Chapter 241: The Deserted Village (Part I)
Wind and rain, all the way south.
The winter raindrops fell on people's faces, and there was a chill in the coolness.
Tomorrow is Chinese New Year's Eve, but Ji Chengche and Tang Xueluo are still running on the road.
Since he woke up, he has recovered very quickly, and his injuries have basically healed, Tang Xueluo still needs to deliberately slow down his body at first, and then the speed of the two of them is getting faster and faster.
Ji Chengche originally thought that the meeting place with Granny Shang should not be far from Xin'an River, but who knew that the two of them had entered the Million Cloud Mountain day and night, and Tang Xueluo still had no intention of stopping and waiting.
This million cloud mountain is located in the extreme south of Middle Earth, stretching for tens of thousands of miles of peaks and peaks, a group of poor mountains and bad waters, few people, basically out of the control of the Great Chu court.
When Great Qin fell, the rest of the demon clan followed this road to cross the millions of cloud mountains and enter the wilderness where the mountains were deep and dense and the beasts were rampant, and it had been nearly twenty years in a blink of an eye.
Ji Chengche couldn't help but become more and more confused, and couldn't help asking, "Xueluo, where is the meeting point agreed between my mother-in-law and you?"
Tang Xueluo said firmly: "Don't worry, according to our current speed, we can arrive tonight." ”
Ji Cheng said: "I always have a feeling of uneasiness, as if someone has been spying on us all the time. Don't you think these two days have been too peaceful?"
Tang Xueluo nodded and comforted softly: "It's okay, as long as we can reach the meeting point smoothly, we will be basically safe." ”
"Oh, what the hell is that?"
"It's a small mountain village in the middle of a million clouds. Tang Xue couldn't resist Ji Chengqing, and revealed: "According to the earlier plan, we should send you away and then rush to that small mountain village." Now that something has happened on the road, my mother-in-law has suddenly changed her mind, and we may arrive a few days earlier than originally scheduled. ”
The two braved the rain to make their way through deserted mountains and mountains, and there were many places where there were no roads at all, and they could only climb and trek through the rocky dense forests.
Fortunately, Ji Chengche and Tang Xueluo both have excellent cultivation, climbing over mountains and mountains as if walking on flat ground, and in the blink of an eye, they traveled more than 100 miles, and suddenly were blocked by a towering mountain cliff.
This mountain cliff is more than a thousand feet high, standing straight like a brown screen to meet the clouds, not to say that people are afraid that even apes dare not climb it.
At a height of about three or four hundred zhang above the ground, it was densely overgrown with vines, and the branches and leaves fell down like a waterfall and dragged to the ground. These vines are unusually thick, intertwined with branches and leaves, and even in winter they still spit out tender green leaf buds.
"From here?" Ji Chengche looked at the cliff and asked Tang Xueluo sideways.
Tang Xueluo said "um": "Behind that vine, there is a rock crevice hidden. Later, we will pass through the rock crevices and we will reach the small mountain village. ”
"Is this the only way out of the small mountain village to the outside world?
"The villagers rarely go out of the mountains, the mountain villages are very isolated, and they hardly interact with outsiders. ”
It sounded like Tang Xueluo was very familiar with the situation in this strange little mountain village, and Ji Chengche was surprised: "You've been here before?"
Tang Xue was surprisingly silent for a long time before replying, "Mother-in-law said that I was born in a small mountain village. ”
"Do your parents still live in the village?"
Ji Chengche always thought that Tang Xueluo was an abandoned baby picked up by Granny Shang, who would have thought that her birth was actually related to this isolated small mountain village!
Tang Xueluo shook his head and said, "None of them are in the village...... Brother Chengqing, don't ask again, okay?"
Ji Chengche saw the unusual emotion in Tang Xueluo's eyes, in addition to pleading, there were more hesitations that she tried to hide, and reached out to take her into her arms and comforted: "I'm sorry Xueluo, I just can't help but want to know, the time with you is always too short, I want to know more about you." I shouldn't be in a hurry, and if you don't want to, don't force yourself to say it. In any case, as long as I love you and can stay by your side for the rest of my life, I will be content. ”
"Brother Chengqing, I will definitely tell you everything slowly in the future. ”
Tang Xueluo quietly leaned on Ji Cheng's solid chest, feeling the warmth transmitted from his body into his own strength, and slowly closed his eyes as if he was experiencing the feeling of being pampered and cared for by him in his arms like this for eternity and eternity, until the end of the world where hair was like snow.
The rain was like a mist and a sand and a sand was gently sprinkled, dripping on their clothes and hair, steaming up a faint vapor.
The two silently enjoyed the warmth of the moment, feeling that each other's hearts were tightly and firmly together. Ji Cheng was full of fragrant fragrance, Yiren closed his eyes in his arms, and his slender eyelashes trembled slightly, and he couldn't help but lower his head and kiss her slowly.
After a long time, Tang Xueluo slowly broke free from Ji Chengqing's arms, and said with a slight smile: "Brother Chengqing, can I show you the way in front?"
"Okay, if I accidentally fall off, I'll take it. ”
So Tang Xue fell in front, Ji Chengche followed, and the two of them flew up against the wind and slowly ascended against the cliff.
Tang Xueluo flew very slowly, in fact, like Ji Chengqing, she was also coming to this place for the first time, and she needed to carefully find the entrance to the rock crevice.
Fortunately, there was a mark left beforehand, and after a little bit of difficulty, she found the rock crevice hidden behind the vines.
"I found it!" Tang Xueluo whispered happily, reaching out to push away the dense vines.
"Let me do it. Ji Chengche reached out from behind to help Tang Xueluo tear the vines apart.
The vines on the cliff clinging to the rock wall grew very strongly, and Ji Chengqing didn't want to completely destroy this natural barrier, so it took a little more time to clear a small entrance to the rock crevice that could just allow a person to pass sideways.
Looking through the entrance, the black rumbling inside the cave could not see anything really, and the cold wind whined outward, like a ghost crying wolf.
Ji Chengche "snapped" and lit a cluster of light on his fingertips, and chuckled: "This time, I'll go first." ”
He held Tang Xueluo with one hand, and the light and fire that danced on the tip of his other finger spread out in all directions, and dimly shone on the rock walls on both sides. The rock wall is uneven, obviously naturally generated, but some places are too narrow, and there are traces of artificial excavation.
The potholes on the ground are high and low, and ordinary people walking in it are very easy to fall down even if they have torches to guide the way.
Ji Chengche walked about seven or eight zhang away, and had already turned two corners in the rock crevice, and suddenly stopped.
Tang Xue fell behind him and asked, "What's wrong?"
Ji Chengche smiled: "It's nothing, there are a few guys in front of you who are blocking the road and robbing." ”
Tang Xueluo climbed Ji Chengqing with both hands in surprise, stood on tiptoe, crossed his shoulder, and stared forward.
Since that night, the emotions of the two people have been further enhanced, and from time to time there will be such intimate actions in front of them, and no one feels that there is anything wrong.
I saw another bend in front of me, and more than ten colorful spider webs were spread horizontally and vertically between the rock crevices.
Seven or eight fist-sized spiders lay on the silk web, their bodies colorful waiting for their prey.
"It's a colorful poisonous spider, and the silk threads it shoots out contain poison, and the one who hits it will die immediately. ”
Tang Xueluo leaned on Ji Chengqing's shoulder and reminded: "These little guys are not afraid of ordinary water and fire, they move extremely fast, and they can use spider silk to fly in the air, and they have great skills." ”
"Do you say this is a roadblock deliberately set up by the villagers, or is it because no one has passed for too long, and the colorful poisonous spider has found this feng shui treasure, so they settled down in the cave?"
"I think the former is more likely. ”
"Well, that's easy. ”
Tang Xueluo chuckled and said, "Don't work on Your Highness, let me deal with it, and ask them to sleep first." ”
She whispered a spell in Ji's clear ear, and a blue ice light suddenly flashed in the darkness, which quickly condensed into a surging mist and rushed forward.
Those colorful poisonous spiders sensed that danger was coming, and they spewed out clouds of colorful spider silk with their teeth and claws.
However, as soon as the spider silk shot out touched the cold mist, it immediately froze and turned into crystal ice threads.
In the blink of an eye, the more than a dozen cobwebs on the corner were also frozen by the cold mist, and the colorful poisonous spiders fled in panic, but before they could run out of the cobwebs, they froze on them one by one.
Ji Chengche turned his head and pecked the tip of Tang Xueluo's nose and said, "Good girl." A few steps forward, with a flick of his fingers, the layers of frozen spider webs "dingdingdong" were torn apart, and the colorful poisonous spiders fell to the ground together.
The two of them crossed the colorful poisonous spider and continued to walk, and found that there were a lot of strange poisonous insects in the rock crevices, even if they were not raised, they should be deliberate, obviously the villagers who lived in it did not welcome outsiders to come and disturb.
It's just that these poisonous insects are not a great threat to Tang Xueluo and Ji Chengche, and many of them sensed the aura of the Ten Thousand Years Xuanhuang Holy Dragon emanating from Ji Chengche's body, and simply retreated and did not dare to take the lead.
The two of them zigzagged in the rock crevice for half an hour, and the first fork in the road appeared in front of them.
Tang Xueluo pointed and said: "Mother-in-law said that if you encounter a fork in the road, just remember two mantras - 'every double must be right, and when you meet three straight'." ”
Ji Chengche turned to the right as he said, and after walking more than ten zhang away, he encountered another crossroads.
He didn't want to go straight ahead, so he walked around and around in the rock crevice for a full moment, and the front gradually opened up, and the speed of the two of them kept accelerating.
When turning the last fork, a glimmer of light appeared in front of Ji Chengqing's eyes, and shadows shone down from obliquely above.
The two of them were in high spirits, and they saw that the light was projected from the left rock wall more than ten feet above the ground. The gap is about a square circumference, like an open skylight, below is a stone step dug out by hand, the slope is very steep, almost straight up and down.
Ji Chengche took the lead in climbing the stone steps and came out of the "skylight", and suddenly felt enlightened, and a cold wind swept the cold rain pavement.
He stood still and looked around, and found himself standing in the middle of a cliff with a rock jutting out from his feet. There is a rugged stone path below the rocks that winds its way to the bottom of the cliff below.
Surrounded by mountains, the foot of the mountain is full of terraced rice fields, and several streams emerge from the spring below, and a small mountain village of about 100 families surrounds the middle.
When he looked up to look at the situation above the cliff, he was stunned.
——How can there be any blue sky and white clouds, it is clearly a big lake floating in the air. This rain is not rain, but water droplets that fall from the bottom of the lake and the tumbling mist!(83 Chinese .com.)