The river embankment was muddy and it was quite strenuous to run. The man-eating crocodile behind had webbed feet, so it was as fast as flying!
He thought to himself, "How can I suffer the loss of this fucking coward?" I fought back and parried a few shots. The skin on their backs was so hard that sparks popped out of them.
Second Grandpa threw out a few smoky black toads and told me: "You two, stop gasping for air in the mud and run faster in the forest!"
Just what I wanted, I grabbed the root of the tree and climbed into the woods. After entering the woods, it was indeed much easier to run. I turned left and right and left the man-eating crocodile far away.
behind.
The second grandfather looked at my left and right ears again and said cautiously: "It's more unsafe here, there are traps everywhere, you must be careful, you know? Follow me."
As the second grandfather said this, he turned around to lead the way. I grabbed his arm and asked him: "Are your eyes okay? Why are you looking at my ears when you look at me?"
He looked at my left and right ears again and said: "This is a survival skill in the wild. It's not about looking at your ears, it's about watching behind you all the time. If there is anything interesting in front of you, you might as well spare it."
Take the time to observe your surroundings, do you understand?"
I see, if the second grandpa didn't explain it clearly to me, I would have doubted whether he was possessed by evil spirits.
I followed his steps and kept walking forward. He had never been here before, so why could he lead me the way? Moreover, I had never seen him holding a map or anything.
This is very strange, but he must be annoyed if I keep asking him questions, so I might as well make some circumstantial remarks and not appear to be so straightforward.
I took his arm, pointed to the right direction, and said, "Second Grandpa, you are going the wrong way. This is the right way. There is movement in the direction you are going."
The second grandfather listened carefully. The sound from the right direction was indeed very quiet, but he said: "You are right to follow me. A quiet place is not necessarily a good place. Just keep walking."
When the time came to knock him, how could I let him go, so I said: "Second Grandpa, you also said that you have never been here before. This is our first time, and you don't have a map. How can you recognize the road so clearly?"
Right? For a walk, you should go with your eldest grandson."
He looked at my left and right ears, pointed at me, and said with a smile: "Boy, are you and your second grandfather and I doing something bad? Tell me, what do you mean?"
Sure enough, I couldn't hide it from him, but since he took the initiative to ask me, he played into my game. I went straight to the point and said: "What do you mean? Second Grandpa, is there something you want to hide from your eldest grandson, me, and you too?"
It’s my first time here, but you took me turning left and right, in such a dense forest, without panicking at all. Please be honest with me about what is going on.”
We looked at each other's left and right ears, and the second grandfather smiled helplessly, shook his head, and said: "You are not stupid at all, ask more questions and look carefully, and don't give up until you achieve your goal. Okay, second brother
Grandpa, I will tell you this secret."
As he spoke, he pointed to a tree. I saw a mark carved on the trunk, which was an arrow. The mark could be as big or small as a person's index finger. As long as you are careful enough, such a mark would appear.
Not hard to find.
He coughed awkwardly, pointed to the mark on the tree trunk proudly, and said, "You know? Your second grandfather and I came up with the idea of this mark. Every 20 meters or so, there will be a mark like this.
The marks are all about one meter above the ground, so they are very easy to find. Of course, this road was trodden by your grandfather."
I couldn't understand it at first, so I said to the second grandpa in a reproachful tone: "Second grandpa, since it was my grandpa who marked it, why didn't you tell me about this earlier?"
"This..." The second grandfather suddenly became incoherent, his face turned red, and he said angrily: "I'm telling you, this is a test for you. Do you know that this is a test? I didn't expect that your kid is not stupid at all. I will do it for you.
Grandpa, don’t worry, stop inking and walk quickly!”
Looking at his reluctance, it seemed that I had dismantled him. I guessed in my heart that this old man was pretending to be sophisticated in front of me and wanted to establish a particularly awesome image, but I didn't want to but was exposed by me. It was really a bit embarrassing.
To make people laugh.
Having said that, there is another question that I have to mention, just to bring the second grandfather back into the game. If he is willing to tell me, I will praise him with all my strength for how knowledgeable he is.
So I told the story about the black green tree, "Hey, Second Grandpa, do you think this black green tree is strange? I have read an ancient book called "Nongye" before, which is dedicated to the study of plants. It stands to reason that
To put it bluntly, the green light emitted by this sacred grass lampworm is impossible and not conducive to the survival of the small green leaves on the black and green trees, but you see."
Having said that, I pointed to the small green leaves on the trunk and said, "Look at the growth of these leaves. There is all green light here. How can there be the same green leaves here?"
The second grandfather touched his chin, picked off a few small leaves with his hands, hummed, and said: "I don't know much about this, but I heard your grandfather tell the story of the 'Netherworld Tree' before, and this is what he said.
The black green tree, it is said that the black green tree grows in the underworld. The place is pitch black without any sunlight, but the black green tree grows in patches. There is a torture in the eighteen levels of hell.
It means hanging ghosts who have committed crimes in their lifetime on a tree and being beaten by the Yin soldiers. Then Meng Po from Naihe Bridge will pick the fruits on the tree and squeeze orange juice to make Meng Po soup. These ghosts are done with it.
After being tortured, I decided to change my ways, so I went to Naihe Bridge to drink Meng Po soup, and then I was reincarnated as a human being."
"I won't tell you this kind of thing because I'm afraid of scaring you." At this point, the second grandfather waved his hand to me and said, "Let's go quickly. In this forest, I heard your grandfather say that there are all kinds of monsters."
Very much."
As the second grandpa walked forward, I followed him, looked at the arrow mark, and thought to myself that my grandpa, as an old man, might have come to study this magic ditch every time he went out to sell tea and sell salt.
My second grandfather told me about markings, which can actually provide great efficiency. I went to find the markings with him, and soon the road went much faster. But after walking in the woods for a long time, I felt more and more like
There was a chill that only penetrated the back of my spine.
When my legs were almost numb from walking, I found that the exposed stones here had begun to turn into flower stones, and the black color gradually faded a lot, which meant that the magnetic field here had weakened a lot. The machine I should have worn
The watch will be magnetized, but when I looked at the watch carefully, I found that the material of the watch was very different. It should be an anti-magnetic mechanical watch specially made by Addison, otherwise the calibration would have been affected long ago.
The second grandfather suddenly pointed forward, and the two stone unicorns were lifelike. He said: "The barrier has arrived."
