Chapter 0004: Searching for Father in the Mine (Part 2)
More than thirty miles of mountain roads, a mountain peak with strange rocks in front, no grass or trees grow, it is the Xuan Shi Valley controlled by the Gong Sun family. The Xuan Shi Valley produces phosphate mines, and the Gong Sun family uses hundreds of miners to mine here, which is an important source of wealth for the Gong Sun family, heavily guarded.
His father was in the valley, Li Ran's heart was burning with anxiety, he sprang up and carefully made his way into the valley under the cover of the mountain rocks.
The terrain of Xuan Shi Valley was complex, with twists and turns every few steps. Li Ran hid behind a strange rock, holding his breath, as two guards walked by cautiously more than ten feet away. After they disappeared from view, Li Ran let out a long sigh and took a step forward, entering the middle of a stone beam, where the strange rocks above seemed to be pressing down, evoking a sense of terror.
Li Ruo was just about to sneak in when two more guards suddenly appeared from another direction.
Li Ran's knife was shocked, and he didn't have time to think much. He jumped up, hooked his hands over a strange rock above his head, shrunk his body, and hid it in the shadow of the rock. His hands grasped the corner of the rock like hooks, and his whole body stuck to the rock like a gecko.
The two guards were talking in a low voice, patrolling from afar, and almost brushed past Lǐ Rán Dāo's body.
Li Ran's knife was as still as a rock, and those two people didn't notice that there was another "spy" hiding above their heads.
Two people walked away from the strange rock into the distance, turning over the mountain ridge and disappearing from view. Li Ran's knife lightly jumped down, calming his breathing, and furrowed his eyebrows with force, leaving a deep impression on him once again of the strict guard of Xuan Shi Valley.
Thinking of his father suffering inside, Li Ran clenched his fists and became even more cautious, advancing step by step into the valley.
The road was fraught with danger and twists, with many guards stationed along the way. It would be too difficult to force his way through the blind spots of the guards' vision, if not for the high-level light body techniques that Li Ran had remembered in his mind, he could hardly imagine how he could sneak into the valley.
Li Ran's knife swiftly sprinted, at this moment he suddenly saw that in front of him was a vast expanse of open land, within a hundred feet there were almost no obstacles, on his side was a deep ditch seven or eight feet wide, impossible to cross, and could not be bypassed. Therefore, when crossing this area, it was necessary to ensure that no guards passed by, otherwise Li Ran's knife did not even have a place to hide.
Hiding behind a strange rock, Li Ran held his breath and remained silent, watching as the seven patrol teams passed by, silently calculating their frequency, feeling that about half a minute later, another patrol team would appear.
However, that was enough, half a minute, enough for him to rush through at the fastest speed, as long as he rushed through this open area and entered the strange rock outside 100 meters, he would have a place to hide again.
Li Ran's legs slightly bent, with explosive power hidden inside, quietly waiting for another patrol team to pass by, suddenly like a cheetah jumping up, flying towards the distance.
Time is pressing, every breath counts for success or failure.
Li Ran's dagger raised his entire body's energy, and he leaped out a great distance in an instant. Just then, from behind the distant mountain ridge, another small team of three people suddenly appeared. The leader wore silver armor, clearly distinct from the ordinary gray armor worn by the guards, indicating that he was a strong team leader.
This suddenly disrupted all of Li Ran's rhythm.
Normally, it would take another patrol unit half an hour to appear, but who could have predicted such a sudden turn of events?
Li Ruo's eyes narrowed suddenly, and the silver-armored figure in the distance caught his eye. The captain's left cheek had a faint scar that made Li Ruo's heart skip a beat. His mind flashed back to memories of his past life, where he was captured and beaten by this same scar-faced captain after sneaking into the mountain valley. Was he doomed to repeat this misfortune in this life as well?
Just as the three men were about to turn their heads and walk in this direction, Li Ran's knife was anxious, his feet touched the ground, like a swallow touching water, and he rushed towards the deep ditch on his side. He quickly circulated all the essence of his body according to the Swan Feather Skill, and his body borrowed this momentum to soar into the air like a large bird. With a whooshing sound, it flew horizontally across eight zhangs far away, turned over and fell behind a strange rock at the end of the deep ditch, and shrunk its body tightly behind the strange rock.
Li Ran's heart was racing wildly in his chest.
Just now, the second heavy power of Jingyuan's energy actually allowed him to leap eight zhangs away in one go, which was simply a miracle. If it weren't for SuSu teaching her own light body technique - Wild Goose Feather Skill, if it weren't for the crisis just now unleashing her hidden potential, she wouldn't dare jump across an eight-zhang-wide mountain gorge at this stage.
Thinking of Su Su, Li Ran's heart ached again with intense pain.
The silver-armored captain at the head of the mountain valley suddenly shouted in surprise:
"Someone, someone, did you see? I just saw a shadowy figure flash by and now it's gone, hurry up and find it for me."
Another patrol team came over, four gray-armored guards looked at each other in dismay, their faces full of disbelief.
One person said in a low voice:
"Captain, who's there? How come we didn't see anyone? Besides, this place is in plain sight, and within a hundred feet, there's no cover to hide behind. Who can flash and hide?"
The scar-faced captain had doubts in his heart and frowned tightly:
"No, I just caught a glimpse of a figure out of the corner of my eye. We can't let our guard down, thoroughly search the surrounding area for me."
The five of them merged with two small teams and everyone carefully searched the surrounding area, but who would have thought that Li Ran had already taken advantage of the chaos to sneak into the depths of the valley.
Hiding behind a strange rock on the mountain top, the hot quarry in Xuan Shi Valley came into view, with smoke and dust filling the air, and hundreds of miners sweating profusely. Li Ran's heart was racing as he carefully searched among the hundreds of half-naked miners in the quarry.
Li Ruo's knife was far away, and the person's face was vaguely visible, not very clear. His gaze swept over again and again, Li Ruo's heart grew colder and colder, and he became somewhat flustered.
"How come I haven't seen Father? Could it be that Father... has already passed away?"
Li Ran's hands were shaking, his lips tightly pursed as he looked at each of them one by one again.
"Not this one, not that one, how can there be none?"
Li Ran gripped his dagger tightly and ventured into the unknown, cautiously making his way down under the cover of a strange rock.
They were getting closer to the quarry, and everyone's faces became clearer. Li Ran's searching gaze never stopped, but still, he didn't see his father's figure anywhere.
"How could this be? Where did Father go? Is he dead? Or was he taken away by the Gong Sun family from Xuan Shi Valley?"
Li Rendao's heart almost stopped beating, but after rebirth, Li Rendao was filled with confidence and determination. He remembered too many things in his mind, he knew that everything would start from scratch, and his cultivation would take fewer detours than others. He knew he would think of a way to rescue his father from suffering.
But where's Father? Where did Father go?
Li Ran's mind was all messed up, and cold sweat suddenly broke out on his forehead.
