At noon the next day, they reached the top of the mountain.
There are very few trees on the top of the mountain, because its terrain is still so narrow and long, with little soil accumulation, and tree roots cannot naturally grow on it. The sun is shining directly, and although it is not too hot, it hurts the eyes and hurts the eyes.
Enjoying the cool air makes people irritable.
Further ahead was the rift valley they had heard of. The traces of the mountain's fractures were smoother than they imagined. Looking down from the top of the mountain, the breeze was blowing from bottom to top, as if everything on the mountain made people feel uncomfortable.
The coolness comes from this. The sun does not shine directly in, so they cannot directly see what structure is in the ravine and how deep it is. It is just pitch black inside.
"There's no hope of going down there, right?"
Qi Huan carefully probed his head from above, then raised his eyes to look at the opposite side. Judging from the naked eye, the crack was at least about half a mile wide.
"It's even more difficult to get through from above, unless you can fly." Jun Aoyan shook his head helplessly.
"Will there be bridge cables? Or fallen trees?"
Bai Ya glanced at Qi Huan and thought that he was being whimsical.
"Where can there be such a tall tree?"
"I'm afraid there is no bridge." Liu Shenghan said, "Not to mention the distance, think about it, how do they transport a huge amount of wood and stone to such a steep mountain? Even if they use local materials, there is no such condition."
"Is there any magic?" Jun Aoyan suddenly looked at Qi Huan, "It's those little paper figures at the Bird God last time? Can you fly us there?"
"Wow, you have a pretty good idea." Qi Huan put his hands on his hips, "That's a spell to prevent an urgent fall. It would be more troublesome to be able to fly. I don't have the skills."
"What can you do?"
Jun Aoyan turned to ask Shuangyue Jun. He had been silent for a long time and had not said a word since he started. Suddenly being asked a question, he came back to his senses as if he had just woken up from a dream and said hesitantly:
"Ah? Ah...no."
"Then, you came to Shiyue Mountain alone and unprepared?"
"Otherwise?" He said matter-of-factly, "Just take it one step at a time."
There's really nothing we can do against this guy.
In the end, they had no choice but to walk down the slender mountains, hoping to find some vines leading to the valley, or protruding areas not so far away on both sides. They kept walking, but the surrounding scenery remained unchanged, almost like
They stayed on the same spot. They walked for almost two hours, but still didn't find an easy road.
"Why do I feel like this place is so strange?" Aoyan stopped, "If we walk down the mountain, we might end up back in the swamp!"
"There's something I've always found strange..." Liu Shenghan looked around, "The circulation of spiritual power here is not normal. The compass that Xiang Shen gave me was fine before, but it broke for some reason. Maybe it just broke.
, it may also have been affected by the disturbance of spiritual power here and malfunctioned."
Qi Huan slapped his thigh: "It's broken. Could it be that this is the so-called Shenyin? In fact, we just kept spinning in circles and were trapped by the barrier. Did this make us bump into it?"
"There is no barrier." Bai Ya said, "But it is not impossible to go around in circles. There is no iconic thing here, and we have nothing to use as a reference."
"How about making some marks?" Aoyan suggested.
"It's no use." Shuangyue Lord suddenly said, "We have walked this road for at least the fourth time."
"You know? Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Jun Aoyan immediately frowned, "Don't you know we are really in a hurry?!"
Mr. Shuangyue spread his hands innocently: "What's the use? Tell you, do you have any solution?"
"At least you don't have to walk around like a fool!"
Jun Aoyan really couldn't understand what Lord Shuangyue was thinking. He was abnormal, so abnormal that it was impossible to speculate on his thoughts using ordinary people's thinking. Now, the five of them are not leaving. They stand in place,
They formed a circle and looked at each other.
"Why is the compass broken?" Lord Shuangyue suddenly asked Sheng Han, "Is it not spinning anymore, or is it spinning blindly?"
"It's drawing a semicircle..." Liu Shenghan frowned, "As we move forward, it will shift and draw arcs repeatedly. I haven't found any pattern yet...but there must be some pattern.
"
"Give me."
Liu Shenghan put the compass in his hand, and he took it alone and walked forward. Qi Huan asked him where he was going, but he didn't look back.
"Weird person." Qi Huan frowned, "What should we do? Should we follow him?"
"Ignore him." Jun Aoyan said angrily, "Let's take a rest."
Indeed, after walking for so long, several people are almost blind when looking at the road that has been bleached by the sun. Now everything they see is covered with a light layer of white mist, which makes them want to shed tears. There is no place to provide shade from the sun nearby.
, they took out a thin piece of cloth from their luggage and built a simple small shed with branches. It was indeed a bit crowded for four people in a shed, but luckily it wasn't too hot.
"Shenghan..."
Jun Aoyan was about to speak but hesitated, wondering whether she should say the next words. Before she had finished thinking about it, Qi Huan suddenly interrupted.
"This person is too strange. How did you get to know this kind of person?" Youyuan Shuba
"Well, he's always like that." Liu Shenghan smiled faintly, as if he was used to it, "He is the kind of person who will never weigh a pound of wheat if you ask him to weigh it. If the pound is short, it will be short.
, it doesn’t matter, after all, it won’t be too different. Although he can always complete the task whatever the adult asks him to do, he is not willing to do one more thing, even if it is by the way. Complete one thing perfectly,
He's never done that. But he hasn't made any big mistakes either."
"It's not difficult to understand." Bai Ya suddenly said, "What are the benefits of being an impermanent person? There is no salary."
"Anyone in the world does anything not just for some benefit."
"That's not necessarily the case." Bai Ya said lazily, "You eat because you are hungry, you sleep because you are sleepy, and you help others because you want others to remember you so that they can help you next time. Nothing is for nothing.
Even if parents are good to their children, it is not something with simple motives. Although it sounds a bit utilitarian, doing something will always be accompanied by costs and benefits."
"You live a very transparent life." Liu Shenghan said with a smile, "You didn't say anything wrong."
Jun Aoyan and Qi Huan did not speak, but sighed in unison. To varying degrees, they did not feel the father's love and mother's love that they were born to enjoy. If people with a happy and complete family heard this conversation, they would definitely
I'm shaking my head and speechless.
About two-quarters of an hour later, they heard footsteps. It turned out to be Shuangyue Lord. But the strange thing was that he came back from another direction. Aoyan remembered clearly that if he returned the same way, he should never return.
Before she left, Lord Shuangyue spoke first before she could express her confusion.
"Along the cliff, you can only take the same path." Shuangyue Lord put the compass in his sleeve, "But this formation is not that easy to break."
"Why?" Qi Huan asked.
"This formation was not specially set up by anyone, but a vortex formation formed naturally by chance. Since there is no trace of how it was formed, how can we break the formation?"
"Is the same situation happening on the other side?"
"Fly over and take a look."
Qi Huan took a breath, opened his mouth halfway, and then closed it again. After thinking for a long time, he swallowed the curse words back in his stomach.
"Besides, I have some other discoveries." Mr. Shuangyue turned to Liu Shenghan and said, "This compass may not be broken, and it is very sensitive. It points to a place... but that place is in a ravine. I don't know where it is.
What, I didn’t feel anything.”
Liu Shenghan nodded: "Take us to see it."
So a few people quickly dismantled the shed and carried their luggage again, and Mr. Shuangyue also took out the compass again. This time, they didn't follow Mr. Shuangyue for too long before he stopped. He pointed to the bottomless mountain stream.
, and pointed to the compass in his hand.
"Well, that's right here."
"this……"
At this time, the sun was able to cast more light inside. Along the cliff here, they could see trees in twos and threes and green moss marks distributed on the steep, nearly vertical rock walls. There was a tree
It is growing under them, like an outstretched sick hand, trying to grow diagonally upward, like a drowning man trying to put his head out of the water to breathe. Its leaves are a little yellow due to lack of light.
And very sparse.
"A tree?" Qi Huan gestured, "This distance is not enough to cover."
"It seems like it will collapse if you step on it." Jun Aoyan also commented.
Bai Ya seemed to notice something. He pointed to the crown of the tree and said, "Look there."
"Is it a bird's nest?"
As soon as Liu Shenghan took a step forward, Aoyan pulled her back. There was a small dent on the edge of the piece. If you stepped on it without seeing clearly, it would probably have slipped down. The light made it possible to see
Seeing such rugged cliffs makes people feel even more confused and dizzy. If you are not careful, you will be shattered to pieces.
"No, it seems to be a piece of wood."
"Nonsense, that's a tree...wait a minute!"
As soon as Qi Huan finished speaking, he discovered that there was indeed something hidden among the leaves. He suddenly ignored the danger, stepped on the edge of the cliff, and leaned out to take a look. Before Aoyan could pull him back, he suddenly turned around and said in surprise:
"It's a wood carving! That little girl's wood carving!"
"Really?" Aoyan's eyes lit up, "But...why does the compass point to it?"
"It may be caused by the disturbance of spiritual power and the small magnet in the wood carving."
"It makes sense...is it possible for us to get it back?"
Except for Mr. Shuoyue, several people came together to take a look. After observing it from several angles, they determined that it was a wooden sculpture with a human shape. However, they did not have any tools to ensure that it would be removed without knocking it off.
It comes up high enough.
"Could it be that the little prince dropped it here, reached out to pick it up, and then lost his footing..."
Jun Aoyan didn't say anything further, but everyone could hear it. And this hypothesis is very possible. Over the years, the tree should have grown taller and closer to them - but it was not within reach.
to the extent.
"Shuoyue-kun, you are very agile, can you do us a favor?"
Qi Huan came forward with a smile, but Lord Shuangyue took a step back.
"It's not easy to get it up. If it were in other places, it would be fine, but here you have to step on the trunk. It's not that I won't help you, but if the foundation of this tree is not stable, no matter who's martial arts
It's useless to be strong. If I accidentally knock it down, you'll have to blame me."
"Okay." Qi Huan exhaled briefly through his nose, "Then I'll go."
