A hovercar arrives at the terminal, and the only passenger in the car walks down. She was wearing a black trench coat and was trying to fend off the wind and not let it lift her hat. The dusk sky shrouded the place, and the mournful chirping of owls and crows in the nearby treetops was like the end of the world.

"Follow me up the mountain, and I'll take you to my father." A young man sat on a stone in the middle of the dirt path and the concrete road, dressed in a freshly woven robe, and seemed to have been waiting for the man here for a long time.

"How long is this road?" The man in the trench coat pointed to the dirt road, and she hesitated. She asked, "Is this the only way?" ”

"It always has been." The young man jumped up and stepped into the murky puddle. He looked at the woman in front of him with a puzzled look and asked, "What's your name?" ”

"Fang Chenxi." A clear voice came into his ears, and he didn't ask anything more.

The two walked on the slippery dirt road one after the other, and the young man often fell, because he was not wearing shoes, but he was also close to nature. Fang Chenxi is fully equipped, with black leather high boots on his feet, a black windbreaker and loose cargo pants, which are sprayed with nanomaterials, which are very waterproof and scratch-resistant.

Finally came to the top of the mountain. Fang Chenxi calculated, this road walked for about an hour, and if the time for young people to wrestle was removed, it would be reduced a lot. In front of them was a treehouse, anchored to the branches by a huge piano tree. It doesn't look very big from below, probably obscured by the branches of this tree.

The young man skillfully climbed the trunk of the tree, and in a moment he reached the edge of the tree house. Fang Chenxi was not to be outdone, she carefully grabbed the rope ladder and went up as fast as possible.

"We're early, and my father hasn't come back yet." The young man hung from a vine and stared at the valley in the distance. A melancholy atmosphere suddenly coalesced.

"I can stay here for many days, and ......" Fang Chenxi looked at the interior of the room, and the first thing that caught his eye was the broken water tank, the edges of which had been broken into a few pieces, and the cylinder could faintly be seen to have cracks. In the corners of the walls are cages, woven from bamboo, containing three pheasants and an unknown bird. They all looked helpless, and she guessed they had been caught in the morning.

"How long have you been living here?" Fang Chenxi entered the room, and a drop of water fell from the ceiling and landed on her face. It wasn't disgusting, she wiped the splash and looked up at the ceiling. No, no one can believe it, there is no ceiling on it, just a simple roof, made of bamboo.

"It's been a long time, and I remember this house being there." The young man and his father were the only residents of the Misty Forest. He remembers that it was built by his mother and father together, and then his mother died of illness, and they were the only ones who lived here, living a life dependent on each other. This kind of life is too bitter in the eyes of ordinary people, and Fang Chenxi also thinks so. Every day she was hungry and cold, with little food and clothing, and she couldn't watch TV and play games, and she believed that she couldn't stay for a day.

"What's your name?" Fang Chenxi suddenly thought of this question. She knew his father's nickname, which Eric called "White Clothes", which sounded weird, but she still made up a middle-aged man in white.

"Me?" The young man suddenly jumped to the floor, and as if he saw something, he turned to a forest and shouted, "Hey! Father, the man is here. ”

His father came back, which made Fang Chenxi hurriedly get out of the tree house. She kept reminding herself that there were only 10 days to spare. She said to the figure in the woods, "You're back, I'm Eric's crew, and now I'm here to get the herbs." ”

The figure got closer and closer, and when it passed through the last layer of grass, it was a grizzly bear. It slammed to its feet, snarling with teeth and claws, glaring at the stranger in front of it.

Fang Chenxi's heart beat faster, and he immediately summoned a fifth-order zero seal, preparing to defend against the life-threatening bear paw. And there was more than it in the grass, and listening to the rustling of leaves, an old man ran out. He gently stroked the grizzly bear's head, kept talking to it, and then whispered to Fang Chenxi: "Don't kill it, quickly put away zero force." ”

She could only do what he said. Sure enough, the grizzly bear was calm, but he still grinned at her from time to time.

"I'm sorry, he's my old friend Ed, and he's always on the verge of smelling strangers." The old man kept stroking it and let it go. No one could believe that there was such a deep affection between humans and beasts.

Fang Chenxi saw it go away, still had palpitations, and said timidly: "It's okay, it may like me." ”

Yes, a liking that made it want to touch her with the palm of its hand.

The old man smiled awkwardly, Fang Chenxi associated him with "Bai Teyi", but the result was not what he imagined. He had a full beard, dark skin, and wore the same cloak as a young man, but the eyes of father and son were very similar, and they were as clear and bright.

"Hey, Feather Coat, come down and help me, I've had a good harvest today." The old man looked up and shouted at the treehouse, and then he removed the basket on his back, which was full of herbs.

Feather coat, Fang Chenxi thought he was asking for a raincoat at first glance, and only when the young man came down did he understand that this was his name. She carefully found that the feather coat was also similar to the timbre of "Feather Wings", which should mean that she hoped that he could soar in the sky and see thousands of worlds.

"Is there a spleen in this? I need it now, as much as I want. Fang Chenxi looked at the herbs in the basket and didn't know what a spleen sha was.

The old man shook his head and replied, "There are no spleens in this, they are all in the pit, and they have nothing to do with money." As long as you dare to pick it, we are willing to make pills for free. ”

"And in which pit are they? I'm going to pick it now, with my strength. ”

The old man squinted at her, admiring her courage in his heart, and explained, "How dare you, a fifth-order zero-force person, come to such a ghost place alone? You must know that the eye of the storm is very dangerous, and even the sixth-order zero force people dare not go down alone. And what about you? ”

He burst out laughing.

"I'm not afraid, this is my mission, I'm going down no matter what." Fang Chenxi hadn't heard of the Eye of the Storm, and thought it was a sinkhole for the time being. As a wood-based zero-force person, there is no place she can't go, and she is very confident.

"There are so many people dying there, don't waste your time. Stay here tonight, there will be a bus tomorrow morning, and you can go back to the city. ”

Fang Chenxi was furious, and opened his mouth to scold him: "You stubborn donkey! Just tell me where the eye of the storm is, can't I go by myself? ”

The old man didn't say a word after hearing this, and concentrated on taking care of the herbs. He knew how hard it was to go down to the eye of the storm, better than anyone. If he hadn't made a mistake 30 years ago, maybe he wouldn't have stayed here, and he wouldn't have had to stay with his teammates who kept him alive. If they were still alive, they would be happy.

Feather saw his father's silence, he just didn't want anyone to lose their lives in vain, and he didn't want anyone to disturb those lost souls. However, he still said a sentence: "Father, that's Eric's life-sustaining medicine, and you can't ignore the life of your teammate's son." ”

The hand that had been working suddenly stopped, and the old man put the herbs into the mortar and began to grind them with a stone hammer. His face trembled, and his crushing hand was so strong that it seemed to shatter the mortar.

He said lightly, "I'll go to the eye of the storm tomorrow, but I don't want anyone to return halfway." ”

"I will definitely follow you closely, even if it is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire!" Fang Chenxi made a sonorous and powerful voice.

She may not know that there is a cave there.