We walked through the forest for about ten minutes, and Hu Jiashu suddenly stopped. But there were trees everywhere in the area. Can he identify which tree sent the distress signal?
While I was thinking about these things, Hu Jiashu walked a few steps forward and stopped in front of a tree. The tree was not high and seemed a bit short in this forest.
After walking to the tree, Hu Jiashu slowly stretched out his hand and touched it gently. After a few minutes, Hu Jiashu turned back and nodded to us.
It seemed that this tree was the one calling for help.
Seeing this, I was a little curious and said: "That tree is almost the shortest here, and it should also be the youngest. How could it send a distress signal so far? Besides, I didn't find any danger here.
!”
Nangong Fancong whispered to me: "Can you tell the age of a tree? Don't forget that the old crow persimmon we saw last time was not very thick, but it was more than a thousand years old.
Well, the little tree in front of us is also something special."
This is quite possible.
Nangong Fancong continued: "Also, although there is some relationship between a tree's spiritual consciousness and its age, it is not an inevitable relationship. Some trees may have some spiritual consciousness by chance, even if they are young in age!"
I nodded again.
While Nangong Fan and I were talking, Hu Jiashu made a silent gesture towards us again, as if we had disturbed him.
Nangong Fanxong and I also quickly kept silent.
Hu Jiashu touched the small tree and nodded. Sometimes, he would touch it for a long time without any reaction.
After about half an hour, Hu Jiashu said: "Tell me your story slowly, don't be anxious, I will listen!"
"Huhu..."
At this time, there was another gust of wind, and the nearby trees shook a little violently. The branches and leaves were blown loudly. I felt a cold sweat for Hu Jiashu in my heart. Will this sound distract him?
Hu Jiashu still stood there motionless, seemingly undisturbed by the wind.
More than an hour passed after Hu Jiashu stood like this. I was a little anxious by the side, always thinking about whether I should urge him. At this time, Nangong Fancong seemed to see that I was a little impatient, so he said to me: "If you
I'm really bored, so I just meditate and adjust my breath here. I guess it will take a few hours for Hu Jiashu to finish talking to the tree."
After hearing what Nangong Fan said, I just sat down cross-legged on the ground, and then started to adjust my breathing with my eyes closed.
Since then, I have concentrated all my energy on regulating my breath, and time has passed by unconsciously, and I don't feel too tormented.
In the blink of an eye, it was past five o'clock in Lingcheng, and Hu Jiashu was still standing there touching the tree. If I hadn't known that he was communicating with the tree, I would have suspected that he had some weird quirks.
Nangong Fancong and I briefly did our morning homework nearby. When we finished our morning homework and went to see Hu Jiashu, he took a deep breath and slowly lifted his hands from the tree.
Move away.
His body shook a bit, as if he was a little exhausted.
I quickly ran over and helped him.
When I supported Hu Jiashu, I found that his hand that had been touching the tree was a little swollen, and there were slight signs of bleeding in many pores.
Seeing this, I was a little surprised and asked: "What's going on? Will there be any side effects if you communicate with the tree?"
Hu Jiashu smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, it's not a side effect. It's just that I overused my power. This tree's spiritual consciousness is still shallow, so it's a little difficult to communicate. During the whole night, I didn't talk to it.
I didn’t say a few words, but I finally found some useful information!”
As he spoke, Hu Jiashu changed the topic from the palm of his hand and continued: "The tree told me that a group of human skins have been active in this forest recently. Those human skins picked some trees and cut them down, and then transported them to a nearby place to be used as
Burn the firewood."
"But I don't know where the tree is. I just say it's by the river and not far from here. It asked us for help because it was afraid that it would also be cut down. The reason why it asked for help was because it felt something on us.
If you have Taoism, you know that we are cultivators of Taoism."
I asked Hu Jiashu: "What then?"
He shook his head and said, "No more, that's all. I said so much in one night."
Although the information was a little sparse, it gave us a definite location. The mysterious village was nearby, but the section of the river where we were was the one we explored most carefully, because we were going to pitch our tents here.
So I still have some doubts about what the tree said to Hu Jiashu.
Nangong Fancong was also a little confused and said: "My Galaxy Eyes looked around carefully, but I didn't find any villages. Also, didn't that tree say those people would burn it down? That village
It disappears mysteriously, but burned trees don't disappear for no reason, but there is no trace of anything being burned nearby."
At this time, a flash of inspiration flashed in my mind: "Didn't the tree just say that human skin would be pulled to the river after cutting it down? If those trees were cut down not long ago, there should be stumps left, and there should be a tree pulled
If we go, we will leave traces behind. As long as we find those traces, we will definitely find them."
When we were searching yesterday, we were searching along the river. We were always searching for a special smell, and the tree that was cut down also had an ordinary smell, which was impossible to find with our level of exploration.
So next, I searched in the woods with my naked eyes. It was difficult for us to find the chopped trees with our breath.
After a while, we found the chopped tree stump nearby, and also found traces of the tree being pulled away. Following the traces, we discovered that the tree was not pulled to the bank of the Longbachiwatong River, but was pulled away.
Going in the completely opposite direction!
Seeing this, I asked Hu Jiashu: "Were you deceived by that tree?"
Hu Jiashu shook his head and said: "No, it asked us for help. There is no reason to lie to us. The most likely thing is that there is a river on the other side of the forest. The tree's spiritual consciousness is still shallow, so it is reasonable to express it unclearly.
thing!"
Indeed, it is very likely that as Hu Jiashu said, the Longbachiwatong River has some branches along the way in the deep mountains. Although those branches are small, they can be regarded as part of Longbachiwatong. Maybe the person encountered
The mysterious village is not on the main river, but on an inconspicuous branch.
Thinking of this, I became excited again.
We walked along the direction of the branches, and soon reached the other side of the forest. There was indeed a small river here. In fact, it was just a small ditch, and the water was very slow!
Although we found a small river, we still couldn't see the village. Judging from the traces of the tree being pulled, we could see that it was pulled to the other side of the river.
This small ditch was only one or two meters wide, and we jumped to the other side.
After arriving here, we discovered that there was a looming mist more than 100 meters along the river. The mist also contained a power. I roughly judged that the power was still a hidden barrier.
After feeling this, the three of us said almost at the same time: "That's it!"
However, we did not approach there rashly, but let Nangong Fanxing use his own Galaxy Eye to observe it first.
After about ten minutes, Nangong Fanzong said: "The power of that fog is very strong. I looked at it for a long time and could only roughly see that there was indeed a village in the fog, but I couldn't see what was going on inside the village.
Less than."
At this time, I couldn't help but say: "Over the years, many people have come here to investigate this case, but they have not found any trace of the village, but we found it after a little twists and turns. Is there something wrong?
!?"
Nangong Fancong said: "Those people didn't check the situation. They were probably just like us. They just searched on the main river channel of Longbachiwatong and didn't notice the diversion. That's why they didn't find anything.
Qianli, that’s probably it.”
Indeed, it is very likely to be like what Nangong Fan said.
Hu Jiashu also said: "In addition, many monks investigate cases just to solve cases. There are many perfunctory elements, so it is normal that no clues can be found."
I nodded, not doubting anything anymore.
After the three of us discussed it, we decided to go to the misty village to investigate the situation in detail.
As we slowly approached, the fog got closer and closer to us. When we approached the fog, the small village appeared in our sight, exactly like the one in the photo, except that the village was empty, except for
Except for the heavier Yin Qi, we can't find any dirty things.
After checking with the Eye of the Galaxy, Nangong Fanxin shook his head slightly and said: "There is nothing special found, except for the Yin Qi here!"
Next, we carefully searched the houses in the entire village. We found some camping equipment in one of the houses, but they were all old and had some damage.
After seeing those equipment, I said: "Maybe it's the equipment of the madman and his group who left the information!"
As for the madman, it is noted at the end of the information that he later died in a mental hospital.
So we can't find that madman to confirm whether the things here belong to them.
We looked through the equipment and found nothing of value.
Next, we walked around the village again and found no human skins or bones!
But we found an extinguished fire in the center of the village!
It's just that there is no bronze tripod next to the fire.
Although what we found is incomplete, we are now basically certain that this is the mysterious village in the story.
According to the story, those skinned corpses will not appear during the day, and they will only appear at night!
So we have to wait here until night, until those human skin corpses and shadow people appear.
If possible, I would also like to see the giant white wolf that rescued the survivor... (To be continued)