Master patted me on the shoulder: "Don't look at it, whether it's the people in this place or the flowers here, if you see too much, it will affect your mind." ”

I took a deep breath and looked back.

As soon as we reached a small hill in the northwest of the sea of flowers, we heard a series of gongs and drums.

The noise clearly came from the back of the hill, very clear, but it was extremely distant, and the sound of gongs and drums sounded extremely stiff and indescribably gloomy.

Master performed the concealment technique and led us quietly to the top of the hill.

We crawled among the flowers on the top of the hill, leaning on the flowers to hide our bodies as much as possible, and looked down the hill.

As the sound of gongs and drums continued to approach, a flowery wedding team pressed over, and there were only women in the wedding procession, everyone was dressed in red clothes like brides, which seemed to be lively, but their faces were expressionless, adding a bit of dullness to the gloomy sound of gongs and drums.

In the wedding procession, there are also people carrying a sedan chair decorated with red flowers, as the sedan chair bearer continues to move forward, the curtain of the sedan chair also swings again and again, through the gap exposed when the curtain shakes, it can be clearly seen that there is no one in the sedan chair, only three gloomy wooden boxes stacked together.

If you look closely at the boxes, each one is shaped like a coffin with a wide head and a narrow tail.

When the team arrived at the junction of the sea of flowers and the old forest, it stopped, and the sound of gongs and drums stopped abruptly.

An old woman who was over the age of sixteen walked up to the old forest and shouted into the forest: "The dowry has arrived!" ”

Her voice echoed above the empty sea of flowers, and her echo could be faintly heard in the forest.

It wasn't long before a puff of smoke rose in the woods, and the smoke slowly drifted out through the cracks in the woods, gathering up a miasma of opaque smoke in front of the old woman.

The woman waved behind her, and someone lifted the palanquin to the miasma, and then she picked up a slender bamboo cane and carefully lifted the curtain of the palanquin.

The miasma of smoke slowly faded, and an extraordinarily slender young man stepped out of the smoke.

I squinted my eyes and looked at him, and I saw that the man looked very strange, with a bunch of slender eyes, a small nose, a very sharp mouth, two very long front teeth, which were directly inserted out of the lips, and the pair of ears, which were also unusually sharp, he seemed to be not very old, but his hair was completely white, and there was no half black between the hairs.

This man looked like a white-haired mouse.

After he appeared, he didn't speak, but walked to the sedan chair and took out the three boxes inside to look at each other.

When he had rearranged the box, the old woman put away the bamboo pole, lowered the curtain of the sedan chair, and then beckoned the rest of the wedding party to leave quickly.

When they came, the gongs and drums were noisy, but when they left, they did not dare to make a sound, but they fled for their lives with their heads down, and they wished to leave the sedan chair placed at the edge of the old forest as soon as possible.

The team to be married walked away, and the man standing in front of the sedan chair suddenly trembled, as if he had smoked sheep's horns, and at the same time the whole body spasmed violently, and the whole person shrank into a ball.

During this time, his silhouette gradually changed, and I felt that he was getting shorter and shorter, but his hair was getting more and more vigorous, and the clothes on his body were slowly showing a strange grayish white.

In my gaze, this person turned into a large rat that stood up more than a meter high, and at this time it no longer spasmed, stood in place and looked around for a while, and then called out twice to the old forest.

Three large rats about its size immediately emerged from the forest.

The four rats set up a sedan chair together and entered the forest tremblingly.

It wasn't until they disappeared into the depths of the forest shadows that Master beckoned to everyone and whispered, "Follow up!" ”

Everyone got up quickly, pressed their steps, and quickly touched the old forest.

Arriving at the edge of the old forest, Qiao Sanye first looked into the depths of the forest for a while, probably making sure that the sedan chair had gone far before leaning over to get in.

The vegetation in this area is not particularly vigorous, and the sunlight is relatively sufficient, if it is too close to the mouse, it is easy to be found, so we don't dare to speed up, we can only shuttle through the forest without being fast or slow, Qiao Sanye has to stop from time to time to listen to the movement ahead, and make sure that there is no problem, before continuing to move forward.

I forcibly suppressed the impatience in my heart and followed closely behind Qiao Sanye.

I don't know when the situation in the forest began to change, the grass on the ground gradually became dim, but the sunlight became too bright, at first I didn't notice the changes around me, but as I went deeper, the changes became more and more obvious, until the grass on the ground turned completely black, and I finally realized that something was wrong.

Not only the grass, but the trees and shrubs in the forest were all withered by this time, and there was no canopy on the trees, only dark branches overlapping each other, trying to block the sunlight falling from the sky, and there were no leaves on the bushes, only piles of slender bone forks growing on the ground.

The ground in the forest was no longer normal soil, only paper-colored white sand, and the soles of the feet stepped on it, and the touch from the soles of the feet was also scattered.

Even the dazzling sunlight seems to have turned into a drifting mist of light, and all the scenes illuminated by it are covered with a layer of fog barriers.

At a glance, it is as if all the colors have been washed away, and the whole world has become pure black and white.

Walking in such a forest is like being enclosed in an old TV with only black and white.

Qiao Sanye stopped in front of a black tree, looked ahead hard, and after half a salary, he turned back to my master and said, "It seems that the rake master didn't lie to us, follow the wedding team, you can find the entrance of the Baili Yunchuan, and the front should be the Xingluo River Array." ”

Lu Shengcai asked, "Third Master Qiao, you have been here before. ”

Qiao Sanye shook his head: "I haven't been here, but I've seen the map of Baili Yunchuan." That picture seems to have been drawn by a scattered person a hundred years ago, but as for how he entered Baili Yunchuan and why he drew such a map, I can't say. ”

The first sentence is true, the last sentence is false, and when Qiao Sanye said the second half, his heart was obviously a little empty.

Master walked to Qiao Sanye's side, and also looked ahead, his eyesight was similar to mine, but he couldn't see what kind of situation was outside the forest, and the large black forest in front of him completely blocked Master's vision.

"Has the rat demon gone far?" Master asked Third Master Qiao.

Qiao Sanye took out the kettle and poured half a mouthful: "It's already on the river formation, and when they are about to reach the Baiyu Bridge, let's follow them again." There is no cover on the river array, and it is easy to expose your whereabouts if you follow it rashly. The water is all saved to drink, the river water in the Xingluo River array is poisonous, we have to walk nearly a hundred kilometers further after crossing the river array, to find a clean water source. ”

Lu Shengcai couldn't help but be surprised: "Third Master, you really know enough about this place." ”

"It's all marked on the map, the rat demon has already walked near the white jade bridge, everyone follow!" Qiao Sanye responded with a very fast voice, and then carried the kettle and beckoned everyone to continue to follow up.