Chapter 173: True or False
The vigil is a secondary, and we don't have much time left, and considering the worst-case scenario, if the Nine Elk doesn't show up for the rest of the day, it will be a waste of time. And this is something that no one wants to see.
Wang Er Mazi and Ling Xiao are still waiting, I am a little entangled in my heart, after all, after a while, the Immortal Qingyin Buddha will officially start attacking our territory, if we wait until that time to set off, I think the danger is too high.
I know that the Xiangxi corpse chasing school has the spell of the Dark Green Yin Buddha, but when the poisonous fog is formed, I don't know how fast it will spread, and Ling Xiao must not know it very well. And if the Nine Elk doesn't show up, we'll have to wait.
After much distress, I decided to take a gamble – it could put everyone at risk, but in the long run, it was a situation where I had to gamble. Our goal was to go to the core area of the Baeksan Mountains, which was promised at the beginning.
However, the poisonous mist will not stop spreading once we reach the core area, which means that as long as there is no way to crack the Dark Green Yin Buddha, we will always be in danger. It's only a matter of time before they are caught up by the poisonous fog.
We've been in a situation of being pursued, and once we've reached the core, we'll have to jump into the eerie desert basin if we want to dodge the poisonous fog. But it's more of a place of death.
If you trespass without preparation, you will have to take five lives. Not to mention me and Panhu and others, Hu Lao Liu is just a guide, although he is also to fulfill his last wish before he dies.
But I don't want to put an innocent person on the line because of me. Therefore, before entering the desert basin and looking for the ruins of the Ming Kingdom, we must be fully prepared.
If you think about it this way, you will understand how important it is to find the Nine Elks with you. Hu Lao Liu said that the Jiuxun elk had a key hidden on its body that could find the entrance to the Ming Jing Kingdom. No one knows what this key is. But if you don't gamble now, it's a dead end.
If there is enough food, then the situation can be discussed separately, but now most of the food in our hands has been snatched by Wang Tiancheng - if it weren't for the sudden encounter with a boar, we wouldn't even have a piece of meat to store. It's really miserable.
Finding the Nine Elks and then getting a way to enter the Ming Kingdom from it is the only way for us to survive. At 10 a.m., when the cicadas in the trees and the frogs by the river began to ring, I kept staring around.
However, not to mention the Jiuxun elk, I didn't even hear the sound of a fish jumping into the water, and the silence around me gave people a sense of panic. I looked up at the endless night full of dead silence, and I couldn't help but feel a pang of emptiness in my heart.
I think why we have come to this point, we have put a lot of effort into finding the core area, but when we look back, we have been forced to the edge of the cliff. I have to admit that the impact of Wang Tiancheng's knife in the back is too great.
This damn old thing, who almost escaped when our team was in the most serious danger, and snatched all the luggage with a sense of revenge, and even Red Moon was almost molested by him.
I felt that this journey, as long as I could return alive, would be a great reward for me, and I really couldn't imagine dying in the white mountains—the thought of dying in that basin, or being affected by the poisonous mist, and becoming a living dead, made my heart congest.
"No matter what, I have to live no matter what......" I looked at the dark night in front of me, and my heart gradually swelled with determination. There is also some anger to take revenge on Wang Tiancheng. I was actually harmed by this bad old man, and I will never let him go when I go back.
That old guy, it's best to escape directly back to his sect this time, if I let me know that he still dares to stay in Qingyun Town, it would be strange if I didn't pick off this old guy's skin with Wang Er Mazi. After peeling the skin, he will be dried alive for 7749 days, and he will be fed to the dog as bacon.
The night vigil time is also very tormenting, Hu Lao Liu is also old, and his physical strength is not as good as back then, so I took the initiative to carry most of the time of monitoring, Hu Lao Liu has already fallen asleep early, and I will monitor the surroundings.
Hu Lao Liu told me about the appearance of the Jiuxun elk - in general, it is a snow-white lost head, and the antler velvet is very huge, as if it exudes a luster like a rainbow. When talking about Jiuxun elk, Hu Lao Liu also looked amazed.
He said that as long as I saw this elk once, I would never forget it, so as soon as it appeared, I would definitely find that there was no such thing as mistaking other animals for Jiuxun elk. In this world, there is only one mysterious and beautiful creature like the Nine Elk.
However, tonight seemed destined to be a failed night, and I kept fantasizing about the mysterious and beautiful figure of the Jiuxun elk in my mind, and I was excited for a while, but in the end nothing appeared—near the early hours of the morning, two clouds of light and shadow appeared.
At first, I was startled, but when I squinted and looked closely, I realized that it was just a collection of mountain insects. A group of mountain insects didn't know where they were going to fly, and after hundreds of them gathered, they emitted a hazy yellow light in the dark night, and finally disappeared into the dense forest.
When it was close to the early hours of the morning, Hu Lao Liu woke up early and asked me if I had any findings, I only gave him a bitter smile, and his two eyes were also very sandy, because he had not relaxed and was concentrating on observing the surroundings, for fear of making a mistake and a chance, and his spirit was also in a state of exhaustion.
Hu Lao Liu asked me to sleep quickly, and then he came to guard here. In the bushes where we were, Hu Lao Liu weaved a grass bunk that was neither big nor small, just enough for one person to lie down. His hands are very skillful, and he picks fat leaves and weaves them out.
I didn't hesitate to lie down on the grass and fall asleep, but the moment I lay down and closed my eyes, a strange feeling suddenly appeared in my heart, which made me immediately get up in a panic, and then stared at Hu Lao Liu blankly.
Hu Lao Liu startled me, looked at me strangely, and said Did something happen, I opened my face, but I didn't know how to explain it to Hu Lao Liu. As soon as I closed my eyes, my consciousness became hazy for a moment.
I can't say exactly what it felt, but it made me instinctively feel terrified, and it was very similar to the feeling of sleeping and having nightmares when I dreamed that I suddenly started falling off a cliff. I tried to close my eyes afterwards and still felt the same way.
As soon as I close my eyes, I know that my consciousness will fade away and fall into a haze that scares me, which makes it difficult for me to sleep. However, now that I had to make up for my sleep, I gritted my teeth, resisted the uneasiness in my heart, and decided to go to sleep first.
Lying on the grass bunk, feeling my consciousness as if it was gradually falling silent in the deep sea, I was so nervous that my palms were sweating, and I couldn't help but moan softly in my mouth. It is said that the fear of the unknown is the most fatal, and I kind of know what is going on.
I don't know how long it took, but after a complete slumber, my consciousness slowly woke up again, but when I woke up, I found myself standing near the river I had been in.
But there was no grass shop under his feet, and there was no figure of Hu Lao Liu around him, and he ...... The view also seems to be subtly different. I looked around blankly, and a possibility immediately came to mind.
"Could it be...... Is this a prophetic dream again? ”
After a few experiences, I'm getting used to precognitive dreams. But if you ask me if I'm completely used to this feeling, my answer is definitely no—the feeling of entering another world in a dream is something that no one can get used to.
But what puzzled me the most was the feeling before I fell asleep, the strange fear, which must have been because of this prophetic dream. However, I had not felt this feeling once in the previous precognitive dreams.
The first few times I had a prophetic dream, each time it happened unknowingly, it was a very sudden feeling. I woke up thinking it was normal, but it turned out that I had entered a prophetic dream. But this time it's different.
This time I felt a sense of fear, and people instinctively resist fear, and I think it should have his meaning, is it telling me that this prophetic dream is dangerous? The more I thought about it, the more confused I became.
But in any case, I don't think it's going to be a good thing, so I think about it and feel more vigilant in my heart. Just when I was about to leave after observing the surroundings for a long time and not seeing anyone appear, suddenly, a snow-white lost head attracted my attention.
"Jiuxun...... Elk? ”
Looking at the snow-white, timidly looking around, and then came to the river to drink water, I couldn't help but widen my eyes, and almost instantly remembered Hu Laoliu's description in my mind. This elk is the most consistent image of the Jiuxun elk among the animals I have seen so far.
"But...... This shouldn't be the real Nine Elk...... No, is this what the Nine Elk looked like when he was a child? ”
When I thought of this, I couldn't help but be stunned, looking at the small body of this white elk with its head bowed and drinking, the more I thought about it, the more I felt that this was the case.
This snow-white elk is very skinny, not because it is still a young deer - it is really thin with a chest and back. There is no huge deer antler velvet on the head that Hu Lao Liu said, like a rainbow-like beautiful colorful divine light.
All I could see was a pair of tiny antlers next to its depressed little ears, but they seemed to have just broken out of the skin, and they were only a few centimeters long.
I looked at this elk, which was probably a juvenile elk, and when I couldn't come back to my senses for a long time, something even more miraculous happened—this little elk kept its head down and drank water, as if it was full, and raised its little head after licking its mouth.