004, footprint (above)
The tiger baby who had already left the city didn't know the thoughts of Xinlan's daughters, and he didn't plan to tell his identity, so he didn't meet and communicate with another national worker in the city. The mountain god had already told him that the national work token should not be shown lightly, unless it must be used on a very important occasion, but he had to leave quickly afterwards, so as not to be entangled by too many idle things.
Huwa didn't expect in advance that after coming to Bayuan and entering the first city, he would show the national work token, but the things he encountered were big enough!
Walking through the outline of the city, the breath seems to have undergone indescribable changes, compared with the boy who has just walked out of the wilderness, perhaps more mature, he not only enjoys the fireworks of the world, but also contaminates too much of the breath of the world. The mountain god asked him to come to Ba Yuan, that is, to experience in the journey, and to be in the human world, he should integrate into the breath of the world, and then he can talk about true detachment.
After leaving the city, Pan Gu ran ahead of the tiger baby, and they crossed the Minshui before sunset. This is the largest river that Huwa has seen so far, the water is wide and the waves are rolling, even with his cultivation, it is impossible to fly over. Shuangxi, which is formed by the confluence of Baixi and Qingxi, is also a tributary of Minshui.
The source of Minshui is in the wild plateau where Huwa grew up since childhood. Between Lu Village and the Taihao Ruins, you have to climb over a snow-capped peak all year round. The melting snow from the high mountains converged into a trickle, passing through the long wasteland into Bayuan, and gathering countless tributaries of all sizes, passing through Gaocheng and entering the territory of Feihong City, which is the rushing river in front of Huwa.
This big river ran from the tiger baby's childhood, and flowed under his feet, as if the trajectory of life was a strange reunion here.
There is a bridge on the Minshui River, which is a miracle that ordinary people can hardly imagine. This bridge spans more than 20 zhang long across the east and west, nine piers are built with huge stones in the water flow, the top is built into a bridge arch with a stone, and then paved with stone slabs as the bridge deck, it is very spectacular to look at from afar.
Originally, there was no such bridge on the Minshui River. Traffic is carried out on another pontoon bridge. The pontoon bridge is made of many thick bamboo cables stretched horizontally on the high ground on both sides, and the middle is paved with wooden planks. However, the bamboo cable pontoon bridge needs to be maintained all year round, and it is always washed out during the flood season, which is very inconvenient to use.
After the establishment of the Xiangmuro Kingdom, more than a dozen national workers were invited to work together, taking advantage of the dry season to cast spells to dig the riverbed, and to lay the foundation for the bridge piers with the excavated boulders, and gathered nearly 1,000 people to spend several years to build this huge project. This bridge is very important, and its significance is far greater than the two bridges outside Shuangliu Village.
Both sides of the bridge are guarded by sergeants all year round. Barracks were also built on the shore. The sergeant guarding the bridge is also from Feihong City, of course they know the soldier Master Yan Lingzhu, and the last clue to Yan Lingzhu's whereabouts that he has so far mastered is that he disappeared after crossing this bridge.
After crossing the bridge, there is a wide and flat road leading to the capital, and on the way you have to pass through the jurisdiction of two other castles, which are usually very crowded with people, and there are also large mountains on both sides. As long as Yan Lingzhu crossed the bridge, he disappeared somewhere in the chaotic flow of people's footprints. It's almost impossible to find anymore.
When the tiger baby walked to the middle of Minshui, she stood on the bridge and stopped and looked upstream for a long time, closing her eyes as if she was breathing the breath of distant hometown. Minshui has flowed from a trickle into a rushing river, passing through many places and merging into many tributaries along the way, even with the sharpest sense of mind. I'm afraid I can't tell the breath of the snowy mountains, but the tiger baby seems to be able to feel it.
After he crossed the Minshui, Pan Gu accelerated his pace and ran in front to lead the way, and the tiger baby took a big stride to follow. They are very fast. As the sun set and dusk, there were no other pedestrians on the road, but a man and a dog never stopped. I also saw many villages along the way. But they had no intention of lodging.
After dark, they were still on their way under the stars, and they walked along the avenue. They went out of the city in the afternoon, and after crossing the bridge, they picked up their speed until the next morning, when they vomited slightly, and then turned to the left and entered the mountains. Walking through a low-lying pool of stagnant water and a lush bamboo forest, they saw a line of footprints on the snow in the faint morning light.
The tiger baby can't be unpredictable, and of course he can't know in advance that Yan Lingzhu passed by here, which was found out by Pan Gu, just when the tiger baby was a guest in the city lord's mansion.
With Pan Gu's current ability, he can be called a divine dog in the eyes of ordinary people. It sniffed at Yan Lingzhu's house, and under normal circumstances, it should be able to track its human breath. But after leaving the city, there was nothing Pan Gu could do, because there were many people walking on the road after the snow, and it was impossible to distinguish the smell in the mud.
Pan Gu is very smart, but he is still just a dog, and no matter how smart he is, he is not as clever as the cunning monk in the world. But it grew up in the wilderness, and after spending a lot of time with the tiger baby, it also learned to use what seemed to be a stupid method.
Instead of walking on the main road, Pan Gu walked some distance away from the road, keeping a roughly parallel direction through the mountains, observing whether there were any footprints or breath left by people in the places he passed. Since Yan Lingzhu is a fugitive, he can't reveal his identity and whereabouts, of course, he can't walk on this avenue all the time, sooner or later he has to go into the mountains or enter other forks.
At such a time, pedestrians hardly leave the road and enter the wilderness, and even if they occasionally go to the roadside woods, they do not go far. If someone quietly enters the depths of the mountains without taking the right path, of course, it is worth doubting that the snow in the field has not melted at this moment.
Pan Gu was a bit unlucky, he started out through the mountains on the right side of the road, and ran far away without finding anything. Later, it felt that it had gone far enough and it was time to go back, so it turned around and entered the field on the other side of the avenue, and after walking back, it found the footprints of people passing by in the mountains, and also recognized the breath of Yan Lingzhu.
Pan Gu did not go after Yan Lingzhu alone, Hu Wa secretly ordered it to be tasked with the whereabouts of this soldier, and if there was a clue, he would immediately return to the city. Pan Gu returned to the city and wandered around for a day and watched a lot of excitement. It was a happy dog, and it didn't have as many fancy guts as people, and it didn't have so many thoughtful worries, and the tiger baby asked it to do it, and it was happy to have done it.
The terrain in the mountains is high and low, the vines are densely covered with ancient trees, not everywhere there is snow, Yan Lingzhu only left intermittent footprints, some are not in the snow but on the wet and soft mud ground, if there is no pan gourd to guide the way, it is not easy to track and distinguish.
They went deep into the field and climbed to the top of the mountain on the side of the road, and once again saw clear footprints on the snow, where Yan Lingzhu had obviously stopped to look into the distance. Huwa observed the footprints and looked in the direction that Yan Lingzhu was looking at from afar, and the road under the mountain led to a village. The scale of this village is not small, almost the same as Shuangliu Village, and there are likely to be sergeants on duty at the gate of the village.
Before the matter was revealed, Yan Lingzhu was safe, disguised himself for a while, and walked along the avenue without leaving a trace, and the speed was also the fastest. Once here, to avoid being recognized by the sergeant in the village ahead, he turned the corner and entered the mountains. It was so far from the city that he probably thought he was safe for the time being.
The tiger baby and Pan Gu traced the footprints and descended the mountain from the other side, into the vast dense forest, and walked through a road that was difficult for ordinary people to travel, and in front of them was a majestic mountain. Although it is not as majestic and steep as the mountains in the wilderness, it is also a very majestic mountain in the Ba Yuan.
In the thousands of rocks and towering forests, they couldn't see the whole picture of the mountains, and as they walked, they lost the trace of Yan Lingzhu. In front of him is a sunny hillside, there are many bare rocks on the cliffs, and there is no snow in many places, if Yan Lingzhu flies and steps on it, he can leave no footprints.
They searched in this area again, but still didn't find anything, not only footprints, Yan Lingzhu didn't even leave a breath, and he couldn't find any clues to his whereabouts with his ability, this person suddenly disappeared after arriving here.
The tiger baby frowned slightly, but made another inference. Of course, Yan Lingzhu couldn't have disappeared out of thin air, he was probably hiding not far from here. Walking long distances through such mountains and snowfields, even the tiger baby cannot leave any traces, unless he can fly. However, if he reined in his aura in a short period of time and did not leave clues to his whereabouts with the help of the terrain, an experienced Four Realms cultivator like Yan Lingzhu could do it.
Huwa thought of a stupid solution, he observed the nearby mountains and forests, and estimated in his heart - if he restrained his breath and tried not to leave any traces, how far could he run at a time? Then with this distance as a radius, he should be able to find something by searching the surrounding area from the place where Yan Lingzhu's footprints disappeared. Even if Yan Lingzhu didn't hide nearby, beyond a certain distance, it was possible to find new clues to his whereabouts.
But this area is not small, and it is not a plain clearing, it is in the deep mountains and dense forests, and it is necessary to search carefully without letting go of any traces, and it will take at least one or two days for the tiger baby and Pan Gu, and this is still before the snow melts. Let's try our luck first, a man and a dog went around in circles to look for it, and the circle got bigger and bigger, and nothing was found until noon.
Huwa held her voice and quietly said to Pan Gu: "We have to pay attention to vigilance, if we suddenly encounter this person, there may be a fierce battle, we can't be too distracted, we have to be reserved, let's rest for a while first." ...... If you can't find any trace of this person after searching far away, it means that his ability is greater than ours, so don't chase it reluctantly. ”
They set up a seat to rest on the hillside under the sun, I have to say, the scenery and environment here are very good, looking at the mountains and beautiful scenery in the distance, it is refreshing and pleasant, and the breath is as if swallowing the world in the chest.
In the eyes of others, they should be very tired by now, but Captain Murabao had taught Tiger Wa and Pan Gu the kung fu of walking through the mountains, but in fact, these two were not tired, but they thought that they would only rest if they were at their peak at all times. At this moment, a man in black walked out of the opposite mountain forest, and this person hung a long knife from his waist. Looking at the handle and scabbard of the sword, it turned out to be the ordnance of the defending sergeant.
As soon as this person appeared, Huwa opened her eyes, got up and asked, "Yan Lingzhu?" (to be continued......