If it were an ordinary person, Zhou Xuan wouldn't have thought that much about it. But one of the people on the other side had the ability to use ice energy, and the more Zhou Xuan thought about it, the more suspicious he became. So he was worried that Zhou Xuan would fall into a trap and had to be extremely careful!
In the darkness, Wei Xiaoyu couldn't even tell which way was which. She couldn't see anything and didn't dare to speak loudly. She seemed to remember that there were two flashlights in her backpack, but Zhou Xuan didn't let her take them out.
Zhou Xuan had detected that the dozen or so people in the other room had quietly gotten up and headed up the mountain. He didn't dare to get too close or turn on his flashlight, but with the icy air detection, it was no different from walking in daylight. It was tough on Wei Xiaoyu, but with him holding her tightly, there wasn't much of a problem.
Volume 1, Chapter 339: I'm Not Just a Pretty Face
The path up the mountain was difficult for that group of people, and Zhou Xuan didn't follow too closely. He kept his distance from Bu Shenggu and didn't dare use his flashlight, lest the people ahead see him. ()
Wei Xiaoyu was very surprised. At first, she thought Zhou Xuan was just messing around, or maybe he just wanted to find an opportunity to be alone with her. Who knows what a man is thinking?
But now it seems that's not the case at all. Zhou Xuan seems to have a real purpose. What are those people doing sneaking into the deep mountains in the middle of the night?
Regardless, these people are definitely up to something. It's cold and dark, and no normal person would do something like this. But how can Zhou Xuan be sure that these people are connected to the museum thieves?
Moreover, Wei Xiaoyu was with him the whole time, from entering the museum to leaving it, and she never left his side. So how did he find the clues? And why did he come to Moyin Mountain without any explanation?
Wei Xiaoyu couldn't understand anything about the situation, and the warmth of sharing a bed and a sheet with her had vanished into thin air.
Because we were far away from the people in front, we dared to speak, though we didn't dare to turn on our flashlights.
"Zhou Xuan, do you think these people are connected to the museum thieves? How do you know?"
Zhou Xuan simply held her hand and tried to lead her to an easier path. When Wei Xiaoyu saw that Zhou Xuan didn't answer her, she muttered, "Why isn't there a single star in the sky? It's so dark that you can't see anything."
In the distance, halfway up the mountain, a dozen or so flashlights flickered, going higher and higher. The mountain path was difficult to walk, and Zhou Xuan pulled Wei Xiaoyu along, walking slower and slower. Although it was cold at night, Wei Xiaoyu was sweating profusely from walking, and she didn't feel the same way she did when she came out of the hotel.
The flashlight beam suddenly disappeared!
Zhou Xuan's icy aura was far from reaching the depths of five or six hundred meters that Zhen could detect out of thin air. The sudden disappearance of those flashlight beams could only mean that those people had entered a low-lying area and were blocked, or that they had entered some kind of cave.
They couldn't turn on the flashlight. Zhou Xuan led Wei Xiaoyu step by step up the mountain. Wei Xiaoyu just couldn't understand. She was a soldier who had undergone intensive training, while Zhou Xuan was just an ordinary person.
How could he walk safely in the pitch black night? He couldn't see or touch anything, but he could imagine it. There was the sound of water cascading down nearby, obviously a waterfall. This mountain path must be surrounded by rock walls on one side and a cliff on the other. How could Zhou Xuan not feel afraid?
What looked like a distance of only a few hundred meters actually took nearly two hours to walk. When he reached the spot where the flashlight beam disappeared, Zhou Xuan stopped and then used all his ice energy to probe the terrain. As he expected, there was indeed a cave about forty meters ahead!
Zhou Xuan whispered in Wei Xiaoyu's ear, "Xiaoyu, be careful, follow my footsteps, there's a cave ahead, those people must have gone into the cave!"
After Zhou Xuan finished speaking, he tightened his grip on her hand and pulled her closer to him. This place was treacherous, and one wrong step could send her tumbling into a ditch or a ditch.
Wei Xiaoyu finally couldn't help but ask, "How did you know there was a cave ahead?" After a moment of stunned silence, she suddenly asked, "I know, Zi, have you been here before? Oh... this is your hometown, the place where you grew up?"
Then she realized that Zhou Xuan's hometown was in Wudang Mountain, Hubei Province. Her sister had told her that long ago. From what Xiaoqing had told her about Zhou Xuan, he should never have been to the Jiangbei area. That was strange!
In fact, Wei Xiaoyu thought back again that even in the most familiar places, unless it's a flat street, a square, or her own home, in such a dangerous location, no matter how familiar she was, she wouldn't be able to walk in the pitch black night, let alone as if she were walking in daylight, unless there was one exception: Zhou Xuan's eyes could see the East Wales in the night view.
As far as Wei Xiaoyu knew, there were many things that could have this capability, such as infrared night vision devices and night vision goggles equipped by special forces, which could be used in night scenes. But the problem was that Zhou Xuan was definitely not wearing any such tools, and Wei Xiaoyu was certain of that.
Zhou Xuan pulled Wei Xiaoyu along the path and slowly entered the cave. The cave entrance was very wide, about ten meters wide and more than twenty meters high, resembling a monster with its mouth wide open.
Within Zhou Xuan's detection range, he had not yet detected any trace of the dozen or so people who had gone up the mountain, indicating that they had gone very deep into the cave.
After going in about ten meters from the entrance, the space inside the cave became a bit lower, and there were three more small entrances in front, each much smaller, just big enough for one person to pass through.
Only then did Zhou Xuan take out a flashlight from his backpack, giving one to Wei Xiaoyu and keeping one for himself. Since he couldn't see the flashlight beam from inside the cave and couldn't detect the people, Zhou Xuan was certain that they were far away. He didn't need to worry about being noticed by them while using the flashlight, because there were many turns and bends in the cave, with several zigzag bends within ten meters, where the flashlight beam couldn't penetrate. He couldn't see the people, and they couldn't see him either.
Wei Xiaoyu turned on her flashlight and looked around, quite alarmed. Looking at the three small openings, she whispered to Zhou Xuan, "Have those people gone into the cave? Which way should we go?"
Although Zhou Xuan couldn't detect those people because they were beyond his detection range, information would remain in the places they had passed through. Therefore, Zhou Xuan only needed to measure to know which path they had taken.
Reaching out and pointing to the middle path, Zhou Xuan said, "This one, we'll go in through this one."
Wei Xiaoyu didn't know what Zhou Xuan's judgment was based on. There was nothing left on the ground, and the ground was hard rock that even an iron shovel could hardly move a single bit.
But Zhou Xuan went in without saying a word, and Wei Xiaoyu had no choice but to follow.
According to Zhou An's ice gas detection, the area within a radius of sixty or seventy meters of this hole was all in his mind, but within this range, those people were still nowhere to be found.
After advancing forty or fifty meters, Wei Xiaoyu became a little worried. After entering this small cave, they passed through several branch caves. Zhou Xuan was moving forward almost without stopping. If they went too deep, would they get lost when they came out?
The cave was sometimes wide and sometimes narrow, but even the narrowest part was wide enough for a person to pass through. Wei Xiaoyu became more and more hesitant as she walked. Zhou Xuan suddenly stopped at a bend and bent down to pick up a lighter from the ground.
It was a disposable red lighter, half-filled with gas. Zhou Xuan pressed it, and with a "pop," a flame shot out. The lighter worked.
From this perspective, regardless of whether those people went in through this small hole, it is certain that someone went into this hole, otherwise there would be no lighter left here.
Wei Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief. It was good that someone had come; at least they hadn't really gone astray.
Zhou Xuan, however, pondered while holding the lighter. He sensed some images on the lighter, indicating that the dozen or so people had entered from there. But to his surprise, he also sensed a trace of what appeared to be icy energy on the lighter, though he wasn't sure.
Zhou Xuan had long understood the function of the ice energy ability. It could detect all objects on Earth. However, since it was the hometown of the golden stone, Zhou Xuan could not detect anything from there. Based on this, he reasoned that if someone also possessed the ice energy ability, Zhou Xuan would not be able to detect them either.
Therefore, from the information left on the lighter, Zhou Xuan could detect ordinary people, but he probably couldn't detect people who also possessed ice-based abilities.
Thinking about this, Zhou Xuan suddenly fell into deep thought, because he seemed to sense a faint trace of icy energy from both the museum door and the lighter, which was somewhat...
Zhou Xuanrong pondered for a moment, then suddenly looked up and asked Wei Xiaoyu, "Do you carry anything with you for self-defense?"
"Me?" Wei Xiaoyu paused for a moment, then clenched her fist and said, "I have this, so what?"
Because she and Zhou Xuan came by plane together, it was clear from the airport security check process that it was impossible for her to bring weapons. However, given her physique, most people couldn't do anything to her.
Zhou Xuan frowned and said, "Those people have guns, but that's not actually what I'm most worried about. What I'm worried about is that there's a very dangerous person among them, and I still don't know whether this person knows me or not. This is a crucial issue, but I have no solution. Understood!"
He himself couldn't understand it, and Wei Xiaoyu understood it even less, because Wei Xiaoyu didn't know that Zhou Xuanbing had supernatural abilities.
Holding the disposable lighter, Zhou Xuan suddenly felt a sense of fear, an inexplicable fear. He had never felt this intensely before, neither during his dangerous trip to America nor his life-or-death journey to Luoyang. It was as if there was an insurmountable obstacle ahead of him, or an opponent he could not defeat!