Chapter 35: Illusions
Although from the outside it seems that several caves are in the same area, the road inside leads to different valleys, and the route is sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right, and the terrain is like instrumental music, sometimes high-pitched, sometimes low-pitched. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
It is precisely because of this difference that the cave that Qingkong enters is a different scene.
The wind was howling, and he wrapped his single coat vigorously, and this was the fourth strong wind he had encountered in this cave. He really didn't know where this strong wind came from, the walls in this cave were seamless, and it didn't seem to blow from the front and back, it really responded to the phrase "wind from nowhere".
"Crunch...... "Something seemed to crunch in the wind, but every time the wind stopped, the ground was empty.......
As he groped his way through the dimly lit cavern, he cautiously looked around, and he always felt that something was watching him nearby, making him uncomfortable.
The bloody palm prints of the wolf bear were faintly visible, stretching all the way to the end of the cave. The courage generated by hatred in Qingkong's heart is being worn out by fear little by little, what do you rely on to survive in this dragon realm, is it purely courage?
Whew, the wind blew again, and Qingkong hurriedly found a somewhat raised wall to hide in and then shrunk his body, avoiding the wind, and silently reciting the blessing of the dragon in his heart.
"Everything has emotions, once you have a choice, what if you are broken?"
Suddenly, a crisp sound came with the wind, echoing in the long cavern, incomparably ethereal.
"Who?!" Qingkong immediately touched his hand to the crystal jade ring in his arms, looking around nervously.
But all that answered him was the whirring of the wind, and the creaking of the creaking.
The wind gradually stopped again, and Qingkong looked at the cave that was still empty, and let out a sigh of relief, he scared himself again, he just wanted to get up and continue walking, but for some reason the words that had just been mixed in the wind floated through his mind.
"Once you have a choice, what if you break your bones?"
Qingkong was stunned, whether it was a reminder from Longtu's guardian or a fantasy because of the fear in his heart, but this sentence did wake him up. Go to the Blue Dragon Valley to save the fat man, this is my own choice, and I accept all the suffering.
Qingkong's body was instantly filled with strength again, and he was no longer afraid of the dim road ahead, and continued to walk towards the depths of the cave following the paw prints of the wolf and bear. He was ready to be beaten by the gale, but strangely, he never encountered the "hollow wind" again on the rest of the journey.
Without the wind to stop him, the speed under his feet also increased, and soon he saw a few glimmers of light at the end of the cave.
When he staggered out of the cave, he fell to the ground at once, exhausted, he hurriedly reached out to take out something to eat from the leather bag on his body, but helplessly, the hand that reached in touched the bottom and did not touch any food.
"Oops, no food. Qingkong patted his head, forgetting that the food was all on Qingwei's coward, and he was too dashing to forget about it when he left.
Sky struggled to look up, and saw that he had come to a place that resembled a forest, except that the forest was sparse enough for direct sunlight to reach him, and the forest was mixed with some small slopes and rocks.
Sky began to stand up against the rock walls around him, regretting why he didn't bring a long sword with him, which he couldn't use but could still use as a crutch.
Putting aside these hindsight thoughts, Qingkong picked up a slightly thicker branch from the ground, crutched the ground, and continued to follow the blood trail of the wolf bear.
After walking for a while, when passing by a small stream, Qingkong stopped to drink some water, washed his face, and untied the silk cloth from his hand, and found that the wound had scarred and was no longer in serious trouble.
"Coo-goo......" Qingkong's stomach has begun to protest.
"Damn, I'm going to starve to death if I don't eat anything, and there isn't even a wild fruit in this place, do you really want me to eat grass?" Qingkong finished complaining, picked up a small pebble and hit the stream with all his strength, and after the splash, a black thing was frightened.
Qingkong was also taken aback, but after seeing what it was, Qingkong licked his lips, and it turned out that the black thing was actually a fat black fish.
Qingkong picked up another stone and aimed it at the black fish and ejected it, although there was no terrifying power, but the crosshair was still not bad at all, and the black fish that was hit was no longer alive.
Qingkong hurriedly pounced, grabbed it in his hand, and brought it directly to his mouth, opening his mouth to bite it.
"Hmm... Well... This raw fish tastes really good. "Gobbling it up, he devoured the whole fish.
In the past, he and the fat man had been to the village in the northeast of the Source of Life Continent, and because it was close to the Endless Sea, the Terrans living there all made a living by fishing. And the most famous dish there is "killing raw fish", which is freshly killed raw fish with various ingredients, but Qingkong didn't dare to try the bloodshot raw fish before, so he only watched Jin Ming gobble it up.
"I didn't expect that everything has the shadow of this stupid fat man. Qingkong found that his memories basically had this fat figure with him, and his eyes were even more resolute. "Wait for me...... Fatty!"
After eating, Qingkong caught a few more black fish, wrapped them in leaves and put them in a leather bag, he had to prepare for the long journey, he couldn't tell when he would meet the next stream, and even if he did, there would not be fish in the stream.
He crossed the creek and followed the trail of blood for a long time, during which time he crossed several small hills, waded through several rivers, climbed a low mountain, and even crossed a small desert. The terrain here is strange, and it seems that any terrain that can be imagined exists.
The sky was getting darker, and the moon was hanging on the branches, and there was something strange in the haze.
Qingkong walked for a long time, and he was a little physically exhausted, so he found a stone to sit on and rest for a while, looked at the blood stains of the wolf and bear not far away, and suddenly said to himself: "How can this beast have so much blood to flow? Even if it is so tall and strong, it is impossible for it to continue to flow for so long?"
The more he thought about it, the more strange it became, so he stood up and carefully examined the few blood marks nearby.
After checking a few blood marks, Qingkong found a strange thing, he thought that the blood marks of this beast were lighter than the other, but when he looked closely, he found that this was not the case, but some blood stains were deep, and some blood stains were shallow.
"Isn't it the beast that 'flowed', but it actively 'stayed', and the purpose was to lure them here, and then sneak attack...... Sky was taken aback by his own thoughts.
However, this thought only flashed for a moment and disappeared, and Qingkong smiled bitterly and said: "I really overestimate that beast, how could it think of such a scheme......" Although Qingkong said this, he thought of the wolf bear's cunning eyes in his mind, and he didn't have any confidence in the last words.
A cloudy wind began to blow around the "...... Boom again, and with the sound of tree branches breaking, the sand on the ground was rolled up.
Qingkong's body shrank tightly behind the rock, and the cold rock pressed against his back as if a pair of cold hands were caressing his back, making him shiver unnaturally.
The wind grew stronger and stronger, and Qingkong felt an incomparably large force approaching him, and his legs couldn't help but slowly retreat. Suddenly, he felt a little cold in his feet, turned around and looked, and at some point a stream appeared behind him, and when he looked closely, Qingkong's eyes suddenly widened.
"Isn't this the creek where I fished a few hours ago?" Looking at the leftover fish around him, Qingkong felt like he was about to go crazy, and after walking for so long, he actually went back to the place where he started.
"That's not right!" it suddenly occurred to Qingkong that his route did not turn at all, but a straight line, and it was impossible to go back here. Then the only explanation could be ...... It's a hallucination of yourself.
"Dragon Picture Bless...... Blessed by the dragon!" Qingkong closed his eyes vigorously, and after praying silently in his heart for a while, he opened his eyes suddenly, and sure enough, the stream was gone, and in its place was a clearing, a familiar clearing.
Qing Kong looked at the clearing steadily, and the picture in his green eyes began to change, and gradually there appeared in the clearing that he had been reluctant to recall.
Jin Ming, who fell to the ground, the angry wolf and bear, and Qingtian, who knelt on one knee, protected his Mu Tian...... The picture is getting clearer and more real, as if you are standing there. Qingkong wanted to twist his body and leave, but he found that he could not control his body, and could only watch their every move, as if a memory was replayed.
"Don't!" When he saw the wolf bear turn around and run towards Jin Ming, Qingkong remembered the bloody scene when the wolf bear slapped him down that day, so he shouted nervously.
But this cry seemed to be shouted in the wolf bear's mind, and the wolf bear who was originally running towards Jin Ming suddenly flashed a trace of cunning light, and directly ran past the golden fat man to himself, and the familiar people in the clearing disappeared one after another like phantoms, and finally only the wolf and bear that ran madly towards him remained.
Qingkong couldn't say a word, he could only look at the wolf and bear rushing over.
"Bang!"
The huge body of the wolf bear knocked down the stunned Sky at once, and Sky Sky lay straight on the ground and fainted.
After walking around the fainting sky a few times, the wolf bear roared a few times, and then picked up his body and rushed into the jungle......