Not long after I came out of the hotel, I got lost in the mountains of Newyang.

Mt. Niuyang looks no different from an ordinary mountain, but once you relax your vigilance and go up the mountain, you will find that this is not an ordinary strange, everything that indicates the direction is out of order, and no matter what method you use to get out, you will eventually return to the starting point. No one has ever come down from the mountain, so that's probably why.

Curiosity really kills cats, and if I just listen to what I saw and heard in the hotel as a common story, I should still be enjoying the comfortable big bed at this time, and after a good night's sleep, I can move on to the next destination, instead of going back and forth in circles.

"It's this river again..."I can't count how many times I've walked in front of this river, this river flows from west to east, the river looks extremely clear, but when I scoop the water into the cup, I find that it is a deep blue, not a trace of light can pass through, I don't know which one is the real thing in the river or the water in the cup, although the water seems to be undrinkable, but I still want to take some back to study.

Of course, if I can go back.

Until it was dark, I didn't find a little clue to get out of Niuyang Mountain, the moon rose in the night sky, I lay down under a big tree to rest, the temperature at night was very comfortable, the moss under the tree was very soft, the wind was very gentle, and the stars were very bright.

I don't know when I fell asleep, but in my daze I heard a whispered humming, as if countless people were reciting an ancient song at the same time, slight and clear, holy and reverent, long and long.

I opened my eyes slightly, and countless transparent bubbles floated in the air, a little clumsy one after the other, and the ballad of the carols came from them.

I sat up with the soft moss in the ground, and reached out to touch one of the jumping bubbles, but it dodged it, and I followed the string of bubbles, from the beginning where I could not see to the end, the transparent bubbles lined up in a crooked line, forming a band of light, floating in one direction.

A few mischievous creatures circled around me, jumping from side to side as if they were observing me, each bubble was strong and elastic, bumping between branches and stones without the slightest damage, and there was a cloud of gas flowing in the bubbles, emitting a soft light of varying brightness.

I stood up, wondering if I would be able to get out of here after following the bubbles, but as soon as I stood up, the bubbles in front of me automatically stopped to make way for me, and when I stood in their ranks, the bubbles continued to shake forward unhurriedly.

The song never stops along the way, this is perhaps an old language, even if you can't understand what is sung, you can feel something melt in your heart, and the warmth rises up, almost making you forget where you are.

Suddenly, I felt a trip under my feet over a large hard boulder, and before I could react, I had already fallen on the big boulder.

"Wow... It hurts. The burning pain in my knee woke me up from the sweet dream of the song, and the bubble that had given way to me just now jumped over me as if he didn't see me at all, and took my place and continued walking, "What the hell is this?" I patted the stone that tripped over me, cool and a little wet.

"Who stepped on me again?" the stone spoke, but the sound was unpleasant and harsh, like the sound of rubbing metal, and I subconsciously covered my ears.

What surprised me even more was that the stone in front of me actually grew feet, poked out its head, and stretched out its tail, which was not a stone, but a big black turtle with a bird's head and a snake's tail!

"Why are you lying in the middle of the road?" I regretted as soon as I finished speaking, the voice of the big turtle was so sharp that it made people's eardrums tremble, I quickly covered my ears again to ease it down, and when I saw that its mouth was no longer moving, I put down my hand and took out a pen and paper from my bag.

"Can we write and communicate, can you write?" I finished writing and put it in front of the turtle's eyes.

The turtle glanced at the words on the paper and then looked up at me again.

"Are you a late-night ghostwriter?" it spoke again, and with a shake of my hand I dropped the pen and paper, but this time, the turtle's voice was much softer, not harsh at all.

"So you can make a normal sound," I breathed a sigh of relief, "so why can't you speak properly." ”

"Not everyone can see me," said the turtle, "why should I waste my tongue, I might as well send a sound wave to drive them away and try to be quiet." It looked at me again, "Are you the ghostwriter?"

"Well, it's me. I said, "My name is Ye Ke, and if you need to write a letter, I can help, and it would be nice if I could tell me how to leave Newyang Mountain." ”

"Of course you can't get out yourself. "Newyang Mountain is different from the outside world, where time and space are chaotic, especially for humans. ”

"What do you mean?"

"There are countless planes here, and every human who comes in will randomly enter one of them, and you are now in your own plane," the turtle said, "These planes are all static and independent, and it can also be understood that you have been repeating a certain period of time in the same space, and your feelings about time here are all illusions." ”

“... What happens if I can't get out?" I asked, "will I starve to death?" or will I be eaten by something or something. ”

"It's definitely not going to happen, you don't feel hungry and you don't care about the passage of time, you don't even get old, it's like you're stuck in time. The turtle spoke slowly, "Due to the large number of time and space and independent of each other, most of the people who go up the mountain will not meet other people, only those who happen to gather at the intersection of time and space will see each other, you also saw those bubbles just now, right?"

"See, they sing a nice and warm song," I said, "and if I hadn't tripped over you, I would have followed them all the time, and I might have gone out." ”

"Almost 100 percent of the human beings trapped here will see those glowing bubbles and be as attracted by the song as you are," said the turtle, "and the bubbles are not part of the world, and if you follow them all the way, you will gradually get lost in your time, forget where you are, and then forget who you are." ”

“... And finally?" I just seemed to be like this, as if I had been overwhelmed by a dream.

"Eventually, they will become members of the bubbles, and of course, these people will not have the final fate of the bubbles, they will be turned into a kind of stone, gradually buried in the mountains, and then dug up by you humans. ”

I felt a chill in my back.

At this time, the big black turtle seemed to hear something, and its bulky body jumped into the river with unusual agility, and the surface of the river was still extremely clear, and it was completely impossible to see that there was a big turtle hidden underneath.

"Did you see a black turtle?" A few seconds later, a strangely dressed middle-aged man appeared in front of me.

Didn't you say you wouldn't see anyone else? Could it be that I was already standing at the intersection of space? What a coincidence? Why wasn't this person surprised to see me?

"Did you see a black turtle?" he asked again.

"No... Didn't see it. "I don't feel like it's coming.

"I heard it here," he clearly didn't believe me, "you want to keep the bounty to yourself." ”

Bounty? There seem to be a lot of things I don't know...

"Haha, you can see it," I pretended to be recognized, "this guy was too fast, he didn't catch it, and he caused me to fall hard, you look at my legs," I pointed to my knee, and then pointed in the opposite direction, "It went that way." ”

"Anyone would be willing to hire you for such poor technology?" he looked at me mockingly, "I'm sorry, I guess I'm going to catch it first." As he spoke, he quickly disappeared into the mountains.

When I was sure he was far away, I went to the river and said, "Hey, he's gone, you can come out." ”

There were gurgling bubbles on the surface of the water, and the turtle poked its head out to observe left and right for a long time before climbing ashore from the water.

"Thanks..." was another shrill voice, and I covered my ears again.

"Ahem, sorry," it cleared its throat, "forgot to switch the voice back." ”

"I'm going to be deaf if you go on like this... I'm starting to have tinnitus..."

"I'm sorry," said the turtle, "my name is Turtle, thank you for helping me just now, that person is..."

"Demon slayer. I said, "For the sake of me not betraying you to that person, can you tell me what is going on in Niuyangshan?"