At noon the next day, they reached the top of the mountain.
There are very few trees on the top of the mountain, because its terrain is still so narrow and long, with little soil accumulation, and tree roots cannot naturally grow on it. The sun was shining directly, and although it was not too hot, it stung people's eyes, and there was no place to enjoy the shade, making people irritable.
Further ahead was the Rift Valley they had heard of. The traces of the mountain's fractures were smoother than they imagined. Looking down from the top of the mountain, you can see the cool breeze coming from the bottom up, as if all the uncomfortable coolness on the mountain comes from this. The sun did not shine directly in, so they could not directly see what structures were in the ravine and how deep it was. It was just pitch black inside.
"There's no hope of going down there, right?"
Qi Huan carefully probed his head from above, then raised his eyes to look at the opposite side. To the naked eye, the crack appears to be at least half a mile wide.
"It's even more difficult to get through from above, unless you can fly." Jun Aoyan shook his head helplessly.
"Will there be bridge cables? Or fallen trees?"
Bai Ya glanced at Qi Huan and thought he was being whimsical.
"Where can there be such a tall tree?"
"I'm afraid there is no bridge." Liu Shenghan said, "Not to mention this distance, think about it, how do they transport a huge amount of wood and stone to such a steep mountain? Even if they use local materials, there is no such condition."
"Is there any magic?" Jun Aoyan suddenly looked at Qi Huan, "Those little paper figures at the Bird God last time? Can you fly us there?"
"Wow, you have a pretty good idea." Qi Huan put his hands on his hips, "That's a spell to prevent an urgent fall. It would be more troublesome to be able to fly, but I don't have the skills."
"What can you do?"
Jun Aoyan turned to Shuangyue Jun. He had been silent for a long time and had not said a word since he started. When he was suddenly asked a question, he came to his senses as if awakening from a dream, and said hesitantly:
"Huh? Ah...no."
"Then, you came to Shiyue Mountain alone and unprepared?"
"Otherwise?" He said matter-of-factly, "Just take it one step at a time."
There's really nothing you can do about this guy.
In the end, they had no choice but to walk down the slender mountain range, hoping to find some vines leading to the valley, or protruding outwards not so far away on either side. They kept walking, but the scenery around them remained unchanged, as if they were standing still. They walked for almost two hours, but still didn't find a good road.
"Why do I think this place is so strange?" Aoyan stopped, "If we walk down the mountain, we might end up back in the swamp!"
"There's something I've always found strange..." Liu Shenghan looked around, "The circulation of spiritual power here is not normal. The compass that Xiang Shen gave me was fine before, but it broke for some reason. Maybe it just broke. , or it may have been affected by the disturbance of spiritual power here and malfunctioned."
Qi Huan slapped his thigh: "It's broken. Could it be that this is the so-called Shenyin? In fact, we were just spinning in circles and were already trapped by the barrier. Did we crash into it?"
"There is no barrier." Bai Ya said, "But it is not impossible to go around in circles. There is no iconic thing here, and we have nothing to use as a reference."
"How about making some marks?" Aoyan suggested.
"It's no use." Lord Shuangyue suddenly spoke, "We have walked this road for at least the fourth time."
"You know? Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Jun Aoyan immediately frowned, "Don't you know we are really in a hurry?!"
Mr. Shuangyue spread his hands innocently: "What's the use? Tell you, do you have any solution?"
"At least you don't have to walk around like a fool!"
Jun Aoyan really couldn't understand what Lord Shuangyue was thinking. He is abnormal, so abnormal that it is impossible to speculate on his thoughts using ordinary people's thinking. Now, none of the five people are leaving. They stood in a circle, looking at each other.
"Why is the compass broken?" Lord Shuangyue suddenly asked Sheng Han, "Is it not spinning anymore, or is it spinning blindly?"
"It's drawing a semicircle..." Liu Shenghan frowned, "As we move forward, it will shift and draw arcs repeatedly. I haven't found any pattern yet...but there must be some pattern. "
"Give me."
Liu Shenghan put the compass in his hand, and he walked forward alone. Qi Huan asked him where he was going, but he didn't look back.
"Weird person." Qi Huan frowned, "What should we do? Should we follow him?"
"Ignore him." Jun Aoyan said angrily, "Let's take a rest."
Indeed, after walking for so long, several people were almost blind when looking at the road that was whitened by the sun. Now everything they looked at was covered with a layer of white mist, which made them want to shed tears. There was no shade nearby, so they took out a thin piece of cloth from their luggage and built a simple shed with branches. It was a bit crowded for four people in a shed, but luckily it wasn't too hot.
"Shenghan..."
Jun Aoyan hesitated to speak, not knowing whether he should say the next words. Before she was ready, Qi Huan suddenly interrupted.
"This person is too strange. How did you get to know this kind of person?" Youyuan Shuba
"Oh, he's always like that." Liu Shenghan smiled faintly, as if he was used to it, "He is the kind of person who will never weigh a pound of wheat if you ask him to weigh it. If the pound is short, it will be short. , it doesn’t matter, after all, it won’t be too different. Although he can always complete the task whatever the adult asks him to do, he is not willing to do one more thing, even if it is by the way. Complete one thing perfectly, He never has. But he hasn't made any big mistakes either."
"It's not difficult to understand." Bai Ya suddenly said, "What are the benefits of being an impermanent person? There is no salary."
"Everyone in the world does anything not for the sake of benefit."
"That's not necessarily the case." Bai Ya said lazily, "You eat because you are hungry, you sleep because you are sleepy, and you help others because you want others to remember you so that they can help you next time. Nothing is for nothing. Yes. Even if parents are good to their children, it is not something with simple motives. Although it sounds utilitarian, everything you do is always accompanied by costs and benefits. "
"You are quite transparent." Liu Shenghan said with a smile, "You didn't say anything wrong."
Jun Aoyan and Qi Huan didn't say anything, they just sighed in unison. To varying degrees, they do not feel the fatherly and motherly love that they were born to enjoy. If anyone with a happy and happy family heard this conversation, they would definitely shake their heads and be speechless.
About two-quarters of an hour later, they heard footsteps. It turned out that Lord Shuangyue was back. But the strange thing is that he came back from the other direction. Aoyan remembered clearly that if he returned the same way, he should never go this way. Before she could express her confusion, Lord Shuangyue spoke first.
"Along the cliff, we can only follow the same path." Shuangyue Lord put the compass in his sleeve, "But this formation is not that easy to break."
"Why?" Qi Huan asked.
"This formation was not specially set up by anyone, but a vortex formation formed naturally by chance. Since there is no trace of how it was formed, how can we break the formation?"
"Is the same situation happening on the other side?"
"Fly over and take a look."
Qi Huan took a breath, opened his mouth halfway, and then closed it again. After thinking for a long time, he swallowed the curse words back in his stomach.
"Besides, I have some other discoveries." Lord Shuangyue turned to Liu Shenghan and said, "This compass may not be broken, and it is very sensitive. It points to a place... but that place is in a ravine. I don't know where it is. What, I didn’t feel anything.”
Liu Shenghan nodded: "Take us to see it."
So a few people quickly dismantled the shed and carried their luggage again. Lord Shuangyue also took out the compass again. This time, they didn't follow Lord Shuangyue for too long before he stopped. He pointed to the bottomless mountain stream and then pointed to the compass in his hand.
"Well, that's right here."
"this……"
At this point, the sun is able to shine more light inside. Along the cliff here, they could see trees and green moss scattered in twos and threes on the steep, nearly vertical rock wall. There was a tree growing beneath them, like a sickly hand stretched out, trying to grow diagonally upward, like a drowning man trying to raise his head above the water to breathe. Its leaves appear a little yellow due to lack of light, and are very sparse.
"A tree?" Qi Huan gestured, "This distance is not enough."
"It seems like it will collapse if you step on it." Jun Aoyan also commented.
Bai Ya seemed to notice something. He pointed to the crown of the tree and said, "Look there."
"Is it a bird's nest?"
As soon as Liu Shenghan took a step forward, Aoyan pulled her back. There is a small dent on the edge of that piece. If you step on it without seeing clearly, it will probably slide down. The light allows people to see such rugged cliffs, which makes people feel trance-like and dizzy. If you are not careful, you will be shattered into pieces.
"No, it seems to be a piece of wood."
"Nonsense, that's a tree...wait a minute!"
As soon as Qi Huan finished speaking, he discovered that there was indeed something hidden among the leaves. He suddenly ignored the danger, stepped on the edge of the cliff, and leaned out to take a look. Before Aoyan could pull him back, he suddenly turned around and said in surprise:
"It's a wood carving! That little girl's wood carving!"
"Really?" Aoyan's eyes lit up, "But...why does the compass point to it?"
"It may be caused by the disturbance of spiritual power and the small magnet in the wood carving."
"It makes sense...is it possible for us to get it back?"
Except for Mr. Shuangyue, everyone came together to take a look. After observing it from several angles, they determined that it was a wooden sculpture with a human shape. But they didn't have any tools to make sure they could get it up without knocking it down.
"Could it be that the little prince dropped it here, reached out to pick it up, and then lost his footing..."
Jun Aoyan didn't say any more, but everyone could hear it. And this hypothesis is very possible. Over the years, the tree must have grown taller and closer to them - but not yet within reach.
"Shuoyue-kun, you are very agile, can you do us a favor?"
Qi Huan came forward with a smile, but Lord Shuangyue took a step back.
"It's not easy to get it up. If it were in other places, it would be fine, but here you have to step on the trunk. It's not that I won't help you, but if the foundation of this tree is not stable, no matter who's martial arts Being strong won't help. If I accidentally knock it down, you'll have to blame me."
"Okay." Qi Huan exhaled briefly through his nose, "I'll go then."
