Chapter 27: Li-Ban enters the Valley of Sword Artists
Arakesh "Well, that young man, come with me."
"You Arash learn to show courtesy to guests, you do not need to show your harsh temper. Guests do not like rudeness! How will you do business if we do not become old people?"
Arash was silent, he was ashamed. But Dara patted him on the shoulder, saying:
"Bro, don't worry, Arash is not evil, he was defending his house, don't scold him, we'll go and hunt snow sheep!"
Arakesh waved his hand and led Li-Bang, along with him to a melting shop hidden from the eyes of strangers.
Arash sighed, but then smiled, the mountaineers did not conceal resentment. they were ordinary people. Then he said to Dara - "Well, let's go sly, we will see you are also good at catching, as you know how to say!"
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Li-Ban, climbed the rope ladder after Arakesh, to a high hill, on the top of which there was a fortress for 25 soldiers. Now there were only 5 soldiers on duty, archers and those who could see well. They sat on a tall tree, watching the surroundings. Opposite the fortress, there was another on exactly the same hill. There were warriors there too. In case of alarm, warriors from nearby valleys quickly filled the fortress.
Rising into the fortress, Li-Ban began to descend from the hill, behind which the entrance to the narrow valley was open, only one person could pass through the passage. After walking 50 steps, Li-Ban saw another hill, on it stood a fortress. It always had 25 soldiers on duty. Their arrows and spears were directed towards the entrance. A detachment of 25 warriors could easily deter the attack of 3,000 warriors.
Again I had to go up and down again. In front of him was a well-known rock in which pushers were visible on the south side.
But Arakesh went east, where there were bushes of bitter almonds with sharp spikes. Going up to the bush, he pulled an inconspicuous branch ... the bush drove off to the side.
A valley opened before him, the entrance of which was blocked by a palisade of trees and sharp-tongued swords of thorns of bitter almond. Some strange reddish juice flowed from them. Lee-Ban thought it was probably poison. He was not far from the truth.
Arakesh shouted over the eagle, a moment later the scream of an eagle was heard in response to him, Arakesh repeated the cry again. A few minutes later, the cleaver opened a small hole. Through which Arakesh crawled, and Li-Ban passed on all fours. At that moment he was glad that he did not have his heavy and not agile armor.
Passing through a hole, they ended up in a mountain cave. The floor of which was covered with logs. A long corridor, an underground river through which an ancient wooden bridge was thrown, 100 steps further the stone floor breaks off and goes into the abyss, down which a long rope ladder goes down. Below is a faint light. There are masters working on making mixtures for the preparation of steel. Top Secret Information.
Passing further through another wooden bridge, they exit from the other side of the cave. A valley was opened in front of Li-Ban, all covered with yellow leaves. They lay below. While everything was green in the mountain valley, everything was yellow inside the valley of the masters.
There were workshops, smelters, forges.
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Li-Ban became acquainted with the blacksmith, his name was not given to him. For security reasons. They said just call "Forester".
The blacksmith, silently and for a long time looked at Li-Ban, and then in a good Han language said to him: "I only show once that you remember, you will remember, I forbid you to write down! Watch carefully!"
To Lee-Ban's surprise, there were many jugs with different powders next to the smelter that looked like an alchemical room in Turpan.
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