Life is the sound of nature, you need to listen attentively and quietly.
——Wang Xiaobo
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Sanwanli Post is a transliteration. It was originally the name of a hunting sage in Saladin Town, called [Sanfansy·Sanfansi]. This Turkish name was difficult to translate into other languages. Later, the translators of the Secret Library simply used
Thirty thousand miles refers to the distance between the outpost and the civilized world.
Like Xueming, Belloberg, who used to be introverted and quiet, and specialized in killing people, suddenly became cheerful and outgoing, which made the owner feel very strange.
This naughty sword spirit explained the cause and effect to Xueming——
[——Utensils are like cages. If you put me back in, of course I won’t be able to speak.]
[Stone is the most motherly thing in the world. I am the flesh that fell from the Mimir giant. I am part of the original seed. I am the soul fire and spirit that burst out from the corpse of the underground god. When I changed from a tool to
Return the rune stone and you can speak.]
At this time, Xueming had already started to pack up his mountaineering equipment. According to Teacher Luca’s instructions, he wanted to explore the mountain in the cold winter. The Belloberg soul in his hand was incomplete. According to Teacher Luca’s description, the surrounding areas of the Elf Holy Land were
There are many ruins of super ancient civilizations, and this kind of rune stone is not a rare thing.
[Gunsmith, gunsmith, gunsmith!]
Xueming didn't reply, concentrating on arranging the ropes and ice picks, and discussing the route into the mountain with Oscar, the wolf brother.
This road is much more difficult than the winding mountain road. First, you have to go deep into the deep canyons, and then find another way through the complex caves. This is the road carved out by the earliest pioneers in Saladin Town, and it is the route hundreds of years ago.
After Mr. Luca learned the whole story about the gunsmith's fake death, he did not tell Oscar the news. He only explained to Oscar why the priest went into the mountains during the hunting season. In Mr. Luca's view, the matter of Belloberg's spirit was more serious than anything else.
The less people know about it, the better. This sword spirit is a good partner of the gunsmith and a sharp blade for killing monsters. If you excavate cultural relics with the engineering team of the hunting group, there will always be someone like Maguire who will be possessed by the spirit.
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Oscar has stayed in Saladin for so many years, and he has not had the feeling of adventure for a long time. Every mission is done according to the script and the process. No matter how difficult the level is, there are engineering equipment to clear the way - the adventure gene in this big wolf has already begun.
He screamed, and without waiting for Teacher Luka's request, he immediately agreed to the trip.
The two came to the southwest side of Saladin Town, which is also the spring of an abandoned geyser. It has a history of more than 400 years and has supported more than ten generations of Saladin people. If you go back further, the mayor's wife also
After drinking the spring water here, and walking about 300 meters further, you can see the increasingly narrow and crowded rocks.
Between the cold mountain walls, there are round and hard stalactite caves. This is another path to the elves' holy land. The ancients discovered this path when they were exploring mountains and looking for water.
[Gunsmith! Gunsmith! Gunsmith!!! Ah!!!]
The sword spirit began to scream noisily, and when it received no response from Xueming, it turned its master's mind upside down.
"I don't like to talk nonsense." Jiang Xueming leaned on the side of the path, observing the pattern of the dark path, lifted his thick cold mask, and felt the wind direction, "You decide quickly, the wind here is too cold, I won't be able to drive later.
Mouth."
[Aren’t you curious at all? Aren’t you curious about my past?]
"I'm not very curious about my wife's past, who do you think she is?" Xueming was very indifferent. It was like this damn weather. I really don't know how he could say such a thing with a body temperature of 36.5 degrees.
[I was shattered to pieces in Shinto City! You didn’t protect me well! When I came back here, I was thinking about finding a good friend. Maguire is very good. He treats me like a treasure! I am careful every day.
Take care of me, just in case I feel uncomfortable or unhappy.]
[How could you do this? You didn’t even apologize?]
Jiang Xueming: "I'm sorry, I'm very sorry, I'm really embarrassed."
[Um...]
Oscar asked in confusion: "Who are you talking to?"
"The Spirit of Beloberg." Jiang Xueming didn't mean to avoid it. Brother Lang had long known about the existence of this sword spirit.
Oscar: "What's wrong with you?"
Jiang Xueming: "It's unhappy and wants to go back to Maguire."
[Huh? Uh-huh?! Uh-huh?!]
Jiang Xueming: "I wanted it to stop being so angry. I apologized to it and all I had to do was kneel down."
[Okay! I forgive you! You walk first, and when you can speak and your chest no longer hurts, we can have a good chat.]
"Thank God." Jiang Xueming got into the narrow path, while Brother Lang walked behind -
——Oscar is huge and cannot lead the way, otherwise the tragedy of the cave in the shelter will happen again, and he will get stuck between the caves again.
Walking more than 400 meters towards the cave, the terrain is getting lower and lower, and the space above Xueming's head becomes narrow and cramped. The big wolf has to lie sideways on the wall of the cave and slowly squirm. Fortunately, the cave has no intention of continuing to narrow.
There are four forked roads in the middle, all of which have traces of artificial excavation. It seems that lapis lazuli was also used in ancient expedition teams. In order to allow reliable wolf and dog companions to pass through these caves, people specially widened the cave passages.
After exploring the remaining three forks one by one, there was a natural hot spring, which has now turned into a blackened quagmire. The volcanic activity made it look dirty and smelly, with the pungent smell of sulfur. The two rested here for a while.
, walked around the hot springs, and only found a few pits that were barely suitable for shelter and rest, where ancient expedition teams slept. These pits could have released geothermal heat very well, but now it burns your feet to step on them with hiking boots.
Going back to explore the other two forked roads, Xueming's luck was not very good. He chose almost all the wrong answers. One of the two forked roads was an artificially bred bat nest. The ancient expedition team was short of food, so they took this
Hundreds of wind holes were dug out in the caves, mushrooms and vegetation were cultivated in the holes, and rats were raised to eat. Over time, the food chain was updated, and now it has become a bat cave of 60 cubic meters in size.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Another branch leads to the branch of the geyser that draws water. There are dozens of cracks here. Under the cracks are pools built by masons. Today
It also became useless as the geyser dried up.
Going further in, Xueming has to crawl on the ground. This is the most difficult and narrowest road, which is a circular hole with no way to turn back. Teacher Luka did not provide this part of the map. It has been too long.
Neither expedition nor hunting groups have ever set foot on this old road.
Brother Lang followed Xueming, and halfway up the climb he couldn't even bend his arms and legs.
He cursed: "Are you sure it's this way? It's like fucking coming out of your mother's womb."
Jiang Xueming: "I'm sure, Teacher Luca said that all the information about the old road has been destroyed. There were many brave explorers who came to challenge this road after they were full and full - abandoning the modern tools of mountain cable cars and transportation teams.
, came to test his physical fitness. Of course, accidents occurred frequently, which caused a lot of trouble for the rescue team. In the following decades, Saladin's chief secretary destroyed part of the old road information year by year. As time went by, no one remembered this road.
The way to go."
[The way to eliminate urban legends is to make people forget about them, so that no one will come to seek death.]
"It's almost the end." Xueming's clothes were stained with a lot of bird droppings, which meant that the exit was right in front of him.
The air outside was getting colder and colder, and the sound of the wind was getting louder and louder. This made Xueming alert. As soon as he poked his head out of the dark hole, he immediately asked Brother Lang to stop.
"Stop going forward! Oscar!"
The thick gloves were suddenly pressed into the empty space. Jiang Xueming was shocked and his body fell firmly against the rock wall.
There was no road outside the cave. Just now, I hung my right arm on the edge of the cliff and pushed out a few stones. It took six seconds to hear the sound of the stones falling to the ground. Looking down, I saw a dark mountain stream with no place to stand.
Xueming turned on his headlight and took a closer look. The cliff beside the mountain stream had a 70-degree slope. There was originally a road, but the cold weather caused thick ice to cover the road.
Xueming took out the ice ax from his backpack: "Wait a minute, Brother Lang, please wait a minute, don't be impatient."
This difficulty can't stop Xueming. He once hung on a rock for several hours during Kangqiao Johnny's ambush plan. Now his body is stronger and he should be able to continue moving forward.
"Grab one of my legs, Oscar, and crawl forward."
Oscar: "Okay!"
Slowly, Xueming pulled his body out of the chrysalis, and knocked the manuscript repeatedly in the frozen rock formation, first knocking off broken ice, and then knocking it into the stronger ice and rock. Little by little, he lifted his body from the upside down state.
Return to normal and finally lie down on the edge of the cliff.
Oscar was much more powerful. He stretched out his four claws and slid on the cliff for more than ten meters before stopping and just clinging to the cliff.
Xueming was worried about Oscar's safety at first, until he heard the noise of frightened birds flapping their wings, and Oscar's call.
"Is it powerful? Is it powerful, Brother Wolf?"
"Wow..." Jiang Xueming responded.
The process of conquering nature is simply a kind of enjoyment. Life is the sound of nature, and you need to listen attentively.
They did not place a safety rope, and the ice on the cliff was unreliable. Even in the stalactite cave, there was no stable anchor point to drill the nails into, so crawling back slowly was the most reliable option.
Jiang Xueming kept breathing evenly and lowered his body bit by bit with a pickaxe. After more than an hour, he reached the bottom of the valley safely.
This is the starting point of the Elf Holy Land. If you look behind you, the iron cable bridge swaying in the strong wind has become the only road connecting the civilized world. Then follow the winding mountain roads and various cableways, passing through caves and hills, all the way.
More than 140 kilometers away is Spinach Highland.
You can see that the lighthouses in many settlements are still shining - during the hunting ban period, there are still skilled and bold hunters living in the settlements. These people like to stay in the wilderness, and Saladin is too much for them.
Noisy.
Walking towards the front of the mountain stream, there is an increasingly wider Yangguan Avenue.
Oscar stepped on the soft bird droppings, his headlight shining on the moss and weeds on both sides of the road, and he turned around from time to time to ask the priest to be careful. This wolf brother was introducing the customs and customs of the Elf Holy Land.
"We call this place the feeding site."
"Large birds like the golden eagle griffon will throw hard-to-kill prey into the cliff, and then come down to find food."
As he spoke, he avoided the sharp bone remains, including those of wild beasts, and many unlucky pathfinders were buried in their mouths.
"Last time I saw Ako and Aki, they were fighting for food underground."
Xueming asked confused: "Ako and Aki?"
"I gave them names for the two human-faced eagles." Brother Lang said without looking back. "Last year, these two stupid birds ate fluorescent grass and were poisoned so much that they flew around in the sky. They asked the hunter to shoot them twice.
Come down and prepare to send it to the kitchen."
"Oh, by the way, fluorescent grass is also the staple food of balloon scorpions. The leaves of this grass have an anesthetic effect. Balloon scorpions are either born with poison or rely on eating grass to arm themselves."
"I told the people in the kitchen at that time, you can't eat this, something will happen if you eat it."
"I named the two eagle birds and released them. When I went into the mountain the next day, I saw them fighting for a chimera - a species that has not yet been named, with a tiger head and a body, and antlers.
Bull’s eyes, any weird sutures, anything that’s hard to define are called chimeras.”
"This scourge must have been killed by a more powerful hunter and thrown from the cliff. At that time, Akko and Aki were tearing apart its internal organs. Their beaks could hardly peck out the fur, so they cut out the body's internal organs.
The wound in the broken belly began to peck at it.”
"Wait a minute..."
Halfway through Brother Lang's story, he asked Xueming to stop.
There is a vacuum zone on one side of the mountain stream. Unlike the complex environment of flowers, grass, dung, and food remains, this place is very clean.
"We've arrived at Kukuka's territory."
Xueming: "What is it?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "It's like a mole, but much more ferocious." Brother Lang lowered his voice, hunched over and carefully pulled Xueming forward.
On both sides of this relatively clean valley bottom road, there are dozens of dry and clean stone caves. There are many pink flower petals as decorations around the stone caves, and a layer of fine sand is drying next to the caves.
Brother Lang continued: "Kukuka is a kind of social rodent. They live in groups and love to be clean. They dare to hunt in groups when they see creatures larger than them. It's best not to provoke them."
"The sand in front of the door is the bathhouse they use to clean their bodies."
"They don't eat carrion and set their nests at the bottom of the valley because of their..."
Before he finished speaking, a scream of "Kukuka" came from a cave.
Xueming immediately covered his ears. The sound could almost tear his eardrums——
——This kind of sound wave oscillates back and forth in the mountain stream, and the valley becomes the best mixing space.
A huge mole about 120 centimeters long crawled out from the cave. It had a red nose and two bright black eyes. When it saw humans, it stood upright and spread its claws.
Demonstration and persecution. The throat suddenly swelled and a fierce wind blew out of the mouth.
"Kukuka!!!——"
The powerful sonic attack also made Oscar go into a trance. Seeing that the big rats in other caves were about to crawl out and roar a few times, if ordinary Homo sapiens suffered such a disaster, they might really be killed by these fifty or so moles.
After being roared and stunned, he was finally dragged into a cave and divided into pieces to eat.
Soon enough, Brother Lang took out a purple-red pottery doll from his pocket. This doll looked fierce and looked very much like the Earth Dragon blood-giving unit of the Skull and Bones Society that Xueming had seen. She was the shrew of the big shopkeeper Bock.
appearance.
Three or four little pottery dolls smashed into the door of a cave. The mole king with shiny fur and fat body stared wide-eyed and immediately went back into the cave in fright. The same was true for other moles, who were all attracted by this weird pottery.
Jar was too frightened to say anything.
Then look at the smelly bloody feces splashed out of the clay pot, and one or two sections of white tailbone.
Oscar explained: "This is the stench caused by earth dragons. Kukuka is most afraid of earth dragons. In order to resist the severe cold, they cannot climb into caves and can only build nests at the bottom of the valley - these dead moles are too big.
There are not many creatures that can punish them. Everyone flying in the sky is afraid of this throat. The only ones who can climb here and defeat them are the two-meter-long earth dragons like Miss Anna."
After crossing this relatively clean area, another obstacle appeared.
It was a stupid bird, and it was also the golden eagle griffon that Alphonse and the geologist met on the settlement platform when they were exploring the cave.
It was so starved and scrawny that it looked very strange——
——It screamed hoarsely and was trapped in a huge skeleton.
Xueming: "What's going on?"
Brother Wolf couldn't understand it either. This raptor was four meters long and surrounded by a bone cage. It was as if it was imprisoned by evil magic, which kept the big eagle in place and unable to move.
"oh!"
Oscar thought for a long time and finally figured it out.
"It dropped a bigger prey to death, and then started eating from its soft belly. It couldn't finish the meal, and it was worried that other hunters would come to snatch the food, so it stayed here..."
"As a result, during the hunting ban period, a circle of feces and soil around them froze together, which happened to freeze the prey's sternum firmly to the ground, trapping the griffon."