Chapter 32: The River Flows Back

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We carefully examined the stone figures for a long time, but we didn't find anything out of the ordinary. These stone figurines are some ordinary stones, except that the stone is more special, and the whole body is black and bright, there is no other difference.

Seeing that these stone figures showed no signs of waking up again, our vigilance gradually relaxed, we went up to carefully examine the stone statues, and found that the overall artistic style was quite abstract, the body was thin and slender, naked, but there were no reproductive organs, and there was no other aspect to determine the gender of the human body, the body of these stone carvings was very blurred, but the carving of the eyebrows was very delicate and expressive.

It's hard for me to describe the faces, although there are some slight differences between them, but, on the whole, there are obvious differences from the people we see in normal life, the most significant of which is the pair of extremely large eyes, as if they are characters in cartoons, and secondly, these portraits have big noses, but there is no nose bridge, big mouths and two thick lips are like two chapters of pie stuck to the position of the mouth, there is no jaw, the whole feels very strange.

Old Man Yuan looked at these portraits, he felt very surprised, but he couldn't explain the reason, he just muttered, "How do I feel as if I have seen such a face somewhere?" ”

Chen Bing went to ask, but Old Man Yuan thought for a while and said, "Oh, no, no, no, I'm old, and my memory is not good, the words are on my lips, but I can't say it." ”

What to do next, all of us were at a loss, Chen Bing turned to ask me and Ryazan, although the two of us did not mention Jiang Daolin's situation to them, but, he followed us all the way and found that we were included in the hinterland of the Shennongjia primeval forest, obviously we must have a purpose, otherwise no one would want to wander around here.

Ryazan and I looked at each other, my brain was slow to react, and I didn't have any ideas for a while, I only felt that the clues had been interrupted here.

At the end, Ryazan reminded: "There should be a river ahead." ”

It was only then that I thought of the sentence that Jiang Daolin said at that time - crossing the River Styx.

What kind of river is the River Styx? I think anyone who is not a fool can understand the meaning of these two words, but is there really a river Styx in this world? Literally, the so-called River Styx is nothing more than a river from the underworld, and if this speculation is true, then crossing the River Styx means that you are going to die.

So, I think the so-called Styx must be an obscure metaphor, and there must be some other strange phenomenon in it.

Chen Bing and a few of his men looked around for a while and said, "There are no rivers around here." ”

At this time, that Liu Yi suddenly lay on the ground, pressed his face tightly to the ground, listened quietly for a while, signaled us not to speak, and after a long time, Liu Yi stood up and said, "There is a river, but it is far from here." ”

Gao Peng was a little surprised and said, "You can also hear this?" ”

"Normally, if there is a river nearby, it is easy to hear it, but the river is far away from us, and the sound sounds a little strange," Lewis said. ”

"Strange?" Chen Bing asked rhetorically.

"It sounds a little empty." Leo explained.

After all, Chen Bing was not an idle person, he thought for a while, and said, "Maybe it's an underground river, or maybe it's from the river in the cave." Can you determine the specific direction? ”

Liu Yi shook his head and said, "It's too far away, I can only hear the rumbling sound vaguely." ”

"A bunch of." Ryazan suddenly interjected a sentence and said: "The portrait is here, why judge by sound?" ”

We didn't understand what he meant, and Ryazan explained: "We just checked the posture of these stone figures, but we neglected the most important thing. ”

"What it means for them to do these poses." Shu Jingcheng said coldly.

When Ryazan heard this, he couldn't help but snap his fingers and said: "In the end, there are still smart people, you are right, it is the meaning of these postures, of course, I was also reminded by Ba Ran in my body." ”

We re-examined the posture of the figures, and it seemed to me that it was a posture of prayer or even begging, especially the gesture of the hand, which always looked like expecting a handout.

Suddenly, it occurred to me that since it was a prayer or a begging for alms, there must be an object, and I began to look in the direction where the stone figures were looking, and at this glance I understood the meaning.

I saw that there was a high mountain in the direction where the stone statues were looking, and the overall shape of the mountain looked like a poisonous snake with its head raised and spitting out letters from a distance. Chen Bing and the others had apparently discovered this before me, and they were also looking up at the strangely shaped mountains at the moment.

Chen Bing muttered and said, "It should be it, let's go." ”

"Wait, wait," said Old Man Yuan, "what about these stone statues?" The old man has never encountered such a strange thing, let's leave like this, nothing will happen. ”

Hong Yi was dissatisfied at this time: "You old thing knows that the Tao is alarmist all day long, what did you say at that time that the mandrill would come to take revenge on us, how many days have it been, and I haven't seen anything strange happen, I think, don't make such a fuss all the time, it's just a group of stone people, it's a big deal that I Hong Yi smashed them." ”

Chen Bing stretched out his hand to stop and said: "Don't, we are here to carry out the mission this time, the organization said very clearly, there are many mysterious things in the Shennongjia primeval forest, if you encounter an emergency, you can not move, otherwise we will not be able to eat and walk away." ”

Old man Yuan turned his head to look at Ryazan and said, "Little brother Ryazan, you have signed a ghost contract with Ba Ran, you ask him, what is going on with these stone statues." ”

When Ryazan heard this, he not only smiled: "Mr. Yuan, you really think highly of me, the younger generation does not have the ability to communicate with the soul in the body, the ancestors of Ba Ran don't say it, and I can't ask, but since he didn't remind us of any danger, we can just go boldly with confidence." ”

Old man Yuan was still a little hesitant, but in a team, you can't change the decision of the entire team by yourself, and in the end, we still chose to continue to hurry.

Since we had not been rested all night, we were forced to stop and rest until nine o'clock in the morning, chew a little dry food, drink two sips of water, take a nap, and then continue on our way.

We slept very badly, and the ground was very wet because of the rain all night, and I took off my shoes before going to bed, because I was afraid that my feet would be soaked by the rain.

It wasn't until one o'clock in the afternoon that we continued on our way, but at this time, the sky sounded again with thunder, and it seemed that heavy rain was coming at any time.

In the past few days, the continuous rush has exhausted us physically and mentally, and our walking pace has become slower and slower, even the steps of well-trained Chen Bing, Shu Jingcheng and others have gradually become heavy.

Gao Peng walked less than two steps, he felt that his back was cold and a little itchy, and when he reached out and touched it, he actually found a large earthworm more than ten centimeters long from his back, probably taking the opportunity to get into Gao Peng's clothes when he was sleeping in the afternoon. When Gao Peng saw the earthworm, he immediately skimmed the ground and stepped on it hard, but he still frowned disgustingly.

A few of us looked at Gao Peng's experience, and we all unconsciously checked our bodies, but it was okay not to check, this inspection, only to find that there were all kinds of small insect corpses everywhere in my clothes, and my own back was bitten by what insects were also blue and red.

After tidying up our clothes, we continued to hurry forward until late at night, when we finally heard the sound of the "la-la-la" river, and the group smiled unconsciously. But at this time, everyone was already very tired, Chen Bing said: "Keep walking, and rest tonight when you get to the river." ”

Everyone agreed.

After a tough uphill climb, we walked down the slippery downhill road.

When it was dark, a dusk river crossed in front of us, and I was so exhausted that I sat on the ground, not wanting to do anything but to sleep with my head upside down, but I knew that it was impossible.

It was not a large river, it was only about ten meters wide, but it seemed to be very deep, and the course was very straight, flowing into the dense forest.

Chen Bing walked to the river and looked at the river, at this time, the sky was already very dark, and he muttered, this river water is too dirty to use. Immediately after, he seemed to suddenly notice something strange, and then took out the compass in his pocket, and when he compared it, he couldn't help frowning, and said, "This is a backward river." ”

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