Chapter 21: Encountering a Dead End
We didn't go far before we entered the forest, where the temperature in the forest dropped by several degrees due to the fog all year round, and I couldn't help but tighten my clothes and feel the slight cold wind a little biting.
"Hey!" I suddenly remembered a question: "You say, if this Tianshan Yao Garden really exists, how can it be under this fog?" If you can't see sunlight all year round, how can those things grow? β
"No one can say for sure until we see it." The second uncle said with a smile.
Liang Ruoyi didn't speak on the side, but continued to hold the wire and the small stone, making marks on the mountain wall, for fear that he would go the wrong way.
"Hey, I've been looking at it for a long time, and I didn't understand it!" I saw that the second uncle was concentrating on the road in front, so I approached the ice beauty and asked, "Tell me, how do you judge the direction?" β
"First of all, the compass in your hand should be easy to use." Liang Ruoyi spread out the palm of the hand he had been holding, and inside was a very small compass: "Secondly, the thing in my hand is not a stone, it is red glow pink." β
"Red glow pink?" I frowned, "What's that?" β
"Well, see for yourself!" Liang Ruoyi drew a stroke on the mountain wall as she spoke, walked a few steps and stood still, beckoning me to look back.
I turned my head to see that in the white mist, I could really see a vague red dot, and I could roughly judge the direction of the road I had just walked by holding the wire straight to the past.
But I was still in the clouds, and returned the wire to Liang Ruoyi with a wry smile: "This job is not easy to do, I have you to lose!" β
Liang Ruoyi glanced at me, didn't speak, took the wire and looked at it, and frowned slightly: "Huh? We've started to move to the bottom of the 'U' shape? β
"Really?" The second uncle, who was walking in front, turned around and asked, "So fast?" β
"Pretty much." Liang Ruoyi nodded: "Our map was originally a few simple lines, there are no cross axes and no coordinates, there is no way to estimate the scale, so it is impossible to judge the size on the map, it seems that the one I estimate should be nearly half larger." β
I pretended to glance at the second uncle casually - I had seen the relatively detailed map in his hand, and I remembered it very clearly, if I looked at it from above, Liang Ruoyi's estimation was not wrong, and now it has not reached the bottom of the "U" shape at all, and if I turn around at this time, it should be a wrong route.
The second uncle didn't say anything else, and glanced at the white fog around him: "Then let's speed up, if we say this, we may meet Zawuhar and them at night." β
"But Master Budai ......" Liang Ruoyi glanced at our uncle and nephew with some hesitation, and stopped talking.
"Didn't you leave a mark?" The second uncle pondered for a while and said, "Use that red glow powder to leave a mark on the mountain wall here, and the master will see it when he comes out." β
Liang Ruoyi nodded: "That's the only way." β
With that, Liang Ruoyi wrote a few words on the mountain wall, drew an arrow, and the three of us continued to walk forward. After about ten minutes, we made almost a turn, changing from north-south to east-west. I kept going to see my second uncle, and I didn't know what he was thinking.
Not to mention anything else, just to say that taking the wrong road is likely to encounter danger, I think it is a little wrong for the second uncle not to remind Liang Ruoyi.
As the surrounding forest became denser and thicker, the fog became thicker and thicker, and by about three o'clock in the afternoon, the visibility had dropped to about three meters, and the surroundings were dim, as if the end of the world was coming.
Liang Ruoyi and the second uncle also began to think about the question I raised before: These cloud mountains and cedars around them are all very strong, but you must know that they are shrouded in mist, without sunlight, why can they grow so densely? !
"Wait!" Liang Ruoyi suddenly stopped us, pointed to a tree not far away, and said, "Look there, on the trunk." β
I looked with my second uncle and saw that under the haunting mist, there were several deep scratches on the brown-gray bark of the trunk of the tree, which looked like it had been scratched by a fierce beast.
"It's a brown bear." Liang Ruoyi said: "This is the territory of a brown bear. β
"The brown bear's territory is huge." The second uncle continued: "In this way, there should only be one brown bear near us." This is much better than I thought before, I don't know if they will encounter anything ......"
I glanced at the second uncle: "How long will it take for us to get to the center point?" β
The second uncle looked at Liang Ruoyi, and Liang Ruoyi shook his head slightly: "It's hard to say, my previous estimate was wrong, but at least now it seems that there should be no problem with the direction of our route." It is estimated that as the second master said, if it goes well, he will be able to meet Zauhar and them at night. β
I nodded, and followed the two of them on. I involuntarily grasped the dagger in my right hand, and I always felt that this place might be in danger.
At about four o'clock in the afternoon, the ground under our feet began to slowly slope downward, and the visibility also dropped to only about two meters.
After walking for another hour, my second uncle and I stood still.
Liang Ruoyi turned his head to look at our uncle and nephew: "What's wrong?" β
Gu's genes not only allow us to predict those evil things, but also seem to be more sensitive to the signs of danger than ordinary people.
"Second uncle, let's not go forward......" I glanced at the already very dim environment, the sun outside the fog had begun to set slowly, I wiped the fog on my face, my heart was pounding, there was no sound around, except for the white fog is a tree that appears and disappears in the fog.
"Hmm...... second uncle subconsciously touched the back of his head: "Let's find a place nearby, don't go forward today." β
As soon as the words fell, my second uncle and I were stunned at the same time: "It's not good, there's something!" β
Liang Ruoyi naturally knew that when I said this, something evil must have appeared around him, so he hurriedly waved his hand and copied the short blade, and stuffed a piece of blood stone into his mouth.
My second uncle and I also had a piece of blood stone in our mouths, and that rich long-lost bloody aura rushed to my brain in an instant, and my head buzzed! I shook my head vigorously: "Second uncle, how can there be evil things in this place?!" Didn't you say that no one had come in for at least two thousand years?! β
"Then who knows, I'm not an old goblin who has lived for more than two thousand years!" The second uncle glanced at me, his brows furrowed, and he looked around with a serious expression.
Maybe the current second uncle also regrets it a little, it would be good if he didn't come in at that time!
"Roarβ"
Suddenly, the familiar long whistle came again, and the second uncle shouted "run", dragging me and Liang Ruoyi to run forward frantically.
But the more we got to this critical moment, the worse our Gu family's luck became, and after running for less than a minute, we suddenly found that there was no road ahead! What appeared in front of us was a mountain wall!
"Go this way!" The second uncle glanced at both sides, pointed to the left and said, "Go around from this side!" β
As soon as the words fell, a gray shadow rushed out of the fog, the speed was extremely fast, and it was in front of me in the blink of an eye, the second uncle pushed me away, his feet were on the mountain wall, and he avoided the impact of the gray shadow and rushed into the fog with a few steps, and the gray shadow also rushed over!
"Second uncle, be careful!"
I screamed, and Liang Ruoyi on the side hurriedly covered my mouth, and I was stunned when I saw the second gray shadow rushing towards us!
"Be careful!" Liang Ruoyi stopped in front of me as he spoke, and saw the gray shadow rushing over, the ice beauty did not retreat but advanced, and the bright short blade in her hand stabbed directly towards the gray shadow!
I could barely see what the gray shadow was with the naked eye, and I could only determine from the rough outline that it was something with wings, but I didn't know if it was a bird or a monster......
The gray shadow seemed to be a little afraid of the short blade in Liang Ruoyi's hand, and the moment he was in front of Liang Ruoyi, he suddenly flapped his wings, and his whole body jumped upward, and he actually jumped over Liang Ruoyi and rushed directly towards me!