At first, the mountain road was relatively easy to walk, but the weeds grew more abundantly, the moisture in the air was heavier, and it was the height of summer, and the moisture and heat waves were sandwiched together, forcing you to sweat while stuffing your pores, which was indescribably depressed. Vertices

But these can't stop us, along the way, Qiao Sanye kept urging everyone to speed up, saying that he wanted to arrive at a flat-topped mountain before midnight, and if he couldn't get there tonight, he would have to wait until noon tomorrow.

It can be seen that Qiao Sanye is very familiar with the situation in this area, which makes me feel a little more steady.

We hurried and finally arrived at our destination in the last half hour of midnight.

The reason why Qiao Sanye called this place "Pingding Mountain" is because there is an unusually flat boulder on the peak of this mountain, and there is no vegetation on the stone, and what is even more strange is that this stone does not reflect the moonlight, and there is only a touch of black from a distance, as if he was wearing a black pressed square hat on the top of the head of an ancient giant.

After reaching the top of the mountain, Qiao Sanye took advantage of the fact that it was not yet midnight, ran to the mountainside to pick up some dry branches, and lit a bonfire on the top of the mountain.

I knew that Third Master Qiao was going to stop and rest all night, but I couldn't help but speak: "Aren't you leaving tonight?" ”

The master responded for Qiao Sanye: "I can't go anymore, in another ten minutes, there will be a heavy fog coming, and if you feel the fog on the road, you will probably lose your way." ”

I still don't give up: "Isn't there a compass in the backpack?" ”

"When the fog comes up, the compass is useless. You hurry up and rest, the most important thing at the moment is to recuperate enough physical strength, but don't wait to enter Shejia Valley, and exhaust your body first. Later, you will hurry up and go to bed after you have something to eat, and I will wake you up at four o'clock for the vigil. ”

Lu Shengcai was a little puzzled: "I haven't encountered a mountain spirit monster all the way, why, someone has to get up and keep vigil?" ”

Qiao Sanye added a handful of firewood into the fire, and said: "Everyone has to keep vigil, let's keep watch in two shifts, our two masters will guard the first post, and at four o'clock, they will change their master and apprentice to guard." This place is not very peaceful, if you don't take a little care, maybe you will never wake up again if you fall asleep. ”

"Look at what you said, is this place so unpeaceful, why can't I see it?" Lu Shengcai muttered as he took out canned food and compressed biscuits from his backpack.

Qiao Sanye first lit the bonfire, and then took out the nail hammer used for mountaineering, wedged a nail on the edge of the boulder, and hung a rope on it, and threw it into the cliff in the north direction of Pingdingshan, the master threw a bag of cinnabar to Qiao Sanye, Qiao Sanye was not ambiguous, immediately opened the cinnabar bag, and sprinkled cinnabar powder near the mountaineering nail wedged on the ground.

It seems that this area is indeed not peaceful, this set of work done by Qiao Sanye is used as a warning, once an evil touches the chain, the wind will rise above the cinnabar powder out of thin air, forming a small red wind barrier.

After hastily eating something, I got into the tent, but I couldn't sleep after tossing and turning, so I took off the crystal pendant that Yunshang gave me when I was about to graduate from high school from my neck, and held it tightly in my hand.

This thing was saved by Yunshang who worked in the Shanpo shop for three years and saved money by frugality.

A few months ago, when she gave me this pendant, she said that it was two months before my birthday, and that she might not be with me at that time, so she would give me the birthday present first.

Recalling Yunshang's reluctant look at that time, I felt unspeakably uncomfortable.

At that time, my mind was all on preparing for the college entrance examination, and I didn't think deeply about it, many things that happened in the third year of high school seemed to tell me that Yunshang was in trouble, but my mind was always elsewhere, and in the end, I realized it later, and I was only left with infinite chagrin.

If only I had found out about Yunshang's abnormality earlier, if I had known that she was going to marry that flower god, I would never have let her get on the train.

The pendant had already been warmed by me, perhaps too tired, and I don't know when, I fell asleep.

In my sleep, I heard a familiar voice in my ears, but my body seemed to be pressed by something, and my eyelids were dead, and in a hazy way, I wanted to open my eyes, but I couldn't open them anyway.

"Uncle Junior."

When the voice echoed in my ears again, I woke up.

It's Yunshang!

Suddenly regaining my strength, I sat up from my sleeping bag and saw a faint glow of candlelight outside the tent.

"Uncle Junior, come out quickly!"

Yunsheng's voice was very far away, as if it was far away in the sky, but through the cover of the tent, I saw a candle flame flickering outside the tent, and the firelight outlined a familiar figure, just by looking at the outline, I knew that Yunshang was standing outside.

I quickly pulled out the sleeping bag and pulled out of the tent, and saw Yunshang carrying a lantern towards the depths of the forest at this time, her steps were very fast, in the blink of an eye, the darkness in the forest almost covered her body, I could only see the familiar back by the light of the fire in her hand.

Just like when I first met her, she was wearing that bright red dress.

Seeing that Yunshang's figure was about to disappear completely into the shadows of the forest, I shouted at her from afar: "Yunshang, where are you going?" ”

She stopped in the forest shadow and turned around and beckoned to me: "Uncle Xiao, come quickly!" ”

I couldn't see what she looked like, but I knew it was her.

She turned around again and drifted deeper into the black woods, fearing that she would disappear in front of me again, so I immediately opened my legs and chased after her with all my might.

I had just run a few steps when I suddenly felt like my feet were empty, and it felt like the stones under my feet had suddenly disappeared, and my body was suspended in mid-air.

Immediately afterward, I felt a stiff force coming from my waist and hugged me all of a sudden.

The black forest in front of him disappeared in an instant, and along with Yunsheng's figure, he also disappeared.

At this time, all that came to my eyes was a large opaque white, like fog, and like a large white light that was not dazzling.

"Sink the inner breath and guard the spiritual platform!"

Master's shout suddenly remembered, and I just took a breath in the dantian and condensed my mind on the spiritual platform.

After the spiritual platform was stabilized, the scene in front of him suddenly became clear.

At this time, my feet were hanging in the air and being held by the Master, and under my feet, there was an abyss.

There was indeed a heavy fog on the top of the mountain, and the fog was extremely thick, like a large puff of smoke released into the air, and when you breathed, you could feel that in addition to the tide, there was also a strong cold air in the fog.

Master dragged me back to the cliff shore, and I saw that a blood-red cinnabar barrier had been rolled up around the climbing peg.

Qiao Sanye ran over from a distance with a panicked face: "What's the matter, this is!" ”