Chapter 258: Red Stone Forest
We were blown away by the howling wind, which was so strong that it made me dizzy. By the time we landed, we saw the light on the other side of the cave.
"It's all right." My uncle was the first to get up from the ground and pat the dust on his body to see if we had any problems. We don't even have a broken skin on our bodies, so it seems that the strength of this wind roar is good.
"Uncle, you should really take that wind roar with us and set off, maybe it can come in handy." My uncle gave me another blank look.
"Do you think that I can always pretend to be its owner by wearing that mask, sooner or later I will be recognized, it is better to let it make some trouble for Wei Ran there. Let's go, there's a light ahead, let's go out and have a look, and we'll look for the thousand trees." "We packed up a little and set off on our way.
The place outside seems not as desolate as the previous one, and you can see a few poplars every other way, and sometimes you can see some wild melons and fruits. But what kind of thousand trees are we looking for, and the place with the most trees here is only one or twenty trees, where to find those thousand trees.
"Uncle, although this place is not like the desert yellow sand rolling before, it is also deserted, and there is no road sign, where are we going." My uncle pointed me to a scar on the poplar tree next to me. I walked up to the poplar tree and saw that the scar was a cross carved out of the woods. It's just that this scar must have been some years old, and it has healed a little, and it has become a bulge on the tree.
"See, this is the mark left by the previous expedition team, as long as we continue to walk according to the place marked by this cross, then we can find the thousand trees." My uncle seems to be very familiar with this cross mark, otherwise he would not have believed the marks left by these expedition members.
"Uncle, I saw you put away the military kettle just now, do you know those scientific expedition teams? The guide and the wind roar both said that the archaeological team came here seventeen years ago, and my mother said that I died seventeen years ago, so there must be some connection here. Uncle, just tell me. ”
"Don't ask what you shouldn't ask, haven't you learned it in such a long world." My uncle's face is not good, it seems that I really said something that I shouldn't have said. My uncle seemed to be angry, and his face eased a little after half a minute.
"Xiaoyu, there are some things you can't know now, and when the time comes, you will naturally know everything." Once again, my uncle managed to dodge this matter perfectly, but now I am more and more curious about what happened seventeen years ago.
I don't dare to ask again, my uncle's face has always been bad, I still don't want to touch his moldy head again. Fortunately, now that we have the mark of the expedition team, we will not get lost. After walking for a while, I noticed that every few hundred meters I could see a few trees and flowers, and I now feel that these trees were deliberately planted here as signposts.
"Uncle, look." I took out the telescope that my uncle gave me last time, and suddenly I noticed a strange stone two or three miles away. It is strange because these stones are actually long, like pillars standing in the middle of the desert. My uncle took the telescope from my hand and looked at the red stone pillars.
"These stone pillars look like the stone forests of the south, but how are they red, let's go, let's go in and have a look." We dispersed and began to walk cautiously towards the red stone forest in front of us. It was then that I realized that the ground under my feet was no longer a barren desert, but a kind of half-red and half-yellow soil, which, although it was soil, was as hard as a rock when stepped on.
The ground is crisscrossed by ravines, and there seem to be traces of flowing water passing on it. But this is an inland desert area, and there is no snow-capped mountain meltwater nearby, so where does the trace of this flowing water come from? We finally walked to the vicinity of the red stone forest, I went, I saw that this red stone pillar must be more than ten meters high, dense, and I couldn't see it at a glance.
"Uncle, this red stone forest really looks like there are a thousand trees here from a distance, is this the thousand trees?"
"Well, you have a point, but I think this red stone forest is weird. The mantra left by Xu Fu did not explain how to enter this stone forest, let's search the periphery for a while first, and be careful. ”
As we walked, we paid attention to the movement of the red stone forest. I guess it will take about an hour to walk around the periphery, and it doesn't seem like a way to walk like this. These stone forests, I don't know how many years they have stood here, have been eroded by wind and rain to show the traces of time. It is not known when they appeared, let alone when they will disappear. These things are what they are, whether you know them or don't know them, they are still there.
Looking at these huge stone pillars, I felt infinite emotion in my heart, but after feeling emotional, I remembered my mother, and I don't know if she is okay now. Before I knew it, my eyes seemed to be moist.
"Xiaoyu, what are you thinking, why are you still crying."
"No, it's just that the wind and sand are fascinating the eyes."
"Hehe, if you are obsessed with your eyes, you will say that you are obsessed with your eyes, what are you talking about so literary and artistic." My uncle is really out of tune, I'm your own nephew, is it fun to repair me every day. The originally slightly sad state of mind was suddenly destroyed by my uncle. I looked at the red pillars around me, and I suddenly realized that they weren't really red, but rather red plants growing on them. Like small grass, which is similar to what we usually see, how can the grass here be red?
"Uncle, you see that the grass on the top of the stone pillar is red." As soon as I said this, my uncle immediately took out his binoculars and looked at the strange red grass on the stone pillar.
"Hey, it's really red, I've seen red trees before, and this red grass is rare. It's a little interesting, it seems that this stone forest is the problem, let's go, let's not wander around here, go in and see the situation. "I think this stone forest is indeed a little weird, and with those red grasses, I don't dare to go in.
"Xiao Jian, let's explore the way ahead." As soon as my uncle finished speaking, Xiao Jian turned into a white shadow and disappeared from us. He is dressed in white, with long hair, and he really has the taste of an ancient knight. A few of us can only wait outside, not knowing if there will be danger in this stone forest.
Suddenly, there was a bang in the stone forest, as if something fell to the ground and made a muffled sound, no, something happened to Xiao Jian.