"What's wrong with me?" Gu Xiao seemed to have forgotten what he had done just now, murmuring in a low voice, and raised his head blankly to look around.
Jiang Ningxue's worried expression flashed through her cold eyes. Although her tone was cold, she could not hide her concern when she spoke: "Just now you went to check out this stone gate. Suddenly you seemed to have lost your mind. You were murmuring about stepping into it. Now you feel better. Yet."
When Gu Xiao heard Jiang Ningxue speak, the fragments of what he had just experienced flashed through his mind, and then he looked at the stone door portals with lingering fear. He only explored inside for a moment, and was blinded by the rising mist inside the stone door. It seems that these huge rocks scattered here are by no means ordinary and disorderly. These huge rocks are not only used to block roads, but also seem to disturb the minds of intruders.
Fortunately, Gu Xiao did not come alone, otherwise he would have been pulled into the Stonehenge by this illusion, and if his mind was lost, the consequences would be disastrous.
Gu Xiao was thinking about Stonehenge, but he heard Jiang Ningxue on the side ask in a cold tone: "Miss Lin'er that you have been whispering about just now, she is very important to you, right?"
Hearing Jiang Ningxue mention Lin'er, Gu Xiao couldn't help but think of the beautiful figure of Lin'er in green clothes that he had seen just now when he was distracted. He also thought of the two of them getting along day and night these days, and said with a sense of sadness: "These days, Lin'er and I have experienced a lot together, she is a very important person to me...but I lost her."
Hearing what the young man in green shirt said, Jiang Ningxue felt a sense of loss in her heart for some unknown reason. After calming down, Jiang Ningxue comforted the young man in green shirt and said, "Don't worry, I will definitely find the liger when I catch it." she."
After listening to Jiang Ningxue's comforting words, the young man in green shirt strengthened his belief in finding Lin'er and others, and smiled and said: "What Miss Jiang said is true. When I catch the liger, I will get the key to entering Murong Valley." We will definitely be able to find Lin'er, Uncle Li and the others."
At this point, Gu Xiao calmed down and looked at the huge stone door in front of him again. It seemed that someone had deliberately arranged these huge stones. The mist in the huge stones was more frightening. If he didn't understand the reality clearly, he would rush in rashly. If you enter, I'm afraid you'll end up here.
Thinking of this, Gu Xiao called Jiang Ningxue, Xiaojie, Yuwen Tuo, and Ren Buunan to his side, and said: "These stones are too strange, we'd better not trespass, so we'll split up." Action, Xiaojie, go and check if there is any other way to the mountains. Brother Yuwen, second brother Ren, and Miss Jiang, the four of us spread out and explore around these huge rocks to see if they are rubbish. There are several entrances.”
Yuwen Tuo was worried about Jiang Ningxue's safety and said: "Brother Mu, since there is something fishy here, if we act separately, wouldn't we be playing into each other's hands? Why don't we act in pairs, so that if we encounter danger, there will be someone else Take care of.”
"What Brother Yuwen said is true, just follow Brother Yuwen's plan." Gu Xiao thought about it, and Yuwen Tuo's words did make sense. He was about to ask Yuwen Tuo to go with Jiang Ningxue, but heard Jiang Ningxue speak coldly.
"Mu Yi, I will go with you to explore these boulders."
Gu Xiao then remembered that Miss Jiang had rejected Yuwen Tuo's pursuit. The two of them were embarrassed at the moment. He nodded and said: "In that case, let's do this. Brother Yuwen, you and Xiaojie will find other ways. Jiang and I will The girl and Brother Ren, the three of us are going to investigate the reality of these huge rocks. We have a limit of half an hour. No matter what the result is, we will still meet here."
Little did Xiaojie know what Yuwen Tuo and Jiang Ningxue were thinking, so he nodded in agreement. To mark the mark, Gu Xiao pulled off the corner of his green shirt, looked around, found a dead tree, jumped up, and Tie the corners of his clothes at the top.
Yuwen Tuo knew what Jiang Ningxue was thinking, but he thought that as long as she was safe, he stopped worrying about it. Seeing that Gu Xiao had already marked it, he didn't want to wait any longer, and immediately left with Xiaojie to find other ways out.
Seeing the two people leaving, Gu Xiao also greeted Jiang Ningxue and Ren Bunan, followed the arrangement of these boulders, and began to investigate carefully.
These boulders seemed to be arranged in a disorderly manner. When Gu Xiao examined them carefully, he found some patterns. Each of these boulders was more than ten feet long, and there were two huge stones forming the shape of a portal. When Gu Xiao inspected it just now, The disturbed Shimen was exactly the same.
Exploring all the way, Gu Xiao saw that the stone gate seemed to be endless. Gu Xiao exclaimed: "It seems that I expected it to be right. These huge stones were placed here deliberately by someone, not by nature. They have been there for so long. , still can’t see the end of this stone gate.”
Ren Buyun was nearby, listening to Gu Xiao talking to himself, and hurriedly approached and said: "Mu Shaoxia, why do I feel that we seem to be going in circles? Maybe I am hallucinating. Look at this stone gate, it looks like a standing beast. It was in front of this stone gate that we parted ways with Young Hero Yuwen and the others."
Hearing Ren Bunan's reminder, Gu Xiaomeng woke up. When everyone first entered this place, they had seen that this place was about a hundred feet long. Now he and others have traveled several times a hundred feet long, and there is still no end in sight. Perhaps it is Their sight was blocked by the mist seeping out of these boulders, and their attention was always on these boulders. They felt that they had been moving forward, so they did not notice these details.
Now under Ren BuNan's reminder, Gu Xiao raised his head and looked at the boulder beside him. The boulder did look familiar. After careful observation, it was as Ren BuNan said, it was indeed the same as Xiaojie and Yuwen. At the separation point, seeing this situation, Gu Xiao hurriedly raised his head to look for the corner of his green shirt tied to the treetop.
Sure enough, under the mist, on the treetops not far away, the familiar clothes were tied, everything was correct, so the three of them had been walking in circles around this huge pile of rocks.
"It seems that these boulders can not only disturb people's minds, but the fog can also make people feel disoriented. We have been walking for so long without realizing that we have been going in circles." Jiang Ningxue frowned and said.
Gu Xiao was just thinking about how to solve the mystery of this huge stone when he heard the voices of Xiaojie and Yuwen Tuo rang out from the mist.
Looking back, he saw two people coming with Qinggong. Seeing Gu Xiao's uneasy expression, Xiaojie jumped to Gu Xiao's side and said, "Mu Yi, Yu Wen and I have been searching for a long time. Not only have we not found any other way, but we have also searched for it for a long time." I find that no matter what we do, we can't get out of this place, it's just... it's just like..."
"It's like going in circles, isn't it." After hearing what Xiaojie said, Gu Xiao already understood that not only himself, but also Xiaojie and Yuwen Tuo who went to find a way were trapped here. So he took the words and answered.
Yuwen Tuo also frowned in thought, and continued following Xiaojie's words: "Not only that, the two of us saw that there was no other way. After discussing, we found a higher place, and we used Qinggong to jump up. Looking up from a high place, I can only see these strange rocks with jagged branches and sword-like branches. The clouds and mist are everywhere. I cannot see the true appearance of these strange rocks. I can only vaguely see these strange rocks standing on the sand and soil, overlapping like mountains. Looking from a distance, these huge rocks The shape seems chaotic, but in fact there are some rules, just like the shape of the Eight Diagrams. Seeing that the time has come, I thought of coming back to discuss with you before looking for another way out."
Xiaojie continued: "That's true. These stones look chaotic, but under the mist, there is the faint sound of river waves rushing through them, and the sound of swords and drums is endless. Don't you hear any noise here? "
When Gu Xiao heard Xiaojie's description, he shook his head and talked about the results of the investigation by the three of them. Xiaojie and Xiaojie were stunned when they heard the results of the investigation by Gu Xiao and others. They did not expect that everyone followed the direction in which the liger and the tiger escaped. After chasing him here, he was trapped by these huge rocks.
After carefully recalling the information that Xiaojie and Yuwen Tuo had just explored, Gu Xiao seemed to have remembered something. He spoke to a few people and asked them to wait for him for a moment. Then he used Qinggong and walked along the direction of the boulders. .
Everyone didn't know what kind of medicine Gu Xiaohulu was selling, so they had no choice but to listen to his instructions and wait where they were. About half an hour later, just as everyone was looking eagerly at the place where the young man in green shirt left, they heard something behind them. There was the sound of something breaking through the air.
Several people were alert and drew their weapons one after another, thinking that the liger beast was sneaking up on them through the mist. After a moment, a figure jumped up under the attention of several people.
When everyone saw the person coming, they were all surprised, because it was Gu Xiao who had just left. Everyone saw him coming from behind and rushed forward to greet him.
Gu Xiao saw the crowd, stopped and said, "As expected, maybe I know how these scattered boulders trapped us."
After seeing Gu Xiao returning from the investigation, several people seemed to have figured out what was wrong with these huge rocks, and they all asked. Gu Xiao walked to the stone gate where his mind was disturbed at first, pondered for a moment, and said, "I'll learn from this." When I was a student, I once heard my master mention an ancient formation. When I first saw these huge rocks, I saw the scattered appearance of the stones, so I didn’t think of this formation until I heard Xiaojie and Brother Yuwen climb up and look at these words. The boulder seemed to be in the shape of Bagua, and then I thought of that formation."
After Yuwen Tuo heard the young man in green shirt's words, he immediately asked: "What kind of formation is it?"
Gu Xiao stroked the Shimen and continued to speak, telling him about the formation that Gu Jianyi had taught him when he was a child: "The ancient formation is called the Eighth Formation of the Shimen. It repeats eight gates. According to the five elements and eight trigrams, Xiu, The eight gates of Life, Injury, Du, Jing, Death, Jing, and Kai will change endlessly every day and every hour. If someone who doesn’t know this formation tries to break in, they will definitely be hurt by this formation. I just left here temporarily. Everyone, just follow these huge stones to investigate. I followed the doorways presented by these huge stones and counted them. There are no more or less stone gates. There are exactly eight of them, which correspond to the eight-door formation."
Yu Wentuo and others were dumbfounded. These huge rocks alone could lay out such an exquisite formation. It must be that the person who set up this formation must be an expert. Since Mu Yi knows this formation, it will be easy to handle. , Yuwen Tuo asked: "Then how do we break this formation and find the liger?"
"I only know about this formation, but I don't know how to break it." Gu Xiao really wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl in. He learned the art when he was a child. When Gu Jianyi taught him this formation, he taught Gu Xiao how to break it. The method was just that Gu Xiao was too playful when he was a child and did not listen to the method of breaking the Eight Stone Formations. Gu Jianyi doted on Gu Xiao and saw that he had little interest, so he did not force Gu Xiao to learn it.
"It is only when the book is put to use that you will regret less. If I had known that I would be able to use this formation-breaking method today, I would have listened to the master's teachings seriously." Gu Xiao held his forehead and murmured to himself. .
"What are you mumbling about?" Jiang Ningxue on the side almost beat her chest when she saw Gu Xiao's remorseful look. Although everyone was trapped here, seeing his funny look, the corners of Jiang Ningxue's mouth curved upward a little. Radian, couldn't help but ask.
"Ah? It's nothing. I was just wondering if there is any other way for us to escape." Gu Xiao had the nerve to admit that it was because of his playfulness that he didn't learn how to break the formation, so he quickly changed the subject.
Just when a few people were still talking about how to break the formation, several screams suddenly came from the eight-door formation. The place was empty, and the screams reached everyone's ears very clearly.
"It's the voice of Lord He Jihe." Ren Buonan heard the screams and said to Gu Xiao.
Some people died, but not completely...
