At this time, it was impossible to return to the village, and the place where they were at this time was on a bare rock, because there was no turf, because of the lack of grass and the shelter of the branches, the huge stone was very cold and cold. It was clear that the place was not suitable for camping, so they had to keep going, looking for a suitable place to sleep in the wilderness again.

They spent the night in the tree, and Baoyu chose a position that was as comfortable as possible, and then lay down to sleep in the middle of the night, while Xiaotian sat cross-legged like a dog. Since she spent the night in the mountains, Baoyu maintained a natural alertness whether she was sitting or sleeping, and once she was disturbed, she would immediately react and wake up.

Baoyu seemed to wake up several times that night, and he could hear a faint rustle on the ground, with a dangerous aura for some reason, but not enough to pose a threat to him in the big trees. It was not a beast of prey, but reptiles and all kinds of poisonous insects.

Instead of climbing over the pinnacle at the highest point of the Giant Peak, they climbed over a relatively low, easy-to-pass col between two snow-capped peaks. Before they reached the col, it was already dark, but the upper ridgeline ahead seemed to be gilded with a layer of golden light, and the clouds in the sky were also reflective, so they could still see the surrounding scenery faintly.

In fact, it is extremely dangerous to climb such a mountain in such a situation, and if you are not careful, you will have to worry about your life, let alone climb it with your bare hands. In the dimness, it is not possible to fully see the surrounding scenery, weathered rocks can easily collapse, and low-lying debris can also form landslides, and there are many hidden crevices and ravines. But Baoyu already has a very keen perception at the moment, even if he doesn't use his eyes to see, he can barely follow Xiao Tian in the dark.

When Baoyu climbed the ridge, he was stunned for a moment, and understood why Xiao Tian had to brave the darkness to climb over the top of the mountain. At the foot of the mountain where he came, the distant Lu Village should have fallen into darkness at this time, and the clansmen had already gone back to sleep, but Baoyu felt that the sun was dazzling - the sky on this side of the mountain was still bright!

Whether it is Lu Village or Huahai Village, they are all located between the continuous peaks, when Baoyu was young, except for the sky above his head, the line of sight that could be spread has never exceeded the surrounding ten miles. Later, he crossed the cliff to Huahai Village, and saw the beautiful lake on the plateau, which was already the most open scenery, but the sea of flowers was still in the mountains.

Every day in the village, when the sun sets, it means that it is dark, but for the first time today, Baoyu walked to the top of the distant mountain where the sun sets every day, and saw the sun again after the sun set. A round sun hung over the ridgeline farther away, and although it was not as blazing as it was at noon, it was still golden and difficult to look at, and the clouds around it were dyed red for half of the day.

The farther ridges, the sun that had not yet set, were lower than Baoyu's foothold, so the sunlight shone at a faint elevation angle close to horizontal. If there was a huge shield behind Baoyu, the shadow would be cast higher than him, and Baoyu had never seen such a sight, and he had never even thought of it.

He was standing at an extremely high place at the moment, even higher than the position of the sun in the distance, and his eyes in front of and behind him were unobstructed, and he did not know how many miles he could penetrate. Looking back from here, you can't see the sea of flowers in the distance, but you can see the peaks around the sea of flowers, this feeling is a great shock and impact on the mind, as if the whole world is infinitely open, and people standing in the middle of it seem so small.

Baoyu is not an ordinary person, he felt this shock and impact, and for a moment entered a strange state, as if his body also stretched out, integrated into the heaven and earth, and accepted this endless artistic conception refinement, while his mind was wandering in the form of assimilation with heaven and earth, realizing the unprecedented mystery.

It was Xiao Tian's roar that woke Baoyu up from this strange state, and it should have urged him to hurry down the mountain, seeing that the distant sun had set on the distant ridgeline, and it was about to get dark here. As Baoyu ran down the mountain with Xiao Tian quickly, he couldn't help but think in his heart, if someone was fast enough to catch up with the sun's footsteps on the sky, would the sun in front of him never set?

Before the sky was completely dark, they entered a primeval jungle again, Xiao Tian led Baoyu to climb a towering giant tree, and there was a place where many branches opened at the same time, which was quite wide and flat, which could not only spy on all kinds of movements on the ground, but also be blocked by the dense canopy, which seemed safe and hidden. The most common tree in this area is the fir, with only a thick, straight trunk and small horizontal branches, and it is not easy for Xiao Tian to find such a strange tree, which seems to be the camp he chose to camp the last time he passed here.

After dawn, climb down the giant tree and continue on the road, this side of the mountain is a valley, and the lowest point is much higher than Lu Village. Aside from the jungle where they spent the night the night, the vegetation here is not very lush, the climate is cold, the environment is relatively isolated, and there are no large animals, but there are many poisonous insects in the early autumn season. For example, Baoyu found a lot of centipedes, some of which were more than two feet long, and just by looking at it, he knew that it was very poisonous, and no one would feel good if he was stung.

This place has been uninhabited since ancient times, and even the hunting teams of the tribes deep in the mountains will not come. Baoyu also saw what hurt Xiao Tian, it was a long snake with thick arms, its scales were as hard as fine iron and flashed with a little golden light, and there were a few scales close to the side of the chest that were open like feathers and as sharp as a blade.

The last time Xiao Tian passed by here, he was attacked by this long snake that suddenly pounced. But Xiao Tian's reaction was very fast, and he was not bitten by the snake, but was bruised by scales. And the snake didn't end well, it was hunted by Xiaotian on the spot, and Baoyu saw it again when he passed by. But Baoyu didn't have time to stop and take a closer look at the battlefield three days ago, and Xiao Tian shouted again to urge him to hurry up, so that he could pass through this poisonous insect-infested barren forest as soon as possible.

Probably because I had climbed the highest mountain in the vicinity yesterday, the road felt easier today, and it didn't take too long to cross this plateau valley. About noon, they ascended another ridge, where the sun had seen set for the second time yesterday.

After climbing the ridge, I realized that there was more than one peak in front of me, and I walked a long way up and down, and in the afternoon I came to another valley in the mountains, and Xiao Tian called excitedly several times, which meant that the place had arrived! The dog stood still and gestured to the valley, with a slightly meaningful expression, as if asking Baoyu - can you find anything here?

Baoyu looked at the valley, a small and inconspicuous basin in the mountains, about a few miles in circumference, with many bare rocks and sparse vegetation growing on the edges. It looks desolate, arid and barren, there are almost no traces of animal activity, not even poisonous insects, it is a place where rabbits don't, what did Xiaotian bring him here for?

Baoyu closed his eyes and released his sense to search, but he didn't find anything special, and he couldn't help but show a look of confusion. And Xiao Tian's expression was obviously smiling, learning to laugh like a human, and then waved his paws, signaling Baoyu to follow him, after entering this desolate valley, Xiao Tian had already straightened up, and his speed slowed down significantly.

Through the rocks and bushes, there was no water in the area, no plants with fertile rhizomes to grow, and the bushes did not bear any edible wild fruits, but many hard thorns. Of course, there are no animals living here, not even birds flying. Approaching the middle of the valley, there was a strange twisted tree in front of you.

The so-called "strange twist" is just a name for the wild people in the deep mountains, its leaves are a bit like a locust tree, and its branches are a bit like willows. When its trunk grows to a height of more than a zhang, the branches will wrap around each other and spread out in all directions, and then hang down to the ground, looking like a small green house from a distance.

The vegetation in this area is very low and sparse, but the strange twisted trees near the center of the valley are very luxuriant, and the dense foliage of the hanging branches completely obscures the view. Xiao Tian stretched out his claws and pushed away the strange twisted branches and drilled in, and Baoyu also followed into another strange space.

Because the branches of the lush twisted trees hung completely down to the ground, blocking the light outside, it was dark under the canopy, and Baoyu and the other eyes adapted to the darkness, and continued to move forward with the extension of perception. I passed by several strange twisted trees, and then I opened the branches and suddenly saw a bright light.

The light was not the sunlight falling from the treetops, it came from a magical place ahead, and Baoyu finally saw the landscape clearly. In the center of the valley it looks more than ten feet lower than the outside, there is a spring water distribution, accumulating into several shallow water surfaces, and there are dry highlands between the water surfaces, and the front is paved with smooth white stone slabs, which are actually artificially hewn roads.

Those strange twisted trees grew on the high slopes of the water's edge, around the middle of the valley, forming a dense natural barrier, and Xiao Tian took Baoyu through the strange twisted forest, and happened to walk on this road. Lotus flowers grow in the shallow water on both sides, some of the round lotus leaves stretching in the air, some spreading out on the water, and there are also flowers the size of bowls.

Baoyu has never seen a lotus flower, and of course she doesn't know what its name is, but she just thinks that Ye Tingting Shucui and that flower are delicate and colorful. And the lotus flower here is very strange, there are three layers of petals from the inside to the outside, each layer has five petals, and these five petals are different colors. The roots of the petals are very light in color, and the color becomes darkest when they pass through the tips and edges.

The red petals gradually changed from the light pink at the center of the flower to bright red, like a smudged cloud and like a thin flame, the white petals from the almost colorless and transparent roots to the pure white at the edges, the yellow petals seemed to have a faint gold edge, the cyan petals changed from tender green to deep green, the black petals only showed pure black at the edges, the roots were blue and purple, and the color gradually darkened from the inside out.

These flowers are obviously not ordinary flowers, in the center of the petals of this flower, its stamens are almost transparent, exuding a faint glow, this luster is very wonderful, I don't know if it is his own color or reflects the color of the surrounding flowers.

This is a lotus pond, and outside the lotus pond is some ordinary arid land, and there are some strange trees growing on these grounds, and some strange trees grow on these grounds, and they are 10 points thick, and from the bark, it seems to be some years.