Li Xiang and Mingshu walked in the underground passage for another eight days and arrived at Yelin Village in Chiwangqiu. Out of the door of the passage, but saw a crossbar blocking the way, a human and three aliens guarded the door, seeing someone come out, the man's face was happy, shouting: "There is business coming to the door." "Take a step forward and look at the young man with two backpacks.

Li Xiang asked, "Why are you blocking our way? Do you still want to rob us?"

The man said: "Ye is a serious person, how can he do such a dirty thing as a robbery, just collect some tolls, little brother don't have to be nervous." ”

Li Xiang asked, "What toll?" We have traveled all the way, and we have never heard of tolls. ”

The man said: "It doesn't matter if other hills collect or not, but in Chiwangqiu, paying tolls is a rule. ”

Li Xiang still wanted to say, but was pulled by Mingshu, Mingshu shook her head slightly, she took a step forward and asked, "How much do you have to pay?"

The man said, "Originally, it was ten energy points for one person. But what the little brother said just now didn't sound good, and now it's going to be twenty. ”

Li Xiang said: "What is this not a robbery?"

The man said, "Thirty." ”

Li Xiang still wanted to argue, but was pressed on his mouth by Mingshu with one hand. Mingshu said, "I'll give it to you." ”

Mingshu swiped on the bracelet, and a small ball of light flew out and drilled into the man's bracelet. The man raised his wrist and looked at it, nodded with satisfaction, and said: "This little lady is still knowledgeable, and she is very smart, do you want to accompany the master for one night, and the master will give you ......" Before the words were finished, he was hit the face, and the person was pumped up, and he spun around in the air a few times before he fell to the ground gorgeously. A few aliens stepped forward, but it was a color calendar.

Mingshu said in a foreign language: "It is your rule to collect tolls, and I follow you." I have my rules, and if I break them, I don't mind sending you to the water below to find fish and collect tolls. After saying that, he didn't care about the three aliens, and pulled Li Xiang away. When he walked to the crossbar, he didn't lift it, but split it on the pole with one hand, and the rod broke in two and fell to the ground. Li Xiang saw Sister Shu's domineering side for the first time. An alien wanted to say something, but was stopped by two others.

Mingshu took Li Xiang and walked in the opposite direction of the village.

Li Xiang asked, "Aren't we going to the village?"

Mingshu said angrily: "What are you going to do in their village?

"People here are like that?"

Mingshu said: "Compared to Mrs. Wu, I hate Chiwang people more. If you can't deal with it, it's better not to deal with it. ”

Li Xiang didn't like these people either, and he asked, "Is this a concentration camp for ruffians and hooligans?"

Mingshu said: "Although not everyone is so annoying, it is almost the same. ”

"Then why don't we go straight through Chiwang through the underpass?"

Mingshu said: "The rock formations below Chiwang Mountain are very thick, said to be thousands of miles deep, and the underground passage cannot pass through, so you can only go east and west from here to bypass this mountain range. In this way, no matter west or east, we will go around thousands of miles. It's better to climb over the Leishi Mountain in front, walk another seven or eight hundred miles, and when we arrive at Benkui Village, we will use the underpass. ”

The two of them marched in the direction of Leishi Mountain, and in less than half a day, they had arrived at the foot of Leishi Mountain. There are only stones on Leishi Mountain, no vegetation, birds and beasts are extinct, Li Xiang looked at it and felt a little hairy. Mingshu said, let's go up first and see if we can find a cave, Chiwang is not as peaceful as Taotang, and camping in the wild is not very safe.

There is no road in Leishi Mountain, and they can only cross and climb between the boulders, which is extremely difficult, and after another half a day, the two of them came to a hill. Under the hill, there is a stone valley, Li Xiang lying on the boulder and looking down, estimating in his heart that he is afraid that it is more than 1,000 meters deep, this person will fall, afraid that he will fall into slag. Just as he was about to retract his body, he saw a gray figure at the bottom of the valley, climbing and jumping, very flexible. Li Xiang called out softly Sister Shu, there is someone below. Mingshu jumped on the boulder and saw that the gray figure at the bottom of the valley had run far away, turned a stone wall, and disappeared.

Li Xiang asked, "Sister Shu, do you want to go over and have a look." ”

Mingshu looked at Li Xiang, hesitated, and said, "Forget it, his speed is too fast, we can't keep up, let my brother send someone to investigate in the future." ”

Lee wanted to know that he had become a drag, and he was a little sorry in his heart. Mingshu said that you use your brain, this kind of physical work is naturally done by powerful people, let's go, I found a stone cave below, we will rest there today. The two walked back, and Li Xiang noticed that there were many square stones on this hill, but there were no traces of artificial carving, and the square stones were scattered among the stones on the hill one by one.

Entered the stone cave, the space in the hole is very large, the hole is three meters high, the length and width are more than ten meters each, the strange thing is that there are seven pits of different sizes below the cave wall, the maximum two diameters are more than two meters, the pit wall is very smooth. Mingshu said that this place is good, and the stone mortar is just sleeping. Li Xiang felt strange, this stone mortar seemed to be made of water erosion. He didn't have any clue why there were traces of water erosion here, so he put it aside and began to practice the use of mid-frequency waves, which he would do as long as he rested along the way, and now he was able to depict a relatively standard sphere.

In the middle of the night, Li Xiang was woken up, although the mortar wall was smooth, it was too hard after all, and Li Xiang was a body with less flesh and more bones. Li Xiang didn't see Mingshu in the cave, and he was a little anxious, so he went out of the cave and found a secluded place to relieve himself. As soon as the water dragon set off, he heard Mingshu's "ah" below, and Li Xiang's urine was so frightened that he held it back. He hurriedly sorted out his pants, but they got a lot wet. I only heard Mingshu say that my brother was so annoying that he almost urinated on me, but fortunately I hid quickly. Li wanted to say what Sister Shu is doing down there? Mingshu said that you are in a hurry, but you are not allowed to be in a hurry? I will go to a farther place, you continue. After speaking, Mingshu crossed a few times between the stones, and soon ran away. Li Xiang struggled for a long time between continuing to pee and not peeing before walking in the direction of Shigu, and Li Xiang had to accumulate strength for another half a day before he drove the frightened urine out of his stomach. Before leaving, he couldn't help but glance at the bottom of the valley again, as if he caught a glimpse of a gray figure flashing at the bottom of the valley, and when he looked again, he saw nothing.

Mingshu came back after a long time, and Li Xiang had already changed out of his wetted pants and stuffed them into his backpack. He lay in the mortar, but he couldn't sleep.

"Sister Shu, have you slept?"

Mingshu said "um".

"You said the person we saw during the day didn't act like an orangutan?"

"Hmm...... Resemble. ”

"Do you think it could be the orangutan that is predatoring people everywhere?"

Li Xiang said this, driving away the drowsiness that Mingshu had just come back, she sat up, and thought for a while with her chin on her chin, "Isn't that one always active in Tao Tang? Could it be another one? Or is it a monkey? We have no evidence that he is one of the thieves." ”

Li thought about it, and he couldn't think that he was a thief just because he appeared in a place where the bird didn't, and he wasn't also in the Leishi Mountain? He said, "Oh, it's okay, I just saw him again, maybe I was dazzled." ”

Mingshu squeaked, lay down, and soon fell asleep. Li Xiang still didn't feel sleepy, he was thinking about things in his head, and his hands were unconsciously rubbing against the mortar. Suddenly, his hand stopped, and he turned over and knelt down in the stone mortar, and carefully examined the wall of the mortar, where there was a thin scratch, straight down from the top, about eighty centimeters long. Li Xiang looked at several other mortar walls, and there were more or less scratches. He took a closer look at the distribution of the seven stone mortars, and the more he looked, the more ominous he felt. He stepped forward and shook Mingshu awake, he didn't care about Sister Shu's imabout to get up, and asked, "Sister Shu, is there a round animal in this world with sharp claws?"

Mingshu was sleepy, Li Xiang asked twice, she came back to her senses, she reached out and grabbed her backpack, took out a copy of "Jiuqiu Species Test" and threw it to Li Xiang, saying You take a look, I will sleep for a while. "Examination of Nine Hills Species" was compiled by Yang Rongbo, the great ancestor of Ming Shu, for thousands of years and traveled to every inch of land in Jiuqiu, and at the same time, there were also "Compilation of Languages of Various Ethnic Groups in Jiuqiu" and "Landscape Chronicles of Jiuqiu".

Li Xiang took the book, walked outside the cave, and looked through the pages by the bright moonlight. The "Species Examination" is full of pictures and texts, not only depicting the morphology of species, but also describing their appearance characteristics, living habits, living environment, distribution range and origin in detail. When turning to a page, Li Xiang paused, this page records a fierce beast called the stone egg bear, likes to live in stone caves, curls up into an egg-like shape when sleeping, uses a mortar as a bed, likes to eat melons and fruits, lives in groups, a litter of three to ten animals, tyrannical temperament, sharp claws can pierce rocks.

Li Xiang broke out in a cold sweat, and he hurriedly rushed back to the stone cave, "Sister Shu, wake up, wake up, wake up, I'm afraid we're breaking into the bear's den." ”

Mingshu was suddenly awakened, she snatched the book and looked at it, then looked at the stone mortar, and said, "Damn, I should have thought of it a long time ago, fortunately, these guys like to go out at night." Let's leave. ”

The two hurriedly grabbed their backpacks and walked out of the stone cave, about two miles away, Mingshu suddenly stopped, she looked left and right, and whispered "Brother, don't make a sound." grabbed Li Xiang's waist, jumped up, and jumped onto a boulder, there was a conical boulder on top of the boulder, and Mingshu pulled Li Xiang to hide behind the boulder. Mingshu signaled Li Xiang not to speak, about ten minutes later, there was a "hum hum" wheezing sound not far ahead, the two held their breath, the wheezing sound was a little farther, the two poked their heads out from behind the stone, and saw the backs of two big five small seven stone egg bears from a distance, far away, unable to estimate their height, the body shape is indeed like a huge egg, the hind limbs are short and thick and powerful, the speed is not slow, the forelimbs account for two-thirds of its length, and the long claw spines glow with a cold light under the moon.

It wasn't until the stone egg bear walked away that the two breathed a sigh of relief. Mingshu's little paw ravaged Li Xiang's hair again, "This time it's thanks to my brother, otherwise it's really dangerous." ”

Li Xiang asked, "Doesn't the stone egg bear live in Wufu? How can there be here? And there is no food here, what do they rely on to survive?"

Mingshu shook her head, although she was instilled with a lot of knowledge by her elders and brother, after all, her experience was still shallow, and she couldn't understand many things. Mingshu said let's go. Still holding Li Xiang's waist, he jumped off the boulder. was protected by Sister Shu at all times, which made Li Xiang blush. By the bright moonlight, the two began to hurry. By the time the sun rose in the west, they had crossed the hills.

At the foot of the mountain, they found a dung pit hidden in a pile of rocks, with scratches of varying shades on the stones beside the pit. Li Xiang said that these bear cubs love to be clean, so they built a toilet so far away. Mingshu pinched her nose and didn't want to get closer, only saying that her brother was leaving and was going to be smoked to death.

In the middle of the day, they climbed a hill again. They lay on a boulder and looked out at the valley in front of them, which was not very large, about three miles wide and eight miles long. A camp was built in the valley, and in the distance a few people and beasts could be seen walking among the dense stone buildings.

Mingshu said: "When I came here the year before last, there was no such camp. Why are these people stationed here?"

This time it was Li Xiang's turn to shake his head, no matter how smart he was, he couldn't figure out why these people and beasts would appear in such barren mountains and mountains with no food supply at all.

Mingshu said: "These people are definitely not good people, it seems that we are going to take a detour." ”

The two retreated and walked west along the side of the hill for about ten miles before heading north again. Mingshu and Li Xiang left for a long time, and a stone egg bear entered the valley camp.

Mingshu was reluctant to camp too close to the valley, and after bypassing the valley, they continued to the north until the gray Xuanwu Moon had slipped into the center of the purple sky, and the two of them stopped and sat down to rest. Li Xiang was so tired that he couldn't move, and even Mingshu felt a little weak. Mingshu said, "My brother is here to rest, I'm looking around." ”

After a short time, Mingshu returned, and she found a stone cave nearby, hidden under a stone crevice, which could only be passed by one person.

The hole is not big, three meters horizontally and vertically, and it is more than enough for two people. The bottom of the cave was quite flat, and the two of them put the tent clothes in their backpacks on the ground, and Li Xiang was tired and fell asleep. Mingshu didn't dare to sleep, she smelled a faint smell of urine, and was worried that she would enter the beast's den again, so she carefully examined the cave boy. In the end, it was found that the smell came from Li Xiang. She saw the half-dried pants under Li Xiang, walked over and lifted one of his legs, and gently pulled the pants out. She remembered the embarrassing scene last night, annoyed and funny. I wanted to throw this diaper out, but after thinking about the recent consumption of energy points for the villagers' souls, I still didn't want to, thinking about washing him when I saw the oasis. She spread her pants flat on the floor and went back to her makeshift "bed" to sleep.

It was only at noon the next day that they hit the road again, but fortunately they didn't find anything unusual along the way. After walking for two more days, they climbed over five stone mountains, and when it was close to evening, the two of them finally walked out of the Leishi Mountain area and came to the endless wilderness.