The red lady stood in the shadows and turned her face slightly, looked at Li Yunxin, and smiled playfully: "Didn't you tell Li Lang before? This means that I am the eye of this forbidden. ”

"But although I am an eye, I really don't know how to get out of this prohibition. The monarch should have a way, but he didn't tell me. ”

She thought for a moment, reached out and pulled a small red flower from the branch on the side, stuck it in her bun, and turned around and walked into the front hall: "But Li Lang is so smart, he should know that there is another way to solve this prohibition - that is, to destroy that array of eyes." ”

"It took a lot of effort for Father Jun to refine the Array Eye into my body. In the past, it would have been more difficult to destroy the eyes than to destroy the array. But now if Li Lang wants to go out......"

She tilted her head: "Just kill me." ”

After saying this, the only daughter of Dongting Jun, the red lady who was strongly in love with Li Yunxin because of her obsession, turned around a cluster of flowers and trees, and disappeared into the moon gate on the west side of the main hall.

Li Yunxin stood on the white sand beach of Junshan and was stunned for a while before realizing that he seemed to be ......

It's time to make another choice.

But he wasn't sure he could pick it right.

Dong Tingjun did this on purpose—this old demon. Kunwuzi tried to convince himself to turn to the Dao with words and general trends, and Dongting-kun did the same, but more directly and crudely.

Kill the red lady, and you can get out of the cave.

But for him, it also meant destroying humanity in his heart.

Does Li Yunxin need humanity?

Is there still humanity in his heart?

He was actually asking himself these two questions, but he didn't expect to face them directly so soon.

He looked up at the rising sun, and for the first time felt a little irritable in his heart.

Not far away, there was the sound of waves tumbling, probably the evil dragon at the bottom of the lake turned up on the water. But this cave is a huge area after all, and it is not a small pool. He looked at the Jiao, and with a gust of wind rushed up to the sky, and fled into the distance.

If it takes a long, long time to make a choice, then he must first figure out what this cave court looks like.

In those days, all reliable maps were contraband, and those maps that circulated among the people seemed to him to be children's amusement were also treasured. If you want to know what the state of the waters you are temporarily in charge of, you can't look at those things. He'll have to see for himself.

The area of Dongting is hundreds of times that of Weicheng......

At the moment, there shouldn't be only the red lady, a yin god who can speak and have reason, right?

So he began to "patrol" the waters that might be there for a long time.

I just didn't expect it to be a full six days.

At first, I wanted to see the hydrology and landforms along the coast. So I looked at it carefully. In the past, he went as far as Nanshan and never moved forward. This time I just flew all the way over, not letting go of the scenery by the lake - outside the forbidden, it was already blocked by the fog, but after all, there was still a foot on the shore. There are flowers and trees on the ground, or a shoal, or a small pier.

The first day I looked fresh, but I didn't find anyone. By the next day, it was getting boring. What is the most interesting thing in the world? At this time, it was sparsely populated, and the lake was full of shallows and trees. He has something on his mind, but his heart can't calm down, and he naturally has no intention of feeling any nature or scenery. So I watched it all day, and I was tired of it.

So by the next day, it was speeding up. The scenery whizzed beneath him, and the wind blew in his face. He looked at the flowers and flowers as he thought about his own thoughts.

But even so, it took a full four days to circumnavigate this cave. He flew in the sky, and the speed was like lightning - if measured by the footsteps of the worldly, it is not unusual for the four-day journey to take half a year.

But it doesn't seem to have much to gain.

In fact, on the first day of crossing Nanshan, by the evening, it had already left the boundary of Weihe Mansion. In the past few days, I have passed through six prefectures and two states. It stands to reason that Dongting is vast, and each state capital should have a wharf by the lake. It is always much more convenient to transport goods by water.

But because of Kun Wuzi's magical powers, Li Yunxin only saw the wreckage of a few lakeside docks. No one was gone, and they all died.

The ban on the lake was still foggy, and the people who lived near the lake must have been terrified and did not know what was happening—and they did not know how many fishermen and boatmen depended on this cave for their food, and that their livelihood would be unsustainable.

On the fourth day, he finally faintly saw the shadow of Junshan in the distance - he went around and came back.

At this time, I realized that only looking at the shore was actually ...... It's just a small part of Dongting. If there is any unexpected person or thing in this lake, it must be in the lake.

Junshan is a big island, and if you really want to move people to live, you can live in thousands of people. But in the cave court, such a Junshan is not even a sesame seed on a large cake - it can only be regarded as a needlepoint.

It is not known how many such islands there are in Dongting. I can't be sure, there's a surprise hidden there.

It could also be surprise, panic.

He spent another two days flying around Junshan, round and round. The result was like flying on the surface of the sea - the indigo water was everywhere, and even the fog on the prohibition could not be seen. It is based on the sun, but it is not very accurate. In the end, two days were wasted, and nothing more was found than a reef island jutting out of the water—and I didn't want to go any further.

I finally understood the size of Dongting.

One or two hundred of these caves...... You're going to fill up the whole of Kyungkook, right?!

He spent six full days doing such a "futile task", but his frowning brow never relaxed.

He hasn't made a decision yet.

However, the accident occurred on the seventh day.

He found another island. This island must have been uninhabited. Because it is located in the heart of the cave, the water around it is so deep that it looks like a pillar sticking out of the bottom of a lake, alone on the surface of the water.

It is not easy to build a pier around such a deep-water island, there are no fish schools, and it is far from the shore. In such an era, it is destined to be uninhabited.

The trees on the island are verdant, and in the bright sun of the seventh day, they look like a whole day of finely carved green jade, and the green is delightful. Li Yunxin saw this scene, and the irritability in his heart went to three points for no reason. This surprised him.

He had been indulging in his restlessness, and was happy to experience the sickly pleasure of it. But now he was refreshed—he thought, probably his subconscious, that he couldn't go on like this in the current situation.

There were still people waiting for him outside. The Ghost Emperor was in Weicheng, and his demon disciples were also outside. said that Liu Laodao ran away with them, but he didn't know what the safety was.

He agrees with his subconscious decision and decides to escape the last day. At the end of seven days, he was going to return to the fighting life that tensed every nerve every moment.

Life is a battle. To be comfortable is to die.

He made this decision, and fell to the island with the clouds. As a result, I saw a wrecked ship on the shore - it was one.

This means that the size of this ship was not small during its lifetime, and it was the kind of painting boat and building boat that only the wealthy could own. Now lying on the shore in a decadent manner, only the keel remains, and the hull of the ship has been shattered.

He walked around the boat and saw a line of footprints.

So he followed the footprints and went into the woods. The footprints disappeared when they walked to the meadow in the forest, but something else was left - some shells were scattered among the grass, as if someone had eaten them while walking, and threw them away. There was no beach on this island, Li Yun thought to himself, probably the shellfish that had been lifted from the wreck of the ship and originally attached to it.

I followed the shells and saw a boulder in the woods.

It is about three or four stories tall and is surrounded by large forests. A whole piece of bluestone, but the bottom is empty. There was a fire, and there was a man next to it.

Li Yunxin looked around and didn't find anything unusual. So he walked over and stood at the entrance of the cave to take a look.

The fire had been burning for some time, and now it was about to be extinguished. An old man with a bright head was lying on his side on the ground, and his clothes were still in order. He was not dressed as a fisherman, but as a rich man, and he was like a man on the boat.

Just then the old man woke up. He propped himself up and looked at the entrance of the cave, narrowing his eyes, as if the sunlight outside the cave had pierced his eyes. Then he raised his hand and rubbed it, sat up straight, stared at Li Yunxin carefully for a while, and said in a dumb voice: "Ah......h You boy, you're also in trouble here?"

Li Yunxin didn't speak, walked in slowly, and took a turn in the hole. It is said to be a hole, but in fact, it should be said that it is a very wide stone gap. The firelight and sunlight illuminated some of it, and there were many more hidden in the shadows. It's a sunny day with a hot wave outside, but it's cool in this live hole.

The old man didn't feel strange when he saw him like this, but smiled: "Little Lao'er thought that only this one ship was in trouble, but I didn't expect that there were still people." I think it was yesterday that angered the dragon king, the pouring rain. ”

Li Yunxin walked across from him and squinted at him: "Where are you sacred?"

The old man let out an "um".

"Ordinary people are in this situation, but you shouldn't be what you are now. Li Yunxin said slowly, "This place is very far from the shore, you should know that it is unlikely that fishermen will come." You're an old man, stay here for a few days, and you're going to die. But it looks so calm and laid-back. ”

The old man laughed when he heard this. The folds on his face were piled up in one place when he smiled, but he looked kind and kind. His eyes narrowed into a line, and he only looked at people with a little bit of light in his eyes: "You young man, alas...... What is there to be afraid of dying? Old man, I lived to be 68 years old, and people said that I was an old birthday star. But I, an old birthday star, was deceived by the children of the family into this boat and sent to this lake for fun...... In fact, the bottom of the ship was leaked. ”

"My old servant took me up to the shore. My sons and daughters went back in a small boat. Who would have expected that suddenly it would rain heavily...... I have survived in this cave, but my son and daughter have died in the lake—what is there to fear of death?"

Li Yunxin thought about it carefully, picked up a piece of bluestone next to the fire and sat down. picked up a piece of dry wood from the ground and threw it into the fire, and said with a smile: "So you are not an ordinary person. Only people who are not rich or noble can have such a thing, right? Your Excellency used to be a noble man in the government, or a heroic man in the rivers and lakes?"

The old man laughed: "Don't mention it, don't mention it." It's just that the old man is not an ordinary person, so where did he come from?"

"I'm from the Tang Dynasty. Li Yunxin replied casually, "If you want to stay on this island for a while, what do you always eat?" I saw shells when I came. Now it seems to have eaten it all - what will you do in the future? Hunt for a living? You don't look very strong. ”

The old man laughed: "The old man doesn't like watery smells. Fish, shrimp and shellfish are not eaten on weekdays - for decades, it is not good to get old and old, and the evening is not guaranteed. The shells that the little boy saw on the road were not leftovers, but were used. It's just that those don't take advantage of it, and they are thrown away. ”

"Speaking of food, there is an old servant who escorted me ashore, as I said earlier. With him, you don't have to worry about food these days. ”

Li Yunxin looked at the old man: "He went hunting?"

"It's an old servant. The old man stood up, his stomach rumbling twice. This should have been rude to him, but he didn't care about it now. He walked slowly to the shadowed part of the stone crevice—it was cold and damp, dripping slowly downward. Perhaps a stalactite will form in tens of millions of years.

"If you are an old servant and you don't have anything to take advantage of, where can you go hunting?" the old man stood and sighed, "I have been with me for more than forty years, and I always say that this life is mine." At the end of the day, this life is really mine. ”

He stretched out his hand and groped in the shadows for a while, and Li Yunxin heard a crisp collision sound again—he thought it was the sound of shells and stones colliding. Then the sound of the sac being cut was heard.

Then the old man turned around.

Li Yunxin saw that he was carrying a piece of bloody flesh in his hand—there was also dark white skin attached to it.

The old man stared at him for a moment, then fell silent. He went to the fire and laid the meat on the stone slab. Cut slowly and methodically with a large, sharp-edged shell held in the other hand. As he cut it, he said, "Beasts, either you eat me, or I eat you." In this world, it is exactly the same. It's just that people eat better -- not your flesh, but your spirit. ”

"But good looks are good things. The spirit is eaten, and the people are still there. As long as you can't die, you can always ease up. ”

"But there are some people who, having lived in such a world for a long time, have forgotten what man was like when he was a beast - the spirit and spirit must be eaten, and human flesh must be eaten. Let's just say that this person also eats people in the world, and there is no heavenly justice. But where in this world is there really any heavenly justice? This is already much better in the human world than in the beasts. ”

"Let's make it better, not worse. The old man cut off a piece of meat, and tremblingly threaded it with a twig, and roasted it on the fire. After roasting for a while, he raised his eyes to look at Li Yunxin, "You said that if there is a person, he will not do it, but he will have to be a beast - what does this person think?" )