A Time-Traveling Mishap: I Became an Ancient Nobleman

Chapter 145 Could it be Master?

Zhou Hanzhang thought that this was his purpose for this trip, and despite his worries, he still decided to enter the stone mountain.

When they entered the stone mountain, they discovered some ancient ruins, with some words engraved on broken stone tablets.

Zhou Hanzhang couldn't make it out. "Do you recognize the characters on it?"

Gu Qingfeng leaned over to take a look, but in the end he shook his head. "I once saw similar text in an ancient book, but it was different from these. I don't know what it was talking about."

I don't know when it will end.

Zhou Hanzhang felt extremely regretful. If he had a camera, he could have written down the inscriptions here and asked someone about them when he got back.

Her regret was palpable, and she blurted out, "What a pity."

"What's a pity?"

"The text here must have some meaning, but none of us can interpret it, nor do we know what it hides. Perhaps it is related to the secrets of the stone mountain, which is still unknown."

"Isn't this simple? We can just write it down," Gu Qingfeng said matter-of-factly.

"Write it down?"

"Yes."

"We don't have any tools for copying these things down right now."

"It's okay, I have a good memory, I can remember everything."

Zhou Hanzhang stared at him as if he'd seen a ghost. "Are you serious?"

Gu Qingfeng actually has a photographic memory?

Isn't this something that only happens in novels?

Why does Gu Qingfeng have a cheat code that even a transmigrator like myself doesn't have so easily?

Thinking about how the original owner studied day and night to get into Tianan Academy, she felt inexplicably unbalanced.

She used to think that Gu Qingfeng got into Tianan Academy through connections, but now she realizes that he got in entirely through his own abilities.

It seems that Gu Qingfeng prefers to follow the martial arts path. If he had his photographic memory and focused on the literary path, what chance would others have?

She swallowed hard, realizing that she had always thought Gu Qingfeng was a fool, but he wasn't at all; he was a top student.

However, once Zhou Hanzhang accepted this, Gu Qingfeng's next words shocked her even more.

"What's the difference between real and fake? Our academy's Shen Moli, Chen Moran, and Jiang Yichen are all like that. Otherwise, why do you think the dean put us in the same dormitory?"

Zhou Hanzhang: ...

She remained silent, realizing that she herself was the clown.

Come to think of it, I'm more like the one who got into the academy through connections.

Why don't I have such a good brain?

Ah!

I'm so envious!

She stopped talking and silently walked into the rocky mountain with Cuiyan in her arms.

Upon entering, one discovers a mountain of jagged, uniquely shaped rocks. Some resemble sharp swords pointing straight to the sky, others look like lurking beasts waiting to be hunted, and still others meander like a maze, inspiring awe at first glance.

Sunlight filtered through the sparse clouds, casting dappled shadows on the stone forest and adding to its eerie atmosphere.

Zhou Hanzhang and his companions walked cautiously through the stone forest, each step taken with utmost care, fearing they might encounter something hidden, unknown, or dangerous.

After entering the rocky mountain, a sudden gust of wind arose.

The wind whistled through the cracks in the rocks, making a mournful sound, as if it were the whisper of an ancient soul.

The blue sky had darkened, with only a faint ray of light occasionally peeking out from behind a boulder.

Zhou Hanzhang took out the map again and examined it carefully. He noticed that the faint light that appeared from time to time seemed to be intentionally guiding them somewhere.

As you go deeper, the mountain is no longer composed of a single rock, but rather of countless boulders of varying sizes and strange shapes, resembling a giant tower carefully built by humans, or a strange rock castle that grows abruptly in nature.

Each stone was covered with a thin layer of mist, appearing and disappearing intermittently.

Just as they ventured deeper into the rocky mountain, the once quiet mountain, where only the sound of the wind could be heard, suddenly began to stir.

Cuiyan, who was being held in Zhou Hanzhang's arms, suddenly seemed a little anxious.

"What happened?" Gu Qingfeng asked first.

“How would I know?” Zhou Hanzhang replied.

"Why don't I go and take a look?" He Shi finally said.

"No, we don't know what's going on. Let's not wander off. If we get separated, we don't know if we can find our way back. Xiangxiang said that if we get lost in the rocky mountains, it will be very difficult to find our way out."

Gu Qingfeng immediately grabbed him, "Hanzhang is right. We still don't know what's going on with this rocky mountain. The little thing is probably telling us that there's danger ahead. What we need to think about now is whether we should continue forward."

Zhou Hanzhang didn't need to think about this at all. "Of course we have to keep going, otherwise wouldn't we have come here for nothing?"

"No, what I mean is, should we stop here and rest for a bit? It's almost 11 PM now, and we've been walking all morning. Little Cuiyan must be hungry, right?"

Zhou Hanzhang glanced at the sky and realized it was indeed so. "Then let's rest here for a while."

When the pot was set up again, Zhou Hanzhang said, "Just cook some for Cuiyan. We can just eat some of yesterday's roast chicken."

When Shi nodded, he threw in some rice and meat, and cooked a small bowl of meat porridge to feed Xiao Cuiyan.

After eating, Xiao Cuiyan felt much better and started to feel drowsy again. She fell asleep in Zhou Hanzhang's arms.

Seeing that everyone had almost finished eating, Zhou Hanzhang continued, "Shall we continue?"

Both Shi He and Gu Qingfeng nodded and continued walking forward.

Not long after, Zhou Hanzhang noticed some bloodstains on some of the stones around him.

The bloodstains stretched in one direction, and since they weren't completely dry, it was impossible to tell whether they were human or animal blood.

Zhou Hanzhang knew when someone was experienced, so he looked at him.

Without a hint of disgust, he immediately squatted down, dipped his finger in the blood, smelled it, and then looked up with a solemn expression, "It's human blood."

"Could it be Master?"

Zhou Hanzhang immediately became worried and wanted to go and see.

Since Zhou Hanzhang knew it was human blood, it was understandable that he wanted to see it, and he and Gu Qingfeng would never disagree.

Zhou Hanzhang stuffed Xiao Cuiyan into his bundle and carried it on his back, leaving only her head sticking out, and then followed the trail of blood.

They walked a short distance and then noticed more and more bloodstains, eventually finding a large pool of blood on a large rock.

The bloodstains stopped on the large rock, where there were no other traces of human presence.

The three of them looked around the large rock again and again. When he said, "The bloodstains on this rock are still fresh and haven't dried yet. The person should be here, but now they're gone. There's no sign that the bloodstains around it are spreading any further."

I suspect there are two possibilities: either he stopped the bleeding and left, but that's unlikely; or he was dragged away by some animal.