The fire is still burning, and there is no tendency to extinguish it. Surrounded by flames, the old man's body was no longer visible. Zhao Yu didn't know where this fire came from, he watched silently and didn't make any other moves.

However, it doesn't seem to make sense to be in a daze like this, and the situation I'm in now is still relatively dangerous. There were often wild beasts in this forest, and Zhao Yu was not confident that he could defeat them, so he needed to get out of this place quickly.

It's just that Zhao Yu is a little flustered at the moment. He was the only one around, and he finally met an old man, but he died in a short period of time. Moreover, in his more than ten years of memory, he had never lived alone, let alone run in this strange woodland.

If only my mother were here, Zhao Yu's heart was sour. He also felt a burning heat in his eyes, as if he was about to cry.

But fear is fear, and there is only one path in front of him, and that is to leave here alone. So in addition to being timid, Zhao Yu still checked what was in the package that the old man gave him.

In fact, this is very important, because Zhao Yu's current supplies seem to be the only ones.

Zhao Yu squatted down and unwrapped the package casually, spreading it flat. There are a lot of foods to eat, such as dry cakes and fruits. Zhao Yu suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, at least he didn't have to hurry through the woods without anything.

There was also a leather kettle in the package, Zhao Yu picked up the kettle and put it to his ear to shake it, and found that it was full of water. Anyway, it's close to the river, and it seems to be the same with or without water. However, Zhao Yu still did not pour out the water in it, but just put it on the wrapping cloth. He still plans to bring a pot of water.

In addition to eating and drinking, Zhao Yu also saw a few books. He suddenly remembered what the old man had said just now.

"There are a lot of magician's study books in the package, you can also take them to learn, and it can be regarded as my reward for you. ”

It seems that the old man is not talking nonsense, he does carry a lot of books on a certain legal profession. Zhao Yu picked up one of them and saw the word 'magician' on the cover.

It turns out that the old man is a magician! Zhao Yu recalled the image of the old man when he was still alive. It's just that he was still thinking about a question, what level is the old man's magician level in? Zhao Yu couldn't help but glance at the fire that was still burning vigorously.

Zhao Yu had never seen a book on magicians, because the tuition fees for this profession were too expensive. The profession of law has always been a subject specific to the wealthy. So when picking up the book, Zhao Yu was extremely careful as if he was holding some treasure. He also flipped through a few pages at random. It's just that he can't understand the text on it at all. He had no choice but to give up hastily for the time being.

He looked at the staff that the old man had given him. Even a layman like Zhao Yu knew that it was not an ordinary wooden staff. When the old man said it just now, he was sure that it was indeed a magician's staff.

Zhao Yu held the staff in both hands and shook it in front of him a few times. One moment he lifted it up and poked it upward, and the next he tilted it horizontally and tilted it left and right. It's just that he doesn't know anything about magic, so the staff is like a piece of waste wood to him.

He let out an 'oops' and put down his staff.

As for the black covered document bag. Zhao Yu picked it up. This 'thing' should be the most important, and the old man repeatedly told him to keep it. Zhao Yu would follow his advice until he met the female swordsman named Shen Mengting.

I wanted to put the document in the package, but considering its importance, Zhao Yu decided to keep it in a separate place. But what was the only place? He looked left and right, and finally turned his gaze to his chest.

Although he was soaked from falling into the water before, after so long tossing on the shore, his clothes were almost dry. So, he simply stuffed the document into the clothes on his chest.

After putting away the most important 'things', Zhao Yu began to pack up the package. He tied his bandage tightly and picked up the blue staff again. Standing up, Zhao Yu walked to the edge of the fire ball.

Nowadays, the fire is much smaller, but as long as people get close, they can still feel its heat.

"Grandpa, I'm leaving. The environment here is too dangerous. But don't worry, I will definitely do what you explain. ”

Zhao Yu clasped his hands together and bowed sincerely to the fire group. He hoped that the old man would bless him to walk out of this forest alive.

Looking around uneasily, Zhao Yu was about to leave. However, he had barely taken a few steps before he looked back at the ball of fire.

Who are you? Regarding the identity of the old man, Zhao Yu plans to ask Shen Mengting who may be able to meet in the future.

However, Zhao Yu had an intuition. Judging from just a little bit of contact, he felt that the old man had a strong momentum. Zhao Yu concluded that the old man was not an ordinary person. Moreover, he doesn't think that the old man is a bad person.

In this way, with doubts and incomprehension, Zhao Yu pondered how to leave this forest.

He had just fallen into the water and was swept away by the river here. So, as long as you follow the river against the current, can't you go to the original place?

Zhao Yu seemed to have a feeling of sudden enlightenment, at least with the river as a contrast, he was not afraid of getting lost. When you think about it this way, it seems that things are not that bad.

He began to walk. The package was behind him, and in his right hand he held the staff, which was slightly shorter than him. In the past, he had gone to the proving ground with a package and a weapon, so it was naturally no problem to carry a package and hold a staff. Moreover, the staff was much lighter than the sword.

I don't know what happened to the companions who came out with him now? I must be anxiously looking for it! Zhao Yu thought back to the scene when he first fell into the water.

However, Zhao Yu also knew that he had been floating in the river for a while before, so it would definitely be a long time before others would find him. But if you walk along the river, you can at least meet people who are looking for them. Zhao Yu's mood is still relatively optimistic.

He walked along the river, and he didn't know how long he had been walking, as he didn't have time to observe. But he can be sure that there will be at least more than an hour.

The difference between the pace of a person and the flow of the river is huge, and it may be a short time of floating, but it takes thousands or hundreds of steps to make up for it. Zhao Yu stopped and sighed, it seemed that it would take a lot of strength to get to the original place!

The sky seemed to be darkening rapidly, and the trees next to it were no longer green. Along with the blue sky, it gradually moved closer to fiery red.

It's over, it's going to be the rhythm of the night! Zhao Yu was no longer so optimistic, and his heart began to beat suddenly. The night is definitely not as safe as the day, and even if he doesn't have any experience in the wild, Zhao Yu has heard others say that wild beasts often haunt at night.

And the most important point is that he has been afraid of the dark since he was a child. It wasn't until he was twelve years old that he dared to sleep alone in a dark room. He used to sleep in the same bed with his mother.

The scene of sunset is becoming more and more obvious, and the fiery red light is constantly tearing across the sky, which seems to remind that the dusk is about to begin.

Zhao Yu became more and more uneasy, he suddenly increased his pace, and his breathing became extremely chaotic. He needed to get to the cliff before the sun set.

Finally, after walking briskly for a long time, he saw the waterfall that sounded like thunder.

He let out an 'ah' and ran towards the waterfall in delight. As long as they reached the waterfall, it proved that the cliff where their large army rested before was not far away.

However, it was only when he approached the waterfall that he realized that there was a very serious problem. There is a height difference of about a few meters between the upper and lower reaches of the waterfall, which is why the waterfall is formed. If Zhao Yu wants to reach the cliff through the waterfall, he must climb to the upper stream. But looking at the waterfall rushing down, Zhao Yu twitched his cheeks, thinking that it was impossible.

He took a few steps back and looked down at both sides of the falls. In fact, the entire land is faulted up and down, but because there is a river in the middle, the fault makes people feel so conspicuous.

He slammed his steps and pursed his lips as he looked at the cliff sloping above. The cliff is clearly at a distance that can be seen by the naked eye, but the location is on the opposite bank.

His heart was full of regret, and he reluctantly threw off his arm. I had already arrived at my destination, but I was blocked by a stinky waterfall. How would he get through it now?

He looked across the bank, and judging by the rushing river, he rejected the idea of crossing the bank first. Even if you want to reach the cliff, you have to go to the other side of the river. But Zhao Yu felt that as long as he got close to the cliff and roared, he could find a companion.

Zhao Yu guessed that some of his companions should stay in place, so that he could be well identified where he fell into the water.

Since he couldn't reach the other side and couldn't continue to get closer, Zhao Yu could only shout in front of the waterfall.

"Hey......" he casually threw down his staff, and put his hands to his mouth, forming a cover to prevent the sound from leaking out, "Yes...... Person...... At...... I'm ...... Be...... Zhao ...... Feather...... Ah......h Again...... Return...... Come...... Finish. You guys...... Someone...... Are you there?"

They yelled, but no one responded. Zhao Yu squinted his eyes, and he didn't see any movement from the cliff. He scratched his head helplessly, and a sense of irritability crept through his body again.

"Is everyone gone, don't you care about me?" Zhao Yu looked a little lost.

However, he soon discovered another problem. This is the closest point of the waterfall, and there is a lot of sound of running water. Even if there were really people on the cliff, they wouldn't be able to hear Zhao Yu's shouting here.

He still needed to get closer to the place where he fell into the water. Moreover, only by getting close to the point of falling into the water can you increase the chance of being found.

Well, that's it! Zhao Yu nodded to himself out of thin air. It's better to get to the other side of the cliff than to stay here. With this in mind, he thought about how to climb over the waterfall, which is about several meters high.

It is obviously unrealistic to climb directly, the stone wall is too steep, and if you suddenly fall down halfway through the climb, it will be a serious injury if you don't die. In this case, it will be too much to lose. So he still needed to find another way, and he tilted his head to look at the whole picture of the stone wall.

Gradually extending to the right along the stone wall, Zhao Yu found that the terrain he was on was rising with the right, I don't know if it was an illusion or something. Suddenly, as if in a flash of inspiration, he raised his eyebrows sharply. That's right, if you follow the stone wall, you can always reach the high place!

In fact, the stone wall here is also a cliff to put it bluntly, and when Zhao Yu looked around, he found that the terrain here was not flat at all, and a large number of cliff cliffs were intersecting each other at different heights. However, as the Gobi Desert extends, there are always points where the two sides converge. Therefore, as long as you walk along the Gobi, most of them can reach the top of the Gobi.

However, if you do this, it means going into the woods on the right. The woods were full of towering trees, and there were no wild beasts hiding in them. If you do enter it, there are many risks.

But......

Zhao Yu looked at the sky that was already a little gray. It's getting late, and it's getting dark. If you sit still and die, you will really have to spend the night in the woods.

So, he decided to take a gamble. Picking up his staff again, he turned his head to look to his right. After a long exhale, he ran at a rapid pace.

As fast as he could, he plunged headlong into the towering trees on his right.

......

I don't know how long I walked, and I don't know how many trees I had bypassed, Zhao Yu's strength was gradually weakening. His steps grew slower, as if he were about to fall at any moment.

Where the hell is this?, he cried out to himself. But this is just a waste of energy, and he is unlikely to get a single response.

At first, when he entered the woods, he was optimistic that he would soon find his way up the cliff, and even if he still hit a wall after walking for a while, he could choose to turn back and wait at the edge of the river again. But who would have thought that the truth was not as simple as he thought, after breaking into the interior of the woods, Zhao Yu was quickly stunned by the towering trees one by one. When I wanted to turn around and go back, I realized that I couldn't find my way back.

Panicked, he continued to explore the woods, but still couldn't find a way out. Even, because of the setting of the sun, he could not distinguish between the southeast and the northwest. Anyway, the woods at night are really terrible, and there are a few wild beasts from time to time when the lights are blind. Zhao Yu was so frightened that he cried several times, and he could only hide in a tree hole to barely survive.

By the next morning, he was able to figure out the general direction of the sun, but he never got out of the woods. He only felt as if there were only trees and weeds in the world, and he was blindly spinning around in one of the areas.

After walking for several days in a row, the way out was still so far away. And as his physical strength decreased, Zhao Yu's movements began to become sluggish. Although he did not give up and continued walking, it seemed that it was only a matter of time before he fell.

He didn't know why it had deteriorated to this point, but he did know one thing: he was completely lost in the woods.

Under the scorching midday sun, he struggled to walk among the trees like a zombie. He couldn't tell that it was noon on the first day, but he was sure that it wasn't a day or two.

He had drunk all the water in the leather kettle, and there was not much dry food left in the package. Now, he was tired and thirsty. There is no water source in the woods, so dry food becomes meaningless. Although he was glad that he had thought about bringing water before, now he regretted more about why he ventured.

If only he had waited by the river, he lowered his head.

The dryness of his mouth was protesting him, but there was nothing he could do. Pausing beside a tree, he held his hand on the thick trunk and gasped. His lips seemed to be chapped to the point of losing consciousness, and he let out a low 'hungry' cry and slapped the trunk again in frustration.

Unable to hold on, he slumped down the trunk of the tree and slid down. When the body is relaxed, the hands will naturally open unconsciously. In this way, the staff that was clenched at all also fell. He let out an 'oops' and pulled out the leather kettle from the package, which had long been empty.

Shaking the kettle in front of his eyes, he actually showed a weird smile. He opened the cap with his eyes out of focus, and lifted it high. With his mouth facing the spout, he kept shaking it.

However, not a drop of water came out of the kettle. He persevered for a long time until the smile on his face disappeared. In fact, he had done this many times before, that is, he kept deceiving himself that there was still water in the pot. But the reality is often very cruel, and not a drop of water is gone in the pot. Angry, he threw away the kettle. The kettle hit a tree across the street and bounced back to the ground. A 'click' sound spread through the forest.

'Am I going to die here?' Zhao Yu's expression was full of discouragement.

'Yes, you're going to die here,' seemed to come out of his head.

'No, I don't want to die. I'm still young and I have a lot to do. Also, I want to see my mother. If I die, who will take care of my mother! So, I can't die, I can't die.'"

Zhao Yu shook his head violently. Somewhere, he got the strength to get up again. The spirit of 'not wanting to die' supports him to move on, and the unparalleled desire to survive allows him to constantly overdraw his physical strength. Instinctively, he picked up his staff and package and began to run.

With the words 'I don't want to die, I don't want to die', he ran through the woods, sometimes striking the trees with the staff he held, making a slight 'drip' sound.

Even though Zhao Yu was trying his best to survive, reality was reality after all, and he didn't create a miracle to walk out of the woods. After a burst of rage, even greater prostration followed. His legs felt limp, as if he couldn't move anymore.

In fact, Zhao Yu still understands very well what it means for a person who has never had wild experience to get lost in the vast woods. Although he does not want to accept the facts, the loss of physical strength will eventually cause him to collapse.

From fierce spurt to strut, and then from strutuous trot to weak walking, he was really unable to hold on.

The scorching sun destroyed his facial skin, and Zhao Yu grinned blankly, his head slightly looking at the sky. Strange to say, the trees here are tall, but their foliage is not dense at all. This caused the scorching light source to scorch the earth, and it also made him, who was already a little dehydrated, feel that the heat source had run into his head.

He suddenly felt like he was about to retch, so he covered his mouth tightly and stopped. He shook violently a few times, but he couldn't vomit anything. He slowly lowered his hand, trying to summon his impatience. However, his brain seemed to have been short-circuited, and he had almost lost his judgment.

He didn't want to give up trying to survive, so he still held on to keep his body from falling. But now, he really can't lift his feet.

Zhao Yu clenched his staff and raised his head high, it seemed that he was more than lucky today. He will definitely die in this wood, and he may not even be able to save his corpse.

"Mom!" Zhao Yu shouted sourly

I don't know what my mother is doing now? A few days have passed, she should know that Zhao Yu has fallen into the water and disappeared! She must be anxiously looking for it! Mom! Zhao Yu's heart is like a wild boar crashing wildly.

Zhao Yu didn't dare to imagine that if he died, how would his mother face life alone? Thinking of this, his heart became more and more sour. There was a strong acid erosion near his eye sockets, but he couldn't shed a single tear.

Mom! he shouted those two words again. Zhao Yu was really unwilling to die like this. At the same time, the longing for his mother also surged out like a volcanic eruption.

The strength in the legs is gone, but there is still a little bit in the hands. He gritted his teeth and clenched his staff.

Mom, I'm sorry! Zhao Yu was like making a declaration, he knew that he had no chance at all.

However, he didn't seem to notice a thing. The staff in his left hand emitted a light source at this moment, which was a faint blue light. His clenching made both the exerted left arm and the staff being held tremble violently. The light source seemed to be increasing, and when it spread to the entire staff, it suddenly turned towards Zhao Yu's hand.

Zhao Yu was completely unaware of this situation, and he was still expressing his thoughts about his mother and his imminent death.

"Mom, goodbye!"

Finally, he raised his free right arm high and opened his palm to the fish-belly sky. As if trying to hold something, he lifted his right shoulder in pain.

When his strength was completely gone, Zhao Yu's body fell backwards. Goodbye! These three words were for his mother, for his friends, and for everything he had known for twenty years.

He was about to leave this world, and Zhao Yu's face completely changed to crying and mourning.

Suddenly, something weird happened. At the moment when he fell backwards, something happened to the arm facing the sky. A light source came out of nowhere, wrapping around his entire right arm.

Then, even more bizarrely, a small blue ball sprang out of his palm. The ball was thrust into the sky, grazing a dense foliage.

What's wrong? Is it an illusion? Zhao Yu stared firmly at the small ball that was rapidly merging with the sky.

After the ball flew to a certain height, it suddenly burst open. It's like a scattered firework, spreading into threads in the sky. In this way, the area where you can see it becomes infinitely wider.

It must be an illusion! When Zhao Yu attributed this strange scene to the phantom before death, he also felt a push on his back. That's due to falling to the ground.

He was still looking at the sky, and the threads had turned into spider webs. He curled the corners of his mouth miserably, and both the left hand that held the staff and the right hand that raised it to the sky relaxed.

The staff and his right arm landed at the same time, and he closed his eyes slightly.