020, Ba Yuan Qisha (below)
From the village, there are different directions leading to different places. To the west along the deep ravine is a winding and rugged mountain road, which was dug by the ancestors of Lu Village, leading to the wild central valley where the original Shimizu clan was located. It was a road down the mountain, and the narrow ravine disappeared into the edge of the central valley, and it was the only road leading to the village until there was no bridge over the cliff.
To the south of the road village is the deep ravine cliff, cross the cliff and walk more than three miles over a mountain beam is the shore of the flower coast, there is the flower sea village is also the place where the tiger baby often goes to play. To the east, there are no roads, only mountains, but the people of the wilderness can always find wild paths in the mountains. There are many birds and animals living in that vast area, and it is a place where the people of Lucun have hunted for generations.
To the north, behind the village, the gentle slope at the foot of the mountain has been transformed into a field of soybeans surrounded by hemp forests, and patches of elm trees and oaks grow. Further up, the terrain became steeper and steeper, and the people of Lu Village often entered this deep mountain to collect kudzu, wild fruits and some medicinal herbs they knew. The mountains rise and fall as if they were endless, and the terrain rises higher and higher. The very high ground is full of bare rocks, almost no vegetation, even in summer it is cold, and there is often snow on the summit.
The people of Lu Village had never climbed that mountain, because there was no need, the height was extremely steep and there was no road at all, and there was nothing to pick or prey to obtain. Pan Gu and the tiger baby walked up the back mountain, climbed along the stream outside the village, passed through the dense forest at the edge of the hemp forest, and entered the vast primeval jungle.
It was early autumn, the eyes were full of green colors, the forest was full of books and bamboos, the roots and stones were thick with moss, and there were many fallen trees in the streams, some of which had sunk in the water for thousands of years. The scenery on all four sides of it is almost the same, and there are several people hugging thick trees, except for the sound of running water in the near distance, and various strange sounds can be heard from time to time in the distance. If you don't read the sun, it's easy to get lost in such a primeval jungle.
Where there are no roads, the tracks that people have traveled are roads. Pan Gu seems to be familiar with the direction, running all the way on all fours in the jungle, and the tiger baby has to run to keep up. In fact, it is very dangerous to run in this kind of jungle, slippery moss can make people lose their center of gravity, step on sharp stones or broken bamboo roots, and easily hurt people, if you accidentally fall and roll down a rock gap or cliff, it is often life-threatening.
Pan Gu didn't seem to realize that ordinary children would never be able to keep up with his speed, and he could still walk safely in this kind of jungle, in his eyes, the tiger baby was much more powerful than himself, so he would definitely be able to keep up unharmed. Fortunately, the tiger baby has been cultivating the first realm for many years, and I don't know how many transformations she has experienced, but now she is a second-realm cultivator, her body is agile and powerful, and her perception is sharp and clear, so she can still catch up with Pan Gu.
Walking higher and deeper along the stream, it is already a place where the tribal residents will not go deep alone, and it is also a deep mountain area that is rarely reached by people in Lu Village. It was always the way up the mountain, and Pan Gu ran at a fast pace almost without stopping, running from shortly after sunrise in the morning to late afternoon. This dog is really not simple, if it is not followed by a tiger baby, another person may have been tired and lying down!
If it were a hunting party of the tribe, they would never climb the mountain almost in a straight line like theirs, and traverse so many difficult and remote places, and the same distance would have required several days of continuous trekking.
In the afternoon, Pan Gu reached a waterhole. This waterhole is about three zhang in circumference, but the deepest point is only about three feet, the water is crystal clear, and the trees growing around it are so swaying and beautiful, and the canopy of the trees is shrouded in the waterhole and reflected in the blue water.
The stream that used to flow down the mountain originated here, and there was a bubbling spring between the gravel in the pool, and there was also a trickle of snow flowing into the pool from the surrounding high places, which was the melting snow from the distant mountains. Huwa exclaimed: "Wow, it's so beautiful, it's really a good place to take a bath...... Let's rest, where are you going to take me?"
Pan Gu should have been tired of running, so he came to the waterhole and bowed his head and drank a few sips of water, then stretched out one of his front paws and pointed to the north, meaning that he would go farther away. Then it sits on the edge of the pool and rests, soaking its two hind paws in the water. The tiger baby feels that this waterhole and the surrounding scenery are very beautiful, and it is very comfortable to sit here, and even has a feeling of refreshment.
While resting, he stumbled upon someone else who had been here. There are some kudzu vines scattered in the woods by the pond, and the traces are different from the old and new, many of which have been left a long time ago, and it is obvious that they are not naturally piled up or washed by the mountains and rivers, but are hand-picked and processed, among which the slender kudzu silk and the arrowroot powder in the rhizome have been removed. Then he found a few winding gardzu silk on the green bamboo next to him, which was definitely not naturally wound, with traces of artificial weaving.
There are no other tribes in this vicinity, only Lu Village in the distance under the mountain, who would run to such a secluded place, is it Granny Shui? It is not difficult to walk through the barren forest to this place with Granny Shui's ability, this may be the place where she often bathes, and she has also practiced how to weave water cloth here, and the environment is indeed very good and quiet.
Huwa guessed correctly, this is really the place where Granny Shui often bathes, and she also practiced here back then, and the extreme of the method of imperial things, manipulating countless gardzu silk to weave into cloth, was cultivated here decades ago. Ruoshui probably didn't expect Pan Gu to pass by here with a tiger baby, and it was impossible for any clansmen to come here in normal times.
There were no fish in the waterhole, but there were rock frogs in the nearby streams, and the tiger baby had not eaten today, and of course she was hungry after running such a long way, so she caught a few rock frogs and came back, peeled them and washed them, and used them to drill wood and use dry moss to set them on fire, and skewered them on the branches and roasted them. The gluttonous dog also ate with him.
At this time, Huwa suddenly found that there was an injury on Pan Gu's body, and the wound was more than half a foot long from the back to the waist, as if it had been cut or cut by something sharp, which was an obvious external injury, but the wound should not be deep, and it did not cause too serious injury and life danger. The clansmen also often suffer from various external injuries, and the tiger baby has been used to seeing it since she was a child, and she is already very experienced.
Although this kind of injury is not fatal on the surface, it needs to be bandaged and treated in time, otherwise it will kill if the infection is caused by excessive blood loss and fire. When Pan Gu left the village three days ago, he was not injured on his body, so his injuries should have happened in the past few days. But when the tiger baby found it just now, its wound had healed, but the dog hair near the wound had not regrown.
This discovery surprised the tiger baby, now there are very few fierce beasts in this area of wilderness can hurt Pan Gu, and according to this kind of injury, even if it is dealt with in time, Pan Gu has a special physique and recovers very quickly, I am afraid it will take ten days to heal. Now that three days have passed, how can its wound have healed? And it is still so alive and kicking that it does not look like it has just been injured!
The tiger baby asked, but unfortunately Pan Gu couldn't speak, it screamed for a long time with two paws, and while jumping to make a demonstration, the tiger baby barely understood the general meaning. Pan Gu was on his way to that place when he was suddenly attacked by a dangerous villain.
Although the guy attacked and injured Pan Gu, Pan Gu showed his magic and immediately counterattacked to win, killing him on the spot. Pan Gu also knew how to deal with the wound, and now his recovery ability is amazing, and after arriving at the destination, he had an adventure, and the wound healed quickly. It hurried back to the village to tell Huwa about the latest adventure and wanted to take him over to see it.
The meaning of the dog made the tiger baby seem to understand whether she understood it or not, and at the same time she was very curious, wondering what kind of miraculous discovery had been made by the Dao Pang? After eating, one person and one dog hurried on. Granny Water reached the farthest place in the deep mountains, which was the waterhole, and the further the tiger baby walked was equivalent to exploring a new territory that the Lu people had never entered.
The mountains are getting higher and the temperature is getting colder, and there are fewer weeds and shrubs in the forest, and gradually only tall fir and pine trees are distributed. At first, it ran faster than it had been in the morning, but it slowed down as the air became thinner. If you are a person who lives on the plains all year round, you may not even feel able to breathe when you first arrive here, let alone run so fast.
The tiger baby lives in the mountains all year round and has a different physique than ordinary people, so he can still keep up. The higher they went, the sparser the forest became, and the vegetation gradually became low, until they saw a gravel-covered forest and a steep rock face with strange rocks. Looking up, you can see a blue-white bare rock peak, and some of the rocks that are protected from light are clearly covered with snow.
It's early autumn, but it snows all year round at the top of the peak, and the snow doesn't melt quickly when it falls in the shade. The majestic peak seemed to stretch in front of you, but after a long walk, you still didn't reach it, when the sun had set and the sky was getting dark. Huwa stood still behind and shouted: "Pan Gu, how far do we have to go? We can't run around anymore, it's getting dark, we have to find a place to spend the night!"
The residents of various tribes in the deep mountains must return to the village as soon as it gets dark, and they must not run around outside, which is the habit and life experience that the tiger baby has developed since childhood. Although he had never traveled far away, he often heard his people talking about their experiences in the mountains, choosing a safe camp to spend the night before the sun went down, and not waiting until after dark to find a place.
It was also the first time for Huwa to spend the night outside the village, and he felt very novel and excited in his heart, but he hadn't forgotten to remind Pan Gu. Pan Gu stood up and shook his head, stretched out his paw and pointed ahead, and screamed a few times, meaning that the tiger baby should hurry up and continue to walk with it, anyway, he had to cross the mountain in front of him as soon as possible.