After everyone packed their bags, Ban Nu felt the surrounding atmosphere carefully, and his eyes lit up: "I can already feel the aura of this Guifang man."
"Let's go, we can follow the breath and find the path of the ghost." Ban Nu walked in front, leading them deeper into the cliff.
Along the way, the more people walked in, the more they could feel that the rift valley was getting bigger and bigger. The two mountains gradually moved away from each other. A huge rift valley was formed on the stone path under their feet, with intertwined canines and strange rocks. It is rugged, shaped like an earthquake tearing apart a mountain. You can see the turbulent flow of water. The water waves beat against the stone walls, causing tigers to roar and dragons to roar.
When walking, the plank road changes frequently. The widest one can pass a carriage, and the narrowest one can only allow two people to pass. From time to time, you can see broken plank roads connected by wooden plank bridges.
Everyone walked for half an hour, but there was still no end. They saw the road ahead and back was narrow and steep, and there was a thin line of sky above their heads.
"After walking for so long, where did this ghost man hide?"
Yue Guanchao walked to a certain bridge and looked down at the fracture surface. The water flowed like a dragon with no signs of slowing down: "We clearly didn't see the waterfall when we came here. How could there be such fast water?"
Song Siyuan stood by the bridge and took a look: "It's really strange here. Judging from the rise and fall of the lake, the water in these rift valleys should flow into the ground. In any case, we have found clues to the Guifang people."
They continued to walk forward for about half an hour, and the canyon plank road gradually ran out. The two mountains were completely squeezed together, forming a peak that was not scary. In front of them, a huge mycelium flower tree also appeared.
"Why don't you leave?"
Song Siyuan became confused when she saw Ban Nu stopped.
Ban Nu shook his head, his expression extremely ugly: "This ghost's smell has disappeared."
These words made the people around him alert. Yue Guanchao asked: "Are we being tricked by this ghost?"
Ban Nu shook his head and retorted: "It's not a joke, it's because the breath is too mixed. There are many residual breaths of the Guifang people. After the smell is mixed, the traces of the Guifang people are lost."
After saying that, everyone looked at the mycelium flower tree. Yue Guanchao and Song Siyuan approached the huge flower tree.
This tree is about ten meters high, with a trunk as thick as a house and a huge fan-shaped crown, with branches and canes spreading. The flowers and leaves are lush and lush, and exotic flowers and herbs are stacked on the crown, forming an extremely gorgeous and extravagant flower crown.
At the same time, twelve stone statues also appeared around the tree. The bald heads and narrow eyes of the stone statues were exactly the same as the stone statues they saw in the backyard.
These stone statues are about half taller than humans, with narrow body length. They wear wide-sleeved shirts, with their arms stretched out to both sides, and their legs and feet closed to form a "ten" shape. Their faces are also smiling but not smiling. A pair of agate carvings The eyes are bright and lively, as if they can see through thousands of years and see through people's hearts.
Such stone statues, like clock scales, are evenly distributed around the trees, forming a standard circle with the trees as the center.
Yue Guanchao approached these stone statues and observed carefully. The material of the stone statues was ordinary stone. Only the eyes were the most special. They were made of an agate-like material and were almost translucent. However, if he looked carefully, there were no words or totems in the eyes of the giant stone statues. , can only judge that these eyes seem to be some regulations for making stone statues, and they must have a pair of bright-looking eyes.
"Senior Ban, are you sure you can't find this ghost's aura?"
Song Siyuan understood that the appearance of the mycelium flower trees and these stone statues could be confirmed not to be a natural occurrence, but some device or mechanism deliberately created by the Guifang people. Therefore, it would be very strange for the Guifang people to disappear.
Ban Nu nodded with a serious look: "I am sure that these messy smells are brought by this mycelium flower tree. I suspect that there are many corpses of Guifang people on it. Otherwise, there would not be so much Guifang people's breath left."
Having said that, Yue Guanchao and Song Siyuan had already walked around the stone statue and walked under the canopy of the tree.
Turning on the flashlight and observing carefully, the scene inside the tree canopy became clearer. There were ghostly square heads hanging on countless branches.
The skin of these heads is white and delicate, the hair is black and shiny, and even the eyes are as bright and deep as those of living people. If they were not already dead, they would really look like they were asleep.
Most of them are captured by rattan, shaped like a head growing out of the end of the rattan. Behind the head, thick vines woven from rattan roots are wrapped around the tree trunk like a snake, making the head look like someone with a human head and a snake body. Monster, even though they understood that the human head could not still be alive, they still couldn't help but feel chills running down their backs after looking at it for a long time.
"What on earth are these? Why are the heads of Onikata people captured by these canes?"
Song Siyuan's flashlight shone on the Guifang people's heads, and their eyes trembled visibly.
"Are they still alive?"
They had already seen mycelial flower trees in Danxia Land, and the craftsmen who accidentally ate the divine chicken were dead. If this thing is still alive, does it mean that they can ask about certain things.
"Don't worry, they're dead."
Ban Nu covered the tree with his hand, felt the breath carefully, sighed and continued: "The breath of these Guifang people is the same as Axi's, except that it has been around longer than Axi, and it is only because they are nourished by the tree vines that they are gone." Rotten, you just shined a flashlight into their eyes, it just made the tree vines react, and even their heads began to tremble."
"To be precise, it was the rattan that was stimulated by the light source, not the corpse's head that could still move." Knowing this, everyone was finally relieved.
Song Siyuan said: "However, this is not a solution. Why did the Guifang people create these things? If we lose news about the Guifang people here, does that mean that this was done intentionally by the Guifang people."
Ban Nu nodded: "Basically, it's what you guessed, but maybe it's not against us, but some mechanisms used by the Guifang people to protect themselves."
After that, she paused: "I don't think there are any caves or tunnels here. If there is a mechanism, it must be under a tree or related to a stone statue. This also explains why the ghost's aura can Disappear here, in other words, the mechanism here must lead to somewhere."
Ban Nu's guess was the most suitable for the current situation. Song Siyuan began to doubt the surrounding environment: "Trees cannot be mechanisms. Their growth is not controllable. The only ones that can be used as mechanisms are these stone statues."
After that, she picked up the engineering shovel and knocked it a few times. There was no echo at all inside the stone statues. It didn't look like it was made of hollow material: "It's not hollow. It seems that these stone statues have nothing to do with the mechanism."
"Not necessarily yet!"
Yue Guanchao carefully did not give up. He walked close to the eyes and carefully observed the eyes of the stone statue: "If the giant stone statue in the courtyard is to give directions to visitors, then the stone statue here must also have a role. Since the Guifang people worship this Instead of cultivating the heavenly eye, we should look for it in our eyes."
"I always think these eyes are so weird."
After that, Yue Guanchao turned on the flashlight and looked at the eyes. When the flashlight light shone on it, the eyes of the stone statue clearly showed light. He tried to press the eyes with his hands, and sure enough, he could press them like buttons.
"Yes, these eyes can be pressed."
Yue Guanchao accidentally discovered that the eyes of the stone statue could be pressed. Guifang Zong knew that these were probably traps and signaled other craftsmen to press the eyes as well.
When all the eyes were pressed, the stone statues changed. A lot of unknown liquid began to appear from the top of their heads. It looked like thick honey, with a hint of golden color. Even before they got closer to smell it, they could already smell the sweet smell. The breath wafted into his nostrils.
"Is it honey?"
Yue Guanchao picked up the stick, held it toward the chin of the stone statue for a moment, waited for the liquid to pour on it, and then brought it to him.
"It's not honey, it's rootless dew."
After saying that, Song Siyuan took out the kettle and poured out the rootless dew. Except for the different colors, they both had a thick and slightly sweet texture.
Seeing the shapes of the two, Song Siyuan's eyes lit up: "Do you still remember that the mysterious man summoned flying insects last night? Was he collecting these things?"
"possible."
Xu Xiake nodded: "These flying insects can emit light. They may be similar creatures to the human-faced stink bug. It is normal to produce rootless dew."
While they were talking, the trees had already come alive from a static state. The branches and leaves were rubbing against each other, rustling and creaking. Countless rattans seemed to have come to life, growing freely from the trunks, climbing downwards like snakes, and they had already reached the end of the tree. The ground is completely covered.
Yue Guanchao realized that these canes were directed at the stone statue, so he quickly led everyone out of the circle of the stone statue and stood more than ten meters away.
As soon as they exited, the rattan had already begun to cover the stone statue, completely intertwining the stone statue. At the same time, the height of the stone statue was also changing.
These stone statues began to grow like dominoes. Each stone statue was taller than the other. The twelve stone statues eventually formed a stepped spiral line, with the highest point reaching the waist of the tree crown.
After that, the rattan began to center on the tree crown, involving the head of the stone statue, forming a plane from the tree crown to the stone statue. In addition, the height of the stone statue gradually increased, and this plane was shaped like a winding mountain road, walking around the tree crown. circle, finally stopping at the top of the canopy.
At this moment, everyone looked at the tree crown and the stone statue again, and found that this thing had become a spiral staircase, and saw that the rattan was constantly weaving and gradually stabilized.
"It turns out that this is a mechanism, and it is activated by Wugenlu."
Song Siyuan's eyes lit up. She didn't expect that this so-called mechanism was not created by gold and stone, but by living organisms. Although she was surprised, she also felt that it was expected. The heavenly eye believed by the Guifang people probably provided them with help in adapting to the environment here. A lot of help.
For such a foreign ethnic group to survive to this day, it must have developed its own culture.
"According to the location of this mechanism, there is probably something at the top of the tree crown. We need to go up and take a look."
After that, Yue Guanchao and Song Siyuan walked up the vine bridge, climbed all the way to the top, and carefully observed the tree crown. They finally understood what was at the end of the mechanism, and their eyes lit up.
