The ancestors of mankind all came from Africa.

Some people could not give up their homeland, so they stayed in the local area and became dark-skinned farmers and herdsmen.

More people are heading west to the ideal place in their hearts.

Some people go to Europe, see the abundance and the river, and they can't stay;

Some people went east to the steppes of Eastern Europe and made it their home;

The most courageous and the most tolerant of loneliness, through the green mountains, through the Gobi and the oasis, and finally came to the land of East Asia, found that there are rivers and rivers, there are hairy rhinos and giant elephants, and then walking, they see the sea.

Everything was arranged for the best.

The mountains in this land have their own beauty, the mountains in the north are steep and straight, and the trees are inserted in the rocks; The mountains in the south are lush and green, and there are many, many trees, forming a mountain.

But the mountain in front of you is completely different, it seems to be on a southern mountain, connected to a northern stone mountain, and then you go to the end of the stone mountain, you find that there is also a snow-capped mountain on top - that is the western mountain.

If you want to climb over it, you have to go through dense forests, cliffs, and snow and ice.

"Where's our guide?" Xu Yongzhi carried a lot of equipment on his back, wrapped in a deerskin coat, and asked Tian Kokou angrily.

Tian Kokou took out the jerky and fruit from her bag, put her finger to her lips, and whistled.

Two round faces, like animals wearing blindfolds, appear furry in their field of vision.

"It's okay, it's all my companions, come here." Tian Kokou called softly.

These are two raccoon dogs.

We don't have any good words for raccoon dogs, what "a hill of raccoon dogs", that's what we are talking about.

This thing is called "tanuki" in Japan, and Doraemon often loses his temper because he is mistaken for a tanuki, and the Tanuki, a merchant in Animal Crossing, is an East Asian raccoon dog.

In fact, this is a very docile animal, belonging to the canine family, and they will be dormant in winter, so at this time, they will eat round balls.

Knowing that Tian Kokou was the witch of the mountain ghost Niangniang, the two raccoon dogs were no longer afraid, walked to the food, and shouted behind them, and five little raccoon dogs appeared with their parents and shared the food with their parents.

"It's so cute." Xiaogui couldn't help but praise.

"You know the way up." Tian Kokou asked.

The tanuki nodded and pointed in a direction.

"Are there any road signs?"

"Uh-huh, I see."

"Coco, what are they talking about?" Xiaogui asked.

"Follow the tabuli pine, they know the first part of the way." Tian Kokou said.

"Where is the first leg of the road?" Xiaogui asked.

"Under the stone wall." Tian Kokou said.

"How do I get down the stone wall?" Xu Yongzhi asked.

"There's a dead man's bones there, the first one who wants to climb over the mountain, and he's been there all along, and he's been signposting." Tian Kokou looked serious.

She's not kidding, the old wizards often say that there are spirits in the mountains outside the Peach Blossom Spring, capable of destroying anyone they hate.

"Let's go." Xu Yongzhi said.

Tian Kokou said a few more words to the two tanuki, and the two tanuki looked frightened and nodded again and again.

After walking away, Xu Yongzhi asked Koukou, "What did you tell them later?" ”

"Tell them that if they dare to lie to me, they will skin all their children and make scarves. In addition, if we leak our whereabouts to others, we will kill their entire family. Coco said.

"Do you really want to say that?" Xu Yongzhi said.

"Cousin, what misconception do you have about beasts, they are not human, they have no manners, and if a more powerful wizard comes to interrogate them, they will curry favor with them and betray us. Even if it is a human being, it should be threatened like this," Tian Kokou didn't bother to pay attention to him, and walked straight forward.

Xu Yongzhi shook his head and hurried up.

By noon, they had reached the end of the broad-leaved forest, in front of which were coniferous pine and fir trees, dotted between the stone walls.

Sure enough, there was a white bone wrapped in purple clothes, lying between the cracks in the stones.

"Who is this man, wizard?" Xu Yongzhi couldn't help but ask.

"No, it's a noble son who likes a witch, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, this person fell in love with a witch, but the identities of both parties were not suitable, the witch rejected him, how could I think of this infatuated son, he actually went all the way to the bottom of the mountain, and took the servants to knock on the stone wall together, and many of the footholds on this road today were all made by his hard work back then." Tian Kokou said.

"It turned out to be an infatuated person." Xiaogui said.

"Doesn't anyone want to bury him?" Xu Yongzhi asked.

"In fact, the Wizards' Guild also talked about this matter, and wanted this person's family to collect his body, who knew that the letter was sent, this person's family has been involved in the war, and the whole family has been killed, so no one cares about this matter. In the past few decades, the wind and sun have turned into corpses, and the white bones are still there, and the purple robe with gold silk has become the best signpost. Tian Kokou said.

Xu Yongzhi picked up the pickaxe in the back frame and walked towards the crack in the stone.

"Do what?" Tian Kokou asked.

"Bury him." Xu Yongzhi said.

"Has this man always been a bad guy who does this?" Tian Kokou looked at Xiao Gui.

"This man has always been a good person, otherwise I would have died a long time ago, and I wouldn't be standing here." After Xiaogui finished speaking, he went over to help Xu Yongzhi.

They filled the stone crack with earth and stones, and inserted a large piece of bark in the ground in front of the stone crevice, Xu Yongzhi took out a dagger, and hesitated.

"Is it to write the tomb of the infatuated Han, or the tomb of the amorous son?"

"Amorous son," Xiaogui said, "Infatuated with the Han tomb, others think it is the ancient tomb of the Han Dynasty, and it will be troublesome to rob the tomb." ”

"Then it's decided." Xu Yongzhi's lettering.

Kou Ko just thinks that amateurs have strange feelings, as if she doesn't seem to understand.

The tombstone was erected, and Xu Yongzhi looked up at this cliff.

From a distance, it is smooth and nowhere to start, but when you look closely, you will find that the gaps, branches, and protrusions together form a winding route, and if you choose the right one, you will have a smooth journey, and if you choose the wrong one, you will be wiped out.

Xu Yongzhi looked at it and said to Tian Kokoukou: "Let the chatter ash go up and have a look." ”

Tian Kokou nodded, and as soon as she raised her hand, the parrot chirped and landed on her wrist honestly.

"Find a way out, go."

The same bird, where Xu Yongzhi can only report the alarm and communicate, can be competent for more tasks here.

Along the way, Ash pondered whether the clumsy human feet could overcome one obstacle after another.

It took about a moment for it to float down.

Coco spoke to it and understood that there was a road up there.

Xu Yongzhi hurriedly fed it the dried fruit and let it rest for a while, while he prepared the rope.

Xu Yongzhi tied short ropes to the waists and legs of the three people, and then used long ropes to connect everyone together, so that one person stumbled, and the weight and strength of the other two were enough to pull the person up.

"I'm in front, and you're following me." Xu Yongzhi said.

It's not that he bragged, when he went to Longhu Mountain as a child, he exercised light skills on the cliff of Elephant Trunk Mountain, and he was more experienced in mountain climbing than the two girls.

He carefully climbed up from the old road made by the boy in purple decades ago, and at every foothold, he tried whether it was strong or not, and then really exerted his strength. When the sun was sinking, he climbed a third of the way to the stone wall.

"Cousin, it's getting dark, are we going down?" The Tiankou climb is the weakest, in the middle.

"Go down, of course not. Won't it be so high tomorrow? Xu Yongzhi said.

"What about that night?" Tian Kokou asked.

"Guess!" Xu Yongzhi said with a smile.

"I'm not kidding you, when the wind blows up at night, we'll all die!" Tian Kokou said.

"Look up, do you see that little pine tree?" Xu Yongzhi pointed in the direction with his chin.

"See, why do you want to hang on there for the night?" Tian Kokou asked.

"Of course not, what do you think of the purple-clothed man's mountain-climbing kung fu compared to the three of us?" Xu Yongzhi asked.

"Surely it might as well."

"Will he be able to reach the top of the day?"

"I don't think so."

"That's right, if he can go up, it means that there must be a place to rest in the middle, next to that tree, there is a stone crevice, and it is a cave!"

When Xu Yongzhi climbed to the outside of the cave, the sun was just setting.

He hurriedly helped Kou and Xiaogui climb onto the platform outside, hoisted their luggage, and then put away ropes, dry food and other things.

Xiaogui took out the fire sickle from his arms, struck lightly, lit the velvet, and burned the prepared torch.

The division of labor between these two people is like the feeling of climbing a mountain together for many years.

"You're so skilled." Tian Kokou was impressed by Xiaogui.

"I used to be my husband's scholar." Xiaogui said.

Xiaogui held a sword in his left hand and a torch in his right hand, and probed into the hole, but the torch was not extinguished, and there was no reflection from the eyes of the beast.

"Safety." Xiaogui reported.

"Come in." Xu Yongzhi asked Tian Kokou to follow.

Squeezing into the narrow crevices of the rocks, they found that there was a cave inside, and a warm fresh wind blew from the other end of the cave.

"There's an exit over there, and it looks like this is the way." Xiaogui said.

"It used to be an eagle's nest." Tian Kokou looked at it.

"There are only two kinds of animals that can come up to such a cliff, one is an eagle, and the other is a bat, and the bat cave will have a lot of feces, which can be used as medicine, called luminous sand, but there is no one in this cave." Xu Yongzhi said.

"Luckily, there are no bats...... "I think it's an animal that looks a lot like a demon." ”

"The eagle's nest is much cleaner, they will clean up the feces and leftover bones, but it looks like the boy in purple just hit the eagle head-on, frightened, and fell down from here."

Xu Yongzhi coiled the branches in the cave and lit a small fire.

"We're resting here tonight, the road behind, the infatuated son didn't go, we have to rely on ourselves."

"I want to keep walking, I have to make a fire here anyway, see the road ahead by the light, and then come back to rest, what do you think, husband?" Xiaogui said.

"I think it makes sense."

"It's better to rest and move forward." Tian Kokou looked at the fire with a sad face.

Although Tian Kokou seems to be omnipotent, she has mentioned to Duan Meimei before that she is afraid of ghosts in narrow and dark places.