Early the next morning, Xiaolan and her father left the house to collect medicine in the higher mountains to the northwest, because the mountain people believed that the medicine collected while the grass and trees were still carrying dew was the most effective.

In order to go into the deep mountains and old forests to collect medicine, Xiaolan specially wore a pair of thick sneakers, a pair of white-washed jeans on the lower body, a light-colored plaid long-sleeved shirt on the upper body, a flower and straw hat on his head, and a wicker basket in his hand.

Although the peak of Lion Mountain is only ten miles away from her back mountain, Xiaolan has never climbed Lion Rock before, and she has not even been to that area, but she has only watched the highest peak of this mountain from a distance on the high slope of the back mountain.

Every time her parents went to the Lion Rock area to collect medicine, although Xiaolan always wanted to play with her, Lin Shunhua and his wife refused mercilessly because they were worried that their daughter would be affected or injured by the poisonous snakes and wasps on the mountain. They always took Xiaolan to her grandparents' house one day in advance, and then took their daughter home the next afternoon when they came back from collecting medicine.

This time, Lin Shunhua made an exception, because he was in a hurry to find medicinal materials for his wife's treatment, he thought that Xiaolan had good eyes and could help find those medicinal herbs hidden in the dark woods, plus Xiaolan was already fourteen years old, and he should also go to the distant mountains to exercise.

Xiaolan is very happy to have such an opportunity, not only to see the highest mountain, Lion Rock, up close, but also to help her father collect medicine for her mother's illness.

Lin Shunhua today is completely an old mountain man's outfit, he is wearing a coarse cloth coat, a pair of sneakers on his feet, his self-proclaimed invincible axe is still stuck in his waist, and he is carrying a large bamboo luo with an iron hoe.

The father and daughter crawled to the mountains and mountains in the northwest one after the other, and the father repeatedly told his daughter to always pay attention to matters when entering the deep mountains and old forests.

Climbing over several mountains, the red sun showed a smiling face from the eastern plain sky, and the slopes of the mountains facing the east were suddenly covered in a layer of pink. But the morning mist still fills those valleys, and thousands of creatures still lie in the unfathomable valleys dreaming sweetly.

The father and daughter walked unhurriedly on the mountain trail for about an hour to the top of a tree-green slope, and Xiaolan stood on the top of the cool breeze and looked back, only to see that their house and the woods behind the house were already far away from the mountain. Turning to look ahead, there was a majestic mountain about three miles ahead, standing tall and tall, and the low peaks on either side of it split the blue canopy in two.

Lin Shunhua pointed to the peak in front of him and said to his daughter: "That's the Lion Mountain Peak!" Because we are now standing on the top of the mountain at a very high altitude to watch, it doesn't look very high, but if you stand on the plain outside the mountain and look here, this Lion Rock peak is facing the sky, and the top of the mountain is always hidden in the clouds, and the mountain peaks are covered by clouds and fog It looks very mysterious.

We don't have to go to that area today, don't look at it is not far away, but if you want to climb to the top of the Lion Rock you have to walk for an hour, we will sit in the shade for a while, this hillside is the best place to watch the Lion Rock, and when you have seen enough of the Lion Rock, we will go to the camphor forest in front to find medicinal herbs. ”

At the top of the slope, under a towering tree, there are five or six large stones with smooth surfaces arranged in a regular manner, as if someone has specially prepared a stone bench for passing mountain people or tourists from outside the mountain since ancient times.

The father and daughter sat on the stone bench, Lin Shunhua took out a cigarette and lit it and then smoked it, while Xiaolan looked at the mountain peaks in the distance.

The summer sun shines on the heavens and the earth, the summer wind blows, the eyes are full of green waves, and the chirping of cicadas and the sound of green waves echo in the lonely mountains for a long time.

In the noise of nature, Xiaolan felt a deep loneliness, as if only she and her silent father lived alone in this world, no, there was also a mother under the mountain, but her mother would not exist in this world for too long, maybe in another year, she would leave this world forever. Thinking of this, an extreme sadness buried in the bottom of her heart welled up in her heart, and Xiaolan's eyes were suddenly full of tears.

She shook her head vigorously, trying to drive away the sadness and loneliness that came out, and she looked at the camphor forest that her father had just pointed to, which was a dense forest growing in the bottom of a valley between two peaks about three hundred meters ahead, and at this time, the valley was in the shadow of the peaks, and the camphor forest was shrouded in a faint gray-white morning mist, which seemed a little eerie and mysterious.

Xiaolan understood at this time that her father was going to take her to collect medicine this time, her father was middle-aged, and he often complained that his eyes were not good, and looking for medicinal herbs in those gloomy woods was definitely far inferior to herself. Xiaolan sincerely hoped that there was a medicinal herb in the woods that her father was looking for to cure her mother's illness, but reason told her that there was no miracle medicine in this world that could cure cancer.

Xiaolan sighed, and was about to take her eyes off the camphor forest, when suddenly a large fireball fell from the sky and fell into the camphor forest in the blink of an eye.

Xiaolan was so shocked by the scene in front of her that she jumped up and shouted, "Dad! ”

Lin Shunhua, who was lowering his head and smoking a cigarette and thinking about his thoughts, was startled by his daughter's shout, he thought that his daughter had seen some beast or snake, and hurriedly stood up, holding the axe on his waist with one hand.

"I saw a fireball fall from the sky and fall into the camphor forest!" Xiaolan pointed to the woods in front of her and said excitedly.

Lin Shunhua's hand holding the axe was released, he stared at the camphor wood forest and pricked up his ears to listen, and after waiting for a while, the two of them saw neither any abnormal phenomenon nor any special sound.

Lin Shunhua's tense nerves relaxed, and said: "Xiaolan, you won't be hallucinating, if something like a fireball falls, it will definitely make a mountain-shaking vibration, and that camphor forest will also smoke and catch fire." ”

Xiaolan also calmed down at this time, what her father said was reasonable, but she clearly saw a fireball just now, white! But how can the fireball turn white? Isn't it a fireball?

"Dad, maybe it's not a fireball, because I think it's white, maybe it's some kind of light sphere." Little Landau.

Lin Shunhua's nerves tensed again, and he pointed to Zhangmulin and asked, "Xiaolan, did you really see something falling from the sky?" ”

"Of course it's true!" Xiaolan's tone was a little dissatisfied, "Why don't we go to the forest to find it now?" ”

Xiaolan was about to leave, Lin Shunhua grabbed her daughter and said seriously: "You can't go, if you want to go, I'll go first, maybe it's some photon bomb written in those science fiction novels." ”

Hearing the word "bomb", Xiaolan couldn't help but shudder, if her father entered the forest, wouldn't the bomb be dead, then she would really be alone.

"Dad, don't go, let's wait here first, if there is no movement after an hour, let's go to the forest to take a look, maybe it is a cloud of light shot from the artificial satellite in the sky to the ground by mistake."

Xiaolan said that she sat back on the stone bench, Lin Shunhua thought about it, maybe it was really like this, anyway, for the sake of safety, it was best to wait here for a while, so he sat down with his daughter.

Lin Shunhua sat down and continued to smoke, he never smoked when he was a carpenter, only occasionally smoked in his spare time. However, since Xiaolan's mother was diagnosed with cancer, his mood, which has always been optimistic and bold, has changed greatly, and his smoking has become more and more serious. He glanced at the camphor forest a few more times, but nothing happened, wondering if his daughter was really hallucinating? But he didn't dare to ask, the child, like himself, was becoming more and more emotionally unstable.

He paid no attention to the camphor woods, and while smoking a cigarette, he looked down at a group of ants on the ground crawling aimlessly around the stone bench.

The sky above her head was as blue as nothing, Xiaolan's eyes were always fixed on the camphor wood, she thought to herself, according to common sense, the farther the light is emitted, the more dispersed it will become, so the phenomenon she saw just now will not be illuminated from space, there must be some kind of glowing thing falling into the woods, but she can't understand why such a large luminous light falling from the sky will be so silent.

She was thinking about it when her heart suddenly increased and her nerves became highly tense because she saw movement in the woods, and then two people came out of the woods!

"Dad! Someone's coming! Xiaolan whispered, this time she not only lowered her voice but also did not jump up, because she felt that a crisis was coming, and it was safer to sit in more seclusion.

Lin Shunhua's first reaction when he heard his daughter's words was that someone came on the mountain road they came to, but he didn't see a figure when he turned around. Immediately, his intuition made him realize the special meaning of his daughter's words, and his nerves immediately tensed, and he suddenly turned to look at Zhangmulin, and then stood up sharply, holding the axe at his waist with one hand.

However, he quickly let go of his grip on the axe, for he saw that it was an old man and a young man who had come out of the woods, and that they were obviously grandfathers and grandsons who had come out of the mountains for sightseeing.

The old man looked to be in his sixties, dressed in a light-coloured long-sleeved shirt and trousers, with a light-coloured sunhat covering the upper part of his face, a camera on his chest, and a cane in his hand. The youngest was a boy of about fourteen or fifteen years of age, who was also dressed in a light-coloured long-sleeved shirt and a sunhat, carrying a travel bag and carrying a cane in his hand.

After they came out of the woods, they didn't see Lin Shunhua's father and daughter immediately, but first looked at the surrounding environment, and quickly chose to walk along the path leading to this side of the hill.

The reason why they chose the path they were going to take so quickly was not that they saw someone staring at them, but that if they wanted to go down the mountain, there was no other way to go but the mountain road under their feet.

As the saying goes, there is no road on the earth, but when there are more people walking, it becomes a road. In this mountain, only Lin Shunhua's father and daughter have just walked this road can be called the road, which is thousands of years of mountain people step by step out of the foot, if not professional mountaineers, if not take this road, I am afraid that it will not be able to walk out of this mountain.

Xiaolan's nervous nerves also relaxed, because the two people who walked over did seem to be tourists from outside the mountain. Moreover, because both grandparents and grandchildren look like decent men and gentlemen.

However, the moment she stood up, she thought of a question, she and her father got up at dawn today, and then hurried to eat breakfast and went up the mountain. If the grandfather and grandson were tourists from outside the mountain, wouldn't they have gone up the mountain before dawn? This is obviously unreasonable, since it is leisure sightseeing, why risk your life to go up the mountain in the middle of the night? Also, the glowing object that fell from the sky had just fallen into the woods from which they came out...

"Hi fellow! Hello! ”

A loud shout interrupted Xiaolan's thoughts, and the grandfather and grandson who came to this side in front had already seen Lin Shunhua's father and daughter, and the old man waved to them.

The people in the mountains have been very hospitable since ancient times, not to mention that Lin Shunhua is a person who likes to communicate with people, and he doesn't have as many things as his daughter.

"Hey, uncle, you're so early!" Lin Shunhua waved his hand and shouted excitedly.

Xiaolan didn't make a sound, her eyes focused on the boy who was walking this way, the boy's age and figure were about the same as the male classmates in the class, but his appearance and temperament showed by his gestures were like a teenage star in a film and television drama, Xiaolan couldn't help but be moved.

The boy walked in front of the old man, he was obviously not very accustomed to walking on the mountain road, and the mountain road in front of him was indeed very narrow, and on both sides there were unfathomable downward slopes covered with grass and trees, and he walked with great podity on crutches like the old man, and the boy only occasionally glanced at the two spectators, and then walked with all his heart.

The grandfather and grandson first walked dozens of meters downhill, and then walked dozens of meters uphill to Lin Shunhua's father and daughter.