Chapter 19 Stone Rain in the Canyon

My second uncle and I looked at the flashlight light of the two of us, and saw that there was a recessed hole under the mountain wall not far away, just enough to shelter from the wind.

The time had already pointed to eight o'clock in the evening, and everyone hurriedly cleaned up, lit a bonfire, and sat down in the cave to eat dinner.

At nine o'clock, the Budai monk was already sitting cross-legged on the ground to rest, and Liang Ruoyi finally waited for news from Zauhar, and their team had also arrived at another mountain pass to rest, and tomorrow morning, we could outflank and enter the canyon from both sides.

"Rest early, we'll go into the mountains early tomorrow morning." Liang Ruoyi glanced at the white mist outside and said to me.

I nodded, glanced at the second uncle next to me who was already resting against the mountain wall, did not speak, shrugged at Liang Ruoyi, and also leaned on the side to sleep.

After a bumpy day on the road, I slept very deeply, and I don't know how long I slept, I was woken up by a sound of chatter, and when I opened my eyes, I saw that there were already a few rays of sunlight outside, and it was already morning.

Liang Ruoyi was boiling porridge on the side, the faint aroma aroused my taste buds, and I hurriedly got up and ran to the river to wash my face, and came back to drink porridge.

"Do you know what time it is?" Liang Ruoyi glanced at me and asked.

I was stunned for a moment and looked at the few rays of sunshine outside: "The sun rises late here, eight o'clock?" ā€

"It's nine o'clock." Liang Ruoyi teased.

I shrugged my shoulders, took the porridge handed over by Liang Ruoyi, and saw that the second uncle was chatting with the Budai monk holding the porridge bowl not far away.

"Looks like you're talking about Buddhist scriptures." Liang Ruoyi himself also held a bowl and drank it in small sips: "I've been chatting for a long time, and I'm chatting when I wake up." ā€

"Oh." I nodded, and then asked, "Your eldest aunt is gone?" ā€

As soon as these words came out, Liang Ruoyi and I were stunned, and a few seconds later, Bing Mei came back to her senses, blushed, stretched out her foot and stomped on the surface of my foot, which hurt my teeth and almost spilled the porridge in my hand.

"Sick!" Liang Ruoyi glared at me and continued to drink her porridge.

"Hey...... I—I'm just asking. I explained with a wry smile, and when I saw that Liang Ruoyi was about to raise my feet again, I hurriedly changed the topic and said, "By the way, do you think there is a problem with that Zawuhar?" ā€

"Questions?" Liang Ruoyi was stunned, and her black jewel-like eyes rolled around: "What's the problem?" ā€

"Yesterday, the second uncle said that he may have deliberately separated us." I whispered.

"Deliberately separating us?" Liang Ruoyi's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and he shook his head and said, "What do you want to do so much, but now they are all separated." ā€

"But I think it's a little weird." I owe it: "This operation, it seems that no one is following it!" ā€

"How do you know?" Liang Ruoyi sneered: "If I track you here, I may be able to enter the mountain before you and follow behind, but I won't be able to seize the opportunity." ā€

I grinned and stopped talking.

The four of them had breakfast, contacted Zawhar's side, and then got up and walked into the valley.

The fog in the canyon is thicker, the visibility is about five or six meters, the original small river, I don't know when it disappeared, there is only the footsteps of a few of us in the whole canyon, and a few bird calls from time to time.

From yesterday's observations, the width of this canyon was about 10 zhang, and we walked along the inner side of the "U" shape towards the canyon.

After walking for less than half an hour, there was a "pop" sound in my ears, which broke the surrounding tranquility in an instant.

The four of us stopped in unison, looked sideways, and saw a stone fall from the cliff behind us, roll on the ground a few times, and stop.

"Are you alright?" My heart, which has been calm, was nervous for no reason, and I looked at the second uncle and said.

"It's okay, it's just a rock." The second uncle smiled and waved his hand to continue walking.

The fog was getting heavier and heavier, and the pig's head was not there, so the task of marking the route and exploring the way forward was handed over to Liang Ruoyi, who had been a mercenary, and she had been holding a straight wire and a stone in her hand, and after walking for a while, she drew a mark on the mountain wall on the right, and then measured something with the wire before and after.

"How far have we come?" Along the way, the cloth bag monk is a stuffy gourd, and he has nothing to talk about with the second uncle, and even I, a person who usually doesn't like to talk much, can't hold back a little, so I can only chat with Liang Ruoyi, who has a serious face.

"A third." Liang Ruoyi said: "There are still two-thirds of the way to turn around and reach the bottom of the U-shape. ā€

"Oh." I nodded, and subconsciously touched the back of my head: "This place, why do I always feel eerie......"

"What's wrong?" The hair in front of Liang Ruoyi's forehead was soaked with mist and stuck to his white forehead, which looked exceptionally pure.

"Look." Liang Ruoyi turned his head to look at me while asking, I was looking at her, and hurriedly shifted my gaze to the sky, but I didn't expect this look, and suddenly found a problem.

"What?" Liang Ruoyi stopped, followed me to look up, and was suddenly stunned: "Second master, master, look at the sky, what is this?!" ā€

Liang Ruoyi's voice trembled slightly, and the second uncle and the Budai monk also hurriedly stood up and looked up.

I don't know when, in the vast fog overhead, there was a layer of dark yellow things floating, piece by piece, like catkins floating in the air with the breeze, and from time to time a few faint beams of sunlight shone in, reflecting like snowflakes.

We all sniffled, but we didn't smell anything. The fog in the sky was so thick that we couldn't see through it and couldn't see the sky outside.

"I don't know." The second uncle muttered: "Maybe it's just some floating objects or something, now there is smog everywhere, this kind of thing is normal." ā€

"Second uncle, this is the West Tianshan Mountain, there is not even a person within a radius of dozens of miles, how can there be haze!" I looked down at the second uncle with a wry smile on my face.

"Pap-pa-pa-"

As soon as I finished speaking, there was a sound of "popping" in my ears again, and everyone hurriedly turned around to look around, and found that stones were constantly falling on the surrounding mountain walls, the size of a small fist and the size of a large pillow, as if it was raining stones.

"What's going on?!" I panicked: "It can't be a mudslide, right?" If there is a mudslide in this place, we ...... Alas! ā€

Before he finished speaking, Liang Ruoyi slapped me on the head: "Shut up!" How is it like the pig's head that mourning star! ā€

I grinned: "Don't, I just don't say these words, and every time I act, it's like a dead star......"

"That's me and you......" Liang Ruoyi wanted to say that only when she was with me, I was the mourning star, but when she saw the second uncle in the middle of the sentence, she held back again: "Don't worry, look at the top of your head, don't let the stone smash you into meat sauce!" ā€

"It's not a mudslide." The second uncle kept looking at the sky, and suddenly lowered his head and frowned at the Budai monk: "Master, what do you see?" ā€

The fog condensed into droplets on the second uncle's white hair, and the top of the smooth head of the cloth bag monk was also a layer of mist, he heard the second uncle ask him, and recited the Buddha's name, but he shook his head slightly: "It's hard to say......"

This old monk loves to pretend to be mysterious!

I was just about to say something, when a long howl of "chirp-" suddenly came from the top of my head, and I screamed for a burst of tinnitus, and subconsciously covered my ears!

As this long roar continued, we noticed that the dark yellow things that had been floating in the fog began to grow more and more, and they had already fallen, and when I looked at them, I saw that these things were actually clumps of liquid, which looked slimy, like, like the excrement of some kind of animal!

At this time, everyone came back to their senses in an instant, and it seemed that something appeared above our heads, and they all looked at the top of our heads, and after a while, we saw that in the white mist, a cluster of gray shadows appeared, and they fell towards us at a rapid speed!

"What is this?!" I covered my ears and shouted, before anyone answered me, I heard the second uncle behind me break off, I hurriedly turned my head to look, a gray shadow passed directly over me, I didn't have time to react, I was knocked out and fell heavily to the ground......