Chapter 178: Righteous Words

There is no rain on the mountain road, and the empty green is wet.

The original meaning of the poem is-

There was no rain on the mountain paths, but the green mountains were so thick that they seemed to wet people's clothes.

There was a lot of humidity in the mountains, and not long after the four of Jin An entered the mountain, they were wet by the moisture in the mountains.

Jin An is okay, the black mountain gong of fire poison and internal qi in the body is steamed, and the clothes evaporate and become dry again.

It was tired of the old Taoist priest and Li Guard.

One is an ordinary person.

One is a greasy and greasy big fat man.

The clothes are almost wet.

The two of them were quite a kind of fallen people at the end of the world, and they followed Jin An and Sharpening Sword with the same disease, so tired that their whole bodies were wet, a little embarrassed, and they didn't know whether they were tired and sweaty, or soaked by the moisture in the mountains.

Because there is an old Taoist priest, a traveling Taoist priest, several people carry the old Taoist secret insect repellent pills with them, shuttling in the dense forest, but they are not harassed by mosquitoes, leeches, and poisonous insects.

It's just that Jin'an and they have now encountered a thorny problem.

The shrubs in the mountains cover the sun, the dense forests are thick, Jin'an and they are lost, and they have been wandering around the mountains for a long time and have not found a hanging road.

Although there is the guidance of the Sun Pingshi brothers.

But Jin'an and they are outsiders.

It was the first time to enter the Wushanling Mountains.

People have poor perception of direction in the mountains, and there may be a small deviation, which leads to the more you work on the wrong road, the more wrong you are, and it is not too uncommon to take a fork in the road without paying attention.

"Old Dao, you wait for me where you are, I'll find a high place and identify where we are in the mountains. ”

When Jin An's words fell, people were like monkeys running through the sky, and they were agile enough to climb the crown of the tallest ancient tree nearby.

When Jin An jumped up the canopy, a large number of birds were startled in the nearby secluded mountain forest, covering the sky and the sun, and a tiger roar was heard.

Creation Zhong Shenxiu, yin and yang cut dusk.

Swing your chest and give birth to Zeng Yun, and decide to return to the bird.

It will be the top of the mountain, and the mountains will be seen at a glance.

Condescending to overlook the boundless green ocean at his feet, Jin An'an was agitated, thinking that the artistic conception in the poem was nothing more than this.

Jin An, who was agitated, jumped in the crown of the tree like a light hong, his figure was elegant, free and easy, and he stepped on the clouds and mist of the mountains and forests under his feet, such as the Taoist masters in the mountains were flying in the clouds and fog, and they jumped out of the canopy for two or three miles in one breath, and then they heard the sound of rushing water.

Leaping out of the place for another mile, he finally saw the tributary of the Yinyi River that flowed through the mountains.

This tributary flows from top to bottom, pouring down from the mountains and finally into the main road of the Yinyi River, which is one of several important sources of water for the Yinyi River.

After touching about half a stick of incense, Jin An turned back and continued to take the others on his way.

According to the guidance of Sun Pingshi and his brothers, they said that after entering the mountain, they first found this tributary of the Yinyi River, and then followed this big river upstream.

When you see a dead tree that has been broken by lightning, you start walking in the direction of the back sun, and it won't be long before you can see the hanging road.

Because Sun Ping and Zhao Youcai followed the Tiejuan Dao people and entered the mountains many times, they were already familiar with the environment in the mountains, and they may only take half a day to walk.

But for Jin'an, who came to Jinshan Town for the first time, they walked for most of the day before they finally found a hanging road.

When he saw the cliff road standing on the mountain wall like a ghostly axe, the old Taoist priest who had old arms and legs trembled.

"It is said that businessmen are mercenary, and I don't know how those businessmen in the past had the courage to discover this shortcut to Cangshan Mansion. ”

"Little brother, do you think such a cliff and mountain road is really a natural formation? Or did those foot merchants dig it out themselves?"

Jin An did not immediately answer the words of the old Taoist.

He first looked up at the sky above him.

The shrubs in the mountains are luxuriant, the canopies are open, and the sky in the mountains is darker than outside, and the mountains are drowsy, but the sun has not yet set outside.

Then, under Jin An's leading exploration, a group of four people began to walk on the suspended road.

The order of the teams is Jin An, Old Taoist, Li Guard, and Sharpening Sword.

The old Taoist priest with old arms and legs was protected in the middle of the team.

After walking on the cliff road, Jin An answered the old Taoist's question: "In my opinion, half of this suspended road should be formed naturally, and half of it was dug by the villagers of Taoyuan Village themselves. ”

"I don't know how many years ago, Taoyuan Village had not yet become a headless village, and it should indeed be a village of living activities. The ancestors of these people fled to the mountains and forests to escape the war. ”

"After a long time of escaping, the descendants must have thought about getting out of the mountains, so generation after generation, like Yugong moving mountains, slowly carved the steep cliff road on the steep mountain wall, little by little, so there is this hanging road. ”

The reason why Jin An said this was because he saw traces of artificial excavation on this cliff road, which was not naturally formed by the weathering of the mountain.

And this example of artificially chiseled mountain roads like Jin An said, in ancient times when traffic was blocked, abounded, and it was not unusual.

Jin An pointed to a few traces of artificial excavation on the cliff road and said, and then continued to walk forward: "It's just that I don't know what happened later, the whole village is dead, maybe because the village is too closed, and the whole village is extinct due to intermarriage, or maybe it is because of other special changes that lead to extinction......

"However, I prefer that Taoyuan Village died in a special accident. ”

As I walked, I said that when I reached the middle section, because the mountain became complicated, the cliff road began to become more and more difficult to walk, and the slope became more and more steep.

The old Taoist priest was afraid of heights, and he didn't dare to look down at his feet, and he wanted to lie on the sloping mountain wall like a gecko.

But as the cliff road becomes more and more difficult, it often takes a long time to move out of five steps, one zhang, the old Taoist priest couldn't help but look down at the cliff at his feet, the person's legs were weak, and he almost didn't grasp the cliff and fell down, but fortunately, Jin An's eyes were quick and he helped the old Taoist priest in time.

"Old Dao, since you are afraid of heights, don't look down at your feet, the more you look at your feet, the more you are afraid of heights. Jin An said.

"My mother, little brother, you say that people who are afraid of heights, why do you always have the urge to jump down when standing on a high place? I was scared to death just now, thanks to the little brother, you pulled the old way me, otherwise the little brother you will have to wait another eighteen years to see the old man me again. ”

The old Taoist priest said with palpitations.

Jin An continued to walk in front of the road to explore the way, and casually explained: "People have a subconscious of self-protection to avoid evil, when people are in the air and look down at the ground under their feet, the subconscious will tell us that it is dangerous to stand in a high place, and it is safest to leave the dangerous high place and quickly be down-to-earth." ”

"So when you stand on a high place, you always have the urge to jump. ”

The old Taoist priest listened to Jin An's words, and his face became even more bitter: "This is down-to-earth, and I think the old Taoist is falling into meat puree." ”

"In the end, the tigers and beasts in the mountains became excrement. ”

Jin An nodded in agreement, but did not refute the old Taoist's words: "This seems to be called visual deviation." ”

"So sometimes seeing is not necessarily believing, and you have to learn to judge yourself. ”

In order to distract the old Taoist priest, Jin An didn't let the old Taoist always worry about looking down at his feet, and he was chatting with the old Taoist priest all the way to distract the latter.

Flowing and dripping –

The slanting wind was mixed with drizzle, and it actually rained in the mountains.

The rain came and went away, and it didn't take long for the rain to clear again.

That's the weather in the mountains.

Sunny and rainy, capricious.

The mountain road after the rain became more slippery and dangerous, Jin An shouted to pay attention to his feet, and after being more careful, he led the way more cautiously in front.

Fortunately, there was only a short section of the steep cliff road, and the four of them quickly bypassed this road, and the next road became a smooth road again.

Of course.

The smooth road here is only relative to the most dangerous part of the road before.

Even if it is a smooth road, it is still narrow and difficult to walk, and there are falling rocks from the top of the head from time to time.

"Daoist Jin'an, did you say that the villagers in Taoyuan Village just walked this mountain road, and their heads were hit by falling rocks on the mountain above their heads, and their heads were opened one by one, and they became red, so they became headless corpses?"

Escort Li, who was walking in the penultimate part of the team, said on a whim.

"Not to mention, I really think it's possible. ”

The more Li Huwei thought about it, the more he felt that he was getting smarter, and this might be very possible.

Li Huwei is also a martial arts practitioner, so this cliff road is easy for Li Huwei, who is stable in the next game.

It's the big belly that suffers with him, the cliff road is narrow and difficult to walk, and the belly of the big belly is in the position of the clothes, when he was lying on the steep slope of that section of the slope just now, he wore out a large piece of cloth, exposing his belly and being blown cold by the mountain wind.

The old Taoist priest, who was originally afraid of heights and nervous, was amused by Escort Li's words: "Then the villagers of Taoyuan Village are not in a bad brain, they are lined up and waiting to be smashed by falling stones, and this falling stone is just impartially hitting people's heads." ”

Li Huwei actually thought very seriously: "Maybe they really have evil in their brains, lined up and waiting to be smashed by falling stones?"

Flowing and dripping –

Li Huwei's words had just fallen, and it was raining rapidly again in the mountains that had only been clear for a long time.

Li Huwei was shocked.

"As soon as you say evil spirit, there will be a rain immediately, this rain should not be an evil rain, right?"

But the rain soon stopped again.

In the end, before dark, a group of four people successfully walked out of the cliff road, and they were safe and sound along the way.

There were no accidents.

I haven't even touched a headless village.

The cliff road is halfway up the mountain, standing halfway up the mountain and looking at the vast mountains and forests under the sunset, the lush forest sea can not be seen at a glance, and there is no trace of the village at all.

If you stand on a high place, you can't find where Taoyuan Village is, so after going down the mountain, you can find the location of Taoyuan Village, once you lose the advantage of overlooking the high ground, you can't find it.

Next, several people changed to several different positions, overlooking the vast forest sea under their feet, and still found nothing.

On the contrary, after such a delay, the sky became darker and darker.

When night falls, it is no longer suitable to find a village, there is no way to go down, so you can only find a leeward place to spend the night.

Eventually, they found a place to be leeward, a naturally occurring hollow with a large protruding rock, which could be used to protect them from the rain if it rained again in the mountains.

And after being so busy, the world has completely darkened, the mountains and forests are quiet, and it is pitch black in the distance, and only vague dark shadows can be seen.

In the mountains and forests after nightfall, the whistling apes cry one after another in the dark, as if the man-eating mandrill is staring at the blue eyes in the world to forage for food.

Cracking sound.

Under the rocks, a bonfire was lit with firewood collected by several people.

A few people sat around the campfire, baking dry food, and the night was silent, and Jin An asked Escort Li to retell the story about Headless Village, the story of the group of foot merchants who had no intention of breaking into Headless Village.

This time, he asked Li Escort to explain carefully, not to omit the details, maybe from the story of the gang of foot merchants, he could find clues on how to enter the headless village.

Anyway, now the dry food is hard, and it hasn't been roasted yet, so the bored Li Huwei told the story he told last time again.

Who knows, when Li Huwei finished telling the story and was about to eat dry food, Jin An asked Li Huwei to tell it again.

“?”

Li Huwei looked at the dry food in his hand when he wanted to eat but couldn't, and in the end he still couldn't refute Jin An, and repeated it again.

......

Jin An: "Say it again. ”

Li Huwei: "?"

......

Jin An: "Say it again. ”

Li Huwei: "!"

......

Jin An: "Say it again. ”

Li Huwei was desperate.

He snorted, this time he didn't care about anything, he was hungry, gobbling up the baked cake in his hand, and then told the story again in a slurred mouth.

At this time, even the old Taoist priest looked at Jin An suspiciously and asked what happened to Jin An?

Jin An tossed Li Guard so much, naturally he was not an idle man who was bored to play tricks on others, he always had the illusion that he had a flash of inspiration but couldn't catch it.

It always felt like he had overlooked some important details.

That's why he will Li Escort repeat it over and over again.

And just now, he finally figured out where he had overlooked.

Jin An suddenly got up.

Get out of the dodging convex stone.

He stood on the edge of the cliff, frowning at the dark mountain forest where he could not see anything at his feet.

Then he looked up at the sky again.

The expression on his face was pensive.

"What's wrong with the little brother?"

"Did you make any key discoveries?"

At this time, the old Taoist priest, Li Huwei, and Sharpening Sword all cared about coming.

Jin An groaned: "I do have some discoveries, but it is still just a conjecture, and we still need to wait for verification." ”

"I don't know if you remember a detail? Headless Village only appears in the rainy season, the day when the gang of foot merchants met Headless Village happened to be a rainy day, and it just rained the day before yesterday, and last night the Iron Scroll Daoist and they found the headless corpses of the Wang brothers when they entered the mountain......

"Rain!"

"Rain is key!"

Jin An looked up at the sky, he was waiting for the rain.

......

......

Whoop –

Whoa, whoa, whoa—

In the second half of the night, a rapid heavy rain came, and the raindrops of soybeans crackled on the mountain wall, and the wind was hurried, and the rain was hurried.

Fortunately, Jin'an and they found a convex stone on a leeward ground in advance to spend the night, so the bonfire was not extinguished by the rain.

As soon as he saw the rain, Jin An's eyes lit up, and he did not fall asleep, but he was always vigilant and vigil, and he walked out of the big stone to block the rain as soon as possible.

A magical scene happened, and the rain fell on Jin An's body, and it all evaporated into light smoke in an instant.

On the surface of Jin'an's body, there is a layer of protective gas covering like a black shirt, high-temperature fire poison and internal gas.

The fire poison was shaped like a black fire cloth cloth covering Jin An's body.

Once the rain from the outside world is close to the body, it is all evaporated into mist by the fire poison internal gas of the black shirt, and from a distance, Jin An, who is wearing a five-color Taoist robe, is like an ethereal immortal who retreats from the world in the deep mountains and old forests and feeds on the five qi.

At this time, Sharpening Sword also followed the master out of the rain shelter.

The whole body of the sword is dry, and the rain from the outside world is also not close to the body of the sword, and there is a three-foot air cover on the surface of the sword.

However, Li Escort and the old Taoist priest chased them out with an oilcloth umbrella.

"Daochang Jin'an and Daochang Chen, come and see, there seems to be a spark and smoke rising from the village cooking?"

Suddenly, Escort Li, who was in the other direction, shouted in surprise.

A few people leaned over to take a look, and sure enough, at the foot of the mountain, they saw a village with sparks lit up, and those sparks were bright and dark, like a stove in the kitchen.

Is that Taoyuan Village?

"Little brother, now that Taoyuan Village has been found, should you go over now, or wait until daytime to go over?"

The old Taoist's question suddenly made several people present look at Jin An together.

Unconsciously, this team has Jin An as the main backbone, and everyone is waiting for Jin An to come up with an idea.

Smack!

A footstep smashed, smashing the rainy night, in this miserable and bitter rainy night, it sounded very suddenly, instantly interrupting the conversation of several people.

The sound of footsteps came from the direction of the dangling road behind him.

"Hey, was I hallucinating just now, I seem to hear footsteps behind us?"

Escort Li looked behind him in surprise.

But as Escort Li looked behind him in surprise, the footsteps disappeared out of thin air, so Escort Li wondered if he was hallucinating.

And at this moment, Escort Li was surprised to see that the rain above his head had stopped at some point.

But not long after the silence in the mountains, the footsteps came again, and they came far away in the dark, calm, invisible mountains.

Smack!

Smack!

Jin An's eyes were as bright as electricity, and he didn't flinch at all, and looked directly at the way that hung behind him.

At this time, even the old Taoist priest looked nervous and put his hand into the Tai Chi Bagua Jacket he put on his shoulder, holding a large handful of yellow talismans in his hand.

But the sharpening sword is still the same taciturn wooden appearance, if you don't take the initiative to poke him, he can be too lazy to move.

As the footsteps got closer and closer, in the dark night, Jin An saw a small cluster of flames beating in the dark void in the dark depths in the distance.

Bright and sometimes extinguished.

Like a candle flame in the wind and rain.

Seems to be about to overturn at any moment.

The flames floating in the void were getting closer and closer, and the footsteps were getting closer and closer, and in the mysterious and unknown darkness, it seemed that something was about to crash out.

A thin middle-aged man in a five-colored robe, holding a torch in his hand, walked out of the darkness of the mountain.

"Hey, is there anyone else on the Hanging Road late at night?"

I am a Taoist priest from the Five Organs Taoist Temple, I heard that there is a village called Taoyuan Village in this mountain, I have been looking for Taoyuan Village in the mountains, I don't know how many donors have heard of Taoyuan Village, where is Taoyuan Village?"

No one expected this scene, looking at the five-colored Taoist priest in the Taoist robe who appeared on the cliff road late at night, an electric current rushed up the tail vertebrae to the door of the head, and the hairs on the whole body exploded, Jin An, the old Taoist priest, and Li Huwei were all stunned.

Taoist priest Yu Youzi looked at Jin An, who was also wearing a five-color Taoist robe, and people were also stunned.