Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

Wu Xie and Aning were hiding from the Corpse-Eating King and they were quite fast runners. Jiang Xinxin kept correcting their direction and soon Fatty and Pan Zi noticed something was wrong.

Pan Zi was too worried about Wu Xie's safety. As they walked, he couldn't help but question: "Ms. Jiang, why do you keep changing the direction? Didn't you say before that you should just go northwest?"

Before Jiang Xinxin could speak, the fat man immediately spoke up to smooth things over: "Hey Pan Zi, you too, I don't know if your Third Master can run. Maybe Tian Zhen's position is constantly changing, so Miss Jiang can only lead us to keep changing directions."

Zhang Qiling knew that Jiang Xinxin was very angry, but this was not the time for her to vent, so he turned around and said to Pan Zi, "Follow me, no problem."

However, Pan Zi was also influenced by the environment. He was not as smart as the fat man, and was even a little stubborn.

Although Fatty was also very worried about Wu Xie's situation, he trusted Zhang Qiling's judgment very much. Even if Jiang Xinxin only showed the advantage of good physical strength, it was enough for him to show full trust in Jiang Xinxin.

Although Pan Zi could see that Jiang Xinxin had good physical strength, good physical strength did not mean many other things. It just made her less worried. Moreover, he knew better than Fatty and Zhang Qiling what the ancestors of the Nine Gates had faced, so he was always wary of strangers.

Pan Ziluo shouted at Jiang Xinxin from behind: "Miss Jiang, you'd better decide on a direction and go straight ahead, otherwise I won't waste any more time on you!"

Fatty and Zhang Qiling knew something was wrong when they heard this. Sure enough, Jiang Xinxin smiled and turned around and said to them, "Okay, now you can go northwest as usual. Maybe you can meet Wu Xie in ten minutes."

"As for me, I am an outsider, and my origins are unknown, so I won't be in your way."

To put it bluntly, Jiang Xinxin still hasn't realized that there's anything wrong with her. After all, she didn't like unnecessary socializing when she was alive, so she didn't think there was anything wrong with appearing overly calm. She only got angry when she was teased like that before for Zhang Qiling's sake.

After Jiang Xinxin finished speaking, she took a deep breath and ran towards the right side of the mountain wall. Zhang Qiling was unable to stop her. When her figure completely disappeared, Fatty could no longer hold back his anger and irritability. He pointed at Pan Zi's nose and cursed: "Look carefully, when she wanted to leave with such skills, even I couldn't stop her! It's as if you are the only one who is worried about Wu Xie. Now, we can't even remember where we came from in the first place. How can we find Wu Xie?!"

Pan Zi was not to be outdone: "Those who want to go to the Queen Mother of the West Palace are all good things! I don't care what you think, anyway, I'm going to find the Third Master!"

The two men started arguing without caring about anything, which really put Zhang Qiling in a difficult position. He could only stand between the two and act as a sandbag for them, being pushed around. The fat man felt more sorry for Zhang Qiling, so he lowered his head first and calmed down.

After calming down, Fatty really discovered the clues caused by the terrain here, and he apologized to Pan Zi first: "I'm sorry, Pan Zi, I was angry just now. Although I was a little irritated, it was mostly due to the influence of the terrain here that I quarreled with you."

Pan Zi also immediately admitted his fault: "It's all my fault. I was the first to be affected without knowing it, and I also made Miss Jiang leave in anger. Now let's go in the direction Miss Jiang points to as soon as possible, otherwise if we go any further, we will be in danger."

Fortunately, the direction pointed by Jiang Xinxin was correct. When it got dark, Zhang Qiling and the other two finally met Wu Xie and Aning who were alone. After asking, everyone learned that Aning had found an ancient funeral shipwreck. Her men carried out a lot of painted pottery jars from the shipwreck, but they didn't know that there were corpse-eating kings inside. They were chased by the corpse-eating king and lost their way.

Pan Zixian apologized to everyone: "It's all my fault. I lost control of my temper and made Miss Jiang leave. We were able to find her thanks to the directions Miss Jiang gave us before she left..."

When Wu Xie heard Pan Zi say that Jiang Xinxin had gone alone, he couldn't help but worry about Jiang Xinxin's safety: "Miss Jiang is going alone, I'm afraid it will be difficult for her to deal with the various dangers along the way. Do you remember what Miss Jiang said before? Let's hurry up and follow her. If we go together, we can always take care of each other."

The fat man laughed out loud: "I said naive, you are really naive, Miss Jiang's skill in climbing walls and flying over rooftops is no worse than mine, she really wanted to leave, but mine didn't even touch the corner of her clothes!"

The more Fatty talked, the more guilty Pan Zi felt, but he couldn't say anything. He just kept apologizing to Wu Xie. Seeing this, Wu Xie could only let go of the matter with Jiang Xinxin for the time being and comforted Pan Zi a few words.

Aning was alone and weak at the time, so she didn't say anything. But the fat man took a fancy to the ten coins on her wrist and offered to take her into the Queen Mother of the West Palace in exchange for the ten coins.

Aning mocked the fat man for being greedy and was only willing to give him one coin as a deposit, but everyone knew that Aning had compromised.

Before going to bed, the fat man said to everyone: "Miss Jiang said before that we can find the entrance to the Queen Mother of the West Palace by following the river. Let's set out to find the river early tomorrow morning. At least we won't get lost in this ghost city."

Wu Xie realized it later and said, "Is there really a river here? I heard from Dingzhu Zhuoma that Chen Wenjin left a message saying that if you miss these few days, you will have to wait a few more years. I guess it's because there will be water in the river during these few days, which means it can point out the direction."

Pan Zi also said: "Not long after we entered the Devil City this morning, we did see Miss Jiang preparing to follow the direction of the river. And I looked carefully. Although the river has been dry for a long time, it does not look like the river outside, which has been dry for more than 20 years."

Pan Zi went to the tomb mainly to provide labor, and the fine work had always been done by Wu Sanxing, so even though he had learned a lot, he could only see the basics.

Fatty gave Pan Zi a thumbs up and said, "Pan Zi, I didn't expect you to have such good eyesight. I was just about to say that the river under Miss Jiang's feet this morning looked like it had only been dry for four or five years. So, if there is water in the river, it must be either groundwater overflowing or rainfall. It depends on which one we believe more."

Zhang Qiling said: "It will rain."

Aning also shared some scientific knowledge with everyone: "It's not that there is no rainfall in the desert, it's just that the rainfall is too little and often can't stay. There are even deserts in Africa where it snows."

Anyway, the group of people quickly determined the direction they would go tomorrow. While they were talking, they had already built something like a wall against the mountain wall to block the wind. Anyway, they were well fed, and could withstand some of the strong winds at night.