The next day was another beautiful morning, as beautiful and fresh as everyone had dreamed, with no clouds in the sky and the sun shining on the pure water. With the blessing of all, they rode across the ocean, ready for greater adventures, and knew that they were about to enter the mist and go to the great wilderness west of the mountain.

There are many paths leading into the mountains, and many trails leading over the mountains, but most of them are just deceptive ideas, and more are full of spirit traps that can be a headache for even the best psychics. Foretold by Andorran magic, they have struggled to get on the right path.

For a long time after they left the green hills, they still kept climbing. The road is very difficult and rugged, which can be a bit distracting. At this point, they looked back at the places they had left before, and they had been left far behind, and everything in their vision had melted into the blue horizon. It was getting colder and colder, and the cold wind blowing through the cracks in the rocks was getting more and more severe, and sometimes, the spring sun would melt the snow on the mountain, and many large rocks would fly over their heads. At night, the wind was bitterly cold, and everyone did not dare to speak loudly, or even sing, not even the harmonica of Genesis.

"Shuguo must be getting hotter and hotter, everyone must have started drying millet and going out for picnics. At this rate, the farmers will probably start harvesting, planting, and picking the fruit before we cross the mountain. "Others are just as unoptimistic, and while they do have a lot of time, the weather is insurmountable.

"Maybe it's the Moon Festival when we arrive at that special spirit circle!" said the four of the Fog Nation.

Andorra shook his head at this time, not saying a word, he didn't know anything about this road, even if he had a lot of experience in adventure, but no one knew how many evils and dangers were experienced in this continent where the human race had never set foot in it. He didn't dare to expect the group to cross the snow-covered mountain range unscathed and easily. Indeed, as he expected, everything went well, until one day, they encountered a storm. In fact, it's not just a storm, it's a huge thunderstorm. That night, thunder and lightning were in the mountains, more terrible than the storm around the sea of Ray Island, two great storms tore the sky apart from each other, lightning struck the lonely peaks, and the mountains shook with it, and the deafening thunder mercilessly burrowed into all the caves and crevices, and the darkness was full of noise and sudden light.

Wu Guang had never seen or even imagined such a scene in his life, trapped between the towering mountain walls, barely able to find a huge stone on top in the dark night for protection, and under the protection of Andorra's magical white magic, they could only tremble and huddle in the blanket.

"It won't work like this!" said Honglushan, "in this kind of ghostly weather, the spirit magic is not good, it will take a lot of effort to force our way through this storm, and we must leave all our luggage and packages behind." ”

"What's more, our good friend, Mr. Wu Guang, the world's greatest novelist, can only be left behind. Autumn Wind said jokingly.

"That won't work, our heroic deeds must be recorded—we can't let the great novelist run away—" said Genesis.

"You can't use spiritual magic, can't you use magic? Dali and Erni asked.

"Well, if you know that space displacement magic requires setting up magic circles in both places, and I haven't been to the road ahead, then space displacement magic will only teleport us to a place that ghosts don't know about. "Andorra is very frustrated.

"Looks like we're just waiting for this damn storm to end. Leng Wu said.

"It shouldn't be a bad thing to stay here for a while, after all, there have been worse situations in the past," Jiuyun said.

"That's all there is to it. Yokozo said.

In the end, the three sisters suggested that they should first find a good shelter, preferably a dry, warm, and high place. Soon, the detective-savvy Ninchi went out to find a cave that met their standards.

Soon, the Fog Countryman, who was good at sneaking on rainy nights, returned silently. "There's a dry cave nearby," he said, "and just a short distance from the next turn, where horses and all the people can go in." ”

"Have you thoroughly investigated the cave?" said Genesis, wary.

"Yes, really. However, everyone knew that he was coming back too quickly and that it was impossible to spend much time inside. "Actually, the people of the Fog Country are good at moving forward in the rain, and our skin is suitable for cold and wet environments. ”

Caves are always the most dangerous part of the adventure: no one knows what will happen inside, or where the passage will lead, or what awaits inside. But they felt it was a better option than to stay under the cracks in the rocks, so they immediately packed up their things and prepared to leave. The wind was still strong, the lightning was howling, and under the protection of white magic, lightning swept past them. After not going far, a large rock protruded, and around the big stone, there was an opening in the mountain wall, and the people entered the dry cave. The wind and rain outside didn't sound so bad, and the thunder and lightning were much quieter, but Andorra didn't take any chances, he used his magic to light his staff and explore the entire cavern with the light.

The cave looks huge, but it's not so big that it doesn't go deep. The ground was dry beneath their feet, and there was room for the horses at the other end, and they stood meekly there, munching on the grass on the ground. The three sisters of the Dragon Kingdom opened their veins and quietly used the heat generated by the release of the spirit magic to bake their soaked clothes. But Andorra used magic to do it for everyone, and a huge circle was created under everyone's feet, and when the strange light was released, everyone's dirty and soaked clothes became very clean, dry and comfortable.

Then they lit a fire and brought out the food they had brought with them and ate it. Genesis took out the silver harmonica, Honglushan took out his own flute, and Qiu Feng took out a bamboo flute from his package. The three sisters of Long Guo and Dali of Sha Guo chatted happily with Erni, Leng Wu, Ming Qi and Jiu Yun also talked and laughed, Andorra, Wu Guang and Heng San sat together, Wu Guang excitedly discussed the scene in the novel he had conceived, and just like that, they completely forgot about the wind and rain outside.

That night, for some reason, Wu Guang always couldn't sleep, and when he fell asleep, he kept having nightmares. He dreamed of a crack at the back of the cave, Yue Bin was getting bigger and wider, and he was so scared that he didn't know what to do, so he could only look at it helplessly. Then the floor under his feet just sinked like this, like a broken mirror, and the fragments of the dream were everywhere, and he kept falling and falling, and no one knew where it would fall......

As soon as he dreamed of this, he immediately woke up and found that the crack at the back of the cave had formed a passage, and all the horses had disappeared into the passage. Of course, he roared with all his might, and the sleeping crowd woke up immediately.

"What's going on? Is the enemy coming? We need to move quickly—" Andorra reacted.

"No, the horses have fled through the cracks. Wu Guang pointed to the crack and said sadly: "We have no ponies, no food, and we don't know where we are......!

"That's right, when the storm outside has stopped, the sun will come out and we must get out of this place. Genesis said.

"Yes, we didn't let our guard down when we were resting, and if it were normal, we would have felt the movement of the horses, but in fact we didn't—" said Autumn Wind.

"There is only one possibility, someone or a demon clan is doing something wrong in some way. Hong Lushan said, "Moreover, the strength of this person is definitely not below any of us." ”

"Oh my God, who's still behind us?" said the poor tree-nation man with a frightened mouth.

"It's not a strange thing, Mr. Wu Guang, when looking for treasure, you will always meet a lot of competitors, after all, everyone wants to find treasure. "Said vigorously.

"The men who got our horses away should be on their way, they are trying to slow us down, their goal is to reach the tomb of the Black and White Emperor before us. Erni said.

"Then let them die first. Hengsan said coldly, "This group of people who don't know whether they are dead or alive." ”

The adventuring team unanimously agreed that they should rest now, although the loss of their horses, it did not prevent these twelve vein gate spirit masters from advancing, the only one who could kill could only be Wu Guang, and it was not easy for him to travel long distances without being able to open the vein.

A long night followed, and the crowd fell asleep.

When Wu Guang closed his eyes, he wondered if he really closed his eyes, because he found that no matter how he closed his eyes, the picture still existed in front of him, nothing changed, but there was no one near him. He couldn't hear or see anything, he couldn't feel anything but the floor beneath his feet, the gray sky.

He got up very, very slowly, groped with all fours, and managed to stabilize his center of gravity, but he could not feel anything up and down: nothing! no howling wind, no shining thunder, he felt that everything was so peaceful that he forgot who he was. He could only barely look in a random direction, and then walked in that direction for a long distance until his hand suddenly touched the metal body of the cold ring. He subconsciously put away the ring, sat down in place, and recalled the happy life he once had: his romantic mother, his father who only chattered about gold and silver treasures, the omelet rice at home, and the time when he sat in the courtyard in front of the door writing novels and enjoying afternoon tea, these thoughts only made him feel more pitiful.

He didn't know what was going on, he couldn't think of what to do, or was he abandoned by Andorra and they were all gone?

After a long period of self-pity, he began to fumble with his notebook and pen, but to his surprise, his pocket was empty, and his last illusions were shattered. As he regained his senses, he found his way through the darkness.

"I can't go back!" he said, "I can't go back, I have to go on, go on, this is the only hope, go on." So he took a step in the hybrid, his heart pounding.