Chapter 53: The Nightmare of the Five Heavens ---
As they stumbled across the stone bridge, the frightening illusion around them gradually lessened.
In Qin Zhen's eyes, the demon in front of him gradually retreated from its terrifying appearance, replaced by Yu Dong's familiar back. Seeing that the person in front of him who was dragging him to run wildly was Yudong, Qin Zhen suddenly felt an unprecedented tiredness.
Thankfully, all of them were still alive, and the tomb they had just seen was a fake......
Just this illusion, all four of them felt physically and mentally exhausted. After crossing the stone bridge, they didn't go far before they all sat down on the ground. Lao Gu and Jiang Qi simply lay on the ground, frowning tightly and not saying a word.
Being forced to face the most fearful, painful, and unwilling to happen picture, and unable to distinguish between truth and falsehood, virtual and real, is a sense of helplessness that people who have never really experienced it will not understand at all.
This kind of mental torture is far better than a team of zombies popping out of the woods. Each of them has the deepest hidden grief and demons, and being forced to face it like this is like picking up scars and then sprinkling salt on them. That feels...... It's really painful.
Qin Zhen leaned against a rock at this time, panting heavily, trying to adjust his disordered mood. At the very least, he had to make himself as sober as he could face reality and get out of the illusion.
Lao Gu kept covering his face and didn't move for a long time. Jiang Qi also frowned, as if he couldn't recover from the painful vision.
It's like waking up after a nightmare, knowing that it was just a dream, but still can't help but be frightened!
As for Yudong, he was now also sitting next to a bluestone, his eyes tightly closed. With his heaving chest, you can see that he is not calm. There was an indescribable tiredness on his frost-covered face.
No one knows what Yudong will see in the illusion just now? Who will be able to influence him? What's up?
About these, let alone understanding, even speculation is impossible to guess. Just like Qin Zhen said before, he was very suspicious that Yudong had feelings? Does he have someone he cares about in his heart? In Qin Zhen's eyes, Yudong seemed to be a secret weapon of the military. Yes, it's just a weapon. Lore, cold, emotionless.
But Qin Zhen also clearly remembered that when he asked Yudong if he cared about people and things, he replied very firmly "Yes". Since this is the case, then presumably he is not so happy with these four heavens.
After all, it was not a pleasant experience, and neither of them asked each other how they were feeling, whether they were okay or anything like that. These four heavens really exhausted their mental strength and fighting spirit. That's the scariest part! They now seemed to feel nothing but visceral exhaustion.
Qin Zhen sighed slowly, then looked around weakly and said, "Here...... Is it a bamboo forest? Hehe...... What kind of trouble is this going to be? What kind of tricks are hidden in these bamboos? ”
Gu Jie finally exhaled deeply at this time, and sat up as if he was refreshed. While looking for Jiang Qi and Yudong to ask for cigarettes, he grabbed his hair and said, "Obey, gentlemen, I am completely convinced." Hundred Demons ...... Well, he won. In this fourfold heaven, although I didn't suffer any injuries after coming over, I suddenly felt that I had aged by dozens of years all of a sudden. What heart, what thoughts, and no fighting spirit are gone! Let's just say that now any of you can do well, dig a hole here and bury me on the spot, and I promise that there will be no complaints. After speaking, Gu Jie took a hard puff of cigarette.
"Don't complain, we don't have that much time to bury you. How big of a pit do you have to dig to bury your piece? Are we sick? The qiē just now is all fake, and we can't take it to heart. It's a dream! After waking up, aren't we still good men! While Qin Zhen was persuading others, he was also persuading himself with these words.
Thinking about it, Qin Zhen turned his head again and thanked Yu Dong: "Eh, I said young master, I really have to thank you......"
"No need. From the time I met you to the present, the most you have said to me seriously is thank you. If you thank me once, it means that I am in trouble once. Can't you try to say thank you a few times less? Yu Dong squinted at Qin Zhen and interrupted him unceremoniously.
Qin Zhen turned his head helplessly, gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "If you don't thank you, you won't thank you!" ”
After chatting like this, although the atmosphere was eased a lot, the four heavens that had just been reborn in the illusion still made their hearts palpitate.
Looking around, there is a verdant bamboo forest in the void of Lingyun in front of you. The forest is not disorganized, and a winding path leading up the hill can be faintly discerned in the middle. It's really a 'winding path to a secluded place'.
Qin Zhen looked at Yu Dong and wanted to ask him if he could see any clues here? But Gu Jie snatched the words first, only to hear that he was still not very happy and snorted coldly: "Hmph, if it weren't for the lives of Lan Qing and Xiao Brother Jun, I/my mother would definitely burn this demon mountain!" The mountains here are not mountains, the water is not water, all of them are harmful things to his grandmother! ”
"Okay, old Gu, don't complain. What's the use of you complaining so much? Can you scold the Demon Lord? Besides, it wasn't the Demon Lord who invited us here, it was us who had to come thousands of miles away......" Qin Zhen's voice became lower and lower, but this was a clear fact.
Yu Dong took two steps forward at this time, stood in front of a bamboo, stretched out his two fingers, folded his fingers and flicked them. I don't know why, but there was a low sound from the bamboo. The sound is deep and clear, like the sound of a guqin!
This is really evil! The Demon Lord's Lethe Mountain is full of strange and strange things! Even bamboo can make a sound??
Several people looked at Yu Dong in surprise, waiting for him to give a reasonable explanation. But Yu Dong only frowned slightly, obviously he didn't understand the mystery now.
At this time, Qin Zhen said, "Don't hesitate, let's go!" Since we can pass the previous four heavens, we will definitely be able to pass the remaining five heavens! What is this piece of bamboo, can it bite me? In fact, when he said this, Qin Zhen also had no confidence. In this mountain of the Demon Lord, not to mention bamboo, even if it is a stone that can bite people, it doesn't seem too strange.
And Yu Dong also followed Qin Zhen's words at this time and said: "Don't think that plants are easy to bully. In my opinion, most of the mystic techniques in these Nine Heavens are related to plants. In fact, plants are no different from humans and animals, they also have blood types, languages, and even ways to defend and attack. ”
Listening to Yu Dongyue's words, the more mysterious it became, Qin Zhen didn't dare to interject. Because he knows in his heart, as long as it is a conclusion that Yudong can say, it must be well-documented and not made up.
But for now, I can't care about how smart the plants are, the main thing is that they have to figure out what kind of weirdness this bamboo forest can do first! That's the main thing!
Following Yudong gradually into the bamboo forest, the cool mountain breeze slowly blew, and between the bamboos seemed to be like hundreds of guqins, sounding a noble sound. It's a really amazing feeling, not the rustle between the leaves, but the sound of the strings tickling.
Qin Zhen carefully observed the surroundings, wanting to see if there were people around who were suspicious? Anyway, their eyes and ears don't seem to be very easy to use now, maybe someone is playing the piano, but they mistakenly think it's the sound of bamboo?
But...... How many people must play the piano together to make this sound?
Lao Gu plucked his ears at this time, and said a little anxiously: "Dong Shao, we are not here to enjoy an elegant classical concert!" What the hell does this mean? Which way should we go now?? ”
The old advisor said this because they were now in the middle of a fork in the road. Qin Zhen counted slightly, and there were eight twists and turns, no more, no less.
Choosing the right one of the eight roads is really a big problem. After all, they don't have the time or the life to try one by one.
Yu Dong looked at the road in front of him at this time, and closed his eyes for a while to listen to the strange sound of the bamboo forest. After that, he said in a deep voice: "Bayin to gossip, there are two sounds in this bamboo forest, bamboo and silk. Bamboo is the sound of the pipe flute, and silk is the sound of the guqin. ”
Qin Zhen hurriedly listened to it again, I don't know if it is a mental effect, but I really feel that there is a burst of sound of the guqin and the flute intersecting. Of course, in all fairness, if Yu Dong didn't say it, it would be impossible for Qin Zhen to hear what instruments were contained in this sound.
Yu Dong then said: "Zhuyin was born in Zhen, and Siyin was born in Li. The earthquake is in the east, and the departure is in the south. The silk sound in this sound is greater than the bamboo sound, and the direction it points to is ...... The road to the south-southeast. ”
As he spoke, Yu Dong stretched out his hand and pointed to the relatively open road in the middle of the eight roads.
This made Qin Zhen feel a little shocked! First, he didn't expect it to be a big road, and he thought it would be a rough and bumpy road. Second, he didn't expect Yudong to determine the direction they were going to walk just by the strange sound in the bamboo forest!! Isn't that amazing?! This even made Qin Zhen feel that Yudong was not with the Demon Lord?!
Once they had chosen the road, they began to follow it. But the bamboo forest here seems to be a little weird. At the top of the bamboo dozens of meters high, there are countless whole bamboos of different heights. What is the purpose of this kind of "private covering" between bamboo and bamboo?
What they don't know is that the real danger is just beginning to slowly approach them. This emerald bamboo forest will mean a bloody disaster!