The river is murmuring, like a poet strolling through the courtyard looking for inspiration, touching his chin and figuring out classic sentences. I silently wish in my heart, hoping that this water will be poured sooner. If my river is not filled sooner, if the officers and troops come, no one can guarantee that they will not think of attacking with fire. In the end, my forest protection river will not be useful, won't all this time of effort be wasted?

Fortunately, the officers and soldiers did not know what they were planning this time and never appeared. When the officials and soldiers don't come, I am happy to be idle, wandering around with the pandas all day long, enjoying the mountains and rivers. On this day, the panda and I were watching the scenery from the watchtower by the forest river, when suddenly two loud noises came from under the mysterious cliff. To be precise, it should be the cries of two animals, one is a terrible chirping sound and the other is a violent roar.

These two roars gave me a little creepy. In the Yuanming Forest, the birds kept flying in the woods, chirping non-stop. The animals of the Yuanming Forest became restless, and they all gathered at the mouth of the valley to roar and roar. I looked at the panda and I quickly swept to the edge of the cliff and looked down together. Under the cliff, there is no bottom.

This roar came from the bottom of the cliff, what happened to the bottom of the cliff? It should be judged from the cry that these two roars must have been made by two different large creatures. How could there be a creature at the bottom of the cliff, which had been calm, and what kind of creature could it be? Why did they roar? Do you want me and the panda to go down the cliff to find out? I looked at the panda, and the panda's eyes were eager and nervous. If I go down with the panda, there may be great danger waiting for us under the cliff. If I didn't go, I couldn't hold back my curiosity, so I stood on the edge of the cliff and looked down, hoping to see something. Unfortunately, with my current eyesight, I can't see through the bottom of the cliff at all.

I looked at the panda again, there were pandas, I shouldn't worry. But these two cries were obviously made by two powerful large creatures, and I didn't dare to be too confident in the panda, what if the panda couldn't handle it?" I hesitated on the edge of the cliff. After waiting on the cliff for a while, there was no sound coming from the bottom of the cliff. I finally couldn't take it anymore and decided to go down with the panda to have a look. If something unexpected happens, wouldn't it be okay to ask the panda to fly away in an instant? As long as you are careful, there should be no problem in escaping.

Constantly reassuring myself, I walked with the panda to the edge of the cliff and jumped off the edge of the cliff. The cliff was very deep, and for fear of unexpected danger, the panda and I were very cautious, slowed down, and quietly swept down. During this time, water was poured into the forest protection river, and this cliff has been out of water for half a month.

After a long walk, we reached the bottom of the cliff. The bottom of the cliff is so wide that you can't see the end at a glance. There was a spring at the bottom of the cliff where we went down, and it was probably formed when the water on the top of the cliff flowed down. Because there has been no water flowing down for half a month, there is not much water left in the spring, and it is estimated that it will dry up in a few days. The spring was a mess, littered with clods of earth and stone chips. I looked at the clods and stone chips, and many of them were bloodstained. In addition to the bloodstains, there were also some bits and pieces of meat. Around the spring, there are traces of fighting. The spring is connected to a river channel, which has now dried up.

I thought about it and understood what was going on. It must have been because I had dug a ditch to divert water from above, cutting off the water source underneath, and the two creatures had a dispute over the water supply. I reasoned as I followed the panda along the river. There were dirt and stone chips everywhere along the way, and the two sides of the cliff were also hit by something in potholes, and it seemed that the battle was fierce.

After walking some distance at the bottom of the cliff, I suddenly found a large hole in the cliff face on the left. I motioned to the panda, and we gently descended to the hole. The entrance to the cave is very high, dozens of meters. The hole is also very deep, and there is no bottom in it.

What kind of creature lives in such a tall hole? I hesitated at the entrance of the cave, but finally took the panda and cautiously got in. There was no sound in the cave, and there were animal bones along the way. I asked Panda to be secretly on guard, and I also raised my qi to protect myself, ready to use my bamboo splitting knife technique at any time.

The further I went, the darker it became, and I practiced for a long time, but this darkness didn't affect my eyesight. I continued to walk with the panda to the back of the cave, but unexpectedly, there was no imaginary terrible monster, and I walked with the panda to the bottom of the cave, and we didn't find anything alive. There are only some feathers scattered at the bottom of the cave, and the longest of these feathers reaches dozens of meters, and this cave should be inhabited by a very tall bird.

But what bird has such long feathers? I searched the bottom of the cave with the panda and found a small hole next to the big hole, and I carefully got into it with the panda, but found that there was only some feces in the hole. This little hole is supposed to be where the bird defecated, and this bird loves to be clean. I searched around and didn't find anything special. I was a little disappointed, and I thought that there must be some treasure in this cave? I looked at the panda with an inquiring eye, and the panda was also at a loss, and I couldn't find anything of value, so I returned to the cave with the panda.

The panda and I jumped from the hole to the bottom of the cliff, and continued to follow the trail of blood from the bottom of the cliff. Along the way, there were more and more stone chips and clods falling into the ground, and the blood stains became more and more obvious. I motioned to the panda to move more slowly, trying not to make any noise under our feet. Around the corner, I stopped with the panda, and there was already the sound of a fight ahead.

I leaned against the corner with the panda, and I told the panda to lean against the wall and not move, the panda was huge and the target was too obvious. I leaned forward and poked my head out of the corner to look. Seeing the situation in front of me out of the corner of my eye, I couldn't help but gasp. Before my eyes was a vast field with a swarthy hole and two oversized creatures facing each other. The first thing I saw was a big bird, and the height of this big bird was tens of meters. The big bird stood tall with its head held high, two pairs of huge wings constantly flapping beside it, and the wings of this big bird were almost 100 meters away, and this was not yet fully deployed.

The big bird flailed its wings, flapping at one of its tails flailing in front of it. The big bird's wings were covered with blood, and it seemed that it had been seriously injured, and it was estimated that it would not be able to fly. I looked at the tail, which was almost a hundred meters long. The tail was thicker than a hundred-year-old tree, writhing from time to time, and it was covered with scars. I followed the tail and saw that the owner of that tail was a terrible serpent! The big mouth of the big snake was open, and a snake letter was constantly shaking in its mouth, ready to attack at any moment.

The serpent stood guard at the entrance of the cave, and the terrifying head of the serpent stood tall. One of its eyes had been pecked blind by a large bird, and it was covered with blood, and its pupils could no longer be seen. The serpent stared vigilantly at the big bird opposite with its other eye, looking rather hideous. Just looking at this, I was so frightened that I quickly turned my head. My breathing was so rapid that I kept stroking my chest to calm myself down. It was the most bizarre thing I've ever witnessed in my life, and I've never seen such a huge and terrifying snake.

Compared to this big snake, this big bird doesn't look very scary. I didn't know if the panda could deal with them, so I looked back at the panda. I didn't expect the humble panda to follow my example, and he was also touching his chest and panting. Looking at the panda's cute movements, I almost couldn't help but laugh and quickly covered my mouth. After a while, I finally calmed down in a tense atmosphere

Zhuang Ziyun: "There is a fish in the North Underworld, and its name is Kun. The Kun is so big that I don't know how many thousands of miles it is. Turned into a bird, its name is Peng. Peng's back, I don't know how many thousands of miles it is. Flying in anger, its wings are like clouds hanging from the sky. It is a bird, and the sea will migrate to the south. The Southern Hades, the Heavenly Pond also. Those who are harmonious are also strangers. The harmonious words said: 'Peng Zhi migrated to the south of the underworld, the water hit three thousand miles, the one who swayed up 90,000 li, and the one who went to rest in June. ”

This is the opening paragraph of Zhuangzi's masterpiece "Wandering Away". Zhuangzi is a representative figure of Taoism, and I am familiar with this passage of his words, and I once recited it specifically. I was racing through the words in my head, pondering where the big bird came from.