Zhang Wangxiong arrived at Tiesuo Cliff at noon, because he had to take the high-speed train to Beijing South Railway Station first, and then rent a car to rush to Zhangfang Town. When he was on the high-speed rail, Zhang Wangxiong used his mobile phone to surf the Internet, and suddenly searched for a piece of instant news about Tiesuo Cliff, which was not a regular media report, but a spontaneous upload of news by netizens.

On the opposite bank of the river beach where the iron lock cliff is located, real estate development has been carried out in recent years, and there are already a forest of high-rise buildings, many of which have been renovated and occupied. After half past eight in the morning, someone was drying clothes in the enclosed balcony, and when he looked up at the horizon, he suddenly noticed that there was a mirage in the sky above the iron lock cliff.

It was a cloudless and sunny day, but a streamer-like white cloud appeared in the sky, and if you looked closely, it didn't look like a cloud, but a snowfield that appeared in the sky. At the end of the snowfield is a river, but there is no snow on the other side of the river, and it is a mountain scene in winter, with yellow grass on the slopes and deciduous trees dotted with some evergreen colors.

There are still occasional black dots moving over the rolling hills, which should be flying birds, because they are too far away to see very clearly......

Someone quickly picked up his mobile phone and took a picture, with images and videos, and posted them to the circle of friends or uploaded them to the Internet. Zhang Wangxiong, who was sitting in the high-speed train, happened to be searching for news about the Iron Lock Cliff and immediately found out. He was taken aback, there was actually a mirage in the sky above the Iron Lock Cliff at this time, could it be the scene of the outside world of Jinshan Courtyard?

In principle, the phenomenon of mirage is caused by the refraction of light in the atmosphere. There are many people who claim that the scene that appears in the mirage has no corresponding place in the real world, so it should be from another world, which is actually a rumor or misinformation. Many scenes in mirages can actually find their counterparts in reality.

Here's an example. At around 4:30 p.m. on May 20, 2014, a mirage appeared in the vicinity of Xinsha Port in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, and the scene in the sky was the iconic landscape of Guangzhou. From Guangzhou Xiaomanjiao to Dongguan Xinsha Port, the distance is about 20 kilometers. The occurrence of a mirage at such a distance is completely consistent with the principle of refraction of light in the atmosphere.

However, there are also mirages that are difficult to explain, and some of them really can't find a real counterpart, at least not near the place where they were witnessed. If it is a very distant strange place in the world, it cannot be explained by the refraction of light alone, because the size of the scene in the field of view is completely wrong.

The mirage that appeared on the Iron Lock Cliff surprised those who saw it, and it also caused an amazement on the Internet, but its scene was a snowfield and mountains, and there was not much special about it, so not too many people thought of other places, only people like Zhang Wangxiong felt that something was not right.

This mirage lasted less than half an hour before disappearing. Calculating the time, Ding Qi and Xian Hao came out of the beast country at about half past eight, and then left in a hurry with Tan Hanchuan, and they did not see the scene of the mirage that appeared afterwards. If Ding Qi had seen it at that time, he would have recognized it as the Beast Country!

The "cleaner" Xiao Jiang waited until after half past nine before rushing to the bottom of the iron lock cliff, when the mirage had disappeared, but Zhang Wangxiong on the high-speed train immediately knew the news.

There are many visions of heaven and earth in this world, and the people who are guarding the local area often do not notice it, and even the people who caused it to appear were not aware of it at the time, such as this time.

Zhang Wangxiong came to the bottom of the iron lock cliff, Xiao Jiang was waiting here, and there was still the garbage basket at his feet, but the basket was not filled with garbage. Zhang Wangxiong opened his mouth and asked him if he had seen a mirage? Xiao Jiang was confused, he didn't know anything about it.

Even if Xiao Jiang arrived before nine o'clock, his position was on the river beach under the cliff, his vision was blocked by the high cliff, and he could not see the mirage in the sky above the cliff, and the upstairs of the community on the other side of the river was the best view.

Zhang Wangxiong took another turn around the area of the Iron Lock Cliff, feeling a little dumbfounded. He had been to this place a long time ago, and he knew very well that it was impossible for a single person to monitor such a large area above and below the cliff, but this time he was in a hurry, and it was impossible for him to mobilize a large number of people. Fortunately, he came with equipment, and quietly installed some things at the top and bottom of the cliff with Xiao Jiang.

Tian Zhongluo had also gone to the Iron Lock Cliff to investigate with those two magic weapons, and although he did not find the portal to enter the Jinshan Temple, he also pointed out the approximate location of the portal, which should be in the middle of the rock gap that runs through the entire cliff from top to bottom. It is impossible for Zhang Wangxiong to install surveillance equipment at various locations in the 120-meter rock crevice, but it is easy to do, as long as the bottom and top are monitored.

Last time, he was able to install a bug in Zhu Shanxian's car, and this time he can install more equipment in the field, and he has installed a bug and a miniature camera in the hidden rock crevice, all of which are inductively triggered. The receiving device is connected to a tablet computer, which can monitor and record audio and video signals at any time, and he left the device to Xiao Jiang.

In many film and television works, the monitoring equipment used by spies seems to be omnipotent, and they can monitor the hidden situation of a certain place at any time from a distance of thousands of miles, but the actual situation is far from so exaggerated, and there are various restrictions.

For example, this kind of miniature monitor installed in the field is an active device, and the recording and transmitting signals need to consume power, and there is no way to connect the power supply, so they can only rely on the battery they carry, and the continuous working time and the distance that can receive the signal are very limited. So someone has to keep an eye on it, replace the battery at any time and receive the signal, and then transmit it to Zhang Wangxiong through the network.

Zhu Shanxian and the others have long disappeared, and it is impossible for Zhang Wangxiong to stay in this wilderness indefinitely, he still has to go back to work in the unit, there are many things that are very convenient in the public gate, but there are also many things that are very inconvenient. He confessed to Xiao Jiang again, and returned to Xiaojin City in the evening, arriving at the station almost in the early morning.

Zhang Wangxiong had just walked out of the high-speed rail station, and there was news from Xiao Jiang's side. There was movement on the Iron Lock Cliff, and someone triggered the surveillance equipment and took a video, although it was not very clear, but it was also possible to distinguish that a total of six people had climbed down the rock crevice from the top of the cliff. However, the device at the bottom of the cliff did not trigger, indicating that they reached the middle of the crevice......

Zhang Wangxiong felt a fire rising in his heart at that time, why did he just walk with his front foot, and Zhu Shanxian and their back foot appeared again? It takes about four and a half hours to take the high-speed train from Xiaojin City to Beijing South Railway Station, and then it takes two and a half hours to rush from Beijing South Railway Station to Tiesuo Cliff if it is fast, which adds up to at least six hours.

In one day and one night, Zhang Wangxiong had already run back and forth, and he hadn't even slept well, so should he rush over again? If he wanted to rush back, there were no more planes or high-speed trains, and it took too long to drive or take ordinary trains by himself, more than 1,000 kilometers! Even if he set off now, when he arrived at Tiesuo Cliff, I am afraid that Zhu Shanxian and the others would have already left, and he had other things to do in the unit in the morning.

Zhang Wangxiong finally sighed, and had to tell Xiao Jiang to continue to keep an eye on it, and not to miss any movement. Now Xiao Jiang is miserable, wrapped in a down jacket in the night of the big winter and guarding the hidden place near the iron lock cliff, not only can't sleep, but also has to spend the night in the wild, what kind of sin has he created!

But Xiao Jiang is not wronged at all, he has a lot of tricks in the hands of Zhang Wangxiong, if those criminal evidence are verified by the police, it is enough to pull out and shoot him several times. Xiao Jiang, who was shivering in the cold night, still had a trace of expectation in his heart, hoping that there would be a substantial discovery this time, and he hoped that Zhu Shanxian and others would not toss anymore, otherwise he would have to stay in the Iron Lock Cliff for the New Year.

Zhu Shanxian waited for the six people to climb down the iron lock cliff after nightfall, for the sake of safety, they left several ropes at different positions and heights, some ropes are very hidden, and they can't be found at all if they don't climb down with their bare hands. Coming to the small platform in the rock crevice, Xian Hao took the lead in the beast country with the dry bone knife in his hand.

From the perspective of a bystander, her figure seems to disappear into the moonlit cliff wall, as if she has seen a ghost. However, the haunting was not over yet, and after a while, she walked out of the cliff again, nodded at Ding Qi and said, "Your plan is feasible, I still turned into an egret after I entered, but I still retained my self-awareness." ”

The platform space in the rock gap is limited, and only three people can stand on it, Zhuang Mengzhou also stood up, and Zhu Shanxian, Tan Hanchuan, and Shang Ni were still climbing on the rock wall above. Zhuang Mengzhou said with interest: "Oh, then I'll go in first!" As he spoke, he took the lead in entering the beast country with Jing Wenshi in his hand.

Then Ding Qi, Xian Hao, Shang Ni, and Zhu Shan entered in a row, and Tan Hanchuan was the last to enter. Ding Qi came to the beast country again, and what he saw was still a snowy field in the moonlight, and when he turned around, he saw that the egret was standing beside him, and there was another bird next to the egret. Ding Qi, or White Horse, has good eyesight, and with the help of the moonlight on the snowfield, he can recognize it as a blue-feathered mountain magpie.

Ding Qi had seen this bird in the mountains of his hometown, with beautiful blue feathers and black and white lines at the base of its wings, and it was usually found in the mountains at higher altitudes. The average blue-feathered magpie is the size of a rock pigeon and has a red beak, but this blue-feathered magpie is significantly larger, and if you lift it and stretch its neck almost as tall as Shanny, its beak is a beautiful bright yellow.

This is still in the moonlight, if it is in the daylight, this mountain magpie should be more conspicuous and beautiful. The magpie looked a little funny at the moment, twisting its neck and tilting its head downward, turning its eyes as much as possible to look at itself, while making a birdsong chirping.

The sound of the birdsong came to my ears, and the thought that came to my mind was, "Wow, I used to look like this! What kind of bird is this? It's so beautiful!"

Needless to say, this is just a mountain magpie should be Shanny, if she is a few sizes smaller, and the plumage color is not so bright, it is a bit like the unique Saker in Xiaojing Lake, which is the kind of bird that Shanny often plays with a large net. At this moment, Ding Qi suddenly heard a howl again, the voice was very loud and had a sense of vibration, which could startle people.

The white horse seemed to be frightened, jumped forward and turned his head to look, only to see an elephant standing behind him, with a long trunk and a pair of long white tusks, which should be an Asian elephant. Next to the elephant stood another big guy, with thick gray-white skin like armor, and two erect horns on the bridge of the nose, one long and one short, which was actually a rhinoceros, and the species should be the Sumatra rhinoceros or the Chinese rhinoceros that has long been extinct in the wild.

The frightened mountain magpie flew up and landed on the rhinoceros's back, looking at the elephant and chirping, "You are Senior Brother Zhu, right?"

The elephant's voice was softened, and he twisted his head and asked, "Why can't I be Lao Tan?"

Shanque: "The pig's nose is stuck in the onion, and you have finally become an elephant." ”

The rhinoceros laughed and made a simple and dull sound, Shang Ni did not admit that he was wrong, it was Tan Hanchuan, and the elephant was Zhu Shanxian. Shang Ni flapped her wings and flew up again, "Hey, where is Mr. Zhuang? I still want to see what he has become, why is he gone?"

White horses, egrets, elephants, and rhinoceroses all twisted their heads and looked around, but they didn't see another beast. Bai Ma wondered: "Mr. Zhuang was the first to come in, why did he disappear in a blink of an eye, could he have turned into a bird and flown away? ”

Zhu Shanxian: "Mr. Zhuang may have gone to the front, let's go to the front to find it, I don't know if we can recognize it after meeting, there should be other beasts here, right?"

"I walked yesterday to the river at the end of the snowfield, and there must have been other animals on the hills on the other side of the river, at least I saw birds flying over the treetops," Tinzi recalled. ”

Shanny: "Is Mr. Zhuang in danger? Don't run into the big tiger, let's go find him!" she flew up again, as if she wanted to look for it far away.

The elephant raised its nose and shouted, "Little Nizi, come back quickly! Don't fly around, let Teacher Ding lead the way." ”

The rhinoceros said, "Teacher Ding, let's take the road we took yesterday, the snow has not melted, and there are horseshoe prints on the ground." If Mr. Zhuang goes forward, he should also follow this direction, and he will not run around so that we can't find it. ”

The white horse followed the trails left by yesterday, the elephant and the rhinoceros following behind him, the snow splashing on the yellow blades of grass, and even the earth trembled gently. The egret shouted: "Ding Qi, don't run so fast, don't let the two big guys in the back slip, if you twist your legs, it's not easy to help up." ”

The white horse slowed down, and the egret landed on the horse's back again, but carefully avoided scratching the horse. The mountain magpie is still flying left and right in the air, looking very cheerful.

The egret let out a chirp, the voice was very sharp and penetrating, and it was a sentence in the ears of the beasts: "Little Nizi, fall down quickly, don't fly around! Don't you think that the faster and higher you fly, the more blurred your consciousness becomes?"

The magpie seemed to be awakened, and landed on the elephant's back with a flick of its wings, and chirped and said: "Sister Xian, it's really like this, I just flew happily, I almost forgot who I was, so I thought I was a magpie, if you hadn't suddenly reminded me, I guess I would have really become a magpie." ”

Xian Hao: "I wasn't awake when I came in last time, but this time I flew for a while, and I noticed that something was wrong." The will of this world not only allows us to manifest different images of beasts, but also invades our minds and can be lost if we are not careful. ”

Birds fly as an instinct, while humans can't fly, and even if they suddenly become a bird, they subconsciously lack flying skills and body memory. But the magpie and the egret flew like this, and entered a state of self-forgetfulness in this world, inadvertently thinking of themselves as a bird, so that they could fly so freely.

The more you fall into this state, the more blurred your original awake consciousness will become, and if you don't react in time, even if you are awake when you come in, I'm afraid you will gradually get lost in this world.

The rhinoceros squealed sullenly, "Senior Sister Xian reminded not only Xiao Nizi, but also all of us. ”

The beasts went on, and although Shanny no longer flew high in the air, she still flapped her wings and jumped back and forth from the back of the ox and the elephant, and suddenly said, "I don't seem to be very good at flying, and the more I am reminded of who I am, the more I cannot fly." ”

The direct communication of the spirit contains not only words, but also other ideas, and everyone understands what she means. "That's normal," replied the white horse, "because you can't fly in the first place, and your sober will is retained, which also limits the instinct of a magpie." ”

It's not that the magpie can't fly at all, and it can still fly with its wings for a long distance, but its posture is obviously not as comfortable as just now, and it looks more like a person than a magpie at the moment. Shannie muttered, "Can I fly freely like a magpie and keep my mind clear, then it will feel better!"

The elephant laughed, "I understand why you became a magpie." ”

The rhinoceros pondered: "Maybe your cultivation is not at home, the rules of this world are very wonderful." ”

At this time, the egret twisted his neck on the horse's back and said, "Don't you think it's strange for two such animals to appear in such a snowfield?"

Mountain Magpie: "What's strange, this is the country of beasts!"

"Asian elephants and rhinos are tropical animals, so how can they run in the snow?

They went all the way, but they never found Zhuang Mengzhou, and when the sky was bright, they finally came to the river again. A flock of sparrows flew from the mountains and forests on the opposite bank, as if they had been startled away by something, and made a noisy noise as they flew.

Ding Qi actually understood the cry of the sparrow, there was a big monster over there, it was so terrifying, I didn't dare to get close, so I quickly dodged it...... Oops, there's a couple of big monsters here...... Hmmm? It doesn't seem that scary.

Birds can't speak, and Tintze just understands their thoughts, and then translates them into human-like language in his mind, roughly expressing this meaning. He hissed: "This group of sparrows seems to say that there is a big monster in the mountains and forests over there, it may be Mr. Zhuang, let's go over and have a look." ”

Shang Ni jumped up excitedly, flapped her wings and feathers and said, "Oh, Mr. Zhuang has become a monster, let's go and see!"

: Sorry, there will be another event this weekend, Saturday and Sunday cannot be updated, and the update will be resumed next Monday, I wish you all a happy Dragon Boat Festival in advance!