Chapter 29: The Foot of the Empty Mulberry Mountain
Several people greeted Lu Xueqi, and then discussed going down the mountain to Heyang City to rest first. Lu Xueqi and Zhang Xiaofan had never gone down the mountain since they went up Qingyun Mountain, so naturally they just listened to Qin Zhong and Qi Hao discuss the route.
Suddenly, the look on Zhang Xiaofan's face became stiff, and his eyes looked straight ahead.
Seeing this, Qin Chong and Qi Hao looked at Zhang Xiaofan's gaze.
But I saw that under the long steps, a man came up crookedly, in his forties, his clothes were still clean, but his face was blank, his eyes were dull, and he said something indiscriminately.
Zhang Xiaofan walked straight to the man, and only when he walked in front of the man did he let out a low, soft voice: "Second Uncle Wang, how are you?"
This is the only witness in Caomiao Village who saw the tragedy from beginning to end, but unfortunately he went crazy after that night.
The man ignored Zhang Xiaofan, still saying meaningless words, walking forward until he disappeared into the distance.
Several people looked at Zhang Xiaofan's face and didn't say anything. It's just that the atmosphere is silent compared to just now.
After crossing the Hongqiao and reaching the sea of clouds, several people sacrificed their magic weapons and flew towards the bottom of the mountain.
The distance from Qingyunmen to Heyang City is not too far.
However, it still took Qin Chong and the others more than half a day to arrive outside Heyang City before dark.
It turned out to be Zhang Xiaofan of Dazhu Peak, and his proficiency in flying with the imperial weapon was too poor, and most of the time spent in this half day was equivalent to accompanying Zhang Xiaofan to practice flying.
Luckily, we were able to reach the place before dark.
After a few people landed, they changed out of Qingyun's disciples' clothes and changed to ordinary clothes.
Then he walked towards Heyang City.
Qin Chong walked in front, and saw that Zhang Xiaofan was very curious about everything in Heyang City, so he explained to him what he saw along the way, after all, he had visited Heyang City twice, plus Qin Chong's experience in his previous life, this explanation was very exciting, not to mention Zhang Xiaofan, it was Qi Hao, who had wandered outside many times, and Lu Xueqi, who seemed to be cold as ice, who didn't seem to care about everything, both pricked up their ears and listened attentively.
It wasn't until the group arrived at the largest inn in Heyang City, "Shanhaiyuan", that Qin Chong introduced the signature dishes he had eaten here twice, especially the stewed fish.
Qin Chong is not the only one talking along the way, after all, there is also a long-sleeved Qi Hao who is good at dancing, Lu Xueqi is really cold and doesn't talk much, Zhang Xiaofan is just because he is restrained and introverted.
Qin Chong and Qi Hao deliberately took care of them along the way, which also made Zhang Xiaofan talk about more.
The first two times he came to this Shanhaiyuan Qin Chong was alone, so he directly found a place on the first floor, and this time the four of them traveled down the mountain together. A few people went directly to the clean place on the third floor of Shanhaiyuan.
The group was eating delicious food and talking about their own opinions, and they heard Zhang Xiaofan say that he was in charge of food in Dazhufeng, and Qin Zhong smiled and said that he would definitely taste Senior Brother Zhang's craftsmanship in the future.
There were only a few tables of guests on the third floor, and Qin Chong's gaze swept over and he noticed the table of people and horses who were suspected to be Demon Sects not far away. But he didn't make a noise, I don't know if I haven't given the two a chance to talk now, and if they will meet at night.
After dinner, several people went to the west courtyard under the backyard, and after saying goodnight to each other, they each walked to their rooms.
Thinking that Zhang Xiaofan should have met Baguio in the middle of the night walking in the yard, Qin Chong lost the slightest interest in watching the play, and complained: "If you don't sleep in the middle of the night, you are in a panic." When he entered the door, he reminded a few people to take a good rest, and he had to hurry early tomorrow morning. And he went into his room.
Nothing was said all night.
After getting up early in the morning, Qin Zhong found that Zhang Xiaofan really had two dark circles under his eyes.
I couldn't help muttering in my heart: "Senior Brother Zhang is not easy to do." ”
After the four of them had breakfast, they set off again, there are still three thousand miles from here to Kongsang Mountain, plus Zhang Xiaofan's unskilled magical powers, several people still need to hurry up.
Sure enough, the last time Qin Chong traveled all the way from Heyang City to the east, it only took more than ten days to travel more than 3,000 miles, this time he took Zhang Xiaofan, hurried all the way, basically did not rest, and it took ten days to arrive at Kongsang Mountain.
But fortunately, in the next few days, Zhang Xiaofan became more familiar with the Taoism, and he was even more familiar with the "burning stick", and he flew decently, otherwise it would have taken more time.
Thinking of the time he spent practicing the flying of imperial objects, Qin Zhong said in his heart: "Zhang Xiaofan's talent can really be called a model representative of diligence and clumsiness." ”
Everyone fell from the clouds, they were all taken aback, only to see that within a radius of 100 miles, a big mountain is steep and towering, but there are many rocks and little grass and trees, and there are no people under the mountain, and it is desolate.
At this time, it was almost dusk, the sun was sinking in the west, and the faint sunset shone on Kongsang Mountain, as if it was a little sluggish and a little terrifying. Everyone fell at the foot of the mountain and put away the magic weapon of the fairy sword. Qi Hao looked at the sky and said, "I don't see that there are no people to stay here, so let's go up the mountain immediately, and while looking for the 'Ten Thousand Bat Ancient Cave', we will see if there is a suitable place to rest for the night." ”
Qin looked at the sky, and then looked at the desolate Kongsang Mountain: "I think we should rest at the foot of this mountain for one night, I will wait for the cultivators, and meditate cross-legged for one night." Xiao Fan's junior brother should be a little tired all day. Besides, this mountain is the territory of the demon cult, and we are prone to sneak attacks when we go up the mountain at night, anyway, we have already arrived at the foot of this empty mulberry mountain, and we are not in a hurry to meet for a while. ”
Qi Hao thought about it and felt that what Qin Chong said made sense, so he agreed.
Seeing that the two of them had agreed on their opinions, Lu Xueqi stepped aside, chose a clean stone, sat on it and began to meditate.
Zhang Xiaofan opened his mouth, and wanted to say two sentences to show that he was not tired, but seeing that Qin Chong and the two had already decided, he had no choice but to give up. Turning around, he was also about to meditate and rest, when he heard Qin Chong's voice coming.
"Senior Brother Xiaofan, you go with me to pick up some wood and come back, and we will raise a pile of fires to roast in the evening. ”
"Okay, brother. ”
Hurriedly followed Qin Zhong towards the mountain. Qin Zhong and Zhang Xiaofan were not far away, chatting while picking up wood.
Seeing that the wood was almost picked up, Qin Chong put the wood he picked up on the ground and said, "Senior Brother Xiaofan, please take all this wood back, Senior Brother, I'll go around the neighborhood to see if there is any game that can be brought back and roasted and eaten." To tell you the truth, senior brother, my stomach is uncomfortable without eating something. ”
Zhang Xiaofan said: "Senior brother, go ahead, I'll pick up some more wood and go back." ”
"Okay, haha, when the prey comes back, you have to try your skills as Senior Brother Xiaofan. ”
After speaking, Qin Chong flew up in the air, but he didn't emit any light, and quickly disappeared into Zhang Xiaofan's field of vision against the ground.