As we continued along the current, the mountain in front of us began to change, the mountains on both sides became steeper, the valley was no longer straight, as the mountain made many bends, and the valley became narrower and narrower, only six meters wide at its narrowest point.

Here the rain began to become relatively concentrated, and the depth of the water rose with it, reaching the knee in the deepest places. Despite this difficult walk, we didn't stop and kept following the current.

After walking for about two hours, the heavy rain began to gradually lighten. We went to a big tree and rested for a while, and everyone ate something to replenish their strength.

On the way here, some places made us feel very strange, we saw no less than 20 stone figurines, almost every time we reached a bend in a mountain pass, there was a stone figurine, and the fingers of each stone figurines were pointing in the direction of the flow of rainwater.

Stone figurines are not uncommon for people who are fighting upside down, and they are seen in almost all large tombs, so we have long been accustomed to seeing them. However, the appearance of stone figurines in this way makes us feel a little confused. From what we know about the figurines, they are just funerary objects, but it is clear that the stone figurines that appear here do not mean that. On the surface, these stone figurines seem to be pointing the way, because all the fingers of the stone figurines are pointing the direction, and this direction is all within the valley, and none of them point to the mountain, so this brings us a lot of reverie.

Everyone has a different opinion on these stone figurines, and I think the most reliable is Lao Yan's understanding, who believes that the stone figurines here are likely to be witnesses of the difference between Yelang and the Central Plains civilization.

In the ancient Central Plains civilization, the stone figurines were only used as burial objects, but this may not be the case in the Yelang country, maybe the stone figurines have a different meaning in the civilization of the Yelang country, as we see now, the stone figurines are used as a tool to guide the way in the Yelang country, not a funeral object.

At first, I also thought that the old prostitute was right, at least on the surface, his understanding was correct, but in reality all of us were wrong in our guesses, and none of us realized that we had fallen into the trap of the stone figurines.

The trap for the figurines was found five hours later, when the rain had stopped and the sky had just dawned.

In the course of five hours, we had already rounded countless mountains, and as before, there were stone figurines at every bend in the pass. We still naively thought we could go down the water, but when we came to a valley, we were surprised to find that we had been here.

It was definitely not the scene we wanted to see, but this one was right before our eyes. On one side of the valley there was a big tree, and this tree was where we had rested five hours ago, because there were still bags on the ground that we had finished eating five hours earlier.

Seeing this scene, everyone's expressions were extremely surprised, and no one wanted to believe what they were seeing. Because this scene came about, it meant that the five hours we had walked in the rain had been in vain, and we were back to where we had rested five hours ago.

"Why did we come back again?" The skinny monkey was surprised.

"Oh my god, this is fucking wrong, we can't walk back." The old prostitute picked up the bag under the tree and looked at it carefully.

Wang Jingang and I are also checking the surrounding landscape, and there is nothing wrong with it, it is exactly the same as the place where we rested before.

The old prostitute held the food packaging bag under the tree in her hand and clutched it vigorously, and the plastic packaging bag was clutched by him to make a sound. He looked around and muttered to himself, "This can't be, absolutely can't."

I understand why the old prostitute refuses to believe everything in front of her, in fact, I can't believe it, because we are not only following the instructions of the stone figurines along the way, but also following the flow of water.

If we go back to where we were, it means that the water flows back here. I've never heard of a river that can flow and then flow back upstream, and that can't happen because it goes against the laws of nature. And when we follow the flowing water, we can clearly feel that the water is flowing downward, and it is flowing very fast.

"That's right, this is where we rested before." The thin monkey pointed to a piece of bark from the tree and said, "You see, I broke this bark at that time."

I looked over and saw that a piece of bark had been artificially torn off. I roughly recalled the scene five hours ago, I was sitting around with Lao Yan and Wang Jingang, and the thin monkey had been standing against this tree during his rest because of his buttocks injury, and he should have observed the situation of this tree more carefully than we did.

"How could this happen?" Wang Jingang walked into the water very puzzled, bent down to feel the water with his hands, and then said: "The speed of the flow is not slow, it should be flowing downward."

The old prostitute also walked into the water to feel it, shook her head while feeling it, and said, "It's fucking weird, we have been walking along the water, how could we walk back."

"Could it be that we left in too much of a hurry and didn't observe carefully, and the flowing water in some places branched, and we just happened to go to the branch again......" The thin monkey said here and paused, scratched his head and said, "That's not right, even if there is a branch, it is impossible to flow back again."

"There are no branches." Wang Jingang said with certainty: "I have carefully looked at every bend we passed, and there is no fork in the road, and there is no other water flow."

"Oh my god, there's definitely something wrong with this."

The old lady told us all to go under the tree, and then he drew a circle with a branch under the tree, and then dotted on one part of the circle. Then he pointed to the circle and said, "If this is the five-hour journey we have taken, and this point is considered to be where we are now, do you think it is possible for the water to circulate in this circle?"

All of us shook our heads, because the terrain here couldn't create circulating water, and we didn't see any equipment to guide circulating water along the way, so we all thought it was impossible.

"You think it's impossible, as I do, but in fact, we set off from here five hours ago." The old prostitute pointed to the dot drawn on the circle, where we are now, and said, "We have been following the current, but after five hours we have come back here, and the current is still flowing in one direction, which proves that the current is indeed circulating."

None of us spoke, and the old prostitute continued: "Actually, the flow of water is not really the point, there is a more important factor, more incredible than the flow."

"What?" I asked.

"Valley," said the old prostitute, pointing to the deep valley, "we are following the flow of water, and we are following the valley, because the flow of water itself flows within the valley." But after five hours of travel, the valley had only a detour and no forks, which eventually brought us back here. ”

After listening to the old prostitute say this, my brain buzzed, and I immediately realized what he was going to say.