he had when he was a child, Ye Fan had always been a light sleeper and was easily woken up... So he had just fallen asleep for a while when he was woken up by the endless howling of ghosts and wolves around him, which made him very angry...

"Little Bean Sprout, you stay here and I'll go take a look in the woods!"

As he spoke, Ye Fan strode towards the dense forest ahead.

"it is good!"

Liu Mengying responded, and with a flash of light in her hand, she threw a large black stone lamp towards a large tree trunk nearby, helping Ye Fan illuminate a large area around him.

"Hey hey hey~!"

Ye Fan had just walked a short distance into the dense forest when an obscene voice rang out.

...........