021, Taihao Ruins (I)
At this time, it was impossible to return to the village, and the place where they were was was an exposed rock peak with no grass, and the wind was very strong and the air was very cold, and it was indeed impossible to find a suitable place to spend the night. The tiger baby thought that Pan Gu had often gone into the mountains with the hunting team in the past few years, and she didn't know how many nights she had spent in the mountains, so she should be more experienced than herself, so she followed it and struggled to climb to the mountain.
Instead of climbing over the pinnacle at the highest point of the Giant Peak, they climbed over a relatively low, easy-to-pass col between two snow-capped peaks. Before they reached the col, it was already dark, but the upper ridgeline ahead seemed to be gilded with a layer of golden light, and the clouds in the sky were also reflective, so they could still see the surrounding scenery faintly.
In fact, it is extremely dangerous to climb such a mountain in such a situation, and if you are not careful, you will have to worry about your life, let alone climb it with your bare hands. In the dimness, it is not possible to fully see the surrounding scenery, weathered rocks can easily collapse, and low-lying debris can also form landslides, and there are many hidden crevices and ravines. But the tiger baby already has a very keen perception at the moment, even if she doesn't need to see with her eyes, she can barely follow Pan Gu in the dark.
When the tiger baby climbed the ridge, she was stunned for a moment, and understood why Pan Gu had to brave the darkness to climb over the top of the mountain. At the foot of the mountain, the distant Lu Village should have fallen into darkness at this time, and the clansmen had already gone back to sleep, but Huwa felt that the sun was dazzling - the sky on this side of the mountain was still bright!
Whether it is Lu Village or Huahai Village, they are all located between the continuous peaks, when the tiger baby was small, in addition to the sky overhead, the line of sight that could be spread never exceeded ten miles around. Later, he crossed the cliff to Huahai Village, and saw the beautiful lake on the plateau, which was already the most open scenery, but the sea of flowers was still in the mountains.
In the village, after the sun sets every day, it means that it is dark, but Huwa walked to the top of the distant mountain where the sun sets every day for the first time today, and saw the sun again after the sun set. A round sun hung over the ridgeline farther away, and although it was not as blazing as it was at noon, it was still golden and difficult to look at, and the clouds around it were dyed red for half of the day.
The farther ridges, the sun that had not yet set, were lower than the foothills of the tiger baby, so the sunlight shone at a faint upward angle close to horizontal. If there is a huge shield behind the tiger baby, the shadow will be cast higher than him, and the tiger baby has never seen such a scene, and she has never even thought of it.
He was standing at an extremely high place at the moment, even higher than the position of the sun in the distance, and his eyes in front of and behind him were unobstructed, and he did not know how many miles he could penetrate. Looking back from here, you can't see the sea of flowers in the distance, but you can see the peaks around the sea of flowers, this feeling is a great shock and impact on the mind, as if the whole world is infinitely open, and people standing in the middle of it seem so small.
The tiger baby is not an ordinary person, he felt this shock and impact, and for a moment entered a strange fixed state, as if his body also stretched out, integrated into the world, and accepted this endless artistic conception of refinement, and his mind was in the form of assimilation with heaven and earth, and realized the unprecedented mystery.
It was the roar of the pan gourd that woke the tiger baby from this strange state, and it should have urged him to hurry down the mountain, seeing that the distant sun had set on the distant ridgeline, and it would soon be dark here. When the tiger baby ran down the mountain with Pan Gu, he couldn't help but think in his heart, if someone was fast enough to catch up with the sun's footsteps in the sky, would the sun in front of him never set?
Before it was completely dark, they entered a primeval jungle again, and led the tiger baby to climb a towering giant tree, and there was a place where many branches opened at the same time, which was quite wide and flat, which could not only spy on all kinds of movements on the ground, but also be blocked by the dense canopy, which seemed safe and hidden. The most common tree in this area is the fir, with only a thick, straight trunk and tiny branches, and it is not easy for Panghu to find such a strange tree, which seems to be the camp he chose to camp the last time he passed here.
They spent the night in the tree, and the tiger baby chose a position that was as comfortable as possible, and then lay down to sleep in the second half of the night, while Pan Gu also sat cross-legged like a dog. Because it is spent overnight in the mountains, the tiger baby maintains a natural alertness whether it sits or sleeps, and once it is disturbed, it will immediately react and wake up.
The tiger baby seemed to wake up several times this night, and he could hear a faint rustling sound on the ground, with a dangerous aura for some reason, but not enough to pose a threat to him in the big tree. It was not a beast of prey, but reptiles and all kinds of poisonous insects.
After dawn, climb down the giant tree and continue on the road, this side of the mountain is a valley, and the lowest point is much higher than Lu Village. Aside from the jungle where they spent the night the night, the vegetation here is not very lush, the climate is cold, the environment is relatively isolated, and there are no large animals, but there are many poisonous insects in the early autumn season. For example, the tiger baby found a lot of centipedes, some of which were more than two feet long, and just by looking at it, they knew that the poison was very strong, and no one would feel good if they were stung.
This place has been uninhabited since ancient times, and even the hunting teams of the tribes deep in the mountains will not come. The tiger baby also saw what had hurt Pan Gu, it was a long snake with thick arms, its scales were as hard as fine iron and shining with a little golden light, and near its chest, there were a few scales that were as open as feathers and as sharp as a blade.
The last time Pan Gu passed here, he was attacked by this long snake that suddenly pounced. But Pan Gu's reaction was very fast, and he was not bitten by the snake, but was bruised by scales. And the snake didn't end well, it was hunted on the spot, and the tiger baby saw it again when she passed by. But the tiger baby didn't have time to stop and look at the battlefield three days ago, and Pan Gu shouted again to urge him to hurry, so that he could pass through this poisonous insect-infested barren forest as soon as possible.
Probably because I had climbed the highest mountain in the vicinity yesterday, the road felt easier today, and it didn't take too long to cross this plateau valley. About noon, they ascended another ridge, where the sun had seen set for the second time yesterday.
After climbing the ridge, I realized that there was more than one peak in front of the road, and I walked a long way up and down, and in the afternoon I came to another valley in the mountains, and I screamed excitedly several times, which means that the place has arrived! The dog stood still and gestured to the valley, and his expression was slightly meaningful, as if asking the tiger baby-can you find anything here?
The tiger baby looked at the valley, a very inconspicuous little basin in the middle of the mountains, about a few miles in circumference, with many bare rocks on the edges, and sparse vegetation grew. It was desolate, arid and barren, with almost no traces of animal activity, not even poisonous insects, and a place where rabbits didn't poop.
The tiger baby closed her eyes and released her perception to search, but she didn't find anything special, and she couldn't help but show a look of confusion. And Pan Gu's expression was obviously smiling, learning to laugh like a human, and then waved his paws, signaling the tiger baby to follow him, and after entering this desolate valley, Pan Gu had straightened up, and his speed slowed down significantly.
Passing through the rocks and bushes, there was no water source in the area, no succulent rhizomes to grow, and no edible wild fruit in the bushes, but many hard thorns. Of course, there are no animals living here, not even birds flying. Approaching the middle of the valley, there was a strange twisted tree in front of you.
The so-called "strange twist" is just a name for the wild people in the deep mountains, its leaves are a bit like a locust tree, and its branches are a bit like willows. When its trunk grows to a height of more than a zhang, the branches will wrap around each other and spread out in all directions, and then hang down to the ground, looking like a small green house from a distance.
The vegetation in this area is very low and sparse, but the strange twisted trees near the center of the valley are very luxuriant, and the dense foliage of the hanging branches completely obscures the view. Pan Gu stretched out his paws to push away the strange twisted branches and drilled in, and the tiger baby followed into another strange space.
Because the branches of the lush twisted trees hung completely down to the ground, blocking the light from the outside, it was dark under the canopy, and the tiger baby waited for her eyes to adjust to the darkness and continued to move forward with the extension of her perception. I passed by several strange twisted trees, and then I opened the branches and suddenly saw a bright light.
This light is not the sunlight scattered from the treetops, it comes from a magical place ahead, and the tiger baby finally sees the landscape here thoroughly. In the center of the valley it looks more than ten feet lower than the outside, there is a spring water distribution, accumulating into several shallow water surfaces, and there are dry highlands between the water surfaces, and the front is paved with smooth white stone slabs, which are actually artificially hewn roads.
The twisted trees grew on the high slopes of the water's edge, around the middle of the valley, forming a dense natural barrier, and Pan Gu took the tiger baby through the twisted forest, just to this road. Lotus flowers grow in the shallow water on both sides, some of the round lotus leaves stretching in the air, some spreading out on the water, and there are also flowers the size of bowls.
The tiger baby has never seen a lotus, and of course she doesn't know what its name is, but she just thinks that Ye Tingting Shucui and the flower are delicate and colorful. And the lotus flower here is very strange, there are three layers of petals from the inside to the outside, each layer has five petals, and these five petals are different colors. The roots of the petals are very light in color, and the color becomes darkest when they pass through the tips and edges.
The red petals gradually changed from the light pink at the center of the flower to bright red, like a smudged cloud and like a thin flame, the white petals from the almost colorless and transparent roots to the pure white at the edges, the yellow petals seemed to have a faint gold edge, the cyan petals changed from tender green to deep green, the black petals only showed pure black at the edges, the roots were blue and purple, and the color gradually darkened from the inside out.
The delicate stamens in the center of the petal ring are almost transparent, with a faint five-color brilliance, and I don't know whether it is its own luster or the color of the petals.