Under Yao Ping's reminder, more than a dozen soldiers took their blades in their hands and turned around to be on guard. Yao Ping and Chen Dahua supported Qu Shun and quickly rushed to the middle of the soldiers.

However, after a vigilant search on the spot, the soldiers found no trace of the enemy, and then, at Yao Ping's suggestion, the group quickly left the place.

The group of people continued to observe the situation in the surrounding mountains and forests as they walked, but they went straight until it was about to dark, and they never saw a single figure. At this point, some fighters couldn't help but slowly relax their guard. Although Yao Ping repeatedly reminded everyone to be extra careful, when the sun was obscured by the mountain peaks, the warriors decided to set up a tent on a relatively flat and soft grass for the night.

With the help of two fighters, Yao Ping quickly set up a small tent with the blankets he carried. The small tent could only accommodate two people, and Yao Ping asked Chen Dahua and Li Jun to rest in it, while he and Qu Shun stayed outside the tent.

"I'm on duty at night, right?" Yao Ping said to the soldiers.

"No need for you, just like yesterday, we take turns to keep watch at night, and you can rest in peace." Said an old soldier.

"Okay, then it's up to you." Yao Ping hesitated for a moment and then spoke.

"Bottle, what do you say about the people in the mountains, how do they live?" Qu Shun sat outside the small tent, and he looked at a mountain peak in the distance that was still illuminated by the afterglow and said to Yao Ping.

"People in the mountains, that's just like us, it's so alive." Yao Ping turned to ask, "Junzi, why did you suddenly ask about this?" ”

"Not much." Qu Shun slowly lay flat on the grass, he turned to look at the other ridge and said, "I'm just curious." ”

Yao Ping smiled and asked, "Junzi, what do you think is so curious?" ”

"Bottle, I thought, you said that if the sea water in the east keeps rising, then the people in this area, do they have to run to the high places, to the mountains to survive?" Qu Shun asked.

"If there is water here, then people have to run to high places, but going up this mountain is not necessarily a high place." Yao Ping looked at the ridge in the distance and said, "As the saying goes, when people go to high places, water flows to low places. The Yiluo River runs thousands of miles from west to east, and people naturally know that the land in the west is much higher than the land in the east, otherwise why would the water of the river keep flowing eastward into the sea. ”

"Bottle, you're talking too far, I'm talking about the near." Qu Shun said, "Let's just say that this mountain is nearby, if the next circle of this mountain is surrounded by water, then do the people near the mountain have to run to this mountain?" ”

"Well," Yao Ping thought for a moment and said, "If they are surrounded by the sea, then they have to go up the mountain." ”

"But there's no way to farm in the mountains." Qu Shun said, "People who run up the mountains will not be drowned, but how will they live? They all went to the mountains to catch pheasants like we used to."

"Oh, it turns out that you just asked the people in the mountains how they live, and you were thinking about such a thing." Yao Ping lay on the grass and looked at the sky of the gradually emerging stars, thought for a while, and then said, "If people run to the mountains, and the wild fruits on the mountains can't feed so many people, I think many people will starve to death and die trapped in the mountains." ”

"Hmm," Qu Shun thought for a while and said, "Hey, bottle, do you think that one day, the sea water will slowly spread to Lonely Bird County?" Spread to our imperial capital Luochuan? ”

"I don't know that." Yao Ping said.

"What if the sea overflows?" Qu Shun asked, "You said that if the sea water flooded to the imperial capital, would the Son of Heaven also have to run along the big river to a high place?"

"If it really passes, even the Son of Heaven will have to run." Yao Ping turned to ask, "I said Shunzi, what are you thinking about all this?" ”

"Hey, it's nothing, I'm just a little homesick." Qu Shun said.

"You've only been out for a few months." Yao Ping turned to sigh lightly and said, "Shunzi, you are much better than me, I have been away from home for a few years and finally saved some money, and I have traveled thousands of miles to go home to live, but I haven't even been able to see my home for the last time, and my home has been flooded." ”

"True evil gate, bottle, you said that this big water was really drummed up by the grandson empire in the west, as people say?" Qu Shun asked instead.

"It's not the Grandchildren Empire, it's the Azor Empire. Hey, forget it, you'd better go to bed while it's early, Junko. Yao Ping said, "You have a good night's sleep, have a good dream, maybe tomorrow the sea will recede." ”

"I never dream when I sleep." Qu Shun said.

"Don't do spring dreams?" Yao Ping asked.

"Hey, hey," Qu Shun smirked.

"Junko, I said you don't sleep so hard, I'm worried about the person who spied at us that Miss Li said, he still has accomplices." Yao Ping whispered, "I'm afraid that they will take advantage of the darkness to rob money and kill them at night." ”

"How can there be so many people who rob money and kill people on this royal land, and this is not the Western Regions outside the Guanwai that you said. Okay, bottle, don't worry too much, we still have more than a dozen soldiers to protect us, those buddies are not only strong but also have knives and arrows, if there are really a few robbers, they should be scared away. Qu Shun said, "You can sleep in peace, in case there is really any movement, I will call you." ”

Yao Ping looked around and pondered for a moment, and when he wanted to speak again, Qu Shun, who was lying on the grass, was already snoring.

Yao Ping shook his head helplessly, and after covering Qu Shun with the rolled up cloth blanket, he pillowed the water bladder, curled up and hugged the "Shadow Cut" and fell asleep.

Early the next morning, Yao Ping woke up abruptly in a noise. He opened his eyes to a spirit, and then sat up suddenly. Yao Ping, who sat up suddenly, felt dizzy for a while, and then he saw that several warriors were looking at the surrounding bushes in a panic.

"What's wrong?" Yao Ping immediately grabbed the "Shadow Cut", he quickly stood up, and asked a nearby warrior who was searching around.

"The three brothers in the tent, they're gone," said the warrior in horror.

"Huh? It's gone? Yao Ping looked around in surprise, he immediately turned around and called Qu Shun, and then quickly turned to the small tent on the side.

When the tent curtain was lifted, Yao Ping was shocked, he saw that Chen Dahua and Li Jun had long been absent from this small tent, and the small tent was empty.

"Flowey! Li Jun! Yao Ping shouted and hurriedly exited the small tent, and he looked around in a panic.

After seeing Yao Ping's reaction, Qu Shun hurriedly took a look inside the tent, and was dumbfounded. After he shouted the names of Chen Dahua and Li Jun a few times with Yao Ping, he asked Yao Ping in a panic, "Bottle, what's going on?!" Where's they?! ”

"I don't know." Yao Ping looked around nervously and said, "Junzi, you are injured, don't move here, I'll look for them in the distance." ”

As he spoke, Yao Ping quickly followed a few soldiers to the outside of the camp.

The warriors shouted the names of their companions, and Yao Ping called out the names of Chen Dahua and Li Jun, but there was no other sound in the lonely valley except for the crisp chirping of insects and birds.

Qu Shun stayed near the camp and searched blankly for a while, and then he endured the pain and slowly searched in the direction where Yao Ping went. Just as Qu Shun was calling out Chen Dahua's name to the forest on one side, he saw that Yao Ping suddenly rushed out of the dense forest at this moment and ran back to him quickly.

"Bottle, you"

Before Qu Shun could finish speaking, Yao Ping shouted at him, "Shunzi, run." ”

After Yao Ping rushed to Qu Shun's side, he picked up one of Qu Shun's arms, and quickly carried him through the camp and fled quickly in the opposite direction.

"What's going on, bottle." Qu Shun gritted his teeth and ran away in a panic for a while, and then asked Yao Ping.

"There's someone over there." Yao Ping glanced back, and he said as he ran, "There are a group of flower-faced weirdos standing in the trees. ”

"Flower-faced weirdos, damn it, that Huahua and Lijun must have been kidnapped by them." Qu Shun held Yao Ping's hand and said, "We have to save them." ”

"How to save! They had fifty or sixty people in that woods! They all had spears in their hands. Yao Ping anxiously continued to pull Qu Shun forward and said.

"Whatever, fight with them!" Qu Shun shouted and tried to shake off Yao Ping's arm and turn back.

Just as the two were arguing, they felt a sudden emptiness under their feet, and they both fell down a hill.

After tumbling and falling on the hillside for a while, Yao Ping and Qu Shun fell down in embarrassment in the bushes under the dirt slope.

Qu Shun gritted his teeth and pressed the wound that had burst due to the stumble just now, and continued to say to Yao Ping, "Bottle, we have to go and save them, give me your knife, and I'll fight for them." ”

Yao Ping gritted his teeth and got up, he picked up the "shadow cut" from the side and looked up at the hillside where he fell, the hillside was not too steep, not too high, but it was difficult to climb back.

"Junzi, don't just talk about fighting, you want to save people" Yao Ping touched his elbow and looked at the hillside and said, "We have to find a way." ”

Qu Shun then stood up with Yao Ping's support, he looked at the hillside and said, "What can I do, when I come up with a way, Huahua and Li Jun are afraid that they will die, no, I have to hurry up and save them." ”

Yao Ping waited for Qu Shun to calm down a little, and then turned to him and asked, "Shunzi, you said that if those people wanted to kill us for money, then why didn't they kill us all at night and then take away the money?" They took so much effort to kidnap Huahua and Lijun, as well as those soldiers, what did they want? ”

"This," Qu Shun pondered for a moment and asked, "What are their pictures!" ”

"You're stupid, why are you still arresting those three warriors!" Yao Ping said.

The two were talking when they heard an exclamation coming from the hillside. They looked up in unison, but saw that a warrior from Linjian with a bow and arrow was also slipping down the hillside.

Yao Ping hurriedly stepped forward to pick up the fallen warrior, and then asked him, "Are those people chasing after them?" ”

"They chased after each other for a while." The archer warrior looked at the falling hill in a panic and said, "But I shouldn't have chased it here." ”

"What about your other brothers?" Yao Ping asked.

"I ran away from them." The warrior said, holding his head.

Yao Ping looked around the forest for a while, but no one came.

"Bottle, what should we do now, you can say something." Qu Shun also said after looking around.

"Find a way back, we have to meet the soldiers first, and then try to find the nest of those weirdos, Huahua and Lijun should be there, let's go there and see if we can find a chance to rescue people." Yao Ping said.

"Okay, let's go then." Qu Shun said anxiously. The Linjian warrior also nodded at Yao Ping.

The three of them then walked around the hillside to find their way and proceed cautiously. The Linjian warriors pushed aside the branches of the lush bushes in front of them, while Yao Ping supported Qu Shun and cautiously observed the surrounding situation.

However, after traversing the rugged rocks and exploring the mountains for a while, the trio were unable to find their previous campsite.

"Lost?" Qu Shun asked, looking around at the dense forest.

"The direction is right, but the forest here is a little dense, and I can't see the mountain." Yao Ping searched around for a while and said, "Shunzi, you sit here for a while, and I'll climb the big tree over there to see the mountain." ”

Yao Ping said and walked towards an old tree with many branches, and he quickly climbed up the tree with his hands and feet. Standing in the treetops, Yao Ping looked beyond the obstacles of the nearby dense forest and looked into the distance.

Just as Yao Ping was looking around, trying to find the location of the camp and the traces of Chen Dahua and Li Jun, he suddenly saw that on a mountain not far away, the clouds and mist that had been swirling there suddenly dissipated. Yao Ping looked carefully, and he found that under the scattered clouds and mist, on the side of the steep peak, there was a Qingjun temple with a green roof and green tiles.

"Is that temple a cloud view?" Yao Ping hesitated for a moment and thought. Thinking of this, Yao Ping immediately carefully observed the nearby mountains and forests, and after a while, he figured out a path to the foot of Chongyunguan Mountain in the mountains and forests.

Yao Ping, who had figured out the path, was about to climb down the tree trunk, but just as he was about to get off the tree, he found that the clouds and mist on the mountain had gathered again, and then the temples and the mountains had been covered. After a while, Yao Ping was surprised to find that the entire mountain where the temple was located seemed to be hidden in the clouds and mist, and disappeared.

"Junzi, let's go, I see Chongyunguan." Yao Ping jumped off the tree and ran to Qu Shun and said to him, "Let's go there and ask for help." ”

"Did you see Chongyunguan?" Qu Shun said in surprise, "Let's go there again to ask for help, will it be too late, Huahua them"

"The feathers of Chongyunguan must know about the situation of the mountain people in this vicinity, we can ask them for help, and maybe we can meet Liu Enya and Zhanye." Yao Ping pulled Qu Shun up from the ground, wrapped his arm around his shoulder, and said, "Let's go, without further ado, if we can find Yoo Eun-jae and Zhanye there, then we will be more sure to save people." ”

The mountain road was winding, and under the leadership of Yao Ping, the Linjian warriors also followed their careful groping all the way to the mountain peak hidden between the clouds and mist.

At the foot of the mist-shrouded mountain, the Linjian warriors and Yao Ping searched around for a long time, and then suddenly found a mountain gate with eaves stretching out and quite fairy rhyme. Under the stone archway of the mountain gate, it is also a small mountain road leading to the mountain.

Walked to the foot of the mountain gate, Yao Pingding looked at it, he saw that the name of the memorial arch was not engraved on the stone gate, nor did it engrave others on both sides of the mountain gate, but the stone plaque engraved with the delicate word "Xuanqi".

"Metaphysics." Qu Shun said.

"Junko, when you encounter a word you don't know, don't pronounce it out loud and no one will know that you don't know it." Yao Ping said to Qu Shun.

"Xuanhu." Qu Shun said again.

The three of them climbed the stairs and walked along the winding mountain path to the mountain, and after passing by a picturesque mountain stream and waterfall, the three of them came to a small mountain pavilion.

After helping Qu Shun to sit in the small pavilion, Yao Ping said to him, "Shunzi, you are injured, why don't you and this brother wait for me here, I will go up the mountain quickly to find out if there is Liu Enya and Zhanye in the temple." ”

Qu Shun was about to answer, but he saw that there was a memorial arch exactly the same as that under the mountain in the distance.

"Xuanhu." Qu Shun read the words on the archway and said, "Bottle, why are there so many mysterious archways on this mountain?" ”

Yao Ping turned his head hesitantly to look, and then he also saw that not far away, there was indeed an archway, and the archway was exactly the same as the one under the mountain.

"Don't worry about it so much, I'll go up the mountain to have a look, you're waiting for me to hear from you." Yao Ping hesitated for a moment, then said something to Qu Shun and the soldier, and then rushed up the mountain road quickly.

The mountain road is tortuous, climbing the steps, Yao Ping climbed for a while, and suddenly found a picturesque mountain stream waterfall. He didn't have time to think about it and continued to go up the mountain. After climbing and running for a while, Yao Ping looked up breathlessly and saw that there was a pavilion similar to Fang Cai's small pavilion on this winding mountain road, and two figures were shaking in it.

After hurrying to the vicinity of the small pavilion, Yao Ping raised his eyes to look at the pavilion, but this look almost shocked his jaw. Yao Ping saw that the people sitting in the pavilion right now were Qu Shun and the warrior in the stream.

"Qu Shun," Yao Ping said in astonishment as he looked at Qu Shun sitting in the pavilion.

Qu Shun turned around and saw Yao Ping running up from the bottom of the mountain, and he couldn't help but ask in astonishment, "Bottle, you didn't go up the mountain, why did you come up from the bottom of the mountain again?" ”

Yao Ping looked blankly at the road behind him, and then at the way up the mountain, he said in confusion, "I obviously climbed up the mountain from there, how could this be." ”

"Did you just run down the hill from the fork in the road?" Qu Shun looked at Yao Ping puzzled and said, "Are you lost?" ”

"No," Yao Ping walked up to Qu Shun's side, reached out and pinched him, and then said, "It's really weird, what's going on?" I didn't go downhill, I kept climbing uphill. ”

"This mountain is covered with clouds and mist, could it be that you have encountered some fog miasma?" Qu Shun thought for a while and said, "I've heard that encountering a fog miasma on the mountain is like encountering a ghost hitting a wall at night. ”

"Don't scare me with demons and monsters, Junko." Yao Ping looked around and said, "Besides, this is the place where the feather warriors cultivate, where did the fog miasma and ghosts hit the wall. ”

As soon as Yao Ping's words fell, he himself remembered the scene he had seen on the trunk of the tree before, and the whole mountain was indeed surrounded by strange clouds and mist. It's just that now I am in the clouds, and I only care about the road up the mountain under my feet, but ignore the clouds and mist around me.

"It's weird." Yao Ping looked at the white vast clouds in the distance in the mountains and said, "But even if there are clouds and mist, the stone steps of the mountain road under my feet are indeed upward." ”

"That's called delusion." Qu Shun said, "People who encounter ghosts hitting the wall still think that they have been walking in one direction, but in fact, that person is drawing circles in place, just like you." ”

"Impossible" Yao Ping whispered, "How is this possible?"

Just as the two were talking, Qu Shun saw a person walking down the mountain road behind the archway at this moment. The man had a light gait, a graceful posture, a whisk in his hand, a white coat and a blue collar, and a hair crown, and he was a female crowned feather man with a delicate face.

"Bottle, look." Qu Shun looked at the feather warrior and said.

When Yao Ping turned around, he saw a female crowned feather man walking down the mountain, so he hurriedly greeted him in surprise.

After approaching the female crown feather warrior, Yao Ping clasped his fists and saluted, and then said to her, "This Dao Leader, dare to ask if the place of Qing cultivation here is Chongyun Temple?" ”

"Exactly." The female crown feather stopped her light steps, and she said slowly to Yao Ping in a soft voice.

When Yao Ping heard this, he couldn't help but hurriedly say, "Dao Chief, you must be the Heavenly Master of Dao in this Chongyun Temple, right?" Please help us, my friend is badly wounded, and several of our other friends have been taken captive by the wicked men of this mountain. ”

The female crown feather warrior's face was calm, and after she smiled slightly at Yao Ping and nodded lightly, she walked lightly past Yao Ping.

She went straight to Qu Shun's side. In front of Qu Shun, the female crown feather warrior did not check Qu Shun's injury, she just looked at Qu Shun's face for a moment and then said, "This good master, please follow the poor path to observe and heal your wounds." ”

"Dao Chief, my daughter-in-law was kidnapped by those bastards in the mountains, please help Dao Chief, please save her." Qu Shun was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly said to the female crown feather.

The female crown feather raised her hand slightly, and said with a light smile behind her, "Don't worry, good lord, this is not the first time that the kidnapping in the mountains has happened." Although the captives of the mountain people are evil, they will not harm people's lives, and the good lord should be at ease first. As for the method of saving people, when it comes to the view, the poor way will also be explained to all the good masters. ”

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