When Rui Geng's gaze retracted from the boulder and looked around, he was even more surprised, the original ordinary mountain forest plants had become strange at some point: the golden light passed through the gap between the leaves, forming columns of light, obliquely shining on the grass, clusters of unnamed flowers and plants dotted in the middle, looking closely, there seemed to be a flow of light in the delicate petals and delicate grass blades, like a dream, and there was a strange aroma of plants and trees straight to the nose; Around the meadow stood dozens of huge, stout ancient trees, with lush green leaves and vigorous branches, scattered like dragons, and their sinuous roots half-peeked out of the black earth, revealing their ancient and powerful vitality at a glance. Standing under the tree, Rui Gong felt full of strength, every cell in her body was excited and restless, and in a trance, she thought that she was this ancient tree, and her fingertips could touch the slightest breath and changes between heaven and earth. She held her breath and felt it quietly, and when she opened her eyes again, tears welled up in her eyes.

Beneath the tree grew several pink mushroom-shaped plants, their stalks were long, and the semicircular caps drooped with sleek mucus-stained tendrils that stretched to the ground, like jellyfish growing on land. They seemed to have a sense of the creatures around them, and tentatively stretched their bearded vines to the three people not far away. And one of the longest, pink tongue-like whiskers, sniffed like a dog in front of Ke Zhenshi, whose face was full of joy and amazement. Ke Zhenshi was stunned and stretched out his hand to touch it, but it retracted back to its mother as if it was frightened.

"This ...... Over here...... What the hell is this place? Di Qingchuan's eyes widened, he looked at the scene in front of him blankly, and stumbled in his mouth: "I've been in this Taowu Village for so long, why have I never seen this forest?" ”

"Isn't it the first time you've entered Qifeng Mountain, how can you see it. I can't imagine that this Qifeng Mountain really has a different world. At this time, Rui Gong had recovered from the inexplicable emotion just now. She took a deep breath with a happy face, the mountain forest seemed to be magical, and as long as she took a deep breath, the exhaustion of her body was swept away.

The sudden beauty in front of her made her even more happy, and the faint fragrance of the surrounding plants quietly penetrated into her nose, and the whole person had a feeling of floating, and the long-lost sense of relaxation and comfort made Rui Gong forgetful.

"OMG! What kind of fairy treasure is this? I feel like I'm so powerful right now...... No, it's as light as a swallow, and it will be able to fly right away! Ke Zhenshi on the side suddenly came to his senses, first clenched his fists, rolled up his sleeves, stared at the little muscles on his thin arms, and then jumped on the spot suddenly, shouting excitedly, and the echo after echo spread in the forest, startling a group of birds in the distance.

"Little ...... Be quiet......" Di Qingchuan looked at the frightened birds in a panic, and before the words fell, the birds swooped down in an instant, and then looked closely, this bird was not like an ordinary bird - more like a fish with colorful wings flying in the sky. At this time, this "flying fish" was growing a big mouth, revealing the dense broken teeth inside, and flew over. Di Qingchuan only felt that his hairs stood on end, and he had goosebumps, and he ran away.

"Huh? Where are you going? Ke Zhenshi just wanted to show off to Di Qingchuan, but he saw him turn around and run backwards, and at the same time, there was a hula sound in his ears, and when he looked up, the flying fish in the sky were close in front of him. The leading flying fish was huge, and in a trance, the huge flying fish full of teeth coincided with the monster in the dream, Ke Zhenshi only felt a torrential power gushing out of his body, he screamed in his mouth, and hit the head of the fish.

"Boom!"

"Oops!"

Before the fist was completely punched out, Ke Zhenshi felt that he had been kicked on the buttocks, the lower plate was unstable, and he stumbled to the ground, and the flying fish grazed his scalp and roared, pounced into the air, and hit the ancient tree not far away, and actually broke the thousand-year-old tree directly, and for a while sawdust and branches and leaves were scattered.

And the school of flying fish was not affected in the slightest, just like the group of planes in the military parade, maintaining a graceful arc and rushing into the sky, and then made a sharp turn, circled and then stayed in mid-air, staring at the three people in the clearing. Ke Zhenshi looked at the broken ancient tree in horror and came back to his senses, and saw Rui Gong behind him looking at him with an inexplicable and slightly disdainful expression, he patted the footprints on his ass awkwardly, and smiled at Rui Gong and said, "Thank you, be gentle next time."

"Quick...... Hurry up, they're going to ...... again Come back......" Di Qingchuan suddenly peeked out from behind a half-human-high stone, pointed to the sky, and then cautiously said to the two, "We...... It's better to run into the woods first, they can't see it in the sky, they won't ...... Won't attack us anymore. ”

"Hey! I said, "Why did you go?" Seeing Di Qingchuan, Ke Zhenshi slapped his thigh and screamed.

Di Qingchuan snorted, "I just ...... Didn't have time to say...... I would have liked...... Tell your ......"

"You didn't see it just now, but it scared me to death. Luckily, you were able to hide quickly! What kind of monster is this, the fish is not a fish, and the bird is not a bird. ”

"Let's go, let's run into the woods, and they'll be coming again soon." Rui Gong looked at Di Qingchuan, whose face was flushed, and then looked back at the flying fish in the sky, and then raised his legs and left. Seeing that the prey was about to run, the sound of flapping wings suddenly sounded in the air, "My mother! Run—" With Ke Zhenshi's shouting, the three of them rushed to the depths of the dense forest, and the sound of falling trees and strange birds kept sounding behind them.

It wasn't until the slightest bird chirp was no longer audible that Rui Gong stopped. She bent over and gasped for air, and said to herself, "Those birds...... No, those fish...... No, it's those animals, what the hell are they? If the sea could understand it, how could I never have heard of a winged flying fish in the mountains? And it's still hidden in Taowu Village? No, I ...... Are you still in Qifeng Mountain? ”

Just thinking about it, the chaotic footsteps came out from behind, Rui Gong looked back and saw that Ke Zhenshi was half-carrying Di Qingchuan towards her.

"I said you ran too fast, don't wait for us!" Ke Zhenshi snorted and panted, and dragged Di Qingchuan hard and said, "You too, you grew up in the mountains, why don't you run as fast as me from the city, Bai Chang is so tall." Di Qingchuan's face was flushed, and he didn't speak, and he spit out a sentence after holding back for a long time, "Thank you, I'll lead the way in the future."

As if there was really some aura of heaven and earth and the essence of the sun and moon in this forest, in just a while, the three of them felt that they had regained their strength. Seeing that the other two were resting, Di Qingchuan asked, "...... Get back? ”

Ke Zhenshi jumped up from the ground and said, "Go back?" Where to go? I haven't had enough of it! ”

Di Qingchuan looked at Rui Gong as if asking for help, "Here...... It's dangerous, I've never seen a bird like that...... Such a fish...... We ......"

"Are you going back?" Rui Gong turned to Di Qingchuan and said leisurely, "The entrance to the cave when I came suddenly disappeared, do you remember?" ”

"Huh? What do you mean? Ke Zhenshi scratched his head, "I don't understand." I don't understand. ”

Rui Gong glanced at him and said, "Just now, we walked into the forest from the hole, and the hole behind us disappeared......"

After hearing this, Ke Zhenshi laughed: "The cave disappeared out of thin air? Don't be funny, how is that possible? However, when he saw Rui Gong and Di Qingchuan's solemn expressions, he couldn't smile anymore.

"Shall we ...... We don't walk from the hole, we start from ...... Just turn over the mountain beam. Di Qingchuan said with a sigh.

"Mountain beam?" Rui Gong smiled and said, "Can you still see the mountain beam?" Or, do you think you're still on Qifeng Mountain? ”

Looking at the completely strange and strange forest around him, Di Qingchuan was silent for a long time, his face suddenly turned pale, and he trembled, "What...... What's going on? ”

Rui Gong glanced around a few times, his eyes full of hesitation and uncertainty. She suddenly remembered a recent scientific research project that Thunder University was working on - "Immersive Survival". The aim of this project is to develop an advanced high-precision realistic scene system that allows the computer to simulate an environment that is highly similar to the real world. Humans will have difficulty distinguishing between truth and falsehood in such immersive experiments, and will act the most instinctively, thus providing a large amount of data for scientific observations.

- Is this a high-precision test system? But how did you get into it? Could it be that the hole is the entrance to the laboratory? However, how could such a high-tech laboratory be located in Qifengshan? And what about the white fox?

All these questions made Rui Gong feel at a loss and at a loss for the surrounding environment. At the moment, it seems that the only way out is to go further and see what is famous.

Suddenly, Rui Gong's heart moved, remembered something, looked down at the watch in his hand, stretched out his hand and pressed the watch, shook his head, and shook his arm a few times.

Although Di Qingchuan had not seen much of the world, she could see at a glance that the watch in her hand was not an ordinary watch. The ultra-thin case and the bright body are not the legendary super smart watches, right? Thinking of this, Di Qingchuan couldn't help but lick his tongue, "What...... What's wrong? ”

"My watch is useless! Nothing! Time, GPRS, communication functions, all fail! Damn it! Even the SOS call function doesn't work! A hint of anxiety crossed Rui's face, but her voice was cold as ice.

"Yo, Takuno's latest flagship smart watch! High-end goods! Ke Zhenshi obviously recognized Rui Gong's watch brand, and a hint of schadenfreude appeared on his face, "I can't use it?" Oh, smart products, failure is also a matter of no choice. ”

After speaking, he raised his arm a little proudly and shook the watch in his hand, "Look, mechanical watches are different existences, thousands of years of perpetual motion, no need to charge!" ”

Ke Zhenshi put his wrist in front of Rui Gong's eyes, "Come, let you see what time it is!" ”

Rui Gong swept disdainfully across the face of his watch. It is an ordinary mechanical watch, the brand is not visible, and at this moment, the hour and minute hands are clearly diagonal to one hundred and eighty degrees, pointing to six o'clock. And the compass that comes with the compass on the watch keeps spinning there, and it can't stop at all.

A contemptuous smile swept across the corners of Rui Geng's mouth, "See for yourself what time it is?" ”

"Six......" Ke Zhenshi looked at his watch incredulously, "How can this be?" ”

"Six o'clock, it should be the time when we fell out of the hole," Rui Gong struggled to recall everything, trying to string together a definite timeline, "that is, after it fell, time stopped!" ”

Ke Zhenshi's head shook like a rattle, "No, it's impossible!" ”

With that, he vigorously ripped off his backpack and shook out all the belongings from it. In fact, the bag on his body is not very big, so it is not noticeable at all, and even Ke Zhenshi himself forgot that there is such an existence. There wasn't much in the bag, a palm-sized PAD, a holographic receiver, a folding mini telescope, a couple of energy bars, an asbestos handkerchief, and nothing else.

Ke Zhenshi randomly pressed the switch of the pad and fiddled with the holographic receiver a few more times, but it was useless. Neither electronics can be opened. Ke Zhenshi was a little frustrated, and muttered, "What's the matter?" ”

"We fell into a special environment. Magnetic fields, electric currents, wireless signals, all wrong," Rui Jiang concluded, "but why is that?" ”

Di Qingchuan opened his mouth wide in horror, but his eyes were pitiful and pitiful. He was speechless in shock, "Good...... It's scary. ”

"Whatever it is, let's move forward, we'll have to find a way." Ke Zhenshi walked around the grass restlessly, every grass and tree here was something he had never seen before, and the danger just now had turned into a strong curiosity, forcing him to move.

Rui thought for a moment and said, "yes, we have to find a way out first." ”

Di Qingchuan nodded and said, "I am familiar with the mountain road......

In this strange forest, the instincts and knowledge that she was proud of were useless. There was a strange feeling that she couldn't tell, but all the skills of discerning things had become a mess at this moment, and it was impossible to figure it out.

She remembered the wilderness survival shows she had peeked at in class, and she looked up to try to reorient herself by the position of the sun. Strange to say, it seems that the sun is shining in the jungle and even occasionally a little dazzling, but perhaps the branches and leaves of those strange trees block the view, and Rui Gong can't find any trace of the sun. She turned her head to look at the rural boy and said softly, "Okay."

This forest is very strange, sometimes dense, sometimes sparse, but no matter how you walk, you can't get out, but it seems to go deeper and deeper, and the plants become more and more strange.

Di Qingchuan's pace slowed and slow, and he hesitated; Ke Zhenshi, who had been chattering excitedly before, was also quiet now—this strange forest made him feel depressed.

As he walked, Di Qingchuan suddenly stopped, looked ahead suspiciously, and then turned back to the other two and said, "We...... Do you want to go further? ”

Following Di Qingchuan's gaze, in the dense forest, a giant mushroom towered in front of him, Rui Gong tried to hold his head high and looked up, the purple and faint mushroom cap was like an umbrella, and the shadow cast covered the three of them firmly, and he could vaguely see something like a bird's feather glowing on the mushroom cap, swaying in the breeze; Under the huge fungus cap are flesh-white fungus folds like half-opened pages, but the gaps between these fungus folds are black, and I don't know where they lead, as if there is no top; Supporting them was a tall, stout, rounded stalk, which was snow-white, as if it had not been touched by soil, and was clean from top to bottom; What's even more incredible is that the stipe is evenly covered with some transparent, amber small beads that I don't know whether they are water or mucus, even if the sunlight is blocked by the cap, it still shines like a diamond.

Ke Zhenshi's mouth was grinning, revealing a row of big white teeth, and his voice trembled excitedly, "This is the primeval forest?" We actually walked into the primeval forest? He picked up a dead branch and poked it tentatively, "I heard...... Wild mushrooms are the best to eat. ”

However, the branch was instantly embedded with round droplets, and after inserting it, it couldn't move.

Ke Zhenshi was a little annoyed, and he pulled out the branch vigorously. And the big mushroom seemed to be weak at the moment, shaking and trembling, but it did not shrink at all, but the rhizome became stronger and stronger.

Suddenly, a large number of translucent, glowing blue seed-like things flew out of the cracks in the fungus folds.

"Get out of the way...... Don't be touched by them......" Di Qingchuan's panicked voice came from behind.

However, blue seeds poured in from all directions, and Rui Gong didn't know where to hide for a while.

Just as he hesitated, a shadow fell from the sky, and then the three of them were detained in a huge leaf.

Countless blue seeds flew over their heads, and through the gaps in the leaves, it turned out to be a small insect that glowed blue.

Rui Gong looked at Ke Zhenshi beside him, and said secretly in his heart, "It's really going to cause trouble, but it's still clever, and his hands and feet are flexible." ”

It turned out that at the time of the crisis just now, Ke Zhenshi was quick-eyed, and when he saw something flying out of the mushroom, he hurriedly threw a wooden stick there, and dragged a huge leaf from the ground to wrap the three of them.

The little blue worms hovered above for a while, and they all flew back in a swarm without noticing their targets. Finally, the last insect was gone, and the three dared to emerge from the leaves.

"What the hell is this place?" Ke Zhenshi put down the leaf in his hand, and the continuous attacks made him a little unbearable.

Di Qingchuan, who was covered with dirt and dead leaves, suddenly became excited, "I'll just say...... I said I shouldn't go up the mountain...... All resentful...... ...... all resented"

Rui Gong turned her head and glanced at him, "You can go back on your own—if you can go back at all." ”

Di Qingchuan lowered his eyes that looked at Rui Gong, and muttered, "That'...... What to do? ”

"Go up and find out where we are." Rui pointed to the gentle slope not far away. The two boys followed her command and walked faster in that direction.

After walking for a long time, it became dark. The vegetation here is very different from what it used to be, but the denser and stranger vegetation is constantly warning them to go in the wrong direction, and now they may have entered the depths of the forest. Rui Gong looked up at the sky, and the daylight was about to disappear completely.

At this moment, Rui Gong's heart was full of uneasiness. At first, she thought she would find something by going a little way, but there was nothing; There were some dangers, all of which were unheard of and unseen, which made her puzzled; In addition, she clearly felt that the three of them seemed to be trapped in a completely bizarre environment, but who set up this dilemma and what was the purpose?

Di Qingchuan was also full of worries, he expected that the direction he was going in now did not seem to be possible to walk back to Taowu Village, but the feeling of going farther and farther. He didn't know which area of Qifeng Mountain he was in now, but he knew very well that once there was no light source in the mountains and forests, it would become extremely dangerous, and it was likely that there would be dangerous beasts that came out to forage at night, let alone in such a strange place!

Just as he was thinking, he heard Rui Gong say in front of him, "It's getting dark, what are we going to do?" ”

Rui Gong looked back at them. Ke Zhenshi is like a child who has never seen the world, rubbing and playing everywhere. Di Qingchuan said timidly, "...... I can't go back to ......, I just ...... Can only stay overnight......"

"Overnight? Over here? There are no tents...... Ke Zhenshi is full of thoughts about camping with his father in the countryside to watch the stars, the moon, and the sunrise, not to mention how warm and cozy it is. Thinking of this, this naughty child suddenly collected his mind and lamented with a sad face, "Is it really impossible to get out of this forest?" ”

"I'm afraid it's ...... today," Di Qingchuan swallowed back into his stomach halfway through his words. He stared at Rui Gong as if waiting for her opinion.

I saw Rui Gong frowning, trying to distinguish something, his face full of confusion and incomprehension. It was a long time before I heard her say leisurely, "We have no way back, and we have no way in." I had to spend the night here. However, you must be careful at night and never fall asleep. ”

Ke Zhenshi sighed and said, "I can only settle tonight." ”

Di Qingchuan turned around to leave, "I'll go...... Go find some withered ...... Dead branches, ...... at night I want to give birth...... Make a fire, or ......"

Rui Gong nodded. She had secretly learned some knowledge of survival in the wild, all in preparation for running away from home one day, and these knowledge taught her to spend the night in the wilderness to find a way to make a light, preferably to make a fire, in case the beast suddenly appeared.

Ke Zhenshi kept up with Di Qingchuan's pace, "I'll go with you!" ”

The two of them walked away after a while, and Rui Gong stayed in the silence and darkness of the place, his face revealing an unconscious coldness. She stood alone for a moment, forcing herself to calm down, thoughts pouring out like a fountain in her head, and she shuddered at the thought of some frightening possibility.

In order to chase away the strange thoughts in her mind, she couldn't help but go under several towering trees, trying to find branches that were not soaked by the moisture.

Suddenly, in the cracks of the intertwined branches, something seemed to be flickering. How can there be flickering light in this forest that is about to fall into the night? Is there anyone else trapped in this forest who can't get out? Could it be that those two people left her alone to make a fire? Or is it ...... What kind of yokai eyes are these?

Rui Gong was frightened by her thoughts, and she suddenly remembered the story of the monsters in Taowu Village that her grandmother told her when she was a child. Since returning to the city, she hadn't heard her grandmother's old-fashioned stories for more than ten years, but now the stories were playing out in Rui Gong's mind as if they were a movie at a double speed.