Chapter 20 The water curtain hangs upside down
The next day was still trekking through the woods.
Now it is flat land under the mountain, and the terrain is much smoother than yesterday, and there are no strange rocks and deep water, but the ground is soft, the vegetation is lush, and it is difficult to walk.
In the past, when I went to the south to play, I once lamented that the plants in the south grew so much that they could not be inserted in the mountains, and there was no comparison in the north. Now it seems that after all, he has not been to the mountains, and the plants here are as good as those in the south, growing savage and solid from top to bottom, and every plant is trying to crawl high, blooming for shade, competing for every bit of sunshine.
Along the way, we kept waving the knives in our hands to open the way, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to move forward. At first, I was reluctant to use the sword, but then I slowly let go.
I have played with a lot of knives, including A1 and other outdoor knives that are highly recommended by knife friends, but none of them are as good as this fixed light. Originally, its center of gravity was more suitable for fighting, but the hilt of this sword is very long, and the sword body is wide, as long as you hold two fingers back, it becomes very conducive to chopping, plus the blade is sharp and tough, and the thick branch of the arm can also pass through with a sword.
Our pace was slow, and we had to start camping before it got dark, and we could walk five or six miles in a day. Liu Dongxi has to look at the stars every night to determine the direction, and he has been moving forward very firmly. The trees in front of me are getting more and more messy, and there is almost no place to stay, I just numbly waved the light to open the way and move forward, fortunately, I didn't encounter any monsters along the way, and clear springs appeared in the jungle from time to time, and I could guarantee supplies by hunting by Liu Dongxi. It's just that when I'm camping at night, I can always hear the sound of a rope in the trees around the camp, and I don't know if it's a wild animal or a plant growing.
There is no doubt that we are heading towards the hill in the middle, which can also be answered in the daily communication with Liu Dongxi, but I am still accustomed to coming up with the answer according to my own observation and reasoning, although now Liu Dongxi and I are also friends of life and death who have shared hardships and hardships, and there are reasons to trust each other, but I always feel that he is hiding something.
On the fifth day, as I fell asleep, I seemed to hear the sound of water murmuring in the distance.
It was dawn and we doused the campfires as we had done the previous days, packed up our gear and hit the road, the fog was especially heavy in the morning and did not slowly dissipate until noon. The vegetation on the road is becoming more and more luxuriant, and everything grows as if it has never been touched for thousands of years.
This long, repetitive scenery is very easy to cause irritability and despair, and I have been trying to restrain my emotions in the face of such a long road.
I have also deliberately searched to the left and right, but I have never found anything new. Is there an end to this journey? If we are going in the right direction, why is there no trace of anyone walking there? If we are going in the wrong direction, where does this path lead?
I waved my arms vigorously as if I was in a cathartic mood, and Dingguang bit off a large branch fiercely, and with the full of climbing plants on it, I actually pulled a gap in the plants covering the sky and the sun above my head. I looked up and a hill appeared in it!
Liu Shishi also came over to take a look, and then said very strangely: "No, according to my calculations, I have to walk for at least two days!" How did it arrive so quickly? β
When I saw this mountain at this time, I knew that the Danfang was set in this mountain, and I was in a good mood, and said with a smile: "You care so much? What is so strange about the mountain not coming to Muhammad, but Muhammad coming to the mountain? β
Liu Dongxi obviously hadn't heard of this, and said seriously: "Brother An, we still have to be careful, the direction given by the ancestor is not so close, I think there may be something strange in it." β
I laughed and said, "What can be weird?" Your mountain won't be able to run! Look at the mountain running dead horses, you look at the mountains in front of you, maybe you have to walk for a few days! β
Liu Dongxi nodded in agreement, said no more at the moment, and continued to hurry.
With a rush in front of them, their hearts were much stronger, and the two of them sped up to open the road regardless of the soreness in their arms.
When I cut off the last branch that blocked my view, Liu and I stayed there. I had seen the magic of nature here before, and I thought that I would not be shocked when I faced any natural wonders, but now when I saw the scenery in front of me, I felt that my previous thoughts were really naΓ―ve and ridiculous.
The murmuring of the water I had heard the night before was not a hallucination, and the prophecy of watching a dead horse run in the mountains had not come true.
A few steps forward under our feet is a gap more than 20 meters deep, not very wide, and it is estimated that the distance to the foot of the opposite bank is more than 10 meters.
Although such a gap is considerable, it is not unusual, and it is strange that a curtain of water hangs upside down from it, and hangs forty or fifty meters to the sky before it falls into the mountain. When viewed from both sides, the water curtain stretched out of sight, as if enveloping the entire mountain.
At this time, it is already afternoon, the daylight is gradually receding, the morning and dusk line is cutting between us and the water curtain, the sunlight obliquely enters the water curtain, forming a seven-colored rainbow, sometimes or water droplets are sprinkled and dotted among them, but it is like colorful glass, ingenious and beautiful.
I stood on the edge of the gap, stroking my palms in admiration, but Liu Dongxi woke up from the shock early, walked along the edge of the gap, and looked down carefully. I saw him sneaking around there and saying loudly, "What are you wandering around, be careful of falling in." β
The water was very loud, and as soon as the words came out, they were instantly drowned, and I saw that Liu Shiwu didn't react and went over to pull him.
When Liu saw me coming, he hurriedly gestured at me to make me silent, my heart sank, every time he was so messy, there would be nothing good, could it be that there were some monsters appearing?
I slowly leaned over to him, and when I looked down, there was water vapor in the cracks, and the sky was so dark that I couldn't see anything in the chaos. I kicked Liu and said loudly, "You have nothing to do with me!" β
Liu Shifu didn't speak, he pulled me back, I didn't look like he was joking, and I followed him back into the dense forest.
We retreated more than a mile along the road we drove out, and then Liu Dongxi let go of me, and I wondered: "What the hell are you doing?" β
"I just looked down and saw something." Liu Shi's speech was a little slurred, "I didn't see the head and tail of this thing, but I can probably guess what it is." β
I saw what he said, very impatient, and interrupted him with a wave of his hand: "You just say what it is, take this effort!" β
"Brother An, how much do you believe in the stories handed down by our ancestors?" Liu Dongxi didn't answer me, but diverted the topic.
I was a little depressed, so I said: "I believe a lot, Kong Rong let the pear, chisel the wall and steal the light, I believe it." β
Liu Dongxi said: "I'm not talking about that, how much do you believe in those myths and legends?" β
I didn't expect him to ask this, and I couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, "Myths and legends? β
"That's right! It's just to open up the world, Nuwa created people or something! β
I'm still relatively familiar with these things, I was very interested in it for a while, and I looked at the relevant information on the Internet every day, and I had all these materials, making up nonsense and far-fetched things, I still remember the war legends about the two emperors of Yan and Huang on the Internet, and the war legends about the two emperors of Yan and Huang and Chi You on the Internet, what the reality is actually that it is a tribal fight of hundreds of people at most, and the whimsical thing is to say that the war between aliens involves the people of the global village. However, a rational person like me can still have a little bit of his own understanding, and I think these legends must have a story prototype, but they are mixed with a lot of metaphors and exaggerations, such as Jesus, and Mahabharata, although they are not true, but they all reflect real history.
I just wanted to discuss it with him like this, but Liu Shixi said, "Do you believe in dragons? β