Chapter 174: The Source of the River
I don't know where I pulled the switch, but I felt a sense of unease, so I pushed the lever back, but strangely enough, there was no other big movement when I pushed it back, and the force was much looser.
There are really all kinds of strange things here, and they are extremely secretive, and things don't follow the routine.
In addition, seeing this kind of mechanism switch also reminds me of the abyss under the tunnel of the post station, I remember that the wooden man at the bottom of the abyss also showed some incredible actions, such as saying that he wanted to stay away from the post station and take refuge in the west camp of the canyon, and said that the dragon hunting camp went to this place to avoid disaster and found a way to deal with mental madness, but at the same time, the wooden hand pointed to the underground river, clearly telling where the antidote was, and I also found the antidote to the poisonous miasma.
What was the purpose of the inventor of the mechanism? I am deeply puzzled at this moment.
But now is not the time to solve the mystery, we now have the fungus and wild vegetables in our backpack to last at most today and tomorrow, once we eat, we will not have any food to eat, it will not be easy to survive seven days, to find someone to find a horse has to rely on some fate, it is a protracted war, just one day to find I am afraid it is not easy, so take advantage of the dawn, now it is time to consider the problem of survival, should go to find food.
After all, on a desert island, food is the sky, and food is life.
I also checked twice by the way just now, and I can confirm that there is definitely no food source in the city, so I decided to go out of the west gate to see if there is a harvest, although it is the early winter season, everything is withering, and it may not be possible, but in order to survive in the world, I have to try to see what.
We entered through the south gate, and the scene outside the south gate was mostly depressed, except for those ghost claw flowers and some trees such as pines and cypresses, there was nothing to eat, only hoping that the direction outside the north city would not be short of food, if that was the case, we could only starve to death.
Out of the north city gate, but see the outside and the south city is close, but through the canal, the canal winds all the way, leading to the right side of the mountain road winds up, it can be seen that the river in the city comes from the mountain canal, but I was puzzled yesterday one thing, this day is frozen, the water outside has been frozen to the bone, and even more than frozen can not flow.
But yesterday when I went into the water, I had a lot of doubts, the water temperature of the pool in the city is usually like spring, even slightly warm, and there is no freezing, and then look at the trickle of water in the canal outside the city, as if not afraid of the cold of winter, not affected by the weather, it is inevitably very strange, is it possible that this ancient city has already transcended the laws of nature?
It's ridiculous, but there's also the possibility that there might be something wrong with the source of the river, maybe it's close to volcanic lava or something, and it's possible that it's hot like a hot spring, which has already aroused my interest, since it's all about looking for it, why don't you just go and find food along the way.
So there were two roads outside the North City Gate, one under the canyon and the other up the mountain in the direction of the water source, and I chose the latter, intending to find it in this direction.
The mountain road has been opened up, there are stone paved roads, there are traces of people walking, I followed the way to make a mark, and this road also made me more and more surprised, the following things are basically contrary to the theory of nature, for example, the road up the mountain seems to be arranged according to the four seasons, when I first went up the mountain, the whole way was normal and bleak, and walked less than fifty steps, I saw faint flowers blooming, the further back the more, until you can still see a lot of butterflies playing flowers.
Not only that, the closer to the top, the more the temperature feels up the mountain, the humidity also rises, and then walk up to feel that wearing a cloak will sweat, can only take off temporarily and carry it by hand, it is as hot as summer, and finally to the top of the mountain suddenly feel cooler, but see the surrounding trees and mountains are fruitful, peaches, plums, apricots, jujubes are everything, dazzling.
Even on the top of this mountain, there are wild monkeys, autumn cicadas chirping, birds chirping, a derivative appearance, isn't this the scene of the early autumn season?
Spring, summer, and autumn come to the bottom of the mountain, but winter, a mountain encompasses the four seasons, what a strange natural phenomenon! Is it the world I know, or am I hallucinating? As a result, I couldn't help but apply some water from the military jug in my backpack to my eyelids, but everything was as it was, not a hallucination.
"This is a natural greenhouse, you should plant wheat here, plant a batch of spring wheat, then it will grow fast, it will grow well in two or three months, and you won't have to worry about food." I muttered.
The so-called eating is not active, there is a problem with the brain, now so much food is placed on the tree, if you don't quickly collect some and bring it back, how can you be worthy of yourself? So I hurriedly climbed up and down, collecting all kinds of food, and it didn't take long for the backpack to be half a pocket, and I went to dig up some wild vegetables and grass roots, and some mountain mushrooms, and collected them together when I looked at the non-toxic ones.
And on the way, I walked around the road on the top of the mountain for a long time, but I saw an absolute treasure, only to see a corner of the rotten tree is growing two round fungi, this thing is very strong in color, brown-red dark tone, the disc is like an umbrella, symbiotic two large and one small, each with some insect eyes, I have never eaten pork and have seen pigs run, TV commercials are common to see this kind of thing, absolutely yes.
This is the great tonic known as fairy grass, seocho and even yang grass, Ganoderma lucidum!
I never thought that I could meet in this place, and if I took it back and let the two girls see it, I would inevitably be praised again, and I would secretly be happy when I thought about it.
So I carefully took it off and put it in my backpack, and was trying to find out if there was anything nearby, when I suddenly heard a crackling sound, like a lot of things flapping their wings, I hurriedly hid behind a tree, looked up, but saw that on the mountain road on the inside of the mountaintop, countless bats were flying out, and the sound was endless, and a few were hundreds.
Obscuring the sky and the sun, fly into the air!
If there are bats, there are mostly tide-yin mountain walls or caves, and if you think that there are these ahead, the bats will not come out during the day, will this leave me with a big puzzle? In order to keep myself from falling asleep tonight with these puzzles, I decided to go and find out.
For about three minutes, I was counting the bats in my mouth, and the bats had flown clean, and I walked in the direction before they flew out, but I found that there were still artificial traces on this road, it seems that someone found this place before me, is it someone from the Dragon Hunting Camp? I went up, and suddenly a sudden wind struck, and I took two or three steps back, and almost fell.
Look ahead again, but see a hole, the excavation marks are obvious and smooth and neat, presumably artificial, there are a few bats that bite through the throat outside the hole, and there are some broken large stones, this stone material seems to be similar to the diamond wall stone, no, not close, but at all.
Is there something that can shatter the diamond wall?
And at this time, in the dark hole, there was something looming, I approached a little, but the thing suddenly turned its head, and I fell to the ground in fright, and it was a pair of blood-red eyes! I hurriedly raised the golden sword in my hand and aimed it at the entrance of the cave in a panic.
In an instant, however, the contents disappeared again, leaving only a pitch black color.
I breathed a sigh of relief, and realized that this place should not stay for a long time, after collecting food, I also hurried down the mountain, thinking that it might be because I had been frightened by the red-eyed monster recently, so I had such a hallucination, although I thought so, but I was afraid that it was true, so I encountered it, as long as I didn't provoke it, it should be fine, so I hurried back.
It was easy to go down the mountain and difficult to go up, but on the way back, the speed was much faster, and it didn't take long to rush back to the old house with the old trees sloping horizontally.
Seeing that Yun Wen and Bai Lu were fine, and the house was much cleaner and brighter, they were relieved, sat down, and took a break to ease down, and at this time, Yun Wen and Bai Lu immediately put down their work when they saw me coming back, and they both frowned, as if they had something urgent to discuss with me immediately...