Chapter 56: When the Clouds Rise
"Ding-dong-"
"Ding-dong-"
Cooing and contemplating, she heard itβit was the sound of the spring.
The sound was extremely faint, but Shaoyi and Coo still heard it.
"Why is there a sound of spring water here?!" Shao Yi asked puzzled, and he couldn't help jumping and fluttering to the ground and copy it in front of Gugu and Bai You.
The wafting wisp of soft white air made Shaoyi ecstatic, and he excitedly shouted to the coo behind him: "This is a hot spring, it seems that most of us have already arrived at Surabaya Spring." β
According to the description of the village chief Geng Ding, there is a perennial stream in the west of the Surabaya Spring, and you can go up along the stream to reach Sanssouci Cave.
"Ding-dong-"
"Ding-dong-"
The crisp sound of spring water seemed to hit the heart of Gugu, and the gloom clouds of many days dissipated in an instant.
Gugu walked down the big "plum blossom prints" on the snow to the depths of the canyon, and finally, after a boulder that fell to the ground in an unknown year and month, Goo Goo found the Surabaya Spring that Geng Ding said.
At this time, the Surabaya Spring exudes a faint smell of sulfur.
Goo happily put down his bags and began to pound up, and Shao Yi asked puzzledly, "Goo, what are you looking for?"
When Goo Gu touched out four eggs laid by the old hen Ah Huang, Shao Yixin said, "Chef, that's really a natural ......."
The water temperature is much higher than expected, and you can feel its warmth from a long distance.
After the two of them finished eating the boiled eggs in the Surabaya Hot Springs, they whispered for a while, so they began to split up to find the only clue to the Sanssouci Cave - the "Unfrozen Stream".
......
At this point, the snow began to weaken, but the fog remained, and they couldn't make out the exact direction.
Two hours later, the clueless Shaoyi was so tired that he sat down on the snow.
He spread out a parchment scroll handed to him by the village chief Geng Ding before leaving, and carefully checked it, the parchment scroll was marked in detail, and even the time required for each section of the road was clearly stated.
Shaoyi always felt a little wrong, and he couldn't tell what was wrong. As Coo said, "The parchment says one thing, but in reality it says something else." β
The misty pine forest is in the southeast of the snowfield, and the birch forest is due north of the snowfield...... None of this is wrongly labeled.
However, the misty pine forest marked on the parchment scroll is northerly west of the Ganhua Creek tributary, but in reality, the last tributary of the Ganhua Creek goes due west and diverges to the south.
This section of the road, however, took the two of them a full two days to find the misty pine forest all the way downstream, and if they followed the map, they would have spent more time exploring the road that did not exist.
If we seek an explanation for the error caused by the parchment roll, it can only be said that the stream is diverted, which is more or less reasonable.
However, after leaving the birch forest, it took them nearly half a day to find the spring of Surabaya, even if the speed of travel was slow due to the weather, which was different from the "two hours" marked on the parchment.
It seems that the parchment map is unreliable, and the fog is heavy and the direction is difficult to grasp, which really makes it very difficult for Shaoyi.
He lay down with his head tilted back, looking at the thick fog with no end in sight.
"Whoa-la-"
"Hmm?!Is it the sound of running water?!" Shaoyi muttered in his heart and got up suddenly, and then carefully captured, but he didn't hear the sound of water again.
"Hallucinations, perhaps!" he muttered to himself.
When he lay down again, he heard the sound of running water clearly again.
One less got up, but there was no, and then lay down, and the voice started again......
"Could it be?" Shao picked up the silver fir and poked it into the frozen snow under his feet, only to hear a pop, and the silver fir was sucked in a small half by the snow.
Wait for one less to pry the silver fir wood like a shovel to shovel snow......
"Whoa-la-la-", the stream instantly emerged from the snow and came into view......
The little man holding the silver fir wood tightly couldn't help but laugh.
"Hahaha-it really doesn't take much effort to get it!" Shaoyi picked up the stream water and put it into his mouth, only to feel sweet and pleasant, and said in his heart: "I think that the precious water used by the second sister of the Tan family to make tea flows down from here?"
Maybe the cured meat with eggs just now tasted too fragrant, but Shaoyi didn't bother to find that this bite was actually very salty. At this time, in the face of the cool spring water, he suddenly felt thirsty, so he knelt on his knees on the snow, leaned down and took the water in his hands, and drank it.
When he was half-full, he got up and went to goo.
Separated by several layers of frozen soil, frozen ice, and frozen snow, the slowly pulsing and flowing stream is faintly perceived by the silver fir wood......
Relying on the slight movement of the silver fir tree, Shaoyi quickly judged the direction of the unfrozen stream, which was hidden under the thick snow.
One or two people took the ice wolf Bai You step by step along the unfrozen stream under the snow layer upstream......
The thick fog began to dissipate gradually, and through the faint mist, Shaoyi could already clearly distinguish the mysterious shadow of the main peak of the lonely mountain in front of him.
The two very distinct opposing colors of black and white blend and converge on the top of the main peak of the lonely mountain, they penetrate, tear and fight against each other, but they are distinct, not two sides are integrated, and there is no gray intermediate transition zone at all......
Finally, the mist that had entwined Shaoyi and Gugu all the way was now quietly at the feet of the two, and at this time, the sky was also clear, and the remnant sun fell on the red "hot oil pot" of the sea of clouds, and the red clouds rolled over......
The Sanssouci Cave must be close at hand, and I don't feel the joy in my heart.
......
Suddenly, Shaoyi hurriedly squatted down, rummaged through the herbal leaves of Gugu's herbal basket, Gugu stopped him, hurriedly covered the herbal basket, and asked distressedly, "What do you want to do?"
Don't say anything less, just go up and grab it.
Goo turned around and pointed a point, and the arm of the missing one was immediately numb.
sat down dejectedly, and the less one was numb and grinned.
Goo also felt that he was careless and a little ruthless, so he said apologetically and coquettishly: "What are you doing in a hurry?"
"I, I ......"
"I, I...... Go big hands. Shaoyi confessed in embarrassment.
"Won't you go and find a leaf in the woods over there?" Gollum was very unhappy as he protected his beloved herb box.
"Nima, this ...... This is...... Pine, pine forest. Shaoyi scratched his head and stumbled in reply.
After a cold wind, Shaoyi heard a deep pant again.
Could it be that there is someone on the top of this lonely mountain, and who will it be?
Shaoyi looked for the sound with questions, not wanting to just take a few steps and step on the air. Suddenly, he began to fall......
The wind was like a knife in his ears, and the cliff quickly flew up in front of him, and the cold ate his mouth and stomach, and the speed at which he fell was probably getting faster and faster......
One less panicked that he didn't care about shouting, and if he fell again, he was afraid that he would be smashed into a patty.