"Don't hurt it!" Zhiguang shouted to stop.

But it was too late, I hurriedly brought it back, the eagle claw grappling hook was extremely sharp, and the rough skin and flesh of the white-haired ape were also torn off a large piece of flesh, and the blood flowed when I landed. I heard only a wail, and it fell to the ground, and in pain, it threw away the dagger in its hand, and limped around and fled.

Zhiguang hurriedly said: "Hurry up and follow it, it comes from Kunlun Mountain, and it must know the way out of here." ”

When everyone heard this, they hurriedly got up and chased after them, not daring to delay for a moment.

Junko asked as she ran, "What the hell is this?" ”

Zhiguang explained: "This is the Kunlun Snow Ape, this thing is extremely spiritual, it generally does not hurt people, just now it just wanted the dried mutton to eat, and now we hurt it, but it is not good, this Snow Ape is the most resentful, alas! ”

Da Zhuang said: "Whatever, it's just a beast." ”

Everyone chased after them all the way, and although the snow ape was wounded, its feet were still much faster than ours, and it disappeared into the vast miasma of smoke after it followed less than two miles.

I said to the people, "I hurt it, there is blood on the ground, and it follows the blood." ”

Everyone continued to chase for more than half an hour, until the blood stains could not be found, I saw that Hua Bo was so tired that he couldn't run, after all, he was already the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, and he had reached the limit of his physical strength after running with young people for so long, and everyone was so tired that he was sweating, so I suggested resting.

It was already getting dark, and everyone was encamped.

Da Zhuang chose a suitable open space, everyone lit a bonfire, the sky was completely dark, the strange thing is that everyone was shivering, just early summer, it was extremely cold here, I had been rushing during the day, and I still felt some warmth, and when it was quiet at night, it would be so unbearable, and the gust of wind seemed to blow into the cracks of the bones.

Zhiguang said that this forest is extremely yin, there is a kind of wind evil that penetrates the bones and is half yin and half cold, the monks are not very afraid, but ordinary people can't, Hua Bo quickly built a simple shed with branches and coarse cloth, hiding in it, it is a lot warmer, Rao is so, I and Shunzi have sneezed a few times, we don't care, but Hua Bo said that what he is afraid of is this small symptoms such as wind chill and cold, it is nothing at home, but it is different in the wild, such a small illness is easy to ignore, so the rest of the people are afraid that they will also be infected, and it is getting more and more serious, Often, when people realize the seriousness of the problem, they are in the mountains and forests, the situation is not good, and there is no medicine to treat the disease.

Hua Bo looked around, and saw a few wild green onions growing under the tree next to him, so he pulled them off, took the white onions and roots, added some ginger juice, boiled three parts of water into one serving, and distributed them to everyone to drink. And told us that he gave this thing a good name, called "even bearded onion white drink", although it was a little difficult to drink, but everyone endured it, insisted on taking it twice a day, and the wind chill would soon be better. Otherwise, if you get sick as soon as you enter the Ten Thousand Corpses Mountain, it will be troublesome.

After I drank it, I did feel a lot better.

Zhiguang and Zhijing told us to sleep peacefully, saying that it would be good for them to keep vigil with their brothers. Junko and I were going to join in and help with the vigil, but Zhijing said no, because they only needed to meditate for one hour a day to keep their spirits alive for the whole day. I couldn't help but admire in my heart, I had only heard that high monks could eat less and sleep less but keep their bodies healthy, but I didn't expect these two monks in their twenties to have such skills.

I don't know when I fell asleep, and when I woke up, it was not yet dawn, I got up and climbed out of the tent, looking at the night sky in the Western Regions, blue and deep, the moonlight was like water, and the stars were dotted. I suddenly realized that the miasma had completely dissipated at night, and that the woods were quiet and peaceful at night, and there seemed to be fewer dead branches around them, and wild flowers were everywhere, which did not match the name of Ten Thousand Corpses Mountain.

Zhiguang was meditating under a tall Diamond Poplar, while Zhijing was silently keeping vigil on the side. I tiptoed over and asked him what time it was, and Zhijing looked at the sky and told me that it was about two hours before dawn.

An idea suddenly popped up and I said to Zhijing, I want to climb the tree to take a look, and without waiting for him to respond, I jumped up and climbed a branch.

Although this tree grows very tall, the trunk is not thick, and there are many branches at a certain height, so it is easy to climb to the top of the tree. By the moonlight, I found that in the south direction, there was a big mountain in front of me, spread boundless on both sides, although the distance was very far, but the snow peak on the top of the mountain was very bright under the reflection of the moon, it was still easy to distinguish, I knew that it should be the northern foot of Kunlun.

I heard the old monk Huizhen say that the Ten Thousand Corpses Mountain is the origin of Kunlun, and the annihilated ancient country of Qiangtuo is there, and it seems that the direction of progress has been determined. Looking in this direction, it is gratifying that we are not far from the end of this forest, but there is still a long distance between the woods and the northern foot of Kunlun, where it seems that the terrain is very low, and it is pitch black, and it is not clear what it is, but whatever he is, he went first, and he has a plan in his heart at the moment.

When I came down from the tree, I immediately woke everyone up and told them what I was seeing.

Da Zhuang said sleepily: "Then, even if you find your way out, you have to wait until dawn and everyone wakes up before setting off!" I'm sleepy, and I'll have to sleep a little longer. As he spoke, he fell down again.

Shunzi also said in a daze: "Yes, Brother Yang Zi, it's not far from dawn at this time, and I have to hurry up and sleep for a while." ”

I stretched out my hand and pulled Da Zhuang up, and said to everyone: "When the dawn comes, the miasma will rise again, and then we are likely to be entangled in the 'ghost hitting the wall' again, if you get up and set off now, take the moon as the standard, and use the torch to explore the way at night, it is easier to identify the direction, I estimate, if you are lucky, you may be able to get out of this forest before dawn, it is worth taking a gamble." ”

Hua Bo also looked around, indeed, in the night when there was no miasma, by the light of the moon and the torches, his eyes could see farther than during the day, and immediately ordered: "Yes, this is a good time to hurry, everyone hurry up and pack up and set off immediately." ”

At this time, it is estimated that everyone has reacted energetically, realized the seriousness of the problem, and hurriedly got up to clean up.

Although Da Zhuang muttered reluctantly that he was sleepy, and he did so much dirty work during the day and didn't even let him sleep at night, he didn't have idle hands, and after cleaning up, each person lit a torch and went on the road.

All the way to the south, it is estimated that I walked for more than an hour, and suddenly, a fishy rotten stench hit me, and after a few steps forward, the smell became stronger and stronger, like throwing a dead man into a dung pit and soaking for a month on a dog day, and I immediately retched twice.

Naturally, the others were no better, and Shunzi pinched his nose and said, "Brother Yang Zi, are you dazzled, why do I think that the more I go, the more wrong it is?" ”

Without waiting for me to speak, Da Zhuang rushed and said: "I see it right, Ten Thousand Corpses Mountain Ten Thousand Corpses Mountain, how can there be no corpses, it will be a little smelly after a long time, we who practice medicine, we have seen a lot of this kind of thing, if you are afraid, follow behind." ”

Shunzi was a young man, and said unconvinced: "I'm not afraid!" After speaking, he was able to rush to the front in three or two steps.

At this moment, the three stars above the head gathered together, connected into a line, the sky will be twilight, and the strange miasma will emerge in an instant, swallowing the forest, and in an instant, there is a white expanse in front of him.

I secretly said that it was not good, and I was beating the drum in my heart, so I listened to "Ahhhhhhhhhh "A loud shout, that's Junko's voice, oops, it seems that there is a situation again.

Everyone hurriedly ran away, only to see that Junko was lying in a quagmire, the muddy water was not deep, just above his knees, but his feet were too slippery, he fluttered for a long time and did not stand up.

The sky was already white, and the miasma had dissipated a lot, and I realized that we had escaped from the smoke miasma forest, and the quagmire where Junzi fell was clearly a swamp that was too big to see the edge. It was overgrown with chest-high reeds and many unnamed plants and trees, and there was a deathly silence, and the disgusting smell of rot emanated from the swamp made people's brains ache.

Most people understand that no one wants to walk through such a swamp, and the more dead the swamp, the more dangerous it is.

Junzi was stunned and didn't understand this reason, while wiping the sludge off his body, he muttered and scolded this stinky bad air, saying that if he hadn't paid attention and the soles of his feet slipped, how could such a mess happen, completely unaware that he had just gone around from the ghost gate.

Da Zhuang has a lot of experience, so he told Shunzi that in their hometown of Guangling, there is also such a big swamp, and the local villagers call it "Hades Haizi". It is said that in the early years, two brave young men rowed in the boat, but before the boat could go far, it was eaten by something, and the two young men screamed a few times, and sank before they could even struggle a few times, and finally they did not even find the bones. In a swamp like this, most of them have some mysterious things that you have never heard of, extremely dangerous, even if you are lucky, there are no man-eating monsters in the water, but the "mud whirlpool" in the swamp will never come up again, it is so rotten and smelly, I don't know how many human and animal corpses are hidden in it.

It was impossible to cross such a place, and after discussion, everyone decided to go east along the swamp, bypass, and reach the foot of the mountain at the northern foot of Kunlun, where the legendary ancient country of Qiangtuo should be.