Lin Yuqing is trapped in a nightmare.

Strange to say, when he was on the run, once he had a precious chance to sleep, he often closed his eyes until dawn, but now that he was safe, the night became a quagmire, and he struggled between half dreaming and half waking.

The night breeze whirred in through the window, blowing away the whispers of the green dream. The boy shrunk his shoulders and fought in his dream.

This is one of the rooms at the back of Valhalla, a stucco room with a small half sticking out from the edge of a low cliff and hanging over a lush mountain forest. The waist-high window looked more like a hollowed-out rectangular and simple hole, and from this hole, a white moon filled with half a wheel of mist floated heavily on the dark jungle, and the jungle followed the mountains, one peak after another. Every strand of wind that blew from the horizon was amplified and whistling against the cliffs, making a sharp whine as it passed through the window.

When Lin Yuqing dreamed that he was hit by a knight with a spear in the center socket, he opened his eyes in shock, but his chest was really aching. He turned his head in disbelief and saw Nagarjuna standing in the center of the room like a panther, and the boy immediately understood.

Needless to say, Nagarjuna must have jumped out of his chest again, no wonder he felt like he had been kicked - he did.

"Why don't you sleep in the middle of the night?" asked Lin Yuqing, propping himself up.

Nagarjuna turned one ear back, but didn't look back—as if it didn't think it was worth looking back. It stared at the window tightly, holding its body low as if it were about to burst, and Lin Yuqing knew that something was wrong, and hurriedly climbed down from the bed and crept behind Nagarjuna.

Under the unblinking gaze of the two pairs of eyes, a line of black border appeared on the edge of the window.

Slowly, the black edge rose higher and higher, and finally revealed a small falling spirit with a round head and a round brain, but the size of a fist.

Seeing the people clearly through the moonlight, the people in the room breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

The old man Xiaolan never expected that as soon as he showed his head, he was facing two big faces, and he was immediately so frightened that his hands and feet slipped, and it took a few seconds before he climbed up from the edge of the window again: "You, you...... Woke up, slept late......"

Lin Yuqing turned out from behind Nagarjuna: "Scurry, why are you here?"

As he asked, he was puzzled.

Stuka slept in a room on the corner of the stone gallery outside, only a few dozen paces away. And to climb through the window, you have to climb over the cliff below the window, which is not high, but it is as steep as a knife—why should it go so far?

The old man Lan hesitated, his snow-white beard shook a few times, but he didn't shake out a clear word. Lin Yuqing's eyes were quick, and he suddenly shouted, "Don't move!", and pressed it—and Scurry sprang up, and a few pieces of grass and dirt fell from his beard.

Lin Yuqing let go of his hand, glanced at Nagarjuna and asked, "Where are you from?"

"What are you anxious about?" Old Man Lan gasped, stretched out a finger-sized foot, and swept away the broken grass and dirt on the ground. "I'm here to tell you about this. ”

"What's the matter?"

"That's right...... I saw that the moonlight was just right tonight, so I went out for a walk. I didn't expect to scatter and scatter, but I discovered a great thing!"

It paused intentionally at this point, but no one said anything.

The old man Xiaolan coughed a little embarrassed, as if he was afraid of being heard by others, and lowered his voice and said, "I believe in you two boys, so I am willing to give you a little bit of truth." I'm naturally very sensitive to babies...... No matter what the value is, I feel like hey, there's nothing missing. For example, the spirit stone in your pocket doesn't have much energy left, and you've been carrying it for a few days, right?"

"No matter how little, that's Nagarjuna's. Lin Yuqing reflexively pressed his waist and asked, "What are you talking about?"

"Can't you guess this," the old man slapped his thigh: "I found something good!" The old man immediately remembered the two of you, as the saying goes, get rich together, don't dislike people......

"As soon as I heard it, it was made up. ”

Scurry was deflated and grunted, "But I did find a baby......!" I still need a little help......"

"Say it. ”

"I, well, I'm actually a little bit away from discovering it. Scurry held out a small hand, a smaller gesture, indicating that there was really only a little bit of difficulty: "Those treasures are more than I can move out of Stuka...... You know, the poor man won't go on a treasure hunt with me. ”

Stuka didn't like his fall very much, and most of it was because he had an eye for money. For the warriors of the Fang Kingdom, they can use the earth as a bed, they can hunt animal skins for clothing, and they can even live by eating the meat of other races, but they only refuse to deal with money - that is an insult to the warrior spirit.

"And what do you want me to do?"

The old man's request is very simple: it provides the position, Lin Yuqing provides the legs, and after finding the baby, the two sides will be divided into seventy or three - even if it is only willing to give Lin Yuqing thirty percent, it is still panting in pain.

"There are stories of gold hidden in the mountains, and I have heard eight hundred, if not a thousand. ”

"Who said it was gold?" the little old man said solemnly, "My heart tells me that it may be a batch of spirit stones!"

"Spirit Stone?" Lin Yuqing was stunned for a moment, and then smiled again: "It's even more impossible." ”

Scurry's face turned bluer in a hurry: "I didn't lie to you! I'm very familiar with the spirit stone, and the kind of touch it has on my heart is unique!"

The old man loves money so much that he looks like a treasure in everything, Lin Yuqing didn't believe that there was really a batch of spirit stones in the mountain, but he still responded: "I'm willing to go and see it for you, but after all, this is the mountain forest of the fang country, no matter whether you find a treasure or not, you will know that there will be a high priest." ”

The boy turned his head to look at it, and when he saw its expression as if it had been struck by lightning, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "Even if I don't say it, Stuka will say it—you still think you can hide it from him?"

"I didn't expect you to be so roundabout! Whoever picks it up is whoever's!"

"You have a falling spirit, even if it is given to you, where do you put it?Besides, how do you know that it is not a Valhalla thing?" Lin Yuqing replied casually, turned over and sat on the windowsill, one leg dangling down the cliff. The cold night breeze poured into the boy's bosom, blowing his robe so loudly that it looked as if it were floating in the air.

Scurry still didn't give up, and circled around Lin Yuqing, if it weren't for Nagarjuna's staring, he was afraid that it would climb up his trouser leg - just as it was enumerating several reasons to try to prove that the Fang people did not have natural ownership of the property on this land, Lin Yuqing suddenly bent down and scooped up the little blue old man.

"What the hell—" Scurry was startled and screamed, but was immediately covered by the boy's face.

The two fallen spirits realized at the same time that there was something wrong with his expression.

In the mist-like moonlight, Lin Yuqing's face turned even paler, and his whole body tensed, as if he didn't want to alarm anyone, and slowly retracted his legs hanging down the cliff.

His gaze remained fixed on the dark mountain forest under his feet, and he did not move away for a moment. The boy lowered his voice and asked Scurry, "When you come back...... Did you notice anything unusual?"

The little blue old man hesitated in his palm for a moment, then shook his head. When the boy let go of his hand, he replied in a breathy voice, "I was so excited that I didn't notice it when I ran all the way back." What's wrong?"

Lin Yuqing pursed the corners of his mouth, looked at the bottom of the cliff, and said nothing.

At this time, the night was dark, the moonlight was thick, and there were layers of dense forests to obscure it, and it was very likely that he had been dazzled by the wrong glance just now—but just as the thought came to him, the grass below flickered, and a shadow flashed from among the trees, and disappeared into the deep darkness, like a drop of water disappearing into the sea.

Lin Yuqing was shocked, and just turned his head to look at Nagarjuna, who nodded at him: "It seems to be an alien race." ”

Scurry was so shocked that the color of his blue face turned light: "How can there be aliens here? You two must be mistaken!"

Thinking of the occasional silver reflection just now, Lin Yuqing bit his lip. If it wasn't an alien, it was a man with a weapon—he immediately threw the old man from the blue to the door, "Go and call Stuka and the High Priest, and let them follow my tracks!"

"What?"

Before the old man Xiaolan could react, the young man had already gritted his teeth, hugged Nagarjuna's neck, jumped out, and climbed out of the window.

Fortunately, the cliff was not high, and Nagarjuna took him with a few jumps, and had already plunged into the jungle, except for being beaten by the branches, but he was not injured. The shadow just now had long since disappeared into the dark forest, and even the dragon tree couldn't tell the direction, but Lin Yuqing suddenly pointed ahead and shouted in a low voice, "Try that way!"

"Why?"

"That guy definitely didn't happen to pass by, and when I found it, it had been under the window for quite a while. Lin Yuqing said as he ran, "There must be no aliens near Valhalla, I suspect it followed Curry all the way from that direction - maybe it went back the same way!"

But this is just his speculation, and he also knows that he has no basis at all, so he can only try his luck.

The Valhalla behind him was quickly alarmed, and the main hall, which was integrated with the mountain peak, quickly lit up with a little fire in the dark night, and Stuka also caught up soon after, and the two of them followed Lin Yuqing's guess, holding torches, and plunged into the deeper mountain forest.

However, the Barrier Mountain Range is known for its natural dangers, not to mention the difficulty of the mountain road at night, and the two of them can be said to be struggling to walk; the shadow fled earlier, and they followed the trail of the little blue old man for half a night, but it was like looking for a needle in a haystack, until they found that the sky was blue and white, and they still found nothing.

No one can say that the high priest was not cautious enough.

In the mountains behind Ulu Mountain, there were traces of suspected alien races, which was a major event that endangered the foundation of the Fang Country-as soon as the morning passed, dozens of Fang Kingdom warriors came down from the mountain; Valhalla dispatched a flying type of falling spirit, with several different teams, and spent two days in the mountains and forests searching for aliens. However, they found nothing but proof that the Barrier Mountains were still deserted.

The shadow evaporated from heaven and earth like a buoy.

After sending off the mountain-searching team, even Stuka felt like he had a stone in his mouth, and he couldn't say a word of pleasure. Lin Yuqing asked him with a calm face: "Do you think I was wrong?"

Stuka scratched the back of his head and gave a crisp "um".

It's not just that the alien race has lost its shadow, the valley where the old man Xiaolan said that there is a treasure, the warriors of the Fang Kingdom also walked through it once when they were searching, but they didn't even see a spirit stone - from Stuka's expression, he probably thought that Lin Yuqing and the two fallen spirits had a dream together.

The boy sighed and sat down against a stone as if he had fallen apart.

The Barrier Mountains were more steep than he had anticipated—and he only now realized how much he had underestimated the danger by promising Curry to "go and see" in the first place.

On several occasions, they even had to pull ropes and hang them to climb over the cliffs. Sometimes there is a flat mountain forest ahead, but you don't know which one of the right feet can be rolled out and planted - not to mention the barrier mountains, where countless fallen leaves have accumulated over the millennia, rotting on the ground, forming swamps that are so deep that they can't be touched, but on the surface, they look exactly like ordinary mountains, just waiting to devour people and animals who accidentally step into them.

If he hadn't seen that shadow with his own eyes, even Lin Yuqing himself would have found it hard to believe that there was a foreign race hidden in this mountain—not to mention, how did it get in through the defense line of the Fangguo, where was it hidden, and what was the purpose?

The boy wiped his face and was stunned for a moment.

"Don't think too much about it," Stuka slapped him on the shoulder, shaking his internal organs a few times, "I'll tell you, the only place that can be touched by human tracks is the outermost edge of the Barrier Mountains. Even if we Fangguo people have lived here for thousands of years, we don't know what is really in the deep mountains—it is very likely that what kind of animal you see is, maybe it looks a little like a foreign race. ”

Lin Yuqing replied sullenly.

"Alright, it's not getting early, we have to go back and see Ada. Stuka stood up, "Even if you keep sitting here, you can't sit that shadow out." ”

In the past two days, Baijiu's injuries have gradually improved, and Ida has been awake more and more; Lin Yuqing rubbed his face when he heard this, and dragged his tired body to stand up—he didn't expect that as soon as he stood up, a loud horn suddenly pierced the fog and startled him; the horn sound was sharp and high, and wave after wave of echoes reverberated in the valley, resounding in the sky far away, startling countless fluttering birds in the forest.

Stuka's face changed: "This is Valhalla's wartime horn, there is an alien invasion!"

"Valhalla, too, will blow the trumpet?"

"Valhalla's trumpet sound is only when there is a massive attack from the alien race," Stuka explained hurriedly, "and it sounds like at least ten thousand bugs are coming this time!"

Lin Yuqing hurriedly asked, "Where is it?"

"Of course, it's at the mountain pass level - quick, let's hurry back!"