Chapter 2: Crossing the Valley of Death
After a while, Li Yiheng and they came to the only canyon in the back mountain, this is the death valley that the village chief said, the canyon is located between two mountains that are very close to each other, and the plants on both sides of the mountain are even intertwined with each other, blocking the sunlight, making the canyon appear more gloomy, standing at the mouth of the valley, from time to time a gust of wind hits, bringing up the dust and rotten leaves on the ground, as if the monsters stationed inside are roaring in a low voice, warning the intruders.
"This is it, now we are going to go in, Xiao Ding, you will maintain the form of a Dapeng and deal with danger at any time!" Li Yiheng said and unfolded the umbrella blade, and Diana also clenched her bow and arrow, ready to deal with emergencies. Xiao Tin shook the mane on his neck and walked towards Death Valley.
When you first enter the valley, there are protruding mountain rocks and various deformed trees on both sides, twisting and coiling, making the already not wide canyon more crowded, the ground is covered with a thick layer of decaying plants, and the giant claws of Xiao Ji step on it to make an uncomfortable "creaking" sound, and occasionally you can see unknown animal bones leaking out of the rotten layer, maintaining an unwilling struggle posture before dying, as if dragged into the ground by the monster under this rotten layer.
Li Yiheng looked to the left, Diana looked to the right, and Xiao Ji continued to walk towards the depths of the canyon vigilantly. After advancing about five miles, a tall tree suddenly appeared in front of me, which seemed to be dry and had no leaves, so it was impossible to distinguish what kind of tree it was, but I saw those long arms with branches like hellish demons, struggling to spread out in all directions, as if to grasp any life that came close, and the mountains around the big tree were also bare, charred black, and even the rocks and dirt of the mountain were black, as if a hell fire had just burned it.
All three of them were tense, Diana would use the spore filament to detect the movement of the ground in the distance from time to time, and Xiao Ji also stopped, poking his nose forward, not smelling the dangerous smell, but there was a spicy smell that became more and more obvious.
"Is there anything abnormal?" asked Diana.
"There is no sign of life ahead, and although the tree is dry, there is an inexplicable energy flowing between the branches, and it is ......"
"And what?" Li Yiheng asked Diana after half of the words.
"Moreover, this energy is getting stronger and stronger!"
Xiao Ji sneezed because of the stimulation of this bitter taste, and suddenly a thin line of sky above his head began to accumulate thick dark clouds, like black dragons fused together, and then a white lightning bolt struck the open space not far from the three of them, stirring up the damp rotten leaves on the ground.
Before Li Yiheng could react, another white lightning bolt struck near the dead tree, and the scorching white light instantly illuminated the originally gloomy canyon.
At this time, Diana urgently retracted the detected spore silk and explained to Li Yiheng: "The magnetic field here is very strong, which will attract thunder and lightning to fall nearby, so it is better to quickly decide whether to temporarily retreat and come back when the thunder and lightning are over." ”
Xiao Ji saw the white thunder and lightning that hit the previous year, and the mane around his body exploded, and the two hard feathers on the top of his head followed by a blue light, which was very similar to the scene when he encountered the thunder and lightning before entering the tree country, but this thunder and lightning was a dazzling white.
Li Yiheng stared at the dead tree in front of him, the surface of the dead tree reflected a gloomy black gold at the moment of flashing, and there was a faint electric current spreading on the surface, in the interval of Li Yiheng's hesitation, several white lightning bolts suddenly split down around, forming a trapped cage, surrounding the three of them, and it became more and more dense, and this time he couldn't run away if he wanted to.
Xiao Ji was a little impatient at the moment, his front paws kept plowing the ground, Li Yiheng looked at the dead tree in front of him, as if it had a deep gravitational force, and the lightning hitting the treetops was all absorbed by the dead tree, and each time it was absorbed, the white ripples on the surface of the dead tree deepened by a point, and finally produced six white ball lightning bolts the size of a basketball, and the sphere was connected to the branches of the dead tree through white electricity, and the volume was increasing.
"I know, it's not a tree, it's a black gold in the shape of a dead tree, absorbing the energy of thunder and lightning!" Li Yiheng has seen power equipment in Cape City using black gold to channel electricity, but it is a piece of black gold that is only the size of a fist, which is enough to send electricity to the entire Cape City, and now in front of him is a whole piece of black gold as big as a towering tree, and it is not surprising that it can guide the power of lightning, but who is this black gold set up here?
The situation in front of him did not allow Li Yiheng to continue to think, because the six white lightning balls connected to the "tree fork" were forming a vertical hexagon, approaching the three of them, and the lightning that was constantly coming down around them was becoming more and more dense, and the voltage formed by the lightning piercing the air had made Li Yiheng's hair stand up, and Diana was not as funny as Li Yiheng because she was wearing a hat and only the ends of her hair were upturned.
"Xiao Ding, can you rush over?" Li Yiheng asked anxiously. Looking at the hexagonal lightning ball matrix, Xiao Ji shook his head, and the feathers on the top of his head also faintly surging with electricity, making a "zizi" sound.
Diana patted Li Yiheng's shoulder and motioned Li Yiheng to look carefully at the center of the lightning ball matrix, Li Yiheng rubbed his eyes, and vaguely saw the scene of a basin flashing in the center, but the time was very short, and if you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't find it at all, but the back of the matrix was still a canyon, not a basin, so there was only one explanation: this is the mountain and sea passage!
However, how can such a strong current pass through? As soon as you come into contact with this current, you may be scorched, as exemplified by the mountains on both sides.
I saw Diana unhurriedly spread her hands, and the spore filaments of her ten fingertips grew together, like spring silkworms forming cocoons, and soon formed a thick hard shell, wrapping the three of them inside.
"This creates an insulated space that can block strong currents!" Diana said confidently.
"Can it really work?" Li Yiheng stretched out his hand and poked at this protective shell, a little skeptical.
Xiao Ji is also very unaccustomed, and keeps carefully stepping on the protective shell under his feet with his paws, for fear of accidentally stepping on it.
"Of course, just look at your hair!" Diana smoothed the ends of her hair that had been upturned, and Li Yiheng also found that the hair that was originally standing up was now back to its original appearance.
The spherical lightning matrix quickly covered the circular protective shell, and Li Yiheng felt suddenly bright in the shell, and there was a faint electric current spreading on the shell wall, but it did not hurt. When the inside of the shell dimmed again, and the current on the shell wall disappeared, Li Yi unfolded the umbrella blade horizontally, shaved off the top of the protective shell, and Xiao Ji soared violently and flew into the air.
Only then did Li Yiheng see clearly that he was now in the middle of a basin, and there was an identical tree made of black gold standing in the basin, and there were many animal and human bones below, and some of them looked like charred clothes, a black lump, Li Yiheng guessed that this should be the scientific expedition team that the village chief said, but it couldn't withstand the thunder and lightning, and it was only the corpse that was teleported here.
"Two identical black gold 'dead trees', it seems that a strange person deliberately set it up here, what kind of powerful power should this person have?"
Just when Li Yiheng was confused, a red lightning bolt suddenly fell from the clear and cloudless sky, impartially, and hit Xiao Xiao's neck, Li Yiheng and Diana felt a tingle all over their bodies, but Xiao Xiao didn't do anything, except for the feathers on the top of his head were more vivid.
"There are no clouds, how can there be thunder and lightning, is this the legendary thunderbolt on a sunny day?"
Suddenly, another red lightning bolt hit the three of them, Xiao Ji keenly felt the abnormality, and narrowly avoided it, Li Yiheng still looked at the air, looking for the source of this red lightning, but Xiao Ji rushed straight to the bushes below, and the feathers on the top of his head were aimed at the bushes at the moment and also sent out a white thunderbolt, hitting the bushes, splashing messy branches and sporadic sparks, this move can be seen Li Yiheng and Diana: You still have this ability?
Without waiting for Li Yiheng to ask, Xiao Ji struck another blow to the previous position, and this time Li Yiheng saw a black shadow coming out of the bushes, moving like a rabbit, and soon disappeared in the depths of the bushes.
"It seems that someone is in ambush, no wonder there will be a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and it just hit us," Li Yiheng thought for a while, and asked Xiang Xiaoji, "Was it just a lightning strike that forced your potential out?"
Diana's sword eyebrows frowned slightly, searching for the hiding place of the black shadow just now, and replied crudely: "The feathers on the top of my head can accumulate the power of thunder and lightning, and the lightning just now is artificial, I can feel the existence of this energy." ”
"There!" Diana reminded Xiao Ding, who was like a giant eagle that had found its target, rushing towards the direction of Diana's finger at high speed,
One by one, the feathers on the top of their heads emitted strong electric currents to hit the target, creating a clearing in the dense bushes
At this time, Li Yiheng saw clearly, a long-haired girl in a black windbreaker was confronting them, the girl's hands were wearing black gloves, I don't know what material it was, holding it high and emitting a red flash, suddenly her hands pulled down suddenly, and another red lightning bolt in the air accompanied by a rumbling sound, like the roar of a beast, slashed at Li Yiheng and the three.
Xiao Ji didn't flash much at this time, and the feathers on the top of his head wanted to release the electric shock again, but it only spewed out sporadic electric sparks, Xiao Ji didn't hurry to leave a sentence: "I'll charge some electricity first!"
This made Li Yiheng and Diana bitter, and their whole bodies were numb again, but this time the feeling was much lighter than just now.
After this electric shock, Xiao Ji seemed to be full of energy, waved his wings, and came to the girl in a blink of an eye, the girl was also frightened by Xiao Ji's lightning speed, and forgot to run away for a while, giving Li Yiheng to seize the opportunity, jumped down, jumped in front of the girl, and pinched the girl's left shoulder with his right arm, and the girl fell to the ground half on her knees in pain.
"Who are you, why did you sneak attack us?" asked Li Yiheng.
The girl groaned, her right hand constantly beating Li Yiheng's arm, but there was a sound of metal colliding, and it turned out that the girl's hands were wearing black silk gloves made of dense iron chains.
"If you are too heavy, you will not be gentle with girls. Diana complained and jumped down, Li Yiheng hurriedly let go of his right hand, a little embarrassed to the side, watched Diana help the girl, and asked the girl: "We just arrived in this world, and we don't know where to offend, so please allow us to explain clearly before deciding whether to move or not, okay?"
In the end, it is convenient for women to communicate with each other, the girl cautiously examined Xiao Ji and Li Yiheng, of course, did not let Diana go, and asked: "What does this world mean? Don't speak clearly, be simple." ”
The girl looked at Diana incredulously, and then focused on Xiao Tu, who was now a frightening to any stranger.
"Yes, we are an expedition, where is this?" Li Yiheng interjected.
The girl may still have some scruples about Li Yiheng's rude actions just now, and continued to say to Diana: "This is a small mountain town, I just went out hunting and met you, because we often have missing people here, so I thought you were human traffickers, so I took action." ”
Li Yiheng and Xiao Ji glanced at each other and shook their heads helplessly, indeed, in the form of Xiao Ji, let alone human traffickers, they can eat people and believe it.
Diana continued to do the girl's mental work, trying to show that they were good people, and the girl seemed to let her guard down and struck up a conversation with Diana.
"The folk customs in the mountains are really simple. Li Yiheng suddenly sighed, seeing that the girl was so unguarded, I don't know if it was Diana's mouth that was powerful, or the girl was innocent, but according to Diana's broken mouth in the past, the girl's simplicity may be more reliable.
The girl immediately said that she wanted to take Li Yiheng and them to the mountain town to have a look, and she was about to leave: "My name is Tianhong, you can follow me to meet our city lord, he likes to make friends with adventurous people." ”