The night was uneventful.

The next morning, Yan Xiaoying and I woke up early.

When he walked out of the room, he found that Lin Miao was already sitting on the wooden pier. The antelope meat left over from the fire was gone, and two wild fowl were replaced. Because it was plucked and roasted to a golden brown, I don't know what kind of wild fowl it is.

After we had the breakfast prepared by Lin Miao, the three of us and one dog left the forest house and headed to our destination.

The dog is naturally Xiaobai with me, Lin Miao didn't bring his hunting dog, saying that he let it guard the house.

Under the leadership of Lin Miao, we went over the mountains and forests, crossed the ditch and waded through the water, until more than one o'clock in the afternoon, and then came to the place that Lin Miao said.

Today's sky is gloomy, and although it is noon, the sun is not visible.

The mountain woods, shrouded in thick fog, blown by cold winds, the distant scenery is sometimes clear, sometimes blurred.

If it weren't for Lin Miao leading the way, we would have lost our way by this time.

For so long, it has been deep into the 100,000 mountains, and the surrounding area has long been a deserted primeval forest, with high mountains and forests, dangerous cliffs and torrents, and it is unimaginably desolate.

Here, I saw many exotic animals and plants that are difficult to see on Paradise Mountain, and of course there are some poisonous things among them.

For example, spiders, lizards, wasps, and some insects whose names cannot be named.

Everything is fine, but there is a lack of popularity and more wildness.

Walking through a misty cedar forest again, I saw a huge lake. The beach by the lake is white, not so white that it is not a normal color. The lake is green, not like its normal color.

The whole lake was shrouded in fog, and it was impossible to see its true face, only that it was large.

In the mist, I vaguely seemed to see bare trees in the lake.

The trees are dead, and it seems that this was once a forest, only to be flooded and eroded by the lake.

My first impression was that the lake was alive and expanding, eroding the land around it.

"Burial Lake!"

I couldn't have imagined that the place where Lin Miao brought us was actually the place where the Tujia people came to hunt in the Burial Lake!

Gan Lan had described the landscape of the underground burial lake to us before, so I can now be almost 90% sure that this mysterious lake in front of me is the underground burial lake.

"Are we going to the floating grassland in the lake?" I asked Lin Miao.

"Not bad."

Lin Miao nodded, not surprised at all How did I know that there was a mysterious grassland in this lake, as if there were no words surprise and surprise in his cognition.

"I don't know how big this lake is, how do we get to the island in the lake?" I asked with a frown.

"Find a way."

Hearing Lin Miao reply with these three words, Yan Xiaoying and I were speechless for a while.

At that moment, the three of them took a short rest on the beach first, and I took out the can from my backpack and handed it to Yan Xiaoying and Lin Miao. After eating something to satisfy his hunger, he returned to the woods again to look for bamboo to build a simple bamboo raft.

The area of the underground burial lake is vast, and Ganlan and their hunting team don't know which direction it is in?

We had different purposes, they were just going to hunt by the lake. We were going to the meadow in the lake, so we had no intention of looking for them at this time.

It took the three of them more than two hours to build a bamboo raft with rattan ropes in the mountains.

The inside of the bamboo is hollow, and although it has just been cut down, the load-bearing capacity is not a problem. The three of us stepped on, and the raft only sank slightly, very stable.

At this time, it was already past three o'clock in the afternoon, close to four o'clock.

Calculating the time, it has been four days since we came here, I don't know how Lao Fei is now?

Time was pressing, and we didn't plan to delay, so the three of us didn't stop and boarded the bamboo raft. Lin Miao was in charge of supporting the boat with a penny in his hand, because he was the only one who knew him here, if Yan Xiaoying and I were holding it, it was estimated that as soon as we entered the dense fog, we would not be able to distinguish between east and west, north and south.

The water was calm and unwavering, and at first we could hear the chirping of birds, beasts, and insects, but after a while, these sounds disappeared.

The bamboo raft is about 100 meters from the shore, and under the thick fog, we can no longer see the scenery on the shore, and there is no sound at all.

After holding on for some distance, the wind picked up on the surface of the lake, the ripples were cascading, and suddenly there was a series of creepy howls ahead.

Yan Xiaoying and I were both attracted by this strange voice, and we sought prestige.

I saw a bald forest appear on the lake in front of me, and they protruded from the bottom of the water. Under the thick fog, the bare branches were faintly visible, as if they were black snakes dancing in mid-air.

The strange howl was made by the wind blowing the branches and tree holes.

Even though I know how this sound came from, I still feel my scalp tingle when I hear this ghost-like howl.

No wonder Gan Lan said before that this burial lake is a mysterious place, and the strange sound of the wind blowing the branches alone is enough to frighten many people.

Soon, Lin Miao propped up the bamboo raft into the strange forest.

From a distance, this strange forest standing in the lake is densely packed, but in fact, when you come in, you find that they are far away from each other, scattered on the surface of the lake.

The branches of the trees hung like curtains on the surface of the lake, long dead, and the surface looked so rotten that it did not look like a decorated.

Yan Xiaoying broke off a branch, took it to look at it, and said to us, "These are willow trees, but they are all soaked to death than water." ”

"Willow trees are best suited to grow in moist and warm places, and even if they are soaked in water all year round, so many trees should not all be soaked to death!" I wondered.

Yan Xiaoying bent down and put her hand into the lake, then leaned over to her nose and sniffed it, dipped it with her tongue/head again, and frowned: "It's not a freshwater lake, the water in the lake has a strong corrosive substance, these willows were indeed soaked to death." It's just that willows are good wood, so even if they are soaked for a long time, they are not like other trees that have been completely swallowed up by the lake, and there is no trace of them. ”

Yan Xiaoying's family is a coffin shop, and she knows wood best.

"Be careful, there's something here."

Just as Yan Xiaoying and I were talking, Lin Miao, who was in charge of supporting the bamboo raft, suddenly spoke up to remind us.

When we heard this, we immediately became vigilant, and the surrounding dead branches were blown by the cold wind, and strange noises continued. I don't know if it's my delusion, but this strange sound is harsh when I listen to it outside, but it is not so loud when I enter the woods.

If the strange noise you hear at first is a howl of a ghost, then the strange noise you hear after entering the underwater woods is the whispering of countless people.

The sound came from all directions, and I didn't know which tree it was coming from.

Under the mist, the willow trees around us floated on the surface of the lake as if they were alive, staring coldly at the three of us.

I searched around, but I didn't see anything suspicious, and asked Lin Miao, "Is there anything terrible in this place?" ”

"Willow Ghost!"

Lin Miao said two words, and then maintained his usual silent style.

"Willow Ghost?"

"It's a ghost, but it's actually a strange bird." At this time, Yan Xiaoying explained beside her: "That kind of strange bird likes to perch on the willow tree, the beak is shaped like a willow leaf, the body shape is like a long snake, and the cry is similar to that of a ghost. They feed on willow sap for a living, and are rarely seen nowadays. However, in addition to this bird being called a willow ghost, there are other folklore, I don't know what the willow ghost he refers to is, is it a living creature or something else? ”

Yan Xiaoying and I looked at Lin Miao in unison, hoping that he could explain it to us.

"You know a lot, I guess the guy who left here alive last time told you, right?" Lin Miao looked at Yan Xiaoying, and a hint of discoloration flashed in her eyes.

"The willow ghosts I am referring to are living creatures, if I had to describe them, they are magnified giant mosquitoes with pointed beaks like blood-sucking tubes."

Before he could finish speaking, his left hand suddenly stretched out quickly, and pointed at the waist of a willow tree with lightning speed.

Although the willow tree was eroded by the lake, it was very tough, but all his fingers sank into the tree at once.

When he pulled his hand out, there was already a strange bird the size of an egg and pitch black between the two fingers of his hand.

"That's the kind of thing."

As he spoke, he handed us the strange bird he was holding.

Yan Xiaoying and I stepped forward to take a look, and saw that the bird was very small, but it had a whip-like tail. Its eyes are turquoise, and its mouth has a long, thin beak that resembles a straw.

The strange bird had been caught between Lin Miao's fingers and was motionless.

"This strange bird is called a willow ghost? What's so scary about it? ”

"It feeds on blood, and usually sucks the blood of wild beasts that come to the lake to drink."

Lin Miao threw the dead strange bird into the water, and said expressionlessly: "They don't suck blood as gently as mosquitoes, you will feel severe pain, and you will even be killed directly by them." ”

"So terrible? So here, is there a lot of this kind of? I asked, surprised.

"Not much, but not much more. Their nest is inside the willow tree, that is, we are in the range of their nest at this time. But don't worry, they usually go out at night to smoke and rarely show up during the day. As long as you don't actively mess with them, they won't come out now. ”

"No wonder I just found out how these dead willow trees have so many little holes, and they were made by this kind of thing. I guess the reason for the strange noise here has something to do with the hole in the tree they made, right?" Yan Xiaoying said in contemplation.

"Not bad!"

Lin Miao nodded and continued to hold the boat, ignoring us again.

At this time, Yan Xiaoying pulled my clothes and said in a low voice, "Tianyan, did you see him make a move just now?" ”

I clicked and asked her what was wrong?

"The movements are fast, fast and accurate, he is probably not an ordinary person."

Yan Xiaoying frowned lightly and said, "When I was on the Heavenly Mountain before, I once told you about the division of the strength of people outside the square, and among them, the spiritual realm is to break through the category of ordinary people. The Evergreen Daoist is the strength of the early stage of the spirit realm, after I ate the spirit baby fruit before, I also broke through to the early stage of the spirit realm, but I can't see through the person in front of me, he has at least the strength above the spirit realm. ”

I was stunned and said, "This guy looks younger than us, and he is actually stronger than you?" ”

"No one should be a disgrace."

"Then according to what you say, what is the strength of your grandmother and my old man? What strength do I have? "I don't know anything about this, so I took the opportunity to ask Yan Xiaoying.

"Before the spiritual realm, it was the physical realm, and my grandma was in the late stage of the physical realm, I don't know your grandfather, as for you, ......"

Yan Xiaoying looked me up and down, coughed lightly twice, and said, "At the beginning of the physical realm, it is equivalent to an ordinary person. ”