Chapter Eighty-Three: Walking in the Poor Place of Water, Sit and Watch the Clouds Rise
At that time, the moon had passed midday, and the two of them and Bai You spent the night in the hole of the dead old birch tree. The white thick fluff quickly raised the temperature in the hollow, and the night was warm.
It's just that I don't know why.,Shaoyi always has itchy nostrils and wants to sneeze.。 Coo-gu laughed and quipped: Who else misses you but me?!
The east will be white, the woods will begin to drift with snowflakes, and the mist will come in at dawn.
Rubbing her sleepy eyes, she crawled out of the tree hole, and she was immediately stunned by the miasma in front of her...... After half a sound, she eased up: "How can this be unbearable?"
However, it is not possible not to go.
Goo Gu heard Geng Ding tell such a legend that people who are surrounded by fog for a long time will hallucinate and get lost, and will be left in place forever.
Under the urging of Gugu, Shaoyi picked up his bags and pointed to the faint footprints left by Bai You on the snow according to the map......
If you can't see your fingers, you need to keep your nose in front of you to see its direction clearly.
The difficulty of this trip to the Foggy and Snow Mountain Road was no less difficult than the night trip to the lonely mountain a few months ago, at that time, there was still the silver light of the old silver fir in the darkness to guide the way, and in front of him, this snow-white world could only be entrusted to Bai You.
The two of them were in the vast snowfield, and neither of them could see anyone.
Bai Yu is no problem, he is naturally sharp. And the two of them can only distinguish each other's positions through the sound transmission of silver fir wood.
Shaoyi must keep up with the pace of Bai Yu and Goo, if he hesitates a little, the white paw prints printed on the snow will be instantly covered by the new snow, and he will no longer be able to discern the direction of travel.
......
This lonely mountain looks right in front of you, but in this way, you "hide the cat" and disappear!
Goo once suggested using his divine sense to inquire about the way up the mountain hidden in the snow and mist, but one of them objected.
The experience of being alone in the lonely mountain for 9981 days made Shaoyi understand a truth of coexistence with all things: that is, relying on ingenuity will only make you go in the opposite direction, and only by using your hands and feet to measure, perceive, and touch step by step can you finally solve your "dilemma"......
Compared with the less one, it is more practical and experienced to perceive the changes of all things, however, she has always been noncommittal to the almost stupid "persistence" of the less one, and even supports it.
In Gugu's view, in terms of method, it doesn't matter if it's right or wrong, it's nothing more than trying and not slacking off. As the saying goes: "All roads lead to the clouds", if Shaoyi is unwilling to use the magic power, and wants to rely on down-to-earth efforts to find the worry-free hole, then let him try it.
After walking for a long time, the fog showed no signs of abating, and the snow, on the contrary, was growing.
Fortunately, the guide, the ice wolf Bai You, was very familiar with the southern foot of the Lonely Mountain, and Goo fully trusted it, so that Shaoyi also began to believe that it would never lead them astray.
Suddenly, Bai Yu stopped in front of him.
Shaoyi followed the "plum blossom print" and also stopped.
He knocked the ground with a fir wood and asked Gugu in a voice......
Goo replied, "I didn't notice anything new, let's wait and see." ”
"Ahh......h
"Listen—like there's a response from other Icewolf. ”
Coo stood silently, pricking up his ears, trying to distinguish the difference between the wolf howl coming out and the wolf howling coming back. "No, this is obviously not the response of other Icewolf, this should be the echo of Bai You.
"If I'm not mistaken, we're mostly in a canyon right now. ”
The two of them followed Bai You's pace for an unknown amount of time, and Shaoyi suddenly stopped, and said, "Goo, stop for a while......"
"Ding-dong-"
"Ding-dong-"
Cooing and contemplating, she heard it—it 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." ”
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 natural......
The water temperature is very high, and you can feel its warmth from a 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." ”
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, but it took the two of them a full two days to go downstream, all the way to the misty pine forest, if you follow the map, you will definitely spend more time exploring the road that does 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 wrapped around Shaoyi and Goo 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" on 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.