Chapter 250: The Chalk Mountain
The bamboo horse drew a sketch on the ground, and when I looked at it, I saw a mountain and a house drawn on it.
"Why can't I understand this picture?" I looked at the sketch and didn't understand anything.
"This mountain is the Tianyu Mountain where we are now, and this house is your Fengshen Palace. Takema pointed with a branch.
"I still don't understand," I said, touching my head with my hand, "why are you drawing it?
"You know how to play!" Bamboo Horse glanced at me and said, "Of course, I painted it to use the method of shrinking the ground to return to your Fengshen Palace." β
"Oh, can we go back then?" I looked at the sketch on the ground, a little skeptical.
"One more circle, and you're done. As he spoke, he drew a large circle on the outside of the sketch with the branch in his hand.
"And then?" I asked, looking at the picture.
"Well," said the bamboo horse, throwing the branch in his hand, "we are all going to go into the circle, and if I recite the incantation, we can go back." β
"Really, is it that easy?" I couldn't believe it, you know, my Fengshen Palace is thousands of miles away from here, even if my windmill is fast, it will take a while to go back. Now Takema can send me back just by drawing a map, and I'm a little envious of Takema's supernatural powers.
"Hurry up and get into the circle. Takema urged me to say.
So I stepped into the circle. When the bamboo horse saw that I had entered the circle, he also entered the circle, and then closed his eyes, folded his hands, and moved his lips, as if he was chanting a word.
After a while, he said, "Here we are." Then he opened his eyes.
I looked around and we were still in the old place.
"Where are we?" I asked him deliberately.
"Huh, why are we still where we are?" said Takema with a puzzled look on his face.
"Takema, you're lying to me, aren't you?" I became more and more distrustful of him.
"How can this be?γγγ It's impossible. Zhuma scratched his head with his hand, and suddenly he turned his face to me and said, "Qingtian, did you close your eyes just now?"
"Why should I close my eyes?" I asked, puzzled.
"Finally found the reason," Takema said happily, "I said how could my spell fail, it's all because you didn't close your eyes just now." β
"Do you still have to close your eyes?" I asked him.
"Of course," said Takema solemnly, "or my spell will fail." β
"Alright, let's do it again. I thought it was funny, and I thought, "I'll play with you a little longer." β
I closed my eyes this time, and suddenly, I heard the whirring wind in my ears, as if I was actually flying.
I was about to open my eyes, but I heard the voice of the bamboo horse warn: "Qingtian, you must not open your eyes, otherwise, I don't know where I will send you." β
I had to keep my eyes closed until Takema said, "Okay, Qingtian, we're here, you can open your eyes." β
As soon as I heard this, I slowly opened my eyes.
We saw that we settled on a mountain, where the ancient trees were towering and covered with exotic flowers and plants.
"Where is this?" I asked, looking around, surprised.
"What, isn't this the location of your Wind God Palace?" Takema asked me suspiciously.
"Of course not," I said, looking around, "I've never been to this mountain, and my Fengjin Palace isn't here." β
"And where are we?" said Takema, scratching his head with his hand.
"How do I know?" I was furious: "Zhuma, how did you do it, how did you send me here?"
"The sketch is not wrong," Zhuma pondered, and suddenly, as if he remembered something: "By the way, Qingtian, how far did you say your Fengshen Palace is from Tianyu Mountain?"
"About 3,000 miles, what's wrong?" I said, thinking, "Am I wrong again?"
"It's broken," Zhuma patted his head and said, "I've painted it for more than 30,000 miles." β
"What?" I asked, stunned.
"Qingtian, I'm really sorry," said the bamboo horse, "It's all my negligence this time, I'm sorry." β
"More than 30,000 miles... I was going to cry: "Can we go back then?"
"Of course you can, it's up to me!" said the little bamboo horse, patting his chest.
"Then let's hurry. "I heard the spirit.
"Wait a minute. As he spoke, he went to find a branch and was about to draw a picture on the ground.
Suddenly, he threw the branch in his hand and said to me, "Qingtian, someone is coming, I am afraid of life, so I will hide in your body first." As he spoke, the red light flashed, and he was gone.
"Hehβ" He left me here alone!
"Bamboo horse, bamboo horse, come out quickly!" I shouted, but no matter how much I shouted, he wouldn't come out.
"Who are you, why are you yelling here?" a voice suddenly asked me.
When I looked up, I saw an old man in front of me, dressed in coarse cloth and carrying a handful of stalks on his shoulders.
"I... Oh, old man, what is this place?" I admired myself for my quick reaction and secretly gave myself a thumbs up.
"Don't you know where you're from?" the old man looked me up and down like a prisoner.
"I am ... I thought, "I don't know if the other party is friend or foe, so don't easily expose your own details." β
So I started to make up nonsense: "I'm here to travel, I saw that the scenery in this mountain is very beautiful, and I plan to recommend it to my friends when I go back, but I don't know the name of this mountain, isn't it? β
"You're here for a tour?" the man asked me with a suspicious look.
"Yes, yes. I hurriedly said, I'm afraid he won't believe it.
"Then you are lucky to have met me, and you must not come in the future. The old man said, "Also, tell your friends not to come, if they still want to live." β
"But why? "I don't understand.
"Boy, listen up, this mountain is called Chalk Mountain, and the mountain lives the great goddess Nuwa, who has a bad temper and eats people. The old man said.
How come I've never heard of Chalk Mountains?
While I was pondering, the old man said, "Boy, why don't you leave?"
Where are you going? My Fengshen Palace is 30,000 miles away!
I couldn't say what was in my heart, so I said, "It's just that it's getting late, and my home is far from here, so I want to spend the night in the mountains and leave tomorrow." β
Actually, that's what I thought, when I find a secluded place in the mountains, I'll have to let the bamboo horse send me back.
"Alas, I advise you, but if you don't listen, then it's none of my business. The old man shook his head, resisted his head and left, and said as he walked: "It's a pity that this kid is quite handsome." β