The rain was still falling, crackling on the sheepskin tent, and I don't know when it got heavier.

The discussion in the tent continued, as if no notice of the noisy rain sounded, and the map was still spread on the ground.

Ouyang Xun tilted his head slightly, tilting his ears sideways, as if he had only noticed that the rain outside was getting heavier at this time, and after a while, he frowned and said:

"Listen to the sound, it's raining a little hard, and tomorrow the ground will be muddy, will it affect our hurry. ”

Xiao Cong tasted a little bit of work, and asked with a smile:

"You mean the Forbidden Forest?"

Ouyang Xun nodded,

"Actually, I think it's okay, instead of racking your brains to think about what it's like in the wilderness, it's better to think more about how to go after entering the forbidden forest tomorrow, the aborigines of the ancient Zhou Plain don't dare to cross the thunder pond half a step, which means that there is definitely something strange in this, but I don't know if these strange things have such a big impact on us, in addition, we don't even know how big the forbidden forest is, if you are careful, you have to slow down a little, but if it is too slow, you may not be able to pass through it within the specified time, and it is raining tonight, if you want me to say, for today's plan, the forbidden forest is the place we should worry about the most。 ”

Xiao Cong smiled helplessly, spread his hands and said:

"But we really don't know anything about the Forbidden Forest. ”

"Then find out all the dangers that may arise and prepare for them. Hongxiang said.

Ouyang Xun frowned and shook his head,

"No, it's too slow, and there's a lot to discuss tonight. ”

"Then what do you say?" Hongxiang raised his eyebrows, slightly provocative.

Xiao Cong chuckled a few times and teased:

"Hongxiang, aren't you usually the most methodical? Why are you asking Ouyang Xun now. ”

Hongxiang Zhenzhen has words,

"There is a precedence in hearing the Tao, there is a specialization in the art industry, working together, expressing their own opinions, besides, this is not something I can give a hammer to the end. ”

Xiao Cong swears,

"Don't be so modest, no one is as smart as you here, as long as you think about it, you will definitely be able to come up with a satisfactory solution." ”

A black line rose on Hongxiang's forehead,

"There are no clues, what do you think, whimsical!"

Ouyang Xun said helplessly:

"Don't be poor, you two, hurry up and get down to business. ”

Xiao Cong stretched his waist and sat down slowly, still in a hanging,

"Okay, just listen to the great talent, think about it, come and come, don't stand, sit down and think. ”

The three of them also sat down.

Xiao Cong rubbed his hands and said:

"Do you feel like it's suddenly a little cold right now? ”

The three of them were a little confused by Xiao Cong's words, Hongxiang twisted his body, took a deep breath and replied:

"It's a little colder, indeed. ”

"Aren't you two cold?" Xiao Cong asked Ouyang Xun and Younu.

The ghost girl shook her head, her eyes were ignorant, and Ouyang Xun replied:

"Maybe the clothes we're wearing are not made of the same material as the ones you're wearing, so we can't feel it. ”

Xiao Cong nodded and chuckled:

"That's right, how can what you Ouyang Xun is wearing be a mundane thing, and the gift you give out is even more unusual. ”

Ouyang Xun looked indifferent,

"Do you mean anything deeper by saying this?"

Xiao Cong laughed harmlessly at humans and animals,

"No, I just think that this kind of atmosphere should have a stove and make a pot of tea, and that is the style it should be. ”

As he spoke, he took out a tea set with his right hand, filled the kettle with water and put it on Shi Wei, there was a spirit stone at the bottom of Shi Wei, Xiao Cong snapped his fingers with his right hand, and a yellow flame popped out of his fingertips, which he threw on the spirit stone at the bottom of Shi Wei, and the flame took root on the spirit stone, and constantly drew spiritual energy from the spirit stone, so that it could continue to burn, although the flame was small, the temperature was not low at all.

Xiao Cong began to use a teaspoon to dial "Qingmei Xue" into the teapot, and Ouyang Xun threw over a small paper bag at this time,

"Drink it, not only to refresh yourself, but also to refresh your mind. ”

Xiao Cong knew that Ouyang Xun had something to say, but he didn't care, so he just smiled, then opened the paper bag, dialed the northern tribute "Wusheng Tea" into the teapot, and then smiled at the other three:

"The three of you are so far away, you have to let me send it to you, it's inconvenient. ”

The ghost girl and Hongxiang got up one after another, Ouyang Xun and Xiao Cong were diagonal, he first pulled the map under his feet to his side, so that he could make more space on Xiao Cong's side, and then stood up and walked to the ghost girl unhurriedly, and was about to sit down, but heard the ghost girl say:

"You do it, you and Satoshi still have to talk about things, I'm just listening. ”

Ouyang Xun shyly changed positions with the ghost, causing Hongxiang to sigh for a while,

"Isn't it just a change of seat, tiptoeing like a. ”

Xiao Cong made matters worse,

"This rhetoric is wrong, it should be like a little girl. ”

Hongxiang made a look of sudden realization, and gave Xiao Cong a thumbs up while nodding,

"Reasonably, reasonably. ”

In front of the ghost, Ouyang Xun was afraid of losing his demeanor and didn't want to defend anything, Xiao Cong casually distributed tea bowls to them - only tea cups, no smelling cups, which meant that they were just drinking tea tonight.

The water in the kettle on Shi Wei slowly boiled, because it was half full, so only a gentle grunt was heard, Xiao Cong poured hot water into the teapot, put the kettle into Shi Wei and then poured the water in the teapot on the tea boat, in an instant, the fragrance of tea filled the entire tent, he poured the water in the kettle into the teapot again, and finally stuffed the lid of the kettle and put it aside, while he naturally put his two hands on his thighs, closed his eyes, and remained silent.

After a moment, Ouyang Xun asked softly:

"Can we start?"

Xiao Cong didn't open his eyes, pursed his lips and smiled, and replied calmly:

"Don't worry, we'll talk after the first cup of tea, I advise you to take advantage of this moment to close your eyes and think, which is of great benefit to us now. ”，

The ghost girl blinked her beautiful eyes twice, smiled, and then with a little playful feeling, she learned from Xiao Cong's appearance and closed her eyes lightly, Hongxiang scratched her head, although she didn't know why, but seeing that the ghost girl did what Xiao Cong said, she followed suit, Ouyang Xun rolled her eyes rarely, exhaled a heavy breath, and then closed her eyes as well.

The atmosphere in the tent slowly entered the tranquility, although the water on the stone was still boiling, but it was still really quiet, because it came from the resonance in the hearts of the four people, the heart and the outside of the heart are two worlds, the outside world does not affect the world in the heart at all, because their minds are all focused on feeling each other, or rather, the things in the heart are shared, and this is an addictive state.

This kind of silence did not last long, because there is a just right point for making tea, and this time is the best time to drink tea.

Xiao Cong has a good grasp of this point, he was the first to open his eyes, slowly and methodically picked up the pot and poured tea, the tea soup flowed from the spout into the tea bowl as if it was close to time, and there was a layer of tea foam floating on it while swirling, the three of them waited for Xiao Cong to finish pouring the tea, and then pinched the tea bowl with him, moved it to his mouth and took a sip, and after a while, he heard Xiao Cong laughing:

"Well, do you understand why I did that?"

The soft light flowed in the clear eyes of the ghost, Hongxiang didn't care about Xiao Cong's words, and was still sipping tea with his mouth in the bar, Ouyang Xun nodded heavily, and said:

"I see, it's really important for us to do that. The voice sounded much calmer and thicker than before.

Xiao Cong smiled slightly,

"It's good to get it. ”

Hongxiang seemed to have come back to his senses at this moment, and hurriedly asked:

"Got what?"

Ouyang Xun turned his face to Hongxiang, and the corners of his mouth looked sincere and natural.

"Hurry things slowly, do things slowly, no matter what kind of situation you encounter, you must keep your inner peace, don't mess up, don't panic, base yourself on the present, and don't be afraid of the future. ”

Hearing this, Hongxiang lowered his head and thought for a moment, and said thoughtfully:

"Oh, it turns out that my brother just thought you were too nervous, so he made fun of me, I wanted to adjust the atmosphere, but I didn't want to be useless, so I wanted to use this method to help you calm your mind. ”

Xiao Cong let out a teasing laugh,

"I understand it so quickly, I said it a long time ago, we Hongxiang are smart!"

Hongxiang doesn't like evil, a look is gouging over,

"What you just said was clever! Don't think I've forgotten, you're still making fun of me at this point, are you addicted to shabu!"

Xiao Cong blew a breath on his face senselessly, straightened up and said like a person who had nothing to do:

"Okay, now that the state is there, let's start the discussion. ”

Hongxiang "......"

Xiao Cong put down the tea bowl, and said while picking up the pot and filling the tea bowls of the other three:

"Why do you think the aborigines of the Guzhou Plain dare not set foot in the forbidden forest?"

Ouyang Xun thought for a moment and replied,

"At the very least, the Forbidden Forest is a great danger to them. ”

It may also be a scrupulous observance of the ancestral contract. The girl said.

"Hmm......" Hongxiang pondered for a long time, and said hesitantly, "Could it be that they can't get in at all?"

Xiao Cong pursed his lips and smiled, put down the teapot, and his tone was very relaxed,

"All three of these scenarios are possible, but you say, have any of the aborigines of the Ancient Zhou Plain ever entered the forbidden forest?"

Ouyang Xun frowned,

"Who knows!"

The phantom echoed,

"We really don't know about this question at the moment. ”

Xiao Cong's smile is still the same,

"Okay, let's put this question aside and then explore another question, what do you say, what is the meaning of the existence of the Forbidden Forest?"

The three of them looked at each other, Ouyang Xun took a deep breath, and said:

"Defend against the invasion of the Great Wilderness?"

Xiao Cong smiled but did not speak.

Hongxiang: "The Forbidden Forest is at the junction of the Ancient Zhou Plain and the Great Wilderness, and it may belong to which side, or it may belong to the Great Wilderness, or it may even be formed under the joint action of the Great Wilderness and the Ancient Zhou Plain, but I don't know if there is such a Forbidden Forest in other places bordering the Great Wilderness, if there is, then it is easy to judge." ”

Ouyang Xun looked at Hongxiang and said with a serious face:

"The Xuanzhen Mortal Realm that we are familiar with, except for the border with the Great Wilderness in the Ancient Zhou Plain, the rest of the marginal areas are all coastlines. ”

Hongxiang's eyes lit up slightly,

"The sea, what the sea. ”

Ouyang Xun replied word by word without thinking:

"Sea of bitterness. ”

When Hongxiang heard this, he wilted all of a sudden, and sang in the nursery rhyme about the forbidden land in the Xuanzhen realm, "The bitter sea is boundless, and the back is the shore", referring to this sea.

Xiao Cong took a sip of the cup and said with a smile:

"Have you noticed that there are so many strong clans on the Guzhou Plain, but on the way we came, not to mention a tomb, even a wreckage has never been encountered, don't you think it's strange?"

The three of them were silent for a while.

Hongxiang seemed to have an understanding, and muttered:

"The only burial mound is the burial ground of the necromancers, and after so much time, they have come back to life, so there is a reason why the Xuanyuan family buried them here, as for the bones of the aborigines...... Are they all buried in the forbidden forest?"

Xiao Cong looked at Ouyang Xun and asked softly:

"What do you think?"

Ouyang Xun was still frowning and thinking, when he heard Xiao Cong calling him, he slowly raised his head and said solemnly:

"Maybe not all aborigines can't enter the forbidden forest, but dying aborigines can. ”

Hongxiang asked:

"Why do you have to die in the Forbidden Forest? It's not the same to die outside?"

As he spoke, he gasped and answered himself with a look of trepidation,

"Could it be that all the corpses buried in the rainforest of the Guzhou Plain will become like dead spirits?"

Xiao Cong had a mysterious smile on his face and slowly shook his head,

"Although it's not impossible, but the probability is too small, don't forget, the matter of necromancy, but it comes from the joint handiwork of Xuanyuan, Dugu and Nangong, even if the corpse is buried in the rainforest, it will definitely not be like a necromancy, the Xuanyuan family just took advantage of this matter. ”

"What the hell is going on with my brother?" asked Hongxiang.

"If you want me to say," Xiao Cong moved his gaze upward, biting his lip for a while, and then continued: "There may be some special substances in the rainforest that can completely dissolve the corpses of living beings, so those living beings know that even if they set up a grave, it is meaningless, unless they die outside the rainforest." ”

"But what's the point of doing that?" Hongxiang then asked.

"Ouyang Xun said just now, those things in the Great Wilderness are inherently opposed to ordinary creatures, and there must always be a source for this opposite, and the mysterious substances in the rainforest will extract the source of these opposites and send them to the Forbidden Forest in the process of dissolving the corpses of living beings, it is precisely because of such a mechanism that the Ancient Zhou Plain can become the gateway to the Xuanzhen Mortal Realm, in fact, it is more accurate to say that it is a barrier. ”

After a pause, Xiao Cong continued:

"But suddenly I thought of another possibility. ”

Ouyang Xun can't wait,

"What's possible, say it quickly!"

Xiao Cong smiled,

"Why, you think the last one I said may not be reliable. ”

Ouyang Xun shook his head vigorously,

"No, I just vaguely feel that the other one you said may be more reliable!"

"Well, this really happened to me. ”

"Don't be wordy, let's talk about it. ”

"Look, you're in a hurry again, hurry up and take another sip of tea to calm down. ”

Ouyang Xun: "......"

Hongxiang also urged:

"Brother, say it quickly, are you embarrassed to hang our appetite like this?"

Xiao Cong smiled, cleared his throat and said:

"The second thing I think of is actually very simple, or is it that the ancient Zhou Plain is the barrier of the Xuanzhen mortal realm, but about the opposing substance, it is not from the living beings, but from the ancient Zhou Plain itself, and the aborigines of the ancient Zhou Plain because they were born here, they will inevitably use these mysterious substances to build a foundation, but this opposing substance can not be completely dissolved by the living beings and become a part of themselves, this opposing substance will eventually have to go to the place where they should go, that is, the forbidden forest, the forbidden forest can use these opposing substances to resist the great wilderness, so the aborigines of the ancient Zhou plain can't set foot in the forbidden forest, and they don't even dare to approach。 ”

Ouyang Xun thought so, nodded and said:

"It makes sense, the aborigines of the ancient Zhou Plain used these opposing materials to build a foundation, but they couldn't fully use them, and they didn't die, which obviously became a container for this opposing substance!"

"You're right. Xiao Cong couldn't help but sigh, and suddenly asked again: "Hey, you know so much, have you heard that there is a big clan that moved out of the Guzhou Plain, how is it developing, and is there any such situation that we speculated?"

Ouyang Xun took a deep breath, then released it from his nose and said in a deep voice:

"Your words reminded me, the big clan doesn't know, but I have seen the story of the pseudo-immortal of the Tongtian Realm and even the quasi-immortal of the Qitian Realm who died inexplicably without leaving a trace in many ancient books of the Turtle Mansion, and I didn't know the reason for this before, listening to you today, I think that these people are **** from the Guzhou Plain!"

Xiao Cong didn't have time to speak, but he heard Hongxiang say in surprise:

"Brother, do you think these things have something to do with the spiritual veins?"

The ghost girl denied it,

"Impossible, Li Mu has been out for so long, and he hasn't seen any major changes in the Guzhou Plain, so this matter has absolutely nothing to do with Li Mu. ”

Hongxiang saw that the ghost girl was a little mistaken about his words, and sneered with his head:

"Sister, don't worry, I just said that it might have something to do with it, and I didn't say what it would do to Li Mu, don't worry, even if this matter is really related to the spiritual vein, we won't do anything to Li Mu." ”

The girl's face remained unchanged, so that Hongxiang didn't dare to look at her for a while.