Chapter 22: A Stranger in the Misty Mountains

It turned out that just now when the sky was bright and the night watchman handed over, they counted the number of people according to the usual practice and found that there was one person missing, because the characteristics of the stallion were obvious, they immediately identified the missing target, and immediately reported it to Ah Xi, and then my grandfather woke me up and told me about it.

This big stallion is really possessed by the god of decay, does he have a 100% inverted aura? I thought so.

"Stallion!" "The boy of the Ma family!" "Dumas!" "Friend of the Little Dragon King! Where are you? "We shouted with torches on all sides to find people in vain, someone led the hound to smell the stallion used quilt and put it into the "ghost grinding" to find someone, waited for a bowl of tea, and did not come back, blowing the dog whistle still no news, well, this time even the hound also lost one.

Our faces were gloomy, and Lian Rui came over and asked Grandpa what to do, and Grandpa said, "It's not too early, let's move on!" Otherwise, I won't be able to find the kid of the Ma family if I look for another day here. ”

I asked my grandfather, "What if we go in and the stallion comes back and can't find us?" ”

Grandpa made a reassuring gesture and said: "Good grandson, the face of the Ma family kid is by no means a short-lived person, he should only be in trouble temporarily, and he will not just hang up, we may be able to save him by continuing to move forward." ”

None of the things that grandpa has said since I was a child is inaccurate, since the old man said so, we are heading towards "ghost grinding"!

Looking down from the hillside during the day, it feels like "ghost pushing" is an ordinary small valley,

Now that I'm in, I suddenly feel like I'm in a different space from the hillside, and it's much wider than it seems, the temperature here drops suddenly, and the mountain breeze changes from cold to icy and biting.

I had a natural fear of the unknown darkness of a stream running through the valley knee-deep, and we were often forced to weave our way back and forth between the streams because of the protruding mountains in front of us.

It's early in the morning, we're putting out the torches, and I'm cautiously walking on the slippery pebbles on the edge of the stream, when I suddenly feel a white thing in front of me, and I can't see anything when I look around, and I know that it's a "ghost" fog!

Made, I scolded secretly, when I came, I asked the old hunter of the horse cottage, there are at least three hundred and twenty days a year here is a fog, I have been mentally prepared, but it happened at the moment when the stallion disappeared, what a fucking back!

The crowd was noisy for a while, except for Ah Xi and the old man who had a little impression of this place, everyone else had just heard about it, and it was inevitable to be at a loss when they saw this legendary mist that made people disappear.

In the thick fog, I heard Ah Xi's voice beckoning everyone to grope and walk slowly, and now it can only be like this, take one step at a time, but I feel that something is wrong as I walk, shouting at each other around, and the voices of people greeting each other are becoming more and more sparse, and finally I find that no one around me is gone!

I hesitated, most of these fogs are the people of the long shirt using the special geographical structure of Qimen Dunjia combined with "ghost grinding", and set up a Qimen array, which is specially used to kill people, even though I know the principle, but in this ghost place with abnormal magnetic field, I won't crack it!

Should I keep moving on now, or should I wait where the fog clears before leaving? The damn stream is unusually cold, but luckily I can still walk on the shore from time to time, and if I keep soaking in it, my legs will be wasted sooner or later, so I'll go to the side and find a shore to stay before I make plans.

Just as I was about to open my legs, a life-saving voice came to my ears: "Good grandson, I don't know what to do, right?" "Luckily, Grandpa kept an eye on my position, and he came with me when the fog was up.

"Old man, how can you find me? Wait, it can't be a dummy made by the man in the long shirt, right? Let me check the check first. I said.

"Boom!" I was knocked on the head by the old man, "It's good to be cautious, but I'm your real grandfather, yes, wipe this on your nose first!" Grandpa said and handed me a small bottle.

I opened it and smelled it, it is wood ginger oil, which is a kind of oil refined from the plant fruit of the scientific name of mountain chicken pepper, which is spicy, fragrant, non-toxic, and is a seasoning that is widely used in southwest China.

I applied wood ginger oil and asked my grandfather, "Old man, what are you asking me to smell this stuff for?" It's delicious! Ahem! ”

Grandpa said: "Hehe, I didn't pay attention to it when I came last time, but this time I found out that there is actually that thing growing here, use wood ginger oil to make do with it, a life, take a closer look at what it is?" Grandpa pointed with his trekking pole to the bottom of a large rock not far from his feet.

I leaned over and turned on the wolf's eye flashlight to take a closer look, and saw a strange-looking grass growing at the bottom of this big stone, the blades of the grass were thick, but the tip of the grass was round, Made, this is a bare-headed grass! I sniffed hard at the pungent smell of wood ginger oil and gasped.

Naked head grass is a hallucinogenic plant, the name and appearance are like grass, but in fact it is a spore plant, the outside world has long been extinct, its appearance is mediocre, but the spore powder it produces will flutter with the wind, if someone inhales, it will produce hallucinations, and with the Qimen Dunjia array here, the person who is recruited can only be trapped in it and cannot extricate himself, trapped here until death.

In fact, it is very simple to break it, you only need to use a strong pungent smell of the object, wipe it on the nose and smell it to stop it.

But this is unknown to the outside world how many years it has been extinct, and it is estimated that many doctors of botany do not know something, and the average person comes here, almost 100% hit, who has nothing to do with all kinds of pungent things on the nose to play? Take 10,000 steps back and say, you really brought a bottle of wind oil essence on your body that can't be solved, and you just drip it on your nose and smell it, but you don't understand it at all or you are just a half-hung Qimen Dunjia, and you will also be trapped in it.

Most of the stallions got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet, and were inhaled by his gifted nose to inhale too much bare-headed grass powder, hallucinating, and now I don't know where to wave in this valley, his 100% of the attributes that come with it, I can't complain anymore.

I said to my grandfather, "Old man, this is bare-headed grass, right?" ”

"That's right, people who inhale naked grass powder will soon have muscle relaxation and weakness, and then they will have emotional disorders, a sense of isolation from the surrounding environment, and it seems to have entered a dream, but it still looks like a waking appearance from the outside, which is why a group of people obviously come in, but as long as there is a fog, you will feel that everyone else has suddenly disappeared, in fact, at this time it is already a symptom of slight poisoning, if you don't wake up as soon as possible, you will fall into endless hallucinations, fortunately this time I asked them for a bottle of wood ginger oil as soon as I arrived at the cottage, When I was ready to go home, I fried your favorite wood ginger chicken, and I took it with me when I got it, and it came in handy when I accidentally knocked it down. Grandpa continued.

I was moved and anxiously asked, "Then now we need to find them one by one and apply them to wood ginger oil?" ”

Grandpa shook his head and said: "No, time does not allow, if we find them one by one to rescue, there may be two consequences, one is that the boy of the Ma family will not be able to hold out until then." The second is that in addition to the fog and bare head grass here, as well as the Qimen Formation, if there are other things running out after a long time, we will be in trouble, rather than wasting time, it is better to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle, and they will not be in much danger in a short time. ”

I thought for a while and said, "The old man means to break the Qimen Array first?" Grandpa smiled: "The children can be taught." ”

I thought of a question and asked: "Old man, the Changsam people use the principle of one qi and five yuan to put down this Qimen array, today is the day of the three-yuan gathering, if you want to break it, according to my analysis, if the Changsam people are in accordance with the 'Yang Shun Shun, Liujia from Kan to Li, with 123456789 Shun into the formation', we need to use 'Yin Shun retrograde, Liujia from the departure to the Kanzhi, with 987654321 reverse retreat' to crack, but there is no way to use the compass to locate it, what to do?" ”

Grandpa smiled: "Good grandson, remember the theory at the same time, to learn and apply, but also to always pay attention to everything around you, any details can not be let go, and then think about the way to crack it, there is a magnetic field, can make the compass needle deviate, ordinary people really can't crack, but if you follow its deviation value, and then calculate, you can get the accurate direction!" The last time I came here to observe, I roughly estimated that the deviation value should be 30 degrees, so I'm optimistic! ”

I saw my grandfather take out the compass, and I stopped thinking for a while, and then asked me to keep up with him, only to listen to my grandfather read as he walked: "Kanju is Pengxiu, and Rui Death Kun Palace is second-rate." There are more injuries and auxiliary Du, and the earthquake is always the head. The birds are happy and six are five and six, and the frightening pillar often travels from seven. There are even more people who live in Gen eight, and nine look for Yingjing to ask for leave. The nine palaces are the value symbols, and the eight doors are self-distinguishing. The door on the charm is the value of the messenger, and one can be a credential at ten o'clock! ”

I followed the pace of my grandfather, and I couldn't help but admire the old man's ability to throw himself to the ground, and follow the deviation value to calculate the direction, which is easier said than done, you must be single-minded, and combine the nine stars and eight doors to move while calculating the deviation value, which is the so-called "recognize the nine palaces into nine stars, and the eight doors and nine palaces." ”

To put it simply: the nine palaces, one kan, two kun, three earthquakes, four Xun, five middle, six gan, seven dui, eight gen, nine li. Divider, Bree. The nine stars, Peng, Rui, Chong, Fu, Fowl, Heart, Pillar, Ren, Yingye, Pengfen is located in Kan, Rui is divided into Kun, Chong is divided into Zhen, auxiliary is divided into Xun, poultry is divided in the middle, the heart is divided into the stem, the column is divided into Dui, Ren is divided in Gen, and Ying is divided into Liye.

The Eight Gates, Hugh, Death, Wounded, Du, Open, Shocked, Alive, and Jingye. Chasing, walking with each other, it is said that Xiu Peng peers, dead Rui peers, injured chong peers, Du Fu peers, happy peers, frightened pillars peers, Shengren peers, Jingying peers.

My grandfather and I walked down in the order of ninety-eight-seven-six-five-four-three-two-one, one direction after another, and every time we reached a direction, my grandfather used a trekking pole to knock off a stone of a different color there, and when I knocked out the last stone, a gust of wind suddenly blew in the valley for no reason, and the fog disappeared, and the sun shone on us again, which made me feel like a world away.

I sincerely admired my grandfather and said, "Grandpa, your old man is really powerful, I'm curious about how many big fights you poured when you were young?" ”

Grandpa laughed and said: "Good grandson, the past is not mentioned, I am old, and now it is the world of you young people, what I can do is for you to integrate what you have learned as soon as possible, and there are more dangerous places waiting for you in the future." ”

I didn't believe it: "Old man, I don't believe that there is a more dangerous place in the world than our trip, as long as you have half of your ability, I can walk sideways in all the ancient tombs in the world!" Whoever you want to steal, it's a bomb! ”

Grandpa knocked me on the head again and said, "Baby, you must have a heart of awe for all things, remember!" ”

I touched my head and hurriedly said, "Remember, old man, let's save people first." ”

The fog had lifted, and when we regained our sight, we saw at a glance that a hundred meters ahead, Ah Xi, Lian Rui and the mule team were all standing still, and my grandfather and I quickly smeared each of them with wood ginger oil, and everyone woke up in a few breaths.

They coughed violently, the mules snorted, the hounds crawled at their master's feet and whimpered, and though the lost hound was still nowhere to be seen, there was no time to care about it now, and we had to move on.

Everyone naturally knew that it was my grandfather who saved them, and thanks to the old man, they all said that the fog was thick, and they felt as if the people around them had disappeared as if they were walking, and then they didn't remember what happened, until they woke up and saw me and grandpa.

I explained to them in a few words, someone is about to pick up a long knife to cut the bare head grass, but I and my grandfather stopped it, you cut it is useless, I don't know how much bare head grass grows here, you cut it in a day I estimate that I can't finish it, take 10,000 steps back and say, even if it is cut by you, it will only make its bare head grass powder fly up again, let you suck it in, why bother.

The Qimen array was broken, and there was no obstacle to us, I felt that the mountain wind and the stream seemed to be warm, we accelerated and moved forward at full speed, and walked for another two or three hours, the stream flowed by, and the road ahead was no longer difficult, it became flat, and suddenly we heard someone in front of us calling for help, I thought to myself, could it be the kid from the big stallion?

Ah Xi gave an order, and a hound rushed out of the mule team and ran in the direction where the cry for help came.

After a while, there was a fierce roar of hounds, and a voice was crying out for mercy: "Don't bite me!" Help me! ”

Grandpa is now resting on the mule, and Ah Xi and I took two people to the place where the person calling for help was with two people, drawing out long knives.

I saw a man about 30 years old dressed in a dark blue jacket, leaning against a big tree, holding a sapper shovel and waving left and right to confront the hound, and there was a person lying in a sleeping bag next to him, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.

When the man saw us, he hurriedly said to us, "Thank God, we can finally see the living, we are saved!" Please get rid of the hounds and don't hurt us! ”

Ah Xi has the hounds summoned back and asked him to tell where they came from.

The man said: "My name is Wu Tianliang, I am an adventure enthusiast, this time I organized a group of travelers to go to the 'Hey Zu Lada' that all explorers want to conquer, but I didn't expect to pass" When the ghost pushed the mill', everyone was gone, only me and a teammate Pug, he is also an old traveler with rich experience in exploration, we only came here after nine deaths, Pug has been in a fever coma because of eating bad things, most of our belongings including medicine have been lost, I really can't walk, so I have to wait here to see if luck, will there be any geological exploration team to come over for help. ”

Lian Rui smiled: "Giggles, just because you also want to enter the 'Hey Zu Lada'?" You don't have a dragon king to lead you. ”

Wu Tianliang was stunned and said, "Dragon King? Who's that? By the way, so you also want to get into 'Hey Zulada'? Great, can you take us with you? It's a death to stay here, it's better to go in with you, and by the way, please help take care of Pug, I'm doing business outside, and when I get out, I'll definitely give you a satisfactory reward as a thank you! ”

I thought to myself that these two people didn't die in the fog to tell fortunes, but fortunately I met the old man in time to break the formation, otherwise they would definitely die, I refused: "No, we can't take you in, it will be more dangerous inside, if you die inside, I don't want to be troubled by your family." ”

"I don't have any family, I joined Wu Tianliang's team just to take a look at 'Hey Zu Lada', even if I die inside, I won't blame you." Pug, who was in his sleeping bag, said suddenly.

"I have a special antipyretic here, give him some to eat, get better quickly, if you really want to bring him, it is equivalent to reducing the burden on us, of course, the final decision is in the hands of our team leader Axi." Grandpa spoke.

Pug didn't say anything, Wu Tianliang thanked him repeatedly, grandpa went over to loosen a hole in the sleeping bag, and carried the back of Pug's head to give him a fever reducer, and the old man glanced at us when he came back, meaning no problem.

Ah Xi saw that his grandfather was sure that there was no problem after checking, and said: "Okay, the natural laws in the mountains are above all else, and the people of our Yi family will not die without help, but you must listen to the command and not affect us, otherwise don't blame me for being polite!" ”

Wu Tianliang saw that we were willing to take them, and thanked him with a handful of snot and tears, but Pug didn't speak again, probably closing his eyes and digesting the antipyretics.

I remembered the stallion and asked Wu Tianliang: "Have you ever seen a tall, thin, and a little dark person?" ”

Wu Tianliang said with certainty: "Yes, not long ago, a person with the appearance you said passed in front of us singing and dancing, I want to take care of my brother and dare not leave, shouting at him and ignoring me, so I can only let him go." ”

We were overjoyed when we heard this, and asked him where the stallion went, and Wu Tianliang pointed to the front and said, "Oh, that's over there." ”

Let's see,, isn't that the entrance to "Hey Zulada"?