"I don't know about spiritual intelligence, it shouldn't be bad, but after all, monsters, myths and other things are unverified, just a part of culture and history." Xiao Dong looked at me after finishing speaking, because he already knew the purpose of our trip to Japan.

I smiled and said, "That's true, okay, rest early, we have to go up the mountain early tomorrow morning." ”

At night, I deliberately placed a few spirit runes in the inconspicuous corners inside and outside the room, but when I got up the next morning to check, I didn't find any traces of touching the rune paper, obviously nothing unusual came to visit last night.

The next day the weather was still not good, it was okay in the morning, just gloomy, but the weather forecast said that it would start to snow in the afternoon soon. It stands to reason that we are not allowed to go up the mountain at this time, and Xiao Dong also thought of some ways, but the local blockade people did not buy it.

"They still didn't let us into the mountain, and the cable car and ropeway were closed, as well as the direction of Owakudani and Taoyuan, where the volcano is active. We're afraid we won't be able to go up. Xiao Dong said apologetically to me.

I thought about it for a while and said, "In this case, we can only sneak up the mountain." ”

"Huh? If you get caught, you might get in trouble. Xiao Dong said in surprise.

"In this way, you stay at the bottom of the mountain, tell us the route, and Luo Qiong and I will go up by ourselves." I don't want Xiao Dong to follow us up the mountain, first, it's too risky, he is an ordinary person after all, and secondly, it's not necessary, he can't help anything except translate.

After the map indicated the way up the mountain, Luo Qiong and I set off. Since there were no cars, we first went up the road, and when we got to the place where we took the cable car, we found that the place where we took the cable car was blocked, but it was not completely impossible to pass, but it took some time to walk through the forest.

There weren't many people on guard after the closure of the mountain, and I saw a few waves of foreigners who seemed to want to explore the mountain being stopped. Luo Qiong and I took the opportunity to go around the house in the back and walk along the forest below the cart in the direction of Mt. Fuji.

"Brother Shan, I didn't expect to climb mountains when I arrived in Japan." Luo Qiong followed me, and after entering the forest, the two of us seemed to be surrounded by nature, and no one could see it. It is very quiet in all directions, and the forest in winter is always the quietest of the four seasons, because everything is dormant and all the beasts are hiding to recuperate.

"It looks like it's going to take two days for me to come down, don't talk nonsense, let's go, you know better than me in the woods, don't go in the wrong direction." I opened my mouth and shouted.

Luo Qiong followed behind but asked, "Then Brother Shan, you have to tell me which direction to go first." ”

"I don't understand the Western method of dragon hunting, so I just use the Eastern method. There must be dragon qi flowing where the dragon passes, and as long as you can find the flowing dragon qi, it will not be difficult to find the place where the dragon once stopped. ”

"But that dragon has been away from here for a long time, and the dragon energy is still there?" Luo Qiong asked, but I smiled and said, "Of course, the dragon qi will not drift back and forth with the strong wind, it will sink to the ground, and eventually mix with the soil in the ground." Therefore, in the past, there were farmers in China who dug deep when they were cultivating and found that there were golden things in the soil, and they thought they had dug up a treasure, but the gold disappeared after a while. The dragon qi that has been turned out will be dispersed with the wind again......"

"Are we going to dig up the ground and see?" Luo Qiong continued to ask.

I shook my head and said, "No, I'll find a way to force the dragon qi out, you take me to a more open area first, and I'll cast a spell behind you." ”

I followed Old Man Tao to read the books for more than half a year, and he rarely explained them to me, and most of the time I was alone in exploring the meaning of these books. There are actually many ways to find dragons in ancient times, but there are very few that have been handed down, and I was fortunate enough to see a method in the stacks of books, but I have never verified it.

This method was invented by the ancient Luke people, and when it comes to the Luke people, we have to mention their once very famous dragon hunting technique. According to legend, when the Luk tribe still existed and did not disappear, they would hold a dragon hunting tournament every year, so that the young people could compete in dragon hunting, and the final winner would have the right to choose their favorite girl as a partner in the clan. Of course, what they hunted was not a real dragon, and later after research, the Luke tribe's dragon hunting competition was actually chasing Jiao. Jiao is not a dragon, but it still has the breath of a dragon on its body, so it will still leave obvious traces of dragon qi when Jiao swims away. The Luke people tracked Jiao by tracking these dragon qi, and then found a way to hunt Jiao.

I don't know exactly how they hunted Jiao, and the book is not so detailed, this tribe disappeared in the dense forests of China thousands of years ago, and their culture and existence may have been forgotten long ago if it were not for some books. Now, all I know is how they track the Jiao, which is the dragon's qi.

"Brother Shan, the front is relatively open." Luo Qiong pointed to an open space in front of him and said.

I nodded, Japan has always done a good job of protecting its forests, of course, this is probably because they are small and don't have much land resources, so they want to protect them as much as possible. I stood in the open space, peeled off a few pieces of bark from the large tree next to me, laid them flat in the middle of the clearing, and lit a fire.

Luo Qiong watched intently from the side, and didn't speak, and after a while, the bark was charred, and it drifted away with the wind, and I glanced at it and said, "Go in that direction." Follow the bark that has been blown away by the wind......"

"Okay, what is the principle of Brother Shan?" Luo Qiong immediately took a step, but still asked suspiciously.

"The Luks believe that dragons can fly because of the help of the wind. And when the dragon dies or flies by, the dragon energy left behind will also move with the wind, and eventually follow the dragon's figure with the wind and stop in the dragon's nest. So, if a dragon has been in a place for a long time, it is a dragon's nest. There must be a lot of dragon energy floating in with the wind. The dragon itself is a part of nature, so the Luk people used burnt bark powder to test the route, and found that the direction of the powder drifting away was seven or eight points similar to the direction of the dragon's qi. The premise, of course, is that dragons have ever flown through this forest. However, this is also the first time I have used the methods of the Luk, so I can't say whether it will succeed or not. ”

I followed the direction in which the powder flew, burning a piece of bark every time I passed, and then proceeded after determining the general direction. But soon the density of trees in the forest increased so much that it was impossible to tell the direction in which the powder was flying.

"I can't find the direction, Brother Shan, what's the matter?" Luo Qiong scratched his head and asked, I squatted down and began to dig through the dirt around me, and soon found it after looking for it. Some golden things were in the deeper parts of the earth, and when they were turned over, they quickly drifted away with the strong wind.

"Sure enough, as rumored, where the dragon walked, a part of the dragon qi sank into the dirt and formed golden traces, and these golden dragon qi would be connected into a line, pointing directly to the dragon's nest. Let's go, let's follow these golden traces and move on. I smiled.

The golden trails disappeared quickly, but they were a route, and we began to follow the bare golden trails that had been turned over from the dirt. In the afternoon, snow began to fall in the sky and the temperature continued to drop. Plus we've been in the mountains, so the environment has become less comfortable.

"The snow seems to be getting heavier and heavier, Brother Shan." Luo Qiong looked at the sky and said.

I estimated that it was already two or three o'clock in the afternoon, and it was dark on the mountain at about six o'clock in the evening, and it was winter, so it got dark faster. I turned around and said, "Let's continue our journey, and we'll find a place to camp at five o'clock." ”

After walking for more than two hours, it was very dark, and the sky became darker and darker when it snowed. The wind was strong, and the snowflakes were falling like fluff.

Luo Qiong shook the snow off his body and said, "Brother Shan, it's a bit difficult to camp in this situation, and I don't know if there are people nearby, if there are people." ”

I was about to say that it was impossible, but I didn't expect Luo Qiong to point not far away and say, "Look, there's a light over there!" ”