Zhou Xiusheng saw that the old man was enthusiastic and polite, so he went into the house and drank a sip of water, and asked the old man: "Uncle, may I ask which city is the closest city from here?" ”

"The nearest city is Luoshan City, which is far from here! If you want to go out on foot, you have to climb over the two mountains in front of you, and it will take you more than a day to get there. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info," replied the old man.

Zhou Xiusheng was taken aback, he didn't expect this place to be so remote, the exits of these caves are all in very remote places, it shouldn't be a coincidence. The old man said about Luoshan City, in Zhou Xiusheng's impression, he had never heard of this city.

The old man walked to the stove and took out a steamed bun and a bowl of fish soup and said, "The young man hasn't eaten yet, has he?" Come and have a bite. ”

Zhou Xiusheng touched his pocket and said a little embarrassed: "Uncle, my backpack is lost, and now I have no penny on me." ”

The old man laughed and said: "Young man, there are usually few strangers in this place, there are more than 100 people in our village, little old man, I am single, and no one usually speaks. ”

Zhou Xiusheng thanked him for taking the steamed bread and fish soup, he hadn't eaten well for more than two days, and because he had just woken up, his body had been in a state of hunger, and when he smelled the aroma of food at this time, he couldn't be greedy, so he sat down and gobbled it up.

The old man looked at him eating with a smile and said, "I'm going to Luoshan City tomorrow to sell fish, if you are not in a hurry, you can go with me, we will take the waterway, it will only take half a day to arrive." ”

Zhou Xiusheng thought for a while, nodded and said, "Then I'm going to trouble the old man tonight!" ”

The old man said, "Haha, you can rest here in peace." After the two chatted for a while, he gave a few more words and went out fishing.

After the old man left, Zhou Xiusheng sat in the room and touched different parts of his body with his hands, with a puzzled expression. In fact, he agreed to the old man to stay here because he suddenly noticed something abnormal in his body during the meal.

Zhou Xiusheng has awakened, and according to the experience of the school professors, after awakening, the essence will automatically gather in Tengsnake Mansion, Taiyin Mansion, Liuhe Mansion, White Tiger Mansion, Xuanwu Mansion, Nine Heavens Mansion and Nine Earth Mansion. After Zhou Xiusheng ate a few bites of food just now, he felt that in addition to these eight places, there were many places in his body that had gathered essence at the same time, which made him puzzled.

He didn't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing, but it was definitely not normal, because he had never heard of it before, and someone could gather essence in more than eight places in his body. He closed his eyes and carefully experienced the changes in his body, Teng Snake Mansion, Taiyin Mansion, Liuhe Mansion, White Tiger Mansion, Xuanwu Mansion, Jiutian Mansion and Jiudi Mansion are concentrated in the head, chest, abdomen and heart, Zhou Xiusheng felt that in addition to these eight mansions at the moment, the phenomenon of essence gathering in different positions on the shoulders, back, arms and legs also appeared at the same time, counting carefully, there were as many as 56 places, plus Teng Snake Mansion and other eight mansions, there were a total of 64 places in the body to gather essence.

Zhou Xiusheng sat down cross-legged, placed his hands on his knees, and visualized the starry sky map according to the memory in his mind. This is the first time he has visualized after awakening, and at the beginning he felt completely different from before, and he could clearly feel that the 64 parts of his body were gathering essence, which was a mysterious and mysterious feeling, and the 64 positions in his body seemed to be separated and unrelated, but when he felt it carefully, he could find that these positions were echoing each other from afar, and the essence was constantly surging towards the 64 positions between one breath and one inhalation, endlessly.

Time flies in the visualization, and it was not until the old man came home in the evening that Zhou Xiusheng stopped the visualization, and after dinner, Zhou Xiusheng slept in the guest room.

I don't know how long I slept, Zhou Xiusheng felt a cold, touched his hands, and found that the surroundings were full of water, he opened his eyes, but there was a black hole all around, and he couldn't see anything, he waved his hands and desperately grabbed around, and touched a stone wall, both front and back, surrounding himself, he screamed, but only heard the echo of his voice, no one responded to himself, he desperately climbed up, the hole was very high as if he couldn't climb to the top, at this moment, a rumbling sound came, the rock at the top of the cave pressed down, closer and closer to him, Getting closer, he struggled desperately, but to no ava......il.

In one room, suddenly "Ah! With a bang, Zhou Xiusheng sat up suddenly, his head was covered with sweat, his face was pale, panting, and he glanced around, and the sparse moonlight shone in through the crack in the door and crawled on the edge of the bed. He then remembered that he had stayed at someone else's house, and that he had a nightmare just now, and another dream about that claustrophobic little hole, and this was the second time.

Zhou Xiusheng touched the sweat on his forehead and smiled bitterly. At this moment, he heard someone shouting outside the window, and he didn't care about it at first, but it didn't take long for the noise outside to get louder and louder, and he heard the old man sleeping next door also get up and open the door and go out. He was vigilant, and a carp stood upright, dressed and stood by the window, looking out through the small slit by the window.

Dozens of villagers gathered at the entrance of the village, shouting and saying something, but they had no weapons in their hands. Due to the distance, Zhou Xiusheng didn't see it clearly, but it seemed that their goal was not themselves. He decided to go out and have a look and figure out what was going on.

Zhou Xiusheng opened the door and walked out, and walked to the entrance of the village, the villagers were all saying the words collapse and waterfall, which surprised him, could it be that the villagers found the cave behind the waterfall, or did someone chase it from the dark river?

At this time, the old man saw Zhou Xiusheng come out, greeted him and said, "Young man, you are really lucky, you went to see the waterfall for the last time yesterday, and you will never see it again!" ”

Zhou Xiusheng asked in surprise, "What do you mean?" ”

"That waterfall didn't know what was going on, it suddenly collapsed!" The old man replied.

The villagers organized some people to go to the waterfall to have a look, and Zhou Xiusheng followed them. A group of people walked to the waterfall, approached with torches, only to see that the original waterfall was gone, scattered with a large amount of broken rock, and what was even more strange was that the collapsed place was not only a waterfall, but extended upwards along the direction of the river, and half a mile upstream of the waterfall, it collapsed out of a huge pond. Only Zhou Xiusheng knew that it was originally the place of the big cave.

Zhou Xiusheng crossed the pond and walked up again, and collapsed until this point, but he knew in his heart that the underground cave was completely finished, and even if it was not filled with rocks, it would be completely submerged by water.

Zhou Xiusheng shouted in his heart that he was lucky, if he came out half a day late, maybe he would be buried in it, and it would be difficult for the gods to save him at that time. But after thinking about it, it doesn't seem to be a good thing, originally this secret passage was only known to me, and I could freely shuttle between the Eastern Han Alliance and the Feimeng Empire, but now I have no choice but to honestly figure out this place first, and then find a way to go back.

Early the next morning, Zhou Xiusheng got on the old man's boat, set off to Luoshan City together, the wind and the sun were beautiful all the way, the lush trees on both sides of the river nodded to the people in the wind, there were many birds here, there were a few pleasant birdsong in the ears from time to time, the mountain flowers bloomed all over the banks of the river, and a flower fragrance floated on the river surface. Zhou Xiusheng didn't enjoy such a beautiful view, he felt very tired at the moment, and his body didn't know what was wrong, when he went to bed at night, as long as he fell asleep, he would have that strange dream.

The old man was very interested, it seemed that the collapse of the waterfall did not affect him, he was very familiar with every grass and tree here, all the way to Zhou Xiusheng to introduce the landscape here, Zhou Xiusheng nodded and coped, in fact, he was not in the mood to listen to these at the moment, he just wanted to find out what kind of place this place was. Yesterday he was afraid that the old man would be suspicious, so he didn't ask carefully, but now is a good time, and he kept knocking on the side, and finally figured out where the place he was in was.

This is the northwest of the Western Zhou Alliance, with many hills and rivers, because it cannot be cultivated, so it is sparsely populated and belongs to the underdeveloped areas of the Western Zhou Alliance. The largest city within a radius of 100 miles is Luoshan City. Zhou Xiusheng thought to himself, no wonder he hadn't heard of Luoshan City before, it turned out that this was the Western Zhou Alliance.

The Western Zhou Alliance is an ally of the Eastern Han Federation, and it belongs to the Northern Bright Camp, and even the language and currency of the two countries are the same. The geographical location is to the west of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the north of the Yanhuang Empire. The political system of this country is very strange, it is a predominantly business-oriented country, and it is very free. In the words of the Federation, in the Western Zhou Alliance, everything can be bought with money, and even this country does not have a special army, and the main force fighting against the empire is mercenaries.

Zhou Xiusheng originally wanted to ask more about Luoshan City, but the old man only came to Luoshan City occasionally, and every time he came to Luoshan City, he only knew about the fish market, and he didn't know much about other situations in the city. He couldn't, he had to make plans after he arrived in Luoshan City.

The boat passed through the hills, and after half a day's sailing, it finally came to the outside of Luoshan City. However, Zhou Xiusheng was very disappointed, it was not so much a city as a town, and the size was less than one-third of the bronze city.

Fortunately, there are a lot of people coming and going, after all, this is the largest resource exchange place within a radius of 100 miles, and after saying goodbye to the old man, Zhou Xiusheng walked towards the city of Luoshan City.

The roads in the city are very narrow, paved with stone slabs, twisted and curved, lined with low-rise buildings, all of which are old brick houses, and there are a few particularly tall buildings in the center of the streets, the walls of which have been turned gray by the wind and rain, and even some of the stucco has peeled off from them, which looks like they are some years old.