Section 3 The Gatekeeper of Nanshan

The barren mountains and wild villages, the dark night, the terrifying sounds, and the irregular sound of the wind outside made the prince's heart tighten at once.

His palms were full of sweat, and the prince heard the sound of the bed in the house next to him, and felt that someone was getting up, but there was no footsteps, and the bell rang for a while, and the lights in the house went out at the same time, and the prince suddenly covered his head with a quilt, hiding inside and not daring to look outside, only in this way could he get a little sense of security.

Si~, the prince heard the sound of inhaling in the room, and as soon as the sound fell, the prince felt that his ankle seemed to be touched, so frightened that the prince wanted to close his feet but was afraid of attracting the attention of the other party, and the prince at this moment could only close his eyes and continue to pretend to sleep.

Whew~ The sound seemed to come from his ears, and there was even a cold air hitting his face, and the prince with his eyes closed felt that there was a pair of eyes staring at him outside his eyelids, but the prince would not dare to open his eyes, even if his head was covered in the quilt, he still sensed that the thing was staring at him directly above his eyelids.

After waiting for about five minutes, the prince felt relieved, without the feeling of oppression just now, as if the thing was gone, the prince slowly opened his eyes, saw that he was still in the quilt, hesitated and picked a slit in the quilt.

Through the gap, the prince saw the kind light, and this time he relaxed completely, and opened the quilt to find that everything in the room was the same as when he came in, except that it seemed to be raining outside.

It's normal for the humidity in the mountains to be heavy and rainy. The experience just now made the prince feel like he had taken a bath, and it would still be wet, but fortunately, the matter had passed, and the prince adjusted his mentality a little and felt sleepy, so he continued to fall asleep, and this time he slept until dawn.

When the prince woke up, he found that it was already bright outside, and looked at the watch he had brought with him, and it was already eight o'clock in the morning.

The prince folded the quilt and got off the kang, and was very embarrassed to stay at someone else's house for one night, although he did not see the owner of the house, but the prince still took out fifty yuan and put it on the table, and wrote it on a note

"Spend one night, this fifty yuan is the room money, thank you!", he wrote this sentence without leaving his name.

When he had done all this, the prince set out with his big bag on his back, and as he was leaving, he closed the door to the house, as he had seen it for the first time, and did not think at all about what had happened last night.

Walking along the path of the village, out of the village is the road into the mountain, this road does not look very easy to walk, the road is overgrown with weeds on both sides, only the middle can be walked, the prince stepped on this mountain road, began to enter the mountain.

The road looks difficult to walk, but it is steady to walk, the solid stone paved path, the foot is very strong, into the mountain, the insects and birds began to sound, the prince will be a lot more relaxed, at least feel that with the company of small animals, it is not lonely.

The prince had been walking for about three hours when he saw a pavilion in front of him, and in the center of the pavilion stood a stone tablet with the words written on it

"Nanshan Gatekeeper" is a few big words. There was a fork in the road in front of the pavilion, and the prince didn't know which way to go.

When he walked to the pavilion, the prince stared at the words on the stone tablet, wondering why Nanshan still had a gatekeeper, why he had never heard anyone mention it before.

Now the biggest question is which of these two roads should I take, do you want me to try one by one?

"Bang, bang" The prince was startled, it was almost like a soul, and when the prince was thinking about the problem, I don't know who suddenly stretched out a hand and patted the prince's shoulder, which made the prince startled fiercely.

The prince turned around and saw an old man who was nearly seventy years old, and the old man looked at the prince with a smile and asked,

"Kid, where are you going?"

"I'm going to the heart of the Lingnan Mountains," replied the prince with a quiet pause.

"In the barren mountains and wilderness, you little baby is going to go into the mountains, what about your parents", the old man asked again.

Prince: "I just went into the mountains to look for my parents, and they asked me to come to the Nanling Mountains to find them, and I don't know where to get to the Nanling Mountains now."

Oh, and such a strange parent, the old man muttered as he looked the prince up and down, and suddenly his expression jumped, as if he had found something.

After a pause, the old man said to the prince: "I am the gatekeeper of Nanshan, I have lived here for almost fifty years, and today is the first time I have seen such a strange thing, or not, since it is your parents who let you go into the mountain to find them, then I will tell you the way."

When the prince heard this, he hurriedly smiled and thanked the old man,

"From the right side of the road, you can reach the center of the Nanling Mountains, and you can reach Sichuan Mansion and Yungui after crossing the center of the Nanling Mountains, but this road is very evil, do you want to go", the old man said solemnly to the prince.

"Evil sect, how can it be, I am not afraid of any difficulties, I will definitely be able to reach the place where my parents are and find them."

The prince is actually a little weak when he talks about things, but he can only hold on to it. I thought the old man was weird, and I stared at my hand again, but there was nothing in my hand.

It was still important to hurry, and after saying goodbye to the old man, the prince continued to walk along the road on the right, and before he knew it, he had been walking for four or five hours, and it was already evening, and the mountains and forests were slowly becoming quiet, and the sound of insects and birds just now had stopped abruptly, and even the birds could not be seen, and the world suddenly became quiet again.

The quieter the environment, the more unsettling it feels, as if danger is slowly approaching.