Chapter 17: The Legend of the Tide Lake

Du Qi quickly came to his senses, startled several small animals that were probing his brain nearby, and fled in panic.

He struggled to sit up, and there was an indescribable pain all over his body, as if all parts of his body were going to fall apart at any moment. With his left hand propped up behind him, Du Qi stabilized his crumbling body, and with his right hand, he took out a bottle of red potion from his personal space.

He bared his teeth and tilted his head back to pour the potion down, letting out a long sigh of relief.

The potion that Du Qi drinks is a very common recovery potion in all kinds of games, and the store sells for one silver thread per bottle, although it cannot be exaggerated to make a dying person with only blood skin left alive immediately, but it has a rapid recovery of physical strength and analgesic effect. Therefore, even if it was a little painful, Du Qi spent a lot of money to prepare some before setting off for emergencies.

Perhaps because the dense canopy reduced the speed of falling, the player's physique was extremely strong, and the auxiliary effect of the potion, after less than half an hour of rest, Du Qi felt much more comfortable, got up and began to look at his current position.

It is evident that this is a huge valley, with a middle valley overgrown with vegetation and a large mountain in the north and south directions blocking the view.

"The speed of the Flying Eagle should be about 300 kilometers per hour, and according to the time, I probably fled in the southeast direction for fifty or sixty kilometers." Du Qi found the small red dot representing himself on the map interface, and then compared the map of the Rocky Kingdom obtained from Sinta, and quickly determined his location, "Is this the Clear Spring Valley?" ”

Thanks to the erratic route of the escape, the black fog has been lifted over a large area of the map interface, and Duqi can also learn the detailed terrain of the surrounding area. "Hmm...... The valley runs east-west, and Flying Eagle City is in the northwest direction, if you go along the valley, you don't know how much circle you have to go around, but the mountains on the north side don't look easy to climb...... What a headache! He scratched his head, a very tangled expression.

"These trees are always more than twenty meters tall, right? I was lucky not to have fallen to my death from that height. Duqi looked around and joked about himself. Standing still for a while, he patted his head and finally decided, "I'd better go along the river in the valley." ”

The river in his mouth was actually just a stream, not far from where he fell. Sighing, he walked to the creek, picked up clean water, washed his face, and began to move towards the west.

Duqi had heard a legend about the Valley of Clear Springs. In the middle of the valley, there is a clear and beautiful lake, which is called Shio Hu, where an ancient story takes place.

It is said that somewhere in the lake there is a hidden passage, a passage to a paradise. On a full moon night, the lake descends, revealing a hidden cave that would normally be impossible to find anyway. Six hundred years ago, an explorer accidentally found the entrance to the paradise and entered a beautiful underground world through a deep cave.

The explorer wrote a book describing the hospitality he received in the paradise and even fell in love with a local woman. The explorer said that he lived in the paradise for many years, until one day an idea came to his mind that he wanted to take his wife and children to see the outside world.

He spoke his mind with great interest, but was strongly opposed by his wife, and was soon informed by the other residents of the village. The inhabitants strongly objected to this and persuaded him to abandon the foolish idea.

But the explorer is still stubborn.

Later, the explorer wrote in his book: "The past few years were like a dream, and when I woke up again, I found myself lying on the shore of a beautiful Shio Lagoon. My wife and children were gone, with only the backpack that accompanied me on my travels. Even my memories of the past have become a little blurry. I can't remember how I got into Taoyuan, and I can't even remember what my wife and children looked like......"

"I obviously said that I couldn't remember the appearance of the residents of Taoyuan, and said that they were all handsome men and beautiful women, and there was gold everywhere? Ha...... This kind of clichΓ© story could have attracted the attention of so many people 600 years ago, and now, probably no one will read it. Reflecting on the fragments described in the story, and thinking about the stories that had been widely circulated in his world, "it seems that the legends of the past liked to attract attention with the gold of beautiful women." ”

Following the flow of water, the babbling creek continues to converge and gradually grows into a real river. About an hour on, Duzi faintly heard the roar of falling water, and it seemed that a waterfall was not far away.

"Waterfalls? Doesn't the geography say that there is a flat river in the Qingquan Valley, and there are almost no ups and downs? Am I on the wrong track? Du Qi took out a thick book from his space, looked through the description of Qingquan Valley on it, and checked the map to make sure that he was still within the valley range, "This is not an inaccessible deep mountain and old forest, if the geographical records are wrong, someone should have raised it a long time ago." ”

So the governor quickened his pace. After passing through a forest, the eyes suddenly opened up. "Here...... Is it a tidal lake? He rubbed it, frozen in place.

The Tidal Lake in front of Du Qi's eyes is very different from what is described in the book, no matter how you look at it. This is where the river reaches its final destination, crashing down the stony cliffs and crashing into the lake below, which has a difference of at least a dozen meters. The scene in front of him was extremely incongruous, the forest border was at least ten meters away from the shore of the lake, and in the middle was a large area of yellow sand, dotted with many dwarf aquatic plants.

"Is it low tide?" Such a ridiculous idea popped into Duzi's mind.

He found a gentler hillside and carefully stepped on the slippery stones to the bottom. After walking along the river bank for a while, the sand under your feet is moist and soft, and you can still find many potholes with water in the yellow sand, and even some small fish can be seen. These findings further confirmed his suspicion that the tide lake really seemed to be receding.

"Did I really come across the plot of that explorer's story? Didn't you say the night of the full moon? ”

After such an idea came to his mind, he lingered, and Du Qi began to search around the shore of the lake with great interest. According to the narrative in the story, it seems that the cave did not arise naturally, but rather an ancient arch that was man-made. If that's all there is to it, then the entrance shouldn't be hard to find. But for hundreds of years, no one has ever confirmed the explorer's story. Even the so-called low tide on the night of the full moon does not correspond to the current situation.

But what else can explain the scene in front of you?

The lake is so large that even if it shrinks in size after low tide, it takes a lot of time to get around the lake. After searching for nothing, Duqi began to laugh at himself in frustration, how could he believe such a ridiculous story. What's more, after the low tide, the surroundings are empty, and what else can be hidden except a waterfall......

"Wait...... Waterfall? No way...... Duqi, don't do stupid things anymore, it's only right to find a way back quickly. He said this, but he couldn't control his steps and walked in the direction of the waterfall.

"Finally...... In the end, I will try this time, and if I don't, I will leave. Dozi persuaded himself to do so, and jumped near the waterfall on a few rocks, not caring about the wet clothes, and slowly reached over with his hands.

The strong impact of the water was a little painful, but it was not unbearable.

He simply closed his eyes and jumped over a boulder at the bottom of the waterfall. The huge pressure of the water pressed against him from top to bottom, and the water continued to wash against his back, so that he couldn't help but grin his teeth. The big bluestone under his feet was very slippery, and Du Qi was a little unsteady on his feet, and his body shook and almost fell off the stone.

The water continued to hit Du Qi's body, making him almost unable to think, but instinctively squatted slightly to stabilize his body, then raised his hands to protect the front of his cheeks, and once again jumped forward with all his strength.

"Puff ......"

Duqi fell into the water, and the pressure of the current disappeared. He shook his dazed head, and the cool water gradually came back to consciousness.

Duqi's nose moved, and a strong smell of blood rushed to his head.