Chapter 2: The Foot of the Mountain

"Less crow's mouth!" Jiang Yan scolded and set up the tent, very unkind to see Yu Mo, the asking price was so high, it was useless.

"We'll find out tomorrow." Yan Luo also set up a tent on the side, looking up at the mountain, his eyes were covered with a layer of fog.

They were trapped at the foot of the mountain, but not in the same place, just the bell that rang every morning, reminding them that they had not escaped from the mountain.

The moon stars are scarce, and everyone is not sleepy.

Yan Luo sat in the tent in a daze, with a diary on her lap, recording what happened today. She was afraid that one day she would lose her memory again, and the diary would tell her what kind of person she used to be.

From time to time, a few coughs came from Xu Dongang's tent, interrupting her thoughts, and finally she sighed and put down her pen.

"Everyone, I suddenly remembered a story my grandmother told me before." Suddenly, from outside the tent, Yu Mo's voice came.

Yan Luo put away her notebook and listened to her.

Yu Mo cleared his throat and said, "It's another version about that high monk." In fact, that high monk is not a real high monk, but a wanted criminal of the imperial court hiding here. ”

"Wait a minute!" Xu Dongang suddenly shouted: "I see that something is wrong!" ”

Yan Luo poked his head out of the tent, a little puzzled, what did Xu Dongang mean when he said something wrong, and when he saw it, he saw a terrifying scene.

A tree slowly moved towards them, waving its branches, trying to whip the tent.

In the night, a moving tree looks very strange.

"It's not a tree, it's a bug, everyone hide in the tent!" Yan Luo heard Yu Mo suddenly scream, so she instantly retracted her head and covered the tent tightly from the inside.

Through the transparent film on the side of the tent, Yan Luo could see everything that was happening outside.

The moment the "branches" touched the tent, they suddenly scattered in all directions, and countless flying insects were densely scattered in the air, as if a huge dark cloud was pressed down.

"This insect is called Wulian, and it will only bite something that has temperature, and if they bite it, they will use your body as a container." Yan Luo didn't dare to come out, staring at the outside, for fear that those insects would get into the tent, but in the tent on her left, Yu Mo's voice kept coming: "I only heard my grandmother say that it was the first time I saw it." It is said that their vitality is extremely weak, they can only survive for three hours, and if they do not find the container by then, they will die. ”

"And what if you find it?" Jiang Yan asked.

"I don't know!" Yu Mo was silent after saying this.

Yan Luo was worried for an hour, and the moonlight outside was no longer blocked by the black pressed insects, and he couldn't hear the "buzzing" sound of the insects' wings vibrating. She breathed a sigh of relief, but she still didn't dare to pull open the tent.

She heard the right side of the tent, and Jiang Yan began to ask Yu Mo again: "Then, what did the prisoner who was wanted by the imperial court do?" ”

"He didn't do anything." On the left, it was Yu Mo's cold voice, which seemed to have lost the interest in continuing to tell the story, and summarized it in one sentence: "He is because he caught his wife in bed, and as soon as his wife shed tears, he felt distressed, and then helped his wife become a concubine of a petty official." After the petty official found out about him, he couldn't tolerate him and put a trumped-up charge on him. ”

"Then this person has a really big heart, not only to bring this green hat, but also to bring more and more. I don't understand whether he loves his wife or not, shouldn't love be eager to possess? ”

"Love, especially love, has reached an outrageous point that is not understandable to the average person. However, the monk died a miserable death in the end, and his soul has been wandering on this mountain, unable to get out, as long as someone comes, he will vent his anger on that person, so that they have no return, so over time, this mountain originally called Shouling Mountain gradually became known as Shouling Mountain. ”

Yan Luozheng was listening vigorously from left to right, and was suddenly interrupted by a voice directly in front of him.

Xu Dongang coughed a few more times: "Go to bed early, you have to hurry tomorrow." ”

After a tiring day and some twists and turns, Yan Luo closed his eyes and fell asleep. When the first rays of the morning sun shine on the earth, a thick bell rings from the top of the mountain.

"Knock...... Boom...... Knock ......"

Yan Luo opened his eyes, and what he saw was the army green tent roof, and there was warm yellow sunlight shining through, not dazzling, a little warm.

She remembered that it was supposed to be the fourth morning she had been awakened by the sound of the bell.

Yan Luo picked up the kettle placed next to the pillow and took a sip of water, got out of the tent, moved her muscles and bones, recovered her physical condition, she looked up at the high mountain, and her tone was unprecedentedly firm: "This time, go to the mountain." ”

Knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, he prefers to go to the tiger mountains. Since you can't walk out at the foot of the mountain, let's go up the mountain and find out.

"What?!" Jiang Yan screamed: "You are letting us go to death!" ”

Yan Luo didn't even look at him, and said coldly: "If you are afraid, you can not go." ”

"I'm with you." Xu Dongang came out of the tent, with a pale face, but a pair of extremely deep eyes, there were many complicated things in them, but there was no fear.

"Arlo, I'm with you too." Yan Luo felt that Yu Mo inadvertently moved in his direction, and his heart warmed, in a no-man's land, being able to have a companion with the same rhythm undoubtedly greatly increased the chance of survival.

The three of them began to pack their luggage and walk up the mountain, Jiang Yan saw that they were really leaving, he was a little panicked, and he didn't care about anything else, hurriedly packed his luggage, and hurriedly followed behind him.

Yan Luo is not familiar with the road up the mountain, as long as the direction is up and the road is easy to walk, she will go up.

The mountain road is steep, and they continue to dusk, and they still stay halfway up the mountain.

"Looks like we won't be able to go up today." Yan Luo stopped on a relatively flat hillside, put down his backpack, and went up, not knowing if he could encounter a terrain suitable for camping like now, so he said, "Let's rest here." ”

At this time, the sky was still relatively bright, and after setting up the tent, Yan Luo decided to find some firewood to make a bonfire.

The most important thing on the mountain is trees, and after a while, she picked up a few bundles of firewood, and when she went back with her arms, she found that Jiang Yan was already lying in the tent and snoring.

Yu Mo also picked some fruits and put them on the ground: "Let's make do with some food at night, I don't know when I can go out, and I can save dry food." ”

After making a bonfire, Yan Luo bitterly picked up a fruit and put it in his mouth.

She looked forward and just saw Xu Dongang's back, who was standing on the edge of the hillside, as if looking ahead in a daze.

They spent two nights in the mountains, and every early morning, they were still woken up by the bell of the deserted temple on the top of the mountain, and on the third day, Yan Luo reached the deserted temple again.

Like last time, it's no different.

Occasionally, the fallen leaves on the ground are swept up by the wind and blown down to other places.

Xu Dongang walked into the temple, and after a while, he walked out with a pale face.

"Let's see if there's something wrong in the temple." Xu Dongang's tone was a little trembling.