A bonfire and two tents stood on the top of the hill.

Zhao Zixian slept in a tent with Li Yucai and Hei Kumei, and Lu Jie and four other young people slept in a tent. As a result of sleeping in the wilderness, the four youths took turns keeping vigil.

The night was uneventful. In the early morning of the next day, when the east was white, Zhao Zixian got out of the tent. With the old notebook and a map in his hand, he stood on the top and looked out into the distance.

Lu Jie got out of the tent, stretched his waist and saw Zhao Zixian standing in the wind, pulling the corners of his mouth and smiling. He walked up to Zhao Zixian and asked cautiously, "Boss, I want to find some prey, can you ask my sister to make us breakfast before we go on the road?" ”

Zhao Zixian put away the map he was checking when he heard the sound, looked at Lu Jie and squeezed out a smile, nodded lightly and said, "Be careful." Don't delay too long.

Lu Jie answered, took the backpack he carried and went to the camp to look for prey. Prepare for breakfast for the day ahead.

Zhao Zixian opened the map again and muttered to himself, "I don't know if the single-plank bridge is still there." ”

Li Yucai walked to Zhao Zixian's side, gently hugged his arm and looked into the distance and said, "There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain." ”

The two chatted for a while, and the others got up one after another and began to pack their bags and get ready to go. Er Han folded the tent and said, "I think, you don't need to bring those cans or anything." Anyway, there is food on the road, and it is delicious. ”

Zhao Zixian stared at Er Han and said with a smile: "Don't you have the strength?" Take it with you, just in case. ”

About half an hour later, Lu Jie rushed back with two pheasants and two hares. Zhao Zixian frowned, and then said with a smile: "I didn't expect that you really have two boys hunting." ”

"Boss, you don't know. The ancestors of the Jie Ge family lived by hunting. In recent years, there have been fewer prey, and the management has been stricter, so I stopped hunting and changed to a part-time job. Lin Zhiyin stopped humming a little song in his mouth and said with a smile. When I heard that you were going to Fire Ghost Cliff, my brother thought of asking him to be his guide, and he also thought that there was game to eat on the way. ”

Zhao Zixian couldn't help but look at Lin Cong and secretly appreciated. The Lin brothers were the two who carried him into the mountain. He still admired Lin Cong's ability to do things, and without instructions and special instructions, he found Lu Jie as a guide. He may also have taken into account Zhao Zixian's inconvenience in moving, and he also found Erhan, a strong man, and carried him along the way.

Lin Cong looked at Zhao Zixian, opened his mouth several times to speak and stopped, and finally didn't say anything but nodded slightly, and began to be busy setting up firewood and lighting the fire. He wanted to tell Zhao Zixian that Lu Jie was not found by him, but volunteered. He is not good at words, and he feels that it does not matter whether he says such a small thing or not.

Erhan stared at the prey in Lu Jie's hand, with a greedy look on his face that was about to flow out of his saliva. The black bitter girl smiled at him and said, "Don't slander, I'll give you my share in a while." ”

Eating meat early in the morning, Zhao Zixian and the two girls were not very used to it, they ate very little. Erhan is really good at eating, eating a rabbit and half a pheasant by himself.

Extinguish the fire, put on the equipment on your back, and everyone hit the road again. As the saying goes, it's easy to go up the mountain, but hard to go down, and when they go down to the valley, it's late in the evening. In front of them was a rolling mountain river of varying widths and narrows. The narrowest part of the river is about 50 meters wide, and the water is very fast and bottomless. But there was no single wooden bridge on the map.

Along the way, Zhao Zixian had the illusion that they were not here to hunt for treasures, but to spend their vacation. Three meals a day are on time, and there is no danger and laughter along the way. But there is a sense of crisis that haunts his heart all the time, and he has an ominous premonition that he can't explain, and he doesn't know what to do.

At present, the river is blocking their way, and it has become the first obstacle on their way to explore the treasure hunt. Zhao Zixian and Li Yucai discussed and decided to camp for one night first, and then make plans tomorrow morning.

The old, cricket figure stood on the bank of the river with his back to the campfire, and a long sigh accompanied by the roar of the river in the night. Gently but with endless helplessness. Zhao Zixian felt that his body was not as good as day by day, and he was aging rapidly. He really wanted to use the four major and five elements true qi in his body to make his physical condition recover a little.

But that strong sense of crisis made him dare not squander the Five Elements True Qi in his body. In line with the idea of being prepared, he preserved his only remaining strength, and until the last resort, he still didn't want to use those Five Elements True Qi.

Li Yucai came to Zhao Zixian's side, gently hugged his arm, and said, "Are you worried about how to cross the river?" ”

Zhao Zixian nodded slightly, and replied softly: "I can't delay." ”

"Actually, you don't have to worry too much. The map left by my grandfather shows that there is a bridge, so there must be a bridge. We must have gone astray, and when the day dawns, we will investigate upstream and downstream. I'm sure the bridge is not far away. Li Yucai said comfortingly with uncertainty. It's been nearly twenty years since her grandfather died, and a lot can happen in ten years, and it's not strange that a single-plank bridge disappears.

Of course, it's not uncommon for them to go a little off the rails in the mountains and forests. Although they had a map and a compass, who knew if the direction of the map was marked by the normal direction.

Zhao Zixian figured out the truth, sighed again and said, "Hey, that's the only way." Hopefully we've really strayed. ”

If you go in the wrong direction, you can always find the single-plank bridge as long as you follow the flowing river. If the single-plank bridge really can't stand the baptism of age and disappears, then how they cross the river will become a big problem.

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The morning mist swirled like a veil in the mountains and forests. The sudden air was extremely humid, and the yellow weeds and thorns on the surface of the ground were all wet, as if they had been drenched by rain.

A breeze blew, scattered leaves swayed gently with the wind, and bean-sized droplets of water dripped down one by one, smashing on the tent with a crackling sound.

Zhao Zixian slowly opened his eyes and gently got out of the tent. It was all foggy in front of me, and the visibility was less than two meters. Faintly visible that the campfire was still smoking, and the sudden dampness made people feel suffocated. He couldn't help but scold: "! Ghost weather! After a little entanglement in his heart, he finally decided to store the few four major and five elements true qi in his body for the time being, and he had to need it from time to time.

Zhao Zixian's sense of crisis became stronger and stronger, and he had to deal with all the changes that were coming. The endless flow of mountains and rivers blocked the way, not to mention, and encountered foggy weather, which hindered their journey. After everyone woke up, he discussed with everyone and decided that Lu Jie and Lin Zhiyin would explore the way up and down the river respectively. And with all of them staying in the camp, it was undoubtedly the best decision.

After the two pathfinders left one after another, Zhao Zixian got into the tent again. He sat cross-legged, quietly feeling the slow flow of the true qi of the kitchen spirit in his body. Now he can only use the true qi of the kitchen god to make his body stronger.

However, a body that has lost too much life essence is tantamount to a rotten tree, and even if it has too many nutrients, it cannot achieve the miraculous effect of resurrecting the dead. Zhao Zixian's body has aged and fallen to the stage where the meridians of the whole body are almost occluded, and the true qi of the kitchen god stored in the body can only flow in the body in the most subtle way. If it is forcibly urged, there will be a possibility that the eight veins of the Qi Sutra will be burst.

Zhao Zixian tried many times, but after not achieving the desired effect, he had to give up. He just wanted to wait for the four major and five elements true qi in his body to recover and change the status quo. However, if you want to restore the Five Elements True Qi in your body, it is not an overnight thing, it is a very long process.

However, his body is aging many times faster than normal. He clearly felt that his body was much older than tomorrow, and that it was difficult to walk. If he didn't change the status quo, he estimated that he wouldn't be able to sustain himself until he found the Fire Spirit Ginseng and would die of old age. It has become an urgent matter to change the physical condition, not to mention becoming younger, but at least to maintain the status quo and not let yourself age again.

Ay! Zhao Zixian couldn't help but sigh. Mobilize the three spiritual ginseng true qi of gold, water, and earth in the body to transform into the true qi of wood in turn. Then use the true qi of wood to transform the body. He gave up his original intention of storing the Four Great Five Elements True Qi, and had no choice but to use them to strengthen his body. When the few four true qi were all used to transform his body, he clearly felt that his body was a little stronger than before.

Zhao Zixian secretly estimated his biological condition, and he had reached the state before entering the mountain. Instead of being happy, he became more worried. The six-day storage of the Four Great True Qi only allowed him to recover more than a day of life, which meant that if the problem was not fundamentally solved, he could still die of old age at any time.

Zhao Zixian had a helpless feeling of wanting to cry without tears. He didn't give up because of this, but thought back to the longevity book, that is, all the medicinal diets in "Golden Finger", hoping to find recipes to prolong life. But as his body aged, his memory also decreased a lot, and he couldn't remember many things at all. He almost felt hopeless, and he could only pin his last hope on the Fire Spirit Ginseng.

By noon, the fog had not completely cleared. The sun hung high in the sky, as if it was sick, and people could not feel a trace of warmth.

Zhao Zixian, supported by Hei Kumei and Li Yucai, walked out of the tent again. He looked up at the faint sun in the open sky, and said with a wry smile: "The sun has lost its temperature. We're really running out of time. ”

Erhan sat in front of the roaring bonfire, staring at the upstream direction of the riverbank, and muttered, "Why haven't you come back yet?" …… Hey, I'm back. It's back! The voice that had been slightly resentful turned into an excited shout. He got up from the ground and faced Lu Jie with a big stroke.

Lu Jie not only came back from exploration, but also brought back a lot of game in the mountains. He handed the prey in his hand to Er Han, came to Zhao Zixian, and said with a smile: "There is a bridge!" ”