Chapter 80: The Black Storm
Four hours after they left the crater, a terrifying roar was heard behind them, and the shock wave sent from the sound knocked down a loose rock on a nearby cliff. The rock rolled down for a while, and then stopped.
Immediately afterward, there was an eerie silence around the area, and the pungent smell of burning enveloped the valley......
"Strange, not quite right!?" said Coo.
Shaoyi asked curiously, "What's wrong?"
"There was no noise at all, not even a bird was startled......
Goo raised his finger and motioned to Shaoyi to be quiet. Then, she quickly removed her thick gloves and picked something up from the rocky cliff.
Shao Yi saw that what Gu Gu was holding in his hand was a pinch of silver hair, and a whirlwind that came unexpectedly swept away the silver hair.
Before Shaoyi could stop it, Goo Gu left Shaoyi and chased after him alone......
The wind was getting stronger, and the fresh snow on the ground was rolled up. Goo saw that the silver hair was swallowed by the wind and snow and disappeared, and she had no choice but to give up after several attempts to no avail.
"Poofโ"
"It's it, it's ......"
Cooing to himself, he turned around excitedly...... A pair of fiery red eyes were staring at her in the wind and snow, and the clean and immaculate silver hair wrestled wantonly in the wind......
......
The sky had just dawned, and Shaoyi, Gugu and Bai You had not yet walked out of the withered rainforest. The stench of the tall and luxuriant plants of the past was not found along the way, not even a single dead mosquito or fly. Undoubtedly, Bai You is the only remaining animal in the Lonely Mountain area, thinking of this, he hugged Bai You in his arms, reluctant to let go.
Looking at the sky that was worse than the day before, and thinking of Geng Ding's depressed mood when he parted, the worry of the missing pair of Dayanhe Village became more and more serious.
Suddenly, Bai You let out a commotion, and the anxiety it showed couldn't even soothe it.
Immediately after that, the deafening roar came to mind, just like the sound that Shaoyi heard in Sanssouci Cave, like the sound of all the boulders in the "Stone Henge" crashing together.
The gray sky turned dark, and the rolling dark clouds spread from north to south.
Bai You jumped out like an arrow from the string, and Gu Gu followed, and urged Shao Yi: "Quick, follow Bai You, it must know where to go." โ
The two followed Bai You through a wilting plantain forest and stopped in front of several dying banyan trees. The cave next to the big banyan tree seems to have been abandoned by Bai You in his early years, and it is very desolate.
From here, you can see the entire valley.
Suddenly, a black wind arose...... The unknown force twisted the thick trunk of the big banyan tree into twisted flowers, and then, the whole tree was slowly lifted before their eyes, a large area of banana trees, and all the flowers and plants on the ground, and all the ground flowers and plants, ground and stones...... Everything was swept away at once.
The earth is purified by its suction, but this is only the beginning.
The black wind ransacked the land, and then, wrapped in the yellow sand and everything that Shaoyi and Goo had never seen before. In an instant, everything outside the cave was shrouded and obscured by the yellow sand, rocks, and tree roots that flowed rapidly with the wind, and from time to time, there were huge boulders "floating" outside the cave......
Outside the cave, the flying sand and rocks have not been peaceful for a moment, and inside the cave, you can still hear the three "poof-puff-" heartbeats.
Goo tried to drive his consciousness and went out to find out, but found that it seemed as if the whole world had been plundered, obscured, and possessed by this unbridled "black storm", and he could not see anything except flying sand and rocks.
The black wind blows from daytime to late at night, from late night to dawn the next day......
It did not begin to weaken until the early morning of the fourth day.
After the light became stronger, with the help of his divine sense, he saw the world after the ransack of the "Black Storm" for the first time:
There is no grass or trees. The land is full of scars left by the "Black Storm" after the conquest......
Out of the valley is the source of Ganhua Creek, the ancient silver fir forest, where Shanba Gong and his descendants have lived for thousands of years.
Three years ago, when Shaoyi came here, it was still lush and green, but at this time, he could only see the lonely tree trunks left by the "black storm". Under the unspecified vigorous felling, the trunk was stripped of a layer of skin, revealing a smooth "body".
The thick silver fir leaves emit a suffocating rancid stench that stops visitors at the edge of the forest. The thick trunks of the trees jutted into the clouds in the gloomy air......
Shaoyi looked at the small silver fir that only showed a sharp horn in the depths of the forest, and he asked lightly: "I don't know where the Shanba Gong is?!"
There was silence all around, and Coo quietly stood in place with him.
......
Shao Yi saw that Bai You, the ice wolf who was walking in the front, had his ears flutter a few times, so he instinctively pressed his hand on Shaokang's sword.
A figure appeared on the riverbed of the Ganhua Creek in the dry land, white and bared his teeth, issuing a warning to the stranger not to come any further.
"Bai You!" coo stopped.
"It's Xi Wazi. Shaoyi stepped forward and said to Goo.
When Shaoyi and Goo appeared next to the ice wolf, Baili Xi gradually calmed down the tension just now......
"Xi Wazi, why did you come here?!" Gu Gu saw that although he calmed down his fear of Bai You, his expression was still terrified, so he asked first.
"Big Weir River...... Dayan River ...... The big weir river is gone......"
"You tell me slowly, what the hell is going on?what about the village chief??," Shaoyi tried to keep himself calm.
Goo handed him the last bit of water...... Baili Xi muttered, without waiting to wipe off the water marks at the corners of his mouth, and said hurriedly:
"One night a few days ago, the village chief summoned the group to the old silver fir tree at the head of the village, and by the time I reached the head of the village, the campfire in the open space of the crowd was already blazing.
"When the village chief and everyone arrived, Fang said: 'For thousands of years, the Dayan River has been in this corner of the Gengming Continent, and it has adhered to its mission so far, however, the robbery has arrived, and it is time to end......
The village chief's words were brief, and after saying that, he threw the head of the deer offered to his house into the bonfire, and the tongue of fire instantly became several times larger, and the firelight illuminated the entire Great Weir River. The fire was not extinguished until noon the next day......
"Late at night on the fourth day, the chief of the village came to my house, handed me the parchment rolls, told me to give them to the younger one, and told me not to return to the village whatever I saw or heard......
That night, I left the village and went up the river along the Ganhua Creek, and after about an hour, somehow the Ganhua Creek dried up. When I turned around, the sky over the village was shrouded in a cloud of black smoke, and faintly, I could hear the sound of terror......"
Baili Xi snorted and handed the parchment roll to Shaoyi, and continued:
"The village chief said, "Here is the answer you have always wanted to know, and he told us not to go back to the village, but to leave quickly, and to take a detour to the east...... On the parchment is a map of the mountain......"
Shaoyi opened the parchment scroll, and there was a finely made brocade cloth inside, and the brocade was wrapped in a simple bracelet...... On the Jinpa, there are two short sentences.
Seeing that Shaoyi frowned, Gu Gu glanced at Jinpa and put it in his arms.
"We'll have to go back and see......" Shaoyi pursed his lips and affirmed.
The decision to sacrifice their lives to go back, the remaining two teenagers have no objection.
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The Dayan River was "scratched" by the black wind, and the hundred-year-old silver fir tree at the head of the village fell, and all the things on the ground were not spared......