So, I went to the wheelhouse and struck up a conversation with the boatman.

I still used the identity of a member of the Provincial Geological Survey Institute to ask some questions to the boatman, and the result was that I asked an unbelievable situation.

It turns out that in the mouths of some old hunters, there are still some legends that say that the canyon is strange and has been cursed by the gods.

The boatman said that almost all the hunters who spent the night in the canyon said that they had seen ghosts there, and some people with watches and compass needles said that the mountain had been lowered, and they said that as long as they were close to the canyon, their watches would stop, and the compass would keep turning, and some people liked to scare people, so they said that it was a ghost and wanted to keep them in the canyon.

Of course, these legends are spread less and less as there are fewer and fewer people who go up to the mountains to hunt, and nowadays, everyone only cares about the money in their hands, and no one cares about those gods and ghosts.

I was skeptical of the legend, and after a few jokes with the boatman, I left the wheelhouse.

A few hours later, the ferry left the main river and began to go up the tributary, along the way, the tributary channel became narrower and narrower, and the banks on both sides began to gradually rise, I looked at the fog in front of me and couldn't help but tell Qiu Yan the legend I had just heard from the boatman.

Qiu Yan looked at me in a daze, and then she said:

"Whether the legend is true or not, we have to be careful along the way."

Suddenly, with a muffled "clang", the hull of the boat shook violently, and then it stopped, and I leaned against the side of the boat to look down, only to find that the ferry was stuck by the stones at the bottom of the river, and, looking upstream from here, I could clearly see that the river was getting shallower and shallower, and even several stones had come out of the river.

It seems that it is not for nothing that this tributary is called a creek, and after less than twenty kilometers of travel, the river is already impossible to navigate.

The boatman looked at the bottom of the river, then at me and Qiu Yan, shook his head and said with a wry smile:

"The ship can only go here, and I can see that you can only use your feet!"

I thought to myself that our group of people was lightly dressed and simple, and it would be nothing to go down and drip water, but if something was discovered, what should Xiang Wei and them do with their equipment when the time comes?

Immediately, I raised my worries to see if everyone could do anything, but who knew that after I finished speaking, everyone else was thinking about it, and no one came up with a solution.

Qiu Yan didn't seem to have much to do, she sat on the side of the boat, and said while pulling her trouser legs:

"Let's go up first, and we'll figure it out later."

As soon as I heard it, the boss spoke, so I don't have anything to say.

At this time, Erwa came up to me and said:

"Brother Zimu, there is a road in Hewan Bay."

Only then did I think that Erwa and Old Man Peng had walked over at the beginning, and since there was a way to go, of course they could hire mules and horses.

But I thought about it again, when the second baby returned from Baojing County, they decided to come over temporarily, Xiang Wei and they couldn't turn around to the county seat first, and then take the small road over, which was a waste of time, and we had to let the second baby lead the way, no matter how I thought about it, it was not cost-effective.

So I asked Erwa if there was a path around here, and Erwa shook his head and said he didn't know because he had never been here.

I turned my head to look at the mountains on both sides of the river, and found that the one on the right side was a little more relaxed, I asked Erwa which side they had entered the canyon from, Erwa thought about it and said it was on the left-hand side.

When I heard this, I looked to the left, and found that there were all straight ridges, and there was no place for people to stand.

I gritted my teeth and said to Qiu Yan:

"I think we'll go in two ways, you take a few people by water, and I'll take the rest along the right bank, maybe we can get out of one way."

After hearing this, Qiu Yan looked at the right bank, and finally she nodded and said:

"Yes, listen to you, but don't be reluctant, if there is no way, we will find another way, it's a big deal, let Xiang Wei and them go to the county seat."

After Qiu Yan finished speaking, we began to prepare, I asked Erwa to follow Qiu Yan, and then picked a few dexterous people and set off.

In the past, when I followed the old forest head to patrol the mountains, I often walked this kind of road without a road, the old forest often joked, saying that there was no road on the ground, and there were many people walking, so I naturally walked out of the road, I said I didn't expect that you were quite literary and artistic, and the old forest smiled and said: Why am I literary? Later, I learned that Lao Lin Tou really didn't learn this sentence from books, but really experienced it himself.

I walked in front with a mountain opening knife, and from time to time I glanced at Qiu Yan who was flowing in the river, and it was very difficult for both of us to walk, but none of us retreated.

After walking for about two hours, we were already standing on the hillside dozens of meters above Qiu Yan and them, and these people shouted and greeted the people with the flowing stream, and for a while, they even dispelled the fatigue along the way.

At that moment, one of the people behind me shouted "snake", and then the others immediately panicked, and they jumped to hide in all directions, and several of them actually climbed the hillside next to them.

Originally, I was also afraid of snakes, but since I joined the reconnaissance company and survived in the wild a few times, I am no longer afraid, at that time, the troops often give a bag of individual rations, and then let you survive in the wild for several days, and when you are very hungry, you even hope to see a snake.

I yelled at them to calm down, because if they did step on a snake, it would be a nuisance to take a bite.

As soon as the crowd was quiet, a man who had climbed the hill suddenly made a "huh", and I asked him if he had seen the snake, and the man burrowed into the grass beside him, and shouted:

"There's a way here!"

I hurriedly climbed up the hill when I heard this, who knew that as soon as I got into the grass, my feet suddenly emptied, and then rolled down, fortunately the drop here is not high, I rolled at the same time, grabbed a few grasses on the ground hard, and my body instantly straightened.

When I stabilized my body and looked at it, I realized that my feet had touched the ground, and there was a mountain path about a meter wide under my feet, but because the miscanthus grass here was so lush, I thought it was a hillside.

I walked some distance back along the trail and found that the road we had just cut was actually attached to the side of the trail, and if someone fell on the trail, they might be able to fall into it.

I couldn't help but scold my mother in my heart, this is too unlucky, I worked hard for a long time to cut the mountain road, but I didn't find a ready-made road at my feet.

I hurried out of the grass and loudly informed Qiu Yan of our findings, but now they were in the rocky beach with a strong current, and they couldn't hear my shouts at all.

I had no choice but to continue walking with someone.

As I walked, I found that this road was getting more and more wrong, although it was a mountain road, it was too flat, not only did there be no large stones on the ground, not even a muddy puddle, it seemed that this mountain road had been specially compacted and hardened.

At this moment, I suddenly heard the sparse shouts of lala coming from the river below, and I quickly got out of the grass to look, and saw Qiu Yan and the others standing in a river beach full of pebbles, and in front of them, a large mud pool cut off their way.

It turned out that this little river, or this little stream, ended up here, and it seemed that the Juanjuan trickle that flowed under those pebbles was the source of this small stream, and I guessed that it was probably the groundwater that overflowed from the mud in front of Qiu Yan and them, and this tributary was formed.

At this time, it was impossible for Qiu Yan and them to continue to venture forward, because no one knew if there was a deep pit in the quagmire in front of them that could swallow people, but we were almost a hundred meters away from the river here, and there were straight hanging ridges below, so it was impossible for Qiu Yan and them to climb up.

Fortunately, when we parted ways, I brought a few bundles of ropes just in case, and after hesitating for a while, I told the others to connect the ropes, which was also no choice!

I shouted to Qiu Yan and they leaned over, and then threw the rope down, Qiu Yan and they were also clever, and they knew what I was going to do when they saw the rope that was thrown.

We pulled Qiu Yan's people up one by one, Qiu Yan was the last, and after the two groups of people converged, they first sighed separately, and then, Qiu Yan discovered the mountain road under our feet.

"Has this road always been there?" Qiu Yan asked.

"I guess so, I walked back a little bit, and I didn't see the end, and I suspect that the road probably leads to the Youshui River." I replied.

"If that's the case, that's great, it's definitely fine to walk on a mule and horse." Qiu Yan said excitedly.

"Well, let's go ahead first and see if this road can reach the canyon."

Qiu Yan nodded, and continued to walk after me.

As I walked ahead of me, I occasionally stepped out of the grass to see how big the mud pool was and whether it led to the canyon.

Just as I poked my head out of the grass again, Erwa also came out, and he pointed to the misty mountains and forests in front of me and said:

"Well, that's Riverbend Bay."

I looked in the direction of Erwa's finger, and saw a thick fog in front of me, shrouded above the two ridges, and not far behind the ridge, I could see that the mud pool below had reached the end, and in the middle of the mud and the ridge, you could see the yellow mud and the cyan stones.

Looking at this scene, I couldn't help but wonder, from the map, the highest point of the mountain here is more than 1,000 meters above sea level, and there is a drop of several hundred meters from the bottom of the canyon, but why does it seem that the ridge over there is about the same height as where we are?

"No, Erwa, are you mistaken, those two mountains are not very high, where are they as steep as you say?" I asked.

Who knew that the second baby smiled and said:

"Brother Zimu, do you think the sky is on the tip of that mountain? No, it's fog, it's fog that covers the mountains! ”

After listening to Erwa's words, I looked at the two ridges again, but I didn't expect to look closely, I found that the top of the ridge was really whiter than the sky overhead, and in the patches of white mist, a little green shadow appeared from time to time.